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Ibaka Deep Seaport is over due. With a Bugdet of N60b, SS/SE can afford a deep seaport.


This is wat we lack in the region and currently need.

Like play the life of pablo is better than Naija. This discrimination is worst than racism. Blacks!

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/04/Anger-over-DSS-report-on-killing-of-herdsmen-in-Abia/

By Odogwu Emeka Odog­wu, Steve Oko and Isaac Ojo On 11/04/2016 05:24:15 AM Share Anger over DSS' report on killing of herdsmen in Abia
· Herdsmen pose a threat to national security - Gov Ikpeazu
· Report targeted at Kanu, say IPOB, MASSOB

Anger on Sunday trailed a report by the Depart­ment of State Securi­ty (DSS) that members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) were responsible for the abduction and killing of five Fulani herdsmen in Isuik­wuato area of Abia State.
In separate reactions, Gov­ernor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, IPOB, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sover­eign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Intersociety, described the report as misleading and un­professional.
In fact, IPOB and MAS­SOB claimed that the Federal Government, through the DSS, rushed to issue the report to in­criminate detained Biafra lead­er, Nnamdi Kanu.
The DSS had accused IPOB and MASSOB members of kill­ing the Fulani herdsmen and burying them in shallow graves in Isuikwuato.
Governor Ikpeazu warned that the herdsmen pose a seri­ous security threat to Nigeria and called for quick measures to curb their excesses “before it becomes too late.”
In a statement he issued on Sunday, Governor Ikpeazu ex­pressed sadness over the claims by the DSS in Abuja, when there was no report to that effect em­anating from the security agen­cies including police and the DSS in the state.
Through his Chief Press Sec­retary, Mr. Godwin Adindu, the governor said there was no re­port “either from the police or the Army or even the DSS itself in Abia State” to authenticate the claims form the agency’s head­quarters in Abuja.
He wondered why “the DSS in Abuja and some sections of the media could not confirm from their men on ground be­fore going to the public.”
Ikpeazu said: “I just spoke to the state Director of DSS and he denied knowledge of any such development.”
He expressed worry that the DSS’ action could spark off eth­nic tensions across the country if not properly managed by all stakeholders.
Ikpeazu insisted that a crime of such magnitude could not have taken place in Abia with­out any security report from the State Security Council.
Earlier, at a three-day work­shop at the National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike, the governor decried the atroc­ities of herdsmen in the state and other parts of the South East zone.
“The menace and nuisance of cattle rearers has become a major security challenge in Ni­geria”, he warned.
Represented at the event by the Commissioner for Ag­riculture, Mr. Uzor Azubuike, the governor said that time had come when states should secure grazing fields in their localities and hand them over to the Fed­eral Government to avert clash­es between farmers and cattle rearers.
The governor described as ridiculous the Federal Govern­ment’s plans to import grass from Brazil for cattle when Ni­geria can supply the grass needs of the world.
He revealed that the state had already set up a commit­tee to help settle the herdsmen/ farmers’ crisis to avoid a repeat of the “Agatu experience”.
“We won’t allow what is hap­pening in Agatu and other parts of the North to happen here,” Ik­peazu warned.
On their part, IPOB and MASSOB described the DSS’ allegation as a ploy by the Fed­eral Government to nail Kanu.
They denied any involve­ment in the said abduction and killing of the herdsmen, main­taining that their non-violent stance in the struggle for self- rule had not changed.
IPOB Media and Publicity Officer, Emma Powerful, told The AUTHORITY that the al­legation was part of the DSS’ desperation to brand IPOB as a terror group so as to justify the continued brutalisation of its members.
He said: “Killing is not on the agenda of IPOB because we are not criminals or a terrorist organisation but a responsible and organised freedom seeking group recognised by the United Nations (UN)”.
He continued: “IPOB has never for once planned to at­tack anybody because what we are pursuing is more than kill­ing herdsmen. We are pursuing the restoration of Biafra; we are not after Hausa or Fulani people. We are not part of any abduction or killing of herdsmen. We are not kidnappers. We are mature.”
MASSOB leader, Comrade Uchenna Madu, dismissed the report as “lacking merit and ev­idence because MASSOB and IPOB are non-violent organi­sations”.
He said: “This is the highest frustration exhibited by Nigeri­an security agencies against Bi­afra agitators to blackmail them as violent and terrorists so as to see evidence against Nnamdi Kanu.
“Why have they not raised eyebrows on several killings and destruction of lives and prop­erty by Fulani herdsmen in the past?” MASSOB queried.
He said neither MASSOB nor IPOB will be deterred or jittery because of “frivolous and baseless allegation of the DSS.”
To the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) the DSS had exposed itself as biased in its report.
Intersociety, in a statement by its Board Chairman, Eme­ka Umeagbalasi and Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law Programme, in­sisted that “the DSS account is also not reliable.”
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Nnamdi Kanu is a prophet

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/04/IPOB-Killings--Group-demands-prosecution-of-Buratai-Arase-others/

By Alphonsus Nweze On 10/04/2016 05:39:24 AM Share IPOB Killings: Group demands prosecution of Buratai, Arase, others
The International Criminal Court of Justice has been asked to issue warrants of arrest on Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Bu­rutai and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase for their roles in the alleged cold-blooded murder of over 80 members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) from November 2015 to date.

