IPOB names INEC officials drafted to Imo State, warn against election rigging

 IPOB PRESS RELEASE 

November 3, 2023 |The Biafra Times 

IPOB NAMES INEC OFFICIALS DRAFTED TO IMO STATE AND WARNED THEM NOT TO RIG THE NOVEMBER 11 GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION.

The global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by the great and indefatigable liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu KANU warns INEC not to throw Imo State into political crisis in the coming Imo State gubernatorial election. 

As much as IPOB does not get involved in the Nigeria fraudulent political selection called election, nevertheless, we are not going to be silent and watch the Nigeria Government use corrupt INEC officials to perpetuate evil in Imo State and by extension the Southeast Region.

Everyone is familiar with INEC's fraudulent activities during elections in Nigeria. INEC is not independent but fully dependent on the government in power or to any moneybag politician who lines their pockets. However, in this coming election in Imo State, INEC officials must very circumspect not to throw Imo State into crisis by becoming willing tools to renew another four years-mandate of suffering, hunger, and killings. 

INEC officials must not be another Supreme Court that imposed a rejected candidate on Imo Indigenes using the fulanized Supreme Court. That illegality of the Supreme Court threw Imo State into unwarranted suffering, political intimidation, and mass killings. 

IPOB members are not politicians and neither partisan, but we are against any political party or government that is toxic to our people. The Supreme Court Governor in Imo State, Hope Uzodinma is a murderer and a mass killer who has killed and forcefully disappeared a lot of people in Imo State. He has ensured that insecurity reigns supreme in Imo State and beyond. Those who are colluding with him to rig him back into power should watch their back. He who fetches an ant infested firewood has indirectly invited lizards for a party. Therefore, INEC officials that Hope Uzodinma handpicked and drafted to rig the Imo State election should be very careful not to buy a market that comes with heavy prices. We want these drafted INEC officials to know that Imo State people are groaning in pains from a killer government and it will be suicidal for them to subvert their wishes in this coming election because of money or threat. If you can't stand the threat and can't say no to bribes to suvert the will of Imo citizens, you have the time to back off. But should you subvert the will of the people, be ready for the consequences. Ndimo and IPOB intelligence in Imo State are watching.

The IPOB intelligence has uncovered some INEC officials that have been drafted to various Imo State Local Government Areas to compromise election results in favour of Hope Uzodinma and APC. All these identified and named officials are from outside Imo State except one official. We advise every one of them to be professional or back off if they can't be neutral and do their job honestly. If they insist on doing the dirty job, then they should get ready for the consequences. 

They are: 

(1) Aboh Mbaise - Nnewedim Ijeoma Ursula (Abia state) Phone number 08038974747.

(2) Ahiazu Mbaise - Chukwuemeka Blessing Ugo (Abia state) 08037378664.

(3) Ehime Mbano- Ogbuehi Gloria Chinasa (Abia state) 07068881062.

(4) Ezinihitte- Nwosu Chigbo (Anambra State) 08039993935.

(5) Ideato North- Onuwasonya Anthony Nduka (Anambra State) 08033802213.

(6) Ideato South - Ahumibe Preye Ihugbam (Bayelsa State) 08035435712.

(7) Ihitte Uboma- Ezeabasili keme Felix (Anambra State) 0033325855.

(8) Ikeduru- Omeje Ikemechukwu Peter-(Enugu State) 08033024090.08033024090.

(9) Isiala Mbano- Nwaeze Elizabeth (Ebonyi state) 08030523663.

(10) Isu- Asagwara Ikechukwu-(Abia State) 08037783141.

(11) Mbaitoli- Nwabisi Theresa Nkiruka (Enugu State) 08037124769.

(12) Ngor Okpala- Ogbuishi Richadson Ikechukwu (Enugu State) 08036369580.

(13) Njaba- Nwaknwo Nkemakolam - (Abia State) 08035877989.

(14) Nkwerre- Okpara-Elom Ifeoma Antonia -(Enugu State) 08030965095.

(15) Nwangele- Obetta Chinyere Vivian (Enugu State) 07065408830.

(16) Obowo- Nonyelum Benjamin (Enugu State) 08035925625.

(17) Oguta- Obiechehie Ozioma (Abia State) 07034740374, 07011576162.

(18) Ohaji/Egbema- Nwosu Noel Ikenna- (Abia State) 08035988355.

(19) Okigwe - Uzor Chikwendu Victor- ( Abia State) 08037225018.

