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attackgat:
It was black Sunday in Nkaleha, Ishielu LGA, as armed herdsmen launched a deadly attack on the community. Sunday worshippers were not spared. The Lords Chosen Church, Nkaleha, was attacked and six members of the Church, including their Pastor were brutally murdered. Over 30 people are believed to have been killed so far and several houses destroyed

I have officially withdrawn support for All pro Biafran defense forces be it IPOB or Ekpa's BLA forces.......Why? Anybody that has the motivation to defend Ndigbo is wasting his precious time at the risk of his life and limb?
Ndigbo are the worst people to defend.....see how they collectively threw kanu and Ekpa under the bus.......let the likes of Ojiofor, Emenakaa go and defend Alaigbo with their ipob are terrorists rhetoric! Wetin concern me..no be Yankee I dey. .......nigeria have ndigbo exactly in the position where they want them........back and butt over a barrel! Let Patrick mba go and fight the herdsmen...ndiala

EXOUSIAng:
19 states in the North
5 states in the East

I think its only a mentally ill person that should expect things to be shared in the same percentage especially when those from the 5 states have made themselves an enemy of the North and their fellow southerners....

The north will always have the higher share.

Lets not even talk about what this 5states are
bringing to the national treasury....

Or should we talk about the fact that these 5states are less than some northern states in Land mass and that each northern state can still be broken into 3 additional state each?

You may argue that its not about landmass.

But you know the reality





The North has a higher percentage in the total number of states. If I was dealing with the Yorubas or, Ijaw who are actually known for having a higher IQ I would have expected these comments to tell us how the North with 19 states who actually contribute more to the National treasury and also feed most of the country is expected to get exactly what the SE with 5states get, but you are the set of people who dont even know their 123 which is why you a call everyone with a few thousands and a car a billionaire.
Even if we say we give 1 per state the SE wants to get 19 ministers because the North will get 19 ministers at 1minister per state.
I think its regional mental problem


This is yet another thing I forgot to mention...
This your foul mouth is the reason why even when you are qualified for a position you dont get it, but it think its insulting people upandan, bragging and making noise is a part of the Igbo cultural heritage anyways....

Anyone with a brain as small as that of a rat would know that when he has problems with everyone around him, from the south, to the north to the west, he most definitely is the major problem.....
Nobody hates the igbos, people just hate this your character

Your buffoonery has no part 2! It is this mindset that has made your Arewanistan the poorest real estate in the known universe! Northern Nigeria is ravaged by poverty and illiteracy.......tormented by jihadi backwardness....I wonder what such a desert of woedom can possibly contribute to Ndigbo? We never traded nor mixed with the north b4 the Whiteman came.........we are not one nation and we are not one people! Make una Waka pass abeg!

BABANGBALI:
https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/boy-alinco-my-marriage-to-us-lady-for-citizenship-was-bitter-experience/

Dem go soon carry dis senseless agbado back to mushin, where his sorry ass belongs for sham marriage!

Great100000:
Source: https://punchng.com/fg-unveils-23bn-plan-to-fix-nigerias-power-crisis/

The clueless bunch in Aso Rock actually believe that the world bank can give us power to develop? What role did the world bank play in giving us a reputable and efficient GSM and telecommunications sector! What role did world bank play in setting up nollywood and afrobeat?

Tinubu should stop trying to borrow Nigeria out of crisis that rigorous thinking can solve

Softmirror:
Hahahahaha, Peter Obi's number one Pastor. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Reno Omokri give am wotowoto. Hahahahaha 🤣🤗😂😂🤣😆🤣

Reno please have mercy, have mercy. Hahahahaha 😂😂😂😂

Your attempt at sick humor is a shipwreck.......better stick to skullarship or agbero business.......na dia ur people full !!

AquaBekee:
Abuja Leading Estate Firm, Toslad Launches Massive Project In Apo Tafyi



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beAhj3ong4Y?si=eplamXVkgmwddvtq



https://www.abujapress.com/2025/01/abuja-leading-estate-firm-toslad.html

This one don carry agabdo enter business.......
D money miss road go carry his fellow agbadorians to live there alone.......nothing bad with olumo but Abuja is not Ogun state.......even in Lekki no estate developer will dare go that route...e get why!

casualobserver:
Obi is no threat, Atiku is no threat, Kwankwanso is no threat, combined they are no threat. Because they are all unintelligent and you can guarantee they will fumble.

But you see that ElRufai…..you don’t want him against you. My advice to Tinubu is to find a way to reconcile with ElRufai if he wants a 2nd term.

