NNAMDI KANU IS NOT GOING TO COURT, NEITHER DID HE ORDER ANY "SIT AT HOME ON 4TH, OCTOBER, 2022,

October 1, 2022 | The Biafra Times

For the purpose of clarification, the Fundamental Rights Suit, filed on behalf of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu at the Federal High Court Umuahia, Abia State, is scheduled for Ruling on jurisdictional issues raised suo motu by the Court, on the 4th day of October, 2022.

Let the members of the general public be properly informed and appropriately guided, that we have the firm instruction of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to inform the public, lovers of freedom and UmuChineke, that Onyendu will not be coming to Court on the 4th day of October, 2022.

As such, Onyendu neither directed, approved nor authorized anyone to declare a sit-at-home on that date.

Members of the general public are advised to go about their normal business activities on this said date. This clarification has become compelling and necessary, in view of the avalanche of misleading information on the social media, and plethora of calls I have received from concerned UmuChineke to this effect. 

We have assured UmuChineke that we shall inform you any time Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is scheduled to appear in Court. 

It is to be noted too, that Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has several suits pending against the Federal Government of Nigeria, her agencies and officials, in various courts across the Country. For instance, the main Suit challenging the extraordinary rendition of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, filed before the Federal High Court Abuja, against the Federal Republic of Nigeria & Anor, in Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/462/2022, and the Suit challenging the constitutionality or otherwise of the 2022 Practice Direction on the trial of terrorism offences, filed against the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court & Anor, in Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/550/2022, are equally coming up for Hearing next week, before Hon. Justice Ekwo of Court No. 5, Federal High Court Abuja.

However, kindly note that Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, still NEVER APPROVED nor AUTHORIZED that on the said dates, the members of the general public be directed to sit at home. 

Please let us be properly and adequately guided. This should be a period for serious circumspection and focus, we should not allow those who have no interest of the present fate of Onyendu to derail us.

Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi KANU is passing through his present ordeal because of his earnest desire to emancipate his people from any form of suffering or oppression, there is therefore, no way he will support anything that will bring more hardship on the same people he is suffering for.

Thank you all, UmuChineke and remain blessed.

Signed:

Sir ifeanyi Ejiofor, Esq. (KSC)

IPOB’s Lead Counsel.

1st October, 2022.

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WHY WE ARE REVIEWING THE MONDAY INDEFINITE SIT-AT-HOME ORDER - IPOB

 IPOB PRESS RELEASE | THE BIAFRA TIMES

14/08/2021 

WHY WE ARE REVIEWING THE MONDAY INDEFINITE SIT-AT-HOME ORDER - IPOB

The leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) understand the concern being expressed by the global IPOB family on the suspension of the weekly Sit-At-Home earlier announced by the IPOB Head of Directorate of State of the Indigenous people of Biafra. We know that our people embraced this civil action wholeheartedly and without any compulsion. 

The leadership sincerely appreciate the innate desire of Biafrans to sacrifice their time, resources and energy in ensuring that our leader Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is released unconditionally from the illegal custody of the Nigerian State who criminally renditioned him from Kenya  to Nigeria.

The suspension of the Sit-At-Home by the IPOB Head of Directorate was as a result of a direct order from the leader of this great movement Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. 

There is no gain saying the fact that one of the major fundamental guiding principle of IPOB is Command and Control. This simply means that all command from the Supreme leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) will be obeyed and implemented to the latter by the Directorate of State of the Indigenous people of Biafra. Bearing in mind therefore that this principle has enabled this movement to surpass even the exceptions of both Biafrans and Non Biafrans alike, the leadership wish to encourage Biafran to focus on the most pressing issue  confronting this great family presently which is ensuring the safety of our leader while still in the illegal custody of the DSS and to secure his unconditional release from detention. 

 In accordance with the directive from our leader, our Sit-At-Home will in the mean time be observed on the date  of our leaders Court appearances.

The lPOB leadership urge Biafrans worldwide to take note of the next court appearance of our leader which is the 21st of October 2021. If however we have any reason or directive from the IPOB highest command that require us to reactivate the suspended Weekly Sit-At-Home, the leadership will not hesitate to lift the suspension and continue with the  civil action.

The leadership  once more appreciate all Biafrans and our friends and sympathizers who faithfully observed the Monday August 9 Sit-At-Home which was a huge success throughout Biafra land. May God continue to bless and uphold all those committed to our struggle.

We consider Biafra  restoration as a sacrosanct call to duty above all else. Any other information regarding Sit-At-Home in Biafraland not emanating from IPOB through our main channels of information dissemination should be disregarded. 

