Whyem15:
So DSS even alerted the CP of imo about the imo attack 48-72hrs before it occurred......
https://eonsintelligence.com/details/news-108923456/imo-police-command-ignored-dss-intelligence-on-the-attack-on-police-headquarters-1287553943

It is not the uselessness of the police that is even painting me, it is the stupidity of DSS. Who else did they alert when they got the Intel? Did they deploy their own men to protect the locations and fend of the attack? What did they do to prevent the attack from taking place when they knew about the plan? Why didn't they involve the military?. The director of DSS should be the next person to be sacked and it should be soon.

Whyem15:


It will be very unwise for the government to fight back right now.... That is exactly IPOB's plan so that they can get the sympathy of the people and get more recruits. The best thing to do is to avoid them. The militants will soon start making mistakes and the local population that are sympathetic to them currently will soon start getting tired of them.

DubaiLandLord:
Following the attack by Fulani herdsmen on Monday last week in Ebonyi State, a lady who survived the attack and barely escaped with her life revealed her encounter with Fulani herdsmen as she was interviewed by the press.

The lady identified as Mrs. Ngozi Odo-Abuchi is a 49-year-old widow and a graduate of the National Teachers Institute, she works in the Education Department of the Ishielu LGA of Ebonyi State.

She explained that she took an Okada on her way back home from where she came from, the Okada was to take her from Nkalagu Junction to her hometown Obeagu. On their way going, after they've passed the junction of Egedegede and halfway into the town. The okada rider was on top speed, he wasn't suspecting anything would happen and he didn't quickly notice the men putting on black who swooped on them, dragged them into the bush, and started beating them.


She said they were kicking and beating them with machetes after which they killed the okada rider. She said they captured other people along with her, they killed all the men and tortured the women with their weapons. She said some of the attackers took the nose and hands of the men which they killed. She said they were the first people they attacked before capturing other motorcycles, killing the males, and torturing the females.

She said she was seriously praying and calling on God, they told her to shut up but she kept on praying. She said one of them stabbed her with a dagger, the leader shouted at him not to touch the women so that they will go and tell their people that this is the consequence of chasing Fulani herdsmen out of their community.

He said they will take their message to Nnamdi Kanu that his Biafra and IPOB cannot stop them from operating in the South-East and South-South. He claimed all the heads of security agencies are their people and if they attack any Fulani person the government security agencies which are controlled by their people will go after them while they will come for retaliation. He said they will continue to do what they know best while Nnamdi Kanu rants on social media.

She said they collected all their money, phones, bags, and every valuable item with them. They also burnt the motorcycles of the people they killed. She said the abductors were more than 20 and they were all bearing Ak-47 rifles. They abducted them around 6 pm and they held them captive till nightfall.

She said the attackers told them that they're Fulani herdsmen and their attack on them is a parting gift. She said the herdsmen were told to leave their community as their cows kept killing their crops and they harvest their yams and cassava to feed their cows which resulted in hunger in the land. She said they were asked to leave so their people can go back to their farming work.

She said Fulani herdsmen told them that they're taking their lives as payback for their cows that they killed. They said any community in the south that killed their cows or attack a Fulani, their people in charge of security agencies would make sure it's paid for and they would attack the community.


When she was asked about the language which they speak, she said they spoke pidgin English to them and communicated within themselves with their language.

She said when they noticed the herdsmen weren't close by, they ran into the bush and hid behind trees as they were running. She said they spent the night at the bush before they were rescued by some villagers the next day.

Valkrie:


Same way boko buy market since the past 12 years bah...? make una dey there..una no know wetin dey happen...ISIS dey Nigeria..wey army go concentrate on fighting external.forces nah people wey dey defend their tuff against external incursion dem dey wan fight...Nigeria never learn until it become hard and bad then we would be hearing let us negotiate with them for peace to reign...!! We don see part 1,2 and 3 for the Nigerian army film and this confrontation with ESN would not be different...!!!

Hoverbird:

To the hammer everything is a nail. Nigerians are very poor at learning from history, the army will only worsen things they proscribed and killed them when they were unarmed it didn't stop anything and you think a military intervention is the solution? Opening fronts all over the country when you have a full blown insurgency you can't seem to contain seem to be a genius approach. Let's see how far they will go with confrontations especially when they start attacking pipelines and the economic hub of the country.

