₦airaland Forum

Does Radio Biafra have any link
or campaigning for Biafra repub­
lic?
Yes, we do. Radio Biafra is the
most listened to indigenous
broadcast out of sub Saharan
Africa. We have every evening
nothing less than two million
people tuned in all around the
world. We have on average every
blessed day nothing less than
100,000 people visit Radio Biafra
website so the message we
propagate is getting through or
else people will not be coming.
Our message is resonating with
the people and we are working
with a lot of groups ostensibly
Bilie Human Rights Initiatives,
Biafra Liberation Council, we are
also working with other groups
across the Niger Delta areas to
make sure we bring about Biafra
of justice and equality, not Biafra
of domination because a lot of
people are afraid that if we have
Biafra, there is going to be
domination by the Igbo people
and our question to them is very
simple: before Nigeria, before the
whiteman came, did the Igbos
conquer anybody? The answer is
no. We are larger than the
Ibibios, Efiks, Ijaws, did we go to
the Ijaws and say you must
speak Igbo language or else we
kill you? Or you must adopt our
culture or else we kill you? The
ironic thing is that we ended up
absorbing these other cultures to
the Igbo way of life. That goes to
show how versatile we are. We
are not a domineering people.
The fact that if you open up your
shop to trade and you are
blessed and become wealthy
means that you are
domineering? That is a slightly
false perception of what
dominance is. It is not
dominance, it is people actually
doing well. And you will know
even in Igboland today, there is a
traditional ruler that has
converted to Islam-Eze Dumuna
of Mbaitoli. He is now Musa
Dimuna, a traditional titled ruler
in Igboland! He’s not been killed.
He’s not been chased out or
bombed because we believe in
tolerance.
What’s your take about groups
agitating for Biafra?
We welcome every group
agitating for Biafra as long as
you are doing it in truth and
honesty. If you look at the
programme of some elements of
movement within Biafra land,
you would know that they have
derailed from that cardinal prin­
cipal. They are not pursuing
Biafra in truth and honesty
anymore. What they are doing
does not represent freedom
fighting anymore. That is why we
say to people, there are groups
you can join. You can join Bilie
Human Rights Initiative which
took Nigeria to court which a lot
of people don’t know about.
A court in Nigeria recognises the
word ‘Biafra’ for the very first
time without throwing
everybody in jail. The case is
coming up on April 30 and we
are asking everybody to be in
court in Owerri to witness this
landmark occasion. It’s been
going on since last year. A lot of
people don’t know this. Again we
are saying join Bilie Human
Rights Initiatives, listen to Radio
Biafra broadcasting both from
London and Biafra land, you can
also join Biafra Liberation
Council. It is a legitimate group.
You can join Lower Niger
Congress. These are groups that
are legitimate. Any other group
you join is involved in criminality
and in violence, detrimental to
what we are pursuing because
you have people with MASSOB for
instance who are going about
arresting people and handing
over to Nigerian police. People
agitating for Biafra are being
arrested and being handed over
to the Nigerian police and these
are people claiming to be
fighting for the struggle. You
have to be consistent. There is no
relationship between fighting for
the freedom of your people and
accumulation of wealth. That is
what we are against.
In other words, your
relationship with MASSSOB is
sour?
Our relationship with genuine
people within MASSOB pursuing
Biafra in truth and honesty is
sound. What we abhor is the
leadership of MASSOB because
the leadership of MASSOB is
corrupt. Intrinsically corrupt.
They were campaigning for PDP
during the last elections, ev­
erybody knows that. They are
running all over the place looking
for chieftaincy titles. We asked
them: have you seen anywhere
in the history of modern freedom
fighters where you jettison
freedom fighting and start
looking for chieftaincy titles? You
abandon freedom fighting to
start pricing the cost of cement
and sand to go and build a
house. You wait until you get
what you are looking for. At that
point, the people will honour
you. Nelson Mandela doesn’t live
in a mansion. Mahatma Ghandi
never lived in a mansion. Martin
Luther King Junior never lived in
a mansion. Che Guevara never
lived in a mansion. What are you
doing with landed properties?
What are you doing with wealth
if you are a freedom fighter? We
work ourselves to put our money
in Biafra. We don’t expect
anything from Biafra. We don’t
have anything to with money.
That is the cardinal rule in Radio
Biafra. You can never be rich. You
don’t need money for anything at
all as long as you can feed and
cloth and transport yourself, that
is enough. The glory of your
people being free is your gain.
Nothing more, nothing less. If
you are lucky the people might
give you a three bedroom
bungalow to live when you retire
but we have role models in the
likes of Mandela among others
who never amassed any personal
wealth, these are genuine
freedom fighters and this is what
Radio Biafra is modelled on.
The Igbos have been victims of
Boko Haram and recently a bus
was bombed in Kano with the
Igbo people as victims as usual,
what is your take on it?
My brother was there,
Ikechukwu from Ndagwam from
Etiti Nabua in Isiama Afara Ukwu,
Ibeku. I cannot marry from that
kindred. My brother died in the
explosion. What is happening in
Nigeria is affecting some of us. I
have his picture here on my
phone lying in his casket so that
people will understand the
difficulties we are going through
within this country. What Boko
Haram is doing to us is not only
abominable, it is absolutely
unacceptable to us. Ask yourself,
why would we start Radio
Biafra? Simple, nobody was
talking. Have you heard any Igbo
governor talk about the
bombings in the North or
condemn it? The answer is no.
Have you heard Ohanaeze, our
own fathers that we look up to
and respect, say anything about
the bombings? The answer is No.
Have you heard anybody else
come out to say what Boko
Haram is doing is bad and must
be matched? The answer is no.
Ask yourself why they are killing
Igbo people? They are killing
Igbo people because of a man
that says he is not Igbo. They are
killing Igbo people because of
Goodluck Jonathan. We cannot
allow this to continue. If people
are exchanging the lives of our
people for money, for jeep for
what they can get, their days are
numbered.
How do you think Biafra would
be realised?
Biafra will be realised both
legally, politically, socially and oth­
erwise. But one thing is for
certain, Biafra is coming. Nobody
can stop it. No amount of
intimidation, arrest, torture,
deprivation will stop Biafra from
coming. It is already ordained.
We are not talking about the
Biafra that these new age
churches preach asking us to
leave everything to God. We are
not leaving everything to God, we
are asking God to give us the
power to be able to do things.
When we start, you should tell
your readers that the world will
not even be able to contain us.
What Boko Haram is doing will
appear like a tea party when we
start our own. The reason being
that, we have not done anything
in this country to deserve the
treatment that we are getting.
We have done nothing wrong to
people. They say don’t break
away and be Biafra, we agree to
remain in one Nigeria, what are
we getting today? Punishment.
Death. Disaster upon disaster.
You are living in a country you
call your own and you are dying
every blessed day. Is it a country?
If they are killing us in these
numbers because somebody
who answers an Igbo name is in
Aso Rock what do you think will
happen when an Igbo man is
there? They will slaughter all of
us. The first time that this
pogrom happened on this scale
was when an Igboman was the
head of state. They killed Aguiyi
Ironsi and from that they
massacred everybody. Isn’t that
enough to tell the Igbo people
that you are not wanted in this
country?
Now you tell me as a journalist,
when the Yorubas’ want to hold
meetings, they come to Yoruba
land. They go to Ibadan or
Awolowo’s house and have their
meeting. When the northerners,
the Hausa Fulani people want to
meet, they go to Kaduna, Zaria,
Sokoto and meet. Do you know
that when Ibos want to meet, we
go to Atlanta, Texas, we meet in
Lagos, we don’t meet in Enugu.
Even the Ohanaeze that we are
hoping and praying should be
constituted in a way to reflect the
wishes and aspirations of our
people is now dancing to the
tune to whoever pays them
highest.
If one governor in the South East
comes out and say I will develop
my state and make it better, they
will impeach him and put
somebody else in there and we
are very docile and doing
nothing. Let’s make this very
clear, if we don’t fight for Biafra
to come, many more Boko Haram
deaths will happen. And the
slaughter will intensify and if it
gets to the point they know
we’ve been cowed into a corner,
they will come in forcibly to
islamise us. It is now happening
in Imo State. The entrance to the
government house has an
Islamic symbol there. I challenge
anybody to go and have a look. It
is happening. A traditional ruler
is now a muslim in Imo state.
They are building their Islamic
centres. I am not against any
religion. Islam if practiced very
well is a wonderful religion, I
have nothing against it but you
can see the creeping Islamization
we are experiencing and that
can’t continue.
What is your advice for the
Igbo?
It is for everybody to listen to
Radio Biafra. Everybody should
cultivate and develop the habit of
masking sure they have the
Biafran consciousness in them, in
truth and honesty. We don’t want
the Biafra of the old of deception
deceit and lies. Biafra represents
light. We have no mixture with
darkness. Anytime you stand
upon the name Biafra to lie and
to cheat, you are finished. You
cannot accomplish anything.
What are we doing in Nigeria?
What have you gained in Nigeria?
Do you know that oil is in Imo
State before any other place? Do
you know that Shell was in
Owerri before any other place in
this country? Is it fair that we
from Biafra cannot make use of
Calaba or Port Harcourt sea
ports? Why must I be in
Ohaozara and import a car
through Lagos, does that make
any economic sense to anybody?
In a country that claims it is
developing? In a country where
crude oil comes from the ground,
yet, you cant produce electricity
and you are telling me you are
human beings? I don’t want to
belong to that country, God
forbid!

