₦airaland Forum

All you Igbo folks should all bury your heads in shame because your actions during the recent subsidy crisis aptly proved why you all will continue to be 2nd class citizens in this country.
While others were busy crying over the injustice in the land (killings of Igbos and southerners in the north inclusive) using the platform provided by Govt's removal of fuel subsidy, you all were busy doing "business".
Now, continue doing you s.tup.id business and shut the fu.c.k up plss!

Mr yoruba foolish man.enough of all these igbo subsidy obsession.the igbos protested the subsidy removal,there was strike,banks and corporate institutions where close.that they did not cry on the streets like hungry people doesn't mean they did not protest.at least i know there was street protest in owerri. also know that the economy in the east is more of self employed and entrepreneurship then waiting for employment and most of you yoruba cant defend what you have studied in school.(unproductive and unemployable educated ageros)which means most of the eastern traders and businessmen are not in anyway under you corrupt and useless NLC.

BTW,why will you face the igbos why not face other tribes that did not protest too,the ibibio,orons,idomas,igalas,tivs,calabar .are the igbos that important now in Nigeria?would the voice of the igbos have made Jonathan revert back to 65N?hahahahahaha!!!!!!!i laugh in latin

Also don't forget that your thief governors supported the subsidy removal.infact they are the brain child behind the subsidy removal.you should rather face you governor than the igbos cos you will not gain anything attacking the igbos rather you will die of high blood pressure.fool.

Shuaibu is a hero! Setting good example for principled decisions and acts.

i laugh in Madagascar, all these yoruba clowns Una no go kill me, with all this Una agero-fuji comments.


Don't worry we understand his problem,he is protesting the deployment of troops to Lagos by FG.Obviously the next man is available to take the appointment,so he can go and commit suicide like AWOLOWO if he like.we will bury him and not miss him.Shior

U guys should keep silent,where were you when Nigerians A̶̲̥̅̊я̣̣̥ε̲̣̣̣̥ agitating?
Don't u think the agitations  were beyond fuel subsidy?oh you think you A̶̲̥̅̊я̣̣̥ε̲̣̣̣̥ the only tribe that knows how to Ð business.
When you A̶̲̥̅̊я̣̣̥ε̲̣̣̣̥ tire you either go to the north and evacuate your people or engage them

you must be dreaming, i did not see where it says "we need cowards to come join us protest or sympathies with us or come help us fight". we don't need your sympathy or support.we have done it alone before and we will continue to do it alone.if we need any support,you and your kinsmen are the last people to seek support from.

By the way,if free fuel is you and your peoples problem,don't worry all that will end very soon.maybe it will be the blood of your family members and your kinsmen that will be subsidy if you guys don't speak up, like as if it is only the igbos that is being killed in the north.

well it is understandable that you guys are cowards and cant stand up to your northern masters that is why you have decided to remain silent to the detriment of your peoples lives.Maybe fuel subsidy is more important then yorubaman's live.(Oh!!,i just remembered Abiola.maybe your leaders had collected money again to keep quiet). sophisticated fools!!!

The greatest speech of our time

THE AHIARA DECLARATION: The Principles of the Biafran Revolution
By Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
June 1, 1969

Today, as I look back over our two years as a sovereign and independent nation, I am over-whelmed with the feeling of pride and satisfaction in our performance and achievement as a people. Our indomitable will, our courage, our endurance of the severest privations, our resourcefulness and inventiveness in the face of tremendous odds and dangers, have become proverbial in a world so bereft of heroism, and have become a source of frustration to Nigeria and her foreign masters. For this and for the many miracles of our time, let us give thanks to Almighty God,

Fellow countrymen and women, for nearly two years we have been engaged in a war, which threatens our people with total destruction. Our enemy has been unrelenting in his fury and has fought our defenseless people with a vast array of military hardware of a sophistication unknown to Africa. For two years we have withstood his assaults with nothing other than our stout hearts and bare hands. We have frustrated his diabolical intentions and have beaten his wicked mentors in their calculations and innovations. Shamelessly, our enemy has moved from deadline to deadline, seeking excuses justifying their failures to an ever-credulous world. Today, I am happy and proud to report that, all the odds notwithstanding, the enemy, at great cost in lives and equipment, is not near to his avowed objective.

Proud Biafrans, I have kept my promise. Diplomatically, our friends have increased and have remained steadfast to our cause: and, despite the rantings of our detractors, indications are that their support will continue, Fellow countrymen and women, the signs are auspicious, the future fills us with less foreboding. I am confident, with the initiative in war now in our own hands, that we have turned the last bend in our race to self-realization and are now set on the home straight in this our struggle. We must not flag. The tape is in sight. What we need is a final burst of speed to bosom the tape and secure the victory, which will ensure for us for all time, glory and honour, peace and progress.

Fellow compatriots, today, being our Thanksgiving Day, it is most appropriate that we pause awhile to take stock, to consider our past, our successes notwithstanding, to consider our future, our aspirations and our fears,

Fellow Biafrans, I have for a long time thought about this our predicament the attitude of the civilized world to this our conflict. The more I think about it the more I am convinced that our disability is racial. The root cause of our problem lies in the fact that we are black. If all the things that have happened to us had happened to another people who are not black, if other people who are not black had reacted in the way our people have reacted these two long years, the world's response would surely have been different.

In 1966, some 50,000of us were slaughtered like cattle in Nigeria. In the course of this war, well over one million of us have been killed: yet the world is unimpressed and looks on in indifference. Last year, some bloodthirsty Nigerian troops for sport murdered the entire male population of a village. All the world did was to indulge in an academic argument whether the number was in hundreds or in thousands. Today, because a handful of white men collaborating with the enemy, fighting side by side with the enemy, were caught by our gallant troops, the entire world threatens to stop. For 18 white men Europe is excited. What have they said about our millions? Eighteen white men assisting the crime of genocide: what does Europe say about our murdered innocents? Have we not died enough? How many black dead make a missing white? Mathematicians, please answer me. Is it infinity?

Take another example. For two years we have been subjected to a total blockade. We all know how bitter, bloody and protracted the First and Second World Wars were. At no stage in those wars did the white belligerents carry out a total blockade of their fellow whites. In each case where a blockade was imposed, allowance was made for certain basic necessities of life in the interest of women, children and other non-combatants. Ours is the only example in recent history where a whole people have been so treated.

What is it that makes our case different? Do we not have women, children and other non-combatants? Does the fact that they are black women, black children and black non-combatants make such a world of difference? Nigeria embarked on a crime of genocide against our people by first mounting a total blockade against Biafra.

To cover up their designs and deceive the black world, the white powers supporting Nigeria blame Biafrans for the continuation of the blockade and for the starvation and suffering which that entails. They uphold Nigerian proposals on relief, which in any case they helped to formulate, as being 'conciliatory' or 'satisfactory'.

Knowing that these proposals would give Nigeria further military advantage, and compromise the basic cause for which we have struggled for two years, they turn round to condemn us for rejecting them. They accept the total blockade against us as a legitimate weapon of war because it suits them and because we are black. Had we been white the inhuman and cruel blockade would long have been lifted, That Nigeria has received complete support from Britain should surprise no one. For Britain is a country whose history is replete with instances of genocide.

In my address to you on the occasion of the first anniversary of our in dependence, I touched on a number of issues relevant to our struggle and to our hope for a prosperous, just and happy society. I talked to you of the background to our struggle and on the visions and values, which inspired us to found our own state. On this occasion of our second anniversary, I shall go further in the examination of the meaning and import of our revolution by discussing the wider issues involved and the character and structure of the new society we are determined and committed to build. Our enemies and their foreign sponsors have deliberately sought by false and ill-motivated propaganda to cloud the real issues, which caused and still determine the course and character of our struggle.

They have sought in various ways to dismiss our struggle as a tribal conflict. They have attributed it to the mad adventuresome of a fictitious power-seeking clique anxious to carve out an empire to rule, dominate and exploit. But they have failed. Our course is transparently just and no amount of propaganda can detract from it.

Our struggle has far-reaching significance. It is the latest recrudescence in our time of the age-old struggle of the black man for his full stature as man. We are the latest victims of a wicked collusion between the three traditional scourges of the black men, racism, Arab-Muslim expansionism and white economic imperialism. Playing a subsidiary role is Bolshevik Russia, seeking for place in the African sun. Our struggle is a total and vehement rejection of all those evils, which blighted Nigeria, evils which were bound to lead to the disintegration of that ill-fated federation. Our struggle is not mere resistance -that would be merely negative. It is a positive commitment to build a healthy, dynamic and progressive state, such as would be the pride of black men the world over.

For this reason our struggle is a movement against racial prejudice, in particular against that tendency to regard the black man as culturally, morally, spiritually, intellectually, and physically inferior to the other two major races of the world the yellow and the white races. This belief in the innate inferiority of the Negro and that his proper place in the world is that of the servant of the other races, has from early days coloured the attitude of the outside world to Negro problems It still does today

It is this myth about the Negro that still conditions the thinking and attitude of most white governments on all issues concerning black Africa and the black man: it explains the double standards which they apply to present-day world problems it explains their stand on the whole question of independence and basic human rights for black peoples of the world. These myths explain the stand of many of the world governments and organizations on our present struggle.

Our disagreement with the Nigerians arose in part from a conflict between two diametrically opposed conceptions of the end and purpose of the modern African state. It was and still is, our firm conviction that a modern Negro African government worth the trust placed in it by the people, must build a progressive state that ensures the reign of social and economic justice, and of the rule of law. But the Nigerians, under the leadership of the Hausa Fulani feudal aristocracy, preferred anarchy and injustice

Since in the thinking of many white powers a good, progressive and efficient government is good only for whites, our view was considered dangerous and pernicious: a point of view which explains but does not justify the blind support which those powers have given to uphold the Nigerian ideal of a corrupt, decadent and putrefying society. To them genocide is an appropriate answer to any group of Black people who have the temerity to attempt to evolve their own social system

When the Nigerians violated our basic human rights and liberties, we decided reluctantly but bravely to found our own state, to exercise our inalienable right to self determination as our only remaining hope for survival as a people Yet because we are black, we are denied by the white powers the exercise of this right which they themselves have proclaimed as inalienable. In our struggle we have learnt that the right of self-determination is inalienable, but only to the white man, What do we find here in Negro Africa? The Federation of Nigeria is today as corrupt, as unprogressive and as oppressive and irreformable as the Ottoman Empire was in Eastern Europe over a century ago. And in contrast, the Nigerian Federation in the form it was constituted by the British cannot by any stretch of imagination be considered an African necessity. Yet we are being forced to sacrifice our very existence as a people to the integrity of that ramshackle creation that has no justification either in history or in the freely expressed wishes of the people.

