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Chemcrown:
I thought we have Nelson Mandela in the man and he has not spent 2 decades plus like his mentor in the zoo.
If he and his co brafry had been 'technically sober' like this before, he wudn't have jump to much from one tree to another in the zoo. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Yes, you have more than Mandela in Kanu, a man who is ready to die for what he believe in.

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SEE KANU'S LETTER TO BRITAIN
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24th March, 2016.
The High Commissioner,
British High Commission, Abuja
19 Torrens Close
Maitama, Abuja.

Dear Sir,

RE: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA VS NNAMDI KANU & 2 ORS
CHARGE NO: FCT/ABJ/CR/383/15

NNAMDI KANU: A VICTIM OF TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE AND A CALL FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO BE ON THE WATCH.

We are Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the 1st Defendant in the above captioned criminal charge, hereinafter refers to as “Our Client”, and on whose authority and firm instruction, we formally bring to the attention of the British Government the deliberate design by the Nigerian Government to subvert the course of justice in the above criminal trial.

It is repeating the obvious to state that Our Client is a full British citizen, by virtue of which position he is entitled to all Rights, Privileges and Protections, guaranteed under the British Laws and conventions. We are therefore constrained in the circumstance, to formally notify the British Government vide this medium, of our well informed reservations, and apprehension, that Our Client is undergoing persecution in the charge above referred, and deliberate design by the persecutors to frustrate every effort of the Defense team aimed at giving Our Client a fair trial.

We are not under any illusion that the British Government has taken notice of the highlights in the presidential media chat granted by President Muhammed Buhari on the 30th day of December 2015. Prominent among his worrisome but most prejudicial comments in the said media chat, is his insistence, that Our Client cannot be granted bail by any Court. The President in the referenced media chat, referred to Our client as a flight risk for possessing dual citizenship. It is the position of our Law, that dual citizenship is a constitutional right of the citizens of Nigeria, clearly provided for under section 28 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended 2011. Dual citizenship is not a crime under our Law. Our reservations on the President’s comment was underpinned by the findings made in the ruling delivered on the 29th day of February 2016, by Hon. Justice John Tsoho, wherein Our Client and the two other Defendants were denied bail.

The learned Judge, in advancing his reasons for arriving at the decision, and in consistence with the direction conveyed in the aforesaid media chat, specifically referred to Our Client as a flight risk, on grounds of his dual citizenship, and on the basis of which he denied him bail. It is apposite in the circumstance to remind the British Government, that Judges of the Federal High Court of Nigeria are appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in line with the provisions of Section 250(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended 2011. This Section provide thus;

Section 250; APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF JUDGE AND JUDGES OF THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT 250(2)

“The appointment of a person to the office of a Judge of the Federal High Court shall be made by the President on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council.”
We therefore submit, most respectfully Sir that by virtue of the powers conferred on the President in the above cited Law, the President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammed Buhari, has overriding control over the appointment of the Federal High Court Judges. The learned trial Judge in denying Our Client bail on the 29th day of January, 2016, granted accelerated hearing of the substantive charge. Accelerated hearing ordered by the learned presiding Judge in the matter connotes total annihilation of all forms of delay in the trial intended to debilitate the tenets of fair hearing.

[b] Also, instructive to mention, that the Court is under duty to allow the Defendants unfettered access to relevant materials and facilities that will aid them in the defense of their case. This duty is not only sacrosanct and compelling, but is provided for under Chapter (iv) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as (Amended) 2011, particularly in section 36(6) (b), among the fundamental rights of the citizens. In the course of our defense, We are usually confronted with situation where we are handed the short end of the stick in the face of deliberate refusal/delay in obliging us copies of the Ruling delivered in open Court.

The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended (2011), specifically section 36(7), allows a Court or Tribunal, only seven days, in a criminal trial, to keep records of the proceedings, Rulings and Judgment delivered therein, within which, it shall be made available to the Accused person(s) or person applying through him.

It is disheartening, that our successive applications for the certified true copies of Rulings delivered by the Honourable Court, on the 9th February 2016, 19th February 2016, and 7th March 2016, have not receive any attention. Either by deliberate design or omission, the Rulings, above referred, are still being shielded from us as at today. It is more painful, when it comes to mind that these Rulings are not only fundamental but a necessity to a successful transmission of records of the Court to the Appellate Court.



