Insecurity: IPOB not responsible - Army commander confirms

 

October 8, 2022 | The Biafra Times

ARMY COMMANDER CONFIRMS IPOB NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR INSECURITY AND CHRIMINALTIES IN BIAFRALAND 

Following the incessant abductions, illegal arrests, killings, burning of homes and markets, going on in Biafraland by Nigeria Security Operatives, we the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great prophet and liberator *Mazi Nnamdi Kanu* has been vindicated by the recent statement that emanated from the GOC 82 Army Division Enugu, Musa Umar to the effect that those involved in the insecurity in the East are criminals hiding under Biafra Agitation to commit crimes and not IPOB Members.  

The Nigeria Army and it's sister Security Agencies especially DSS have committed so many atrocities in their claims of fighting insecurity in Biafra Land. These Security Agencies have killed uncountable number of innocent Biafrans, burnt their homes and destroyed their properties and means of livelihood because they believed they are all IPOB members or sympathizers. 

The new Army Commander who during his visit to Governor of Anambra State acknowledged that IPOB and ESN Operatives were not involved in the unwarranted insecurity going on in the region, said that the  criminals committing these obnoxious crimes are hiding under the cloak of Biafra agitation to perpetrate their evil in the Region.

What the GOC failed to state however is the fact that these criminal gangs were created in the first place by the Federal Government and some Eastern Region criminal politicians in collaboration with Security Agencies to demonize IPOB's Biafra struggle. For years, the Nigeria Government have used the media to cover-up their evil actions while blaming IPOB for the crimes they Mastermind. 

For instance, it was Hope Uzodima and the Federal Government that Masterminded the Owerri Correctional Center jailbreak in order to free the criminals they are using today. Can anyone believe that a prison in the heart of Owerri can be attacked for over 3 hours without any security intervention with the avalanche of police and military in Owerri and its environs?

If the Army Boss is not aware of this information, why then is the military colluding with Ebubeagu that was created by Dave Umahi and Hope Uzodinma in killing and burning down homes and properties of innocent citizens especially those of IPOB members?

Nigeria Government and her Security Agencies know without question that IPOB is  nonviolent in it's struggle for Biafra Independence. But for their fear of the outcome of a Referendum as demanded by IPOB and stipulated by the UN Self-Determination Principles, they resolved to sponsor criminals to create insecurity in order to blackmail IPOB. Today, the insecurity they have created have spiralled into a monster threatening their own safety in the Region.

IPOB and ESN never attacked any State Institution nor it's Security Agents. Nevertheless,  Nigeria Army, Police and DSS Agents were abducting, torturing, jailing, and even extra-judicially executing  anybody they suspected to be IPOB member. To them as long as you are from the former territory that was known as the Eastern Region, you automatically become their target otherwise how can one explain and justify the wholesale enforced disappearances of our youths daily. If they have their way, they would use Biological or Chemical substance to wipe us all out of existence that is if they are not contemplating that already. The Nigerian Army, Police, and DSS agents must leave IPOB members alone and focus on their duties. 

Their continuous effort to blackmail, harass, and extra judicially murder Biafrans and IPOB Family members will destroy them. 

Yes one of the main reason for setting up the ESN is to secure our land from Fulani foreign invaders masquerading as Fulani Herdsmen. It should also be unequivocally stated that  IPOB and ESN are meant to combat all forms of criminality in our land.

IPOB cannot allow criminals to run riot and operate unhindered in Biafraland because that will defeat the whole essence of our struggle for the liberation of Biafraland and our people from the clutches of this evil and luciferian enclave and union called the Zoological Republic of Nigeria.

The Sovereignty of Biafra and freedom of its people is an outcome that must come to pass and achieved by this very IPOB led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

Stupid Till Death: The Sad Fate of a Nigerian Soldier

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

August 17, 2020.

In any sane country on this planet earth, soldiers are loved either by the political class, the common people or both. The love of the common people for the soldiers originates from how genuinely and uncompromisingly the soldiers carry out their duties. The love of the political class emanates from how the soldiers obey their orders even if the political class is wrong or their decisions are against the people's opinion. Whichever way, there is a reward.

The reward of the political class for the soldiers is appointment into key political positions and participation in the sharing of the government goodies. This way, even the newly recruited soldier will be made to taste the reward of serving the political class and not the masses.

The reward of the common people for the soldiers is that the salary of the soldiers will be increased as demanded by the masses and the soldiers will be treated good and respected. In this regard the political class is more afraid of the soldiers because they are on the side of the people.

In Nigeria, observations have shown that the most stupid set of people are the soldiers. They are the most suffering people in Nigeria.

In their stupidity Nigerian soldiers will stand under the sun for the whole day doing the bidding of one corrupt potbellied politician. That this same politician syphon the public fund doesn’t mean a thing to them. Their stupidity is so vast that their primary concern is what they and their family will eat for the day. I call them the workers for today not for tomorrow.

They have the worst fate in Nigeria because while the commoners resent them for compromising their duties to serve the political class, the political class itself readily sacrifices them for inordinate ambitions. Yeah, I make this assertion because even the political class whom they serve now lay ambush against them through the instrumentality of terrorist groups. Of course the public is now in the know that politicians sponsor terrorists in Nigeria, therefore my assertions are not unfounded.

