Biafra: Biafra, Democracy Day dominate Google search

June 1, 2017

Nigerians took to Google during the week to know more about Biafra and the history of democracy in Africa’s most populous nation.

Google’s Spokesman Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade made the announcement in Lagos on Thursday. Kola-Ogunlade, who is Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager for Anglophone West Africa, said the searches were apparently to know more about Biafra.

Some groups observed a sit-at-home protest on May 30, to commemorate the 50th anniversary since the Biafra uprising ended. Kola-Ogunlade said that Nigerians searched for Democracy Day, Biafra News, Biafra Day, Tiger Woods, Ernesto Valverde and Paul Pogba in the search engine.

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According to him, a group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has rejected May 29 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day, describing it as fraudulent, unrealistic and escapist. “The group asked the Federal Government to declare June 12 as Democracy Day instead. “May 29 was chosen by the last military regime of Gen. Abdul Salaam Abubakar.

“Nigerian researched more on the topic on Google search using the terms: ‘when is democracy day in Nigeria.’ The spokesman said that Nigerians also searched for: “why do we celebrate democracy day in Nigeria. “History of democracy day in Nigeria and democracy day 2017”.

The searches commenced on May 25 and ended on May 31. Kola-Ogunlade said there was total shutdown in Nigeria’s South East on May 30, following the Indigenous People of Biafra’s sit-at-home order. He said that the order was to mark the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the defunct Republic of Biafra and also to honour heroes and heroines of the liberation struggle.

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The Google chief said that the sit-at-home order was totally complied with in the five states in the South East. Kola-Ogunlade explained that people searched Google using terms such as ‘Biafra news today’, ‘Biafra latest news’, ‘radio Biafra news’ and ‘radio Biafra’.

The spokesman said that Golf superstar, Tiger Woods’ arrest and charge for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) by the police in Florida on May 29 also trended on Google. He said that the former golf world number one had to deal with a fresh blow as he struggled to resurrect his career.

“Nigerians went on Google to search for ‘Tiger Woods net worth’, ‘Tiger Woods arrested’, ‘Tiger Woods news’, ‘DUI’ and ‘Serena Williams’. The Google chief said that Barcelona FC President, Josep Bartomeu, on May 29 officially confirmed the appointment of Ernesto Valverde as the club’s new head coach, replacing Luis Enrique. Kola-Ogunlade said that sports fanatics Googled ‘Ernesto Valverde profile’, ‘Barcelona’, ‘Who is Ernesto Valverde’ and ‘Barcelona new coach.’

Read Also: Biafra: 30th May: How IPOB Turned Biafraland To Ghost Town

He also said that Paul Pogba’s visit to Mecca to give thanks for a good season trended on Google. “Paul Pogba visited Islam’s holiest city, Mecca this week to pray and offer his appreciation for a successful season with Manchester United and to mark the beginning of Ramadan. “Nigerians visited Google to search ‘Paul Pogba religion’, ‘Is Paul pogba a Muslim’, ‘Paul Pogba profile’ and ‘Paul Pogba biography’,” Kola-Ogunlade said.

Google Trends launched in May, 2006, allows one to see how popular search terms and their demography have been overtime on the search engine.

Source: Vanguardngr

Biafra: Group Threatens To Drag Police Boss To ICC If IPOB Members Are Killed

May 29, 2017 


A pro-democracy group in Nigeria, Concerned Nigerians has threatened to drag Ibrahim Idris, the inspector general of police to the International Criminal Court, ICC, if members of the pro-sessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, are harmed in any way as they celebrate the Biafra Remembrance Day on May 30, 2017.

In an e-mailed statement issued on Saturday, May 27, 2017 and signed by Deji Adeyanju and John Danfulani, Concern Nigerians convener and secretary, respectively,  the group emphasised that the planned sit-at-home resistance by the people of the South East was their constitutional right.

Concerned Nigerians condemned the order by Mr. Idris to clamp down on IPOB and the Igbos who wished to partake in the act of civil disobedience on May 30 and said that it would do everything within its power to ensure justice of any impending police brutality.

Read Also: Biafra: Anyone That Violates Sit-At-Home Order On May 30th Would be Treated As An Enemy Of Biafra

“Our attention has been drawn to the fact that the inspector general of police in a statement signed by Jimoh Moshood force public relations officer has directed all officers in various police commands in Nigeria to ‘deal decisively’ with IPOB members as they seek to celebrate Biafra Remembrance Day in a series of protests and events,” the statement said.

“We acknowledge that Biafra Remembrance Day is a historic day for the Igbos and it means a lot to them because they lost so much during the war.

“We do not see any justification whatsoever for the police to prevent the celebration of Biafra Day. In fact, the attempt by the Police to stop the celebration is provocation in itself.

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“The statement by the IGP further urged all police commissioners to be strict and firm in dealing with IPOB members wherever they be found.  This directive contravenes the right to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, freedom of association and freedom of movement as enshrined and guaranteed in the Nigerian constitution.

“Just yesterday, we briefed the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda on the violations of the rights of IPOB members and the killings of over 150 of them by security agents  without anybody being brought to book.

“She has promised that action will be taken and that this process is part of the preliminary investigation into the matter.

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“Since a clear threat has been issued by the inspector general of police vowing to deal decisively with the IPOB members, we wish to draw the attention of the Nigerian Police to the fact that Protest is a human right and it must be respected.

“The issues being raised by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the Biafran Independence Movement, BIN, ,and the Movement of the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, are subject of intellectual debate.

“Nations do not kill their citizens when issues of self determination or referendums are raised, they engage them in an intellectual debate where reasoning and superior arguments prevail as in the case of leave or stay in the UK and Brexit.

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“We call on Members of IPOB, BIM and MASSOB to be peaceful and law abiding as they exercise their fundamental rights of assembly, movement and protest on Biafra Remembrance Day on May 30th, 2017.

“Their approach should remain non-violent resistance even in the face of harassment and intimidation.

“If any Biafran is killed on May 30th, it will be as a result of the directive given to all police commissioners and formations nationwide and we will drag the inspector general of police to the International Criminal Court,” the statement ended.

Concerned Nigerians is “a pro-democracy group committed to accountability, rule of law, and good governance”.

Source: Thetrentonline

BIAFRA: ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER BLASTS WORLD LEADERS ON THEIR DEAFENING SILENCE ON BIAFRA GENOCIDE AND OTHERS

 BIAFRA: 
ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER BLASTS WORLD LEADERS ON THEIR DEAFENING SILENCE OVER BIAFRA GENOCIDE AND OTHERS

25th April 2017

While two of the elements that made the Holocaust possible still exist – deep-seated hatred for Jews and world apathy in the face of horrible crimes – the third element, Jewish weakness, is no longer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.

Netanyahu, speaking at Yad Vashem at the annual ceremony marking the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day, articulated what can fairly be called his overall strategic doctrine. “The simple truth is that in our world, the existence of the weak is in doubt. When facing murderous countries and organisations, their chances of survival are not great. The strong survive, the weak are erased,” he stated.

"THE STRONG SURVIVE, THE WEAK ARE ERASED"...NETANYAHU AT HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL

Netanyahu said that the Jewish people experienced this during the Holocaust, “and that lesson is in front of our eyes at all times. The lesson is that we must be able to defend ourselves, by ourselves, against all threats and all enemies. Those who plan to annihilate us are placing themselves in danger of annihilation.”

Netanyahu said this was neither a provocation nor an exaggeration, but rather “the only way to truly ensure our future.

And we have the ability to do this.”

Netanyahu, who has repeated this theme during Holocaust Remembrance Day addresses he has given over the many years that he has served as prime minister, said, “This lesson guides me every day – in the morning and at night. This is the supreme function, not the only one – but the supreme one – of every prime minister in Israel.”

The premier said that the generations who built and are continuing to build the Jewish state have brought about “the great change in the fate of the Jewish people. We replaced the weakness with strength; from a helpless people we turned into a strong nation; from a nation, without defense we turned into a state with a defence force, one of the strongest in the world.”

While Netanyahu mentioned Iran seven times during his address in 2012, eight times in 2014 and 10 times at the height of his debate with former US president Barack Obama over the Iranian nuclear deal in 2015, he only mentioned the Islamic Republic once on Sunday night, and that was in the context of deep-rooted antisemitism that after 2,000 years still refuses to die.

IN MEMORY OF THOSE LOST IN THE HOLOCAUST, WE MUST STAMP OUT ANTISEMITISM...TRUMP

Just as antisemitism will not disappear in the foreseeable future, Netanyahu said, so too has the apathy of the world to barbarity against others not fundamentally changed.