A pro-democracy and human rights group, International Soci­ety for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), which made the demand also wants the Commander of 302 Onitsha Military Cantonment, Col. Is­sah Abdullahi and the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Hosea Karma, among others similarly arrested.

In a statement made available to the AUTHORITY on Sunday yesterday in Onitsha, the group also asked the international community to conduct investi­gations into the dastardly acts of “butchering unarmed members of the Indigenous People of Bi­afra (IPOB)”.

It said, “The Buhari adminis­tration must stop the on-going ethnic cleansing and mass mur­der of unarmed and non-violent members of Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria and refrain from pushing the innocent race to the wall”.
Intersociety in the statement signed by its Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), Emeka Umeag­balasi, called on the internation­al community, local and interna­tional human rights and media groups to mount and sustain intensive pressures on the au­thorities of the Nigerian Army and Onitsha Military Canton­ment in particular to disclose where they dumped the corpses of other IPOB/pro-biafran activ­ists, allegedly abducted, shot and murdered alongside late citizens Michael Nweke, Peter Chuk­wuma Nwankwo and Matthew Kanu on December 17, 2015 at Onitsha Niger Bridgehead.

“We also demand for the im­mediate and unconditional re­lease of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu and others standing Kangaroo trials and political persecutions with him as well as 20 IPOB of­ficials and members dumped at Umuahia prisons before and since February 9, 2016”, the group said.
Intersociety declared that the continued detention of women, particularly nursing mothers among them, amounted to a serious affront to the principles and purposes of the United Na­tions as well as the basic stan­dards of the international law and humanitarian principles.

Like play, like play, It shall come to past.


APC died in Osun.

Bambela:
Ask sanusi lamido Sanusi of kano

I second the motion.

Sanusi have add her to his collection of sex slave. Peadophile!

obiremy:
Her elder sister wrote: “Please friends my little sister, Judith Alaka, is missing. Haven’t seen or heard anything from her since monday evening after my aunt sent her on an errand. If you have any infomation as to how we could reach her please call the PHONE numbers below: 08101161429, 08146803532, 08113200859. GOD BLESS YOU.”

http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/04/missing-personphotos.html

From where did she go missing.(State of residence) How old is She? What is her State of origin?

U cannot just say girl is missing, without telling us anything. Na for where she miss?

Very sad! The Federal Goverenment has no business managing airports.


See the kind of back problems they are trying to create for the cleaners.

Just imagine how many life GEJ saved by conceeding defeat. Buhari is not fit to lead.


Without Rivers rerun, this man will still be alive.

emmalexabl:
I guess you mean next community where fulanis will be massacred.....bc those villagers no dey take chances at all.
Strangers are not welcomed !!

Leave the mofo! Very few people know that igbos are actually barbarians. This is who we really are, forget christianity, our ancestors eat humans and celebrate with the heads of enemies put on open display.

Without British and US, fulani get level? Can dey win a war? Can dey hold power? Can dey even win election?

Truth is Ndiigbo are tired of Nigeria and will no longer tolerate excesses.

Bjergtrolde:
Next site of fulani massacre: Uturu Abia State

Igbo is not confined to one local government area like idomas in Aguta, mbanu!

We are divided into over 9 states in Nigeria.

Just our protest got international coverage, any nonsense will certainly bring down the Zoo, becos it will be fire for fire.

We dont care to know if fulani produce President. We will do the necessary.

Igboland will be a very dangerous place for Fulani and their cow, going forward.


We have alot of jobless youths that returned from North after their business and life destroyed.


They are not prepared to tolerate any form of bullying from the North in their land.


Fulani cannot come to our land and raise fulani flag whilst we still walk around with dicks bigger than their own.


Fulani kidnap will provide our jobless youths with gainful employment.


Anything that will bring international attention to the SS/SE is welcomed.


Buhari over to you.

Melancholy:
Nah.... Sorry, i dont engage in puerille and risible conversation like this cos those two names u mentioned has nothing to do with this issue! Lets be constructive as possible as we can cos good people build institution and not other way round.

How do they fund other people children in private education? Who is twisting the arm of the police and law? Y always Kano? This has actually gotten worst since Sanusi became Emir and Buhari Presidency, true or false?

Melancholy:
For the leader of alleged abductors to have been unsure of how that girl was taken away without the consent of her mother is negligent which is purnishable on their parts on how legit they said their operations had been cos i dont know when converting from religion to another is now covert. Are they NGO? No! In the other hand, our state govts should be pro-active in making sure they try their best to ensure basic need for its citizenry. there are alot of vulnerable children out there, no wonder some Apc states govts forsee these problems and made a provision for free education and feeding of these pupils at the basic level atleast alleviated parents sufferings, even though some states plunges into indebtedness, it's better to try and fail atleast thinking along with the hoi polloi will be appreciated to some extent.

Can Sanusi and Buhari take this, if the child was to be their daughter? Forcefully (rape)taking canal knowledge of christian children everywhere in the North becos Buhari is president.

Organised crime sponsored by the Emir of Kano.

Sanusi want to enslave christian children.(the girl child.)

