Call for Buhari to Resign, Abaribe Spoke the Mind of the People

February 4, 2020

By Princewill Akubumma | For Biafra Writers

The call for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari by the Senate Minority leader, distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, received a huge thumbs-up from Nigerians. Following that call, many Nigerians took to social media to express their support, praising Abaribe for the guts to stand up to the despot in power.

Senator Abribe's call for Buhari's resignation on the floor of the Senate is justifiable, apt, and commendable. Expectantly, government puppets like Garba Shehu, Femi Adesina and a few other misguided northern senators of APC stock are already working hard to change the narrative, maligning the senator for saying the obvious. Shamefully even the Senate President, Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan, who out to be neutral in sensitive issues, was seen trying to shout down the distinguished Senator.

Senator Abdullahi Adamu’s demand that Abaribe withdraws his statement is not only lugubrious, it also suggests the level of mess the Nigerian state is in. it points clear to the fact that this Senate is merely a rubber-stamp Senate.

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To say the least, President Buhari has failed woefully in delivering his campaign promises in the past five years and has shown himself insensitive to the hardship and insecurity ravaging the country. He, therefore, should heed the advice of Senator Abaribe and resign honourably. Nigerians and Biafrans alike are solidly behind Abaribe.

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#BuhariResign: Enyinnaya Abaribe Unarguably the Only Distinguished Senator in Nigeria - IPOB

File photo: Distinguished Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe

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January 31, 2020 | The Biafra Times

The recent incoherent and roundly childish tirade by the presidency of Nigeria against Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, unarguably the only distinguished senator in the whole of Nigeria, is confirmation of the paranoia that has gripped the Fulani government in Aso Rock. Garba Shehu has not only showcased his ignorance of the law as it pertains to bail forfeiture proceedings in a law court, but his pathetic attempt to rewrite the history of the unprovoked bloody invasion of the home of our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by Fulani terrorist soldiers which directly resulted in his inability to attend Binta Nyako's court is well documented. It doesn't matter how many times Aso Rock rehearse this puerile line of 'jumping bail' argument, the facts are very clear and in the public domain for any sensible person to comprehend. If you went Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's house to kill him, is it a court in Abuja, where judges are impotent, that he won't be attacked? Common sense!

It speaks to the intellectual vacuousness of this APC regime that a seemingly high ranking presidential spokesperson is blissfully ignorant of the constitution they swore to uphold. Does it mean that Garba Shehu, Malami the Attorney General of Nigeria and the Tanko Muhammad the Chief Justice of Nigeria are ignorant of the section of the constitution that stipulates by law a senator is not allowed to stand surety for an accused person? Therefore Abaribe has no case to answer, that is why neither Binta Ntako's court nor the Court of Appeal is willing to entertain the bond forfeiture case any longer. Garba Shehu should stop disgracing himself and his Miyetti Allah government with their nauseating ignorance of judicial process.

This same Garba Shehu who said they don't take advice from the likes of Abaribe were the same people that publicly called for Goodluck Jonathan to resign. Why is it that Senator Abaribe's legitimate call for the resignation of Abba Kyari's government headed by Jubril Al-Sudani is suddenly treasonable felony. Fulani caliphate plans against Chief Enyinnaya Abaribe and others will fail because ordinary people are now wiser thanks to the gospel of liberation being preached by our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

Since the failure of Fulani/Ohaneze Ndigbo/South East Governors' plot to eliminate our great leader during the invasion of his country home at Afaraukwu in Umuahia Abia State, Aso Rock with their truth averse misguided friends in some sections of the cash and carry news media in Nigeria, have been scrambling to see what false allegation against Enyinnaya Abaraibe will stick. Each time they have failed as they will also fail in this latest charade. We are now all familiar with the usual Fulani rage and fury anytime their corrupt regime in Aso Rock is held publicly accountable. They cannot fool the masses anymore, we are all wiser.