The Nigeria Government should heed now to the voice of reason coming from within Nigeria and from outside the shores of Nigeria to unconditionally free our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and announce a date for Biafra referendum or plebiscite where our people will choose where they wish to belong before it is too late.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB

The Attack on a Catholic Priest, a Tactless Attempt to Blackmail IPOB

June 4, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

Following the successful observation of the sit-at-home order issued by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in honour of Biafra fallen heroes and heroines, sons of perdition have surfaced with narratives of violence. These unscrupulous elements tell stories of a Catholic priest in Nnewi, precisely at Ibeto Junction, beaten to coma, claiming that the evil was perpetrated by IPOB members working to force the said priest to observe the sit-at-home.

This is not the first time IPOB is being maliciously and falsely accused of stuff like this. Not long ago, it was one Prophet Anthony Nwoko whose lifeless body was said to be found battered and in pool of blood. The Nigerian state working so hard to justify the proscription and terrorist tag on IPOB, hired detractors like our derailed brother, Asari Dokubo, to accuse Nnamdi Kanu of masterminding the old man’s death. The compromised media ran away with it, doing all it could to paint Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB black. The baby saboteurs went to work, jumping up like crickets and polluting the cyberspace with bunkums … of course they have to work hard to earn money for their milk and palp. Well, they said they are investigating the said murder. We are still awaiting the outcome of the police investigation. Disappointingly, till this moment we haven’t been shown ordinary pictures of the battered body of the poor man in a pool of blood as claimed.  Yes, they said his battered body was found lying in a pool of blood. Shouldn’t they show the public the battered body in a pool of blood?

The other time, after shooting, killing and injuring IPOB members on peaceful procession, the Nigerian police seeking to excuse their murderous activities, claimed IPOB attacked and killed one of them. To make the story stick, one of them volunteered to fall into a nearby gutter with his colleagues taking snapshots of him inside the gutter and forwarding to the conniving Nigeria media who went to work immediately, propagating the falsehood without bothering to investigate the matter.  However, IPOB being smarter waited patiently on the death-feigning officer. Thinking the scene has been deserted, and with the stench of the dirty water taking a toll on him, the shameless officer rose to go. The waiting IPOB members then took snapshots of him rising from the gutter and walking away. The false accusation of the police and their conniving media outlets was laid to rest with these countering photographs.

It should be remembered that when the call for sit-at-home was made, the caliphate became rattled and worked fast to indulge some disruptive elements in the guise of Igbo leaders to antagonize it. These bad eggs did their bit, but of course, with IPOB media team bearing superior arguments, they were routed out. The people hearkened to Kanu’s voice and honoured their gone heroes. Defeated, the detractors came up with another ploy – blackmail. Cheap one for that matter.

We don’t beat priests in our land. Even masquerades don’t. Biafrans know the position and importance of priests in the society. Come to that, the call to sit at home was never compulsive; rather, it was an appeal to our sense of reason. Nobody was forced to sit back home, Biafrans willingly did so …having realized the gravity of the sacrifices of their fallen heroes. If the story of beating up a priest going for morning mass is true, how come there is no other such story elsewhere? Or was it only Nnewi that observed the sit-at-home? If truly IPOB used force to get the people to comply with the sit-at-home order, then the violence would have been resonant across the length and breadth of Biafra. But lo, it wasn’t. Such story was never heard elsewhere.

Of course, such negative stories and accusations are calculated to deflect attention from the huge success of the sit-at-home.  They spin such yarns to blanket the people’s sight and direct their mind away from the fact that no major market in Biafra land was opened for business on that sacred day of Biafra heroes, and that schools and offices were under lock and key.

IPOB is a nonviolence freedom fighting group with presence world over. Not at any time have they been found indulging in violence. Not at any time will they be. All attempts to dent its image are dead on arrival … to the glory of Chukwu Okike Abiama.

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A Successful Sit-at-home, an Indication the Masses are with Nnamdi Kanu

June 3, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

Just as the previous years, this year's Biafra Heroes' Remembrance Day was successful by any standard of measurement. Those in diaspora marked it with solemn procession and prayers, returning to the world's consciousness the evil visited on Biafra by the Nigerian state backed by Britain and its allies, and the sacrifices of our gone heroes to preserve Biafra from genocide. On the home front, life was brought to a halt as the people disengaged from their usual activities, sitting back home to mourn their fallen heroes, the starved-to-death one million children, and all the victims of Biafra war as well as MASSOB and IPOB family members massacred by the murderous Nigerian military and police at Aba, Onicha, Nkpor, Igwe-Ocha(Port-Harcourt), Enugwu, Owerri, Agbor and Asaba. Business hubs were seen deserted, streets lonely, and markets under lock and key. This of course was preceded by a candlelight procession the eve of 30th.

