THE NEED TO RESIST FURTHER OUT-OF-COURT ARREST OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU

THE NEED TO RESIST FURTHER OUT-OF-COURT ARREST OF MAZI NNAMDI KANU

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Several lies have come to our notice due to frustration and fear. The handlers of this dying contraption called Nigeria, a gift parceled in 1914 and given to the North,  are sick and tired of the progress of the IPOB under the formidable and able leadership of Director Nnamdi Kanu.  Out of exasperation and fatalism, the clueless handlers of the misnomer called Nigeria have resorted to spinning lies and concocting stories in their bid to stem the tide of feasible and imminent SECESSION vide non-violent REFERENDUM.  

Worried by the ever towering stature and popularity of the arrowhead of the reinvigorated and fantastically refined quest for emancipation of Biafrans from the venomous grips of oppressive and abductive Nigeria,  Nnamdi Kanu,  the northernised Nigeria have begun a last-minute attempt to circumvent and,  possibly escape, the inevitable. To this end, BMC (Buhari's media) and other hirelings have been commissioned to see to it that the image of the man-god and superman,  Nnamdi Kanu, is dented. Lies are flying like paper kites in the polluted atmosphere that defines Nigeria.  It is also worrisome that half-baked cronies and stooges are the ones assigned this filthy contract, the reason these attempts are unsuccessful. Of course,  every reasonable occupant of this ersatz geographical enclave called Nigeria is unhappy and hopes to dump it.  That, however,  does not mean there are no conquered occupants - those who are contented with the crumbs that fall from the Hausa/Fulani table.  

The first attempt made by the horrible FGN to depopularize Kanu was the politicisation of the struggle.  What they did was to concoct a statement allegedly credited to Mazi Kanu, wherein he purportedly agreed that he can engage himself in the murky waters of Nigeria's retrogressive and disjointed politics to actualize Biafra.  What a tactless attempt! Well,  as tactless and clearly obvious as that lie seems,  it was circulated and relied on as an instrument of destruction.  What Nigerians have failed to understand is that true members of IPOB know that Mazi Kanu would be risking his life,  that of his wife,  child, and entire generation should he betray.  He is under a very serious and dangerous Oath like many of us.  The Oath of Allegiance is a  covenant between us and Chukwuokikeabiama,  Tamuno,  Oghene,  Abasi,  Tamara - the Almighty God,  Creator of Heaven and Earth. Whoever goes outside the agreed modus operandi of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) does so at the risk of the annhilation of his generation.  Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will never betray!  

But what politics were they even talking about? Does Nigeria have a functional politics? Okay,  you mean the politics that allows a sitting president to be AWOL for over the Constitutional proviso of 90 days without being impeached? Nigerians seem to forget that having breached the Armed Forces Ruling Council (military) document we call Constitution of Nigeria, Buhari has become a de facto (illegitimate) president.  The parliament,  having failed to carry out its oversight function,  has become anti-people and illegitimate, as well.  Those who still give their fillip to this non-populist occupants of Nigeria's Aso Rock are under a spell.  Nigeria,  under the misadministration of this clueless lot,  is speedily heading for Golgotha.  No amount of fasting, restructuring, and optimism will suffice to remedy the inevitable collapse of this expired fabrication.  

In furtherance of their frustration, the bad handlers of Nigeria have decided to ventilate their anger on the man of the moment,  Nnamdi Kanu,  by unlawfully avowing that his bail must be "revoked". This is another manifestation of the intellectual incapacity of these misadventurers. Any democracy peopled by hare-brained handlers is, at best,  DEMOCRATISATION OF FOOLERY.  A democracy that is "of lootocrats,  by religious bigots, but for the gullible" is a ticket to economic recession. Why would they be thinking of "revoking" Kanu's bail? Was he bailed outside the Court? If he was bailed in the Court (which is the case here), then the argument for a review of his bail must take place in Court.  Is someone thinking? They want him to be re-arrested, but in order to do that they have to argue against his bail in Court.  The power to re-arrest Kanu is beyond FGN, except they have fresh charges against him. This government has dragged the image of the judicial arm into the mud, and the time for the dented Temple of Justice to extricate itself from the mess is now.  

