₦airaland Forum

tunde1200:
Why always feel cheating if you are asked to go back to your state to develop it.

Why should a Nigerian legally living in Nigeria be asked to leave when the law gives him the rights to stay?

South East is not lacking behind in development in fact south east is the only region that is developed by its people and not outsiders

mrvitalis:
For a place to get considered built up their must be continuous building or infrastructure

Kano and ibadan are not the same as Kano city and Ibadan city

Kano is the whole 44lga Ibadan has 10 abi 12 LGA

The built up area in this LGAs are just few a small percentage of this LGAs

Just like 10,000sqm land having a 3 bedroom house and a 2000 Sqm land having 10 3 bedroom house

10000sqm property is bigger but 2000have more built up araa

If that's the case,ABA still beats nsukka, Abeokuta and Benin

mrvitalis:
Sadly only a fraction of kano and ibadan meet the criteria

Enlightened me on that

SonOfDSoil01:
just read the gibberish you wrote slowly again and see if it makes any sense to you? So his so called learned lawyers couldn’t advise him that a governor is protected by immunity of the office and can’t come before a judge to answer questions? So how does it help his case? And the other people listed can come up with whatever excuse not to attend like ill health or they can be indisposed and their by also prolonging his trial but you clowns are too ignorant and shortsighted

If what I wrote doesn't make sense to you read again to understand , nnamdi kanu deliberately threw those names on the list of compelled witnesses,if you can't see what I see then there is no reason discussing the topic with you

DaddyJapan:
Erm...did you see the number of witnesses who refused to give evidence at Donald Trump's trial in New York and also the Senate hearings into the January 6th insurrection?

I don't know of any country with a legal system that exists in a vacuum. At all levels, rightly or wrongly, politics also comes into play.

Were those in the Trump trail on the list of compelled witnesses ?

DomPerignon:
You are now down to whataboutism.

The SE governors formed a regional security outfit backed by law after seeing same done by the SW.

But unlike in the SW, the regional security outfit was never embraced by the people and they preferred to invite ESN instead as their community security.

This will later pitch the ESN against the regional security outfit in full blown war.

You can refer to communities in Anambra and Imo who preferred ESN to the regular security outfits and the regional one how it all turned out for them.

In Orsu, the situation became so pathetic that same ESN under another faction became a source of unmitigated terror to the people so much so that they had to send an SOS to the Federal govt to come help them to chase ESN out of their lands.

In Anambra , communities that have been abandoned since 2020 are only seeing a resurgence of life after the entire communities were abandoned for ESN.

All these are verifiable facts.

Or you rather have your own terrorists terrorise your people in the guise of fighting Fulani terrorists?

No no no I'm not down to whataboutism or whatever you call it

I'm asking valuable questions to counter the valuable questions you asked me, and my questions are based of facts



ESN formed by kanu is older Ebube Agu that was formed by the eastern governors , in fact it was the failure of south east governors to create a regional security to tackle the herdsmen killings in the south east that made the people to cry out to nnamdi kanu to do it which he did in December 2020 that was almost a year of the people of south begging the south east governors


Ebube Agu came later in 2021 and instead of going after herdsmen they went after ESN and that was where the problem started

You have no evidence to heap the killings of civilians in SE on ESN

DaddyJapan:
I deliberately put that remark in italics because the Supreme gave a different interpretation. It determined that no injustice was dispensed because the trial judge did issue summonses as he was constitutionally bound to do.

To sum matters up, the failure of witnesses to appears was framed as a problem that was beyond the court's control.

No be Nigeria we dey again?

If their is a law that compelles witnesses to appear in court and the laws does not enforce that law when it's needed, is that country on the right path?

SonOfDSoil01:
so in your deluded mind,a governor who’s cover by immunity will stand before a judge in a criminal case involving a terrorist leader? Continue consoling yourself

So all the names mentioned are governors ? Well perhaps the inability of them to be call to stand as witness is the very reason nnamdi kanu included them on the list in the first place, so he can prove to the world he is not getting a fair hearing

mrvitalis:
Density yes Aba is highly dense

Nsukka is low density but very very wide

If we are talking about landmass then Kano and Ibadan should come first

DomPerignon:
Which law gave him the backing to form his armed militia?

That alone is a threat to Government's monopoly on violence.

Which laws gave Fulani herdsmen the right to arm themselves attack whoever they want,then call the government for negotiation on their own terms , after the negotiating leave with the arms they came with,no arrest made ?

DaddyJapan:
So I did some further digging and found a precedent in the case of Asari Dokubo v Federal Republic of Nigerian (2007) LPELR-958(SC).

Asari called on witnesses who refused to appear, so the trial judge issued summonses. Well, guess what happened? Even with the subsequent bench warrants issued, they maintained an uncooperative stance.