There are only 3 politicians in Nigeria to fear. Tinubu, Wike and ElRufai. Tinubu is a strategic thinker, Wike and ElRufai are intelligent trouble makers. The others have a very low IQ and are not strategic or have the intellectual capacity to cause an upset even combined.

Africans can be so flippant with words.....how can you call Atiku and Obi unintelligent? Persons who were dollar millionaires b4 venturing into politics........even in politics they don Waka far.........for Obi to have come so close to the presidency ( he may have actually won the election) am sure he is far smarter than you believe!

Benwallt:
Ibos are too dull.

We're the soldiers killed by one civilian?

They were killed in combat.

As against one useless piglet killing an officer of the law.

You are actually the dull person here

Henix:
But without been told, you ought to know that the project is still under construction, and that there is no way such big project would have been planned and executed without inclusion of tree planting. Allow them to finish and commission it before you start doing the criticism.

Meanwhile, I'm not a fan of Soludo but he has been a prudent resource manager who is yet to subject Anambra State to reckless borrowing as others do. I'm yet to see any other candidate for next governorship election that can do better than him

The Global best practice is that you do not wait till all rendering is completed before you start planting trees! For a state that's ravished by erosion and suffering massive loss of economic and ornamental trees......Anambra state is not doing enough tree planting.........my 8 year old daughter is a member of their elementary school student council here in yankee........one of their projects last semester was to plant trees all around the school yard.................every student council has planted trees in that yard for the last 60 years..............it is simping like this that cost us the palm oil industry.......I dislike the lethargic drip drip way we Africans approach issues! Every road and project must be saturated with trees......for full impact get primary and secondary schools to nurture and plant these trees! Erosion will tear that state into pieces if we do not up our game!

zero8zero:
Reactions:

Nigerians and misplaced african hubris.......you want to do gragra for British people who have your behind over a barrel! The white man has had you locked down like a rapist has his victim under his lustful power.......why not free your mind that has been ruined by all manner of colonial and neo imperial propaganda first.....even common Niger Republic has thrown its colonial masters out of their country.................Tinubu and his ilk are just cooning for the whiteman.......they enjoy being violated by the whiteman.......kami Badenoch is telling you mucus to grow up and run your country well.
Rubbish stunt!

LuQuLuQu:
Agege bread

The most consumed food in Yoruba land

Agege bread with a copious amount of beans, yorubas are a strange bunch! Funny people

lekanolas:
The Commanding Officer of the 149 Battalion, Lt. Col. TE Alari, has been reportedly killed in an ambush by terrorists of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Yobe State.

Alari was leading his troops during an operation in the Timbuktu Triangle a notorious hotspot for terrorist activity in the North East of Damboa in Yobe State, when they came under VBIED attack by ISWAP insurgents.

The troops were said to have blown the vehicle apart . But unfortunately the shrapnels of the VBIED hit Alari, who was leading from the front.

Sources from the frontlines said three other soldiers were reportedly killed in the incident.

The attack happened hours after Boko Haram terrorists  killed over 20 Nigerian Army personnel in an attack on a military base in Borno State on Friday.
https://newsday.com.ng/iswap-terrorists-ambush-troops-kill-nigerian-army-commander-in-yobe/

The cane that was used to whip the first wife will also be used to service the junior wife........Jagaban Good morning sir, welcome to the wild republic called nijeriyya.......founded by the mercenary Lugard and his masters Britain and supervised by their perfect and preferred slaves the fulani !

My only counsel to Tinubu is to look for rugged and hardened fighters and allies.........if he is depending on the Nigerian army .........sorry goin be his name!

Antoeni:
Yet General Diya Was Sharing Crocodile Tears At The Trial Claiming Innocent, If Trust Those South West People ,Than It's At Your Own Detriment

Dem matter tire me! Power without principles? The Ojota activists are now in power, they have forgotten all the sermons they preached at Ojota rallies......they have proven to be more tribalist,more nepotistic and more politically intolerant than the fulanis we used to rail about............Tinubu has gotten some things right in terms of the economy but I cannot believe that he has continued the systematic marginalization of the southeast! 50 million dollars spent well on completing the New international terminal of Enugu Airport and completion of onitsha/Enugu and Port Harcourt/ Enugu highways is all Tinubu has to do in the short term to get the southeast economy booming again but tribalism no gree am..............In terms of policies he needs to deregulate the restrictive import policies holding down Onne port from functioning as a full commercial port and even incentivize Maersk to develop a new RoRo terminal in Onne too............genuine effort is not hard to see

Hisroyalbadmeat:
Original Port Harcourt boy ,Wata Bam Bam

Burna Boy na small boy na.......I remember when he used to ride his bicycle around Maria Goretti school near Eneka where his mother was a French teacher.......decent boy he was then! Burna was brought up well sha!

