You lied! Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not getting proper medical attention - IPOB thunders

IPOB PRESS STATEMENT

FEBRUARY 11, 2023 | THE BIAFRA TIMES 

The attention of the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the able Leader; Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been drawn to the insulting and provoking statement credited to the infamous DSS agents that Mazi Nnamdi KANU is being properly taken care of inside their dungeon by the lawless DSS criminal agency. 

Again, we want Biafrans, Nigerians, and the International Community  to know that Nigerian Department of State Services (DSS) has continued to deny Mazi Nnamdi Kanu access to his personal doctor as ordered by the court, and has not provided him with his medical records either. He is not being provided with his prescription medication regularly. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is still being starved because his feeding has also not improved. According to IPOB lawyer, Barr. Ejiofor and others who visited Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra on Thursday the 9th of February 2023, there is no improvement in his deteriorating health condition. Our leader's health is deteriorating daily inside DSS solitary confinement, while DSS continues to defy the judgment and legitimate orders of courts of competent jurisdiction.

The spurious claim therefore by the lawless DSS that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is properly being taken care of medically, is not just an insult to the sensibilities of Biafrans, but very provocative as well. 

IPOB has maintained a peaceful and nonviolent stance in our movement and struggle to restore Biafra, and we intend to continue the peaceful agitation for a Biafra Independence referendum. But this peaceful struggle will not be guaranteed if anything happens to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the DSS dungeon. If anything untoward happens to our leader in the hands of the Nigeria government and DSS, it will be a tit for tat towards any individual, group, and institution that is involved in the kidnap and extraordinary rendition of our leader from Kenya to Nigeria and much much more.

We have consistently urged and demanded that the Nigeria government should stop its flagrant disregard to Court orders and judgements ordering the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally such as that given by the Abuja Appeal Court, or return Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to Kenya as ordered by the Umuahia High Court but the Nigerian government has continued to ignore this demand and is rather making a mockery of the Judiciary.

We are putting the world and every country and organization remotely interested in the affairs of Nigeria on notice that keeping mute  at this level of injustice being mated out in particular to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi KANU and generally to the Biafran people, will certainly precipitate an disorderly implosion of the contraption called Nigeria.

Once again we call on the American government and her Embassy, British government and her High Commissioner in Abuja, Russia government and her Embassy in Abuja, Israeli government and her Embassy in Abuja, German government and her Embassy in Abuja, Canadian government and her Embassy in Abuja, Australia government and her Embassy in Abuja, UN Office in Abuja, AU office in Abuja, ECOWAS office in Abuja, EU Office in Abuja, Amnesty International Nigeria, Human Rights Watch, Intersociety in Nigeria, and other reputable Human Rights Organisations to prevail on the Nigeria government to understand the urgency and imparativeness of releasing Mazi Nnamdi KANU forthwith and unconditionally so that he can properly attend to his deteriorating health situation and avoid the very dire consequences that is staring all of us in the face.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB

WE HAVE UNCOVERED PLOT BY THE NIGERIA SECURITY AGENCIES TO BEGIN ELIMINATION OF PROMINENT IGBO PERSONALITIES AND BLAME IT ON ESN - IPOB

 

May 7, 2021 | The Biafra Times

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our prophet and liberator Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has uncovered plot by Nigeria security agencies to eliminate prominent men and women, politicians and stakeholders in the whole of Biafraland and blame it on IPOB and the Eastern Security Network, ESN.

Every politician in Biafraland must be wary of those officers assigned to them as police or army guarding them. ESN, IPOB has no plan to kill our own in Biafraland because we're going to get Biafra together. It profits us nothing to kill our own despite the treachery by some of them.

Our people must be careful because Fulani terrorists in Nigeria army and police uniforms are working tirelessly to ensure that Biafra businessmen, women and politicians are killed in order to pitch Biafrans against themselves and ultimately take undue advantage of the confusion to keep us in bondage.

But we are smarter than all of them put together.  IPOB is raising this alarm for the wise to apply wisdom and avoid being victims of this evil plot. 

Nigerian security agencies  have instructed their officers attached to the politicians to start gradual elimination of Biafrans who they were assigned to protect. But we will resist this wicked plot. 

They are arresting and abducting innocent Biafrans suspected to be members of IPOB or operatives of ESN security outfit. They have arrested more than 68 innocent citizens and detained them at the State CID Awka, Anambra State. Unknown gunmen are doing their own attacks but Nigeria DSS has rather decided to blame ESN operatives and IPOB members instead of investigating to unravel the perpetrators.

The incessant arrest and secret abductions of suspected IPOB members at Izombe, Agwa and other parts of Oguta and Ohaji Egbema cannot stop us from pursuing this freedom. 

Just yesterday, they secretly abducted Obinna Nwuzi, the son of the man whose wife Olivia Nwuzi was abducted and detained in anti kidnapping station at Owerri Imo State. The boy  just returned from Ebonyi State university to see his family but wicked Nigeria security personnel arrested him.  His mother has also been detained for over three weeks now. 

We are warning them never to harm these innocent persons because if they do, they will regret their actions very soon.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR 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.”

DSS CLAIMS THAT WE ARE IMPORTING EXPLOSIVES INTO IMO STATE, FAKE, LAUGHABLE - IPOB

PRESS RELEASE 

April 30, 2021|The Biafra Times

The attention of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been drawn to the frivolous and concocted press statement by the Nigerian Department of State Services, DSS, that IPOB is moving explosive devices from Lagos to Imo State. The is is another propaganda by the agency to blackmail IPOB.

There is no iota of truth in the said report. It's fake and laughable. IPOB has no intention to acquire explosives. We are not terrorists and do not need explosives. 

Right from inception, IPOB has remained a peaceful movement. We know the antics of DSS and other Nigeria security agencies. They only want to demonise IPOB and other Biafran agitators to stain our global reputation.

It's only laughable that DSS cannot find where bandits, Boko Haram and other Fulani terror groups are in Nigeria but it easily concoct intelligence about IPOB and freedom fighters.

This false alarm which is a smoke screen anyway, is akin to their concocted intelligence.about two weeks ago when they claimed IPOB had plans to invade banks to steal money for arms importation. But our intelligence unit uncovered their plot and we raised the alarm. Many didn't believe us but later, criminals and cultists arranged by DSS robbed banks in Anambra and pointed accusing fingers at IPOB.

What intelligence agency is DSS  that cannot give accurate intelligence reports on the activities of terrorists but rather has penchant in dishing out false intelligence on peaceful agitators! What a hypocrisy!

In similar vein, we want to alert Biafrans and the world at large that Gov. Nyesom Wike has resumed his killing spree against Biafrans. Right now in Igweocha, as at April 29, 2021, innocent people are being indiscriminately arrested in their numbers around Pure Water by Elohani area by security operatives. No fewer than 30 innocent Biafrans have so far been arrested and taken to unkown destination. Nigeria Government should ensure nothing untoward happens to these Biafrans. They must answer for their whereabouts!

