Nigerian Islamic Jihadists Massacred 1, 470 Christians In First Four Months Of 2021 And Abducted Over 2,200 -- Intersociety

 

Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria, 11th May 2021 | The Biafra Times

Nigeria has devastatingly remained the “most Christian killed country” and ‘most dangerous place to be a Christian’ as well as Africa’s newest hotbed of Islamic Jihad and religious intolerance. Statistically shocking is the fact that the country had in the past four months or from January to April 2021 lost no fewer than 1,470 Christians. Also out of estimated 3200 defenseless Nigerians abducted by jihadists during the period, Nigerian Christians accounted for no fewer than 2,200. The 1, 470 Christian deaths in four months is the highest number recorded since 2014 and it specifically surpassed the total number of Christians killed in the whole of 2019, estimated by the Open Doors to be 1,350. It is recalled that the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law had in early January 2021 statistically disclosed that more than 2,400 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by jihadists in Nigeria in 2020. But in the World Watch List report on Christians released by USA based Open Doors; the group found that “3,530 Christians were killed in Nigeria between Nov 2019 and Oct 2020”. In other words, it is most likely correct to say that ‘between 2,401 and 3,530 Christians were hacked to death by jihadists in 2020 in Nigeria’.

The latest research investigation conducted by Intersociety took weeks and cut across all the troubling Christian areas of the country with Kaduna recording the highest number of  300 Christian deaths out of estimated total of 430 killings, followed by Benue with 200 Christian deaths, Plateau 90 Christian deaths, Igbo Land States of Ebonyi, Enugu and Anambra, etc 80 Christian deaths, Christian part of Niger States (i.e. Shiroro, Munya and Rafi, etc) 70 deaths, Taraba/Adamawa 65 deaths, Ogun/Ondo 52 Christian deaths, Kebbi 50  Christian deaths (out of over 60 killed), Borno 50 Christian deaths (out of over 110 killed), Nasarawa 30 Christian deaths, Igbo part of Delta 20 Christian deaths, Edo 20 Christian deaths, non Igbo part of Delta 10 Christian deaths, Oyo/Ekiti/Osun 30 Christian deaths, Gombe 20 Christian deaths, Christian part of Geidam in Yobe State 15 deaths (out of total killings) and Kogi State 10 Christian deaths. Nine Igbo Christians were also killed in Kibiya District of Kano State. There are also likely dozens of other Christian deaths, numbering over 30 not recorded. The Northern Muslim controlled Nigerian Army also accounted for killing of at least 120 defenseless Christians from Benue, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi.

The research investigation further projected from interviews and open source reports that 220 Christians are most likely to have died or been killed in captivity of their abductors. This represents 10% of 2,200 abducted Christians across the country especially Christian travelers and rural others among them are male and young female farmers including those abducted and raped to death or killed after being raped. The totality of the above brings the number of defenseless Christians killed in Nigeria from Jan to April 2021 to 1,470; out of which Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen accounted for more than 800 Christians. Killings by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen are concentrated in Southern Kaduna (jointly perpetrated with Fulani Bandits), Plateau, Benue, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Delta, Edo, Southwest States, Kogi and Nasarawa. Killings by Boko Haram and Fulani Bandits are majorly witnessed in Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Yobe, Kebbi, Gombe, Niger and FCT. Killings by ISWAP and Ansaru are concentrated in Borno, Adamawa and Taraba States.  

In the area of the 2200 abducted Christians, the breakdown indicates that Kaduna recorded the highest number with 800 abductions out of estimated total of 1,100 abductions.  Out of the 800 abducted Christians in the State, indigenous Christians of the State accounted for 600 including those abducted in Muslim held areas of Birnin-Gwari, Igabi and Giwa Local Government Areas. The abducted Christian travelers who are not indigenes of the State also accounted for about 200 and among them are dozens of Igbo Christians resident in Northern Nigeria especially those traveling from the North to the South or Niger State and the FCT. Niger State, on its own part, recorded the second largest Christian abductees with 300 out of total of 450-500 abductions; followed by Adamawa/Taraba with 100 abductees, Borno with 50 abductees (out of not less than 130 abducted), Nasarawa with 40 abductees, Oyo/Ekiti/Osun with 40 abductees, FCT 30 abductees, Kogi 20 abductees, Ogun/Ondo 15 abductees and at least 205 others abducted by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Abia, Benue, Plateau, Kebbi, Yobe, Delta, Edo, etc. Added were 500 abducted Southeast indigenous Judeo-Christians secretly being held without trial since January 2021 by Nigerian Army, SSS, Police and Navy.

26-page Backup Statistics Is Attached

The link attached below is a 26-page statistical sources backing up the special report. For meaning of jihad, it is here: https://intersociety-ng.org/jihad-its-violent-objectives/. The 26-page backup statistics contains all the verifiable and credible sources: ‘closed source’ and ‘open source’ statistics backing the special report; one of them is the Weekly Security Tracker (of Council on Foreign Relations) belonging to John Campbell, former US Ambassador to Nigeria.. Beyond the compiled and attached backup statistics, Intersociety also made extensive use of eyewitnesses, survivors, residents, journalists and activists on the ground in the affected Christian areas, such as Igabi, Giwa and Birnin-Gwari in Kaduna State, Shiroro, Munya and Rafi in Niger State and Kebbi and Katsina State. Apart from killings, maiming and abductions by the named Jihadist groups, Governments and local institutions in the Muslim controlled Northern States are also making life very unbearable for their indigenous Christian communities. These include Katsina State where under-age Christian girls are forcefully married to Muslim men and converted to Islam. (Defining Jihad): https://intersociety-ng.org/back-up-statistics-on-killing-of-christians-in-nigeria-jan-april-2021-2/.

                         

Who Is Killing Who In Nigeria’s Jihadists’ Circles

Providing credible and irrefutable answers to the above is as important as the special report itself. This is because the Nigerian Government and Governments of the affected States have made several deliberate attempts to cover the egregious massacre of Christians in Nigeria by falsely labeling them as ‘herders-farmers clashes’, or attacks by “bandits”, or ‘killings that cut across Muslims and Christians”, etc. However, in our extensive investigative findings accompanying this special report, the non street crimes’ butcheries ravaging the country are originally categorized into: (1) killings with disproportionate reprisals by Fulani Muslim Bandits against Hausa Muslims (Yansakai), (2) killings and acutely disproportionate reprisals by Fulani Muslim Herdsmen against indigenous Christians in the North and nowadays Southwest, Southeast and South-south, and (3) killings and zero reprisals by Fulani, Kanuri and Shuwa Arab (with some Hausa Muslim foot soldiers) controlled Boko Haram, Ansaru and others against Christians, moderate Muslims and Government targets.

For instance, the killings taking place against rural Muslims in Zamfara, Katsina, Sokoto and Kaduna States are perpetrated by variant Fulani jihadist terrorists called “Bandits”. Fulani Banditry originally formed in 2011 and 2013 when it went full swing following the killing by Hausa Muslims of ‘the most popular and highly respected Fulani leader in all the neighboring States of Zamfara, Sokoto, and Kebbi, one Alhaji Ishe, of Chilin village in Kuyambana district of Dansadau Emirate in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara on the 11th of April 2013. While Hausa Muslims operated a violent vigilante group, called “Yansakai”, the Fulani Muslims formed theirs, called “Zamfara Bandits”, which metamorphosed into today’s Jihadist “Bandits”. The rift between indigenous Hausa Muslims and their Fulani counterparts originally started over cattle rustling and related others leading to the two being at protracted daggers drawn. See the attached backup statistics for more details.

