#BiafraFallenHeroes: We Remember Those Butchered On 2nd Dec. 2015 By Combined Team Of The Nigeria Security Forces

By Chukwuemeka C, |The Biafra Times

May 28, 2020

MISS Anthonia Nkeiruka Ikeanyionwu, aged 20, was among the fallen heroines who met their untimely death during the picketing at Ojukwu gateway, Onitsha Head bridge on Wednesday, December 2, 2015, by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra(IPOB).

Tragedy struck when few weeks to the end of the year, bullets from the guns of some trigger-happy Nigerian soldiers, in league with other joint sister agencies who were deployed to quell the protest by the IPOB, suddenly flew in from God-knows-where and struck dead Miss Anthonia Nkeiruka Ikeanyionwu, a 200-level student of Educational Management and Policy, Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze, Anambra State, leaving her in a pool of blood.

The picketing at the Head bridge by IPOB, was to drive home their demand for the unconditional release of the then illegally detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu who was languishing at Kuje prisons without any form of trial. Biafrans were simply picketing under moral and ideological precepts against the continued detention and incarceration of Mr Kanu.

The Biafra protesters had converged from various states in Biafra land and beyond to ask for his release only to be attacked at odd hours by the combined team of the Nigerian army, police, civil defence, navy and what have you.

Apart from Miss Ikeanyionwu, the incident led to the death of other innocent hawkers, a 'suya' merchant and passersby who got struck by the stray bullets while some surviving victims sustained varying degrees of injuries as a result of the violent, uncultured and unprofessional engagement of the security operatives.

Furthermore, evidences abound of unarmed and defenseless pro-Biafra protesters being gunned down in cold blood by Nigerian security agents during demonstrations.

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It could be recalled that in respect to the cold murder of Miss Ikeanyionwu and others, a human rights group, The Kingdom Human Rights International, on behalf of IPOB and families of the deceased victims, filed a lawsuit before a Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding an aggregate sum of N8.5 billion in damages against the federal government over the killing and maiming of pro-Biafra protesters on October 20 and December 2, 2015 in parts of South East and South South geopolitical zones.

The suit, which was filed by counsels in the firm, Okere Kingdom Nnamdi, Paul Nwoko, and Richard Udozo, also joined the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Attorney General of the Federation, the National Assembly of Nigeria, and the Chief of Army Staff as respondents.

Others also joined in the suit were: the former Inspector General of Police, the Commissioners of Police in Imo, Anambra, Abia, Enugu, Ebonyi, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers States commands, the Commandant General of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and the Director General of the Department of State Services.

Among other reliefs, the suit was seeking a declaration of the court as crime against humanity, unlawful, cruel, brutal, and wicked the killing of “unarmed, non-violent and peaceful protesters who are exercising their right to peaceful assembly, freedom of association and right to self-determination as guaranteed by sections 39 and 40 of the 1999 Constitution and Articles I, IV XIX of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, by the combined team of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies.”

Though peacefully buried and laid to rest on December 8, 2015, Miss Anthonia Ikeanyionwu will always remain in our minds as part of those who sacrificed their lives for the irrevocable restoration of Biafra and that we shall always remember. She died that we might live to continue in the pursuit to regain our nationhood. And for that single reason, we will forever adore and cherish her even after death.

#BiafraFallenHeroes


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30th May: Why We Must Sit at Home

May 28, 2020

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

The first man my father trained in school, Francis Agboeze, died in the war.  Francis, classmate to Joe Nwodo, fought under the command of General Joe Achuzie. Till date, the younger brother, Remigius Agboeze, still shed tears at the mention or thought of Francis.

My mother told of how Uncle Francis would visit them in their refugee camp with food and other relief items. Sometimes he would visit alone, and at other times with a detachment of soldiers; never sitting down, his brave eyes darting here and there like viper’s. It was Francis who first showed her what a grenade looks like. She wouldn’t fail to mention how elegant and heroic Francis looked in his full Biafra military regalia.

And then, Francis stopped visiting. “In his place, the news of his death arrived,” mom would say in a melancholic voice, tears coursing down her cheeks to drench her blouse. Her gaze now distant, and a heavy sigh escaping her lips, mother would drift into a tale of woes – a tale of what Britain, working through Nigerian arch genocidal soldiers, did to Biafrans.

There was terrible hunger and starvation in the land. Markets, refugee camps, and even hospitals were air-raided by Egyptian, British and Soviet machinery pilots. Farms were destroyed to forestall attempts on food production. Even relief materials were intercepted and destroyed.

Mom would tell how she and other women would prepare dishes and sneak into fields to supply Biafran soldiers. When there is no food, they would roast corns, crack kernels and take them with water to the fighting soldiers. She recounted the urgency with which the soldiers accepted the items and the pleased look in their eyes as they ate. “They fought on empty stomach,” mother would intone.

“They were outnumbered,” dad would add. But for the locally made armaments which came later, they fought practically with bare hands. They would lay in wait for the enemy, and when the opportunity presents itself, sneak in on them, overpower and take their weapons. “That’s how Biafran soldiers acquired their fighting arms until Biafran scientists began local arms productions,” Dad narrated.

Yes, Ojukwu lumped together his father’s wealth into arms purchase, but the world powers, fearing Biafra would emerge a Japan of Africa, conspired together and refused us arms deal while supplying the Nigerian side. And there was Ukpabi Asika factor too. Asika and his likes that were entrusted with the fund to pursue arms deal thought a luxurious life abroad more valuable than the war and the dying Biafrans, and so they pocketed the money and left to enjoy themselves in some foreign countries.  This is similar to our politicians and Ohaneze Ndigbo taking money from Nigerian government and looking the other way as Fulani herdsmen rape and kill us today.

Armless, outnumbered and blockaded they fought for three years, rebuffing the genocidal army and preserving Biafra from annihilation. Many of them died in the battlefield; many were terribly injured, resulting in amputation, loss of sight, and many other terrible deformations.

The finest of brains were there among the dead. Think of Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo – the best thing that ever happened to African poetry. Think of Dr. Imegwu, Joe Uchendu, Amamchukwu Okeke, Nathaniel Okpala, and many others.