The IPOB worldwide, the international community that have remained distant to our calls for intervention,  and every well-meaning and conscious occupant of Nigeria must wake up and keep watchful eyes on the looming danger.  Any attempt to unlawfully re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu is bound to meet with a fatal resistance.  The international community should wake up from their docility and prevail on the handlers of Nigeria. The right to self determinism is the brainchild of international laws,  laws that are superior to Nigeria's laws,  since Nigeria is herself a member.  His Excellency,  Donald Trump, POTUS,  should not forget the role played by Biafrans worldwide towards his success at the polls.  Majority of the blacks that voted for Trump are Biafrans of the Igbo stock,  the reason they celebrated his victory in Nigeria - for which over 11 of them were chased and killed.  

I am aware that the Chief of Army Staff,  Yusuf Buratai and others are standing trial in a US district Court for the brutal murder of unarmed Biafra protesters, but I think Trump of the US and Putin of Russia need to do more as leaders of First World Nations. Biafrans are captives in this oppressive enclave called Nigeria.  It is their right to seek self-governance through peaceful means.  This attempt to recapture the Leader of IPOB by Nigeria should be globally condemned.  The world should not tolerate another apartheid and Nazist operation in the 21st century,  save we have not truly progressed.  True global economic progress goes beyond mere application of scientific knowledge.  If the administration of global issues by the powers that be is not up-to-date, then no meaningful progress has been made.  Response to oppression and tormentation calls should be swift and unencumbered.  This global response should be as fast as the 21 century scientific inventions. 

The international community must arise to the occasion. We are beginning to feel that there is no functional basis for World Power and international associations .  We urge the UN,  ECOWAS,  and AU to prove us all wrong.  The UN should prove to us that we are truly part of the international unity project.  What concerns the welfare of the occupants of Nigeria should be of serious concern to the world.  All Biafrans need is referendum, not war.  The incomprehensible silence of the international community is the real cause of the killings in Nigeria.  A timeous intervention is golden in this situation. The life of the peace-loving Nnamdi Kanu,  the Director of IPOB worldwide, is in the hand of the international community.  We will not fail to go to the ICC in the Hague to seek redress should any harm befall our hero.  Biafrans are watching for signs of international conspiracy.  What happened in the Civil War is still fresh in our memory. We are sanguine that the international community exist to protect the rights of people all over the world.  Thanks and God bless.  

Russell Idatoru Bluejack is a thinker, evolutionary writer,  university tutor,  and socio-economic and political analyst that writes from Port Harcourt.

IPOB’S RESPONSE TO MUHAMMADU BUHARI CALLING IKEMBA EMEKA OJUKWU A COWARD WHO RAN AWAY TO ABROAD AFTER CAUSING WAR.

August 22, 2017

Press Statements

IPOB’S RESPONSE TO MUHAMMADU  BUHARI CALLING IKEMBA EMEKA  OJUKWU A COWARD WHO RAN AWAY TO ABROAD AFTER CAUSING WAR.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) are filled with rage from the insults heaped on the late Biafran Leader, Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, by Retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, the terminally-ill and serial coupist who also doubles as the president of the British-created criminality and contraption called Nigeria. In his nationwide broadcast on August 21, 2017, Buhari called Ojukwu a coward who “after starting trouble and when things [got] bad [he] run away and saddle others with the responsibility of bringing back order with their blood.” Buhari is following the footsteps of his Northern brothers namely, Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon and Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma who have made similar ridiculing remarks on Biafran Heroes in the molds of Generals J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.

For those who do not know, Muhammadu Buhari abandoned his duty post at 2 Brigade in Lagos on the night of July 28th, 1966 and traveled to Government House in Ibadan where he assassinated his commander-in-chief, Major-General J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi in the early hours of July 29th, 1966.  Not satisfied with his orgy for spilling of Biafran blood, Buhari and his Northern colleagues in the Nigerian Army massacred over two million unarmed and defenceless civilians at Owerri-Biafra in 1968 during the genocidal war on Biafra by Nigeria and the British government. This same Muhammadu Buhari committed treason on December 31, 1983, and instead of being punished by death sentence, he was rewarded with the presidency of Nigeria 32 years after committing that heinous crime. Everyone knows that but for Section-318(1) of the Nigerian fraudulent Constitution, Buhari would never qualify to contest as a presidential candidate.