Sizzorkay:
You said external, fulanis are also nigerians. now i don't support the idea of destroying farms or killing property owners, but its odd to call nigerians external within their own territory. unless those fulanis are foreigners.
Nigerians have the right to live anywhere they wish to,within that country. Respecting the rule of law is what's lacking

jpphilips:


Tell that to the birds, we cant have low IQ drug addicts with Ak47 on our streets, it is reprehensible & unacceptable, you are free to keep them in your father's house or yours if you can afford one.

jpphilips:


Let ESN taste what Boko tasted, if they can drag on for 12yrs then the comparison will become appropriate.

Maduawuchukwu:
Do not take people boasting about IPOB's capabilities against the NA seriously. They too know the truth. An army that has been able to restrict the second most powerful Islamist group to some local government in Maiduguri is not an army to be taken lightly. Less powerful Islamist groups are wrecking uncontrollable carnage in Mali and other Sahel countries o.

ugo4u:

So how are you sure this particular appointment wasn't based on religion and ethnicity especially when the next most senior officer was from Bayelsa and we all saw how they played politics by illegally extending former IGP Adamu's tenure.
Everybody saw how they dribbled the then DSS director from Bayelsa till power fell on Osinbajo and he did the needful only for the man to be retired for a more "competent" Director from a section of the country.
We should keep on giving excuses for nepotistic posturing of the people at the helm of affairs till the nation tumble to the point of no return, then maybe we will all learn to balance power in a multi ethnic and multi religious society as ours.

jpphilips:


You sincerely think an Ijaw man on his amnesty breakfast will allow an Igbo man much less a runaway goat from Afara-ukwu to destroy the pipelines? lol,
I want to make this clear, the next Biafra war will be between Igbos & Niger delta, that score must be settled in this lifetime.

jpphilips:


Cut off Ebonyi/Kogi corridor, Abia/Akwaibom corridor, Imo/rivers corridor and choke everything inside, the civilian population will be so uncomfortable till they give up these guys, as months pass by, these blockade will keep collapsing to a point where these guys will be denied every freedom of movement, once you cant move freely, get resupplied, the battle is over, one thing is guaranteed, there will be so many collateral damage so those clapping for them should be ready, all is fair in Love & war, nobody is truly innocent.[/color]

Hoverbird:

Keep on fantasizing till reality hit you. You people just mouth Niger Delta as if it's a tribe, maybe you don't know that the same Igbos are also Indigenous to the Niger Delta. It was an indigene of Niger Delta that led the first coup now termed Igbo coup for convenience and culminating into the civil war. Even the so called Biafra was a coinage from an Ijaw chief. I hope you know the military are having confrontations in AkwaIbom and sooner or later Rivers state would join the fray, many of you especially those from outside the region don't know whats going on. Rivers and Abia have some of the most extremists elements of IPOB if you don't know. I won't even want to drag the matter of a Biafra republic with clowns like you because you people easily bring up this argument when serious issues are being discussed but if you think the Niger Delta region comprising of hundreds of ethnic groups would want to be a part of Nigeria and not be on their own assuming they don't even want biafra then the joke is on you.
You think a destabilised South east region wont harm the economy of the country? most especially when Imo state has a proven gas reserve of over 6 trillion cubic ft(A resources of the future) energy coys are tussling to build refineries & win mouthwatering gas deals this govt wants to lay pipes down to Morocco under the guise of AKK project. Those giants gas pipelines to the north you think they don't pass through the region & are buried in the air ? not to talk of the oil exploration in parts of Abia & Imo and the proven reserves in the Anambra trough.
All well and good let's watch how things pans out, you people will soon learn that the South east is a major gateway to the economic hub of the country whatever affects it with will spill over. For a government that negotiates with bandits, but don't want to see talking as an option for agitations. Everyone knew that IPOB guys picking up arms today is as a result of the high handedness of the military, by the time they win 100% sympathy of the populace it will be interesting to see how the army will overcome a group that will easily recruit 50k at a go to launch guerilla warfare against an already overstretched and Ill equipped military, that even have IPOB sympathisers within their Officer cadre.

Whyem15:


It will be very unwise for the government to fight back right now.... That is exactly IPOB's plan so that they can get the sympathy of the people and get more recruits. The best thing to do is to avoid them. The militants will soon start making mistakes and the local population that are sympathetic to them currently will soon start getting tired of them.