Recall that the call for this sit-at-home honour to our dead was made by the Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Although an expressive honour to those who died that we may live, unscrupulous elements in the guise of Igbo leaders sought to thwart it. These disruptive elements who have sold selves to Hausa/Fulani oligarchy for political appointments and contracts asked the masses to ignore Nnamdi Kanu's sit-at-home call and go about their duties, tugging at the economic plight of the people.

They argued that sitting back at home for one day will impact negatively on the people and for that reason, the people should ignore Nnamdi Kanu's directives and move out to attend to their businesses. But then, in their manipulative tendencies they conveniently forgot that just recently, specifically on 23rd February and 9th March 2019, every activity in Nigeria – be it economic, academic, social or religious – was brought to a halt on the basis of election. The entire country was grounded. If one takes into cognizance the total vote cast, one will realize that over 80% of the populace did not participate in that charade mistaken for election. Yet they were all forced to abandon their usual daily activities. The so-called Igbo leaders pretending to be concerned of the people’s economic wellbeing didn’t raise an objecting voice.

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A few days ago, 29th May on the precise, every corporate activity in the country was grounded on the basis of swearing in. Banks are private businesses; private schools are private businesses, and so are many other established companies. They had no hand in the swearing-in ceremonies, yet they were all forced to shut down. The stomach-driven folks masquerading as Igbo leaders had no problem with that. Still, in less than a fortnight's time, June 12 on the precise, every corporate activity will again be brought to a halt – this time, in honour of a single man, MKO Abiola, and our so-called Igbo leaders are silent. They have not talked about how such shutdown impacts negatively on people’s economy.

Well, the people having been deceived for too long factored in these things and realizing that the so-called Igbo leaders don't really mean well for them ignored them to throw in with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, sitting back home and sacrificing whatever they would have gained on that singular day in honour of their fallen heroes. It thus follows that they understand and value the enormous sacrifice those that died in the war made and that their loyalty is with Nmamdi Kanu and not the so-called Igbo leaders who ride on their misery to cut deals for selves.

On behalf of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu whose voice you heeded to honour our fallen heroes, his dependable, sagacious and loving deputy, Mazi Uche Mefor, and the entire leadership of IPOB whose work made it possible, I, your son and humble servant, say thanks a million. As you have shown value for the sacrifices of those that died for your sake, whatever you would have gained on that 30th May will return to you a thousandfold. May Chukwu Okike Abiama who sitteth enthroned forever bless, nurture and sustain you all.

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Biafra Heroes Day: I must remember my uncle on 30th May

May 23, 2019

Dave O. Umahi | For Biafra Writers

My uncle, Sunday Onwuka, was a promising young man of seventeen when the war broke out. The genocidal Nigerian army murdered him in cold blood. He was such a loving personality the survivors of the war passed his story down to my generation. Listening to the stories told about him I have always broken down in tears.

My tears are prompted not just by the sad loss, but also by the realization that many other promising young men went the same way. These are people that would have bridged the gap between us and the older generation, thereby occasioning a smooth transfer of knowledge and wisdom. But the devilish Nigeria state would not allow that.

Sunday was said to be so lively in discussions; so urbane, full of wisdom and witty enough to have excelled in today's comedy industry. He was said to be so athletically built and sparkling in appearance that he was easily noticed wherever he entered.

Sunday’s fate came one cursed evening in 1969. The war was nearing its end but the vandals (Nigerian genocidal army) was still loitering about, seeking young girls to defile. The few youths that were still alive had gathered together to take in fresh air and relieve selves of the agony of the war with some folklore. The murderous Nigerian soldiers arrived, and offended that such an urbane young adult was still around, they seized Sunday, tied his hands behind him and carried him off. That spelt the end of Sunday; his corpse was not even found.

Yet, some people say we shouldn’t remember Sunday and the millions like him come 30th May. Are they in their right senses?  Biafrans have chosen May 30 of every year to mourn and honour the victims of the war. We have chosen to sit back at home, denying ourselves of every social and economic activity in remembrance of every Biafran soul lost in that genocidal war visited upon us. We do so not by compulsion but by freewill, so the Nigerian police and army threating to stop us need urgent psychiatric attention. Sincerely.