These soldiers are so dumb that even as they know that they receive peanut as salary and face the highest level of politically motivated dangers, they still kill the masses who rise up to protest the injustices in the land. Sad!

Edited by Nelson Ofokar Yagazie 

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Kanu's Parents Burial: The Floodgates of Hell Will Be Opened If You Carry Out Your Threat to Massacre Mourners - IPOB Warns Army, Police

IPOB PRESS RELEASE

February 12, 2020 | The Biafra Times


We the global family of the Indigenous of People of Biafra (IPOB) wish to reiterate in clear and unambiguous terms that what Nigerian police and army are planning to do in Afaraukwu during the burial of Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and his wife on Friday 14th of February 2020 will set off a chain reaction that Nigeria will never recover from. Common arbitrary arrest of any mourner this week Friday is capable of inciting a disproportionate reaction from angry mourners. IPOB is warning all agents of Nigerian government in Biafraland, traitors and caliphate slaves alike that what will befall CP Okon will also be their portion should shots be fired in Afaraukwu. The era of Nigerian army and police shooting innocent mourners in Biafraland has come to an end.

What is happening in Umuahia with the provocative presence of Nigerian army and police is an insult to the people of Biafra and the Igbo race in particular. All those that have in various ways supported the unprovoked murderous clampdown on IPOB will pay dearly for it. IPOB has remained peaceful but it seems the Nigerian government is hell-bent on provoking us into armed struggle that will inevitably precipitate the violent disintegration of Nigeria. Nigerians should call their government in Aso Rock to order and impress upon them the need for their army and police to steer clear of the whole of Umuahia township on February 14, 2020, in the interest of peace. They should head to the north where there are countless security challenges. We want to join the people of Afaraukwu in peacefully mourning the death of HRM Eze Sir I.O Kanu and his wife in peace, who it must be said died as a result of the Nigerian army and police invasion of their home on September 14, 2017

What Nigerian army and police are doing in Umuahia cannot happen in the north. We do not think the Alimajiri populations of the north will allow the burial of an Emir to be subjected to such needless tension and ridicule but in Biafraland anything goes because of the reign of puppets and quislings.

As we continue to receive daily threats from the army and police regarding their impending massacre of innocent mourners on Friday, February 14, let the world be on notice that the floodgates of hell will be opened should the army or police appear anywhere around Afaraukwu on the day of the burial. Let those that may feign ignorance of the fact be duly warned on time that burial ceremony is sacred in Igboland, especially that of a king, therefore the intended nuisance of Nigerian security personnel will not be tolerated on Friday.

We are aware that those behind the deadly invasion of September 2017 are the same people working with Aso Rock to bring mayhem to Umuahia on Friday. Out of public view, these politicians and so-called socio-cultural leaders have been offering financial support to Fulani soldiers in Obinze, Ohafia, Abakiliki, Onitsha, and Asa in readiness for their deadly deployment to Umuahia. Their plan is to kill as many people as possible to demoralise our leader and pave the way for a full-scale Fulani invasion and takeover of our land.

We are equally in the know of the numerous plans and strategies of the troops so far deployed by Buratai to the east in preparation for the burial of our first parents. It's quite obvious to the average reasonable person that IPOB will not succumb to their pressure regardless of the consequences. All their perfected plans to disrupt the burial on that very day is common knowledge among diplomatic circles all over the world who will be following the proceedings live on Biafra Television, social media, and Radio Biafra platforms. The plan by Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Tukur Buratai to use the burial ceremony of HRM Eze Israel Okwu Kanu to eliminate and kill anybody suspected to be IPOB supporter in Umuahia on Friday 14th of February 2020 is equally well known, documented and powers that be duly notified.

The burial service of our leader's parents HRM Eze Isreal Okwu Kanu and his wife Ugoeze Sally Mmeme Okwu Kanu on Friday at Afaraukwu Umuahia must hold peacefully. We want to make it abundantly clear that if the Police and Army fire a single bullet on that day there will be no peace for every soul involved, especially those that issued the order from the comfort of their offices in Abuja, Enugu, Owerri, and Umuahia. We need a peaceful funeral, the ancient laws of our land demand it and nobody should try IPOB.

IPOB is strategically monitoring every individual politician in the South East and governors over their actions and inactions towards this burial on Friday. All those who may have joined the Fulani boy-boy CP Ene Okon of Abia State to encourage Fulani soldiers to come to Afaraukwu to kill people on Friday will pay very dearly for their actions.

It is unfortunate that some Igbo politicians and their supporters would encourage Fulani terrorists and Boko Haram soldiers recruited in Nigeria Army and Police to kill our people in a funeral ceremony, a sacrilegious act that has never happened before in the history of Igboland, Biafra, and Nigeria. Every Biafran must be prepared this time, IPOB would not allow these marauders to repeat what they did in Umuahia on September 2017 in this 2020 and definitely not during the burial of the parents of our leader. Nigerian army and police must stay away from Umuahia as a whole.

