₦airaland Forum

mrvitalis:
Have you conducted any polls to define your position ?

Obi is the best candidate among the top contenders ...he is from Igbo , he would defend the interest of south South better than anyone

So tell me why should a south South person from rivers state vote Tinubu or Atiku ...after what APC did to ameachi or what PDP did to wike ?

So tell me on what basis should any rivers man vote Tinubu or Atiku

mrvitalis:
The only criminal are the Nigerian Army they mine, kill and steal from Igbos

Self determination is a fundamental right

A Nigerian medical doctor, Rose Agwu, has cried out for help after soldiers invaded her home in Abia State and arrested her 15-year-old brother and sister.

Agwu, who resides near Obikabia Junction in the Aba area of the state, said the soldiers broke into her home and took away her siblings, sparing only her 72-year-old father at about 5 am on Friday.

She revealed this in a series of posts on her Social handle on Friday morning.

According to Agwu, her siblings were taken without any information on their whereabouts or the reason for their arrest.

She stated, “Around 5 am in the morning, the Nigerian Army invaded my house, broke the gate and our door, and took my 15-year-old brother and my sister, who had just come home, away, leaving only my aged father.

“Till now, they have not been released. We are still trying to locate them. Please help us ask the Nigerian Army the logical reason behind this and how they can account for all the people they took and their plans for them.

“I don’t want to hear stories, please. This is how people go missing and get killed. Please release my siblings, they know nothing about the shooting or unknown gunmen, please.”

This incident came after five soldiers were killed at an Army checkpoint in the Aba area of the state on Thursday.

Following the attack, the Nigerian military vowed that the killers would not go scot-free.

After 24 hours, Agwu, who noted that June 1 was her sister’s birthday, lamented that her siblings were still in custody.

She stressed that her siblings’ rights were being abused by their unlawful detention.

She wrote, “At exactly this time 5 am yesterday while I was at the hospital running my Accident and Emergency shift and saving lives, the Nigerian army broke into my home, forced my 72-year-old father to sit in an unhealthy position while they took away my 15-year-old brother and sister.

“Till now my siblings have not been returned home. My family has been in panic and living in fear. The doors and gates were broken, no arrest warrant was shown, no official statement as to why they took my minor sibling or sister. This is not how justice is served!

“Children are experiencing something traumatic even to a grown adult. How will my siblings recover from this assault and abuse of their human rights?

Today, June 1, is my sister’s birthday and she’s in Army custody for a crime she knows nothing about. My sister is unproblematic. My family has no relation to the crisis going on in the country. We are law-abiding citizens and mind our business but here we are.”

She called on the state governor, Alex Otti, to come to her family’s rescue and save her siblings.

“It’s my sister’s birthday today! A very traumatic birthday indeed. She’s being held by the Nigerian army who, without intelligence information, moved around arresting innocent law-abiding citizens living around where the attack on soldiers happened,” she stated.

Like Agwu, many residents near Obikabia Junction in the Aba area have gone online to raise the alarm after soldiers allegedly raided their homes and picked up young people.

CleverNation claimed that his friend was taken away by soldiers who invaded his hotel room.

#clevernation23 wrote, “They took my friend who came to Aba to buy goods on Monday but had to lodge in a hotel. The military invaded the hotel and carried every occupant away.”

This move has caused public outrage as Nigerians condemned the invasion of homes and the arrest of innocent residents.

#Samdgreat01 wrote, “You see, this is my problem with how the Nigerian Army works. Terrorists and criminals attacked your men, and you go around without intelligence detaining innocent citizens. The real terrorists are still moving freely and can wreak havoc again. Families of innocent people will grieve while terrorists strike again. The cycle continues. Lawlessness.

“Terrorists attacked you and went their way. You went around picking up people in the area indiscriminately, even as young as 15, to an unknown location. You’ll torture them, perhaps kill some; you’ve done it before. Real terrorists are still intact in their location. Conduct a proper investigation and gather intelligence to go after them. You’re not so different from the terrorists.”

Ike God called for a proper investigation to bring the real perpetrators to justice instead of unlawfully arresting innocent citizens.

He wrote, “I call on Alex Otti to interface with the @HQNigerianArmy Chief, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, to facilitate the immediate and unconditional release of all innocent and hapless Abia teenagers and youths abducted by rogue elements within the Nigerian Army on a reprisal attack.

“The investigation to fish out and prosecute the daredevil UGM or MOU who attacked the Army checkpoint in Obikabia Junction, Obingwa, Aba, is a matter for the IGP Kayode Egbetokun-led @PoliceNG. The Nigerian Army must quit flexing muscles with armless and harmless Nigerian citizens and go after real terrorists wreaking havoc across Nigeria. Dear HE @alexottiofr, kindly look into the abduction of hapless Abia teenagers, raised by #RoseAgwu254246.“

BoldBrainz:
Your simple response was in your first line of words. The rest of your epistle was just emotional justifications to explain away your stand on the subject.