#30thMayBiafraHeroesRemembranceDay

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IPOB unveil plans to lockdown Biafraland and rally in major cities across the world

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Published By The Biafra Times | May15, 2019

We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide have resolved to prove on May 30th both in Biafraland and beyond that, we remain the preeminent freedom fighting outfit anywhere on this earth at this present moment. The High Command of our illustrious movement have directed that every family meeting in every country around the world must in word and deed  demonstrate our formidability and resoluteness before an observant global audience on the 30th of May in such a manner that our heroes, wherever they lie, even in unmarked graves in forgotten battlefields, will be proud of what they achieved 52 years ago. Strict compliance with the sit-at-home order must be strictly and rigorously enforced across Biafraland.

As 30th of May 2019 Remembrance Day draw ever nearer, Biafrans both home and abroad MUST honor and remember our heroes and heroines that died to stop the total Islamisation of the sacred land of Biafra and perpetual enslavement of the children of God. The exceptionally gallant soldiers of the class of 67-70 and the fearless IPOB family members slain during numerous protests and rallies to free Biafra must be honored in time-honored IPOB tradition by observing a solemn sit-at-home and complete lockdown of Biafraland on the 30th of May.

It is, therefore, the patriotic duty of every right-thinking Biafran (man, woman, and child) to respect the sacrifice these brave men and women made for our survival as a race. Every generation of Biafrans must honor our heroes because without them Biafraland would have become another conquered territory like Illorin, a Yoruba territory that is today 100% Fulani emirate.

All IPOB family units outside Biafraland, in over 88 countries and territories around the world, are expected to partake in street demonstrations, rallies, lectures and prayers to ensure the remembrance of our fallen heroes and heroines on 30th of May 2019 will go down in history as one of the greatest events of our time. IPOB will use this event to conclusively prove to the whole world that we are ready for the upcoming referendum for Biafra sovereignty.

READ ALSO: Biafra’s Annual Heroes and Heroines Day, an Already Established Day in Biafra Land

We commend IPOB families in the UK, Europe, Asia, Middle East, USA and many others across the world that have managed to secure marching permits from their relevant authorities because of this historic 30th of May event. The leadership of IPOB are also aware that almost all countries where IPOB has presence, including Angola, Mozambique, Congo DRC, Namibia, Ghana, and Tanzania have respectfully perfected their own arrangements to honor our heroes and heroines on that particular day.

IPOB family members in the UK have secured their venue at Trafalgar Square London for a rally. It is however interesting to note that when the Deputy National Coordinator of IPOB UK contacted the British Metropolitan Police for permission to march on Trafalgar Square on the 30th of May 2019, they were informed by the officer responsible for issuing permits that since 2014 IPOB started its street protests in London, there had never been any breach of public peace compared to similar protests by others groups that have always degenerated into scuffles and altercations with law enforcement agencies in the London area.

Britain having recognised the very civil approach of IPOB, granted permission to the UK IPOB family to proceed with the rally without undergoing the tedious application process for a permit which groups are normally subjected to. No other liberation movement in the world can boast of the pedigree, presence or respect IPOB enjoys across civilized nations of the world.

READ ALSO: 30th May: Why We Must Sit at Home

There will be a complete lockdown of Biafraland and major cities where Biafrans have a significant population concentration like Sabon Gari in Kano, Lagos, Kaduna, Zaria, and Abuja.

We would like to remind certain criminally minded individuals, DSS informants, traitors, and Biafra-for-hire groups that hiding under the banner of Biafra agitation to serve Miyetti Allah agenda through Al Mustapha will only bring them shame and ridicule. As with tradition, Biafraland will be locked down on the 30th of May. These shadowy elements that only exist on the pages of newspapers- without any significant presence on the ground in Biafraland or anywhere else around the world, should retrace their steps before they are all consumed in the upcoming inferno of rage against traitors. Any attempt to discourage our people from honoring their heroes or bring ridicule to the memory of our own Biafran activists that died in the course of Biafra restoration will be calamitous for the said traitor or his group.

These shadowy groups must know that collecting money from their Fulani sponsors in order to disrespect our heroes that fought and died for us is not something we will tolerate. These charlatans without shame or honor have forgotten that some of their members died at the hands of the same people they have gone to collect money from to stop a remembrance that includes honoring those members of theirs that died in service to Biafra. This is the height of evil and betrayal of the very worst kind.