We should remind Garba Shehu and Nigerians alike that Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Binta Nyako granted our leader bail on 23rd of March 2017 and a few months after that, the Fulani owned Federal Government of Nigeria on 14th of September 2017 to be precise, conspired with South East governors, Ohaneze Indigbo led by John Nnia Nwodo and ordered the Nigeria Army, Police, Navy, Air Force, and DSS to invade kill and maim our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The fact they failed in that murderous mission that took the lives of 28 Biafrans is the reason why there is so much meaningless vitriol directed at Abaribe to cover up their murderous intent against our leader.

It is important we let the masses that inhabit the colonial contraption called Nigeria know that any government that fail to protect the lives and properties of her citizens is a total failure, therefore this Fulani regime is a complete and utter failure and should be removed. It is unfortunate that Nigerians do not know what democracy and opposition politics is all about. An opposition party is there to oppose and that is what Abaribe did but surprisingly this rudimentary requirement of democratic governance is lost on some sections of ill-informed Fulani quota graduates hence their hysteria.

We are warning and cautioning any person, persons or group who are making frantic efforts to endear themselves to the caliphate by issuing unguarded press statements to retrace their step because Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is not to be toyed with or his name ridiculed by any faceless, non-existent Igbo group

We are warning and cautioning any person, persons or group who are making frantic efforts to endear themselves to the caliphate by issuing unguarded press statements to retrace their step because Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is not to be toyed with or his name ridiculed by any faceless, non-existent Igbo group. IPOB is still in court challenging the Nigeria Army, Police, Navy and DSS invasion of our leader's compound in 2017. Garba Shehu and his fellow Janjaweed in Aso Rock should always be mindful of these irrefutable facts before opening their mouth again in public.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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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: Court orders provisional forfeiture of Abaribe, others’ bail bonds over failure to produce Nnamdi Kanu

•Produce my Nnamdi Kanu to court – judge tells sureties, threatens to issue bench warrants
•Abaribe on oversight function – Lawyer
•It has become impossible to produce Kanu – 2nd Surety; I don’t care, judge replies

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor and Chikwas Onu Ikpe | The Biafra Times

November 15, 2018

ABUJA - The Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered for the payment and forfeiture of one hundred million naira into its account by each of the sureties to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, pending when they produce him in court.

Justice Binta Nyako while responding to an objection raised by Mr Chukwuma Umeh, counsel to the first surety, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe on the motion by the Prosecution for them to show cause while their bail bonds should not be forfeited, granted them a space of two months to pay the sum into the court’s account and six months to find and produce Kanu in court.

According to the judge, “The business of the court today (yesterday) is for the sureties to show cause why they should not forfeit their bail bonds. So, I’m particularly not interested in whatever that’s unconnected to that. I’m interested in what Mr. Umeh and other counsel representing the three sureties has to say.

“I’m going to make an order for the forfeiture of the bail bonds, and I’m still going to give them time to bring it but the bail bonds stand forfeited in the interim. It is going to be paid to the court.

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“The court hereby orders that the sureties in the interim should deposit the bail bonds in court in the space of two months and it shall remain in court for only 6 months for them to produce my Nnamdi Kanu in court from wherever he is.”

Earlier while explaining reasons for the absence of Sen. Abaribe, his lawyer, Mr. Chukwuma Umeh had told the court that he was out on an oversight function with a committee.

“My Lordship, my client ought to be here but unfortunately he is on a national assignment. He is on an oversight function with others and he’s not here,” Umeh informed the court.

But in a swift response, the presiding judge threatened to order for Abaribe’s arrest for failing to appear in court to show cause.

“Your clients were ordered to show cause, why are they not in court? So, he has gone for an oversight function. I’m not interested in what he’s doing, I’m only interested in his involvement in the case before me.

“Mr Umeh’s client decided to go for an oversight function which is more important to him. His oversight function is in a committee, so his one person absence is not going to affect the committee from working. He has a summon from the court which he thinks should await his oversight functions.

“I’m going to make an order for his arrest; a bench warrant against him. That is what am going to do, and I’m also making an order that all the sureties should pay the bail bonds into the court and I’m going to give you a time frame to pay it, while the court is going to go after the arrest,” she fumed.