As you probably know, Asari was ultimately convicted despite the violation of his constitutional right to a fair hearing, which is guaranteed by section 36(6)(d) of our 1999 constitution.

By the way, our Supreme Court also ruled at the time that, while a witness can be compelled to give evidence in court, this right is contigent on the witness' availability.

Abi no be law we dey talk again?

The stakes is frigging high.

Convicted despite the violation of his constitutional rights to fair hearing, that's the sad point I want to hear, only in a backward country someone can not be given the right to fair hearing

mrvitalis:
The cities in Nigeria with the largest built-up areas (urban footprints of continuous development, measured in square kilometers) are as follows, based on the latest available data from 2025:

1. Lagos: 2,585 km²
2. Onitsha: 1,943 km²
3. Abuja: 927 km²
4. Benin City: 482 km²
5. Ibadan: 471 km²
6. Port Harcourt: 433 km²
7. Nsukka: 342 km²
8. Kano: 326 km²
9. Kaduna: 300 km²
10. Abeokuta: 269 km²

Mehn Onitsha is something else no federal government investment not even a university,

Have never been a state , regional or federal capital... Yet

Nsukka, Abeokuta and Benin are not as built up as ABA

DomPerignon:
He intends to use the court as grounds to air his ideology and not his defense.

As per TY Danjuma , I know the only reason he is being listed is to have him repeat what he said about the Fulani rampage and call for self defense as justification of him forming ESN.

But what Kanu refuses to understand is that a call to self defense in the midst of real and portend danger as that posed by Fulani terrorists does not equate to forming your own armed militia which will later spiral out to become a real terror to the people they claim they are defending.

A civil defense armed militia for self defense yes , spiral out to become a terro to the people, this is something you or anyone can not proof in court, cause as long as nnamdi kanu and the civil defense militia he created are concerned they protected the people, provide your evidence

DaddyJapan:
Kanu's legal team has decided to employ a high-risk strategy here.

According to one AI chatbot, the merits and demerits of this approach can be summed up as follows:

Kanu knows the reason why he included those names as compellable witnesses ,they are not going to give testimonies in his favour but there are things they said and actions they took in the past that nnamdi kanu can use to his defence

Jeezuzpick:
Is this young idiot married?

If he is, he should kiss his marriage goodbye.

If he isn't, he shouldn't.

Marriage is not for everybody, after all.

Those who think having a side chick as a married man should just stay off marriage and have babymamas.

No need to subject a poor lady to a life of pain.

He could be talking from personal experience, he grew up in Lagos with his mother while his father lived in Germany

DomPerignon:
Can someone explain?

Was he speaking metaphorically?

Or did he mean that his ESN terrorist thugs should avenge the killings by Nigerian Security forces of his ESN commander (Ikonso) by killing 2,000 Nigerian Security forces ?

Or did he mean the brazen head hunting for 2,000 human heads among the general populace to be used in burying alongside Ikonso?

Whatever he meant, that did not seem like what an enlightened peaceful freedom fighter would say.

I have never heard nnamdi kanu call himself an enlightened peaceful freedom fighter , but I have heard him take responsibility for self defense against the Nigerian military police and killer Fulani herdsmen

Softmirror:
It contradicts what you said about Simone Ekpa's crime.

Tell me the contradiction?

Oblongata:
You are not at fault my dear! Give her some space to let the heat out!

I remember about 12 years ago, I saw a friend who had a bulgy belly and she told me she was 4 months pregnant. I saw her at a mutual friend’s wedding about 2 months later with a flat tummy. Her reaction and quick glances suggested to me she lost the pregnancy. I didn’t want to take her down the memory of the possibly horrible experience so I decided to play along and smiled and joked with her. I told her she looked fabulous. I planned to ask her via the telephone later. Later in the night, she sent a text to me telling I was a horrible human and I didn’t ask about her pregnancy and she would go ahead and block me. As a mental health nurse, I understood she was going through PTSD. I just feigned ignorance. I needed to protect my mental health as well. The lady is back in Nigeria with a new marriage and 2 kids and probably still thinks I am a bad friend.

There are some situations you can’t help but have to force yourself to forget in order to protect your mental health.

If I'm a lady and you saw me pregnant and later you see me without the pregnancy or a child in hand , you just looked at me without asking me about the baby, I will know you heard it from someone else and you have been talking behind my back with others about my situation that's why you are scared to ask me to my face, same thing with the case of this lady a friend that know you are married for many years and has never seen you pregnant or with a child and never asked is not a true friend,

Softmirror:
It is the bolded in your comment.