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB

Angry reactions trail killing of IPOB members in Enugu

August 24, 2020 | The Biafra Times

Angry reactions have started trailing the reported killing of members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in Enugu. All the respondents, who spoke to Vanguard in Owerri, were unanimous in their belief that the dead were first Ndigbo before being members of IPOB. They also described the incident as “senseless and condemnable, especially as IPOB members are usually unarmed”.

 Reacting, an Owerri based legal practitioner, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, said the wrong branding of the dead was deceptive and a diversionary tactic to simply write off the dead as IPOB members, instead of Ndigbo. His words: “Forget IPOB. They are Ndigbo. It is completely deceptive and a diversionary tactic to simply write off the dead as IPOB members, instead of Ndigbo. Whoever takes the life of an IPOB member is taking the life of an Igbo and therefore will ultimately account to Ndigbo.”

According to the lawyer, “when I read about the senseless killing of unarmed innocents, who gathered in Enugu on August 23, 2020, in peaceable exercise of their constitutional rights, I quickly began to search the news to learn more and I learnt plenty, including particularly, the somewhat dismissive refrain that those killed are just IPOB members.”

 While arguing that they might be IPOB members, Ejimakor, however, said: “Everybody in the former Eastern Nigeria, who disagrees with what has become Nigeria, is an IPOB member, overtly or covertly”. “They don’t have to carry a registration card for you to be certain that they are IPOB members. All you need to do is to talk with them to convince yourself that they are IPOB members. “An IPOB member is simply any Eastern Nigerian, especially the Igbo, who will rather have Biafra than a Nigeria that eats her children, especially her Igbo children. And they are in the millions. “They are legion. Some are above ground. Some are in sleeper cells and they are not miscreants. They are the Igbo gentry, the elites, the masses, warts and all.

“The Igbo remains an Igbo for now and forever, alive or dead. Nobody can change that. No subliminal narrative of just IPOB can change that.” Another IPOB loyalist, who simply identified himself as Chikerem, urged the security agencies to “stop branding people IPOB when they know that the killing and maiming unarmed Ndigbo”. Chikerem also reasoned that those killed were Ndigbo before becoming IPOB members, adding that “it beats my imagination why the Nigerian government has disdain for Ndigbo, but relentlessly want to keep us in Nigeria”. Answering a question, Chikerem said that there was no way anybody can detach IPOB members from Ndigbo, who are not terrorists but are treated and branded as such.

 For Nkemdiri Osukaku, “Igbo life is precious, inalienable and the blood of an IPOB member is not less precious than that of any other Igbo man or woman”. He appealed to the security agencies to face the dreaded Boko Haram, ISWAP and other deadly insurgents that are terrorizing the citizenry, instead of running after unarmed agitators of a free Biafra.

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The Travails of a Freedom Fighter, the Nnamdi Obi Story

JUNE 2, 2020 | The Biafra Times

By Victoria O.C. Agangan

The Travails of a Freedom Fighter, the Nnamdi Obi Story

An Interview with Biafra Times

Nnamdi Obi is a freedom fighter, a member of the self-determination seeking group, IPOB. Last year he was arrested and unlawfully detained by the Nigerian security operatives who, rather than safeguarding lives and property, have turned a terror to those they are supposed to protect. Biafra Times correspondent, Victoria O. C. Agangan, approached him for an interview. Note; BTC as used below denotes Biafra Times Correspondence. Excerpts:

BTC: Can we meet you?

Obi: My name is Nnamdi obi.

BTC: I take it you are a bona-fide Biafran. May I know which part of Biafra you come from?

Obi: I am from Lilu in omanbala which is popularly known as Anambra. Lilu is under Ihiala local government Area.

BTC: Waoh! That was where my dad served during the war. I was there as a child with my parents.

Obi: Wonderful.

BTC: Kindly tell me what made you join IPOB and why you decided to go into the Biafran struggle.

Obi: Joining IPOB was a dream-come-true because right from childhood I hate injustice. I don't stay where someone’s right is being infringed upon. Freedom fighting has been in my blood right from childhood. When I met this family called IPOB lead by MAZI Nnamdi kanu, I was grateful.

BTC: As a young man with family and great aspirations, were you not scared to undertake such a risky project?

Obi:  (Smiles). Did u say risky? Freedom fighting is in the blood. Once the blood is in you, you won't even be preached to fight for your right. Sometimes the things I do for Biafra to come people see them as a risk. But I don't see them as a risk, I see them as doing the necessary things, this is my right.

BTC: Was your family in support of the step you took and what challenges have you been faced with since the struggle? 

Obi: My family has never supported me at all. Even when I was in prison they never visited me except my blood brother that visited two times. My family at large doesn’t support what I am doing but that doesn't stop me from pushing on till Biafra comes.

BTC: Many people have called freedom fighters various names and even hate the very mention of IPOB, does this not worry you?

Obi: There is one quote I learnt from our leader MAZI Nnamdi kanu. He said “I like the doubt people are having for Biafra restoration. It will make them to respect us more when Biafra comes.” So their hatred and insults don't move me at all. It only keeps me stronger because at the end Biafra shall come.

BTC: Waooh! Your family never supported you? Tell me what has become your motivation for sticking to your decision? 

Obi: What has motivated me is IPOB. That slogan of onuru ube nwanne agbala oso really took place in prison. Some IPOB members made sure I never lacked while in prison.

BTC: Can you share with me why you were arrested and kept in prison since January? What was your offense?

Obi: Since December 2019 instead. I was arrested because Biafra flag was found in my car. For possessing the flag, I was labeled a terrorist and also a promoter of terrorism. So holding a Biafran flag was my offense.

BTC: Gosh! That is quite unfair. What was your reaction? Who were those that arrested you?

Obi: My reaction was laughter in my mind and I was willing to meet my ancestors if that is the price to pay. JTF arrested me. A Combined team of air force, navy, army and DSS.

BTC: You were ready to die? How noble of you. I wish some youths out there will understand and appreciate the prices people like you have paid and are willing to pay for Biafra.

Obi: Yes I was dearly willing to die because Nigeria herself is a death trap.

BTC: How come the joint military force came after you? Were they pre-informed?

Obi: I guess they were not pre- informed. They were doing stop and search at that very junction called MCC in Aba.

BTC: Okay. They all were assembled together for stop and search in a peaceful zone?

Obi: Yes.  They left Sambisa forest where there is security challenge and come down here to torment us.

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BTC: The world needs to know about this. South East is not a war zone and the military invasion of such a peaceful zone is very unwelcome. Tell me, you must have met other brethren in prison, how would you describe their plights? What is their state of mind?