The Court has always been served with copies of our Notices of Appeal, anytime an application for the certified true copy of the Ruling is submitted, which ordinarily, would have spurred it for expeditious action but the reverse is usually the case. On the face of this frustration, the defense is confronted with apparent dilemma in offering our client the best legal services he deserved, in the defense of these bogus charges preferred against him.

[b]
The Application brought by the Federal Government of Nigeria, requesting the Court to protect the identities of the prosecution witnesses by the aid of facial masks and screens while giving evidence in the course of proceeding, was heard on the 19th day of February 2016. Upon the hearing of the aforesaid application, and our objection, the Court declined to grant the application, and consequently ordered that the hearing of the matter should be conducted in the open. Members of the public and press were also ordered by the Court to continue to participate in the proceedings.
Surprisingly, on the 7th day of March, 2016, when the trial was scheduled to commence, the Director of Public Prosecutions orally applied that the subsisting order of the Honourable Court, made on the 19th day of February, 2016, be varied. The Learned D.P.P, insisted that the prosecution witnesses have refused to attend Court to give evidence, unless their identities are shielded from the public. On the strength of the above application, and despite our vehement opposition to the application, the Honourable Court made a volte-face, and proceeded to grant their request, by varying the very order it made on the 19th day of February, 2016.
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Though we have successfully lodged an appeal against this perverse ruling of the Honourable Court, but it is now incumbent on the British Authority to turn their torchlight on the process complained of, against the obvious persecution of its own citizen. Relevant to mention that the detail accounts provided by our Client in his vicious experience in the hands of the operatives of the State Security Services while in their custody, revealed how the investigating officers boasted to him that the British Government was instrumental to his arrest and dare him to watch out for future development in the matter.
It is therefore, our humble expectation that the demonstration of palpable commitment by the British Government will to a larger extent neutralize the concerns and fears raised by the remark under reference. It is on the strength of this obvious maneuvering and deliberate design to subvert the course of justice that we most humbly request the British authority to begin a race against time, for more noticeable impact in this matter.
Attached herewith for your ease of reference, are copies of our press briefing granted on the 18th day of March 2016, Certificates of registration of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Radio Biafra respectively, in the United Kingdom Registration certificates of Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) in other countries of the world, and video clips of how the Nigeria Military personnel massacred innocent and Defenseless members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Aba-Abia State, on the 9th day of February 2016.


We shall keep you abreast of every development in this matter as we progress.

Accept the assurances of our deepest regards Sir.

Yours faithfully

FOR: I.C EJIOFOR & CO



https://www.nairaland.com/3019559/nnamdi-kanu-travesty-justice-call

Maisuya1:
this is a matter of national security. There were/are bristish citizens languishing in GITMO (Guantanamo-bay maximum security detention, Cuba)

Say what you know. What offense did Kanu commit.

Relevant to mention that the detail accounts provided by our Client in his vicious experience in the hands of the operatives of the State Security Services
while in their custody, revealed how the investigating officers boasted to him that the British Government was instrumental to his arrest and dare him to watch out for future development in the matter.

Hmmmm.

24th March, 2016.
The High Commissioner,
British High Commission, Abuja
19 Torrens Close
Maitama, Abuja.

Dear Sir,

RE: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA VS NNAMDI KANU & 2 ORS
CHARGE NO: FCT/ABJ/CR/383/15

NNAMDI KANU:  A VICTIM OF TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE AND A CALL FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO BE ON THE WATCH.

We are Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the 1st Defendant in the above captioned criminal charge, hereinafter refers to as “Our Client”, and on whose authority and firm instruction, we formally bring to the attention of the British Government the deliberate design by the Nigerian Government to subvert the course of justice in the above criminal trial.

It is repeating the obvious to state that Our Client is a full British citizen, by virtue of which position he is entitled to all Rights, Privileges and Protections, guaranteed under the British Laws and conventions.  We are therefore constrained in the circumstance, to formally notify the British Government vide this medium, of our well informed reservations, and apprehension, that Our Client is undergoing persecution in the charge above referred, and deliberate design by the persecutors to frustrate every effort of the Defense team aimed at giving Our Client a fair trial.

We are not under any illusion that the British Government has taken notice of the highlights in the presidential media chat granted by President Muhammed Buhari on the 30th day of December 2015. Prominent among his worrisome but most prejudicial comments in the said media chat, is his insistence, that Our Client cannot be granted bail by any Court. The President in the referenced media chat, referred to Our client as a flight risk for possessing dual citizenship. It is the position of our Law, that dual citizenship is a constitutional right of the citizens of Nigeria, clearly provided for under section 28 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended 2011. Dual citizenship is not a crime under our Law. Our reservations on the President’s comment was underpinned by the findings made in the ruling delivered on the 29th day of February 2016, by Hon. Justice John Tsoho, wherein Our Client and the two other Defendants were denied bail.