To shamefully make such open and unguarded statements concerning the remembrance day celebration of our fallen heroes and heroines who died that we may live is indicative of the hopelessness and criminal mindset of these Nigeria sponsored criminals masquerading as Biafrans. Only informants, traitors and saboteurs will dream stepping outside on the 30th of May and if they do, they will only have themselves to blame.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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Biafra’s Annual Heroes and Heroines Day, an Already Established Day in Biafra Land

May 14, 2019

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

Biafrans are a people carved out for total annihilation by Britain and their collaborators, using the Nigerian state as a tool. To realize this evil dream, all sorts of inhumane and degrading treatments have been exacted on the peace-loving people of Biafra. This can be mirrored in the several genocidal acts meted out on them for centuries.

It is pertinent to note that even before the creation of Nigeria, Biafrans experienced several horrors in the hand of the British Empire for opposing the rising power of the Royal Niger Company (RNC) in the land. The British Empire fought cruelly against Biafrans, killing thousands in their bid to gain absolute control of Biafra land. As of 1883-1914, the Biafrans have struggled with the Aro and the Ekumeku wars visited upon them by Britain.

In those wars, thousands of Biafran lives were lost in defense of our land. But for that great sacrifice of theirs, there wouldn’t have been anything like today’s generation; there wouldn’t have been anybody to resist the later aggressions informed by the British desire to take over the oil fields of Biafra.

The indirect rule system introduced by Fredrick Lugard in Biafra land was greatly repelled by gallant Biafran women in what is today known as “the Aba Women Riot of 1929.” In this attempt to protect the land from Lugard’s corrupt instincts perpetuated through his Warrant Chiefs, fifty-one women and one man lost their life.

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The people of Biafra have set aside 30th May of every year as a remembrance day for all who have sacrificed much for mother Biafra. On this day, Biafrans also remember the true elders of the land whose heads were cut off and hung on a stick for rejecting the evil antics of the colonialists.

The massacres of Biafrans in the North and in the Southwest (which precipitated the declaration of Biafra as a sovereign state) cannot be forgotten. Biafran pregnant women were disemboweled and then allowed to bleed to death.  Biafrans remember them.
The Biafran children who were starved to death, the civilians gruesomely killed during the war, and Biafran soldiers who died fighting in defense of our land are all remembered on the 30th of May every year. It is a day the people reminisce on their history, a day in which Biafrans appreciate those sacrifices that have kept them going and pledge never to back down until they extricate themselves from the abominable entity called Nigeria.

On that hallowed day of remembrance, members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), as well as members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, killed by the murderous Nigerian military are honoured. Every Biafran is hereby called on to observe this coming Biafra Heroes Day by simply sitting back at home.

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30th May: Why We Must Sit at Home

May 13, 2019

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

The first man my father trained in school, Francis Agboeze, died in the war.  Francis, classmate to Joe Nwodo, fought under the command of General Joe Achuzie. Till date, the younger brother, Remigius Agboeze, still shed tears at the mention or thought of Francis.

My mother told of how Uncle Francis would visit them in their refugee camp with food and other relief items. Sometimes he would visit alone, and at other times with a detachment of soldiers; never sitting down, his brave eyes darting here and there like viper’s. It was Francis who first showed her what a grenade looks like. She wouldn’t fail to mention how elegant and heroic Francis looked in his full Biafra military regalia.

And then, Francis stopped visiting. “In his place, the news of his death arrived,” mom would say in a melancholic voice, tears coursing down her cheeks to drench her blouse. Her gaze now distant, and a heavy sigh escaping her lips, mother would drift into a tale of woes – a tale of what Britain, working through Nigerian arch genocidal soldiers, did to Biafrans.

There was terrible hunger and starvation in the land. Markets, refugee camps, and even hospitals were air-raided by Egyptian, British and Soviet machinery pilots. Farms were destroyed to forestall attempts on food production. Even relief materials were intercepted and destroyed.

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Mom would tell how she and other women would prepare dishes and sneak into fields to supply Biafran soldiers. When there is no food, they would roast corns, crack kernels and take them with water to the fighting soldiers. She recounted the urgency with which the soldiers accepted the items and the pleased look in their eyes as they ate. “They fought on empty stomach,” mother would intone.

“They were outnumbered,” dad would add. But for the locally made armaments which came later, they fought practically with bare hands. They would lay in wait for the enemy, and when the opportunity presents itself, sneak in on them, overpower and take their weapons. “That’s how Biafran soldiers acquired their fighting arms until Biafran scientists began local arms productions,” Dad narrated.

