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ZeroTolerance:
Rubbish. How do you guys even imagine APC won the election in Rivers or Akwa Ibom?

Appeal court judges do not make decisions based on personal convictions right?

Just imagine, i still don't believe we have dummies who believe APC could win elections in the SS. The same APC secretariat in rivers that looks like an abandoned poultry? These APC people amaze me honestly.

UrennaNkoli:
These people are just determined to tear Nigeria apart but they will never succeed .

But Easterners should allow you destroy them economically and otherwise because they didn't vote you? It will not happen.

keally:
. Apology accepted, but UNTIL the MAJOR and REAL ACTORS in the war REPENT and APOLOGIZE Nigeria is doomed. The blood of millions of Biafran children and pregnant women shed are a CURSE to this nation. This is a bitter truth. Though Gowon, Obasanjo, Danjuma, Babangida, Buhari and the rest are still going about pontificating and pretending that all is well, they all MUST apologize and take collective responsibility if Nigeria will ever receive mercy and healing from God.

Those old men are drawing close to their graves. When they die the agile youths in east will celebrate and keep pushing for their Biafra (if they've not gotten it yet). The oil factor that made them invade Biafra is losing it's value and becoming useless by the day.

Saladin25:
As for me. The Northerners are the best to associate with. I will always pick them ahead of any ethnic/tribe in Nigeria. Look at the leaders that performed well during their time, most of them are from the North. Even our own sonn OBJ never contributed to southwest, his administration was corrupt like Jonathan. The senator made some valid point. If you like abuse him, he just said the truth.

In the last election, the vote from the southwest helped PMB to win GEJ in the presidential election despite the rigging from SS and some part of SE.

As for the Biafran people, if you want to be the leader of this great nation, you need to stop hating Yoruba/Hausa-Fulani people because your population is not up to them and stop supporting people that are corrupt just because they are from your region.

Do you really presidency will pacify the Igbo? After presidency with a shamble economy then what? Igbos hold hands with you and sing kumbaya? lmao!

huptin:
No region can afford not to associate with thebYorubas, pure and simple. Their continued existence' prosperity and progress depends on the Yoruba's. The Yoruba's know this that's why they are not moved by threats or stupid innuendos. When the biafrans threatened to invade Lagos with their stupid protest, all Ambode had to do was destroy a few shops, they got the message and all thoughts of biafran protest were promptly buried.

Did you say the continued existence of every region depends on yorubas? This chestbesting na die. But Biafrans protested in Alaba and environs? Lmao!

Disaino:
are u 4 real?...nw tell me d number of people living in china or beta stil U.S.A?..smh 4 u....nd y are u guyz so pained anytym u hear d word one Nigeria?

Saying 'one nigeria' is like saying telling my 85 year old grandma in village that she'll never die even though she look healthier than Nigeria in its 50s. She'll ofcourse know i'm deceiving myself. Quit the deceits and open your eyes to nigeria's failing health.

Disaino:
Nobody,,i repeat nobody will hold a great nation lyk Nigeria to ransom,d earlier u realise dat d beta 4 u nd ur fellow brodas...Nigeria is 2 big 4 any group...unu meje ne zuzuari,unanugo,,ndi ugbangbara...

Nigeria is too bloated for numbskulls to manage. I daresay let's renegotiate it. It is not written in any holy book-bible or quoran that nigeria must be. The lives in Nigeria are more important than nigeria itself. It is not a taboo in any culture for a group of people to part ways for Godsake. Is it the oil? May it prices crumble if nigeria won't let people live peacefully on their own because of it.
When the country becomes more important that the lives of citizens that actually makes it up. Then there is big trouble. It's a classical sign that the country won't live for long. Nigeria is just a 57 year old entity with all the symptoms of an 89 year old arthritic and immuno-suppressed geriatic. Where is the sign that it will live forever?