The learned Judge, in advancing his reasons for arriving at the decision, and in consistence with the direction conveyed in the aforesaid media chat, specifically referred to Our Client as a flight risk, on grounds of his dual citizenship, and on the basis of which he denied him bail. It is apposite in the circumstance to remind the British Government, that Judges of the Federal High Court of Nigeria are appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in line with the provisions of Section 250(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended 2011. This Section provide thus;

Section 250; APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF JUDGE AND JUDGES OF THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT 250(2) 

“The appointment of a person to the office of a Judge of the Federal High Court shall be made by the President on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council.”
We therefore submit, most respectfully Sir that by virtue of the powers conferred on the President in the above cited Law, the President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammed Buhari, has overriding control over the appointment of the Federal High Court Judges. The learned trial Judge in denying Our Client bail on the 29th day of January, 2016, granted accelerated hearing of the substantive charge. Accelerated hearing ordered by the learned presiding Judge in the matter connotes total annihilation of all forms of delay in the trial intended to debilitate the tenets of fair hearing.

Also, instructive to mention, that the Court is under duty to allow the Defendants unfettered  access to relevant materials and facilities that will aid them in the defense of their case. This duty is not only sacrosanct and compelling, but is provided for under Chapter (iv) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as (Amended) 2011, particularly in section 36(6) (b), among the fundamental rights of the citizens. In the course of our defense, We are usually confronted with situation where we are handed the short end of the stick in the face of deliberate refusal/delay in obliging us copies of the Ruling delivered in open Court.

The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended (2011), specifically section 36(7), allows a Court or Tribunal, only seven days, in a criminal trial, to keep records of the proceedings, Rulings and Judgment delivered therein, within which, it shall be made available to the Accused person(s) or person applying through him.

It is disheartening, that our successive applications for the certified true copies of Rulings delivered by the Honourable Court, on the 9th February 2016, 19th February 2016, and 7th March 2016, have not receive any attention. Either by deliberate design or omission, the Rulings, above referred, are still being shielded from us as at today.  It is more painful, when it comes to mind that these Rulings are not only fundamental but a necessity to a successful transmission of records of the Court to the Appellate Court.


The Court has  always been served with copies of our Notices of Appeal, anytime an application for the certified true copy of the Ruling is submitted, which ordinarily, would have spurred it for expeditious action but the reverse is usually the case. On the face of this frustration, the defense is confronted with apparent dilemma in offering our client the best legal services he deserved, in the defense of these bogus charges preferred against him.

[b] The Application brought by the Federal Government of Nigeria, requesting the Court to protect the identities of the prosecution witnesses by the aid of facial masks and screens while giving evidence in the course of proceeding, was heard on the 19th day of February 2016. Upon the hearing of the aforesaid application, and our objection, the Court declined to grant the application, and consequently ordered that the hearing of the matter should be conducted in the open. Members of the public and press were also ordered by the Court to continue to participate in the proceedings.
Surprisingly, on the 7th day of March, 2016, when the trial was scheduled to commence, the Director of Public Prosecutions orally applied that the subsisting order of the Honourable Court, made on the 19th day of February, 2016, be varied. The Learned D.P.P, insisted that the prosecution witnesses have refused to attend Court to give evidence, unless their identities are shielded from the public. On the strength of the above application, and despite our vehement opposition to the application, the Honourable Court made a volte-face, and proceeded to grant their request, by varying the very order it made on the 19th day of February, 2016.

[/b]
Though we have successfully lodged an appeal against this perverse ruling of the Honourable Court, but it is now incumbent on the British Authority to turn their torchlight on the process complained of, against the obvious persecution of its own citizen. Relevant to mention that the detail accounts provided by our Client in his vicious experience in the hands of the operatives of the State Security Services while in their custody, revealed how the investigating officers boasted to him that the British Government was instrumental to his arrest and dare him to watch out for future development in the matter.

