KingsleyWabote:

I think it's high time PMB gave a presidential order declaring a state of emergency all over the SE and other affected SS states. There should be full fledged war against IPOB terrorists without delay. Heavy artillery weapons should be rolled into the region and used against the insurgents, as well as constant air bombardments from NAF.

If Igbos say they are looking for war, then so be it!

In the next few weeks, we don't want to hear that there's genocide in "Biafraland." You guys asked for it, and very soon you'll get served.

Epistle of a demented nonentity!

You used the so-called "heavy artillery weapons" on Bokoharam for over 10 years now yet Bokoharam are still urinating on your cowardly soldiers. A lot have changed, 2021 is not 1967.

What made you think that heavy artillery will work on ESN?

No wonder Eastern Governors are now repenting.
Yesterday ikpeazu talked differently and supported IPOB during his interview

NgeneUkwenu:
We will still use Imo State's money to replace it with the latest model...

Say it without crying.

Buhari's used tissue paper!

Rosskiiku:
I laugh at all these youths calling for break up of Naija.

So as you can shuttle now from Lagos to Jos to Abuja to Enugu to Port Harcourt AT WILL WITH NO DISTURBANCE, you want to replace that with being stuck in one region and needing VISA to enter Lagos. VISA to enter Port Harcourt or Benin?

Police in those places will harass you constantly to show your papers.

You will just turn a very local champion in your new small country.

Shuttling between Enugu, Umuahia, and Aba only.

You'll be fcked.

Talk about limiting your horizon.

From a Nigerian to a Togolese.

Right now Togolese can shuttle to Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt without a visa.

You support bigger black country like Nigeria. What's the need when it results to daily killings.

I prefers a tiny and super rich country like Luxembourg than a bigger and poverty stricken country like India.

Rossupti:
There Were No 'Tribes' In Nigeria Before Colonialism. Discuss.

Before the British interruption of our existence, there was no concept of belonging to a 'tribe' or an 'ethnic group' in Nigeria.

The idea that speaking Igbo made you an 'Igbo man' was non-existent.

The idea that speaking Yoruba made you a 'Yoruba man' was non-existent.

The idea that speaking Hausa made you a 'Hausa man' was non-existent.

What identified you was your ancestry.

NOT the language you spoke.

An Egba man did not regard himself as being of one group as an Ijebu man, or a man from Kwara, even though they all spoke the Yoruba language.

Likewise an Arochukwu man did not consider himself of the same ''Igbo tribe'' as a man from Okigwe or Onitsha.

This was why in the pre-colonial era, we had many WARS within those groups.

They did NOT regard themselves as single, united entities with shared ancestry. Because they were not.

It was the BRITISH who invented the idea that all those who spoke one language belonged to one ''tribe'' OR ''ethnic group''.

They did this in order to create BLOCS OF DIVISION among previously integrated, fluid peoples. (Divide and rule)

Sociologically and anthropologically, the language-based 'tribe' concept made no sense, because there was so much migration in precolonial times that one group of Igbo speakers could migrate to an area peopled by Yoruba speakers, and within a generation or two, they would turn Yoruba speakers themselves, and forget all about the Igbo language, and vice versa. This happened ALL OVER 'Nigeria' countless times over many centuries.

There are many people today who consider themselves 'Yoruba', who actually have their true ancestry traceable to Eastern Nigeria.

Just as there are many who call themselves 'Igbo' today, whose ancestors migrated from Yoruba speaking territories, less than 200 or 300 years ago.

It is time we DITCH the COLONIAL INVENTION called ''tribe''.

IT IS COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY MEANINGLESS, AND A FRAUDULENT COLONIAL IMPOSITION.

Rubbish Argument

It's just like saying that there is no River in Nigeria before the white man came, that it was Europeans that created rivers in Nigeria.

What the whites brought was civilization, with it the called River Niger a River.

And called Igbo for example a tribe.

