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Alcatraz005:
I ain't jobless and frustrated. If I was, I will want war like igbos.

Who told you Igbos want war? Igbos are not synonymous with IPOB. How dare you insult resilient Igbos doing business in Lagos as being used by your kinsmen for revenue generation. Migration occur every where I can quest to seek greener pastures. Africans migrate to America and Europe for same thing. Didn't you read Alaba traders warn Nnamdi Kanu from coming to Lagos? Didn't you read Igbos in the North do the same. I blame APC government for elevating the guy the level he is right now. Touts abound every where in our country and are ever ready to be used. They exist as NURTW/under the bridge, used as IPOB touts, the North is even worst hit with touts. You must learn not to antagonize a whole tribe.

Unfortunately, only never do wells, jobless people, frustrated people are interested in your warped lamentation. The idiot is claiming he has no friends as Igbos, you need to crawl out from whatever cave you are domiciled in. There are enemies within and without, there are friends within and without. Armed robbery, ritual killings abound every where. Families kill among themselves, you need to upgrade from the level you are.

North is very greedy. There was no violent in any part of the country when Bokoharam holds sway. Worst of it all they kill all without discrimination. When I say north am referring to Hausa Fulani. Your punishment for your greediness isn't going anywhere soon.

totit:
This is nothing but hallucination,sure, ibos shouldn't be deceived by these as you ya'll often said ' yoruba people are backstabbers "

And OP, thanks for creating more enemy for ibo as the last Local gov election result is a child play to what await una head

And how are you sure the writer is Igbo. Obviously he wants create enemies between yoruba and Igbos

Hyenas and jackals

Great

Amarabae:
He lacks Pragmatism and Diplomacy to lead Igbos pls.
I just don't like his methodologies though I admire his bravery.

Bravery is not enough. What he is venturing into is complex. His strategies were not defined, he could have concentrated on fighting the government but alas he is busy attacking tribes. At this juncture, granting interviews, agitations, comic displays is nothing. Am sorry to say this but IPOB is intellectually deficient.

Xway:
God forbid.
There eyes will soon clear by 2019

How do you mean?

Anybody who thinks Nnamdi Kanu is worth being followed as a leader need to be investigated. He lacks the required wisdom to be a leader. Blaming Ohaneze who shouted very loud for his release need to be condemned by well meaning Igbos. He does not have anything to offer except comic displays.

Whatever narratives you guys are trying to spin will never hold water. I read the story as posted by the op. Unfortunately he lumped "there won't be election in Biafra Land at the end ". He went ahead to claim that a jihad have been launched on Igbos, unfortunately he has no evidence the gunmen were Jihardist. People forget how Jihardist call on their Allah before unleashing their terror. People forget that Jihardist always leave a trace, people forget that Jihardist always issue statement. Those responsible will eventually claim it. While you are still spinning your narratives. If you don't believe the drug feud, then IPOB is also a suspect. Why did the author of the story linked Biafra, Anambra election to this madness.

StarOfDavid:
Report from eyewitness Originally from Ejike Ofoegbu but shared by Ikemefuna Gaius



Somebody is playing with fire that will consume everybody..let them continue in their stupidity. we are patiently watching..we would respond at the right time.

A jihad has been lunched on the south. Igbos should start preparing, there is no need for pretense here.

- The Anambra state commissioner of police, Garba Umar, covers his murderous Hausa Fulani brothers says the gunmen who attacked the church were dressed in black attire and spoke fluent Igbo: Another Boko Haram terrorist in the name of police commissioner #GARBAUMAR.

Anambra state have set a world record by concluding an investigation on Church attack where many souls were lost under just 1hour 35mins.
Till this moment we still dont have accurate records of the number of people killed.. If truly it was a drug war, knowing too well the drug stereotype other Nigerians and the media always use to balckmail the igbos, they would have told us the real number of people dead since to blackmail us as bad people and criminals killing ourselves because drug. Just like in cases of kidnapping..

Till this moment police is hiding the number of our people killed in this adventure.

IPOB narratives. Why end the tale with no more election in Biafra Land. God will punish every one who is misinforming the public on this deadly act. You guys will never go unpunished. What hell is wrong with this IPOBS. I might even link them to the murder because they want to use it to scare people from voting in the election.

