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03/11/13

*Ezu River Corpses: How Victims Were Suffocated To Death By Nigeria Police SARS

By Intersociety-Nigeria (Society Review Part 3)

(Onitsha-Nigeria, 11th day of March, 2013)-The leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law can confirm to the world that most, if not all of those found floating on Ezu River of Death on 19th day of January, 2013, died from suffocation. It is recalled that we had in the part two of our explosive report on Ezu River of Death dated 4th day of Match, 2013, stated clearly that the methods used by Anambra SARS in killing those found in Ezu River were methods not restricted to gun-shots. That is to say that they might have been killed through other means, which include clubbing, lethal strings, strangulation, macheting, poisoning, rubber/tube tying, etc (including suffocation). Our further findings after part one and two of our report clearly indicate that most, if not all of them were killed through manually traceless means-called mass suffocation. This clearly explains why the Anambra State Police Command, having gotten briefing from its SARS leadership on how it killed the victims being referenced, hastily told the world that no gunshot wounds or bullets were found on any of the corpses.

Our Credible Findings:

A member of one of the armed community vigilante groups belonging to one of the communities that share common boundaries with the Awkuzu SARS headquarters in Awkuzu Community, Oyi LGA in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria, was arrested by the Awkuzu SARS sometime in early January 2013, and detained for two weeks for armed robbery. The freed vigilante operative told an under-cover investigator on condition of anonymity and face to face chat, that he was contracted by a trader to recover some debts owed him by another trader. He led other armed vigilante operatives to the debt recovery operation during which the debtor was beaten up and injured. The injured debtor reported him to Awkuzu SARS through the help of the debtor’s friend who is a SARS operative. The freed vigilante operative told the under-cover investigator that he regained his freedom through the intervention of his community’s chief security officer and the president general. He told the investigator that at Awkuzu SARS, detention cells are serially numbered from 1, 2, 3, and 4 and so on. Those in cell 4 and above are condemned detainees waiting for extra judicial executions and that extra judicial execution of detainees is almost on daily basis. He revealed that there are several torturous ways Awkuzu SARS operatives kill their detainees extra judicially and those who cannot afford huge illegal bail sums ranging from N50, 000 to N200, 000 or more as case may be, are among those being executed extra judicially.

On that fateful day, according to the freed vigilante, detainees from Awkuzu SARS dead or condemned cells, numbering dozens were brought out in a broad daylight, chained and handcuffed; made to lie face down on an open field within the SARS premises and under scotching sun and heat. All the assembled detainees were covered with thick tarpaulin under the watchful eyes of their killers and made to stay under it for hours during which they suffocated and died. Their evacuation and dumping into the Ezu River of Death, according to a prominent resident of Amansea, who monitored the dumping, was done three times within the period-Monday, Wednesday and Friday. That is to say that they were evacuated from SARS killing field and dumped into the Ezu River of Death on 14th, 16th and 18th day of January, 2013. This expressly strengthens the print and electronic media accounts that some of the corpses were in varying state of decomposition when they were discovered. The prominent resident also clarified that the blood stains found on the surface of the Amansea Old Enugu Road Bridge were those of one of the bodies discovered to be alive by Police SARS and possibly detainees who were ordered to evacuate the murdered bodies. To erase any traces, they were shot severally and confirmed dead before they were thrown into the dead river from the top of the Bridge in the late night/early hours of January 18/19, 2013.Some residents of the area confirmed the blood stains on top of the left side of the old bridge during one of our field team’s visits to the area on Sunday, March 10, 2013. Their dumping possibly took place between 12:00am and 3:00am, considered to be the hours of the dead.

