Saturday, 29 October 2016

BREAKING NEWS: Double bomb blasts in Maiduguri, many feared dead

BREAKING NEWS: Double bomb blasts in Maiduguri, many feared dead

 

 

 Many people are feared dead following two bomb blast in the early hours today in Maiduguri, Borno State, our correspondent in Maiduguri reports.
 
The first bomb exploded in front of the Bakkasi Internally Displaced People (IDP) Camp along Maiduguri-Damboa road killing scores of people killed.

 The second bomb exploded in front of the NNPC depot also along the same route.

 our correspondent reports that efforts to get to the scene of the second blast were thwarted as security men had cordoned off the area.

 Ambulances were seen moving out of the area.

 The blasts occurred around 7.24 am this morning.

Thursday, 27 October 2016

A nuclear missile, powerful enough to wipe out an area twice the size of Britain, has been revealed as Russia’s newest – and largest ever – weapon.

A nuclear missile, powerful enough to wipe out an area twice the size of Britain, has been revealed as Russia’s newest – and largest ever – weapon.

And it looks absolutely terrifying.

It was no secret that Vladimir Putin was seeking to replace his deadly arsenal of SS-18 weapons, branded ‘the Satan’.

However the power of the new RS-28 missile, Satan 2, could in fact wipe out an area the size of France.

It is believed to have a top speed of four and a half miles a second.


Russia unveils new 'super nuke' the Satan II
The weapon could wipe out an entire country (Picture: Makeyev.ru)


Russia unveils new 'super nuke' the Satan II
Vladimir Putin was seeking to replace his deadly arsenal of SS-18 weapons (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The first images of the super-nuke were revealed today by Kremlin engineers.

Satan 2, which is currently undergoing tests near Miass, is set to be rolled out by 2018.

According to the Daily Star, experts have warned that Russia’s new nuclear weapon will make the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like ‘popguns’.

In a statement alongside the first image, creators said: ‘In accordance with the Decree of the Russian Government “On the State Defense Order for 2010 and the planning period 2012-2013”, the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau was instructed to start design and development work on the Sarmat.

‘In June 2011, the Russian Ministry of Defense signed a state contract for the Sarmat’s development.

‘The prospective strategic missile system is being developed in order to create an assured and effective nuclear deterrent for Russia’s strategic forces.’

Edited and published by Chinedu Chinweike


Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/25/russia-unveils-new-super-nuke-the-satan-2-which-could-destroy-britain-twice-over-6213749/#ixzz4OJy2o7eW

MOMMAR GADDAFI'S PROPHECIES

Muamar Gaddafi's Prophecies:

 


"I will not go into exile to any foreign country. I was born here in Libya, and I will die here. This country was a dessert, and I turned it into a forest, where everything can grow.
No one Love this land more more than its citizens. If Europe and America tells you that they love you, be careful. They love the wealth of your land. The oil and not the people. They are helping you to fight against me but, it will be more wise for you to fight against them because they are fighting against your future and progress.
My message to you the people of Libya is, they are helping you to kill me but you will pay the price because you will suffer. And my message to you America and Europe is, you will kill me, but be ready to fight a never ending TERRORISM.
Before you realise your ignorance, terrorists will be hitting you at your doorstep."
GADDAFI once told the Nigerian and British governments to divide Nigeria into two, so that the Hausa/Fulani (Moslems), Yoruba (Christians) and Biafrans/Igbo, can live as neighbouring countries.
It's good we look at these 16 REAL REASONS WHY COL. GADDAFI WAS KILLED:
1. There is no electricity bill in Libya, electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens are at a 0% interest by law.
3. Home is considered a human right in Libya. Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a
home.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinars (US$50,000) from the government to buy their first apartment.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi, only 25% of Libyans were literates. Today, the figure stands at 83%.
6. Libyans taking up farming as a career, they received farm land, a farming house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kick- start their farms – all for free.
7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they needed in Libya, the government funded them to go abroad for it.
8. In Gaddafi's Libya, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0. 14 per liter.
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.
11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation, the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
13. A mother who gave birth to a child under Gaddafi, received US $5,000 as child benefit upfront.
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree
16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man- Made River Project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
If this is called "Dictatorship", I wonder what type of Leadership Democrats have!!
Share if it interest you.

Monday, 24 October 2016

BOKO HARAM OVERRUNS NIGERIA MILITARY AND INFLICTS MAXIMUM CASUALTIES

BOKO HARAM OVERRUNS NIGERIA MILITARY AND INFLICTS MAXIMUM CASUALTIES

 

Some 83 Nigerian soldiers are missing in action since Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked a remote military base in the northeast, senior army officers said Sunday.


The soldiers were unable to fight back and fled because Boko Haram had superior fire power, the officers told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to give information to reporters.

Morale also was low among the troops because they were being rationed to one meal a day and their allowances were being pilfered by their commanders, the officers said.Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman reported last week that "some" soldiers were missing and 13 wounded when the insurgents on Oct. 17 attacked their base in Gashigar village, on the border with Niger. Usman has not responded to requests for the actual number.

Dozens of fleeing troops jumped into the Niger River and 22 were pulled from the water by soldiers from that neighboring country, officers said. Many soldiers are feared to have drowned, they said.

In a separate development, hunters killed seven Boko Haram fighters who were burning buildings and huts in northeastern Makwaa village, the hunters and villagers confirmed Sunday. "We engaged them in a fierce battle for close to three hours, we overpowered them, resulting in the killing of seven," hunter Aisha Gombi said of Saturday night's firefight. "One was caught alive with gun wounds and others escaped into the bush."

President Muhammadu Buhari promised to better arm Nigeria's military when he was elected in March 2015, blaming corruption for the deaths of thousands including soldiers in the 7-year-old Islamic insurgency that has killed more than 20,000 people.

Billions of dollars meant to buy arms were stolen or diverted to the presidential campaign of former President Goodluck Jonathan, according to ongoing court cases.

Military officers also are currently facing courts-martial for allegedly selling arms and ammunition to Boko Haram, indicating the corruption bedeviling the country's fight against the Islamic extremists continues despite government efforts to halt graft.

Still, the military in the past year has succeeded in dislodging the insurgents from most towns and villages where they had set up an Islamic caliphate. But the extremists continue to attack remote villages and main roads that they have mined. Nigeria's army has reported thwarting and killing several suicide bombers in the past month.

The United Nations has warned that tens of thousands among the 2.6 million people forced from their homes by the insurgency are facing famine-like conditions that already are killing children

MASS ABDUCTION OF BIAFRANS IN BAYELSA: "I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY CARRIED MY FATHER TO"--- SON OF VICTIM RAISES ALARM

MASS ABDUCTION OF BIAFRANS IN BAYELSA: "I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY CARRIED MY FATHER TO"--- SON OF VICTIM RAISES ALARM

 By Paul Ihechi Alagba
 For Family Writers

 Ezeagu Joseph, the eldest son of Mr.  Ezeagu Hillary has raised an outcry over the unknown whereabout of his father ever since he left home to attend an IPOB Meeting in Bayelsa state on Saturday.
    Mr. Hillary Ezeagu, 67, was among scores of Biafran activists bundled away by highly equipped members of the Nigerian Army at Lake View Lodge Okaka, Bayelsa state on October 22, 2016.

According to the young man, Joseph who spoke with Family Writers, the disappearance of Mr. Hillary, the sole bread winner of his family have been grossly felt by the rest of his entire family.
     "My Dad went for the IPOB general meeting at Lake View Hotel on Saturday. Since then we have not set eyes on him again. It was on Sunday morning that we received information that my father have been arrested by Army people," 22year old Joseph told Family Writers.
    "We are completely devastated by this horrible news. My dad has done nothing wrong to deserve this kind of wickedness," he said.
    When asked if he knows the current location where his father and others are being detained, Joseph said: "I don't know where they carried my father to, I don't know his whereabout up till now.
   "Someone told us that the army people have been moving them to different Army Barracks since yesterday, but we have information that they are currently at Okaka Barracks.
   "I'm afraid of going there because they may arrest or kill me there. We really need help to get my dad out" he stated.

    Meanwhile, the abduction of IPOB members numbering not less than one hundred in Bayelsa state have continued to generate outrage among Biafrans, with many already asking for a reform on the peaceful approach of the agitation.
    An activist who escaped the raid narrated how the army officials came with two open vans, which was completely filled up by scores of Biafrans they abducted by the time they left the venue of the incident.
    "I went for the meeting around 6pm. While the meeting was in progress, the army people came to the hotel and asked the hotel attendants to step aside. They started asking us some questions, after which the Commander ordered them to arrest everybody. I managed to escape because of the rowdy scenario.


 


 
 "After that, they waited behind for others who will come late. As soon they drop from their Keke or taxi, they immediately arrest them and throw them into their van," the activist who pleaded anonymity revealed.


 ALLEGATIONS OF PLANNED EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS
  
 Reliable sources have revealed that the Nigerian military plans on secretly executing the activists they illegally arrested. It also revealed the intention of the military to tag the activists as cultists and criminals in order to justify their evil plans.
 There is need for the international community and all lovers of freedom to rise up against the tyrannical outburst of the Muhammadu Buhari led Nigerian government. Self Determination is the inalienable right of all people; it is not a criminal or capital offence

BREAKING!!! THE BIAFRANS ARRESTED BY THE ZOO niGERia ARMY ON SATURDAY 22-10-2016 IN BAYELSA STATE DURING THEIR MEETING.