AllenSpencer:
FAKE NEWS!

Only in Nigeria news exist.

Sorry for the painful news.

It's on the UK's Home Office official government website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nigeria-country-policy-and-information-notes

Bashir75:



He is so illogical. with all due respect to Igbo as a nation and not taking anything away from the Igbo people ingenuity just like other tribes. If his assertion is that Igbo people are disproportionally smarter than other tribes in Nigeria, then we should see it in their region. No government since independence stopped Igbo from selling shoes and whatever they can make or manufacture. Let them turn Igboland to Dubai or Taiwan.

As a matter of fact, Igbo leaders have had good share of leadership in Nigeria since independence via Azikwe and from 1999-2015. If Igbo can be so good with drug peddling, prostitutes and trading they can be good showing their ingenuity in manufacturing and become wealth region like Taiwan. Taiwan is a region fighting to be independence under iron fist China but they thrived anyway and globally known for their ingenuity. Let the Igbo people display similar feat and superior intelligence over other region, then we will accept Ben Bruce assertions. Not just be politically correct.

TAIWAN is semi-autonomous territory. South East is not.

Is China stopping manufacturing advancement of Taiwan? No! Rather they're contributing to it.

Is Nigeria stopping manufacturing advancement of South East? YES

How?

One example is, manufacturing sector of any economy can't grow without STABLE ELECTRICITY, which is a key component of manufacturing. Why hasn't Nigeria gotten stable power since over 60yrs of Independence?

This is just one!

Igbos believed that by governing ourselves,our full potential will be achieved. Nigeria is dragging us back.

Old News!

Ever since the renewed struggle for Biafra republic championed by MNK began in 2013 till today, ipob Members in Europe and America without papers are being granted asylum in countries like UK, Germany, Canada, Turkey, Australia etc

In fact there are some cases in Germany and Turkey where Yorubas and Binis are claiming to be IPOB to collect asylum papers

There are dozens of attacks in the East by UGM since December last year.

Only the bank attacks in Anambra has a flag left by the attackers. Thereby showing govt's desperation.

If UGM wants to foist Biafran flag, it would've been at the Police headquarters (govt property) in Owerri not at a local First bank branch.

Jman24:
The platform for world class cities of the Eastern states is already there. Just little 'tick tock'..
south east is also having a hard time from an offshoot of the so called document called the Nigerian constitution

It is not easy to build all those skyscrapers you see in Dubai without Resource autonomy; We know corruption exists.


Below is the grid street system of Aba. The platform is there already

I have lived in Aba all my life and have traveled to 26 states in Nigeria. Apart from Abuja, I'm yet to see any city in Nigeria that beats Aba when it comes to 'Road Network'. Problem is on proper building of the roads.

Rossikki:


Great points. There is no appetite for war in the East because there has been no provocation to war.

The herdsmen crisis is not enough to arouse the region to war.

In South Sudan, millions of South Sudanese were being starved and slaughtered in Darfur and elsewhere by Sudanese forces.

So there was a grassroots demand for defending the homeland and seceding from Sudan by force, through battle.

In Igboland, there is no such situation.

Igboland is at peace, and is prospering by the day.

Pepper soup joints are filled at night.

People are rocking life.

So there will be no war, and hence, no secession.

I agree with you that for now there is no large appetite for war in the East. But that can grow over time. A single major action can cause a change.

The action that instigated the last civil war was the pogrom against the Igbos in the North after the coup against Ironsi's govt.

Anyway why I replied in the first place was to counter your claim that it's Black NGOs lobbing in America that is preventing Biafra Independence.

Incoherent Rubbish!

America you're talking is not the country holding Biafra. They're are nonchalant over the issue of Biafra.

All Western nations sees Nigeria and issues emanating from Nigeria as territorial problems of Britain. Just as Britain treats what is happening in Southern Cameron as French territory dispute. Intervening there can be seen as trespass. The West respect each other that much.

