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Thousands of Igbo, an ethnic group in Southeastern Nigeria, have begun arriving Washington DC for a major protest against 75-year old Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari.

Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) would storm the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC on April 30 when Mr. Buhari would be meeting with President Donald Trump.

In a statement to Today News Africa in Washington DC, the organizers of the protest said Mr. Buhari, a retired Nigerian Army General, is responsible for the death of thousands of Igbo activists who have been demanding independence from the oil-rich but dilapidated West African country.

The leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, disappeared in strange circumstances, fueling speculations that he was abducted by Nigerian security forces following an attack on his residence.

Our team of reporters in Washington DC would bring you live developments inside and outside the White House on April 30.

The protesters would also accuse Mr. Buhari government of committing grave human rights violations across the country, and for not prosecuting those who perpetrated them. The accusations would also include the atrocities perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen throughout Nigeria.

Igbo activists have argued that Nigeria has not treated the Igbo fairly following the civil war of 1967-1970 that left at least two million of their people dead as they tried to break up.

The protests would be coming days after the United States government on Friday released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying grave violations continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were almost never prosecuted by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Why it matters: President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, and both men would likely discuss further U.S. military assistance to Nigeria against the backdrop of serious human rights violations by security forces who use the same weapons to kill civilians.

The U.S. annual report on global human rights violations, released in Washington D.C. on Friday afternoon, said the administration of President Buhari “took steps to investigate alleged abuses, but fewer steps to prosecute officials who committed violations, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government”.

“Impunity remained widespread at all levels of government. The government did not adequately investigate or prosecute most of the major outstanding allegations of human rights violations by the security forces or the majority of cases of police or military extortion or other abuse of power,” the report said.

You can read the executive summary of the report here. Human Rights Report on Nigeria Today News Africa

It said the most significant human rights issues included extrajudicial and arbitrary killings; disappearances and arbitrary detentions; torture, particularly in detention facilities, including sexual exploitation and abuse; use of children by some security elements, looting, and destruction of property.

There were also civilian detentions in military facilities, often based on flimsy evidence; denial of fair public trial; executive influence on the judiciary; infringement on citizens’ privacy rights; restrictions on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and movement

This was in addition to official corruption; lack of accountability in cases involving violence against women and children, including female genital mutilation/cutting and sexual exploitation of children; trafficking in persons; early and forced marriages; criminalization of status and same-sex sexual conduct based on sexual orientation and gender identity; and forced and bonded labor.

The report recognized that Boko Haram terror group also committed a myriad of human rights violations, killing and torturing and imprisoning women and children and bombing entire villages.

“The groups conducted numerous attacks on government and civilian targets that resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated 205,000 Nigerian refugees to neighboring countries, principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,” the report said.



Boko Haram’s numerous attacks often targeted civilians. The group, which recruited and forcefully conscripted child soldiers, carried out scores of suicide bombings–many by young women and girls forced into doing so–and other attacks on population centers in the Northeast and in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

“Abductions by Boko Haram continued. The group subjected many abducted women and girls to sexual and gender-based violence, including forced marriages and rape. The government investigated attacks by Boko Haram and ISIS-WA and took some steps to prosecute their members, although the majority of suspected insurgent group supporters were held in military custody without charge,

“In its response to Boko Haram and ISIS-WA attacks, and at times in response to crime and insecurity in general, security service personnel perpetrated extrajudicial killings and engaged in torture, sexual exploitation and abuse, arbitrary detention, mistreatment of detainees, use of children by some security elements, looting, and destruction of property. The country also suffered from ethnic, regional, and religious violence,” the report added.

I love IPOB
haters over to you.

Wetin concern Ijaw people with IPOB now?

ColdSun:
Wetin concern Ijaw people with IPOB now?

Go ask Asari Dokubo or Apigo

Tompolo

your eye will soon clear

ColdSun:
Wetin concern Ijaw people with IPOB now?

IPOB is not about igbos but Rather about awakening the Old Eastern Nigeria which was merged with the West and North to form Nigeria. All South South and South East were Under the old Eastern Nigeria. .. If you analyze NNAMDI Kanu's speech's very well you will understand that he is not Totally against Nigeria but believes in regional governing every region will come to an agreement, and put out what they want to be in Nigeria. Which means if it doesn't favour the EAST, NORTH, WEST or SOUTH any of the regions can pull out.... But the EAST and SOUTH made up the Old EASTERN Nigeria. So what he actually did is to use one stone to kill two birds...

Nice one by IPOB

Show the gworo chewing terrorist from Daura that that impunity and tyranny will not be accepted

Add ur source mbos....so that it will get to FP.

On topic.... this is a welcome development. Getting Biafra may not be easy because govt will never grant it and Igbos are currently too weak to go to war. But one thing is for sure....one day Biafra will come

Supported. It's a good n welcome development.Let the world see how he is...
l know Buhari may decide to cancel the visit

ColdSun:
Wetin concern Ijaw people with IPOB now?

cardiac arrest loading.....