There are still lots of undetonated civil-war bombs killing and decapitating farmers in the east till today. It just goes unreported.

seunmsg:
In war, anything goes. That's why it's better not to start a war you are not fully prepared for. It saves you stories like this. That is why I will blame Ojukwu for starting a war he knew he can't win. He's a war criminal for wasting the lives of 2million Igbos for no reason. Beside, both sides committed war crimes during the war.

How did Ojukwu start a war? By seeking to protect his people away from your bloodthirsty forebears? Gowon fired the first shot. That you won a war with British and Arab military aid doesn't make you right.

The future is waiting for us all. Deny all you want, we hate ourselves and there is no sign that nigeria will live forever. Even the hausas are preparing for life after nigeria and frantically search for oil and secretly mining their gold and saving in Arab banks.

Only yorubas seem to believe that nigeria a stormy entity with chaotic opposing forces and interests pulling at each other everyday will magically survive a 1000 years. While the futuristic Hausa and Igbo are preparing for the post-nigeria existence. Yoruba should be wiser than this.

livinbygrace:
Kanu had no pilitical views,he was only preaching hate messages and inciting innocent against each other which is purnishable

What was Oba of lagos preaching with his lagoon statements? peace?

What was your buhari preaching with his dog and baboon statement? love?

Where is Othman Abdulsalam by the way?

Since the justice system have refused to bring this murderers to book, won't it be righful and just if one of the relatives of the deceased begins an independent hunt to find Othman Abdulsalam and Danjuma Ibrahim to serve 'quick justice' to them wherever they are found?

An evil mod move this away from the politics section to deny it adequate viewership. One nigeria isn't it? God dey watch una

The reason why policemen and soldiers feel bold to shoot unarmed civilians is because they are actually encouraged by the fact that THEY WILL NEVER BE RIGHTFULLY PROSECUTED, HANGED OR JAILED.
Do your findings, more extrajudicial murders by police and soldiers have taken place since Apo six which even got international media attention. Many have gone either under-reported or unreported.

According to the same bbc source..
The reluctance to punish police
officers "emboldens" other officers to kill, says Eric Guttschuss of Human Rights Watch.

The face of Ibrahim danjuma the murderous policeman.

See what BBC had to say in 2009


In the fourth of a series of articles
looking at policing in Nigeria, the
BBC's Andrew Walker asks what
happened to the "Apo Six", the
most infamous case of extra-judicial
killing in Nigeria's history:
The pictures are truly gruesome - we
cannot publish them.
Lawyer Amobi Nzelu spreads the
glossy prints out on his desk, covering it with horror.
There is nowhere else to look except
at the bodies.
There is a close-up of a face, gaping
exit-wound at the temple.
Limbs and torsos covered in blood.
Dead eyes stare upward.

"This is a human being," he says.
"Look what they did."

The bodies belong to six young
Nigerians killed by the police.
Ekene Isaac Mgbe, Ifeanyin Ozor,
Chinedu Meniru, Paulinus Ogbonna
and Anthony and Augustina Arebu
were killed on 7 and 8 June, 2005.


The police tried to say they were
armed robbers who had opened fire first.
But a judicial panel of inquiry set up
by former President Olusegun
Obasanjo rejected the police's story
and the government apologised on
behalf of the police for their killings.


But nearly four years since the night
the Apo Six were killed, the trial has
got nowhere.
The public has almost forgotten the
case is still going on.
Danjuma Ibrahim, the senior police
officer accused of ordering the killings, lives free on medical bail.
And the families of the dead have all
but given up on justice.

Elvis Ozor is the younger brother of
Ifeanyin Ozor.
Like his brother, he works as a spare
car parts merchant in the Apo
mechanics' village, south of the
capital, Abuja.
It is a kind of shanty-town of sea
crates and workshops where five of
the Apo Six worked.

This is a tight-knit community, mostly of ethnic Igbos from Nigeria's south-east.
On 8 June 2005 the Apo mechanics
found the police burying their friends in a cemetery that, by chance, was near their workshops.
"My friend was going to the bush, to
go to the toilet, when he saw the
police digging a hole and preparing tobury some people," Elvis says.