How about the one million children that were starved to death? What offence did they commit? Scientists were among them; medical doctors were there too, and so were legal luminaries, Economists, Agriculturists, pilots, journalists, writers, Engineers, educationists, miners, filmmakers, footballers, musicians, choristers, bankers, and industrialists like Innoson who could produce cars and jets. They were all starved to death for no offense of their own. Think of where they would have been today in the society; think of the contributions they would have made to the societal growth. Think of people like Philip Emeagwali, Bath Nnadji, Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealaa, Kanu Nwankwo, Genevive Nnaji, Phyno Fyno, P’Square and all the names that propel the economy, stir technological advancement or entertain you. If they were starved to death or crushed by sheer brutal force of genocide, would we have had the advantage of benefiting from them? If you value the aforementioned folks and their contributions to the society, wouldn’t you grieve at their demise? 

We want to grieve the untimely and forceful demise of their kind during the thirty-month genocidal onslaught visited upon our people from 1967-1970. We want to tell them that we value their sacrifices and miss what they would have contributed to our growth as a people. We want to recognize and honour them.

I started this article with the story about my uncle, Francis Agboeze. I didn’t know him but from the stories told about him, my parents’ account and loving memories of him, I came to value and miss him. I miss a man I never met. This is because he was of value to the society while he walked the earth. He died defending his fatherland.

There are many Francis amongst us … just ask around and you will hear of them. They all died defending our parents. If they didn’t stand against the aggressors, would your parents have lived to give birth to you? Denying ourselves social, economic, academic and religious activities for a day as in honour of their sacrifices is not too much of us. Remember, the world over, people celebrate and honour their dead.

Again I demand you ask around. Ask your parents, and if your parents are no more, ask your uncles and aunties. There was a Francis Agboeze in your family; there was a Francis Agboeze in your neighbourhood. There is no family or neighbourhood that did not lose a soul in the war. Will sacrificing a day in their honour keep you from prospering? I don’t think so. Keep a date with them on May 30.

May God bless, nurture and sustain you all as you sit back home in honour of our dead.


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A Successful Sit-at-home, an Indication the Masses are with Nnamdi Kanu

June 3, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

Just as the previous years, this year's Biafra Heroes' Remembrance Day was successful by any standard of measurement. Those in diaspora marked it with solemn procession and prayers, returning to the world's consciousness the evil visited on Biafra by the Nigerian state backed by Britain and its allies, and the sacrifices of our gone heroes to preserve Biafra from genocide. On the home front, life was brought to a halt as the people disengaged from their usual activities, sitting back home to mourn their fallen heroes, the starved-to-death one million children, and all the victims of Biafra war as well as MASSOB and IPOB family members massacred by the murderous Nigerian military and police at Aba, Onicha, Nkpor, Igwe-Ocha(Port-Harcourt), Enugwu, Owerri, Agbor and Asaba. Business hubs were seen deserted, streets lonely, and markets under lock and key. This of course was preceded by a candlelight procession the eve of 30th.

Recall that the call for this sit-at-home honour to our dead was made by the Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Although an expressive honour to those who died that we may live, unscrupulous elements in the guise of Igbo leaders sought to thwart it. These disruptive elements who have sold selves to Hausa/Fulani oligarchy for political appointments and contracts asked the masses to ignore Nnamdi Kanu's sit-at-home call and go about their duties, tugging at the economic plight of the people.

They argued that sitting back at home for one day will impact negatively on the people and for that reason, the people should ignore Nnamdi Kanu's directives and move out to attend to their businesses. But then, in their manipulative tendencies they conveniently forgot that just recently, specifically on 23rd February and 9th March 2019, every activity in Nigeria – be it economic, academic, social or religious – was brought to a halt on the basis of election. The entire country was grounded. If one takes into cognizance the total vote cast, one will realize that over 80% of the populace did not participate in that charade mistaken for election. Yet they were all forced to abandon their usual daily activities. The so-called Igbo leaders pretending to be concerned of the people’s economic wellbeing didn’t raise an objecting voice.

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A few days ago, 29th May on the precise, every corporate activity in the country was grounded on the basis of swearing in. Banks are private businesses; private schools are private businesses, and so are many other established companies. They had no hand in the swearing-in ceremonies, yet they were all forced to shut down. The stomach-driven folks masquerading as Igbo leaders had no problem with that. Still, in less than a fortnight's time, June 12 on the precise, every corporate activity will again be brought to a halt – this time, in honour of a single man, MKO Abiola, and our so-called Igbo leaders are silent. They have not talked about how such shutdown impacts negatively on people’s economy.

Well, the people having been deceived for too long factored in these things and realizing that the so-called Igbo leaders don't really mean well for them ignored them to throw in with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, sitting back home and sacrificing whatever they would have gained on that singular day in honour of their fallen heroes. It thus follows that they understand and value the enormous sacrifice those that died in the war made and that their loyalty is with Nmamdi Kanu and not the so-called Igbo leaders who ride on their misery to cut deals for selves.

On behalf of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu whose voice you heeded to honour our fallen heroes, his dependable, sagacious and loving deputy, Mazi Uche Mefor, and the entire leadership of IPOB whose work made it possible, I, your son and humble servant, say thanks a million. As you have shown value for the sacrifices of those that died for your sake, whatever you would have gained on that 30th May will return to you a thousandfold. May Chukwu Okike Abiama who sitteth enthroned forever bless, nurture and sustain you all.

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Biafra Heroes Day: No Mockery of Our Dead Heroes on 30th May

The Biafra Times | May 24, 2019

IPOB PRESS RELEASE

As Biafrans both home and in the diaspora, including friends and lovers of freedom, prepare for the annual 30th of May Remembrance this year in our unique and special way,  we the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it's leadership worldwide wish to reiterate again that Biafrans will bring the activities in Biafraland and parts of Nigeria to a standstill on that fateful day.

We are urging all Biafrans, no matter where you reside in the world, to adhere to this clarion call to observe this historic event in a solemn and befitting manner. No public gathering, human or vehicular movement, ceremony or lectures of any kind are allowed on that day.

It is most unfortunate that some faceless hired groups without any presence on the ground are still struggling to politicize this only historic event introduced and organized for Biafrans to remember and honor our fallen heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate price for us all to be alive today.

With the threat of imminent wholesale Fulanization on the horizon, we wonder why these shameless and unscrupulous individuals and groups, sponsored by the Nigerian government, are still occupied with such inordinate ambition as to talk about organizing a meaningless talking show on such a revered date.