If Biafrans want Independence, the strategy is to fight to finish. South Sudan is an example. UN only intervenes where there is crisis.

The US and the West in general were against the Independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but they fought and defeated Georgia. They're free and independent from Georgia today against the wish of America.

There is this popular joke among Nigerian comedians that if you get slapped by a soldier that stars go comot for your eyes, and that you fit faint join. This joke has been over used in Nigeria.


The fear and dread an average Nigerian have for the army stems from long decades of brutal military rules in Nigeria. Nigerians especially southerners over respect the army so much despite the fact that the Nigerian army have not single-handedly won any war in their history. Liberia and Sierra Leone was a joint effort. In the civil war, Egyptian pilots who were earlier trained flew Nigerian Soviet planes, they basically manned their air force. Cameron helped in border closure.


Most Nigerian army generals both past and present has no battlefield experience, they're products of quota system. In fact today, it's difficult to find "real battlefield general" in the Nigerian army.


The series of defeats they suffered from Bokoharam was the game changer. This ill-trained ragtag group frequently ransacks military bases in the north mind you not just checkpoints on the road but "military bases" where they cart away huge military hardwares. In one case in 2014, fleeing hundreds of soldiers has to cross over to Republic of Cameron for refuge. 


Just yesterday, a military convoy was attacked and some soldiers killed in Benue state by bandits and N26m cash taken from them. So if they were carrying FG funds from the CBN that's how that one go loss. But after the bandits left, these lily-livered army men came back to attack and kill market women and okada riders burning down shops and houses in the community.


The demystification has been done, they are not what you think.

It's difficult for militarily advanced countries like USA, Russia, Britain etc to win guerrilla warfare talk less of Nigeria.

ESN guerrilla styled battle is an edge.

Kebbiprince:

That's how that of Borno started, soon you will be in idp sef

Bokoharam is being inspired by Koran. IPOB is inspired by the urge to have true freedom. They are not the same.

Niger Delta militants during their time handled different assault weapons yet they never attacked civilians. There was no IDP camp in Niger Delta.

Radical Islam is the problem with bokoharam insurgents.

This thread need to go on the front page for Nigerians to know the root cause of the problem

Lol at Tinubu newspaper!

The motive of this imagery Yoruba write up was for you to see the Owerri prison break as an atrocity there by hating ESN for the attack.

Imagine this people will sit down to cook up trash just to further their evil agenda.

Permesso:
its understandable nigerian Government dosen't how to go about resolving issuse like this. But you're supposed to after soldiers, barracks and not realising high profile murders, criminals and rapists in our society.

The attack at police hqrs and prison Owerri was to free arrested ESN commander Ugochukwu Samuel aka Biggy and 15 of his boys. The operation was successful the arrested men are now free.

During the endsars period, there was a prison break in Benin city. People are still living there today with the same crime rate they have before the break.

Resurrection212:
To you ipob your believe is that all igbos support your criminality activities. Whether you believe that I am from IMO state or not I will continue to exposed you guys atrocities.

Imo state lol?

Pls ask you mum who truly is your father. Because only a woman knows who truly give her Belle. it could be one alhaji from Sokoto.

So you will continue to exposes IPOB atrocities. But not ready to expose Fulani army atrocities even for once? That's indicates where you are truly from.

See clowns crying more than the bereaved!

It's ironical that Yorubas who never wanted my good in Nigeria will turn around to be deeply concerned about the security situation of the people they hated so much.

Fact is South East is not Bornu in anyway.

The insurgents in Bornu state rape,rob, kidnap and kills civilians.

But the one in SE don't do such. They only focuses on uniform men who are Fulani occupational forces in our land.

The clowns crying more than the bereaved on Twitter are jokers. They should rather cry for their people languishing in IDP camp in Benue Republic

triple996:

naso
they have picked up arms , now south-east is competing with borno in violence. very good

SE is not Bornu. The insurgents in Bornu rape,rob, kidnaps and kills civilians.

