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IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, recently flew to Houston Texas, USA, from his London base. He held his weekly broadcast yesterday(13/02/21) in Houston in which he carpeted some well known people in Nigeria. These are some of the things Kanu said-





Tinubu is a modern day Afonja. Thats why he keeps silent as Fulani herdsmen ravage Yoruba land, so as not to jeopardize his 2023 presidential ambition. Tinubu will never be President.

The buffoon called Lai Mohammed said that IPOB was procribed for challenging the sovereignty of Nigeria. He didnt say that IPOB was armed, violent and killing people. He went on TVC News to say he supports negotiations and amnesty for armed bandits killing people. So those protesting without guns, not killing people and asking for freedom, should be proscribed? But those with guns killing Nigerians daily should be negotiated with and granted amnesty? And some of you are angry that I call Nigeria a zoo? I have instructed IPOB Lawyers to take that video to the appeal court when the case against the proscription of IPOB is heard.

For anyone in doubt, the midget of Kaduna, El Rufai, has already told all of us that the bandits are fulani herdsmen from outside Nigeria

There is no Buhari in Aso Rock. Thats why you only hear from Garba Shehu, Lai Mohammed and the great harlot, Lauretta Onochie.

The idiot quoter system general called Ibrahim Attahiru was commander of 82 Division Enugu when he sent Soldiers to come and kill me in my house. He failed in his mission same as he failed as commander of operation Lafiya Dole, and was removed. Now he has been made Chief of Army staff so he can continue the failure he is known for, and the killing of unarmed protesters


Wole Soyinka thinks everything is about speaking big grammar. All the big grammar he has been speaking for years did not stop herdsmen from invading his house

It is hard to believe that the dirty looking Sheikh Gumi is an Islamic Scholar. Islamic Scholars are known to be intelligent. Sheikh Gumi went proudly to pose for pictures with armed terrorists then opened his dirty mouth to compare those seeking their freedom with the terrorists

As the only Governor who went out of his way to heighten the ENDSARS# crises in his state and cause untold suffering and death of men, women and children in Oyigbo, Wike deserves the title of "The Butcher Of Oyigbo"

The viral pictures and videos of the deaths and destruction in Oyigbo area of Rivers State drew me to tears, even as most Nigerians are yet to get over the shooting of peaceful protesters in Lekki toll gate area of Lagos. What this and other killings in Nigeria indicate is that the right to life is not sacrosanct here. The account of what happened and is probably still happening in Rivers State is variegated. It depends on who is telling the story. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, blamed Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for the killings. In a statement, IPOB’s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, noted that Wike and all those who were allegedly involved in the killings in Oyigbo or Obigbo, as some people call it, wouldn’t go free and that vengeance was coming.

IPOB said, “There were riots and disturbances all over Nigeria. Nigerian Army and police have killed and continued to kill hundreds of young people and, in retaliation, young people attacked police stations. To single out the inhabitants of Obigbo for extermination is a vicious and evil undertaking and a calculated attempt by Wike to please his Fulani masters and Britain that tried but failed to exterminate the Igbo race between 1966 and 1970.”

A civil society group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), supported IPOB’s claims. According to the group, security men killed over 50 people and injured over 80 others in Oyigbo. It said the figures were conservative and that many others disappeared and hundreds held in secrecy. It even listed the names of some of the murdered residents.

Intersociety added, “The governor was visiting Obigbo to assess his military deployment and curfew same day and two young residents barely emerged from their houses to hear what their governor has come to tell them when soldiers sighted them and opened fire, killing them instantly. They were shot at forehead, forcing the brain-box of the late Chinwendu to bust and emptied at the centre of the road…It must be noted that soldiers took away bodies of most of those killed.” 


Governor Wike threw the blame back at his accusers. The problems in Oyigbo, he said, were the handiwork of IPOB. He alleged that IPOB killed six soldiers, four policemen and destroyed all police stations and court buildings in the area. In interviews and statements, Wike declared that he never ordered the military to kill the Igbo, describing the allegation as balderdash and politically motivated.   

