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.”

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Extortion, brutality by police worst in south east - NHRC gives verdict

The Biafra Times | April 30, 2019

- National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says police brutality and extortion are highest in the south east

 - The NHRC and other organisations accuse policemen of terrorising the same people they are supposed to protect

 - Segun Awosanya wants every policeman to undergo mental evaluation before being posted Brutality and extortion by men of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) are most common in the south east, the zone’s coordinator of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Uche Nwokocha, has said.

Nwokocha raised the alarm about alleged police brutality, abuse, intimidation and extortion in the zone noting that the officers in the area had now constituted themselves into a terror group.

Speaking during public tribunal on police corruption, brutally and abuse in southern Nigeria in Owerri, capital of Imo state, she said: “Police corruption, abuse and brutality have become more pervasive in the south east.

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 “There is high level of impunity and extortion, with illegal checkpoints at every one pole and those who refuse to give in to the extortion by these armed policemen would be severely manhandled.”
According to her, some unfortunate ones have ended up being killed and, thereafter, framed as armed robbers.

She insisted that the anti-kidnapping, anti-cultism and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) have all become agents of terror.

“The extra-judicial killings by officers of the SARS is frightening and efforts by the NHRC and the Network of Police Reforms in Nigeria (NOPRIN) to get the police accountable for these extra-judicial killings have failed.

“In most cases, the police will lie that the culprit has been dismissed, when, in fact, they have been transferred,” she said while describing SARS as being used as debt collectors, for settlement of land and even family disputes, which are supposed to be simply civil matters.

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In his observation, the national coordinator of #EndSARS, Segun Awosanya, said the officers in the unit have constituted themselves into an organised crime syndicate, who are above the law.

“Our police system has been operating under the oppressive act of 1943 and, until that act is repealed and replaced with a more progressive one that is in tandem with the administration of criminal justice.

 “Today, what we have as police officers are people who constitute themselves into an organised crime syndicate that are above the law and that is why we are calling for the scrapping of SARS or its total overhauling,” he said.

He urged that police officers should be subjected to psychological evaluation because, “you don’t give a gun to a man that is mentally unbalanced.

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Nigeria Police Force lied to Cover up their Murderous Attack Against IPOB Family Members

April 17, 2019

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It is very sad and gravely disappointing that Nigerian Police Force in Delta State, that epitome of corruption and evil, have taken time off from their usual extortion on check-points and daily killings of innocent civilians to once again turn their murderous attention to IPOB. Their well-publicized lies about alleged police station invasion by IPOB in Asaba yesterday is so ludicrous that only a natural born liar like Lai Mohammed and possibly a rabid anti-Biafra deranged fool can believe such hogwash.

Perhaps the Inspector General of Police and some Fulani elements within the Nigerian Police Force is seeking to relieve the pressure Jubril Al-Sudan the Buhari impostor is undergoing at the election tribunal in Abuja, where we understand he has been compelled to tender what we all know to be a non-existent WAEC result. Whoever concocted this silly allegation about IPOB invading a police station and sold it to the Nigerian press must be steeped in the same lying tradition as Lai Mohammed.

The truth of the matter is that Delta State IPOB family members were attacked on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 during a peaceful procession in Asaba the capital of Delta State. For those who may wish to know, Asaba is a Biafran town and the birthplace of Col. Achuzie, one of the great heroes of the Biafra-Nigeria war. Therefore, we IPOB have every right to exercise our constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful assembly. At no time did we IPOB or anybody for that matter invade any police station in Asaba. All the lies the Delta State Police Command concocted is purely to justify the killing of innocent people during the procession.

The fact illiterate Nigerian police officers in Asaba are unsurprisingly ignorant of the constitution and laws of Nigeria does not mean they have the right to lie by alleging something that never happened. They forgot the whole incident was filmed thereby rendering their lies useless. We have released video footage of the incident to once again prove their statement to be nothing but lies and fabrication.

We are disappointed that in this day and age some media houses will elect to abandon objectivity when reporting a statement from a world-renowned institutionally corrupt police organization.

If those that issued this gravely misleading and injurious allegation against IPOB are hoping to deflect attention from their crimes then they are mistaken. From Delta State Police Commissioner to the DPO in charge of the station that opened fire on unarmed Biafrans- killing and injuring many in the process, all will pay dearly for the death of those they killed and injured. There will be retribution.

No amount of sponsored lies against peaceful IPOB will exonerate these lying and corrupt policemen in Asaba. The time of reckoning will surely come.

Those unelected shadowy figures in Aso Rock led by Abba Kyari, those that recruited Jubril Al-Sudani, should face their fate at the election tribunal. They should stop using the police to make outlandish and unsubstantiable allegations against the noble IPOB family in order to change the news headline with the hope of diverting public attention away from their crime of stealing the mandate of the people.

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Herdsmen Killings: Women protests in Delta community, barricades roads to enforce govt action

...Herdsmen told us that ‘all lands belongs to Buhari’ – Urhobo women farmers

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor | The Biafra Times

November 7, 2018

DELTA - Women in Ewu-Urhobo community, Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, have lamented against constant attacks on them by suspected Fulani herdsmen grazing cattle in their community.

