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http://en.starafrica.com/news/military-approach-no-answer-to-biafra-question-bishop.html


Posted by: APA Posted date : December 25, 2015 at 11:19 am UTC 43 views In : Africa
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Dr. Matthew Kukah, says a military approach will not end pro-Biafran protests across the country.

Reacting to the fresh charges filed against the founder of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.Kukah, Kukah insisted that the Federal Government should settle the crisis arising from the agitation for Biafra out of court.

A Punch newspaper report on Friday said that the federal government had recently filed six counts, including treasonable felony, against Kanu before a Federal High Court in Abuja.

Kanu�s detention is fuelling pro-Biafran protests across the country.

�A military and judicial approach would not work. We are in a democracy where dialogue, diplomacy and patience are the hallmarks of good leadership.

“The federal government should open a backdoor channel to get Kanu to renounce alleged hate speeches and violence.

�My position on Kanu is straightforward. I am not in any way saying that he is innocent but in order to avoid upheavals and tension, the government should settle through engagement. One of the parties has to trade something for something else. We are not in a military regime. Dialogue is the solution,� Kukah said.

The cleric also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to treat the recent killings of some members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria by the Nigerian Army in Zaria as a national disaster.

He said that he expected the President to declare a national mourning due to the number of deaths recorded in the clash. Many lives were lost when soldiers clashed with the members of the group also known as Shi�ite, in Zaria last week.

Members of the group reportedly blocked a federal highway and tried to prevent the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai�s motorcade from driving through.

�As far as I am concerned, the Zaria killing is a national disaster. I expected the President to have declared a national mourning, especially because of the number of people that lost their lives. There is no way the President would not be held responsible because the buck stops at his table.

�However, this is not the time to apportion blame because there is enough blame to go round,� he said.

Kukah, therefore, shunned calls for the removal of Buratai over the killings, saying that would not bring back those that lost their lives.

He said Buhari�s critics should wait for the panel of enquiry inaugurated to investigate the killings to submit their report.

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ERockson:
when I heard Nnamdi Kanu ordering his supporters to kill pastor Kumuyi whenever he steps on igbo land I knew kanu own don finish.
Where were SE CAN that time. kanu needs to be humble more with more detention for a proper brain reset

As a yoruba man, i see everything wrong with the other tribe, igbos but am blind to even worst things done by the Custodian of yoruba culture. Nnamdi is a nobody but we cannot say the same for Oba of Lagos, threatening to murder all igbos and dump them in Lagoon for not voting APC in a democracy.



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Is it me or are things getting worst? Nigerians will cry blood by the time Buhari is finished with this country, meanwhile Zahra Buhari they wear Manolo Blahnik Hangisi Satin pumps shoe $1,099.00 (N218k)

Seunmother:
Sharap. Thats an old picture.

Meanwhile Up biafra! https://www.nairaland.com/2805217/breaking-nnamdi-kanu-discharged

Bia ta mechionu!

Take it to dem.... Give it to dem... We want Biafra.

They that talk bad have already started to say good things. We all know that GEJ was unfairly victimised by the cabal and allies.

It is in Sudi interest to remove Nigeria from that list.

Mustay:
Sorry case when connotations become evidences. SMH

The boyz murdered yesterday by the Bokoo Haram Nigerian Army must be chicken.

The victims were later robbed after being murdered and abandoned by the Boko Haram Nigerian Army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVR8vNfz2g0

Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and ISIS are Sunni organisation and likewise Buhari is a Sunni muslim.

Buhari integrated into the Nigerian Army officers that had aid and abet Boko Haram activities and now those same officers are using the authority of the Nigerian Army to murder unarmed civilians from a rival islamic group.


Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, popularly known as Shiite, have claimed that at least 500 of their colleagues have allegedly been killed by soldiers. The group blamed the Army authorities for the loss of lives in Zaria, Kaduna State, north-west Nigeria and called on the international community and human rights groups to probe the killings.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nnamdi-kanu-pro-biafran-groups-claim-no-peace-talks-unless-ipob-leader-released-1532994

Nnamdi Kanu: Pro-Biafran groups claim no peace talks unless Ipob leader is released
Ludovica Iaccino By Ludovica Iaccino
December 11, 2015 21:13 GMT 225
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An Ipob member protests for the release of leader and Radio Biafra director Nnamdi KanuIpob
Pro-Biafran groups have rejected calls by government members to start a dialogue on the issue of Biafra. Both the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) and the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob) said no talks will occur unless the government releases Ipob leader Nnamdi Kanu.

Pro-Biafrans call for the independence of territories that constituted the Biafran Republic, established in 1967 and reannexed to Nigeria in 1970, following a civil war that claimed between one and three million lives. Following Kanu's arrest, rallies have instensified across southeastern Nigeria. A 2 December protest in Onitsha, Anambra state, resulted in the alleged death of at least nine demonstrators. The police, however, denied they opened fire on civilians during an interview with IBTimes UK.


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A few days after the Onistha incident, Nigerian politicians and elite members held a discussion on the Biafra issue. The talks took place in the federal capital of Abuja and were chaired by Nigerian politician and former UN representative Maitama Sule. Former governor of Akwa-Ibom State, Senator Goodswill Akpabio, participated as a guest speaker.

During the discussion, participants agreed on the need to address the issue peacefully to avoid another civil war. Speaker Bello Kirfi, who represented the north-east, told leader from the south-east to "go back and let the people know that their approach is wrong," The Premium Times reported.

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However, pro-Biafra argued that the only person whom the Nigerian government should negotiate with is Kanu. The controversial director of London-based Radio Biafra was apprehended in Lagos in October on charges of criminal conspiracy, intimidation and belonging to an unlawful society. He pleaded not guilty. His trial has been adjourned to 14 December.

An Ipob coordinator who lives in Anamabra said that the government is speaking to the wrong people. The source said: "Unless, he [President Muhammadu Buhari] releases Nnamdi Kanu, no dialogue will hold with Ipob representatives in attendance."

Massob and Ipob

Massob and Ipob have claimed several times they are not related. Both movements accuse each other of violent propaganda and actions. According to Ipob members, violent actions blamed on Massob smear pro-Biafrans' reputation and are used by the government to claim the whole movement is violent.

The Nigerian government has deemed Massob as an extremist group. Its leader Ralph Uwazuruike was arrested in 2005 on treason charges. He was released two years later.

Uwazuruike announced on 6 December the group had been renamed Biafra Independent Movement, BIM. He explained the decision was necessary following violent actions by internal dissidents.

He said during a press conference in Owerri, capital of Imo state: "The change in name became absolutely necessary because of the sad introduction of violence by the disgruntled dissidents and this is at variance with the non-violence stance of Massob over the years."

Uwazuruike also alleged he had recruited Kanu in 1989 and appointed him as the director of Radio Biafra. "He started preaching hatred and brainwashing the youths. Massob sacked him." Ipob denies the allegations.

Immanu-el Yahgozie, editor at Biafra 24, told IBtimes UK: "We are not involved in any negotiations and we will not get involved until Kanu and Benjamin Onwuka [leader of the Biafra Zionist Movement] are released."

IBTimes UK has contacted Massob for a statement, but had not received a response at the time of publishing. The group's director of information, Edson Samuel, was quoted by the Vanguard as saying: "Any person moving to dialogue between us and Federal Government must first meet with us and know our demands."

Meanwhile, Washington-based NGO Organization of Emerging African States (Oeas) – which advocates for people's right to self determination – warned that Nigeria could risk a "civil strife" if pro-Biafrans' demands are not met.

In a statement released on 4 December, the organisation also said Nigeria should hold a referendum on the Biafra issue within 90 days with independent observers supervising the polls.