The Oyigbo crisis was triggered by the #EndSARS protests, which swept across the country last month. What started as peaceful protests against police brutality and the atrocities committed by the now defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the police later snowballed into needless vandalism. Hoodlums in different parts of the country hijacked the protests and unleashed havoc on public and private properties.

In Lagos State, for instance, the High Court in Igbosere, some police stations, and many other private and public properties were vandalised. Even the palace of the Oba of Lagos was not spared as the hoodlums invaded it and took away his staff of office. Some policemen were also killed. This same scenario happened in many other states of the federation.

I must confess here that I am not a fan of IPOB. I abhor killing of any type. If actually the allegation against the group is true, I condemn it totally. Nobody has any right to take the life of anybody, not to talk of soldiers. But the questions are: Why was the Rivers State vandalism attributed to IPOB? And how did Wike know that the youths the soldiers killed were members of IPOB? Do these IPOB members wear uniform or name tag? Was similar destruction in other parts of the country also the handiwork of IPOB?

The truth is that many innocent youths may have been killed in the name of IPOB. Wike may not have control over the army or even the police but, as the Chief Security Officer of his state, his words and actions matter a lot. His utterances apparently emboldened the security men to commit what looks more like ethnic pogrom in Rivers State. It is the same military-beyond-my-control attitude that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu exhibited in Lagos State. He claimed he had no control over the army, but he reportedly invited them to intervene in the Lekki crisis.       

Nevertheless, my fear is that there is often ethnic and religious undertone in many of our actions in Nigeria. When the Lagos carnage happened, there were attempts to tag the culprits as Igbo youths. There were threats on the lives of Ndigbo in Lagos. But for the quick intervention of prominent Yoruba and Igbo leaders, the Igbo would have received the IPOB treatment in Lagos. 

Besides, I don’t think that southerners alone suffered the atrocities of SARS. But certain northern elements see the protests as attempts to overthrow the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Fulani socio-cultural association issued statements disparaging the protests and saying the protesters were planning to overthrow President Buhari. While accusing former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu, of sponsoring the protests, the group also claimed the protests were attempts to intimidate the North to give up its right to rule beyond 2023.  Northern governors and leaders toed the same line with Miyetti Allah. According to them, some anti-democratic forces hijacked the protests with the aim to overthrow Buhari.

This is principally why we have remained stagnant as a nation. There is no unity of purpose in most of the things we do. Many Nigerians have been calling for a national dialogue, where we fashion out how to live together as one country. Certain individuals and groups read selfish meanings into it. 

It is usually the leaders who manipulate the minds of the people to achieve their selfish goals. Ordinary Nigerians have no problem relating with one another. Look at what happened in Onitsha, Anambra State, during the #EndSARS protests. Youths who were moving about destroying police stations got to Fegge Police Station, where the Divisional Police Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police Rabiu Garba was in charge. The protest turned to chants of praises for Garba. The DPO is from the North, but because he is a good-natured man, the youths spared him and his station.

It is important to note that the ray of bad governance does not blind one region or state alone. Every section feels the pulse of the criminality, insecurity and poverty ravaging the country. 

Be that as it may, the killings in Rivers State and anywhere for that matter must stop. Let us remember that whatever position we hold today is ephemeral. Let us be conscious of our actions today because, tomorrow, we may be called upon to account for them. 

Just last week, Kosovo’s President, Hashim Thaçi, resigned to face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity in The Hague. Thaçi, who was guerrilla leader during the war for independence from Serbia in the 1990s, said he resigned to protect the integrity of the presidency of Kosovo. He, among several politicians, had been indicted for crimes such as murder, enforced disappearances, torture and persecution.

