Let this be a warning to those DIVISIVE, DISCORDANT & DESTRUCTIVE elements in Edo State who are trying to employ their British Slave-Master’s colonial tactics of divide and rule against the Traditional Edo people and monarchy.

The first so-called COLONIAL GOVERNOR called Major RALPH MOOR who tried to DEPOSE Oba Ovonranmwen of Benin from his ancestral THRONE of PRIMOGENITURE, was himself DEPOSED from his EARTHLY LIFE shortly after, when the ENIKAO and Ancestral Spirit of Benin destroyed him with the SPIRIT OF MADNESS AND UNTIMELY DEATH while still in his forties, back in 1909 five years before the Edo Monarchy was restored in 1914.
REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Moor

The second so-called CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNOR called Navy Captain IBE ONYEARUGBULEM of Imo State who tried to ROTATE Oba Erediuwa’s Ancestral Throne of PRIMOGENITURE, was himself ROTATED out of his EARTHLY LIFE shortly after, when the ENIKAO and Ancestral Spirit of Benin destroyed him with the SPIRIT OF SLUMBER AND UNTIMELY DEATH while still in his forties, back in 2002..
REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Onyearugbulem

The third so-called CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNOR called Comrade ALIU OSHIOMOLE who has tried to DEPOSE the UJUROMI OF UROMI Ancestral Throne of PRIMOGENITURE, will himself be DEPOSED out of his EARTHLY LIFE shortly after, when the ENIKAO and Ancestral Spirit of Benin destroys him with the SPIRIT OF STUPIDITY AND UNTIMELY DEATH while still in his sixties.

Finally, the BATTLE LINE is drawn in this DEADLY DUEL between the TRADITIONAL EDO PEOPLE and these SLAVE EDO.PEOPLE. Now that they have drawn our FIRST BLOOD, surely we will DRINK THEIR BLOOD, EAT THEIR HEARTS AND SACRIFICE THEIR HEADS by High Noon to the ENIKAO and Ancestral Spirit of Benin like real EDO WARRIORS do against slave EDO ENEMIES!

OGHIAN OBA!
OGHIAN EDO!!

Yes we do have all of these but the same reason why federal law supercedes state laws and the supreme court supercedes the high court, is the same reason why international laws & treaties supercedes national laws & acts and the Ecowas Court supercedes the Supreme Court. Besides the African Union Charter and United Nations Covenants are legally binding to all member states that are signatory to them.

So you cannot eat your cat and have by signing a treaty and refusing to submit to it. No Deal! It is called a VIOLATION AND BREACH that attracts international legal penalties according to international law. So let's see how they will disobey the Ecowas court like they do with their national courts and we will see how they will withstand the wrath and sanctions of the international community.

[center]PRESS RELEASE: ECOWAS COURT PUNISHES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR DELAY TACTICS IN NIGER DELTA OIL BLOCK OWNERSHIP LANDMARK CASE[/center]

In the on going hearing in the Ecowas Community Court of Justice, Suit No: ECW/CCJ/APP/20/15, holden at Abuja on the 12th October, 2016 between Mr. Nosa Ehanire-Osaghae, Jonah Gbemre, Aiko Obobaifo & Daniel Ikponmwosa (Plaintiffs) suing on behalf of themselves and the People of Niger Delta Vs the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Defendant), as regards the ownership of the Niger Delta Oil Bocks. Before their Lordships Hon. Justice Friday Chijioke Nwoke (Presiding), Hon. Justice micah Wilkins Wright (Member) and Hon. Justice Alioune Sall (Member), continued on Wednesday, 12th October, 2016.

Honorable Justice Friday Chijioke Nwoke presiding over the panel of three Honorable Justices lambasted the Defendant’s counsel, saying he FUMBLED, when he initially announced his appearance for the Defendant and proceeded to move a motion for the Defendant, only for him to back track and plead for the adjournment of the matter as he was only “holding brief” for the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice who were indisposed to appear in court. That the proper thing to do was to announce his “appearance” only to hold brief for his learned colleague and take a date on his behalf for adjournment without moving any motion on behalf of the Defendant as if he was the defence counsel.