BREAKING!!! THE BIAFRANS ARRESTED BY THE ZOO niGERia ARMY ON SATURDAY 22-10-2016 IN BAYELSA STATE DURING THEIR MEETING.

 

An unconfirmed report has it that Immediately, the update of yesterday 23-10-2016 went viral on most social network platforms, we got a call from our inside source intimating us that they have just been called not long they departed IGBOGANA BARRACK to the unknown destination to as a matter of urgency returned all the arrested Biafrans that they departed with just few moments ago as the news that they have been moved away from the Barrack is everywhere. #ThanksToEveryOneThatCirculatedTheInformation.

Our people were thus returned to the location same last night.

We wanted to announce their return to location yesterday, but had to have a rethink for these reasons:-

(1) It would have compromised our inside source.

(2) It could have enabled them to take them away in the middle of the night for "elimination", using the fact that we confirmed their return to base as a defence.

THEIR MOVEMENT TODAY - MONDAY 24-10-2016.

They were moved quite early this morning with our inside source confirming that there was no known destination at that material time. However,  when we later established contact with them,  we discovered that they were taken to court for emergency and unplanned arraignment.

They were arraigned at Yenagoa Magistrate court close to State CID - Court 5 and charged with 3 count of :-

(1) Conduct likely to cause confusion in the State.
(2) Illegal Assembly and holding illegal meeting.
(3) Belonging to Illegal orgaanization (IPOB).

They were however granted bail to the dismay of the charging authority in a very liberal term.

BAIL CONDITION

One surety who must show proof of means of livelihood  and within must be resident within the state and must submit 2 passport photograph.

The bail conditions have all been perfected at the time of writing this report and all the 44 hardcore IPOB Family  members kidnapped released.

The case has been adjourned to the 14th of November, 2016 for mention.

Our inside source confirmed that for the urgent circulation of the yesterday's update, they may have been eliminated. As he sees and believes that their today's hasty and unplanned arraignment is a face saving move.

He believes that those that arrested them do not have the facilities to keep them thus they may have opted for the "elimination move"

Thanks to everyone that made their immediate perfection of bail condition and release possible.

if we have any update that counters this report we will update you.

#FreeNnamdiKanu #FreeAllBiafransInniGERiaIllegalDetentions.

BIAFRA: STATE SPONSORED WAR AGAINST BIAFRAN ECONOMY BY NIGERIA GOVT: A REASON FOR SOBER REFLECTION FOR EVERY BIAFRAN


BIAFRA: STATE SPONSORED WAR AGAINST BIAFRAN ECONOMY BY NIGERIA GOVT: A REASON FOR SOBER REFLECTION FOR EVERY BIAFRAN

 

 

BIAFRA:  STATE SPONSORED WAR AGAINST BIAFRAN ECONOMY BY NIGERIA GOVT:  A REASON FOR SOBER REFLECTION FOR EVERY BIAFRAN


 By Onyebuchi Eze (Nnamdi Kanu Disciple)
 For Family Writers

 A report coming to the Family Writers media desk of IPOB under the supreme command of Nnamdi Kanu is that there is a secret systematic onslaught against Biafran economy by Nigeria government going on presently. Due to his limited education, President Muhammadu Buhari who is intellectually dwarf by not understanding the ugly effect of economic collapse of any people with his northern collaborators has shifted the war against Biafra to our economy.

 Gen Buhari and his kinsmen of northern oligarchy believed that the strength of Biafrans in the unshakable quest for the restoration of Biafra lies in the economic fire-power of Biafrans all over the world, Biafraland and defunct Nigeria federation inclusive. Because of this reality, there is a secret plot going on at the moment that the northern political holocausts in conjunction with Gen Buhari want to systematically liquidate all Biafran people own industries and companies in Nigeria. If any mischief-maker or gullible moron wish to doubt my revelation of this secret, let the person kindly enquire about the state of things at the moment with Innoson Motors Plant, Nnewi Anambra state, under Chief Dr Innocent Chukwuma as the CEO.

 Reports coming from there proved that Innoson Motors is close to shutting down productions and supplies due to inability to sustain the company in the face of huge taxations meted on the company by Nigeria govt through their overhead obnoxious income taxes, unbearable custom and import duties taxations while clearing imported raw materials from the seaports, crazy utility billings coupled with net value of worker's salaries. These ugly experiences of Biafran industrialists in Nigeria is the same with Chikason Group of Companies also of Nnewi, under Chief Chika Okafor as the CEO. In fact, an unconfirmed report but with some elements of truth, has it that AZ Petroleum, a subsidiary of Chikason group has completed arrangement to transfer productions, supplies and services to Accra Ghana where they feel safe to stay with promises from the Ghanaian domestic ministry of industries of security, protection and minimal taxes and bills.

 Nigeria government under the maximum ruler, Gen Buhari want to use the unaffordable taxes, duties and billings to liquidate industries owned by Biafrans in order to castrate our people economically, create artificial joblessness in Biafraland and beyond, push our people who are gainfully employed by these industries out of work into poverty and starvation. May I tell any reader of this article that so many big, medium and small industries in Nigeria owned by Biafrans had been liquidated due to these obnoxious economic and fiscal policies targeted at strangulating Biafran economy. O ye my Biafran compatriots, I want all of us to know that now is no longer time to play the orstrich because the destiny of our collective posterity is now under contention by these vampires of death and destruction. It is no longer about the Biafran commoners alone but every Biafran whether rich or poor, industrialists or employees.


Now that Buhari's regime of tyranny has declared war on economy of Biafrans by liquidating our industries with obnoxious policies, is it not time for every Biafran whether rich or poor, whether educated or uneducated, whether elites or commoners, whether politicians or constituents, whether industrialists or employees in the labour market to queue behind Nnamdi Kanu and demand for the restoration of Biafra? Restoration of Biafra remains our only hope to sustain the economy for our future generations. It is taboo for any Biafran to sacrifice the future of our descendants in Nigeria in order to protect present political positions and obscure business interest.

 I, Onyebuchi Eze said verbatim that if my present satisfaction will make me to forget the ugly future that may await our descendants in Nigeria should Biafra is not restored; I better die because I will simply become a grandfather of disgrace. O ye Biafrans, is it not the time for every Biafran to have sober reflection on where Nigeria government under Gen Buhari is pushing our people to economically? Judging by what is happening presently, if Biafra is not restored fast, soon our people will enter into economic catastrophe that will engulf the length and breadth of Biafraland due to the present de-industrialization of Biafraland and Biafrans. I end my analysis with these two great Igbo-Biafran proverbs. "Ñtị ga anụ ihe agaghị ara ka okpu-ata". "Ọbụrụ na anyị emee ñgwa-ñgwa, anyị emeghara ọdachi". I rest my case.

 

IN BIAFRA; THERE IS HIGH RATE OF RENEWED CLAMP DOWN; ABDUCTION; UNLAWFUL ARREST AND EXECUTION

IN BIAFRA; THERE IS HIGH RATE OF RENEWED CLAMP DOWN; ABDUCTION; UNLAWFUL ARREST AND EXECUTION

 


 
Biafrans killed in hundreds
IN BIAFRA; THERE IS HIGH RATE OF RENEWED CLAMP DOWN; ABDUCTION; UNLAWFUL ARREST AND EXECUTION

 By Ifeanyi Chijioke
 24 October, 2016

 Within a period of two weeks, the Indigenous People of Biafra have recorded the disappearance of over hundred members; coordinators and principle officers included. While there is no Nigerian detention facility they have found some of the victims; it is believed that they have been out-rightly executed. The Nigerian government has implored unlawful measures against IPOB since Nnamdi Kanu took prominence - championing Biafra restoration project. The measures include, the unlawful arrest and continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu; shooting to kill peaceful and lawful protesters and many more.

 Amnesty International; the world leading human right institution has been on the watch as have made series of reports concerning the deteriorated state of human right in Biafra land. The reports cited gruesome disrespect of human right and trampling of right to live. The reports so far by Amnesty International have drawn criticism on international community and relevant community authorities who have continued to keep silent at the face of the tyranny that has led to loss of lives in Nigeria.

 Amnesty International in their numerous reports have established facts and compelling reasons that ought to have activated action to save humanity from extinction in Biafra land. It has long been expected that Nigeria will be compelled to apply internationally and locally recognized law in handling Biafra activists and agitation but nothing as such has been done. “This shows the inability of the world to making a better world or heal the world” a Biafran activist said when quarried on their travails.

 Questions are beginning to come up why there is a renewed abduction, clamp down and execution of the people of Biafra which seemed to have subsided since after Chidiebere Onwudiwe, IPOB National coordinator was unlawfully arrested months ago. While some attributed that to the silence of the relevant authorities that ought to have condemned the evil against humanity in Nigeria; some attributed it to frustration; saying that Nigerian government seems to have lost means to address or stop Biafra restoration that is already a certain thing.