Eighty-Nine (89) Southeast Christians Butchered In Four Months

The killings, raping, maiming and abductions by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in Igbo States of the Southeast are being covered by Southeast Governors. In Anambra State, at least twenty Christians have been hacked to death by the Jihadists and scores abducted since Jan 2021 and yet little or nothing was said or done by the Government of Anambra State. See the attached backup statistics for more details. In Ebonyi State, not less than fifty Christian lives were lost to Fulani Jihadists between March and April 2021. In the killings that swept Mgbo and others in Ohaukwu LGA back in April, at least seventeen Igbo Christians were butchered and the State Government falsely blamed it on “inter-communal” clash but later admitted that they were perpetrated by Fulani Herdsmen “hired by the People of Agila in Benue State”. In Ishielu Local Government Area of the State and its neighboring Eha-Amufu in Enugu State, not less than 30 Igbo Christians were massacred by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in late March 2021 and among them were seven persons from Eha-Amufu and 23 others from the affected communities in Ishielu and among them were: Ekpe Ekene, Ajuru Nwekpe, Offorbuike Ede, Ede Friday, Ogbuzuru Ndubuisi, Joe Nwede, Nnaji Chinonso, Nnajionu Omebe Ogbodi, Reverend PC Njoku, Ogbuagu Aja, Chinedu Eze, Nnaji Offorbuike, Okpala Kenneth, Okonkwo Egwu, Friday Ogbuaborede, James (from Amanvu), Nkoli Sunday Odo and one unidentified. Nine Igbo Christians were also hacked to death in Kibiya District of Kano State; totaling at least 89 Igbo Christian lives lost in first four months of 2021.

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Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Writes president Joe Biden, over request for military assistance by Buhari

 

May 7, 2021 | The Biafra Times

 

Honorable Joe Biden,

President, 

United States of America,

The White House,

Washington DC.

 

Re: REQUEST FOR UNITED STATES MILITARY ASSISTANCE BY PRESIDENT MOHAMMADU BUHARI OF NIGERIA

Dear Mr. President:

 

We, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) applaud your election as President of the United States, the most powerful office in the history of the world. We salute your adept and muscular discharge of presidential duties during your tenure in the White House.

Mr President, as you consider Buhari’s request for military assistance to Nigeria, we respectfully urge you to also consider the following:


1. President Buhari has made Nigeria the most dangerous country in the world for Christians, Jews and Nigeria’s indigenous peoples, particularly those of the former Republic of Biafra. Hundreds of thousands are routinely plundered, tortured or killed with impunity by Nigerian security forces controlled and populated by Buhari's Fulani Islamic tribesmen, often in collaboration with Fulani herdsmen (Islamist terrorist group that has been internationally branded the 4th deadliest terrorist grouping in the world). These atrocities have been confirmed and published by US State Department in its various Human Rights Reports on Nigeria, by Amnesty International and other credible bodies. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has recommended listing Nigeria as a country of concern because of its religious oppressions. United States sales or transfers of weapons to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram are diverted to killing and terrorizing Christians and Jews. The Nigerian army, which leadership is Fulani and Islamist is complicit in these illicit transfers.

2. President Buhari is promoting radical Islam in secular Nigeria. He has endorsed Sharia law in twelve northern Nigerian states. He has treated Boko Haram with kid gloves, releasing from detention hundreds arrested by the previous administration. He recruited them into Nigerian army and offered generous foreign scholarship to hundreds of them. He has appointed radical Muslims to head every security agency in Nigeria, including Sheik Isa Pantami whose profuse support for Al Qaeda and Taliban was widely published recently. Yet, Mr Buhari has refused to sack him from his sensitive position as Minister of Communication overseeing the biometric data of Nigerians. By defending Sheik Pantami, Mr Buhari is seemingly aligning with Mr Pantami’s terrorist sympathies. Mr Buhari is a strong ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran and China; and he has generally pursued policies that put Nigeria at odds with US national interest since you came to office.


3. President Buhari is conducting a genocidal campaign against tens of millions of Christians and Jews, particularly those indigenous to the former Republic of Biafra. These include mass killings, torture, and the destruction of Christian schools, churches and Jewish synagogues. He has arbitrarily branded and terrorized the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a nonviolent group pursuing the Independence of the former Republic of Biafra. Mr Buhari’s draconian measures were geared to retaliating against peaceful demonstrations favoring the restoration of Biafran independence that was cruelly extinguished by a genocidal military campaign Buhari partly led between 1967 and 1970.  He has concocted treason charges against IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to crush Biafran self-determination, despite the fact that self-determination is legal under Nigerian law. Mr. Buhari’s demonic rule is convulsing Nigeria and creating new safe havens for radical Islamic terrorists that pose potent threat to US interests, from the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea.

Prayers: 

1, We respectfully suggest that you consider, among other things, denying weapons sales or transfers to Nigeria under the Leahy Amendment; listing Nigeria complicit in persecuting Christian and Jews under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.

2, We respectfully urge Mr President to invoke particularly Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, which prohibits the furnishing of assistance authorized by the FAA and the Arms Export Control Act to any foreign security force unit where there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.

In conclusion, we state categorically that the national interests of the United States lie in protecting Christians and Jews in Nigeria, defeating radical Islam and preventing instability in West Africa which will altogether be enhanced by a US-led diplomatic pressure on the Nigerian government to - as a matter of urgency - agree to a UN-supervised referendum on Biafran Independence.

We wish you and your family many wonderful years in the White House.

 

Sincerely,

________________________

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

Leader, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)

Mbaka reportedly missing – Ohanaeze raises alarm, warns FG

 

May 5, 2021 | The Biafra Times

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, OYC, on Wednesday raised the alarm over the whereabouts of the fiery Enugu priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka.

The cleric of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, has been in the news after he asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign.

This was followed by a revelation by the presidency that he was attacking Buhari because he was refused a contract.

Ohanaeze Youth Council has now claimed that the priest was missing.

In a statement issued by the President-General of OYC, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, he said Mbaka was last seen on Tuesday, adding that every effort to trace him had failed.

“We have it on good authority that his aides have neither seen nor heard from him since Tuesday.

“Calls put to his mobile line have also remained unanswered; this has now prompted us to issue this alarm as we would not take it lightly should anything untoward happen to him.

“We are giving the Federal Government 48 hours to produce the priest, else they should be ready to face Igbo youths. They were dining and wining with him all along and now that he told the truth, they are no longer comfortable with him.

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“Let nothing happen to Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka. It will not be in anybody’s interest,” the group warned.

Meanwhile, DAILY POST reached out to close aides of the Catholic Cleric but they declined comment, noting that the picture was not clear yet.

“Today is the Wednesday programme, ‘E no dey again’, if he don’t officiate, it will then be clear that something is wrong,” one of them said.

But a source who refused to be named disclosed that he was last seen yesterday, Tuesday, when he departed to honour an invitation by his Bishop.

DAILY POST also learnt that following the apprehension, all the youths of the ministry have been summoned to the Adoration ground.

The message inviting the youths to the Adoration ground, obtained by DAILY POST read, “Important!

“Good morning friends and well-wishers. Please if you know you stand for justice and you do not want the lone voice that speaks for the poor in this country to be silenced, gather at Adoration ground let’s go for a protest at the Bishops court.

“Fr. Mbaka is nowhere to be found. He went yesterday to answer the Bishop’s call and up till now, he’s not taking his calls. Let’s gather! SSG.”

ABDUCTION/SUSTAINED ARREST OF INNOCENT MEMBERS OF IPOB/ IGBO YOUTHS, AGED AND TODDLERS BY COMBINED TEAM OF NIGERIAN SECURITY AGENTS

By Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq | The Biafra Times 

April 23, 2021

The ongoing clampdown on innocent and unarmed members of IPOB /Igbo youths, the aged and toddlers by Combined team of Nigerian Security Agents, has continued  unabated, and is herein roundly condemned.