Before the shocking discovery of dozens of murdered corpses in Ezu River of Death, some residents of the areas said that dumping of murdered corpses by the Anambra State Command has been a routine. Corpses dumped from the Old Bridge into Ezu River are converged by the River at Onaluokwe circle of the river in Amaowelle Village, Amansea, where they are either eaten by big fishes or decomposed and decayed. Onaluokwe literally means a circle where the River receives objects and accommodates or accepts same. Reasons for dumping the extra judicially murdered corpses into the river in recent times, according to our findings, are due to several alarms raised by host communities on whose lands such murdered bodies were shallowly buried and liquidated with acid substances. Part of the reasons is also because of the procurement of some of such parcels of land by private citizens. For instance, the Onitsha Old Cemetery management has forbidden the Anambra Police SARS from dumping their extra judicially murdered bodies in the cemetery. The Nawfia by Ezugu-Agidi stream has been sealed off by the affected communities owing to the menace of littering the area with police-murdered corpses. Extra judicially murdered corpses are dumped inside the stream’s gully and liquidated with raw acid substances. The Agu-Awka dumping site, located near the Awka MOPOL 29 barracks, controlled by Ntoko Community, near Awka, has also been sealed owing to concerns expressed by the host community over indiscriminate dumping of extra judicially murdered bodies by Anambra Police SARS.

A female student of the Igbariam Campus of the Anambra State University also confirmed that extra judicial killing of detainees by the Awkuzu Police SARS is a routine. She revealed that Otuocha River (Omambala River) is another river where those extra judicially murdered by SARS are routinely dumped. Their dumping hours, according to her, are from 9:00pm and above, and their route is usually the Awkuzu Junction-Otuocha Road. This reinforces the recent discovery of about three or four murdered corpses in the River reportedly by media and the NSCDC. Some residents of Amansea and Awkuzu communities, who spoke to Intersociety, confirmed the atrocious acts under reference. A resident of Amansea community said that the murdered dead bodies are introduced by SARS to officers and men of the Nigeria Police Mobile Force, who mount permanent road block less than 100 meters away from the Old Enugu Road Bridge as wasted products. According to some residents of Akwuzu, spoken to by Intersociety, there are more than seven methods of torture and killing used in killing the SARS detainees extra judicially. Some of them are killing by suffocation through the use of thick tarpaulin and compacted and unventilated cells; killing by gun-shots; killing by machetes; killing by strangulation; killing by clubbing with planks or metal objects; killing by lethal strings; killing by infliction of grievous bodily torture; killing by circle-tying the detainee’s toes to waist and finger to shoulder regions, resulting in instant death; and killing by chaining the detainee’s legs and hands together and hanging him or her upside down on a ceiling hook to die. As a torture strategy, detainees are routinely brought out from cells, shot on their legs and fingers and sent back to their cells without treatments, which lead to their untimely death as a result of decaying wounds. They are killed and disposed off if they become nuisance to SARS detention cells and environment. It is also a routine in Awkuzu SARS to order some detainees to evacuate the extra judicially murdered bodies, after which they are shot and killed to erase traces. Female detainees are treated inhumanly in their cells. A female student told Intersociety that she was detained for two weeks without being allowed to have a shower not even a single day. Awkuzu SARS cells are a clear replica of the German Concentration Camp.

Our Team’s Visit To The Crime Scenes:

Our visits covered the old and new road sides of the Ezu River of Death, the sites of the boreholes of controversy sunk by Governor Peter Obi and Senator Chris Ngige. The Ngige borehole is located after the police road block, while the Obi borehole, which has started running, is located along Nitel Road, all in Amansea. We also visited the River’s dumping points as well as former SARS dumping sites at Onitsha Old Cemetery, Agu-Awka and Nawfia Stream by Enugu-Agidi Junction on Onitsha-Enugu Dual Carriage Way. We spoke to some residents of Amansea and Awkuzu Communities including male and female students of UNIZIK and ANSU. At Amansea, we were told that as the villagers were discovering dozens of murdered corpses at the old and new sides of the two Enugu Roads, there were dozens of more murdered bodies floating on the Onaluokwe circle of the River. Some of the villagers told Intersociety that Onaluokwe circle is where the Ezu River of Death enlarges, which can only be accessed via canoe boats peddled by the Ijaws. They also alleged that some boat peddlers were hired and paid by police during the horrible saga to remove and shallowly bury those corpses floating on the River’s Onaluokwe circle to remove them from outsiders’ viewing.

