Biafra is a country that, BY DESIGN, will be very peaceful and calm.
It will be so peaceful that beat cops will walk around UNARMED.
The era of "kill and go" will be gone for ever and ever.
If you order shoot at sight anywhere in Biafra you will be arrested and charged for murder (if anyone dies from it), or reckless endangerment of the public (if nobody died).

Biafra, the nation of our dream!

TonyeBarcanista:

Is it not clear that the Eastern Railway at Diobu was formerly known as Iguocha and NOT the entire Portharcourt City? This is easy to comprehend.


Can't it be inferred that Iguocha, other Ikwerre farmlands/towns and Okrika Fishing camps makes up portharcourt? Is this not clear? So when did the whole PHC become Iguocha? Is Iguocha, a town in Diobu(as at then) now Igbo owned or Ikwerre owned?


For the upteenth time, PHC is not Iguocha or Igweocha and has never been. Parts of Portharcourt? Maybe, just like every other towns that makes up the citu. But if the Ikwerres wants it renamed(their parts), it is between the RVSG, Ikwerre people and Okrika people


HopeAtHand

My friend you are sounding more and more hollow. SMH.
It is painful to watch an otherwise intelligent man commit logical "sepuku" rather than accept simple truth.
What do you mean by that Port Harcourt can never be Iguocha? Are you blind? Can't you read historical document presented to you in black and white?
I thank God for other Ijaws here like Dearpreye. I would have thought that all Ijaws are hopeless.
Drop it man!

mikolo80:
na for bush police go de check licence
if the farmers and rustlees like make dem no go get pump action and Winchester/remington/rat poison
make dem de dia de blow grammar
license or no license
g must get AK for house
it's assumed g seized it from the criminal if I can't hide it before police come
i go get the pump action for cover
but Lord help anybody wen think say my family is for raping

hehehe!

Noted.

IGBOPRINCE:
re you trying to say that nnamdi kanu is hungry and poor ?
Re you trying to say those healthy igbos I saw in spain, germany, usa and poland re jobless and poor?

Sis or bro, think b4 you talk abeg.

Self determination does not mean ndiigbos re poor or jobless o.
My take.

Please don't mind him or her (abi na "it" )
What they do is to project their own poverty and desolation on their opponents hoping the tag would stick.
It is a troll strategy.
The worst form of poverty is lack of self worth.
Opponents of Biafra lack self worth.

knowledgeable:



Do you mean, that, if they have to get one for the other, and then at some point destroy one and leave the other?.

It simply means that we will resist Islam with ALL our might.

speedyGonzales:
that's like asking where do boko haram get their weapons from?

good question...

Boko haram are not walking around towns and villages with AK-47s.
They (like kidnappers) are faceless criminals who hide and dodge from law enforcement officers.
But Fulani walk around freely with these illegal guns and with TOTAL impunity.
This made me to think that they must have licenses to carry them.
If they have licenses to carry these weapons, why not such licenses be made available to farmers and vigilantes?
If they are carrying the guns illegally, why can they get away with it?

This question exposes the rot that is the Nigerian justice system.

@Topic issue reiterated: WHY SHOULD FULANI CARRY ASSAULT RIFFLES "LEGALLY", BUT NOT ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC?

If the guns are illegal, are law enforcement agencies blind to arrest them?

QuotaSystem:
Are you completely daft or you're just unnaturally slow? Was your question not about licensing? So in your infant reasoning it's completely fine to carry unlicensed dangerous fire arms as long as you don't walk around?

Stop embarrassing yourself

Every new day, we get new trolls, dumber than the ones before them.
And when we say that Nigeria is a zoo, they get offended.

TROLL ALERT.
IGNORED henceforth.

NgeneUkwenu:
Only the illiterates, Jonathanians, jobless, hungry and poor Igbos talk about biafra!

In my place we regard them as mere charlatans...that will soon fizzle out...when they finally realized Jonathan cannot Come back as President.

What is the name of your town (or village if you like)?
I dare you to speak the truth.

QuotaSystem:
Most likely where Igbo Kidnappers get their licenses?

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So how many of the "igbo kidnappers" walk around openly with AK-47s?
Hate beclouds common sense and reasoning capacity.
Save your brains from decay.

@OP

We are speaking loud and clear. And our voice is getting louder and bigger by the day.
Join the bus or get crushed by the majority voices of Biafraland.