Obi: My dear sister I met many men. I said men with rough and brutal faces that have spent years ... I mean years, in prison. They have spent 5 to 11 years.  Preaching to them was not easy because they are not smiling at all. When I was in prison I always think about their plight not even mine because I know that IPOB will surely get me out in no distant time.

BTC: Were they IPOB members or just innocent victims?

Obi: They were not IPOB members. Some were innocent victims.

BTC: So IPOB eventually got you out?

Obi: Members of IPOB diaspora got me out.

BTC: Members in Diaspora got you out? How come? Was no lawyer assigned to you here?

Obi: I still maintain it; it was IPOB in DIASPORA that brought me out. Even in the front of our leader I will say it.

BTC: How would you describe your stay in prison? Were you man handled?

Obi: When I entered newly I was manhandled. There are things I cannot say in public, and I can never lie to you because if I do the land of Biafra won't be happy with me.

BTC: Do you have any regrets belonging to IPOB or remaining in the freedom fight?

Obi: Re- what??? Never! I don't have any regrets at all. Instead I am stronger and even ready to die.

BTC: What lessons have you learned from your experiences so far as a freedom fighter? And what advice will you give to our brethren still contemplating to either join or continue.

Obi: Lesson I learnt is that every freedom fighter must know that he or she has one room apartment in the prison or in the grave.  Freedom fighting is not a bed of roses, so brethren that want to join or continue should have this in mind. If they do not have what I said above in mind they should go and sleep they are not ready for freedom.

BTC: You will not die but boldly step into Biafra with songs of joy.  May 30th is around the corner, how do you intend to spend it?

Obi: May 30th is a great day in the life of every formidable Biafran. We must remember our fallen heroes and heroines, those who died that we may live. Those that set the foundation that we are building upon. So the death of 3.5 million people must be remembered. it is done in every civilized world, so ours will not be different. We must remember them.

BTC: I believe you have rejoined the IPOB family since your release, how has it been? Is there anything you want to tell those out there sabotaging the efforts of others with lies and propaganda? 

Obi: Rejoined? As if I left them. Even while in prison my post in my zone was vacant till the day of release. Those sabotaging our efforts should continue; that's my advice to them because if there was no Judas, Christians wouldn't have gotten salvation. So all their sabotage, lies and propaganda always take IPOB higher in the struggle. they should note this.

BTC: I am grateful that you took time to share with me your story so far. I assure you that it will definitely be a meeting point for many as this will be published in black and white. God Bless You Comrade Nnamdi Obi. Your name is recorded among our heroes. Keep the flag flying.

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DSS Abducted a Breastfeeding Mother in Nnewi

By Ezzy Okorie | Biafra Writers
September 20, 2019

Information reaching the desk of Biafra Writers has it that the Nigeria DSS have kidnapped a breastfeeding Mother and wife of an IPOB member Mrs.Okoro Chimkamuma, 32 years of age. According to an eye witness, Mrs. Okoro was kidnapped and taken away by the men of the Nigerian DSS under the instruction of Anambra state Governor, Willy Obiano. This incident happened on Thursday, September 19, 2019, at the back of the Guaranty Trust Bank, GTB, in Nnewi town, Anambra state.

The fierce-looking DSS men abandoned Mrs. Okoro’s little baby of a year and few months in a daycare knowing quite well the baby is still being breastfed by her mummy.

They kidnapped and took Mrs. Chimkamuma Okoro away from her business premises after an attempt to arrest her husband Mr. Uchenna Okoro, who is an IPOB family member failed. The reason for trying to arrest him is because of his Biafra activism.

We understood that they are detaining Mr. Okoro at the DSS office Awka, where most of the Fulani officers are stationed.

Governor Willy Obiano should be held responsible if Mrs. Okoro got molested in the hands of these Fulani security officers, IPOB will not take this matter lightly if Mrs. Okoro is not released immediately. This nonsense of arresting innocent people for nothing sake must stop.

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IPOB Distance Itself From Gruesome Murder of Prophet Nwoko, Decries Recent Killings and Abductions Across Biafraland

The Biafra Times | April 19, 2019

IPOB PRESS RELEASE

If the motive behind the sponsored news announcing the unfortunate demise of the Enugu based freelance "prophet" Anthony Nwoko and his previous association with our leader, is to dampen or deflect attention from the earth-shattering worldwide broadcast scheduled for Saturday, April 20, 2019 on Radio Biafra, then they better be informed that their plans have failed woefully. Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will broadcast, that mankind may know the evil that Nigeria has become. This diversionary tactics of planting a sensational story in APC sympathetic newspapers is meaningless and will never work. Whoever it was within the Nigerian security apparatus that dreamt up this ruse is a colossal failure because we IPOB have faced worse and come out stronger.

Should independent autopsy confirm any foul play in the reported death of Anthony Nwoko, then DSS and Army will be held accountable. Their recent spate of abductions and killings across Biafraland is proof if any is needed, that they would commit whatever atrocity they can, in the hope of implicating IPOB.

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We mourn the loss of every Biafran and in this regard, we remember those shot dead in Asaba a few days ago on Monday 15 April, recent victims of Fulani terrorist attacks in Anambra, Delta, and Abia. Our heart also goes out to those unlawfully incarcerated for the unspeakable crimes at a Catholic Church in Ozubulu who have only two days ago regained their freedom.

IPOB is well aware that the Nigerian government and her security agencies will go to any length to stain our unimpeachable reputation in the hope of using it as a cover to continue their ongoing unreported war against IPOB. The media should be mindful not to prejudice the uninvestigated circumstances surrounding the passing of Anthony Nwoko in order not to become unwitting agents of dark forces that wish to tarnish the image of IPOB at any given opportunity.

As a movement rooted in the principles of democratic values and all it entails, IPOB will always welcome criticisms from all quarters because the Biafra we are seeking to build will be an open tolerant society.

We must, however, caution that Biafrans should be mindful of the opportunities their perceived hostility towards Biafra liberation might present to those seeking to exploit it for the benefit of the Fulani 'One Nigeria' caliphate agenda.

Enemies of Biafra within and outside the East will seek out every available avenue to damage the stellar standing of IPOB and her leadership and they will never ever stop until we recognize the danger they pose to us all. Without the benefit of any official police report on the cause of death, or a cause of death determined by a medical examiner, some journalists of Igbo extraction have already filed a report to their Yoruba bosses in Abuja and Lagos indicting IPOB. Those whose headline screamed "butchered in his house" failed to tell us why no single trace of blood was found in his house or his clothes.

If this APC demonic dictatorship had their way, they would have blamed IPOB for the sacking and conviction of Onnoghen in order to engineer enmity between South East and South South. Nothing is beyond them in their desperation to subdue every opposition.