We want to assure these hired groups that shame shall befall them because all genuinely patriotic Biafrans have determined that May 30th is a holy day.

We are not against any person organizing any activity outside May 30 but that day is special and shall remain so for eternity.

No lectures, creative discussions or politically motivated and sponsored event on the 30th of May because Biafrans cannot allow quislings to make a mockery of our dead heroes on that particular day.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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Biafra Heroes Day: I must remember my uncle on 30th May

May 23, 2019

Dave O. Umahi | For Biafra Writers

My uncle, Sunday Onwuka, was a promising young man of seventeen when the war broke out. The genocidal Nigerian army murdered him in cold blood. He was such a loving personality the survivors of the war passed his story down to my generation. Listening to the stories told about him I have always broken down in tears.

My tears are prompted not just by the sad loss, but also by the realization that many other promising young men went the same way. These are people that would have bridged the gap between us and the older generation, thereby occasioning a smooth transfer of knowledge and wisdom. But the devilish Nigeria state would not allow that.

Sunday was said to be so lively in discussions; so urbane, full of wisdom and witty enough to have excelled in today's comedy industry. He was said to be so athletically built and sparkling in appearance that he was easily noticed wherever he entered.

Sunday’s fate came one cursed evening in 1969. The war was nearing its end but the vandals (Nigerian genocidal army) was still loitering about, seeking young girls to defile. The few youths that were still alive had gathered together to take in fresh air and relieve selves of the agony of the war with some folklore. The murderous Nigerian soldiers arrived, and offended that such an urbane young adult was still around, they seized Sunday, tied his hands behind him and carried him off. That spelt the end of Sunday; his corpse was not even found.

Yet, some people say we shouldn’t remember Sunday and the millions like him come 30th May. Are they in their right senses?  Biafrans have chosen May 30 of every year to mourn and honour the victims of the war. We have chosen to sit back at home, denying ourselves of every social and economic activity in remembrance of every Biafran soul lost in that genocidal war visited upon us. We do so not by compulsion but by freewill, so the Nigerian police and army threating to stop us need urgent psychiatric attention. Sincerely.

#30thMayBiafraHeroesRemembranceDay

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#BiafraFallenHeroes: A Eulogy In Honour And Remembrance Of Count Carl Gustaf

The Biafra Times | May 22, 2019

By Comr. Chukwu Ogbu | For Biafra Writers

Your Eminence, lovers of freedom, members of Count Carl Gustaf Von Rosen's family and my fellow Biafra citizen.

Today I pen down in tears this Eulogy in remembrance of Count Carl Gustaf Von, a Biafran pilot who hails from Sweden for his indulgence, and magnificent valor during the height of the pogrom from Nigeria and Britain against Biafrans.

Indeed, duty, decency, reliability, honour, dignity, respect: these and more are all the attributes that Count Carl Gustaf Von not only held in high esteem but practised everyday during his time on this earth. He was a serious and disciplined man who stood firm to challenge the atrocities been inflicted on Biafrans and the continuous harassment of the relief flights by the Nigerian Air Force, he hatched a plan in collaboration with the French secret service and dealt a serious blow on Nigerian army killing her soldiers and destroyed their warplanes.

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Carl a man that hate injustice, subjugation and slavery. Oh yes,  Carl defiled a standing order from British/Nigeria against sending relief materials to Biafrans. A man that flew a DC-7 plane from São Tomé to Uli at only a little above sea level in August 1968 just to ensure he sent relief food items and materials to war-ravaged and starved Biafrans. What a lettered humanitarian!
Biafra can still feel the impacts of this great man in their lives today even as they aspire to be a free nation.

All over the world, Carl was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over Biafra, Carl is a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden citizens.

Carl has gone home now, guided by his faith and by the light of Biafrans he has fought in defence of their rights. At last, he is with them once more, leaving those of us who grieve his passing with the memories he gave, the good that he did, the dream of Biafra nation he kept alive, and a single, enduring image of a freedom fighter.

It is a great privilege to write this eulogy to express the sadness that Biafrans shares for his loss. Carl, thank you for everything you have done for us, posterity will never forget you. God bless you and rest in peace always.

We shall always remember your great sacrifices to our nationhood.
Adieu, Carl!

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#BiafraFallenHeroes: Reminiscing The Great Moments Of A Great Icon, Selfless Leader And Pioneer Biafra Head Of State, Gen. Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

By Victoria O. C. Agangan || For Biafra Writers

May 22, 2019

The image so often associated with Africa – a child with stick-thin limbs and swollen belly – dates back to the first televised famine, the Biafra war. The man who understood the power of that image was an Oxford-educated Nigerian soldier, Emeka Ojukwu.

Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, to use his full name, proclaimed the short-lived Republic of Biafra in 1967. His demeanour of a gentleman-rebel standing up to the Nigerian Goliath appealed to western intellectuals such as Frederick Forsyth and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A Swedish count built and flew planes for the Biafra country's air force and its struggle for independence inspired the French humanitarian Bernard Kouchner to create Médecins Sans Frontières.

The son of one of Nigeria's most successful transport entrepreneurs, Ojukwu was from the Igbo tribe born on November 4, 1933, in Zungeru, the northern part of Nigeria. He received the best education – King's College, Lagos; Epsom College, Surrey and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in modern history in 1955. He refused to go into his father's business and instead spent two years as an unglamorous administrative head officer in the Eastern Nigerian public service.

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In 1957, Ojukwu joined the Royal West African Frontier Forces as a recruit. He rose rapidly through the ranks, ending his training at Sandhurst at the time of Nigerian independence in 1960. Under British indirect rule, Nigeria had been crudely divided along tribal lines: politics was for the northern Hausa tribe, commercial clout was the preserve of the supposedly industrious Yorubas on the south-western coast and education was for the administratively inclined Igbos in the east of the country.

Unhappy at northern heavy-handedness and discrimination, Igbo officers staged a coup in 1966 and installed Ojukwu as governor of the Eastern Region, which includes the oil-rich Niger Delta. When the counter-coup came six months later, Ojukwu refused to step down.