It is therefore, our humble expectation that the demonstration of palpable commitment by the British Government will to a larger extent neutralize the concerns and fears raised by the remark under reference. It is on the strength of this obvious maneuvering and deliberate design to subvert the course of justice that we most humbly request the British authority to begin a race against time, for more noticeable impact in this matter.
Attached herewith for your ease of reference, are copies of our press briefing granted on the 18th day of March 2016, Certificates of registration of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Radio Biafra respectively, in the United Kingdom Registration certificates of Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) in other countries of the world, and video clips of how the Nigeria Military personnel massacred innocent and Defenseless members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Aba-Abia State, on the 9th day of February 2016.

We shall keep you abreast of every development in this matter as we progress.

Accept the assurances of our deepest regards Sir.

Yours faithfully

FOR: I.C EJIOFOR & CO

Aufbauh:
"A man should always look for what is, and not what he thinks should be" - Albert Einstein

"Those who play with the Devil's toy will be brought degrees to weird his sword "-R. Buckminster Fuller

" The Supreme act of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting "- Sun Tzu

" Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once "-Winston Churchill

Nnamdi how far

TRASH.

Detained leader of the In­digenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Bia­fra Radio, Dr Nnamdi Kanu, has said that state security officials told him that the courts could not save him.
Kanu said through one of his lawyers, Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, that operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) told him while he was in their custody that both the courts in Nigeria and the British gov­ernment cannot save him in his bid to regain his freedom.
Kanu, who is facing a six-count treason charge, asserted that he is a victim of persecution by the Feder­al Government and its agents which have continued to violate his human rights through his prolonged incar­ceration.
Through one of his lawyers, the IPOB leader expressed his readi­ness to face trial, adding that what he wants is a “fair trial and not per­secution.”
In a statement by the counsel, Mr. Ejiofor, which was made available to The AUTHORITY, Kanu said he was wrongly arrested and detained.
Kanu has already filed a suit be­fore the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice against the violation of his rights.
In the fundamental enforcement rights suit he filed before the ECOW­AS Court, Kanu prayed for requisite redress under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and other International Conventions to which Nigeria is a signatory.
He said: “We were reliably in­formed by Nnamdi Kanu that his persecutors told him in the course of their interrogation that even the British government cannot secure his freedom, as the courts should go ahead and make orders they like but none would be obeyed,” Ejiofor said.
It was the submissions of his counsel that the unlawful detention of his client from October 14, 2015 till January 20, 2016, without any lawful order of the court, and in flagrant dis­obedience of orders of courts of com­petent jurisdiction, all directing for his unconstitutional release and dis­charge, amounted to a gross violation of his fundamental human rights.
Ejiofor, who chronicled all the al­leged breaches of Kanu’s fundamen­tal human rights, recounted that the Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abu­ja specified in the First Information Report originally filed against him, had discharged his client of all bogus and frivolous allegations against him but “the Department of State Securi­ty that dragged him to court refused to obey the orders of the same court”.
According to the statement: “Recall that on December 29, 2015, during the Presidential Media Chat, the President told the whole world that Nnamdi Kanu cannot be grant­ed bail, alleging that he came into the country without a valid travel­ling passport. This pronouncement was roundly condemned by both lo­cal and international commentators. His pronouncement was viewed as a clear usurpation of the functions and powers of the judiciary.
“Though very regrettable and ex­tremely unfortunate, Nnamdi Kanu was refused bail on January 29, 2016. In refusing him and other defendants bail, the court also cited the facts of his possession of dual passports as a flight risk, and as such held that he cannot be granted bail,” he said.
This position, according to Eji­ofor “was in keeping in line with the pronouncement of the President of the Federal Republic if Nigeria in his media chat on December 29, 2015. It is a case of a witch crying in the night and a baby dying in the morning.
“The same Kanu who has been announced to the whole world to have sneaked into the country with­out a valid passport, now has his two valid passports (British and Nigerian) seized by the operatives of the DSS.
“A formal application to secure the release of these two passports was made in open court by Nnamdi Kanu’s defence team in February 9, 2016, which the learned trial judge in his ruling delivered on that same day refused to grant. This is a clear indi­cation that Nnamdi Kanu came into the country with valid travelling pass­ports contrary to the erroneous views expressed at the media chat.”