Also, Mr. Aloy Ejimakor, lawyer to the 3rd surety, Immanu-El Shalom Oka-Ben Madu, while stating reasons on his client’s absence said, “My Lord, my client is seriously ill and it just came to my notice two days ago.”

But in her response, Justice Nyako asked, “why did you not file an affidavit to that effect? What you’re talking about is not before me, I’m only interested in what you filed before me.”

In her general response to the sureties’ counsels, the presiding judge said, “The suretyship of the defendant is between the court and the sureties; it has nothing to do with the Prosecution nor the counsel. The sureties have undertaken before the court that any day the court wants the defendant, they’ll produce him.

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“They’ve failed to produce him, the reason the defendant’s counsel filed a motion that he is with the Army. I heard the case, I disposed of it and you’ve not shown me that he’s with the Army. And because I’ve found out that he’s not with the Army, I come back to the sureties to produce him for whatever reasons.

“Irrespective of what you’re telling me, you’ve not complied with the court order. Produce him, you’ve failed to do so. The alternative is to forfeit your bail bonds, you don’t have an argument to give.”

Similarly, in his submission, Mr Frank Chude, lawyer to the 2nd surety, Tochukwu Uchendu, admitted in court that it has become ‘impossible’ to produce the IPOB leader following events that led to his disappearance but the judge simply countered his statement by saying, “it’s not my business, just produce my Nnamdi Kanu.”

While stating reasons for the inability of the sureties to produce Kanu in court, Mr Umeh, told the court that it was speculated that the IPOB leader was spotted in Israel, adding that they had written the Nigerian Ambassador in Israel, demanding to know if he was the same with the one standing for trial.

According to him, “There’s a saying that has it that an Nnamdi Kanu was found in Israel. Your Lordship, even the processes before you now are alluding to that and your learned brother has made an order on the basis of that so-called appearance but then, in order to make sure that you’re not being misled, we’ve written a letter to the Nigerian ambassador in Israel to find out if the Nnamdi Kanu said to be there is the same Nnamdi Kanu we’re talking about in this matter.”

In her swift reaction to this, Binta Nyako said, “That does not concern me. I’m not interested. You know I’ve severed the proceedings. If at the end of the day, you cannot produce my own Nnamdi Kanu. Those sureties that took my Nnamdi Kanu and have not being able to produce my Nnamdi Kanu for me are in trouble. They’re going to forfeit their bail bonds.

“I’m not interested in your reasons. You made an undertaking before me that you will produce him whenever I want. You have lost him for me.”

Umeh asked, “If at all the sureties have taken him on bail and he goes out there and was shot dead, could we have brought his dead body to you?

And the judge answered, “Yes! The sureties should have come here and say ‘This is the man you asked us to keep and they have killed him for us.

“If you say my Nnamdi Kanu is in Israel or in Saudi Arabia, it doesn’t matter because these sureties made an undertaking and part of the conditions is that he won’t move out of this country.

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“I had an Nnamdi Kanu. I took him in custody. He applied that I should let him go outside my custody. You see, under my custody, I could produce him whenever I wanted him. I knew where he was, I knew where he slept, and what he ate. He applied and said, ‘please let me go, I’ll always come whenever you want me. And these three gentlemen that you said are men of impeccable character have agreed to vouch for him, that whenever I want him, they should bring him to court. That’s the issue at hand. All these extraneous issues you’re trying to bring in order to confuse yourselves, I’m not confused. You’re showing me where Nnamdi Kanu is but it is not for me to bring him, it is for your client to bring him.”

Abaribe’s lawyer, Umeh, also pleaded with the court to rescind its decision to issue bench warrant against his client and it was reversed.

According to Umeh, “Your Lordship made an order that one of the sureties must be a senator, and a senator has a small duty he does for his nation. However, if he didn’t come to sign a surety, there would have been a clog. Maybe the gentleman should have remained in prison.