In 2013, Nnamdi Kanu, the de­ tained director of Radio Biafra, visited Nigeria. He granted what could pass for his only interview in Nigeria. The interview conducted by Sam Anokam and which was published by Saturday Sun, in 2013, is hereby reproduced. Excerpts: Tell us your name and what you do My name is Nnamdi Kanu, I am the director of Radio Biafra which is based in London but now Radio Biafra is in Nigeria, it is in Biafra land. We have been here broadcasting on FM frequency 88.2 in Enugu, Port Harcourt, Onitsha, Nnewi and Owerri. We have brought Radio Biafra back to Biafra land for the very first time in 43 to 44 years. It is very well in operation in the east. Why the East? You know it is FM. It is not enough to propagate round and go round the country but we are working. Sometime in Septem­ ber, October, this year, we will to be able to bring in sufficient power in terms of transmission to allow us access to all areas within Nigeria. Did you encounter any form of challenge in operating here? The people that we got challenges from were some people who are obviously agents of the Nigerian government within the Biafran struggle because there are some Biafrans who are full-time paid agents of Nigeria. It is only from them that we got some rumblings but we were sufficiently protected because we are not doing anything illegal. It is free speech. We are basically speaking our minds. That is what is happening which incidentally a lot of people in and around the country bought into. It’s not a question of us saying something that is new, we are discussing something that every other part of the country would like to be a part of. How long have you been running the radio station in Nigeria? We started running Radio Biafra in Nigeria for the past two and a half weeks, to be precise. How has the reception been? It’s been very good but initially, the estimate we had was for a 25 mile radius range for the transmitter and the power of the antenna that we had but what we are recording were 18 miles. What we then need to do is to take it back to our people and then be able to make some improvements to it. As I said, we have a bigger transmitter coming in around September, October. We should be able to provide coverage nationally. Wherever you are in Nigeria, you should be able to get Radio Biafra on FM and AM from October of this year. For now, what is the duration of the broadcast? It is normally two and three hours. The one we had in Aba, because of the location where we are and the incessant rainfall, it was curtailed to an hour and 49 minutes but we are hoping to bring Radio Biafra to people on a daily basis. Tell us how you started Radio Biafra in London We started Radio Biafra in 2009 with the help of the then MASSOB members. They contributed to set up Radio Biafra. When we discovered that the leadership of MASSOB was doing something en­ tirely different from what the people actually wanted, we went on air to tell the people about what we felt the struggle was going and the funding for Radio Biafra was stopped at that point in time. It was moribund for about two years. We then revived Radio Biafra ourselves a year ago. It came back online again on April 13 last year following the death of our people in the North. We decided to revive the radio station to bring hope, enlightenment and knowledge to our people. How many of you revived Radio Biafra? Radio Biafra was revived ostensibly by six people. Within the two years that Radio Biafra was off air, we were going to work Monday to Friday, 9-5 everyday, working and saving money to start Radio Biafra again. We neglected our families. We abandoned our commitments to our families both in London and here in Nigeria. How have you been funding and sustaining it? We’ve been sustained by ourselves. We go to work. We know that media for you people is a full-time job. For us, it should be a full-time job but we cannot have any funding because we don’t want to go out and be pleading with people all the time because of what happened in the past. Anywhere we go for funding, they always remind us where the previous support they rendered us went to. They always use MASSOB and what Uwazuruike is doing as example as reasons not to fund the struggle anymore and we said rather with waiting and pleading with our people we agreed to do it ourselves to show them that we are serious. As long as we are on the path of truth and honesty, they will come round to our way of thinking at some point and we believe that is what they’ve done. And because the FM that we are talking about was funding only by one individual, Chukwudi Oforma who is based in Australia, he decided to bring out the money to fund the FM project that I came here to execute. That tells you that people are now beginning to come out to put some financial muscle behind what we are doing How is the reception in London? When Radio Biafra came back on air, there were jubilations not only in Nigeria but all over the world. Because people recognise what Radio Biafra represents. At Radio Biafra, we cannot afford to lie. It is not a propaganda machine. We tell you things the way they are. If we are failing, we will tell the people we are failing and these are the reasons we are failing because part of the difficulty we’ve had in the past is people misrepresenting the truth. At Radio Biafra, we took an oath and we swore never to misrepresent the truth. Any day we lie or represent what is fact, that day, we will shut down and we will not be able to proceed. That is why we have been able to accomplish more than when we received sponsorship from members of MASSOB. At some point, the funding meant for Radio Biafra was withdrawn by Uwazuruike and we began to enlighten people as to what was going wrong with the movement. And events now have borne us out that we were correct all along and that is why the more people discover how truthful Radio Biafra is, the more they are flocking back to us. Now tell me what is wrong with MASSOB? The movement has been flawed because people have started to follow the path of money. They have forgotten what Biafra realisation is all about. Mind you, we are not actualising but realising Biafra because Biafra already existed. You cannot actualize what is already in existence. The movement derailed because of the cult hero worship. When you are in a freedom fighting movement, the leadership of that movement is not very important, what is important is the ideology that underpins the entire movement. When you then embody, encapsulate the entire thinking of a movement in one person, that person becomes a target either for compromise or for assassination. That is what happens and that is what happened in this case. As you can see, we have now aban­ doned the struggle for Biafra, we are talking about chieftaincy titles. We are talking about working with PDP, we are talking about sewing uniform with Mrs. Jonathan peace ambassador and the rest of it but that was not the intention of the struggle. Biafra is puritanical in the sense that it doesn’t like contamination with any other thing and that is why we are suffering today. And because we took our eyes away from what was important which was the freedom for our people, we started to look at material things like cars, buildings, accolades and wealth. That was how we derailed. What is the ideology of Biafra? The ideology of Biafra is the freedom, the emancipation of all the Biafran people which means that all the people bound genetically, culturally and by the same value system. In other words, I am talking about those who understand the history of the Biafran people. I am talking about the Idoma people, the Igbo people, the Efiks, Ibibios, Anangs, Ijaw, Itsekiris, the Urho­ bos and the Anioma people. All these are Biafran families. If you go to a village or town for instance Oturpko, they have four market days-Eke, Orie, Afor and Nkwo. And when people say that these people are not Igbo people or that they are not related to Igbo people, it becomes a thing of wonder. How is it possible that people that have Eke, Orie, Afor and Nkwo as their market days are not related to Igbo people? When you go to Akwa Ibom or Cross River State, what they call God is Abasi, that is what we call God where we come from. The highest fraternity in Igboland where I come from in Abia State is Okonko. Okonko was directly derived from the Ibibio and the Efik cultures, the same thing with Ekpe. When we want to dance Ekpe in my place, we go to Ibibio land to buy the kits for the Ekpe which is a masquerade dance. So, we are all related. We are the same people genetically, in terms of our complexion, in terms of our attitude. I give all your readers a challenge. I want you to go to any market in Warri for instance. Stand back and take a picture of that market, then, go to any Igbo town or village, take a picture of the market of that village and tell me if you can tell the difference. There is no difference. The dressing is the same. Everything we do is the same. The people we call Bonny today are people from Nkwerre. We are all the same people. But due to the difficulties, the hardship, the pain that we have been subjected to, they think it is now fashionable to jettison where you come from and try to be something that you are not which is why we are suffering till today. What is the way out? The way out is total freedom for Biafra because Nigeria will not be free unless Biafra is free. We are not against Nigeria. That is the problem. We must make it abundantly clear that Biafra is not the antithesis of Nigeria. We want Nigeria to be one should they feel to engage in the exercise but what we are saying is that you are keeping us in bondage. To tell me that Imo State allocation is a paltry N3.4b every month, this is the reason our governors could not work before. We have been at the forefront of castigating South eastern governors of not doing enough. It is now that it is begin­ ning to occur to us that they don’t even have the money to do anything in the first place. There is no money available. How do we rectify all these problems? I challenge anybody to go to Igbo land and not be able to weep. You will see misery upon misery. We are not marginalised, we are enslaved. We are encased in a plaster of deprivation unheard of ever before. We are asking people to leave Lagos, leave where you are in Europe, in America, in Asia, wherever you may be, travel to the village, if you come back the same person, then you know something is wrong with you because where we come from is decaying. Biafra land is in absolute and unimaginable poverty which nobody can cure unless we have Biafra. Does Radio Biafra have any link