We are informing every mourner attending the burial on Friday to conduct him/herself in a manner consistent with the noble ideals of our ancestors. All approach to Umuahia is rigged with CCTV cameras to monitor human and vehicular traffic because IPOB won't accept any confusion or misunderstanding from anybody.

Biafra independence and freedom is inevitable and nobody born by a mere mortal can stop it.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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Nnamdi Kanu, the Perplexity that Hit Nigeria

February 11, 2020 | The Biafra Times

By Victoria. O.C. Agangan | Biafra Writers

Nigerians will not forget in a hurry this phenomenon that struck like earthquake and shattered the dumbness and pending doom hanging like pendant on her decaying neckline. The APC government will forever regret murdering sons and daughters of Biafra for no offense other than demanding for Biafra. History will not vindicate the greedy political thieves and Fulani slaves who betrayed and ratted on their own; they sold out as in the days of slave trade for crumbs and leftovers.

As the struggle continues and the procession progresses, so will they be stumped into shock and helplessly watch Biafra come. The demonic Operation Python Dance that gulped innocent souls, eventually claiming, by trauma, the lives of His Royal Highness, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu of Afaraukwu Ibeku, and his lovely wife, Her Royal Highness Lolo Sally Ugoeze Meme Kanu, is still hovering like a kite looking for preys.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has perplexed the Nigerian government with his continuous breakthroughs, outspokenness, and persistence. Even with his parents lying in the mortuary, Kanu has waxed stronger; quite unrelenting and resolved. This uncommon spirit of doggedness Biafrans must emulate.

READ ALSO: Stop Issuing Irrelevant Threat to Mourners - IPOB Warns CP Okon

As we speak, the Nigerian army has laid siege at Afaraukwu – Kanu’s hometown – waiting to suck, like hungry vampires, the blood of Biafrans who will dare to attend the burial rites of Kanu’s parents. From all corners of perception, this is an open declaration of war. Well, self-defense is legal anywhere in the world. To have ourselves prepared is, therefore, an urgent call. Umunna di nu na njikere, n'ihi na nkucha aburo ujo.

They have gathered to suck our blood. They have gathered to feed on our flesh. They have gathered to unleash sorrow on us.  But as the Bible says, surely they shall gather, but because their gathering is not of God, they shall scatter. Yes, the murderous Nigerian army has gathered like the Philistines, but then, a David is on the way.

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Nigeria is on the verge of demise. She is collapsing. Soon, bans will hit her like never before. Bans will flow in like a river soonest. Her troubles will escalate and her economy sunk. Biafrans must, therefore, remain focused for our victory is around at the corner.

On a final note, those going for the burial are hereby advised to be prepared for any eventuality. Nwanne sie onwegi esie. The Vultures gathering at Afaraukwu eat living humans; do not become their prey please.

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Tough Task To Defeat Boko Haram - Buratai

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai

• He said the group now has a wide number of recruiters, logistics suppliers and propagandists living within the civilian population.

February 10, 2020 | The Biafra Times

Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, has said that terror group, Boko Haram, cannot be defeated easily because of the indoctrination they received 10 to 40 years ago.

He said the group now has a wide number of recruiters, logistics suppliers and propagandist living within the civilian population.

He said, “Insurgency is not what you defeat and it would just fizzle out; they would revert to other tactics. That is terrorism.

“They will promote propaganda, to the effect that all the institutions of government would be seen to be ineffective. This is what they are doing. They are exploiting the fault lines in our economic and political endeavours to expand the gulf of so-called discord and acrimony amongst various ethnic and religious groups.

“Why are they doing this propaganda, blocking the road and capturing individuals because they are of a particular religion? Unfortunately, they murder those individuals and send it to the world. These are propaganda strategies of the terrorists.

“These individuals may be living with you and you would not know they are terrorists. They have a series of informants and logistics suppliers. They have a series of leadership strata that live in the communities and towns nearby. They pass information and organise those that are hidden along the borders in remote areas or communities who come, attack and go back. They also have a series of recruiters.

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“Looking at it from this perspective, you would see that it is a complex operation you cannot wish to just go.
“At the National Assembly, I said indoctrination of the citizens did not start in 2009, it started much earlier. And it grew until it reached that point where they took arms against the state.

“It is an indoctrination that has taken roots between 10 and 40 years back. And for you to de-radicalise an individual to bring him back to sanity, you think it would just take you three years, four or 10 years?

“These are people that were brain-washed to believe that when they die they would go straight to heaven. And you think they would believe in you to bring them back to mix with people they refer to as unbelievers? You have to look at this context.

“We will continue to target them individually and as a group until we narrow the overall leader. It requires some intelligence."

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IPOB warns Nigerian army over plot to disrupt leader's parents' funeral

• We are unstoppable, IPOB challenges army

February 6, 2020

By Chikwas Onu Ikpe | Biafra Writers

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has warned off the Nigerian army, and other security agencies to steer clear of the hometown of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, at this time of honouring his deceased parents.

A statement was delivered following the recent development in Kanu's country home, Isiama Afaraukwu Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State as soldiers were seen parading and flaunting the peaceable streets of Afaraukwu with series of combative wares (steel-clad vehicles and weighted armoured tanks); in what appears to be a 'show of force'.

