Biafra Heroes Day: Ohanaeze and the hood

May 11, 2019

By Johnson Nnabuife | For Biafra Writers

Now that the hood has finally fallen off the head of the group known as Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and the scale has fallen off the eyes of the Biafran people, the truth can no longer be hidden. The reality has hit the people that Ohanaeze is a fraud which has been pretending to love the Igbos and masquerading as the mouthpiece of the Igbos.

Two important questions now exist: “How will Biafrans handle the group, Ohanaeze?” and “What will Ohanaeze do?”
In reality, Ohanaeze is a minority group of Igbos who had since its inception managed to deceive the people into seeing it as a kaleidoscope of all other Igbo-Biafran groups, and as such, the mouthpiece of the people. That is why it dubiously brands itself as “the apex Igbo social-cultural group”. Unfortunately, many people, even beyond Igbo land, believed this lie.

But today, the people – especially Igbo-Biafrans – know better. The wind has blown, and the stump of the fowl has been exposed. This came as the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) declared the 30th of May this year, as Biafra Heroes Remembrance day, just as it had been doing since 2013. But Ohaneze and its partners in crime, the governors in Igbo land, spoke against it.

IPOB had declared that this year’s remembrance and sit-at-home event will be special because it will present a unique moment of shared pains and misery for all the families that lost their loved ones to war, hunger, starvation, disease, killings and state-sponsored terrorism currently going on in Nigeria.

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

To prove its friendship and comradeship with other indigenous people suffering the atrocities foisted on them by the Fulani, in the British contrived contraption, IPOB invites them to join in the Remembrance Day. Fulani people are foreigners from Guinea, who the British placed as undertakers of the contraption as they pretended to have left Nigeria at independence.

This is why IPOB wrote: “The middle-belt and Yoruba brethren are advised to join this historic sit-at-home event to honour the memory of all that died unjustly in Nigeria. We are calling on all the people of Southern Kaduna, Middle Belt especially Benue, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Kogi, those affected by herdsmen terrorism in Ondo, Osun and other states in Yorubaland to join the great family of IPOB in observing a day of solemn prayer and sit-at-home, to remember those who lost their lives unjustly and unlawfully at the hands of Fulani terrorist herdsmen and murderous security agencies, even during the recently concluded fraudulent 2019 general elections.”

For many Biafrans, those cannot be said to be “too much” or an impossible request. But the nest of quislings known as Ohanaeze and the governors opposed it. This is why, while the people are determined to observe the Heroes Day – a practice that is recognized all over the world – they are still contemplating on what to do with the renegade group known as Ohanaeze and their governor friends.

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

May 8, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#BiafraFallenHeroes: We Remember Those Who Fell By The Bullets Of The Nigeria Security Joint Forces At National High School, Aba; The Darkest Of All Days In Enyimba City

By Chijindu Benjamin Ukah | For Biafra Writers

May 18, 2018

It was the darkest day in Enyimba city of Aba, Abia state on Monday February 9, 2015, when the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, gathered at National High School in Portharcourt road, Aba, singing, dancing, praying and crying to the Most High God for the release of the illegally detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu and for His intervention in the restoration of Biafra.

In the heat of the praise, worship and prayer, came the men of the Nigeria Police Force on several Hilux vans and cars, invading the school compound. Not too long after their arrival, men of the Nigerian army also arrived in their numbers, marching in a single file and surrounded Biafrans as they continued praying and singing. The Nigerian soldiers mounted surveillance and positioned in readiness to maim and shoot innocent, defenseless people as though they were in war front.

All of a sudden, they began shooting at the peaceful but disquieted crowd of unarmed people. First, they fired teargas canisters, followed by rains of bullets. What was their crime? They were with only their Bibles and musical instruments, praying for salvation from the artificial and inorganic contraption (Nigeria), and seeking for the restoration of their original identity, culture and dignity (Biafra).

We shall not forget! As a result of your death, your children were made fatherless, motherless; your wives were made widows and your husbands, widower. Your parents were rendered childless and your children orphans. They could not even allow us to recover your remains to give you a befitting burial; they took your corpse away. Some of you were buried in secret mass graves against our culture, some were burnt in the bush while others were dumped and left to decay in burrow pits after they poured acid on them.

We shall not forget that you laid down your life for Biafra to be restored. We shall not forget that you died that we may live. We shall continue to fight until that which you died for is achieved. We remember you in our heart of hearts.


We invoke the natural weapons of the most high; the dust of the earth, wind, water, moon and sun to rise and fight your killers until there is no last man standing.  Brave heroes and heroines of the great Biafra; rest on.

The Biafra Times
Edited By Chukwuemeka Chimerue

#BiafraFallenHeroes: Tribute To The Victims Of Nkpor Massacre

Princewill Akubumma || For Biafra Writers

May 14, 2018

30th May of every year in Biafra land is remarkably special and  memorial day held in high esteem by Biafrans and freedom seekers both at home and in the diaspora to commemorate and remember the fallen heroes and heroines of the brutal genocidal war of 1967 to 1970 and the subsequent killings of Biafra agitators by the Nigerian government.

