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Politics / Re: APGA Attacts Nnamdi Kanu Over Election Boycot, Says It's Irresponsib by Leopardd(m): 11:43am On Jun 27, 2017 |
myola: Masses don't know the power they hold. Imagine if people boycotted elections until Nigeria is reformed and proper system is agreed by all. But no, someone will mock others. APGA is jittery because they know money.to be made during election will be lost, they know someone is standing up to crooked ways. Boycott useless Nigerian elections y'all, boycott and demand education is funded, roads built and electricity funded. Boycott and demand for police reforms and stop of military harrassment on civilians. Boycott elections, I support it, I support IPOB. |
Politics / Re: Video: German's Deutsche Welle Interview With Nnamdi Kanu by Leopardd(m): 11:38am On Jun 27, 2017 |
Politics / Re: APGA Attacts Nnamdi Kanu Over Election Boycot, Says It's Irresponsib by Leopardd(m): 9:10am On Jun 27, 2017 |
We must learn from our mistakes! In 2011, the pro-Biafra community—online and offline-- supported, campaigned, and even took bullets in order to ensure the election of Rochas Okorocha, under a supposed Igbo party-APGA. We had thought, though naively, that Rochas Okorocha, a product of Pan-Igbo party would engage in our emancipation initiative, serve Igbo interests, as well as be a vehicle for activation of Biafranism within the context of Nigeria’s flawed polity. But we were dead wrong! On assuming function at Imo State House, Rochas Okorocha abandoned Igbo advocacy, Biafra nationalism, and joined GAMBARIS in Nigeria to preserve the status quo that puts our people in gross disadvantage. The rest is now history. We took that as a political miscalculation—being that Rochas Okorocha’s paternity has always been questionable. We decided not to resign to fate nor give up on our utopian dream of crusading for Biafra within the framework of 1999 ‘’Abubakar’s slave constitution.’’ When the opportunity called again for Anambra gubernatorial election involving Chris Ngige of All Progressive Congress (APC) and Willy Obiano of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in 2013, we mobilised, we campaigned, and ensured that Willy Obiano got elected; presumably to be the arrow-head of Biafra struggle within purview of Nigerian political space. We misfired again! To our greatest dismay, cauchemar and nightmare, Willy Obiano turned himself to an anti-Biafra monster that consumed the lives of many of our fervent disciples in Anambra state and its environs. He killed pro-Biafra agitators with so much relish and sans qualms. Willy Obiano not only aided and abated the Nigerian state to kill our people he also outlawed all pro-Biafra activities, rallies and programmes in ANAMBRA STATE. He became a passionate ’’one Nigerianist’’, an avowed defender of Northern cum Arewa hegemony in Igboland. The home truth is that, our political leaders cannot salvage our situation in Nigeria. Once they get elected they become instant beneficiaries of the oppressive polity. They may be ‘’Biafranised’’ or ‘’Biafra-minded’’ ab initio; but the 1999 constitution makes every political leader in Nigeria subjected to whims and caprices of whomever is elected at Aso Rock. In Nigeria, every power flows from the centre. The system has inbuilt mechanism that whips any opposition to this skewed federation into line. Abuja controls all the security apparatuses, electoral institutions and the judicial process, hence making it possible to rebel against the system—put differently, the centre controls all the components units in such a manner that makes internal reforms impossible. Our political salvation cannot come from participating in this repressive entity. We cannot be free by cooperating with the oppressors in the name of election. No amount of political moves will force the feudal North to amend the constitution that makes them the masters of Nigeria—the lords of the Manor--the special breed/race! The untouchables! The captains of our collective destiny! Politicking under the shadow of 1999 constitution is tantamount to validation of slavery! Our land is already under Fulani conquest—the problem being that many have not yet realised it. Reason why our Governors smile foolishly to Abuja to thank them whenever they massacre our people mercilessly. Know it now. Whoever you elect will still be controlled (assuming they let your votes counts) by the Jihadists up North—be they Biafra-minded, ‘Biafranised’’ or not. That is the reality! Then what do we do now? Our only hope lies in civil resistance, civil disobedience, including but not strictly limited to only electoral boycotts. It worked in United States during the segregation era, under the political mentorship of Rev. Martin Luther King. It worked in India under the tutelage of Mahatma Ghandi. Under Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s leadership, I have no doubt it would work for us. Power belongs to the masses. Only our will, our resolve and determination can set us free. Just believe! We must use the INSTRUMENTALITY of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE to force the Nigerian state to give us date for referendum. We have got nothing to lose. Obey the call of electoral boycott OR validate your slavery with your own vote. THE CHOICE IS ALL YOURS! #copied. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Video: German's Deutsche Welle Interview With Nnamdi Kanu by Leopardd(m): 9:09am On Jun 27, 2017 |
Let me watch. Oh boy! Respect to you Mazi, ijere akwukwo. Anyi kwu gi n'azu onye isi. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Court Dismisses Six Count Charges Against Nnamdi Kanu, Orders Re-Arraignment by Leopardd(m): 1:27pm On Mar 01, 2017 |
Aka Chukwu Abiama di ya. 55 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: See Old And New Pictures Of Faulks Road, Aba. by Leopardd(m): 8:09am On Mar 01, 2017 |
Doug07034780891: This road is Port Harcourt road, anyways,... I will advice you guys ka unu kwusi ala na-ayi unu, o dighi mma. Kwusinu ya. |
Politics / Re: Breaking: Ipob Releses Biafra Fundamental Principles And Policy by Leopardd(m): 8:30pm On Feb 28, 2017 |
Armstrong34: Too strong a road map for Awo free + opon imo educated omo itas to understand......e dey pepper their brown roof skulls.. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Release Nnamdi Kanu Now, Igbo Leaders Tell Buhari by Leopardd(m): 8:23pm On Feb 28, 2017 |
Kemperor: I tire, they can never mind their business, that is how Awo forgetting to mind his own business, took poison meant to exterminate rats..he died and rotted away. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Breaking: Ipob Releses Biafra Fundamental Principles And Policy by Leopardd(m): 8:22pm On Feb 28, 2017 |
Aka chineke di ya. This is a clear political road map, the economic road map is coming. Umu Chineke! 26 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Crude And Oily Injustice Of Monumental Proportions In Abia State by Leopardd(m): 8:58am On Jan 22, 2017 |
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Travel / Re: Senate Rejects Closure Of Abuja Airport by Leopardd(m): 4:35am On Jan 22, 2017 |
Politics / Crude And Oily Injustice Of Monumental Proportions In Abia State by Leopardd(m): 4:34am On Jan 22, 2017 |
Onyebuchi Ememanka Esq. The discovery of crude oil in Owaza Community of Abia State has brought nothing but CRUDE AND OILY pains to the people. Apart from being crude and oily, the pains are sticky and slippery like crude oil. Two days ago, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ikpeazu, Enyinnaya Appolos and I led a team of journalists from various media agencies to Owaza Community in Ukwa West LGA of Abia State. This fact finding mission was a follow up to the visit the day before by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu to the Community to witness first hand, the unimaginable level of injustice meted to the people of Owaza Community and by extension, Abia State by Oil Companies. The Governor instructed that we go there, see things for ourselves, tell the world what we saw as a prelude to the series of very decisive steps he plans to take going forward on the issue. Owaza Community is located off the Enugu PH Expressway. It's off the Obehie junction on the right when heading towards Port Harcourt from Aba. Inside this community, one is confronted with gory tales and faces that depict despondency, hopelessness, frustration, sadness and anger. Oil prospecting started in Owaza in 1958 when the then SHELL BP dug it's first oil well there. Oil was found in commercial quantities in 1961 and ever since then, oil has been mined from that community on a daily basis till date. Inside the community is littered several oil facilities including well heads (the famous CHRISTMAS TREE), flow stations, storage facilities and others. Of course, the entire soil in the community has buried in it, a complex network of pipelines crisscrossing the entire community which are used to ship crude oil from the community for export. Some of these pipelines are up to 32 inches in size. The Imo River 1 Flow Station has the largest production capacity amongst all onshore flow stations in the country. In addition to crude oil, Owaza produces gas. The Nigeria Gas Company Ltd, a subsidiary of the NNPC has an imposing presence in Owaza. Owaza has two major flow stations - The Imo River 1 and The Imo River 3 with a combined total production of 116,000 barrels of crude oil daily. These two flow stations have embedded in