FFK should get a life

Alcatraz001:
OMG ! I can't believe this. Igbos are evil! So you didn't read the message that the killings are related to a deal gone bad in South Africa? Now I know that Igbos are responsible for herdsmen killings in the middle belt. Why do igbos hate hausas so much? I am not happy with Igbo's at all!

What are you yapping? Who is blaming herdsman here. Do you know where the poster is from?

StarOfDavid:
A carefully planned attack has been carried out and Gov Obiano in his helpless situation ran fast to the media to dash out false information to deceive the public

We can't lose this media war brothers. A bloody massacre in a Catholic Church and they have started misinforming the masses. Its a drug war. Drug war in a Catholic Church, and in an early morning mass right?

Somebody is telling you he heard the killers speaking Igbo. Then it's either the killers wanted to pass an information as to portray it as Igbos killing Igbos or the Nigeria government wants to use this to distort this news. If care is not taken they will even link it to IPOB.

Brothers watch out. We can't be fooled. We know the people known for attacking churches. Yes we know. Jihadists, Boko Haram Islamic terrorists group and Fulani herdsmen terror group. We know them. This is terrorist attack. Brothers we have been attacked.

Don't be misinformed. Be ahead of them.they have come to intimidate and bully us to submission to see our reaction

They will try to link it with Biafra, they will try to connect it to the election boycott, and finally down to IPOB, but as far as God is alive, they will fail.

Time to put CCTV cameras in our churches. Church leaders take note. Your security is in your hand. Nigeria has no security.

This is sad. The Church has been desecrated. Murder in the church.

What are you saying Do you reside in Anambra State nor ozubulu? Do you think people are fools? You are trying to paint a narrative at the comfort of where ever you are. If you have evidence of what really transpired, bring it out and stop looking for where to dump blame.

Heavy make up. Happy birthday nonetheless.

Discuss with your husband, ensure he wears condoms during sex. If you over react, you might push him away

So fast on fp

realhumanity:
Seriously, you guys know little about northern nigeria and the activities there. The mindless killings have reduced drastically because they have found a solution to it. but if these people are trying to commit genocide again, then you all brought it up. Let it be that they caused it and not the other way round.

What is the solution?

koropotopoto:
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then stop talking Nonsense about kanu

Obviously you are bereft of any iota of reasoning. Reason you says nothing.

The cabal

fratermathy:
Start by listening to all the speeches by Nnamdi Kanu, as well as those on Radio Biafra, and while at it, produce the music from the North calling for genocide.

It is quite unfortunate that your obsession for IPOB have made you to become a catalyst to the call of mass action against Igbos. You are asking me to produce the music from the North as shared by Saharareporters? I never said anything to support or against it . However you jumped on it to provide your overt support to the genocidal call. Continue in your quest, someday you will be satisfied.

Afam4eva:
It's funny how some idiots like Yyeske don't see what is happening. It all started with "I hate IPOB not Igbo". Like you said, they're just using IPOB as an excuse to go on hating Igbos like they've been doing since we came in contact with them.

Ignore him. He has become a troll

fratermathy:
What of the anti-Hausa/Yoruba music that is also in circulation in the East?

It is easy to play the victim when the truth is half-revealed.

That said, no one should have to live in fear in his own nation. The federal government has to seat up to its duty of engaging the hate propaganda permeating the Nigerian political stratosphere of the day.

Secession can be successfully accomplished without hate messages and threats to lives and properties.

Kindly produce the anti Hausa hate speech in circulation in the east.

She is playing along,obviously

bakynes:
FFK should keep deceiving himself,Kanu is only playing eye service with him. Majority of Igbo people hate Yoruba people. They even teach their Children to hate Yoruba, but I can't remember a Yoruba person teaching his kids to hate an Igbo person, we are indifferent abt the Igbos we neither love nor hate them. Kanu did say those bad things about Yoruba pastors, leaders and people in general. He has no respect for any Yoruba leader except the ones trying to famz with him like FFK and Fayose.

There is no doubt it looks like a good cause but it has a political undertone underneath so I choose to believe it is not a genuine cause for liberation of the oppressed.

You are wickedly wrong

See them, applying subtle threats to FG. If it is not Elder Edwin Clerk, it is Pandef or NDA. What is the Dialogue all about? Do you want another Amnesty??

fratermathy:
LOL! Such an ironic turn of events.