Also, according to them, dumping extra judicially murdered corpses into the River mostly comes from the Anambra State Police Command and sometimes from Ugwuoba Community in Enugu State. Corpses emanating from Ugwuoba are usually insignificant in number (not more than three) at a time and they are usually alleged thieves caught by its local armed vigilante. To them, number of corpses found on January 19, 2013, was alarmingly higher than what they usually saw and that the reason why those corpses floated and refused to be pushed away by the River was because of drastic reduction in water currents owing to dry season. The number of corpses found on that fateful day, according to them, is 50 and far above when added to those floating on the River’s Onaluokwe circle same day. This confirms a disclosure by another university female student that a top operative of SARS had in December2012 at a liquor joint, complained that their cells as at then, contained over 100 detainees and that before the end of January 2013, half of them will be cleared(killed extra judicially). Dating female students of ANSU is a routine among SARS operatives.

Finally, we wish to state again that the leadership of Nigeria’s Intersociety has no scores to settle with the Nigeria Police Force as a public organization, but we have a series of scores to settle with ethnic cleansers, beasts and cannibals it employs and pays through Nigeria’s collective wealth to murder and torture with reckless abandon Nigeria’s innocent citizens particularly the young Igbo sons who are at their prime age of productivity. We suspect seriously that a policy of ethnic cleansing has perfectly been designed to exterminate the Igbo productive population in Nigeria. The level of hatred and hate policing activities being visited against the Igbo race in Nigeria is taking an alarming dimension day in day out. The race is incontestably an endangered species in Nigeria today. MASSOB organization, for instance, is not different from the O’ Odua People’s Congress in Southwest Nigeria, but while the group enjoys maximum freedoms and police protection, innocent MASSOB members and Igbo law-abiding traders are hunted on daily basis and slaughtered with impunity. It has been factually established that out of every five police officers from the northern Nigeria, four would kill any Igbo man extra judicially if they have an opportunity; out of every five police officers from the Southwest Nigeria, four would do same; whereas out of every five police officers from Southeast Nigeria, one would kill a northerner or a south westerner outside the law, if he or she has an opportunity. The ratio ethnic hatred in Nigeria between Hausa/ Yoruba and Igbo is 90/20. That is to say that 90% of the former hate the Igbos, while only 20% of the latter hate the former.

Signed:

Emeka Umeagbalasi
Chairman, BOT, International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law
08033601078, 08180103912
umeagbalasi@yahoo.com, info@intersociety-ng.org.

Comrade Justus Ijeoma
Head, Publicity Desk

. . .And this is the point I leave the thread again, at least till next time I'm provoked by resident devils of Nairaland.

Signing off,

Yours truly,

Onlytruth.

manny4life: I know how it all started, more reasons why I really don't wanna pay so much attention on this thread. I mean the whole bickering isn't worth it, at least, not for me. As for Gbawe, the dude is in his own league, unfortunately, I have no words for him...I'm beginning to take NL less seriously, so less fights, and less arguments. Whatever floats anyone's boat.

Same here.
Very much same here.

Yoruba_Omoge: Arm chair jobless eze has spoken.

On another thread, you claimed to avoid and ignore Yoruba threads.

On another hand, you do the opposite.

Explains why the mor.on united chose you to lead them

As simple as a "I want to be a Yoruba" statement goes, it got you all riled up with vile and hate.

No be you dey write epistle?

what's wrong with the thread's presence on front page? hmmmm

You think Larry is the only guy with this mentality?

Why the hate, homie?

You're representing quite well.

Armchair king with no leadership skill. . . .unless your intention is to breed hate. . . .then you're doing a marvelous job.

Ode.

If most of you even understand the most basic mindset of a TYPICAL IGBO MAN, you would stop making this asinine "jobless" statement whenever you see one.
That term may be rampant in YOUR tribe; it is really NOT in Igbo. Quote me on this.
Some of us will rather die than not work.

EzeUche: I still want to know what kind of Igbo name is Larry Koldsweat.

There are some Igbos with English surnames, but I never heard of them answer Koldsweat.

Simple question.

As much as most of us know, when Igbo go by English surname, they go by the fathers FIRST NAME; eg Michael, Joseph, Silvanus, etc, straight English or Christain name.
Koldsweat has not Igbo or English connotation that I can decipher. It can mean something in other tribes though.
So, my argument (not that it matters anyway) is that it may be wrong to say that he is Igbo. It would be more accurate to say that he wants to be a Yoruba man, and end it there.
BTW why NEXT LIFE? Why not NOW? Is it because he fears rejection? lmao.

manny4life: Exactly my point, it's his unalienable right - freedom to freely associate with whom he chooses. More reason why I said, you loose one, you gain another. How's that holding him? If you gain and loose friends, as long as you're not forcing anyone, live and let live... PERIOD

Nwanne nobody even said that the man cannot swap his tribe for another. Go back to the earlier pages.
All that was said was that the man may not even be Igbo going by his last name and other things.
BANG! All hell broke loose!