www.sunnewsonline.com/new/nigeria-wont-be-free-until-biafra-is-free-nnamdi-kanu/

OSUN DEFENDER IS GETTING SENSE NOW, AND GOD WILL BLESS THEM FOR SAYING THE TRUTH.

nwafuluozoh:
And one would think that present day Ijaws will know better. Smh!

Some of them are now waking up.

Until last month when Mr.
Nnamdi Kanu, director, Radio
Biafra, was arrested in Lagos,
only a few people knew about
the Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), a group interested in the
actualisation of a separate home
state for the Igbo. Today, that
hitherto obscured group has
come to national limelight, with
the “release Nnamdi Kanu”
protests across the South East
and South South.
Indeed, since Kanu was arrested
in a Lagos hotel, a few hours
after he arrived the country,
members of the IPOB have
marched in the streets of Port
Harcourt, Aba, Asaba, Enugu,
Awka and other cities, to register
their anger over his detention.
With what is happening, you
could wonder how Kanu, who
lives in London, was able to have
such followership, which is
becoming a movement.
When the news of Kanu’s arrest
broke, I remembered the first
time I met him in London, three
years ago. It was a chanced
meeting made possible by a man
I knew in the course of my job
and who, incidentally, knows
Kanu. He also lives in London as
Kanu. I had travelled to Britain on
vacation and called Chukwuma to
tell him I was in London. He
promised to make out time and
see me. The meeting did not hold
until about one week. It was a
cold Sunday afternoon in
September 2012. Chukwuma had
called me on phone to announce
that he was coming to where I
lodged. Since I had a shopping
programme that day, I told him I
would not be in. I had scheduled
that Sunday to go to the famous
Liverpool “Sunday Market,” in
London to do some shopping. He
volunteered to meet me there in
the afternoon, after I would have
finished my business.
As promised, my friend was at
Liverpool Station, in Central Lon­
don, our agreed rendezvous.
When we met, the first time
actually as we had been speaking
on phone, he told me he was
going to introduce me to
somebody I may have heard of,
who was in a car parked some
metres away. We trekked from
the Liverpool Station to the car in
that freezing weather. In the car
was this young man, handsome,
smartly dressed and soft-spoken.
My friend had introduced him as
Nnamdi Kanu, director of Radio
Biafra. It was a pleasant surprise
that I was face-to-face, on a
platter of gold, with the man
behind Radio Biafra, a station,
which, at that time, was
becoming popular among Igbo
across the world. As a journalist
and Editor, Saturday Sun at that
time, I saw a big news and
considered myself lucky. I had
instantly asked for an interview,
which Kanu approved, but said it
would hold in Nigeria when he
visited. He eventually visited at
about March/April in 2013 and
Saturday Sun, which I edited,
interviewed him in Lagos.
On that Sunday, in London, Kanu
had offered to give me lunch, in a
place where we would sit down
and have an informal chat. He
drove around Central London, to
find a restaurant. It took us some
time, owing to parking, which is
a problem in Central London.
Eventually, we ended at a Spanish
restaurant, in a street we were
lucky to get parking space.
Chukwuma had recommended
Paola, a Spanish delicacy, which I
could not eat eventually. In the
Paola, there is rice and half
cooked seafood in shells, which I
did not find funny. As I
pretended to be eating the Paola,
we talked, I had sized Kanu up.
He’s a smart youngman, well-
schooled, likeable and passionate
about what he was doing. From
the way he spoke, one could see
his passion to see that Igbo are
better treated and recognised. He
spoke of deprivation and
marginalisation of Igbo. He was
angry with many Nigerians,
including Igbo bigwigs, who he
said had sold out.
Kanu told me about his
relationship with the late Ikemba
Nnewi, who led the defunct
Republic of Biafra, during the civil
war. He spoke of a meeting he
and others had with Ojukwu in
London, where the late Biafra
leader talked about a successor.
He boasted how he and his
group members made it possible
for Ojukwu to appear on BBC’s
Hard Talk.
I remember him asking no one in
particular: “Who has ever or­
ganised Ojukwu to appear on
BBC’s Hard Talk? We did it.
Nobody has done that for him
before. We in London did it. The
fact that we don’t shout and
come to newspaper all the time
doesn’t mean we don’t know
what we are doing.”
I must say that before then, the
talk about Biafra was
synonymous with MASSOB
(Movement for the Actualisation
of the Sovereign State of Biafra).
Nothing much was heard of
IPOB. The other group, which
reared its head was Biafran
Zionist Movement. However, from
what Kanu told me at the
meeting, IPOB was getting more
global interest than the other
groups. He talked about his trips
across the world, to meet with
Igbo who loved Radio Biafra and
wanted to meet one of the men
behind it. This had taken him to
United States, Canada, Sweden,
France, Germany and other
nations. He talked about the case
IPOB instituted in Owerri against
“Nigeria.”
The Radio Biafra director made it
clear that he was not just angry
with the leadership in Nigeria,
which he said had neglected the
Igbo people and the South East,
as bad roads and decrepit
infrastructure dot the landscape,
but also with Igbo elite, who he
said had compromised and,
therefore, do not fight for the
interest of the Igbo. He said that
was why he always attacked
them on Radio Biafra.
What’s his relationship with
MASSOB? Kanu said that he had
issues with the group’s leader,
Ralph Uwazuruike, revealing that
he once had a raw deal with
MASSOB, whose members
kidnapped him during one of his
visits to Nigeria. According to
him, he had come to Nigeria for
his traditional marriage
ceremony but ended in MASSOB
gulag.
Why would MASSOB or anybody
for that matter kidnap Kanu? “I
was kidnapped because I told
him the truth. I told him that he
cannot print Biafran passport
and be selling to people when
he, as the leader of MASSOB, is
travelling with Nigerian passport.
You don’t deceive your people. I
told him that carrying Biafran