"They recognised my brother. When
the police said they were armed
robbers, no-one believed them - theyknew my brother was not like that."
"When I arrived at work, word had
spread, but I didn't know. I arrived
and everyone was looking at me," hesays.
The story was out, and an angry mob gathered.
There was a riot in Apo and the policeshot two more people dead.
Unlike any other case of suspected
extra-judicial killing in Nigeria, some of the police broke ranks and turned on the senior officer involved. The other five officers accused of the murders and eight more police witnesses have testified that DanjumaIbrahim ordered the killings.

During the judicial panel hearings,
some Igbo police officers fed
information to Mr Nzelu, who
represented the families of the Apo
Six.
The panel heard that the six were at a nightclub in Abuja's Area 11 when Mr Ibrahim - then off duty -
propositioned Augustina.
She turned him down, according to the testimony of Ifeanyin Ozo's friend
Mr Ibrahim went to a police
checkpoint at the end of the street
and told officers there were a group
of armed robbers in the area.
When the six young people came in
their car, he drove into them, blocking
their way and ordered the police
officers to shoot.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8025260.stm

In one of the most publicised
cases of extra-judicial killings
in Nigeria, six traders: Ifeanyi Ozor; Chinedu Meniru; Isaac Ekene; Paulinus Ogbonna; Anthony Nwodike and Augustina Arebun, were allegedly killed by a team of
police officers on patrol in 2005 while the traders and a girlfriend were driving home from a night out in Abuja.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), [b]Ibrahim Danjuma, as well as police officers: Ezekiel Acheneje,
Baba Emmanuel, Sadiq Salami, and Mr Abdulsalami, [/b]are standing trial on charges of culpable homicide for
allegedly killing the victims.

Dennis Asawa, a Police
Constable, revealed that the
DPO, Othman Abdulsalam,
who is still the run made
him forge two of his statements to deflect suspicion from one of the
officers accused of murdering
the traders. Mr. Asawa told
the trial judge, Ishaq Bello,
that he made a total of three
statements at both the Force
Criminal Investigation Department and the State Criminal Investigation
Department but only his third statement was voluntary.


www.nairaland.com/465778/police-admit-lying-apo-six


Abuja — The FCT High Court Maitama, Abuja, yesterday fixed June 2015 as the deadline to hear all defences in the Apo Six suit.
The judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, said the deadline was to avoid unnecessary adjournment of the case.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN ,
recalls that the Attorney-General of
the Federation in 2005 charged six
police officers before the court for
allegedly killing six Apo traders.
At the resumed hearing on Tuesday,
Bello gave all accused persons who
desired to submit applications on no case submission three days to do it.
The judge urged lawyers in the matter to reply all filed applications within seven days of receipt of such
applications.
He adjourned the case till March 17
for adoption of no case submission.
The police officers standing trial are:
Danjuma Ibrahim, Othman
Abdulsalami , Nicholas Zakaria, Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel and Sadiq Salami.
The were accused of killing Ifeanyi
Ozo, Chinedu Meniru, Isaac Ekene,
Paulinus Ogbonna, Anthony Nwokike and Tina Arebun.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/apo-six-court-sets-june-deadline-for-hearing-of-defences/

It's funny how people think that the Oba of lagos has the right to threaten Easterners with death but Kanu doesn't have the right to threatening those he feel are enemies who murdered 3 million of his kins and are still killing them till today. The hypocrisy stinks to hell. This is why i am beginning to see reasons with kanu.

APCHaram:
Why wish for Nnamdi Kanu's conviction and execution on treason because of his political views?

Answer that and we can talk.

Super question!

#CommonSenseLawyers.
For those who will claim he threaten yorubas. Oba of lagos also threatened Igbos, Junaid mohammed have always threatened southerners. Even Buhari have threatened nigerians with blood. Why are these men still walking free, if you want to hold on to that straw?

