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Quite impressive. I saw them guarding Nnamdi Kanu in the youtube video in Ohafia

vedaxcool:
I pity you ignoramuses who follow a mad man with uk passport.

Better than following a gworo chewing cattle rearer who is probably already planning his next London vacation

GoroTango:
As if the world even knows you exist

They know, dont assume the whole world are as backward as Nigerians who think everything is "by force of arms"

So this is the numbers they could muster for Oduduwa Republic? Laughable

That they could even do it is a big achievement

I can only laugh at Yorubas who are looking for restructuring, come and find it in the North.

Let them start. At least, the whole world now knows that Nigeria is the land of bondage and dictatorship which no right thinking people should be part of

vedaxcool:
I feel pity foolish ipob they are too dumb and blatantly daft. Are you not seeing what is happening in Myanmar where a government is perpetuating ethnic cleansing in the name of anti terror operation yet no word from your savior the US. Instead of you people to use your brains for the betterment of your villages na to follow a mad man with uk passport.

Myanmar is still a Military dictatorship, is Nigeria not a democracy?

Yyeske:
Unarmed people you say...... but they are noisy, insultive, arrogant, distruspting the peace and above all questioning the sovereignty of a nation.

They are allowed to be noisey, arrogant and to question the sovereingnty of anything including Nigeria according to chapter 4 of constitution, sections 34, 38, 39,40, 41 and 45

The only time you see the Nigerian Army have any swagger is when they are up against unarmed people.

EmeeNaka:
Eke ga-agba egwu, ka anyi Lee.
Buhari is opting for a military pressure in dousing the tension caused by IPOB/Massob separatist agitation even against available peaceful option to resolving the impending crisis. I urge all people of SE and the residents there,who love their life, to take all necessary precautions to avoid being in any place where IPOB and Massob are holding rally

Why? Because your "dear Nigeria" is going to comit murder by shooting unarmed people?

FOLYKAZE:
There will be no peace in SOUTH EAST. You can destroy whatever you have there. We don't care

No, we are taking the protest everwhere and we are fully backed by the constitution to do so.

FOLYKAZE:
There is no nation called Igbo. It is just a group of people conquered by the Britain and handled over to Nigeria which your representative in person of Akizwe consented. And mind you, Azikwe was the one who pushed against secession clause when Awolowo pushed for it. The decision he took then wasn't his but the people he represented.

At the moment, there is no secession clause. No sitting president will give you the voice to call for secession, he/she will rather give you war. Maybe wae is what you all want, quickly push for it rather than making noise over all the place. The end is bleak as war or violence will not give you Igbo Nation.

The best bet is due process. Force your representatives in the Assembly to do their job; the call for their people bidding. Restructure is the best bet which can give you guys referendum. The party now is entertainment. Everyone will have fun and return home.

What you call due process cannot work in the Nigerian national assembly. Other zones will vote it off. No Nigerian national assembly will vote to give Biafra independence and cause the disintegration of Nigeria. So anyone trying to make suggestion is just being mischevous.

Cyynthia:
While Igbos are doing their own. We are seriously gathering momentum here in SW.
God bless Adeyinka Grandson for his steps so far.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a step.

My muslim brothers can relocate to North since they are more comfortable with them after Oduduwa must have come.
God bless progressive Yorubas.
God bless Igbos.

The center must fall.

Hmmmm............


So Yorubas even have the guts to hold a protest for Oduduwa Repulic, no matter how small?

This people are starting to develop backbone.

omonnakoda:
You were CONQUERED not roped in CONQUERED by the British who handed you over to Nigeria you fought a war to escape and lost woefully so you have two choices start another war or follow due process

We are not going to war and we are not going to any fraudulent due process. We are going to continue with peaceful protestation, civil disobedience, rejection of Nigeria, the exclusion from Nigerian political process abd many more. There will be no peace until referendum is granted to the indigenous people of the land whos ancesteal land was stolen to create the colonial creation called Nigeria.

FOLYKAZE:
You guys twist fact just to suit yourselves. However, the lies don't work, due process does.

All regions were represented in the Lancaster House Conference in 1957. Igbo were represented by Azikwe while others regions had their delegate fronting for them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_House_Conferences_(Nigeria).

The journey to independence in 1960 was a collective contribution of every region including Igbos. The marriage was consented to by all parties involved. Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and the minorites in the house of the parents (Britain)

The Lancaster house meeting was just were representatives of the people went to decide the body of laws guiding Nigeria after independence. I need to see a document signed by the Igbo nation or it representatives where Igbos fomally gave up their sovereignty for Nigeria.

