PRESS STATEMENT 1TH DECEMBER 2017

PRESS STATEMENT










1/12/2017 Due to increased global awareness generated by

the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra

(IPOB) and the need to effectively harness the

positive attention this has brought on the

activities of our movement, we the family

members of IPOB and it's leadership worldwide

wish to proudly announce the public opening of

our brand new official world administrative

headquarters of the Indigenous People of Biafra

by the Deputy Leader Uche Mefor and all

members of the ruling Directorate of State (DOS)

on the 8th and 9th of December 2017 in

Langenfeld Germany.

This ceremony will demonstrate the commitment

and zeal of the worldwide family of IPOB to meet

the administrative challenges of our renewed

diplomatic offensive and demands of the

upcoming mid-2018 independence referendum of

the territory of Biafra. It will also serve as notice

to all friends and well-wishers of Biafra that

Langenfeld Germany is now the one and only

officially recognised world headquarters of IPOB

from which every authentic information regarding

the agitation for Biafra liberation will emanate

from. The public is hereby warned to desist from

corresponding with any other office except the

one in Langenfeld Germany.

We, however, must point out that IPOB has

official regional liaison offices in the London

United Kingdom, Tel Aviv Israel, Ankara Turkey,

New Delhi India, Los Angeles California USA with

much more expected to open in major countries

of the world before the last quarter of 2018.

These offices will continue to serve as regional

points of contact but are not authorised to issue

any diplomatic directive. That prerogative is the

exclusive preserve of the world headquarters in

Langenfeld Germany under the direct supervision

of Mazi Chika Edoziem the Head of the

Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of

Biafra. Any correspondence from any other

quarter not sanctioned by Langenfeld Germany

and signed by Mazi Edoziem should be regarded

as fake and inauthentic.

As we are preparing for Biafra referendum next

year, we are expecting every Biafran both home

and abroad to begin the crucial sensitization and

education of not only Biafrans but non Biafrans

alike. IPOB is working tirelessly hard round the

clock in every major country and continent of the

world to restore the dignity and sovereignty of

the Republic of Biafra. All persons must be

disciplined and alert at all times because we

know the Nigerian government may seek to use

some gullible people to open a rival office in a

European country as they did with the fake Biafra

radio broadcasting on shortwave in furtherance

of their quest to divide, destabilise and demystify

IPOB. Our legendary discipline, which has today

made us the preeminent freedom fighting

movement in the world today, must be

maintained at this critical period. Corrupt

politicians, worried at the impact and level of

compliance with our election boycott in Anambra

State will stop at nothing until a significant

proportion of Biafrans succumb to their pressure

to take the money and abandon the quest for

Biafra freedom as some groups have done.

This Biafra independence struggle championed by

IPOB, led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, dead or alive, is

resolute and determined to restore Biafra

regardless of the human and material cost.

We are calling on all Biafrans, especially those in

Europe, friends of Biafra, lovers of freedom, men

and women of goodwill across the globe, to

come and be part of this epoch making event in

Germany on 8th and 9th of December this year.

SIGNED:

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL

MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY

FOR IPOB.

PRESS RELEASE

IPOB press release

Today: 19/10/2017

We the family members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it's leadership worldwide under the command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to alert all Biafrans at home and in the diaspora about  the secret plots of the enemy to bring death and mayhem to our land on or around the 18th of November 2017. 

We equally wish to draw the attention of the world to a series of meetings held in Lagos with the express intention of arming some bandits and unscrupulous individuals to cause chaos in and around Anambra State in the run up to the gubernatorial election scheduled for mid November. 

This evil plan concocted by the APC government in concert with Nigerian military and supported by unscrupulous South East governors is solely intended to cement their dubious efforts to label the great IPOB a terrorist group. 

Up till now, all efforts to convince, cajole, intimidate and bribe some countries of the world to designate IPOB a terrorist group has failed. 

They hastily came up with this plan to incriminate IPOB in a violent incident in the hope of turning world public opinion against a peaceful organisation agitating for self determination through the instrumentality of a referendum.

IPOB intelligence unit successfully infiltrated the meeting where this bloodbath was being planned. 

We uncovered the secret venue in Lagos where APC Party stalwarts from the South East and South South geo-political zones met last week to finalise these murderous attacks. 

The meeting was attended by former Governor of River State Chief Rotimi Chibuike Amechi, Minister of Science and Technology Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, Labour Minister Dr. Chris Ngige, Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, former Abia State governor Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and Chief Raphael Lebeanya Uwazuruike the leader of Biafra Independence Movement (BIM).