IPOB, in the news release signed by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, berated the army, says (that) the latter, aside “constitutional backing” is not different from the terrorists (Boko Haram) in the North East of Nigeria.

“We continue to draw the attention of the civilised world to the incessant harassment, humiliation, intimidation of Afaraukwu community in Umuahia-Ibeku by the very lazy and shameless Nigerian Army, whose stock in trade is to terrorise innocent civilians while recruiting hardened terrorists into their ranks as unmitigated lawlessness rage across Nigeria.

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“In the history of world military, the brazen and cowardly display of military might in Isiama Afaraukwu by Nigerian Army as Boko Haram and other Fulani sponsored terror groups wreak havoc on defenceless citizens is confirmation that Buratai and his men are not true soldiers but mere terrorists with constitutional backing. This is because real soldiers fight wars not terrorising innocent civilians preparing for burial ceremony. If they don't already know this, let the hierarchy of the Nigerian military know they are the laughing stock of the world.

“An army roundly defeated in the battlefield, its officers pursued, captured and beheaded by a band of ill-equipped combatants but take pride in showcasing its intimidatory might in peaceful enclaves in the height is an army of cowards devoid of ideas.

“What Buratai and his soldiers are doing in Umuahia is no different from what terrorists are doing in the North East of Nigeria. They invade peaceful communities, killing, pillaging, destroying and kidnapping people at will. The same template Boko Haram and other Fulani sponsored murder squads are operating under in the north is exactly what Nigerian Army is doing in the East. The Nigerian Army fled the battlefields of the North, abandoned their constitutional duty to fight armed insurgency but instead turned their armoured tanks and troops on Afaraukwu community because of a burial ceremony.”

Speaking further, amid several “intimidations” by the Nigerian security forces, IPOB expresses its unwavering support, and preparedness towards the royal obsequies of Kanu's parents come February 14, 2020.

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“We wish to notify the world that preparations for the burial of our leader's parents is going ahead as planned. The Nigerian Army is wasting their time and valuable resources in trying to stop something they know they are incapable of stopping. Burial of the dead is a right older than man itself.

“Nigeria government and her soldiers are shameless and downright disgraceful and their refusal to confront armed Fulani insurgency and Boko Haram menace in the north but instead chose to focus their attention on a burial ceremony in Afaraukwu is indicative of the misplaced priorities at the heart of this APC regime which has directly led to the deterioration of security situation across Nigeria.

“It defies both common sense and logic that Nigerian soldiers went AWOL in terror ravaged areas of the north, they refused to battle bandits and terror groups they themselves sponsored, but are busy killing and terrorizing innocent and unarmed individuals in the East.

Powerful added that “Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Miyetti Allah Bandits, ISIS in West Africa, Al-Queda in the Maghreb are dutifully waiting for Buratai and his warriors to engage them in battle in the north; that is the real security problem facing Nigeria not the burial of His Royal Majesty Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and his wife. How can the government of Nigeria justify the deployment of soldiers to the venue of a funeral while terrorists are busy making the lives of law-abiding citizens a misery?

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“We are reminding the APC government in  Aso Rock and their cowardly soldiers to return to the North to fight Boko Haram terrorists and leave IPOB and Afaraukwu community alone. Nigeria soldiers and their supporters must be ashamed of themselves.

“One thing is certain come 14 February 2020, the parents of our leader will be laid to rest. APC regime, Nigerian Army and their badly informed supporters cannot stop IPOB from restoring the sovereign state of Biafra within the shortest possible time by the grace of God.”

Nnamdi Kanu's parents, His Royal Majesty, Eze Sir Israel Okwu Kanu [father] and Ugoeze Sally Nnenne Kanu [mother] 'were' the traditional ruler of Isiama Afaraukwu community until death.

Recall that there was a military invasion in Kanu's home, September 14, 2017; same foisted trauma and psychological damage upon Ugoeze Sally Kanu; who died almost two years later in August 2019. Followingly, His Royal Majesty, Eze Okwu Kanu died over the shock of the sudden death of his wife. The duo will be accorded a royal, befitting burial on February 14, 2020 in their country home, Isiama Afaraukwu Ibeku.

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No Progress in the War against Boko Haram - EU

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January 20, 2020 | The Biafra Times

The European Parliament which is the legislative branch of the European Union (EU), recently suggested that the Nigerian Army and the government had not been telling citizens the whole truth about the fight against terrorism in Nigeria.

This followed the EU parliament’s claim that progress in the fight against terrorism in Nigeria has been stalled.

The army has often made Nigerians believe that Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) were on the verge of being entirely wiped out in the country.

On several occasions, the army had told Nigerians that it was flushing out of the North-East, remnants of the insurgents.

The Nigerian government has maintained a similar stand on the fight against insurgency.

Both the army and the Nigerian government once declared that the terrorist groups had been “technically” defeated.

However, in its resolution of January 16, 2020, the EU parliament said contrary to what Nigerians were being led to believe, there had not been any progress in the war being staged against terrorism in Nigeria.

The EU parliament, condemning the recent attacks in Nigeria, including the slaughtering of 11 Christian captives in the North-East last Christmas, regretted that terror and other attacks in the country had worsened.