In fact, where are your colleagues in Igbo "shortselling"? Pazienza, Nonaira, Ikology, Freemancipation, etc? (please mention the others)

Come and do what you guys do best here. I have been expecting you! I trust that Pazienza will come up with one new limitation of the Urhobos, and then leave the fight to be fought by Nonaira1. I enjoy sessions like this. It's been a while. Where are you guys?

CLOWNS!

It will interest you the more to know that Urhobo is never forming any republic with IPOBs. Urhobo inclusion in their struggle/map might be for a cause which we that are non members are not privy to. Urhobo is a great nation and should not use IPOB struggles to belittle the great Igbo nation. Using your unions to issue statements is very understandable, however what I detest is making it sound is if you will pursued from your ancestral lands. Nnamdi Kanu movement should become a national one for progressive Nigerians desiring a change. Casting aspersions to him is not necessary because all of us desire a restructured Nigeria.

God bless you Ma'm

, Kwankwaso won't like this

[quote author=SuperS1Panther post=58823657][/quote]YOUTHS, women, children and traditional rulers of Ozalla community in Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State, yesterday, besieged Ozalla police station in protest, seeking security agents’ protection of the community from alleged impending invasion of the community by herdsmen.

The protesters also blocked Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway by four-corner junction, apparently to seek government’s intervention. The police had hectic moment dispersing the protesters that caused traffic gridlock along the busy highway. They carried placards with inscriptions such as: “Enugu government, come to our rescue; Fulani, stop raping our women; Fulani release our chief security officer; Fulani, restore our farmlands; Fulani herdmen have chased us out of our homes; SOS: Come to our rescue now; Fulani leave Ozalla alone.” .

Two monarchs in the comunity, Igwe Casmir Chibuike and Igwe Crescent Okafor; a Catholic cleric, Rev Fr. Tobias Anichebe, and other leaders of the community held a meeting with officials of Ozalla police station to find solution to the situation in the community. Presdent-General of Umuanee-Ozalla Autonomous Communirty, Chief Okwudili Chianeke, said the crisis started last Friday when some herdsmen reported to the Police in Ozalla that one of their boys, 27 -year- old Bassa Tobi, was killed in Ozalla.

Chianeke said: “They did not report to the traditional rulers, they came to the police and took the corpse. Later, we learned that the chief security officer of Ozalla community, Bonaventure Nwoye, had been arrested. “When we came here (Ozalla police station), they insisted they will take Nwoye to the State CID and that is the situation we are. “After that, on Saturday, herdsmen started threatening our people, especially women. What we are now telling the state government is that we are now refugees in our own town.”

Igwe Okafor, who spoke with newsmen after meeting with the police at Ozalla, said since 2016, when the community had a truce with the herdsmen to leave the community, there was relative peace until last weekend. Igwe Okafor said: “I did not hear from them again until they picked up our chief security officer and our people started running for their lives, taking refuge at the police station. “That was why we came to the police station because we don’t have any other protection except the Police.” Chairman of Nkanu West Local Government Area, Mr. Afam Okekere, said the herdsmen refused autopsy proposed by the police and buried the corpse, citing religious belief. He disclosed that herdsmen pointed accusing fingers at the head of vigilante in the community, which made the police to arrest the vigilante chief, even when the police had admitted there was no evidence of gun shot on the corpse.

Contacted, the state Police spokesman, Ebere Amaraizu, said the state command had begun investigations into the alleged murder. Special Adviser to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi on Security, Major-General Fred Eze (retd), accompanied by other top government officials addressed the protesters and thanked them for being orderly, saying a meeting with the herdsmen and other aggrieved community leaders would be held later yesterday. He promised that the outcome of the meeting would be communicated to the Ozalla youths and other community leaders

@op you highlighted what will serve your quest. Herdsmen menace is a national problem. Yorubas are not left out.

Oga Fashola how Market?

agabusta:
Hate speech, fake news and national unity – Lai Mohammed


By Lai Mohammed

This theme, HATE SPEECH, FAKE NEWS AND NATIONAL UNITY, was well chosen to bring to the fore the looming danger facing our country from what has now become the scourge of our time. Though I have repeatedly called attention, at many fora, to the dangers posed by the menace of the now pervasive hate speech, disinformation and fake news, no one gave the issue the attention it deserves until it started threatening the very foundation of our national unity.