Irrespective of Nnamdi Kanu's rabble-rousing, it is public knowledge that the IPOB agitations were all worded protests that hurt no one and occasioned no weaponised violence, until Buhari happened.

The basic principle of causes and effects hold viability in all spheres of life and it is sickening that today's Nigerians are suddenly demonising the consequences of governmental recklessness while mischievously forgetting how and where this entire ugliness sprouted.

It is even more disappointing when objectivity is buried by the hands of people who'll rather glorify their warped sentiments than call a spade for what it is.

Calitoscassius:
The zoo army always active in kllling innocent Igbos.
Boko haram and herdsmen are still operating without challenges by the zoo army.

MDK777:
Are they going after the UGM or they are after the innocent law abiding citizen of bia Nigeria?😁😁

OredoPikin:
Nothing justify the killing of innocent people.
IPOB is not a terrorist organisations
All these were politically motivated orchestrated by APC.
APC is sponsoring the bad elements in them in the name of IPOB just to cause division and deviation from the original purpose.
Why is nnamdi kanu still in prison and Simon ekpa is walking freely
APC is sponsoring simon ekpa to cause problem in the east and they are succeeding

Zeezenho:
The military should do their worst.we survived civil war,phyton dance,Buhari and every other shite the terrorist nigerian army had dished us in the past this too we shall survive.

Next falling hero's day in Igboland if they dont stay away it will be worse for them. Every may 30 is sacred in igboland.

We say no to all form of violence we still remain peaceful but never docile.

RexMUna:
I condemned the act of killing the gallant soldiers.
Why would the federal government and army General deploy more troops prior to that particular date to the eastern states??
They was technically provoking and escalating everything. If those soldiers weren't there, there would never be any body bags.

You can't push someone off and show him where to fall!!!

Was a day too much to ask for??

PepeXKermit:
Rrturn leg on innocent civilians? The joke is on you.

savenaijatoday:
No reasonable person supports killing and I don't in any way support the killing of innocent people but lately Nigerian army has been behaving like a political party, making hasty pronouncements, trading blames without investigation, and it's not good for our democracy.
Nigeria is a very delicate country and propaganda won't solve our myriads of challenges. Hastening to tag the killers of the five soldiers as ipob is childish as it's naively conclusive and precludes investigation. The same Nigerian army published few months ago that some bad elements hide under ipob to commit atrocities. Why wouldn't the same army descend so low to hasty conclusions? I pray the reprisal they promised only get to the perpetrators and not the innocent people. I think we should have passed this embarrassing stage as a nation. Every life matters and innocent people can't pay for crime they nothing know about.

fullclub:
Your hatred for South East will consume u all.

DMerciful:
There is nothing the eye will see that would cause it to bleed. Tinupoo nor reach!

DMerciful:
There is nothing like forming morality, I'm a just man!

The military must fish out the perpetrators and do the necessary justice but cannot harm innocent people.

I don't know why una dey hate on the East

DMerciful:
If you like call Obi from now till 2027, if Tinubu does not show workings, he will be booted out

fullclub:

Why closing down markets? Is that how to get the criminals?
Look for intelligence and corporations from the people and if possible place a bounty for information to get to those people.
Not innocent people please

Hambivert:
Why not the North too?
The Nigerian Army is a formidable source that specializes in reprisal attacks
...but when it comes to the North everything goes South.

The killers and terrorists have done theirs and fled, now it's market people and children that are bearing the brunt.

PepeXKermit:
Na so tgem dey do retaliatory attack for boko haram region abi? The Nigeria Army is a useless terrorist organization.

Hemoviye:
Hope innocent citizens won't go down for what they didn't do?

rinzaugustine:
So Nigeria is so much a failed state that the police can no longer investigate, arrest and prosecute high profile crimes anymore but tag it to a group? So if a person wants to rob a bank in east now they will put on Biafra color and police will run away and say they are UGM or in west dressed like Fulani they will run and say it’s herdsmen or in the north put on long beards like boko haram etc….this is sad that Nigeria is now a failed state under a man the enemies of Nigeria said he built Lagos

Forkthiefnubu:
This was in 2023 p.unk , to listen and comprehend is such an unattainable skill for u guys , now u buff:un is trying to pass it off as a current event . Fork u fork sit at home

mrvitalis:
Them go still beat your region

Racoon:
You don't declear seat at home and be enjoying serenity in far away Finland. The Biafra cause has been a noble one until it was hijacked by Simon Ekpa. However, the liberation of Umu Chineke has been decided by the good Lord from time immemorial.

JagabanB:
They wiII be quick to call others cowards, but they are aII hiding in their rooms now.

Klinee:
Peter Obi is a thief, He love to govern Anambra but didn't want to invest in Anambra.

Lovelive:
I am Igbo, odè.