As the Eastern governor, Ojukwu sought peacefully to resolve matters. He tried to maintain military hierarchy by insisting that Brigadier Ogundipe took the mantle of leadership instead of a junior officer, Col. Gowon but Ogundipe was convinced in London to step into the Nigerian High Commission.

On 29th September, a fatal pogrom with beastly brutality was carried out mostly against the Igbos and other ethnic groups in the Eastern region by the northern elements. Maimed, bruised Biafrans returned en masse, yet Gen. Ojukwu never abated his quest for peace having previously made futile attempts for a badly damaged unity that has become irreparable. He proceeded to Aburi, Ghana on 4th January, 1967 for a peace conference with Gowon, Gen Joseph Ankarah was the host. There, Ojukwu succeeded in getting Gowon to sign a peace treaty called "Aburi Accord."

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Upon return, Gowon reneged on the agreement reached at Aburi. He split the Eastern region into three states. He was solely responsible for the war. Gen. Ojukwu from Nnewi, Anambra state, left with no other option, declared the defunct nation of the Republic of Biafra on May 30, 1967 with the mandate of the Eastern Nigeria Consultative Assembly. Three days later, Gowon declared war and besieged Biafra. The diplomatic war in the present day Nigeria is a replica of what Biafra has continously faced in the past.

Under pressure from Igbos in the military, he declared independence for the 29,000 square-mile region of Biafra on 30 May, 1967. A flag was designed, featuring a rising sun. A currency(in pounds and shillings) was issued and the beginnings of a welfare state were put in place. Ojukwu personally chose a movement from Jean Sibelius's Finlandia as the tune to the national anthem, in reference to the Nordic country's resistance to foreign domination.

But the region's oil wealth made Biafran independence intolerable to Nigeria and the international community and as a result, in July 6, 1967, then Nigerian Military Government headed by Col. Yakubu Gowon declared war and attacked Biafra. He besieged an already wounded people. He came with international support from thirthy countries, and for thirty months Biafra under the leadership of Gen. Ojukwu persevered against all odds.

A futile and avoidable two-and-a-half-year war cost millions of innocent Biafran lives as Nigeria created famine conditions and enlisted British and Soviet support against a ragtag army equipped with home-made military hardware.

The scar of that war is ever green in our minds — It was characterized by genocide of sorts and these included wanton killings, molestation and rape, blockage of food and aids, over three million Biafrans, men, women and children died. Many got displaced till date in foreign lands.

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By 1969, Biafra was on its knees and Ojukwu fled into exile in Ivory Coast, handing over the baton of leadership to his second-in-command, Maj. Gen. Philip Effiong from Itshekiri, present day Akwa-Ibom state. President Felix of Ivory Coast had recognized Biafra and offered asylum to him. Twelve years later he was granted a pardon and returned to Nigeria where he formed the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and ran for president in 2003 and 2007. In 2008, he received his military pension from the Nigerian government but complained complained that it ranked him as a lieutenant-colonel rather than as a general, his rank in the Biafran army.

Vonnegut described Ojukwu as Biafra's George Washington. He wrote: "When we met General Ojukwu, his soldiers were going into battle with 35 rounds of rifle ammunition. There was no more where that came from. For weeks before that, they had been living on one cup of garri a day. The recipe for garri is this: Add water to pulverized cassava root. Now the soldiers didn't even have gari anymore. General Ojukwu described a typical Nigerian attack for us: 'They pound a position with artillery for 24 hours, then they send forward one armoured car. If anybody shoots at it, it retreats, and another 24 hours of bombardment begins. When the infantry moves forward, they drive a screen of refugees before them. If we go forward, we die. If we go backward, we die. So we go forward'".

The American writer was among a dozen intellectuals invited by Ojukwu to witness the Biafran war in a bid to influence western public opinion and secure airlifts of food. Another was Forsyth whose biography of him, Emeka, was published in 1982.

In Nigeria, Ojukwu's legacy is largely viewed as positive for having stood up for his ethnic group, having proved incorruptible and having essentially personified the country's view of itself as constantly riven along ethnic lines. After his death in November 26, 2011 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital – where he had been admitted following a stroke in December 2010 – President Goodluck Jonathan paid him a glowing tribute: "Ojukwu's immense love of his people, justice, equity and fairness forced him into the leading role he played in the Nigerian civil war."

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB leader, today, represents the adage: "He who runs, lives to fight another day." Presently, the Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari and his Army Chief, Tukur Yusuf Buratai have killed, maimed, incarcerated, kidnapped and illegaly imprisoned and denied release even against court orders. In all these we must not relent. Our hitherto inner conscious mind have been awakened by Nnamdi Kanu. We must not relent but fight on until Biafra is restored.

We must not forget nor relent!
Adieu Gen. Ojukwu!
Long live Biafra!

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Biafra’s Annual Heroes and Heroines Day, an Already Established Day in Biafra Land

May 14, 2019

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

Biafrans are a people carved out for total annihilation by Britain and their collaborators, using the Nigerian state as a tool. To realize this evil dream, all sorts of inhumane and degrading treatments have been exacted on the peace-loving people of Biafra. This can be mirrored in the several genocidal acts meted out on them for centuries.

It is pertinent to note that even before the creation of Nigeria, Biafrans experienced several horrors in the hand of the British Empire for opposing the rising power of the Royal Niger Company (RNC) in the land. The British Empire fought cruelly against Biafrans, killing thousands in their bid to gain absolute control of Biafra land. As of 1883-1914, the Biafrans have struggled with the Aro and the Ekumeku wars visited upon them by Britain.

In those wars, thousands of Biafran lives were lost in defense of our land. But for that great sacrifice of theirs, there wouldn’t have been anything like today’s generation; there wouldn’t have been anybody to resist the later aggressions informed by the British desire to take over the oil fields of Biafra.

The indirect rule system introduced by Fredrick Lugard in Biafra land was greatly repelled by gallant Biafran women in what is today known as “the Aba Women Riot of 1929.” In this attempt to protect the land from Lugard’s corrupt instincts perpetuated through his Warrant Chiefs, fifty-one women and one man lost their life.

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The people of Biafra have set aside 30th May of every year as a remembrance day for all who have sacrificed much for mother Biafra. On this day, Biafrans also remember the true elders of the land whose heads were cut off and hung on a stick for rejecting the evil antics of the colonialists.