We will flush out Jubril Al-Sudani the great impostor from Aso Rock. He must provide his DNA and face charges of high crimes and misdemeanors alongside Abba Kyari and the rest. Nothing our enemies does, even with the help of a media that doesn't investigate stories, will stop IPOB from liberating Biafra from the shackles of damnation and iniquity that Nigeria has come to represent.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL
IPOB MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY

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Biafra: Court orders arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, revokes bail

•Continues his trial in absentia, suspends proceedings of sureties’ cases

March 28, 2019

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor, and Chikwas Onu Ikpe

ABUJA - The Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, has ordered for the immediate arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu while revoking his bail over his continued absence in court since he was granted bail on April 25, 2017.

Trial Justice Binta Nyako made the ruling Thursday, against the request of the defence counsel, after hearing an oral application from the prosecution counsel, Mr. Shuaibu Labaran who asked the court to revoke the powers of the provisions of Section 352(4) of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, against the defence whom according to him, has been given enough time to produce the defendant in court.

Labaran said, “My Lord, we humbly submit that the defendant has been given due and adequate opportunities in line with Section 352(4) of the ACJA 2015, and when he fails to utilize such opportunities, the court took the next necessary step of initiating the proceedings requiring the sureties to show cause; and even at that, this Honourable Court has been so magnanimous in granting several adjournments and giving the sureties the opportunity to show cause consequent upon which the court delivered the ruling on November 14, 2018, which is a subject of an appeal.

“My Lord, I wish to state that parties are bound by the record of the court and any process filed in the course of the proceedings, falls back on the record of the court. It is therefore on record that even the sureties sought to withdraw their suretyship because they could not account the reason for absconding after being granted bail.

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“Finally, it is my humble submission that the request of the learned counsel for the defence is rather belated. This is the kind of application he brought when granting the defendant bail. The court adjourned for nearly 12 months and we urge this Honourable court to discountenance the request for an adjournment to give any explanation and order that the bail granted the defendant be revoked, issue a bench warrant against the defendant and finally issue an order for the trial of the defendant in absentia in compliance with the provision of the ACJA.”

In his reaction, Kanu’s counsel, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, vehemently objected the prayers of the prosecution on the grounds that the court has not given the defence an opportunity to come to court and explain why the IPOB leader has failed to attend proceedings.

Giving her final ruling after hearing the submissions of both counsels, the presiding judge, Justice Nyako stated that the defence has been given enough time to produce Kanu in court but failed, hence her decision to revoke the bail granted to the defendant and issue warrant for his arrest and continuation of his trial in his absence.

“This case was tried along with three others and was granted bail in this court on April 25, 2017, upon certain conditions. The case was adjourned to July 11, 12, 2017. That day, the case was supposed to come up but the court was on vacation.

“It subsequently came up on October 17, 2017. The learned counsel of the defendant informed the court that the house of the defendant was invaded by the soldiers and they did not know the whereabouts of the defendant.

“Counsel to the first surety told the court that the first surety said he did not know also the whereabouts of the 1st defendant and asked for time to produce him.

“The court ordered that the sureties come to court and show cause why the defendant is not in court. The case came up again on February 20, 2018, for the sureties to show cause why the first defendant has still not appear before the court.

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“The three sureties then applied to be discharged from the suretyship because they did not know where the defendant, Nnamdi Kanu is.

“Upon the application of the counsels of the defendants(before now), the trial of the first and only defendant in this case, Nnamdi Kanu, was separated from that of the others. The case of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu was adjourned to March 28, 2018, for the defendant to appear in court or the sureties.

“Till date, there have been four adjournments. All these is for the defendant to appear before the court or for the sureties to either produce him or forfeit their bail bonds which is subsequently ordered on November 14, 2018.

“I have taken time to direct the sequence of proceedings prior to this time, pursuant to the assertion of the ACJA to the 1st defendant (the only defendant) in this case. I’m of the opinion that the learned counsel is only seeking for time or trying to delay the case.

“Once an action has been filed before the court, it must finish in one way or the other; either by the judgment, discharging, or convicting the defendant, or that the prosecution withdraws the charge(s) or the Attorney General withdraws the charge. In the instant time, the case must continue either way.

“The above signifies that I have given counsel more than enough time to produce the defendant and continue with the trial, but they have not been able to do so.

“By virtue of the provision of Section 352(4) of the ACJA, the only option before this court is to continue with the trial of the defendant in his absence.

“Also, since I have not been given any cogent, concrete and convincing reason for the absence of the defendant, I hereby revoke his bail and order that a bench warrant be issued for his arrest,” the judge stated.

The court thereafter, adjourned Kanu’s trial till June 18, 2019.

Earlier during the opening of the day’s hearing, the court had ruled for “stay of proceedings” on the matter involving the sureties, pending the determination of an application filed at the Court of Appeal to relieve them from standing as sureties to the IPOB leader.

Recall that Kanu, as the leader of IPOB, calling for the restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra, was forced to jump bail when he escaped from the country after the invasion of his hometown in Afara-Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State by military personnel where more than 28 members of IPOB members and his relatives, including his pet dog, Jack, were massacred by armed soldiers in a military operation.

He resurfaced on 19th of October, 2018 at the Western wall of Jerusalem, Israel where he was sighted on video praying at the Wailing Wall.

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Biafra: Why Enugu IPOB volunteer officer was abducted by DSS, Army – Coordinator

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor | The Biafra Times

January 11, 2019

ENUGU - Coordinator of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, who was harassed and beaten by operatives of the Department of State Security, DSS and the Army has explained reasons for the early morning abduction of Enugu State IPOB volunteer officer, Uchenna Emenike.

Mazi Uchenna Emenike was reportedly taken away by the combined team of the Army and DSS when they burst into the residence of the coordinator (name withheld) at the early hours of 1:15am in a Gestapo like manner and concluded their operations at exactly 3:33am on January 9, 2019.

The sudden, forceful invasion of the vicinity frightened residence and neighbors as the DSS and army personnel broke down the doors of all the occupants of the building while searching for Emenike who was also in the same building with the coordinator.

The security personnel asked the coordinator what he was hiding from them after beating him to pulp with ply woods and handcuffs. Emenike was eventually abducted and taken away to an unknown destination.

However, according to the coordinator, Emenike’s arrest was being expected as the Nigerian security operatives has been on his trail on matters not unconnected with IPOB’s solemn call for citizens to boycott the February 16 presidential election and subsequent elections in Biafraland.

It was due to the threat and possible arrest that forced the volunteer officer to seek protection at the residence of the coordinator, yet they were able to locate him.

It was also gathered that Emenike couldn’t have been taken too far as the identity of the DSS personnel whom were of the Igbo ethnic group could be ascertained apart from the Fulani soldiers that accompanied them in the attack.

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Kanu’s emergence: Israel and the taunt on Nigeria Intelligence Services

By Grace Igboegwu | For Biafra Writers

October 25, 2018

It is possible that until now, Nigerians do not know that what Israel did was to mock them and their security services to their faces. They are such pathetic halfwits! Is it not a shame that Nigeria could not on its own ascertain the location from where Nnamdi Kanu broadcasted to the world on Sunday, October 21?

