Vision 2020-20 and the Hopelessness of the Nigerian State

 

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | The Biafra Times

September 30, 2022

“And what became of Vision 2020-20 now?” I asked myself, suddenly realizing that we are already in the last quarter of 2022, two years behind the promised year. Arms folded over a bare chest, one leg crossed over the other, I lolled back in the sofa, staring blankly into the thin air as bitter memories galloped through my mental frame.

More than a decade ago, we were being placated by the scammers running Nigeria with Vision 2020-20 project – a project aimed at launching Nigeria into the world’s 20 topmost economy by the year 2020. In their thoughtlessness, the nerveless non-analytical stomach-driven political stooges parading as pressmen in this failed British experiment called Nigeria ran away with it, helping the scamming old vultures to drive home their fraud. And because we have been so psychologically raped and mentally eclipsed, we swallowed the pill hook, line and sinker, smiling at our doom and singing praises to our predators.

2020 has come and gone. The bogus and much hyped project was nowhere near being achieved, and no one even dignified it with a mere mention. As with the rest of Nigeria’s projects, it went down the drain as if never dreamt up.

This is 2022, and it’s fast sliding by. No one talks about Vision 2020 anymore – not the government, not their ass-licking press, not you and I who, although have been fooled over and over again, still submit ourselves for further pranks. We are in 2022, yet we are nowhere close to the world’s 20 topmost economy. In contrary, we are even sliding lower into oblivion, debt rate increasing, productivity decreasing.

Today we are again being promised the unimaginable. The politicians are at it again. We are being told that by 2023 this sham we mistake for a country will be producing aircraft spare parts and, like victims of psychological rape we are, we believe this yarn, with the more mentally inept even clapping for our mental rapists.

The promises of a better Nigeria are akin to the promises of a horny man to a whore. Fact that Nigerian youths fall for the same deceit over and over again puts a question mark on our collective claim on intellectualism.  Nigeria is a country where tribalism and religion are more important than technological growth. No such country ever develops.

It’s our choice to either go our separate ways and grow like India and Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore, or remain forcefully lumped together while holding ourselves down.

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Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Writes president Joe Biden, over request for military assistance by Buhari

 

May 7, 2021 | The Biafra Times

 

Honorable Joe Biden,

President, 

United States of America,

The White House,

Washington DC.

 

Re: REQUEST FOR UNITED STATES MILITARY ASSISTANCE BY PRESIDENT MOHAMMADU BUHARI OF NIGERIA

Dear Mr. President:

 

We, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) applaud your election as President of the United States, the most powerful office in the history of the world. We salute your adept and muscular discharge of presidential duties during your tenure in the White House.

Mr President, as you consider Buhari’s request for military assistance to Nigeria, we respectfully urge you to also consider the following:


1. President Buhari has made Nigeria the most dangerous country in the world for Christians, Jews and Nigeria’s indigenous peoples, particularly those of the former Republic of Biafra. Hundreds of thousands are routinely plundered, tortured or killed with impunity by Nigerian security forces controlled and populated by Buhari's Fulani Islamic tribesmen, often in collaboration with Fulani herdsmen (Islamist terrorist group that has been internationally branded the 4th deadliest terrorist grouping in the world). These atrocities have been confirmed and published by US State Department in its various Human Rights Reports on Nigeria, by Amnesty International and other credible bodies. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has recommended listing Nigeria as a country of concern because of its religious oppressions. United States sales or transfers of weapons to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram are diverted to killing and terrorizing Christians and Jews. The Nigerian army, which leadership is Fulani and Islamist is complicit in these illicit transfers.

2. President Buhari is promoting radical Islam in secular Nigeria. He has endorsed Sharia law in twelve northern Nigerian states. He has treated Boko Haram with kid gloves, releasing from detention hundreds arrested by the previous administration. He recruited them into Nigerian army and offered generous foreign scholarship to hundreds of them. He has appointed radical Muslims to head every security agency in Nigeria, including Sheik Isa Pantami whose profuse support for Al Qaeda and Taliban was widely published recently. Yet, Mr Buhari has refused to sack him from his sensitive position as Minister of Communication overseeing the biometric data of Nigerians. By defending Sheik Pantami, Mr Buhari is seemingly aligning with Mr Pantami’s terrorist sympathies. Mr Buhari is a strong ally of the Islamic Republic of Iran and China; and he has generally pursued policies that put Nigeria at odds with US national interest since you came to office.


3. President Buhari is conducting a genocidal campaign against tens of millions of Christians and Jews, particularly those indigenous to the former Republic of Biafra. These include mass killings, torture, and the destruction of Christian schools, churches and Jewish synagogues. He has arbitrarily branded and terrorized the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a nonviolent group pursuing the Independence of the former Republic of Biafra. Mr Buhari’s draconian measures were geared to retaliating against peaceful demonstrations favoring the restoration of Biafran independence that was cruelly extinguished by a genocidal military campaign Buhari partly led between 1967 and 1970.  He has concocted treason charges against IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to crush Biafran self-determination, despite the fact that self-determination is legal under Nigerian law. Mr. Buhari’s demonic rule is convulsing Nigeria and creating new safe havens for radical Islamic terrorists that pose potent threat to US interests, from the Sahel to the Gulf of Guinea.

Prayers: 

1, We respectfully suggest that you consider, among other things, denying weapons sales or transfers to Nigeria under the Leahy Amendment; listing Nigeria complicit in persecuting Christian and Jews under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.