“True, since World War II there has not been a tragedy similar in scope to the Holocaust,” he said. “But there are many cases where the world stood aside and did not prevent genocide or mass murder: in Biafra, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan and also in Syria.”

Netanyahu said that there have been some bright spots in the darkness, and specifically mentioned the “determined response of President [Donald] Trump to the slaughter of Syrian children with chemical weapons.”

Amid some criticism that Israel should be doing more to help the Syrians, Netanyahu said that Israel is not apathetic to what is going on just beyond its border. “We have established a field hospital right at the border, with Israeli doctors – Jews, Druse, Arabs – Israel has treated in that hospital, and at others, thousands of Syrian injured, including many children who were harmed in that cruel war.”

Netanyahu mentioned during his speech the story of Moshe Porat, one of the Holocaust survivors who lit a memorial torch at the ceremony.

Porat, Netanyahu said, was a child from Hungary incarcerated in Mauthausen who had the number 10-80-80 burned onto his forearm.

The prime minister met with Porat last week, and the survivor told him that when he enlisted into the IDF at the age of 17, his army ID number was the same: 10-80-80 “That, in essence, is the entire story of the rebirth: The man is the same man, the number is the same number, but the fate is far from being the same,” Netanyahu said. “We have gone from helplessness to strength, from darkness to light, from death to life.”

The Warsaw Ghetto Plaza at Yad Vashem included Holocaust survivors and their families from Israel and abroad, members of youth groups, foreign dignitaries and, of course, the political, civic and religious leaders of the nation.

As always, there was a military honor guard from the Israel Defense Forces, to symbolize the fact that Israel can now defend itself and, if necessary, Diaspora Jews as well.

Even though Holocaust survivors are fading out of the nation, this night in the calendar is extremely important for them. It is proof that their suffering is recognized, and for those who have families, so is their triumph against those who sought to destroy the Jewish people.

As always, Holocaust survivors, aided by young members of their families, lit the beacons which serve as both candles of memory and lights of hope for the future.

The survivors were Hungarian- born Esther Miron, who was in Auschwitz and Birkenau; Greek-born Moshe Has-Elion, who was in Auschwitz; Polish- born Moshe Jakubowitz, who was in Majdanek; Algerian- born Jeanine Sebbane-Bouhanna, who was in hiding in France and whose brother was murdered in Sobibor; Hungarian- born Porat, who was on the death march to Mauthausen; Polish-born Max Privler, who was shot in a mass killing, but climbed out of the pit afterwards and found shelter with Ukrainian friends; and Bessarabian- born Elka Abramowitz, who was mercilessly forced to go on foot to Transnistria by the Romanian Army, which collaborated with the Nazis.

At the ceremony, President Reuven Rivlin spoke of the two distinct approaches to the Holocaust. One is the universal approach, which negates the Holocaust as a unique, unparalleled event in the history of the Jewish people and places it as yet another example of genocide and racism.

Rivlin characterized this as a dangerous approach that downplays the significance of the Holocaust, distorts history, denies the program of systematic extermination specifically targeting the Jewish people and denies that antisemitism is a centuries-old malignant disease.

The second approach reflects Israel’s world view, wherein prevention of another Holocaust is paramount.

On this point, Rivlin said, he had been at odds with his mentor, Menachem Begin, who told him on the eve of the IDF’s entry into Lebanon in June 1982, that the alternative was another Treblinka.

According to this approach, Rivlin said, Israel’s raison d’etre is the prevention of the next Holocaust. It transforms the essence of collective Jewish identity into a joint escape from being massacred.

While not denying the possibility of an existential threat to Israel, Rivlin said the second approach is dangerous as well, because it obscures the richness of Jewish life before the Holocaust.

“The Jewish people was not born in Auschwitz,” he said.

Rivlin suggested a third approach, in which the Jewish people survived the Holocaust and witnessed its own rebirth as a nation. “Neither one nor the other should be forgotten,” he said.

Mindful of the upsurge in antisemitism that is instilling fear in Jews around the world, Rivlin said: “We must remember our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora and our obligation to [ensure] their safety and welfare.”

SOURCE: TheJeruselemPost

Published By IkeChukwu NwaOrisa
For Biafra Times

Donald Trump, Israel, And The Potential For A Free Biafra

Thursday 8 December, 2016

Most Africa observers believe Donald Trump will ignore the continent or at the most put the relationships Presidents Obama and Bush had built there on the back burner. While it’s true Trump does not see Africa as the central plank to his foreign policy, his black and white views of the world in regards to radical Islam may prove to be a perfect lens on how he will deal with the African continent.

Right now, the main way the USA fights radical Islam on the African continent is through Africom. Africom, is one of six of the US Defence Department’s “geographic combatant commands and is responsible to the Secretary of Defense for military relations with African nations.” Given the fact that Africom works with a number undesirable leaders, the main one being President Buhari of Nigeria, Trump may decide to tweak these relationships due to leaders like Buhari who are compromised by radical Islamic ties.

Israel as a Key Player

As Israel makes serious inroads into both West and East Africa in regards to trade and security, they are the ideal partner in building a force for tackling radical Islam. Israel already has deep security relationships with Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan as well as Ghana and now Togo. With these deepening ties, the Trump administration would be wise to connect Africom to Israel’s presence in these areas.

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Biafra Will Be The Test for Trump

If Trump is serious about fighting radical Islam then the first thing he needs to do in Africa is to break direct relations with the Buhari government in Nigeria. Buhari is a known smypathizer of radical Islam and supports the spread of Sharia Law south of the Sahara. Furthermore, Biafra, the region made up of a unique Judeo-Christian culture dominated by the Igbo tribe was forcibly fused together by the British with the Yaruba and the Muslim Hausa in the North to form Nigeria in 1914.

Biafra has been continuously oppressed by their Muslim rulers for not following Sharia. Buhari utilized his friendship with Obama to gain powerful weapons and instead of using them to destroy ISIS affiliated groups he has turned his guns on the south through proxies like the Muslim Fulani herdsman. Thousands of Igbo have been put into jail, including IPOB leader Nnmadi Kanu for treason.

Trump can roll back radical Islam by using Israeli networking, relationships, and weapons to help liberate Biafra from radical Islam and create the first Judeo-Christian republic in West Africa.

Source: Israelrising

Biafra: UN And Obama Turned Blind Eye To Buhari’s Genocide Against Biafrans Until Amnesty International report...

Wednesday 7 December, 2016

It is no longer news that ever since President Muhammdu Buhari assumed the mantle of leadership of Nigeria on May 29, 2015, one of his noticeably key security focuses so far has been the incessant, premeditated and wanton killing of unarmed members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Christians of the Biafra enclave – for obviously no cause. More often, if the killing was not based on the falsehood that the IPOB members were the first to attack members of the Nigerian armed forces and as such had to be killed in return, it would be stupidly predicated on the spurious grounds that the hapless and unsuspecting victims of Buhari’s totalitarian and fascist government were obstructing the free flow of traffic and thus needed to be dealt with (which for the military entailed killing them) in order to clear the way for motorists and other road users.

Meanwhile, in all of these series of killings of peaceful protesters, the Buhari-led government is yet to come out with a single video record showing pro-Biafra agitators killing members of the Nigerian armed forces.
But thus far, the reverse has always been the case in the aftermath of every peaceful protest duly organized by pro-Biafra agitators in Nigeria, all in pursuit of their legitimate demand for a sovereign state of Biafra. And besides the fact that thousands of members of this separatist group have been mowed down in their prime for merely thronging the streets of Nigeria in demand for self-determination as adequately guaranteed by international laws and practices, Amnesty International recently had to lend its strong voice in total condemnation of the Nigerian government’s persistent and cruel clampdown and massacre of these unarmed and peaceful protesters.

According to this highly esteemed international body, no less than a hundred and fifty unarmed civilians belonging to IPOB were brutally murdered in cold blood using torture, live bullets and other weaponry by members of the Nigerian armed forces on May 30, 2016 – Biafran Remembrance Day. And further to its graphic report titled “Bullets Were Raining Everywhere,” the AI findings clearly showed that the assertion that the peaceful protesters were the first to court the trouble and/or attack members of the Nigerian armed forces was neither here nor there. Strangely, as if the killing was not provoking enough, the same Buhari’s soldiers and other security killer forces had to even go extra miles invading churches at Onitsha and its environs in Anambra State of Nigeria in furtherance of their killing spree and the hacking of peaceful protesters who happened to be in or seek refuge in these hallowed places of worship.