(20) Onuimo-Ohabuiro Henry- (Abia State) 0803308034028216.

(21) Orlu- Okocha Godfrey Ogonda- (Rivers State) 08033102484.

(22) Orsu-Oranebo Ethelbert Ikenna- (Anambra State) 08033934168, 08078714117.

(23) Oru East- Okoli Abadnego (Anambra State) 08034510714

(24) Oru West- Uzoka Emmanuel Uchenna (Imo State) 080345227192

(25) Owerri Municipal- Ogbonna I.Ifeanyichukwu- (Enugu State) 08033575625

(26) Owerri North- Nnaji Ifeanyichukwu Henry-(Enugu State) 08030919961.

(27) Owerri West - Okike Emeka (Ebonyi State)08035608131. 

Doubt IPOB to your own peril. 

Imo citizens and Ndigbo should watch out for the INEC officers mentioned above call them to order. Anyone who compromises the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Imo State should be held accountable in whatever format available and the person should pursued to his or her home for betraying Ndimo state. 

Moreso, those hotel owners in Owerri who have concluded plans to hand over their hotels to the Imo Administrator from the 4th to 11th of November as rigging centers, should be careful not to jeopardize their businesses after the elections. It will be stupid of any hotel owner to sacrifice his hotel business for political expediency. They are hereby warned. 

Also, we declare that any religious leader, traditional ruler, or traditionalist campaigning for the Fulani imposed governor, murderous government in Imo State to continue is a hypocrite. That person may be directly or indirectly benefiting from the sponsored insecurity situation in Imo State. IPOB hereby advise willing voters in Imo State to go out and vote their preferred governorship candidate and defend their votes on the November 11, 2023 governorship election. 

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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.

READ ALSO: Why Asari Dokubo is Attacking Nnamdi Kanu

 “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.

READ ALSO: Asari Dokubo’s Militancy, a Ruse Aimed at Enriching Himself

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.

NEWS SOURCE

THE BIAFRA TIMES

Contact us: [email protected]

Twitter:  @BiafraWriters

Like us on facebook.com/biafrawriterspress

Biafra: Harassment and detention of Biafran women confirms the unprofessionalism of Nigeria Police as reported by WISPI

By Austa Chidiebere | For Biafra Writers

August 23, 2018

On the 17th of August 2018 history was made in Owerri, the lmo state capital as Indigenous Biafra women in their hundreds marched through the streets of Owerri on a peaceful protest to drive home their demand for the whereabouts of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra  (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu whose whereabouts remained unknown after the invasion of his residence by men of the Nigeria Army at AfaraUkwu, Ibeku Umuahia ,Abia State Biafra land.

Nigeria Police Force rated the worst in the world by World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) due to their unprofessionalism in handling matters, in their usual manners started shooting teargas and cannister bullets at the women.

These women exercised their fundamental rights as enshrined in Nigeria law. The right to peaceful protest is recognised by Nigeria law, but the Nigeria state have continued to exhibit lawlessness and infringement on the rights of the citizens.

This is so evident in the present day administration of General Mohammadu Buhari who has no respect for the rule of law. In a civilised society, women on a peaceful protest should never be beaten, teargassed, arrested and detained. These women were harmless, they were not carrying any arms, neither were they seen disturbing anybody. The closing in on them by the police is, to say the least, is uncalled for; a malicious and wicked act.

The Governor of lmo State, Rochas Okorocha should be queried for this unfortunate incident happening under his watch. This show of shame by this administration has shown much disrespect to our mothers, sisters, grandmothers and womanhood in general.

Our mothers should not be treated like a piece of garbage by Rochas Okorocha and the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi. this is a call to all lovers of justice to prevail on the Governor of lmo state and the commissioner of police in lmo state to release these innocent women with immediate effect and also apologise to them or face mass civil unrest actions in lmo State.


Edited and Published By THE BIAFRA TIMES

Contact us: [email protected]

Follow us onTwitter: @thebiafratimes          

Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiafratimes/

Biafra: Tension high as Police arraign detained IPOB women in court

August 20, 2018

Owerri - Tension is very high in Owerri amid tight security as Imo state police command arraigned almost 100 Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) women in court.

It will be recalled that the women (mostly mothers and grandmothers) were arrested in Owerri on Friday, August 18, 2018 while on a peaceful protest in demand of the release of their leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu whom whereabouts is still unknown after the Nigeria Army invaded his home on September 14, 2017, during Operation Python Dance 2.