2, We respectfully urge Mr President to invoke particularly Section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, which prohibits the furnishing of assistance authorized by the FAA and the Arms Export Control Act to any foreign security force unit where there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.

In conclusion, we state categorically that the national interests of the United States lie in protecting Christians and Jews in Nigeria, defeating radical Islam and preventing instability in West Africa which will altogether be enhanced by a US-led diplomatic pressure on the Nigerian government to - as a matter of urgency - agree to a UN-supervised referendum on Biafran Independence.

We wish you and your family many wonderful years in the White House.

 

Sincerely,

________________________

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

Leader, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)

Garba Shehu replies UK lawmakers, legal experts and campaigners, fidgets, attack Kanu, IPOB & Danjuma

 

September 25, 2020 | The Biafra Times

The President and Government of Nigeria welcome the seriousness of the letter from UK lawmakers, legal experts and campaigners. We welcome the attention paid to this serious challenge by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group and seek to work with you, the Commonwealth and all concerned parties to bring a lasting solution to herder-farmer clashes, and the threat posed to all Nigerians – and the Sahel region as a whole – from Boko Haram terrorists and their allies.

We ask our British colleagues to visit Nigeria, whether formally or informally to discuss all the points raised in their letter. Our government is made equally of Christian and Muslim cabinet members; our Vice President is an Evangelical Pastor. We have everything to gain as a country through international cooperation with concerned, senior British parliamentarians and policymakers. The threat to civilians and peaceful co-existence between different ethnic and religious groups from Boko Haram, banditry and land disputes is of serious concern to the President and the government. It is incorrect, however, to assert that the government has or is doing nothing to address these intertwined threats.

Firstly, there are on-going efforts for the establishment of cattle ranches to prevent or curtail open grazing, the practice that brings herders and farmers into conflict. This is an age-old problem facing Nigerian Governments since the colonial days. However, matters of land distribution are dealt with at state level. This means willingness has to be shown by state governors to drive the process forward. The Federal Government launched a plan last year to work with states to address these issues - together. Unfortunately, this has been lacking in some states.

Secondly, with regards to the long and determined battle waged against Boko Haram, Nigerians are aware of the efforts made by this Government. When the government came to power, the terrorist group held and administered an area the size of Belgium. Now they hold none. The terrorists are hiding out amongst remote forests and across borders. This makes it difficult to extinguish the final flames of the insurgency, and the government has no illusions of the potent threat still posed. However, the progress made cannot be denied.

Thirdly, in the face of rising crime and insecurity, the government’s new community policing initiative was launched this month. 10,000 new constables are being recruited from the areas they will safeguard – as opposed to past practice. The government hopes this will bring policing closer to local communities. N13 billion has been earmarked for this initiative.

At the same time as we take note of the lawmakers’ letter, it is also important to stress to our partners and colleagues in the United Kingdom that not all who press them have the best interests of either democratic governance or peaceful coexistence in mind. For example, the former Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, named and quoted in the letter as a source on military matters, relinquished that position some 40 years ago - in 1979. He was last in a government position 17 years ago in 2003 (as Minister of Defence). At that time, religious and ethnic riots erupted in two states of the federation, (2001 and 2002), these were violently and ruthlessly put down by the military under his authority, leading to the loss of thousands of lives and the displacement of some further 50,000 persons. He is, therefore, not a natural source of pressure for good governance.

Another, signatory to the letter, is well-known to be associated with the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, a Nigerian-blacklisted terrorist group. The IPOB are running a well-known (source-of-financing-unknown) international campaign intended to damage the reputation of Nigeria and its government in order to further their cause of “independence”. He jumped bail in Nigeria. He frequently travels on a Nigerian passport but urged his supporters to burn their passports! The IPOB barely mention their aims in their publicity; neither do they mention that their own leadership do not claim to be Christian. Yet, their media and lobbying campaign has focused near-exclusively on promoting matters related to Christianity in Nigeria, promulgating false claims that a government with 50 per cent of its cabinet and 50 per cent of its State Governors who are Christian somehow works against Christians. We call on our British friends and colleagues to join us in addressing genuine solutions not pander to agents of anarchy.

Garba Shehu

Senior Special Assistant to the President

(Media & Publicity)

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United Kingdom Lawmakers Write Commonwealth Over Bloodshed Under President Buhari

• The lawmakers including Caroline Cox, David Alton, Jin Shannon and Helena Kennedy, said thousands of civilians in the country had been killed and elements of the Nigerian Government may be complicit in the violence.

September 23, 2020 | The Biafra Times

Some United Kingdom lawmakers have written the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland QC, over widespread violence in Nigeria.

The lawmakers including Caroline Cox, David Alton, Jin Shannon and Helena Kennedy, said thousands of civilians in the country had been killed and elements of the Nigerian Government may be complicit in the violence.

Others, who signed the letter, are Lord Williams, Lord Carey, Dr Christopher Cocksworth, Phillip Mounstephen, Lord Stoddart, Lord Anderson, Lord Cormack.

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Ayo Adedoin, Ewelina Ochab, Mervyn Thomas, Dr Khataza Gondwe, Nevile Kyrte-Smith, Dr John Eibiner  and Ann Buwalda.

They sought intervention on the killings in Nigeria, highlighting the helplessness of the current administration.