I repeat
Having biafra as an independent country is the loudest thing for separatist to do, so the self inflicted deaths is a lie

Softmirror:
Which is a reflection of how you lied.

Like I said, I'm speaking facts I ,I told you what Simon ekpa is in prison for, the finish government found him guilty of the things I mentioned, tell me my lies ?

Softmirror:
You remind me of Simon Ekpa when he said he was a content creator.

Good,then a content creator he is

Softmirror:
What other actions can be more the the self inflicted deaths?!

Having biafra as an independent country is the loudest thing for separatist to do, so the self inflicted deaths is a lie

Softmirror:
Action speaks louder and clearer than words. It is as straightforward as that. The energy behind Biafra and all of its attroticies is the proclamation of JUDAISM.

action speaks louder the words?

If nnamdi kanu and Simon ekpas actions were as loud as they speak, we could have had biafra by now, cause with words they have declared the restoration of biafra multiple times, but have not backed it up with actions

Softmirror:
For your claims.

Simon ekpa is in prison for promoting and sponsoring a separatist goup against the federal government, and ipobs has never denied the fact that they fought against the federal soldiers and police plus Fulani herdsmen who have terrorized the South East, and this is the reason he is in prison, I have never heard him claim responsibility for civilian killings or any religious basd killings in south east, and he is not in prison cause of that

Losers twisting ottis words ,they should come out straight and say their political ambition of rigging is threatened cause otti mentioned vote riggers not abians

Softmirror:
You need to sue the Finnish government to an international court then.

For what exactly?

Softmirror:
Reno is a much more refined human being today. He has moved from being a peddler of sentiment to one who speaks based on FACTS.


Can you Raccoon dispute the FACT about Mosque being bombed and Muslims being killed when Reno made those claims back then?!

Can you dispute the numerous Catholic Priest, and Christians killed in the South East by those who profess to be Igbo Jews, IPOB.

What about the innocent Muslim Fulani lady and her children that was killed in Anambra?

Reno is not being BIASED anymore. And that is the only objective way of solving this insecurity challenges.

Was he being paid when he was against Buhari's government while supporting Biafra?

LoL so Reno omokri became a born again last night and today he is a refined man ?

Everyone knows Boko Haram and how it started and what it stands for, it's an Islamic jihadist group, which along the way broke into multiple jihadist groups who had a fallout with the late abubarkar shekua , bombing mosques and muslims was done by multiple jihadist groups who where not in good terms with each other trying to secure and control territories, and they took responsibility for every attack they carried out


Everyone knows biafra and how it started, biafra didn't start with nnamdi kanu and biafra won't end with nnamdi kanu

And I can dispute numerous catholic priest or christians or Muslim killed in the south east by the so called igbo Jews and ipobs cause both igbo Jews and ipobs have denied ever doing anything of such while jihadist have claims responsibility, the case of Deborah who got mobbed to death in the north cause of her christian faith was done in public and the Muslim mobs who did that recorded themselves doing it and proclaim how proud they were mobbing Deborah to death, I have never heard any igbo Jews or ipobs person coming out to boast about the Catholic priests or a Muslim woman or any civilian killed in the south east

True, south east governors are learning to play the type of politics Nigeria wants, even though that type of politics is not in our nature we are learning, we have been marginalized for so long cause we have always been the main opposition, it's time we take the backside and share in the national cake

Mynd44:
You want to drag NANS into a protest to free a terrorist whose action has led to countless deaths. Someone who is on record to have taken called for numerous lives to be killed. Okay.

As for the Politicians, Malami was the AGF when Kanu was arrested. Malami is now a member of ADC along with Peter Obi and Atiku, how come they haven't asked him questions? How come they have come condemned his actions? And you say it isn't political

Why can't NANS be dragged into a protest to free 1 terrorist in a country where thousands of terrorist have been freed before, and other terrorist come out in the open to negotiate with government without laying down their weapons? The only reason this so called terrorist is still in prison is cause he is from a tribe the country has national resentment for nothing more

How about the benue center company in gboko that governor George akume sold to dangote ? Is governor alia going to buy it back?

Reno omokri for 8 years used the case of Leah sharibu who was amongst the christian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, to chase clout and financial gains

Bestmanfornow:
Enugu is most indebted state in Southeast currently I hope you know ? Check foreign and domestic debt stock 2nd quarter 2025

Peter MBAH is not going to plug money from the sky to fund the projects he has at hand he must borrow, borrowing is not a problem,it becomes a problem if the money been borrowed is not used for what it was borrowed for, Peter MBA is putting every dime he borrowed into good use and a time will come when Enugu will plug the fruits of it, for the first time Enugus IGR made it to the 4th position in Nigeria, mbah is on the right path and we the people of Enugu are happy with it