₦airaland Forum

Curlieweed:
Thank you for sharing this. This is a real eye opener. I had a vague awareness of this "almighty" list but I didn't know it was this draconian.

This should be an eye opener to people like Charlie Boy who advocate for the nice sounding idea of creating an Igbo Economic hub. Frankly, it's quite clear that without very active and close support from the FG, this is a real Herculean task. Actually, the experience from 1970 to date suggests that the FG has stopped at nothing to ensure that this would never be the case.

A very pertinent example for those of us from Imo state is the way the IPP (independent Power Project) carried out by Mbakwe in the early 1980's was dismantled and sold abroad for scrap by the "no nonsense" Buhari administration.

freshest4live:
Not everything is about Biafra for Pete's sake.

cooljude:
Nigeria constitution supersedes that court ruling, same as our territorial integrity. This are cases of the court making pronouncement and countries telling them to Fvck off.
Eg. Cambodia vs Thailand. China vs Virtually all SE Asia countries, India vs Pakistan, USA vs Canada, Argentina vs England, their are so many examples.

Why did Nigeria submit a territory it owned and the aborigines chose to remain Nigeria. No country ever gives away it's land for free.

I think Nigeria is a weakling and we like bluffing about our military capabilities and our political leaders are local champions who knows next to nothing about international diplomacy.

RoyalUc:
It's ok. But hope you saw the video when he went to the US to solicit the support of the Igbos in the US. He clearly said he needed weapon and that it's Biafra or everybody dies.
If you watch that video with an open mind, you will know NK cannot withstand any debate because even those our brethren there engaged him and he could not defend his position.

I strongly recommend you watch that video from start to finish 'cos I did.

ThugCheetah:
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Mr. Paschurudeen, kindly tell us why d "civilized" security agents blocked d road at first

mrvitalis:
In your smart mind election boycott will stop people like t.a orji ??


The only way to stop them is to support a better candidate simple

mrvitalis:
So the frame work is why abians rewarding t.a orji with senate ??

mrvitalis:
Why can't people like you and Kanu seek for elective position ??

myright:
BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING NEWS; DANGER DANGER THE GOVERNOR OF EBONYI STATE SEND SOME SOLDIERS TO BLOCK THE ROAD HEADING TO EBONYI SO THAT THE LEADER OF IPOB WILL NOT COME TO EBONYI

DETAILS

AS THE LEADER OF IPOB WITH THE BIAFRA SOLDIERS HEADING TO EBONYI STATE

NIGERIA SOLDIERS BLOCK THE ROAD AND WARN THAT IPOB IS NOT ALLOWE TO ENTER EBONYI

THEREFORE THE LEADER OF IPOB JUMP OUT IN HIS CAR JEEP WITH PROVOK AND ANGER AND WALKING TOWARDS NIGERIA SOLDIERS

HMM HMM CHAI CHAI IMMEDIATELY NIGERIA SOLDIERS SAW HIM JUMP OUT IN THE CAR CHAI CHAI COME AND SEE RUN

ALL THE SOLDIERS IMMEDIATELY DISAPPEAR AND THE ROAD WAS OPEN

mrvitalis:
Making noise , the true representative of igbos senators and House of Representatives members have not asked for that have they ?

mrvitalis:
1) federal projects

2) their representatives did their job well unlike the south east representatives that only 18 were present out of 44 when the bill for south east development bill was to be passed

We need leaders who know politics and who are smart

RoyalUc:
No. That's not exactly the narrative but because when this agitation started, that was the major theme. But since the 'whole world' has come out to acknowledge that all Nigerians are marginalized and therefore, that's not a good enough reason, the song is changing just like it has changed from the initial 'we need guns and ammunitions because it is either Biafra or everybody dies' to 'we are calling for referendum and not war.' The latest being this call for a debate.

mrvitalis:
I answered you igbos gain more from Nigeria than Scotland gain from uk

It's simple , igbos operate major markets in Nigeria what do you think will happen after you get Biafra ??

Igbos control the banking industry which is the bed rock of any economy why do want again ?

The problem with igbos lie withing igbos and not with Nigeria

As for me being igbos I owe you no prove

mrvitalis:
Remind me again how Scotland asked for referandum ?? By an educated man spilling lies as facts or through a political party structure

ask your self this what do the five south eastern states contribute to the center ,how much do we generate and how much do we receive

​Biafra, dominated by the great Igbo race, enjoyed sovereignty before Great Britain commenced exploitive colonial rule over Nigeria under the racist banner of Rudyard Kipling's "the White Man' burden." Britain asserted authority over Biafra based on the tyrannical doctrine that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

​The Berlin West Africa Conference, 1884-85, and the Berlin General Act symbolized colonial lawlessness by treating Africa as a carcass to be divided up among European vultures.
​Restoration of Biafra's sovereignty is justified under international law and practice--especially with the ongoing ethnic-inspired killings and persecutions of Biafans by Nigeria's elected military dictator from the North touting sharia law, President Mohammdu Buhari.