Yes, Ojukwu lumped together his father’s wealth into arms purchase, but the world powers, fearing Biafra would emerge a Japan of Africa, conspired together and refused us arms deal while supplying the Nigerian side. And there was Ukpabi Asika factor too. Asika and his likes that were entrusted with the fund to pursue arms deal thought a luxurious life abroad more valuable than the war and the dying Biafrans, and so they pocketed the money and left to enjoy themselves in some foreign countries.  This is similar to our politicians and Ohaneze Ndigbo taking money from Nigerian government and looking the other way as Fulani herdsmen rape and kill us today. 

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Armless, outnumbered and blockaded they fought for three years, rebuffing the genocidal army and preserving Biafra from annihilation. Many of them died in the battlefield; many were terribly injured, resulting in amputation, loss of sight, and many other terrible deformations.

The finest of brains were there among the dead. Think of Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo – the best thing that ever happened to African poetry. Think of Dr. Imegwu, Joe Uchendu, Amamchukwu Okeke, Nathaniel Okpala, and many others.

How about the one million children that were starved to death? What offence did they commit? Scientists were among them; medical doctors were there too, and so were legal luminaries, Economists, Agriculturists, pilots, journalists, writers, Engineers, educationists, miners, filmmakers, footballers, musicians, choristers, bankers, and industrialists like Innoson who could produce cars and jets. They were all starved to death for no offense of their own. Think of where they would have been today in the society; think of the contributions they would have made to the societal growth. Think of people like Philip Emeagwali, Bath Nnadji, Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealaa, Kanu Nwankwo, Genevive Nnaji, Phyno Fyno, P’Square and all the names that propel the economy, stir technological advancement or entertain you. If they were starved to death or crushed by sheer brutal force of genocide, would we have had the advantage of benefiting from them? If you value the aforementioned folks and their contributions to the society, wouldn’t you grieve at their demise?   

We want to grieve the untimely and forceful demise of their kind during the thirty-month genocidal onslaught visited upon our people from 1967-1970. We want to tell them that we value their sacrifices and miss what they would have contributed to our growth as a people. We want to recognize and honour them.

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I started this article with the story about my uncle, Francis Agboeze. I didn’t know him but from the stories told about him, my parents’ account and loving memories of him, I came to value and miss him. I miss a man I never met. This is because he was of value to the society while he walked the earth. He died defending his fatherland.

There are many Francis amongst us … just ask around and you will hear of them. They all died defending our parents. If they didn’t stand against the aggressors, would your parents have lived to give birth to you? Denying ourselves social, economic, academic and religious activities for a day as in honour of their sacrifices is not too much of us. Remember, the world over, people celebrate and honour their dead.

Again I demand you ask around. Ask your parents, and if your parents are no more, ask your uncles and aunties. There was a Francis Agboeze in your family; there was a Francis Agboeze in your neighbourhood. There is no family or neighbourhood that did not lose a soul in the war. Will sacrificing a day in their honour keep you from prospering? I don’t think so. Keep a date with them on May 30.

May God bless, nurture and sustain you all as you sit back home in honour of our dead.

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Biafra: No Amount of Sabotage Can Stop 30th of May Sit-at-home

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10/05/2019  | The Biafra Times 

It is very astonishing and disappointing that at this critical point in the liberation of our people from the British bondage called Nigeria that some unscrupulous and shameless scavengers have volunteered themselves and their useless groups as willing tools of the enemy in their foolish attempt to subvert the will of Biafran people regarding the May 30 sit-at-home order by IPOB High Command.

These Abuja-sponsored shameless scavengers driven by envy, jealousy and crass egocentric interests to the point of coming openly and publicly to disregard all efforts and sufferings of our fathers and class of Biafra soldiers who sacrificed their lives between 1967 and 1970, are hereby warned to put their usual treachery in check because they will have themselves to blame at the appointed time when the anger of the people against them can no longer be controlled.

We are putting these saboteurs and enemies of Biafra on notice that no amount of Abuja sponsored propaganda or evil campaign against our movement and the annual sit-at-home order will make an iota of difference because Biafrans know they are all natural betrayers.

For the information of those seeking to attract the attention of their Abuja paymasters, let it be known that IPOB does not respond to Fulani slaves in our midst, hopeless attention seeking individuals or mushroom groups seeking relevance through newspaper advertorials. We respond to their masters in Abuja and Fulani caliphate. IPOB has never and will never join issues with individuals or people that merely mouth freedom for Biafra but deep down are servants of the caliphate seeking to attach themselves to IPOB agitation in the hope of raising their profile with Aso Rock.