What other reason for this can there be than the fact that we are black? . . . Because the black man is considered inferior and servile to the white, he must accept his political, social and economic system and ideologies ready made from Europe, America or the Soviet Union? Within the confines of his nation he must accept a federation or confederation or unitary government if federation or confederation or unitary government suits the interests of his white masters: he must accept inept and unimaginative leadership because the contrary would hurt the interests of the master race: he must accept economic exploitation by alien commercial firms and companies because the whites benefit from it. Beyond the confines of his state, he must accept regional and continental organizations, which provide a front for the manipulations of the imperialist powers: organizations, which are therefore unable to respond to African problems in a truly African manner. For Africans to show a true independence is to ask for anathemization and total liquidation.

The Biafran struggle is, on another plane, a resistance to the Arab-Muslim expansionism, which has menaced and ravaged the African continent for twelve centuries,

Our Biafran ancestors remained immune from the Islamic contagion. From the middle years of the last century Christianity was established in our land. In this way we came to be a predominantly Christian people. We came to stand out as a non-Muslim island in a raging Islamic sea. Throughout the period of the ill-fated Nigerian experiment, the Muslims hoped to infiltrate Biafra by peaceful means and quiet propaganda, but failed. Then the late Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto tried, by political and economic blackmail and terrorism, to convert Biafrans settled in Northern Nigeria to Islam. His hope was that these Biafrans of dispersion would then carry Islam to Biafra, and by so doing give the religion political control of the area. The crises, which agitated the so-called independent Nigeria from 1962, gave these aggressive proselytisers the chance to try converting us by force.

It is now evident why the fanatic Arab-Muslim states like Algeria, Egypt and the Sudan have come out openly and massively to support and aid Nigeria in her present war of genocide against us. These states see militant Arabism as a powerful instrument for attaining power in the world. Biafra is one of the few African states untainted by Islam. Therefore, to militant Arabism, Biafra is a stumbling block to their plan for controlling the whole continent. This control is fast becoming manifest in the Organization of African Unity. On the question of the Middle East, the Sudanese crisis, in the war between Nigeria and Biafra, militant Arabism has succeeded in imposing its point of view through blackmail and bluster.It has threatened African leaders and governments with inciting their Muslim minorities to rebellion if the governments adopted an independent line on these questions.
In this way an O.A.U. that has not felt itself able to discuss the genocide in the Sudan and Biafra, an O A.U. that has again and again advertised its ineptitude as a peace maker, has rushed into open condemnation of Israel over the Middle East dispute. Indeed, in recent times, by its performance, the O.A.U. might well be an organization of Arab unity.
Our struggle, in an even more fundamental sense, is the culmination of the confrontation between Negro nationalism and white imperialism. It is a movement designed to ensure the realization of man's full stature in Africa.

Ever since the 15th Century, the European world has treated the African continent as a field for exploitation. Their policies in Africa have for so long been determined to a very great extent by their greed for economic gain. For over three and half centuries, it suited them to transport and transplant millions of the flower of our manhood for the purpose of exploiting the Americas and the West Indies. They did so with no uneasiness of conscience. They justified this trade in men by reference to biblical passages violently torn out of context, This brutal and unprecedented violation of a whole continent was a violent challenge to Negro self-respect. Not surprisingly, within half a century the theory and practice of empire ran into stiff opposition from Negro nationalism. In the face of the movement for Negro freedom,the white imperialists changed their tactics. They decided to install puppet African administrations to create the illusion of political independence, while retaining the control of the economy. And this they quickly did between 1957 and 1965. The direct empire was transformed into an indirect empire, that regime of fraud and exploitation, which African nationalists aptly describe as neo- colonialism.

Nigeria was a classic example of neo-colonialist state, and what is left of it, still is. The militant nationalism of the late forties and early fifties had caught the British imperialists unawares. They hurried to accommodate it by in stalling the ignorant, decadent and feudalistic Hausa-Fulani oligarchy in power. For the British, the credentials of the Hausa-Fulani were that not having emerged from the middle ages they knew nothing about the modern state and the powerful forces that now rule men's minds. Owing their position to the British, they were servile and submissive. The result was that while Nigerians lived in the illusion of independence, they were still in fact being ruled from Number 10 Downing Street. The British still enjoyed a strangle hold on their economy.

The crises, which rocked Nigeria from the morrow of ‘independence’, were brought about by the efforts of progressive nationalists to achieve true in dependence for themselves and for posterity. For their part in this effort, Biafrans were stigmatised and singled out for extermination. In imperialist thinking, only phoney independence is good for blacks. The sponsorship of Nigeria by white imperialism has not been disinterested. They are only concerned with the preservation of that corrupt and rickety structure of a Nigeria in a perpetual state of powerlessness to check foreign exploitation,

Fellow countrymen and women, we have seen in proper perspective the diabolical roles, which the British Government and the foreign companies have played and are playing, in our war with Nigeria. We now see why in spite of Britain's tottering economy Harold Wilson's Government insists on financing Nigeria's futile war against us. We see why the Shell-BP led the Nigerian hordes into Bonny, pay Biafran oil royalties to Nigeria, and provided the Nigerian army with all the help it needed for its attack on Port Harcourt. We see why the West African Conference readily and meekly cooperated with Gowon in the imposition of a total blockade against us. We see why the oil and trading companies in Nigeria still finance this war and why they risk the life and limb of their staff in the war zones.

And now, Bolshevik Russia. Russia is a late arrival in the race for a world empire. Since the end of the Second World War she has fought hard to gain a foothold in Africa, recognizing, like the other imperialist powers before her, the strategic importance of Africa in the quest for world domination. She first tried to enter into alliance with African nationalism. Later, finding that African nationalism had been thwarted, at least temporarily, by the collusion between imperialism, and the decadent forces in Africa society, Russia quickly changed her strategy and identified herself with those very conservative forces which she had earlier denounced. Here she met with quick success. In North Africa and Egypt, Russian influence has taken firm root and is growing. With her success in Egypt and Algeria, Russia developed an even keener appetite for more territory in Africa, particularly the areas occupied by the Negroes. Her early efforts in the Congo and Ghana proved stillborn. The Nigeria-Biafra conflict offered an opportunity for another beachhead in Africa.

It is not Russia's intention to make Nigeria a better place for Nigerians or indeed any other part of Africa a better place for Africans. Her interest is strategic. In her challenge to the United States and the western world, she needs vantage points in Africa. With her entrenched position in Northern Nigeria, the central Sudan of the historians and geographers, Russia is in a position to co-ordinate her strategy for West and North Africa. We are all familiar with the ancient and historic cultural, linguistic and religious links between North Africa and the Central Sudan. We know that the Hausa language is a lingua franca for over two-thirds of this area. We know how far afield a wandering Imam preaching Islam and Bolshevism can go,

Fellow Biafrans, these are the evil and titanic forces with which we are engaged in a life and death struggle. These are the obstacles to the Negro's efforts to realize himself. Thugs rag the forces, which the Biafran revolution must sweep aside to succeed, We do not claim that the Biafran revolution is the first attempt in history by the Negro to assert his identity, to claim his right and proper place as a human being on a basic of equality with the white and yellow races. We are aware of the Negro's past and present efforts to prove his ability at home and abroad. We are familiar with his achievements in pre-history; we are familiar with his achievements in political organizations; we are familiar with his contributions to the world store of art and culture. The Negro's white oppressors are not unaware of all these. But instead of their awareness they are not prepared to admit that the Negro is a man and a brother. From this derives our deep conviction that the Biafran revolution is not just a movement of Igbos, Ibibios, Ijaws, and Ogojas. It is a movement of true and patriotic Africans. It is African nationalism conscious of itself and fully aware of the powers with which it is contending,

We have indeed come a long way. We were once Nigerians, today we are Biafrans. We are Biafrans because on May 30, 1967, we finally said 'no' to the evils and injustices in which Nigeria was steeped. Nigeria was made up of peoples and groups with very little in common. As everyone knows, Biafrans were in the forefront among those who tried to make Nigeria a nation. It is ironic that some ill-informed and mischievous people today will accuse us of breaking up a united African country. Only those who do not know the facts or deliberately ignore them can hold such an opinion. We know the facts because we were there and the things that happened, happened to us.

Nigeria was indeed a very wicked and corrupt country in spite of the glorious image given her in the European press We know why Nigeria was given that image. It was her reward for serving the economic and political interests of her European masters. Nigeria is a stooge of Europe. Her independence was and is a lie. Even her Prime Minister was a Knight of the British Empire; but worse than her total subservience to foreign political and economic interests, Nigeria committed many crimes against her nationals, which in the end made complete nonsense of her claim to unity. Nigeria persecuted and slaughtered her minorities.Nigerian justice was a farce, her elections, her politics her everything was corrupt. Qualification, merit and experience were dislocated in public service. In one area of Nigeria, for instance, they preferred to turn a nurse who had worked for five years into a doctor rather than employ a qualified doctor from another part of Nigeria. Barely literate clerks were made Permanent Secretaries. A university Vice Chancellor was sacked because he belonged to the wrong tribe. Bribery, corruption and nepotism were so widespread that people began to wonder openly whether any country in the world could compare with Nigeria in corruption and abuse of power. All the modern institutions the legislature the civil service, the army, the police, the judiciary, the universities, the trade unions and the organs of mass information were devalued and made the tools of corrupt political power. There was complete neglect and impoverishment of the people. Whatever prosperity there was, was deceptive. There was despair in many hearts, and the number of suicides was growing every day. The farmers were very hard- hit. Their standards of living had fallen steeply. The soil was perishing from over-farming and lack of scientific husbandry. The towns, like the soil, were wastelands into which people put in too much exertion for too little reward. There were crime waves and people lived in fear of their lives. Business speculation, rack-renting, worship of money and share practices left a few people extremely rich at the expense of the many, and those few flaunted their wealth before the many and talked about sharing the national cake. Foreign interests did roaring business spreading consumer goods and wares among a people who had not developed a habit of thrift and well fell prey to lying advertisements. Inequality of the sexes was actively promoted in Nigeria. Rather than aspire to equality with men, women were encouraged to accept the status of inferiority and to become the mistresses of successful politicians and business executive, or they were married off at the age of fourteen as the fifteenth wives of the new rich. That was the glorious Nigeria, the mythical Nigeria, celebrated in the European press.