passport was tantamount to
treasonable felony. It is not right
as the leader of a group to be
amassing wealth when people
are poor,” he said.
The Radio Biafra director
revealed two occasions he
invited the MASSOB leader to
London, where they talked about
working together to help Igbo.
Said he: “I told him that the best
thing for us to do was to have a
movement where we can create
jobs for our people. And these
are the ways we are going to do
it. He never listened to any of
those pieces of advice we gave. I
advised him personally to turn
the Freedom House he built with
the money contributed by the
people in his father’s compound
to more or less an open house
for the people to come, but that
is his private residence.”
He expressed anger that MASSOB
was infiltrated by the Federal
Government, alleging: “It was
then that it occurred to us that
the powers-that-be, ostensibly
the late Umar Yar’Adua, called the
five eastern governors and asked
them to ask Uwazuruike what he
wanted as a sort of settlement so
that he can stop what he was
doing. That was why they were
campaigning for the PDP. They
campaigned for Ohakim the last
time Ohakim contested in Imo
State. I can tell you today even
MASSOB members are revolting
now because they know that
their leadership is fraudulent and
decaying. And unless they get
away from the scene completely,
we can never get Biafra because
their own brand is tainted and
we cannot have it anymore.”
When I asked Kanu how he
escaped from MASSOB’s prison,
he talked about how people he
did not name, who learnt about
his ordeal, gave the MASSOB
leader a 24-hour ultimatum to
release him or they would bring
down his place.
On Radio Biafra, Kanu said it was
a way to expose the bad hap­
penings in Nigeria. He regretted
that there was no time to take
me to Radio Biafra studio, but
boasted that it was equipped to
international standard.
The Radio Biafra director
revealed that Igbo, who believed
in what he was doing, were
ready to confront “the enemy
head on,” saying that South-
easterners were suffering in
Nigeria.
In the course of our discussion, I
never knew that time was flying,
until I looked at my phone’s time
and realised that it was 7pm. It
was time to go. Kanu and
Chukwuma drove me from
Central London to Hayes area of
London, where I stayed. He
promised to get in touch with
me any time he visited Nigeria.
In the early part of 2013, he
visited and made the first
broadcast of Radio Biafra from
Nigeria. Using his laptop, Internet
and other devices, he hooked
onto London studio and
broadcast to the world, he later
boasted. It was during the visit
that Saturday Sun interviewed
him in Lagos.

Source: www.sunnewsonline.com/new/face-to-face-with-nnamdi-kanu-the-man-behind-radio-biafra/

NIGERIA IS ALREADY COLLAPSING ALL GLORY BE TO GOD.
WHY IS NIGERIA ALWAYS AFRAID OF SS AND SE UNITY.

NIGERIA IS ALREADY COLLAPSING ALL GLORY BE TO GOD.
WHY IS NIGERIA ALWAYS AFRAID OF SS AND SE UNITY.

May God bless u. Biafra shall be free.

BUHARI IS MAKING BIAFRA MORE POPULAR IN THE GLOBAL WORLD. LET HIM JUST RELEASE NNAMDI KANU NOW BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND.

The world is now seeing the evil being wreck on armless and defenceless people. This is not good atall I think the army have to take it easy.

lalasticla front page.

Hundreds of people in southern
Nigeria have been protesting
about the continued detention
of Nnamdi Kanu, an activist
who supports the creation of a
breakaway state of Biafra.
The director of banned Radio
Biafra was arrested last month
and is still being held despite a
court order to free him, his
mainly ethnic Igbo supporters
say.
There are reports of violence
during a protest in Port
Harcourt.
Biafran secessionists fought a
three-year civil war that ended
in 1970.
More than one million people
lost their lives before the
uprising was eventually quelled
by the military.
Secessionist groups have
attracted the support of many
young people in the south-east
in recent years.
The BBC's Abdussalam Ahmed in
the south-eastern city of Enugu
says in reality they do not want a
repeat of the civil war but are
keen to draw the attention of
the central government to some
developmental challenges the
region faces.
Activists told the BBC that five
people were killed and several
others injured after police fired
shots and teargas to disperse
the protesters in Port Harcourt -
the largest city in the region.
But police spokesman Ahmad
Muhammad said this was
untrue.
"Measures have been put in
place to handle the situation in
such a way that public peace is
not disrupted and to ensure life
and property are protected," he
told the AFP news agency.
Protests were also held on
Tuesday in the city of Owerri in
Imo state, a day after the
region's biggest market in the
city of Aba was reportedly shut
down by protesters.
Our correspondent says the
protests started peacefully on
Friday in the oil-rich Delta state
and has since taken place in five
other major cities in the region.
The demonstrators are mostly
young men holding Biafra flags
and banners with pictures of Mr
Kanu, who is also a leader in the
secessionist Indigenous People
of Biafra (IPOB).
"We won't give up until our
director Nnamdi Kanu is
released," one protester told our
reporter during a protest in
Enugu.
It is not clear where Radio Biafra
is based but it mainly broadcasts
to the Igbo-speaking south-east
of the country.
The Nigerian government says it
has been operating without a
licence and began jamming its
signals in July, but its broadcasts
are still available online and via
mobile phones by a dialling a
local number.
An IPOB leader, Uchemna Madu,
told the BBC that the group was
fighting against the "injustice
and inequality" ethnic Igbos
faced in Nigeria.
"We believe in Nigeria, we have
businesses everywhere in the
country but we are getting
nothing apart from political and
social marginalisation," he said.
"Our lives and properties are not
secured, we want to live on our
own."
The Nigerian authorities have
always maintained that most of
the issues the Biafra activists are
complaining about are not
unique to southern part of the
country.