The one in SE don't do such. Only uniform men.

It can never be the same

What IPOB military wing ESN are doing in the East didn't just emerge from the blues. Between 2016-2020 thousands of IPOB members were arrested, tortured and killed by the police and the military. Here are the major mass killings:

1. Aba National High School Massacre:

On 9th of February 2016, a combined team of the Nigerian Police and the military came in their numbers into the field of National High School Aba were IPOB Members were singing and praying some were holding Bibles and flags before the military opened fire on them. Over 50 died while dozens were injured. The video is on YouTube. When Buhari was being interviewed in AlJazera studios in Doha, he was asked by the presenter to watch the mass killings but he refused.

2. 30th May 2016 Anambra Massacre:

IPOB Members annually celebrate their fallen heroes and heroines every 30th May. On this Massacre, killings actually started on the night of 29th May when the military invaded a Catholic Church in Onitsha where IPOB Members are sleeping ahead the D-day and opened fire. The following day being the main day was a full scale bloodbath. Over 700 IPOB Members lost their lives or were missing till date. Amnesty International did a special report on this Massacre by Nigerian government forces.

3. 2017 Trump Rally In Port Harcourt:

On 20th January 2017, all IPOB Members in different cities headed to Port Harcourt to rally in support of ex US president Trump who was being sworn in that same day. At the middle of the rally Police and the military arrived and opened fire on peaceful civilians holding only flags. Over 80 were killed many got arrested.

4. Nnamdi Kanu's Umuahia Home Massacre:

While crowd of IPOB members were camping and are literally living there at NK family house. On September 14th 2017, hundreds of military men in tanks arrived Umuahia's home of Mazi Kanu and laid siege on the building. Over 45 IPOB members were killed in the attack.

5. 2020 Enugu IPOB Massacre:

Around August 2020, hundreds of IPOB were holding a zonal meeting somewhere around Emene in Enugu. When DSS and the Police invaded the meeting venue and starting shooting. About 31 IPOB Members were killed while dozens were arrested and tortured.

6. 2020 Obigbo Bloodbath:

It started from endsars before it degenerated into shutting down of an entire town with the help of Rivers State governor Wike. 24hrs curfew was placed on the town While soldiers were going door to door with the torture and killings targeting IPOB Members and Jewish adherents. Dozens of women were taken to the north and were raped on a daily basis. An estimated 500 IPOB Members were either killed or went missing.

There were other smaller senseless killings and arrest of IPOB but these were the major ones since 2016. So what is happening to the police and the military in the East are nemesis. They are paying for their past sins. In fact some of the people that survived their torture and killings are today in ESN.

"For they have made our mothers CHILDLESS. So shall their mothers be made CHILDLESS" - Nnamdi Kanu 2020

mekaboy:


Wonderful. So go ahead and empty all the prisons in igboland then. This Biafra will be a wonderful place to live.

That's non of your business focus on your region.

There was prison break in Benin during the endsars period. People are still living in Benin city today.

It's ironical that a Yoruba man that doesn't want my good in Nigeria will turn around to be concerned about the future security situation of South East

Between 2015 to 2020, Zoo police and military made a lot of mothers in South East childless. So shall their mothers be made Childless.

An ESN commander Ugochukwu Samuel aka Biggy sustained injuries during one of their operations. He was taken to the hospital with gun shot injuries.

Unfortunately Police in Imo got tip off and swung into action and arrested him. His arrest lead to the arrest of 15 others. Last two Sundays ago police released press statement to this effect. One week later, they are still in Owerri and have not been taken to Abuja.

https://www.nairaland.com/6480756/police-arrest-2-pastors-masterminds

The motive of last night attack I suspect was to free Biggy and his men. That was why Police Hqrs in Owerri and Prisons were broken with explosives to set them free.

This is not an operation to kill police men. If it were so it wouldn't have happened at dead of the night when fewer police men can be found.