I was decended upon by GBAWE arguably the greatest Yoruba bigot who cannot even stomach the fact that an Ijaw man is president of Nigeria.
These people are so funny I can't even understand their mindset.

Must ask again:

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Yoruba_Omoge: As if EzeUche aint the worst of them all.

Tribal lackey personified.

Stop trying to make a point with him. . . .he won't get it.

You people must be having a laugh of your lives with this lame attempt to tag others, while your CHIEF here is the arch-angel of bigotry.
Imagine a LION accusing a cat of being a carnivore. Poor cat can only DREAM to be as successful a carnivore as the king of the jungle.
Of course he can only dream.
Igbo can only dream of matching Yoruba in HATE and BIGOTRY.
This site is fast showing what it has always been -a Yoruba vehicle to attack, tarnish and brand others.
Arrant nonsensicus.

The fact that there are still Igbo who support extra-judicial killings in Nigeria shows the deep lack of leadership in Igboland.
When you listen to some Igbo talk about this issue, you begin to wonder whether there has been a fundamental change in Igbo mindset in Nigeria.
One guy (on one related thread) was seriously advocating instant justice for "kidnappers" and "armed robbers". But anyone with a thinking faculty would know that all it takes for ANYONE to become victim is a shout of "ole, ole!" or "kidnapper!", and the mob takes over from there. More so, for a people with a civil war history, police in Igboland must NEVER be given any hint that they can operate outside of the law, else a lot of them with latent anti-Igbo sentiments would unleash that freely in Igboland.
That is why I still can't understand how a sitting governor in Igboland (not just one) could order a shoot at site in ANY part of Igboland.

Umu Igbo, our survival is beginning to look tenuous with the constant erosion of our CORE values (of equal access to opportunity and justice), and it is happening without anyone of significance protesting it.

Onye obula jiri ire ya guo eze ya onu o.

We cannot afford anarchy in Igboland. There are too many wolves waiting to cash in on that to bring "completion" to what they started in 1966.

That other Nigerians may not care about this issue should not dictate how we Ndigbo should approach this issue. In any case, we can lead other Nigerians on this issue.

This is one issue that every Nigerian (particularly Igbo) should care about. The way we start to push back on this is to ensure that ANYONE responsible is brought to justice one way or another.
This is the more rational way of responding to it than the "sit at home" MASSOB called for over the issue. I wonder for how long we should "sit at home" over grievances in Nigeria. That is never the Igbo way.

So, we reject MASSOB's sit at home over the issue. We need JUSTICE.

Anyway back to topic.

I repeat. The man is free to switch to ANY tribe he wants in Nigeria, provided he states his REAL origins.
He should leave Igbo out of it as we Igbo can make an EDUCATED guess that he is NOT Igbo ab initio. For starters show me any other Igbo STAR that has made a similar statement.
Answer NONE.

thelastPope: You are angry with GEJ for not building the bridge? 2 years into his 4 year first term? I dont understand please. Elaborate.

Most of us Igbo are staunch GEJ supporters. We are beginning to wonder whether it is worth it.
Okay, here is why we are apprehensive. Pray, how long does it take to begin work on a project of this nature? GEJ has been there for 2 years with NOTHING on ground in the bridge to show. If work is already going on NOW at the site, you will not see these types of talks. You see the bridges that Akpabio (a mere governor) is building in Akwa Ibom, with state funds?
All we have so far are promises. All these can change of course when construction starts at the site and work progress seen.
We are not fools you know. Igbo say that one cannot easily hide a pregnancy.
Honestly, we want to see work on that site YESTERDAY.
We will not like to lose a fight that we can easily win. GEJ has to KEEP our votes, that's all.

Alfamann: This man is NOT igbo. Look at his name. How many igbo people answer Koldsweat? This man is most likely an ijaw man with such a stupid westernised name like that.