The women, who staged a protest and blocked Ewu-Edjokota Road on Monday, claimed that the herdsmen attacked them on their farms with machetes for refusing to allow cattle graze on their farm produce.

The protesting women disclosed that some of them had been raped or killed by the suspected herdsmen who escaped into the bush after perpetrating their heinous acts.

They said that the herdsmen always argued that all lands in the country belonged to President Muhammadu Buhari and so no one could stop them from grazing their cattle anywhere they deemed fit.

Women leader of the community, Mrs. Queen Dieseruvwe, who led the protest, disclosed that the herdsmen would usually say that “all lands in Nigeria, including our communal lands, belong to President Muhammadu Buhari.”

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She added, “They also claim that we have no rights to prevent them from grazing on our farms because President Muhammadu Buhari owns all the lands in Nigeria, hence we cannot claim ownership of the land.

“They uproot our cassava, feed it to their herds and when you try to resist them, they attack you with machete and maim you if you are lucky as some others, or even shoot you.

“So, this is the reason we have barricaded the road as all efforts to reach the governor, police and other security agencies to evict these evil herdsmen from our community have been futile.”

One of the villagers disclosed that the recent killing of a woman on her farm was the immediate cause of the protest.

The woman identified as Mama Ufuoma said, “She (victim) was at her farm with one of her children weeding unknown to them that a group of herdsmen were within the vicinity. The herdsmen immediately pounced on her and tried to rape her.

“While trying to resist them amidst screams, they attacked her with their machetes leaving deep cuts on her and fled into the bush when people came to the scene. She was rushed to the hospital after losing a lot of blood, but died at the hospital.”

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Delta residents laments Govt neglect as flood ravages, displaces riverine communities

•Govt should come to our aid by constructing shore protection to save us
•Govt response to our case is very poor
•Riverine communities have been left to their fate – FOHURAC   
...As one year old baby found dead under bed in Delta Ijaw community

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor and Enaibo Asiayei | The Biafra Times

October 24, 2018

DELTA – Residents displaced by flood at Ogodobiri, Gbekebor and other communities in Bomadi and Burutu Local Government Areas of Delta State, have appealed to the Federal and State Governments to, without delay, send food and other relief materials to them to save the starving and sick victims.

Secretary and spokesperson of Ogodobiri community, Mr. Felix Okpe, who spoke for the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, at Ogodobiri, told newsmen that affected persons still cooking in their canoes were hungry and have nowhere to sleep.

“We are calling on the federal and state governments to come to their rescue by providing them food and relocate them to IDP camps. Many of them are also falling sick with different ailments,” he asserted.

Chairman of Gbekebor community, Mr Ayakpo Akiefa, and the urban secretary, Mr Tonfa Cyprian, in a statement, called on the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Federal Ministry of Environment, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC and Delta Ministry of Environment to immediately come to their aid.

He said that the entire residents of the community have been rendered homeless by coastal flood, which destroyed farmlands and property worth millions of naira belonging to community folks.

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He also confirmed that displaced residents were currently living on raised platforms and rafts, as the community is located in the deep mangrove.

“The Gbekebor case is peculiar because of the collapsed seawall coupled with the geographical location of the community, which is located along the River Forcados flat, that is, on the direct water current.

“Therefore, the community is appealing to the federal government to come to our aid by constructing shore protection to save us from the perpetual fear on yearly basis.”

Meanwhile, a non-governmental organization, Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusaders, FOHURAC, yesterday, accused government of abandoning many of the affected riverine communities in Delta state.

National president of the group, Cleric Alaowei, Esq., in a statement, said its Disaster Response Team, DRT, that visited affected communities in Delta state discovered “that the responses of the governments at all levels to the plight of these communities are very poor.

“All of the communities visited by our team, only few of them received relief materials from the local government councils.

“In Burutu, the council only sent relief materials to four communities where over 70 communities were affected. The local government chairmen of Warri North, Warri South, Burutu, Bomadi, and Patani LGAs did not show any concern by visiting these communities to ascertain the level of damage.

“In Warri South West Local Government Area, the council chairman sent relief materials to a good number of the communities affected. The same thing applies to Warri North and Bomadi Local Governments respectively.

“In the same vein, no state/federal government team has visited these communities unlike what is being done in the upland areas. The riverine communities have been left to their fate to suffer the excruciating effects of the flood.

“We cannot rule out epidemics and acute starvation as we earlier alerted the world. Just three days ago, a lady lost her one-year-old child to the invading flood at Bubougbene community in Burutu Local Government Area.”

The group asserted: “The lackadaisical attitude of the governments at all levels towards these communities is aggravating the whole thing. We are made to understand that the Delta state government has set up a Flood Management Committee to cater for the victims of the flood. Our grouse is that why are the riverine communities not being considered in the government’s programme? Are they not part of the state?”

