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OP- marginalisation is when the goalposts.are shifted just to work against the inteterests of the Igbos.

Simple example is Buhari taking a big loan to build railways to link the entire country and leaving out the South East but making sure that Igbos contribute their own quota towards the repayment of the loan.

Is there anything that Buhari will not spoil out of incompetence? After inheriting the railway lines and locomotives just completed and bought by GEJ's administration two years ago he has been unable to maintain them.

Fear gripped passengers on Friday when the train they boarded from Abuja to Kaduna broke down close to Jere, a community which has recorded a series of kidnappings. Friday’s incident was the second in two weeks. According to DAILY TRUST , the train experienced system failure at the station before it broke down. The newspaper said though an official of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said it will take “two minutes” for the fault to be rectified, passengers were stranded for about 20 minutes.

The police officers who were on the train reportedly alighted from it to secure the passengers. A passenger of the train who was not named urged the NRC to work against having a repeat of system failure. He also suggested the deployment of more security personnel to guard the passengers. “We are lucky that it did not happen at night. I pray that this is urgently looked into because this is the safest means of getting to Kaduna from Abuja,” he said.

Another passenger said when the train broke down, what came to his mind was “kidnappers”.
“This is the second time that I’m
experiencing this. The first time we spent
hours but today (Friday) we only spent 20
minutes or so,” he said. “Immediately it happened, what came to my mind were kidnappers.”

Although President Muhammadu Buhari
inaugurated the Abuja-Kaduna rail services
on July 26, 2016, its construction began
under the administration of former President
Goodluck Jonathan.

https://www.thecable.ng/abuja-kaduna-train-breaks-down-twice-in-two-weeks

Oxford definition of terrorism-

"The unlawful use of violence and
intimidation, especially against civilians, in
the pursuit of political aims."

American Law-

Terrorism is defined in Title 22 Chapter 38 U.S Code 2656f as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents."

The civilised world has a universally accepted understanding of what terrorism is. Unfortunately buhari the General without WAEC and this hungry ngo hustler think they can convince the international community that calling Nigeria a zoo is an act of terrorism

Last last buhari go chop L for this matter my own is to laugh am

Rossikki:
Oil and gas is not available in the east in commercial quantities otherwise it would have been exploited decades ago. The East only grows yams and udala, or agbalumo as Yorubas call it.

WTF?

Lets not even touch untapped reserves in places like Anambra, have you ever heard of Oguta or Egbema?

Is that Jude Idumogu a senator? Such worthless beer parlour talk devoid of simple basic facts that would show the joker the viability of an independent Igbo State.

Afam try sef to post rejoinder to such shallow stupidity

I dont think I detest anybody more than Tinubu the bloody hypocrite. So it is because Buhari castrated you politically and rendered you a local champion that you remembered restructuring again

It took Nnamdi Kanu to help you rediscover your voice. Cowardly charlatan. I dont trust this tinubu creature. If Fulani offer him president in 2023 you will see how he will forget this latest song

Buhari the uncircumcised philistine quota general without WAEC certificate will wear his toga of shame with pride at the end of the day.

IPOB will defeat him in court even if it means litigating up to Supreme Court to vacate that demonic proscription.

Shame to the daura demon and the buffoons who support his wickedness

I think this matter will go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Dictatorship always fails at the end

These northern elders sound so childish. "We are not afraid but..."

The north is scared of restructuring because of two things:

1. The fast dwindling oil money from SS/SE. Thats why they are sending NNPC staff to boko haram areas sef. They are desperate to discover it in the north even though crude oil will soon be worthless.

2. Most importantly the north needs the access to the SEA. That is why SW as far as the north is concerned is going nowhere! The ports are the highest money spinners after our oil revenues. Instead of the money being used to develop the coastal areas that spins the money instead it goes to the federation account and shared across the country according to number of local governments. We know Jigawa state has more local government areas than Lagos

The north presently controls access to the sea. NPA MD, customs, Dangote. Heck dangote has concession of apapa port and is even the one repairing the Apapa - wharf expressway

I am not a member of IPOB, I have never attended
any IPOB meeting and neither am I Igbo. I am
however deeply concerned about what is going on
in our country, what the Igbos are being
subjected to and what I consider to be the
greatest assault on the human rights and civil
liberties of the Nigerian people since the military
left power in 1999.