The AUTHORITY recalls that Justice John Tsoho had on January 29, denied bail to Kanu and two other pro-Biafra agitators, Benjamin Madu­bugwu and David Nwawuisi, who are facing trial with him. The trio are an­swering to a six-count treason charge that was preferred against them by the federal government.
Kanu, who was hitherto the Di­rector of Radio Biafra and Television, has been in detention since October 14, 2015, when he was arrested by se­curity operatives upon his arrival to Nigeria from his base in the United Kingdom. The defendants were in the charge that was signed by the Direc­tor of Public Prosecution, DPP, Mr. Mohammed Diri, alleged to have committed treasonable felony, an of­fence punishable under Section 41(C) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.
FG alleged that they were the ones managing the affairs of IPOB which it described as “an unlawful society”. Specifically, Kanu was al­leged to have illegally smuggled ra­dio transmitters into Nigeria, which he used to disseminate “hate broad­casts”, encouraging the “secession of the Republic of Biafra”, from Nigeria.
However, the accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge on January 20, even as the court or­dered their remand at Kuje Prison in Abuja.


http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/03/DSS-said-the-court-can-t-save-me--Kanu/

kropotkin2:
This regime is totally and unequivocally committed to the crushing of this senseless Biafran agitation once and for all. As for the terrorist Nnamdi Kanu, he is rightfully where he belongs: in a cage like the animal that he is

Can't you see how hypocrisy is oozing out of your mouth. The same government you said is totally committed to
crushing self determination of Biafrans is the same promoting self determination of Palestine and western Sahara.
As for Nnamdi kanu, his agony will turn to glory.

justice2016:
radio biafra started in 2009 and re invigorated in 2012 and has been against the govt including gej

TELL THEM.

Tundenoni:
I'm sure Nnamdi KANU has quit the silly agitation of Biafra.
Don't shatap there,
I'd not pity you if you're properly dealt with.

No reward for stupidity.

ikechuk0:
Duh? Who doesn't know that. The dude even hated GEJ. The only time he supported GEJ was during the conference when he thought would include succession in his conference when that became a no go area, I remembered Nnamdi called GEJ every namt forget he accused GEJ of hating Igbo people as well as calling Stella and NOI agents of GEJ to undermine Igbo progress out of the country. And I know we all remember when he predicted the election result of north rigging Buhari in and told his listeners not to waste their time going to vote especially since the election has nothing to do with Biafra people. We also remember, prior to Buhari, Radio Biafra was extremely popular in SE and some SS and was expanding


Those of us that have been listening to Nnamdi for a while knows fully well the truth, not the rubbish APC e rats try to console themselves with. GEJ ignored the words of Nnamdi despite calling him everything he could think of and even urged Igbo voters not to go out and vote for him. That's why their dumb@ss didn't know of him, he became popular to them because Buhari on the other hand, like the uneducated cow he truly is, came in and decided to fight Nnamdi. Typical of the cows the north and Southwest are, their stupidity morphed into thinking what they just heard about started when they heard about it. Do we still wonder why north and Southwest has the least educated people in that zoo?

I can remember Kanu calling Jonathan spineless .
Yet some people will come here to claim that biafra struggle started because Buhari defeated Jonathan.

skyman200:
If they want biafra allow them to go, u said that they don t contribute to the Economy why still holding and killing them, justice should be allowed to be prevailed.

No mind them.

tsephanyah:
was difference doz it makes, he is in jail and those that can back him to secure his release are not in the mood I guess

I believe that's your only source of happiness.

Continue.

Tundenoni:
I'm sure Nnamdi KANU has quit the silly agitation of Biafra.
Don't shatap there,
I'd not pity you if you're properly dealt with.

Please face topic.

People always argue that Nnamdi Kanu Started this radio biafra and IPOB movement just after buhari won 2015 presidential election.
Others argue otherwise.

Looking at the dates at these Screenshots will certainly set the record straight.

PentiumPro:
Osun Defenders have been in existence for sometimes now with a clear ideology of promulgating the Yoruba ways of life.
These your new mushroom newspapers are nothing but secessionist newspapers.

Including Authority Newspaper?

kenzysmith:
Am igbo buh this people calling for biafra non get single sense at all.

Which Igbo are you, Arewa or Oduduwa Igbo?

princdebola201:
Tell me what South East have to offer in return for the World powers like Obama, putin, nethanyu,cameron,hollande

Oil- south east produce just 5%


Industrial concentration-- cannot compare to other southern regions(SW and SS)


Agriculture- not the Major player in the sector


These re the 3 key things that generate income for a govt.

Is south east sharing border with any country
Answer is NO.(How do u achieve this without meeting up to the requirements of UN)
Answer is by WAR

Do south east have anything on ground to fight another War .
Answer is NO.




South east should be grateful to Nigeria.
Other South West and South south contribute 90% of federal govt income .
But re being cheated.