“So, he has served well by being a surety; not many could have volunteered to do it. Therefore, for the fact that he did it, he (Nnamdi Kanu) has to be bailed by the court. Bailing is a constitutional right, and if there’s no surety, there can be no bail system.”

The trial judge in reaction to this said, “I’ve heard you and Mr. Ejimakor, his client is sick. No bench warrant will be issued to them. However, the important thing is that I’ve made an order for you to produce your ‘surety’ or you forfeit your bail bond.”

The court thereafter adjourned hearing on the suit till March 28, 2019, for continuation.

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Biafra: Court Resumes Hearing On Suit Against Kanu, Co-defendants

••• Sureties To Show Cause Why They Should Not Forfeit Their Bail Bond

November 14, 2018

Chukwuemeka Chimerue and Chikwas Onu Ikpe
[The Biafra Times Correspondents]

Today, Wednesday, November 14, 2018, had been slated for the three sureties – Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe, Tochukwu Uchendu and Immanu-El Shalom Oka-Ben Madu, of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to show cause why they should not forfeit their bail bonds.

Also, before the court are pending applications aligned by the lead counsel of IPOB, challenging the competence of the charge on the ground that the evidences filed in support of the charge do not disclose a ‘prima facie‘ case against the four defendants – Bright Chimezie, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi whom are already present in court.

Recall that at the last adjourned date, June 25, 2018, the court ordered the the Attorney General of the Federation to serve legal processes on Kanu’s sureties.

In that regards, the basis of the trial is pending on the legal applications that is or would be put forward by the defence counsels today.

Therefore, we look forward to the sanctity of the judicial process to absorb and effectuate, not without justice, the proceedings of today.


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Kanu’s Alleged Escape: As FG proceeds to prosecute Fani-Kayode, Abaribe and others, this is what they should know

By Chukwuemeka Chimerue, Chief Editor | The Biafra Times

November 10, 2018

Just as the Federal Government obtained a prompt kangaroo court ruling for the unmeritorious proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, it has once again employed the services of the same Federal High Court under a highly-compromised Judge, John Tsoho to commence the irrational prosecution of certain persons it said allegedly aided the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, ‘escape’ the country.

This hatchet job is being executed by the Nigerian government using one Mr Isiah Ayugu who claims to be a ‘patriotic citizen’ as an undercover agent to get at its political opponents, Femi Fani-Kayode and Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe amongst others who stood as Kanu’s sureties.

Already, Justice Tsoho, who was the immediate past trial judge that handled Kanu’s case before his biased rulings led to the sudden transfer of the case to Justice Binta Nyako, had already given the Department of State Services, DSS, and the Police order to commence prosecution of those individuals outlined above.

On the other hand, it was not much of a surprise that Justice Tsoho, who earlier claimed he has no particular interest in Kanu’s case, was the same person employed by the FG to complete what he couldn’t finish at the initial stage of the trial even when the incumbent trial judge is still very much alive and yet to dispense judgment or dispose the issues of the case. It only tells us that whilst the case is still with Justice Nyako, FG hurriedly approached another trusted agent at the judiciary to accomplish its desires.

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The reasons are not far-fetched – the FG has not been at rest since the sudden but shocking or maybe rude reappearance of the IPOB leader whom they tried to send to oblivion without much success. Kanu’s emergence has become a major source of worry, particularly as he threatened to expose the impostor in Aso-rock, parading as the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and even so when he threatened to ‘return with hell’ in one of his broadcasts on Radio Biafra.

Kanu’s resurfacing in Israel has been a hard one for the government and so since they can’t get hold of him at the moment, they are now holding onto whatever they can use in dragging the attention of the world from the fact that one of its force agency, the Nigerian army actually attempted to assassinate the IPOB leader in his country home at Afara-Ukwu Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia state, before Kanu found his way out of the unpleasant situation.

Tsoho, therefore, without being biased, must consider the circumstances surrounding the sudden disappearance of the IPOB leader who was enjoying bail and scheduled to appear for the October last year court sitting before the illegal and violent invasion of the Nigerian military personnel at his home.