A violation of the constitutional right of freedom
of association and freedom of speech affects not
just those that have been targetted but each and
every one of us.
An act of injustice against one is an act of
injustice against all. What affects the part also
affects the whole. If you beat my neighbours child
it is as good as beating mine and consequently I
have a duty to defend that child.

That is the essence of humanity and chivalry: to
speak up for those that are being persecuted, to
defend the defenceless, to fight for those that are
too weak to fight for themselves and to be the
voice of the voiceless.
We must cultivate the discipline and courage to
defend the right of others to be different and to
think differently from us and to express contrary
views.

We may not all agree with the style, language
and objectives of IPOB but we surely have a duty
before God and the law to defend, uphold and
affirm their right to express themselves in any
way that they deem fit providing they do not
threaten or hurt others whilst doing so.
This is the very essence, foundation and indeed
cornerstone of freedom and democracy and if we
allow the government to take that away from us
and to get away with what they are doing without
a stiff challenge we are finished as a people.
It is IPOB today but tomorrow it could be OPC,
Ijaw Youth Council, Ohaneze, Afenifere, Middle
Belt Forum, Arewa Youths, Arewa Consultative
Forum, Northern Elders Forum or indeed anyone
else.

https://www.thetrentonline.com/femi-fani-kayode-ipob/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

The Anglo-Cameroonians were part of Nigeria before. They were deceived into joining Cameroon by their francophone politicians but now see the light

This story is so similar....

CALABAR—THE Obong of Calabar and grand
patriarch of Efik Kingdom, His Eminence Ekpo
Abasi Otu, has said that the Efik were considering
the invitation by the people of Southern
Cameroon to form a republic as the Federal
Government had sold their ancestral land to
Cameroon.

www.nairaland.com/1071499/efik-southern-cameroon-consider-forming

BE ALERT.
TODAY IT IS THE IGBOS,
TOMORROW IT WILL BE WHO?

It is reckless and foolish of any Political Zone,
State Government, Ethnic Nationalities or
Individuals to think that what is happening to the Igbo Nation in the South East of Nigeria is about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,his bail conditions, and IPOB, NO it is about every Ethnic Nationality, Region and State that have ever said no to Injustice. The manifestations playing out today have been planned a long time ago. The day Adaka Boro
declared the 12 day war, the Nzeogwu coup, when Ojukwu declared Biafra, when Ken Saro Wiwa and his Kins men declared non violent agitation for the rights of Ogoni people, at the Kiama declaration etc.

When a man of the Niger Delta, through the
calculations of the living almighty God became
the President of Nigeria the plan for crocodiles to smile in the Niger Delta and for pythons to dance in Igbo nation was unwrapped and the time set to unleash it is now. The reality all must catch now is that we have always been free, while we have been decieved into thinking we were enslaved.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, acted as a free man knowing
he has always been free. We all must act as free
men and women and youths. The rule of law is what guides all, brute force will not give Nigeria as an inheritance to the few who won't accept that Nigeria is not their personal property. They will not succeed in killing all the rest who disagree with then

If anyone breaks the law the person must be
dealt with under the existing democratic laws not
personal oppressive laws, sharia laws, or military
laws.

It is pathetic that the army of Nigeria is wagging
war against one man in his home and can't find
one man who has destabilized a region. Nigeria army can't find a man who kills army personnel in their hundreds and yet can kill unarmed men ,women and children.MNK has a court case that must be handled through the constitutionally accepted court processes.

MNK and members of his group, and all other
Ethnic Nationalities of Nigeria own Nigeria
equally, if for any reason some Igbos, and any
other Ethnic Nationalities feel they are treated as
unequal in the process governance in Nigeria they must exercise the right to say so, if the law is broken in the process of that exercise the courts will decide on that justly and equitably.
If MNK or any other ethnic nationalities demands
to leave Nigeria, a few people who think or
believe Nigeria is their personal property surely
should let them go and keep the Nigeria they
believe is their personal property.

