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Fulani's are minority in nigeria. It is high time they are sent back to funta jalon

RoyalUc:
Can I ask you a question?
If there is breakdown of law and order now in the east, who do you think will suffer must?

why should there be? Who will attack who? Don't we have the right to organise rally?

tsdarkside:
look....your moving around in nigeria and messing around is garanted under the nigerian constitution...

overdo it!!!!.....and you will get a bullet..!!!!

tell those terrorists in uniform to wait for us in Onitsha if they are man enough

I trust my leader, Nnamdi KANU to call for a rally in Onitsha in 2weeks time. The zoo army should wait for us we are coming to Onitsha.

Sarrki

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Could this be the hand work of Young Yoruba for Freedom YYF led by Adeyinka Grandson Grandson? He promised one day one bomb

#onedayonebomb#
#organizedviolence#

kettykin:
this is the thing with ipob members ver little proactivity and more of insults.

you have so much activity but very little motion while i will not fold my arms and watch nigerian military and police slaughter my relatives all in their stupid and hopeless idea of keeping nigeria one , i will never fail to put it to you ipobians that you are jokers and your NK is just using you folks for a circus.

you're talking about insult huh? Why did you call people's parents fool? Do you think the only people in IPOB are youths? Don't you know we have grandfathers and grandmothers in IPOB?

kettykin:
Thanks crjane for bringing this to notice, this is why I always believed ipob is made up of fools , I have opened a thread in nairaland created to show why ipobs should call for an international press conference to highlight to the world that there is genocide looming in the south east.

What you have highlighted is a tactics used to douse criticisms that will likely come from united states following outrage that will follow such killing.

thunder fire you. It is your father and mother that are fools

That is the plan of the clone in aso rock. He has given the order to the military to kill starting from Monday.

There is a video on Radio Biafra London facebook group showing the military moving heavy military hardwares into Port Harcourt. But I tell you, this is going to be to our advantage. We will ambush and collect those armoured vehicles from them and use it to send the Fulanis back to funta jalon. Just watch and see

The order has been given; "Burn nigeria down"...we shall gladly do that sir

YourImaginaryBF:
ECA, OHANEZE, NDIGBO, FLAT HEAD, IPOB , MASSOB , Igbo Confused people

thunder fire you

captleonerd:
mor0ns

keep blaming others for your own goals.
next they'll blame afonja


long before the North responded (late 2014) I listened to radio Biafra in cross river and Owerri for several days. why didn't the SE leaders call KANU to order back then?
IPOB Kept insulting other ethnic groups and labeling us names yet you kept mum. the northers responded with just one press release (note that I'm not in support of the quit notice) and you're all crying like babies with stunted growth.

Is it also northern propaganda when Ebonyi BSS commander said they will stop the election from holding? it's on egberetv news and ibo owned sunnews.

the SE leaders are making the same mistake Northerners made with Boko Haram; not speaking out on time and doing enough to stop the movement before the poo hit the ceiling. Both the SE and North are just overgrown babies. Yoruba will definitely be better off without these two who are always pulling the country into chaos.

keep blaming the northerners

thunder fire you Afonja

Nigeria won't survive this

Since Igede are also found in Ebonyi state, it means your are Biafrans.

We call yam, Ji, you call it Uji...its all about dialets

BIAFRA: NNAMDI KANU MEETING WITH SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS:
They called him and pleaded he talks to his supporters to relapse on IPOB pursuit; he brought out his phone and showed them a picture of the crowd in one of the IPOB rallies saying:
"These are the people that sent me. I didn't send myself. If you leaders genuinely love this land and her people, you will not call these people my supporters but our supporters.
They are pursuing the most sacred cause in life. That is freedom!
You don't kill people who are begging for breathe and life. It is sacrilegious but you have done such.
Biafrans want freedom which is life".


#BIAFRA_STAND_NO_REFERENDUM_NO_MORE_ELECTION_IN_BIAFRA_LAND,

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Lalasticlala

Aufbauh:
Kanu and his piglets are on their own!

if your emirs decide for you in the north, that is your palava

All the governors from SE/SS have a total of 11 votes to cast on the day of the referendum.