Then worst of all came the genocide in which over 50,000 of our kith and kin were slaughtered in cold blood all over Nigeria and nobody asked questions; nobody showed regret; nobody showed remorse. Thus, Nigeria had become a jungle with no safety, no justice and no hope for our people. We decided then to found a new place, a human habitation away from the Nigerian jungle. That was the origin of our revolution. From the moment we assumed the illustrious name of the ancient kingdom of Biafra, we were rediscovering the original independence of a great African people. We accepted by this revolutionary act the glory, as well as the sacrifice, of true independence and freedom. We knew that we had challenged the many forces and interests, which had conspired to keep Africa and the black race in subjection forever. We knew they were going to be ruthless and implacable in defence of their age-old imposition on us and exploitation of our people. But we were prepared, and remain prepared, to pay any price for our freedom and dignity,

Our revolution is a historic opportunity given to us to establish a just society; to revive the dignity of our people at home and the dignity of the black man in the world. We realize that in order to achieve those ends we must remove those weaknesses in our institutions and organizations and those disabilities in foreign relations which have tended to degrade this dignity. This means that we must reject Nigerianism in all its guises,
he Biafran revolution is the people's revolution. 'Who are the people?' you ask. The farmer, the trader, the clerk, the businessman, the housewife, the student, the civil servant, the soldier you and I arc the people. Is there anyone here who is not of the people? Is there anyone here afraid of the people anyone suspicious of the people? Is there anyone despising the people? Such a man has no place in our revolution. If he is a leader, he has no right to leadership, because all power, all sovereignty, belongs to the people. In Biafra the people are supreme; the people are master the leader is the servant. You see, you make a mistake when you greet me with shouts of 'power, power'. I am not power you are. My name is Emeka, I am your servant, that is all.

Fellow countrymen, we pride ourselves on our honesty. Let us admit to ourselves that when u e left Nigeria, some of us did not shake off every particle of Nigerians. We say that Nigerians are corrupt and take bribes; but here in our country we have among us some members of the Police and the Judiciary who are corrupt and who 'eat' bribes. We accuse Nigerians of in ordinate love of money, ostentatious living and irresponsibility: but here, even while we are engaged in a war of national survival, even while the very life of our nation hangs in the balance, we see some public servants who throw huge parties to entertain their friends; who kill cows to christen their babies. We have members of the armed forces who carry on 'attack' trade instead of fighting the enemy. We have traders who hoard essential goods and inflate prices, thereby increasing the people's hardship. We have 'money-mongers' who aspire to build on hundreds of plots on land as yet unreclaimed from the enemy; who plan to buy scores of lorries and buses and to become agents for those very foreign businessmen who have brought their country to grief. We have some civil servants who think of themselves as masters rather than servants of the people. We see doctors who stay idle in their villages while their countrymen and women suffer and die.

When we see all these things, they remind us that not every Biafran has vet absorbed the spirit of the revolution. They tell us that we still have among us a number of people whose attitudes and outlooks are Nigerian. It is clear that if our revolution is to succeed, we must reclaim these wayward Biafrans. We must Biafranise them. We must prepare all our people for the glorious roles, which await them in the revolution. If, after we shall have tried to re claim them, and have failed, then they must be swept aside. The people's revolution must stride ahead and, like a battering ram, clear all obstacles in its path. Fortunately, the vast majority of Biafrans are prepared for these roles.

When we think of our revolution, therefore, we think about these things. We think about our ancient heritage; we think about the challenge of today and the promise of the future. We think about the charges, which are taking place at this very moment in our personal lives and in our society. We see Biafrans from different parts of the country living together, working together, suffering together and pursuing together a common cause, We see our ordinary men and women the people pursuing, in their different but essential ways, the great task of our national survival. We see every sign that this struggle is purifying and elevating the masses of our people, We see many bad social habits and attitudes beginning to change. Above all, we find a universal desire among our people not only to remain free and independent but also to create a new and better order or society for the benefit of all. In the last five or six months, I have devised one additional way of learning at first hand how the ordinary men and women of our country see the revolution. I have established a practice of meeting every Wednesday with a different cross-section of our people, to discuss the problems of the revolution. These meetings have brought home to me the great desire for challenge among the generality of our people. I have heard a number of criticisms and complaints by people against certain things. I have also noticed groups forming themselves and trying to put right some of the ills of society. All this indicates both that there is a change in progress, and need for more change. Thus, the Biafran revolution is not dreamt up by an elite. It is the will of the people. The people want it. Their immediate concern is to defeat the Nigerian aggressor and so safeguard the Biafran revolution.

I stand before you tonight not to launch the Biafran revolution, because it is already in existence. It came into being two years ago when we proclaimed to all the world that we had finally extricated ourselves from the sea of mud that was is Nigeria. I stand before you to proclaim formally the commitment of the Biafran state to the principles of the revolution and to enunciate those principles. Some people are frightened when they hear the word revolution. They say: 'revolution? Heaven help us, it is too dangerous. It means mobs rushing around destroying property, killing people and upsetting everything.' But these people do not understand the real meaning of revolution. For us, a revolution is a change a quick change a change for the better. Every society is changing all the time. It is changing for the better or for the worse. It is either moving forward or moving backwards; it cannot stand absolutely still. A revolution is a forward movement. It is a rapid for ward movement, which improves a people's standard of living and their material circumstance and purifies and raises their moral tone. It transforms for the better those institutions, which are still relevant, and discards those, which stand in the way of progress.

The Biafran revolution believes in the sanctity of human life and the dignity of the human person. The Biafran sees the wilful and wanton destruction of human life not only as a grave crime, but also as an abominable sin. In our society every human life is holy, every individual person counts. No Biafran wants to be taken for granted or ignored, neither does he ignore or take others for granted. This explains why such degrading practices as begging for alms were unknown in Biafran society. Therefore, all forms of disabilities and inequalities, which reduce the dignity of the individual or destroy his sense of person, have no place in the new Biafran social order. The Biafran revolution upholds the dignity of man. The Biafran revolution stands firmly against genocide, against any attempt to destroy a people, its security, its right to life, property and progress. Any attempt to deprive a community of its identity is abhorrent to the Biafran people. Having ourselves suffered genocide, we are all the more determined to take a clear stand now and at all times against this crime.

The new Biafran social order places a high premium on love, patriotism and devotion to the fatherland. Every true Biafran must love Biafra, must have faith in Biafra and its people, and must strive for its greater unity. He must find his salvation here in Biafra. He must be prepared to work for Biafra, to die for Biafra. He must be prepared to defend the sovereignty of Biafra wherever and by whomsoever it is challenged. Biafran patriots do all this already, and Biafra expects all her sons and daughters of today and tomorrow, to emulate their noble example. Diplomats who treat insults to the fatherland and the leadership of our struggle with levity are not patriotic. That young man who sneaks about the village, avoiding service in his country's armed forces is unpatriotic; that young, able-bodied school teacher who prefers to distribute relief when he should be fighting his country's war, is not only unpatriotic but is doing a woman's work. Those who help these loafers to dodge their civic duties should henceforth re-examine themselves.

All Biafrans are brothers and sisters bound together by ties of geography, trade, inter-marriage, and culture and by their common misfortune in Nigeria and their present experience of the armed struggle. Biafrans are even more united by the desire to create a new and better order of society, which will satisfy their needs and aspirations. Therefore, there is no justification for anyone to introduce into the Biafran fatherland divisions based on ethnic origin, sex or religion. 'To do so would be unpatriotic. Every true Biafran must know and demand his civic rights. Furthermore, he must recognize the rights of other Biafrans and be prepared to defend them when necessary. So often people complain that they have been ill-treated by the police or some other public servant. But the truth very often is that we allow ourselves to be bullied because we are not man enough to demand and stand up for our rights, and that fellow citizens around do not assist us when we do demand our rights. In the new Biafran social order sovereignty and power belong to the people. Those who exercise power do so on behalf of the people. Those who govern must not tyrannize the people. They carry a sacred trust of the people and must use their authority strictly in accordance with the will of the people. The true test of success in public life is that the people who are the real masters are contented and happy. The rulers must satisfy the people at all times.But it is no use saying that power belongs to the people unless we are prepared to make it work in practice. Even in the old political days, the oppressors of the people were among those who shouted loudest that power belonged to the people. The Biafran revolution will constantly and honestly seek methods of making this concept a fact rather than a pious hope. Where, therefore, a ministry or department runs inefficiently or improperly, its head must accept personal responsibility for such a situation and, depending on the gravity of the failure, must resign or be removed. And where he is proved to have misused his position of trust to enrich himself, the principle of public accountability requires that he be punished severely and his ill-gotten gains taken from him.

Those who aspire to lead must bear in mind the fact that they are servants and, as such, cannot ever be greater than the people, their masters. Every leader in the Biafran revolution is the embodiment of the ideals of the revolution. Part of his role as leader is to keep the revolutionary spirit alive, to be a friend of the people and protector of their evolution. He should have right judgment both of people and of situations and the ability to attract to himself the right kind of lieutenants who can best further the interests of the people and of the revolution. The leader must not only say but always demonstrate that the power he exercises is derived from the people. Therefore, like every other Biafran public servant, he is accountable to the people for the use he makes of their mandates. He must get out when the people tell him to get out. The more power the leader is given by the people, then less is his personal freedom and the greater his responsibility for the good of the people. He should never allow his high office to separate him from the people. He must be fanatical for their welfare.