3.It was Gina Greenlee who said ‘’experience is a master teacher, even if it is not our own.’’ I am sure many here have heard or read about how hate speech and incitement to violence played a significant role in the 1994 genocide that left at least 800,000 people dead in Rwanda. Well, it is worth rehashing here for the purpose of this discourse.


4.Anti-Tutsi articles and cartoons in the Kangura newspaper, as well as hate speech and incitement to violence on the radio station called RTLMC – Radio-Television Libres des Mille Collines (Thousand Hills Free Radio and Television) helped to set the stage for that genocide.

The station was set up by hard-line Hutu extremists, and received the backing of many rich and prominent people in that country. Those who saw the danger posed by the station called for it to be shut down, but against the backdrop of freedom of speech, such calls fell on deaf ears, until it was too late. Some 23 years later, Rwanda is yet to fully recover from the impact of the genocide, triggered by hate speech and senseless incitement to violence.


5. In Nigeria today, the hate being spewed on radio stations across the country is so alarming. If you tune into many radio stations, you will be shocked by the things being said, the careless incitement to violence and the level of insensitivity to the multi-religious, multi-ethnic nature of our country. Unfortunately, even the hosts of such radio programmes do little or nothing to stop. Oftentimes, they are willing collaborators of hate speech campaigners. This must not be allowed to continue because it is detrimental to the unity and well-being of our country.


6. Disinformation and Fake News: Let me use my own personal experiences to make these more vivid. On Wednesday, 26 April 2017, after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, I briefed State House Correspondents on what transpired at the meeting. I said, among others, that President Muhammadu Buhari did not preside over the day’s meeting because he decided to work from home that day. In reporting my briefing, one of the correspondents quoted me as saying the President would work from home henceforth, rather than on that day only. The reporting generated a lot of uproar, until I issued a rebuttal. This is a clear case of disinformation – which is defined as false information deliberately spread to deceive the people.


7. The following month, after I had briefed State House Correspondents on the proceedings of another Council meeting, one newspaper’s headline went thus: ‘’We do not know who will sign the 2017 budget – Lai Mohammed.’’ This is at variance with what I said. When I was asked a question relating to the signing of the 2017 budget, my exact words were: ‘’When it is transmitted to the Presidency, a decision will be taken.’’ The reporting is another clear case of disinformation.



8. Also in May 2017, I travelled to China on official assignment. I had just arrived in that country, after a long flight, when I started receiving calls from Nigeria, seeking my reaction to a story making the rounds in the Social Media, quoting me as saying that though President Muhammadu Buhari is in a London hospital, he is using Made-in-Nigeria drugs. I purportedly made the comment in an interview with Channels Television, after the Federal Government’s launch of the Made-in-Nigeria campaign in Abuja a few days earlier.

At first, I chose to ignore the story, saying Nigerians would easily see the folly of it. But the phone calls from Nigeria became more frequent and more intense, to such an extent that they could no longer be ignored. I had to put a call through to Mr. John Momoh, and Channels Television promptly issued a rebuttal, saying it neither interviewed me nor carried any such story. This is a clear case of fake news.


9. Many here will also recall the quantum of hate speech directed at candidate Buhari during the last electioneering campaign. Never in the history of electioneering campaign in Nigeria has such a quantum of hate speech been directed at any candidate. This did not stop even when he won the election and became President. For instance, the President had hardly left Nigeria for his vacation in London on 19 January 2017, during which he said he would have routine medical check-up, when these hate and fake news campaigners circulated the news that he has died. Between then and now, they have repeated similar fakes news times without number.


10. Let me be clear: all the instances I have cited did not happen by accident. No! They were all orchestrated. And who better to target than the President himself, or the official spokesperson of his government! The campaign is a multi-million naira project and the people behind this string of hate speech, disinformation and fake news are not about to stop. In fact, they will become more vicious in the days, weeks and months ahead. And what is the purpose of their campaign? Simply to discredit the government, destabilize the polity and make the country ungovernable. There is no doubt that the resurgent push for separatism as well as rising cases of ethnic and religious disharmony are all traceable to the growing phenomenon of hate speech, as well as the disinformation and fake news campaign.


