₦airaland Forum

Moferere:
Illiterate Peoples of Biafra are terrorists for short

DeltaFire:
You see the USA describes IPOB as VIOLENT.

That is correct.

IPOB are a VIOLENT street gang.

If not for their VIOLENCE it would just be their scamming.

However they are VIOLENT so must leave Igbo Nation and SS.

DeltaFire:
May the spirits of those killed by IPOB gang, and that of those who died for nothing believing Nnamdi Kanu and his DOS scam that "Biafra must come", visit the funders of IPOB killers gang and their children

Igbo Nation our enemies are both IPOB gang and Fulani killers.

We must rid our land, plus SS of both IPOB and Fulani killers.

AntiWailer:
Lol the America that is suppose to help them bomb Nigeria.

SadiqBabaSani:
Nigerian Government trying all they can to make sure IPOB is designated a terrorist Organization

DeltaFire:
U.S. IGNORES SMALL AFRICAN TERRORIST GROUP IPOB AT ITS PERIL
By Ivan Sascha Sheehan
- - Monday, October 4, 2021
The Washington Times

State Department needs to designate Indigenous People of Biafra as a foreign terrorist organization

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

An African terrorist organization is suing U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in U.S. federal court. It beggars belief.

So how did it happen?

The answer is frustratingly simple. The violent secessionist group in question – the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – is yet to be designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the US Department of State. This is despite repeated pleas to do so by longstanding U.S. ally Nigeria, where IPOB is based and carries out its murderous activities.

It is difficult to explain how U.S. interests are served by inaction and complacency on IPOB. The listing costs nothing. But the designation would have significant implications for the group’s continuance.

Let’s start with the obvious: Tagging the group with a terror label would hit IPOB’s wallet hard.

As soon as the designation is applied, no organization that utilizes U.S. currency would be able to legally conduct transactions with the organization. By cutting off IPOB’s funding, the U.S. would weaken the 50,000 strong paramilitary outfit and provide Nigeria’s security forces room to train their sights squarely on ISIS-affiliated Boko Haram in the Northeast of the country. Counterterrorism operations against Boko Haram have long been assisted by U.S. agencies working in close coordination with the West African government.

Though IPOB may appear to be Abuja’s problem alone, the militants have served as a distraction and bled precious resources. Over the past eighteen months, Boko Haram has regrettably been able to regroup and rejuvenate. The same is true of Al Qaeda-affiliated groups across the volatile Sahel region. That the African continent is rapidly becoming a staging ground for global terror operations should concern U.S. officials.

But Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB’s leader, is clearly unconcerned. That he feels no need to even disguise his support of terrorism is worrisome. Though IPOB’s principal aim is to restore a breakaway state of Biafra in the Southeastern parts of Nigeria, Mr. Kanu’s rhetoric has become increasingly strident. “I don’t want peaceful actualization (of Biafra),” Mr. Kanu has said through his Radio Biafra channel, used to project threats, instructions, and propaganda into Nigeria from the safety of London. “If they don’t (give us Biafra), they will die.”


Neither does Mr. Kanu make idle threats. The December revelation of IPOB’s 50,000 strong-armed paramilitary wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), complete with a Swastika-style flag, marked the end to all pretenses of being a peaceful movement. What had been largely unspoken was publicly declared. Since then, violent IPOB attacks on both security personnel and civilians have surged by a terrifying 59%; deaths by 344%.
More than 20 attacks were carried out in the first three months of this year alone, including the retribution-style bombing of a local state governor’s home where four were killed, and an attack on a prison that freed some 2,000 dangerous criminals. Even neighboring states were forced to impose curfews to protect their citizens from marauders.


There is also a nasty racial element to the IPOB attacks. In addition to attacks on the state, much of their violence is directed towards the Fulani people, a nomadic tribe of herders that roam across West Africa. Through Biafra Radio, IPOB regularly calls on its supporters to not only kill the Fulani, but to kill “any landlord that gives accommodation or rents his house or her house to a Fulani person.” In one recent attack on a Fulani community, six young children were butchered with machetes – one, a baby, was burned alive. Their bodies were discarded in mass graves.