Any idea that Nigeria will be held together by brute force is a dead on arrival idea. Nigerians no matter their number, religion, language, creed and culture are equal in all ways in Nigeria. There is no superior Nigerian.

Pythons don't dance and crocodiles don't smile.
THE UNITY OF NIGERIA IS NOT BY FORCE.
THE UNITY OF NIGERIA MUST BE DISCUSSED.
THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF A UNITED
NIGERIA MUST BE BASED ON LIBERTY, EQUITY
AND JUSTICE based on TRUTH.

If this is not acceptable to the few who believe
Nigeria is their personal property, they are free to
be on their own. Dancing pythons or smiling crocodiles will not keep Nigeria one. Today it is pythons dancing in Igbo nation, tomorrow it may be crocodiles smiling in the Niger Delta region.

Next tomorrow it may be anything the oppressors want in anyplace they want.
Of this we must stand firm we equal NIGERIANs
there is no master and no slaves. .
Personally l was born Free and l remain Free any attempt to make me a slave will be resisted.
WHAT ABOUT YOU?.
All this too will end according to the Bible but
where? is the CRUDE OIL AND GAS question.
The will of God not man be done.
Annkio Briggs
# Convener
# NDSDM

Hol up nigga! Hol up! Your propaganda has been overtaken by events today
https://www.thecable.ng/court-strikes-fraud-charge-involving-deizani
Nnamdi Dimgba, justice of the federal high court, Abuja, on Wednesday, struck out a charge involving Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, in the trial of her associate – Jide Omokore. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had brought an eight count charge of fraud to the tune of $1.6 billion against Omokore. Alison-Madueke was named in the eighth count of the fraud charges , but the judge struck out the charge.

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WisdomFlakes:
Biafra agitation has awakened and made Yoruba's more protective of their space so the chances of that happenning is now zero.

When Awo engineered bigot politics against Zik there was no Biafra yet. Nice try though.

Abeg OP why Igbo lagosians? Why not Urhobo, Bini or Itsekiri lagosians? They are closer to yorubas. Please leave us out of this conversation. Our priority now is self determination or restructuring in the least.

I personally do not want any Igbo lagosians to govern Lagos same way I don't want any Yoruba or Fulani Anambrarian to govern my state. No long tin there. We had a Fulani Mayor of our regional capital of Enugu in the First republic so such things are no big deal to us but the bigotry of North and West changed all that.

My answer is no

The stupidity of people that are trying to link Ipob to these mystery weapons is on a level that scientists don't have the tools to measure.

1. If Ipob had weapons they would have used them when buhari sent troops to murder igbos in the name of Python dance. They would not have thrown stones and sticks

2. If the Federal government even had a speck of evidence that an Ipob was in anyway linked to the weapons we know that demons like lai Mohammed and the army spokespersons would have happily announced

3.The customs and other security agencies headed by Muslim northerners will never happily announce if the weapons were linked to northerners. How come not a single person has been identified as the importer? Why do the security agencies always intercept the weapons at the ports? Why have they not tried to trace the owners?

Of course we know by the poor WAEC records in some regions that all this critical reasoning is scarce to come by in those places

Buhari just dey embarass himself upandan

Shame to bad belle people that celebrated the illegal "terrorist" tag. Be very careful of the seeds you sow ...

lookingfly:
The way things are going in this country is becoming therifying, the way this government is operating with impunity........what will happen in 2019 when buhari looses the election.

Buhari will not release results if he loses in 2019. Last last he will conduct Military Operations in the South to subdue any protest

Once operation Python dance started in the East I knew that it was a panic measure by the FG because of the agitations by IPOB and to a large extent by the Ibadan Declaration by the Yoruba nation last week. While Kanu's activities have been very scary to the government, I can bet that buhari got really afraid when the Yorubas woke up.