The massacres of Biafrans in the North and in the Southwest (which precipitated the declaration of Biafra as a sovereign state) cannot be forgotten. Biafran pregnant women were disemboweled and then allowed to bleed to death.  Biafrans remember them.
The Biafran children who were starved to death, the civilians gruesomely killed during the war, and Biafran soldiers who died fighting in defense of our land are all remembered on the 30th of May every year. It is a day the people reminisce on their history, a day in which Biafrans appreciate those sacrifices that have kept them going and pledge never to back down until they extricate themselves from the abominable entity called Nigeria.

On that hallowed day of remembrance, members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), as well as members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, killed by the murderous Nigerian military are honoured. Every Biafran is hereby called on to observe this coming Biafra Heroes Day by simply sitting back at home.

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30th May: Why We Must Sit at Home

May 13, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

The first man my father trained in school, Francis Agboeze, died in the war.  Francis, classmate to Joe Nwodo, fought under the command of General Joe Achuzie. Till date, the younger brother, Remigius Agboeze, still shed tears at the mention or thought of Francis.

My mother told of how Uncle Francis would visit them in their refugee camp with food and other relief items. Sometimes he would visit alone, and at other times with a detachment of soldiers; never sitting down, his brave eyes darting here and there like viper’s. It was Francis who first showed her what a grenade looks like. She wouldn’t fail to mention how elegant and heroic Francis looked in his full Biafra military regalia.

And then, Francis stopped visiting. “In his place, the news of his death arrived,” mom would say in a melancholic voice, tears coursing down her cheeks to drench her blouse. Her gaze now distant, and a heavy sigh escaping her lips, mother would drift into a tale of woes – a tale of what Britain, working through Nigerian arch genocidal soldiers, did to Biafrans.

There was terrible hunger and starvation in the land. Markets, refugee camps, and even hospitals were air-raided by Egyptian, British and Soviet machinery pilots. Farms were destroyed to forestall attempts on food production. Even relief materials were intercepted and destroyed.

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Mom would tell how she and other women would prepare dishes and sneak into fields to supply Biafran soldiers. When there is no food, they would roast corns, crack kernels and take them with water to the fighting soldiers. She recounted the urgency with which the soldiers accepted the items and the pleased look in their eyes as they ate. “They fought on empty stomach,” mother would intone.

“They were outnumbered,” dad would add. But for the locally made armaments which came later, they fought practically with bare hands. They would lay in wait for the enemy, and when the opportunity presents itself, sneak in on them, overpower and take their weapons. “That’s how Biafran soldiers acquired their fighting arms until Biafran scientists began local arms productions,” Dad narrated.

Yes, Ojukwu lumped together his father’s wealth into arms purchase, but the world powers, fearing Biafra would emerge a Japan of Africa, conspired together and refused us arms deal while supplying the Nigerian side. And there was Ukpabi Asika factor too. Asika and his likes that were entrusted with the fund to pursue arms deal thought a luxurious life abroad more valuable than the war and the dying Biafrans, and so they pocketed the money and left to enjoy themselves in some foreign countries.  This is similar to our politicians and Ohaneze Ndigbo taking money from Nigerian government and looking the other way as Fulani herdsmen rape and kill us today. 

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Armless, outnumbered and blockaded they fought for three years, rebuffing the genocidal army and preserving Biafra from annihilation. Many of them died in the battlefield; many were terribly injured, resulting in amputation, loss of sight, and many other terrible deformations.

The finest of brains were there among the dead. Think of Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo – the best thing that ever happened to African poetry. Think of Dr. Imegwu, Joe Uchendu, Amamchukwu Okeke, Nathaniel Okpala, and many others.

How about the one million children that were starved to death? What offence did they commit? Scientists were among them; medical doctors were there too, and so were legal luminaries, Economists, Agriculturists, pilots, journalists, writers, Engineers, educationists, miners, filmmakers, footballers, musicians, choristers, bankers, and industrialists like Innoson who could produce cars and jets. They were all starved to death for no offense of their own. Think of where they would have been today in the society; think of the contributions they would have made to the societal growth. Think of people like Philip Emeagwali, Bath Nnadji, Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealaa, Kanu Nwankwo, Genevive Nnaji, Phyno Fyno, P’Square and all the names that propel the economy, stir technological advancement or entertain you. If they were starved to death or crushed by sheer brutal force of genocide, would we have had the advantage of benefiting from them? If you value the aforementioned folks and their contributions to the society, wouldn’t you grieve at their demise?   

We want to grieve the untimely and forceful demise of their kind during the thirty-month genocidal onslaught visited upon our people from 1967-1970. We want to tell them that we value their sacrifices and miss what they would have contributed to our growth as a people. We want to recognize and honour them.

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I started this article with the story about my uncle, Francis Agboeze. I didn’t know him but from the stories told about him, my parents’ account and loving memories of him, I came to value and miss him. I miss a man I never met. This is because he was of value to the society while he walked the earth. He died defending his fatherland.

There are many Francis amongst us … just ask around and you will hear of them. They all died defending our parents. If they didn’t stand against the aggressors, would your parents have lived to give birth to you? Denying ourselves social, economic, academic and religious activities for a day as in honour of their sacrifices is not too much of us. Remember, the world over, people celebrate and honour their dead.

Again I demand you ask around. Ask your parents, and if your parents are no more, ask your uncles and aunties. There was a Francis Agboeze in your family; there was a Francis Agboeze in your neighbourhood. There is no family or neighbourhood that did not lose a soul in the war. Will sacrificing a day in their honour keep you from prospering? I don’t think so. Keep a date with them on May 30.

May God bless, nurture and sustain you all as you sit back home in honour of our dead.

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Antagonizing Sit-at-home Order, an Indication Igbo Leaders are Under Hausa/Fulani Control

Pic: Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Dr. Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, departing from Enugu after a 2-day visit

May 9, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

The Indigenous People of Biafra called on the people to sit back home, disengaging from all activities for about twelve hours on the 30th of May as an expression of honour and appreciation to those who died defending them during the genocidal war of Nigeria against Biafra, the estimated one million children starved to death during this frightening period, the adult civilian victims, and the MASSOB and IPOB family members killed by Nigerian agents for no other reason but exercising their constitutional right of self-determination. In its wake, some disruptive elements have reportedly risen up to oppose the call, pegging their antagonism on some flimsy and ridiculous reasons. 

