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Soon middle belt will start fighting north, and north will descend on west, then Biafra will come in peace. |
Igbo amaka!!! |
immortalityk:oh my goodness, why can't Yoruba Muslims leave us alone, is it a crime to mourn for our people.
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The 1967 Asaba Massacre Culled Stanley Okafor, then a university student, described how he and several relatives were summoned by troops: “we got to the police station and there was a huge crowd. And then they would come around and they would say do you know Mr. X, Mr. B, and do you know his house? They had names they wanted to kill. And once in a while they’d pick someone from the crowd, go to the back and you hear gunshots. And the crowd would wail.” Patience Chukwura, a young mother expecting her fourth child, saw her husband Eddie gunned down near the police station, along with his brother, Christian: “That made me hysterical. I held onto the soldier and said, ‘Why did you kill my husband?’ The man, with the butt of the gun, hit me on the chest and said, ‘woman, if you’re not careful, you’ll get killed as well.’ We feared they were going to wipe out everybody in Asaba, especially male children.” Troops invaded homes, demanding money, executing men and boys, and abducting women, often before setting the houses ablaze. The streets were littered with corpses. Patrick Okonkwo recalled that his compound was crowded with extended family members, when soldiers entered and shot his two brothers, a cousin, and two other relatives. His father buried them in shallow graves in the compound. On October 7, in hopes of avoiding more violence, Asaba leaders summoned everyone to gather to show support to the troops by making a pledge to One Nigeria. Hundreds of men, women, and children assembled, dancing and singing. According to survivors, as the parade reached a major junction, troops removed women and young children, and directed men and boys into an open area. As the crowd began to realize what might be happening, panic grew, as Peter Okonjo explained: “Women who came with their sons were removing their skirts and blouses to disguise them. And I looked at the whole place, there is nowhere to escape.” Ify Uraih was 13 years old, and had joined the parade with his brothers and father. He described how the officer in charge, identified by several witnesses as Ibrahim Taiwo, gave the order to open fire, and the massacre began: “Some people broke loose and tried to run away. They shot my brother in the back. The rest of us just fell down on top of each other. And they continued shooting, and shooting, and shooting. I don’t know how long it took; after some time there was silence.” Hundreds died; survivors report climbing from among heaps of bodies when the soldiers finally left hours later. Ify Uraih survived, but his father, Robert, and brothers Emma and Paul were dead. His brother Medua was shot multiple times, but survived. Between 500 and 800 were murdered, in addition to many from previous days, and many people fled the town. Although there is no firm death count, our research suggests that more than 1,000 died at the hands of the troops during October. Most were buried in mass graves, without observing requisite practices, and the town was destroyed, with most of the houses looted and burned. The long-term impacts of these tragic events were profound; many extended families lost multiple breadwinners, and the town’s leadership was decimated. Survivor accounts and reports by relief agencies show that Asaba remained in dire straits until the war’s end, most inhabitants having fled or subsisting in refugee camps. Soldiers assaulted and abducted women and girls with impunity. The destruction was so complete that Asaba disappeared from the official roll of Nigerian towns in 1969. The atrocities at Asaba remained virtually absent from the published record, and have largely remained unacknowledged. A major reason was lack of media coverage at the time. Of course Biafra became world-famous, but its public, international narrative developed after the retreat of the Biafrans across the Niger, after which the federal government imposed a blockade, effectively starving the East into submission, and searing the images of emaciated children into the international memory of the War. This contrasts with the lack of attention in 1967, when the Midwest people suffered most. The Federal government suppressed accounts of military action against civilians in the Midwest, and the international media were carefully managed. The 1967 massacres received almost no press coverage at the time. In later historical accounts, the Asaba events, if mentioned at all, are usually dismissed as aberrant or unproven. In 2001, some Asaba survivors testified to the Nigerian Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission (HRVIC, or Oputa Panel), commissioned by President Olusegun Obasanjo, and charged to consider the history of human rights abuses from 1966 to May 1999, of which civil war events were part. The Asaba accounts were included in the Ohaneze Petition, presented by Barrister Chuck Nduka-Eze, and drawing on earlier research by Emma Okocha, as well as testimonies recorded in 1969. The HRVIC’s report was never officially released, although it is now available on the internet. Obasanjo declined to offer formal apologies, although in a landmark moment, Gowon publicly apologized to the people of Asaba in 2002, opening the door to further efforts at truth and reconciliation. After the Oputa Panel, Asaba leaders formed a committee to develop a memorial process, seeking an academic partnership to research the history of the event objectively. We responded, and with the support of our university’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center, have been researching the events of 1967 and beyond. Our work is based on an array of sources, including archival collections on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as videotaped interviews with almost 80 people. Most are direct witnesses and survivors, while others testified about the long-term impacts on Asaba. They were interviewed in several locations – Asaba, Lagos, Ibadan, Benin City, and the United States, and their stories produce a compelling, detailed, and consistent account of the atrocities that befell their town. Our research has produced several interrelated conclusions. First, it shows that the killings in Asaba were unprovoked, and stemmed directly from a chain of events that started before the war, continuing through the Biafran offensive across the Niger, which stirred up simmering ethnic hatred that had previously resulted in violence toward Igbos.