Omooba77:
https://x.com/RenewedHopeUK/status/1881958629902827983

Federal minister of Oduduwa Railway Cotporation......I will eat my head if this man awards one contract in Igboland!

GOFRONT:
I'm personally tired of these two Wack Artistes

Burnaboy......Wack songs

Darlington.......Wack songs

Burna Boy wack songs? .......you must be a hater or you a plainly ignorant! A Grammy winner!
At this rate you will never prosper at all!

femisplash:
https://punchng.com/portugal-plans-nigeria-us-gas-imports-to-end-russian-supply/

Nigeria is angling and lusting to supply LNG to Europe but Onitsha, Nnewi, Enugu even Owerri that is not upto 10 miles from Egbema gas fields does not have 1 inch of high pressure gas pipeline to power the industrialization of the southeast! Yet Ikeja and Victoria Island 700 km from Niger Delta gas fields has had gas supply for at least 30 years...................Nuff said ! Now you know why a fair And just God cannot and will never bless Nigeria!

zero8zero:
https://www.thecable.ng/umahi-funding-for-coastal-road-project-erroneously-written-as-lagos-ph-in-2025-budget/

12 trillion naira for a monstrous concrete pavement that will forever ruin our coastline..........Black Africans are way too dumb..........Rename the damn road Jagaban/ Chagoury coastal Road already!

Obi1kenobi:
Speak for yourself. YOU are IPOB.

dis one no get talk...!

Obi1kenobi:
Again, speak for yourself. I hope Nnamdi Kanu rots in the deepest hole they can find in prison.

You are an utter buffoon ! when he comes out tell him you said that! bloody douche bag!

yarimo:
They will soon shift the blame to Fulani herdsmen

No need......fulani herdsmen have enuff murderous guilt on their guilty heads already! The days of Fulanis using their preponderance in the army to power their sahelian savagery in Nigeria are over! If this is only achievement of Tinubu ...his reign will be worth it! Tinubu has security levers on his hands...let him split the NDA and Army depot into 2! the new campuses must be located in the south!

we cannot allow foreigners from the sahel to come here and colonize us! By the way Yarimo.......which visa granted you stay in Nigeria,,,,,better go back to Mauritania, where you originally came from!

PressMyButton:
Coordinated & quick response at its finest. See what we told you, terrorism will never thrive nor survive in the SW. Any terrorist that sneaks into SW has only two options; it's either you flee or be killed. SW is not a place where Government negotiate with terrorists or where the people of SW plead with the federal government to release a particular terrorist leader from prison before the region can have peace from unknown gunmen. Shey you dey whine ni?

Leave IPOB and worry about the bombs that are being primed for your people! Tinubu has bought market from the likes El rufai...no go prepare for what is about to happen!

OreMI22:
The sad thing is that the Fulani always wanted to perpetrate all sorts of atrocities, robberies and kidnappings in Igboland. That is why they despised ESN.

The tragedy of it all was that our people became complacent and allowed criminals recruited by the enemies of Ndigbo to infiltrate pro-Biafra agitation to discredit the struggle and prevent it from gaining the support of Ndigbo.

Thus, ultimately the Fualni created doubts among our people if ESN deserved our support or not, to ensure that their Fulani foot soldiers and criminals will have unchallenged access to our forests for their nefarious agenda against Igboland.

Sadly, in life if you do not pay attention to the schemes of your enemy, you will pay the price for your complacency.

I do not want to believe that the black African is naturally slow-witted but every nerve in me strains to think so! How can any smart person with his senses intact and functional fail to observe the murderous reign of terror in the Benue plateau...............just this last week the security agencies rounded up hundreds of Islamic militants who have embedded themselves in yoruba forsestd.....yet people are telling us to sleep with our 2 eyes closed.......inukwa ! people funny sha! especially that obikenobi dude!

Obi1kenobi:
None of this drivel has any relevance to anything I'm talking about. You keep missing the point like an absolute reetard that the failures of the Nigerian government or the Nigerian nation at large has nothing to do with the fact that the solution to these issues is not empower a band of faceless, jobless, fascist, worthless thugs to promote anarchy and provide fertile ground for criminality.



Just because you and your band of mindless IPOB cultists exist to interpret everything through the prism of your e-battles with Yorubas and other tribes doesn't mean I give a flying fucck about such puerile considerations. The security of Anambra, the SE and Ndigbo is all I care about.



Yes, the well known drug lord spending much of his money ingratiating himself with the government and clergy was targeted in the church he built by "the deep state". Nevermind even the survivors of the massacre said the assailants were specifically searching for the drug lord, and murdered his father instead along with several others. It was the Nigerian deep state. I'm obviously arguing with a mentally ill person, so no point bothering with the conspiracy theory.