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Indeed, as heart-rending as these nasty incidents are, it does appear that President Muhammadu Buhari is not yet through with his morbid thought and blood-sucking inclination towards pro-Biafra peaceful protesters and the people of old Eastern Nigeria in general. As it stands now, the Christian people of Eastern Nigeria – comprising the Igbo and folks of the Niger Delta region – are obviously not at war with the Nigerian state, unlike the case in Buhari’s Northern part of Nigeria where the terrorist Boko Haram sect is increasingly having a field day and upper hand in the raging war in the region.

Yet virtually all states within the Biafra enclave are at the moment more militarized and/or placed under heavy military siege than the region which breeds and harbors terrorists in Nigeria. And all of this is the result of the evil machination of the Islamist-in-Chief in an apparent attempt to spoil the Christmas celebration for people of the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones in Nigeria, in which over 90 percent of the population are Christians.

Yet, in all of this, nobody seems to be talking. Even most unfortunate of all, the United Nations, which ideally is meant to be the conscience of the world on matters of human rights abuse, oppression, subjugation, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc. that are all rife in Nigeria today, is apparently indifferent. Ditto the African Union, which has not so far reflected through any meaningful action in any member state the remarkable change of its policy of non-interference to non-indifference in the internal affairs of member states. Perhaps, the UN and the AU are waiting for the eventual upsurge in widespread bloodletting in Nigeria before being alive to their global and regional responsibilities.

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By expectation, the most appropriate advocacy for these august international bodies would have been to bring their influence, diplomacy and all instruments of coercion at their disposal to bear on the growing fascist government of President Muhammadu Buhari by impressing it on the latter to quickly organize a referendum on this lingering issue of Biafra before the bubble bursts.

Meanwhile, If indeed it could be done for the Scots in the United Kingdom out of the volition of the leadership of Britain, why then will it be difficult for the world body (the UN) to do it for Biafrans in Nigeria, especially in the face of the fact of the stiff-necked attitude and blood-sucking propensities of the present rudderless leadership in Nigeria – led by an Islamist?

In Syria, for one, it can be well understood that the ostensible reason which propelled President Barack Obama to embark on the voyage of arming the Syrian rebels (the vast majority of whom are reportedly members of the opposition political parties in Syria) was not unconnected with President Bashar Al-Assad’s disgusting inclination to killing and bombing anti-government peaceful protesters.

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Needless to say at this juncture that this is by no means less than what currently obtains in Nigeria against the pro-Biafra peaceful protesters. Yet, President Barack Obama appears so far to turn a blind eye to this very obnoxious incident being perpetrated by his stooge and ally President Muhammadu Buhari.

But be that as it may, this is obviously one great task before the US President-elect Donald J. Trump, who understandably has no illusions about the increasing spate of killings of Christians by terrorist Islamists and their benefactors all over the world and, moreover, the far-reaching negative effects this development has had on the Nigerian Christian community under President Muhammadu Buhari’s watch vis-à-vis the fundamental rights of a people to seek self-determination.

Does Israel Have A Biafra Strategy?

Wednesday 7 December, 2016

In 1914 the British took three distinct areas, Lagos Colony, Hausa, and Biafra and forced them together. This action was congruent with a similar policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, and India. The British had a particular paternal view of their colonies and because they decried the seemingly evil policies of France, Germany, and Belgium, they promoted their policies as civilized and caring.

Nothing is further from the truth. Most of the countries listed above are still suffering from the conflict oriented policy of the British Empire in the early 20th century. This policy thrived on forcing rivals to share space and backing non-indigenous peoples as rulers or agitators in that space.

The Igbo in Nigeria make up the third largest tribe, but in Biafra they are well in the majority. The fact that Nigeria as a British backed government has forced the Igbo to suffer at the hands of their worst enemies is only due to British interests. Before 1914 the Hausa never had access to the cost. The British backed them by forcing Biafra into Nigeria, thus paving the way to suppressing what they saw as the biggest threat to British control, Biafran independence.

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A similar set of circumstances occurred in Israel. As the early Jewish residents busied themselves with building their Land and preparing to bring more and more Jewish exiles back home, the British decided to offset the rapid Jewish growth with new Arab workers and immigrants. To be fair this policy began with the Turks who allowed and encouraged Arab migration from other areas in the Ottoman Empire to the Land of Israel in order to offset the success of the early Zionists. Arabs often point out that they had lived in the Land of Israel for centuries, but they use statistics from 1912, because that was the year they finally became significant enough as a population throughout the Land. The British continued this policy, going as far as banning Jewish immigration altogether.

As mentioned above, a similar policy was implemented in Iraq, Afghanistan, and India. The British kept their rule in a all of these places by stirring discontent and thwarting independence movements through bribery and conflating the local leadership and colonial government.

Israel Needs a Clear Biafra Strategy

To truly be free and rectify the sins of European colonialism, Biafra must be allowed its independence. Israel needs to harness its resources and influence to force this outcome. They can do this by using the South-Sudan model or by encouraging its new found East Africa partners to push for Biafran independence.

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If Israel fails at setting a clear strategy in a flailing Nigeria, it risks losing a potential ally as well as a bulwark against expanding Islamic influence. Bibi has been adept at sensing and grabbing onto the shifting currents in the Middle East and Africa. Biafra is key to his current strategy of building trusted and reliable allies in the former European colonies in Africa. It would be wise for him to formerly push for a stable and free Biafra.

Source: Israelrising

BREAKING: "NNAMDI KANU'S OFFENCES ARE GRIEVOUS, I WILL NOT GRANT HIM BAIL"---Justice Binta Nyako

01 December, 2016

ABUJA--The leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, was today 1 December 2016, arraigned at the Federal High Court, Abuja, as adjourned on 17 November 2016 for ruling on bail application. As predicted by Biafrans, the rule of man prevailed over the rule of law today at the Nigerian local court.

Nnamdi Kanu arrived the high court at exactly 09:55am with the other 3 co-accused persons: Mazi David Nwawuisi represented by Barr Maxwell, Mazi Benjamin Madubugwu represented by Barr Mrs Nwankwo and Chidiebere Onwudiwe represented by Barr I. Adoga.

Shortly after Kanu's arrival, the presiding judge, Justice Binta Nyako arrived the court at 09:58am; the case was called up immediately by the court clerk after which both the defendants' and prosecution counsels (led by Shuaibu Labaran) introduced themselves.

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Ruling on the bail application, Justice Binta hastily concluded that kanu will not be granted bail (as instructed by Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian president in a media chat). She also cited that according to the constitution, "when a person is charged with felony, it is believed that the person must have committed an offense."

After reading previous ground posited by the defendants' lawyers applied bail (which included United Nations' Charter on rights to self-determination), Binta argued that it will be improper to grant bail to those with similar charges.

The presiding judge also presented the prosecution's exhibit ppf1 and ppf2 against the first defendant (Nnamdi Kanu) and the second defendant (David Nwawuisi) and likened it to that of Asari Dokubo who was denied bail on similar grounds.

Binta, who seemed more like the prosecution counsel than presiding judge, maintained that granting the defendants bail will lead to intimidation of witnesses in the course of the trial and evasion of trial as Buhari had alleged. On this, Counsel to the first defendant, Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor, argued that his client will not jump bail if granted; noting that it is their right to seek for such relief from the court.

Ejiofor also stated that the prosecution has no evidence to prove or substantiate the charges leveled against Nnamdi Kanu while he maintained that IPOB activities which has largely been peaceful and are within the context of the law cannot be likened to Asari Dokubo's case or the Boko Haram sect. Barr Ejiofor relied on Sub Section 6(5) of the constitution as a procedure to be followed on granting Nnamdi Kanu bail.

Delivering her final judgment, Binta ruled that "the offenses leveled against the defendants are grievous and would not be granted bail". She went further to say that the trial will proceed immediately in not later than 1 or 2 months.

At this point, the prosecution counsel demanded that his witnesses be masked ahead of trial. Barr Nwankwo stood against this demand, charging that the defendants need more protection than the prosecution's witnesses; but Binta ruled that it is within the court's discretion to decide whether or not to allow masked witnesses. She then slated 13th December, 2016, for a hearing on application to allow masked witnesses as pleaded by the prosecuting counsel.

Recall that Nnamdi Kanu was granted bail by the Magistrate Court on 19 October 2015, and was ordered to be released UNCONDITIONALLY on 17 December 2015 at the Federal High Court Abuja by Justice Adeniyi Ademola (who has since been under intense prosecution by the federal government of Nigeria). Yet, today's court rulings were all made in disregard of those standing court orders.

Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Anyikwa Cynthia
And Ejike Ofoegbu, Reporting From Abuja.
Published By Nwosu C.S
For Biafra Writers

BIAFRA: NNAMDI KANU SET TO APPEAR IN COURT AMIDST BUHARI'S INTIMIDATION ON JUSTICE BINTA AND JOURNALISTS

Wednesday 30 November 2016

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Director of Radio Biafra and Biafra TV, Nnamdi Kanu, will again appear at the Abuja High Court on December 1, 2016 as adjourned by Justice Binta Nyako on November 17, 2016 to give her ruling after hearing Kanu’s case.

It is no longer news that Muhammadu Buhari, the African Hitler, has been harassing, intimidating and even blackmailing Justice Binta into perverting justice in Injustice John Tsoho's manner. There is no judge that ruled against Buhari's despotic tendencies that is not under prosecution currently.

The world must be placed on notice that Muhhamdu Buhari has ordered a “media blackout” on Kanu’s court proceedings which led to the arrest, molestation and seizure of electronic gadgets of journalists and IPOB principal officers who were present in court to support their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and to report court proceedings on 17 November 2016 by the DSS and police.

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Current events have proved that justice and the rule law is alien to the Nigerian government; what we see is a Military Tribunal, because Buhari vowed on several media chats that there will be no bail for Kanu. Since that utterance, he has assured that every judge presiding over the case abuses judicial process.

Before Justice Binta Nyako gives her judgment on December 1, she must understand that there is a court order to release Nnamdi Kanu UNCONDITIONALLY on 17 December 2015 which is yet to be obeyed by the Nigerian government. She has to uphold the rule of law and stand above Buhari's intimidation, threat and blackmail.

Buhari should have learned that the new world order will not entertain his despotic tendencies and further prosecution of Nnamdi Kanu will spell doom for him. He must understand that International Community is interested in Kanu’s case now more than ever..., thanks to Amnesty's latest report on the "extra judicial killings" and the "issue of Biafra".

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Hence, any ruling contrary to standing court orders will be considered a perversion of justice and violation of Human Rights, which will surely be visited by the International Criminal Court.

Arresting Nnamdi Kanu is Nigeria's biggest mistake since her independence and Buhari should realize that every day Nnamdi Kanu spends in detention brings Biafra restoration closer. So, if Nigeria intends to save the little remaining of her, then, just like Prof. Charles Soludo noted "Kanu should be released like yesterday".

#FreeNnamdiKanu
#FreeBiafra

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BIAFRA: X-RAYING THE NEW CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST NNAMDI KANU BY MUHAMMADU BUHARI: A DANCE OF SHAME~IPOB Press Release

November 8, 2016

Press Release



PRELUDE: The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) having reviewed all the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and the Constitution of Nigeria hereby categorically make the following irrefutable assertions:

1) There is no place in any of the existing laws of Nigeria and the Constitution where the name or title or phrase ”Department of State Services (DSS)” can be found. Therefore, DSS is both illegal and unconstitutional.

2) There is no place in any of the existing laws of Nigeria and the Constitution where the terminology or phrase ”South-East zone” and ”South-South zone” can be found. Therefore, the terminology or phrase ”South-East zone” and ”South-South zone” are both illegal and unconstitutional.

3) Count One and Count Two of the new charges are invalid and must be thrown out because there is no such Law as “Criminal Code Act CAP. C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2014” and there is no Law known as “Criminal Code Act CAP. C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2000”


X-RAYING THE NEW CHARGES:
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) carried out a forensic analysis of the trumped-up charges brought against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and exposed the nullity and futility of the exercise which has many gaping holes. After studying our well-researched deconstruction of the frivolous charges, Muhammadu Buhari has now brought new charges and subsequently increased the charges against Nnamdi Kanu from three (3) to six (6). In our tradition, we are here to deconstruct and destroy these weak and error-laden charges.

CHARGE #1
“Conspiracy to commit a treasonable felony, contrary to section 516 of the Criminal Code Act Cap. C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2014 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”

PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE
That you Nnamdi Kanu, ‘M’, Onwudiwe Chidiebere ‘M’ Banjamin Madubugwu, ‘M’, David Nwawuisi, ‘M’ and others now at large on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in Nigeria and London, United Kingdom, did conspire amongst yourselves to broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, preparations being made by you and others at large, for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue States to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into a Republic of Biafra and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code Act, CAP. C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2000”

IPOB Comments on Charge #1:
Buhari has found out that it is unheard of in law that only one person will be charged for treasonable felony, hence he has now incorporated three more people to get out of the tight corner to which he found himself. We want to remind that entire humanity that each time the illegal and unconstitutional DSS wants to lose the case against Nnamdi Kanu they will introduce a new defendant. Recall that on the 18th of October Nnamdi Kanu was arraigned alone despite the fact that David Nwawuisi was already in jail and held without trial since July 2015. When their frivolous charges of criminal intimidation collapsed at the Magistrates Court, they quickly charged Mazi Nnamdi Kanu with terrorism before the sagacious Justice A. F. A. Ademola and that too was dismissed. Now that they are faced with the option of releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, they have introduced Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi as well as Chidiebere Onwudiwe and charged all with Conspiracy to commit Treasonable Felony. These new set of charges is the fourth alteration of charges that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has encountered.
Also in this charge, it is not clear on who was where regarding the accused persons and the locations mentioned. In addition, the use of the term “others now at large” renders the charge a mere conjecture or guesswork because Buhari is expected to know those being accused by name. Using the term “others now at large” is akin to operating a blank cheque and as we observed in our previous forensic analysis. These “others now at large” could be Barack Obama, David Cameron, Theresa May, Bill Clinton, Prof. Osibanjo, Atiku Abubakar, Justice Binta Nyako, Mamman Daura, and even Aisha Buhari.

We also note that there is no specificity in date of commission of the crime and this renders the charge baseless. We posit that this time around, Buhari has made the charges more dismissive by using the term “diverse dates in 2014 and 2015”. To make his case arguably, Buhari must specify the date or dates of the commission of the crime. In the prelude, we have already mentioned that the term “South-East” and South-South” are illegal and unconstitutional.
Finally, we want to inform Buhari that the law he cited in “Particulars of Offence” is in conflict with the law cited in the “Charge.”. This alone renders this charge invalid.


CHARGE #2
“Treasonable felony, contrary to Section 41 (c) of the Criminal Code Act Cap. C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2014 and punishable under the same section of the Act.“

PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE
“That you Nnamdi Kanu ‘M‘ being the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on diverse dates in 2014 and 2015 in London, United Kingdom, did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu and other areas within the jusrisdcition of the is Honourable Court, preparations being made by you and others now at large, for states in the South-East and South-South zones and other communities in Kogi and Benue States to secede from the Federal Republic of Nigeria with a view to constituting same into a Republicof Biafra and you committed an offence punishable under Section 41(c) of the Criminal Code Act, CAP. C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004.

IPOB Comments on Charge #2:
Buhari has failed here to be specific on actual dates of commission of the crime of treasonable felony by using the term “diverse dates in 2014 and 2015“, which renders the accusation as lacking in specificity and typical of conjectures and beer-parlour guess-work. We want Buhari to tell the world if broadcasting in London makes the broadcast under the jurisdiction of the Abuja Court or is it being monitored in Enugu that makes a broadcast that was made in London now within the jurisdiction of Abuja Court. Again we ask Buhari, who are these “others now at large“? How can you use the term “others now at large“ in a high-profile case such as treasonable felony without identifying the specific individuals involved thereby making it unbelievable and giving rooms for significant margins of error? Under the excuse of “others now at large“, many people can be wrongly termed as those who allegedly worked with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It is possible that Yusuf Buhari, Aminah Buhari, Zarah Buhari, and Ibrahim Babangida are among these “others now at large“.
Just as noted in the prelude, the illegality and unconstitutionality of South-East and South-South has already been established. Buhari is economical in words and should tell the world what “preparations” that are being made by Nnamdi Kanu and these “others now at large“ because the charge is not explanatory enough.
We want to remind Buhari that exercising the rights to self-determination is not equivalent to levying war against Nigeria. Broadcasting from London is not equivalent to levying war against Nigeria. It must be recalled that Buhari sponsored Radio Chanji in Northern part of Nigeria during the last Presidential Election in which he promised that he would make blood of Nigerians to flow on the streets if he loses the election.