A leader in the Biafran revolution must at all times stand for justice in dealing with the people. He should be the symbol of justice, which is the supreme guarantee of good government. He should be ready, if need be, to lay down his life in pursuit of this ideal. He must have physical and moral courage and must be able to inspire the people out of despondency. He should never strive towards the perpetuation of his office or devise means to cling to office beyond the clear mandate of the people. He should resist the temptation to erect memorials to himself in his life-time, to have his head embossed on the coin, name streets and institutions after himself or convert government into a. family business. A leader who serves his people well will be enshrined in their hearts and minds. This is all the reward he can expect in his lifetime. He will be to the people the symbol of excellence, the quintessence of the revolution. He will be Biafran.

One of the corner stones of the Biafran revolution is social justice. We believe that there should be equal opportunity for all, that appreciation and just reward should be given for honest work and that society should show concern and special care for the weak and infirm. Our people reject all forms of social inequalities and disabilities and all class and sectional privileges. Biafrans believe that society should treat all its members with impartiality and fairness. Therefore, the Biafran state must not apportion special privileges or favours to some citizens and deny them to others. For example, how can we talk of social justice in a situation where a highly paid public servant gets his salt free and poor housewives in the village pay five pounds for a cup? The state should not create a situation favourable to the exploitation of some citizens by others. The State is the father of all, the source of security, the reliable agent, which helps all to realize their legitimate hopes and aspirations. Without social justice, harmony and stability within society disappear and antagonisms between various sections of the community take their place. Our revolution will uphold social justice at all times. The Biafran state will be the fountain of justice.

In the new Biafra, all property belongs to the community. Every individual must consider all he has, whether in talent or material wealth, as belonging to the community for which he holds it in trust. This principle does not mean the abolition of personal property but it implies that the state, acting on behalf of the community, can intervene in the disposition of property to the greater advantage of all. Over-acquisitiveness or the inordinate desire to amass wealth is a factor liable to threaten social stability, especially in an under-developed society in which there are not enough material goods to go round. This creates lop-sided development, breeds antagonisms between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' and undermines the peace and unity of the people.

While the Biafran revolution will foster private economic enterprise and initiative, it should remain constantly alive to the dangers of some citizens accumulating large private fortunes. Property grabbing, if unchecked by the state, will set the pattern of behaviour for the whole society, which begins to attach undue value to money and property. Thus a wealthy man, even if he is known to be a crook, is accorded greater respect than an honest citizen who is not well-off. A society where this happens is doomed to rot and decay. Moreover, the danger is always there of a small group of powerful property owners using their influence to deflect the state from performing its duties to the citizens as a whole and thereby destroying the democratic basis of society. This happens in many countries and it is one of the duties of our revolution to prevent its occurrence in Biafra.

Finally, the Biafran revolution will create possibilities for citizens with talent in business, administration, management and technology, to fulfil themselves and receive due appreciation and reward in the service of the state, as has indeed happened in our total mobilization to prosecute the present war. The Biafran revolution is committed to creating a society not torn by class-consciousness and class antagonisms. Biafran society is traditionally egalitarian. The possibility for social mobility is always presented in our society. The new Biafran social order rejects all rigid classifications of society. Anyone with imagination, anyone with integrity, anyone who works hard, can rise to any height. Thus, the son of a truck pusher can become the Head of State of Biafra. The Biafran revolution will provide opportunities for Biafrans to aspire and to achieve their legitimate desires. Those who find themselves below at any particular moment must have the opportunity to rise to the top.

Our new society is open and progressive. The people of Biafra have always striven to achieve a workable balance between the claims of tradition and the demand for change and betterment. We are adaptable because as a people we are convinced that in the world 'no condition is permanent' and we believe that human effort and will are necessary to bring about changes and improvements in the condition of the individual and of society. The Biafran would, thus, make the effort to improve his lot and the material well being of his community. He has the will to transform his society into a modern progressive community. In this process of rapid transformation he will retain and cherish the best elements of his culture, drawing sustenance as well as moral and psychological stability from them. But being a Biafran he will never be afraid to adapt what needs to be adapted or challenge what has to be changed. The Biafran revolution will continue to discover and develop local talent and to use progressive foreign ideas and skills so long as they do not destroy the identity of our culture or detract from the sovereignty of our fatherland. The Biafran revolution will also ensure through education that the positive aspects of Biafran traditional culture, especially those which are likely to be swamped out of existence by introduced foreign influences, are conserved. The undiscriminating absorption of new ideas and attitudes will be discouraged. Biafrans can, in the final analysis, only validly express their nation's personality and enhance their corporate identity through Biafran culture, through Biafran art and literature, music, dancing and drama, and through the peculiar gestures and social habits which distinguish them from all other people. Those then are the main principles of our revolution. They are not abstract formulations but arise out of the traditional background and the present temper of our people. They grow out of our native soil and are the product of our peculiar climate. They belong to us. If anyone here doubts the validity of these principles let him go out into the streets and into the villages, let him ask the ordinary Biafran. Let him go to the army, ask the rank and file and he will find, as I have found, that they have very clear ideas about the kind of society we should build here. They will not put them in the same words I have used tonight but the meaning will be the same. From today, let no Biafran pretend that he or she does not know the main-spring of our national action, let him or her not plead ignorance when found indulging in un-Biafran activities. The principles of our revolution are hereby clearly set out for everyone to see. They are now the property of every Biafran and the instrument for interpreting our national life. But principles are principles. They can only be transformed into reality through the institutions of society, otherwise they remain inert and useless. It is my firm conviction that in the Biafran revolution principles and practice will go hand in hand. It is my duty and the duty of all of you to bring this about. Looking at the institutions of our society, the very vehicles for carrying out our revolutionary principles, what do you find? We find old, jaded and rusty machines creaking along most inefficiently and delaying the people's progress and the progress of the revolution. The problem of our institutions is partly that they were designed by other people, in other times and for other purposes. Their most fundamental weakness is that they came into being during the colonial period when the relationship between the colonial administrators and people was that of master and servant. Our public servants as heirs of the colonial masters are apt to treat the people today with arrogance and condescension. In the new Biafran social order we say that power belongs to the people, but this central principle tends to elude many of the public servants who continue to behave in a manner which shows that they consider themselves master and the people their servants. The message of the revolution has tended to fly over their heads. Let them beware, the revolution gathering momentum

Our experience during this struggle has brought home to us the need for versatility. Many of our citizens have found themselves having to do emergency duties different from their normal peacetime jobs. In the years after the present armed conflict, we may find that in the defence of the revolution the general state of mobilization and alertness will remain. One of the ways of preparing ourselves for this emergency will be to ensure that a citizen will be trained in two jobs his normal peace-time occupation and a different skill which will be called into play during a national emergency. Thus, for example, a clerk may be given training to enable him to operate as an ambulance-driver during the emergency or a university lecturer as a post- master. We realize here that the problem is more than that of providing narrow, technical training. It has to do with re-orientation of attitudes. It has to do with the cultivation of the right kind of civic virtues and loyalty to Biafra. We all stand in need of this. It is quite clear that to attain the goals of the Biafran revolution we will require extensive political and civic education of our people. To this effect, we will, in the near future, set up a National Orientation College (N.O.C.), which will undertake the needful function of formally inculcating the Biafran ideology and the principles of the revolution. We will also pursue this vital task of education through seminars, mass rallies, formal and informal addresses by the leaders and standard-bearers of the revolution. All Biafrans who are going to play a role in the promotion of the revolution, especially those who are going to operate the institutions of the new society, must first of all expose themselves to the ideology of the revolution The full realization of the Biafran ideology and the promise of the Biafran revolution will have the important effect of drawing the people of Biafra into close unity with the Biafran state. The Biafran state and the Biafran people thus become one. The people jealously defend and protect the integrity of the state. The state guarantees the people certain basic rights and welfare. In this third year of our independence, we restate these basic rights and welfare obligations, which the revolutionary state of Biafra guarantees to the people.

In the field of employment and labour, the Biafran revolution guarantees every able Biafran the right to work. All those who are lazy or refuse to work forfeit their right to this guarantee. 'He who does not work should not eat' is an important principle in Biafra.

Our revolution provides equal opportunities for employment and labour for all Biafrans irrespective of sex. For equal output a woman must receive the same remuneration as a man. Our revolutionary Biafran state will guarantee a rational system of remuneration of labour. Merit and output shall be the criteria for reward in labour. 'To each according to his ability, to each ability according to its product' shall be our motto Biafra.

Our revolution guarantees security for workers who have been incapacitated by physical injury or disease. It will be the duty of the Biafran state to raise the standard of living of the Biafran people, to provide them with improved living conditions and to afford the modern amenities that enhance their human dignity and self-esteem. We recognize that at a11 times the great contributions made by the farmer, the craftsmen and other toilers of the revolution to our national progress. It will be a cardinal point of our economic policy to keep their welfare constantly in view. The Biafran revolution will promulgate a workers' charter, which will codify and establish workers' rights.

The maintenance of the heath and physical well being of the Biafran citizen must be the concern and the responsibility of the state. The revolutionary Biafran state will at all times strive to provide medical service for all its citizens in accordance with the resources available to it, it will wage a continuous struggle against epidemic and endemic diseases, and will promote among the people knowledge of hygienic living. It will develop social and preventive medicine, set up sanatoriums for incurable and infectious diseases and mental diseases, and a net-work of maternity homes for ante and post- natal care of Biafran mothers. Furthermore, Biafra will set great store by the purity of the air, which its people breathe. We have a right to live in a clean, pollution-free atmosphere.