The ransomed person said many were butchered and had their organs harvested in the camp he was kept in, so it doesn't seem there was any difference between his camp and the camp of herdsmen. Plenty of people kidnapped by Fulani bandits live to tell the tale, no different from Igbo kidnappers. You can keep deluding yourself about what Ndigbo b'anyi are capable or incapable of as the hopelessly blinkered, delusional tribalist you are. I'm sure your delusions play well within your cult, but to most sane people, you sound pretty insane.



The context of my analogy is clear - that an organization having non-violent roots doesn't mean it wouldn't evolve to be violent if circumstances goes in its favor. This is common to many fascist ideological organizations, from Europe to Latin America to the Middle East to Africa. Anyone who ever listened to Nnamdi Kanu's crazed rants and inciting rhetoric who didn't think IPOB would evolve to be violent is a window-licking reetard. I have not said IPOB have identical ideologies or methods with Nazis. It's not my problem if you're a window-licking cretin who doesn't understand how analogies and context work.



Anybody that justifies an authoritarian, fascist organization of jobless thugs that is accountable to no one arrogating the power to themselves to control the movement of people is an agent of anarchy. You don't have to declare that you support their thuggery. The stupidity of you and your likes already empowers them, so you're defacto supporters of the criminality.
IPOB have not done any job that the government failed to do. On the contrary, they have created fertile ground for banditry and criminality to thrive by promoting anarchy, to the cheers of their mooronic fanboys.



Exactly! I'm blaming teh criminality and banditry on the faceless, jobless scumbags and mindless thugs whose plan of action on securing the SE was not to establish synergy with local and state policing and security forces, but who embraced the strategy of delegitimizing and attacking those security forces. If IPOB/ESN were a serious organization led by people of serious intellect who understand statecraft, they would have sought to leverage their grassroots support to consult widely with the state and local governments, Ohaneze, traditional rulers etc. Instead, a band of riffraff elected by no one and drunk on their own hubris decided they could set up what amounts to a parallel government, signaling to criminals (many of whom are unvetted, jobless riffraff from IPOB/ESN's own ranks) that the state was free to plunder. And their brain-dead cult supporters cheered the anarchy. IPOB amassed immense grassroots support and goodwill around Buhari's first term due to wide Igbo disillusionment with the Buhari administration and IPOB had a golden opportunity at the height of that power to reshape politics in the SE if they had a serious visionary leader who understood how to build power and alliances to accomplish strategic goals. Unfortunately, the leader of the movement was a mooron and a charlatan who only knew how to shout "zoo" upandan and insult everyone and everything - a case of the dog that caught the car as our American friends would say.
Yes, I know you "SUPPORT IPOB 100% IN THEIR DECISION TO SET UP ESN" because you've repeatedly demonstrated you're devoid of common sense. Anyone who thinks the solution to security challenges is to hand over power to faceless thugs that are not accountable to you is an absolute mooron.



You sure love posting irrelevant stuff, cos you can't seem to follow the substance of the argument. Posting about the security challenges of the SE, both from internal and external threats is not under any dispute. The solution to that is not unvetted, jobless, faceless riffraff and authoritarian, fascist thugs who are accountable to NO ONE being empowered to promote anarchy in the state in the name of providing security. You dummies are incapable of understanding that while it is perfectly logical to distrust establishment figures in government and power, even greater skepticism should exist for a band of faceless riffraff that are accountable to no one (doubly so when the authoritarian faceless thugs hold the state to ransom with harebrained mandates like sit-at-homes. The inability of many IPOB cultists to grasp this will never fail to astound.

You can indulge in all the pseudo-intellectualism you want, but at the end of the day, Alaigbo will not be turned into another Benue valley!!..........ESN is going absolutely nowhere.....if you are afraid of kidnapping go and acquire a bulletproof jeep..... ESN is going NOWHERE, U wan try ?

Do you know how many IGBO souls have been wasted in the name of suppressing an unarmed agitation? Black Africans like you make me sick.........its always about your comfort and convenience! you must be out of your frigging mind if you think we will disarm the very people keeping the Sahelian savages at bay! you are the naive one here!

Ojiofor:
I thought esn have killed all the fulani bandits operating in SE

Mumu ...go back to your bororo boyfriends...mumu wey no get sense! You have no mouth to criticize now! Ndi ala


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EmeeNaka:
IPOB-ESN has destroyed Igboland. You think calling someone Efulefu or supporting IPOB-ESN terrorists make you an IGbo person? You may be one of the IPOB-ESN members, and you must refrain from provoking people. Any body who justify IPOB in whatever guise or reason is a criminal. Igboland don't need IPOB illiterates.