Long trash.
Let that not worry you, leave that for us.

Roving correspondent THEO RAYS writes that as the pro-Biafra agitations become seemingly unstop­pable, it is high time the world stepped in to protect the interest—and lives—of people fighting for their freedom from oppression, injustice and inequity.


Events so far have shown that contrary to insinuations in some quarters that the MASSOB/IPOB protests will fizzle out as soon as their leaders are ‘settled’ the Nigerian way, the protests do, in fact, appear unstoppable because the agitators have consistently shown that they are after nothing but the creation of the sovereign state of Biafra. Indeed, what seems to be the challenge is no longer the possibility of the authorities using money to entice the agitators out of the Biafra project but how to use the platform of the appropriately named ‘Indigenious Peoples of Biafra’ to get some parts of Niger Delta, Idoma land in Benue State and Igala land in Kogi to join the envisaged Republic of Biafra. In summary, the agitators are targeting the following tribes and lands as enclaves of Biafra: the Igbo, Annang, Effik. Kalabari, Ibibio, Idoma, Igala, Ijaw, Itshekiri, Ogoni, Ikwere and Urhobo. These tribes exist in the Southeast and South South states as well as Benue and Kogi States.
The Igbo, who inhabit the five states of the South East, namely Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, and some parts of Delta, Edo and Rivers State, are the main target of the agitators. Although the pro-Biafra groups command sizable followership in Rivers State in particular (Solomon Chukwu, one of the notable leaders of MASSOB hails from Obia/Akpor Local Council of Rivers State), political leaders in the South South have sporadically distanced themselves from the agitation, pledging instead their allegiance to the Nigeria state. But, it would appear that the groups are more popular in the South South areas than political leaders had hitherto thought possible. For instance, an unprecedented crowd of pro-Biafrans stormed the city of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, during the massive protests that followed the arrest and detention of the leader of IPOB and Director of Radio Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in October last year.
The truth is that the pro-Biafrans who are strongly rooted all over the place are not just interested in the struggle but are ready to do everything within their powers to see to the birth of the Republic of Biafra. Moving under the slogan “Biafra or nothing, Biafra or death”, it would appear that they have psychologically turned their back on Nigeria and there is no going back.
A frantic move by southeast governors led by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and Ohaneze Ndigbo led by the secretary general Chief Joe Nworgu to address the issues that presumably gave rise to pro-Biafra agitations, have failed to yield any meaningful result. A highlight of the steps by Okorocha and Ohaneze to address the issues that trigger agitations is getting President Muhammed Buhari to attend to the problems of Ndigbo such as bad conditions of federal roads in the South East and conceding more federal appointment to Ndigbo. While Okorocha and Ohaneze are working towards getting Buhari’s attention, IPOB media team in a series of press statements have made it clear the group is not interested in Buhari’s offer (if it is ever made) either to award road contracts or appoint more Igbo people into his cabinet.
Reacting to Okorocha and Ohaneze’s moves in one of its press statements, IPOB accused Ohaneze of working against the interest of Biafra, alleging that “Ohaneze is acting on a script issued by the opposition to Biafra.”