The Lancaster house meeting is no different to any partnership where a memorandum of association is drawn up. Any partner can still pull out at any time.

omonnakoda:
We have a different constitution ,That disposition " as you call it lies in Section 30 of the 1998 Scotland Act it did not come from nowhere and it did not come from protest.

If you want to marry a woman you do not kidnap her and take her home.You follow procedure and in the UK the first step was in 1998 with the enactment of the Scotland Act . So if your people are wise they would recognize the parallel in our situation to be first Restructuring.
The Power to call for a refereendum is based entirely on Section 30 of the Scotland Act and it is not an absolute power .London still has the power of veto as Theresa May has said recently to calls for another referendum because Scotland did not vote for BREXIT.She said NOT NOW and that is that.

Well at least you know that before anyone can be a wife, there must have been a marriage first. Britain is a marriage becausethe Kingdoms of Scotland, Wales and England signed the 1707 "Act Of Union" that produced the United Kingdom. So at least they agreed to be together, so they can talk about due process.

At no time did the Igbo nation agree to be part of Nigeria. Like others, we were all roped into this British colonial contraption called Nigeria.

Now the Igbo nation is making it clear that this illegal country created in 1914 can no longer stand and we demand a referendum to determine our continued participation in Nigeria, or not.

Yes indeed, we are people kidnapped.

tsdarkside:
and what does that mean??...so anybody can just come and claim anything...

So you dont know? How do you think you became a Nigerian? It was because a Britush man called Lugard came and claimed anything

do you even understand what that means...?......anarchy!!!!....

Yes, and thats what referendum will prevent.

fyi

we made nigeria....we could have called it something else,but we insist to keep the word nigeria...why??..

we were already happy to be free from the english,thats why!!!....

anything,but not under the whites no more........that was a long period under the whites...dont you think

Sorry bro but you didnt make Nigeria, Lugard and his wife did. Lugard carved out a territory and his wife called it Nigeria.

omonnakoda:
We can argue about whether it was created by due process but that argument would apply to every nation on earth not just Nigeria

In Northen Ireland in 1973 the Separatists opted to boycott the election( Just like IPOB are advocating because they are not popular) They then resorted to violence for decades and at the end they still SAT DOWN TO TALK . So if you like continue the violence you will still sit down to talk.
Nigeria had autonomous regions just like the UK with constitution, police etc until they were scrapped by Decree 34 by guess who ? General Ironsi in 1966.
That is what you folk conveniently forget.

The So called Scottish pound is meaningless . It is not a different currency so do not mislead the ignorant the underlying monetary policy is controlled by the bank of England you have the same in the Isle of Man and elsewhere .As long as it is "STERLING" it is the same thing. The Majority of the Bank notes in Scotland and ALL COINS are Bank of England Issue .Scotland DOES NOT HAVE A CENTRAL BANK

You have no argument. The important thing to note is that Britain that created Nigeria was disposed to giving two of its contituent parts, Northern Ireland and Scotland, referendum without anyone moving any motion of independence in London

In that same vain, Nigeria should be disposed to granting the Igbos or Igbo land, a referendum without the need for anyone moving a motion in Abuja.

Ejilaiknow:
Movement for the actualization of Nigeria oneness and unity.

Stands for the unity of Nigeria as one entity for Good Governance and Good Leadership.

#From the Office of the President General.
#MANOU
Motto: Good Governance and Good Leadership

If Britain that created Nigeria can make British unity very negotiable by giving Northern Ireland referendum in 1973 and Scotland in 2014, then Nigerian has no business saying its unity is not negotiable.

DanseMacabre:
The occupation begins.


This is just a thinly-veiled disguise to occupy Anambra ahead of the November gubernotorial elections. It's time to see how ready IPOB is to make good on their threat of no elections. It's time to see whether the Biafran Secret Service operatives are just a bunch of weightlifting touts, or if they are a diehard resistant force epuipped to deal with the 'enemy'.

I think it is very important to remember that IPOB's position on the Anambra elections is boycott. IPOB is hoping that people will not come out to vote, or in the very least, a low voter turn out. So on election day, neither BSS or any IPOB member will be seen outside.

omonnakoda:
Nigerians want you to go but you have failed to follow due process instead behaving like touts. Why do you keep electing people opposed to your exit. Not one of your senators has raised it in the Senate. Not one of your State Houses of Assembly has debated it or passed any resolution so how are we supposed to know you are serious. At the next election only vote people disposed to Biafra.