See this douchebag yapping rubbish............if you want to become a Fulani slave kukuma package your behind and waybill your dumb ass to sokoto! you can offer yourself with all pleasure...I am sure they will love to have you! ndi ala!

this mumu has not commented on the kidnap of our people in Nsukka yesterday o! You are here typing rubbish! You do not know your people, Ndigbo will not roll over for any people to run us over! The ESN stragglers causing problems will be tamed but there will be no room for your fulani brothers to operate freely in Igboland! ESN will continue to carry out its duties as normal! una no reach o!

Obi1kenobi:
One of the things I find ridiculous here is talking about the manifest failures of Anambra in security and some people start gaslighting you by:
1) talking about how there are other states with security challenges
2) talking about how we're making ourselves look bad

This is gaslighting and it's also very juvenile. And irresponsible. And makes no sense.
Nigeria is one of the worst shiitholes on the planet in the APC era (we're competing with countries like Somalia and South Sudan for the very bottom of humanity), so using the situation in states in the North to console yourself about our situation is obviously absurd. We should aspire to be the best, or be among the best of the states in this absolute shiithole of a country (which would still leave us among teh bottom of humanity) rather than comforting ourself with the notion that our security challenges is not as bad as Borno or Yobe or Kaduna. The fact that Anambra is the kidnap and crime capital of the SE alone is utterly disgraceful and merits vocal condemnation.

Save your spittle for the Fulani herdsmen kidnapping our people in Ufuma and Igbariam axis, I am yet to see you condemn that variance of criminal activity that spurred the creation of ESN in the first place, What about the Awkuzu SARS officers who were caught kidnapping people early last year! It is easiest for you to scream ESN and IPOB all day long.......why is that if I may ask?

Like I said I do not like people who seek the easiest path out of problems.........you tow that line all the time! grow some balls bros! Ndigbo are in an existential struggle with the nigerian state and the collective west.......yet you insist on throwing the baby away with the bath water............Oga, that will not happen in 1000 years...........una fit try o but you will ultimately fail! ESN is going ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE! It will be refined and restructured for better performance........!

abuzz33:
Soludo only appoints people he can lecture to and control.

The weakness of kidnap gangs is transport and telecommunications. It's not like Anambra has roads all over the place. There are few artery roads. Yet police cannot monitor vehicular movements. Then every phone is trackable right down to 5 sqm.

With the right technology it should not be difficult to clamp down on armed gangs, kidnap for ransom and gun runners. Anambra is 4,000 sqkm only. But that this is happening is a failure of policing.

I would not trust DSS or NPF. Taking down kidnap for ransom gangs there are lots of contract military mercenaries all over the world. They have the surveillance technology, the tracking and no sentimental attachment. There are Israelis, South African, Russian outfits that can eliminate these nuisances.

These are the bad administrative habits that I rail about all the time, Soludo is not building enduring institutions in Anambra state, this is the biggest failure of his administration, where is our own Lawmma agency for sanitation, which new initiative has he started in taxation and its collection? meanwhile, the Enugu governor even has European expatriates embedded in his team! Truth be said, I am beginning to believe the rumor that he has a Godfather slowing him down with all kinds of pecuniary demands ....let us not talk of the prevalent subserviency of Igbo governors to northern interests, especially perceived FULANI interests !!! Now we have woken up to the news that suspected Fulani herdsmen have abducted 30 passengers including soldiers in Enugu just last night!

At least the Enugu governor has his surveillance and command control to work with! donating vehicles to police will not cut it! Soludo has to take a trip to Enugu to observe what has been achieved there in terms of security! It is not all bad news, however,,, Soludo has a good opportunity to build a better and even more advanced command center in the new state house in Awka.......... Patrick MBA in his native wisdom located his command and control within the government house in Enugu...............DSS, police and army in our state are filled with Fulani and outside interests, you never know when they will throttle investigations on these cases of kidnapping involving their people!


in these days of AI-controlled drones and tracking technology, kidnapping is one of the easier crimes to detect if not prevent ! On the national level there should be a legislation that all these Chinese phones must come with air tag technology or they will not be sold, the telecommunication firms must be made to supply detail of kidnapper lines! I am vexed this morning !!!

ogaemma:
The Army is now tribally and regionally balanced.
Shake up like this in the past the only names I read is Hausa Fulani names.
Congratulations to all the General's.
God Bless NIGERIA.