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It reiterated its worries over the prolonged crisis in Nigeria and the precarious security condition in the North-East.

It also strongly condemned the frequent “violations of human rights, international and humanitarian law, whether based on religion or ethnicity.”

EU parliament “Condemns, in particular, the recent increase in violence against ethnic and religious communities, including the targeting of religious institutions and worshippers.”

It “deplores that progress has stalled in the fight against Boko Haram, ISWAP and the increased occurrence and severity of suicide attacks and direct attacks against military positions.”

The parliament “Urges the Nigerian authorities to guarantee respect for human rights in the country, and to protect the civilian population from terrorism and violence; insists that such efforts must be conducted in full accordance with respect for human rights and the rule of law, in line with the country’s international obligations.

“Considers any form of the extermination of human beings or ethnic cleansing barbaric and a crime against humanity; urges the Nigerian Government to address the root causes of violence by ensuring equal rights for all citizens and non-discrimination legislation; insists, in this regard, on the need to further promote inter-religious dialogue and the peaceful coexistence of citizens irrespective of their religion, engaging with all relevant stakeholders, including the Nigerian Inter-religious council.”

One of the promises President Muhammadu Buhari made to Nigerians when he came into power in 2015 was that he was going to defeat Boko Haram.

However, the terrorists have continued to exist more than four years after Buhari made the promise.

SOURCE: Ripples Nigeria

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IPOB sends goodwill message to Biafrans and friends of Biafra, warns corrupt politicians

December 20, 2019 | The Biafra Times

IPOB PRESS RELEASE

We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) wish to felicitate and commend  Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom over their resoluteness, determination and support in the ongoing righteous agitation for the restoration of the nation of Biafra, especially in this season of goodwill. We are equally wishing a happy holiday season to all media houses, both print and electronic, online platforms as well as e-warriors and bloggers for their courage and often unbiased reportage in the face of unrelenting dictatorial onslaught and shrinking of civic space in Nigeria. They are the true heroes in this divine effort to enthrone freedom, justice, and fairness for all ethnic groups in Nigeria. IPOB agitation is not just for the liberation and well-being of Biafrans alone but for the betterment of every living soul unfortunate enough to be trapped in the cesspit of corruption, backwardness, hardship, and totalitarianism that Nigeria has become.

We IPOB are warning all corrupt Lagos/Abuja politicians and groups who were involved in the conspiracy with Fulani cabals to bring RUGA and Fulani military into our land as a way of silencing IPOB, reducing our population and intimidating us into accepting the Fulanisation of our way of life, to retrace their steps. We caution them to stay away from anything that may cast them in bad light given that our people are highly upset and would not hesitate to vent their anger on any person or group of persons found to be a Fulani collaborator.

It is in the interest of these traitors to stay away from Biafraland because they would bear the consequences of any move by the Fulani to force our land to become volatile to justify their murderous military occupation. We are well aware of the antics of core Arewa north and their current effort to intensify their divide and rule strategy in Biafraland by constantly seeking to pigeon-hole us into a meaningless South South and South East when they have one monolithic political North dominated by the wandering Fulani tribe. IPOB by successfully uniting all the people of the Eastern region and Mid-West has brought this terrible era of Fulani divide and rule internal colonisation in the Middle Belt and South to an end.

In this season of goodwill, we call on our people who wish to come home from abroad to do so because there will be no hiding place for any criminal in uniform or their informants that may seek to bring harm to our people. Biafraland is peaceful and will continue to remain so until Biafra independence is duly and finally restored.

Nigeria government and her security operatives will be compelled in due course to dismantle all their extortionate Police, Army, Road Safety, Customs, and Civil Defense Corps checkpoints along major roads into Biafraland. Nigeria Army and Police should take their security checkpoints to the north where there is raging Fulani induced insurgency and soldiers are being slaughtered like animals. Also, the dictatorial and lawless Nigerian government must stop their usual killing, abduction, intimidation, and humiliation of commuters during this festive period as every death, disappearance or abduction of any Biafran will attract a commensurate response from the public.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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Police Terror: IPOB Still Awaiting Evidence against its Lawyer, Barrister Ejiofor

December 19, 2019

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

Recall that on the 2nd of December, 2019, a combined team of Nigerian military and police invaded the home of Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to Nnamdi Kanu, burning down houses, killing four, and leaving many with severe bullet wounds. The major target, Barrister Ejiofor, being missed, the murderous police team has declared him wanted.

Trying to defend self from public backlash, the police claimed that they invaded the barrister’s home on charges of kidnap, adding that the legal practitioner is a member of IPOB … as if belonging to IPOB is somehow a crime.

Reacting to the calumny against the counsel to its Supreme Leader, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, through its Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, has challenged the police to provide evidence in support of their false claim. The public is still awaiting the evidence. Clarifying matters further, Comrade Powerful had maintained that Barrister Ejiofor is merely a counsel to IPOB and its Supreme Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and not a member of the freedom-seeking group.

It beats one how the police came out with a press statement that they got a complaint that Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor engaged in abduction and assault which occasioned harm and malicious damage cannot provide the complainant and the victim.

