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…accuses DSS on fresh charges against Kanu
Kanu’s detention may mar Nigeria —Ohanaeze
Reactions trail killing of jubilating IPOB members in Onitsha
Uwazuruike converts MASSOB to BIM youth wing, appoints 3 key officers
By Francis Igata, Nwabueze Okonkwo & Ugochukwu Alaribe
Tension is building up in the South-East and parts of South-South geopolitical zones following the continued detention of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Director Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, who was, last Wednesday, discharged and acquitted by a Magistrate’s Court in Abuja of the treason preferred on him by the Department of State Security Services, DSS.
It will be recalled that Justice Ademola Adeniyi of a Federal High Court, also in Abuja, had, last Thursday, ordered Kanu’s immediate release from DSS detention.
Nnamdi was arrested on October 17, by DSS operatives, shortly after he arrived Nigeria from his base in the United Kingdom, which prompted over one month protests after he was arraigned secretly at Wuse 2 Magistrate’s Court presided over by Justice Shuiabu, who granted him bail on October 19.
Meanwhile, the youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo had warned that the continued detention of the leader Nnamdi Kanu by the DDS, against court order, could spell doom for Nigeria.
The youth group under the banner of Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, expressed shock that four days after the Federal High Court, Abuja gave ordered Kanu’s unconditional release, the DSS had continued to hold him.
Similarly, reactions have continued to trail last Thursday’s shooting and killing of five members of IPOB by the Joint Task Force, compromising Army and Navy stationed at the Bridge-head area of the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, who were jubilating the court order for the release of Kanu.
Among those who had so far reacted to the incident include the leader of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike; the Ogirishi of Igboland, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, and other human rights groups.
Nerves frayed as Kanu’s not released
The leader of Movement for the Actualization of the State of Biafra, MASSOB, Uchenna Madu, has accused the DSS of deliberately continuing to detain Nnamdi Kanu against two court rulings ordering the security agency to release their leader unconditionally.
“The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu by DSS after both Magistrate, Federal High courts have discharged and acquitted him of all the frivolous charges against him shows that Nigerian judiciary is not independent. The independency of the three arms of government is a complete sham, which portrays Nigeria as an undemocratic state.
“It is a sign of frustration on Nigeria because of Nnamdi Kanu, agitators for Biafra represents the very truth Nigeria knows but always avoids to identify with it. I know Nnamdi Kanu. He is a real Biafran, who can never succumb to intimidation, deviate or compromise.
“His illegal detention will worsen the already battered image of Nigeria. MAASOB will never relent in identifying with Nnamdi Kanu. We shall continue to press for his release with every legitimate action supported, backed by internationally recongised law, decrees and charters. MASSOB must maintain our non-violent stance, although we have found out that the DSS wants to re-arraign him on fresh trumped-up charges which we will resist,” MASSOB leader warned.
Kanu’s detention may mar Nigeria —Ohanaeze
The Youth Wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a statement by its National President of OYC, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, condemned the attitude of the DSS over the detained Biafra activist.
“Nigeria is sitting on tenterhook; the looming danger of renewed protests by Kanu’s followers, sympathisers and Biafra agitators is capable of consuming Nigeria and should be avoided. For us, Ohanaeze Youth Council, we are pleading with the Federal Government to, as a matter of sacrifice for the unity of Nigeria, release Nnamdi Kanu.
“This call has become necessary because it will be extremely difficult for us to continue to calm his followers and sympathizers whose see his detention as a provocation. We know how much effort it took us to prevail on IPOB and MASSOB members to stop their protests before the court ruling, and we don’t know what to tell them again as Kanu is still in detention four days after he was discharge by a court of competent jurisdiction.
“President Muhammadu Buhari should help save the country from unnecessary tension by prevailing on the DSS to release Kanu since the courts have discharged and acquitted him.”
OYC also called on the international community to intervene and save Nigeria from plunging into another avoidable civil disturbance instead of coming with aids to refugee camps.
The youth group appealed to Buhari, to prevail on the DSS to free the detained IPOB leader in the interest of peace.
Ohanaeze, also appealed to Biafra agitators and Igbo youths to remain calm as efforts were being intensified to secure freedom for Kanu.
Reactions trail killing of jubilation IPOB members
Meanwhile, reacting to Kanu’s continued detention, Uwazuruike condemned the killing of unarmed civilians by the soldiers, adding that even if the jubilants blocked the road, it should not have been enough excuse to open fire and kill them.
“After all, if the DSS had released Kanu since the Magistrate’s Court gave an order to do so, these orgy of protests would not have arisen in the first place. Ndigbo would henceforth, no longer tolerate indiscriminate shooting and wasting of human lives here in Igbo land by trigger-happy security agencies.”
The BIM leader wondered why the soldiers used live bullets on the crowd instead of using rubber bullets or even tear-gas canisters to scare the jubilants if at all they blocked the road.
Reacting to the development, Chief Ezeonwuka, who spoke to newsmen at the scene of the incident, also condemned the shooting and killing of unarmed persons with live bullets, adding that on the other hand, if it was true that the jubilants had blocked the roads, it was not proper.
“We don’t want shedding of blood here in Igbo land any longer and we don’t want more protests too. What are they protesting about and who are they shooting at? There is nothing to warrant shooting or protesting, particularly now that Nnamdi Kanu has been released by the court.”
Chairman of South East zone of Campaign for Democracy, CD, Uzor A. Uzor, called on the government to set up a panel of inquiry to ascertain the reason for the shooting and punish the culprits accordingly.
Also reacting, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety said, in a statement, yesterday, that the Commander of the Onitsha Military Cantonment and his Chief of Army Staff, COAS as well as the government of Anambra State, should be held fully responsible for the death, injuries and whereabouts of some missing citizens and the murdered members of IPOB members.
The statement by its chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi, Intersociety said: “We have it on good authority that four to eight dead victims and 13 critically injured members of the public, who were shot dead and critically injured by the soldiers of the Onitsha Military Cantonment in the evening of December 17, 2015, at the Ojukwu Gateway, Onitsha Niger Bridge-head, have been taken away to unknown destination by soldiers of the Cantonment.
“The soldiers after perpetrating the heinous act at the Niger Bridgehead between 2p.m., and 3.30p.m., stormed the Multicare Hospital, on Limca Road, Nkpor, Anambra State, between 8p.m., and 9p.m., and abducted 13 critically injured citizens brought for treatment.
“The four dead citizens were also said to have earlier been taken away by the soldiers from the scene of the shooting. Till this moment, their whereabouts have remained unknown.”
Uwazuruike converts MASSOB to BIM youth wing
Meanwhile, in his bid to exert his authority and ensure that charlatans do not infiltrate MASSOB, its founder and leader of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, had converted MASSOB into youth wing of BIM.
Uwazuruike said with its inauguration and appointment of its key officers, MASSOB, had been restructured and strengthened to continue with the non-violent struggle in the revalidation of a Biafran statehood.
A statement, yesterday, by BIM’s Deputy Director of Information, Mazi Chris Mocha, quoted Uwazuuruike as saying that before one could be admitted into the hierarchy of BIM, such an officer must have worked for MASSOB which is BIM’s youth-wing for at least, five years and above to be able to understand the principles of non-violence in the Biafra struggle.
The statement recalled the Biafran leader, Uwazuruike had at an enlarged special meeting of BIM/MASSOB, attended by Biafran elders-in-council, Biafran zonal leaders, Biafran regional administrators and directors, named Chief Solomon Chukwu as the leader of MASSOB, the youth wing of BIM, while Mr. sunny Okereafor and Great Agomo were named as MASSOB National Director for Information and MASSOB National Director for Seminar respectively.