Our revolution recognizes the very importance of the mental and emotional need 0f the Biafran people. To this end, the Biafran state will pay great attention to education, culture and the arts. We shall aim at elevating our cultural institutions and promoting educational reforms, which will foster a sense of national and racial pride among our people and discourage ideas, which inspire a sense of inferiority and dependence on foreigners. It will be the prime duty of the revolutionary Biafran state to eradicate illiteracy from our society, to guarantee free education to all Biafran children to a stage limited only by existing resources. Our nation will encourage the training of scientists, technicians and skilled workers needed for quick industrialization and the modernization of our agriculture. We will ensure the development of higher education and technological training for our people, encourage our intellectuals, writers, artists and scientists to research, create and invent in the service of the state and the people. We must prepare our people to con-tribute significantly to knowledge and world culture.

Finally, the present armed struggle, in which many of our countrymen and women have distinguished themselves and made numerous sacrifices in defence of the fatherland and the revolution, has imposed on the state Or Biafra extra responsibility for the welfare of its people. Biafra will give special care and assistance to soldiers and civilians disabled in the course or the pogrom and the war. It will develop special schemes for resettlement and rehabilitation. The nation will assume responsibility for the dependents of the heroes of the revolution who have lost their lives in defence of the father,

Again and again, in stating the principles of our revolution, we have spoken of the people. We have spoken of the primacy of people, of the belief that power belongs to the people, that the revolution is the servant of the people. We make no apologies for speaking so constantly about the people, because we believe in the people; we have faith in the people. They are the bastion of the nation, the makers of its culture and history. But in talking about the people we must never lose sight of the individuals who make up the people. The single individual is the final, irreducible unit of the people. In Biafra that single individual counts. The Biafran revolution cannot lose sight of this fact. The desirable changes, which the revolution aims to bring to the lives of the people, will first manifest themselves in the lives of individual Biafrans. The success of the Biafran revolution will depend on the quality of individuals within the state. Therefore, the calibre of the individual is of the utmost importance to the revolution. To build the new society we will require new men who are in tune with the spirit of the new order.

What then should he the qualities of this Biafran of the new order? He is patriotic, loyal to his state, his government and its leadership. He must not do anything, which undermines the security of his state or gives advantage to the enemies of his country. He must not indulge in such evil practices as tribalism and nepotism, which weaken the loyalty of their victims to the state. He should be prepared if need be to give up his life in defence of the nation. He must be his brother's keeper; he must help all Biafrans in difficulty, whether or not they are related to kin by blood. He must avoid, at all costs, doing anything, which is capable of bringing distress and hardship to other Biafrans. A man who hoards money or goods is not his brother's keeper be cause he brings distress and hardship to his fellow citizens. He must be honourable, he must be a person who keeps his promise and the promise of his office, a person who can always be trusted. He must be truthful. He must not cheat his neighbour, his fellow citizens and his country. He must not give or receive bribes or corruptly advance himself or his interests. He must be responsible. He must not push across to others the task, which properly belongs to him, or let others receive the blame or punishment for his own failings. A responsible man keeps secrets. A Biafran who is in a position to know what our troops are planning and talks about it is irresponsible. The information he gives out which spread and reach the ear of the enemy. A responsible man minds his own business, he does not show off.

He must be brave and courageous; he must never allow himself to be attacked by other without fighting back to defend himself and his rights. He must be ready to tackle tasks, which other people might regard as impossible. He must be law-abiding; he obeys the laws of the land and does nothing to undermine the due processes of law. He must be freedom loving. He must stand up resolutely against all forms of injustice, oppression and suppression. He must never be afraid to demand his rights. For example, a true Biafran at a post office or bank counter will insist on being served in his turn. He must be progressive; he should not slavishly and blindly adhere to old ways of doing things. He must be prepared to make changes in his way of life in the light of our new revolutionary experience. He is industrious, resourceful and inventive He must not fold his arms and wait for the government to do everything for him he must also help himself.

My fellow countrymen and women, proud and courageous Biafrans, two years ago, faced with the threat of total extermination, we met in circumstances not unlike todays at that august gathering. The entire leaders of our people being present, we as a people decided that we had to take our destiny into our own hand, to plan and decide our future and to stand by the decisions, no matter the vicissitudes of this war which by then was already imminent. At that time, our major pre-occupation was how to remain alive, how to restrain an implacable enemy from destroying us in our own homes. In that moment of crisis we decided to resume our sovereignty. In my statement to the leaders of our community before that decision was made, I spoke about the difficulties. I explained that the road, which we were about to tread, was to be carved through a jungle of thorns and that our ability to emerge through this jungle was to say the least uncertain. Since that fateful decision, the very worst has happened. Our people have continually been subjected to genocide. The entire conspiracy of neo-colonialism has joined hands to stifle our nascent independence. Yet, undaunted by the odds, proud in the fact of our manhood, encouraged by the companionship of the Almighty, we have fought to this day with honour, with pride and with glory so that today, as I stand before you, I see a proud people acknowledged by the world. I see a heroic people, men with heartbeats as regular and blood as red as the best on earth.

On that fateful day two years ago, you mandated me to do everything within my power to avert the dangers that loomed ahead, the threat of ex termination. Little did we, you and I, know how long the battle was to be, how complex its attendant problems. From then on, what has been achieved is there for the entire world to see, and has only been possible because of the solidarity and support of our people. For this I thank you all. I must have made certain mistakes in the course of this journey but I am sure that whatever mistakes I have made are mistakes of the head and never of the heart. I have tackled the sudden problems as they unfold before my eves and I have tackled them to the best of my ability with the greater interest of our people m mind.

Today, I am glad that our problems are less than they were a year ago, that arms alone could no longer destroy us that our victory, the fulfilment of our dreams, is very much in sight. We have forced a stalemate on the enemy and this is likely to continue, with any advances likely to be on our side. If we fail, which God forbid, it can only be because of certain inner weakness in our being. It is in order to avoid these pitfalls that I have today proclaimed be fore you the principles of the Biafran revolution. We in Biafra are convinced that the black man can never come into his own until he is able to build modern states based on indigenous African ideologies, to enjoy true independence, to be able to make his mark in the arts and sciences and to engage in meaningful dialogue with the white man on a basis of equality. When he achieves this, he will have brought a new dimension into international affairs. Biafra will not betray the black man. No matter the odds, we will fight with all our might until black men everywhere can point with pride to this republic, standing dignified and defiant, an example of African nationalism triumphant over its many and age-old enemies.

We believe that God, humanity and history are on our side, and that the Biafran revolution is indestructible and eternal. Oh God, not my will but thine.

"The war has come and gone but we remember with pride and hope the three heady years of freedom. These were the three years when we had the opportunity to demonstrate what Nigeria would have been even before 1970. In the three years of war, necessity gave birth to invention. During those three years, we built bombs, we built rockets, we designed and built our own delivery systems. We guided our rockets, we guided them far, and we guided them accurately. For three years, blockaded without hope of imports, we maintained engines, machines, and technical equipment. The state extracted and refined petrol, individuals refined petrol in their back gardens, we built and maintained airports, we maintained them under heavy bombardment. We spoke to the world through a telecommunications system engineered by local ingenuity. The world heard us and spoke back to us. We built armoured cars and tanks. We modified aircraft from trainer to fighters, from passenger aircraft to bombers. In three years of freedom, we had broken the technological barrier. In three years, we became the most civilized, the most technologically advanced black people on earth."


Gen Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

yawning!!!!!!!fresh air abeg

please you guys should try to differentiate strike and street protest, they are on strike which is a form of protest.that they are not on the street doesn't meant there are not protesting.BTW an average SE man is a proud man who will not stoop so low to come beg for hangout or cry.he has more pressing issues to deal with and not crying on the street.after all igbos are Lagos,Kano,Abuja and all the major cities and they are protesting there too also Nollywood too is protesting.we have been buying fuel as much as 100buck before the so called subsidy removal,what difference will it make selling fuel at 150buck

Back to the rantings,Must it be the igbos,why is nobody talking about ibibio,efik,calaba,oron,uyo,makurdi,jos,taraba,, must it be igbos/SE.wetin them do una??i tout you guys said their voice is not relevant in nigeria so why are you guys so desperate to make them join the protest,

IMO i think the subsidy protest is a misguided protest,we should rather be protesting for true federalism,resource control,judicial and EFCC autonomy,removal of immunity for our leaders,PIB,NNPC REFORMS,trial of past corrupt leaders,Education reforms,health reforms,better welfare package,transparency in governances.those are the things that will change affect us as Nigerians and not subsidy.cos subsidy will not stop corruption,it will not make EFCC stronger,it will not make the judiciary better,it will not make them try obj,bankole,tinubu,atiku, and the rest.you guys should use your heads and dont be mislead by selfish people(who lost in election) that are looking for political point, don't make your education be a waste(educated illiterates) choose the right things to fight for and not waste you time and i think the SE and generality of the SS did the right thing to stay away from the street protest considering the fact the there are still finding the right time to strike back at bokoharam and their people which the protest could be a fertile ground but i think they are much matured about it and i can say they are wisher , its high time money must work and monkey must chop.face you life and make a good living.stop all these igbo obsession, if it is not an igbo issue your trend cant attract attention, NA WA OOO,


Imagine a bakare,elrufia and the ACN fools using the subsidy to score points, if i may ask what happened to the lekki toll gate protest did you get anything?did your fashola and other state governors not support the subsidy removal?afteral most people say they support subsidy removal but the timing is wrong so what does that tell you?it means GEJ is doing the right thing.

the most annoying part of it will be when NLC leaders will collect money and they will bargain with federal government to reduce the price of fuel to like 100naira or at least 80-90naira.so who wins FG or labour and their mumu followers, fools, please Nigerians USE YOUR HEADS.FG,NLC,CSO are all the same.the so called SAVE NIGERIA GROUP is it no lead by a political pastor(bakare)
they are all opportunist in search of relevance and political grant, The more you look the less you see,

Your leaders in the East are miscalculating again and when the time comes to reap the gains of the protests, the same leaders will be crying marginalization

This sound like a bride.so the SE joins the protest so the will reap the gains of the protest by giving them presidency, hahahahah.

your trick will not work this time.don't worry we will hit Nigerian when the time is ripe and at that time all you cowards and betrayers will be punished.idiotic Shallow thinkers

Your leaders in the East are miscalculating again and when the time comes to reap the gains of the protests, the same leaders will be crying marginalization.  What a crop of dumb leaders!