#NnamdiKanuspeaksforus

Forced Islamization of the whole south has ALWAYS been on the agenda of the northerners.
But not to worry, we shall bulldoze the mosque the next day after we get Biafra.
Even the supposed peaceful Buddhists of Nepal understand the Islamic expansionist agenda.

baby124:
If he dies today. Nothing will happen. You underestimate the Nigerian ability to move on. In Nigeria, it's better to do things the right way because whether you live or die, they will forget you and move on after a very short time. Nigerian memory is very short. Anybody that has a death wish has deceived himself

A popular Igbo proverb says that "you would never know that the mad man on the street corner has family until you kill him".
Nnamdi Kanu's family is about 60 million people and they are mostly waiting for you to do just that.
Ndi ara.

babajero:
It is obvious Biafra don't need any position in Nigeria anymore she needs her freedom.

Yes, you are correct. Anybody from Biafraland who is holding position in Nigeria is only representing himself or herself.
Our people know that they don't represent us.

The longer they detain Kanu, the more resolved and stronger the agitation.
I know a lot of our people who were sitting on the fence before but have now decided to give maximum support to Biafra.
The much I know of Nnamdi Kanu, he is prepared to DIE for Biafra.
He is an HONORABLE person, and honor requires that you are prepared to die for what you believe.
Nigeria has bastardized the term "Honorable" (as usual).

Honorable Nnamdi Kanu, we await your speedy release to continue the struggle.

LastSurvivor:
I think they av the backing of a superior being, most especially now their brother is in power..
Mind u, he "buhari" is yet to condemn their act not to talk of mandating Arase to arrest n persecute them..

Well done @OP

Very good observation. But you find governors in parts of south -particularly SE- issuing shoot at sight orders against UNARMED demonstrators.

NAIJASOM:
Op thanks for the constant intellectual contributions to nairaland.

You're welcome bro.
But you wonder why a thread like this won't make frontpage.

Thanks @OP.
This is the point I've made here particularly to my Igbo brothers who want to limit Biafra to Igboland.
Biafra was not, is not, and will never be an Igbo only affair.
Yes, there are Igbo and non-Igbo who don't believe in Biafra, but that is what a simple referendum will resolve.

mensdept:


Meaning what? Hasnt Nigeria gotten out of had since? And yet, some have brought back a coupist in his old age to be president, a rogue as senate president, more rogues as senators and peope are celebrating pastors, Davido, and going abroad for medical checkup.

Abeg, Biafra is coming and is long overdue

Don't mind these zoogerians.
I'm still trying to figure out how those people think, assuming they think at all.

GentleToks:
I am a British citizen too and i can put it to you that the greatest mistake of IPOD/BIAFRA is getting UK involved in Nnamdi Kanu's crime against a Nation. What a big mistake!!!!! British government would nail him faster than he ever thought.

Who remember the Rwanda genocide? Those guys preaching and inciting people on a Radio in Rwanda were later caught in UK around 2006, on trial in 2006 and got sent to years imprisonment.

The UK authority never allowed IRA(fought the British army for Irish independence; 60% members were sent to maximum prisons in UK for doing something similar to Kanu's action).

The British government does not tolerate Terrorism and violence in any form being on a Radio, Leaflets on the streets(Muslims tried it in UK and all went to prison for it).

If you take a proper look at that letter, the MP wants to know his crime against Nigeria state and when the evidence of his war-threatening is released to this British MP, Nnamdi Kanu might be placed Scotland Yard watch. Nnamdi Kanu would be as bad as Henry Okah of South Africa.

You and i know that Nnamdi Kanu's crime is as bad as act of terrorism(Inciting people against a state). In UK, inciting someone or group of people against individual or group of people carries 6years minimum imprisonment.

He might lose his British passport if Nnamdi Kanu is eventually found guilty and it's pretty obvious to the blind that Nnamdi Kanu would be found guilty considering the massive evidence against him. Below are Nnamdi Kanu crimes against a sovereign nation called Nigeria.

1-The Radio piracy
2-Terrorism(inciting people against a Nation is called Terrorism).

The evidence(Those war-calling words on Radio) against him is too overwhelming for Nigerians to ignore and too much for UK to deal with.

There are people(Artos of Catalan, Spain and Alex Salmon of Scotland) fighting for the independence of their countries around the world as at today but none did what Nnamdi Kanu was doing on a live radio. He is an uneducated fool.