“We are aware of the meeting of Ohaneze leaders at Nike Lake Hotel in Enugu with some representatives of the American Consular General who were sent to review Igbo perception in Nigeria and nothing more; they didn’t go to other regions but Nworgu said they went to other regions,” IPOB noted. “We know what is going on but nothing is enough to appease Ndigbo except the actualization of Biafra. The leader of IPOB didn’t send anybody to negotiate conditions with Buhari; the acceptable condition is his (Kanu”s) freedom and Biafra. It is Biafra or nothing.”
The group added: “The attention of IPOB has been drawn to the ongoing plans by some Igbo leaders to negotiate the release of our leader, appointment of some Igbo into the federal government and award of few road contracts by President Muhamadu Buhari as measures for addressing Igbo marginalization. IPOP wants to unequivocally say that we are not part of that negotiation and nobody should negotiate on our behalf. All we are saying is that Buhari should release our leader Nnamdi Kanu. Our position is clear on the issue of Igbo marginalization: we want Biafra and Buhari, Okorocha and Ohaneze cannot use the so called appointment and road project to suppress the struggle for Biafra.”
Before now, some Igbo leaders, observers and analysts had thought that the marginalization of Ndigbo in federal appointments as well as neglect of federal roads in the South East and lack of enough federal presence generally in Igbo land were the principal triggers of the MASSOB/IPOB protests. But, it has now become obvious that the main reason for the agitation is that pro-Biafrans see Nigeria as a failed state that cannot meet the yearnings of its citizens, especially Ndigbo, for freedom, safety of lives and property, peace and progress. Two is that they appear more comfortable coexisting with people in some parts of Nigeria whose cultures, religious beliefs and worldview are not too different from those of Ndigbo.
Through Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu largely succeeded in convincing IPOB members and supporters that, as people immensely blessed and gifted by God, which he refers to as Chukwu Abiama, Ndigbo cannot continue to coexist in one country with people in the Northern part of Nigeria whose religion, culture and tradition are clearly antagonistic to Ndigbo’s. To Kanu and his followers, one Nigeria is a misnomer and blatant deceit because there is nothing on ground to show that the people are one.
Three, they believe that in Biafra, life would get better for Ndigbo since, according to them, with the blessings of Chukwu Abiama upon them, Ndigbo have all it takes in talents, skills, vision, enterprise and resources to build a powerful country called Biafra that can favorably compete with the developed countries in a short period after gaining independence from Nigeria,
Members of IPOB use the ability of their leader Kanu in establishing Radio Biafra, arguably the most powerful radio station in the world, as evidence of what Ndigbo can do in freedom in their own nation state. People rate the wave and frequency of Radio Biafra as more powerful and higher than those of Voice of America (VoA) Radio and British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) Radio respectively.

IPOB members also trace the ingenuity of Ndigbo in trade and commerce to the endowment of Chukwu Abiama. They believe that with Chukwu Abiama on the side of Biafra as a country, it is going to do well in all facets of human endeavour, including science and technology. They refer to the ability of the people to manufacture powerful weapons of war during the civil war as a proof that Ndigbo would do well as a country.
To them, Nigeria can no longer do Ndigbo any good and so, the best option is to leave. To them, the issue of Ndigbo having huge investments outside Igboland doesn’t matter. In one of his broadcasts on Radio Biafra, Kanu said those huge investments of Ndigbo outside Igboland in places like Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Jos and other cities across Nigeria, are not enough reason for the Biafrans to continue to live like slaves under the leadership of people from other tribes in Nigeria.
It would appear that the pro-Biafrans have gone too far in their psychological disavowal of Nigeria to go back on their words and plans. In fact, many of them have expressed their readiness to die in pursuit of their dream. And many, to be sure, have died already.
If the horrendous travails of Ndigbo during the Civil War when over 3million people died, down to the hundreds of MASSOB members who were killed in Onitsha in 2006 when the government ordered soldiers to shoot them at and the recent death of IPOB members in Onitsha and Aba in the hands of soldiers who brutally murdered unarmed protesters, are anything to go by, then there is no gainsaying that Biafra is deeply rooted in the consciousness of the agitators and they may not easily be convinced otherwise. It may just not be possible to stop the move to actualize Biafra at this point in time when IPOB commands large followers around the world.
The question now is: in the face of the obvious unstoppable progress of the pro-Biafra agitations, what should world leaders do? Would they fold their hands and watch as unarmed people who are merely protesting against oppression, injustice, inequity and prejudice in their own country are so callously killed by soldiers ostensibly fighting to keep Nigeria one? Given the series of protests by pro-Biafrans in virtually all parts of the world, including the Vatican and Brussels, headquarters of the European Union, and the death of protesters in Nigeria, it is expected that world leaders would wade into the Biafran case.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo in a bid to deceive the world said that those agitating for Biafra are hoodlums and miscreants who are hungry and are looking for money. While Obasanjo is entitled to his eternal mischief, the questions remain: Are those who went to the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels to protest hoodlums and miscreants? Are those who went to the Vatican and were greeted by Pope Francis, hoodlums and miscreants? Of course they are not. And even if they are, are they supposed to be murdered in cold blood by agents of their own government? Should the world ignore their cries and protests simply because Obasanjo labeled them miscreants? If the answers are in the negative as they should be, then, it is expected that world leaders under the aegis of the United Nations should wade into the Biafran matter and address it expeditiously to avoid further bloodshed.
The United Nations as a global watchdog and peace builder should not fold its hands and watch the issue of Biafra generate into further loss of lives. The world is enlightened enough to understand that war is not the best option to fight for freedom. Mahatma Ghandi proved beyond doubt that freedom can be achieved through non-violence. Using Ghandi as a role model, the pro-Biafrans have consistently demonstrated their penchant for non-violence. America and Britain as global freedom fighters should not keep silent on Biafra.