Recently, I have been  inundated with distress calls from families whose loved ones  were abducted at  the wee hours of the night  and taken into captivity to unknown locations. This onslaught is effectively being carried out at the behest of the Governors of the  respective affected  states under the guise of searching for Members of ESN. Worst hit in this violent but heinous attack on people's Fundamental rights are- Abia, Imo and Anambra States. 

I therefore,  call on the security Agents to suspend these unlawful arrests and illegal detentions of innocent Citizens who are not seen in possession of any form of arms or involved in the commission of any crime.

Only yesterday, the Fulani traders in Enugu State, took to the street, brazenly armed with Ak-47, a prohibited firearm,and started attacking both security personnel and civilians in a broad day light, without  any form of restrain.

It was reported that three policemen lost their lives in this unprovoked attack on both Security personnel and civilians, while goods belonging to Our igbo brothers and Sisters worth over #10Billion naira, were reduced to ashes.

The pertinent question here begging for answer, is- who is providing these dissidents with prohibited fire arms all carefully deposited in their various places of business, waiting for an attack on igbos in their own Soil and homelands?

As big as Nigeria exists in the imagination of some uninformed, they should have all Hi-tec gadgets for precise identification and arrest  of their targets without any form of harm on innocent people. 

Hence, if any lawful arrest will take place, it ought to start from the Headquarters of Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen/Bandits who are ravaging the entire North at present. 

Interestingly, these Bandits have confessed in different foras that the same Government sponsoring the arrest and detention of innocent igbo youths, are the very Institution supplying them arms, which heavy accusation hasn't been denied by the Presidency, or rather, the Federal Government till date.

How many has been arrested in the Northern States, where Banditry business is on the prime and thrives lucratively? Bandits and deadly Fulani herdsmen, all heavily armed with deadly/sophisticated firearms operate in the open and unrestricted. They are treated with largesse by the same Government arming them, while soliciting  for the release of their victims.

It would have even made a modicum of sense if these people being arrested in the south east were involved in the commission of any crime. On the contrary, innocent people including the aged, youths, pregnant and nursing women, are arrested on a daily basis, and taken into captivity by these security agents.

Today, we have over hundreds of our aged Fathers, Mothers, brothers and Sisters presently detained in the most dreaded detention facilities of the Nigeria  Police in Abuja, and have been in custody for over two months. The height of the inhumane treatment being meted to these innocent detainees is that they are denied access to even we, their lawyers, and family members. Majority who were  inflicted with gun shots injuries are abandoned in the cell without access to medical treatment.This is indeed  gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.

The Federal Government is leveraging on the ongoing strike embarked upon by JUSUN to ensure that these innocent people are held in perpetuity, since the applications filed for the enforcement of their fundamental rights cannot be heard, now courts are on total lockdown. 

We have consequently notified Foreign Governments, and institutions, including Amnesty international on this gross violation of Citizens' rights presently being perpetuated by Nigerian Security Agents at the behest of the Fulani-led Federal Government.

This ongoing onslaught will rather promote further civil unrest than granting the desired peace.

 Let there be a stop to this abduction/kidnapping of innocent citizens.

Also, we call for immediate release of all those innocent persons still being held in captivity.

LET WISE COUNSEL PREVAIL.

SIGNED

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq.

IPOB/ONYENDU MAZI NNAMDI KANU's General/Lead Counsel

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Nigeria: Muslim attacks on Christians increase, country is now ‘biggest killing ground of Christians in the world’

 SEP 14, 2020 | THE BIAFRA TIMES

 BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS

In Nigeria, Fulani jihadists “now pose a greater threat than the Islamic terror group Boko Haram.” Meanwhile, as jihadists continue to slaughter Nigerian Christians on a more or less daily basis, the Pope and many other Christian leaders continue to prioritize political correctness in the face of Christian persecution, so as not to offend Muslims.

nd while Western globalists remain dedicated to welcoming the hijra into their countries, heedless of the likely devastating consequences, the general inaction in the face of ongoing attacks by Fulani jihadists has left genuine refugees with nowhere to turn. Such persecution “in particular have had a devastating effect on Christian farmers — thousands have fled, leaving behind fertile farmlands.”

“Report: Muslim Attacks on Nigeria’s Christians Have Increased During Lockdown,” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, September 9, 2020:

Fulani Muslim attacks on Christians in Nigeria have risen significantly since the country imposed a coronavirus lockdown on March 30 and scores of Christian farmers have been killed, according to a September 8 report.

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“The middle belt region, which produces a large percentage of the country’s food for domestic consumption and export, has been affected most,” writes Nigerian journalist Patrick Egwu from Johannesburg.

In July, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) warned of “a sustained campaign of violence targeting farming communities” in parts of the middle belt, “which has been ongoing since January 2020, and which has seen a particular surge during July.” 

CSW also revealed that as of May 15, Muslim assailants had killed 59 Christians and burnt down 155 homes, leaving hundreds of area people displaced.

The killing has continued and even increased during the summer. On August 10, some 20 gunmen stormed the village of Edikwu in Nigeria’s Benue state, killing at least 13 people and burning homes. In early September, several more villages were attacked and more than 10 people were killed.

“When this happens, the police go there, but before they arrive, the attackers have already disappeared,” said Paul Tekina, a villager in Benue State.

On August 22, Crux, a U.S.-based Catholic news outlet, declared that Nigeria is becoming the “biggest killing ground of Christians in the world” due to attacks by Boko Haram and Fulani militants, according to reports by International Christian Concern (ICC). The charity estimates that between 50,000 and 70,000 Christians have been killed by radical Islamists in the West African country over the last decade….

Source: Jihadwatch

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Press Release: Biafra shall be restored, sooner than later, amidst the rapidly killing of JudeoChristians & Islamizing Nigeria - IPOB

IPOB PRESS RELEASE | THE BIAFRA TIMES

July 3, 2020

In this time of extreme distress for JudeoChristians in a rapidly Islamizing Nigeria, it brings some comfort to post these information to state the certainty that Biafra shall be restored, sooner than later. As buttressed in society, Israel was wiped off the map in 70AD, until it came back in 1947. Ukraine was wiped off the map in 1917, until it came back in 1990.

East Timor was wiped off the map in 1879 until it came back in 2000. Albania, North Macedonia were all wiped off the map, but they all returned. Elterea which was previously wiped off the map has returned too. But today, a typical Janjaweed from the Sahel and a wayward chameleon from the West conspired to stand against the full restoration of Biafra because of what they are gaining from the Fulani controlled government of Nigeria.

They represent darkness and darkness never prevailed over light. The light of Africa is Biafra. Satan is using the Janjaweed and Afonja descendants to fight a battle but victory is ours.
We are calling on Jude-Christians in Nigeria to stand up against the upcoming jihadists soldiers scattered all over Nigeria to Islamize the country.

The country is clearly coming to an end, Christians must not allow Islam to humiliate them again in Nigeria. All politicians in Biafraland must come out and defend their land because Fulani has taken over, we are aware of humiliation of past politicians like Late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and others because they were out to defend their people British colonialist humiliated them. Today Fulani people are humiliating politicians who are ready to defend their people especially politicians from Biafraland.

The propaganda is so drearily predictable, how Sharia and unbelievers subjugated Christians since British left this contraption called Nigeria. The state sponsored jihadists soldiers spreading across Nigeria particularly Biafraland with the open support of Nigeria security apparatus.

It is appalling that British Nigeria government failed to protect Christians in Nigeria. Our people must be strong enough because IPOB is out to oppose them. We are informing all Christian nations and organizations across the globe to know how Nigeria government and her partners in crime are killing Biafrans and other Christians in Nigeria. Before we match all these nations and organizations must be aware of the caliphate plans to eliminate Christians in the north and Biafra land.


COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.


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IPOB: Nnamdi Kanu Faults Ohaneze, Southeast governors over Killing of Christians, Villagers

By Princewill Akubumma | Biafra Writers

June 29, 2020

The leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has on Sunday the 28th of June, 2020, blamed the Southeast leaders and politicians over the incessant killings of villagers in their homes and farmlands across Southeast Nigeria by Fulani herdsmen. Kanu laid this blame through a worldwide broadcast on Radio Biafra London.

Kanu who was visibly angry over what he called 'a criminal silence' of the so called leaders, elders and politicians from the region wondered why it has become so difficult for the so-called leaders to make at least one press statement to condemn the killings, abduction and raping of little girls and mothers alike by the herdsmen. The IPOB helmsman argued that have the folks parading themselves as leaders in the Southeast have a modicum understanding of what leadership is all about, they would have made haste to put in place strategic plans to end the killings and bring justice to the families of the victims.

According to him, any leader or elder in any part of the world who is insensitive to the plight of his people does not deserve any respect from the people. He stressed that it is such gross insensitivity that birthed his constant verbal attacks on them, adding that his attacks are not out of hatred but a mental pull calculated to force appropriate authorities into rightful actions.

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While the broadcast lasted, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu played two video clips confirming the killings in two towns of Anambra state. In one of the videos, a 22 years old girl from Agulu-Eri in Anambra West was abducted from their home by Fulani herdsmen. The abductors attacked their home and after injuring the mother severely and shooting sporadically, took away the girl. A second video showed how the herdsmen killed another young lady, dissected her and scattered her body parts all over the farmland.

Kanu decried the silence of Igbo leaders and elders, describing it as evil. He accused them of feigning ignorance for the fact that the people being killed are not their own children or immediate family members.

Speaking further, the IPOB Supreme Leader said that the so-called elders and politicians have sacrificed the lives and welfare of their own people for political gains, adding that such compromise emboldened the Fulani Janjaweed the more.




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Nnamdi Kanu Not Against Christian Faith, Very Focused On The Liberation Of Biafrans----IPOB

IPOB PRESS RELEASE | THE BIAFRA TIMES

June 25, 2020

It has come to our attention that another faceless and amorphous group looking for cheap publicity and stipend from Aso Rock have sprung in their usual style to start writing frivolous press statements against the  great family of IPOB and our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

We are reliably informed that some unscrupulously corrupt politicians and thieving church leaders are sponsoring this new breed of e-rats of uninformed and clueless individuals hell-bent on churning out unguarded and unsubstantiated statements against IPOB since our leader started his exposition on some fake pastors and men of God in Nigeria who have refused to boldly speak up against the incessant and state sponsored killings and slaughtering of Christians in Nigeria.

For the benefit of doubt and for the sake of the gullible who are susceptible to these lies, we consider it necessary at this point to put the records straight. Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his life never condemned Christianity because he was raised in a Christian home by Christian parents and will never do such. He has respect for Christianity, Islam and other faith based religions around the world. He is surrounded by Judeo-Christian faith practitioners of which he is one. His parents died professing Judeo-Christian values. Only those fake pastors who believe solely in collecting tithes and offerings in churches without looking tangibly towards improving the lives of their fellow Christians in Nigeria are the ones behind  this twisted narrative. For the umpteenth time, our Leader does not hate Christianity and will never attack the faith. What he is against is the twisting of some Christian doctrines by selfish and greedy pastors to fleece their brainwashed followers.

May we also use this opportunity to appeal to all those who may have misunderstood our leader as disrespecting men of God or showing no regards for Christian doctrines to disabuse their minds and understand that he is only opposed to wolves in sheeps' clothing. He still has respect for honest men of God who have not compromised their divine mandate. Again, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not against any Biblical injunctions practised by genuine Christians in reverence to God Almighty.

It is on record and confirmed by the Nigerian 'PRESIDENCY' that IPOB and its leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have been at the forefront of defending Christians in Nigeria more than any Christian group or pastors and men of God have ever done. IPOB spend a huge amount of money every month in highlighting the plight of persecuted Christians in Nigeria and beyond. Over 80% of the content of his messaging on Twitter @MaziNnamdiKanu is about persecuted Christians. In this digital age, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) with all their resources does not have a single social media presence. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been filling that gap for them.

Our leader is unwavering in his divine assignment to liberate Biafrans and also  every suffering Nigerian who wishes to be free and no amount of cheap Zoo blackmail can deter him. Therefore, everybody must support his ongoing expository effort  which is a mandate from God Almighty Chukwu Okike Abiama the Elohim in Heaven. All of us shall  benefit from  it when this struggle is over.

Our intelligence has revealed that based on these facts, Fulani terrorists in Nigeria government gathered some pastors and men of God, particularly corrupt Igbo politicians to sabotage efforts by IPOB and our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu towards Biafra restoration.

The insensitive and unguarded   statements by these faceless groups and individuals, no doubt sponsored by politicians and some dubious men of God  are becoming so confusing to the point that one can hardly tell the difference between a man of God and a politician. While some pastors and men of God from Biafraland and other parts of the world appreciate the true  gospel which our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu preaches on Radio Biafra to liberate the entire continent of Africa, these self -seeking fellows are bent on twisting the truth he speaks.

Chukwu Okike Abiama the Most High God in Heaven by his infinite grace and mercy is using our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to educate and liberate our people from the bondage of  religious confusion which some pastors are using to destroy the thinking faculties of our people in the whole of Africa for a long time now. Forming different groups to attack the great family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is futile because God Almighty Chukwu Okike Abiama is behind us to deliver Africa and particularly Biafrans who are the bearers of the light of God with which Africans will see.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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Men in military uniform invaded our village, beheaded my mother, nine others –Ebonyi man

March 26, 2020 | The Biafra Times


An employee of the Ebonyi State Ministry of Information, Eugene Ibenyi, in this interview with EDWARD NNACHI, shares his experience about the beheading of his mother, Mrs Elizabeth Ibenyi, when some gunmen invaded Umuogodoakpu-Ngbo community in the Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state

You lost your mother when gunmen in military uniform attacked your village. How did it happen?

Around 11.15am on Tuesday, March 10, 2020, I received what sounded like an emergency call from the village that many had lost their lives.  So, I went home and I saw a lot of destruction. Men and women were killed and beheaded; houses and other valuables were burnt to ashes and people were wailing.  I didn’t know my mother was involved. Nobody told me anything but I was taken to a place where my mother beheaded body was. I was devastated.

How many were killed excluding your mother?

Nine other persons were also killed.  I counted the corpses and there were nine of them. Now, as we speak, the death toll has risen to 10, as Mr Titus Ugadu, who sustained machete cuts during the attack, is dead.

Was it as a result of a fight between the people of Umuogodoakpu-Ngbo community, Ebonyi State and the people of Agila community, Benue State or was it a one-sided attack?   

I want to tell you without hesitation that it was an unprovoked attack by the Agila people, who are avowed enemies of Ngbo people. This is because as of the time they attacked my community, there was nothing that could be said was the offence of my people, nothing. Nobody could point at a particular thing. It was a one-sided attack from them, which was why they killed so many persons in our community. My people were caught unawares. They were relaxed in their homes, not in their farmlands. They swooped on them, killed as many as nine, burnt down houses and other valuable property and barns. They burnt down my own house, too. At that point, everybody could have been running for their lives and nobody could give account of how they killed my mother. She was killed about 150 metres away from the boundary, where they caught, killed and beheaded her.

How old was your mother?

My mother should be around 73 or 74 years of age.

When and what time of the day or night did the attackers invade your community?

Like I said, they were not only armed, they were also adorned in military uniforms. Those who saw them described them as 10 young military men. But I’m sure it is the Agila people that unleashed this mayhem on our people. This is because the hallmark of their earlier attacks is to kill and behead their victims.