Buhari has not yet made any comment on the ongoing calls for independence and referendum. Earlier this year, a spokesperson for the government told IBTimes UK that it does not consider the separatist movement a threat to the current leadership and defined pro-Biafrans as an "insignificant number of frustrated people who are not a threat to the existence of Nigeria".

Earlier in December, the minister of information, Lai Mohammed, urged Nigerian leaders to defend the unity of the country but said pro-Biafran demonstrators are completely legitimate.

asEdeyHOT:
Like Nnamdi Kanu who was OK with one Nigeria in 2014 but started calling it the ZOO after Jonathan lost the election?

Biafra is is really apt!

Dude it appears u care more about me than i do u. It is like the igbo yoruba relationship, where Igbos are chasing better life, yorubas are having tribal fantasy.

Dude hate to break it to you, but we are both black africans colonised and lumped together by Europeans at the Berlin conference in the 17th Century.

I owe you nothing.

I hate 2face people, back stabbers and Tribalist bigot!

CreampieAngela:
namdi kanu instructed you biafra irridentist to kill pastor Adeboye and pastor Kumuyi. When are you going to kill pastor kumuyi ? your own pastor

And Oba of Lagos threatened to murder the whole Ndiigbo and dump them in Lagoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GSSOMC0rV0&ab_channel=ElombahPerspective

E no matter, they are requesting their own country.

No it was JTF DAT MURDERED DEM

VANHELLSING:
Don't give urself hbp over biafran matter, because when the time come u and ur incosequential tribe will not be noticed nor considered relevant by the great igbos. Ants like u and ur tribe have no say in animal kingdom.

As in not even a single vote in the referendum.

If Biafra is landlocked then Northern Nigeria is in Planet Mars.


Nothing person no go read for nairaland.


Dey should build Obuaku seaport in Abia make yoruba let us hear word.


Direct access to Atlantic Ocean, dis one is not River port, but Seaport.

In your dreams OP.

IN YOUR DREAMS...

sad state of affairs in this country.

BUHARI JUST WANT TO BURN DOWN THIS COUNTRY.


UN AND AFRICOM WILL SOON HAVE A BASE IN NIGERIA TO CHECK HIS MADNESS.


CAN U IMAGINE DISOBEYING COURT ORDER AND POLITICAL PRISONER IN THIS DAY AND AGE.


NIGERIA IS UNABLE TO GROW OR PROGRESS EVEN UNDER DEMOCRACY.


ONE MILITARY DICTATOR AFTER ANOTHER FROM OR PAST.


A COUNTRY DAT CANNOT PROGRESS ULTIMATELY DISINTEGRATE.

See the way they are spending our money... One of this foreign trip cause Nigeria millions of dollars.

superstar1:
Global gini? Maybe in the jungle of alaigbo.

He is a terrorist, war monger, hate preacher, toothless lion, a Lunatic Albino and an Ayatollah.

If you ask the people in Pakistan, yemen and Afghanistan, they will tell you Osama too was an activist. The same way Al Baghadadi and Jihadi John and are activists for ISIS/ISL/Daesh.

The only problem here is that Daily mail UK is a neutral observer.


Tribalism has eaten too deep into your brain that you are not making sense.

superstar1:
After the write up, what's next?

U mumu have managed to make a noise maker into a global activist and hero.

The longer this drag on the more awareness you give to Biafra Activist.

Stop making a mountain out of a mole hill and let Nnamdi Kanu go. The wisest move ever.

U have Ohanaeze, Mbaka and Obi of Onitsha to work with to stop all move towards Biafra.

Buhari can dialogue with the govs. Who is Nnamdi?

Let him go now.

How come is Judge is a Northern Muslim? Prosecutor is a Northern Muslim, President is a Northern Muslim.

Can Nnamdi Kanu a Christian southerner from the east ever get a fair hearing? Let Nnamdi go.

Nigeria is notorious for Kangaroo court, which is even worst under Buhari.

This might be the final nail in the coffin of the Zoo.

Just like cloak work, it is 2015 and Nigeria dies.