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FOHURAC added: “To our chagrin, the same committee which had built IDPs Camps in upland areas for the affected communities there has paid no attention to the riverine dwellers. The case of the riverine people is utter abandonment by the committee.”

Flood Disaster: One-year-old baby found dead under bed in Delta Ijaw community

People of Bobougbene community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State are reeling in anguish as the devastated flooding situation in the locality continues to take its toll on the hapless citizens.

The latest horrifying experience in the community is the death of a year old baby whose lifeless body was found under a bed on Saturday night.

The community chairman, Mr. Eyoro-ere Mienebigbagha, disclosed to our Correspondents that, “we heard a loud cry from our neighbour’s house at twilight and because of the flood we have to use canoes and paddled to their house and what we saw was the dead body of their daughter, Keme-akpo.”

While narrating the heart-shattering ordeal, Mr. Destiny Polobiri, father of the dead baby, said: “since the flood has submerged our homes to windows level, we have to set up alternative platform as bed to sleep until the flood stops. But what we got is a big blow as I lost my first daughter to the flood.

“When we woke up this morning we could not see our daughter, Keme-akpo, on the bed and I jumped from the bed to the water, searching everywhere.

“I scattered the platform we raised; behold my daughter had drowned and it was her lifeless that behold my sight.”

However, Mr. Champion Milo, the grandfather of the baby expressed his displeasures, that since the community submerged, no government agency nor the local and state governments has made any move to relocate them to a safer place.

“This is how we will continue to suffer until the flood is over. My pain is that the government is insensitive to our plight. This is a sad moment.”

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Six days after arrest, Waterway Security Committee member, brother still in detention

...Wife cries out against injustice, pleads for release of husband

…“This is a case of reckless abuse of human right”— Lawyer

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor, The Biafra Times

April 18, 2018

DELTA - In a move akin to official abuse of office and clear injustice, a member of the Delta State Security and Waterways Committee, Hon. Simeon Bebenimibo and his younger brother are still been held up in detention, six days after they were both whisked away by some people believed to be security agents.

Reliable reports said that Hon. Bebenimibo, a community leader and known man of peace, with his younger sibling, are languishing in a detention facility, on the strength of some trumped-up charges that has not been revealed to them or members of their family.

The wife of Ernest Bebenimibo has cried out to the Federal Government to effect the immediate release of her husband and his brother.

Mrs. Loveth Bebenimibo lamented that her husband who is a legitimate businessman is being treated like a common criminal.

She said; “I need my husband now. He is the only breadwinner we have. I beg President Muhammadu Buhari to please release my husband. Those who arrested my husband should release my husband immediately”.

In a related development, Barrister Rotimi Durojaiye, a Port Harcourt-based legal practitioner, reacting to the news, expressed sadness that despite the much-trumpeted commitments of the Buhari administration to human rights, two heads of families are been detained against the mandatory 24 hours on some reasons shrouded in mystery.

He warned that the security agents are liable to sanctions if legal actions are taken against them personally.

“It is a pity that this sort of thing is still happening in the country, despite the fact the Federal Government that has a senior member of the bench as its Vice President.

”However, I advise the family to seek legal redress against the erring security agents. What they have done is actionable. This is not a banana republic, these things have to stop,” he stated.

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Shocking Photos of Deplorable State of Akparemogbene Primary School in Oil-rich Delta State Emerges

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor, The Biafra Times

April 8, 2018

DELTA - It is extremely difficult for one to believe that a public school for pupils in a state where a humongous amount of crude oil proceeds from which Nigeria’s main source of income is derived, would in this modern era harbour such an eyesore in its education sector when other countries of the world boasts of state-of-art educational facilities with cozy and serene learning environment for their citizens.

In spite of huge budgetary allocations earmarked annually to cater for the needs of public schools in the country, including rehabilitation of dilapidated school buildings, Omotimipere primary school in Akparemogbene community, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State as captured in this publication, is completely abandoned without aid from both the state government and interventionist agencies.

While the State government house and its officials occupy exquisite edifices or mansions, only three dilapidated buildings serve as classrooms for the pupils such that the majority of them take lessons in the open despite the cold chilling weather.

  

The buildings and facilities of the primary school are in shambles and the decrepit condition in which the pupils learn is absolutely unfit for human beings, especially the young school children to be groomed. While the roofs of some of the classrooms have been blown open, making sunshine and rain to gain unrestricted access to the poor little children, some other classrooms are pervaded by sordid darkness. In fact, the sorry state of the school when sighted would make one immediately develop goose pimples.

Promises of quality education is one of the cardinal issues that public office holders at all levels in the country often ride on to get the mandate of the people. This is always followed by a huge annual budget for the sector to show their commitment to the people. But to what extent do these huge annual allocations affect the quality of education and the conditions in which pupils learn?

 

A recent visit to primary schools located in the aforementioned local government in Delta State, reveals that many of the schools are in a terrible state of disrepair and are largely fuelling the rising incidence of children dropping out of school in the rural area.

The Biafra Times 2018