The broadcast was not a surprise. Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) gave notice of the broadcast and Nnamdi Kanu’s location some three solid days beforehand. That was why many Nigerian officials, from their president to ministers and advisers, downloaded the Radio Biafra App to listen to it. They did not bother nor had the wherewithal to establish the location.

Then, after the broadcast, they strutted off to go and demand the repatriation of the Biafran leader from Israel. Well, such a pity, they got what they deserved: “Nnamdi Kanu is not in Jerusalem; it must have been an old recording that people saw,” they were told.

The fools went back looking stupid like vultures beaten by rain; and began to send out senseless messages to the people how they were going to protect them. Meanwhile, thousands have been murdered in Kano and elsewhere in the country by the murderous Fulani coalitions of Boko Haram, herdsmen, and Nigerian Police and military.

READ ALSO: Again, Nigeria fails to stop Biafra

Instructively, what happened to them with Israel should better teach them that there is more to building countries than fixing elections; killing the citizens to stay in power, or even coming out every year to pretend to read a budget. It should teach them the bitter lesson that intelligence gathering and information management makes a country sure-footed.

It is a shame that what Nigeria has as secret services, like the one called the Department of State Security (DSS), which busies itself with chasing political opponents of incumbents and detaining without trials. Even those who were detained, whom they were forced to bring to court; they have disobeyed court orders who ruled for their release.

Now the joke of a country is begging Israel for friendship. Why did they not remember friendship when their fake of a president was demanding for a two-state solution between Israel and so-called Palestine? Why did they not remember friendship when they were voting against the United States of America (USA) for citing their Embassy in Jerusalem?
Nigeria is such a disgrace!



Edited By Chukwuemeka Chimerue

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IPOB vindicated: Public exposure of 30 billion Naira budget fraud, the reason behind Senator Abaribe's arrest

By Chijindu Benjamin Ukah | For Biafra Writers

June 27, 2018

The statement made by Justice Binta Nyako the judge presiding over the trial of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, in federal high court Abuja yesterday June 26, 2018, stating “I did not order Senator Abaribe's arrest by SSS, his arrest has nothing to do with Nnamdi Kanu's case”  has vindicated the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB. From every indication, it is now obvious that the arrest of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe by the DSS was in no way connected to his standing as a surety for IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as earlier reported by some arm-chair journalists.

This is a confirmation of the press statement by the media and publicity secretary of IPOB, Mr Emma Powerful which was released on June 25, 2018, the statement read in parts; “The only plausible reason Senator Abaribe was arrested is because of his public exposure of 30 billion Naira budget fraud perpetrated by the APC government and its leadership. “The exposure of that budget fraud remains the indisputable fact that no amount of blackmail with the name of IPOB will ever eradicate. Attempting to link Senator Abaribe to the fanciful concoction of the purportedly proscribed organization, gun running and terrorism is a cheap and tacky attempt, designed to appeal to the base instinct of those opposed to the idea of self-determination as championed by IPOB”.

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It is also an indisputable fact that distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has been the only out-spoken senator from the Southeast, he is known for standing for justice, speaking against injustice and defending the democracy that Nigerian state claim it operates. Senator Abaribe is seen as a threat by the dictatorial government of Muhammadu Buhari, Aso rock cabals and their slaves from the Southeast.
Senator Abaribe has long been marked to be politically rubbished, frustrated and destroyed by the APC led government. There is no doubt that his illegal arrest by the DSS is a step towards the move to silence him politically, but without any equivocation, they have failed; no one can silence Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe, not even the Abuja Cabals.

Anyone conversant with Buhari's tyranny system of government does not need to consult an oracle to know who ordered his arrest because it now obvious that his arrest was ordered by the APC led Government because of his public exposure of 30 billion Naira budget fraudulently sneaked into the budget.

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DSS disregard for the rule of law a norm under Buhari's government

By Princewill Akubumma | For Biafra Writers

June 26, 2018

The presiding judge of the Federal high court in Abuja, Justice Binta Nyako today June 26, 2018 stated categorically that she never ordered for the arrest of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe in the first place and that his arrest has nothing to do with the bail bond he signed on behalf of the Supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

If Justice Binta Nyako never ordered for the arrest of the distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe whose case for signing as one of the sureties for the IPOB leader was still at the federal high court in Abuja, then on whose order was Senator Abaribe arrested and what was his crime?

It is now clear to all and sundry that democracy and the rule of law in Nigeria under the dictatorial regime of Muhammadu Buhari has died a natural death as he and his Fulani Muslim dominated security apparatus of the country has been running the country aground through their constant violation of rule of law and their constant interference in the legal system which they have highjacked with impunity.

To say the least, this is a testament to the fact that it is the same manner that the Fulani Muslim dominated army and DSS went to the home of the Supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra on September 14, 2017 and attacked him just days before his court case in Abuja with the intention of killing him and stalling the case of which they knew they would lose if it should hold because the man they are accusing for treason and other trumped-up charges has not broken any known law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria according to the tenets of their 1999 amended constitution.
The judicial system of Nigeria has overnight become inept and inconsequential in the present administration of Muhammadu Buhari and his witch hunting watchdogs, the DSS and the Army of oppression and occupation who has been aiding and colluding with the terrorists in Nigeria, in committing crimes of various degrees.

They no longer follow the due process of the law which involved in the issuance of warrant of arrest before arrest should be made but rather they don't care whose ox is gored whenever they marked any opposition or critics of their corrupt practices for an arrest, all they do is to black boot their homes and forcefully take them away to an underground cell for torturing and summarily execution.

What is happening in Nigeria today is an oppressive regime meant to crush any opposition and critics. We therefore call on every international human right body, civil society group, Amnesty international and every lover of democracy to interven in this ugly situation going on in Nigeria under the watch and endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari whose actions and body languages is dragging the nation into an untold state of anarchy and lawlessness.

We at the Biafra writers press are lending our voices for the unconditional release of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe who represents Abia South senatorial district in the national assembly of Nigeria and urge the government of the day to follow due process of law in handling any matter concerning our people.

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IPOB SPIT FIRE, GIVES FG 48HRS TO RELEASE SENATOR ABARIBE

June 24, 2018

IPOB PRESS STATEMENT

Attempting to use the issue of IPOB agitation to deflect attention away from the real motive behind the public arrest of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is a ploy that will not wash with the public. The only plausible reason he was arrested is because of his public exposure of 30 billion Naira budget fraud perpetrated by the APC government. This remains the indisputable fact that no amount of blackmail with the name of IPOB will ever eradicate. Attempting to link Senator Abaribe to the fanciful concoction of proscribed organisation, guns and terrorism is a cheap and tacky attempt, designed to appeal to the base instinct of those core northerners opposed to the idea of self determination as championed by IPOB.