11. The latest instance of this vicious campaign occurred last week. During my visit to the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) House in Lagos last Saturday, I had said that any programme tagged Nigerian or local content programme, which is meant for the consumption of Nigerians, must be produced in Nigeria, rather than in foreign countries. The hate speech, disinformation and fake news campaigners quickly distorted what I said and went ahead to report that the Federal Government has decided to ban the production of music videos and films outside the countries. Gullible and malleable commentators, many of them recruited by the campaigners, went to town abusing me and the federal government, without even trying to know the truth. Such is the tragedy of our time.


12. Now, what do these phenomena of hate speech, disinformation and fake news have in common? They are all capable of destabilizing the system, inciting people to violence and weakening the people’s confidence in their government, just like I said earlier. Let me quote how a German newspaper described this phenomenon: ‘’For a society in which people are informed mainly through the media – and form their political opinions through it – this process is threatened when lies spread through the media. When it is no longer clear what is false and what is correct, people lose their confidence in the state’’.


13. Your Excellency, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, Nigeria is a country of ethnic and religious diversity. That should be a source of strength, if the fault lines are not deliberately being exposed and exploited by those who are bent on setting the people against themselves, using their new-found tools of hate speech, disinformation and fake news. These dangerous trend is threatening the very foundation of our national unity. It is daily pushing the nation close to the precipice, perhaps more than at any other time since the end of the civil war.


14. What is the way out? We all must say NO to hate speech, either on our radio and television stations, newspapers, the Social Media, on our phones or in the public space. We must be resolute in tackling the canker-worm of hate speech, disinformation and fake news. We as government information managers must embark on a relentless campaign against these evil tendencies at our various levels, whether federal or state. We must boycott any medium that engages in hate speech, incitement to violence, disinformation and fake news. The regulators must also be alive to their responsibilities by promptly sanctioning the purveyors of hate speech, disinformation and fake news. Yes, our constitution allows freedom of speech and this government believes in it, but freedom of speech must not be allowed to become freedom of irresponsibility.


15. On the part of the federal government, the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has recently undertaken a series of engagements with all stakeholders to defuse the tension cause by these tendencies, and his efforts have gone a long way in calming frayed nerves, especially in the aftermath of the attacks and counter-attacks by various groups across the country. We must replicate this kind of engagement in our various states.


16. As a follow-up to the efforts of the Acting President, the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture is planning a series of engagements with the media, to educate and sensitize them to the dangers posed to the unity of the country by hate speech, disinformation and fake news. Needless to say that we are also appealing to the media, the traditional media in particular, to show responsibility by repudiating the freewheeling and out-of-control purveyors of hate speech, disinformation and fake news.

Unlike the Social Media, the traditional media is subject to the rigours of accuracy, fact-checking and fairness, among others. Sadly, even a section of the traditional media now apes the hate campaigners by lifting their unverified or distorted news and dumping such on their readers. This is not right.


17. A section of the tradition media is also now thriving on anti-government tendency. If you pick up copies of some newspapers, you will think the government of the day is doing nothing at all to alleviate the sufferings of the people, occasioned by the economic downturn. They ignore any positive actions of government, including the massive investment in infrastructure like roads and railways, and instead focus on anything that will make the government look bad. Instead of reporting the news freely and fairly, they have constituted themselves to an opposition bloc.


18. Let me note that it is only because we have a peaceful country that we have journalists, doctors, teachers, lawyers, etc all practising their trade. If we allow our country to be plunged into crisis just because of the antics of an irresponsible few, neither the journalists nor any other professionals will be able to practice thei profession. This is the blunt truth. We all have a stake in this country, hence we must not allow hate campaigners and purveyors of fake news and disinformation to drag the country down with them.


19. Your Excellency, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I thank you most sincerely for listening. Permit me to now declare open this extra-ordinary meeting of the National Council on Information. I wish us all fruitful deliberations. •Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, delivered this speech at the extra-ordinary meeting of the National Council on Information, held in Jos.



Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/hate-speech-fake-news-national-unity/

Seun, Mynd44, OAM4J, lalasticlala Nairaland needs to give this some publicity

He is the inventor of hate speech in our political clime. Our memories is intact. The Senior Agbero in bourdillon Ikoyi bankrolled and championed hate speeches and misinformation. Whatever goes around, surely comes around. ACN/APC/El-Rufai, you people must be held responsible.