 The recent arrest occurred on 21st October 2016 in Bayelsa State where IPOB had come for their zonal family meeting; Bayelsa is one of the States in the Niger Delta, a part of the Old Eastern Region that previously fought for Biafra in 1967. It was quite a serious thing to know that in Bayelsa, IPOB have their family meetings championed by the Indigenes of the State. A Biafran journalist who corresponded for Biafra Television was arrested at Oratta zone A quarter. The coordinator of the zone with some of his executives and scores of members were also arrested. “They are yet to be seen since they were arrested, we are tracking them and they might have been executed but we pray they spare their lives in prison” a member who escaped arrest told this reporter -Ifeanyi Chijioke when contacted over the phone.

 In Aba, another coordinator was arrested en-route to Sabbath on Saturday 22nd of October 2016; he was trailed by Nigerian police force with a Hilux van, intercepted and arrested. Arrest and out-right execution is rampant in Aba; and there has been the major focus of the Nigerian forces. When this reporter contacted the family members of the arrested Coordinator; they were already in tears, cursing and promising a payback. They acted more like they have finally lost their Coordinator and speaking over the phone they said “They have taken him and probably murdered him like they always do, we will pursue his case to the top. Buhari must pay for this regime atrocities in International Criminal Court. We have lost  hundreds of members to this murderous Nigerian force; suddenly we stop seeing our members and that is the end”

Bright Chimezie, a Top member of IPOB for the past two weeks was declared missing by IPOB; his phone line not through and whereabouts unknown. IPOB are searching all police stations to see if he would be found while bushes and streets are being searched for his corpse. Further reports have been made of missing IPOB members; this forceful disappearance is disturbing and has cast fear in Biafra land. “We are living in fear and we have no right in Nigeria again; we are preys to terror-driven Nigerian security agents, killed at will. Biafra is the only hope of living; Bright Chimezie is missing and so are scores of IPOB members missing on daily basis” a close ally said.

Sunday, 23 October 2016

GHEN! GHEN!! National Assembly Under Pressure To Boot Buhari Out Of Office.

GHEN! GHEN!! National Assembly Under Pressure To Boot Buhari Out Of Office.
 
The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) believe that President Muhammadu Buhari is the reason the country is not at peace The 

secessionists want the president out of office before the country breaks into three The National Assembly has been put on their toes to ensure President Buhari is booted out of office soon If suggestions made by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the National Assembly are to be strictly followed, President Muhammadu Buhari may soon be booted out of office.

The group, according to a press statement issued by their spokespersons Emman Nmezu and Clifford Iroanya, Nigeria’s disintegration into three different nations is almost as good as confirmed but if President Buhari is not removed from power before this happens, there might be violence in the country.

The group believes that the president has violated their human rights and has breached the constitution before and after taking his oath of office in 2015. “Recall that on the 29th of May 2015, Buhari took Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office of President which includes non-interference in the discharge of the duties of other arms government.

However, he told the world during his Media Chat of December 30, 2015, that Nnamdi Kanu and Sambo Dasuki will never be released and this was after the courts have ordered their unconditional release.

“Buhari’s comment was not only a violation of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution but it is also in violation of Part-I Section-9 of the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution which states that ‘A public officer shall not do or direct to be done, in abuse of his office, any arbitrary act prejudicial to the rights of any other person knowing that such act is unlawful or contrary to any government policy,” the statement read in part.
 
The pro-Biafran group insists that President Buhari has to be removed so that Nigeria will experience temporary stability before the secession into three nations of Biafra, Arewa, and Oduduwa.


“We, therefore, call on the National Assembly to immediately activate Section-143 of the Constitution of Nigeria to avoid further casualties. The removal of President Buhari using Section-143 of the Constitution will ensure a temporary stability for Nigeria as the country prepares for its dissolution into the founding nations of Biafra, Arewa, and Oduduwa.

“Without the removal of Buhari, according to Section-143 of the Constitution, the unstoppable and irreversible disintegration of Nigeria into the nations above may take a violent and calamitous path which will end up hurting internal and external stakeholders in Nigeria including the economic interests of foreign governments,” the statement further read.

The IPOB in a statement on Thursday, October 20, said the Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly demonstrated some level of courage in their recent demand for the release of Nnamdi Kanu.

“We praise them for the truth, the fathers and elderly statesmen who knows the real foundation of this contraption called Nigeria were calling for the release of Nnamdi Kanu and others who committed no crime against the government of Nigeria,” IPOB said in a statement signed by Powerful Emma.

“This proves that we still have fearless people and men of honour in the society,” Emma said.

IPOB: NO AMOUNT OF INTIMIDATION CAN KILL AN IDEOLOGY

IPOB : NO AMOUNT OF INTIMIDATION CAN KILL AN IDEOLOGY


 

 

 

IPOB: NO AMOUNT OF INTIMIDATION CAN KILL AN IDEOLOGY

 

 By Nwabueze Hope Ikenna
 For Family Writers

 The fight for freedom by the Indigenous People of Biafra has reached a point of no return. Biafra is a task that must be accomplished because about 6 million Biafra people who died during the Biafra/Nigeria civil war cannot be swept under the carpet.

 Since the illegal abduction of the leader of IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on 14th October 2015 till date, Nigeria has not remained the same. The indigenous people of Biafra have not relented nor surrendered because Biafra restoration is a task that must be accomplished. No amount of intimidation by tyrant Muhammadu Buhari and his Department of State Security (DSS) agents can stop our fight for freedom.

 Tyrant Muhammadu Buhari should be enlightened that gun and bullet can’t kill an ideology. There is no where that guns and bullet has killed an ideology. Muhammadu Buhari should be educated that Biafra is an ideology and cannot be killed by any mortal man. Some Biafrans believe Biafra is a religion because the more you kill them the more they come out for struggle for freedom.
 
 The Boko Haram sponsor, tyrant Muhammadu Buhari has been using his mad dogs in the person of the Department of State Security (DSS) to kill arrest and unlawfully detain thousands of Biafrans in Biafra land. Now the (DSS) are kidnappers who bulge into judges houses at odd hours of the night, kidnapping them and putting allegations of corruption on them, because some of them have advised the tyrant Muhammadu Buhari to release the leader of IPOB unconditionally.

 Tyrant Muhammadu Buhari should be enlightened that the more IPOB leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is kept in prison, the more the plagues that will befall the contraption called Nigeria.

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God: I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” –Patrick Henry (USA, 1775).

 Nigeria is a failed state created for the interest of the colonial masters. The Biafra mineral resources that suppose to be a blessing to Africa have become a curse to us. The British government and her collaborators feed from us and keep the indigenous people in abject poverty.
 Our struggle has far reached significance. It is the latest recrudescence in our time. We are the victims of a wicked collusion between the three traditional scourges of the black man.

 "Our struggle is not a mere resistance – that would be purely negative. It is a positive commitment to build a healthy, dynamic and progressive state, such as would be the pride of black men the world over.” –Dim Emeka Odumegwu – Ojukwu.

 The struggle for freedom is embedded in our DNA.
  “When a people have been subjected to a degree of inhuman violation for which there is no other world but genocide, they have the right to seek an identity apart from the aggressors”. – Wole Soyinka.
 If this can be said by many commentators about the plight of Biafrans, that to tells you Biafra is indeed the giant of Africa. Other commentators have this to say about Biafra.

“....a country that is not yet two months old that can manufacture Ogbunigwe(Monster Bombs) and rocks must be feared...” – C.C Onoh quoting Soviet Union Government Official (Tell Magazine).

 Biafra a nation of giants: The land of the rising sun, we love and cherish, beloved homeland of our brave heroes; we must defend our lives or we shall perish , we shall protect our hearts from all our foes; but if the price is death for all we hold dear; then let us die without a shred of fear.
 On 30th August, 2015, Nigeria government killed three (3) unarmed Biafrans that went for Biafra evangelism, this day marked the beginning of Mr. Buhari's second genocide against Biafrans.
 Since the illegal detention of the leader of the indigenous people of Biafra, thousands of innocent  Biafrans has been killed for exercising their fundamental human rights. We know that they have not relented or retreated because we will not stop until freedom is declared.
 
“Most African people would yearn for such a state (Biafra).....Thirty-four years ago Emeka Ojukwu tried to give his people something better, and Britain , more than any other, destroyed the chance”. – Frederick Forsyth.

 A New Africa capable of development into actuality. The leader of the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra/Biafra Television Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the limitless freedom of a “NEW AFRICA”

The potential in us and talent embedded in our DNA and the mineral resources are naive of nations. Intimidation of the Buhari led government cannot stop the fight for freedom. Because an ideology cannot be destroyed by guns and bullets.

 #FreeNnamdiKanu

NIGERIA: How Buhari Regime Uses Political Terrorism Under Guise Of Anti-Corruption Fight [MUST READ]

NIGERIA: How Buhari Regime Uses Political Terrorism Under Guise Of Anti-Corruption Fight [MUST READ]

 

NIGERIA: How Buhari Regime Uses Political Terrorism Under Guise Of Anti-Corruption Fight [MUST READ]

 
Nigerian President


 Published by Family Writers


 It is no longer hidden that President Muhammadu Buhari and his co-travellers in the country’s current state of toxaemia have fully resorted to political terrorism and barbarism in their so called “anti corruption crusade”. Hiding under the guise of “anti corruption” to perpetrate heinous State crimes such as treason, State murder and other forms of official terrorism, had been a recurring decimal in Nigeria; dating back to January 1966, during Nigeria’s first military coup. Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari (as he then was), used the same excuse to oust the democratically elected Presidency of Shehu Shagari on December 31, 1983.