All the children from Bayelsa, Abuja, Benue etc are Christian converted into sex slave. This is the same thing ISIS does in the Middle East.

Religion has nothing to do with criminality. Kidnap, Rape, Force Islamisation and marriage is a crime.

They even use government budget & agency. Our own oil money to afflict our children.

All this started since that pedophile Sanusi became Emir.

I just hope Sanusi would not be the person to burn down the palace of the Emir.


Buhari cannot be President forever. Leave our children alone.

There is nothing like igbo muslim, nothing to prove Sanusi sponsored delegation are even igbo.

Sanusi we will soon burn down your palace arrest/jail u and throw away the key. Power will always change hands.


Leave our children alone. Continue with ur Northern muslim children, we are not members and will never be.

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/04/How-we-abducted-Ifesinachi--suspects/


How we abducted Ifesinachi - suspects
By Malachy Uzendu and Hassan Zaggi On 03/04/2016 04:32:48 AM Share How we abducted Ifesinachi - suspects
· Our cartel is unstoppable

The abduction of the 14-year old Ifesinachi Ani, a Secondary School (SS) 2 student of Government Sec­ondary School, Apo Resettle­ment, Abuja, six months ago, took a new twist as her abduc­tors made chilling revelations on their modus operandi.
This is even as The AU­THORITY on Sunday gath­ered that the major linkman to the abductors, one Baba Abdul, has been released from police detention, fuelling speculation of pressure on the police from powerful quarters.
The AUTHORITY had dis­closed yesterday how Baba Abdul’s wife severally threat­ened to deal with Ifesinachi’s mother whenever her hus­band is released.
Ifesinachi’s mother who ran to our office out of fear for her life, informed us that ever since this medium made the abduction of her daugh­ter public, several people have been coming to nearby Baba Abdul’s residence, telling her that they will deal with her and also pointing fingers at her residence.
Over the weekend, some persons claiming to be mem­bers of the Igbo Muslim Com­munity based in Kano State denied abducting Ifesinachi, insisting they merely took her to Kano in order to protect her from persecution by her mother because she “convert­ed” to Islam.
The revelations were uncov­ered when the Igbo Muslims led by their acclaimed patron, Mohammed Suleiman, came in their numbers to the Fed­eral Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command in solidarity with the abductors who were moved from the Central Po­lice Station, Uwani, Enugu to Abuja.
Suleiman, who claimed to be an indigene of Osu Lo­cal Government Area of Imo State, gave his Igbo name as Ike Ezenwa, and appears to be in his late 50s. He said he was converted to Islam in Kazaure, Jigawa State in 1993.
Also on the delegation was another claimant to the post of Secretary of the body, one Nur Azubuike Onuora. He claims to be an indigene of Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State; and one Sadiya Mohammed whose Igbo name is Angelene Ude, an indigene of Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and said to be the mother of Igbo Muslim Community in Zaria, Kaduna State.
Also in the delegation was the kingpin of the Igbo Mus­lin Community in Kano, Ha­jiya Ibrahim who claims to be Igbo. She is said to be the financier and caretaker of all Igbo Muslim converts in Kano.
The AUTHORITY on Sun­day could not, however as­certain the Igbo name of one of the ladies whose name was simply given as Amina and her state of origin as she was busy responding to questions from investigators.
Findings by our reporters shows that she is a successful business woman and pays the school fees of all Igbo young girls who allegedly claim to have converted to Islam through whatever means and also claims to be responsible for taking care of them before they grow up to maturity and become independent either by getting married or starting up their own businesses.
Speaking with The AU­THORITY on Sunday at the FCT Police Command, the Patron of the group, Sulei­man, said that the story mak­ing the rounds that Ifeasinachi was abducted was not true although he could not explain how a teenager disappeared and emerged as a converted Muslim without the consent of her mother who was train­ing her in school.
He could also not explain why their scouts usually sur­reptitiously meet at Baba Ab­dul’s residence at Apo, where he accepted they met the girl, before taking her to an undis­closed mosque in Mararaba, another part of Abuja, before finally moving her to Kano still without the consent or knowledge of her mother.
But maintaining his line of argument, Suleiman told our reporter that “when Ifesinachi saw the light and converted to Islam, she was persecuted by her mother and she even threatened to kill her”.