Tinubu should split NDA in 2.......a new campus of NDA should be located in the south

abuzz33:
EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Businessman Recounts Days Of Horror In Anambra Kidnappers' Den, Narrates How Abductors Murdered Victims, Trafficked Human Organs

January 9, 2025

A businessman who was kidnapped alongside Catholic Reverend Father Nonso in Anambra State has shared a harrowing account of their ordeal.


The two were held captive for a week without food or water, and the businessman claims that the government and security agencies did nothing to help them.

In a leaked telephone conversation, the businessman alleged that the State Director of the Department of State Services told him that they were ready to work but lacked the funds to do so. He also criticised Governor Chukwuma Soludo for not taking action to address the state's security challenges.

The businessman's account is particularly disturbing, as he describes witnessing people being killed and their organs harvested and sold to traffickers.


He also claims that the Enugu State government helped track their location, but the police refused to rescue them.



This incident highlights the severe security issues plaguing Anambra State. According to reports, the state has experienced a surge in kidnapping and armed attacks, with many attributing the violence to poor governance and lack of effective security measures.

The businessman's experience also raises concerns about corruption and the perceived lack of accountability within the security forces.

SaharaReporters reported on January 1, 2025 that the Spiritual Director of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, popularly known as “Father Ebube Muonso” narrated how he paid N1 million to mobilise the police to rescue a priest and colleague, Rev. Fr. Nonso, who was kidnapped and spent a week at his captors’ den in a forest.

Giving his eyewitness account, the businessman who spoke in Igbo said: "...when they shot these people, I realised that this is no longer a child's play. You see people bleeding from gunshot, and you also see those whose organs are being harvested. You will hear them saying cut this side and cut the order side. You see them cutting people's parts while they're alive."



He said he paid a ransom of N10.3 million and the Rev. Father paid over N20 million to regain his freedom. According to him, the kidnappers had wanted to release the Reverend Father but because they had a quarrel with Fr (Emmanuel) Obimma Ebube Muonso (parish priest in Dunukofia and the founder and head of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry) on the phone, they decided to keep his friend priest to test his resolve.

He continued: "I put N10.3 million and I paid through my account but it is not about payment of ransom because there are people who paid money yet they were killed. Father paid over N20 million. They killed several people and there's a well there where some people who were killed were thrown. They poured some chemicals inside the well.

"We were in their den with the Harmattan cold on December 17, 18 and 19, 2024. They had an altercation with Father Obimma Ebube Muonso and one would think that the kidnappers would be afraid of being tracked but they were not afraid because they knew that Anambra State doesn't have adequate security.

“While they were talking with Father Ebube Muonso, the leader of the gang came and told the Rev Fr Nonso that he wanted to release him but he wanted to proof to Fr Ebube Muonso that they were not on the same level. He said they often see him but ignore him was because he is a Rev. Father but that will show him (Ebube Muonso). He even called their gang members in their various camps that if something happened, they should bring Ebube Muonso alive."

He continued, "If you see these small children carrying guns; if you think that they are Yahoo boys (internet fraudsters), they are no longer into that. They are now into kidnapping. If you see these people, they're carrying iPhone 13 like Yahoo boys. I was there and they were calling their girlfriends. We were there on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd of December - inside the bush with them. We didn't go to the toilet, we didn't eat and we didn't bathe. We didn't even brush our teeth. I didn't know that it is possible for someone to stay for three days without going to the toilet. It was on the night of December 24 that I was brought out like they usually did while we were there. They would bring people out and say move. The next thing they would do was shoot the person."

He stated that considering what he saw there, he was no longer thinking about his business.

"I no longer think of my business. I no longer think of my parents. This boy that has Dubai estate, you know he has been missing for over a month and there was no communication. So I was thinking: is this how people are being killed? If you see how body parts were being sold. There was a boy that wanted to escape, he told us one day when we were brought together that he had spent 21 days in the kidnapper's den and that the person brought with him had been killed."

The businessman stated that he slept beside the Rev father at night, adding they prayed for God's intervention but at every turn, it would appear that God wasn't going to answer their prayers.



Free At Last

But eventually, he and the cleric were allowed to go home.

He said, "We prayed intermittently and you don't talk there. So they asked the priest to hold me and we were moving in the bush. They told us that they would put us in the trunk of Toyota Venza, and that wherever they stopped and opened the trunk of the vehicle, I should come out and drive the Venza home, along with the Rev father. I don't know the owner of the Venza and I was asking myself whether I had come there to be gifted a Toyota Venza. I was also afraid because I had heard that there was someone who was burnt inside a car.

"So, they were going round the bush and when they got to a particular place, they stopped and opened the boot and asked me to take the key and drive the Venza home. They said there was enough fuel in it. Thereafter, they closed the boot, fired some shots and left. We drove for hours, looking for a way out of the bush. Before we got to Father's parish, it was round 1 am on December 25 (Christmas Day).