 Since then, successive military and civilian governments in Nigeria had laid claims to “fight against corruption” as the cornerstone of their administrations. The Obasanjo civilian administration of 1999-2007, was exceptionally noted to have gone extra mile in creating visible anti corruption agencies such as EFCC and ICPC, created between 2000 and 2004. His anti corruption policies were also relatively proactive, civil and rule of law compliant; whereas those of the past military and civilian administrations particularly that of the Buhari military regime (1984-85) were archaic, retrogressive and repressive. This is on repeat mission in the current Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari with worst yet to happen.

 In all these, Nigeria has ended up losing billions of dollars to its criminal political gangsters with over 90% of the looted funds ending up not recovered. The worst is that the more the host administration shouts “fight against corruption”, the more public funds are looted in its present and connivance with reckless abandon. Corrupt practices in Nigeria have not only gone e-gold or electronically undetected, but they have also been entrenched and clothed with impunity. As we speak, criminal enrichment in the country going viral with illicitly acquired properties springing up in leading Nigerian cities. A trip to Nigerian roads and security checkpoints is another eye opener and a fundamental measurement of President Buhari’s policy-noise on corruption. Extortion at military (including soldiers and navy) checkpoints is now scientific and artistic with civilian agents recruited as collection agents under negotiated percentage settlements.

 In Nigeria of present political composition, looters are endlessly looking for the looted with the looting going on rampage underneath or expressly. A president who is flown in a private jet, acquired with looted funds, is busy looking for the looters. Lawyers particularly the Silk, who illicitly charge roguish serving and former political office holders hundreds of millions of naira as consultancy and professional fees in high profile State graft or electoral cases, from illicit public funds, have joined “the fight against corruption”. Those who milked dry States like Rivers, Lagos and Edo and left them in quandary of indebtedness and penury are now “agents of anti corruption”; likewise print, visual and a number of pro establishment online media, acquired with looted public funds.

 Some mainstream CSOs and their leaders with juicy cuts from looted funds; propertied and motorized, are also “singers of anti corruption in Nigeria”. Today, in Nigeria of Buhari’s Presidency, political opponents and opponent activists and independent senior judicial officers are cajoled, threatened, repressed and labelled “looters” and treated like violent criminals. These respected citizens are routinely taken into custody before investigation with prima facie evidence thousands of miles away to be laid on against them. When in custody, torture becomes a routine to force them to admit committing non-existent crimes or offences. Where reverse is the case, they are held incommunicado for months with impunity and untried.

 Fighting corruption with “captains or doyens of corruption” leading the way or procuring the “government in power”, is akin to inviting a serial human parts dealer to come and become a defender of human rights in the human rights community. These explain the current State of bastardized and corrupted anti corruption policy direction of the Buhari Administration; where political terrorism and barbarism now hold sway.

 Having carefully studied the recent late night State violence by President Buhari’s DSS against some respected senior judicial officers and associated revelations by some of them including Hon Justices John Inyang Okoro and Sylvester Nwuta Nwali (serving Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria) as well as Hon Justices Adeniyi Ademola, Mu’azu Pindiga and Nnamdi Dimgba (serving Judges of the Federal and State High Court); we are, again, shocked and dismayed as what Nigeria has turned into in the past 17 months of Buhari’s Presidency. The roles of the print and visual media and a number of pro establishment online media are also very saddening; likewise the turn-coat position of the NBA.

 These quickly remind us of an immortal advice handed down to one Chris Ubah by Mr. Peter Obi (as he then was), who later became the Governor of Anambra State. The latter had advised the former to “guide his unguided utterances against judges handling the then Anambra State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal (September 2003 to August 2005) because it will take him 20 years to become a judge, that is if he so wishes and goes back to school to continue from where he dropped in junior secondary school”

These explain our deep sadness over coordinated attacks and image damnation launched by the Buhari Administration against the named serving senior judicial officers, using its riotous DSS and compromised media. While we have no apologies for any serving senior judicial officer that corruptly enriches him/herself or that allows him/herself to be corrupted, provided he or she is processed, prosecuted and punished in accordance with due process and constitutionalism; we condemn in unequivocal terms the deliberate and coordinated ruination of innocent others who have toiled and laboured to build and protect their integrity by being contented and refusing to be corrupted or tainted.

 Launching campaigns of calumny and criminal stigmatization against a set of innocent serving senior judicial officers on account of their refusal to pervert the course of justice to impress the riotous agents of the Buhari Administration, is totally an irreparable damage, not only to the judges and their career but also to the collective image of Nigeria as a whole. This is more so when it is logically grounded that three out of every five Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Nigeria’s 774 LGAs may most likely not produce a Supreme Court Justice in twenty years, if not more than that.

 It is also tearful and heart-bleeding as how the conscience of the nation or democratic institutions in the country has turned over night into agents of darkness and layers of dictatorship and lawlessness. Rather than standing up at all times in defense of democracy and rule of law, reverse is now the case. To the extent that Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) (staunch defenders of the rule of law) now call for the suspension of rule of law in a democratic setting; likewise defense of illegalities by some, if not many of Nigeria’s foremost professors of criminology, constitutional and criminal laws as well as human rights activists, stomached by the Buhari Administration; Nigeria and its democracy are doomed.


In all these, our questions to the Buhari Administration and its riotous DSS are: What is the difference between a mad man running amok with a sharp knife in a crowded market and a perceived sane man running behind and chasing him with another sharp knife in the same crowded market? Between two of them; who is insane and who is sane?

 We asked the above questions because it has become an entrenched routine for the Buhari Administration to bend rules and resort to short-cut, lawlessness, illegality and unconstitutionality in its governance approaches, particularly in its so called “anti corruption crusade”. Though President Muhammadu Buhari himself, seconds President Jacob Zuma of South Africa in the world ranking of the least educated Presidents, yet it is also an incontestable fact that his Administration parades an assemblage of leading scholars in law and criminology. The movers and shakers in Nigeria’s mainstream CSOs are also part and parcel of its Administration; yet the Administration has continued to behave or operate as an outlaw or a brigand political entity.

 For the purpose of putting the records straight and advocacy and technical enlightenment, crimes, as we have them today in the globe are divided into two major categories of “mala inse” (crimes with global application and acceptance such as murder, armed robbery, asportation, carjacking, aviation terrorism, rape, arson, burglary, etc) and “mala prohibita” (anti social conducts defined differently by different countries as crimes or otherwise, such as adultery, victimless crime (i.e. prostitution) and some categories of white-collar crimes).

 Further, “corruption” and most of its agents as a crime appear to fall under “mala inse” because of its global reprehension leading to the adoption of the United Nations’ Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) by the member-States of the United Nations including Nigeria in 2003. The UN Anti Corruption Convention entered into force on 14th of December 2005 with 176 signatories and 140 full State-Parties including Nigeria, which signed it on 3rd December 2003 and ratified same on 14th December 2004.

“Corruption”, globally is a complex social, political and economic phenomenon which still battles with a uniformed global definition. It involves misconducts in public and private sectors for the purpose of illicitly obtaining material and non material gains or favors. To be punishable, corruption must pass through the process of codification in a written and known criminal law by a member-State of the UN. Corruption, on its own, cannot a constitute crime or an offense, except aided by its agents such as bribery, fraud, kickbacks, extortion, embezzlement, money laundering, obtaining by false pretence, etc.

 Corruption also belongs to the family of invisible crimes called “white-collar crimes”. “Invisible crimes” are so called because of difficulties in detecting them. Most importantly, they are nonviolent in nature (i.e. their perpetrators do not use physical violence in perpetrating them). They are very common in “white-collar” society or civil service or pen-culture society, dominated by government and corporate entities. The opposite of “white-collar crimes” are “blue-collar crimes” or “street crimes” (stealing, robbery, auto theft, burglary, youth crimes, abduction, arson, etc), usually common in “blue-collar society” or commercial areas or cash-economy.

 To Prof Edwin Sutherland (1949) of the Chicago Criminological School, “white-collar crime” is a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his or her occupation or office business. It arises from fraud, embezzlement, electronic or cyber crime, bribery, insider trading, kick-backs, contract inflation, over-invoicing, identity theft, forgery, money laundering etc. The concept of white-collar crimes was popularized by Prof Sutherland in 1949.

 Pieces of evidence required for an offense of corruption against any perpetrator substantially start from electronic and paper based evidence and end in same. Investigations associated with corrupt practices start from behind-the-scene (i.e. data mining with or without the knowledge of the suspect) and end with investigator-suspect interface (for clarifications and pre-prosecutorial fair hearing). Investigations into corrupt cases do not require late night invasion of homes and other dwelling houses as well as breaking into such homes with sledge hammers, acid substances, etc or corruption and abuse of search warrants (if any). The defence of retrieval of criminal proceeds is watery and impeachable; even if the movement of criminal proceeds was detected by secret police at ungodly hours, intelligence and policing surveillance methods remain the legally acceptable or permissible approaches until the godly hours return.

 Search warrants must not be executed unless the suspects are present and put on credible notice. Forcing suspects (i.e. Justices and Judges) to sign such warrants or purported inventories for items purportedly recovered, amount to armed robbery, burglary, torture, assault and threats to life and properties. Besides, corruption must be handled by the requisite anti graft agencies such as Police, EFCC and ICPC. DSS has no statutory or constitutional duties whatsoever in the law enforcement aspect of anti corruption crusade. If for any reason, it has intelligence, it should be exchanged or passed to anti corruption agencies like EFCC, Police and ICPC.