Asked how they got the au­dacity to call a women whose child disappeared, telling her not to worry, he could not offer any explanation but in stout defence of their woman leader, he said “we don’t know who gave her (Ifesinachi) the phone number of our mother in Kano (Hajiya Amina) and she told her that her mother wanted to kill her because she decided to become a Muslim.
“Our mother (referring to Hajiya Amina) then came to Abuja and picked her up from Mararaba where she was hid­ing and took her to Kano for safekeeping.
“When she took her to Kano, she enrolled her in a private school and paid her school fees amounting to N11,000”, thus confirming our earlier stories that the syndi­cate runs an abduction school.
He however, could also not explain why they did not deem it fit to contact the police over the purported threat to the life of Ifesinachi as claimed and why they still did not get back to the exasperated mother and discuss or obtain her consent before deciding to keep the girl with them, until they saw the stories being published in The AUTHORITY newspa­pers.
When asked if Ifeasinachi was the only girl collected by[b] Hajiya Amina, the patron of the body said “God has blessed her business so she takes care of any Igbo young girl who converts to Islam. She has taken care of uncountable number of girls from our part of the country. There are sev­eral of them”.[/b]
Sulaiman disclosed that there are over 2000 Igbo Mus­lims in Kano and that they are doing well.
Sounding unrepentant and in proof that Ifesinachi’s case was not just peripheral, he added that “since we have discovered that Islam is the true religion, we are going to launch a massive campaign so that our people will join us to this religion”.
He added that the group learnt that the media were awash with “insinuations” that Ifeasinachi was abducted, which was why they sent the delegation to take her to her parents, but did not explain why they took her to Enugu rather than Abuja where they took her from.
He said that inspite of media and public condemnation of their actions, “Insha Allah, we will overcome this”.
Providing insight into how they obtained the services of two lawyers who seem to be enjoying VIP treatment at the Criminal Investigation De­partment (CID) of the FCT Command, he claimed that the lawyers were being spon­sored by the Kastina State Branch of the Igbo Muslim Community.
On her part, one Angelene who claimed that her Mus­lim name is Sadiya, disclosed that she came to represent the Zaria Branch of the Igbo Mus­lim Community in the matter.
According to her, “I was taken to the North when I was very young; grew up there and got married and I now have several children (she does not know the number)”.
Sadiya, who does not seem to be perturbed by what her group did, expressed the con­fidence that she and her col­leagues will be vindicated at the end of the day.
However, our sources in­formed us that the so-called Igbo delegates were being sponsored by some powerful forces who had already as­sured them that they would neither be found culpable of any misdemeanor nor prose­cuted for taking a minor away from her parents or convert­ing her to Islam.
Our team of investiga­tors could also not ascertain whether or not any of the sus­pects stayed back at the com­mand headquarters as sources informed us that immediately the team of lawyers from the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) left the place, all the suspects and Ifesinachi were released on self-recognition and asked to come back next week Monday.
We further learnt that they all moved to a mosque some­where in Mararaba in nearby Nasarawa State, which is where they have been operat­ing from.
•OBSERVATIONS
IFESINACHI: Lanky frail-looking Ifesinachi, who adorned traditional long skirt with white head tie which she used to wrap her head and shoulders, behaved like a per­son under hypnotism when The AUTHORITY on Sunday saw her.
She was however given special treatment by the del­egation of so-called ‘brothers’, who ran helter skelter when­ever she requested for any­thing, like when she wanted to visit the convenience.
On sighting her mother, If­esinachi looked unperturbed and sat firmly on the chair provided for her by the Inves­tigating Police Officers (IPOs), but stared at the floor.
When her mother asked her if she recognized her, Ifesina­chi responded in the affirma­tive, calling her ‘my mother’.
She however, tried franti­cally to exonerate Baba Abdul from any form of complicity in the abduction saga, insisting that she was never abducted.
She also told her mother that she was born in 1999, and not in 2001 as stated by her mother, which led to argu­ment between them.
Ifesinachi, maintained that “I have seen the light” and was being harassed by the news media publications reporting that she was abducted and forcefully converted to Islam.
When she was informed that the Enugu State Gov­ernment offered her scholar­ship, full social security and medicare, she said she would prefer to continue with her Islamic studies and that she has nothing to do with her mother, who she accused of maltreating her.