 To put it more direct, Buhari is the person that should be called a coward because he refused to confront the Biafran soldiers during the war but rather went for “soft targets” such as women, children, the sick, and the very old. Buhari cannot, in any way, compare himself with the very brave General Emeka Ojukwu who fought at the war front even as the military leader of his nation of Biafra. By the time General Emeka Ojukwu graduated with Master’s degree at Oxford University in 1956, Buhari was still an almajiri begging for alms on the streets of Daura. General Emeka Ojukwu, as one of the first 15 Nigerian Officers in the Army as at 1958 excelled in his military career and earned his promotions, unlike Buhari who joined the Nigerian Army without any known authenticated secondary school certificate.

Even if one can arbitrarily give any negative appellation to General Emeka Ojukwu, it definitely will not be calling him a coward because the world can attest to his boldness even in the face of terrible danger. It is laughable that Muhammadu Buhari who fled the presidential Aso Rock Villa under the guise of visiting another country when Niger Delta Avengers threatened to bomb the Villa is now the person calling General Emeka Ojukwu a coward.  It is even more laughable for Buhari to think that by name-dropping our highly revered General Emeka Ojukwu in paragraph-3 of his discordant speech, we will be fooled into not noticing the mockery he made of the Peoples’ General in paragraph-4 in which he indirectly referred to General Emeka Ojukwu as a coward who ran away to a foreign country after starting trouble.

Every discerning person around the globe expected Buhari to be more concerned with the disdain with which his Northern brothers under the aegis of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum treated Section-41(1) of the fraudulent Constitution. Everyone expected him to immediately order the arrest of Yerima Shettima and Co and charge them with committing offences punishable under Section-41(b & c) and Section-42 of CAP C38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004. Buhari was expected to issue a query to Lawal Musa Daura of the State Security Services (illegally called DSS) for his inability to fish out and arrest those behind the song in which the lyrics instructed all Northerners to seek out Biafrans and to kill them. Buhari never did all these, rather he was preoccupied with repeating the words of Gowon and Danjuma in making a mockery of our Biafran Heroes.

Biafrans are aware that because of Buhari’s limited education, his understanding of the right to self-determination is that war should be the final outcome. Due to his pedigree and antecedents, Buhari knows only one thing and that is squeezing the trigger of a gun pointed at Biafrans or dropping of bombs with Napalm warheads on unarmed and defenceless Biafran civilians who are expressing their United Nations-declared inalienable rights to self-determination.

While Buhari is basking in his story of meeting with General Emeka Ojukwu in 2003, we want him to go back to the speech made by the Peoples’ General in 1967 where he unmistakably stated that “nothing can shake the spirit of a determined people.” Biafrans are determined to restore their God-given nation of Biafra and no amount of derision of our late Heroes can ever deter us.

Muhammadu Buhari must know today that the restoration of the nation of Biafra is a divine project whose time has come and is, therefore, unstoppable, unquenchable, irreversible, and irrevocable.

Long live Biafrans and long live the nation of Biafra!!!

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17th August 2017

To Nigerian News Editors

The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has deemed it expedient to draw the attention of all Newspaper Editor in Nigeria and the world at large of a deliberate trend to misrepresent facts as it concerns the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The Directorate therefore considers it very imperative to address this letter to Editors of all Media Houses in Nigeria to set the records straight.

Let me begin with the agitation by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for Self-determination. Please take note that Self-Determination is an inalienable right of all Indigenous People and that includes the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The United Nations chatter not only guaranteed Indigenous People the right to Self-determination but also an immutable right to determine their cultural, economic and political system. We derive therefore the authority for our agitation on universally recognized and binding legal instruments such as United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous peoples to Self-Determination and Articles V, VI, VII and XII of the African Charter on Human & Peoples Rights (ratified and domesticated by Nigeria in 1983. From the foregoing it is very apparent that Self-determination does not in any manner or form equate to a declaration of war on the Nigerian state but simply a legitimate and universally recognized and guaranteed right at the disposal of all Indigenous people to pursue. 

Secondly the demand by the Indigenous People of Biafra for Referendum rather than being vilified for adopting a non violent avenue in our pursuit of Self-determination right should be commended for choosing a universally recognized and accepted methodology of dispute resolution.