 It is therefore, in recognition of hefty challenges and difficulties associated with detection and punishment of crime of corruption that the United Nations strongly recommended “Prevention” as the most effective approach at curbing it. The UN, through its Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), specifically allocated 60% to Prevention, 20% to Prosecution/Punishment and 20% to international cooperation, technical cooperation and information exchange among Member-States.

 According to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), corruption can be prosecuted after the fact, but first and foremost, it requires prevention. An entire chapter of the Convention is dedicated to prevention, with measures directed at both the public and private sectors. These include model preventive policies, such as the establishment of anticorruption bodies and enhanced transparency in the financing of election campaigns and political parties. States must endeavour to ensure that their public services are subject to safeguards that promote efficiency, transparency and recruitment based on merit.

 Once recruited, public servants should be subject to codes of conduct, requirements for financial and other disclosures, and appropriate disciplinary measures. Transparency and accountability in matters of public finance must also be promoted, and specific requirements are established for the prevention of corruption, in the particularly critical areas of the public sector, such as the judiciary and public procurement. Those who use public services must expect a high standard of conduct from their public servants.

 Preventing public corruption also requires an effort from all members of society at large. For these reasons, the Convention calls on countries to promote actively the involvement of non-governmental and community-based organizations, as well as other elements of civil society, and to raise public awareness of corruption and what can be done about it. Article 5 of the Convention enjoins each State Party to establish and promote effective practices aimed at the prevention of corruption. The UNCAC also recommended domestic criminalization of agents of corruption in line with international best practices as well as strict adherence to rule of law and human rights in tackling the perpetrators.

 Tackling corruption can only be meaningful and result-oriented if Government or Political Corruption is curbed or tamed drastically. By Government or Political Corruption, it simply means when a public office holder or other government employees act reprehensively in an official capacity for personal or material gain. It is also official misuse of powers or public resources for personal gain.

 Others amounting to encouragement of corruption and abuse of office are: Patronage: Undue favors given to supporters of government officials. Nepotism/Cronyism: Illegitimate act of favoring relatives and personal friends of government officials as well as shielding them from investigation.

 Apart from the fact that there are 22 or more anti graft agencies and criminal enactments in Nigeria, which include the EFCC Act (2004), the ICPC Act (2000), the Money Laundering Prohibition Act of 2004, the Advance Fee Fraud & Other Related Offenses Act (1995), the Failed Banks (Recovery of Debts) & Other Financial Malpractices in Banks Act (1994), the Banks & Other Financial Institutions Act of 1991; and Miscellaneous Offenses Act, the Corrupt Proceeds & Properties’ Forfeiture Act of 1999, and the Criminal and the Penal Codes of 2004 and the ACJA 2015; corruption and abuse of office are also constitutionally prohibited in Nigeria in Section 15 (5) of the 1999 Constitution. Section 15 (5) of the Constitution provides as follows: “the State shall abolish all corrupt practices and abuse of office”.

In fighting corruption in Nigeria, the rule of law and constitutionalism must remain its benchmark at all times. Turning fight against corruption into instruments for political vendetta, terrorism and brigandage is democratically dicey and disastrous. The agencies in charge of investigation and prosecution of corruption cases in Nigeria including the Buhari Administration are constitutionally restrained from stigmatizing and criminalizing those under investigation or using corruption as a cover to unleash State terror, falsehood and propaganda against them. Till date, offense of corruption in Nigeria is not a capital offense, but substantially misdemeanour; easily investigative and triable; substantially requiring paper and electronic evidence; once detected. Corruption also belongs to the family of nonviolent crimes; just like victimless crimes (i.e. alcoholism and commercial sex habits).

 While Section 35 of the 1999 Constitution guarantees the citizens’ right to personal liberty, subsections (8) and (12) of Section 36 forbid the Buhari Administration from subjecting the citizens to trial-by-ordeal or jungle justice and guarantee the citizens’ rights to fair hearing and presumption of innocence unless found guilty by courts of competent jurisdiction. The citizens’ right to privacy is also protected by Section 37 of the Constitution.

 The Presidency of Buhari is also guilty of favouritism and nepotism, which belongs to family of corruption and amounts to corruption and abuse of office, contrary to Section 15 (5) of the 1999 Constitution. Till date, despite the seriousness of allegations made against Mr. Rotimi Amaechi by two respected Justices of the Supreme Court in their recent letters to the CJN, concerning the late night invasion of their homes by the DSS, which raises a serious image and credibility challenge to the Administration’s so called “fight against corruption”, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, who is a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; has neither been invited nor under any form of criminal investigation by the DSS or Police or EFCC or ICPC.

 We call on the affected serving senior Judicial Officers particularly Hon Justices Sylvester Ngwuta Nwali, John Inyang Okoro, Nnamdi Dimgba, Adeniyi Ademola and Mu’azu Pindiga to use all means constitutionally available to clear their names and seek remedial and compensatory justice against the named riotous agents of the Buhari Administration. With the exception of those judges indicted and sanctioned by the NJC, the judges above named and others singled out for further intimidation, must stand firm at all times and refuse to be intimidated. The courage and sagacity of the named respected serving senior Judicial Officers are totally commendable. We rise in strong solidarity with the Nigerian Judiciary to save the rule of law from brink and executive bastardization.

 The Buhari Administration is, therefore, called upon to retrieve from the DSS files containing its so called “ongoing investigation of the judges” and transfer them to the office of the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) and its fraud unit. Any would-be outcome of the so called DSS probe is already dead, biased, corrupted and malicious on arrival.

 The Buhari Administration must also sack Hon Rotimi Amaechi as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in charge of Ministry of Transportation so as to pave way for his criminal investigation on account of strong allegations against him bordering on corruption and electoral fraud as contained in the letters of Hon Justices Sylvester Ngwuta Nwali and John Inyang Okoro (serving Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria), to the CJN; which are now in the public domain. This is because Their Lordships are incapable of making such weighty allegations without knowing their accompanying consequences; if untrue.

 Signed:

 Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman
 International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety)
 Mobile Line: +2348174090052

 Obianuju Igboeli, Esq.
 Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program
 Mobile Line: +2348180771506
 Email: info@intersociety-ng.org
 Website: www.intersociety-ng.org

BIAFRA: SIGNIFICANCE OF FEATURES OF BIAFRAN COAT OF ARM: A NATIONAL SYMBOL WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT

BIAFRA: SIGNIFICANCE OF FEATURES OF BIAFRAN COAT OF ARM: A NATIONAL SYMBOL WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT


 

 

SIGNIFICANCE OF FEATURES OF BIAFRAN COAT OF ARM: A NATIONAL SYMBOL WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT


 By Onyebuchi Eze (Nnamdi Kanu Disciple)

 For Family Writers

 Biafran Coat of Arm is one of the greatest symbols of the land of rising sun called BIAFRA. It is a symbol which Biafrans cherish with utmost respect and dignity. Biafran coat of arm is the complete portrait of what Biafra is standing for. There is a serious uniqueness in the features of Biafra coat arm and their significances. Unfortunately, many Biafrans do not know the significances of the Coat of Arm. This is what propels my desire to write this article because it is important for even little children to know what Biafra is all about through its National symbols. Unlike Nigerians, whom their president of intellectual dwarf, Muhammadu Buhari was recently spotted standing on Nigeria coat of arm during a military officers pass-out parade exercise, Biafrans place high value on our national symbols in general and our Coat of Arm in particular. Biafrans can never stand on our Coat of Arm. In this article, we are going to explore the significances of the individual features of Biafran Coat of Arm.

 (A) THE EAGLE: That Eagle stands for the pride and self-esteem of Biafra as a sovereign nation under heaven. By that, even as Biafrans respect other nations in the world and protect their political and business interest around us, yet Biafra nation and its citizens do not feel inferior to other nation under heaven. That is why we are the pride of the black race.

 (B) THE COW HORN WHICH THE EAGLE STAND ON: The cow horn which the Eagle is standing upon signifies the rich cultural heritage of Biafrans. Cow horn stands for traditional things, especially marriage in Biafraland. By that, Biafrans hold in high esteem their cultural heritage. No matter the pressures of Western civilization on African cultures, yet Biafrans must hold tenaciously their cultures such as our traditional marriage and others in every generation. Western civilization will never make us to throw away our method of marriage (paying dowry before obtaining any woman as wife) which is second to none in the world. If we lose our cultures, we have lost our identity.

 (C) THE SHIELD: The beautiful shield signifies the map of Biafra. The land mass of Biafra which stretched down to the Atlantic ocean with its continental shelf is what the shield stands for.

 (D) THE RISING SUN ON THE SHIELD: The rising sun with its rays signifies the greatness that is going to spring out of Biafra which will be like the unstoppable power of the shining sun. In as much as Biafrans will not become terror to the world, but we are going to explosively take science and technology from where western world stop to the next level of excellence. For example, during the war, within 3 months, Biafrans started producing aviation oil locally and built international airports where our planes lands during the war. Till today Nigeria is still importing kerosene, grease and engine oil talk more of aviation oil.

 (E) 11 RAYS OF THE SUN ON THE SHIELD: This signifies the original 11 provinces of Biafra when it was declared in 1967 by Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Space will not permit me to list the provinces then one by one.