IFESINACHI’S FA­THER:
He was at the FCT Police Command and informed our reporters that he was being taken care of by the Islamic Community del­egation from Kano and that they have been staying at the mosque in Mararaba and come to the police head­quarters along with them.
He was more interested in discussing marital dispute between him and Ifesina­chi’s mother and seemed less interested in what was hap­pening to his daughter.
When asked why he failed to look for his daughter since information got to him that she had been abducted, he told The AUTHORITY on Sunday that “since the wom­an said she would remain in Abuja, it is up to her and so, this issue is her business”.
He however could not of­fer any intelligible plans for the future of his daughter but was grateful to the Enu­gu State Government’s inter­vention and offer of scholar­ship to her.
IFESINACHI’S MOTHER: Mrs. Rachael Ani, mother of the abducted girl, was dumb­founded seeing her daugh­ter dressed like a Muslim. She was also shocked that her daughter “is looking at me morosely and I have no doubt she is under a spell.
“My daughter, who has been with me since birth has been made to even engage me in argument over her date of birth. I was shocked she could pretend to be more accustomed to complete strangers than me, her bio­logical mother.
“Although she acknowl­edged I am her mother, you could see that she did not be­have as if I was her mother, who has been looking for her for over six months when she saw me enter the police of­fice.
“At least, I am grateful to God for rescuing my daugh­ter from the hands of her ab­ductors. I am very grateful to the management and editors of The AUTHORITY news­papers and other journal­ists who have assisted me to publicise my cries. God will reward all of you.
“As for the Enugu State Governor, I lack words to ex­press my joys over the schol­arship offered my daughter. I want government to also assist me because I can see clearly that I am being intim­idated by this cartel of abduc­tors. They are bold, daring and have been threatening to deal with me.
“I don’t even understand why they would still be the ones taking care of my daughter when they should have all been languishing in the prison. The Inspector-General of Police and the Commissioner of Police should not let them go scot-free. If they do, these people will wreck several other fam­ilies as we heard them boast they will do. I am grateful to these officers for assisting me. God will bless them. As for the other officers, I don’t know what to say,” she stated.
Refusing to comment on the issues raised by Mr. Sunday Ani who she main­tained is her husband’s se­nior brother, she however, lamented that her daughter’s abductors were taking ad­vantage of the poverty in her family to torment them and bring disaffection into her family, pointing out that God will take control and resolve all those problems.