The letter reads, “We write to highlight urgent concerns about escalating violence in Nigeria where attacks led by Boko Haram, Fulani herders and other Islamic militia continue in Northern and central-belt states with reports of increasing violence in the South-East.

“According to a report by the UK All-Party Parliament Group for international Freedom of Religion or Belief, thousands of civilians have been killed and elements of the Nigeria Government may be complicit in violence.

“The APPG's concern reflects the findings of a report by Amnesty International, which concludes that the Nigerian armed forces have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during their operations.

“The Nigerian former army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Theophilus Danjuma, whom some of us have met and spoken to, says the armed forces are "not neutral, they collude" in the "ethnic cleansing" by Fulani herders. He insists that villagers must defend themselves because "depending on the armed forces" will result in them dying" one by one. The ethnic cleansing must stop.

“The state's failure to protect its citizens is a clear breach of its obligations under the commonwealth charter in respect of human rights. There is now an urgent need (a) to ensure adequate protection and aid for those suffering the loss of family members and destruction of their homes and livelihood and (b) to end impunity by ensuring that complaints related to human rights violations are promptly, inadequate and impartially investigated, and those responsible are held to account after fair trials.

“We write therefore, to ask whether you are able to respond on behalf of The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group.  We should be very willing to meet in person (or perhaps more practically, online via Zoom) to discuss how we might proceed.”

Source: Saharareporters

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Buhari's Press Conference on Covid-19 Exposes the Fraud in Aso Rock

Buhari's Press Conference on Covid-19 Exposes the Fraud in Aso Rock

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

April 8, 2020

Nigerians were on Sunday, the 29th of March, 2020, awestruck to notice a different dentation of their supposed president. The man, believed to be a body-double of President Muhammadu Buhari, also had his shoulders padded to give a better impression of the man he is impersonating. His handlers sure did a bad job of it for it was quite noticeable.

For years now, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, has maintained that President Muhammadu Buhari  is dead. Rather than bury the Biafran leader's face in shame by engaging in an open interview with journalists, the man claiming to be Nigerian president runs away from journalists. His absence and hurriedness in delivering speeches validate the Biafran leader’s claim.

The six scientific proofs Kanu gave are till today undisputed. First, Buhari was about 75 years when he assumed the presidency in 2015. He looked very much his age but Jibril the body-double is about 50 years old and it shows in the smoothness of his face and skin.

Second, Buhari had noticeably receding hairline on the front. The hair was very scanty and snow white. But the impersonator has full and dark hair which is always covered with a cap.

Late Buhari was fluent in Fulfulde, the native tongue of the Fulanis. But the impostor does not speak Fulfulde.

Buhari was noticeably taller than the then Senate President, Bukola Saraki. But currently, Saraki is obviously taller than the man claiming to be Buhari. The minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, in his lying proficiency tried to defend this by claiming that Buhari used to wear high-heel shoes, but can now no longer do so based on the advice of his doctor.

According to reliable foreign media outlets in London where the real president passed away, the president died on 23rd January 2017, and was buried in Saudi Arabia. On February 26, 2017, the Nation Newspaper confirmed that the real president of Nigeria was transfused with whole blood. This in nutshell indicates that the president is suffering from Anaemia.

In the photos published, his nail beds were pale which suggests he was battling with anaemia. Apart from this, the report that came from London stated that the president was intravenously fed, implying that he has Crohn's disease.

Recall that in 2013, he had parts of his Colon removed after losing out in the presidential election contest with Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan. In 2016, Buhari was reported to be suffering from hemorrhoids and had his swollen veins near the human rectum removed. Above all, the president who is in his 70s had a brain surgery which he never recovered from.

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Nigeria: Biafran leader calls on International Criminal Court to take action against jihad killing of Christians

February 28, 2020 || The Biafra Times


“Leah Sharibu: Christians are being killed in Nigeria – Nnamdi Kanu cries out to ICC, International Communities,” by Fikayo Olowolagba, Daily Post, February 26, 2020:

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has cried out over the killing of Christians in Nigeria.

Kanu called on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to take actions against the killing of Christians across Nigeria.

In a series of tweets, the IPOB leader stated that the abduction of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram, insurgents and attacks on people of the Southeast were examples of killings against Christians.

The IPOB leader urged both ICC and the United States, US, State Department, and international communities to stop such atrocities.

He tweeted: “When will the world take action to stop violence against #Christians in Nigeria?

“The OTP of the @IntlCrimCourt’s preliminary examination of crimes against Christians in #Nigeria including #Biafrans must proceed to a formal investigation.

“The abduction of Leah Sharibu is an example of the countless acts of violence that #Christians across #Nigeria, including #Biafrans, endure daily. @StateDept and the intl community must act to stop these atrocities!…

Source: Jihad Watch

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Freeing Captured Terrorists, Buhari Directly Responsible for Breakdown of Law and Order

February 25, 2020

By Christopher O Evans | Biafra Writers

Buhari blames victims of terror attacks but never once blamed Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen for their heinous crimes. In Maiduguri, he blamed the victims who are mourning the massacre of 30 and razing of properties by Boko Haram. On his way out the people booed him deservedly. Whenever Boko Haram or their sister terror group, Fulani herdsmen, strikes, the president is more interested in preventing reprisals than preventing next attack. The question of arresting the terrorists is entirely out of the equation.

Herdsmen, known as Fulani herdsmen in the south and rechristened 'bandits' by Buhari himself in the north, have military escorts assigned to them by the president. The escorts are involved in two major assignments: (1) to guard the cattle when the owners go on a killing spree. (2) To prevent reprisals after they've had their fill of blood.