Source: www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/nnamdi-kanu-massob-vows-to-continue-protests-if/

If I hear say Ebonyi no rich pass Osun


BTW All these Northern states are huge parasites, no wonder they are resolute on 'One Nigeria'.

Buhari Maka Why?

#ShoroNiyen

Watch the SAI BABA chanting Zombies avoid this thread like a plague..


Shameless lot!!!

Madness get style sha...

The Nation newspaper




I rather wait till a more credible source announces it.

*IN LAI MOHAMMED'S VOICE *


"Its an unstructured attack, so it doesn't count."


APC 'change agents' should bury their heads in shame!!

Kestolovee95:
@ Op, have you sent the video to the appropriate quaters like Ipob email to swell our body of evidence in preparation to jail Oga dogs-and-baboons at the ICC? Please also send it to presstv of iran so that they know we southern christians also go through hell in the hands of the sunni military. It will help them direct their anger to the appropriate quaters. Thank you

Its on Facebook already... Finding it hard to detach the video and post it on YouTube

Lalasticlala the whole world has to watch this atrocity!!!

What a shameless country!!!


The North is really dragging everyone else backward.

You don't smile when your country is burning!!!!

Gboliwe:
Where's the video?

Open the link and watch it.

What a shame!!!

Watch as they tried to hide the evidence of their crimes bringing a bucket of water to wash off the blood from the road, not knowing they were being filmed!

The Nigerian Military are gradually losing their humanity...First it was the Shiites now this.....Gosh!!!

