₦airaland Forum

Misterone:
So you must be on a wanted list before you can be arrested , really! Your key men were arrested and all⁴ you could do is to run! Leaders are suppose to lead from the front not from behind. That has always been the law of protest. The leaders are responsible for the protest. You stay in the front. Ask Wole Soyinka, Gani Fawehinmi, Adams Oshiomhole, Femi Falana, etc. These men have lead protest before that succeeded. The never ran away

Yes, this people were never on the wanted list,they were never on the run nnamdi kanu's brother was one of those giving access to visit nnamdi kanu in prison anytime he wants to see him, his lawyers were in court on every court day , nobody was looking for them to arrest them


You haven't answered my question why wasn't sowore the organizer of the protest arrested it's not like he is on the run if he was on the run he won't visit nnamdi kanu's lawyer and brother together with the rest who were arrested that day in prison, what were they arrested for that sowore is not included?

Hope that lying propaganda minister Reno omokri is going with them?

Nnamdi kanu put this people on his list of compelled witnesses for a reason he knows they won't come , and even if they do come he knows they won't speak in his favour, he only wants to use the actions and things these people have said and done in the past in his own defense

lawani:
Ijaw more than Hausa in a Nigerian city? What jobs are the Ijaw doing there?

thats not what I said,I said in benue state especially the local government that belongs to Tiv people, out of 23 local government in benue state 14 belongs to Tiv people,the people love to drink dry gin ogogoro and ijaw people are there to sell it to them

sreamsense:
You will ask why? Why? tire. If Sowore did not escape, who will be helping your "igbophobic arrested" to tweet and retweet or do you expect me to be disturbing my peace of mind wasting my time monitoring their condiction? You will get wisdom by force! We warned you, but you cared not to listen or warned your people.

At the end of the day of the protest, what is the gain? Did they free KANU? Sowore has throway KANU lawyer, KANU brother and others into the police dustbin, but himself picked race. You want Sowore to be arrested because he visited the police station after, on what ground? Sowore visited police station after the arrest order had expired to buy bread for people he throway into dustbin.

If Sowore goes there again for protest and bridge the court order that is how he can be arrested. Other people arrested were arrested at the scene location and on the same date of protest that the order covered. If Sowore is arrested now for mere visiting, it will not work because he is not protesting now and never arrested at the scene of event forbidden. Go there too and protest the arrest of Sowore. When we warn you, you will not listen. You will now come back later to be asking why? why?

Arrest order expires how? Protesters were arrested the organizer of the protest is walking free and visiting his fellow protesters in prison and you say oh the arrest order expires,does that even make sense to you? He was not arrested simply because he is not an igbo man

Misterone:
No! Sowore lead them to commit an offence then he himself tuule! Ask yourself why he's not been arrested! Because he's the one that brought them in. If he's not, then he would've continued with the protest until he himself was arrested

He is not arrested because he is not igbo that's the simple fact , there is nothing like bringing anyone in, all the people arrested where never on a wanted list,

Prince16:
EMOTIONS is ndigbó's number 1 achilles heel.
The average iggboman is so emotional that he acts first, then reason (the matter) later.

Did your leaders -benjamin kalu, joe ignokwe et al - not shout themselves hoarse that ndigbos shouldn't protest??

Even aloy ejimakor - a supposed legal luminary with all his years of experience, that should know better - also fell under the impulse of emotions over logic.

Why must every tom, dick and harry pull your mumu button at the tip of a hat? So by now una still never realize say sowore dey use una chase clout??
Who do una dis tin bikonu??

You did not answer the question, why was sowore the organizer of the protest not arrested? He was not arrested simply because he is not an igbo man, and that's my point, mumu button or not it's a fact that the federal government is igbophobic

lawani:
You can't be sure unless there is a census because Hausas are also all over the place. They have markets they control and jobs they are known for.

I have lived in 3 states in Nigeria, I have visited many states not just their states capital but their village towns , plus my mother is from benue state so from my personal experience and places I have been to I can say there are places you will find igbos in their thousand dominating a town and only find a handful of huasas living in an isolated environment known as Hausa quarters, my mother's home town in adikpo kwande local government of benue state , I will say there are about 100 thousand people in that town I will say they will be about 10 to 14 thousands igbos in that town, there is only 1 Hausa quarters and the people there can't be up to 1 thousand, you will find igbos in all the local government in benue state you can't find hausas in fact there are more ijaws in majority of the local government than Hausa

lawani:
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Yes they can be worried. It is natural but Igbos are not the only non Yorubas in Lagos. I doubt if Igbos outnumber Hausas in Lagos. If Yorubas gang up and start claiming right in PH, Kano Enugu etc the natives of those places will be worried too.