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DutchBruh:
Where are you from?

Ezimba Ihe aka Ezira, Orumba south, Biafra

DutchBruh:
Africans leaders are powerless in western countries and obey the law.However,when they come back to Africa they use the police and military to intimidate and brutalize their own citizens

they can only intimidate Nigerians not us

Beautiful ladies of Biafra Security Service BSS

Biafrans have done it, but the mumu Nigerians are cowards and afraid of the people they elected to serve them.

Nice thread

abouzaid:
nobody is against Willie obiano, he made himself liable to criminal prosecution when he lied at the army tribunal that nobody was killed by soldiers at the Catholic Church at nkpor despite a video by amnesty international documenting the evidence, the army subsequently submitted the report to the United States government who rejected it. if he had kept quiet and minded his business, he might not been involved in the subsequent court case, he was too desperate to please buhari and ended up putting himself into trouble, buhari is not even a respondent in the case nor is he known to have housing and a residency permit in the USA like obiano.

don't forget that after the incident at Nkpor, he gave a press release, terming IPOB miscreants and supporting the genocidal security apparatus

DOE 1 et al v. BURATAI et al: The Dangers Of The American Lawsuit Against Key Nigerian Officials
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By Russel Andrew Crowe
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A landmark civil damages and human rights lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against sixteen Nigerian officials for their direct or indirect complicity and in the extrajudicial killings or torture of Igbos who were protesting marginalization based on their ethnicity, political viewpoint or religion. The Igbos organized themselves as the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), which is as nonviolent as, if not as symbolic as - for instance - the 'agitation' for Republic of Texas, or of California in USA; and even Scotland that its own Premier is the one leading the charge for a referendum of autonomy from Britain. In all these cases, the agitators are not being shot at, tortured or killed by the army and police.
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I determined from my inquiries that service of the summons and complaint, as well as the initial orders has been accomplished by certified international courier on all defendants. They are currently in default for failure to file a response within 21 days of service as stipulated in pertinent United States federal rules of civil procedure. The lead defendant is Nigeria's army chief, General Tukur Buratai.
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The claims of the plaintiffs are grounded under two muscular United States’ statutes - the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA or ATS - the Alien Tort Statute); and the Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Both laws have extraterritorial reach, meaning that they allow US federal courts to assert long-arm jurisdiction that extends beyond the borders of United States.
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Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) provides that 'the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort (or civil wrong) committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States'. Since 1980, courts have interpreted this statute to allow foreign citizens to seek remedies in US courts for human rights violations for conduct committed outside the United States.
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Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 is a statute that permits civil suits in the United States against foreign individuals who - acting in an official capacity for any foreign nation - committed torture and/or extrajudicial killing.
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Both laws, especially the TVPA endow individuals or their legal representatives to sue foreign individuals, including officials, to collect damages for extrajudicial killings or torture committed “under color of foreign law.”
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In the instant case, the plaintiffs already won first round as the United States District Court has granted them leave to file anonymously as “John Does” after making a ruling that they have a well-founded fear of retribution/persecution by the government of Nigeria or its agents or officials if their identities were disclosed. Violence against Igbos by individuals in the military/police and directed and encouraged by their superiors is notorious and well-known to the international community.
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The defendants would be foolhardy to believe this lawsuit will be difficult to win in the United States or stultify and drag on as might have been expected if filed in Nigeria. Judicial independence and the rule of law, as well as speedy trials are the hallmarks of United States jurisprudence. There are legions of US judicial precedents pointing to the high likelihood of a summary judgment for the plaintiffs.
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Defendants will have no defense of official immunity because they are being sued in their individual capacities and as officials who purportedly 'acted under color of law'. They are not sovereigns or diplomats. Further, extrajudicial killings or torture are crimes against humanity. Upon the prompting of the aggrieved, US courts will task any foreign government officials that perpetrate atrocities of the kind visited on the Igbos of Nigeria. It's not a secret that Nigerian officials had, in the past, engaged in misconducts that resulted in monetary judgments against them - in the millions of dollars - in the United States. This case appears bound for the same predictable result, unless handled differently from the inexplicable bravado and laches that doomed Nigeria in the previous suits preferred against its officials in the United States.