It is not a childish matter but serious adult business that has serious implications e.g the boundaries and terms etc so you cannot achieve this on Nairaland or by protests.
let me give you one example : The IRA in Northern Ireland carried out all kinds of bombing whilst there was no noise in Scotland and yet it was Scotland that got a referendum whilst nothing of the kind is planned in Northern Ireland.Why Due process. So do the needful it will not happen by protests but by electing proBiafra Governors and legislators .The alternative is war there is no other way. Choose one

Due process did not create Nigeria and due process will not divide it. There is no point raising any topic of independence at the national assemby as it will not be entertained. Even if it is entertained, other zones will never vote for the disintegration of Nigeria, not now or ever.

The Northern Ireland you are talking about, are you aware that Britain gave them a referendum in 1973 where they were asked to choose if they wanted to remain part of the UK or join their kith and kin in the Irish Republic? They voted to stay.

The Scotland you are talking about is an autonomous Region. They have their own Scottish parliament, scottish police, scottish legal system. They even have their own money, the Scottish pound. So when they agitated for independence, all they had to do was move a motion in the scottish parliament.

Nigeria is not structured like the UK for Biafrans to do the same, therefore, the Biafran agitators can only keep protesting until the Nigerian government and political establishment decide to grant them a referendum.

ehie:
the best thing i am doing this year is educating myself on what really went down in the 60's.
The Igbos did not get up one day and start the war, you need to understand how they were killed by soilders, baying mobs, i read one woman had to escape east with the head of her baby, they were thrown over the river benue, woe betide you if they saw you wearing western garb you were dead, soilders were killed in their brigades, it was for their safety that is was decided that all the easterners should return home, because of how they killed them it got so bad that after killing the top igbo officers, they installed Hassan Katsina as the CoS, when they was a Yoruba Brigadier ahead of him, infact Murtala Muhammed our fake hero, was the loudest baying for blood and seeking for seccession from Nigeria.Igbos never wanted a war, but the had to fight because they were being killed in droves.Ojukwu even refused to meet any of the SMC outside the east, that was how bad it got.

Thats why they dont want the younger generation to know what led to the war. They keep the horrible massacres out of the public domain to create the impression that the war was just. Do you know there was a day in 1967 at Enugu train station, while people were waiting to recieve their loved ones, a train pulled in with several killed people, some of them beheaded. The angry crowd marched down to state house and started shouting at Ojukwu to pull them out of Nigeria.

I dont blame Ojukwu for fighting, the people I blame are the foreign powers like Britain and Russia who aided Nigeria to commit genocide

Throwback:
Only a fool would continue to fight a war when you have already been economically castrated.
Only a fool will continue to fight a war while still depending on relief supplies that must pass through the country you are fighting against.
Only a fool will expect mercy in a war.

You have never had to fight a war to liberate your self from oppression, that why you can say things like this.

A people wanted to be free and fought hard for their freedom even against impossible odds. To me, that is a most honourable thing to do. To turn around and become a Northern slave in other to avoid war like Awolowo and the rest did is a cowards way out of a fight and Im glad Ojukwu did not bow to it. Im an Igbo man, if someone is going to bring me to my knees, it will be after they beat me in a fight rather than me kneeling out of fear and cowardice.

Obi1kenobi:
Kedu kwa nke bu "highest title" in Igbo land bikonu? These IPOB piglets and their charlatan pig of a leader are mentally ill I swear.

Forget mischief makers. There is nothing like "highest title" in Igbo land. They put it like that hoping to get people to start arguing.

tsdarkside:
then its not something to argue with common nigerians online....confront the nigerian senate...


their is not much that common nigerians can do for you...especialy when they are not igbo...

The Nigerian senate did not create Nigeria so nobody is going to confront them. Instead, separatist groups are currently agitating for a referendum on independence.

ImadeUReadThis:
I don't blame Buhari at all for being a despot and a tyrant neither do I blame his hordes of Abacha era cronies and sycophants that have been transplanted from their state of hibernation into the corridors of Aso Rock. Rather I lay the blame squarely on the myopic, slavish and gullible morons who voted and still champion this despot as the best thing since slice bread.

If you think thats bad, watch them line up to re-elect the man again in 2019

Danladi7:
As a concerned citizen of Nigeria who care about the growth of every part of the country.The contribution of southeast geopolitical zone to the centralized federal wealth is very small going by the available statistics.How will the geopolitical zone survive when the wealth is decentralized.

North-Agriculture and solid minerals


southsouth-Oil wealth,industrialization and the ports currently has the second largest IGR after southwest.


west-ports,oil(largest oil refinery),Agriculture(largest palm oil refinery),Industrialization(ikeja-ogun-ibadan axis)Education and research institutes(largest concentration of private universities and UI,OAUand Unilag)


southeast-nothing significant exept coal and few oil deposit and currently has one of lowest IGR

It is very imporrant to note that Igbo land is much bigger than the so called "south East". Be that as it may, Igbos want to simply go. If their contributions to the federal coffer is negligible, it should make Nigeria more disposed to letting them go.