Every child knows who the real terrorists are in Nigeria. They remain the fourth largest terror network in the world, responsible for large scale ethnic cleansing in the Middle Belt and beyond, they are Fulani herdsmen. Till date, no Fulani man, we repeat- not a single Fulani person has been prosecuted for sponsoring this deadly terror group. Despite the public statement by the Kaduna State governor, who by his own public admission paid killers (Fulani herdsmen) large sums of money to stop the slaughter of their fellow citizens in Southern Kaduna, nobody has been charged.

It is a well known and documented fact that politicians in the East do not support IPOB or Biafra. This is well known to everyone, not hidden. How can the same politicians that despised IPOB to the point of instigating Operation Python Dance that resulted in the death of hundreds of IPOB family members suddenly turn around and start supporting IPOB in secret. Maybe it's because northern politicians sponsor Boko Haram and Fulani terror herdsmen in secret that is why the cabal thinks that it is inconceivable that IPOB can be this powerful without support from politicians. The strength of IPOB lies in the truth it preaches, it's global structure, internal discipline and the grace of God not man.

If Senator Abaribe, simply by standing surety for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu stand accused of supporting IPOB, then all those that stood surety for murderers, kidnappers, rapists etc are equally guilty of the offence as charged. This move against Senator Abaribe by SSS, makes a nonsense of the Nigerian judicial process and mockery of the law. Last time we checked, it's not against the law for a senator to stand surety for an accused person. Is the government suggesting that standing surety for an individual is tantamount to supporting that person's cause? So Senator Abaribe must be released within the next 48 hours.

This is not the first time the government have sought to tamper with a judicial process. Senator Abaribe is due in court on Tuesday 26 June 2018 on bond forfeiture hearing before Justice Binta Nyako, so why arrest him before his day in court? Is it because the government is seeking to protect the army, who in all probability will be found in contempt of court, for invading the home of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on September 14, 2017 with lethal force? Weeks before his court appearance in court in Abuja. These are well digested facts in public domain, supported by video evidence. No amount of intimidation by SSS can sweep this incriminating fact under the carpet.

Our leader have always said that every South East and South South politician serving Nigeria will return home in shame unless they turn around now and start campaigning for self determination. We are certain that if not for the immunity conferred on his office, Gov. Nyesom Wike by now will be in detention answering to one frivolous charge or the other. Only Fulani lick-spittle like Dave Umahi, Okezie Ikpeazu, Willie Obiano and a plethora of other political slaves are spared the humiliating treatment of publicised public arrest because they are obedient to the master.

Like every other Jihadi Islamic fundamentalist regime in the world that got into office via the ballot box, this APC regime will ultimately succeed in stifling democracy, criticism, opposition and dissent. Egypt under Morsi is a fine example. Nigeria have succeeded in descending into brutal totalitarianism under 'Buhari' and if Senator Abaribe is not released before 6pm tomorrow Monday the 25th, IPOB will call for a day of rage against the fascist government of Nigeria and her agents in the South East and South South. Let Britain and the rest of the civilised world not say they were not warned.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB

IPOB RESPONDS TO DSS ARREST OF SENATOR ABARIBE, CALLED ON BRITAIN TO CALL THEIR BABY TO ORDER

23/06/2018

IPOB PRESS RELEASE

It is no longer news that the demonic government of the Fulani Caliphate at Aso Rock, controlled by the cabal, is at it again. We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) must remind the world and especially the British government that what their beloved Fulani rulers of Nigeria are doing with political power is an open call to anarchy. Britain, as the creator and controller of the destiny of Nigeria in perpetuity, must prevent the impending catastrophe by impressing upon the Fulani tribe the need to at least follow the rule of law in the dispensation of their cruel version of justice. Other ethnic nationalities in Nigeria may have been cowered into submission by the Fulani caliphate; that will never become the fate of the East. We will resist it with the last drop of our blood whenever we called upon to do so.

As the uncontested and rightful owners of Nigeria, which they single handedly created, Britain must as a conscientious democracy and matter of urgency ask the Islamic Republic of Nigeria to release Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe without further delay. It is quite disturbing that Fulani Aso Rock cabal in control of this APC government do not know that law courts exist for a reason. No better authority is in a position to point this out to the Fulani caliphate than those that created and still control Nigeria. We therefore call on the highly respected representative of Her Britannic Majesty in Nigeria, Rt. Honourable Paul Arkwright, to get hold of Fulani leaders in the north and warn them of the consequences of their actions.

Without affording ample time for the politically orchestrated Greek gift presented to the Yoruba race in the name of June 12 declaration and national honours, the dictatorial cabal at Aso Rock yesterday directed their SSS (DSS) to arrest and detain the outspoken Igbo senator for reasons yet to be publicly disclosed by the government. It is on record that Senator Abaribe has been a vocal critic of the present dictatorship and equally stood as surety for our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Information at our disposal has it that the State Security Services (SSS) or DSS as they are commonly called, spent last night and into the early of this morning at the residence of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe in the Apo District Legislative Quarters searching for what they said to be IPOB insignia and materials that will one way or the other constitute an indictable offence.

The SSS operatives conducting the search ludicrously insisted that our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu had taken refuge in Senator Abaribe's house in Abuja. Up till 3am this morning SSS men were still at his residence demanding that he produce Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Our intelligence has uncovered specific details which point to the fact that their belated introduction of Abaribe's purported link with IPOB as forming part of their original enquiry, is a clear diversion from what they actually set out to achieve from the onset which is not unconnected with the criminal padding of power sector budget by the corrupt Aso Rock cabal.

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe should be commended by all anti-corruption crusaders and agencies in the world not hounded for his patriotic and speedy exposure of the forged documents this government inserted into the budget as presented to the Senate. Senator Abaribe's crime is that he raised alarm on the floor of the senate about how 30 billion Naira was strangely smuggled into the power sector budget when no such amount was ever part of the original budget presented to the the National Assembly for approval. This is bare-faced fraud on a monumental scale.

Instead of making clarifications on this embarrassingly open fraud perpetrated by the government, the Fulani Aso Rock cabal instead sent their Gestapo SSS, to intimidate and shut him up. Adolf Hitler will be proud of the ruthlessness and cruelty of the Nigerian SSS. This is where Britain must step in and live up to its stated colonial and moral responsibility of training the Fulani caliphate on the tenets of democracy and the need to embrace it. Failure to do so will lead to untold misery and bloodshed for all. The tolerance level of the masses has reached a breaking point. This government must be called to order.

Senator Abaribe cannot be arrested in the manner SSS did because there are laid down procedures and rules for inviting a sitting Senator to submit him or herself for any form of investigation by any security agency. Instead they chose the gestapo option to accomplish their evil designs and to embarrass him. Those who deserve to be arrested by SSS are those in Aso Rock that sought to defraud the public by criminally seeking to appropriate extra 30 billion Naira for themselves through the 2018 budget.