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kenwhawha:my brother, Yoruba Muslims are the problem of humanity. |
Igbo Scare: Southern Cameroon Hate For The Igbo Led To Secession From Nigeria In 1961 |RN THE so-called Igbo “scare” in the British Cameroons between 1945 and 1961 allegedly led the southern part of the British mandate to opt to leave the federation of Nigeria on the 11th of February 1961. The fear of Igbo domination in all the sectors of social and political life in the former German and British territory was given as a major factor. Kumba, Mamfe, Bamenda, Tiko and Victoria had a large number of NdiIgbo who dominated the economy. This led to local resentments, which politicians like Dr E.M.L.Endeley, Chief Manga Williams and J.N.Foncha exploited for selfish interests. Stereotyping the Igbo did not change the natural disposition of the latter to hard work, aggressiveness, showiness and ethnic pride—all of which may be interpreted as the Igbo hubris, which in literary parlance is a tragic flaw. Yet local resentment did not stop Igbo migration to Cameroons. The Igbo helped to build the Nigerian-Cameroonian Highway. They became petty and full time traders, engaged in farming, sometimes dispossessing original land owners of their lands through legitimate purchases, and held sway in the plantations. Because of their education, NdiIgbo became dominant in government services and commerce, especially with the departure of the Germans in 1939. Menial jobs were the reserve of the less educated Cameroonians. There were monopolies like the United African Company and John Holt, all owned by the British. Yet the Igbo, not the British, were accused of marginalizing the Cameroonians. The Igbo, they cried out, controlled the local administration and made it impossible for locals to occupy high government posts. They had a point but the Igbo did not ask them to be laid back and not to go to school. A British Resident administrative officer in Cameroon also accused the Igbo of injustice and, in his own words, as behaving as” if they were a law unto themselves and not wont to recognize ‘local authority”(See Resident, Cameroon Province, Buea, to Secretary, Eastern Provinces, Enugu, 29 June, 1948). Such reports did not reduce tension; rather the emerging Cameroonian business and political elite fuelled it to advance their political agitations and encouraged many other unproven allegations against the Igbo. Unsubstantiated Igbo misdemeanor, too numerous to bother the reader with here, occupied the social and political space in the late 1940 Southern Cameroons. The Buea Native Authority demanded the expulsion of the Igbo in 1948 accusing them of dominating the plantations, especially. Earlier, the Bakweri Native Authority had specifically issued the following orders: 1. Nobody is allowed to sell his or her house to an Ibo; neither must anybody give his or her house for rentage to an Ibo. 2. No farmland must be sold to an Ibo or rented to an Ibo 3. Nobody must allow an Ibo to enter any native farm or forest for purpose of finding sticks for building or for any other purpose. 4. House or farm already sold to any Ibo man shall be purchased by native Authority who will afterwards resell same to some suitable person. 5. Nobody shall trade with Ibos for anything of value or not. 6. All landlords must ask their Igbo tenants to quit before 15 March 1948. 7. No Cameroon woman is allowed to communicate with the Igbos in any form 8. Anybody disobeying those rules shall be liable to a fine of £5 or five months imprisonment. 9. Any Ibo native disobeying Rule (3) above will be liable to prosecuting in the Native Court. 