How many people did your family lose in the incident?

I lost my mother and unfortunately, before now, I lost my younger brother, in similar incident. That was four years ago. People have been saying why not leave the place and relocate your loved ones to another place. But the answer is to where? The truth of the matter is that our people are suffering because of the general belief that peace is returning.

Can you describe the personality of those who were killed?

My mother was the engine room of my family. My mother was a peacemaker. This was somebody, who though lost her son to attack previously, would say if she saw an Agila person running into trouble here, she would defend such an individual. She was a peacemaker, she was always organising and making sure everything worked well for the family.

For the others, one of the men they killed was a widower, who lost his wife some years back. He had a blind sister he was taking care of and this blind sister was like a second wife to him. These people dragged the blind sister out and killed her and later killed the man himself. In another compound, they killed a man, killed his two wives and killed someone who had come to visit him.

It’s widely reported that your people have had protracted inter-communal clashes with Ngbo people over land dispute. What do you think makes this attack on your community different from others in the past?

First of all, before I get to what makes this very attack different from previous ones, it is a very wrong notion to say that Ngbo people have been having land dispute with the Agila people. It is the Agila people who have been coming always to fight us. When they say their people (that’s Agila people) have been attacked, have they shown evidence as we (Ngbo people) are showing now? When you say people attack you and you are not showing any evidence, it means you are not truthful. We can show evidence of decapitated bodies, destruction of property and other valuables. This is not just the first or the second time. So, there has never been a time the Ngbo people were on the offensive against them and that’s the truth and that’s why they attack us every now and then and each time, they do, they would, in turn go to the social media and alleged that our people attacked them.  Like the one that happened at Ukwuagba community in Ebonyi, from the same Agila people, we showed pictures and stories. They are just calling a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

What we used to know was that before   mobile policemen or military men would come to secure the people living within the boundary area, the traditional rulers would know; the councillor would know; the youth leader would know, and even the coordinator of the area would be aware.  Information would trickle down from the state government to the grassroots and people would be made to know what’s happening and the security agents would be welcomed   because they have come to protect lives.

Now few days to this very attack, men suspected to be military men came in their trucks and went back. They did this thrice and each time they came, we would hear the Agila people would come. It was not clear who these men in military uniforms were and channels of communication were broken and this caused panic in the area. Not really knowing whether these men were real soldiers or Agila people in military uniforms, so the people of Ngbo were panicking  and at a point they relaxed, these men came and started killing and beheading the people.

There have been this insinuations that both state governments were politicising the crisis, instead of coming up with measures to address it once and for all. What do you think?

My brother, it is only God that knows what is hidden. We have heard of the efforts of both states governments being announced on the radio and on the pages of newspapers. I do know that there have been attempts, through reconciliation committees and negotiations either by the Ebonyi State Government or jointly by both state governments. When a tragedy of this magnitude had not erupted, we took that to be satisfactory and I think it was working. But you know issue on matter of live and death like this is always a serious matter. To answer your question, I am not in a better position to say they are politicising it; if they are doing that, only God knows.

 There is this widely held view that the military allegedly aided the Agila warlords in this latest attack on Umuogodoakpu-Ngbo community. What do you think?

I cannot tell you specifically that those who attacked my village were aided by the military or not. But in communication, there is what is called body language. Even if they didn’t aid them, I’m not satisfied with the way the whole thing was managed by the military. Like I said, if you visit a place maybe to protect the people there, you look for the traditional ruler, the councillor, the youth leader, or representatives of the people there and state why you are in their place; not just moving on the road to and fro, fully armed and people would be afraid even to ask you questions.

And as an offshoot of that, people begin to live in fear. Then suddenly, the same set of people or another set of people in same military uniform, would emerge from nowhere and start killing people. It’s mixed up. This is very difficult to differentiate and segregate. So, I cannot be in a position to tell you that they are aiding or abetting it.

If you were mandated to proffer solution to the crisis between these two communities, what do you think can be done to address it?

The best and fastest thing that could be done and peace would finally return is for the government to muster that political will to demarcate the boundary there. We have heard stories of the National Boundary Commission, but we have not seen the practicality.

The best thing is to demarcate the place and put a military zone in-between to repel a possible attack from each side. If you have a buffer and it is not occupied by anybody, they will still attack themselves. There should be a fortified military base there. On the government side, they should make the people to earn their trust and confidence again. With this, peace can return.

Has peace returned to your community after the attack?

There is no peace. You can imagine a place where nine persons were killed. You can imagine the state of mind of the people there. I don’t think there is perfect peace there. What I can tell you that is existing there is fear, fear and fear and that is why people are calling on the government to help address the issue.


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Nigeria: Biafran leader calls on International Criminal Court to take action against jihad killing of Christians

February 28, 2020 || The Biafra Times


“Leah Sharibu: Christians are being killed in Nigeria – Nnamdi Kanu cries out to ICC, International Communities,” by Fikayo Olowolagba, Daily Post, February 26, 2020:

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has cried out over the killing of Christians in Nigeria.

Kanu called on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to take actions against the killing of Christians across Nigeria.

In a series of tweets, the IPOB leader stated that the abduction of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram, insurgents and attacks on people of the Southeast were examples of killings against Christians.

The IPOB leader urged both ICC and the United States, US, State Department, and international communities to stop such atrocities.

He tweeted: “When will the world take action to stop violence against #Christians in Nigeria?

“The OTP of the @IntlCrimCourt’s preliminary examination of crimes against Christians in #Nigeria including #Biafrans must proceed to a formal investigation.

“The abduction of Leah Sharibu is an example of the countless acts of violence that #Christians across #Nigeria, including #Biafrans, endure daily. @StateDept and the intl community must act to stop these atrocities!…

Source: Jihad Watch

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West Africa the only place in world al-Qaeda and IS affiliates team up ―US Military

FEBRUARY 27, 2020  || The Biafra Times

The only place in the world where fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are cooperating is in West Africa’s sprawling Sahel region, giving the extremists greater depth as they push into new areas, according to the commander of the U.S. military’s special forces in Africa.

“I believe that if it‘s left unchecked it could very easily develop into a great threat to the West and the United States,” U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dagvin Anderson told The Associated Press in an interview this week.

The leader of U.S. Special Operations Command Africa described the threat even as the Pentagon considers reducing the U.S. military presence in Africa.

Experts have long worried about collaboration between al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. While the cooperation in the Sahel is not currently a direct threat to the U.S. or the West, “it’s very destabilizing to the region,” Anderson said.

He spoke on the sidelines of the U.S. military’s annual counterterrorism exercise in West Africa, currently the most active region for extremists on the continent.

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The alarming new collaboration in the Sahel between affiliates of al-Qaida and IS is a result of ethnic ties in the region that includes Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.

“Whereas in other parts of the world they have different objectives and a different point of view that tends to bring Islamic State and al-Qaida into conflict, here they’re able to overcome that and work for a common purpose,” Anderson said, emphasizing that it’s a local phenomenon.

The cooperation allows the extremist groups to appeal to a wider audience in a largely rural region where government presence is sparse and frustration with unemployment is high.

The past year has seen a surge in deadly violence in the Sahel, with more than 2,600 people killed and more than half a million displaced in Burkina Faso alone.

Al-Qaida is the deeper threat both in the region and globally, Anderson said. “Islamic State is much more aggressive and blunt, and so in some ways they appear to be the greater threat,” he said. But al-Qaida, which continues to quietly expand, is “for us the longer strategic concern.”

Al-Qaida has been successful at consolidating efforts in northern Mali and moving south into more populated areas “and taking various groups and galvanizing them together into a coherent movement,” Anderson said.