Among all the May 30 heroes’ day anniversaries ever held in Biafra land, the commemoration of our fallen heroes on May 30, 2016 still remains so spectacular in the hearts of all Biafrans as a result of the bloodletting and brutal killings of unarmed inncocent Biafran youths who assembled at Eke-Nkpor, Ontisha province of Biafra land to remember and pay tribute to their dead heroes.

THE STORY
It all began on Sunday, May 29, 2016 as Biafran youths from every regions in Biafra land began to converge in droves to Nkpor town which was the designated venue for the epoch event for that year. Many who travelled down from other regions were lodged in the houses of friends and families in Nkpor and environs, while numerous others sought shelter at St. Edmund’s Catholic Church, Nkpor which was seemingly very close to Nkpor-Junction where the event will take place the next morning to only pass the night there. Some others also passed the night at St. Francis’s Catholic Church premises at Umusiome village close to Alo Aluminium factory in Nkpor.

At the early hours of the morning, at exactly 4:30 am on Monday, May 30, 2016, the combined forces of the Nigerian Army, Navy and Police invaded St. Edmund’s Catholic Church carried out an attack against innocent men and women, shooting sporadically and killing many at the spot. Those who survived managed to escape but not without sustaining several degrees of injuries emanating from the lethal bullet. The second troops made their way to St. Francis’ Catholic Church to also attack the Biafran youths there but fortunately enough, they escaped into bushes and trenches where they stayed till morning, having received a red alert that about the gruesome attack going on.

Around 8:00am that same Monday morning, many Biafran youths who survived the night shootings started heading towards Nkpor-Junction which was the observation ground. On getting towards Aloe-Aluminium factory much closer to inland doors, the murderous Nigerian soldiers again intercepted and started shooting sporadically at them, killing many at the spot while many others sustained bullet wounds which forced the survivors to retreat towards Eke-Nkpor in order to observe the event. This proved how resolute they were to observe the Remembrance Day.

At around 11:30am, all came crashing down as more Hilux vehicles of the rampaging Nigerian soldiers proceeded to Eke-Nkpor where our youths were now gathered and was singing songs of freedom.

To my utmost surprise, I spotted a witch doctor in one of the military vans doing some incantations. It was there and then that I decided that something fishy was about to happen, then I took cover at a vintage point but unfortunately, I only had my little Java mobile device with me which cannot pick good images from far distance. I cursed, but still holding on there.

Suddenly, the soldiers knelt down positioned themselves as though they were in battlefield against armed enemies and started shooting at the unarmed youths with different kinds of sophisticated guns, every officer trying to test his guns at random. I was so shocked to see my fellow youths falling like trees being felled by cutting machines!

They kept on pursuing the unarmed youths, shooting and killing them as they progressed. They were so brutal and merciless even at those whom had been disjointed by the bullets and could no longer run or make some movements.

"What a barbaric act, what a wicked and devilish murder, I was saying amid tears" In my shock and utter bewilderment my hands were shivering that they couldn't hold onto my mobile phone anymore and it fell to the ground.

After the killings, the soldiers began to pack the corpses of those youths into their Hilux vehicles in order to conceal their atrocities, packing them as one would pack sardines, leaving only the traces of pool of blood and some pieces of human flesh and human brains; a sight you would begin to throw up after viewing!

I summoned courage to come down and joined with some survivors of that genocide to help those wounded and those that fell into trenches and nearby bushes. We became emergency doctors and nurses. I smelled blood, I touched blood and bared bones while trying to help in resuscitating the wounded victims. We administered the little first aid we could offer, we helped to direct some to nearby clinics where the murderous soldiers later at the afternoon stormed and forcefully took them away in an unknown destination, perhaps to finish them off as well. This is the kind of massacre and evil committed by Nigerian government against unarmed civilians of Biafra extraction.

THE TRIBUTE
On May 30, 2018, we who are alive shall remember you all by sitting at home and keep praying for your souls. We shall never forget the sacrifices you made in the course of our freedom; you laid down your lives that we might continue to move ahead until victory for Biafrans is achieved.
We Will Never Forget.

To those of you who traveled down to Nkpor from Rivers State only to die that we might live and continue to hold onto that which we believed in, which is nothing but FREEDOM for our generation unborn,..
We Shall Never Forget.

To those of you who came down from Aba, Enyimba city and was killed inside the Church building of St. Edmunds’ Catholic Church Nkpor on that fateful morning of May 30th 2016
We Shall Never Forget.

To those comrades who decided against all odds to keep marching down the roads to Eke-Nkpor in order to observe the event to which you came for, even after your fellow comrades has died by the bullets of the enemy along Alo-Aluminium factory Nkpor instead of turning back and escaping for your lives but chose to hold on resolutely until death
We Shall Never Forget.

To those Comrades who after receiving many bullets from the gun barrels of the murderous Nigerian Army were still found alive and breathing in the trenches and bushes trying to survive in order to continue with the memorial day cerebration but couldn’t make it afterwards due to excessive loss of blood
We Shall Never Forget.