Now there's a new dimension: Governor Okowa of Delta State has alleged that the recent herdsmen killings in Delta state were accompanied by military men who themselves joined in the killing orgy. The presidency has yet to respond. When they do respond we know it will be written off as mere dangerous speculation. There will be no investigation.

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About the one in Katsina where 30 were massacred aside, the president responded by blaming the victims for revenge attacks, saying the killings would have been avoided had the people abided by the law. He advised that whenever locals catch a bandit the terrorist should be handed over to law enforcement agencies. Natives should avoid taking laws into their hands.

I'm sure the locals will be asking Buhari to account for what he did with those already handed over. Did he not free them back into the wild? By freeing captured terrorists while their victims cry in vain for justice, Buhari is directly responsible for breakdown of law and order. He is directly responsible for the current rave of regional security outfits. Not only that he is unable to secure lives and properties, he rather makes case for the terrorists while condemning the victims.

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Last year he paid terror groups huge. He allocated $11bn for RUGA and entered into alliance with Fulani terrorists to pay them N160bn to partner with security agencies to end crime. That partnership is yielding fruits as evidenced in Delta state where the military in conjunction with Fulani herdsmen attacked and massacred citizens. We can no longer pretend to be safe. We have a terrorist government and as TY Danjuma said, it's either we defend ourselves or we all die.

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Buhari Came to Power Through Terrorism

February 5, 2020

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers


Around the globe, people have been wondering how Nigeria became a state where ruffians are made and allowed to patrol the cities wrecking havocs while the government treats them with glove.

While Goodluck Jonathan – a southerner – occupied Nigeria’s seat of power, Muhammadu Buhari (now the president) threatened to make the country ungovernable. Like joke, the activities of Boko Haram skyrocketed beyond imagination thereafter. It did not come as a surprise therefore when this same Muhammadu Buhari was named by Boko Haram to negotiate with the Jonathan administration on their behalf.

As Jonathan disclosed in his book titled “My Transition Hours,” the selfish ambitions of some governors (Abdulfatah Ahmed, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Murtala Nyako, and Aliyu Wamakko) in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who later defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, is one of the reasons he lost his re-election bid. A look at the activities of the governors that defected lends credence to the fact that terrorism in Nigeria is a northern affair.

In 2014, while receiving partisans of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in his Kaduna residence,  Buhari had said, “If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog, and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.”  He even referred to Boko Haram members as his brothers.

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President Buhari claimed that the Fulani Herdsmen killing Nigerians are not Nigerian Fulanis but foreigners from Libya and other neighboring countries. Yet, he wants to make entrance from such countries visa-free. By implication, he is giving the killer-herdsmen a free hand to enter and kill more Nigerian citizens. Who is fooling who?

One would have thought that the APC party will stop their boys (Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen) after gaining power. To continue with the mayhem after ushering in their arch funder (Muhammadu Buhari) into Aso Rock shows that the jihadists have another goal – total conquest of the country.

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This APC government released Boko Haram members apprehended by Jonathan's administration and now has integrated them into the Nigerian army. A government that has never been mean to terrorists is a terrorist government. This APC government came in through terrorism. Its body language speaks volumes.

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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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Nigeria: The Complete Transformation of Boko Haram into Islamic Jihad Army

File Photo: Buhari and Buratai with Boko Haram flag

January 31, 2020

By Christopher O Evans | For Biafra Writers

At its inception Boko Haram targeted education. The terror group was convinced that western education is the worst evil imaginable. And the group's name derived from anti-western education name. The word “boko' means 'education' – western education here implied. 'Haram' means 'evil'. Thus Boko Haram means Western education is evil, or abominable.

With such concept in mind, they attacked educational institutions and all perceived products of western education. They cared not if one was a Christian or a Muslim. They abduct people – particularly school children and try to reeducate them in pure Islamic cultures. They attack government institutions, police posts, churches, markets, and even mosques.

And why do they attack mosques? They believe Muslims have greatly compromised the faith, having given in to western education and as a result, are failing to exert dominant control over the country. They have allowed infidels (Christians) foothold on political power, having allowed two Christian presidents to rule the country almost in a succession (Obasanjo and Jonathan). That was perceived as weakness on the part of Muslims. Hence Boko Haram emerged and sought to take over the country, establish true Islamic caliphate and reeducate citizens in Islamic laws and culture.

And Buhari was all for that. If ever he had issues with Boko Haram it is that the sect had no discrimination in their targets. It targeted everyone in sight, exploding bombs everywhere, even in mosques. Boko Haram was doing this to show their displeasure with the Muslim ummah for allowing infidel leadership for 13 years (Obasanjo 8, Jonathan 5). The worst of it all is the emergence of Ihejirika – a man from an outlawed tribe – as a General in the army, subsequently rising to become the chief of army staff, a position that allowed him to direct war against Boko Haram. As you know, Igbos were never allowed to reach the peak of military ranks in the Nigerian army. As they get to the level where they could be promoted to the top rank, they are immediately retired. Jonathan, out of naivety allowed an Igbo to break that ceiling and even become head of the armed forces. Alex Badeh and some other Christians led the ranks. It seems the cabal were losing grip on power. Jonathan had allowed due process to run its course. They had to do something quickly. So the activities of Boko Haram became intensified.

