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IPOB was built on propaganda, deceit and intimidation. MASSOB did not kill our people or intimidate them to always agree on every of their opinions.

A lot of our people know this truth that you have stated above but are scared to speak up because of the fear of their threat to keel .

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu did not build any industries in alaigbo, he didn't give educational scholarships to ndi-igbo , he didn't build any skill acquisition centers in alaigbo, he only used Biafra to play with our emotions and brought us catastrophe, insurgency and terrorism.

Onuoha Chiamaka Adaeze Ukpai intimidation, coercion and threats is their trademark. They have no set out plans to actualize Biafra except propaganda, deceit and intimidation.

How can Nnamdi kanu tell ndi-igbo that he was traveling from Umuahia to Abuja and when he is coming back, he will come back with Buhari's Head , We cheered and geared such blatant bullshit.

Nnamdi kanu was just a grasshopper that went to play in a burning bush, the grasshopper started burning gradually but it thought it was producing oil because oil was coming out of its body , unfortunately the grasshopper got burnt with the oil it produced .

Kanu, a common barber in east London that just discovered an opportunity to make himself rich a famous. Does he even have a house of his own before IPob

BIAFRA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FROM 1999- DATE

Uwazuruike started this Biafra business in 1999, collecting monthly Akawo from ndị Igbo in the name of getting them Biafra,

Along the line he summoned ex Biafra soldiers who fought during the 1967-1970 civil war, tell them to come Owerri for documentation that they will get paid, he collected about #2000 each from them for documentation and till date those ex Biafra soldiers didn't see any Kobo 😂😂😂,

Around 2008 Uwazuruike started issuing a Biafra passport to ndị Igbo at the cost of #10,000 and by then he had already employed Nnamdi Kanu, many of you don't know that kanu did his Biafra Business apprenticeship program under Uwazuruike,

So millions of ndị Igbo started paying for the Biafra passport because Uwazuruike told them that the United Nation has already approved the sovereign state of Biafra and the passport price will increase after the formation of the Biafra country so they should pay for the passport on time,

Millions of ndị Igbo started paying into the first Bank account that Uwazuruike made available to them 😂😂😂😂😂😂 then kanu was coordinating the purchase of the passport from UK and other European countries and he saw how lucrative Biafra business is and how foolish millions of ndị Igbo is, then decided to pull out from Uwazuruike to start his own Biafra business,

Kanu pulled out from Uwazuruike around 2011 and started his own Biafra business in 2012 with the name IPOB, then in 2014 Kanu Officially registered IPOB in the UK as a Profitable Private Limited liability Company that has nothing to do with freedom fighting, sovereignty, Revolution or politics, kanu started collecting monthly Akawo from ndị Igbo both home and abroad, then in 2019 kanu increased his Akawo amount from #300-#500 monthly for millions of ndị Igbo at home then for those who are in Europe he increased their monthly Akawo to €40,

After kanu was re-arrested in 2021 Simon Ekpa who was doing his Biafra Business apprenticeship program under kanu decided to break away from IPOB just like kanu parted ways with MASSOB,

In 2022 UK government dissolved IPOB WORLDWIDE LIMITED COMPANY, then kanu's wife opened another IPOB business company in 2023 so as to sustain the flow of her husband's business organization,

In 2024 Simon Ekpa was arrested then Ngọzi Orabueze who was doing her Biafra business apprenticeship program under Ekpa took over the business and since then has been conducting and collecting fundraising back to back

Maybe after Ngọzi Orabueze, another rogue will surface and continue the business,

It's unfortunate situation

Nnamdipapa:
BIAFRA BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FROM 1999- DATE

Uwazuruike started this Biafra business in 1999, collecting monthly Akawo from ndị Igbo in the name of getting them Biafra,

Along the line he summoned ex Biafra soldiers who fought during the 1967-1970 civil war, tell them to come Owerri for documentation that they will get paid, he collected about #2000 each from them for documentation and till date those ex Biafra soldiers didn't see any Kobo 😂😂😂,

Around 2008 Uwazuruike started issuing a Biafra passport to ndị Igbo at the cost of #10,000 and by then he had already employed Nnamdi Kanu, many of you don't know that kanu did his Biafra Business apprenticeship program under Uwazuruike,

So millions of ndị Igbo started paying for the Biafra passport because Uwazuruike told them that the United Nation has already approved the sovereign state of Biafra and the passport price will increase after the formation of the Biafra country so they should pay for the passport on time,

Millions of ndị Igbo started paying into the first Bank account that Uwazuruike made available to them 😂😂😂😂😂😂 then kanu was coordinating the purchase of the passport from UK and other European countries and he saw how lucrative Biafra business is and how foolish millions of ndị Igbo is, then decided to pull out from Uwazuruike to start his own Biafra business,