 (F) THE 3 RINGS ON THE SHIELD:  The 3 rings on the shield signifies the 3 patriachs of Biafrans. These fore-fathers are Eri, Areli and Arodi, the children of Gad the 7th son of Jacob in the Bible. They were the 3 persons that give birth to all Biafrans in the universe, The 3 rings signify them.

 
(G) THE 2 LEOPARDS HOLDING THE SHIELD: The 2 Leopards hold the shield signifies the gallant and loyal forces of Biafra. The armed forces of Biafra which is known as 'LOYAL FORCES' will provide an indomitable protection just as the leopards are waging the shield to the territories of Biafra on the land as the Biafra Army, on the sea or ocean around us as Biafran Navy, on the air as Biafran Air-force, the civil protection cum internal security by Biafran Police and other para-military as the law will stipulate.

 (H) THE GREEN FIELD: This signifies that the land of Biafra is rich in mineral resources and in agricultural potentials. There is no part of Biafraland that is not endowed with one mineral resources or the other. All the states of South-South region of Biafra and some states in South east region are blessed with bountiful crude oil deposit. Enugu state has plenty deposit of coal and Ebonyi state has plenty deposit of salt and cement. Every part of Biafraland from South east down to South South is agricultural friendly. Palm products are obtainable everywhere in Biafraland. It may interest the world to know that our scientist are already making experiments to know many things palm fruits can be used to produce just like we use it to produce palm oil.

 This are the significances of the coat of arm

 May God bless the nation of Biafra. Amen!

BIAFRA : OPEN LETTER TO UNITED NATIONS FROM INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES & THE RULE OF LAW


BIAFRA : OPEN LETTER TO UNITED NATIONS FROM INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES & THE RULE OF LAW

 *The Secretary-General of the United Nations
 *The President of the United Nations General Assembly
 *The President of the United Nations Security Council
 *The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
 *The United Nations Special Rapporteurs on:
 *Truth, Justice & Reparation
 *Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
 *Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatments or Punishments
 *The Honourable British Prime Minister & Distinguished British Parliamentarians
 *Distinguished European Union Leaders
 *The President of the United States & Distinguished US Congressmen & Women
 (9) Distinguished Canadian Leaders & Parliamentarians
 (10) Other Internationally Distinguished Personalities:
 (a) Human Rights Activists & Groups
 (b) Former Heads of UN Bodies
 (c) Former World Leaders
 (d) Independent Experts on Justice, Peace, Security and Human Rights

 Distinguished Sirs/Madams,
 Our name is: International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law; abbreviated as INTERSOCIETY. We are registered (Reg. No. 27239) rights based Civil Society Organization under the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria. Our advocacy voice or thematic areas are: civil liberties and rule of law, democracy and good governance, and public security and safety. We are based in Onitsha, Anambra State, Southeast of Nigeria. For easy of reference, we can be electronically visited or accessed via www.intersociety-ng.org.

 The purpose of this Open Letter to your highly respected personalities is to seek for freedom of detained Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, by name Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and other victims of regime atrocities in Nigeria. This we respectfully seek through your informed voices, wise counselling and unbiased diplomatic interventions, to be appropriately and timely directed to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by name: Mr. Muhammadu Buhari. Means through which Mr. Muhammadu Buhari can be reached or communicated are available at the diplomatic missions of your respective countries in Nigeria or the Nigerian Permanent Mission at the United Nations (i.e. New York, USA).

 This international justice appeal particularly comes on the heels of the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, comprising of 193 Member-States, at which President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has been slated; likewise other world leaders, to address the UN General Assembly on 21st of September 2016, in line with the General Assembly’s 2016 session theme: Sustainable Development Goals: A Universal Push to Transform our World; which seeks a strong link between sustainable development, peace, security and human rights.

 It is our informed observation that 70%, if not more of international travels undertaken by President Muhammadu Buhari since he became the President of Nigeria on 29th of May 2015 took place in the countries of your highly respected personalities or at the UN headquarters in New York, USA and a number of its other meetings and conferences elsewhere. Just recently, too, the US Secretary of State, Senator John Kerry visited the President and extended his visit to a number of places designated for him to visit by his host President.

 We are technically aware of the modern workings of international relations. We are further aware that modern international relations are extensively driven by Democracy and ICT-powered Globalization. We also know as a fact that modern democracy is driven by the rule of law; just as the justice aspect of the rule of law is chiefly driven by the two Latin doctrines of nemo judex in sua causa and audi alteram partem; which simply mean that someone should not be a judge in his or her own matter and must hear the other side before drawing a conclusion; otherwise called fair hearing.

 It is our knowledge that the modern UN System is strongly built on the principles of democracy, equality, rule of law and human rights; which in turn, lays a strong foundation for advancement ofinternational peace and security. As your highly respected personalities are aware, these are fully embedded in the Principles and Purposes of the United Nations. We are aware too that your highly respected personalities are the guidance and custodians of democratic traditions in your respected countries and have further worked hard at ensuring the sustenance of the hallowed principles at the UN System and global level.


 Your highly respected personalities are aware too that unless these hallowed principles are guided jealously at all times, otherwise their opposites will set in and consume the world, leading to eruption of municipal, regional and international insecurity and violence; otherwise called complex humanitarian emergencies. That is to say that sustainable development can never find its root under complex humanitarian emergencies powered by regime atrocities and gross human rights violationsperpetrated by errant and violent Member-States.

 The crisis in Syria, for instance, has since gone beyond domestic and regional problems. It has long become a global headache with most territories under the watch of your highly respected personalities and the UN System bearing major brunt including incurring emergency expenditures of billions of dollars to cushion the effects of influx of Syrian refugees with associated public security threats.

 We have always paused to ask ourselves and other international watchers how the world including your highly respected personalities’ countries and the UN System will look if Nigeria with estimated population of 174million people goes the Syrian way or erupt into complex humanitarian emergencies. That is to say that if Syria with less than 25million population could have approximately half of its population displaced, leading to generation of 3.9million refugees and 6.3million internally displaced persons just in five years; what then will happen if Nigeria is to explode in a like manner going by ongoing intensification of triggers of widespread violence; occasioned by current policies of militarism and militarization of the Government of Mr. Muhammadu Buhari?

 We have carefully studied the ongoing diplomatic interactions and relations between your highly respected personalities and President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria and found them commendable. But in spite of their commendable outlook, we still find such interactions and relations lacking in one key area: regime atrocities and abuse of office. That is to say that your highly respected personalities have in the course of the diplomatic interactions and relations under reference; turned blind eyes to ongoing regime atrocities in Nigeria under the Presidency of Mr. Muhammadu Buhari. Many Nigerians see this lukewarm attitude as aiding and abetting of regime atrocities in Nigeria.

 Regime Atrocities under democracy are taken to mean State-actor promotion and enforcement of gross rights abuses including widespread State killings outside the law, disrespect to judicial pronouncements, criminal stigmatization and trumped up charges. Others are executive interference in judicial affairs and castration of the independence of the judiciary; political domination, exclusion and segregation; nepotism and favouritism; ethno-religious cleansing and adoption of State religion; widespread insecurity, morality corruption and abuse of office as well as general governance failure. These are State-triggered structural violence culminating into deep societal divisions which can snowball into complex humanitarian emergencies. In quick consequences of these, both negative peace (absence of physical violence) and positive peace (absence of structural violence) have grossly eluded Nigeria.

 Therefore, our writing your highly respected personalities is generally predicated on the above with particular attention centred on the ongoing persecution of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and other victims of regime atrocities by the Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari. It is shocking to inform your highly respected personalities that till date, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is not standing trial in any known court in Nigeria.

 For the avoidance of doubt, the Black’s Law Dictionary, 9th Edition (2009), defines a criminal trial as a formal judicial examination of evidence and determination of legal claims in an adversary proceeding. In other words, a criminal trial is a proceeding preceding issuance of a judicial notice about intended legal claims and accompanying evidence (charge) before a judge by the accusing authority (i.e. AGF, Police or DSS) against an accused citizen in which the veracity of legal claims and accompanying evidence is determined through formal judicial examination. It is extremely important to inform your highly respected personalities that none of the foregoing has taken place in Nnamdi Kanu’s Matter till date.

 He has been detained without trial for a period of eleven (11) months or since 14th of October 2015. The circumstances under which he is held are unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional and an aberration to modern international human rights and justice norms. Your highly respected personalities may recall that Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of a UK registered Radio Station by name Radio Biafra London (RBL). The IPOB is registered at the United Nations as a body advocating for the indigenous rights of indigenous people located in the Southeast and the South-south parts of Nigeria. Both IPOB and RBL earned their recognition and registration on account of their nonviolence methods in accordance with the UN mandate or principles.

 As your highly respected personalities are aware, under the UN System, Rights to Self Determination, Development and Identities are recognized and enshrined provided their proponents do not use or advocate for violence. Where violence is resorted to by their proponents leading to widespread violent conflict between their proponents and the host political territory, the conduct of such is strictly governed by the Laws of War or Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Protocols. The enshrinement of these rights is internationally done by way of Treaty Laws or International Conventions; which are legally binding on Member-States that are parties to them.