them over 100 well heads capped with Christmas Trees. The crude oil from these well heads are collated at the two flow stations after a complex separation process that removes water and sludge which naturally follow the crude at the mining stage. The clean crude oil is now shipped through pipelines to the Bonny Terminal where it is stored in 23 massive storage tanks, ready for export. In terms of gas, these two well heads produce a combined total production of 7.7 million Standard Cubit Feet of natural gas per day. Companies like the Nigerian Breweries, International Glass Industries Ltd, the then Aba Textile Mills Ltd and indeed most industries in the South East relied on gas shipped by the Nigerian Gas Company Owaza for their operations. This is what Owaza Community has given to this country daily since 1961. But what has Nigeria and the oil companies given to Owaza? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Owaza is a developmental paradox which signposts man's inhumanity to man. What I saw was a deliberate and well thought out scheme to destroy not just a people but to break down down their will power and strip them of every ounce of their humanity. Owaza is an ecological disaster with an ecosystem that reminds one of the precarious state of existence which the people have had to contend with over more than half a century. The injustice here is two dimensional in nature. First to the people of the community themselves and secondly to the government and people of Abia State. First, I saw that there is no functional hospital in the entire Owaza Community. Not one. Yet Shell Petroleum Development Company Ltd maintains several gigantic oil installations and have so maintained since 1958! They have several workers who ply their trade in these installations. Meanwhile, the people grapple daily with the dangers of gas flaring. It is important to note here that a greater majority of the gas produced in Owaza are flared into the environment. You will see several flare sites burning and emitting dangerous gaseous substances into the atmosphere. There are several of them. They are visible to the eyes. When we visited the Palace of one of the Traditional Rulers in the Community, he brought out a big carton filled with drugs which he takes daily to help him stay alive in the face of the assault on their atmosphere. Owaza has only one secondary school, yet the place looks abandoned and decrepit. The only decent structures there and the renovations there are the ones done by the government of Abia State through ASOPADEC. The soil there has been destroyed by oil activities. Crops cannot grow again. You will see agricultural crops struggling to find sustenance from a soil that has little or nothing to offer. Economic trees like palm and others are shriveled and dead...some dying. I saw what used to be the Owaza Community Fish pond which has now been completely destroyed and turned into a huge sand dune owing to relentless oil prospecting activities. The most thriving business in Owaza is Okada riding. Most of the youths, rely on this for survival. The level of economic activities in the place is unbelievably low. Our investigations show that since 1958, only TWO indigenes of the community have worked in Shell as full staff and this was in the 1960s. Since then till date, no Owaza son nor daughter has worked in the company as a staff. What they do mostly is to hire youths from the community to do manual labor for them. Yet every day, they see a convoy of air conditioned buses carrying their fellow Nigerians and foreigners guarded by heavily armed soldiers who drive into their community to work at these installations and still leave every day. In terms of infrastructure, its shockingly non existent. There a few improperly tarred roads done by the NDDC and what looks like a caricature of street lights. There are no proper water schemes and no light. This is a community that produces millions of standard cubit meters of gas everyday used to power and give light to other parts of the country! Another thing i witnessed is that the only good and solid roads are the one that lead to oil facilities. It was a most distressing tour for me. The only decent public building I saw in that community is a church! Owned by the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star...Olumba Olumba Obu (OOO). Yet, you will never hear of militancy nor destruction of facilities nor disruption of oil activities here. It's an amazing anti climax. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has vowed to change this narrative. To be continued... The story is only beginning. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=662558913914221&id=454791201357661 |
Travel / Re: Senate Rejects Closure Of Abuja Airport by Leopardd(m): 3:27pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