10. All Ibo Government officials are exempted from Rule (5) above. (Cf: Bakweri, N.A. Buea to Senior D.O, Victoria, 21 Feb.1948.). It is believed that Chief Manga Williams and Dr Endeley, two parliamentarians in the Eastern House of Assembly, were behind these anti Igbo laws. We have seen similar sentiments directed against the Igbo in Nigeria, in colonial and postcolonial times, since NdiIgbo began their endless adventure outside Igbo hearth and heartland. It is also to say that quit notices against Ndibanyi did not start today. Hate speech and hate literature did not start with Nigerians. As we write English speaking Southern Cameroon is directing its angst against Yaoundé and the minders of power in their capital city. The same Cameroonians are also terrorizing Bakasians. They were in hearty collaboration with Nigerians during the civil war and were rewarded with a good chunk of Biafra land and its mineral deposits. The aggravations Ndibanyi receive from our neighbours and hosts require a different and more robust approach than what is available now. It requires a vision with a homeland ideology, to show we have a home that is prosperous and could be second to none in the world. Is history a farce? Is the Cameroonian narrative a matter of marrying two husbands and knowing which is better? After demonizing the Igbo and seceding from Nigeria to join their supposed kit and kin in French ruled Cameroons, in 1960, the battle cry has changed. South Cameroons is clamouring for another secession. A case of the other perceived as the evil? The Devil now is not the Igbo, but Biya and his fellow Fulani. Of course there are many possible readings of this story plot. Contextually, it is all about the quest for self-apprehension. I am however, interested as a social historian, in what our people can learn from our sublime encounters with history whose outcome need not be quixotic or Sisyphean. A laundry list of anti Igbo prescriptions such as the above should provoke deep reflection on our part, especially in the context of our recent experiences from our country men in the northern and western parts of the country which reveal a deep rooted resentment against Ndibanyi. Certainly, there is an Igbo complex just as there is the Igbo Question in Nigeria. Both need resolution. Said the Hon Nnamdi Azikiwe in 1949 while addressing NdiIgbo in Aba: It would appear that God has specifically created the Igbo people to suffer persecution and bear victimization because of their resolve to live. Since suffering is the label of our tribe we can afford to be sacrificed for the ultimate redemption of the children of Africa”. Is Zik’s position anachronistic or is it messianic? Can we deny our Igboness? Does being cosmopolitan mean abandoning our homeland? There is a man in the Igbo, which must be saved for the sake of humanism. Causal factors have been important in determining Igbo journey in the pluriverse and that journey has been dramatic. Can we, NdiIgbo, control the natural instincts and impulses, which drive our relationship with our environments and social political spaces? Should there be a change in our foundational approaches and rethink strategies in our efforts at self and group fulfillment, a rethink of our approaches to constitutive freedoms? I am calling for a consequential reasoning and re-examination or even prioritization of our freedom rights, especially when our libertarian rights seem and are violated? I am also calling on Attorney Chris Aniedobe and Dr Okenwa Nwosu to do a distillation of all the currents of ideas through our contributions on this forum and publish it timeously—a humongous task indeed— but not an impossible one. It would be a worthy and ageless contribution to Igbo phenomenology and scholarship, subjects of our direct experiences—one from which future generations will gain a lot—a tribute to all who believe in the relevance of communal enquiry, valent episteme and solid good ideas. I am just thinking aloud.
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How many Yoruba Muslim is willing to contribute penny for sowore, this year alone, am sure I have payed over $50 monthly due to IPOB. |
Good morning Jesus! Good morning prince Nnamdi kanu.