 Regionally and globally, the Federal Republic of Nigeria has willingly acceded to these treaty laws and accepted to be bound by their provisions and obligations. Till date, Nigeria is a party to the UN’s Covenants on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR) and Economic, Social & Cultural Rights (ICESCR). As a matter of fact, Nigeria ratified them in 1993. Nigeria is also a party to the African Charter on Human & Peoples Rights (ACHPR), which it ratified and domesticated in 1981. Several decided cases by Nigeria’s courts of competent records or jurisdictions have also upheld their admissibility and enforceability in the Nigerian Legal and Justice System.

 In these three important treaty laws cited, rights to self determination, development and identities are fully enshrined. Nigeria’s assent to them is intact till date. Under the International Law and the UN system, Nigeria is also under inexcusable obligation to be bound by these treaty laws as well as the Principles and Purposes of the United Nations particularly in the areas of respect for human rights and its obligation in the maintenance of international peace and security. Perpetration of regime atrocities particularly gross human rights abuses and reckless disregard to rule of law is the greatest threat to international peace and security as well as sustainable development.

 Nigeria is further bound by the ten basic standards of the International Law including tolerance and peaceful management of nonviolent and peaceful assemblies; fair trial of citizens held under whatever guise; prohibition of solitary confinement or long detention without trial of detained citizens; prohibition of torture and custodial killings as well as bringing errant law enforcement personnel involved in gross violation of human rights to account for their conduct atrocities.

 Under the UN’s Customary International Law with its principles of substantial uniformity of practice by a substantial number of States and Opinio Juris(i.e. a general principle that holds that a non-treaty rule is legally binding on all member-States of the UN); Nigeria as a member-State of UN is inexcusably bound by fundamental rules of the United Nations and International Law. Where the ruling Government in Nigeria or President Muhammadu Buhari pretends not to be in the know of all these, then the moral and diplomatic responsibility turns to your highly respected personalities to do so. The authorities of the UK Government, which colonized Nigeria and co-inhabits Mr. Nnamdi Kanu as one of its legal citizens, are morally and diplomatically obligated, exceptionally speaking, to do so; likewise the top leaders of the UN.

 Allowing a gross abuser of human rights to be dinning and winning with your highly respected personalities without calling him to order morally and diplomatically is nothing but aiding and abetting.It is also an international conspiracy and encouragement of citizens’ militancy and violent resistance. It is like an abomination in human rights community whereby a human parts dealer is asked to join an organization that is defending human rights. This position of ours follows our informed observation that your highly respected personalities are steadily failing in your moral and diplomatic obligations to the good people of Nigeria particularly as they concern their liberties, lives and collective security.

 We respectfully inform your highly respected personalities further that Mr. Nnamdi Kanu who is has been detained for eleven months having been arrested on 14th of October 2015 by Nigeria’s Secret Police by name DSS (Department of State Security) is treated sub-humanly by the Presidency of Mr. Muhammadu Buhari. Apart from the fact that offences slammed on him are trumped up, the conduct under which he was arrested and detained is also criminally stigmatized. There is nowhere in the civilized world or law that voice conduct without force of arms or physical violence of any form constitute criminal offence not to talk of offences carrying capital punishment.

 President Muhammadu Buhari was in opposition politics for over a decade and was noted for mobilizing several assemblies against successive administrations. In his several public speeches then, he was noted as a violent political campaigner, periodically threatening the authorities and rest of Nigeria, yet he was never arrested for one day. This was on account of relatively culture of political tolerance of the referenced past administrations, but months after he became President, he criminalized peaceful assemblies and ordered his security forces to shoot and kill any group of people gathered to exercise their constitutional rights to freedom of association and peaceful assemblies. On account of this, as much as 250 Pro Biafra activists were gunned down and mass-murdered in about eight different locations by Nigerian security forces between 30th of August 2015 and 30th of May 2016. Till date, the perpetrators are still on the prowl.

 As if these were not enough, President Muhammadu Buhari made a public speech on 30th of December 2015 during which he vowed to ensure that Mr. Nnamdi Kanu and ors spend the rest of their lives in prison custody. This signalled the beginning of persecution of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. On account of Mr. President’s open bias and threats, the Judiciary became frightened and terrified. A search for an amenable, conformist and pro establishment judge to actualize President Buhari’s open threat commenced and seemed successful, leading to the choice of one Honourable Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division.

 The Judge as expected became bias and hostile; threatening and undermining the rule of law and its hallowed principles of nemo judex in sua causa and audi alteram partem; which simply mean that someone should not be a judge in his or her own matter and must hear the other side before drawing a conclusion; otherwise referred to as fair hearing.

 Apart from holding Citizen Nnamdi Kanu for eleven months now without trial, four orders of the courts of constitutional records given for his bail and discharge were all flouted. This is attestation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s meddlesomeness and castration of the independence of the Judiciary. Citizen Nnamdi Kanu was kept in detention for months while the Buhari Presidency was busy searching for a conformist Judge to jail him at all costs. Since then, it has been one pre-trial arraignment and gimmickry to another.

 As we speak, the scripted trumped up judgment against Mr. Nnamdi Kanu may most likely have been written long ago; waiting for a makeshift trial using masked witnesses; an infamous request from the Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari which Justice John Tsoho initially turned down but later upturned following a circumstantially obvious directive and pressure from the Presidency. Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s Case (still at pre-trial stage) is scheduled to resume on 26th of September 2016 and despite calls by well meaning Nigerians and other informed observers on Hon Justice John Tsoho to hands off the case for obvious bias and hostility, he has refused to disqualify himself and is bent on doing President Muhammadu Buhari’s bidding. Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers, too, have spoken out and written several protest letters.

 As advocates of rule of law and human rights, we are not in opposition to judicial processes, provided they are credible, open and transparent. What we oppose at all times is the State efforts to use judiciary to pervert the course of justice and perpetrate gross abuse of the fundamental human rights of the citizens and undermine democracy and constitutionalism. Sections 35 and 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended in 2011; likewise the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as the Ten Basic Standards of the International Law and the African Charter on Human & Peoples Rights contain express provisions entitling citizens to fully enjoy their rights to personal liberty and fair hearing.

 These sacred provisions include unhindered access of the accused citizens to their lawyers, adequate time for accused citizens to prepare their own defence, timely availability of records of proceedings for perusal and other lawful uses by the accused citizens, custodial detention within the period legally allowed, trial of the accused citizens in the open court, accused citizens’ right of appeal and their presumption of innocence until they are pronounced guilty by courts of competent records.
 Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky; leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) is another major victim of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime atrocities. Sheik Zakzaky had been detained incommunicado for over nine months or 270 days after he was shot severally, battered and blinded by soldiers, during which as much as 809 of his followers were also massacred.

 The massacre took place on 12th and 14th of December 2015 while they were peacefully and nonviolently marking their annual religious event in Zaria, Kaduna State of Northwest Nigeria. The Government of Kaduna State had publicly admitted burring in mass graves of 347 bodies of the massacred IMN followers alone. Till date, the blinded Sheik has neither been produced publicly nor put on trial in any court in Nigeria; a period of over 270 days and none of errant soldiers that perpetrated the heinous crime has been arrested and put on trial.

 We hereby call on your highly respected personalities to:
 At all times, manually and electronically, advice and task President Muhammadu Buhari on modern workings of democracy, human rights and rule of law.

 Investigate and condemn all forms of human rights abuse particularly unprovoked attacks and killing of unarmed citizens, criminalization and stigmatization of rights to freedom of association, peaceful assemblies and freedom of expression; and reckless use of State violence in public governance approaches.

 Task him to preserve and protect at all times the sanctity and independence of the Judiciary and the National Assembly as well Task President Buhari to publicly renounce his abominable pronouncement made on 30th of December 2015 during his maiden Presidential Chat; upon which the Judiciary has been frightened and become terrified to the extent of conducting its proceedings (i.e. Hon Justice John Tsoho in Nnamdi Kanu’s Case) according to the dictates or whims and caprices of the President Urge President Muhammadu Buhari to steer clear of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu’s ongoing Court Case and allow a level ground for the accused and his accusers (Buhari’s Presidency) to proof their cases.

 Allow constitutionalism to be strictly followed in Mr. Nnamdi Kanu’s Case including the need for the proceedings or proposed trial to be conducted in the open court in accordance with Section 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended in 2011, as well as the ICCPR and the ACHPR Treaty Laws.

 Urge President Muhammadu Buhari to end his obvious meddlesomeness in Mr. Nnamdi Kanu’s Case and the Judiciary and direct his Attorney General to proof the Federal Government’s allegation that Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is a treasonable felon or an insurrectionist; or withdraw the bogus charges against him for want of evidence
 
Urge President Muhammadu Buhari to produce publicly dead or alive the Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El Zakzaky, who was shot and battered and detained incommunicado since December 14th 2015; a period of nine months or 270 days.

 Urge President Muhammadu Buhari to refrain from making further mockery of the rule of law and citizens’ constitutional liberties by arresting and clamping citizens into detention for over three months without trial; contrary to Section 35 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended in 2011.

 Urge Mr. President to end his clamp down, indiscriminate arrest and long detention without trial of Pro Biafra activists across Nigeria or any part thereof, particularly members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and release all their members languishing in various DSS cells across the country without trial.