HomeOfMe:
The last time I checked,this is a public forum and I'm entitled to my views and opinion,you're not compelled to agree with me. You didn't have to call me insult me. So since it's like that all those insults are reversed back to your mother,your siblings,and if you're married,your wife and your children. You'll never do good in your life and favour woill befar from you. O ni ri batise o. Ni Rona gbegba, olori buruku omo Iran kiran.

U dis tranny, na who u want to decieve with that big blokos u carry? Iranu!

HomeOfMe:
I see no need for the outrage. Is Biafra no longer achievable? At least when Biafrans have all succeeded in moving back home,it would now be to bomb the current bridge to prevent Nigerians from reaching them. That is the major boundry between Nigeria and Biafra *winks*

U are delusional, i pity u becos both sw and north is a long way away from Asaba and Onitsha.

Never do well, this is how dey sound, bitter, wicked and demented.

All the yorubas getting happy for no reason should know that 70% of the construction engineers are yorubas.

omonnakoda:
Where is the FG presence in the SW ? We all know that the SW is the least developed in Nigeria so we are all suffering but the SW is even worse

The record breaking Federal government budget that the NASS just pass of 6 trillion naira ($30 billion), is it only for the North?

Adaure4ever:
Is South East no longer part of Nigeria? why are the FG presence scarce in the geopolitical zone.?
Can God bless an Igbophobic country that is built on hatred, bitterness and unjustified blood shed?

5% Naijerians. Do u remember this video? Cut us loose no, include us in the budget no... This world is wicked!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUBTU2ZgFY&ab_channel=chidinmaonyejiuwa

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/03/S-East-farmers-herdsmen-clashes--Security-agencies-are-partial--Sen-Orji/
By Louis Achi and Steve Oko (Umuahia) On 31/03/2016 08:28:05 AM Share S/East farmers/herdsmen clashes: Security agencies are partial - Sen Orji
Senator Theodore Orji, representing Abia Central district, has accused security agencies of partiality in their interventions during farmers/nomads clashes in the South East, whilst decrying the activities of Fulani herdsmen in some parts of the country, particularly the South East.
Meanwhile, the 72-hour ultimatum handed down to the federal government to release the 79 detained farmers from Ugwulesh Community in Awgu, Enugu State, following a clash with the herdsmen is remaining 48 hours.
Condemning the activities of some security operatives whom he accused of bias in handling clashes between herdsmen and local communities, the former Abia State governor stated that partiality in sensitive cases like this was unacceptable.
His words: “We also don’t like the attitude of some of the security agencies who are partial in the treatment of this issue. When the case is taken to some of them, you see them behaving very, very partial and taking sides.
“We expect that if such cases come to security men, that they should be impartial and judge it fairly so that there will be peace in the community.
Orji spoke yesterday in Umuahia, on the heels of the recent clash between herdsmen and farmers in Ugwuleshi Autonomous Community in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, where 76 farmers were arrested by “fake solders” and dumped in Umuahia Prison.
He strongly condemned the menace of herdsmen in parts of the country, saying the frequent clashes between the cattle rearers and local farmers pose serious security threat to the nation.
Orji, who recalled that herdsmen/farmers clashes have remained a reoccurring decimal in the country, called on the Federal Government to find a quick solution to the menace before it gets out of hand.
“I know that when I was a governor, it was a problem for us here. Even now the problem has persisted. It has been severally discussed even at the National Assembly by way of motions and bills.
“One of the ingredients of a motion is to allow the consciousness of people on a particular issue of governance so that the appropriate arm of government which is the Executive will take necessary action.
“We don’t have the army, we don’t have the police. It is the law that we have. The Senate is not happy about it. The federal government is also reacting by trying to find a grazing place for cattle. We believe that finding a grazing place for cows will give some respite to farmers and indigenes.
“There is no person in Nigeria who is happy about it. There is no person who has spoken in favour of it. It is all condemnation and condemnation. The federal government should take action to make sure that this evil is stopped.
“As far as I am concerned, it is not good. How can you come to a community with your cattle and you invade a farm, and when the farmers come to defend their crops and property you intimidate them?”
“Some of these herdsmen carry dangerous weapons. How can unarmed farmers confront people with dangerous and sophisticated weapons?
“As lawmakers we believe in the process of using the law to correct the ills in our society and that is exactly what we are doing at the National Assembly. Nobody is happy but we believe that one day these things will end.”
Fielding questions on the efforts of the National Assembly (NASS) members of Igbo extraction to secure the release of the detained Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu, the Senator said the lawmakers have been doing some underground work for a possible political solution to the matter considering its sensitive nature.
He, however, noted that the efforts of the South East Caucus NASS members were limited as the matter is still in court but expressed the hope that it would be amicably resolved as “discussions are going on between the stakeholders and the Federal Government.”
Orji, who is also the Deputy Committee Chairman on Agriculture, expressed displeasure over the unfair treatment meted to the South East zone by various ministries and parastatals in the 2016 Budget, but noted that the Senate was able to fairly adjust the imbalance.
IPOB’s Ultimatum
Meanwhile, in a press statement co-signed by Barrister Emma Nmezu and Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, IPOB spokesmen, and obtained by The AUTHORITY on Tuesday, the pro-Biafra group warned that the bold backing of marauding Fulani herdsmen using federal might can no longer be accepted by civilized society.
In their words: “The raw show of power and bravado by Fulani herdsmen at Ugwuleshi, Awgu Community of Enugu State just cannot be accepted by any civilized society.
“First, the ever recalcitrant Fulani marauders abducted two women on their way to the farm. All entreaties to release the two women fell on deaf ears. The youth of the community mobilised to free their women, but the Fulani warriors informed their kinsmen at the military bases in the neigbouring Abia State”.