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We ikwerre Igbo have always known the city as igwe ocha. That's the original name. |
IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF SEPTEMBER 11 2001 ATTACK: REASON WHY UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL SHOULD SUPPORT THE REBIRTH OF BIAFRA The annual commemoration of September 11, by the government and good people of the United States of America as they pay their tribute to the victims of Al-Qaeda terrorist attack of 2001, that claimed the lives of over two thousand, nine hundred and ninety six (2,996) people with over six thousand (6,000) injured. The twin towers of the World Trade Center were completely destroyed and the Pentagon also corruptibly touched. It is undoubtedly, the American national attitude of manifest destiny, hard work and technological innovation that peaked her as the most successfully and prosperously outstanding nation on earth. The libertarian ideals of the founding fathers which every generation of Americans uphold, have made their country, a habitable nation to different races, tongues and colors. Immigrants troop in from every continent on earth with their ideas and skills in search of greener pastures. The door of the American nation was opened to them as long as they abide by the nation's invaluable creed and swear allegiance to the constitution. Man worked, God blessed and the land of freedom with the emblem and the statue of liberty, singled her out as the most powerful, prosperous and dominant nation on the face of the planet. Eighteen years ago, hijackers simultaneously and murderously crashed the American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175 into the twin towers of the world trade centre (American symbol of Economic Power), while the American Airlines 77 was crashed into the Pentagon - Headquarters of the Department Defense (Symbol of American Military Dominance). Such catastrophes were aimed at both crippling the western economy as well as the American military superiority for the singular purpose of advancing radical Islam, intended to control the world system through the deployment of fear. The spread of radical Islam was the aim. The indigenous people were primarily the target and the United States of America being the world power, was the prime location of that planned achievement. Biafrans world over, totally condemn this act of terror and other associated evils committed by these "messengers of death". The event of September 11, 2001, led to the declaration of War on terror by the administration of President George Bush Jnr. It was the highest terrorist attack against a nation in human history which has never remained the same thereafter. Together with the civilized World, the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) globally, under the able leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, totally condemn all shades of terrorism anywhere in the world, including the ones perpetrated by Fulani killer herdsmen and Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria especially within the North-East, Middle Belt, South-South and South-East regions. Diverse kinds of terror attacks are steadily being perpetrated against IPOB members in the most gruesome manner recording millions of deaths, injuries and destruction of properties right from 1945 till date. Cutting down human lives is against the values of Biafrans and so, always stand with the American people amongst others who nationally mourn the death of their loved ones orchestrated by Islamic jihadism. Our hearts go out to the wounded who up till date, yet endure the discomfort of brutality. Their predicaments are well understood because we as a people, have been on that road particularly between 1967 and 1970. We implore the Americans and the free world to take solace from the words of the psalmist which state, "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou are with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me'’. As long as our Redeemer liveth, and the world exists, good must always continue to triumph over evil. There is a great need for change in strategy on the global efforts against terrorism. Terrorism has become phenomenal with vast network of groups whose sole agenda revolves around advancing and planting radical Islam in every nook and cranny of the world. The alliance needs to be strengthened and reinforced by empowering friends and allies like Biafrans who share common value systems, through meaningful and undivided support for statehood. If an advanced country like the United States of America can be attacked, what could happen to the disadvantaged, is quite unimaginable. If the United States with all the effectiveness and efficiency of her Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and military prowess/dominance successfully attacked, then no member of the elistic United Nations permanent members of the Security Council is safe. It is to the best interest of the five (5) permanent members that Biafra emerges as an independent nation. We