Whether with threats made on Biafra Radio or repeated acts of violence, IPOB coerces politicians and civilians to acquiesce to its radical political demands. One example saw all the governors of Southeast Nigeria bow to a 14-day ultimatum to ban open grazing in their districts – a move targeting the livelihoods of the Fulani – rather than face the wrath of the ESN. Similarly, it enforces a sit-at-home day every Monday, intended to economically cripple the region, through acts like the torching of passenger buses.


The U.S. has correctly prescribed terror labels to other secessionist groups that employ these tactics – the ETA in Spain, the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, and the PKK in Turkey. Now the people IPOB claims to represent, the Igbo, are even seeking to distance themselves from the group.
So why hasn’t the U.S.?

One reason may be the group’s million-dollar contracts with prominent American lobbying firms paid to whitewash the group’s reputation and lobby on Capitol Hill. It is impossible to believe that IPOB and Kanu’s deep pockets are not being lined by external organizations.


A terror designation would put a stop to this influence peddling. It would also mean the group could not use the US or its Western allies, like London-based Radio Biafra, to further their cause. The group’s outsized influence – a function of its radio station, paid hands, and US lawyers – would be severely curtailed. Law enforcement in the US, the U.K., and elsewhere would be obligated to act by shutting down these activities.
That a small terrorist organization can bully senior U.S. officials in American courts and leverage the influence of foreign agents to challenge an ally’s security would be laughable were it not so alarming.
Washington must not ignore Nigeria’s terrorists any longer.


• Ivan Sascha Sheehan is the executive director of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore. Opinions expressed are his own.



https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/4/us-ignores-small-african-terror-group-ipob-at-its-/

TheSupleemLeada:
If you look well igbos have the same character as fulani..... they're not just smarter.

chigator2:
Is it that Oil and Gas in Imo, Anambra or Abia we want to corner or which one ??
Better wise up and drop your old tricks

Reflect7:
I can't, because your greedy intent, which is to corner Nigeria's oil and gas resources under the guise of 'Igbo self-determination', never changes.

The personnel might change, eg Ojukwu to Kanu etc, but the intent - to acquire the oil and gas fields of the Niger Delta for the Igbo elite, no matter how many of your dear Igbo masses are killed, remains the same.

Reflect7:
Let's stop deceiving ourselves.

IPOB does not want an Igbo nation, and doesn't give a toss about the Igbo people.

What IPOB wants is the Niger Delta Oil and Gas resources of Nigeria.

Their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, by his own admission WAS OFFERED THE 5 IGBO STATES IN 2017 TO TAKE AS 'BIAFRA' AND HE REFUSED, SAYING HE WANTS THE NIGER DELTA REGION WHERE NIGERIA'S OIL AND GAS FIELDS SIT.

IF HE HAD TAKEN THE 5 IGBO STATES, YOU SEPARATISTS WOULD ALL BE IN YOUR BIAFRA BY NOW.

BUT IPOB's REAL AIM IS TO ANNEX THE NIGER DELTA SO THAT THEY CAN OWN ALL THE NATION'S OIL AND GAS.

NIGERIA OF COURSE SAYS A BIG FAT NO.

Agreeing to it would be suicide for the oil-rich African giant.

Then the IPOB supporters play the game of saying 'Nigerians don't want Igbos to leave'.

But Nigeria has NEVER had a problem with Igbos seceding.

The trouble is they always want to secede with Nigeria's oil and gas resources, not by their own and with their own states alone.

That is where the problem lies.

THEY WANT TO LEAVE WITH THE FAMILY GOLD, CARING NOT IF OTHER NIGERIANS, INCLUDING MILLIONS OF CHILDREN STARVE AND PERISH AS A RESULT.

SELFISH, GREEDY NARCISSISTS WHO WILL NEVER TELL YOU THEIR REAL AGENDA, because it is so ugly, even to them.

I REPEAT: Kanu was offered the 5 Igbo states to take with him as his Biafra and he REFUSED.