The Fulani controlled Nigerian government has no respect for the Rule of Law which they swore under oath to uphold and should be reminded of the catastrophic consequences of their actions. The cabal are visibly beckoning on anarchy and should immediately retrace their steps before it's too late. Britain should preempt the impending disastrous collapse of Nigeria by pressuring the government to have regard for the law.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

Breaking: DSS Boss, Daura, trading Boko Haram/kidnap suspects for personal gains, reason terrorism may not end soon in Nigeria— International Security Expert

.Daura, investigated for operating pseudo-account with stolen ransom funds
•Highlights Nigeria’s complicity with terrorists

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor, The Biafra Times

April 5, 2018

ABUJA— A foreign expert in global security and intelligence, Ann Mcgregor, in an online memo obtained by The Biafra Times, has revealed how the Director-General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Lawal Daura, has been gaining monetarily from the crises orchestrated by Boko Haram terrorists and kidnappers for ransom in Nigeria.

The expert stated that for the past three years, Daura through the facilitation of one Mr. Pascal Holliger, a Swiss intelligence officer, visited Switzerland to cement deals with the Swiss government for the release of ransoms for its kidnapped nationals in Nigeria.

According to the statement, however, the DSS Boss is now being covertly investigated for operating an off-shore pseudo-investment account where part of the proceeds of ransom funds were allegedly stashed away in a private bank and converted for his personal use.

Part of the statement reads that: “Mr. Daura made frequent trips to Switzerland, in the last three year facilitated by Mr Holliger. The reasons for the initial trips were the search and recovery of Abacha stolen loot.

“Now the hunter is being hunted. Mr Daura is the subject of discreet European investigations on the allegations of operating an off-shore investment account, part of the proceeds of ransom fund in the Swiss-German principality, Liechtenstein with Lamda Private bank under a pseudo-name.

“What is further intriguing the investigators is the link between Mr Daura, Holliger, and Mustapha Ould  Liman Chafi, a Mauritanian. Chafi was the mediator and ransom conduit in the release of Canadian diplomat, Ambassador Robert Fowler in 2008. The terrorists communicated mainly through ‘Agence Noukchott d’information, Chafi and the Mauritanian New Agency reveals used by AQIM(Al-Qaeda)/Ansaru for kidnappings in Nigeria.”

The statement also noted that the DSS Director usually engage in the business of trading-off top Boko Haram commanders/terrorists in his custody for money, part of reasons the Boko Haram insurgency in the country has lingered.

According to Mcgregor, “On the 8th March 2012 a faction of Boko Haram Ansaru (Barnawi) killed two western hostages in the Northern Nigerian city Sokoto, a British quantity surveyor Chris Mcmanus and an Italian Engineer Franco Lamolinara. This was after British Foreign and Commonwealth Office had paid the sum of more than One Million Pound to Mustapha Chafi to facilitate the release of the hostages. The failure of ransom talk with Chafi according to our source was because the money was tampered with by the mediators.

“Despite claim of ceasefire talks between Nigerian government and Boko Haram (Barnawi Faction) affiliated to ISIS or ISWA the attacks has remain unrelenting.  The way Daura traded High Profile terror Suspects in his custody along with millions of Euros are a cause for concern.

“The biggest concession made so far is the release of Hussaini Maitangaran, who spearheaded several deadly attacks in Kano, including Central Mosque attack, which killed more than 1,000 people. He was arrested by the DSS on 31th August 2017. The release was part of Dapchi school girls swap deal.

“Will the specially designated global terrorist Khalid  Al Barnawi accused of killing ten westerners be part of the exchange swap? The UK, US, EU and UN are watching. One western diplomat said: “actors involved in the fraudulent negotiations with terrorists are currently wielding decisive political and military positions in Nigeria and are influential players in the security sector.”

It further added that with Daura’s dubious dealings, selfish and insatiable quest for material gains through the illegal terrorism and kidnapping deals, the menace is not close to ending any time soon as those saddled with the responsibilty to secure both local and national citizens in the government are benefitting from it.

Nigerian Government’s complicity with terrorists

Mcgregor, in her memo, observed that the rapid rise in conflict and growth of insurgency in Nigeria and other countries in the West African region were being made possible through the negotiations and complicity of governments of such regions with terrorists and kidnappers.

She added that such complicity between the States and Jihadist elements, facilitated their growing influence, instability and creation of safe havens from where they launch attacks in the region.

“State complicity with terrorists and organized crime are at the heart of instability in the Sahel, Sahara and Lake Chad regions, formenting conflict and fuelling the rise of Boko Haram kidnapping.

“In the past decades, increasing instability in the Sahel, Sahara and Lake Chad has been a source of growing concern in Europe and the United States. Weakness of state control on these areas allowed Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and other Jihadist groups to establish their influence and establish safe haven.

“As in the past, governments are tempted to use Jihadist group and organized crime as a political resource by allowing their allies to benefit from criminal activities, which has clear implication for policy and the region’s instability. The importance of organized criminal activities in the Sahel, Sahara and Lake Chad regions stems from the fact that there are few alternative activities that produce profits and rapid enrichment. Repeated hostage takings have caused tourism on the Sahel and the Sahara to collapse, thereby further limiting opportunities for employment and profit outside criminal activities.

“Kidnapping for ransom has developed into a highly lucrative industry that has allowed AQIM and ISWA (Islamic States of West Africa) Boko Haram  and Ansaru become a significant political and military force.

“Extrapolating from available information, the income drive by AQIM, MUJAO, Boko Haram and associated mediators is likely to total $100 million dollars since 2008, paid mostly by western and Nigerian governments.

“Reports of ransom payment are never officially confirmed by the government concerned and media reports vary on the amount involved, although most range between $1.5 million and $4 million per hostage. The only reliable information in this respect came from the Swiss.

“In 2009, the Swiss government authorized the use of $5 million in relation to the negotiations over the release of three of its nationals of which $2 million appears to have been set aside for the ransom payments. Since 2009, the Swiss have perfected the art of private diplomacy to offer themselves as “neutral interlocutors” in many of Africa’s conflicts. That also comes with a price, but one has attracted and discomforted European and US governments is the so-called “mediations, ceasefire and release of 105 Dapchi school girls.”

“The puzzle and the jigsaw was the manner of the abduction and release. Boko Haram are keeping in their custody one of the Christian girl among the 110 Dapchi school girls they abducted, Leah Sharibu has refused to renounce her faith. However western intelligence sources believe Boko Haram and the mediators Swiss and Nigerians are asking the Nigerian government for more money to pay ransom and further release of six high profile Barnawi faction detainees in the custody of Directorate of State Service. This is creating discomfort.

“The discomfort stem from the collusion and allegation of corruption between the Nigerian negotiation team made of the Director-General of Departments of Security Services, Mr Lawal Daura, the Nigeria’s  Interior Minister, General Abdulrahman Dambazau, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe the foreign policy chief and the President’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari on one hand and the Swiss Embassy team in Nigeria and personnel of Human Security Department of Swiss Foreign Ministry.