When state security forces turn around to terrorize those they are meant to protect, nothing but doom awaits the country. Nigeria, from all indications, will soon be referred to in the past.

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We have no hand in the video you were slaughtered like fowl - IPOB replies Army

DECEMBER 13, 2019 | THE BIAFRA TIMES

By Anayo Okoli, Kingsley Omonobi and Chimaobi Nwaiwu

The Nigerian Army has described a trending video purporting that Boko Haram terrorists captured and killed several troops of Operation Lafiya Dole in the North East, as false and the handiwork of members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB.

It said the video is aimed at discrediting the Army and sowing seeds of discord among troops of South East extraction in the Nigerian Army.

This is contained in a statement signed by Col Sagir Musa, Acting Director, Army Public Relations titled, “Video Clip Portraying The Alleged Capture and Killing of Some Nigerian Soldiers By Boko Haram Terrorists on 10 December 2019 is False”.

It read: “The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a viral, unsubstantiated and apparently fabricated video clip circulating on the social media portraying the stage-managed/so-called capture and killing of some Nigerian soldiers by Boko Haram terrorists on the 10th of December 2019.

“The Nigerian Army wishes to emphatically state that there was no incident that involved the “capture and killing of tens and tens of Nigerian soldiers on the 10th of December 2019” as mischievously and wickedly portrayed in the video.

“Similarly, preliminary observation of the video clip (even by the amateur) will reveal that the video was doctored and that the entire events captured in the footage was not an occurrence that took place at any point in time within the shores of Nigeria.

”To this end, the Nigerian Army is hereby calling on the members of the general public and indeed personnel of the Nigerian Army especially those in the North East theatre of operation to disregard the sinister, very inciting and divisive video concocted and peddled by the outlawed IPOB members whose main objective is the disunity and fragmentation of Nigeria as clearly shown or espoused in the video.

“Accordingly, the call by one Simon Ekpa, (the principal actor in the clip), calling on soldiers of South East extraction presently serving in the North East to desert the Army and return to Biafra as well as calling on South Easterners not to join the Nigerian Army is an obvious indication of the essence and objective of the masterminds of this fake video which should be discountenanced by the public.

“Meanwhile the leadership of the Nigerian Army wish to also reiterate its unflinching commitment to sustain the war against terrorism and shall not be deterred by the evil machinations or propagandist activities of mischievous persons whose main interest is the disunity of our beloved nation.”

We have no hand in the video where insurgents slaughtered you- IPOB

But responding to the allegation by the military, the  Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,  denied the claim that it doctored and circulated recent video where member of the Boko Haram killed several Nigerian soldiers, describing the claim as laughable.

IPOB said it was a shame for the Army to involve the group in their futile attempt impotence and failed effort to fight Boko Haram.

Reacting to the allegation, IPOB’s media and publicity secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful berated the Army, saying they belittled themselves by involving IPOB in the issue of doctoring a video.

Powerful said that IPOB have more important things to do than engaging in doctoring a video where soldiers were killed.

“This recent statement from the thoroughly disgraceful, undignified institution called Nigerian military accusing IPOB of being behind the recent trending video where Boko Haram members torturing and humiliating Nigerian army personnel is laughable.

“This unguarded, shameful and thoroughly unsubstantiated accusation is very typical of an army that specializes in attacking civilian populations in the south but cringe at the sight of a well-armed opposition in the north.

“It is quite pathetic how the  Nigeria army would belittle themselves so shamelessly in the eyes of the world by involving IPOB in their futile attempt to deflect attention from their impotence and failed effort to fight a terrorism menace they themselves created in Nigeria. The Nigerian Army must understand that Biafra is not Nigeria.

“IPOB have more important things to do than engaging in doctoring a video that is so clear for all to see. Maybe Nigerian the Army think the world is as undiscerning as their typical Nigerian. Rather than coming out in public to make a complete fool of themselves; Buratai and his Nigerian Army should invite forensic experts to corroborate their claim if they are confident they are speaking the truth.

“The video of Boko Haram torturing and humiliating the cowardly Nigerian Army that specializes in committing crimes against unarmed populations in Biafra is real and verifiable. IPOB has nothing to do with the trending video and cannot involve itself with this brotherly spat between Boko Haram and Nigeria Army because they have the same Fulanisation agenda for Nigeria.

“Nigeria Army and Boko Haram are both terrorist organisations pursuing the same goal with the only difference being that Nigerian army specialise exclusively, in attacking civilians in the east.

“This shameful statement from Nigeria Army proves that the Nigeria Army and her sisters security outfits in Nigeria have lost control of their phony war against Boko Haram and as usual are looking to blame IPOB for their pitiful plight.

“Northern elders (allegedly) formed and sponsored Boko Haram to perfect their plans to islamize and Fulanize Nigeria and to make Jonathan’s government ungovernable which they succeeded in doing. We must not forget that Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was named the chief negotiator by Boko Haram for the failed talks in Saudi Arabia in 2014.

“Nigeria soldiers should leave IPOB alone and focus on fighting the monster they created.