Python dance in the east was really brutal to send a warning to the south-west to cool down their talk of restructuring or oduduwa republic.

Make we dey watch

http://www.time.com/time/europe/webonly/
africa/2000/10/ogundamisi1.html

TIME EUROPE
Friday, October 27, 2000

Will Ethnic Violence Tear Nigeria Apart? An exclusive interview with Kayode Ogundamisi, national secretary of the Odua People's Congress

Since President Olusegun Obasanjo came to
power in May 1999 as the
country's first democratically elected leader in
more than 15 years,
thousands have been killed in clashes
between Nigeria's main ethnic
groups. The problem has been exacerbated by
the re-introduction of
Islamic Shari'a law in the predominately
Muslim north and calls by
many groups for greater autonomy within the
federation. Violence
flared this month in the commercial capital
Lagos, where more than 100
people were killed in clashes between Yoruba
nationalists from the
south and Hausa from the north.
President Obasanjo says he is working to end
the violence. He blames
recent problems on the Odua People's
Congress, a fast growing
"cultural and social group" representing
Yoruba interests. Police
recently arrested the group's mild mannered
leader Frederic Fasheun, a
physician, and 41 other members, charging
them with murder, illegal
possession of arms, and arson. TIME's
Nairobi bureau chief Simon
Robinson talked with OPC national secretary
Kayode Ogundamisi, who
escaped police custody at Lagos airport
before flying to the Kenyan
capital via Ivory Coast. "People haven't heard
our side of the story,"
says Ogundamisi. "They're just spreading
rumors that we are a
terrorist group and that we are just rag-tags
in the streets."
Excerpts:
TIME: How did the latest violence begin?
Ogundamisi: The state of insecurity in Lagos
has become alarming.
Armed robbers have taken over the state. The
police are corrupt and
inefficient. You call the police and they never
turn up. So OPC
members have formed vigilante groups. The
landlords now have to rely
on the OPC to protect them. But because of
the viciousness of these
robbers we see some vigilantes lynch them
when they catch them.
Because in most cases when they hand them
over to the police, the
police will give them the names of the
vigilantes and the armed
robbers will unleash terror on those vigilante
groups.
We now have cases where if you pick a
Hausa man and you mete out the
same thing you mete out to a Yoruba man,
because of the ethnic problem
on the ground, the Hausa community will see
it as an attack on the
entire race. This latest case was caused in
that way. OPC cadres were
on patrol [in a poor suburb of Lagos] and got
a Hausa man with arms
and ammunition. They took him to a Bale [a
traditional leader] but the
Hausa got angry and launched an attack. It
was not just OPC then. It
became Yoruba against Hausa. It went on for
three days. I personally
counted more than 150 bodies. It would have
become more than what it
was but we went around other zones and told
the Yoruba not to get
involved and calmed our own people down.
But the government just
announced that the OPC was the guilty party.
And when they sent in the
military, which is dominated by northerners, if
you had tribal marks
you were attacked and you started having
extra-judicial killings. The
government declared the OPC a violent
organization so we went
underground ... They arrested over 40 Yoruba
but not one single Hausa.
TIME: Where are the other OPC members?
Ogundamisi: I took 150 with me to Benin
where they are hiding out. The
Nigerian government wants to get the
leadership, the articulate ones,
so they can paint who's left as hoodlums.
TIME: What will you do when your Kenyan
visa expires?
Ogundamisi: I'm going to the Netherlands to
hold a press conference on
the same day Fasheun appears in court. We
want to let the world know
what the OPC is about. We want to save
Nigeria from self-destruction.
So if we do have to take any action, people
will understand that, oh,
these people have been pushed to the wall.
TIME: Is the OPC finished as a force?
Ogundamisi: The government thinks it has cut
off the head of the OPC.
But there's a new dimension to it: we have
formed OPC International. We
had a meeting at the University of Nairobi.
Yoruba living in the
Diaspora are advised to come together and
take this on. Because if the
world does not know what we actually stand
for the government will
paint us as killers. But the OPC is still very
much on the ground. I'm
keeping in touch with the cadres via e-mail.
I'm telling them not to
act now, just to keep a low profile.
TIME: How many men have you trained to
fight for the Yoruba cause?
Ogundamisi: The OPC is nothing less than 4
million people. We have
trained about 75,000 to resist state
oppression. We could launch an
attack but that should be the last option.
We're getting towards that
now, though. The government cannot
continue to kill a race. In a
situation whereby two people have a problem
and you keep clamping on
one race it becomes ethnic genocide. And we
keep telling them, the cost
of not having a sovereign conference, the cost
of not sitting down to
talk about this ethnic problem is more than
the cost of doing it.
Nigeria might just end up with what is
happening in other African
countries: chaos. You cannot suppress the
will of the people. In order
to sustain this democracy we have to solve
this ethnic problem. Ethnic
violence in Nigeria is a vicious cycle. It will
keep coming up unless
we stop it finally through a sovereign national
conference.
TIME: Is the introduction of Shari'a adding to
the ethnic problem?
Ogundamisi: That's why our people feel
aggrieved. Almost all the
northern states have introduced Shari'a
against the constitution. The
government did nothing. That's a form of
self-determination. The people
in the north say, 'We want to be an Islamic
state,' and they have
declared a law. And we in the south have not
even got to that stage. We
are only asking for dialogue. In order to
please the north the
government is clamping down on the
southwest. The mistake we keep
making in Africa is that if there's a small
uprising the government
says it's just some hoodlums. But we
shouldn't underestimate the
minority. Democracy is: the majority have
their way but the minority
would have their say. Investors are not
coming in because it's still
unstable. Forget what the government says,
no one wants to invest when
it's so unstable.