CHARGE #3
“Managing an unlawful society, punishable under Section 63 of the Criminal Code Act, CAP. C38, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.“

PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE
“That you Nnamdi Kanu, ‘M‘, Onwudiwe Chidiebere ‘M‘ and others at large, on or about the year 2012 at London, United Kingdom and South East as well as South South parts of Nigeria within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court managed an unlawful society, to wit: the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), pursuant to your secessionist agenda, with intent to bringing into being, a Republic of Biafra out of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 63 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap. C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.“

IPOB Comments on Charge #3:
Is Buhari aware that IPOB is duly registered in the United Kingdom? If IPOB is truly registered in the United Kingdom, then what makes it an unlawful society? So Buhari is telling the world that Biafrans under the aegis of IPOB exerting their rights to self-determination as enshrined in the various declarations of the United Nations and the African Union is constituting an unlawful society? We can also extrapolate that Buhari has committed the same crime because on the 29th of September 205, Buhari made the following statement at the United General Assembly in New York: “The international community has come to pin its hopes on resolving the Palestinian issue through the two – states solution which recognises the legitimate right of each state to exist in peace and security. The world has no more excuses or reasons to delay the implementation of the long list of Security Council resolutions on this question. Neither do we have the moral right to deny any people their freedom or condemn them indefinitely to occupation and blockade.“

Section-62(2) of CAP C38 L.F. N. 2004 specified conditions under which an organization can be deemed unlawful society, and none of the conditions is against the rights of Indigenous People to self-determination.
We want to remind Buhari that Biafrans and IPOB exist in every nook and cranny of Nigeria and outside Nigeria. Therefore, it is an insult for Buhari to state that IPOB is managed only in London and in the illegal and unconstitutional South East and South South of Nigeria. We reiterate to Buhari that the right to self-determination is inalienable and irreducible and NOT a secessionist agenda. Buhari should know that inclusion of the term “others now at large“ makes this charge unsustainable and nothing but a mere guess-work because all accused persons must be known and identified and not just referred to as “others now at large“.


CHARGE #4
“Publication of defamatory matter, punishable under Section 375 of the Criminal Cod Act, Cap. C38, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004”

PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE
“That you, Nnamdi Kanu, on or about the 28th April, 2015 in London, United Kingdom did broadcast on Radio Biafra monitored in Enugu, Enugu State and other parts of Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, referred to Major General Muhammadu Buhari, GCON President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a paedophile, a terrorist, and idiot and an embodiment of evil knowing same to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 375 of the Criminal Code Act, Cap C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.”

IPOB Comments on Charge #4:
This charge should be dismissed immediately for the following reasons:
1) As at 28th of April, 2015, Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari was not the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Hence the title and the position ascribed to him was wrong and nullify the charge. If Buhar feels defamed by the alleged defamatory publications, he should sue Nnamdi Kanu in his private capacity because he was a private citizen as at April 28th, 2015.

2) On March 23rd 2015, an online newspaper called “thebreakingtimes” published an article in which it quoted Mrs Sarah Obozuwa, Founder of the Edo Women for Change (EWC), as saying that Aisha Buhari is a victim of childhood rape. Mrs Obozuwa asserted that Buhari (at 47 years of age) had sex with Aisha when she was just nine years old. This statement was made more than one month before the alleged comments of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and there has never been any denial or rebuttal from Buhari and Aisha.

3) On March 15, 2015, Sheikh Sani Haliru, a founding member of the dreaded jama’aful Ahlul sunna wal Liddawati wal Jihad also referred to as the Boko Haram, publicly confessed that Muhammadu Buhari is the founding father of Boko Haram and this was reported in “Naijaonppint.com” online newspaper. Again, Buhari did not refute this accusation.

4) Buhari has been involved in several incidences of inciting violence duraing and after elections. Currently, there is a case of against Buhari in The Hague for killing innocent Nigerians after he lost the 2011 elections. Therefore, it is not out of place to conclude that by his acts of commission and omission he is evil and his governance/leadership style since December 31, 1983 can be correctly defined as idiotic.



CHARGE #5
“Improper importation of goods contrary to Section 47(1 (a) (i) of the Customs and Excise Management Act, Cap. C45 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”

PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE
That you, Nnamdi Kanu, between the month of March and April, 2015, imported into Nigeira a Radio Transmitter known as TRAM 50L and kept it in your house at Ubulusiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State, Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 47(1) (a) (i) of the Customs and Excise Management Act, Cap. C45 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

IPOB Comments on Charge #5:
First of all, Nnamdi Kanu does not have a house in Ubulusiuzor in Ihiala LGA, hence this nullifies the charge outright. Secondly, what is the proof that the duty on the said item was not paid for before it was removed from the wharf? Also, was this item forcefully or stealthily removed from the wharf considering the checks and balances and security networks supposedly existing in the wharf? On what day was this item removed without paying the requisite duty and who were the officers on duty on that day, especially those in charge of security and at the exit gates? When exactly did this crime take place because the commission of a crime must take place on a specific date and not the range of months being bandied about on the charge sheet?


CHARGE #6
“Improper importation of goods contrary to Section 47(2) (a) of the Customs and Excise Management Act, Cap. C45 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”

PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE
“That you, Nnamdi Kanu, between the months of March and April, 2015 imported into Nigeria and kept in Ubulusiuzor in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, a Radio Transmitter known as TRAM 50L concealed in a container of used household items which you declared as used household items, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 47 (2) (a) of the Customs and Excise Management Act, Cap. C45 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”

IPOB Comments on Charge #6:
The first question here is; when was this discovery made? Who was the Customs Officer on duty who cleared this container? Was thorough inspection not part of the process required to clear goods from Nigerian Ports and who inspected this container? What is the proof that the said item was not properly cleared under a competent Customs Official? Was this offence part of the reason why Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was abducted by the illegal and unconstitutional DSS on October 14, 2015?


Signed:
Barrister Emma Nmezu
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokesperson for IPOB

CNN: Mark Zuckerberg lost $3 billion in a single day after Facebook Warning

Friday 4 November, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.


The Facebook founder suffered a $3 billion loss in the value of his Facebook stock on Thursday, one of the largest single-day losses ever for an individual investor.

Facebook (FB, Tech30) shares plunged 5.5% after the chief financial officer warned investors that the company expects revenue growth from advertising to "come down meaningfully."

Zuckerberg holds 418 million shares of Facebook stock -- still good for about $50.2 billion.

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Bloomberg estimates Zuckerberg's total net worth at $52.2 billion, ranking him as the fifth-richest man in the world, just behind Warren Buffett. And despite Thursday's plunge, Facebook shares are up nearly 15% for the year, lifting Zuckerberg's net worth by $6.4 billion.

Source: CNN

Biafra: How Gowon caused Nigerian Civil War that killed millions – Chudi Offodile

Friday 4 November, 2016

If Former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, had not breached the Aburi Accord, the 30-month Nigerian Civil War that killed the post-independence promise of national development and integration and claimed millions of lives would not have happened.

Chudi Offodile, a lawyer and two-term member of the House of Representatives, observed this in a new book, while making a retrospective scrutiny of the Nigerian Civil War, almost half a century after the outbreak of hostilities on May 30, 1967.

The Aburi Accord, which was reached between January 4 and 5, 1967 at a meeting attended by delegates of both the Federal Government of Nigeria, led by General Gowon, and the Eastern Region’s leader, Emeka Ojukwu, at a small town in Ghana, presented a last chance of avoiding an all-out war between Eastern Nigeria and the rest of Nigeria.

The Accord broke down due to differences in interpretation of its contents by both parties. The war began a few months later.

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The recent publication of his 280-page book, The Politics of Biafra And The Future of Nigeria, offered Mr. Offodile a moment for the re-examination of the tragic incidents that nearly split Nigeria.
In debunking the position of some that the issue of the Nigerian State was already a settled matter, he asked: “Settled by who? In any case, nothing is ever settled until it is settled right. Nigeria is still very much unstable and the democratic institutions remain fragile. There is need to reinforce the structures of the country through deliberate inclusiveness in order to achieve stability.”

The author, who said he was just two-and-a-half years old when the war broke out and was exactly five years and two months old when it ended, in a conversation on his book with PREMIUM TIMES observed that, “Someone once said that history is always current because it always manages to repeat itself. It is never too late to discuss historical matters”.

He singled out a specific episode that could have altered the course of Nigeria’s history:

“In the case of the Aburi agreement, I am of the view that it was the breach of this agreement voluntarily entered into in Ghana that led to the war. The terms of the agreement were clear and unambiguous. No one disputes the original terms. But once General Gowon returned to Lagos, the so-called super bureaucrats, composed mainly of ethnic minorities in the north and south of Nigeria, persuaded him to jettison the agreement. That was not really a problem, and let me even concede for a moment that they had genuine reasons and even good intentions for all.