Addressing American Congress in his days as British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blaire stated that America and Britain are not always fighting for Americans or Britons or for Christianity but for freedom of people from oppression globally; that as citizens of the world, people are entitled to freedom of speech and association, freedom to have roof over their heads, to go to school and be educated and freedom to participate in socio, political, economic and religious decisions that affect their lives.
This is a universal principle for which America and Britain stand, irrespective of whether those who are fighting for their freedom are ‘Jews’ or ‘Gentiles. So, let that principle be held dear by the world even as it affects the pro-Biafra agitators. The United Nations, the European Union, the Pope and all other lovers of peace and freedom all over the world must stand up for those who are denied freedom, justice and equity in Nigeria for the simple reason that they are Ndigbo.



http://authorityngr.com/2016/03/Biafra--As-the-agitation-festers-time-for-world-leaders-to-intervene/

Good

dtruth3:
And the will cone him one day relax?

Let them go and testify and come back lets see na!

Egighi Igbo Agwa'ya Onye Ocha!

@bolded

Kondomatic:
And a moderator banned me for calling him a traitor.

Imagine

Trut:
We already know that Uwaruike and his BIM cohorts are the Ojuju Calabar DSS wanted to use as witness against Kanu.

Yeah.

The Movement for the Actual­ization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) said yes­terday in Awka that it has decided to reveal Ralph Uwazuruike’s anx­ious role in the ongoing court case against Nnamdi Kanu of Indige­nous People of Biafra (IPOB).
MASSOB alleged that the ma­jor reason the Federal Govern­ment planned to mask its paid witnesses to cover their identities is because the leading witness is a former popular Igboman who has thrown caution to the wind for the sake of money, wealth and mun­dane things.
The statement signed by Com­rade Uchenna Madu as the lead­er of MASSOB, states that it would surprise Ndigbo and Biafrans in general that the leading witness of the DSS against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is Ralph Uwazurike (former MASSOB leader).
“We have all the evidences to prove our points on Uwazurike’s romance with the oppressors of Ndigbo.
“Uwazurike is jittery and not comfortable with the emergence of Nnamdi Kanu as the leading figure and hero of genuine Biafra strug­gle. He will sponsor, support, par­ticipate and execute any evil plan or move that will tarnish, black­mail, jail or even kill Mazi Nnam­di Kanu just for people to see him as over-all Biafra leader which Bi­afrans are now fully aware that he is fake.
“Initially, the DSS has no witness or evidence against Nnamdi Kanu until Uwazurike who worked for President Goodluck Jonathan’s con­tinuation of Nigerian domination of Biafra made himself a willing tool of destabilization to the Buha­ri administration against Nnam­di Kanu. Through Uwazurike, the Federal Government has contract­ed Mr Benjamin Onuegbu (Uwa­zurike’s BIM Coordinator, Lagos State), Mr Solomon Chukwu (Uwa­zurike’s BIM administrator, Port Harcourt) whom Uwazurike also instigate to claim factional MAS­SOB leader and Sunny Okoroafor (Uwazurike’s BIM Information of­ficer, Aba).
“It will be recalled that the DSS told the court that their witnesses are residents of Lagos, Port Har­court, Owerri, etc. The refusal of the court to grant the DSS’ request of masking the face of their wit­nesses against Nnamdi Kanu is a major setback as they have no real and genuine witnesses.
“For fear of arrest and evil activ­ities he committed against Ndig­bo in the name of Biafra activ­ism, Uwazurike desperately wants to impress President Buhari and work for him to cover his numer­ous criminal acts against Ndigbo.
“As a former National Director of Information under Uwazurike’s MASSOB and a very close national officer of MASSOB who spent two years in detention with Uwazurike in DSS headquarters, Abuja, Sule­ja and Keffi prisons before his re­lease and numerous other things that hold us together, I know Uwa­zurike more than Sunny Okoroafor who was my commissioner of in­formation, Aba region. I challenge Uwazurike for an open debate on all of our activities involving Biafra and Igbo course anywhere in Igbo land’’, the statement concluded.
Efforts to get the reaction of Uwazuruike was not successful as at press time.



http://authorityngr.com/2016/02/MASSOB-fingers-Uwazuruike-as-FG-s-masked-witness-to-be

porshuch:
Yes I love Buhari's fake change, he is building a new Nigeria.

Suffering and smiling.