A new video has emerged showing Naval officers shooting sporadically to scare away residents from what appears to be a homicide crime scene. In the video, said to have been recorded by an anonymous citizen, it shows officers of the Nigerian Navy shooting to protect the scene of a homicide at Obodoukwu Road by Ogbudike Street in Onitsha, Anambra State. According to residents, the officers shot at a crowd of youngsters who were celebrating the release order of Radio Biafra director, Nnamdi Kanu. The youth, whose body is seen laying in the street was shot and killed. An ambulance is seen appearing at the scene. The corpse is loaded into the vehicle and taken away to an unknown destination. Activists and pro-Biafra groups say that on Thursday, December 17, 2015 Nigerian troops shot and killed five unharmed pro-Biafra protesters who were celebrating the order by an Abuja Federal Court for the unconditional release of Kanu, leader of one of the leading Biafra groups in the country, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Kanu has been in detention for more than 3 months, following his arrest by Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State for Security Services (DSS). The DSS has disobeyed several court orders for the release of Kanu. Leading human rights group, Intersociety,revealed on Friday that soldiers had stormed the hospital where victims of their shooting were receiving treatment and abducted the wounded and corpses of victims to an unknown destination.

Watch the video below:

Source: http://www.thetrentonline.com/video-exposes-how-naval-officers-killed-innocent-youth-and-tried-to-cover-up-watch/

BaebieHot:
Godwin by korede bello is on the list. Read through well.

Yeah, Just edited it.

Nice Pix u got here tho!!!

Lemon12:
Lagos -Ibadan media and their rating ..


Bigots everywhere ...

Why not tell us that this is top 20 most popular Yoruba song 2015 ?

Lol...Funny You

I wonder how Local rapper by Reminisce didn't make the list or Banger by Runtown

Hahahaha....IB people dey worry oh!!!


Bro Lalasticlala I lie?

I don't normally do this....but its obviously




An End Time Bomb!!!!

Tolexander:
That's fatherly!

The only pitch he could strike is on the bed, imagine how Mikel Obi is celebrating the twins brace he scored on bed!

Sharrap if u don't know what to say...

Sweet lady just like my aitee

Lool...

Its purpose was to draw attention of people and as it stands now, the purpose has been actualized!!!

Same people that destroyed this country


SMH!!!

His growing silence is really affecting many things...

You don't speak through spokespersons/Governors when the people you swore to protect are being massacred.