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Soon as Buhari took over he wasted no time in correcting what was perceived as problems. He ensured all heads of the military are Fulani Muslims. All heads of security agencies are Fulani Muslims. 90% of all federal appointments are Fulani Muslims. Many even are his close relatives.

Having first filled all important positions with his people (as demanded by Boko Haram) he then sent a list of ministerial portfolios to the senate. Igbos and other people of southern Nigeria were urged to be patient that the president still has many vacancies to fill.
 
Then he ordered the military to stop killing Boko Haram. Recall he had attacked former president Goodluck Jonathan while the latter pressed the battle against Boko Haram. He had said “killing Boko Haram members amounts to a declaration of war against the north.” I don't want to connect recent issues where SARS operatives raised alarm that men of the Nigeria military opened fire at them as they launched attack against Boko Haram. I don't even want to also mention Wadume, a notorious kidnapper arrested in the northeast early last year. The police moved him in handcuffs but got attacked by men of the Nigerian army who killed the police officers and released Wadume. Police have since rearrested Wadume, but the case is being handled in absolute secrecy. Truth is Wadume was not just a kidnapper, he was an agent of the cabal ruling Nigeria today. He is a hit-man on the government payroll. Soon as he was rearrested he alleged he worked for the government and was recently paid N13m for his services during 2019 elections.

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Today Boko Haram no longer attacks mosques, police posts, or markets. They no longer abduct or kill Muslims either. They target only Christians now. The concept has changed from “western education is evil” to “death to all Christians.”

Today Boko Haram no longer attacks mosques, police posts, or markets. They no longer abduct or kill Muslims either. They target only Christians now. The concept has changed from “western education is evil” to “death to all Christians.”

The greatest achievement of Buhari’s presidency is that he successfully transformed Boko Haram from fighting against education, educational institutions and products of western education to a full loaded jihad army with one aim – total extermination of Christians. Just recently Rev. Lawan Andimi, CAN chairman, Michika Local government, was abducted and beheaded by Boko Haram. This week a Christian university student, Ropvil, was abducted on his way to class. He has been murdered too.

Report has it that Boko Haram now stops passenger buses, identify Christians and either kill them on the sport or take them away. Muslims get back in and move on. It wasn't so before Buhari came on board. As part of the deal with Boko Haram, Buhari government is freeing hundreds of Boko Haram commanders detained by the very naive Jonathan government. Many of them are being planted into the security services and given rapid promotions. Others are fused into Fulani militias otherwise known as Fulani herdsmen. Both Boko Haram and Fulani militias are now heavily financed by Buhari government in the name of building settlement homes for nomadic herders.  This the state of the nation.

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Amotekun: The Last Straw that Broke the Camel's Back

January 26, 2020

By Christopher O Evans | Biafra Writers

Nigerians will pretend to be unaware until you hit the limit of absurdities. Nearly five years now they sheepishly followed Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) and allowed him to revel in the gale of dominant and untouchable warrior. He privatized, Muslimized, northernized, and fulanized governance with brazen impunity. The southwest have answered him with Amotekun. Then his fulanized supreme court responded with yet another spurious verdict on Imo state election petitions.

The apex court created its own results by which it delivered a ruling in which the number of votes exceeded the number of accredited voters. It delivered that verdict to confirm to Nigerians that the man Buhari foisted on the apex court lacked basic knowledge of arithmetic. He was a sharia judge. Tongues are wagging. Masses are out on the streets protesting. But beyond the entire abracadabra lies the evident truth that Nigerians have taken a stand to resist the tyrant.

The southwest spoke with Amotekun. Just yesterday a team of Monarchs from both the hinterland and riverine areas of Biafra who paid a condolence visit to the home of the Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,  IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, spoke boldly in support of Biafra. They seem fed up with being treated as second rate in their own homes. Prof. Itse Sagay, if anyone has noticed, has recently been voicing displeasure over the mistreatment of southern Nigeria. The cookies are crumbling.

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The Buhari government has helped in no small measures to advance the course of IPOB. Any southerner who is yet to realize that we have been enslaved all the while by the Fulani north must be an irredeemable moron. The west is not going back on Amotekun, and the east is not going back on the independent state of Biafra. The first step to self-reliant state is to have a strong military. The southwest just inaugurated its own army.

Second is to orientate that army and equip it. Third is to call for a peaceful negotiated exit, or you call the bluff of the authority. You are able to defend yourself.

Things are moving so fast now, and the new independent Biafra may come sooner than we imagined. We have to get ready. We have to start working on the development and industrialization blueprints. We have to start working on what kind of military and police force we want. We have to start mapping out the region and how to hit the ground running. We have to start working on what kind of education we want for our children. We must not be caught unprepared.

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In one of my previous articles, I asserted that the coming of Biafra is now inevitable. Nigeria’s breakup is imminent. The losers will be northern Nigeria. However much they have taken out of the southern region cannot help it. Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, and bandits – terrorist organizations now assembled as Jihad army for Islamic conquest of the south – will turn around to destroy the north.

Biafra will survive because it will be led by a liberator, not a politician. The liberator who lost both parents in the course of the struggle would want to prove a point by taking Biafra to the summit of economic, technology and military power. He would want nothing else.