That was when the Plaintiff’s Counsel Barrister Sophia Okoedion objected the defence counsel’s move for an adjournment stating the fact that the Federal Government’s lawyers were using it as a “delay tactic” ploy, to unnecessarily prolong the matter, after having failed to appear in court in the previous hearing date without even proffering any plausible excuse for their non-appearance.

The fiery Human Rights Lawyer pleaded with their Lordships, that if she could come all the way from the Niger Delta to Abuja for the matter, why couldn’t the Defence counsels from the Federal Ministry of Justice in the same Abuja come to court to defend their client? Wherein she asked the honorable court to use its own discretion to award cost.

Upon which their Lordships deliberated on the matter and ruled for the second consecutive time, that hearing will once again be adjourned for November 11th, 2016 so that the Defendant’s counsel will be given another opportunity to “appear” in court to defend their client for the sake of fair hearing and justice and consequently awarded cost of N30,000 against the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It will be noted that on the previous hearing date of June 16th, 2016 the matter was adjourned to October 12th 2016, as the defendant and their counsels from the Federal Ministry of Justice, failed to appear in court to enter their plea. Only for the same incident to be repeated again which duly attracted the punishment of the Ecowas Court as a deterrent to the Federal Government’s “irksome & annoying” strategy of trying to delay the full determination of the oral process in court. Before the landmark judgment is finally delivered as to who has the ownership rights of the oil & gas Natural Resources of the Niger Delta between the Niger Delta People and the Federal Republic of Nigeria according International Laws & Treaties to which the Nigerian State is signatory bound.

Barrister Sophia Okoedion reportedly made it clear that it is evidently because the Federal Republic of Nigeria has no “substantive claim” to the Ownership Rights of the Niger Delta Oil Blocks, according to International Laws and Treaties which supersedes its own Constitutional Laws & Acts that is the obvious reason for its “reluctance” and “coyness” to appear in court to defend such its claim under cross-examination in a free, fair and impartial International Court of Competent Jurisdiction.

She declared that she has confidence in the Ecowas Court competence and jurisprudence in delivering an erudite legal analysis and unimpeachable judgment in this international landmark case that will become Locus Classicus.

Signed:
BARRISTER SOPHIA OKOEDION,
H.S Okoedion Chambers,
Mobile: 08057816764
Blog: http://www.okoedion.

Hail Niger Deltans!

There is the urgent need for all true blooded able bodied Niger Delta youths to start recruiting into the ranks of the NIGER DELTA REPUBLICAN ARMY in solidarity with the FREEDOM FIGHTERS, in anticipation of the planned British / Nigerian Military Expedition to invade the Niger Delta code named as OPERATION DELTA SAFE!

Let’s replay the 1897 BRITISH INVASION in the Niger Delta with the aid of their Hausa (Houssa) and Yoruba (Yoruba) SLAVE-SOLDIERS and of-course their TRAITOR-FRIENDS the Itsekhiris (Jekri) with a 21st century style reception party.

By the way, the final solution to these Niger Delta TRAITORS after destroying the ENEMY plus their BLACK-WATER ISIS trained Terrorists is called a house to house POGROM and a tribe to tribe ETHNIC CLEANSING!

That’s what the Algerian independence fighters did to the HARKS a TRAITOR-TRIBE in Algeria that fought with the French Colonialists against their own brothers, and relocated to France with the defeated colonialists to save themselves from a total ethnic cleansing in their home country. These same HARKI MUSLIM are now the TRAITOR-FRENCH who are being used by the ISIS ENEMY to attack their fellow French citizens. Once a TRAITOR always a TRAITOR!

Note that the British were the SUPER-POWER from Europe then, but after BREXIT, are now the SUPER-REJECTS of Europe so times have changed.

Let the COWARD (that can’t fight his fight but hires mercenaries instead) who threatened to soak his DOGS & BABOONS of War with BLOOD, make good on his pre-election campaign promise. So the creek LIONS & GORILLAS of War can join his war-party to PAINT THE WHOLE COUNTRY RED WITH BLOOD SPROUTING FROM THE OIL COMPANIES IN THE CREEKS TO ASO ROCK IN ABUJA!

BLACK-WATER will soon turn to RED-WATER all over Nigeria with millions of barrels of BLOOD-WATER from MILLIONS OF ABOKIS AND YARIBBAS!!!

As they are planning to annihilate us for our OIL, so we too are planning to annihilate them for our FREEDOM! Tit for Tat!