Can you mention anyone in modern history who got a country based on ethnic configuration? quit comparing a country with a town union.

Japan. It is still about 98% homogenous.

This is the reason we insist that kanu is a lunatic, not because he is running Unclad on the streets of Umuahia but because he is completely detached from reality, in the real world, there is nothing like "resource control", so their proposal is dead on arrival, designed to deceive individuals who have no grasp how resources are converted to money, like you said, resources will not be paid to the government at the center but its proceeds thereof. meaning that along the food chain, someone will make the investment that will convert resources to money, you are sure not gonna go near those owned by the fG else you have a Sudan on your hands, so who makes the investments in that obnoxious arrangement of yours? while at it, ensure you state the capability of such person or group. Will the Niger delta people make the investments or the biafran nation?

There is something called resource control and your British invented colonial contraption of a country called Nigeria is currently practicing it by putting Oil and Gas in the 'exclusive list' thus giving the federal government to control of the use, management, development and distrubution of resources arising from crude Oil. In Biafra, the government will have no business in operating of mineral resources except as a regulatory body. It will be up to the Regions to find the investment and techical know how needed to develop the minerals on their lands and pay the centre the agreed percentage from the royalties that accrue from such.

Another disastrous part of that proposal is that once the units are confederated, igbos will definitely dominate at the federal level as a result of their population, huge population will have socio economic and political consequences, let us use a popular confederation for example, have you bothered to ask why the state of California (unit of confederated united states) gets 5 times federal allocation more than Wyoming a fellow confederating entity? have you bothered to find out why the state of California produces 53 house of reps members while Wyoming produce just 1? America practise indirect democracy where electoral college elect the presidency, are you aware that California has 55 electoral college votes while Wyoming has just 3? what it means is that minorities are hugely marginalized in a confederated democracy,

All confederations have a weak centre. The confederating Regions are more powerful than the center. So even if one ethnic group managed to gain control of the center, it would not impact greately since the Regions are largely autonomous.

Kanu knows that most of you don't know this so he is throwing the bait to niger delta, if there is any truth in your proposal, a confederated biafran police, army, immigration, senate, house of reps, civil service will be igbo dominated, how is it different from what Niger delta is suffering in Nigeria?

If the minorities think that Igbos will use their huge numerical advantage to emasculate them, they should look at the current deal they have in Nigeria where they have no voice. If I was a minority, would it be better to have 3 majorities emasculating me or just one?

If this proposal of kanu and Asari is put to use in biafra, in 10yrs time, most of the federal taxes paid by Niger deltans will be used to develop Igbo land, isn't that the same marginalization?



Kanu as an Igbo man is proposing that because he knows that most of you don't know how confederation works, confederates benefit from the federation on a scale of population only?? once you are not the majority in a confederation, you are finished, that is the part Kanu is not telling the Niger delta. Any niger deltan supporting biafra is a f00l!!

This just a stupid statement by someone who wants to to keep the failed state of Nigeria together

This is not a statement of fact but a baseless misinterpretation of historical facts, Aguiyi Ironsi enacted decree 34 that dissolved the regions, he was still working on the state creation before he was assassinated, Gowon merely continued from where Aguiyi stopped, if Aguiyi was alive, he would have done exactly what Gowon did.

Any talk about what Ironsi would have done is just speculation. We can only go by what he did and we know he created no states. Which means that whatever he did, Gowon did far much worse by creating states.

The sharing formula you gave above of the region is a baseless hogwash, I told you abinitio that nobody has ever controlled resources anywhere in the world, what you control is investments, the Eastern region made no investments in any of the flourishing sectors hence they did not receive a kobo, from the ogbete drift mine in Enugu, to the railway corporation, to the shipping line, to the ports authority were all british investments, after independence, Nigeria was splitting proceeds with Britain pending when the investment cost was paid off, that happened in 1975. Niger delta saw their first kobo during the Obj administration with the offshore-onshore dichotomy and 13% derivative. Also OBJ gave them 3% of all nigerian revenue, oil and non oil spent through an agency called NDDC.
You guys are making your bogos claims unattractive with cheap

By resource control, the regions negotiate the investment that comes into its domain, taxed the profits that accrued and gave the center an agreed percentage of this tax.

I dont believe a womans period can just pour out like that! Even a goat with its head cut off will not bleed like this

It was almost like someone splashed dark red paint on the floor.

This looks staged

Nice one by Innocent Chukwuma. How that man went from a Motorcycle importer to a motor vehicle manufacturer is simply astonishing.