Finally the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has never clashed with the Nigerian security apparatus in all our activities be it prayer gathering in school fields or spreading the message of Biafra on the streets of Biafraland. It is essential therefore to once again remind Nigerian News Editors that IPOB is a non violent movement of the Biafran people. The constant use of the word clash each time innocent unarmed Biafrans are killed is unacceptable to us. Just yesterday the 16th of August 2017 unarmed IPOB family members were attacked by a combined force of Nigerian army and Police in Ekwuluobia Anambra state without provocation as they have been doing since 2015 resulting in the death of at least one person and many injured. In reporting this incident the word ‘clash’ was again used. This is misleading and an affront to the ethics of journalism. It is our considered view that Editors have the responsibility and the duty to report accurately what transpired each time innocent civilian lives are wasted by trigger happy security agencies. The Directorate of state of the Indigenous People of Biafra states categorically and unequivocally that there was no clash between the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Nigerian security agencies in Ekwuluobia yesterday. In fact there has never been any clash between IPOB and the security agencies not even with our bare hands because we are a non violent peaceful movement and do not bear arms.

This penchant bordering on mischief to always present the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as confrontational and thereby giving the impression that they often clash with security agencies each time innocent and unarmed Biafrans gather peacefully in the exercise of their fundamental right to freedom of association and of assembly strengthens the hands of the security agencies to continue in their impunity. It seems to us that Newspaper editors in Nigeria have made a deliberate and conscious decision to abet the human rights violations and crimes against humanity being constantly perpetrated by the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Police and the Nigerian secret police (SSS) against the non violent movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra peacefully exercising their right to self-determination.

We use this medium to draw your attention and that of the International community that the style of news reportage by Nigerian print and electronic media as well as the quality of journalism in Nigeria is geared towards aiding and abetting extra judicial killings of unarmed innocent civilians in Nigeria. The world must hold Nigerian news Editors responsible for this aberration and regard them as accessory to human rights violations and crimes against humanity being committed against the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). 

Signed

Mazi Chika Edoziem

Head Directorate of state

Indigenous People of Biafra

IPOB PRESS RELEASE 7TH AUGUST 2017

Press Release

We the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and it's leadership worldwide under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu condemn unequivocally the senseless and barbaric attack against innocent worshippers during Sunday service at the Catholic Church Ozubulu in Ekusigo LGA of Anambra State that consumed the lives of many Biafrans including a pregnant woman and small children.
This massacre of our people in Ozubulu as with other indiscriminate slaughter of our people around Nigeria is a constant reminder to us all of the threat we face each day we delay our exit from Nigeria. Unfortunately for us, these heinous crimes will be visited upon us at predictable intervals until we collectively summon the courage to demand for our right to a referendum that will settle this once and for all time.
It won't come to us as a surprise if after all the investigations it turns out that those behind this despicable crime are individuals sponsored by dark forces within Nigeria intent on destabilising the IPOB's relentless march towards the liberation of Biafra and other ethnic nationalities under the yoke of Hausa Fulani Islamic domination in Nigeria. We believe that no sane mind can attribute this level of evil terrorist attack on Ozubulu as a direct result of a business transaction gone wrong in far away South Africa.
It is unfortunate that Government of Anambra State and Nigeria security agencies especially the Nigeria police who are required to enter into detailed investigation with the view to apprehending the culprits, merely concluded within an hour that they know the cause and the perpetrators of the crime. We don't know when Nigerian Police acquired this level of efficiency and excellence that enabled them to conclude their investigations within an hour. Does it mean they had prior knowledge of the crime and if so why weren't measures put in place to preempt it?
Also, it is very dangerous that the countless Police and Army check points along the roads in Anambra State, especially along Onitsha-Owerri Road leading to Ozubulu did not intercept the murderers, given that crime detection and prevention is often cited as the main reason why AK47 brandishing Hausa Fulani police and army recruits litter Biafran roads. The Hausa Fulani run security agencies in Nigeria must explain where the assassins got the army uniforms they used in the attack from. Instead of carrying out thorough scrutiny of vehicles, they are busy collecting money from frightened motorists.
We are alerting the international community, men and women of good conscience to prevail on Nigeria and Anambra State Government to constitute an independent and transparent panel of inquiry to ascertain what actually happened because this level of brutality is unheard of in Anambra State and entire Biafranland before now.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.