www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34777835?ocid=socialflow_twitter

Bigmillz:
Na lie ooo! Am from Rivers nd living here, more people are gearing up to join the protest. The truth is that we south south nd south East people of this country are tired of this Nigeria. God help us as we fight for liberation nd freedom

THANK YOU MY DEAR FOR SAYING THE TRUTH!
I KNOW BY NOW BUHARI'S EYES IS NOW CLEAR AND KNOWS THAT IPOB MEANS BUISNESS.
HE SHOULD BETTER RELEASE NNAMDI KANU NOW BEFORE IT GET OUT OF HAND.

emyphil:
no is an online country

Why no? I thought you people said you want all biafrans to leave your region. TAKE IT OR LEAVE BIAFRA AS COME TO STAY.

This article which was
published on London Sun
Times Newspaper on
November 7th, 2015 is
making its rounds on Nigerian
news forums and Social
media. While some see such
article as a possible indicator
of changing attitudes, the
British Government has
remained mute over this
matter. This does not mean
that because Britain was the
colonial administrator of
Nigeria and actually the
originator of forming the
nation called Nigeria by
merging the Northern, and
Southern protectorates, that
the decision on this matter
would be made by Britain. Far
from that.
As in cases before this, the
United Nations plays a greater
role in such situations as was
the case in Southern Sudan
recently. But the fact of the
matter is that Nigerians would
have to make this decision by
themselves. There are
demands for Biafra
independence by IPOB and
MASSOB and othesr, there are
also demands for separation
being pushed by Odua for the
West and even in the Niger
Delta there are building
sentiments on this matter as
well. Some in the north have
called for the formation of
Arewa Republic different from
Boko Haram that wants to
form an Islamic Caliphate in
the northeast region of
Nigeria.
It appears that many
Nigerians are now more open
to this question. Everyone
seems to agree that Nigeria
will not fight any more wars
as was the case from
1967-1970 during the
Nigeria-Biafra war when
estimated 1-2 million lives
perished largely due to
hunger and malnutrition.
Many people particularly older
generation of Nigerians are
still traumatized by that war
fatigue experience. The
immediate trigger and
resurgence of the Biafra
independence was the result
of the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu
which created a rallying cause
for many people particularly in
the South East and South
South regions. Of all these
groups Biafra group seem to
have gone further in this push
for independence than other
groups, and already have
Flags, National colors and even
a National anthem.




www.africabusinessworld.com/nigeria-should-let-biafra-go-article-published-on-london-sun-times/2015/11/09/

akinsbaba2015:
Bunch of jokers.

I PITY YOU PEOPLE, THAT FAILS TO REALISE THAT NIGERIA CANN'T WITHSTAND THE SECOND BIAFRA.
WE ARE NO LONGER IN THE DARK AGES SHINE YOUR EYES!

EVEN I MYSELF RECIEVED A REVELATION THAT NIGERIA WON'T WITHSTAND SECOND BIAFRA.

A faction of the separatist group,
Movement for the Actualization
of the Sovereign States of Biafra
(MASSOB) has issued a one week
ultimatum to the Federal
Government to immediately
release the detained Director of
Radio Biafra and Leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, or face
severe sanctions.
The group gave the ultimatum, in
a statement signed by its director
of Information, Comrade Uche
Madu, in which he said, at the
expiration of ultimatum, MASSOB
would “unleash the potency of
non-violence which includes civil
disobedience, civil unrest, non-
cooperation, civil /massive
boycott as was done during the
emancipation struggle of Ghandi
of India & Martin Luther King
junior”.
Madu affirmed that the action is
sequel to the nationwide protest
embarked by the Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) on Friday,
demanding for the release of
Kanu and pledged full support to
the protest by the IPOB, stressing
that they would not relent till
their agitation is actualized.
The director who expressed
regrets with the south east
governors, Igbo senators,
monarchs as well as leaders for
not identifying with the MASSOB
struggle, warned that MASSOB
would hold the Igbo governors
and senators to account if Kanu
is not released.
He stated that the south/south
and southeast are now better
united in the struggle.
“For the sake of Biafra’s love for
our fatherland and the spirit of
brotherhood, MASSOB shall
continue to identify with genuine
and selfless Biafra agitation as
showcased in Nnamdi Kanu.
The factional MASSOB group
warned the federal government
to immediately release Nnamdi
Kanu now or before Monday or
face a severe action that will
bring Nigeria to her knees.
Ndigbo and South-South are
much wiser, united and hungry
for Biafra now.
“Only some few disgruntled
elements and Abuja errand boys
from eastern region are always
against Biafra. MASSOB shall hold
Igbo governors, National
Assembly members, traditional
rulers and opinion leaders
heavily responsible if Nnamdi
Kanu is not released coming
week.
“The continued detention of Mazi
Nnamdi Kanu will worsen the
already fragile security situation
in Nigeria. Factional MASSOB,
IPOB and other genuine groups
are now ready,” he said.


http//:www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/massob-gives-fg-one-week-ultimatum-to-release-nnamdi-kanu/

INTERSOCIETY, a human rights
group said the Radio Biafra
director, Nnamdi Kanu’s
detention has graduated from
judicial detention to extra-judicial
detention because he is no
longer being detained on the
orders of the named Magistrate
Court upon the court’s harshly
imposed bail conditions.
Rather, the group said, he is
now being detained extra-
judicially according to
administrative and operational
whims and caprices of the
Department of State Service, DSS,
since these administrative and
operational whims and caprices
lately deployed by the DSS are
totally unknown to both the
principles of the rule of law,
constitutional democracy, the
1999 Constitution, local and
international human rights and
humanitarian norms.
In a press statement, yesterday,
in Onitsha, Anambra State, jointly
signed by Mr. Emeka
Umeagbalasi, Chairman, Board of
Trustees, BoT, and Obianuju
Igboeli Joy, Head, Civil Liberties
and Rule of Law Programme,
INTERSOCIETY contended that if
the court had granted Kanu bail
on October 19, the DSS ought to
have completed its verification
process by Thursday, October 22
and caused Citizen Kanu to be
released in compliance with the
order of the court.
“We wish to further inform
authoritatively that upon meeting
all draconian bail conditions
leading to refusal by the DSS to
release the detained Biafran self
determination activist, the
presiding Magistrate made an
express Production Order on
Friday, October 23, 2015, for
the DSS to produce Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu before his court
same date and explain why it
failed to release the detainee
upon meeting the imposed bail
conditions.
The Production Order was
communicated to the DSS by the
Court’s ambassador (bailiff) and
the Magistrate’s orderly on
October 23, 2015, but
disappointedly, they were sent
back by the DSS and the order
was flagrantly and rapaciously
disobeyed.