Nwanne you beat me to this observation/conclusion.
I have taken time to listen to his Igbo dialect. He speaks "Enu Onicha" (Onitsha dialect). There are many Ijaw who used to live on boats along the River Niger banks, fishing and supplying fish to "Ose Nku" market along Niger road in Onitsha. He may also be "a returnee" (more likely scenario). Onitsha has MANY settlers among them, including Sierra Leonians, Ghanaians, and Liberians from the abolition era. They are not too many, but they are very much there. I attended secondary school with some of them. They usually go by English surnames. The man is free to switch to any tribe of his choice in Nigeria, but he should start by properly stating his own origins, rather than dragging Igbo into his life choices.

Biafra rep: you disgust me, ignorant troll. What do you stand to acheive by justaposing SE GDP againt that of the SW? Now let me tell you that I am very much impressed by the performance of SE states, yes, despite lack of federal presence in the SE and Igbos investing heavily in other states of the federation, they still performed well.

The guy lives in Nairaland. Has ZERO life outside of here.
He is either Seun's other moniker (if you go back in time, you will see that Seun was posting EXACTLY like that animal); or he is the biggest fool to ever experience a web forum. He has posted more comments than all of us combined. Dude is as dense as they come.

kettykings: The primary factor that motivates a bank to expand its branches is Profitability based on the bank expansion strategy in Nigeria and from statistics from CBN the most profitable places for bank business can be found from the table below (No serious bank would open a branch in an unprofitable and nonviable location with no customers)

Number of Commercial Banks
Lagos
Abuja
Rivers
Anambra

The Cash flow in a state does not have a bearing on the GDP of the state however it does show the rate of economic transaction/exchanges going on in a state (i will explain this later)
According to CBN the states with the highest cash flow are below in order of priority

CBN Deposit mobilisation
Lagos
Kano
Anambra
Abia

I tend to conclude that more than half of the Economy of the South East is not visible , a case in point is that of Kanu Nwankwo an Igbo ex international who happens to be building a N1.4 B Hotel in lagos which ordinary would have been counted as part of the lagos GDP/Economy but in reality is an Eastern Economy with a branch in Lagos same goes for Dangote's Investments in Lagos and other southern states boosting the GDP of those states but in reality the business could be registered in Kano .just the same way much of the Diaspora wealth repatriation is far above what was reported.

My Advice to SE Governors is to battle to Localize the N100B / Day Auto parts Business in the SE , leverage on that to build a world class auto parts industry rather than leaving the huge industry in lagos and subjecting it to daily harassment and displacements

In as much as i don't want to go into argument whether the below GDP is right or wrong i want to point out a few things about the GDP from sources which i have quoted.

GDP does not take into account the following

Wealth distribution – GDP does not account for variances in incomes of various demographic groups. See income inequality metrics for discussion of a variety of inequality-based economic measures.

Underground economy–Official GDP estimates may not take into account the underground economy, in which transactions contributing to production, such as illegal trade and tax-avoiding activities, are unreported, causing GDP to be underestimated.

Asset Value–GDP does not take into account the value of all assets in an economy. This is akin to ignoring a company's balance sheet, and judging it solely on the basis of its income statement. A good example is the N100 B a day auto parts Business


Non-market transactions
Non-monetary economy
What is being produced
Sustainability of growth

Further Analysis , one can not help but wonder how Osun state that has no real economic bearing will have a higher GDP than Plateau state that boasts one of the largest food processing company in Nigeria (NASCO) and feed mills and a steel rolling plant and tin ore deposit , what industries does Osun have besides tourism which attracts dies hard ifa followers to their river goddess , where as plateau is a thriving tourist destination with the cool temperature all year round and conference location in Kuru.