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The factual case against the defendants is convincing. All Nigerians know of the widespread beatings and slaughter of Igbos by elements of Nigerian security forces for merely and peacefully exercising their fundamental human right to protest marginalization and urge a new political dispensation. Indeed, beyond Nigeria, Amnesty International and other credible foreign sources have confirmed those killings and torture; and to be sure - their reports will be deemed probative and admissible under standards of evidence long established in US federal courts in cases of this nature. Plus, plaintiffs are all on standby in the United States to air their tearful testimonies in open court. It even makes it worse that the Nigerian army is reported to be denying and covering up an atrocity that was so open and notorious.
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It doesn't make it any better that the Nigerian government - so far - appears to have condoned the wanton killings by failing to publicly discipline the officers that pulled the trigger or the commanders that gave the order. It's even worse that President Buhari, upon his return from vacation, reportedly ordered his troops to renew their crackdown on Igbo protesters. That VP Osibanjo gave no such orders when Buhari was away is noticeably demonstrative of the widespread notion that Buhari - a Fulani core Muslim - has profiled the Christian Igbos for persecution because of their ethnicity, their love of freedom, and the perception that they did not vote for him in the 2015 election that saw him to power.
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At present, the savage mentality that is directed against Igbos in Nigeria of this era is widespread and underscored by the notorious threat to expel or destroy millions of Igbos and seize their properties in the Muslim northern states of Nigeria if they refused to surrender their right to reside and work peacefully in that part of the country. And the federal, state, and local governments appear as spectators to the looming genocide - a spectacle that is not lost on a wary international community; and which might as yet make Nigeria a 'state actor' in the ultimate fallouts. Such fallouts will surely raise the specter of an International Criminal Court intervention that may engulf the present crop of Nigerian leadership at the very top.
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The Nigerian defendants are mistaken if they believe they can defend from the safe confines of Nigeria. If the case goes to trial, they will be required - under penalty of default or even contempt - to appear in a United States court to testify under oath and dangerously probing cross-examination that will dwell on the details of the Igbo killings and the complicity of other unnamed Nigerian officials, which shall include whether they received their orders from the presidential levels of security leadership to use lethal force on unarmed protesters. This evidence could be used in a sequel criminal prosecution before the International Criminal Court or a special court of the likes employed in the prosecution and conviction of Chad’s former dictator, Hissene Habre in Senegal. The State governors - of Abia and Anambra - where these killings largely occurred will also be ensnared by virtue of being the 'chief security officers' of their States. Those two governors are also listed as defendants.
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If the defendants refuse to appear, default judgments will be entered against them, in addition to the prospects of undefended huge damage awards that will run in the millions of dollars. The ultimate loser - diplomatically and financially - will be the Nigerian and State governments that presumably control the officials who acted under color of state law when the Igbo killings occurred. In the end, it may snowball to the government of Nigeria being listed as a state sponsor of terrorism in the same manner as was done with Sudan, etc. In the interim and despite the continuing menace of Boko Haram, the United Nations Security Council (or the US - under the Leahy Act) could vote an arms embargo on Nigeria to prevent the diversion of military weapons that could be geared to perpetrating more official violence against the Igbo people.
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Christian lobby groups in the United States were largely responsible for making Sudan a pariah state, which culminated in the creation of South Sudan through a referendum organized and supervised by the United Nations. Like Nigeria, Sudan also fancied itself indissoluble just because its Constitution said so. That same political dynamic will be at work against Nigeria if the TVPA/ATCA litigation is not resolved amicably before Nigeria’s dirty linen is exposed at trial in an open United States courtroom for the entire world to see.
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Better yet, there's a third way - a time honored window of opportunity the defendants can exploit to end the case early and avoid the severe rigors of a foreign trial. US trial lawyers and the courts within which they operate are known to have a proclivity for encouraging any alternative dispute resolution path that brings closure through a pre-trial fair settlement of suits. Though this suit has progressed to a point of some disadvantage to the defendants, it's not too late for them to begin now to seek out plaintiffs' lawyers and start talking to them.
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