Regrettably, these elements of disruption are either from the political sector or the proscribed Ohaneze Ndigbo – a class of people obsessed with the nomenclature “Igbo leaders” but practically does nothing befitting to truly earn it.  Considering that asides their thugs, personal aids and a few dependents, most of them do not have actual followers, one wonders what manner of leadership they lay claim on. Well, this article does not seek to question their claim on leadership but their sanity instead.

As published by the Punch newspaper on May 5, 2019, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state, Anambra state government, the Deputy Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, have all staged opposition to the sit-at-home declaration by IPOB to honour departed Biafran heroes. In their antagonism, some of them tugged at economic effects of the order, while orders merely questioned the constitutional rights of IPOB as a body to make such call.

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Reading through the utterances as published and credited to them, I found myself reeling back into the past. Shortly after the people of Nimbo in Nsukka was massacred by the marauding Fulani herders, the governor of Enugu state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, thought it best to bring to the grieving land the Sultan of Sokoto whose foot soldiers unleashed the mayhem. To receive this Islamic “Lord,” schools were shut down, banks were shut down, the famous Ogige market was shut down, commercial transporters were forced out of the road, and even street markets were all shut down. Life was practically brought to a standstill. The so-called Igbo leaders now sprouting from all corners to express economic concerns over the Heroes’ Day sit-at-home call by IPOB never uttered a word. They didn’t express any concern over the economic plight of the people. None of them questioned the wisdom in shutting down a city in honour of one Islamic irredentist on visit. But they antagonize IPOB for seeking to honour Biafran fallen heroes, in the same manner, Enugu state government honoured the Sultan.

Not long ago, the enclave was agog with a political tug-of-war. When APC brought their frontman, Jubril, to Onicha for campaign, economic activities were shut down. When they took him to Aba, Enugu, Igwe-ocha (Port Harcourt), Asaba and the rest of the places he went, the respective cities were forcefully shut down. Commuters were even barred from passing. No Igbo leader, be it political or sociocultural, expressed any concern over the impact of such on the economy of the people. As a matter of fact, they cheered on.  Yet they consider twelve hours of sitting back at home in honour of Biafran fallen heroes too much a sacrifice.

As mentioned in paragraph three, some people, notably Ebonyi state government, questioned the constitutional rights of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as a body to issue such order. One then begins to ask: What constitutional rights have the governors in shutting down a city in honour of a visiting Sultan or a Buhari-impersonating Jubril?

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Of course, the disruptive elements in the guise of Igbo leaders have ulterior motive for opposing the sit-at-home call. As have been laid to bare, both the economic plight of the people and the question of constitutional rights advanced by these elements are but a ruse. The real reason behind their antagonism is to demonstrate to the Northern hegemony their unwavering loyalty to the caliphate. Of course, the caliphate hates everything pertaining to Biafra, and since after the war has been dictating the political tune in the South East. As such, they install into power those loyal to them and use them to work against Biafra. Igbo political office holders as well as those aspiring to would readily oppose anything Biafran so as to endear themselves to the caliphate.

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30TH MAY: Hostility to Sit-at-home Order, a Treachery-driven Wheeze

May 8, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

As published on May 5, 2019, by Punch Newspaper, a range of Igbo leaders are opposing the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. We do not know for certain if the statements credited to the named folks are true or not … I say this because Nigerian media thrives on fake news. Nevertheless, since none of the mentioned individuals has issued a disclaimer, it becomes pertinent to look into the issues as published and credited to them.

IPOB called for a sit-at-home as an honour to every Biafran who died for the sake of Biafra – those that died in battlefield in the late sixties, the civilians that were murdered by Nigerian genocidal soldiers, the children and even adults that were starved to death, IPOB and MASSOB members that were killed and are still being killed by Nigerian armed forces. Some self-seeking political figures of Igbo extraction, however, have come out to oppose it as reported by the Punch newspaper. One then wonders what’s wrong with remembering one’s dead?

All over the world indigenous people remember and honour their heroes. Even Christmas and Easter celebrations observed by Christians are in remembrance of the birth and death of Jesus Christ … the most important Christian figure. Muslims have theirs, and so do other faiths around the globe. Not long ago, Vice President Yemi Osibanjo flew to far away Rwanda to attend a ceremony in honour of the 150,000 victims of Rwanda genocide.  It thus follows that mourning or honouring one’s dead is cultural, legal and acceptable. What then is wrong with Biafrans honouring their own fallen heroes?

Ironically, those opposing the remembrance day for Biafran fallen heroes welcomed the idea of Vice President Osibanjo traveling to far away Rwanda in honour of 150, 000 people. Biafra lost over five million (5,000,000) people during the war and about additional half a million from the end of the war to present day. Which weighs more?  How is it that the so-called Igbo leaders value outsiders more than their very own? Could this be a curse laced in blind politics?

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Governor Dave Umahi who has never questioned the constitutional rights of the army killing unarmed Biafra protesters or the invasion of  Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s house, suddenly finds his voice in questioning IPOB’s constitutional rights in declaring a mourning day for victims of genocide perpetrated against Biafrans in 1967-1970, and which has been visited upon the same people periodically ever since the war was verbally pronounced ended. 

Governor Umahi has never hidden his aversion and opposition to Biafra sovereignty. This antagonism against Biafra Heroes Day is just another expression of hostility to Biafra nationhood. We should not forget that it was Umahi who, acting in his capacity as a favoured child of the caliphate, pronounced IPOB proscribed, an action that provided the murderous Nigerian military an expansive ground to massacre Biafrans. Umahi connived with the rest of the Igbo governors and Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership to invite the army to Biafra land and unleash terror on innocent Biafrans exercising their constitutional rights, and then turn around to question IPOB’s constitutional rights to mourn the victims. What constitutional rights have Dave Umahi and his collaborators to kill innocent protesters? What constitutional right has Umahi to pronounce IPOB proscribed?

This wretch of a governor, David Umahi, shamelessly said “We have to go about our businesses come May 30, 2019.” Of course he and his cohorts have to go about their business because they are part of the killing scheme. They have to go about their business so as to distance themselves from Biafran bond and prove to their Hausa/Fulani paymasters that their loyalty is still to them.