In a statement signed by Emma Powerful, IPOB publicity secretary, made available to The Biafra Times reads in part; We condemn the sacrilegious arrest, illegal detention and barbaric torture of grandmothers arrested and held in military custody by Nigerian soldiers and police under the most appalling conditions. It is unheard of anywhere in the world that old women, some of them grandmothers, were arrested by army or police, teargassed, locked-up and tortured for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful assembly.

Powerful also exposed plans by the APC Islamic government to intimidate and harass Biafrans, their women and the elderly. He also added that the abduction of grandmothers, some of them in their late 70s, is the worst kind of abomination and sound warning as he described the arrest of IPOB women  as an invitation to anarchy because if by the close of business on Monday, August 20, 2018, IPOB will call for a civil uprising against the oppressors and their agents.

Stay tuned as we bring you more updates from the court proceedings...

By Nwamgba Amah | For Biafra Writers

PUBLISHED BY THE BIAFRA TIMES

Contact us: [email protected]

Follow us onTwitter: @thebiafratimes           

Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiafratimes

Biafra: We will shut down Imo state, if our detained mothers are not released - IPOB spit fire

IPOB PRESS RELEASE | Published by The Biafra Times

August 19, 2018

We condemn the sacrilegious arrest, illegal detention and barbaric torture of grandmothers arrested and held in military custody by Nigerian soldiers and police under the most appalling conditions. It is unheard of anywhere in the world that old women, some of them grandmothers, were arrested by army or police, teargassed, locked-up and tortured for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful assembly.

If there were any doubts before that Ala-Igbo and the rest of Biafraland is a Fulani conquered territory, the abominable treatment of elderly women on a peaceful March, arrested, tortured and interrogated like common criminals, have all but dispelled it. That Imo State government gave the go-ahead to northern Islamic army and police formations across Imo State to abduct and torture our mothers, is a clear confirmation that Rochas Okorocha and his government has no regard for us as a people.

The intention of the Islamic APC government is to intimidate and humiliate our people, women and the elderly. The abduction of grandmothers, some of them in their late 70s, is the worst kind of abomination. It is an invitation to anarchy because if by the close of business on Monday, August 20, 2018, IPOB will call for a civil uprising against the oppressors and their agents in Ohaneze Ndigbo and government houses across Biafraland.
This level of desecration and sacrilege will not happen in Arewa North neither will it be condoned in Yorubaland. It is happening in Biafraland because those that parade themselves as leaders (SE governors and Ohaneze) are cowards, appointed by the caliphate to act as their agents.

When Fulani terrorist herdsmen rape our mothers in the farms, destroy our crops and means of livelihood, you don't see any army or police rushing to protect them. No Fulani terror herdsmen has ever been arrested by the Nigerian army or police. But the same long-suffering mothers, with nobody to protect them, are the ones being arrested, detained and tortured for exercising a constitutionally guaranteed right.

As with other conspiratorial atrocities in Biafraland perpetrated by the Nigerian army, DSS and police, Igbo governors as the chief security officer of their states alongside Ohaneze Ndigbo, must be held responsible. Even in the North where Rochas Okorocha comes from, they don't arrest elderly women on a protest march.

It's a pity that Nigeria security who cannot afford to stop or curtail Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists rampaging and killing people in every part of the country, only demonstrate their might against elderly women who only came out to demand for their right. IPOB will not hesitate to alert the world that Okehi Police Station in Etche Rivers State is where the torture of Biafran women is taking place.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

THE BIAFRA TIMES

Contact us: [email protected]

Follow us onTwitter: @thebiafratimes          

Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiafratimes/

Biafra: Rolling Out Tanks, Shooting and Killing Biafra Activists; an Inevitable Time Bomb That Must Explode One Day

Princewill Akubumma | For Biafra Writers

August 19, 2018

The brute-force attack strategy employed by the Nigerian government in handling issues against pro-Biafra activists is like a man creating a monster that will one day turn around and devour him. And the high handedness with which they follow the Biafra agitators is a proof that Nigeria doesn't value history for you cannot beat a child and forbid him not to cry!

On September 14, 2017, the Gen. Tukur Buratai led Nigeria Army under the order of Muhammadu Buhari in collaboration with Ohanaeze Ndigbo and South East Governors, invaded the home of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in a failed assassination attempt which resulted the death of 28 members of the group, and the disappearance of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his parents.