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Nigeria Government Financing Terror

January 25, 2020

By Christopher O Evans | Biafra Writers

Evidence abound that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) government supports terror organizations. First, before he became the president of Nigeria, he was the most vocal advocate of Boko Haram. He attacked the then President Goodluck Jonathan for fighting Boko Haram. Recall that Buhari was quoted by Newsday as declaring the killing of Boko Haram members a declaration of war against the north. He was such a passionate defender of the terror group.

In one of his statements in support of the insurgent’s crude attacks, he addressed the Boko Haram sect as "our misguided brethren," and urged Jonathan's government to begin negotiations with the terror group with an aim to granting them amnesty. Many would still remember that Buhari was emotionally vexed against Yar'dua for granting amnesty to Niger Delta militants. He felt paying N65,000 monthly to repentant militants was cheating to the north. Shortly after his vituperations against amnesty to Niger Delta militants, which helped to significantly lower the spate of attacks in that region, Boko Haram emerged. Many believe Boko Haram is a creation of the north, particularly Buhari, to try to force amnesty payments to northern youths to even the deal.

 Soon as Buhari began preaching and advocating amnesty to Boko Haram, Jonathan expressed willingness to negotiate. But with whom? Jonathan insisted he cannot start a negotiation with faceless persons. Boko Haram then named Buhari to negotiate on their behalf. The significance of the choice of him by Boko Haram is never lost even though he turned it down. Following what looked like imminent monthly amnesty payouts to Boko Haram, northern youths were encouraged to enroll as terror members in order to access the funds. Recruitment centers were opened all over the north. Jonathan, however, didn't follow through because nobody came up to speak for the group. Buhari, originally retired from politics, jumped in back after Yar'dua offered amnesty to Niger Delta militants. His all-consuming passion has always been to right the perceived wrongs against the north. He felt Yar'dua was giving away too much to the south and attacked him every step of the way.

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Buhari is a hardcore Islamic fundamentalist who believes in the old Usman Dan Fodio vision of conquering the whole nation for Allah until he dips the Qur'an in the Atlantic ocean.

So what has Buhari done with power upon grasping it?

1. He took his time to appoint military chiefs, all of whom are Fulani Muslims. He ensured that Fulani took over the police, the immigration, the customs, and all internal securities. He ensured that Fulani took over the NNPC and every lucrative government enterprise in the country.

2. The military underwent the orientation: “Don't kill Boko Haram.” Since his coming to power the military stopped killing Boko Haram. All that you hear is Boko Haram killing soldiers.

3. He struck a deal with Boko Haram which ensures the continuous inflow of hundreds of millions of dollars into the terrorists’ coffers. Under him, Boko Haram are no longer faceless. Consider the speed with which he contacted Boko Haram over Dapchi schoolgirls abduction. The girls were gratuitously returned to Dapchi by Boko Haram themselves amid cheers in less than 24hours. That he has their numbers cannot be argued. He graciously allowed them to keep Leah Sharibu, and allegedly doled out over $500m in ransom. 

4. Fulani herdsmen began to flaunt assault weapons openly, becoming emboldened. They could raze down Christian communities, leaving trail of gruesome massacres while the military and police provide them with cover to ensure reprisal attacks didn't happen. Then they would address press conference to own up the killings and promise more while flanked by the Nigerian police.

5. Buhari refused to acknowledge Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen are terrorists despite such designation by the world terror index. He argued that the Fulani herdsmen are a sociocultural organization in the mold of Ohaneze and Afenifere, and solicited for their respect.

6. He has rewarded the Fulani militias to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

7. He has freed hundreds of detained terrorists.

8. He has been recruiting the freed terrorists into the army and other of the country’s security forces even as Boko Haram continues abducting and killing Christians.

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If Buhari is not a terrorist, who is he? What name do you give someone who ordered military-killing campaigns against IPOB youths for peacefully agitating for the right to self-determination? What do you call a murderer of the innocent, and protector of criminals and bloodsuckers?

Buhari is living his dream of conquering other tribes for his religion, but what he can never achieve is to stop Biafra from coming. God is turning all his evil plans to Biafra's favor. The whole country is beginning to get Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's message. The southwest, PANDEF, IPOB, are all up on their feet now. The great resistance will soon begin. The zoo is about to collapse.

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Nigeria Government Playing the Ostrich

By Christopher O Evans | For Biafra Writers

January 5, 2020

The United States recently announced it has enlisted Nigeria among nations closely watched for serious violations of the rights of Christians. The initial reaction by the Nigeria authority was to offer a lame denial. Soon afterwards President Buhari ordered the release of two captives: (1) Sambo Dasuki – security adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan. (2). Sowore – publisher of an online news outlet, Sahara reporters. Both were held against numerous court orders to free them. Both were not held over their religious faiths.

Dasuki was held over phantom allegations of misappropriation of security funds under the former administration of Goodluck Jonathan. He was kept in custody for over four years without formal charges. Worthy of note is the fact that no one linked to that alleged fraud has been convicted. A prominent northerner said Dasuki was held by Buhari for personal reasons. Sowore, on the other hand, was held for daring to organize protests against abuses of judicial process and human rights. Both men can be classified as prisoners of conscience. The United States authority raised concern over serious violations of Christians’ rights. The Nigerian authority freed two illegally detained prisoners of conscience. The ever naive Nigerians felt that Buhari, out of fear of the Trump threat, had acted to ease tension and present self as compliant to court orders. The move was clearly intended to deceive.