The most prominent of those affiliates is a coalition of al-Qaida-linked groups known as JNIM with about 2,000 fighters in the region, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

West Africa’s Sahel, the vast strip of land just south of the Sahara Desert, for years has struggled to contain the extremist threat. In 2012, al-Qaida-linked fighters seized large swaths of northern Mali.
French forces pushed them from strongholds in 2013 but the fighters have regrouped and spread south.

The largest IS affiliate in the region, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, emerged more recently and claimed responsibility for killing four U.S. soldiers in Niger in 2017. The attack led to an outcry in Washington and questions about the U.S. military presence in Africa.

Between the advances of al-Qaida and IS-linked fighters, once-peaceful Burkina Faso has become the latest front for what experts call an alarming rate of deadly attacks.

The al-Qaida affiliates visit areas in advance to “engage with key leaders in key locations to recruit early,” Anderson said. Others move in later.

The fighters are funding themselves with kidnapping for ransom as they attempt to control access to markets via taxation methods, he said. They also are likely eyeing what has been a source of income for centuries: gold.

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“I believe they’d be happy to be able to control some of the artisanal mines and the other mines in the area, especially the gold and other precious metals that are easily transportable,” Anderson said.

While al-Qaida affiliates work toward establishing safe havens, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara is working to destabilize local governance, control territory and rally people to their cause, he said.

The strategy for countering the growing threat from the patchwork of Islamic extremist groups is a whole-of-governance one that goes beyond military efforts, Anderson said: “There’s no easy answer.”

Many young men in the largely impoverished region feel isolated from the government and are drawn in by extremists’ promises of employment and purpose.

“Al-Qaida, whether we agree with it or not, brings some level of justice to many of these areas, and some level of services that aren’t provided by central governments,” Anderson said. “And they provide some representation to minority groups that don’t feel part of the larger community, such as the Fulani or the Tuareg.”

African partners need to invest in governance, he emphasized, though international involvement is necessary.

The French lead the military effort in the Sahel with more than 5,000 forces and they hope to bring in more European partners.

But the French have urged the U.S. to reconsider any cuts to its already small military footprint of about 1,400 personnel in West Africa. The U.S. has about 6,000 personnel on the continent.

Anderson countered that the U.S. is already doing a lot in the Sahel through the State Department, a large USAID presence and investment. “Instead of looking at the size of the presence, I think we should look at what is the appropriate engagement across the government, from all levels,” he said. With very small engagement, the U.S. can still help countries develop the capabilities to build coalitions and share intelligence, Anderson said.

“It’s going to take all these nations working together, but also it’s going to have to be African solutions to an African problem,” he said.

SOURCE: VANGUARD

Army vowed to destroy Delta community, Muoboghare insists

February 24, 2020 || The Biafra Times

By Festus Ahon & Perez Brisibe – Delta

Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education and indigene of Uwheru kingdom, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, on Sunday,  insisted that soldiers from the 222 Battalion, Agbarha-Otor vowed to destroy Agadama community if the community failed to produce the corpses of those reportedly killed by armed herdsmen.

Muoboghare while responding to the denial by the army authorities that its personnel did not at any time make such threats, said if the matter was not blown to high heaven, the army would have carried out its threat.

Speaking to Vanguard, he said: “On Saturday when the place was chaotic after the soldiers from Bomadi retreated to go and reinforce, the other Agbara-Otor military team came and they said there was no reason for the protest by the youths and that nobody died.

They insisted that unless they see the dead bodies, they were going to bring down the community and that is the truth and they appealed to me to talk to the community youths to go for the dead bodies if any.

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“The soldiers now took the youths into the forest where they met the Fulani herdsmen, and they (soldiers) told the herdsmen saying, ‘give us the dead bodies and the herdsmen said no they will not release them’ and at that point, they dared the soldiers and the soldiers beat a hasty retreat.

“The following day was when they went back and saw some corpses including the ones burnt beyond recognition by the herdsmen. Also, categorically speaking, the Police Commissioner was angry that the DPO Ughelli accepted that those bodies be brought. So they  did not want any evidence with the herdsmen and then on Monday, they went and saw the six corpses and at that point, they could not deny anymore.

When the police said we should bring money for autopsy, I told the community members not to drop one kobo for an autopsy but the Governor brought the money for the autopsy.” “If not that the governor prevailed on the GOC, and the matter became blown, else if it was not blown, they were ready to bring down the community and they said so.

So, these bodies that were exhumed, it was the soldiers that insisted that they are exhumed. We didn’t want to bring the dead bodies to Ughelli but they insisted that they must be exhumed to prove that the herdsmen killed people because they always protect the herdsmen and I will say it again and again.”

Source: Vanguardngr

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Report: Weapons used in herder/farmer conflicts traced to Nigerian security agencies

Smuggled shotgun shipment seized at Lagos port, June 2, 2017

 January 31, 2020 | The Biafra Times

By Chinedu Asadu

Some of the weapons used in the conflicts between farmers and herders in the country have been traced to Nigerian security agencies, according to a report by Conflict Armament Research (CAR).

The international conflict research group said some of the weapons were traced to “stockpiles of Nigerian defence and security forces”.

The report, which can be downloaded here, said 148 different weapons were discovered and analysed, and those manufactured in Nigeria are the second most prevalent among them.

“Predictably, given widespread weapon diversion from many governments in the region, CAR has traced four weapons in the data set to the stockpiles of Nigerian defence and security forces,” the report said.

“Nigerian-manufactured small-calibre ammunition - including cartridges manufactured as recently as 2014 - is the second-most prevalent type of ammunition in this data set.

“Four of the weapons in the data set were previously in service with Nigerian national defence and security forces. CAR has established this through formal tracing and the analysis of secondary marks applied to the weapons, which identify their users.”

At least 3,600 were killed in clashes between farmers and herders as of 2018, according to Amnesty International, which blamed the casualties on “gross incompetence” on the part of the authorities.

In some cases like in Plateau state where hundreds of lives have been lost in violent clashes, the police and other security agencies arrest suspects without prosecution.

The report, which focused on Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna states, said a study of the weapons in use shows the violence is “perpetrated almost exclusively with small arms and light weapons”.

CAR said while some of the weapons used in the conflict are locally manufactured, some originated in Gaddafi-era Libyan stockpiles, and others produced in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East.

It also traced some of the weapons to terrorists and special forces in Iraq and Libya.

Some of the key findings of the report are:

• Groups involved in inter-communal herder-farmer conflicts in northern and central Nigeria use some locally made artisanal weapons (and) also use factory-produced weapons manufactured in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East.
• Weapons that Conflict Armament Research (CAR) documented during field operations in three northern Nigerian states have commonalities with small arms previously in service with national defence forces in Côte d’Ivoire and with weapons that CAR has documented in Libya.
• CAR’s data set also includes Iraqi assault rifles manufactured in 1987 … terrorist groups have used weapons from the same batch in successive attacks on security forces in Mali and Niger since 2016.

SOURCE: thecable.ng

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Nigeria: The Complete Transformation of Boko Haram into Islamic Jihad Army

File Photo: Buhari and Buratai with Boko Haram flag

January 31, 2020

By Christopher O Evans | For Biafra Writers

At its inception Boko Haram targeted education. The terror group was convinced that western education is the worst evil imaginable. And the group's name derived from anti-western education name. The word “boko' means 'education' – western education here implied. 'Haram' means 'evil'. Thus Boko Haram means Western education is evil, or abominable.

With such concept in mind, they attacked educational institutions and all perceived products of western education. They cared not if one was a Christian or a Muslim. They abduct people – particularly school children and try to reeducate them in pure Islamic cultures. They attack government institutions, police posts, churches, markets, and even mosques.