It is unfortunate that this same collection of meaningless Igbo groups like the proscribed Ohaneze Ndigbo, Ala-Igbo Development Foundation (ADF) and South East Governors Forum would prefer to be always serving their Fulani masters than to be in good relationship with their own people. For the information of these Abuja slaves, 30th of May is not an Igbo affair, it is a Biafra wide commemoration of our heroes and that includes Philip Effiong the last Biafran Head of State who is not an Igbo man.

These compromised and useless Igbo groups should come to terms with the fact that IPOB is the people and the people are IPOB. No amount of patronising press statements or attention-seeking headlines in the newspapers will stop a total lockdown on May 30th.

These traitors should hide their pride and appreciate what the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its Supreme Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have done for Igbo people in particular and Biafrans in general as regards organizing and establishing an annual event like this to honour and remember our past heroes and heroines who paid the ultimate price for this generation to be alive today.

IPOB family and its leadership worldwide have courageously set aside 30th of May every year as a peaceful and special day for Biafrans both home and abroad to reflect on the massacre, diseases, hunger and starvation that Nigerian government and her allies inflicted on our fathers, mothers, sisters and children since 1966 till date.

The shameless Igbo political slaves and jobbers chose rather to identify with the oppressors by attempting to compromise this memorable annual day of Biafra history. We wonder why Ala-Igbo Development Foundation (ADF) and Ohaneze Ndigbo would engage in such self-demeaning act, openly identifying with the agenda of the caliphate which is to diminish the historical significance of May 30th.

It is on record that Ohaneze Ndigbo, Ala-Igbo Development Foundation (ADF) and other Igbo social cultural organizations normally have their Igbo Day jamboree every 29th September of each year and not on 30th of May as being mischievously touted by some elements within Ala-Igbo Development Foundation. It is the height of stupidity, ignorance and mischief making to seek to shift Igbo Day to 30th of May when Biafra encompasses other non-Igbo nationalities.

Biafra remembrance day celebration and commemoration of Biafran heroes and heroines who sacrificed their youthful lives in defense of their fatherland must hold regardless of who is against it.

Comrade Emma Powerful, Media and Publicity Secretary for IPOB

Biafra Heroes Day: Ohanaeze and the hood

May 11, 2019

By Johnson Nnabuife | For Biafra Writers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Real Reasons Behind Igbo Leaders’ Antipathy to Sit-at-home Order

By Nelson Ofokar Yagazie | Biafra Writers

May 10, 2019

The Nsukka born movie star, barrister Kenneth Okonkwo, popularly known as Andy Okeke, is a well-known actor. We all remember when he joined politics and wanted to run for the governorship seat of Enugwu state. He took on IPOB and its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, launching tirades here and there, and even referring to mother Biafra as dead. Barrister Okonkwo did not stop there, he tried to exonerate Fulani herdsmen from the incessant killings going on in lower Benue and many other parts of Biafra land, arguing that the real culprits came from Libya – a similar line spun by late President Muhammadu Buhari.

It will be interesting to note that prior to his political aspiration, barrister Kenneth Okonkwo never uttered any word against Biafra nor did he offer any defense on behalf of the murderous Fulani herders. It thus becomes obvious that his reason for discrediting Biafra, disparaging IPOB and defending the blood-sucking demons in the guise of herders is simply to endear himself to the caliphate so that he could be crowned the next governor of Enugwu state.

Our dear barrister was late however. Governor Ugwuanyi has sealed the deal earlier when he brought the Sultan of Sokoto to Nsukka, shutting down the entire city in the Jihadist’s honour. It did not matter to the governor that it was the Sultan’s foot soldiers that mascaraed over two hundred and fifty villagers at Nimbo, plunging the entire Nsukka land into agony and panic. His political interest weighs more than the people’s feelings, and so he had brought the Islamic irredentist to the sorrowful land of Nsukka to consolidate his political grip, adding insult to the injury by forcing all activities to a stop in honour of the visiting Islamist.

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Recall that after the Nimbo mayhem, the governor had appeared, shed crocodile tears, declared two days fasting and prayers, and then jetted off to Abuja to laugh and drink tea with the president. Even as the chief security officer of the state, he couldn’t do more than declare fasting and prayers. Yes he couldn’t lift a finger because he truly has no power of his own; his allegiance being to the caliphate, and his actions teleguided. It was inconceivable to touch the herders. His best bet was what he did – fly to Abuja to crawl on the floor, reminding the caliphate his allegiance is still with them.