Kanu pulled out from Uwazuruike around 2011 and started his own Biafra business in 2012 with the name IPOB, then in 2014 Kanu Officially registered IPOB in the UK as a Profitable Private Limited liability Company that has nothing to do with freedom fighting, sovereignty, Revolution or politics, kanu started collecting monthly Akawo from ndị Igbo both home and abroad, then in 2019 kanu increased his Akawo amount from #300-#500 monthly for millions of ndị Igbo at home then for those who are in Europe he increased their monthly Akawo to €40,

After kanu was re-arrested in 2021 Simon Ekpa who was doing his Biafra Business apprenticeship program under kanu decided to break away from IPOB just like kanu parted ways with MASSOB,

In 2022 UK government dissolved IPOB WORLDWIDE LIMITED COMPANY, then kanu's wife opened another IPOB business company in 2023 so as to sustain the flow of her husband's business organization,

In 2024 Simon Ekpa was arrested then Ngọzi Orabueze who was doing her Biafra business apprenticeship program under Ekpa took over the business and since then has been conducting and collecting fundraising back to back

Maybe after Ngọzi Orabueze, another rogue will surface and continue the business,

It's unfortunate situation

OP,
This is the sad and unfortunate truth.
A group of brigands just profiteering from the ignorance of their own people. Handing over and taking over from each other while fleecing and destroying their own people.

“Trash”

Nnamdipapa:
My final piece on the Nnamdi Kanu judgment and Peter Obi Statement situation:

On the 25th of July 2021, I and some family members drove from Lagos to Anambra to collect the bridal list from my in-laws, officially commencing the journey to my marriage. We arrived Nnewi around 5 pm and finished sometime past 8. My wife was in that blue Lexus 350 with us, likewise my uncle and brother, and the plan was that very early the next day, being Monday the 26th, we will drive into Nnewi to pick her and then be on our way back to Lagos.

We slept in my hometown, Azigbo, and around 5:30 the next morning, as planned, we started for Nnewi. We drove through Amichi. On getting somewhere around that market close to Igwe Orizu, we noticed that the vehicles going in the other direction were flashing their headlamps on us. We slowed down and soon a commercial bus driver revving his vehicle asked us while speaking at the top of his voice to go back because they were shooting somewhere ahead of us in Nnewi.

Who, we asked, and he said something about Biafra and IPOB and zoomed off. We reversed and join the procession of fleeing vehicles. Because of different engagements the people in the vehicle had back in Lagos the next day, we really needed to return to Lagos. So we tried again to drive into Nnewi through the inner roads in Awka-Etiti. The closer we got to Nnewi, the worse it became because we could now hear the gunshots. We drove back and decided to wait a bit. We phoned our in-laws and they confirmed it was hot that morning in Nnewi and that we should consider staying back, and/or leaving without their daughter. She would come back the next day using public transport.

We went back to Azigbo and decided to wait out the time. Later, because we hadn't planned on staying that long, we wanted to go find something we would eat, and also see if we could still travel back to Lagos, even if later than earlier. While on our way, a group of men intercepted us at Ichida Bus Stop.

“Who are you people”, one screamed at us, hitting the bonnet.

“Whine down the glasses”, another added, order coming from different angle as they surrounded our vehicle.

“Where are you going to”, the barking continued, with little time given to really answer their questions.

“Don't you know that today is sit-at-home; where do you think you are going when our leader Nnamdi Kanu is held prisoner in Abuja and is going to court?”

One of them tried to open the door.

“Oga come down; all of you should come down, we are driving this car to Abuja today. We are going to see Kanu. It is either you join us or you give us this car”.

We begged, cajoled, and agreed with them on the spot about the injustice meted out against us Ndigbo, Kanu, and the southeast in Nigeria. After a lot of parley led by my uncle who was in his late seventies, we gave them money, saying we supported the cause, and they allowed us to go. We went to the popular nwanyi ocha place in Ichida, ate, and decided not to go back that way, rather risk our way to Onitsha, away from Anambra, and then to Lagos.

The question I have asked myself all these years was, if that experience had happened sometime between 2022-2024 when tensions had stiffened and the group, with their spin-offs, more militarized and armed, what would have been our fate that mid-morning? Your guess is as good as mine as we have all seen similar events reported in the news and on social media and how they ended up.

Two months later, proceeding to the next stage of our marriage, my wife and I had to go to the headquarters of the Nnewi South local government in Ukpor to register our marriage and fufil other requirements like getting the documentation we would eventually hand the church. A local government wedding per se, which can be done in lieu of court wedding. Everything went well and while we were about leaving, we met a guy from my village, Iruokpala, who worked at the LG HQand he helped us take pictures.

A few months later, however, I met again with the guy in Azigbo. Amid conversation, he asked me to refer him to any job, building gig, or just about anything that he was no longer working at the LG HQ. On further enquiry, he narrated to me how sometime after we met at the HQ, unknown gunmen paid a visit and shot and ‘keed’ people, tagging them saboteurs working for the zoo government (or something to that effect).