The day Kanu rejected that offer was the day Igbo nationhood was sacrificed on a barrel of crude oil.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/07/rejected-biafra-5-igbo-states-nnamdi-kanu/

allthingsgood:
You better face reality and stop trying to cover up ipob. Even ipob themselves have not come out to deny these attrocities. This is how Boko Haram started. The people were supporting them thinking they are doing FGN today those same people are languishing in IDP camps

scofield76:
And you believe this trash from a DSS online warrior?
He's always having videos of places IPOB will attack. That shows he's DSS' special envoy when going on such assignments.

allthingsgood:
Igbos are creating more mess for themselves

scofield76:
Mumu, you are really working hard in this your new job of demarketing IPOB
You can only decieve fools like you and not those with their brains still intact. Ozuuuu

seunny4lif:
Sahba
Tripoli

Jack of all trade and master of none

AlexBells:
Somebody is angry lol, I apparently don't care what you think, Onye Ajuru adighi Aju Onweya (He who is rejected don't reject himself) so go deal with it, we are Igbo people and we don't care what you think, we don't know Wike, we know Okowa and thats it, it is Igbo thing here wetin concern you?

kenzysmith:
Goodluck is coming again

Asgard73:
Yoruba think south south will buy their Tinubu agenda .. Aketi don already the vibrate .. join south south and southwest in one sentence

Southwest agenda bursted on arrival

When is the next southern governors meeting

Asgard73:
Nice one ..

Make southwest and south east continue Dey delude themselves with southern gibberish.

seunmsg:
South south standing to be counted in the overall interest of the south and Nigeria. No attachment of any kind. Just south south states coming together to further reinforce what the larger southern governors forum have decided. This is how it should be. Those in the habit of doing forced attachment better take note.

AlexBells:
The Red Cap, one is real one is prodigal, 2023, on focus, Okowa rep well, VAT is two edged sword yet the Igbo nation have mastered it on both edges, Wike talks with Obaseki, it is a Benin Affair, let us know when anyone talks with Okowa.

muykem:
Any one from South East seeking asylum in IDP camp either in South South or South West be subjected to thorough screening.

vanbonattel:
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It's funny reading from illiterate DSS agents who must have dropped out of secondary school write rubbish, they will never make sense.

Read the story again, a girl ran into a shop and there was no hausa man that ran there, but the secretagent770 pursued her inside the shop and shot her just to scare people and for a story in the media that it was IPOB.

The people that chased the girl into the shop could be fulani people because fulani has been killing housa people all over the north since 1870. They only chose to shoot the innocent girl just to get this headlines.

You will all fail as usual.

Kirchoffs:
see dundee , the north alone has over 100 different languages, we know your type with the nonsense divide and rule tactics .

nairalandankrah:
Because divide and rule scale has fallen off their eyes!! ..
Now they know who they are! They are Igbos

MrMaestro:
Biafrans aren’t liking this. This is proving that if Nigeria were to break, South South looks to be their own nation.

Numerouno94:
Fulani foot soldiers will b in sifia pains after reading this.
The set of people takin the South back re those saboteurs that call themselves South east governors.

greatiyk4u:
Waste of time and energy

In reality, is there anything like South South?

The only geopolitical zone without a central language



Who go head am?
I jaw
Itshekiri
Ikwere..ika...(igbos?
Benin tribes
Akwaibom abi na
Calabar



Even if Nigeria splits today, this geopolitical zone will be worse than Nigeria because of disunity as a result of tribal diversities.


They better go back to their original base now that the nation is pregnant before the storm becomes over.

Morenikeji090:
Answer the question first.. Where are you living...?

Morenikeji090:
Lol... Who ur papa be.... Waiting be ur tribe fullass... Firstly where are you living?

Righteousness2:
Nothing is being hidden anymore . There is no more time. The Numbers are bein flashed allover the World. They are putting it right in your faces but only those operating in Godly wisdom will understand and be Alert to these things.

The Rest of the Crowd will keep opening their eyes and mouth waaaaa until they are destroyed in their Ignorance.

Revelation 13:18

The 18 is real,666
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Morenikeji090:
The crisis that brought down the First Republic started in the South West. Likewise, the regimes of Buhari in 1985, Babangida, Abacha and even Goodluck Jonathan were all upended by forces from the South West.




Don't downgrade us we don't shout we got what it takes for power... Education & money & civilization & hospitality & accommodation & news to decompose bad president e.t.c