"When we finally found a road, I told Father that we should go to my house in Awka but he said we should go to Umudioka, his parish. That was how we went there and fortunately Father Ebube Muonso and his team were in adoration. They had just finished praying for us.

“People fled when they saw how fast we drove. They took us to the altar there. From there, they took us upstairs where we took our bath."

The businessman revealed how the family of the kidnapped member of the State House of Assembly representing Onitsha North called him to know whether he knew of his whereabouts.

"You know, that there was a House member that was kidnapped in Onitsha North; his people called me, asking whether I had any clue, I said I had no clue. They said the governor told them that there was nothing he could do. The wife of the man was crying on phone, begging to know if there anything I could tell them. The kidnappers had already asked for a ransom of N20 million and maybe they don't know that he's a lawmaker.

"Probably they didn't know about the person and when they discovered, they stopped calling the relations. Anambra is a joke now. Do you know that a lawmaker called me and said that we are in trouble. He said there was no single tracker in Anambra State and that the governor was waiting for people coming from Abuja to track the location of the Rev father.

"So Father Ebube Muonso called the governor of Enugu State. I don't know that the governor Enugu State is working but he doesn't talk, so he stayed in Enugu and tracked where we were kept and it was Urum because while we were there, a plane would intermittently fly over us. I thought this was going on around Ihiala; I didn't know it had reached Awka, the state capital.

"It wasn't like we were kept in secret room but we were in the bush and they were running it like a well-structured organisation. They cooked. I was afraid that we could be poisoned. From Urum, you get to Achalla, and from there, you get to Igbariam. So the governor of Enugu told the police in Anambra that they should go in and rescue us. And the police in Anambra said they would not enter the bush.

"It was by the divine grace of God that we made it alive considering the way people were killed there. I discovered that what attracts them is ‘big’ vehicles. The way it is in Anambra now is for one to look for a small car to drive. They come out for operation between 7pm and 8:30pm and they have various camps.

"So it is risky to drive from 7 pm to 8:30 pm or 9 pm. The roads are always busy then and that is when they kidnap people. The best time to get home is 6 pm or 6:30 pm; you enter your house. If there's something that made you to stay late in the night, you should wait till 11 pm to midnight before going home. At that time, they will not be in the road again."

On how Rev Fr Nonso was kidnapped, the businessman said he was kidnapped while trying to buy fuel.

He said, "The priest who returned from America and hails from Ojoto, went out to buy fuel and after that he stopped at a block industry - he was the former head of St. Kizito, a Catholic school, so he was telling somebody that he would cook to entertain the children in the school. Suddenly, a vehicle arrived there and the occupants started shooting.

"He was confused as it appeared to him like a movie, maybe he didn't understand that the security situation in Anambra had deteriorated, so the people with him ran away. They carried him with his car. My anger is that despite all the things happening in Anambra State, the police are not doing anything.

"State Director of Security Services otherwise known as Department of State Services (DSS) told me that they are willing to work but there's no money. He told me that during the December period, there were squads sent across the states in the country. He regretted that those sent to stay in Anambra spent two days and the governor told them that he didn’t have money for fuel and they went back."



The businessman revealed that when they went to Enugu State to thank the governor for his assistance, they were taken to a house where everything happening in Enugu State is being monitored. He wondered what the governor of Anambra state is doing with the allocations of Anambra state.

He said, "The whole tracking was done in the house and they even showed us where we were kept in the bush from the Enugu State Government House. At a point, they contemplated to deploy airstrike but Father Ebube Muonso was skeptical that they could kill innocent people in the process.

“We thanked the Enugu State Governor but Governor Soludo is toying with the people of Anambra State. It was by the divine grace of God that I went and came out alive. They collected my phone.”


When SaharaReporters contacted the Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga for his reaction, he said, "Thank you for the information."

Whichever company or group that set up the surveillance and command control center in Enugu is knowledgeable about security matters! I am no expert but A simple crime mapping will show where such kidnappings are prevalent, I know for a certainty that the so-called ESN camp is around that Ihiala axis.........I also know that Asari Dokuboh's guys are also camped around that area in Imo State! My question is why is Soludo finding it hard to isolate that area properly.........most of the recent kidnappings have been carried out within transitional spaces between Onitsha and Awka ........something is happening in Anambra that is not clear for now! are we the only state where agitation is going on?

soludo should swallow his pride and ask his brother Mba how he is doing it!