E pain that product of child rape, i wonder what ur skull will cost in Ogun, whenever u run back from ur refugee status in alliburn street in Swindon, don't ever near your girlfriend's enclave in Ogun or Ogbomosho, U.K fresh heads likes urs is very costly, and they will declare manhunt for you.....am telling you the situation on ground. 2 Likes
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Travel / Re: Senate Rejects Closure Of Abuja Airport by Leopardd(m): 2:59pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
DropShot: The executive arm does. 22 Likes 3 Shares
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Politics / Re: BREAKING: Senate Rejects Closure Of Abuja Airport by Leopardd(m): 2:57pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
.. So Buhari wanted to divert Abuja bound flights to his political godson so that Kaduna too will be chopping revenue from federal arrangement. Nobody is saying anything about the dangers of Abuja-Kaduna road, even the Abuja-Kaduna railway is being monitored by airforce because of the criminals parading on that route. Buhari, do whatever you want to do in that airport without closing it or diverting the flights to Kaduna. El-Rufai i sight your arrangee something, e no work...... www.nairaland.com/attachments/4722297_kanayo_png2656bd2fe960e67b8c14e61f17e23f19 |
Travel / Re: Senate Rejects Closure Of Abuja Airport by Leopardd(m): 2:39pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
.. So Buhari wanted to divert Abuja bound flights to his political godson so that Kaduna too will be chopping revenue from federal arrangement. Nobody is saying anything about the dangers of Abuja-Kaduna road, even the Abuja-Kaduna railway is being monitored by airforce because of the criminals parading on that route. Buhari, do whatever you want to do in that airport without closing it or diverting the flights to Kaduna. El-Rufai i sight your arrangee something, e no work...... 35 Likes 2 Shares
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Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu And Nigerian Anthem by Leopardd(m): 2:31pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
HammerTheirPapa: Perhaps, their pro-fulani muslim skulls can't bear the shame. 4 Likes |
Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Case Adjourned Till 12th January 2017 by Leopardd(m): 2:30pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
Truth that Nigeria is not working is treason in an empire of lies. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Pictures Of IPOB Members In Front Of Federal High Court Abuja by Leopardd(m): 2:28pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
Chigboboss: See your Yoruba muslim pro-dullard skull like "Mechonu". 9 Likes |
Politics / Re: Photos Of IPOB Leader Nnamdi Kanu Arriving Court Today by Leopardd(m): 2:27pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
Chigboboss: 5 Likes
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Politics / Re: Pictures Of IPOB Members In Front Of Federal High Court Abuja by Leopardd(m): 1:31pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
Chigboboss: Afonja-personation 11 Likes 1 Share
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Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu In Secret Trial Courtroom As Binta Nyako Storms Out (Photos) by Leopardd(m): 1:20pm On Jan 10, 2017 |
FuckTheMod: are u sure u read the charge sheet? 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Pictures Of IPOB Members In Front Of Federal High Court Abuja by Leopardd(m): 11:50am On Jan 10, 2017 |
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Politics / Re: Gambia’s Jammeh Following Buhari, Mahama’s Footsteps – Falana by Leopardd(m): 3:56pm On Jan 09, 2017 |
Daviddson: E pain am. Counter the point nwokem and leave unnecessary talk... 88 Likes 2 Shares
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Politics / Re: Umahi Assures Buhari Of Ebonyi's Vote In Next Election by Leopardd(m): 3:26pm On Jan 09, 2017 |
Ecosystem4u: This is so hilarious! |
Politics / Re: Captain Victor Ugochukwu Ulasi Killed By Boko Haram In Yobe State (photo) by Leopardd(m): 3:00pm On Jan 09, 2017 |
proeast: AheadMarket: He died for nothing! 11 Likes |
Politics / Re: Nigerian Federal Warplanes Bomb Residential Streets In Breakaway Biafra by Leopardd(m): 11:04am On Jan 09, 2017 |
Ugosample: And you want to continue being part of a country whose system don't check war crimes their soldiers do commit internally. I know the idea of Biafra doesn't appeal to you, but I know we as a people value human lives and can't uphold a system that does these to those it calls its citizens. |
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