have a long history with the Islamic jihadists that dates back to the 19th century. We have faced their wild donkey-like aggression and brutality from 1967-1970 particularly. Therefore, we possess the mental will and tenacity to deal a fatal blow to this global terror network and rid the world of this evil. Biafrans recognize the fact that the five permanent members of the Security Council and the civilized world are making frantic efforts in dismantling this global terror network. They are ever prepared and it will be a great privilege to stand side by side with your great military forces to end the scourge of terrorism globally. For if we fail to take up this responsibility within the Nigerian contraption, the world definitely will not be able to contain the influx of refugees that will be unleashed. The United States of America is the conscience of the world. The responsibility of true leadership lies therefore in making hard and difficult decisions. It is the duty and obligation of the USA to protect and defend her core values, principles and ideals of liberty and pursuit of happiness which these terrorists relentlessly threaten. What is at stake is freedom in America, Biafraland and the civilized world. If Biafra comes under the persistent threat of radical Islam and Fulani anihilation, then the US is unsafe. The United States must defend her territory, her way of life as well as the free world through the support of the emergence of the sovereign State of Biafra. The United States needs to build a formidable alliance with Biafra in the mould and pattern of the State of Israel because we share so much in common, even as we are equally faced by a common enemy. The ultimate goal of these jihadists is the destruction of United States and the nation of Israel which is intently orchestrating the ethnic pogrom in Nigeria against Biafrans. We as Biafrans, are the originators and heirs of the Republican and Democratic ideals which the United States' founding fathers institutionalized, and as presently being enjoyed by the Americans. We are bound by a common creed and value systems. Therefore, we must collectively form a formidable and indomitable alliance to protect and advance these ideals. The emergence of the land of the rising sun (Biafra), will certainly change the narrative on the war against terror to a positive one and collectively stop the re-occurrence of the event of 9/11 in the world. We must have our faith in the Almighty God whom we serve. The carnage on US soil years gone by, must never be allowed to repeat itself, bearing in mind the words of Billy Graham, ‘’but now, we have a choice, whether to implode and disintegrate emotionally as a nation or whether we choose to become stronger". We must choose to become stronger for the next generation of the indigenous people and the rest of humanity. Radical Islam can never and will never be allowed to defeat the resolve of our great people and their way of life.
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IPOB EMBARKED ON ANOTHER PROTEST DESPITE POLICE ATTACK Today Oct. 4th 2019, the indigenous people of Biafra [IPOB] defied curfew and staged another heavy peaceful Protest in government House Johannesburg South Africa where the impostor was bid to deliver a speech. Recall that IPOB protesters were attacked yesterday at Union Building Pretoria by South Africa police when they insisted that the impostor Jubril masquerading as the late Muhamamadu Buhari must be submitted to DNA test to ascertain his true identity. Despite the attack, the formidable and fearless IPOB family members stormed out again for another protest. No attack was witnessed today.
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shilenji:your very right sir, these set of people migrated from Benin and Togo. Now they are here wrecking havoc in Nigeria. Yoruba's must go back to Benin and Togo. |
JosEast:how? |
Success1020:common sense is not common.
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A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE GENOCIDE AGAINST BIAFRANS IN NIGERIA. ............ (HISTORY OF MASSACRE) ....... 1. Kano 1945 - Over 200 Igbos were killed 2. Kano 1980 - over 1000 Igbos were killed 3. 1966 Massacres (40,000 Igbo Christians) 4. May 29th 1967- (over 200,000 Igbo Christians were killed) 5. 1967-70 – over 3,100,0000 killed during the bloody civil war (Including the Asaba Genocide). 6. Kano 1980- (over 40,000 Igbo Christians) 7. Maiduguri 1982 - 1983 over 500 Igbos were killed 8. Jimeta 1984 more than 1500 Igbos where killed. 9. Gombe 1985 10.Zaria 1987 11.Kaduna & Kafanchan 1991 12.Bauchi & Katsina 1991 13. Kano 1991 14. Zangon-Kataf 1992 15. Funtua 1993 16. Kano 1994 17. Kaduna 2000 18. Kaduna 2001 19. Maiduguri 2001 20. Jos Maiden Crisis-Setember 2001 21. Kaduna 2002 22.Jos-November 2008 23. Beheading of Gideon Akaluka in December of 1996 in a POLICE STATION in Kano 24. Saint Moritz killed December 2001 25. Post April 2011 Presidential Election: 10 youth-corps men & women and numerous citizens murdered because a Christian Southerner was elected. 