 Urge President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately reverse himself concerning his violence prone style of governance particularly his anti human rights stance, divisive and sectional governance as well as his policies of militarization and militarism.
 Yours in the Service to Humanity:

 Emeka Umeagbalasi, B.Sc., Criminology & Security Studies; M.Sc. (c), Peace & Conflict Studies
 Board Chairman, International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law-INTERSOCIETY
 Mobile Line: +2348174090052
 Email: info@intersociety-ng.org
 Website: www.intersociety-ng.org
 Obianuju Igboeli, Esq., LLB, BL; LLM (c)
 Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program
 Chinwe Umeche, Esq., LLB, BL
 Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program 

 

Saturday, 22 October 2016

NNAMDI KANU A GREAT LEADER : IPOB PERFECTS ANOTHER BAIL TERMS OF NNEWI PRISON DETAINEES

NNAMDI KANU A GREAT LEADER : IPOB PERFECTS ANOTHER BAIL TERMS OF NNEWI PRISON DETAINEES

 By Ibeh Gift Amarachi
 For Family Writers

 It has being a victorious week for IPOB, as celebration earthquakes BiafraLand over the release of her detainees abducted and detained in various Nigeria Prisons.

 To add to the previous Victories, The Leadership of the Indigenous People Of Biafra shockingly perfected the bail terms of Three IPOB Detainees who were illegally arrested on the 13th of November 2015. This act by the Indigenous People Of Biafra is indeed unprecedented and haven't been seen in any freedom fighting race before.

The victims of the Nigeria unlawful Government, who were charged for "Belonging to an unlawful organisation",have expressed their appreciation towards the immense contribution of IPOB Leadership over their release. They went further to appreciate Ibeh Gift Amarachi and Mazi Friday MacAnthony,for working towards their release and showing brotherly love to them, while still in prison and after their release.

 The overjoyed IPOB Family members in the spirit of oneness and happiness, promised through the Eldest Mazi Tonye Amachree who was an IPOB Coordinator at Igweocha  before his arrest and was shot on his leg during the protest, “Even in Prison, we have never stopped praying for the freedom of Biafra and our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. I am from Ijaw and I must confess that, I have never experienced such Love in my whole Life. I am promising on behalf of my Brothers who were released that, we will never give up on the Biafra struggle and the Nigeria Government cannot stop us. I pray that our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is released because, to me his release is more important and we will definitely be more overjoyed when it occurs. We will not stop agitating for Biafra, until she is restored".


 


 
The mother to one of the released victims Mazi Dike from Andoni,spoke to Ibeh Gift Amarachi and showed her gratitude towards the Indigenous People Of Biafra, for perfecting the bail terms of her Son and bringing him back home. She promised never to stop praying for IPOB Leader Citizen Nnamdi Kanu and the entirety of Ipob and as well stated that, she is now in full support of the struggle.

 The Nigeria Government should be sanctioned by the International Communities over the frequent unlawful arrest of IPOB and as well take immediate actions against this barbaric violation of human rights, of people lawfully exercising their right to self determination. No Nation forced together can remain peaceful and if any Indigenous people feel dominated by aliens, freedom should be granted to them

Friday, 21 October 2016

AGONY] WE ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED ON DAILY BASIS BY BOKO HARAM; THEY BARRED THE PRESS FROM COVERING THE WAR - SERVING NIGERIAN SOLDIER CRIES OUT

AGONY] WE ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED ON DAILY BASIS BY BOKO HARAM; THEY BARRED THE PRESS FROM COVERING THE WAR - SERVING NIGERIAN SOLDIER CRIES OUT

 


 
Buhari & Shekau have same ideology

A serving Nigerian Soldier who doesn’t want his name in print has cried out that they are being slaughtered on daily basis by Boko Haram. This call is coming even at a time the President of Nigeria claimed he has triumphed over Boko Haram. Of recent, there have been increased bombings and murder by the dreaded Islamic terrorists group but the government of Nigeria is doing everything they could to suppress or conceal the news. The serving Nigerian Soldier who shared the experience of what Nigerian troops is passing through has termed the onslaught against them ‘very regrettable’. He noted that while they are giving it everything they have and the government is taking their sacrifices and death for granted; the Soldiers might one day turn against their commanders.

 


Book Haram menace played a major role in bastardizing Jonathan’s government and with Buhari being fingered as the man behind the bloody campaign against Jonathan, it was believed that giving him power would arrest the situation. As a man that ordered Northerners to react against the outcome of the 2011 election he said was rigged, the reaction spilled into post election violence that claimed hundreds of lives. That was where Boko Haram became a threat and from then till this moment was chronicle of bloodshed.

 


Stopping Boko Haram became the primary objective of Buhari’s administration and he has become obsessed with that. Buhari is doing everything possible to make sure that Boko Haram is stopped but it has persevered. Releasing prisoners at random, giving unofficial amnesty and promising direct recruitment into Nigerian military were least of the measures to curb Boko Haram.  Knowing that terrorism anchored by extremists hardly goes and to please his backers, he dishonestly approaches everything about Boko Haram.

 


We have heard about technical defeat, and we have heard about remnants of Boko Haram, there is desperation to conceal or suppress the activities of Boko Haram. All these are lies or efforts to curb or suppress the reality; Boko Harma is very much with us and carrying on its activities. Buhari has gone on to demand appreciation for defeating Boko Haram while bombs still go off every day and killing people. Using the press to conceal the onslaught against Nigerians and serving Soldiers is lack of respect to human existence.

 


The serving Soldier who explained what they are passing through said that there is a serious war raging in the North and that the only victory recorded so far is the clampdown on the press to stop reporting everything. Recall that Buhari had called on Nigerian press to help in the fight against terrorism and claimed that reports that are against Nigeria or the military always boost the morale of the terrorists. The Soldier also frowned at the various reports that there is no town under the control of Boko Haram; saying that there are no-go areas for them as they are the territory of Boko Harma.

 


“I want to tell you that we are being killed on a daily basis; Boko Haram is on top of the situation here. This is an Islamic Jihad movement and they are supported by Muslims; they might not tell you on the pages of newspapers but we on ground, fighting the battle will tell you what is going on. The more we are killed is the more they reinforce; ask your brothers in the force and you will notice that personnel are being shifted to the North regularly, but kept out of the news.” He said and continued.

 


“Our comrades die every day, Boko Haram is not just a group but a region, and they are much that you can’t kill all of them. They come like locust and you kill the ones you can kill and others kill you; boys are hiding or beating the war front, nobody wants to go there again. We are killed in scores on daily basis and the frustrating thing is, they don’t allow the press to come close; the men of the press have limits. When I try to communicate with them and tell them what is going on, they always ask for evidence and I began to wonder what is happening". Having been caught by corruption, Nigerian press has lost credibility.

 


“If nobody says what is going on here, the government would relax because the people are not complaining. The government always says that they have conquered but that is blunt lie as we are still here and losing our men like flies. There is no truth whatsoever as Boko Haram still control territories and kill us. We are not well taken care of, only supply of bullet is sufficient, what about our feeding, salaries and when we die, they keep our death secret. Bury most of us anywhere they like and accuse us of retreating without order. The world must know what is going on, we are being slaughtered on a daily basis and the press is not allowed to report or come close to where we are” he said.

 


By Ifeanyi Chijioke

Editor/Publisher: Asogwa chinedu

Thursday, 20 October 2016

BREAKING!!!! IGBERE TV NEWS BLOG BACK AND STRONGER

BREAKING!!!! IGBERE TV NEWS BLOG BACK AND STRONGER

 

THE popular site Igbere TV blog has been fully restored reports say

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Withdraw Bribery Allegations Against Amaechi Or Go to Jail -APC Warns Justice Okoro.


Withdraw Bribery Allegations Against Amaechi Or Go to Jail -APC Warns Justice Okoro.

 
 

 


The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has given Justice Inyang Okoro of the Supreme Court seven days 

  to retract his bribery allegation against Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, or be ready to go to jail for flouting the Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Act 2000.
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Justice Okoro, who is one of those under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for corruption, had alleged that Amaechi specifically visited him and asked that the governorship appeal case of Rivers State be delivered in APC’s favour. But Amaechi denied the allegation, saying the judge concocted the claim in order to politicise the issue of his arrest.

However, the state chapter of the party wondered why Amaechi or anybody attempt to bribe Justice Okoro for an election upturned by both the Tribunal and the Appeal Court?

The Chairman of the state Chapter of the party, Davis Ibiamu Ikanya, in a statement berated Justice Okoro over his allegation as contained in his letter to the National Judicial Council, NJC. According to Ikanya, “One does not need a soothsayer to see that Justice Okoro is very confused and thinks that by mentioning the name of Amaechi in his letter, he would deceive Nigerians and play down the gravity of his sins and crimes against Rivers State people and Nigeria as a whole.
 
“If we may ask Justice Okoro, why should Amaechi or anybody attempt to bribe him for an election upturned by both the Tribunal and the Appeal Court? An election widely condemned by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the international community and both local and foreign observers who monitored the shambolic exercise in the course of which over 200 of our members were slaughtered like chicken just to install Chief Nyesom Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in power at all cost?”

The party further threatened to invoke the provisions of the Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Act 2000, which makes failure to report bribery or a bribery attempt a crime that attracts both a fine and a jail term.

“For failing to report the fictional bribery attempt by Amaechi, Justice Okoro has committed an offence that attracts up to two years imprisonment. We are hereby giving him one week to retract his worthless and satanic letter and apologise to Amaechi or we may be forced to set in motion a machinery to invoke the Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offence Act 2000,” the party said.

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