You Nigerians zoogerians are always incoherent in your arguments.
Let me ask you a question: What happened to MASSOB and their leader Uwazuruike? Weren't they totally tame and completely non-violent, yet you people hunted them like game animals, killing and maiming them willy-nilly?

You people think that the WHOLE WORLD is not seeing what is happening?
How many times did Alex Salmond get arrested by the British secret police and clamped in a dungeon for canvassing Scottish independence? How many times did Spanish secret police detain Artos?

Notice that I didn't use Nnamdi Kanu, just to prove to you that it really doesn't matter how Biafran agitators make their case, they will be given zoo treatment. But not to worry, the zoo will find out soon that it cannot treat a citizen of a major power anyhow and get away scottfree. The reason is that major countries have MANY interested parties who can go after you if you mess with their citizen.
If you escape their government, you will not escape their "non-state actors".

Free Kanu, or face the consequences.

aresa:
How come Ibo leaders locally, Nationally and elected leaders haven't said a word or join voices to either side with the agitators or speak up against their efforts?


Why?


Are they all cowards?

I fear a silent enemy more than a noisy one.
So, we maintain stoic silence until our enemies finish making their moves.

My question is simple: Assuming that the Fulani herdsmen are licensed to carry military grade riffles, why can't the local farmers and community vigilantes obtain similar licenses? Why are they condemned to carry only shot guns and be completely at the mercy of better armed herdsmen?
I am for a totally gun-free society; but what is totally unacceptable is unequal access to firearms by members of the public.
If Fulani must carry military grade riffles to protect their cattle, I need similar arms to protect my farm. QED.

This thread is motivated by the menace of Fulani herdsmen, but particularly about the legality of the AK-47s they carry about in Nigeria. This issue is important because the Fulani herdsmen often overpower local vigilantes who are armed with shot-guns (armed according to Nigerian law). News abound in all parts of Southern Nigeria about killings, robberies and rapes by the herdsmen.

Nigerian law prohibits non-military members of the public from carrying military grade weapons such as the 7.62×39mm of the AK-47.
So, who issues the licenses that legalize these weapons in Fulani hands?
Why can't local vigilantes -whose primary job is community security- obtain the licenses to carry similar weapons?

According to the Nigerian Firearms Act -Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1990 (Chapter 146) Schedules:

Schedule
(Sections 2, 3-5, 9, 24-26, 34)
 
 
Part I
Prohibited Firearms
 
 
1.
Artillery.
2.
Apparatus for the discharge of any explosive or gas-diffusing projectile.
3.
Rocket weapons.
4.
Bombs and grenades.
5.
Machine-guns and machine-pistols.
6.
Military rifles, namely those of calibres 7.62 mm, 9 mm., .300 inches and .303 inches.
7.
Revolvers and pistols whether rifled or unrifled (including flint-lock pistols and cap pistols).
8.

Any other firearm not specified in Part II or Part III of this Schedule.
 
  
Part II

Personal Firearms
 
 
1.            Shotguns other than-
 
(a)            automatic and semi-automatic shotguns; and
 
(b)            shotguns provided with any kind of mechanical reloading device.
 
2.   Sporting rifles, namely rifles of calibres other than those specified in Item 6 of Part I.
 
3.  Air-guns, air-rifles or air-pistols.
 
4.   Humane killers of the captive bolt type.
 
 
 
http://www.nigeria-law.org/Firearms%20Act.htm

dearpreye:


Hahaha. Barcanista remains my brother any day any time though we seem not share the same sentiments when it comes to the Biafra issue. To be frank, I'm yet to understand his motives for his recent threads on Biafra though I'll defend his right to air his views, not minding how jaundiced and distasteful to others.

I've known him way beyond this site. The tonyebarcanista sobriquet is the barcanista we know; it's not a fake one neither is it being operated by anyone other than the barcanista himself. LOL!

Whether we like it or not, the SS must of necessity work with the SE to seek true emancipation from the contraption known as Nigeria. I believe both group can address and write rules of agreement that will seek to regulate or dictate how they will chart their destinies BUT the fact remains any bickering whatsoever between the SS and SE worries ME.

It worries me too, and should worry anyone from our regions with any brains at all.