Mynd44 come and see fake sourceless news

sarrki:
E pain am

Nope entertained

PentiumPro:
For the Igbos, that is certainly true. After burning Dangote trucks at the slightest friction with the Nigeria govt, I wonder how Igbos intend to build confidence of others.

What!! You sabi lie pass devil. When did this happen

Barcanistus strikes again
Such shallow, watery poo

I now know that something strange is happening... Buhari seems determined to win more and more support for IPOB and to help IPOB win every intellectual argument against agitations for secession.

You cannot fill the most peaceful part of the country (SE) with army checkpoints and armoured cars and not expect Igbos to say that Kanu was right from the beginning. Nigeria is really a zoo!!!

Unfortunately the SE governors are women.

Shame no dey catch this old man after trying to amend our constitution to hold power longer, Obasanjo tackling his own son's age mate here.

If you know say you be General why doesnt he say the same thing about Buhari make EFCC dust your file for you

I have never really believed in Nnamdi Kanu's methods or approach but here you can see why he rules the streets of Igbo land. He embraces the grassroots like no Igbo politician, activist or governor does. The government needs to be very careful in dealing with this man

So the CEO of SPG cannot own house in London but Tinubu who was an accountant in Mobil and a public servant for 8 years can own half of lagos, airlines, television stations, newspapers etc

IPOB doesnt like any party. They dont even want elections. Igbos rather generally like PDP. Unless you are calling all Igbos IPOB

Rubbish article. The only thing I can say is that this brainless, clueless and demonic buhari of a thing should not mishandle this Nnamdi Kanu re-arrest. Buhari is the least intelligent man to rule Nigeria after Gowon and we can all see the effect of his lack of brains and character on this country. Ultimately he seems set to destroy it finally.

He should learn from history. Obasanjo locked Asari up and a more deadly militant named Tompolo rose with more violence. Yusuf was killed and Shekau rose. Let us pray nothing happens to Kanu in the name of arresting him. I don talk my own

Integrityfarms:
Rochas is a scammer, it wasn't given for free and the vehicles was just 300 in numbers, at a price of #1m each and you are expected to be making #10k returns every week consistently till the one million is completed.

However the beneficiaries are saying the vehicles were just refurbished and in not more than six months it will be broken due to wear and tear.

.... So, who's fooling who?

Chai this rochas na real scammer wey dey "sit local"