Let me help to clarify the points regarding the Jihadist government of Nigeria’s persecution of Christians:

1. The government, within 24hrs, freed some 270 Dapchi schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram. In doing so, it left behind the only Christian girl among them, for refusing to renounce her Christian faith and embrace Islam. The little girl, Leah Sharibu, is still in Boko Haram custody to date. Buhari does not care about her, essentially because of her Christian faith.

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2. Massacre of Christians and destruction of their homelands in Kaduna, Plateau, Benue, Enugu, Ebonyi states among others by the government-backed Fulani herdsmen. Buhari showed clear collusion with the murderous herdsmen by refusing to order a clampdown on the herdsmen designated as the fourth most deadly terror group in the world according to world terror index. Not one arrest of the terrorists has been made to date. And whenever locals succeed in capturing one of the marauding herdsmen, government has acted promptly to release them. So no clampdown, no directive to disarm them, no arrests, Miyetti Allah – the umbrella association of the terror group – holding open press conferences claiming responsibilities for the attacks and threatening to launch more notwithstanding. Often they issue their threats flanked by security forces.

Buhari went on air absolving them of guilt and blaming the natives for resisting them. He refused to accept Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen are terrorist groups. Nigerians were shocked when the president designated the terror campaign as herders/farmers clashes and argued the issue was about Fulani seeking for grazing rights. He called for respect for Miyetti Allah and shocked the nation by offering that Miyetti Allah is in the same league with Igbo and Yoruba socio-cultural groups - Ohaneze and Afenifere. While he stopped short of directing the herdsmen to be disarmed, he, however, directed the dissolution and disarming of all vigilante groups south of Nigeria. One week later he ordered all community heads in the north to form local vigilantes. Victims of herdsmen attacks were left more vulnerable. Meanwhile, he assigned military escorts to the herdsmen.

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Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and later, Boris Johnson, have detailed report on this. They are aware that Buhari has been building the two Jihadist armies to the tune of billions of dollars amid biting poverty ravaging the landscape. They know the Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, who once threatened that foreigners who dare poke their nose into Nigeria affairs will go home in body bags, have been a funnel through whom government channel billions to the insurgents.

3. Nigerian soldiers invaded venue where IPOB faithful were in solemn assembly commemorating thousands of Biafrans who have fallen by the bullets of Nigerian soldiers since 1966. Nigerian Muslims see every Igbo as Christian. It actually evokes in them a sort of euphoria whenever Igbos are killed or their business interests destroyed. As IPOB assembled to pray, soldiers broke in and massacred them.

Another mindless killing followed the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Youths who saw the victory of Trump as liberating for Christianity and a possible answer to the realization of the sovereign state of Biafra, trooped out en mass to celebrate his victory. That euphoric celebration was met with military invasions. Many lost their lives.

While Buhari refused to accept Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen are terrorists, he quickly moved to designate IPOB as a terrorist organization and proscribed them. He did this to justify killing them and to justify the violation of their rights to peaceful agitations. Though the rest of the world would have none of that. They are aware IPOB are peaceful rights’ agitators committed to the restoration of the independent state of Biafra. They operate within the law. Buhari is killing them because they are Christians while freeing thousands of Boko Haram terrorists detained by the former government of Goodluck Jonathan.

Over the Christmas holidays, Boko Haram released a video showing how they have beheaded 11 Christians. Buhari paid no attention. Just recently his government announced levies rising up to N50,000, equivalent of US$14,  for every church wedding in Nigeria, without corresponding levies on Muslim marriages.

Why is the Nigerian authority pretending not to understand what is meant by the United States placing the country in their special watch list of countries with serious violation of the rights of Christians? How does the release of Dasuki and Sowore, good as it sounds, connect with that? Buhari is only playing the Ostrich. But the message isn't ambiguous at all.

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Fulani Terror Herdsmen: ECOWAS Chairman Sends Strong Message To Buhari, Others

BY AKPOS OGHENETEGA 

DECEMBER 22, 2019 | THE BIAFRA TIMES

Chairman of Economic Community of West African States, Mahammadou Issoufou, has called on member states to take decisive steps in tackling terrorism in their countries.

Issoufou, who is also President of Niger Republic, made the appeal during the 56th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Government in Abuja, Nigeria.

He said the West-African sub-region had been hard hit by terrorist attacks, which had intensified and had threatened many national and regional achievements and developments already made by member countries, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

“The creation of a common area of peace, security and economic integration is without the slightest doubt the key to the future of our region.

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“Current regional and global developments in security constrains me to dwell on the security situation of our region.

“Our region has been hard hit by terrorist attacks every passing day, threatening the national and regional achievements we have made.

“We, therefore, hope that the prompt implementation of the recommendations of our extraordinary summit on terrorism held on September 14 in Ouagadougou will enable us to collectively meet this challenge, which appears to be an attack by faithless criminals on our dignity and sovereignty.

“The terrorist attacks continually test our commitment to fighting the scourge.

“It is therefore incumbent upon us to respond to all these attacks with firmness and determination,” Issoufou said.

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Religious freedom: Nigeria added to watchlist of country of particular concern by US State Department

Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)

December 21, 2019 | The Biafra Times

The United States on Friday issued a warning to Nigeria and two other countries over what it perceives as lack of religious freedom and persecution of minority groups.

The Donald Trump administration states that Nigeria remains a ‘country of particular concern,’  even as Sudan was removed from the blacklist of countries lacking religious freedom.

The State Department said in its latest report on religious freedom that minorities in Nigeria had reported discrimination, including limits on free expression and in obtaining government employment.

