Today, I joined the protest in Aba, and I want to give account of how we faired. It was real, huge and massive.
The crowd was massive, there were lots of people, marching from Azikiwe to Okigwe road and Faulks road to Brass Junction, Aba Owerri road and connecting to Aba-PH expressway, where we marched back to Flyover.
We marched peacefully all the way, chanting our songs and responding to them, though there were some little issues with the police and army but I must confess, they were professional and allowed us to do our thing peacefully.
People never envisaged seeing that kind of crowd though, and was astounded because they never believed we'd march in Aba today.
The police were at each check point and major junctions, controlling the tight traffic and of course displaying their usual braggado, where they shot their rifles in the air, perhaps to intimidate us.
We were fearless, we marched, at some point we crossed some police people who raised their hands in air to show solidarity, the passerby hailed, cheered and jeered as we marched through the city.
People were extremely happy to see us, and on many occasions, we would see people throwing bags of pure water, can drinks and fruits to us as we passed, everyone was indeed happy and those who could sang with us.
lordonwils: igbo states are being run by igbo governors nd see how bad they are. the igbos should look inwards for answers to dia problems cos agitating for succession will only compound issues.
Please can we compare and contrast your region and mine?
Abagworo: I'm waiting. From what I've read on Facebook the IPOB people were threatening normal citizens creating "us vs them" fight in Aba. They issued threat to Ariaria traders not to open on monday. Is that how they intend to achieve the Biafra?
Well, we told everyone to stay at home on Monday, esp Aba people, too much buying and selling made the city decay, no one cares about what is happening in his immediate environment, politically, and it is not good.
speedyGonzales: okay! good... doesn't look like a storm though but you guys should take this campaign to tweeter! with a nice hash-tag to follow it!
Twitter is our home, Director always reminded us all to open twitter accounts, and every Tuesday we select a countries parliamentarians, and bombard them all with tweet with images.
Search Biafra on twitter and see how we tweet everything happening to the world.
I don't want no revolution with backstabbers or gworo chewing cattle rearers, let them revolt against their own established authority, we are doing ours.
danjumakolo: Noted...but I still believe the igbos shud rally round for the unity of one Nigeria...
Unity of what? Hear yourself talk Mr. man.
You can continue fearing about police crack down and your Nigeria dies within that rise and make a statement for a better place, we have seen no future in Nigeria, that's why we have decided to pursue our own cause.
simtosul: The question here really is the role these men and women played in the current state of Nigeria. The List of Top 20 Most Corrupt Nigerian Leaders (dead/alive) below:
1. Oluesgun Obasanjo – He stole $25 billion from 1999-2007 ($16.4 from power sector alone)
2. Ibrahim Babangida – He stole $15 billion from 1985-1993 ($12.4 billion from oil wind fall in 1990) 3. Abdulsalam Abubakar – He stole $9 billion from 1998-99 4. Sani Abacha – He stole $7 billion from 1993-1998 5. Ahmed Bola Tinubu – He stole and continues to steal from Lagos State treasury since 1999 till date. It’s estimated that he has stolen $6 billion so far. 6. Muhammadu Buhari – He stole $2 billion from NNPC accounts in the ’70s and the money was traced to Midland bank (now HSBC), London. Under his watch as PTF Head, N25 billion got missing according to PTF Situation Report submitted to Abdusalam in 1999. 7. TY Danjuma – He fraudulently got enriched through oil blocks from the Niger Delta worth $20 million in the 70s after the counter coup. Those oil blocks worth billions of dollars in today’s value. 8. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – He stole $1.2 billion as CBN Governor from 2008-2014. 9. Bukola Saraki – Through his father, Olukola Saraki, their bank, Societe Generale and as a governor of Kwara State (2003-20111) he stole $1.1 billion 10. Nasir El Rufai – Before he was made the FCT Minister, El Rufai was broke, homeless and was looking for loan to import taxis from the UK. After he was made the minister, he seized landed properties that belonged to Nigerians and resold them with huge profit. It’s estimated that he stole $1 billion from 2003-2007. 