There is nothing to doubt the igbos has the highest population of none yorubas in Lagos not just in Lagos igbos have the highest population of people living outside their region around Nigeria, and there is no such thing as igbo gang up, and every right igbos claim is a right of a Nigerian living in Nigeria nothing more

beerfraud:
FG used Sowore to capture the other Ipob terrorists

So these people mentioned were hiding from the federal government?

lawani:
Yoruba people are also in other places in their millions
Saying Igbos should go back to their land is because some Igbos believe they have the population to take over the government of Lagos state while the Yoruba turn to spectators. Nothing more than that

There are no igbos contesting elections in Lagos so how can Igbos take over the government of Lagos? Just say yorubas are just scared of the high population of igbos in Lagos nothing more

The question is why was nnamdi kanu's lawyer and brother arrested and sowore who organize the protest not arrested? It's not like sowore is on the run he is not, he even went to visit nnamdi kanu's lawyer and brother after the arrest, things like these are prove that the Nigerian government is igbophobic

lawani:
Yes I am referring to the sheer population because that is what matters for planning and no state is one hundred percent indigenous people in Nigeria.

It proves the high population of people who are not from south west developing south west, so why are the igbos always told to go back and develop their states?

lawani:
I am comparing populations. The SW is more than twice the SE in population. Lagos alone is like 25 million people now. According to NIN registration the population of SE is around eighty percent of Lagos alone in population while the remaining states in the SW is about 120 percent of Lagos in population.
If SE of less than thirty million people have fifteen senators while SW of over 50 million have 18 senators is that not a gain for the SE?. That is what I meant.
I have heard of a Yoruba man building stadium offering scholarship in the SE. Is that one a poor man?. There are many people like that.
Then the ones who don't build still pay rent and that is part of what builds any economy.
Even most Igbo traders build at home first


https://www.nairaland.com/8376120/list-igerias-nin-enrollment-across


https://www.irohinodua.org/yoruba-businessman-hailed-for-multi-billion-projects-for-locals-in-enugu-anambra/

You can't use number of people enrolled for NIN registration to count as indigenous people of south west population

When you enroll for your National Identification Number (NIN), the registration captures your current place of residence — i.e., the state and local government area (LGA) where you did the registration.

NIMC uses this to compile state-by-state data on where people registered, not where they come from originally.

For example:

If someone from Enugu is living and working in Lagos and registers in Lagos, they will count under Lagos State in NIN statistics, not Enugu. So you are wrong

lawani:
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SE has the highest per Capita number of states in Nigeria. Therefore they have the largest stake per Capita in Nigeria. Population of SE is not more than half the SW and SW should have ten states if SE has five but SW has only six. Is that not an advantage?. That clears any advantage you think Lagos brings to the SW. Then as there are Igbo HNIs in the west and North, there are also Yoruba and Hausa HNIs in the SE ir do you think they are all poor people? There is no bustling city that is developed by indigenes alone.
If you say you contribute as traders, what of skilled artisans? Which is what most Yorubas are in the east. Which is more important?

I have no idea of what you mean by highest number of states per Capita, i don't even think such term even exist

Talking about the population of people in the south east and population of south west I don't know where you got this statistic that , south east is not more than half the population of south west back it up with real statistic,do more research on that before making claims like that , don't confuse landmass of south west to the population of south east

Talking about HNIs you mean
High-Net-Worth Individual. Can you list those Hausa-yoruba HNIs living in south east?

Don't tell me those Yoruba cheap Laborers and artisans, who don't even own a house in the south east are the HNIs you are talking about

zero8zero:
TY Danjuma & co do not represent the Government, whatever they said was said as a private citizen. And the same Wike that finished ipob in Oyigbo, I pity Kanu.

Did I say anything about anyone representing the government? You really don't know why he mentioned those names

lawani:
Even non Nigerians are living in Nigeria unmolested so nobody is asking anybody to leave and there are millions of non Igbos in the SE and they are fending for themselves. They have HNIs among them. Why do you say the SE is developed by indigenes alone? That is not correct.

You are the one talking about when igbos are asked to go back and develop their region like their region is not developed, and you can't deny that go back and develop your region is a statement igbos hear everyday you your confirmed it

I don't know the millions of none igbos living in south east developing south east, south east is the only region developed by its own people, you can't show me schools, hospitals, companys estates that etc none igbos living in igboland built

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