For the past one year now the whereabouts of the Biafra leader and his parents is still yet unknown, millions of his followers have been keeping their cool until on Friday, August 17, 2018, when their women decided to embark on a peaceful protest in demand of Kanu's whereabouts, and again, the oppressive Nigerian state as usual called out their armed Police officers to shoot at them with live bullets, harassing and arrested as many as they can after saturating them with lachrymator agent causing them severe eye and respiratory pain. As at the time of filing this report 48 IPOB women are still been held in an inhuman condition in Owerri, Imo State under the watch of Governor Rochas Okorocha and the state's commissioner of police,  Dasuki Galandanchi.

READ ALSO: The Insufficiency Of PVC In Regime Change In Africa

It is obvious that the Nigerian state has continued to try the patience of this non-violent agitators for quite a long time. And there comes a day when you are being pushed against a brick wall, the seemingly only option for you is to either get through the wall or get over it! And every right-thinking person would know that such a day is here upon us!

The world and the international community can bear witness to the fact that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has been victimized by the Nigerian state in so many occasions whenever they carried out a peaceful protest against the marginalization and unlawful detention of their members yet, they remained peaceful and resolute in their pursuit for self-determination but the oppressive Nigerian state has continued to kill and maim them for no just course which appears that the only language they understood is violence, which may result to arm struggle.

And we hope that no one should blame the Indigenous People of Biafra if eventually they resort to arm struggle since they are being killed every day for exercising their rights just like every other free people of the world has exercise theirs.

The brute-force attack method being used against the unarmed pro-Biafra agitators in southeast Nigeria is the same approach that birthed the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists in the northern Nigeria which has gone beyond the scope and strength of the federal government and the international community as well.

Recall that the movement once began with a group of people lead by one Muhammad Yusuf who holds peaceful rallies and talks going from one mosque to another teaching the Muslim faithful sharia law and they were conducting themselves peacefully while doing that.

But all came crashing down when the Nigerian government under the watch of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo began to treat them with contempt, shooting and killing them at random just as they have been going about the case with IPOB. It was then that the once peaceful Jama'at Ahli as-Sunnah Lid-Da'wah wal-Jihad group turned violent and started carrying guns, IEDs and all sort of dangerous weapons and started bombing and killing people before they were tagged a terrorist organization and ever since then Boko Haram has not stopped killing people in Nigeria.

A word they say is enough for the wise. The Nigerian government must learn from history or risk having another insurgent in addition to the one they created by themselves which they could not contain.

This is because when injustice becomes a law, resistance becomes a duty.

EDITED & PUBLISHED BY THE BIAFRA TIMES

Contact us: [email protected]

Follow us onTwitter: @thebiafratimes           

Like our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thebiafratimes/

An Open Letter To Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha Over Erection Of Zuma's Statue

By Ejike Ofoegbu | For Biafra Writers

October 20, 2017

Dear Governor,

You said you caved a statue of another man (President Jacob Zuma) whose country has rejected, who is even facing financial criminal charges in his country. He has none of our statue in his own South African country.

Rochas, if am permitted to address you by your first name, you are a disgrace and an absolute agent of doom to the good people of Imo state. No wonder people always question your paternity. Some have even described you to be an Hausa man whose sole discreet purpose is to destroy Imo State.

I heard your Special Assistant on Media say you caved the statue just to attract investments and development in Imo state. Are you not insane by doing so? Most cities in Nigeria such as Lagos, Abuja, Enugu and even Calabar, that are much developed, can you tell me how many statues of foreigners erected in these aforementioned places? Have these cities erected another man's statue in their city centers? Are you also going to erect the statues of all foreign presidents of the world to attract their investments in Imo state?

READ ALSO: Biafra: I don’t know where my client is, whether he’s dead or alive, I don’t know - Kanu’s Lawyer insists

But my happiness is that in no distant time, all those statues will be destroyed completely and your career as a politician will be murdered forever.

You are owing Imo state workers whose salaries and stipends has not been paid for months, including the pensioners, yet you still summoned the courage to erect the statue of a president of another country whose criminal records is worst than that of Buhari. Okorocha have you ever traveled down to Mbaise and see how catastrophic those roads are which has become a death trap to Imo State citizens? Where is your sense of reasoning? Your idiocy is legendary.

Yes, I am emboldened to insult you, because you first insulted yourself by defying my land with a criminal statue. But do not worry, because, in no distant time, you would come to consume the food Imolites are preparing for you.

Edited By Chukwuemeka Chimerue
The Biafra Times
Contact Us: [email protected]