To say the least, the suit seeking for the prosecution of Abaribe, Fani-Kayode, and others for allegedly aiding Kanu’s escape, is baseless and unfounded and should be quashed by any competent court as there were no facts or evidence pointing to the authenticity of the allegation. Someone’s speeches or social media posts merely accusing the Army of abducting or killing Nnamdi Kanu, cannot stand as a veritable evidence or proof before a court of law.

If anything, the court should bring the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai under serious litigation for the roles his boys played in the disappearance of the IPOB leader as he has no intention neither did he indicate any intention to jump bail or flee the country prior to their violent raid. Kanu’s sureties, on the other hand, has no control over the situation that transpired at his residence as they neither control the Army nor any security apparatus in the country. They had initially stated in court that they were unaware of the whereabouts of the person they are under obligation to see that he attends court proceedings which they would have gladly fulfilled to the letter if not the unwarranted invasion of Kanu’s home. And now that it has been confirmed that Kanu is alive and kicking in Israel, there is still no assurance nor guarantee of his safety once he returns to the country to resume his trial. So would the judge rather have Kanu dead than ‘escaping’ to save his life for any possible future trials?

Therefore, when the hearing of the suit would be declared officially open on November 22, we hope to hear sound arguments that would culminate to the free dispense of sound judgment capable of reinstating the faith and hope of the common man on the full independence and reliability of the Nigerian judiciary and not just business as usual.

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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.

The Biafra Times
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Victory for Nnamdi Kanu & IPOB as Court orders FG to respond to surety’s motion

-Abaribe released from SSS detention facility in Abuja

June 26, 2018

From Duncan Odey

At the resumed hearing in Abuja today (June 26, 2016) on the bail bond forfeiture order to show cause made against Nnamdi Kanu’s sureties, the Federal High Court ordered the Attorney General of the Federation to respond to an application challenging the court’s jurisdiction filed by Barrister Aloy Ejimakor on behalf of the second surety to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the missing leader of IPOB.

Aloy Ejimakor is representing Emmanuel Shalom Ben Madu, the Jewish high priest who together with Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and Tochukwu Uchendu stood surety to Kanu. Abaribe’s lawyer, Chukwuma Ume (SAN) had stood in court and aligned himself with Barrister Ejimakor’s Preliminary Objection to jurisdiction.

A summary of Barrister Ejimakor’s argument is that before the court can decide on sureties forfeiting their bail bonds, they are “entitled, as a matter of law, to be put on Notice or served with the evidence used in obtaining the order to show cause before they (the sureties) can be required to produce evidence to contradict it.

Ejimakor cited Section 179(1), Administration of Criminal Justice Act which provides that: “Where it is proved to the satisfaction of the court by which a recognizance has been taken or, when the recognizance bond is for appearance before a court and it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that a recognizance has been forfeited, the court shall record the grounds of proof and may call on any person bound by the bond to pay the penalty thereof or to show cause why it should not be paid”.
Continuing on above premise, Barrister Ejimakor argued “that given that the recognizance at issue here is for appearance of the Defendant, it lies with the Complainant (the Federal Republic of Nigeria) to have proved to the satisfaction of this court that the recognizance has been forfeited. Applicant is neither aware that Complainant ever filed said proof, nor aware that this Honorable Court recorded the grounds of said proof thereof”.
After hearing the oral submissions of counsel, Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako adjourned the case to November 14, 2018 and ordered that the AGF should respond well ahead of time to afford all parties the opportunity to file any counter reply.

What this means in effect is that Attorney General of the Federation and by extension the Nigerian Army, must first account for what happened at Kanu's residence on the 14th of September 2017 that led to his non-appearance in court and subsequent disappearance, before any surety can be compelled to forfeit his bond. The Nigerian law is clear on this aspect of bond forfeiture procedure which the government had hoped to circumvent by intimidating Senator Abaribe. Effectively, from the next adjourned date in November the Nigerian army will be on trial for Nnamdi Kanu’s whereabouts.

The Biafra Times

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.