“We pity Nigeria Army and gullible Nigerians who cannot see the inevitable violent collapse of Nigeria. What is happening today in Nigeria is the worst form of organized state-sponsored hypocrisy.

Recruiting Boko Haram members and other terror groups into the Nigerian Army, Police, DSS and other security formations in Nigeria is a recipe for disaster which IPOB is rightly sensitizing the world about.

“Nigeria is imploding gradually and no amount of lies against IPOB will avert the impending doom of the failed British contraption”, Powerful said.

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Oraifite Killing: Deadly intent to eliminate Nnamdi Kanu's lawyer failed; Police resort to falsehood and deception

Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, IPOB counsel and lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu

December 3, 2019 | The Biafra Times

 IPOB PRESS RELEASE

The unprovoked Nigeria police and army invasion of the home of our lawyer Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor barely four days after the painful burial of his senior brother is proof that those running Nigeria have descended into the abyss of iniquity from which they may never recover. Not even during the darkest days of Abacha's dictatorship did anyone witness such brazen intimidation of a legal counsel or the attempted assassination of a defence counsel in a high profile case.

It is the golden rule of every legal system under the Sun that defence counsels are not harassed, intimidated or killed but it seems under this Fulani dictatorship of Abba Kyari led cabal, nothing is sacrosanct. We don't expect the roundly docile and cowardly Nigeria Bar Association or their impotent and subdued National Judicial Council to rise up in condemnation of this contemptuous behaviour by Aso Rock in this latest attempt to kill Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor. This level of dictatorial impunity against the rule of law, judicial process and natural justice must not be condoned by any right-thinking person.

In their usual predictable manner, the Fulani run Nigerian Police through their Public Relations Officer one Haruna Mohammed in Anambra State have issued a self-incriminating statement ladden with blatant lies, falsehood and deception. For the police to say there was a criminal complaint against Barrister Ejiofor bothering on assault and kidnapping four days after the funeral of his brother is most stupid and laughable. Criminal complaint from who? Who did he kidnap, the body of his dead brother? Who did he assault, Justice Binta Nyako? Where, when and how did he commit these crimes? The Nigeria Police never wrote to Barrister Ejiofor neither did they invite him to their station. This is a black lie. If they did, they should release the call log of the phone they claim they used in calling him. Does the Nigerian Police think the public is as daft as they are? The only reason for this unprovoked criminal invasion with deadly intent is to kill Barrister Ejiofor and to stop him from attending Federal High Court Abuja next month where he has all but defeated the Attorney General in the matter of Federal Government of Nigeria versus IPOB because Nigeria has no case against IPOB. The same strategy of invade and kill doctrine they deployed in Isiama-Afaraukwu the home of our leader on 14 September 2017 a month before he is due in court is what played out in Oraifite yesterday.

The Nigeria Police claim two of their officers were killed by IPOB members but there were four dead bodies in the burnt-out police vehicle. What any investigative journalist worth his salt should ask is, who are the other two victims, where did they come from and what were they doing in a police van? Answers to these questions will reveal that Nigeria Police Command in Anambra State are unrepentant liars. The truth remains that Nigeria Police and Army went to the home of Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor with the sole purpose to kill him before next month's court date as is now their tradition. On getting there they opened fire on unarmed civilians as usual and the two men that came out of the house were shot dead instantly. The police carried their dead and dying bodies into their van to conceal evidence and drove off. These are facts backed by evidence Anambra Police cannot deny.

After killing two unarmed and innocent civilians, before they left the police doused Barrister Ejiofor's home with petrol and set it on fire. This was the reality yesterday in Oraifite Anambra State. It was the carelessness of the police in handling the petrol they used to drench Barrister Ejiofor's home and nearby businesses before setting them on fire that trailed back and led to the fire that gutted their van.

It is on record that IPOB remains a peaceful movement, therefore, this latest desperate attempt by this lying Fulani controlled Nigeria Police to equate our activities with their home-grown Miyetti Allah (Fulani herdsmen) terrorist organisation is a waste of time.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB

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Nigerian Police and Army invade the home of my lawyer in Anambra state, two people killed, many injured - Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

December 2, 2019 | The Biafra Times 

By Mazi Nnamdi Kanu 

Confirmed reports indicate that a combined team of Nigeria police and military assassination squad invaded the home of my lawyer Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor in Oraifite Anambra State this morning Monday, December 2, 2019, in a bid to kill him and his family. Sadly three innocent Biafrans were killed by this invading Fulani force at his residence.

This comes on the heel of yet another killing of two IPOB family members who were peacefully gathered in Arondizuogu yesterday 1 December. Their bodies are still in the morgue. Fulani caliphate police and army must know that the time is fast approaching when British diplomatic clout and protection may not be enough to shield them from the consequences of their daily crimes against innocent Biafrans. Attacking the home of my lawyer is a step too far and the only effect it will have is to hasten the disintegration of Nigeria.

There is a United Nations Mission, US Embassy, British High Commission and other highbrow foreign diplomatic presence in Nigeria who should take note of this ugly development and convey same to their home countries. It is their responsibility to ensure this wanton brutality, lawlessness and anarchy being engineered by the Fulani caliphate led by Abba Kyari's government against the people of Biafra is duly noted for what it is, an act of war.