Biafra's sovereignty journey will require deft international diplomacy and the marshalling of widespread popular support from Biafrans and their resources. Power is never voluntarily surrendered. Rights ultimately are what you are willing to fight and die for.

​Prior to British colonization in 1906, the great Igbo people to the East of Niger, numbering some 3 million, and their cognate tribes enjoyed decentralized self-government. They were not living in a state of nature. Their self-rule came by force of arms--not voluntarily.

In 1900, the British government assumed responsibility for the Royal Niger Company's territories, and formed the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria, the Niger Coast Protectorate and the Lagos Colony Protectorate territories. 1913 witnessed the amalgamation of Nigeria into three administrative areas: the crown colony of Lagos and the Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria.

​In 1960, Britain ended its colonization of Nigeria without reference to the Igbo or any other peoples of Nigeria entitled to self-determination. The Nigeria Independence Act established Nigerian territorial boundaries not by popular referendum or other reliable manifestations of self-determination of peoples, but according to the Nigeria's Orders in Council, 1954 to 1960. They reflected British selfish maneuvers to dominate Nigeria economically.

Britain's failure to offer Biafrans the right to self-determination violated the United Nations General Assembly Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples adopted on 14 December 1960. Paragraph 5 of the Declaration required that immediate steps be taken by the colonial power "to transfer all powers to the peoples of those [colonized] territories...in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire...in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom." The 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations emphasized that, "By virtue of the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, all peoples have the right freely to determine without external interference their political status...."

The people of Biafra--recognized as distinct by British colonial authorities--were never provided an opportunity to vote for complete independence and freedom from the rest of Nigeria according to their freely expressed will and desire. They were never consulted on the subject when Nigeria became independent in 1960. Further, the 1960 Constitution of Nigeria was never approved by the people of Biafra in a referendum or otherwise. And neither has any subsequent Nigerian Constitution, including the current version decreed by a military dictator in 1999.

​In sum, the British decolonized Nigeria in violation of international law by failing to transfer power to the peoples of Biafra in accordance with their freely expressed will.

​That violation was not a technicality, but an affront to a fundamental human right. All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Consent is required to legitimate authority and to forestall external subjugation, oppression, persecution, or even genocide fueled by tribal, sectarian, ethnic, or megalomaniacal ambitions or hatreds.

​After independence from Britain, Nigeria soon became a charnel house for Biafrans. Deprived of their right to self-determination, they were left to the tender mercies of the Hausa-Fulani of the North and the Yoruba of the South in a unitary state unsuited for its diverse tribal, ethnic, and religious landscape. The gruesome 1967-1970 Biafran War was emblematic. Ethnic-based massacres of Biafrans and countless starving children who died as little more than skeletons was its grim face. The horrors suffered by Biafrans gave birth to the first modern international relief effort to lessen unspeakable misery.

​At the war's conclusion, Nigeria's General Yakuba Gowon's sloganeered, "No victor, no vanquished." The words proved a cruel hoax. The Igbo were marginalized, persecuted as traitors, and subjected to a Northern political yolk. Under incumbent Nigerian elected military dictator Buhari, the repression of the Igbo have reached new heights featuring indiscriminate killings, torture, and detentions without trial.

​Last March, for instance, 13 Biafrans were murdered and their corpses burnt to ashes and dumped in a burrow pit located in the area of Aba-Port Harcourt Road in Abia State by suspected Buhari agents. Last February, a team of Buhari's Army, Navy, and Police and gunned down 22 Biafrans protesting Buhari's detention of Biafan leader Prince Nnamdi Kanu.

​A complete chronicle of Buhari's horrors only would numb by repetition.

​The point is that there is no political remedy for Biafra's suffering--like an abused wife in a forced marriage--short of self-determination to regain its sovereignty that was illegally extinguished by the British and never surrendered after decolonization.

​States born from longstanding repression of peoples by ruling authorities are part of the woof and warp of international law or custom. Think of Bangladesh, Namibia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, East Timor, Eritrea, and Kosovo.

​The case for Biafran sovereignty is as strong or stronger as these precedents.

But to succeed, Biafrans will need to organize, unify, and make their case to the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the African Union, the European Union, and the United States.

​If they do not all hang together, they might all come to hang separately.

http://www.anews.com/p/43882842/
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mrvitalis:
Why should I an Igbo boy support Biafra ??

mrvitalis:
Yes they can all the need to do is to ask

Aba is the only city allowed to operate outside the national grid who sabotaged the effort federal government or igbos ??

Ask my friend ask

By the way what resources ??

Anambra is in charge of the oil in her state who stopped her ?? Get ur facts right

mrvitalis:
States are semi independent and can perform how they wish

Any region better than the east you said? In what sense exactly? In federal government investment or private sector investment?