SOURCE: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/inter-society-slams-extra-judicial-detention-of-nnamdi-kanu/

9jacrip:
Free Nnamdi Kanu, Free Biafra
And redraw the borders like

Buhari has no option than to Free Nnamdi Kanu.

9jacrip:
Free Nnamdi Kanu, Free Biafra
And redraw the borders like

Buhari has no option than to Free Nnamdi Kanu.

sunny12345679:
Now the strategy is working. President bubu vs UN. Biafra is finaly here.

YES MY FELLOW BIAFRAN, DON'T MIND THOSE ONE-NIGERIA FANATICS THAT KNOWS LITTLE OR NOTING ABOUT INTERNATIONAL LAW. NNAMDI KANU WAS ONLY ARRESTED BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO TAKE BRIBE FROM BUHARI.

BUT ONE THING IS CERTAIN IF BUHARI FAILS TO RELEASE NNAMDI KANU ON TIME IT WILL DRAW TOO MUCH INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION THAT WILL MAKE NIGERIA TO DIVIDE QUICK.

IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS LETTER THAT WAS ISSUED TO NNAMDI KANU BY UNITED NATIONS IN 2014 THAT USUALLY MAKES NIGERIA GOVT TO ALWAYS TAG IPOB AS MASSOB.

WHEN EVER THEY ARREST ANY IPOB MEMBER THEY WILL REPORT THAT IT IS MASSOB (NIGERIA HAS NO RIGHTS TO ARREST ANY IPOB MEMBER).

WHEN EVER IPOB STAGE A PEACEFUL PROTEST THEY WILL REPORT IT AS MASSOB. ( GOWON EVEN SAID THAT MASSOB WAS THE ONE THAT PROTESTED AT PORTHARCOURT NOT IPOB, HE IS EVEN AFRAID TO MENTION IPOB!)

WHEN THE NAVY KILLED THREE IPOB MEMBERS IN AUGUST THEY SAID IT WAS MASSOB.
(NIGERIA HAS NO RIGHTS TO KILL ANY IPOB MEMBER ON PEACEFUL PROTEST THAT WILL LEAD TO HEAVY UN SANCTION)

ALL OF THEM ARE ALWAYS AFRAID TO MENTION IPOB BECAUSE OF UN SACTION.

BUT GOD HAS GOTTEN THEM FINALLY AT THIS TIME, THERE IS NOW A CREDIBLE EVIDENCE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST IPOB TO BE PETITION AGAINST NIGERIA AT THE UNITED NATIONS. KUDOS TO NNAMDI KANU.

BUHARI THINK WE ARE STILL IN THE DARK AGES WHERE YOU CAN USE FORCE TO SUPPRESS PEOPLES' WILL, YOU CAN ONLY CONVINCE SOMEONE TO BE WITH YOU, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS TO FORCE PEOPLE AGAINST THEIR WILL.

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA (IPOB) SHALL WIN.

Clarification on the issue of
legal protection for Biafrans in
Nigeria and elsewhere from
the Executive Council of the
Indigenous People of Biafra
United Nation’s Defined Rights
of Indigenous People and their
Implications for the Indigenous
People of Biafra?
According to the United Nations
charter for the Rights of
Indigenous People, all fears
hitherto holding down the
Indigenous People of Biafra
from accessing clearly defined
indigenous peoples’ rights have
been put to permanent sleep. As
Indigenous People,
this charter to which the Africa
union and Nigerian State is a
signatory, clearly states that we
reserve the right to agitate for
Biafra without fear of
intimidations from within the
Nigerian State and/or even in
the diaspora.
This global human rights charter
therefore shields the Indigenous
People of Biafra from undue
harassment, arrest, detention
and even murder from the
Nigerian State. The Nigerian
Police has no right whatsoever,
to arrest any peaceful gathering
of the Indigenous People of
Biafra; if they do, they are in
material breach of the binding
covenant they entered into and
are in effect inviting anarchy. A
breach of this by the Nigerian
State is a tantamount to a
collision between the Nigerian
State and chaos on the one side,
and the United Nation and the
Indigenous People of Biafra on
the other side.
The Indigenous People of Biafra
hereby duly notifies the
Inspector General of Nigerian
Police, Director of SSS, all State
Governors, Speakers of Houses
of Assembly all over Nigeria and
State Police Commissioners that
Indigenous People of Biafra are
entitled to hold meetings
without fear of arrest or
molestation. Formal letters will
be issued to them via the offices
of the Association of Lawyers for
the Defense of the Rights of
Indigenous People based in
Onitsha.
Henceforth all coordinators in
Nigeria and African countries
are mandated to display the
legal notice below in a banner or
board at the entrance to their
meeting chamber or hall. They
must also have copies of the UN
Charter to make available to
anyone wishing to have sight of
it should the need arise.
LEGAL NOTICE
This meeting of the Indigenous
People of Biafra holding here
today is lawfully convened under
rights granted by the UNITED
NATIONS as contained in the
United Nations DECLARATION on
the RIGHTS of INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES 2007
By virtue of this and in pursuant
to Articles 3 & 4 of this Charter-
interpreted for our purposes
below and its objectives:
We the Indigenous People of
Biafra under Article 3 of the
above UN Charter, have the right
to self-determination. By virtue
of this right, we wish to freely
determine our political status
and also to freely pursue our
economic, social and cultural
development.
We the Indigenous People of
Biafra under Article 4 of the
above UN Charter, is free to
exercise our right to self-
determination, we have the right
to autonomy or self-government
in matters relating to our
internal and local affairs, as well
as ways and means for
financing our autonomous
functions.
THIS MEETING IS THEREFORE
LEGALLY CONVENED
A free copy of the UN Charter is
available on demand

www.radiobiafra.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2009%3Abiafra-agitation-is-lawful-says-united-nations&catid=115%3Anews&Itemid=551

BUHARI IS A LIAR FOR TELLING US THAT HE HAS BEEN RELEASED, HE NEED TO KNOW THAT WE ARE NO LONGER IN THE DARK AGES .

BY THE TIME HE LEADS NIGERIA TO ANARCH WITH THE NIGERIAN STATE AND CHAOS ON THE ONE SIDE, AND THE UNITED NATION AND THE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA ON THE OTHER SIDE IT SHALL BE TO LATE.