For Anambara government whose opposition to the sit-at-home order was made known through its Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C-Don Adinuba, Biafrans remembering their dead breeds anarchy and disorder. Yet the one Vice President Osibanjo attended in Rwanda did not breed anarchy and disorder. And how about Easter festival which is actually the remembrance of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as believed by Christians? It doesn’t bread anarchy and disorder, but celebrating Biafra Heroes Day somehow breeds anarchy and disorder?  Adinuba asked Biafrans not to heed the sit-at-home order, yet the people have been heeding it since 2014 – a sign he doesn’t speak for the people.

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The proscribed Ohaneze Ndigbo which has never really given a thus about the economic plight of Biafrans has also stepped forward to wave an opposition flag against the Heroes Day celebration, packaging their treachery in the form of economic concerns.  Speaking through its Deputy Publicity Secretary, Chuks Ibegbu, the now proscribed sociocultural group argued that closing down economic activities of the people is of negative impact, adding that IPOB did not consult them before making the declaration.

Does IPOB really need to consult an outlawed and crises disbanded Ohaneze Ndigbo? It does seem the reality of their proscription is yet to dawn on them fully, but even before their proscription, what really has Ohaneze influenced for Biafrans? Of what significance was the group to the people? And talking about consultation, does anyone really need be persuaded to accept the remembrance and honouring of one’s heroes? Biafra Heroes Day has been in celebration for some years now, are the so-called Ohaneze Ndigbo claiming ignorance of it or what?

Dear Ohaneze Ndigbo, you are proscribed, so Biafrans need not consult you before embarking on any project. Even before you were proscribed, you were helplessly ineffective. And if the people can survive Sundays, Ramadan holidays, Christmas and Easter holidays, May Day, Democracy day and all other holidays that paralyze economic activities, they can as well survive twelve hours of economic inactivity in honour of their fallen heroes.

Summing it all up, one realizes that the antagonistic outbursts are treachery-driven and born out of antipathy against Biafra nationhood. Biafrans are thus advised to ignore the self-seeking political slaves who sacrifice our common good for their immediate gratification.

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Opposing Sit-at-home Order, a Confirmation of the Insincerity of Igbo Leaders

May 6, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

The sit-at-home order by IPOB is not new. It has been with the people since 2014 when the Supreme Leader of Indigenous people of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, remarkably hosted the Biafra Hero’s Day at the premises of the then newly erected cenotaph in Enugwu. And contrary to the prevaricating narrative being propelled by Punch Newspaper, the order or celebration is not exclusively to mourn IPOB members killed by agents of the Federal Government on the same date two years ago. The order is to mourn every Biafran who died defending Biafra from the genocidal onslaught of the Nigerian state, whether in the war of 1967-1970 or in activism as is the case with IPOB family members and MASSOB.

Thousands of Biafrans, predominantly IPOB family members have been killed and are still being killed by Nigerian agents. To say the sit-at-home mourning declaration by IPOB is to mourn only those killed on 30th May a couple of years ago is to be economical with the truth and highly prevaricating. But then that’s the specialty of Nigerian media.

The date “30th May” is so chosen because it was on that very day in 1967 that The People’s General, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, mandated by the entirety of the then Eastern Region, declared the Sovereignty of Biafra and consequentially began the defense of Biafran territories.

As mentioned in the opening paragraph, the sit-at-home order, which is actually itemized “Biafra Heroes Day,” has been in schedule since 2014, and has never been anarchical. On the contrary, it has always been peaceful … more peaceful than any festive celebration Nigeria has ever witnessed, be it Christian or Islamic. Biafra Heroes Day has never been associated with any form of violence – molestation, robbery, arson, or what-have-you. It’s therefore nonsensical for anyone or group of persons to oppose the celebration on the pretext of it being anarchical.

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In an interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, the Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C-Don Adinuba, shamelessly stated that the call for Biafrans to honour their dead generates anarchy and disorder. How on earth does someone mourning his dead generate anarchy and disorder? How, oh Mr. Commissioner, does someone sitting back at home create anarchy and disorder? In the past years that Biafrans observed this hallowed day of remembrance, was there any crime linked to the celebration? If not sheer vile exuding from insipid stupidity, why should someone associate morning the dead with anarchy and disorder?

Expressing his own stupidity, the Deputy Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Chuks Ibegbu, queried the rationale behind people sitting back at home on 30th May, arguing that it will impact negatively on the economy of the people. Yet it is the culture of the people to abstain from economic and social activities as a sign of respect to a departed soul. Come to that, how could a single day of self-deprivation in grieving honour to those that laid down their life for you possibly occasion adverse economy?

Okechukwu Isiguzoro – the so-called President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council – was no different from Ibegbu in his self-demeaning reaction. In his words, asking the southerners not to go anywhere for 24 hours is not wise economically.

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We just returned from May Day celebration – a public holiday in which economic activities were shut down across the country, and notably, that is less than a fortnight of two-day Easter holiday. Ramadan is on the way, and so are Democracy Day and many other economic-paralyzing holidays. It’s quite ironical that those pretending to be concerned about the people’s economy have no problem with these other numerous public rest days but have problem with the single one that seek to honour those that actually died for their sake. Shameful! 

The sitting governor of Ebonyi state, David Umahi, was also reported as saying, albeit, through his Chief Press Secretary, Emma Uzor, that IPOB has no constitutional right to declare such order. But what has Governor Umahi done for Biafrans with all the constitutional rights bestowed on him? Why hasn’t he used his constitutional rights to call for the honour of Biafran fallen heroes?

Summing up all the dissenting voices and the flimsy reasons they advance, one can’t help but question the reasonability of these folks parading selves as Igbo leaders. It doesn’t seem themselves are convinced on their own reasons, but seeking to appear as worthy servants to their Hausa/Fulani paymasters, they make it a point of duty to oppose whatever programme IPOB initiates. But then, only a stupid man, hopelessly stupid for that matter, will oppose his own people just to please the enemy.

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IPOB cautions Nwodo, Umahi Over Effort to Undermine Sit-at-home Order

May 6, 2019

IPOB PRESS RELEASE | Published By The Biafra Times

It has been brought to our attention that the usual suspects are at it once again in their bid to undermine the collective will of all patriotic and genuine children of Biafra to honour those that died for us and 3.5 million victims of the second largest holocaust in modern history.