There is nothing more dangerous to the Igbo interest than another Igbo who has been empowered by Nigeria. Mark my words.

Yes I believe in Biafra, but I believe it will come after MANY years; at least until all the "Nigerians" in our midst have been put in their selfish homes NEVER again to speak for us.

Can any Igbo tell me what Senator Ekweremadu of Enugu State -Deputy Senate President for ever- has achieved for SE?
Short answer: NOTHING.

Enugu "international" airport is still every much a local airport.

@OP we are not shocked that you are asking us to forget 40% of Igboland.

pazienza:


You are welcome, nwannaa.

It's time we stop playing the politics of "ofor na ogu" and start playing the politics of "ako na uche".

"Asina Ugwu muta mgbaji ukwu, agadi nwanyi amuta ejekata akwusi".~ Igbo proverb.

The people we are dealing with,are different from us.

Universal wisdom.

FreeGlobe:

So it's dakuku and apc that will be pro Biafran governors

No, of course not. But that is exactly the point!
When an APC non-Igbo governor issues a shoot at sight against IPOB or MASSOB, our argument will be simple: They are killing Igbos.
Now if you make that same argument with Wike, some foreign power will ask you: "but your governor is Igbo".
The real puppeteer in the North will play innocent.
You understand now

FreeGlobe:

is rivers a mono ethnic state? How can you read the devilish statement from APC on the protest and not respond as a governor? Wike is better than APC. Amaechi during the Senate screening stressed he was a true Nigerian. Do you know what that means? Abandoning Wike is supporting APC. I believe igbos know who to support.

If we don't start throwing these anti-Biafra governors under the bus we will never gain anything politically in Nigeria.
We won't even be able to carry out a peaceful demonstration in support of Biafra (which most of our people want) because these idiotic governors will issue shoot at sight orders against our people.

Under the bus biko!

Next is Obiano of Anambra state.
We shall get radio Biafra to thoroughly make sure that all the governors who betray Biafra will lose by so wide a margin that rigging would be impossible to save their hides.

EasternLeopard:



You don't understand politics


If we had included Edo people, they would have insulted us here


But see the way they hunger for Biafra, you won't believe they once rejected Ojukwu's ideal of secession.




Reject them and you will see them beg to be part of Biafra



Even Truckpusher couldn't mention his ethnicity for fear of being rejected like the Edos


Even Ijawcitizen lost tongue


Trust me


Just ignore them and you will see them begging you

My brother I really believe that these types of threads are unnecessary.
Unless I don't understand Biafra enough, we Igbo people are not the only ones who believe in it.
You alluded same in your comment above. Even the Edo is angling for it with a different name called Lower Niger Congress.
So talking about an Igbo only country and discussing its boundaries in Nairaland is not wise.
I say this because I've once argued with an Ngwa, and even an Onicha person about being Igbo.
There was NEVER (historically speaking) an Igbo only nation for a reason. It never existed.
Biafra is only failing, so far, because we haven't figured out a way to get it.
Once we figure it out, it will happen.
I cannot see myself debating with anybody about Igbo lands.
It is a conversation I cannot have with anybody, particularly in Nairaland where a Fulani can be claiming to be Ikwerre.

pazienza:
My verdict is that: Ndiigbo in Rivers should boycott this Rivers re run election, since neither Wike nor The APC is on the same page with us.

We play it cool, and congratulate the winner between Wike and APC, but giving Wike a bloc vote we must avoid, so that when he loses, we wouldn't be bearing the cross of someone who isn't actually with us to start with.
We must not been seen as enemies of APC in Rivers state, and we must not be seen as support base of Wike.

We play it neutral in Rivers state. No open endorsement of any candidate by any Igbo group. If you must vote, do so individually.

My brother you have made my day with this thread.
Your recommendation above is spot on.
Wike should fight his own battles.

nextdoor84:



Go ask the Chinese to give up their ancient territories like Taiwan and the south china sea islands..Even when the Taiwanese publicly denied their relationship with china..the chinese keep pressing and will never give up the very hope of reuniting the rebellious Taiwan with mainland china...in my humble opinion; Ikwerre, Ekpeye,Etche, anioma and other igboid speaking communities must be reunited with the larger igbo family.
anyu ka ta amiri ogba ufufu...pardon my igbo pals...there is strength in unity....shalom

Your head is certainly intact bro.
Thanks for a very sound and solid argument.