“The problem was that they UNILATERALLY altered it. To suggest therefore that General Ojukwu should have accepted the unilateral alteration, even if it offered the East 95 percent of the original agreement, as argued by Chief Phillip Asiodu, is at the root of the lack of honour and integrity in the conduct of national affairs. As I pointed out in the book, honour and integrity cannot be measured in percentages.”

Recalling the sequence of missteps be believed triggered the war, Mr. Offodile regretted that some officials, acting on behalf of the Federal Government, circumvented the implementation of an important provision of the accord and plunged Nigeria into a bloody conflict.

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“The second point about the Aburi agreement, which may be even more important than the first, is that both sides agreed that the constitutional conference which was ongoing before the counter coup that brought Gowon into power should continue and draft a new constitution for Nigeria.
The decision by Gowon to dissolve that conference and then unilaterally set up a ‘political committee’ to advise him on the creation of between 12 and 14 states exposed clearly the real motives for the breach of the agreement. The constitutional conference had the mandate to draft a new constitution and a timetable for the return to civil rule.

“Gowon and the new power elite in Lagos wanted to elongate their hold on power, and state creation was the bait. Yet, they successfully branded Ojukwu as the ambitious one, despite clear evidence to the contrary. This is one of those strange paradoxes of history. How can one who wanted a new constitution drafted and a return to civil rule be accused of provoking a war because of his ambition? Ojukwu had his own faults but they manifested in Biafra but not before it. It was the breach of Aburi that led to the war and nothing else.”

Mr. Offodile, who was elected into Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives in May 1999 for Awka North/South federal constituency of Anambra State and served as Chairman, Special Committee on Joint Venture Oil Operations between 2001-2003, and, Chairman, Public Petitions Committee between 2003 and 2005, disclosed further that the recurring disregard for the will of the people arising from arbitrary breaches of agreements and the law resulted in Nigeria’s experience of prolonged military rule that has distorted Nigeria’s federal structure.

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“Let me finally point out that this same matter of whether the people or the government should work out the structure of their government was again an issue in 1970 when the instrument of surrender was being negotiated after the fall of Biafra.

“The Biafran Chief Justice, Late Sir Louis Mbanefo, insisted on inserting clause ‘C’ of the surrender instrument, which after accepting the EXISTING ADMINISTRATIVE AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES [12 States], says that any future constitutional arrangement will be worked out by the representatives of the Nigerian people. Six years later, in 1976, General Murtala Mohammed and General Olusegu Obasanjo unilaterally increased the number of states to 19. General Babangida added his, and General Abacha brought the number to 36.”

He advised that in view of the prevailing turmoil in the land, there should be an end to the arbitrary use of state power. He noted that in order to foster a sense of national belonging, Nigerian citizens need to agree on the terms of being together.
“This raises issues of jurisprudence and, of course, the compelling argument that the new states arbitrarily created have been accepted by the people by electing representatives in those states under the existing constitution over the years,” Mr. Offodile said. “Equally compelling, is the concern, in view of existing tensions in the land, of the sustainability of the arbitrary exercise of state power. There is the need to have Nigerians agree to the terms of our union. It will infuse the citizenry with the missing dose of patriotism.”

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Addressing the revival of the Biafran idea in the emergence of MASSOB (Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra) and IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra), he blamed it on the non-inclusive exercise of state power by successive governments at the centre.
“Uwazurike formed MASSOB in 1999, I believe, in response to the mood of the Igbo nation after Dr. Alex Ekwueme lost his presidential bid. It is there in Wikipedia,” the author said. “The struggle has gone beyond Uwazurike. There are several other groups but Nnamdi Kanu has emerged as a charismatic leader and captured the imagination of not a few of the Igbo people. They have a strong following and should be engaged.”

The author, whose father, Chris Offodile, now late, was the first Nigerian Editor of the Hansard (the official parliamentary reports of the Federal House of Representatives) and the author of a biography on Dr. M.I. Okpara, former Premier of Eastern region, also expressed serious concern about what he said was the unsatisfactory performance of some of the past governments in the South East of Nigeria.

He praised Ukpabi Asika’s post war administration (1970-1975) as the golden era of governance in the region, that now comprises five of the 36 states in the federation – Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo. He suggested that one of the most effective ways to alter this dismal picture of non-performance by state governments was through devolution of powers to the states.
“I am persuaded that a change in the structure of the federation will make for better performance by the component units but even with the present arrangement, we could have done better but I leave that for the citizens of the respective states to make their own assessment.”

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On the planned national census for which almost N300 billion has been proposed, the author suggested that the controversies that dogged past national census exercises would be of little consequence when Nigeria is restructured.

“Census is good for planning purposes. It is politicised in Nigeria because of the kind of system we operate. Money accrues generally into the federation account and all the states share from it every month… These things will not be so important if a proper federal arrangement is worked out.”
Projecting into the future of Nigeria in global terms and condemning what he called Nigeria’s descent into a dysfunctional “Unitary-Federalism”, Mr. Offodile, whose book was publicly presented at an elaborate event at the Yar’ Adua Centre in Abuja also lent his voice to the calls for the restructuring of the federation.

“The future of Nigeria depends to a large extent on how the calls for restructuring are handled,” he said. “Those who insist on the status quo keep on attacking the patriotism of those who call for a review of the existing structure, instead of giving reasons for the continuance of what has clearly failed. In the end, it is what it is – a contest of ideas.

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“I stand firmly on the side of those who insist that the present consumption structure must give way to a competitive structure, no matter how configured. A lot of Nigerians have become global citizens, living and competing all over the world. The government of their home country should modernise and embrace global best practices in line with the aspirations of several thousands of its people playing on the world stage. That would help lift millions of others out of poverty.”

Source: premiumtimesng

BIAFRA: 7 REASONS BUHARI IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA

                   Oraye St. Franklyn

Thursday 20 October, 2016

Editor’s Note: Oraye St. Franklyn, a member of Amnesty International in this opinion lists seven reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari is a threat to democracy in Africa.

If anyone believed that Nigeria’s former military despot and current President, Muhammadu Buhari who was elected through what many still consider a controversial election, was a changed man with the credential to drive change in Nigeria, recent happenings in the country prove without a shadow of doubt that just like the proverbial saying, that a leopard cannot change its spots, Mr. Buhari has confirmed the fears expressed by his critics as being of the same mould as he was during his military dictatorship in Nigeria; an era that saw many Nigerians face the most draconian hardship and human rights violations by the government in the history of the country.

Although currently, the ramifications of his various antidemocratic actions and inactions have left many within the country seemingly benumbed, given the brazen audacity of his atrocious exploits within a democracy, the actions nevertheless pose grave danger to democracy within the African continent, which by an unintended import is the greatest risk of Mr. Buhari’s antidemocratic governmental actions.

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The reasons adduced in this piece are among the lot of embarrassing complexities to bring to the fore the grave danger Africa faces, if Mr. Muhammadu Buhari continues to enjoy the support of Western democracies in spite of his dictatorial leadership.

1. COMPROMISED INSTITUTIONS AND THE DISDAIN FOR THE RULE OF LAW

In what is akin to the era of the self-styled dictator of Uganda, Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, has completely neutralised the independence of State institutions and usurped their powers as his for personal gains.

From Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which at one time was headed by one who is reportedly a family relative of his, Amina Zakari, and continues to exert undue influence within the Commission as a National Commissioner in the organisation, to the Department of State Services (DSS) headed by another relative of his and stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress, which now serves as the Secret Police of the government by which all manner of unimaginable atrocities are meted at opposition voices and perceived enemies of the government including innocent Judges who refuse to subvert the course of justice as demanded by the government; State institutions have become, more or less, appendages of the office of the President whose orders have assumed the place of law, a practice that is a far-cry from the gains achieved by previous presidents of the country, especially the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan.

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Today’s Nigeria is reminiscent of the dark days of military dictatorship under Buhari. Judges are being framed, tortured and their houses broken into by Nigeria’s secret police, the DSS. Enemies of the State – that is, personal enemies of the President – are being framed and perpetually detained in spite of court orders ordering their release from detention. The case of Sambo Dasuki, the National Security Adviser under former President Goodluck Jonathan, is a major reference point. In spite of several court orders ordering his bail, Mr. Buhari has refused to bulge and continues to hold him as his personal detainee on what many believe are trumped-up charges.