The leadership of
Intersociety has been totally
vindicated over its last night
(20th October 2015) statement
exposing flaws inherent in the
widely reported news of Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu’s conditional bail
and continued detention by the
Department of the State Security
Services (DSS). The information
about the conditional bail was
half-baked and reportorially
anomalous. For example, the
following questions were not
answered in the said media
report:Was Nnamdi Kanu
arraigned before a named Chief
Magistrate Court or charged
before a named Federal or FCT
High Court? If he was so
arraigned or charged, what
charges were preferred against
him? Who stood as prosecution
team, AGF or DSS legal
department? Were the charges
bailable if he was arraigned
before a Magistrate Court? Who
was the presiding authority,
Chief Magistrate or a Judge? Are
the charges against him, if any,
known to the 1999 Constitution
or its subsidiary criminal laws,
with their penalties clearly
defined in written law? What
date is the returned or
adjourned date? Was Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu represented by
any legal team and what are
the identities of members of his
legal team, if any?
However, at 7:15am this morning
(21st October 2015), Intersociety
received a mail from Barr Vincent
Egechukwu Obetta, who is
Counsel to detained Biafran self
determination activist;
acknowledging that other
teeming Nigerians shared same
sentiments and questions raised
in our referenced statement. He
answered our probing questions
as follows:
(1) That Citizen Nnamdi Kanu of
Radio Biafra & IPOB was
arraigned before the Abuja
Municipal Magistrate Court,
Wuse Zone 2; on 19th October
2015 and granted bail. (2) That
he was granted bail with
stringent conditions including
getting a civil servant of Grade
Level 16 that has a landed
property within Abuja
metropolis and in the sum of
N10million as his bail surety. (3)
That Citizen Nnamdi Kanu was
charged with following alleged
misdemeanor offenses:
Criminal Conspiracy, Managing&
Belonging to Unlawful Society
and Criminal Intimidation
contrary to Sections 97, 97b
and 397 of the Penal Code
(applicable in Northern
Nigeria). (4) That the matter
was adjourned to 18th of
November 2015 for trial. (5)
That processes to fulfill the
deliberate and stringent bail
conditions have since
commenced but could not be
completed before the close of
work yesterday (20-102015)
and would continue today
(21-10-2015).
We condemn in its totality the
stringent bail conditions
imposed upon the bail granted
to Citizen Nnamdi Kanu by the
Presiding Magistrate of the Abuja
Municipal Magistrate Court. It is
an elementary knowledge in law
and criminal justice system in
Nigeria that there are categories
of criminal offenses that can be
tried by the Magistrate Courts or
their equivalents and the High
Courts. They are simple offenses
with maximum of six months
imprisonment; misdemeanor
offenses with minimum of six
months (as case may be) and
maximum not exceeding three
years imprisonment; and
felonious offenses with three
years as minimum and capital
punishments (i.e. death penalty
or life imprisonment) as
maximum. In the trial jurisdiction
categorization, Magistrate Courts
are empowered with trial
competence in simple offenses
and misdemeanors and a
number of felonies.
The Magistrate Courts (with their
various classification) are
forbidden from prosecuting
certain categories of felonious
offenses such as treason,
treasonable felony, murder,
manslaughter, kidnapping,
armed robbery, sedition, rape,
terrorism, etc. Following the
foregoing, therefore, it is totally
condemnable for the Presiding
Magistrate to have handed down
such stringent bail conditions
over misdemeanor allegations
that are softly bailable. We
further hold that the Presiding
Magistrate is a parasitic and
arrange Magistrate possibly
remote-controlled by desperate
and primordial elements within
the Federal Executive Arm and its
security establishment so as to
keep Citizen Nnamdi Kanu in
perpetual confinement using
manipulated judicial process as
its escape route.
To attach such stringent bail
conditions in alleged offenses
that are clearly misdemeanor and
softly bailable is a clearly sign of
executive jittery and undeniably
persecutorial. To ask a civil
servant in Grade Level 16 with a
landed property within Abuja
metropolis to stand for Citizen
Nnamdi Kalu as a bail surety, is
very deliberate and another way
of applying Decree 2 of 1984,
which the present President
maximally applied then to mass-
jail Nigerians without limitations.
The possibility of getting a
serving civil servant of Grade
Level 16 working for the same
Federal Government may most
likely be a suicide mission; not to
talk of the attached condition
that such civil servant must have
a landed property within Abuja
metropolis.
Our questions are: What is the
cost of an empty plot of land
within Abuja metropolis? What
is the current market value or
worth of a landed property
within Abuja metropolis and
can it be afforded by a serving
civil servant of Grade Level 16
without bureaucratic theft?
How much is the official take
home monthly salary of a
Federal civil servant of Grade
Level 16 in Nigeria? Even if
obtained through the country’s
rampant bureaucratic
corruption, can such civil
servant boldly and dangerously
take the risk? Why must a N10
million bond surety be further
added in Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s
bail conditions over
misdemeanor allegations that
are softly bailable with lighter
sentencing on conviction?
While we commend Citizen
Kanu’s lawyer (Barr Vincent
Egechukwu Obetta) for his
courage and boldness in
defending the detained self
determination activist as well as
his prompt response and
clarifications to our reservations
trailing his conditional bail and
continued detention; we also
advise that a return with a
motion should be made to the
same Abuja Municipal Magistrate
for immediate variation and
lowering of the harsh bail
conditions so given. Where the
possibility of meeting up with
bail conditions clearly becomes
unachievable both in practical
aspect and before the Magistrate
Court, an appeal should be
effected at the High Court for
such stringent bail conditions to
be quashed or lowered.
[ Unanswered Questions
Trailing Nnamdi Kanu’s
Reported Bail & Continued
Detention ]
(Intersociety (Nigeria), 20th
October 2015)-The leadership of
Intersociety is worried over the
sketchy situation on the ground
pertaining to a conditional bail
purportedly given yesterday
(19th October 2015) to Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu of the Radio Biafra,
which was widely reported in
the print and online media
within and outside Nigeria. The
widely publicized news of
(sketchy) conditional bail, under
reference, is by all intents and
purposes, unreliable, sketchy and
complicated. The legal and media
angles to the said conditional bail
are totally clothed with legal
quackery and media mediocrity.
For example, the following
questions were not answered in
the referenced media report:
Was Nnamdi Kanu arraigned
before a named Chief Magistrate
Court or charged before a named
Federal or FCT High Court? If he
was so arraigned or charged,
what charges were preferred
against him? Who stood as
prosecution team, AGF or DSS
legal department? Were the
charges bailable if he was
arraigned before a Magistrate
Court? Who was the presiding
authority, Chief Magistrate or a
Judge? Are the charges against
him, if any, known to the 1999
Constitution or its subsidiary
criminal laws, with their penalties
clearly defined in written law?
What date is the returned or
adjourned date? Was Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu represented by any
legal team and what are the
identities of members of his legal
team, if any?
Apart from the clear absence of
the foregoing ingredients in the
said wide statement of his bail,
our update investigation still
indicates that Citizen Kanu was
still in the custody of the DSS as
at 7pm this evening (20th
October 2015). Pieces of
information obtained by
Intersociety this evening from
the top hierarchy of the
Indigenous People of Biafra
(IPOB) including Office of
Coordinator of Coordinators and
Directorate of the State in UK and
USA clearly show that Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu is yet to be set free
or released from the DSS
dudgeon. In other words, he is
still in detention as we write.
We advise the media
practitioners and legal team
handling and following the
matter under reference to always
cross-check their facts and do a
thorough job before rushing to
the press. This type of half baked
and contradictory information
can have fatal effects on the
detained Biafran self
determination activist. Criminal
and hired elements within State
security organization can
perfectly silence Citizen Kanu
following this sort of confused
and contradictory report and
smartly exonerate the State
Security agencies from any
traceable culpability. As we
earlier demanded, Citizen Nnamdi
Kanu must be charged to court
of superior records or competent
jurisdiction strictly within
constitutionally or statutorily
grounded offenses and clearly
defined and written penalties or
be released unconditionally and
immediately.
Signed:
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board
Chairman
International Society for Civil
Liberties & the Rule of Law
(Intersociety)