To Comrade Chidiebere Okoroafor (Survived) who was shot by the Army while trying to carry a fellow comrade who was about bleeding to death; I remembered how your white T-shirt was turned red by the blood of that comrade you carried on your shoulder before you received a bullet from the deadly gun barrel murderous Nigerian Army, yet you held on until you put down the corpse of a brother into the tricycle that was standing by without the knowledge that he has been killed by the bullets of the enemy.

We Shall Never Forget

We the living shall always remember you all.
We shall keep on #HoldinOnTillTheEnd, until the Republic of Biafra is declared

All hail Biafran heroes and heroines.
All hail our heroes past!

The Biafra Times
Edited By Chukwuemeka Chimerue
Publisher: Chijindu Benjamin Ukah

IPOB SIT-AT-HOME ORDER APPLIES ALL OVER BIAFRALAND AND BEYOND: IGNORE THE FAKE NEWS BEING PEDDLED BY SAHARA REPORTERS

The Biafra Times | May 4, 2018


We IPOB note with dismay the criminal and deliberate misrepresentation by the Yoruba online media site  Sahara Reporters regarding our May, 30th heroes remembrance day. It is deplorable that Sahara Reporters chose to falsify and twist our 30th of May sit-at-home press statement to give another meaning to that which was intended.

The proprietor of this internet news platform is supposedly running for the office of the president of Nigeria. By this willful and deliberate distortion of facts, he has demonstrated that he is a liar like all other establishment politicians and should never be trusted. He is a liar and manufacturer of fake news. Nobody should share the fake news from their site regarding our sit-at-home because it's fake.

Biafraland comprises of South East, South South Lower Benue and Kogi. IPOB sit-at-home directive is application all over Biafraland and beyond not just the South East. For Sahara Reporters to falsely report that our sit-at-home is confined to the South East alone means they have predetermined agenda to mislead and divide Biafra for their own selfish interest.

Sowore is one of those that thinks Nigeria is so lazy that it cannot survive without crude oil coming from Biafraland. If not, we do not see any reason why his news platform, Sahara Reporters, should be trying ever so hard to confine Biafra to the South East alone when by their own admission there are Igbos in other parts of South South namely Rivers, Cross River and Delta states. Let us not forget that we have Igbos in Benue State as well.

We expect anywhere there are Biafran communities in Arewa core north to observe the sit-at-home come May, 30th. Sahara Reporters is one of those news outlets torn between objective reporting and preservation of their corrupt one Nigeria. Biafrans are advised to always verify any news published by Sahara Reporters because it could be false or fake news.

30th of May 2018 sit-at-home will be observed from Southern Kaduna to Badagry in Lagos State. Between now and then, there will be a lot of misinformation from corrupt Fulani caliphate friendly one Nigeria media outlets like Sahara Reporters. Their aim as always is to confuse, sow seeds of disunity among Biafrans and confine IPOB led Biafra agitation to the South East in order to alienate South South and make Biafra an Igbo affair only.

Our leader Gen. Philip Effiong was the head of state of Biafra and a Biafran hero, so how can Sowore and his Sahara Reporters expect Akwa Ibom State not to honour him with a sit-at-home on the 30th? How about Col. Achuzia, is Sahara Reporters saying that Delta State should not honour him? Chief Frank Opigo the father of Biafra is an Ijaw man from Baylesa State, is Sahara Reporters implying Baylesa State should not honour him?

IPOB sit-at-home is all over Biafra and Nigeria. Ignore the distracting antics of some Zoo sponsored media.

Signed:

IPOB Online Media Team

Biafra Heroes Remembrance Day: IPOB issues Sit-at-Home order and Total Lock-down of Biafraland on the 30th May 2018

Published by The Biafra Times 

IPOB PRESS RELEASE | May 4, 2018

The leadership and family members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) consider it imperative to use this opportunity to announce the sit at home order throughout Biafraland and Nigeria in remembrance of our fallen heroes and heroines whose sacrifice made it possible for this generation to be alive today. We shall also remember all victims of Fulani herdsmen attacks, Boko Haram violence and those that died at the hands of Nigerian security agencies over the years that nobody remembers.

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

This year's remembrance will be special because it will present a unique moment of shared pains and misery for all the families that lost their loved ones to war, hunger, disease and terrorism. We remember those that sacrificed their lives to defend the defenseless and those that lost their lives because there was no one to defend them.
There will be no human, vehicular or animal movement across Biafraland on the 30th May 2018. Biafraland will be in total lockdown. Middle Belt and Yorubaland brethren are advised to join this historic sit at home to honour the memory of all that died unjustly in Nigeria.

Churches, mosques, synagogues and temples are encouraged to open their places of worship on the midnight of the 29th of May for special midnight prayers in remembrance of all that died as a result of violence. Special vigil will be held at the homes of select Biafran heroes.

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

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

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

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

THE BIAFRA TIMES 2018