Buhari’s disdain for the rule of law is also well established in his interest and handling of the case against Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra cause. Mr. Buhari is said to be so miffed at the idea that society and not just the law considers the right to bail for Kanu for advocating for self determination, this is in spite of the fact that Kanu is yet to be convicted for any known crime in Nigeria. On a live television broadcast, Mr. Buhari questioned the right to bail for Kanu, an action that undermines Kanu rights, which serves as a pointer to Mr. Buhari’s extrajudicial disposition to governance and is believed to be the reason behind Mr. Kanu’s continued incarceration and stalling trial just like that of Mr. Sambo Dasuki. The situation is so bad that the presumption of innocence of accused persons in Nigeria’s legal jurisprudence has been upturned by the Buhari regime which presumes guilt on the accused and thereafter embarks on a criminal prosecution which places the burden on the accused to prove his innocence; a complete aberration and marked deviation from norms of jurisprudence and the rule of law in Nigeria.

2. CORRUPTION AND THE FALSE FIGHT AGAINST IT

Mr. Buhari’s ride to power, in spite of the controversies surrounding his election was largely efficacious on account of his promise and the expectation of both Nigerians, including the global community, that he would tackle corruption. Almost two years after, there appears little or nothing to show of a determined institutions-based and scientific approach to tackling corruption.

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What Nigerians have witnessed is a systematic clampdown on opposition voices, stalwarts of the former ruling Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), including the former President, his wife Patience Jonathan and their associates on completely false and misleading allegations. There are even concerns in some quarters that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), headed by a core Northerner just like Buhari himself, as do other major institutions, is being used as a hatchet organisation to demarket the South and compromise its economy in favour of the North. These concerns are strengthened by the attack on businesses owned by Nigerians of the South, while Northern interests continue to thrive.

Many also believe that the interest expressed by Mr. Aliko Dangote, Africa’s riches man, suggesting to the Federal Government that the country’s assets like its Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility should be put up for sale, is part of a grand plot by the North to take control of the economic base of the country in addition to its current hold of political power.

The greatest prejudice to the mouthed fight against corruption by the Buhari regime is its population by endemically corrupt individuals, many of whom either have cases in court on corruption or have been indicted for it. Chief among the lot is the former Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi whose disastrous legacies as Governor of one of Nigeria’s richest States has pitched him against the people he once governed and continues to be the reason many consider him as Buhari’s albatross. Amaechi, who sits as Nigeria’s minister for Transportation in the Buhari government and is believed to be one of Buhari’s biggest sponsors to the Presidency, has been indicted for corruption by the Rivers State Government.

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The presence of Mr. Amaechi in Buhari’s cabinet makes mockery of his fight against corruption and is considerably a witch-hunt of his perceived enemies and political opponents. Amaechi has been named by Judges, including a Supreme Court Judge as attempting to induce them to subvert the course of justice. Although be denied the allegation, very little is left of credibility in him to support such denial.

3. FUNDAMENTALIST APPROACH TO GOVERNANCE

If Nigerians would remember anything of value from the immediate past administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, it would be that he led a government that had high regard for the rule of law, which also strengthened the practice of democracy in Nigeria.

Just two years after Jonathan’s exit, there is a marked deviation from globally accepted democratic norms in Nigeria. Buhari’s regime displays total disregard for democracy and, beyond being high handed, promotes a fundamentalist disposition to governance.

From the records, there’s virtually no conceivable way that the regime hasn’t assaulted democracy. The idea that elections are the expression of the will and mandate of the vast majority of the people, something that used to be taken for granted in Nigeria, has become wishful thinking. The Buhari regime goes all out to undermine the credibility of elections and even uses the military to molest citizens in a bid to suppress the will of the people and scuttle their mandates. Not even upright judges have been spared. Only recently, homes of judges were broken into by the secret police of the President and Judges, including respected Justices of the Supreme Court were abducted and framed up for not undermining election-related and high profile cases before them, as indirectly directed by the government.

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Rivers State, an important oil bearing State with vast wealth has also come under intense fire, as in credit to Buhari’s antidemocratic tendencies and compromises of State Institutions, it remains the only State, to this day, nearly 2 years into the administration that is without representation at the Nigerian Senate and largely at the House of Representatives just because Buhari is bent on having his way by planting both a Governor and legislators from his Party, the All Progressives Congress, against the wishes of Rivers people.

Some may argue that Buhari cannot be directly held to account for the various atrocious incidents that continue to cast him in bad light. As laudable as such a thinking might be, it falls short of credibility and substance. Mr. Buhari cannot but take responsibility for the actions of his appointees and acolytes. Besides, why does the public angst against the prevailing win-at-all-cost approach to politics fall on deaf ears? Can Mr. Buhari also claim ignorance of what is being done to Rivers State? Can he say he is unaware of the recurrent redeployment of security chiefs from the State after very short stays, a practice that, in itself, compromises the Security of the State? Has any word been uttered about the shambolic election that held in Edo in which voters were not only glaringly disenfranchised but of which the results weren’t reflective of the votes cast in spite of its criticism by the African Union? Do these actions have any place in a democracy? Why is the international community quiet about them? Is there a global conspiracy to compromise Nigeria’s democracy?

4. RELIGIOUS CONQUEST

It is widely believed that at the heart of the agenda of the Buhari administration is a sinister plot to conquer southern Nigeria as an extension of the Utman Dan Fodio caliphate of Northern Nigeria. While indeed, there is no real proof of this plot, the pro-Islamic character of the government along with the brazen divisiveness that the President personally promotes against the Southern Nigerians, it is difficult to completely discountenance such plots.

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The plot is further complicated by the unrestrained inroads of Fulani herdsmen into the south, freely killing and maiming innocent Nigeria’s whilst claiming a right to graze farmlands and crops of communities across the South. In response to the infringement of the rights of people by Fulani herdsmen, rather than address the crimes perpetrated by them, the government is moving to grant them grazing rights of occupancy of the farmlands and Indigenous communities in the South; thus likely preparing the grounds for full occupancy of such areas. Where in the world does that happen?

Meanwhile Churches in the North continue to be attacked and Christian underaged girls are ceaselessly being abducted by Islamic fundamentalists for brides against their rights. Some have even alleged that the famous Chibok abduction of hundreds of christian girls from their predominantly Christian community can at best be viewed from the prism of religious conquest. Yet, the government continues to keep mute about these things. Even lip service would have sufficed as a measurable means of cover-up.

5. SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN

Mr. Buhari’s recent visit to Angela Merkel of Germany and his comment while standing by one of the most influential women in the world, that his wife, who by effect represents the Nigerian woman, has no place in politics but in the bedroom and kitchen, is by far the most damning effort by any African President in recent history to undermine women’s rights and further subjugate them under the throes of shackling and limiting religious and social burdens.

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Besides, the fact that the comment was an insult on women around the world, including his host, a female world leader, Buhari used the opportunity of the world stage to entrench the subjugation of the African woman at a time the global community is pushing for the equality of rights between women and men. If that comment was not a danger to African women, then nothing can endanger their rights to equality with men in society.

6. BAD MODEL FOR AFRICAN DEMOCRACY

It is an open secret that President Obama’s reluctance to visit Nigeria in the entire duration of his term was because such a visit would be viewed as an endorsement of a bad model for African democracy. Whether that is the case or not, given the gains achieved by former President Goodluck Jonathan in strengthening the country’s democracy, what is currently happening in the country is enough to cause global shivers among world leaders.

Nigeria has slipped into dictatorship. Elections are now selections by the President or his acolytes save for some States like Rivers, Bayelsa and the South Eastern States among others where the populace have defied the antidemocratic actions of the Federal Government but not without monumental losses including the loss of lives.

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Who would have thought that at this time of civilization and the fancy and appreciation of democracy, Nigerians would be killed or die to cast their votes and ensure that they count. It’s an unfortunate scenario. If allowed to thrive without check by the global community, it would serve as inspiration to African leaders to toe the path of dictatorship.

7. THE STRATEGIC INFLUENCE OF NIGERIA IN AFRICA AND THE WORLD

A thriving Nigerian dictatorship is a threat to world peace and democracy in Africa. The compromised National Institutions and clearly biased government being led by President Buhari amidst the dubious silence by Western democracies over the breaches of human rights and democratic norms can serve as impetus to other African leaders to toe the path of dictatorship.

It is for this reason and more that world leaders, especially American and British leaders who played key roles in the emergence of Mr. Muhammadu Buhari must rise to condemn his draconian leadership. Human rights are universal and inalienable. The infringement of the rights of people in Nigeria is becoming a norm.

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The ramification is dangerous for the African continent given the strategic influence and important to Nigeria in the continent. A bad model must not be allowed to thrive. The ball is in the court of those who hold democratic ideals as cherished ideals and a part of global best practices for all nations without exception.