Rather than anger, we feel pity for these collection of desperados who through their hatred for freedom and historical ignorance are canvassing that 12 hours of buying and selling is more important than honouring the brave men and women that fought they may live. It is the height of ingratitude, treachery, and exhibition of crass ignorance that those who claim to be educated in this day and age do not understand the significance nor appreciate the symbolism of honouring those unjustly killed. That Nnia Nwodo's Ohaneze and Dave Umahi have come out yet again to lead the effort to discredit and dishonour the spirit of 3.5 million victims of genocide is inexcusable to say the least.

To equate the momentous and solemn remembrance of 3.5 million victims of genocide with twelve hours of economic activity is an unpardonable crime both before God and man. These Fulani slaves in Igboland bore witness to the recent visit of Osinbajo the Nigerian vice president to Rwanda to remember the 150,000 victims of genocide. Why didn't Nnia Nwodo's treacherous Ohaneze and the Fulani herdsmen loving Dave Umahi issue a statement condemning Yemi Osinbajo for attending the memorial in Rwanda? What Nnia Nwodo and Dave Umahi is saying, in essence, is that 150,000 Rwandan genocide victims are more important than 3.5 million of their own people (Biafrans) slaughtered in similar circumstances between 1967 to 1970. Any leader worth his salt would canvass for Nigeria to understand the need to declare May 30th a national public holiday but not these traitors. All they care about is their little competition to see who among them will win their coveted Best Fulani Slave in the South East and South-South Award 2019.

Leaders who claim to be educated and whose education should have taught them the historic importance, symbolism, and essence of remembering victims of an unjust war are the ones trying their desperate best to discourage their people from observing a day of prayers and reflection.

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Israel only a few days ago observed the annual Jewish holocaust memorial. This event has been running for over 70 years. Last year 2018 November 11, world leaders attended the Armistice Day commemoration in Paris to remember those that fell in the First World War. This remembrance has been running for over 100 years. Britain that created Nigeria observe the same annual 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th month at the Cenotaph in London every year without fail. Only those with a history of colluding with the enemy like Ohaneze and Igbo governors can come out against honoring the memory of their own people.

We know we live in an era of betrayal when mouthing nonsense against IPOB is considered a lucrative business because it attracts the attention of Aso Rock which often leads to financial reward. All inconsequential mushroom groups in the name of Biafra or Igbo hoping to attract favours from Aso Rock by issuing anti-May 30th sit at home statements will have themselves to blame in the future. Every year they come up with their usual nonsense against our sit at home order but in the end, they start making comments in the hope of sharing in the glory of 100% compliance.

These Nigeria by day and Biafra at night mushroom groups without presence or followership in Biafraland have failed in the past and will fail again because as usual, there will be total compliance with the sit-at-home order come May 30th because IPOB is the people and the people is IPOB.

Unscrupulous individuals, groups and politicians particularly some Igbo governors and Ohaneze Ndigbo can rant all they like on the pages of newspapers, we IPOB must remember our fallen heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate price that our generation to be alive today.

We are urging Biafrans, friends Biafra and lovers of freedom across the globe to heed this patriotic and candid call for Biafra freedom and ignore all traitors and caliphate slaves within.

We IPOB must remain undeterred irrespective of the renewed sponsored media attacks, false propaganda, arrest, and torture by the Nigerian Government and her security operatives, supported by David Umahi of Ebonyi, Willie Obiano of Anambra, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia and Nnia Nwodo's Ohaneze Ndigbo. In the end, they will be held accountable for their actions because in the end IPOB always win.


COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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IPOB declares May 30 sit at home in remembrance of their fallen heroes and all victims of state-sponsored killings

May 2, 2019

IPOB PRESS RELEASE | Published by The Biafra Times

We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) considers it imperative to use this great opportunity provided by the Most High God to announce the sit at home order throughout Biafraland and Nigeria in remembrance of our fallen heroes and heroines whose sacrifice made it possible for this generation to be alive today.

We shall also remember all victims of Fulani herdsmen attacks, Boko Haram violence and those that died at the hands of Nigerian security agencies over the years that nobody remembers.

We are calling on all the people of Southern Kaduna, Middle Belt especially Benue, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Kogi, those affected by herdsmen terrorism in Ondo, Osun and other states in Yorubaland to join the great family of IPOB in observing a day of solemn prayer and sit at home to remember those that lost their lives unlawfully at the hands of Fulani terrorist herdsmen and security agencies even during the recently concluded fraudulent  2019 general elections.

This year's remembrance and Sit-At-Home order will be special because it will present a unique moment of shared pains and misery for all the families that lost their loved ones to war, hunger, starvation, disease, terrorism and state-sponsored killings going on now in the contraption called Nigeria.

We remember the heroic few that stood up against tyranny especially those that sacrificed their lives to defend the defenseless and those that lost their lives because there was no one to defend them.

There will be no human, vehicular or animal movement across Biafraland on the 30th May 2019. Biafraland will be in total lockdown. Middle Belt and Yorubaland brethren are advised to join this historic sit at home order to honor the memory of all that died unjustly in Nigeria.

Churches, Mosques, Synagogues, and Temples are encouraged to open their places of worship on the midnight of the 29th of May for special midnight prayers in remembrance of all that died as a result of violence and sponsored killings. Special vigil will be held at the homes of select Biafran heroes and heroines who were murdered in cold blood in Biafraland.

30th of May is now an annual remembrance event initiated by IPOB worldwide to honor our fallen Biafran soldiers without whom this generation of Biafrans would not have existed. We owe our heroes and heroines of the class of 67-70 an incalculable debt of gratitude and shall honor them annually until the end of time. We shall never forget them as long as this world exist.

In our usual tradition, all IPOB families in the diaspora must rally on the streets of their respective countries with written petitions ready to be submitted to the nearest United Nation offices and embassies of foreign missions in that country.

As our freedom draws near this year, our 30th of May sit-at-home and total lockdown of Biafraland will be remarkable. The whole world is looking up to Biafrans especially IPOB family members worldwide, who through the grace of the Most High God will deliver Biafra and all other oppressed people's of Northern and Western Nigeria from bondage Northern oligarchy put innocent and unarmed citizens in the country.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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