“Nwanna, I escaped narrowly; small thing and I would have been a dead person today”.

I made some posts yesterday and a horde descended on them. Worse, my disagreement with the statement Peter Obi put out further inflamed many. I still stand by that condemnation.

Almost every social upheaval has a complex history, their evolution traced to various events. In 2019 or thereabouts, Obi was interviewed in the run-up to the election where he was vice to Atiku, and about IPOB he said something to the effect that they were harmless freedom fighters with valid grievances who could be dialogued with and things handled better, instead of the blanket proscription, nailing them as terrorists.

I agreed with Obi at that time. Even today, when situated in that context and time, I still agree. During the 2023 elections, when his detractors were everywhere whipping the video up in the face of worsening violent activities ascribed to IPON or its spin-off groups, attempting to utilize it in their bid to tag him a terrorist apologist, I was everywhere too erecting context to the video and arguing unremittingly in support of what Obi really meant there. This is a different case.

To be clear, I categorize the evolution of the agitation under Kanu and IPOB into two broad categories: Pre-2019 and Post-2019. If Obi’s statement verbatim dropped 22nd November 2019, I will agree verbatim with him. But this is 2025 and we have stood witness to the events of 2020 to this day. And, at this juncture, I will be fair to stop using the taxonomy, IPOB, as historically things began to be more complex somewhere around 2021/22 and it wasn't clear which group was behind the things that happened as we saw the proliferation of splinter groups, personalities, and units who carried activities that the ‘official’ IPOB themselves publicly denounced, or so it seems.

Staying relevant to Kanu, we all listened to broadcasts where he incited, ordered, and even took responsibility of some unspeakable things. These broadcast speeches are still out here on the internet. Kanu nailed himself with every broadcast, making it hard for anyone on earth to truly defend him with deep honesty.

I remember the 2020 EndSARS protest that was going on smoothly as disillusioned Nigerian youths vs incompetent government thing, and out of nowhere Kanu inserted himself in it. I remember listening to that broadcast in utter shock. It was too nerve-wracking that till today I still remember where I was, mouth agape, eyes popped in disbelief, and soon we were making calls amongst our young Igbo links and asking everyone to stay away from the protest or going out as Kanu’s speech might turn things on its head and set us against the Yoruba. Unfortunately, this happened towards or after a group of disgruntled younglings looted the palace of a Lagos Oba. It wasn't long and the propaganda machine went into work trying to leverage Kanu speech to say it was the Igbo youth burning down Lagos and desecrating traditional heritage. They also said the BRT inferno was set up by the Igbo.

Kanu never cared about Igbo people in Lagos and what could have happened to them if the spin caught on. And from thereon things went further downhill. Kanu will make a broadcast saying, k*ll security operatives, police, soldiers, etc and take their weapon. Soon, mostly days after, security operatives are indeed murdered and weapons taken. Some of them were Igbo and they were dealt harshly with regardless for continuing to work in the Nigerian force. This happened in many places in the southeast. Today, people want to revise this recent history gaslight us for pointing these out, trying to divorce bloody effect from its clear cause.

To some others, it isn't that Kanu is innocent and blameless, rather that a case of calling out the apparent hypocrisy of the federal government and the equalizing of approach to insurgent groups. Fair point and a solid argument to be had there. However, I as an individual do not care about other regions of Nigeria pampering violent group that have now held them hostage, and I do not want that model replicated in my region.

There used to be a time, just as recent as 2014-16 when, right here on social media, we brag to other Nigerians that nothing will ever make an Igbo person resort to terrorist activities. We bragged that an average Igbo will rather man a kiosk from Igba Oso-Afia, and gradually grow it to a business empire, than take up arms. We said these things and believed it. How wrong we were.

Look at Ihiala, Iseke, and environs today. Our own people did those things, and to their very own folks. Some people have attempted to counter these occurrences with the conspiratorial claims that the violence and the violent groups were planted by ‘the evil federal government to destabilize our region and implicate Nnamdi Kanu’. To this, I will say nothing.

People like Asoegwu are receiving death threats by folks here just because he is calling out these maladies, complete with video proof. Such utter radicalization. Yesterday, someone whom I spent six years with in a boarding secondary school threatened me too right there in the comment section. This is the last I will say about this matter and I end it by reiterating the popular saying that those who feed and ride a tiger will someday end up in its belly. For years people have fetched ant-infested firewood and now the lizards are here, and it will take some time to get rid of them, if we ever.

Nnamdipapa:
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu did not build any industries in alaigbo, he didn't give educational scholarships to ndi-igbo , he didn't build any skill acquisition centers in alaigbo,

This is the one that more people should look at, take stock of and shake their heads before saying, "Ohamdike, mba mba".

I still don't understand how Ndi Yoruba could rightfully tell Igboho to get lost and Ndigbo were all in with Ohamdike when both took their similar versions of emancipation and sef-determination BS to their tribes.