Source: Scan News Nigeria

BIAFRA: IT IS STILL BIAFRA OR DEATH AS NNAMDI KANU MARKS ONE YEAR IN PRISON

Friday 14 October, 2016          

The rule of law and constitutionalism have finally been nailed to the coffin in Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari. Throughout the history of democracy, rule of law and constitutionalism in Nigeria, be they parliamentary or presidential, Nigeria had never experienced the kind of insult, mockery, humiliation and bastardisation it presently experiences under the leadership of Retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari.

Human rights records of the present administration are also negatively alarming, shocking and deafening. All the third generations of human rights civil, political, economic, socio-cultural, environmental and community rights are observed in gross breach by the Buhari administration.

The Nigerian judiciary under his watch is no longer the bastion of democracy and last hope of the common man. It is now a leprous arm of government being mocked and cajoled from left, right and center. A civilian government that makes mockery of and disobeys the rule of law and constitutionalism is worst than a mad man running amok with a sharp dagger in a crowded market place.

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Nnamdi Kanu is today made a prisoner of conscience by Muhammadu Buhari and his DSS footsoldiers.

This day, October 14, 2015 at Lagos state Nigeria, the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was extra-judicially detained by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, on his way back to Biafra land from his London base over what they termed “hate speech,” allegedly being preached on the radio station.

President Buhari and his DSS had since Nnamdi Kanu was incarcerated flouted and gravely disobeyed two express and consequential orders of the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court and the Federal High Court, Abuja Division bordering on Nnamdi Kanu’s constitutional rights to personal liberty, association, assembly, dignity of human life and freedom of expression.

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It is still fresh in our memory that on 19th October 2015, Justice Shuaibu Usman of the Wuse Zone 2 Magistrate Court in Abuja granted conditional bail to Nnamdi Kanu and on the 22nd of October same year, all the bail conditions were fully met, but the DSS refused to release him on bail, claiming it was acting based on personal directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The Magistrate Court's order for Kanu's bail was followed by two other consequential orders, which were also flagrantly neglected by the same DSS. On 18th November 2015, the DSS told the Abuja Magistrate Court that it had on 10th November 2015 secured an exparte order from the Federal High Court, Abuja Division to detain Nnamdi Kanu for ninety days for the purpose of investigating him for terrorism.

On 17th December 2015, the same Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Adeniyi Ademola struck out and dismissed the DSS fraudulently and unconstitutionally obtained 90 days detention order and directed for the immediate and unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu.

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The DSS again, flouted the order and introduced delay gimmicks attached with rigid conditions, to frustrate the signing of final discharge papers at the Federal High Court that would have allowed Kanu to go home same day. IPOB and the entire populace was puzzled and shocked to observe that 24hours after the DSS’ brazen resort to delay tactics and stringent conditions, they are yet to release Kanu, contrary to the order of the Federal High Court. They rather surfaced again on 18th December 2015 with further delay gimmicks, claiming that its Director-General must be present and personally sign Kanu’s administrative release order. Incredible!

When all these delay tactics were going on, it was gathered that President Buhari reportedly called and opposed his release, directing that the prisoner of conscience Nnamdi Kanu must sign an undertaking pact, renouncing the Biafra agitation, as a condition for his compliance with the court order, failure of which he would remain detained in the DSS custody and be slammed with fresh false charges of “treason.”

It was on ground of the insistence of Kanu’s lawyers that the order of the Federal High Court must be obeyed and enforced to the latter that the DSS refused to release him, stressing that he is being held on suspicion of commission of "treasonable felony". Kanu’s lawyers, family members, his friends and supporters who were present on that fateful day spent over 14 hours, from 10am till after midnight, waiting for his release as was ordered by the court, all to no avail. All was futile.

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For the purposes of clarification, the term “Treasonable Felony” is defined by Section 41 of the Criminal Code as follows: "To remove during his term of office otherwise than by constitutional means, the president as Head of State of the Federation and Commander in Chief of the armed forces, or to likewise remove during this terms of office the governor of a state or to levy war against one's government in order to put any force or compel the president to change his measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or conspire to intimidate or instigate any foreigner to make any armed invasion of Nigeria or any of the territories thereof. Manifestation of such intention by an act is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life”.

Under section 43 of the same Criminal Code, “a person cannot be tried for treas on, treasonable felony or concealment for treason, unless the prosecution is commenced within two years after the offense is committed".

Sequel to the detention of the IPOB leader, Biafra protesters has being brutalized, wounded and abducted. Thousands of innocent Biafra protesters demanding for the release of Nnamdi Kanu have lost their lives in cold blood on the hands of the Nigerian security forces who without mercy released live bullets to the defenseless protesters on numerous occasions "on the command of the African Hitler Muhammadu Buhari".

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During the space of one year of Kanu's illegal detention, the Nigerian state has never remained the same. It has suffered serious financial downturn which has landed it in worst economic recession. Foreign investors had deserted and terminated all the contract they had with Nigeria. The rate of dollar exchange has climaxed, fuel hike keeps going up, plagues had visited 12 villages in Sokoto state, the cost of living is extremely increasing, workers are not paid salaries, the prices of food stuffs in the country has nosedived, etc.

Consequently, freedom fighters in the mold of Niger Delta Avengers further helped to zero-in on the Nigerian economy with their persistent explosion of oil installations in Nigeria hence if their demands to release Nnamdi Kanu by Buhari's administration is not fulfilled.

All these avalanche of problems facing Nigeria could be traced on the words of Nnamdi Kanu in one of his Live broadcasts on Radio Biafra when he stated thus "Somalia will be better than Nigeria if they failed to give us what we asked for which is Biafra's independence" and it's now manifesting true or false?

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Buhari is still hell bent on continuing his journey to perdition, regardless of these troubles facing Nigeria because he is adamant to let the "prisoner of conscience, Nnamdi Kanu go". Just like Pharoah in the Bible who refused to acknowledge the voice of the most high God to let his people, the Israelites go. What happened to Pharoah at last is what Muhammadu Buhari should ask himself if his medulla is still functioning.

Lovers of freedom, Human rights organizations have ordered for the immediate release of Nnamdi Kanu. One of such notable personalities is Julie Ward MP of the EU Parliament who recently on 4th October spoke against the unlawful incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu and other co-accused advising Buhari to obey the rule of law as well as the Constitution of Nigeria. Yet all these was ignored by Hitler Buhari, rather he swore to crush Biafra agitators and vowed never to free Nnamdi Kanu.

It is pertinent to observe that bail is the right of an accused person, once it is not a homicide charge, to enable him to prepare for his defence, which is his constitutional right. If a court grants an accused person bail, the order should be complied with as disobedience to court order is injurious to the smooth running of the administration of justice, and erodes the rule of law, which is a necessary part and parcel of any democratic society to avert anarchy.

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Nnamdi Kanu had spent "one year" in Nigerian prison even when courts had ruled and he has not been found guilty. The Indigenous People of Biafra maintained a peaceful request in the pursuit for Biafra self-determination. They had maintained a peaceful protest all over the world over the unlawful incarceration of their leader Nnamdi Kanu, deploying every peaceful move for his release yet they were taken for granted.

The Nigerian government and the entire world should know that IPOB's disposition to due process and respect to the rule of law should never be seen as weakness. There is limit to which we can take. That IPOB kept mute to allow the law of the good and innocent prevail over Kanu's case doesn't portray cowardice.

The Biafra/Nigeria civil war that started like a joke raged on for about three years and sent many innocent people, running into millions, to despair and sorrow. Hundreds of thousands of the Biafran people went on a journey of no return to their maker. Many more lost their limbs and other vital parts of their body. Others parted ways with all their hard-earned possessions. Some still carry the scars of war till this day, more than 45 years after the war ended.

The government of Buhari is about to pour petrol and explosives into the towering inferno by reacting angrily to a battle that can never be nipped. Nigeria's roof is on fire and the owners of the house should not sleep and snore lest they get badly burnt. Nnamdi Kanu must be freed else Nigeria will ceased to exist. let no one treat or dismiss this 21st century BIAFRA controversy as humbug or treat the resolve of Biafrans with levity because it has the potential of spiralling out of control and snowballing into an unprecedented conflagration of unquenchable propensities. It is still "Biafra or death" even as Nnamdi Kanu marks one year in prison. A word I believe is enough for the wise.

#FreeNnamdiKanu.
#Biafrexit.

By Anyikwa Kelechi Cynthia
Edited By Chukwuemeka Chimerue
Published By Chijindu Benjamin Ukah
For Biafra Writers