Buhari hates the igbo but cannot tolerate Biafra.

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/03/Outrage-as-FG-abandons-N140bn-2nd-Niger-Bridge-/


Outrage as FG abandons N140bn 2nd Niger Bridge
By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, Chuks Collins (Awka), Isaac Ojo (Nnewi), Angela Nkwo-Akpolu (Owerri), Steve Oko (Umuahia), Chidi Asonye (Aba), Alphonsus Nweze (Onitsha) and Felix Uka (Abakaliki) On 31/03/2016 08:15:18 AM Share Outrage as FG abandons N140bn 2nd Niger Bridge
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There is anger in the South East zone over the Federal Government’s abandonment of the N140 billion ($700 million) 2nd Niger Bridge.
Investigations by The AUTHORITY revealed that the contractor, Julius Berger Construction Company, stopped work on the project which is being constructed under Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement since April 2015.
Concerned citizens of Eastern Nigeria and other stakeholders are appealing to President Buhari to direct the construction company to resume work on the project.
After a private meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on August 26, 2015, the Director
General of Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Aminu Diko, had hinted that work on the vital bridge would be suspended.
Dikko said: “The communities around that area are clamouring that their lands have been taken and that they have not been compensated adequately. As a matter of fact, we got a letter from the Onitsha Traditional Rulers Council complaining that they have not been adequately represented in this transaction.”
As that was raging, the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole called on the former Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, to explain to Nigerians the whereabouts of the billions meant for the bridge as according to him, $700 million was drawn from the Sovereign Wealth Fund for the project.
The bridge’s contract was awarded by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan during the second term of former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi.
Onolememen had then assured Nigerians that the project would be completed before the expiration of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2015 as part of efforts to deliver on the campaign promises of that government.
But Jonathan lost in the election and immediately the contractor left the site.
The bridge is said to have been reflected in this 2016 Budget with hope that something tangible would be done to construct the bridge.
All the several efforts made by The AUTHORITY to speak with the management, including the Managing Director of Julius Berger Construction Company, Mr. Wolfgang Goetsch, on why work was stopped on the project, proved abortive.
Some stakeholders, however, claimed that the construction giant abandoned work immediately President Buhari took over the mantle of leadership about 10 months ago, following a presidential directive that work at the site should discontinue.
An employee of the firm (name withheld) who claimed he was recruited in April 2014 at the site of the bridge, admitted that Julius Berger had stopped work at the project site since June 2015 due to non-funding by the Federal Government.
According to him, the company only did soil texture and property evaluation before leaving the site with almost all their working equipment.
“So, if the Federal Government is ever serious about the project, let it release the money for work to start,” he said.
Comrade Casmir lzukanne, who lives close to the project site, said: “We don’t know why they stopped work and we are not happy or feel comfortable with the Federal Government, because this is the only bridge that links the South East to other parts of Nigeria and it’s economic importance to our country cannot be quantified.”
The Campaign for Democracy (CD) was emphatic on President Buhari as it called on the Federal Government to mobilise to the site of the 2nd Niger Bridge to end the marginalisation of Ndigbo.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Dede Uzor A.Uzor, CD wondered why such a national project should be abandoned and politicised.
Other stakeholders in Onitsha, Anambra State asked President Buhari to direct Julius Berger to return to site to continue the construction of the Second Niger Bridge.
The President of the Amalgamated Association of Anambra Traders (AMATAS), Chief Okwudili Ezenwankwo and the Chairman, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) Nze Emeka Umeagbalasi, among others, called on Buhari to direct Julius Berger to return to site.
Ezenwanko said that he was hopeful that work would resume again at the site because he reliably gathered that the bridge was included in this year’s budget, which has just been passed by the National Assembly.
Chief Anigbata, who also said that the bridge was reflected in this year’s budget, expressed the confidence that Buhari will execute the bridge because of its strategic importance to Nigeria and Ndigbo.
He said that the Federal Government needs to put an infrastructure like the Second Niger Bridge on the ground to boost trade, commerce and agriculture.
But Umeagbalasi expressed doubt in Buhari completing the bridge, given his disposition towards the Ndigbo, saying that they are watching him closely.
He called on the Ndigbo, especially political leaders, rights activists and media practitioners to continue to mount pressure on the president so that he may have a rethink, even if he was not keen.
On their part, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Igbo monarchs and other stakeholders, called on the Federal Government, to as a matter of urgent national importance, resume work on the 2nd Niger Bridge.
The Coordinator of the Seven States Chairmen of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Mazi Alex Okemiri, said the suspension of work on the project stands tall among the injustices against the Ndigbo.
He said the project had become a huge fraud against Ndigbo by successive administrations in the country.
Ohanaeze said the abandonment of the project had seriously undermined and sabotaged economic activities in the South East geopolitical zone which is known for trade and commerce.
In the same vein, the Chairman of Umuahia North Traditional Rulers Council, HRH Philip Ajomiwe, called for the immediate resumption of work on the abandoned project.
He described the suspension of work on the project as “very shocking, painful and unbelievable”, considering the economic and strategic importance of the Niger Bridge to the Nigerian economy.
Similarly, the Aba Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ACCIMA), represented by Sir Emma Nwakpadolu, lamented the ordeals of traders as a result of the perennial traffic congestion on the existing bridge which is in very bad shape.
He said that the high cost of transporting goods from Lagos and other Western parts of the country across the Niger have led to increase in prices of goods in the South East markets.
In his reaction, former Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State, Mr. Enyinnaya Onuegbu, said it was regrettable that work has stopped at the project, noting that initially, people were allowing the new administration time to reappraise the projects inherited from the past administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan.
Onuegbu condemned the action because “that project is the most important construction project in Nigeria presently, and would have provided a modern route into the South East and South-South States. And also make the movement of people from Northern Nigeria into the South very easy.”
On his part, Hon. Henry Onwukwe, a PDP Caretaker Committee member in Imo State, said it is a very sad development and total confirmation of the marginalisation of the South East by President Buhari’s administration.
According to him, it goes to confirm that the Federal Government has adopted a deliberate policy to make sure that the Igbos don’t count in Nigeria, saying everybody knows that the second Niger Bridge would increase the economic activities of the Igbo Nation when completed, but because of President Buhari’s policy to keep down the Igbos, the bridge has been abandoned.
To the Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill Electrical Construction Company Limited, Chief Neighbour Onwukaike, it is not proper that the bridge was abandoned, for whatever reason, considering its vital importance to the people of the South East geopolitical zone.
He described it as one of the most unfortunate lot of the South East people of the country over the years, just as it has been seen as one of those strategies of depriving them of the dividends of democracy.
Mr. Eze Ananaba, who is the Chief Executive Officer of J. Anderson Construction Company Limited based in Aba, expressed doubt the correct contents of the contract awarded for the construction of the additional bridge which became imperative, owing to the old age of the first bridge built decades ago.
The businessman asked the relevant government agencies to make sure the contractors are brought back to site since as he noted, a lot of money has already been pumped into that project which he described as very strategic to the people of the South East and, indeed, their economies.
Contributing, Chief Henry Ikoh, the Abia State Commissioner for Science, Technology and Industry, posited that the abandonment of the 2nd Niger Bridge project is worrisome to both the people of the South-South and South East geopolitical zones, who are mainly into trade, commerce and industry.
The commissioner, who is also an industrialist of repute, stated that he would not say that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration did not do well in initiating the second Niger Bridge but faulted government for not doing the needed follow up that should have ensured its early completion.
For the Vice Chairman, Ebonyi State Traditional Rulers Council, HRH, Eze Romanus Iyioku, the abandoned 2nd Niger Bridge amounts to insult on the deep feeling of Igbos, should the Federal Government stop work on the Bridge.
He explained that the bridge would not only serve the interest of the South East geopolitical zone, but the economic interests of the Nigerian nation.