And what has your well calculate leaders done for you?how have they made your life better? rather they are the once that have put GEJ in this mess.


I will rather have an elected igbo leader lead me in biafra than a selected igbo leader lead me in Nigeria.


Nigerians with all their foolish wise calculating leaders, hahahahahah.

can you shut up and stop these lies. how can the average be 100 Naira ? when one of the most booming commercial centre in the east Nnewi is about 75-80 Naira.

Who do you think you are deceiving here ?

Rubbish

You are the biggest fool on Nairaland.you better find how you will help all those your almajiri littered all over the streets of west Africa cos your leaders are the most irresponsible leaders i know.both political and private unless bill gate and his likes will keep on coming to kano to test new polio drugs which maybe dangerous to their health.am sure you are aware of the Pfizer case that kill some children in kano. when you have the likes of thief dangote,dantata,sanusi who can change all the over night by just educating them and giving them scholarships

please you guys should try to differentiate strike and street protest, they are on strike which is a form of protest.that they are not on the street doesn't meant there are not protesting.BTW an average SE man is a proud man who will not stoop so low to come beg for hangout or cry.he has more pressing issues to deal with and not crying on the street.after all igbos are Lagos,Kano,Abuja and all the major cities and they are protesting there too also Nollywood too is protesting.we have been buying fuel as much as 100buck before the so called subsidy removal,what difference will it make selling fuel at 150buck

Back to the rantings,Must it be the igbos,why is nobody talking about ibibio,efik,calaba,oron,uyo,makurdi,jos,taraba,, must it be igbos/SE.wetin them do una??i tout you guys said their voice is not relevant in nigeria so why are you guys so desperate to make them join the protest,

IMO i think the subsidy protest is a misguided protest,we should rather be protesting for true federalism,resource control,judicial and EFCC autonomy,removal of immunity for our leaders,PIB,NNPC REFORMS,trial of past corrupt leaders,Education reforms,health reforms,better welfare package,transparency in governances.those are the things that will change affect us as Nigerians and not subsidy.cos subsidy will not stop corruption,it will not make EFCC stronger,it will not make the judiciary better,it will not make them try obj,bankole,tinubu,atiku, and the rest.you guys should use your heads and dont be mislead by selfish people(who lost in election) that are looking for political point, don't make your education be a waste(educated illiterates) choose the right things to fight for and not waste you time and i think the SE and generality of the SS did the right thing to stay away from the street protest considering the fact the there are still finding the right time to strike back at bokoharam and their people which the protest could be a fertile ground but i think they are much matured about it and i can say they are wisher , its high time money must work and monkey must chop.face you life and make a good living.stop all these igbo obsession, if it is not an igbo issue your trend cant attract attention, NA WA OOO,


Imagine a bakare,elrufia and the ACN fools using the subsidy to score points, if i may ask what happened to the lekki toll gate protest did you get anything?did your fashola and other state governors not support the subsidy removal?afteral most people say they support subsidy removal but the timing is wrong so what does that tell you?it means GEJ is doing the right thing.

the most annoying part of it will be when NLC leaders will collect money and they will bargain with federal government to reduce the price of fuel to like 100naira or at least 80-90naira.so who wins FG or labour and their mumu followers, fools, please Nigerians USE YOUR HEADS.FG,NLC,CSO are all the same.the so called SAVE NIGERIA GROUP is it no lead by a political pastor(bakare)
they are all opportunist  in search of relevance and political grant, The more you look the less you see,

all Muslims are not terrorist but all terrorist are Muslims.

serious all Muslims need counseling to change from their animalistic believed.cos their Islam is just a curse and disease to this world, imagine a world without Islam.

Translated by DGUY/african herald express -

Caveat: For those that do not understand Hausa/Arabic language. I have done a translation to the best of my knowledge:

Bismalahi Rahmani Rahin ……, (Recites Qu’ran Surat (verse) in Arabic)

Hausa starts at 1:30 Minutes Mark.

…… [b][b]In addition to that people, greetings of peace to you,
Glory be to Allah, after the greetings, after giving thanks to God,
And also greetings to the entire community,
I am doing some explanations and calling on president Goodluck Jonathan and the Head of Christians,
and am sending my regards to the entire community in total,
Glory be to God, we are by name, Ja’mahatu Alisan’a Litahuci Ba’Jihadi Of which they call us Boko Haram,
Glory be to God, we have made explanations, we have said everything that was there to be said,
and everyone heard of it, but what was done for us?
and everyone has seen it, what have they kept for us?
and everyone has seen, what is the bone of contention between us and the people we are fighting?
The people of the world, and the people that have resulted to exposing us,
the people that are betraying us, trying to help the government get hold of us,
these are the people that are fighting against us, we have not touched anyone else
then the other set of people, the Christians, of which everyone knows what they did to us,
and what they have kept for muslims, not once not twice,
this has led us to have this kind of fate,
there is nothing else that has prompt me to do this explanation,
other than the explanations that Jonathan has come out to say about us,
and the explanations that the head of Christians has come out to say about us,
and the explanations that some individuals have been saying about us,
as far as even saying we are a cancer, which is an imbecilic disease,
No, we are not cancer and we are not a disease,
and we are not wayward people with wicked intentions,
and if the public does not know us, allah knows everybody,
……………….speaks some arabic……………………….
Everyone knows the kind of terrible things done to us,
everyone knows the mutiny that has been done to our community from time to time,
like during that times of Zangon Kataf (South Kaduna), the likes of Tafawa Balewa, In the town of Kaduna,
all the towns in the small villages, likes of Langtan (Jos), Likes of yarwan shangam, Likes of what happened in the city Of Lagos,
So many different things has been done to the muslim community in this country,
and they have gone away without any second thought,
so because of that, cheating is the foundation of infidelity,
As Allah said in the Qu’ran, (recites Qu’ran).
Everyone knows that the constitution is infidel,
Everyone knows there are things that Allah has prohibited in the Qu’ran that is being taught in western educational system,
We have not prohibited anything,
there is nothing we have forced on anyone,
the only thing we asked for is to come and follow the ways of Allah,
that is how we can live peacefully,
that is when we can have rest of mind,
that is how Allah has said,
if we do not do that, we wont have rest of mind, that is what we said,
that is what we said and the government said they should finish us and kill us,
and they killed us, they destroyed our mosques and drove us,
and they didnt leave us alone, so we said to ourselves to stand up and defend ourselves,
and Allah worked in his miraculous way, he has said that if you follow him he will give you power,
and this is what has happened,
and so, Jonathan, know this, this is beyond your power, because it is not our work,
It is Allahs work, it is beyond your power, (Swears) all what you have been saying,
its as to if you havnt started speaking yet,[/b]
[b]Because before Allah thought of the earth, he knew what would happen,
and he has made a promise that he will help his disciples, so its beyond your power,
it is not us doing it, and all these things that you see are happening, it is Allah that is doing them,
Because you people have disregarded him, because you people have refused to follow him,
because you people have abused(taken advantage) of him, because you people have made fun of his religion,
so because of that Jonathan, this is way beyond your power,
and if we find that some people are in support of what we are doing and they feel we are operating in honesty and are speaking
good of us amongst you, then that is not a surprise, that has happened many times,
our hands are opened to anyone that has agreed to walk with us,
but our hands are tied, copied from N aijapals.com to anyone that says he wont follow Allah, even if they love us,
Allah didnt say we should love them back, except we should persuade them and preach to them to love allah,
before we can walk together in honesty, that is it and because of that, that is it,
you christians should know this, prophet Isa (Jesus?) followed Allah and he is a disciple of Allah,
a servant of Allah and not an equal (replacement) of Allah,
The religion you are practicing of which is Christianity is not a religion of God,
It is infidelity and has been prohibited by Allah,
so therefore, what you are practicing is not a religion,
and beside that you cheated us and killed us, infact you ate (ate) our (body) meat and you did all you did to us,
and right on that we did our work, preached to you and tried to convert you to walk with us in Allahs way,
we were still sitting and praying we havnt stood up, when you started killing us,
and you took our women,
and you did whatever you pleased on us,
and now their head, the head of Christians came out and said that all Christians should defend themselves,
any sensible person knows what you are implying,
Any sensible person knows what you are saying,
and yet, we shall not fight with you in our way,
we shall fight with you in the way that the islamic religion has allowed us to fight,
which is why, as the head of this community I am telling you to repent,
that is my first calling to you,
All christian should relax and repent, that is my calling to you,
this work that we are doing is not our work, it is Allah’s work
we are doing Allah’s work,
the community of Muslims, please understand us, we do not have intentions of killing people.
or making fun of it,
or taking the wealth of another,
I am doing this because an explanation is necessary,
even without an explanation our course will still continue,
because the person i want to know me properly is the one that understands me,
and before he understands me he already knows me, no matter what i say,
Public please know this, we do not have any other intention rather than helping the followers of Allah,
and this is the only thing I am saying,
and this is the only explanation that i will do to the public,
but if you are looking for further explanations,
Look for the explanations we have done on our cassettes,
and everyone will know what our intentions are,
and what we want the government to address,
and this is the only explanation that i will do to the head of states, Goodluck Jonathan,[/b]
that has come out and said things that can not be heard about us,
and done things.
In this few days, we done some few campaigns and God has granted us luck to succeed,
that makes everyone to stand up and start running their mouths, as if we just started this recently,
since in the past, now over 11 years they have been killing us, no one said anything,
infact (allah you are great, allah king, allah king,),
Allah is sufficient for us,
all that people will say, Allah is sufficient for us,
All what people will do to use, Allah is sufficient for us,
we are only following Allah,
and only on Allah’s commandments are we walking,
we do not touch anyone, except those that touch us,
this work we are doing is a command from Allah,
and everything we are doing is writing in the book of Allah,
Which we are following,
we do not touch anyone, but anyone that says he will fight Allah, should not relent in watching his back,
Even the prophet said this during his time in Mecca,
Anyone that cheats religion should not play with the cloth of religion,
if we see any of such person we shall kill them
I swear we shall kill them, killing them is nothing to us, it is like going for the 5am prayers,
and if they find us too they do kill us, but we accept in good fate, they should even kill us more,
Allah should let us be killed in his name, it is a great honor,
that is what we are looking for, Allah should let you kill us too,
our desire is to kill and die and go to paradise,
To say we are not practicing religion, we are not bla bla bla, these are all your talks,
we know what we have set our foot on, what we have read, what book of the Qu’ran we hold,
Glory be to God,
These are the explanations I can do this time,
This is what Allah has told me to say to you,
to the general public,
at the end, everyone talking about war war,
we shall be the one that will start the war,
if they bring it to use in the way that Allah instructs us to fight it,
but we dont fight way the way the sinner wants us to fight it,
we only the it the way Allah wants it,
there is a way he has told us to fight and there is a way he has told us not to fight,
and this is all inside the Qu’ran,
one in the suratu of amfal, and the other in suratu muhamad, it is explained there,
we have seen how allah did it, we have seen how those before us did it,
Glory be to Allah, this is what has been laid on my heart to say to you.
Glory be to Allah.
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7 All south south and south east Governors