11. Tunde Fashola – He is the poster boy of Tinubu. Boht of them looted Lagos dried and left it in debt of about N1 billion. Fashola, among other thing built his personal website for N78 million, drilled borehole for over N100 million per each and built a kilometre road for N1 billion. He stole $900 million from 2007-2015. He’ll soon be a minister to continue the looting. 12. Chubike Rotimi Amaechi – From 2007 to 2015, he stole $700 million and $150 million from that money was used to sponsor Buhari and APC. 13. Atiku Abubakar – When he as asked by our reporter how he made his money, he simply said “he was always at the right place at the right time.” Atiku is an astute businessman, but through shady deals, he stole $500 million from 1999-2007. 14. James Ibori – He stole $150 million from 1999-2007 as governor of Delta State. He’s serving his term for money laundering in the UK. 15. Amina Mohammed – This woman was the founder of Afri-Project Consortium (APC) that was in charge of all PTF Projects during Abacha’s regime. About $125 million was stolen from PTF accounts from 1994-1998. Buhari has just nominated the same woman as a minister to continue to stealing. 16. DSP Alamieyeseigha – He stole $120 million and was arrested for money laundering. He pleaded guilty and long served his term. 17. Sule Lamido – He stole $110 million between 2007-2015 and out of that amount, $50 million was found in his sons’ bank accounts. He was arrested and detained for days together with his sons. 18. Rabui Kwankwaso – He stole $100 million as a governor of Kano State. EFCC has arrested many of his aides and they are “singing” how they siphoned the money 19. Kashium Shettima – this governor has stolen about $80 million and still counting. 20. Rauf Aregbesola – he has milked Osun State to the tune of $60 million. 21. Kayode Fayemi – this former governor stole $40 million and stashed some part of the loot in Ghana. He was reportedly bought a bed for N50 million. Note: The likes of President Goodluck Jonathan and key members of his administration including the former Minister of Petroleum are missing.
justbusy: Fellow Biafrans! I'm so disturbed about the situation of things at the moment. If war erupts, can we single-handedly take on Nigeria just like our fathers did? Today, we face the kind of humiliation the Germans faced after world war1. The Germans didn't start preparing for war in just 1 year: it took Adolf Hitler 6 years to make the German army very formidable. Though, he eventually lost, but it earned them enough respect. Brothers, if the Germans could take Europe in 2 years, can't Biafra invade the rest of the country in 8 months? Only Igbos should comment. But, if you're non-Igbo, and feels you're a BASTARD, post your comment!
shhh, Buhari will be declared wanted by ICC soon, relax.
Yeske2: I've said it several times here that the FG shouldn't bother about IPOB, those of us in the SE alone will submerge you all in river Niger, get me your pix at the march today.
Lol, submerge us? Lol.....obviously you are a clown sha. We have plan for people like you.
Yeske2: Do you want me to pick you on this post tomorrow and next? Nna, accept it that most of our people here are pro MASSOB and not IPOB, i live here and i know what and how people get so pissed off about IPOB here and when we tell you guys, you say we are Yorubas or Hausas
Lordave: Isaac Adaka[ Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa won't be happy with this
The funny thing here is that Ijaw people joined in the protest following the seizure of that vehicle meant to celebrate Saro Wiwa, some had to join because they were obviously angry and needed something to push them to protest.
On his facebook wall, he posted a picture of him in facebook with this caption.
Tabansi Udene Tabansi Udene leading the protest live. God have heard us, the world have heard us this time Devil must hear us. We are demanding nothing more than the freedom of all those innocent Biafrans arrested by nigeria forces and jailed for no reason, and also restor our dear Nation "Biafra", God punish you and your entire generations if you don't like our demand!
The facebook picture made some rounds on twitter, as people who knew his late father were in awe and began to make comments about the picture, with many hailing him by his nickname "Tabansi Udene Nnukwu Mmanwu".