Other infractions noticeable include the high rating of Oyo state at number 4 after delta state , Oyo state is a 1 city state , this means Oyo state has only 1 city which is ibadan even though other towns like oyo town , Ogbomosho exist .
Ibadan is largely a decrepit unplanned town populated by largely worn out houses inhabited by mostly low income civil servants and farmers, besides the presence of companies like BAT , IITA, procter and Gamble and some Biscuit companies Oyo state has nothing comparable to a state like Akwa Ibom .
For BAT , the anti smoking campaign of the Federal health Agencies has made nonsense of what ever the profit projection the founders did in citing the Business in Ibadan possibly they could gone to a country of smokers like china . where as Procter and gamble has not lived up to competition with other brands from Nivea ..etc while IITA is pure an international research agency.
Ibadan airport records very dismal flight records and the state is not a mineral rich state.
The question is how come the GDP of Oyo was rated higher than the GDP of Akwa Ibom which is one of the fastest growing Economies in Nigeria with Mutli Billion Dollar firms like the Aluminium Smelter Plant , the Osso Condensate, Multi Billion Naira Refinery , a World Class Sea port , A world Class Airport Hangar and a fast growing Economy.

if the definition of GDP is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a state in a given period of time
it then means that just the market value of Osso condensate in Akwa Ibom in a month dwarfs all that Oyo state can ever produce in a year, this leaves me wondering about the authenticity of the report below.

1 Lagos State $33,679,258,023
2 Rivers State $21,073,410,422
Total Diaspora $21bn (World Bank Estimate)
3 Delta State $16,749,250,544
4 Oyo State $16,121,670,484
5 Imo State $14,212,637,486
6 Kano State $12,393,103,864
US Diaspora $12,26bn (World Bank Estimate)
7 Edo State $11,888,446,884
8 Akwa Ibom State $11,179,887,963
9 Ogun State $10,470,415,017
10 Kaduna State $10,334,763,785
11 Cross River State $9,292,059,207
12 Abia State $8,687,442,705
13 Ondo State $8,414,302,623
UK Diaspora $7,76bn (World Bank Estimate)
14 Osun State $7,280,597,521
15 Benue State $6,864,209,262
16 Anambra State $6,764,219,562
17 Katsina State $6,022,655,197
18 Niger State $6,002,007,080
19 Borno State $5,175,165,142
20 Plateau State $5,154,059,937
21 Sokoto State $4,818,615,261
22 Bauchi State $4,713,858,180
23 Kogi State $4,642,794,262
24 Adamawa State $4,582,045,246
25 Enugu State $4,396,590,769
26 Bayelsa State $4,337,065,923
27 Zamfara State $4,123,829,498
28 Kwara State $3,841,827,534
29 taraba State $3,397,790,217
30 Kebbi State $3,290,847,166
31 Nassarawa State $3,022,828,885
32 Jigawa State $2,988,014,405
33 Ekiti State $2,848,372,512
34 Ebonyi State $2,732,472,739
35 Gombe State $2,500,467,306
36 Yobe State $2,011,499,000

Not that it matters to sane folks but I would take the data on bank branches over any other so called GDP statistics in Nigeria, ANY DAY.
How can anyone even obtain GDP statistics without economic activities, which is CLOSELY tracked by bank presence (branches)? Tomorrow they will tell us that there is more economic activity in the dessert or the swamps with scant bank presence than on dry hard land teeming with markets and businesses.
Having said that, what I concern myself with more is HOW MUCH OF THAT IS MY MONEY.
Nigeria cannot even conduct ONE credible census. lol

Sincere 9gerian: Even the ones that did not raise a finger on the issue of second Niger Bridge since 1979 has always gotten your votes. I dont understand your anger on this issue. Is it because Peter Obi's name was mentioned?

Previous report was that the Bridge will be completed in 2017 but I was pleasantly surprised to hear the minister say it will be completed in 2015.

The project is worth about N100billion, out of which FG will bring N30billion and Julius Berger N70billion.

I'm very sure of the construction of the bridge under this dispensation because the project is part of SURE-P. Any project under SURE-P is a forgone conclusion because the funds, which is usually the major cause of abandoned projects in Nig, is READY at hand.

However, what I dont know is whether they'll meet up with the target of completing it in 2015.

Our anger is because this same promise (unfulfilled) has been made severally by people we consider outsiders to the East. We are angry at them, yes; but our anger is more on GEJ that is our own brother, a fellow Easterner who fully understands the strategic importance of that bridge to the Eastern economy.
Personally, I think that people around the president have not served him well on this brigde issue. I hope it is completed before 2015 elections, at least to seal our votes.
With all these APC noise, nothing must be left to chance!