Nigerian leaders should bear this in mind. Today, they may escape justice at home but, eventually, they may be called to account for their crimes sometime and somewhere they may not even have envisaged.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/wike-and-oyigbo-killings/

Some people can be incredibly stupid. The Fulani herdsmen are busy killing people with impunity, Kanu is speaking out against the killings, and some of those being killed are busy attacking Kanu for speaking out against murder?

How people can be this stupid baffles me

OPPPS:
Keep quiet. How can someone who wants to fight for Biafra fails to fight for his Local community

If it was a fight for his local community then it would not be worth the fight. Its like saying that Zik should have fought to free his local Onitsha community from British rule rather than all of Nigeria.

Ego ole ka ala no naya?

ThatFairGuy1:
Python will soon dance to your house. Hypocrite.
You want Biafra but you're in the zoo garden (chamber) receiving zoo humongous salaries. This one has also been brainwashed by Nnamdi Kanu

The same python that likes to dance at the homes of unarmed people like Abaribe and Kanu but can never dance against the Fulani herdsmen killing people everywhere? What sort of stupid python is that?

24SEVEN:
Monitoring spirit, what is your problem.

Ikwerre is an evolved version of Bini language, laced with some igbo words. Afrikaans spoken in South Africa cannot be dismissed as a creole version of Dutch. it is an independent language. it has evolved to what it now known as.

And how did Ikwerre surnames evolve from Bini to Igbo? Unless you want us to believe that Amaechi, Wike and Omehia are Bini names?

Ikwo is amongst the toughest to understand, you have to be super attentive to the tone and pitch to even understand what they are saying. The same goes for deep Ekpeye

IkwerrePikin:
You don’t know anything about Rivers state. Ikwerre has four local govt: PH,obio-akpor, Ikwerre and Emuoha.

4 Local governments out of the 23 in Rivers State? Thats where Amaechi will get his core support to be President? At this stage, Amaechi should focus on how to win APC presidential ticket because if he cant, he should forget any presidential ambition

IkwerrePikin:
Oga you’re the one that needs to wake up.

Ikwerre is the majority in Rivers state and we Ikwerre people and Niger deltans will not waste one second in voting for a Niger delta/Ikwerre Man (Amaechi) to become President, even Wike who is also Ikwerre will support Amaechi, we don’t play politics of hate but of benefit!

Are Ikwerres the majority in Rivers state? Two Local Governments out of 23 does not seem to be a majority to me

This isnt much, just another herdsmen killing. Nigerians should be getting used to this by now because many more are still to come. The problem is Kanu and IPOB and their hateful words

T9ksy:
Na who send ojukwu? I thought he was fighting for biafra but here you 're telling us that he was fighting for the whole southern nigeria. According to his duplicitous minions, Ojukwu only embarked on the path of war after the enugu consultative assembly he hand-picked, mandated him to rebel against national authority.

At no time, did Ojukwu consulted with the rest of us (in the south) before he decided to save us from "northern subjugation". He probably thought he doesn't need our consent.

Yeah, Ojukwu must have been evil not to have consulted you before fighting so that you dont become a Northern slave. How bad of Ojukwu to send Biafran troops to the West to rescue Yorubas after their Military Governor, Fajuyi, had been killed like a Chicken and their most Senior Military officer who was supposed to be the next head of state, Ogundipe, had been chased away from Lagos and the Western Region occupied by the Northerners.

Terrible of Ojukwu

Christistruth00:
Biafra was not a Midwest project why was their popular non Igbo Gov Ejoor who was appointed by Ironsi and reappointed by Gowon removed to make way for an Igbo Gov Okonkwo whom they never wanted or asked for? Igbo were not the Majority in the Midwest , What business did Ojukwu have imposing his kinsman on a majority non Igbo population? Can you see why the invasion of the Midwest was so unpopular with the locals?