Cc Lalasticlala

One week after the deadly carnage in Zaria, Kaduna State, involving the Nigerian Army and members of the Shi’ite Community, President Muhammadu Buhari remains silent. For a President whose preferred method of public communication has been widely described as “body language”, the message telegraphed by his silence is less than eloquent, unsettling and disquieting.
The exact sequence of events leading to the encounter between the Shi’ites and the Army will, hopefully, be unraveled by the judicial commission of inquiry to be established by the government of Kaduna State. Some things are already quite clear however.
Many people were killed in the encounter. Some have described it as a “massacre”. The victims included young children and women. The leader of the Shi’ites, Sheikh El-Zakzaky, has not been seen since then. The army initially said it took him into “protective custody”. At best, this is not a lawful procedure under Nigerian law. Subsequently, the army claimed it handed him over to civil authorities for prosecution for as yet undisclosed crimes. The army is not a prosecutorial authority for civilians. So on what basis are they deciding that he should be prosecuted?
Rather unfortunately, and quite oddly, in a presumed secular state, the Shiite movement, like many islamic and christian religious organisations, appears to have its own long-term history of breaking the law, and of impunity, that had not been called to order by previous administrations, especially by holding processions or taking over and blocking major roads with utmost disregard for other road users.
Yet the reaction of many, including Nigeria’s bilateral and multi-lateral partners has coalesced around the view that the conduct of the military in response was both brutal and disproportionate. From within Nigeria, many people and institutions, including the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), as well as the Christian Association of Nigeria have called for an independent investigation.
Even more, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a former Permanent Secretary for the Interior and Joint Intelligence in Nigeria’s federal government, himself from Zaria, has regretted the fact that the “military does not appreciate the fact that it handed over to the Shi’ites a victory it will exploit to the detriment of national security”.
Amidst this rising crescendo of condemnation and concern, and whilst considering the fact that President Buhari must be awaiting a report of what transpired leading to the massacre, his studied silence appears quite disturbing. He ordinarily ought not to foreclose the need for showing concern by talking to Nigerians about the ill-fated incident.
And, in line with democratic governance, it behoves the President to constantly engage with the public on matters of national interest. Yet, since the incident, the only response from the Presidency has come from a text message reportedly sent by an official spokesperson of the President, Femi Adesina, to a newspaper in which he described what happened as a “military affair”, whatever that means.
The president’s silence is disconcerting for many reasons. First, the Zaria Massacre is the latest in a long and gruesome list of military operations since 1961 that have ended in civilian bloodbath. It occurred in the same weekend that the President went to Kaduna State, first, for a music festival and, then, to accept an honorary doctorate degree from the Kaduna State University, a curiously dubious conferment from a university that does not itself run any doctorate programme. That the lethal sequence that followed is associated with the presence of the President in the state should surely be of concern to him.
Second, President Buhari is not just anybody. He is a two-time Commander-In-Chief, a retired army General and one of the most respected and decorated officers in the history of the Nigerian Army. As a General, what happened in Zaria must be of interest to him. As Commander-In-Chief, he has command responsibility for what the military did. This is not a mere military affair. It is his affair. By keeping quiet, he reinforces the impression that he explicitly instructed the military operation in Zaria or implicitly condoned its manner and outcomes. If this is not the case, then he should say so.
Third, there is disturbing evidence in his silence that far from learning from the mistakes of his predecessor, President Buhari appears willing to repeat the errors that turned Nigerians against the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. It bears recalling that President Buhari rode to the Presidency on the crest of public revolt against the way his predecessor showed scant regard for the lives and sufferings of Nigerians in the hands of Boko Haram extremists. To this attitude, President Buhari promised change. He did not promise being mute. Rather than offer change on this occasion, he has chosen to go mute.
Fourth, President Buhari’s answer to allegations of Shi’ite lawlessness cannot be an outlaw army. His silence could encourage open-ended military operations against unarmed civilians. The state can contain citizen lawlessness, but state lawlessness invites anarchy.
Above all, as the only officer under our constitution elected – no less – by Nigerians from every state and the Federal Capital Territory, President Buhari swore to protect Nigeria’s constitution and the values that underpin it, including the obligation to run a humane government, respect human life and guarantee due process. When citizens are killed in encounters with the armed forces, the responsibility of government is engaged. The people who died are Nigerians. A humane government must show that it cares. By remaining silent, the President appears inhumane and encourages the impression that he neither cares about human life nor about his oath of office.
It is already late but there is still time for the President to correct the course of happenings. The President who promised change cannot keep quiet when soldiers under his command leave scores, perhaps indeed, hundreds of killed civilian citizens in their wake. He needs to speak to Nigerians and the world urgently and reassure everyone about his commitment to the values of constitutional government.
The whereabouts of the leader of the Shi’ite community, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, must be disclosed. He should be released from custody forthwith or charged before a court for crimes known to the law. Contrary to their claim, the Nigerian constitution has no place for the military to hold a citizen in “protective custody.” Any persons, civilian or military, implicated in the incident in Zaria, should be held to account resolutely.
While PREMIUM TIMES acknowledges the right of, as indeed salutes, the Kaduna State government on its initiative to set up a judicial commission of inquiry into the incident which occurred within its state borders, as announced by Governor Nasir El-Rufai, still we need to be aware that the scale of the problem is national, and the army, as one of the parties involved, is a national institution.
Hence President Buhari, as Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces needs to get proactive in the national engagement with what transpired and in achieving justice for those unjustly violated and murdered. If he fails to do this urgently and resolutely, his promise of change could begin to ring hollow.

Source: www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/195446-editorial-zaria-massacre-president-buharis-unsettling-disquieting-silence.html

Buhari has bitten more than he can chew

Boko Haram or Shiites?



An era of terrorism... All thanks to Bubu!!!

Oya Change agents...Over to you!!!

Buhari is busy fighting kwarraption while the masses are dying

cc Lalasticlala

Before you laugh at children who believed in father Christmas, Remember there are Adults who believe in Buhari.

Score card so far after 7months.
<GOODLUCK JONATHAN
ADMINISTRATION>>
1). Fuel per litre N 87
2). Bag of rice N 7000
3). u,s,a Dollar N160
4). Spaghetti N1950
5). Bag of sugar N7000
6). Kano to Lagos on air N15000
7). Subsidy to pilgrimage
. Salary on every 22th
9). Availability of money
10). Political stability ....


<<BUHARI ADMINISTRATION>>
1). fuel per litre N180
2). Bag of rice N12000
3). u.s.a dollar N280
4). Spaghetti N2800
5). Bag of sugar N9000
6). Kano to Lagos on air N22000
7). Subsidy Removal to pilgrimage
. Salary on 45th
9). Lack of money
10). Political instability.....

This is the change.........
Abi na lie I dey talk?
Compliment of the Season!!!