I know of at least THREE different ways I contribute financially to Nigeria annually, yet I cannot vote from here in the US.
Here they are:

1) Nnewi Scholarship fund
2) Anambra USA medical mission
3) Direct money sent (Western Union mainly) to support relatives

I bet you that most normal (decent) Nigerians in the US do the same.

Tomorrow, some lout at home would come to tell me that we Diasporas "whine too much".

Some Nigerians at home need detailed psych eval.

NRI PRIEST: Eze-Igbo, ekenelu m' gi rinne but there are some men of integrity, who has worked with Peter Obi to transform Anambra to what it is today. There is Oseloka Obaze and Mr. Odenigbo who are great technocrats. Oseloka was with UN before his appointment and he is an Apga stalwart. These guys aren't very known but they comman Obis respect. He will support either of these guys and they are both from the north. Am sorry about Soludo but he is with the wrong crowd. Apga has been reenergized.

Nwanne everything you said above is okay by me except the bolded. I am really looking for a candidate that can use Anambra state as a pad to recreate, relaunch,reinvigorate and reunite Eastern Nigeria with an economic boom. I want to see the East be THE PLACE to be in Africa. Soludo is the only person I have seen so far with such big vision. I am tired of local operators whose actions cannot envision or create such environment in Anambra. I am tired of seeing Umu Igbo (mainly umu Anambra) scattered all over Nigeria and the world hustling, when their homeland holds GREAT potentials and is very fallow. I want others to come to the East instead!

As for the zoning argument, nwanne IMHO that is one of the things wrong with the Nigerian nation. I want the BEST irrespective of where he/she comes from.
You would NEVER see me advocating for a governor from my corner of the state because he may not have the qualities to lead our great state. I want us all to reject this ZONING mindset because it is born from lack of unity and necessary spirit of brotherhood. If not that the North has failed Nigeria in the 38 years of leading Nigeria, you will not see me agitate against Northern rule.
If the Yoruba have played fair and encouraged equal access to Nigerian wealth, I would be fine with a Yoruba too. They in particular will need to prove that they can practice live and let live with power before I can advocate for a Yoruba candidate. I am saying these because a lot of people don't know that I hold these specific views.

Nigeria betrayed the spirit of brotherhood when Aburi was sabotaged in 1966, and things have never been the same ever since.

Let us all join hands to find that genius that will liberate Anambra and Eastern Nigeria, and give us our rightful position in Nigeria, nay Africa.

God bless you my brother the great priest of Nri.

In fact if Soludo decides to contest for Anambra gubernatorial seat next year, I will campaign for him with my own money (whatever it is worth).

This is a promise I will keep.

PDP or no PDP, Soludo ka anyi ga eso!

Charles Chukwuma Soludo remains the ONLY candidate I can see in next elections if he contests.
He stands heads, shoulders, torso and waist above the rest.

Anambra is a sophisticated state. It is time we pick a sophisticated governor.
With Soludo at the helms in Anambra, the whole Eastern Nigeria will come alive and create a dominant economic hub in Africa.

Soludo ka anyi ga eso.

And this is the point I exit the thread, having completed my deposition before fair minded Nigerians and international community.
Nigerians and others can now see who is holding Nigeria down.
I shall return later if necessary.

Signing off,

Yours truly,

Onlytruth, Ndu di n'eziokwu 1 of Igboland, Eze Ndigbo Nairaland III.

dayokanu: Competence is when your people are put in top positions like in the first republic

Very soon jungle go mature everyone go answer him Papa name

When will you grow up and be a real man for once in your life?

Here is what the OP said:

In fact, most of them came from local government councils and others were just thugs.

So, you want incompetent thugs to operate control towers in Nigeria?

Aigbofa: If the best an administration can do in terms of job creation is to shuffle people around in the civil service based not on competence but on their tribes, it makes you wonder what type of brain dead people we have in government.

But what if the woman shuffled based on competence; what is wrong with that? Why can't you people allow competence for once in Nigeria? SMH.

koruji: And what is the great job you are doing?
That arrogant self-backslapping got you in trouble once.
And you are on your way to another.
If you don't repair your primitive outlook.

Dude honestly I'm still waiting for you to make ONE intelligent comment; you haven't.
So, I will add you to your brother c.fours and simply step over you like crap you are.