When Orji Uzor Kalu was caught in EFFC net, he offered to help stall the agitation for Biafra in exchange for being let off the hook. A deal was struck and straight away he went to Kuje Prison to persuade the Supreme Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra to drop the agitation. He met a brick wall, and as pressure piled on him, he began to express his dislike to the Biafra idea, telling the press that Igbos prefer presidency to Biafra. It did not matter to him that Biafra is not Igbo affair, and that while Igbo is Biafra, Biafra is not exclusively Igbo.

We all remember how, after the military invasion of Nnamdi Kanu’s house, Orji Uzor Kalu came out in a TV program to claim that he has an intelligent report that Nnamdi Kanu has escaped to London using Malaysian route. At the said time, Kanu was incommunicado as a result of injuries sustained during the invasion and the world was beginning to ask question. Orji Uzor Kanu never condemned the killing of armless Biafra protesters nor the invasion of Nnamdi Kanu’s house, but was quick to run to the press to lie about Kanu’s whereabouts.

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Now, having pleased the caliphate enough to ward off the EFCC, Orji Kalu decided to push his luck further by running for the senate. The political geometry was a simple one: promise the caliphate he will employ his power and influence as a senator to antagonize IPOB. His earlier antipathy against Biafra now speaking for him, the caliphate closed the deal and a senatorial ticket was given. The cyberspace is awash with pictorial evidences of Orji Uzor Kalu visiting the caliphate for political clearance.

In 2017 Anambara state election, the former aviation minister, Osita Chidoka, desired the seat of Anambara state governor. Understanding that the political coordinates of the East are designed in the North, Chidoka journeyed to the northern hemisphere to pledge allegiance. Conditions were given and upon return, Chidoka, who was earlier perceived as pro Biafra, lost his fiber and capitulated.

Governor Willie Obiano came to power under APGA – a supposedly Igbo party. But realizing he could, through the Hausa/Fulani controlled Judiciary, be ejected any time just as Ngige was, Obiano ran to North to pledge allegiance to the caliphate. Coming from an Igbo party, he needed to do more than a mere pledge to be taken serious. And so, he gave the murderous Nigerian military and police a free hand to kill as many IPOB members as they would please. This did not only ensure a full term spell, it as well opened the door for further negotiations. He returned to the North, and his antecedent now speaking in his favour, a deal was sealed for a second term. Upon return to office, he offered land to Myetti Allah and directed his government, through the State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, C-Don Adinuba, to rally against IPOB’s call for sit-at-home in honour of Fallen Biafran heroes.

Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state, against the people’s yearning, refused to ban the murderous Fulani herdsmen operation in the state, but was quick to pronounce IPOB proscribed. Tutored by the man who handed power over to him, Martin Elechi, Umahi has continually done the caliphate’s bidding to stay in office. He was reported to have promised the caliphate that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will never bring the message of Biafra restoration to his state, and attempted to enforce that with military and police cordons. Well, Kanu broke the military barriers and moved into Ebonyi.

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While we will not waste time on Rochas Okorocha who, findings indicate, was actually fathered by an Hausa man, it will be interesting to look at his son in-law, Uche Nwoso, who he unsuccessfully tried to enthrone. As the crisis between Rochas and the national chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshomole, deepened, and Uche was forced to seek ticket in another party, the odds against him becoming clearer, Uche wrote a letter of allegiance to the caliphate. In the leaked letter, the intending governor promised the caliphate to, among other things, end the agitation for Biafra.

The scenarios presented above offer great insight to the real reason behind the opposition to IPOB’s sit-at-home call. Contrary to the economic plight and constitutional rights those antagonizing the 30th May sit-at-home call try to wave at our face, the real reason behind their disruptive engagements is their allegiance to the caliphate. The Nigerian political landscape is drawn by the caliphate, and so Igbo political players would do anything to curry political favour from them.

The renewed agitation for Biafra spearheaded by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a serious threat to the caliphate. A well-heeded sit-at-home call as has been recorded in recent years demonstrates oneness, and oneness is on its own a big threat to the occupational forces. The caliphate doesn’t want it, and so they threaten Igbo political office holders and aspirants with ejection if they don’t stop the program. The non-thinking slavish Igbo politicians then find pretexts to thwart the scheme. But will the interest of a few self-seeking political players override the collective will of the people? 30th May will tell.


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