What are you talking about? Ejoor is an Uhrobo man and Uhrobo were not a majority in the old Midwest. Major Albert Okonkwo was also a Midwesterner. If the Midwesterners were unhappy with the invasion of the Biafran forces, worse was to happen to them when the mainly Northern Nigerian forces invaded the Midwest and drove the Biafran forces out. The Midwest recorded one the highest massacres of civilians by the Nigerian Army. Not only that, Gowon renamed the Bendel state and those who followed divided the place into Edo and Delta and handed all their resources to the Federal Government

A thriving Midwest that had resource control under Ironsi and was declared an independent Republic by Ojukwu is now made up of two unitary states that are begging for 13% derivation in Nigeria. All of this because they accepted Northern domination like the Western Region

Ojukwu wanted Southern Nigeria to be free of Nigeria and Northern domination, the rest chose to remain in Nigeria under Northern subjugation. A pity

Balaxx:
anioma then

There is no tribe called Anioma either. Anioma is an area just like Nigeria or Lagos or Anambra. There was nothing even called Anioma until the 1970's

Celense:
Is Osadebay the English version of Osadebe? Its Osadebe not Osadebay. Do Correct yourself.

The spelling is different but the pronunciation and meaning are same

junketer:
The only thing that can save apga in 2021 is soludo. If they appoint someone else as governorship aspirant then pdp will take over. My 2 cents

Really? What has been keeping APGA going other years when Soludo had not joined?

Tranquill:
Clap for yourself! Your world class stupidity will now make the Ikwerre people to change their history to suit your Igbo narrative.

The history that never managed to tell us how and why 3 Ikwerre Governors, Chibuike Amaechi, Nyesom Wike and Celestine Omehia all have Igbo surnames despite their ancestors coming from Edo? I laugh in Swahili

Ballmer:
Eboes are evil n dubious. Who among Nigeria leader as the effontary to covet the NigerDelta oil ? In the history of Nigeria only one Nigerian an Igbo man did that with military fiat without thinking for one second what the consequences will be.

An Ebo man in the person of Aguiyi Ironsi declared a Unitary system of government from the federating unit Nigeria as always known. Ebos are wicked n heartless.
Today the same Ebo race want the true federalism. Please to all reasonable Nigeria what does true federalism offer that is lacking in regional govt that lead the Igbo to initiate a coup on the collective well beaming of all Nigerians ?

Does regional govt not guarantee each region develop at it's own pace ? Does it not guarantee resource control ?

Why on Gods earth did the greedy demented collection of hope truncate what gave Nigeria the status symbol of "giant of Africa" just so they can selfishly plunder the collective wealth of cocoa in the West, groundnut in the north and crude oil from the NigerDelta ?

Verily I tell you the entire Ebo race is a curses race that should be annihilated from this country if one consider the damage they have caused this very country. After losing out in their scheme to plunder the wealth of Nigeria to themselves this same Igbo race race is screaming Biafra up n down.

Eboes should know that no amount of history rewriting will change the narrative of the dubious selfish scheme on Nigeria. This as been the case since 1957 when Azikwe delay the independence of the three federating unit in Nigeria so that he can become the president of one Nigeria forgetting all powers lies with the prime minister in such administration.

The Eboes continued the plot to sabotage Nigeria when the carried the first coup again on the country plunging Nigeria to endless years of barbaric military rule in the process. A process which they were later outsmarted by other Nigeria. Having been outsmarted the only foolish thing these Eboes could think of was plunging Nigeria into a civil war.

Verily I say unto every sensible Nigeria the Igbos deserves to be taught a bitter lesson which they refuse to learn from the Biafra war so that it will forever remain a point of reference in their history. A punishment as grave as another round of slave trade or the Holocaust visited on them all over again.

Stop listening to Lagos/Ibadan propaganda. They told you that Ironsi introduced unitary rule? He never did. There was 4 Region, full resource control and fiscal responsibility throughout Ironsi's short tenor. All three disappeared under Gowon. It was Gowon who introduced unitary rule not Ironsi

OfoIgbo:
The irony being that both men were killed by their supposed northern and SW friends

Exactly! After which the caliphate siphoned the wealth of the so called Niger Delta up North.