And why do they attack mosques? They believe Muslims have greatly compromised the faith, having given in to western education and as a result, are failing to exert dominant control over the country. They have allowed infidels (Christians) foothold on political power, having allowed two Christian presidents to rule the country almost in a succession (Obasanjo and Jonathan). That was perceived as weakness on the part of Muslims. Hence Boko Haram emerged and sought to take over the country, establish true Islamic caliphate and reeducate citizens in Islamic laws and culture.

And Buhari was all for that. If ever he had issues with Boko Haram it is that the sect had no discrimination in their targets. It targeted everyone in sight, exploding bombs everywhere, even in mosques. Boko Haram was doing this to show their displeasure with the Muslim ummah for allowing infidel leadership for 13 years (Obasanjo 8, Jonathan 5). The worst of it all is the emergence of Ihejirika – a man from an outlawed tribe – as a General in the army, subsequently rising to become the chief of army staff, a position that allowed him to direct war against Boko Haram. As you know, Igbos were never allowed to reach the peak of military ranks in the Nigerian army. As they get to the level where they could be promoted to the top rank, they are immediately retired. Jonathan, out of naivety allowed an Igbo to break that ceiling and even become head of the armed forces. Alex Badeh and some other Christians led the ranks. It seems the cabal were losing grip on power. Jonathan had allowed due process to run its course. They had to do something quickly. So the activities of Boko Haram became intensified.

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Soon as Buhari took over he wasted no time in correcting what was perceived as problems. He ensured all heads of the military are Fulani Muslims. All heads of security agencies are Fulani Muslims. 90% of all federal appointments are Fulani Muslims. Many even are his close relatives.

Having first filled all important positions with his people (as demanded by Boko Haram) he then sent a list of ministerial portfolios to the senate. Igbos and other people of southern Nigeria were urged to be patient that the president still has many vacancies to fill.
 
Then he ordered the military to stop killing Boko Haram. Recall he had attacked former president Goodluck Jonathan while the latter pressed the battle against Boko Haram. He had said “killing Boko Haram members amounts to a declaration of war against the north.” I don't want to connect recent issues where SARS operatives raised alarm that men of the Nigeria military opened fire at them as they launched attack against Boko Haram. I don't even want to also mention Wadume, a notorious kidnapper arrested in the northeast early last year. The police moved him in handcuffs but got attacked by men of the Nigerian army who killed the police officers and released Wadume. Police have since rearrested Wadume, but the case is being handled in absolute secrecy. Truth is Wadume was not just a kidnapper, he was an agent of the cabal ruling Nigeria today. He is a hit-man on the government payroll. Soon as he was rearrested he alleged he worked for the government and was recently paid N13m for his services during 2019 elections.

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Today Boko Haram no longer attacks mosques, police posts, or markets. They no longer abduct or kill Muslims either. They target only Christians now. The concept has changed from “western education is evil” to “death to all Christians.”

Today Boko Haram no longer attacks mosques, police posts, or markets. They no longer abduct or kill Muslims either. They target only Christians now. The concept has changed from “western education is evil” to “death to all Christians.”

The greatest achievement of Buhari’s presidency is that he successfully transformed Boko Haram from fighting against education, educational institutions and products of western education to a full loaded jihad army with one aim – total extermination of Christians. Just recently Rev. Lawan Andimi, CAN chairman, Michika Local government, was abducted and beheaded by Boko Haram. This week a Christian university student, Ropvil, was abducted on his way to class. He has been murdered too.

Report has it that Boko Haram now stops passenger buses, identify Christians and either kill them on the sport or take them away. Muslims get back in and move on. It wasn't so before Buhari came on board. As part of the deal with Boko Haram, Buhari government is freeing hundreds of Boko Haram commanders detained by the very naive Jonathan government. Many of them are being planted into the security services and given rapid promotions. Others are fused into Fulani militias otherwise known as Fulani herdsmen. Both Boko Haram and Fulani militias are now heavily financed by Buhari government in the name of building settlement homes for nomadic herders.  This the state of the nation.

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Kidnappings, Large-Scale Killings Hit Christians in Kaduna State, Nigeria

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January 17, 2020 | The Biafra Times

JOS, Nigeria  – More than 200 Muslim Fulani herdsmen have attacked predominantly Christian villages in southern Kaduna state, Nigeria since Jan. 6, killing at least 35 people and kidnapping 58 others, including a mother and her 6-month-old baby, sources said.

Armed with AK-47s, the herdsmen on motorcycles rampaged through 10 predominantly Christian villages in Chikun and Brinin Gwari counties, Christian leaders said. Traumatized people displaced by the violence, dispossessed of their farmlands and homeless, later received calls demanding thousands of dollars in ransom for the release of their relatives, they said.

“The herdsmen, or ‘bandits’ as they now call them, began their attacks on our communities on Monday, Jan. 6, killing, maiming and kidnapping members of our families without restraint by security agencies or the military,” pastor Habila Madama, a Christian leader in the affected areas, told Morning Star News. “The herdsmen have destroyed our farmlands and left us with nothing. These Muslim Fulani herdsmen will usually come with their cattle, forcefully take over our farms, and destroy crops ready for harvests.”

He appealed to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and the Kaduna state government to take steps to end the violence.

“As it is now, we don’t know where to go, what to feed on, or where do we get clothes to wear, especially for our children – and worst of all, where to lay our heads,” Pastor Madama said.

The assailants have called relatives of the 58 kidnapped people demanding 10 million naira (US$27,440) in ransom, said Jonathan Asake, president of the Southern Kaduna Peoples’ Union (SOKAPU) at a press conference at a refugee camp at Ungwar Beji, in Gonin Gora area of Chikun County.

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“About 35 people have been killed by the herdsmen, while about 58 persons have also been abducted,” Asake said, noting that there are missing people still unaccounted for. “As you can see from the way these people are, they are seriously traumatized and need immediate assistance to be able to hold on. We have been told that the bandits have destroyed all the farm products of the victims and also destroyed their houses, leaving them with nothing to call their own.”

Asake said he has been told that about 8,000 people displaced by the attacks have arrived in Buruku with nothing in their possession, and that 200 people with no food, bedding or clothing had gathered at the Ungwar Beji camp.

“Worst of all, most of the children are sick,” he said. “This calls for concern on all people of good will to come to their aid in any kind in order to give them hope of survival before steps could be taken on the area of their education.”

6-Month-Old Kidnapped

On Jan. 6 in Kasso, Chikun County, the terrorists killed Eli Sule, a 35-year-old father of five children, and kidnapped a nursing mother, Ladi Yusuf, according to a press statement on Saturday (Jan. 11) from Luka Binniyat, spokesman for the SOKAPU.

“Ladi Yusuf, a nursing mother, was abducted with her 6-month-old baby,” Binniyat said. “This morning [Jan. 11], Yusuf Sule received a call from the kidnappers. They used the phone of his kidnapped brother, Bulus Sule, and called him. The kidnappers are asking for the ransom of 5 million naira.

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“The brother told him that they are not in a good condition, and that the 6-month-old baby is critically sick because of the kind of condition they are being held captive in. Yusuf and the community have no means of raising that money after the bandits looted the little they had gathered, including two motorcycles Yusuf Sule owned.”

Binniyat said Danjuma Bulus, a 30-year-old father of four children, and Istifanus Auta, a 31-year-old father of three, were also killed in the attack. Bulus Sule was kidnapped along with his wife, Rebecca Sule, he said, and Yusuf Sule’s son, Irmiya Yusuf, was being treated at a medical clinic for gunshot wounds.

In Chikun County, the villages of Kuduru, Tawali, Unguwan Madaki and Katarma were attacked for five days by more than 200 herdsmen riding motorcycles and armed with AK-47s, Binniyat said.