Obi1kenobi:
When we see family who we know and love treading a dangerous path, we speak up in their interest even if they don't like what we have to say and can't see the foolishness of their ways. Efulefus/self-hating Igbo are people who see their homeland on the path to self-destruction and keep cheering it due to their nihilism or just being brain-dead idiots.



It's the "broken windows theory" of criminology where ignoring disorder and antisocial behavior within a community subsequently leads to occurrences of serious crimes. Except the broken windows theory refers to policing minor acts like loitering, littering, small traffic infractions to promote law and order and disincentivize youth from treading the criminal path etc while in the case of the South East's idiocy, we basically founded, funded and armed a parallel government of unaccountable, faceless riffraff who embraced the mission to delegitimize elected government and institutions, delegitimize (and attack) the police and security apparatus, and terrorize citizens with brain-dead mandates like sit-at-homes. Any idiot in any village could predict how this state of affairs would eventually unravel. Criminals would look around and see weakened institutions and an opportunity to exploit the state of anarchy. I also have absolutely ZERO doubt that IPOB/ESN have not only created a fertile environment for criminality and banditry to thrive, but that many of their own members are directly involved in the criminality and banditry. These were never the best people of Igbo society. They were jobless riffraff recruited by charlatans and armed. There is zero doubt in my mind that many of those riffraff recruited and armed by IPOB would have taken to banditry when their IPOB livelihood wasn't as profitable. Kidnapping is very lucrative and if you've been armed and sheltered by a society of myopic clowns, why not use your arms for something more lucrative. It's no coincidence that Anambra and Imo, the 2 states most ravaged by banditry in the SE also happen to be the states where IPOB/ESN are most active, while Enugu and Ebonyi, where IPOB/ESN are less prominent are the safest states in the SE presently. It is not a coincidence.

Nobody has demarketed ala Igbo more than Ndigbo b'anyi. Hausa-Fulani or Yorubas could not do a better job of demarketing the SE than we've done for ourselves since we embraced a mentally ill charlatan, Nnamdi Kanu, as our Lord and saviour. They could not do a better job than we have done.

As usual the too ''goody two shoes '' mentality of Igbo people like you is even worse than the IPOB demarketing you are complaining about...it just makes me sick! I live partly in the suburbs of Indianapolis in the US.........bros 200 plus people have been murdered in the Indy metro every year for the past 5 years .......................yet most people in the US do not know that the city is that violent...........let us not talk of LA and Chicago! there are fora for unmasking our dirty linen not on nairaland....your virtue signaling has not and will not make a dent in the crime rate in anambra................if you will stop behaving like a petulant teenage girl in the heat of her cycle perhaps we can profer solutions, I wonder what you gain by this kind of unrestrained conduct! this lack of tactical discipline is even the bane of everything we Igbos are involved in!

Obi1kenobi:
You can keep deluding yourself with self-comforting twaddle like this, but we're the absolutely sheepish reetards and national laughingstock who "sit at home" every Monday because a terrorist gang of jobless riffraffs have sown fear and apprehension in the minds of grown men and women, who comply with the orders of the riffraffs because they know anarchy rules the state.
And at no point have I absolved the government from the role of their incompetence in the issues of Anambra state, so I'm not sure what you're rambling about. The solution to the failures of the government (who at least are accountable to the people who elected them if they can leverage their power as the electorate) is not to fund and arm rudderless, jobless, faceless riffraff who are accountable to no one. Any idiot in any village should have been able to predict the chaos that would emerge from that, but I gave our people too much credit, assuming them to be rational beings.

People that sit at home every Monday because they're terrified of the riffraff they have sheltered, funded, armed and cheered as they sowed chaos in the SE should not be lecturing Igbos outside the SE about their choosing to invest the fruits of their hard labour in saner climes where there is no parallel government of riffraff dictating which day of the week they can go out and earn a living. We demarketed our homeland by ourselves and chose to make it synonymous with anarchy and criminality, and we need to reap the rewards of that without complaint.

You are so annoying.......! I do not know which is worse your incoherent prattle or your incongruent logic! What you are saying in essence is that we abandon our homes because a few disgruntled and opportunistic elements are in the bush..........so we should all leave Anambra and go and stay put in Lagos like yourself! What you do not understand is that bad governance has its consequences, we are reaping what we have been judiciously sowing since 1999.................. narrowing kidnapping to ESN activities is nonsensical and simplistic! maybe you are just naive and simple-minded!

Ndigbo will continue to reap insults and humiliation from the Nigerian state ......until we buy ''sense"! Just look at the comedy show that was the Ohaneze elections...............you people are not yet serious about protecting Igbo interests! If elders cannot act responsibly, then don't be surprised that the youth are taking affairs of state into their inexperienced hands with all the risks that are involved!