Tranquill:
If 'bia' is your evidence of being igbo, you should realize that some Ikwerre actually say 'vaa' for come, same as the Eshan, Ga in Ghana and some tribes that have traced their origin to idu.

What nobody ever managed to explain is if Ikwerres actually migrated from Bini to Rivers, how come their language is Igbo? How come they now have Igbo surnames? What happened to their Bini language and surnames? Are we really to believe that Ikwerres are Bini migrants who chose to forget their language and names for no reason? Its not like Rivers state is that far from Edo. Someone should tell me how and why Ikwerres dropped their Bini language and names for Igbo

DenreleDave:
Shut up... In. The same post they said Ikwerre ain't igbos.


Attache by force

Stop talking like a fool. The Ikwerre girl in the video was asked what "come" is in the Ikwerre language and said it is "Bia". If you were asked which people say bia as come, you would have said Igbo. What is the difference between Nsukka people, Abiriba people, Ngwa people and Ikwerres people. They speak the same language, have the same surnames and practice the same culture. Thats why they are all known as "Igbos"

There is no difference between an Ikwerre man and anyone from the South East except denials. If denial is how someone is identified as Igbo then it means that the Nsukka, Abiriba and Ngwa man can stop being Igbo any time they like just by denying it.

DenreleDave:
Why are Igbo imposing igboship on Ikwerre... They said they ain't igbo. Ur people are forcing igboship on them

https://todayfmlive.com/news/item/6792-ikwerre-kicks-as-ohanaeze-insist-on-holding-2017-igbo-day-in-port-harcourt.html

The thread is about if the Ikwerre language is the same as the Igbo language, not if the Ikwerres are Igbo.

"Onye si na ihe ana eme enwero isi, anyi egbulu isi ya tinye naya, onwe isi!'

IPOB members stormed Orlu, home town of Imo state Governor, Hope Uzodimma. According to the protesters, they were in Hope Uzodinmma's village to register their displeasure at a recent statement credited to the Governor where he asked IPOB to drop their Biafran agitation. IPOB protested around the area peacefully and later left without incident.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDDRPXLIHXA

DenreleDave:
Selemempe, answer this.

Why wud Ojukwu liberate yoruba when igbo land was still in bondage

Igbo land was not in bondage, Ojukwu had already declared it an independent state of Biafra

Why did he flee and left 3 millions to die

Because the only people who would have benefited from him being killed would have been Nigerians

Why did he campaign for shagari

Ojukwu returned from exile, accepted 'one Nigeria', joined politics. Why wouldn't he campaign for Shagari?

Its not like he said anything that everyone does not know already, the North are not going to let power go to the South in 2023.

T9ksy:
See why i called you, mischievous? Wtf do you mean by "Northerners overrun yorubaland"? When and how did they invade the west like Ojukwu's BLF did, to overrun the west? if you can't answer these simple questions, i will advice you to desist from making such fallacy again in the future.

So, i guess you will agree with me then that Ojukwu was grossly incompetent IF he was ignorant of the yorubas purported slavish nature to the north and ended up focusing his meager but valuable resources after a lost cause.

Notherners siezed Ibadan, killed you military Governor, seized Lagos, chased away your son Ogundipe who should have been head of state, put Gowon in his place.What else do you need to know that the Western Region was overrun?

And there was Ojukwu thinking to send a liberation force to fight the common enemy, the North. Little did Ojukwu know that he was wasting his scarce resources on those who chose to be slaves of the North

Christistruth00:
Don't mind them, here is the Original letter. Ojukwu wanted complete control of Southern Nigeria and he even imposed an Igbo Govenor Major Okonkwo on the Midwest against their will.

I guess nobody told you that Major Albert Okonkwo was from the Midwest?