SOURCE: http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/Masterweb/breakingnews-211015-true-position-nnamdi-kanu’s-conditional-bail-continued-detention-another

The leadership of
Intersociety has been totally
vindicated over its last night
(20th October 2015) statement
exposing flaws inherent in the
widely reported news of Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu’s conditional bail
and continued detention by the
Department of the State Security
Services (DSS). The information
about the conditional bail was
half-baked and reportorially
anomalous. For example, the
following questions were not
answered in the said media
report:Was Nnamdi Kanu
arraigned before a named Chief
Magistrate Court or charged
before a named Federal or FCT
High Court? If he was so
arraigned or charged, what
charges were preferred against
him? Who stood as prosecution
team, AGF or DSS legal
department? Were the charges
bailable if he was arraigned
before a Magistrate Court? Who
was the presiding authority,
Chief Magistrate or a Judge? Are
the charges against him, if any,
known to the 1999 Constitution
or its subsidiary criminal laws,
with their penalties clearly
defined in written law? What
date is the returned or
adjourned date? Was Citizen
Nnamdi Kanu represented by
any legal team and what are
the identities of members of his
legal team, if any?
However, at 7:15am this morning
(21st October 2015), Intersociety
received a mail from Barr Vincent
Egechukwu Obetta, who is
Counsel to detained Biafran self
determination activist;
acknowledging that other
teeming Nigerians shared same
sentiments and questions raised
in our referenced statement. He
answered our probing questions
as follows:
(1) That Citizen Nnamdi Kanu of
Radio Biafra & IPOB was
arraigned before the Abuja
Municipal Magistrate Court,
Wuse Zone 2; on 19th October
2015 and granted bail. (2) That
he was granted bail with
stringent conditions including
getting a civil servant of Grade
Level 16 that has a landed
property within Abuja
metropolis and in the sum of
N10million as his bail surety. (3)
That Citizen Nnamdi Kanu was
charged with following alleged
misdemeanor offenses:
Criminal Conspiracy, Managing&
Belonging to Unlawful Society
and Criminal Intimidation
contrary to Sections 97, 97b
and 397 of the Penal Code
(applicable in Northern
Nigeria). (4) That the matter
was adjourned to 18th of
November 2015 for trial. (5)
That processes to fulfill the
deliberate and stringent bail
conditions have since
commenced but could not be
completed before the close of
work yesterday (20-102015)
and would continue today
(21-10-2015).
We condemn in its totality the
stringent bail conditions
imposed upon the bail granted
to Citizen Nnamdi Kanu by the
Presiding Magistrate of the Abuja
Municipal Magistrate Court. It is
an elementary knowledge in law
and criminal justice system in
Nigeria that there are categories
of criminal offenses that can be
tried by the Magistrate Courts or
their equivalents and the High
Courts. They are simple offenses
with maximum of six months
imprisonment; misdemeanor
offenses with minimum of six
months (as case may be) and
maximum not exceeding three
years imprisonment; and
felonious offenses with three
years as minimum and capital
punishments (i.e. death penalty
or life imprisonment) as
maximum. In the trial jurisdiction
categorization, Magistrate Courts
are empowered with trial
competence in simple offenses
and misdemeanors and a
number of felonies.
The Magistrate Courts (with their
various classification) are
forbidden from prosecuting
certain categories of felonious
offenses such as treason,
treasonable felony, murder,
manslaughter, kidnapping,
armed robbery, sedition, rape,
terrorism, etc. Following the
foregoing, therefore, it is totally
condemnable for the Presiding
Magistrate to have handed down
such stringent bail conditions
over misdemeanor allegations
that are softly bailable. We
further hold that the Presiding
Magistrate is a parasitic and
arrange Magistrate possibly
remote-controlled by desperate
and primordial elements within
the Federal Executive Arm and its
security establishment so as to
keep Citizen Nnamdi Kanu in
perpetual confinement using
manipulated judicial process as
its escape route.
To attach such stringent bail
conditions in alleged offenses
that are clearly misdemeanor and
softly bailable is a clearly sign of
executive jittery and undeniably
persecutorial. To ask a civil
servant in Grade Level 16 with a
landed property within Abuja
metropolis to stand for Citizen
Nnamdi Kalu as a bail surety, is
very deliberate and another way
of applying Decree 2 of 1984,
which the present President
maximally applied then to mass-
jail Nigerians without limitations.
The possibility of getting a
serving civil servant of Grade
Level 16 working for the same
Federal Government may most
likely be a suicide mission; not to
talk of the attached condition
that such civil servant must have
a landed property within Abuja
metropolis.
Our questions are: What is the
cost of an empty plot of land
within Abuja metropolis? What
is the current market value or
worth of a landed property
within Abuja metropolis and
can it be afforded by a serving
civil servant of Grade Level 16
without bureaucratic theft?
How much is the official take
home monthly salary of a
Federal civil servant of Grade
Level 16 in Nigeria? Even if
obtained through the country’s
rampant bureaucratic
corruption, can such civil
servant boldly and dangerously
take the risk? Why must a N10
million bond surety be further
added in Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s
bail conditions over
misdemeanor allegations that
are softly bailable with lighter
sentencing on conviction?
While we commend Citizen
Kanu’s lawyer (Barr Vincent
Egechukwu Obetta) for his
courage and boldness in
defending the detained self
determination activist as well as
his prompt response and
clarifications to our reservations
trailing his conditional bail and
continued detention; we also
advise that a return with a
motion should be made to the
same Abuja Municipal Magistrate
for immediate variation and
lowering of the harsh bail
conditions so given. Where the
possibility of meeting up with
bail conditions clearly becomes
unachievable both in practical
aspect and before the Magistrate
Court, an appeal should be
effected at the High Court for
such stringent bail conditions to
be quashed or lowered.

SOURCE: http://www.nigeriamasterweb.com/Masterweb/breakingnews-211015-true-position-nnamdi-kanu’s-conditional-bail-continued-detention-another