Compelling Letter: Nnamdi Kanu’s Legal Counsel Writes To The British Government
The High Commissioner,
British High Commission, Abuja
19 Torrens Close
Maitama, Abuja.
Dear Sir,
RE: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA VS NNAMDI KANU & 2 ORS
CHARGE NO: FCT/ABJ/CR/383/15
NNAMDI KANU: A VICTIM OF TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE AND A CALL FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO BE ON THE WATCH.
We are Counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, the 1st Defendant in the above captioned criminal charge, hereinafter refers to as “Our Client”, and on whose authority and firm instruction, we formally bring to the attention of the British Government the deliberate design by the Nigerian Government to subvert the course of justice in the above criminal trial.
It is repeating the obvious to state that Our Client is a full British citizen, by virtue of which position he is entitled to all Rights, Privileges and Protections, guaranteed under the British Laws and conventions.
We are therefore constrained in the circumstance, to formally notify the British Government vide this medium, of our well informed reservations, and apprehension, that Our Client is undergoing persecution in the charge above referred, and deliberate design by the persecutors to frustrate every effort of the Defense team aimed at giving Our Client a fair trial.
We are not under any illusion that the British Government has taken notice of the highlights in the presidential media chat granted by President Muhammed Buhari on the 30th day of December 2015.
Prominent among his worrisome but most prejudicial comments in the said media chat, is his insistence, that Our Client cannot be granted bail by any Court. The President in the referenced media chat, referred to Our client as a flight risk for possessing dual citizenship.
It is the position of our Law, that dual citizenship is a constitutional right of the citizens of Nigeria, clearly provided for under section 28 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended 2011. Dual citizenship is not a crime under our Law.
Our reservations on the President’s comment was underpinned by the findings made in the ruling delivered on the 29th day of February 2016, by Hon. Justice John Tsoho, wherein Our Client and the two other Defendants were denied bail.
The learned Judge, in advancing his reasons for arriving at the decision, and in consistence with the direction conveyed in the aforesaid media chat, specifically referred to Our Client as a flight risk, on grounds of his dual citizenship, and on the basis of which he denied him bail.
It is apposite in the circumstance to remind the British Government, that Judges of the Federal High Court of Nigeria are appointed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in line with the provisions of Section 250(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended 2011.
This Section provide thus;
Section 250; APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF JUDGE AND JUDGES OF THE FEDERAL HIGH COURT 250(2)
“The appointment of a person to the office of a Judge of the Federal High Court shall be made by the President on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council.”
We therefore submit, most respectfully Sir, that by virtue of the powers conferred on the President in the above cited Law, the President, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammed Buhari, has overriding control over the appointment of the Federal High Court Judges.
The learned trial Judge in denying Our Client bail on the 29th day of January, 2016, granted accelerated hearing of the substantive charge.
Accelerated hearing ordered by the learned presiding Judge in the matter connotes total annihilation of all forms of delay in the trial intended to debilitate the tenets of fair hearing.
Also, instructive to mention, that the Court is under duty to allow the Defendants unfettered access to relevant materials and facilities that will aid them in the defense of their case.
This duty is not only sacrosanct and compelling, but is provided for under Chapter (iv) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as (Amended) 2011, particularly in section 36(6) (b), among the fundamental rights of the citizens.
In the course of our defense, We are usually confronted with situation where we are handed the short end of the stick in the face of deliberate refusal/delay in obliging us copies of the Ruling delivered in open Court.
The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as Amended (2011), specifically section 36(7), allows a Court or Tribunal, only seven days, in a criminal trial, to keep records of the proceedings, Rulings and Judgment delivered therein, within which, it shall be made available to the Accused person(s) or person applying through him.
It is disheartening, that our successive applications for the certified true copies of Rulings delivered by the Honourable Court, on the 9th February 2016, 19th February 2016, and 7th March 2016, have not receive any attention. Either by deliberate design or omission, the Rulings, above referred, are still being shielded from us as at today.
It is more painful, when it comes to mind that these Rulings are not only fundamental but a necessity to a successful transmission of records of the Court to the Appellate Court.
The Court has always been served with copies of our Notices of Appeal, anytime an application for the certified true copy of the Ruling is submitted, which ordinarily, would have spurred it for expeditious action but the reverse is usually the case.
On the face of this frustration, the defense is confronted with apparent dilemma in offering our client the best legal services he deserved, in the defense of these bogus charges preferred against him.
The Application brought by the Federal Government of Nigeria, requesting the Court to protect the identities of the prosecution witnesses by the aid of facial masks and screens while giving evidence in the course of proceeding, was heard on the 19th day of February 2016.
Upon the hearing of the aforesaid application, and our objection, the Court declined to grant the application, and consequently ordered that the hearing of the matter should be conducted in the open. Members of the public and press were also ordered by the Court to continue to participate in the proceedings.
Surprisingly, on the 7th day of March, 2016, when the trial was scheduled to commence, the Director of Public Prosecutions orally applied that the subsisting order of the Honourable Court, made on the 19th day of February, 2016, be varied.
The Learned D.P.P, insisted that the prosecution witnesses have refused to attend Court to give evidence, unless their identities are shielded from the public.
On the strength of the above application, and despite our vehement opposition to the application, the Honourable Court made a volte-face, and proceeded to grant their request, by varying the very order it made on the 19th day of February, 2016.
Though we have successfully lodged an appeal against this perverse ruling of the Honourable Court, but it is now incumbent on the British Authority to turn their torchlight on the process complained of, against the obvious persecution of its own citizen.
Relevant to mention that the detail accounts provided by our Client in his vicious experience in the hands of the operatives of the State Security Services while in their custody, revealed how the investigating officers boasted to him that the British Government was instrumental to his arrest and dare him to watch out for future development in the matter.
It is therefore, our humble expectation that the demonstration of palpable commitment by the British Government will to a larger extent neutralize the concerns and fears raised by the remark under reference.
It is on the strength of this obvious maneuvering and deliberate design to subvert the course of justice that we most humbly request the British authority to begin a race against time, for more noticeable impact in this matter.
Attached herewith for your ease of reference, are copies of our press briefing granted on the 18th day of March 2016, Certificates of registration of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Radio Biafra respectively, in the United Kingdom Registration certificates of Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) in other countries of the world, and video clips of how the Nigeria Military personnel massacred innocent and Defenseless members of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Aba-Abia State, on the 9th day of February 2016.
We shall keep you abreast of every development in this matter as we progress.
Accept the assurances of our deepest regards Sir.
Yours faithfully
FOR: I.C EJIOFOR & CO
_____________________
Hon. Ifeanyi Ejiofor
(Principal Partner)

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