SPECIAL ADVISORY:

T’is Time for The FREEDOM FIGHTERS to start an online ARMY RECRUITMENT PLATFORM for the New Breed NIGER DELTA REPUBLICAN ARMY as the Aboki-Yarriba War-party is about to visit the creeks again.

Let them be given a warm, nay HOT WELCOME like it was with the DAN FODIO JIHADISTS in the 1850’s when they were crushed, destroyed and driven back across the River Niger by the Old Breed NIGER DELTA WARRIORS. This time around, the ABOKI CREEK TOURISTS in this their SECOND COMING after Musa Yaradua’s failed FIRST COMING attempt that led to the Amnesty, should not be allowed the luxury of a RETURN TICKET back across the River Niger from the Delta Creeks just like MUNGO PARK who perished in his Second Coming!

The 21st Century Guerilla Warfare nay, GORILLA WARFARE tactics should see to that!

David the Warrior Prophet!

NIGER DELTA OIL BLOCKS OWNERSHIP DISPUTE: FG FAILS TO TURN UP IN ECOWAS COURT

In the Ecowas Community Court of Justice, Suit No: ECW/CCJ/APP/20/15, holden at Abuja on the 16th June 2016, between Mr. Nosa Ehanire-Osaghae, Jonah Gbemre, Aiko Obobaifo & Daniel Ikponmwosa (Plaintiffs) suing on behalf of themselves and the people of Niger Delta Vs the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Defendant), The matter was adjourned to October 12th 2016, as the defendant and their counsels from the Federal Ministry of Justice, failed to appear in court to enter their plea.

During the hearing, the counsel to the plaintiffs, Barrister Sophia Okoedion, urged the panel of three Justices led by Justice Nwoke to strike out the plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment that was earlier filed against the defendant when the defendant had failed to respond to the application originating the process within the stipulated 30 days limit. Because the defendant had already filed a motion for extension of time to file their defence out of time, and their statement of defense in response to the plaintiffs’ application.

The International Court made an order that the plaintiffs’ motion for default judgment be withdrawn. Consequently, the counsel to the plaintiffs, Barrister H.S Okoedion moved the Honorable Court to commence proceedings in spite of the “conspicuously inexplicable” absence of the defendant who ought to know better than to refrain from appearing before such an eminent court in such a sensitive matter.

For the sake of justice and fair hearing in order to allow the defendant the opportunity to appear in court, Presiding Justice Nwoke and the two other eminent Justices, adjourned the case to 12th October 2016 for hearing to commence after the Honorable Court resumes from its two months vacation from July – September 2016.

Speaking on behalf of the plaintiffs, the Human Rights Lawyer, affirmed the plaintiffs’ confidence in the Ecowas Court as an established defender of the human rights of Ecowas citizens. Furthermore, that the African Union Charter (Article 21) and United Nations Covenant (Article 1) to which the defendant (FGN) is signatory bound, makes it explicitly clear that the natural resources of the Niger Delta belongs exclusively to the people of Niger Delta. Therefore if a member state signs that treaty, then that member state must submit to that treaty!

There is no acceptable excuse or reason. Not even a member state’s constitutional law is excusable, as all member states are treaty bound to put in place the appropriate legislation required to abide by their treaty obligations, that they free willingly ratified according to International Law. Some specific articles of International Law in the African Union and United Nations Treaties ratified by the Federal Republic of Nigeria which the plaintiffs are relying on, in their suit states Inter Alia:

African Charter On Human And Peoples Rights (ACHPR):
ARTICLE 21:
1. All peoples shall FREELY DISPOSE OF THEIR WEALTH AND NATURAL RESOURCES. This right shall be exercised in the exclusive interest of the people. IN NO CASE SHALL A PEOPLE BE DEPRIVED OF IT.

2. In case of spoliation THE DISPOSSESSED PEOPLE shall have the RIGHT TO THE LAWFUL RECOVERY OF ITS PROPERTY as well as to an adequate compensation.

ARTICLE 24:
All peoples shall have the right to a general satisfactory environment favourable to their development.

ARTICLE 16:
1. Every individual shall have the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical and mental health.

2. States parties to the present Charter shall take the necessary measures to protect the health of their people and to ensure
that they receive medical attention when they are sick.