You must be a bid fool,didn't your fashola,ajimobi amosun and the gov of ekiti state support the subsidy removal(all the governors did anyway as a result of their need to pay the minimum wage), i wonder when people will pluck the tribal fur from their eyes and begin to think reasonably,

igbos are not betrayers like you and your Yoruba people.once they give you their words so be it,especially if you are from the south, even the Hausa man can attest to that.


We will stand by him come day and night.

Don't know why betrayal runs in the blood of all this yoruba people.cant they just stick to one course and fight it to the endits very unfortunate,


BTW, how much have he collected,tomorrow they go say an igbo man like money pass,say he go sell him mama.but a yoruba men have been selling Nigeria(obj,tinubu and bank ole) and the leaders like they sold abiola and also sold ribadu to PDP even thought they still didn't vote for GEJ after ACN collected money from PDP, foolish cowards that cant finish what they have started.

The PENGASSAN President, Babatunde Ogun has betrayed Nigerians. He has communicated to all Branches of PENGASSAN and the oil companies that oil wells should not be shut in tomorrow as planned. Shutting down of oil production is the only thing that can put FG and America under pressure instantly.
He is the one frustrating our collective efforts even when we are being killed daily by GEJ. The following are his phone numbers: 08035113031 and 08055493031. Pls occupy his life. Bombard him on Facebook also.

Nde ara

THE Federal Government through some ministers, on Friday, held town hall meetings with public servants in each ministry with a view to explaining the facts of the subsidy crisis.

This is happening as a plot to force the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, out of the government has been uncovered.

Reports from the various ministries showed that the ministers met their staff to explain details of the subsidy removal policy with an emphasis on the fact that the rich benefit from the subsidy policy more than the poor.

Sunday Tribune learnt that each minister was armed with detailed fliers and pamphlets which were distributed to the staff for their further reading and reconsideration of the proposed strike action.

Some of the materials explained the deregulation of the downstream oil sector, the analysis of who benefit most from the subsidy and how the government intends to expend the subsidy fund under the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SREP).

It was learnt that the meetings were well attended by staff and union members in each ministry contrary to the expectations of some of the ministers that the meetings might be boycotted in line with the position of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).

It was learnt that the town hall meeting is part of government’s drive to engage the informal structure of the labour unions.

Meanwhile, Sunday Tribune has discovered a grand plot to frustrate the Finance Minister, Dr Iweala out of government as a way of scuttling the transformation agenda of the Jonathan administration.

The plot, Sunday Tribune learnt,is being hatched by the traditional forces who had originally kicked against the re-appointment of Iweala as a minister and some forces within the government who are angered by her appointment as a coordinating minister for the nation’s economy.

Investigations showed that Iweala is loathed by some who may have decided to hang the subsidy issue on her head.

It was gathered that Iweala was not even a member of the committee that took decisions on the subsidy policy as the ministry of finance was only represented by the minister of state in the ministry of finance.

Sunday Tribune learnt that three groups are behind the anti-Iweala plot with reports that huge funds are being disbursed to some groups in order to intensify the campaign to pressure the president to sack the minister.

Among the many sins of Iweala, Sunday Tribune learnt, was her insistence on port reforms, her tacit support for the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), her tightening on Federal Government’s financial operations.

I used to admire the 2 Mallams that were in the center stage of OBJ's administration but what they have become recently is worrisome to many Nigerians. I am yet to understand the genesis of these attacks from El-Rufai even with corruption charges against him. Are we sure he is not sponsoring Boko Haram?

Elrufai to Kano Governor Kwankwaso "Jonathan is not your friend"

Controversial former minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir Elrufai, has accused Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of planning to attack pro fuel subsidy protesters in Kano and warned him that President Jonathan is not his friend.


Elrufai who has been very active on Twitter has taken to retweeting insults at President Jonathan and this has come to be expected by Nigerians on Twitter, however, many Nigerians on Twitter are at a loss to what Ekrufai is trying to do by publicly telling the Governor of Kano that the President is not his friend. Many of those who follow him are worried about his use of abusive words against the person of the President.

Elrufai was also circulating the false rumor that the President had travelled to South Africa in the heat of the fuel subsidy removal and the attendant tension it brought. But it turned out that Elrufai had been propagating propaganda as the President did not travel and was actually at Eagles Square on live TV launching the Mass Transit Scheme he had promised Nigerians in his speech on Saturday the 7th of January.

As usual, NaijaPundit exclusively brings you those tweets.





Acknowledging the disinformation going on on Social Media, President Jonathan at the Eagles Square launch of the Nass Transit Intervention scheme said “ There (are) a lot of mischief makers going around to misinform Nigerians, especially through social networks, the Twitter, bb, Facebook and others, to communicate very wrong things to Nigerians. Even as I am here with you, people are saying that I am in South Africa with about 100 Nigerians. But that is Nigeria for you. There is a lot of wrong information that is being pumped into the system.

For all those who missed the live broadcast of President Goodluck Jonathan on the subsidy, please find below the text of his speech as posted on my wall a few momemnts ago.
Read this and make up your own mind.
As for me, my position remains unchanged. But you decide what you wany your position to be after you've read this.

President Goodluck Jonathan's speech tonight goes as follows,

Dear Compatriots: 1. A week ago, I had cause to address Nigerians on the security challenges we are facing in parts of the country, which necessitated the declaration of a state of emergency in 15 Local Government Areas in four states of the Federation. That course of action attracted widespread support and a demonstration of understanding. With that declaration, government had again signaled its intention to combat terrorism with renewed vigour and to assure every Nigerian of safety.

2. The support that we have received in the fight against terrorism from concerned Nigerians at home and abroad has been remarkable. We believe that it is with such continued support that progress can be made on national issues. Let me express my heartfelt appreciation to everyone who has expressed a commitment to support us as we strive to improve on the country’s security situation, and build a stronger foundation for the future. The recent mindless acts of violence in Gombe, Potiskum, Jimeta-Yola and Mubi are unfortunate. I urge all Nigerians to eschew bitterness and acrimony and live together in harmony and peace. Wherever there is any threat to public peace, our security agencies will enforce the law, without fear or favour.

3. This evening, I address you, again, with much concern over an issue that borders on the national economy, the oil industry and national progress. As part of our efforts to transform the economy and guarantee prosperity for all Nigerians, Government, a few days ago, announced further deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector. The immediate effect of this has been the removal of the subsidy on petrol.

4. Since the announcement, there have been mixed reactions to the policy. Let me seize this opportunity to assure all Nigerians that I feel the pain that you all feel. I personally feel pained to see the sharp increase in transport fares and the prices of goods and services. I share the anguish of all persons who had travelled out of their stations, who had to pay more on the return leg of their journeys.

5. If I were not here to lead the process of national renewal, if I were in your shoes at this moment, I probably would have reacted in the same manner as some of our compatriots, or hold the same critical views about government. But I need to use this opportunity as your President to address Nigerians on the realities on the ground, and why we chose to act as we did. I know that these are not easy times. But tough choices have to be made to safeguard the economy and our collective survival as a nation.

6. My fellow Nigerians, the truth is that we are all faced with two basic choices with regard to the management of the downstream petroleum sector: either we deregulate and survive economically, or we continue with a subsidy regime that will continue to undermine our economy and potential for growth, and face serious consequences.

7. As you all know, the subject of deregulation is not new, we have been grappling with it for more than two decades. Previous administrations tinkered with the pump price of petroleum products, and were unable to effect complete deregulation of the downstream sector. This approach has not worked. If it did, we would not be here talking about deregulation today. I understand fully well that deregulation is not a magic formula that will address every economic challenge, but it provides a good entry point for transforming the economy, and for ensuring transparency and competitiveness in the oil industry, which is the mainstay of our economy.

8. As a President, elected and supported by ordinary Nigerians, and the vast majority of our people, I have a duty to bring up policies and programmes that will grow the economy and bring about greater benefits for the people. Let me assure you that as your President, I have no intention to inflict pain on Nigerians.

9. The deregulation of the petroleum sector is a necessary step that we had to take. Should we continue to do things the same way, and face more serious economic challenges? Or deregulate, endure the initial discomfort and reap better benefits later? I want to assure every Nigerian that whatever pain you may feel at the moment, will be temporary.

10. The interest of the ordinary people of this country will always remain topmost in my priorities as a leader. I remain passionately committed to achieving significant and enduring improvements in our economy that will lead to sustained improvement in the lives of our people.

11. I am determined to leave behind a better Nigeria, which we all can be proud of. To do so, I must make sure that we have the resources and the means to grow our economy to be resilient, and to sustain improved livelihood for our people. We must act in the public interest, no matter how tough, for the pains of today cannot be compared to the benefits of tomorrow. On assumption of office as President, I swore to an oath to always act in the best interest of the people. I remain faithful to that undertaking.