Easterners on the sideline are seeing reason with Kanu everyday. The unity of this country depends on the air that he breath, it's a pity Buhari made it so, with his firebrigade approach.

Lalasticlala, happy saturday.

Do you all know that the husband can still be denied a visa to go see his babies by the US embassy here in Nigeria? He can be denied a visa without explanation just because the Visa officer is having menstrual cramp or simply doesn't like his face. lol. This is not a joke.

The Kanu guy is the most important of all. Even easterners who used to.be on the sidelines are now seeing reasons with him.
1.) He said the fulanis fought for oil not that loved the east. Buhari confirmed it just recently

2.) He said nigerians are barbaric and the country is a zoo. Buhari and his soldiers confirmed it and killed unarmed protesters while yorubas and hausas killed their conscience and celebrated the victory of the 'gallant' nigerian army over unarmed dead IPOB members.

3.) Kanu said nigeria is a cage, information has it that nigerians can only travel to few African countries, mid-east and asian countries visa free. They are not welcomed to anyother country. Small seychelloise citizens can travel to 120 countries visa-free including almost EU countries.

4.) Kanu claimed that they would use blackmail, intimidation every antic to get at Easterners for failing to vote them including anti-Eastern economic policy. The next day buhari moved NPA clearing office from lagos to kano. Farouk and kunle anti-Eastern tape surface online

Kanu has been right, not on one occassion has he been proven wrong

StOla:
The federal government needs to do something about the terrorism of the Fulani herdsmen.

I recommend a 1week sit at home to call the attention of the government to this decade long menace.

If government refuses to do anything, then it is within the rights of the citizenry to terminate the menace wherever it exist.

And no grazing land will be supplied to any Fulani business man. Let them pay for rent like every other citizen of the country.

Nomadic pastoralism should have ended in the 19th century.

Unfortunately for us, AK-47 weilding fulanis believe they own the country, their brother is in power.

adeyemik:
To people like you the points are baseless because it is not your good brother was killed. Go to the families of those killed, they will be asking so many questions with no one to answer them.

Give me an example of a non public place that they gathered and the police shot at them.

Haba this man, these army guys go to their PRIVATE homes and shoot them. Even a small girl was shot in Aba as they went from house to house looking for them.Yorubaman, stop deadening your conscience because of crude oil and hate against the East.

Mynd44:
*sighs*
Against my better judgment, I watched the video…yes all 44 minutes.


First of all, it must be noted that those protesters were committing a crime. You convened in a public school which belongs to the government and they had every right to evict youyou.

Then I saw police officers speaking to some representatives of the protesters and did they bulge? No, they kept up inside a school.

Then the military came in. Were they trying to commit "suicide by cop"? Those guys took a formation against you and you stayed, dared them when you are in the wrong. They could have all left and followed the path they followed when the shooting(?) Started.

The police and military did not start off with bullets atleast it is clear from the video. They used tear gas and that was when the protesters ran.

Now the actions of the policemen beating those they arrested was just silly and wrong. That should not be allowed in a sane society and the use of live bullets should never be allowed but for the love of God, tresspassing is a crime. What if some students were inside the school reading, having a study group or something? Did you peoole think of that?

I dont know where you want to take this video to but believe me, you dont go and hijack a school compound and think anyone will give you sympathy(especially since the narattor made it obvious that they were provocative and wanted to get their reaction to possibly blackmail then) . Especially seeing that you had every chance to leave and you refused. Hell, they had to box them into a corner, close to the fence away from the main school ybuilding showing they were trying to make sure everyone else was safe.

The use of live bullets soul never come up though. That is very wrong but teargas? Well……

Mr Mynd44, I hardly comment here, but it is obvious many of you are losing your humanity because the east is at the receiving end. Time will tell how things turn out.

adeyemik:
My friend, you may be a Biafra agitator but not well schooled in Biafra history. Do your research very well.