“Information available to us has it that in Tawali village, six persons were kidnapped, and nothing has been heard of them ever since,” he said. “The ECWA [Evangelical Church of West Africa] church in the village was not spared as it was burnt down completely. Also, a young lad, by name Ezra Bala, 16, who is a student of Government College, Kwoi, was shot dead in Kuduru village during the attack.”

The gunmen on Jan. 8 attacked the Good Shepherd Major Catholic Seminary in Buwaya, kidnapping four seminarians, he said. In an attack on Badna, Guruku Ward of Chikun County, 40 people were kidnapped, including a Baptist pastor, Samaila Yusuf, he said. Assailants also looted Rumana Gbagyi and Rumana Hausa villages, carting away livestock and other valuables, he said.

In Guruku Ward, Bademi community was ransacked and looted as the assailants killed Idi Halidu and kidnapped two other people, Binniyat said. In Unguwan Buji, they killed a person identified as Sani Buji, he said.

“In a display of brazen impunity, they kidnapped 15 people and vanished into the bushes with them,” he said. “In nearby Maloma community, the invaders robbed and ransacked the village and burnt a large quantity of rice and other grains before disappearing into the unknown. All these happened in a span of four days without any response from any security agency.”

The attacks that began Jan. 6 marked a new high in casualties following earlier attacks, rights leaders said. On Dec. 16, in Chidunu village near Maraban Rido in Chikun County, the attackers killed 40-year-old Raphael Ayuba, who was married with five children, Binniyat said. Also killed were Habila Auta, 40, who left behind a wife and two children, and Buhari Abubakar, a 41-year-old father of four.

“From available information, the armed men went from house to house killing and maiming these hapless victims with no help coming from anywhere,” Binniyat said. “The spate of killings, kidnapping, arson, looting, raping and amounts paid in ransoms to these terrorists by our communities is traumatizing and impoverishing our people on a daily basis, making them susceptible to hunger and disease.”

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The Kaduna state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) estimates that Christians have paid about 400 million naira (nearly US$1.1 million) to kidnappers as of Jan. 11, Binniyat said.

“We are shocked with the way that the federal government and the government of Kaduna state seem to be overwhelmed by these cruel crimes. These defenseless victims and the affected communities are left to their own fate, in the hands of these bloodthirsty militiamen,” he said. “It is sad that the same communities who are victims of these mass murders, kidnappings, arsons, lootings, rapings and other mindless evils are forced to pay their assailants huge sums to gain their freedom or that of their loved ones.”

The attackers use the ransom money to purchase more arms and enlarge their operations against the next community, he said.

“We fear that with the unchecked boldness that these heinous crimes against humanity are spreading, there is a systematic plan to wipe out our communities and take over our lands,” Binniyat said.

Nigeria ranked 12th on Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List of countries where Christians suffer the most persecution but second in the number of Christians killed for their faith, behind Pakistan.

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Nigeria Government Playing the Ostrich

By Christopher O Evans | For Biafra Writers

January 5, 2020

The United States recently announced it has enlisted Nigeria among nations closely watched for serious violations of the rights of Christians. The initial reaction by the Nigeria authority was to offer a lame denial. Soon afterwards President Buhari ordered the release of two captives: (1) Sambo Dasuki – security adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan. (2). Sowore – publisher of an online news outlet, Sahara reporters. Both were held against numerous court orders to free them. Both were not held over their religious faiths.

Dasuki was held over phantom allegations of misappropriation of security funds under the former administration of Goodluck Jonathan. He was kept in custody for over four years without formal charges. Worthy of note is the fact that no one linked to that alleged fraud has been convicted. A prominent northerner said Dasuki was held by Buhari for personal reasons. Sowore, on the other hand, was held for daring to organize protests against abuses of judicial process and human rights. Both men can be classified as prisoners of conscience. The United States authority raised concern over serious violations of Christians’ rights. The Nigerian authority freed two illegally detained prisoners of conscience. The ever naive Nigerians felt that Buhari, out of fear of the Trump threat, had acted to ease tension and present self as compliant to court orders. The move was clearly intended to deceive.

Let me help to clarify the points regarding the Jihadist government of Nigeria’s persecution of Christians:

1. The government, within 24hrs, freed some 270 Dapchi schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram. In doing so, it left behind the only Christian girl among them, for refusing to renounce her Christian faith and embrace Islam. The little girl, Leah Sharibu, is still in Boko Haram custody to date. Buhari does not care about her, essentially because of her Christian faith.

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2. Massacre of Christians and destruction of their homelands in Kaduna, Plateau, Benue, Enugu, Ebonyi states among others by the government-backed Fulani herdsmen. Buhari showed clear collusion with the murderous herdsmen by refusing to order a clampdown on the herdsmen designated as the fourth most deadly terror group in the world according to world terror index. Not one arrest of the terrorists has been made to date. And whenever locals succeed in capturing one of the marauding herdsmen, government has acted promptly to release them. So no clampdown, no directive to disarm them, no arrests, Miyetti Allah – the umbrella association of the terror group – holding open press conferences claiming responsibilities for the attacks and threatening to launch more notwithstanding. Often they issue their threats flanked by security forces.

Buhari went on air absolving them of guilt and blaming the natives for resisting them. He refused to accept Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen are terrorist groups. Nigerians were shocked when the president designated the terror campaign as herders/farmers clashes and argued the issue was about Fulani seeking for grazing rights. He called for respect for Miyetti Allah and shocked the nation by offering that Miyetti Allah is in the same league with Igbo and Yoruba socio-cultural groups - Ohaneze and Afenifere. While he stopped short of directing the herdsmen to be disarmed, he, however, directed the dissolution and disarming of all vigilante groups south of Nigeria. One week later he ordered all community heads in the north to form local vigilantes. Victims of herdsmen attacks were left more vulnerable. Meanwhile, he assigned military escorts to the herdsmen.

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Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and later, Boris Johnson, have detailed report on this. They are aware that Buhari has been building the two Jihadist armies to the tune of billions of dollars amid biting poverty ravaging the landscape. They know the Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, who once threatened that foreigners who dare poke their nose into Nigeria affairs will go home in body bags, have been a funnel through whom government channel billions to the insurgents.

3. Nigerian soldiers invaded venue where IPOB faithful were in solemn assembly commemorating thousands of Biafrans who have fallen by the bullets of Nigerian soldiers since 1966. Nigerian Muslims see every Igbo as Christian. It actually evokes in them a sort of euphoria whenever Igbos are killed or their business interests destroyed. As IPOB assembled to pray, soldiers broke in and massacred them.

Another mindless killing followed the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Youths who saw the victory of Trump as liberating for Christianity and a possible answer to the realization of the sovereign state of Biafra, trooped out en mass to celebrate his victory. That euphoric celebration was met with military invasions. Many lost their lives.

While Buhari refused to accept Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen are terrorists, he quickly moved to designate IPOB as a terrorist organization and proscribed them. He did this to justify killing them and to justify the violation of their rights to peaceful agitations. Though the rest of the world would have none of that. They are aware IPOB are peaceful rights’ agitators committed to the restoration of the independent state of Biafra. They operate within the law. Buhari is killing them because they are Christians while freeing thousands of Boko Haram terrorists detained by the former government of Goodluck Jonathan.

Over the Christmas holidays, Boko Haram released a video showing how they have beheaded 11 Christians. Buhari paid no attention. Just recently his government announced levies rising up to N50,000, equivalent of US$14,  for every church wedding in Nigeria, without corresponding levies on Muslim marriages.

Why is the Nigerian authority pretending not to understand what is meant by the United States placing the country in their special watch list of countries with serious violation of the rights of Christians? How does the release of Dasuki and Sowore, good as it sounds, connect with that? Buhari is only playing the Ostrich. But the message isn't ambiguous at all.

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