The State Department pointed to the lack of accountability in violent crackdowns on the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, a pro-Iran Shiite group, and the arrest of a Christian man for attempting to convert a Muslim girl.

The State Department added Cuba, Nicaragua, and Nigeria to a watchlist of countries that could face a full designation if they do not improve their records.

The United States had lifted “fast-changing Sudan” from a blacklist for religious freedom violations, even as it issued warnings to Nigeria, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

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Sudan was the only nation removed from the State Department’s annual list of “countries of particular concern,” which are subject to sanctions if they do not better protect religious liberty.

Civilian economist Abdalla Hamdok became Sudan’s prime minister in September, pledging national reconciliation after decades of military rule and conflict.

But Hamdok’s government is still waiting for a bigger prize from the United States — removal from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, a designation that has severely impeded investment.


Nine countries remained on the blacklist, including Pakistan, which was designated in 2018 after years of US hesitation over concerns on the treatment of minorities, including through abuse of a blasphemy law, which can carry the death penalty.

Also on the list was China, which, according to rights groups and US officials, has incarcerated at least one million Uighurs and other Muslims; and US ally Saudi Arabia, which imposes the rigid Wahabi school of Islam.

The other countries on the list were Eritrea, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

“No country, entity or individual should be able to persecute people of faith without accountability,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.

“We have acted, and we will continue to do so,” he said, calling religious freedom a priority for President Donald Trump’s administration.

The State Department said that religious groups faced restrictions and harassment in both Cuba and Nicaragua, leftist-led nations that have come under growing pressure from Trump.


Russia and Comoros remained on the watchlist. Sudan as well as Uzbekistan, which was removed from the blacklist in 2018, were also on the watchlist.

The latest designations, notably, did not target India despite mounting concern from US lawmakers over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist agenda, including a citizenship law that has prompted widespread protests over charges it marginalises Muslims.

(AFP)

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Hate Speech Bill: The Story of the Dead Broom President and his Mimicking Handlers

Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

December 10, 2019

In Nigeria, from 2017 till date, there have been many unanswered questions, caliginous situations denied of tangible ventilation, intentional lack of investigative journalism and overwhelming inappropriateness on the side of the military. These years have been characterised by unguided statements from the presidency that if x-rayed, is not typical of the president the people used to know from 2015-2016 – the one who promised to be a changed person.

President Buhari of 2015-2016, though blunt with words, never disrespected Nigerians when found outside the shores of the country. But his utterances took a different dimension from 2017 when the news of his death was announced by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The president who suffered brain cancer and was operated upon, reported to be intravenously fed by many Nigerian news outlets, was said to have triumphed against all the odds and came back alive.

The implicating statement from the wife where she reminded the people of the first two years of his husband in power which, according to her, were good, and her assertion that few people have hijacked the seat of power, lends credence to the narrative of the President being dead and replaced by a body double. The seven scientific evidences provided by the Biafran leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, about the death of the president are yet to be disputed. These are necessary questions that were conspiratorially swept under the carpet in the guise of protecting national honour.

To ascertain if truly the person in Aso Rock is still the President Buhari that was sworn into office in 2015 or a body double impersonating him, the actions ensuing from the office of the presidency since 2017 need to be scrutinized.

In his first two years of reign – 2015-2016 – the president brought national disgrace to the country. We saw a president who was struggling to adapt to modern day technology in Germany as he was fighting with the headset given to him. We saw a president who got terrified at the sight of German military parade organized in his own honour. We saw other national embarrassments from the then President Buhari.

But from February 2017 onwards, the people met the worst version of the president – one that insults his people calling them ''lazy'' before the world. It is very clear that only a foreigner can present the people he is leading as lazy at the intentional scene. It therefore seems like the president is being mimicked by a few men – those the wife referred to.

The most glaring evidence before everyone is the resurrection of capital punishment on hate speech. No one will ever believe that a president who promised to change his old records is still returning to the actual laws and actions that nearly cost him his political career. The mimickers have gone too far in copying the character of the late president in this one. They know truly that the capital punishment on hate speech cannot be admissible in the country but are using it to fake the presence of the dead President Buhari.



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AI accuses President Buhari of oppression, intimidation, disregard for rule of law

NOVEMBER 22, 2019 | THE BIAFRA TIMES

By Fikayo Olowolagba

Amnesty International has accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of employing security agents and the judiciary to persecute Nigerians.

The global human rights organization said this while condemning the detention of Omoyele Sowore at Department of State Services, DSS.

The secret police who have refused to release Omoyele Sowore, convener of the Revolution Now Movement, had a few days claimed he may be knocked down by a vehicle if released to protesters demanding his freedom.

DSS had reiterated that it would only release Sowore to his sureties.

Amnesty international in a post on its verified Twitter page on Thursday said that the charges and trial of Sowore has exposed the ‘inadequacies and bizarre manipulation of the Nigerian criminal justice system’

The rights group further called on Buhari to respect human rights of Nigerians and stop using the judiciary as a tool to abuse Nigerians with dissenting opinions.

The post read: “President Muhammadu Buhari must stop using the security agents and judiciary as a tool for persecuting people who voice dissenting opinions, challenge abuse and call for accountability.

“The flawed charges and sham trials of Sowore, Jalingo and Bakare expose the inadequacies and bizarre manipulation of the Nigerian criminal justice system and an unacceptable contempt for the rule of law and human rights.”


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