12. To save Nigeria, we must all be prepared to make sacrifices. On the part of Government, we are taking several measures aimed at cutting the size and cost of governance, including on-going and continuous effort to reduce the size of our recurrent expenditure and increase capital spending. In this regard, I have directed that overseas travels by all political office holders, including the President, should be reduced to the barest minimum. The size of delegations on foreign trips will also be drastically reduced; only trips that are absolutely necessary will be approved.

13. For the year 2012, the basic salaries of all political office holders in the Executive arm of government will be reduced by 25%. Government is also currently reviewing the number of committees, commissions and parastatals with overlapping responsibilities. The Report on this will be submitted shortly and the recommendations will be promptly implemented. In the meantime, all Ministries, Departments and Agencies must reduce their overhead expenses.

14. We are all greatly concerned about the issue of corruption. The deregulation policy is the strongest measure to tackle this challenge in the downstream sector. In addition, government is taking other steps to further sanitize the oil industry.

15. To ensure that the funds from petroleum subsidy removal are spent prudently on projects that will build a greater Nigeria, I have established a committee to oversee the implementation of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme. I sincerely believe that the reinvestment of the petroleum subsidy funds, to ensure improvement in national infrastructure, power supply, transportation, irrigation and agriculture, education, healthcare, and other social services, is in the best interest of our people.

16. Fellow Nigerians, I know that the removal of the petroleum subsidy imposes an initial burden on our people, especially the rising cost of transportation. Government will be vigilant and act decisively to curb the excesses of those that want to exploit the current situation for selfish gains. I plead for the understanding of all Nigerians. I appeal to our youth not to allow mischief-makers to exploit present circumstances to mislead or incite them to disturb public peace.

17. To address the immediate challenges that have been identified, I have directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government to embark immediately on all projects, which have been designed to cushion the impact of the subsidy removal in the short, medium and long-term, as outlined in the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Document.

18. Tomorrow, 8th January, I will formally launch a robust mass transit intervention programme to bring down the cost of transportation across the country. The programme will be implemented in partnership with state and local governments, labour unions, transport owners, and banking institutions, and supported with the provision of funding at zero interest rate as well as import duty waiver on all needed parts for locally-made mass transit vehicles, which will create additional jobs in the economy.

19. We will keep these incentives in place for as long as it takes. I want to assure you that Government will not rest until we bring down the cost of transportation for our people. Let me thank the transporters’ associations that have agreed to reduce transport fares. I have directed the Minister of Labour and Productivity to work with these associations to come up with a sustainable plan to guarantee this within the shortest possible time.

20. In addition, I have ordered the mobilization of contractors for the full rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt –Maiduguri Railway Line and the completion of the Lagos-Kano Railway Line. I have also directed the immediate commencement of a Public Works programme that will engage the services of about 10, 000 youths in every state of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory. This will create an additional 370, 000 jobs.

21. Government has taken these decisions in the best interest of our economy, so that we not only have benefits today, but to ensure that we bequeath even greater benefits to our children and grandchildren.

22. Let me assure Nigerians that every possible effort will be made to ensure that we march forward, with a collective resolve to build a Nigeria that can generate greater economic growth, create and sustain new jobs, and secure the future of our children.

23. This Administration will aggressively implement its programme to reposition and strengthen our economy, while paying adequate attention to the immediate needs of our citizens.

24. I assure you all that we will work towards achieving full domestic refining of petroleum products with the attendant benefits.

25. As I ask for the full understanding of all Nigerians, I also promise that I will keep my word.

26. Thank you. May God bless you; and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR
President
Federal Republic of Nigeria
January 7, 2012

he has not started,he must try OBJ,IBB and all the past government official,past governors,national assembly to must reduce their salaries by 50%, also the carbal in his government and also sack all those bad advisers ,


he has alot.this is not enough to convince Nigerians about a his seriousness.this is just step one he has 50 steps to take, we are all watching.

In a move to avert the impending Labour protests across the country on Monday, President Goodluck Jonathan Saturday evening, in a national broadcast announced new policy measures to ameliorate the hardship occassioned by the removal of fuel subsidy.

President said that part of the new policy measures include the cutting of salaries of all political office holders by 25 percent; the directive that all ministries and departments of governments to reduce their overheads; and reduction of all overseas travels by government officials to the bearest minimum in 2012.

If the SS/SE survive biafra,then fuel subsidy is the least thing or policy to subdue them cos they have faced and survived more hardship than any zone in this sick country.

By the way poverty is not so rampant in the SE like that cos most people do one or to businesses which they to will adjust their price to meet the present realities,if at all any group will complain then it will have to be the civil servants that are on fix wages,


All the same,i have not written off the possibility of a protest in the zone especially ABA cos ABA has a history of violent riot and protest, let's just be watching this is just the beginning.


Go Google ABA riot of 1945

it is disappointing that at this age an idiout like The thief called elrufia can afford to open his mouth to speak like this. Where in the word do government seat down to negotiate with killer? where in the word do right thinking people in government dialogue with terrorist? both balarabe musa and is fellow idiot called rufia should be prepared cos what they are sowing now will soon start to be fruitful when other people start to retaliate then they will cry blue murder. What you sow that shall you reap.

Can someone remind Balarabe Musa and his cohorts of these facts: That Northern leadership has ruled Nigeria 37 out of 50 yrs since independence. So, in talking about poor policies and vision for the country as a whole, the North failed tremendously when it had the chance whether thru the military juntas or "appointed" figure-heads in so-called democratic dispensations. Secondly, the north nor any other group/s for that matter, does not have a birthright to lord over the rest of hard-working, law-abiding, forward-looking citizenry. Thirdly, it is clear that Musa, IBB, El-Rufai and many other undesirable elements are merely trying to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it (wag the dog syndrome). Alot more informed persons see thru your deceit and propaganda and it's not going to work, ever. Instead, why don't you start plans to annex northern Nigeria to Niger or Chad? Seems you've got more in common with the desert and arid peoples in these other states. Why not disembark now?

Bombing Not The Work of Boko Haram says Balarabe Musa, as El-Rufai Blames Government.

FORMER Kaduna State Governor and Chairman of the Conference of Political Parties in Nigeria (CNPP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa has condemned the Christmas Day bombings  in some parts of the country, but exonerated the militant Islamic group, Boko Haram from the act.


Despite claim by the sect to be responsible for the blasts, Musa argued that governments’ bad policies could lead groups to act against them.

“I doubt if the bombings are done by Boko Haram. I very much doubt. I think it

is something more organised. Definitely it is something subversive.  Something directly related to the government.

“We are yet to know who is directly responsible for these acts. You know that the state of the nation is bad in every respect. There is protest against the government and its

policies from various sources. So you don’t know which particular source is responsible for this unfortunate incidents”.

“I think when one goes through the statement of the sect and the so-called spokesman, there is no coordination. Secondly, this particular

identification of churches on Christmas Day, I don’t understand it. There is no reason for any person or group to do this. The world over,

there is no reason for such attack on a celebration day like this.

“Why should they target churches. So, I very much doubt if this is caused by Boko Haram. Some people of course can claim this is Boko Haram, but, again if you listen to their statements, you will find out that there are contradictions. So, the government has to

really sit down and find out the true situation”.

He further insisted: “I very much doubt if this incident is Boko Haram, I think it is something more national. There may be some

national agenda in play relating to the state of the nation.

He blamed President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration for the insecurity in the country and remarked: “The government has a problem, it has legitimacy problem, it is not performing, and the leaders are not cohesive in many ways. These are the undoing of the government we have today”.

Meanwhile, controversial former minister of the FCT, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, is having a field day on Twitter taunting the Federal Government and hurling veiled insults at the President. He has been virtually retweeting every negative message against the President by his followers on Twitter. Many Nigerians had expressed disgust that El-Rufai who received public sympathy after the death of his own daughter can turn around and use the deaths of innocent worshippers as propaganda to further his antagonism against the President after he lost out in the power scramble after his return from exile. It may be recalled that this is not the first time El-rufai will be engaging in such behaviour. Nigerians may recall that after the last Boko Haram attack, El-rufai had called on Jonathan to negotiate with the sect.

this boi called jona is not serious.we are talking of SNC,he is still talking security summit when it is obvious that the damage have be done already and no form of summit can truly unite us unless a SNC where we can discuss our terms of living together and how we want to live.i will rather advice leaders from the MD,SS,SE,SW to ignore the summit because it is just a waste of time and also use it as a message to the core north that their days with Nigeria are numbered.


It is time to split this sick country,my heart is angry, we cant take it anymore.Enough is enough, I hope everybody is preparing??

BY DANIEL IDONOR

ABUJA – AS medical personnels continue to cope with overbearing pressure from victims of Madalla, Suleja Christmas bombing, the Presidency is set to organise a National Security Summit, NSS, in the new year on possible best ways to secure Nigeria in the present and future.

Top security officials, Sunday, rose from a crucial session with a declaration that Boko Haram decision to destroy Nigeria must be urgently nip in the bud, saying that the menace underscores the budgetary proposal for 2012 fiscal year.

The security chiefs also want the federal government to declare the new year a security year, as part of deliberate efforts to tackle the rising wave of insecurity in Nigeria, essentially the Boko Haram terror group and many other ethnic militia formation across the country.

Also, as part of fresh measures to address the growing security concerns, the security hierarchy has adopted a recommendation for a security summit early next year, where top Nigerian security actors are expected to inject fresh ideas into ongoing efforts by government to stem the tide.

The security summit which is being planned by the Federal Government is to hold in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and will be funded through the 2012 financial votes for national security.

An impeccable security source told Vanguard that “no amount of budgetary allocation is too much for security related projects because all over the world, security is a top priority of every responsible government and Nigeria cannot be an exception, especially in the face of current level of insecurity”.

According to the source, the security summit would encourage all security experts, both serving and retired personnels to mount the stage and speak openly and frankly, in a manner similar to the constitutional conference, which would make far reaching recommendations to government on present and future security measures.

It was learnt that the summit is a follow-up to a recent meeting of all former National Security Advisers, NSAs, which was convened by the office of the incumbent NSA, Gen. Andrew Azazi, to discuss the menace of Boko Haram and the best ways out.