And while you're at it, would you also tell me why the federal government refused to rebuild the east after the civil war (ignored it's own sham of a 3 Rs) - after 50 years and counting. Yet, the same federal government is quick to start rebuilding the north east within 9 years - even while the war on terror still rages on?

mrvitalis:
Reno are playing with you telling you what u want to here

Answer me apart from the south south south is there by region better than east ?
What do we deserve that we don't get ?

We need to hold our leaders accountable for the revenue and not blame others

mrvitalis:
If this i would be your answer then you failed

U are seeking self determination,I am Igbo why should I support Biafra ,what would you do different from Nigeria and how ,why can't we experiment those things in our state levels ....that's was my questions and your smart answer is self determination?? Lol go and sleep

mrvitalis:
Lol you guys will never stop to attack the person

I have raised points here non of you can even condem one with facts

mrvitalis:
Typical of ipob , igbos are smarter and I represent the smarter igbos

obailala:
Okay sorry chief.. but you leave me confused here. So all those people who generate and spread those fake reports, clones those newspaper websites to spread fake pro-ipob stories, publish those news magazines and regional newspapers which spread the same pro-ipob propaganda/fake stories etc, can you please kindly enlighten me on who they are?
I am a bit confused since you accuse me of being mischievous for referring to them as iPob.

obailala:
Look bro, I assume you are an adult with basic discernment skills... Oh yes, both the OP and plenty other similar publications such as the newspapers (also on the frontpage), the cloned websites etc, I refer to them all as the propaganda machinery of Ipob at work. Except you are trying to tell me that all such materials are actually produced and spread by 'Enemies of IPOB' and not ipob members themselves, then I'm not sure I get exactly what your drift is.

Ipob is not a person, it is a collection of millions of people; and if there are members who on a daily basis, dedicate their lives and resources to churn out these sort of fake stories/propaganda to sway public opinion, then there's absolutely nothing out of place if I refer to such collection of people as the propaganda arm/machinery of ipob. If you don't still understand what I'm talking about, then I'm afraid I do not know how else to communicate my point to you.

wirinet:
OP, i am glad there are still some young Igbo youth who are not carried away by emotional social media rants of Kanu and his IPOB gang. The Igbos are far more intelligent than IPOB is presenting. You cannot base secession on hatred of Hausas and Yorubas. You cannot threaten or bully every one that does not agree with your opinions. Afterall if you secede, you will not be in a perpetual state of war with Nigeria or the Hausas and Yorubas. IPOB needs to present intellectual reasons for secession and not emotional ones. IPOB should be ready to engage those of opposing views in intellectual debates not threats. Even if a referendum is called, a vibrant debate must ensue between proponents and opponents in a peaceful atmosphere.

obailala:
You guys should learn to assimilate info without being emotional and irrationally confrontational. Nowhere in my post did I say or insinuate that any of the propaganda flying about was official publications or position of the IPOB high command. I would be glad if you both can prove me wrong by pointing out the exact statement where I inferred that. I am waiting...

Does it matter whether it is from the Kanu himself or the other IPOB officials?... the fact remains that there are numerous propaganda outfits from fake/cloned websites to fake newspapers and soft sell magazines on the streets churning out these embarrassing fake stories and propaganda on a daily basis; and of course, the people behind those publications aren't outsiders, they are staunch IPOB members. So you guys should stop feigning ignorance of this in your irrational bid to be confrontational.

And once again, calm your nerves and pay attention, I am not referring to just the military pictures on this thread, I also pointed out to other cases like the newspaper pictures on the first page.

Kazim88:
With all due respect I have a question to Nnamdi Kanu and would also entertain response from other pro -biafrans

First without missing words... All the states in Nigeria have come to SOLELY depend on oil allocation to a point where almost all the states cannot cope without it. #FACT

My question!!
A Biafra with full independence, full autonomy, full sovereignty BUT "the oil money" would be shared with Shared with Nigeria Fairly....

that is, other regions (other state) , Nigeria FG would still be receiving allocation from Oil Revenue as usual.

IS IT SOMETHING YOU HAVE IN MIND?

PM me @Nnamdi_Kanu (I believe you are a Nairalander and obviously they are Nairalander that can get this question across to you)
Thanks

Rossikki:
Ignorant dunce. So a racist has to call you subhuman to your face before you know he's a racist? Mumu. Don't go and research the idiot you worship. Wasted education.

Rossikki:
Dummy, he's a racist who believes you and your family are subhuman. By supporting him, you are agreeing that you are indeed subhuman. Tragic.

obailala:
Bro, life does not start and end in Nairaland. There are several propaganda newspapers spreading these stories, there are several propaganda websites and blogs spreading these same stories. There is currently a fake/clone Vanguard website and a fake/clone Punch newspaper website dedicated to spreading these ridiculous stories. So I think you should be the one respecting your own age and education; besides, I wasn't even referring specifically to the military camp issue.