Whyem15:


Not when they have the support of their people.... Take away the support first then you will find it very easy to solve. Another insurgency will really bleed the military, especially the army.

Valkrie:


Then you've got no idea about the resolve of the people...!!

Whyem15:


I doubt the current administration has the balls to do this.
Another advantage that ISWAP/JAS has that IPOB/ESN lacks is support from a wide range of experienced allies(Terrorists organizations from all over the world have assisted ISWAP and JAS with supplies, tactics, technology and advising in several roles nevertheless, ESN should never be underestimated, they have easy access to the nation's economic backbone(oil rigs and pipelines; whether they have good relationship with the ND is still debatable but we have seen ex militants like Asari Dokubo associating with them. Use of force should be the last resort. Even the military should be advising the government to avoid force for now, there is nothing beneficial to be achieved from it.

Schooling and other economic activities has since stopped in the part of Southern Cameroon where the ambazonias are waging an insurgency, I do not see how the case will be different in the south east. Buhari will leave by 2023 but the damages will take several years to heal.

Even the so called Biafra was a coinage from an Ijaw chief. I hope you know the military are having confrontations in AkwaIbom and sooner or later Rivers state would join the fray, many of you especially those from outside the region don't know whats going on. Rivers and Abia have some of the most extremists elements of IPOB if you don't know. I won't even want to drag the matter of a Biafra republic with clowns like you because you people easily bring up this argument when serious issues are being discussed but if you think the Niger Delta region comprising of hundreds of ethnic groups would want to be a part of Nigeria and not be on their own assuming they don't even want biafra then the joke is on you.
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You think a destabilised South east region wont harm the economy of the country? most especially when Imo state has a proven gas reserve of over 6 trillion cubic ft(A resources of the future) energy coys are tussling to build refineries & win mouthwatering gas deals this govt wants to lay pipes down to Morocco under the guise of AKK project. Those giants gas pipelines to the north you think they don't pass through the region & are buried in the air ? not to talk of the oil exploration in parts of Abia & Imo and the proven reserves in the Anambra trough.

Everyone knew that IPOB guys picking up arms today is as a result of the high handedness of the military, by the time they win 100% sympathy of the populace it will be interesting to see how the army will overcome a group that will easily recruit 50k at a go to launch guerilla warfare against an already overstretched and Ill equipped military, that even have IPOB sympathisers within their Officer cadre.

Whyem15:


I doubt the current administration has the balls to do this.
Another advantage that ISWAP/JAS has that IPOB/ESN lacks is support from a wide range of experienced allies(Terrorists organizations from all over the world have assisted ISWAP and JAS with supplies, tactics, technology and advising in several roles nevertheless, ESN should never be underestimated, they have easy access to the nation's economic backbone(oil rigs and pipelines; whether they have good relationship with the ND is still debatable but we have seen ex militants like Asari Dokubo associating with them. Use of force should be the last resort. Even the military should be advising the government to avoid force for now, there is nothing beneficial to be achieved from it.

Schooling and other economic activities has since stopped in the part of Southern Cameroon where the ambazonias are waging an insurgency, I do not see how the case will be different in the south east. Buhari will leave by 2023 but the damages will take several years to heal.

Whyem15:


War will never benefit both sides, wars never happen as planned. The support of the people you have today may dissappear tomorrow and the war ESN is clamoring for will take several decades on their own land with their own people being the most casualties. The several tribes you are counting on might betray you when it all starts(exactly the way Ojukwu counted on Awolowo). In the end whether win or lose, the cost will be too great and that region will be set back by several decades.

Also the vast majority of Nigeria's gas reserve is offshore.

ugo4u:

It's a waste of time engaging arm chair analysts.
For someone to even think that a strategy used in the Civil war which was more of a conventional warfare will work now such a person shouldn't be taken seriously, when it's clear that this IPOB guys will resort of guerilla tactics. Let's assume the "Choking" will work why hasn't same be applied to bandits in operating within Kaduna/Niger axis atleast that stretch of forest is within the boundaries of Nigeria. Apply same method in the east and see the entire nations apparathik collapse, most especially now that their are grumblings and mistrust in all regions of the country. This will further boost Nnamdi Kanu propaganda and swell his rank, all he needs to do is to make it seem as if the FG is out to annihilate the people of the region and even academics, and the upper class will but into the propaganda and the least thing we can afford as a nation is anything that will seem to further crack the already loosened thread that holds the country together.
I still believe we can de-escalate this Biafran agitations and make Nnamdi Kanu irrelevant by first of all doing the basics to unify the country, and restructuring amongst other measures will assuage the already heightened tension all over the country. The carrot and stick approach may work but outright force will worsen the situation and make those guys hardened & fanatical, how do you now intend to overcome an enemy that has been brainwashed by a certain ideology and they see death as an option rather than capitulating. we will all be in the diaspora analysing choking, & breathing, strategy while those so called bunch of drug addicts, are present in over 100 countries of the world donating money to fund their movement. Nobody is asking why our security agencies can't seem to jam Igbos pirate station which is the single most effective channel that have indoctrinated alot of the populace including the elderly, if the security agencies had done that in its infancy Kanu wouldn't have had that platform & reach rather they were busy chasing inanities rather than the Source. This issue of IPOB is paining me seriously because these guys are wining fanatical converts everyday, travel to the east and parts of the South South(Especially Delta/Rivers) you'll be shocked at massive following Kanu have, many people are becoming sympathetic to his cause this are people that ordinarily would not take him serious before.
He uses the realities and issues on ground to manipulate the people and the govt isn't countering it with superior ideology. Now under the guise of Herdsmen crises/Kidnapping(which are real issues) he has floated the ESN which the state/Federal are against, yet they can't come up with something to secure the people from the rampaging Bororo Herdsmen. The people that committed massacre in Uwani in Enugu are still at large, same for the militia herders that commited atrocities in Ebonyi last week even one person hasn't been brought to book. Even if the Devil appears today promising to address issues the people are facing he will surely win converts, are you not surprised that the Igboho's, Gani Adams, Kanus etc are getting popular overnight? We can all keep on postulating, theorising, hypothesising, interpolate & extrapolate while those on ground keep on winning the masses.

upko:
Someone is saying the military should put a blockade around the entire south east because of the presence of a rag tag militia in the region.

christopher123:


THAT IS HOW THEY REASON

Hoverbird:

Keep on fantasizing till reality hit you. You people just mouth Niger Delta as if it's a tribe, maybe you don't know that the same Igbos are also Indigenous to the Niger Delta. It was an indigene of Niger Delta that led the first coup now termed Igbo coup for convenience and culminating into the civil war. Even the so called Biafra was a coinage from an Ijaw chief. I hope you know the military are having confrontations in AkwaIbom and sooner or later Rivers state would join the fray, many of you especially those from outside the region don't know whats going on. Rivers and Abia have some of the most extremists elements of IPOB if you don't know. I won't even want to drag the matter of a Biafra republic with clowns like you because you people easily bring up this argument when serious issues are being discussed but if you think the Niger Delta region comprising of hundreds of ethnic groups would want to be a part of Nigeria and not be on their own assuming they don't even want biafra then the joke is on you.
You think a destabilised South east region wont harm the economy of the country? most especially when Imo state has a proven gas reserve of over 6 trillion cubic ft(A resources of the future) energy coys are tussling to build refineries & win mouthwatering gas deals this govt wants to lay pipes down to Morocco under the guise of AKK project. Those giants gas pipelines to the north you think they don't pass through the region & are buried in the air ? not to talk of the oil exploration in parts of Abia & Imo and the proven reserves in the Anambra trough.
All well and good let's watch how things pans out, you people will soon learn that the South east is a major gateway to the economic hub of the country whatever affects it with will spill over. For a government that negotiates with bandits, but don't want to see talking as an option for agitations. Everyone knew that IPOB guys picking up arms today is as a result of the high handedness of the military, by the time they win 100% sympathy of the populace it will be interesting to see how the army will overcome a group that will easily recruit 50k at a go to launch guerilla warfare against an already overstretched and Ill equipped military, that even have IPOB sympathisers within their Officer cadre.

upko:


The daftness on display is cringe worthy.

Whyem15:

Thanks for the correction, I mistook some northern Christians as southerners because of the names (Teophilus Danjuma, Gibson Jalo, Chris Alli and others I don't know). Is the Christian-Muslim ratio correct?
My point isn't even about which tribes/religions gets which appointment but about having competent people in positions irrespective of tribes and faith if we really want progress.

jpphilips:


Majority of Fulani militia are not Nigerians, the commanders of the Bororo & Toureg groups are Nigeriens & Malians.