Those responsible for this deadly assault know they will pay dearly for it, they know, its only a matter of time.

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Stop spread of Boko Haram, UN, EU tell Nigerian Army chief

NOVERMBER 22, 2019 | THE BIAFRA TIMES

Olaleye Aluko

ABUJA - The United Nations and the European Union Special Representatives to West Africa and the Lake Chad Basin Commission on Wednesday met with the Chief of the Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, in Abuja, saying that the Boko Haram insurgents must be checkmated and their spread stopped.

The UN Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, and the EU Special Representative for the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin Commission, Angel Lusada, stated this during their visit to the Army Headquarters in Abuja. They noted that their organisations would work together in the fight against terrorism in the North-East geopolitical zone.

The UN representative noted that the establishment of the Lake Chad Governors’ Forum was a welcome development and “part of a holistic approach which will focus on the root causes of insurgency.”

Chambas said, “One area of interest is the ongoing efforts to checkmate Boko Haram and stop its spread because of its affiliation to international terror groups. That is why it is incumbent on us all that we must see the fight against Boko Haram as a fight against international terrorism.

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“We are all concerned and we believe that Boko Haram is a fight that we can win. That is why we are specially applauding the efforts of the army in dealing with the menace.

“We welcome the establishment of the Lake Chad Governors’ Forum which had its inaugural meeting in Maiduguri last year. We believe it is part of a holistic approach which will focus on the root causes of insurgency.”

Also speaking, the EU Representative, Lusada, noted that the union was committed to the Multinational Joint Task Force in the efforts to end Boko Haram and other terror groups in the Lake Chad Basin.

“There are many initiatives taking place and new ones coming up and this involves funding, but we want coordination. The crisis has become regional and can only be solved with regional partnerships. That is why we are meeting with stakeholders,” the EU chief said.

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South-East commuters lament extortion, high level of intimidation by soldiers

November 10, 2019 | The Biafra Times

Raphael Ede

Enugu - Commuters and drivers plying various roads in the South-East have lamented the high level of intimidation and extortion by soldiers at checkpoints.

Some of them, who spoke to PUNCH Metro, said the worst was that anybody making calls close to the checkpoints were having their phones seized, smashed on the road or required to pay between N500 and N1,500 to retrieve the phones.

In some cases, commuters and drivers of such vehicles are detained for hours before they are released after much pleading.

A commuter, who identified himself as Victor Okonkwo, who witnessed the atrocities of the soldiers recently, narrated his experience to our correspondent on Monday.

He said, “On Tuesday, October 22, 2019, I was returning from Owerri in a Sienna car and there were seven passengers in the vehicle. When we got to the Ihe community, one of the passengers received a call and he was on that call till we got to a military checkpoint near the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital.

“The man got the shock of his life when a soldier spotted him and seized his phone for answering a call while passing by the checkpoint. He paid N500 to retrieve his phone after we had spent over an hour begging the soldiers. There were more than 10 mobile phones seized from other commuters by the soldiers, while the owners were there begging for leniency.”

Okonkwo stated that he had experienced the cruelty of the soldiers in 2014 at the same checkpoint, even as he said he heard that soldiers at other checkpoints around Enugu State boundaries were committing similar atrocities.

He said, “I was coming back from Owerri in a bus with other passengers. On getting to the military checkpoint near the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, a lady’s phone was seized and smashed on the road for answering a call while passing through the checkpoint.

“There was a similar incident, when a passenger’s phone was seized by soldiers for also answering a call; it took the intervention of the driver and some commuters before the phone was returned to the owner.

“This is what commuters experience on a daily basis in the hands of soldiers at the checkpoints.”

Checks by PUNCH Metro revealed that the soldiers had devised other means of collecting money from drivers and commuters at the checkpoints, as they now commission young men from the communities, who act as fronts to collect money on their behalf.

A source, who witnessed an incident a few months ago, narrated how a young man was shot dead by soldiers in the Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State.

According to the source, a drama played out on the day of the incident when a military officer spotted the man collecting money at the checkpoint on behalf of the soldiers.

When accosted, the soldiers denied ever knowing the young man.

“One of the officers immediately ordered one of the soldiers to shoot the tax collector for denting their image and he was instantly shot dead. My greatest surprise is that till today, those soldiers have not been held accountable for the gruesome murder of the young man. Many of such cases have gone the same way without anyone being held accountable.”

It is the same story at almost all the military checkpoints in the boundaries of Enugu-Ebonyi, Enugu-Nsukka, Enugu-Obollo-Afor, and the Enugu-Awka-Onitsha Expressway. Extortion, intimidation and outright corporal punishment are the hallmark of the checkpoints.

“Are we in a war situation that somebody receiving phone calls cannot pass by military checkpoints in the South-East without harassment and intimidation and our so-called leaders are not talking?” a commuter asked.

When the Nigerian Army Human Rights Desk was contacted, there was no response as the phone rang out.

When the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 82 Division, Enugu, Col. Aliyu Yusuf, was contacted, he said in a text message, “Good afternoon, inform the affected persons to call and give details for further necessary action immediately.”

SOURCE: PUNCH.NG

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