“The Swiss intelligence officer, Pascal Holliger along with local accessories, Mustapha Zannah, a lawyer who runs a private school in Maiduguri that gives free education to the orphan-children of Boko Haram fighters — the school was established and funded by the International Islamic Relief Organisation, a Saudi-based charity organization, on United States Department’s list of charities with ties to terrorist organisations  and Aisha Wakil, facilitated the ransom payment of €5million euro and swap of top Boko Haram commanders in the custody of Mr Lawal Daura,” she stated.

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Biafra: Court orders FG to serve `enrol order’ on Kanu’s sureties as Prosecution counsel kicks

•It’s my understanding that you’re not yet ready for this case - Judge tells sureties
•No order was served on me, I only read it on newspaper - Sen. Abaribe

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor, & Chikwas Onu Ikpe


The Biafra Times | March 29, 2018

ABUJA - The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday asked the Federal government’s counsel to serve an “enrolled order” that would enable sureties to leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to produce him in court or to show cause why their bail bonds should not be forfeited.

Trial Justice Binta Nyako made the ruling when counsel to one of the sureties, Chukwuma Maduchukwu Umeh, SAN, pointed out that his client, Immanu-El Shalom Ben Madu, was not served with official court papers relating to the order made by the court in its previous ruling, demanding that the Prosecution serves the sureties with copies of the order as made by the court.

Also, in a joint application, lawyers to the three sureties argued that for the court to begin a forfeiture proceeding or issuance of bench warrant, it first requires serving an "enrolled order" to the sureties.

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“My Lord, I stand to align myself clearly, and without any equivocation whatsoever the submission made by the applicants. But I will like to put straight the point that section 36 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, requires that before any respondent be charged, a basis of fair hearing should be granted to that person. My client has never been served in any subject as regards to this matter,” Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe stated.

However, in his counter motion, the Prosecution counsel, Shuaibu Labaran, asked the court to discountenance the application of the sureties, arguing that they conspired to delay prompt proceedings in the matter.

He said, “My Lord, may I start by saying that justice should not be sacrificed in the altar of illegality. This is leading me to the submission of counsel to the second applicant. He has been in this matter since 2017, portion of which the court has given categorical order requesting the applicants[the three sureties] to show cause, but filed an application before this Honourable Court, stating every details as to why the first applicant was not able to produce the first defendant which he took bail.

“An unfair argument goes to the submission of the larger counsel to the third applicant. My Lord, he has made a presentation, in writing, before your Lordship. Similarly, on our side, we have also joined issues with him and for them to conspire, to draw a setback in this proceedings which is grossly unfair to this Honourable court and indeed the Prosecution.

“We, therefore, urge My Lord, the discountenance of all their prayers and to proceed with the business of the day.”

However, in her ruling, the presiding judge, Justice Nyako granted the request of the applicants(sureties) even as she noted that the application was an evidence of their lack of readiness to proceed with the matter.

READ ALSO: IPOB Trial: “DSS has copy of my gun license,” Benjamin Madubugwu thunders as court declines to hear bail applications

“Now I will tell you what I understand because this is the normal practice in this case. You are not ready, that is my understanding; because severally most of you have been here. I agree that maybe you have not been served an enrol order - it is possible. I have not gone through the parties to clarify that. If that is your complaint, it is okay. You have the right to be served with an enrol order. I shall make that order.

“But the bottom-line is that you people are never ready. You never want this case to go on. You did not conspire, you only agreed amongst yourselves.

You see, the important thing is this: once a case has been filed in court, one day or the other, it must be decided, either it is held and concluded or the merit is the case, or the prosecution will close it, or the Attorney General enters the body.

“The sureties are to be served with the order of this court, to show why they should not forfeit their bond or to produce the defendant in the next adjourned date, with the alternative to be committed to prison,” she stated.

Consequently, the Court adjourned till June 26, 2018, to give time for the order to enable the sureties to appear in court to explain the whereabouts of the IPOB leader or forfeit their bail bonds.

READ: Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB, The Best Thing That Happened To Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria.

Meanwhile speaking to our Correspondent shortly after Wednesday’s proceedings, Kanu’s surety, Senator Enyinnaya who was present during the court’s proceeding, insisted he wasn’t served with the court order for summon but only learnt about it on newspapers.

Speaking through his lawyer, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor, Sen. Abaribe said, “We’re here because we heard it over the newspaper but we were not issued any order.

“We’re saying that if there’s an order on Senator Abaribe who has now facilitated the course of trial, that order ought to be served on him. We will now get prepared and enter the court and explain to them our stand on the matter.”

The Biafra Times 2018

IPOB Trial: “DSS has copy of my gun license,” Benjamin Madubugwu thunders as court declines to hear bail applications

•Says I’m being prosecuted because of my Biafran identity


By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor, Chikwas Onu Ikpe //
For Biafra Writers

Publisher: Chijindu Benjamin Ukah

March 28, 2018

ABUJA— There was a heated outburst today inside the courtroom of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, by the four IPOB defendants as the court ended its proceedings without calling up their bail applications for hearing.

The court had earlier slated today to adopt the bail applications of the four defendants namely, Bright Chimezie, Benjamin Madubugwu, David Nwawuisi and Chidiebere Onwudiwe whose charges were amended at the previous session.

Visibly angered about the development, the second defendant, Benjamin Madubugwu, said he believes the case is no longer between the Federal Government of Nigeria and IPOB members but between the Fulanis and IPOB, adding that his application was deliberately delayed becausr he is a Biafran.

“I know why this is happening to me because I am an Igbo man, a Biafran, that is why it’s like this.

“All these herdsmen killing people everywhere in Nigeria, how many have been arrested? Am in prison, I’ve not seen them in prison.

“Why would someone put me in prison for 3 years without telling me my crime? How can they charge me for unlawful possession of firearms when I have license? It was duly licensed. You(DSS) have a copy of the license. Go and ask the DSS when they invaded my house, they took the copy of my gun’s license and they know, yet, they’re still keeping me hostage,” he lamented.

Madubugwu added that for over three years he has been detained without trial, the international community remained silent in his plight even as his health condition deterioriates in prison custody.

He asked, “Why is the world keeping quiet? Nobody wants to hear me out. Nobody wants to help me. Is it because we’re Biafrans? Why are we being neglected? What is my crime for Christ’s sake? I have been keeping quiet for long and I would no longer keep quiet. This is pure injustice.”

However, as they(defendants) refused to return to prison custody pending when a new date to consider their application is fixed, it took the intervention of thr defense lawyers led by Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor to calm down the restiveness and charged atmosphere created by the aggrieved defendants.

The court, however, finally slated April 13, 2018, to adopt their bail applications.

THE BIAFRA TIMES
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