United Nations International Covenant For Cultural, Economic And Social Rights (ICCESR)
ARTICLE 1:
All peoples may, for their own ends, FREELY DISPOSE OF THEIR NATURAL WEALTH AND RESOURCES without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. IN NO CASE may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties – May 23, 1969 (VCLT)
ARTICLE 26:
Every treaty in force is BINDING UPON THE PARTIES to it and must be performed by them in good faith.”

ARTICLE 27: A party may not invoke the provisions of its INTERNAL LAW AS JUSTIFICATION for its failure to perform a treaty.

International Law Commission, Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, November 2001, Supplement No. 10 (A/56/10)
ARTICLE 3 (Characterization of an act of a State as internationally wrongful):
The characterization of an act of a State as internationally wrongful is governed by international law. Such characterization is not affected by the characterization of the same act as lawful by internal law.

ARTICLE 12 (Existence of a breach of an international obligation):
There is a breach of an international obligation by a State when an act of that State is not in conformity with what is required of it by that obligation, regardless of its origin or character.

ARTICLE 25 (Necessity):
1. Necessity may not be invoked by a State as a ground for precluding the wrongfulness of an act not in conformity with an international obligation of that State unless the act:
(a) Is the only way for the State to safeguard an essential interest against a grave and imminent peril; and
(b) Does not seriously impair an essential interest of the State or States towards which the obligation exists, or of the international community as a whole.
2. In any case, [ECONOMIC] NECESSITY may not be invoked by a State as ground for precluding wrongfulness if:
(a) The international obligation in question excludes the possibility of invoking necessity; or
(b) The State has contributed to the situation of necessity.

ARTICLE 31 (Reparations for violation / beach):
1. The responsible State is under an obligation to make full reparation for the injury caused by the internationally wrongful act.
2. Injury includes any damage, whether material or moral, caused by the internationally wrongful act of a State.

ARTICLE 32 (Irrelevance of internal law against violation / breach):
The responsible State MAY NOT RELY ON THE PROVISIONS OF ITS INTERNAL LAW AS JUSTIFICATION for failure to comply with its obligations under this Part.

ARTICLE 33 (Scope of international obligations set out in this Part):
1. The obligations of the responsible State set out in this Part may be owed to another State, to several States, or to the international community as a whole, depending in particular on the character and content of the international obligation and on the circumstances of the breach.
2. This Part is without prejudice to any right, arising from the international responsibility of a State, which may accrue directly to ANY PERSON OR ENTITY other than a State.

ARTICLE 34 (Forms of reparation):
Full reparation for the injury caused by the internationally wrongful act shall take the form of RESTITUTION, COMPENSATION AND SATISFACTION, either singly or in combination, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

ARTICLE 36 (Compensation):
1. The State responsible for an internationally wrongful act is under an OBLIGATION TO COMPENSATE FOR THE DAMAGE CAUSED THEREBY, insofar as such damage is not made good by restitution.
2. The compensation shall cover any FINANCIALLY ASSESSABLE DAMAGE including loss of profits insofar as it is established.

Conclusively, she said it is evidently clear from the above treaties that International Law super-cedes National Law in every interpretation of their text and tenor in the same way Federal Law super-cedes State Law. and that when National law is in direct conflict with International law the latter MUST take precedence over the former and that without remedy. This she re-iterates is in line with the main substance of the plaintiffs’ prayers before the Honorable Court, as listed below:

1. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria has violated the fundamental human rights of Niger Deltans by depriving them of their God given oil blocks vis-à-vis natural resources which they allocated to foreign oil companies and non-indigenes from other parts of the country at their own expense and impoverishment.

2. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria has violated the fundamental human rights of Niger Deltans to life and a healthy environment by the hazardous flaring of gas in their host communities unabated for the last 30 years, which has resulted in many health casualties, fatalities and untimely deaths without adequate reliefs and compensations.

3. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria should put a stop to all acquiring, renewal, award, allocation, transfer, prospecting, buying and selling of oil blocks and their assets until the hearing and determination of substantive matter.

4. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria should re-allocate the ownership of all onshore and offshore oil blocs in the Niger Delta region back to the indigenous oil communities forthwith in accordance with its United Nations and African Union treaty obligations and statutory international law.

5. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria should immediately pay remedial environmental damages to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) in order for them to speedily facilitate the total remediation of the oil polluted farming lands and fishing waters in Niger Delta region to the tune of $30 billion. For the excess of 9 million barrels of spilt crude oil in the Niger Delta region and for the hazardous gas flaring over the last fifty years of oil exploration and exploitation in the Niger Delta.

6. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria, should not impede and mitigate but rather assist and facilitate an enabling environment for the people of Niger Delta to conduct a peaceful and democratic Referendum to exercise their inalienable Right to Self Determination as enshrined in the United Nations and African Union treaties which it ratified and is signatory bound in accordance with the statutes of international law.

ANY OTHER ORDER OR FURTHER ORDERS that this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances of this case.

Finally she called upon all genuinely concerned, affected and aggrieved Niger Deltans, host communities, oil & gas stakeholders, environmentalists and civil society groups to support this noble cause to provide a peaceful, legal, lasting and final solution to the intractable and transient issue of the Niger Delta in the International Court of Law. Just as it was with the Bakassi Peninsula case at the International Court of Justice. This is the 21st century where the Rule of Law must prevail!

BARRISTER SOPHIA OKOEDION.
H.S Okoedion Chambers,
90 Akpakpava Road, Benin City.
Mobile: 08057816764.
Website: www.okoedionchambers.

PRESS RELEASE: Niger Deltans Drag Federal Government To Ecowas Court Over Oil Blocks Ownership

This is to inform the general public, interested parties and oil & gas stakeholders that on Thursday the 16th day of June 2016, in the Ecowas Community Court of Justice, Suit No: ECW/CCJ/APP/20/15, holden at Abuja, on the commencement of hearings after pleadings have been concluded by learned counsels on both sides of the Plaintiffs and Defendant since the suit was instituted just over a year ago. This landmark case is between the Plaintiffs, Mr. Nosa Ehanire-Osaghae, Mr. Jonah Gbemre, Mr. Aiko Obobaifo and Mr. Daniel Ikponmwosa, suing on behalf of the Niger Delta People and the Defendant, the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Our expectation is for the Defendant to take plea for the court to hear witnesses on both the Plaintiffs and Defendants sides. That we are set to go on with the matter until the determination of the case.

That the Ecowas Court is a noteworthy International Court for the common man of West Africa, and that at the end of this landmark case, the Honorable Court will grant the orders we sought in prayers. Namely:

1. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria has violated the fundamental human rights of Niger Deltans by depriving them of their God given oil blocks vis-à-vis natural resources which they allocated to foreign oil companies and non-indigenes from other parts of the country at their own expense and impoverishment.

2. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria has violated the fundamental human rights of Niger Deltans to life and a healthy environment by the hazardous flaring of gas in their host communities unabated for the last 30 years, which has resulted in many health casualties, fatalities and untimely deaths without adequate reliefs and compensations.

3. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria should put a stop to all acquiring, renewal, award, allocation, transfer, prospecting, buying and selling of oil blocks and their assets until the hearing and determination of substantive matter.

4. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria should re-allocate the ownership of all onshore and offshore oil blocs in the Niger Delta region back to the indigenous oil communities forthwith in accordance with its United Nations and African Union treaty obligations and statutory international law.

5. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria should immediately pay remedial environmental damages to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) in order for them to speedily facilitate the total remediation of the oil polluted farming lands and fishing waters in Niger Delta region to the tune of $30 billion. For the excess of 9 million barrels of spilt crude oil in the Niger Delta region and for the hazardous gas flaring over the last fifty years of oil exploration and exploitation in the Niger Delta.

6. That the Federal Republic of Nigeria, should not impede and mitigate but rather assist and facilitate an enabling environment for the people of Niger Delta to conduct a peaceful and democratic Referendum to exercise their inalienable Right to Self Determination as enshrined in the United Nations and African Union treaties which it ratified and is signatory bound in accordance with the statutes of international law.

ANY OTHER ORDER OR FURTHER ORDERS that this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances of this case.

SIGNED:

BARRISTER SOPHIA OKOEDION.
H.S Okoedion Chambers,
90 Akpakpava Road, Benin City.
08039514131, 08091987480, 08057816764.

SOURCE: https://edodeltamovement./oil-bloc-owners/