Biafra started not from the collective and conscious decision of all the easterners but from the selfish desire of few people who deceived and forced others to join them.

Now lets look at the two leaders led their people through war and violent agitation paths -

Ojukwu, started the self determination agitation in a wrong footing and millions of innocent people died in a war that should have been avoided. The igbos were the greater loser at the end.

Kanu, this young man with great ideas but wrongly channeled. He started on a wrong footing, threatening to destroy and annihilate the country (sorry the zoo as he calls it) and her people.

Who are the people being killed now?

You claimed these people didn't do anything wrong, they were protesting in an enclosed compound, isn't it? Yes you're right, they all gathered within a fenced compound, but the compound is a public school and the school was in session. So that alone is wrong.

Bros, if people are deceiving me, I won't deceive myself. When Afenifere group threatening to cede from Nigeria, the Yorubas asked questions, and made them realized that they are not speaking for the Yorubas but for their pockets. Where is the Afenifere now, it has gone into oblivion because they put self before others.

The igbos can achieved their self determination desire but must be done within the ambit of the prevailing laws, internationally recognized and accepted way, and collectively people driven. IPOB, leaders should read how Gandhi galvanized the Indians to achieve independence thrown a non violence mean.

Finally, Nigerian security agencies need to be schooled on how to break up a protest without lose of lives and properties. Unarmed protesters should not be shot at with live bullets, rubber bullets should have been used.

Is this history you want to school us with. Why did you kill Igbos who couldn't pronounce 'toro' in yorubaland? Did you expect them to stay put so you can continue killing them? Biafra from independent unbiased sources became imperative because the easterners were being killed by your likes all over nigeria. The only reason obj,Buhari, ibb and you all fought to bring them back was their oil nothing more, even Buhari recently confirmed this.

aribisala0:
It is no defence in law to refer to other alleged crimes by other persons or in football to other alleged yellow cards.
If you are charged you put up a sound defence

In life precedences are set and can be referred to either in the court of public opinion or even the court room but you have the right to object. If you believe that the Oba of Lagos has greater rights than kanu, i'm sorry you have to start preparing to have a different country from kanu and his people as you have even vindicated kanu himself. Pick the garvel and sentence him to death if you can.

aribisala0:
Kanu is alleged to have solicited for arms that is not a matter for debate.That is a crime. He is alleged to have advocated killing Yorubas that is not a matter for debate that is a crime.He is alleged to have vadalized or conspired to vandalize an MTN mast those are very serious matters they are no joke. I think a lot of people do not get it and won't until he is sentenced to death.

Yes maybe the ISSUE can be debated but NOT with KANU

I also learnt that the Oba of Lagos advocated the drowning and killing if Igbos in Lagos. Why is he not in Jail yet? Does he have more rights than Kanu? Please enlighten us on this.

Iroh88:
That is because Ipod is a violent extremist group, just like Boko Haram.

How many anti BH protests have you seen in the North, yet they aren't siding with the terrorist. Fear of repercussion is the reason and not because they support Ipod.

You seem to be fasting and praying for world governments and media to classify IPOB as terrorists instead of activists that they rightfully call them. If only wishes were horses my brother.

Don't we have ambulance-chasing lawyers in this country? Sue the bank for 40 billion. 20 billion for each leg.

RIP

FG should pick their fights wisely. This country is the most divided country ethnically as we speak.Former staunch Patriots are renouncing and denouncing the country nowadays.

Unite your people first before picking fights against foreign governments with nuclear war-heads, fights you clearly can't win. What did nigeria have to lose if it just kept shut on sensitive international matters. You can't be a world power when some are 'born-to-rule' and to be marginalized 5%ers.

PenSniper:
Because they are not as jobless.

They shouldn't pretend not to be jobless, Unemployment rate is 53% in Nigeria. Even busy people hold rally to make political statement.
They just can't do such because clearly they are in the minority in the East. Even their families might disown them.