26. Jos Christmas Eve 2010 27. Madalla Christmas day 2011 28. Mubi January 6 2012 29. The many Igbo deaths caused by boko haram(which of course has the full backing of the northern elites). 30. 2015 Muhammadu Buhari got into government, over 5000 IPOB members have been killed and 5000 imprisoned. THE ENMITY AGAINST NDIGBO IS DEEPLY SEATED IN THE HEART OF HAUSA/FULANIS OF NIGERIA It is imperative to correct false propaganda making rounds in an attempt by every successive government in Nigeria to cover this genocid. In 1953, when Independence loomed, Ahmadu Bello, the founder of Gamji said: "We cannot fight to dispense of white masters only to be ruled by new black masters called Ibo. Even here in the North, they run the post offices, railways, civil service and they have taken up all the shops we create. Call them Ibo, but you can also call them Zionists, but we shall not relinquish the estate of our fathers to such wretched people who have never had an administration before." Source: 1968: the year that shook the world, by Walter Schultz. In 1964, Major Gibson Jalo, after downing a bottle or two at the Kachia Barracks mess, moaned: "we are captives to this Ibos. We can never enjoy our new nation until we chase every single Ibo man out the North." Source: The five majors. Same Jalo, Martin Adam murdered Col Tim Onwuatuegwu, many days after the war at Abakaliki. In 1967, Inuwa Wada, addressing Northern leaders in Luggard Hall, Kaduna, cried: "For long, we had cried that these vermins, Ibo, must be removed from our soil. Now we have seen the result of our negligence. A new opportunity of reducing the population is here (the war)." Source: Last days of Biafra, by A. Madiebo. There are more. As a mere local Major, but substantive Captain, your boss, Sani Abacha strode into the Air Force Base Mess in 1966 and shouted at Col Jubrin, Air Force Commander: "It is our duty to teach the Ibos a final lesson and they will never leave their regions any more." Source: Last Flight, by A Okpe. Same Abacha implemented a PTF roguery repair of roads that gave the South East a mere 4 per cent when North West had 89 per cent, North East 92 per cent, North Central 72 per cent, South West 39 per cent and South South 35 per cent. For all the love of that darling boss of our dear Elder, the South East got only 4 per cent. Through the regimes, virtually every airport in the North, including the one-week a flight Sokoto Air Port, are all international airports. When it was proposed to developed the Oguta Gulf as the best possible sea sanctuary for Europe bound vessels, Abacha flatly rejected it and drifted in his insane style to plans to dredge the Niger up to Bussa, which he never did. Do you remember the 'nya nya iska ni' episode in Kano. After the Kano killings and burning of Igbo business outfits, 1991, your Kano princes tried to indoctrinate the almajiris on a pre-stated plea of ignorance of what they were doing. Those words meant, 'they did not know what they were doing'. It was Justice Ugwudike who queried it: 'who are 'they' for the almajiri who was speaking for himself. When pressed by an aggressive lawyer, the fool admitted that it was what he was told to say by the benign princes in the Emir's palace. We can go on and on. Is it not idiotic to hold the opinion that Ndi Igbo would be better in Nigeria as a country? The only experience comparable to Igbo experience in Nigeria is the Jews holocaust. It would be foolish to ask Jews to stay and live in Germany because their lives would be better since Germany has been exorcised of Nazist. We have had our holocaust, we have experienced genocide of immense proportion executed with wicked intent, we have experienced starvation comparable only to the gas chamber. Why is the world still silent?
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If DSS catch you now, afonjas will deny you as they deny sowore. You better embrace your Fulani masters by fire by force. |
He hide and escaped being Lynched in Yokahama Japan, now we must catch jubril and bundle him like an impostor.
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Timatayo1:yes timatayo, obasanjo must be arrested, Yoruba leaders must hand him over to ICC for prosecution. |
orisa37:are you so draft? Obasanjo is the worst dictator in Africa, he massacred thousands of bayelsa youths in 1999. Obasanjo must be hanged by ICC for his atrocities. |
AFTER THE CONTROVERSIAL OBSANJO OPEN LETTER TO BUHARI NIGERIANS ARE ASKING. 1. Who killed Bola Ige? 2. Who caused Okadigbo's death? 3. Who massacred Odi people? 4. Who invented kidnapping? 5. Who killed Harry Marshal? 6. Who recruited the killers aka "Unknown Soldiers"? 7. Who killed Funmilayo Ransom Kuti? 8. Who exchanged Oil Blocks for sex? 9. Who slept with his Daughter inlaw? 10. Who sacked elected Govs at will? 11. Who wanted an unconstitutional 3rd term? 12. Who killed Zaki Biam people? 13 Who removed 3 Senate Presidents?
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KingTom:don't trust bloggers, they can twist narrative. |