ColdSun:
Wetin concern Ijaw people with IPOB now?

dont mind them......because ijaws are not saying anything online thats why....

we urhobos showed them the middle finger,they wouldnt dare mention us....

they think ijaws owe them something for supporting jonathan....

The only way bubu will escape this is to travel along side Lai Mohammed, By the time lai blow one lie..Ipob and Trump will believe them...If not...Nigerian president cannot defend himself in public with words..Funny government...

ojmaroni247:
IPOB is not about igbos but Rather about awakening the Old Eastern Nigeria which was merged with the West and North to form Nigeria. All South South and South East were Under the old Eastern Nigeria.

old eastern region....una will die trying....

the same ijaws that attacked una soldiers in the biafran war....??

keep on dreaming....

Biafra all the way!
Biafra ideology na another thing o.

All hail Biafra!
Cc Immhotep lzaa

Igbos and their lies again.

No self-respecting Ijaw man will insult himself by joining himself with a cause, with a people who are well known not to think deeply before they act.

These lies are part of the reason the Igbo man remains below in Nigeria.

An Ijaw man has become president yet the country will never vote for an Igbo president because of this seemingly incurable crassness

OnyeOGA:

Biafra all the way!
Biafra ideology na another thing o.

All hail Biafra!
Cc Immhotep lzaa

if una dont keep this biafra thing only to the east,una will be in big trouble....

Mbos in case you no see the source of that one. You fit use this source:
https://todaynewsafrica.com/breaking-thousands-of-igbo-travel-to-washington-dc-to-protest-against-buhari-at-white-house-during-meeting-with-trump/featured/

amInigerian:
Igbos and their lies again.

No self-respecting Ijaw man will insult himself by joining himself with a cause, with a people who are well known not to think deeply before they act.

These lies are part of the reason the Igbo man remains below in Nigeria.

An Ijaw man has become president yet the country will never vote for an Igbo president. because of their seemingly incurable crassness

https://todaynewsafrica.com/breaking-thousands-of-igbo-travel-to-washington-dc-to-protest-against-buhari-at-white-house-during-meeting-with-trump/featured/
may be the guy make mistake but this one na the real source.

OnyeOGA:
https://todaynewsafrica.com/breaking-thousands-of-igbo-travel-to-washington-dc-to-protest-against-buhari-at-white-house-during-meeting-with-trump/featured/
may be the guy make mistake but this one na the real source.

look,this your source stuff dont impress anybody...we know asari is half igbo,half ijaw....his opinion doesnt count....

OnyeOGA:
Biafra all the way! Biafra ideology na another thing o.
All hail Biafra! Cc Immhotep lzaa

justtoodark right now

LZAA:
justtoodark right now

mbok,declare biafra and get it by force....!

justtoodark:
mbok,declare biafra and get it by force....!

We the south south cc immhotep onyeoga

justtoodark:
if una dont keep this biafra thing only to the east,una will be in big trouble....

This how Benue people were shouting until recently . . .

cc lzaa onyeoga

LZAA:
justtoodark right now

from the mouth of a real ijaw man:

Igbos and their lies again.

No self-respecting Ijaw man will insult himself by joining himself with a cause, with a people who are well known not to think deeply before they act.

These lies are part of the reason the Igbo man remains below in Nigeria.

An Ijaw man has become president yet the country will never vote for an Igbo president. because of their seemingly incurable crassness

justtoodark:
mbok,declare biafra and get it by force....!

Take your painment out of this thread you have read the headline if it pains you go and commit suicide

Archangel15:
Take your painment out of this thread you have read the headline if it pains you go and commit suicide

why should it pain me....??

na you against the nigerian constitution....i dont care....

but i will care when you people try to drag the entire delta into another trouble again....

I love ipob. I m a Biafran from the Ijaw extraction

LZAA:
We the south south
cc immhotep onyeoga

what do you mean....??

adonis89:
I love ipob. I m a Biafran from the Ijaw extraction

half ijaw,i guess....delta igbo stuff...

we are too intermarried to even try that biafra thing....

justtoodark:
what do you mean....??

We the south-south crew have arrived

cc lzaa onyeoga

amInigerian:
Igbos and their lies again.

No self-respecting Ijaw man will insult himself by joining himself with a cause, with a people who are well known not to think deeply before they act.

These lies are part of the reason the Igbo man remains below in Nigeria.

An Ijaw man has become president yet the country will never vote for an Igbo president. because of their seemingly incurable crassness

If you think the ijaws are in the same class with the igbo, then I will have what you are smoking.

There are more educated people in imo state alone then in the entire ijaw tribal group.

Don't compare your ogogoro drinking clowns with an advanced nation like the igbo.

We are not mates in any scheme of endeavour inside or outside Nigeria.

Even Jonathan had to rely on igbo technocrats because he couldn't find any significant ijaw equivalent , and the igbos ensured he was not disgraced.

Show some respect.

immhotep:
We the south-south crew have arrived

cc lzaa onyeoga

look...why cant you agitate without delta....??...

i dont understand you people....

i heard you wanted benue too....

why not lagos too....??

igbos plenty in lagos too....

immhotep:
We the south-south crew have arrived
cc lzaa onyeoga