At this meeting they resolved to provide arms and ammunition to a group of men that will be assembled by Ralph Uwazuruike and his BIM group since they need to give the attackers some form of Biafra colouration. 

They are to unleash a coordinated and violent attack against innocent civilians in Anambra State and border towns whilst dressed in Biafra and IPOB colours. 

These targeted killings of ordinary people is scheduled to commence from the evening of the 17th of November and last till the early hours of the 18th during the planned sit-at-home election boycott in Anambra State. 

The whole idea is to create the erroneous impression that IPOB is responsible for these attacks which will in turn lead to another wave of sustained military attacks on our homes. 

This will inevitably leave thousands of Biafrans dead because the Nigerian government knows that the world have consistently turned a blind eye to killings of civilians in Biafraland do they know they will get away with it. 

For the APC government led by Major General Muhammad Buhari, this will help convince the United States of America, European Union, France and United Kingdom that IPOB is a terrorist organisation and to tag it as such. 

It is also on record that USA, EU, France, Britain and many other civilised nations of the world has made it abundantly clear to that IPOB with registered presence in over 88 countries of the world cannot be regarded by any sensible government as a terrorist organisation.

This dubious meeting was deliberately held in Lagos rather than anywhere in Biafraland to mobilise APC thugs, and those who are not IPOB members to come to Anambra and surrounding states to wreak havoc on peaceful populations. 

We are not surprised that South East governors are still collaborating with Hausa Fulani Islamic North despite their role in instigating Operation Python Dance II which brought even more death and destruction to law abiding citizens in Biafraland. 

Should Buhari's APC government decide to go ahead with this plan, the world must hold Nigeria and South East governors responsible. 

Biafrans must be at alert because corrupt politicians in the South East working in tandem with the civilian killing Nigerian military will stop at nothing until they carry out of their devilish plans to implicate IPOB. 

They have mobilised vehicles, printed fake Biafra flags and IPOB uniforms; they have acquired automatic riffles and guns for this dangerous crime against our people during the election period. 

Biafrans are therefore required to observe a curfew from 5pm 17 November to 5pm November 18, 2017. 

Anybody found outside within this period will be killed by these thugs and men of the Nigerian Army. 

Every Biafran, especially those in Anambra and neighbouring states must not venture into Anambra State either on foot or aboard any vehicle.

The evil plotters promised to give out the sum of 20,000 Naira each to those who volunteer to kill their fellow humans in Biafraland particularly those who would be traveling to or coming out of Anambra State during the election period between 17th and 18th November. 

As a responsible people oriented mass movement, we are worried about this cruel plan to massacre innocent people once again in Biafraland. 

We are advising every Biafran to stay in their homes and not venture outside from sunset on the 17 of November to sunset on the 18th. 

The Nigerian Army, Police, Navy and Civil Defence Corps are coming to Anambra State to kill as they did in Abia and Rivers during their illegal and murderous Operation Python Dance II. 

If you don't come out, they will not kill you. Stay safe, stay indoors. 

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

IPOB PRESS RELEASE 2ND OCTOBER 2017

IPOB Press Release

2/10/2017

We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it's leadership worldwide wish to bring to the attention of the general public, international community and the world at large the ongoing plan to begin the destruction of police stations in Aba Abia State by Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu in concert with Hausa Fulani Islamic Nigerian government and her security operatives especially the Nigerian Army. They plan to use it as a cover to kidnap and abduct innocent Biafrans under the pretext that they are the perpetrators of these heinous crimes. This reign of death is what Okezie Ikpeazu and this Buhari regime have reduced governance to in Abia State.

IPOB have never engaged in any crime of any sort from it's inception till date. There is police station that can claim to have received any complaint of lawlessness or crime alleged to have been committed by IPOB. Our rallies and evangelism are all done in full view of the public and well attended within communities with no single recorded adverse incident till date. IPOB have never been involved in any retaliatory attacks or killing of any human being because we believe, along with our ancient values, that life is a rare gift from God, which is not in the place of man to take.

We are aware that this Islamic sadistic Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari and her security operatives, have little or no regard for human life as is their custom and tradition ably demonstrated over the centuries through a series of well documented pogroms. Igbo governors, who are essentially Hausa Fulani stooges in government houses across the South East are doing their damned best to turn global opinion against IPOB. Civilised nations and countries around the world know that IPOB under the leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not and can never be a terrorist organisation but the APC Islamic fundamentalist government of Nigeria headed by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari in collaboration with Dave Umahi, Okezie Ikpeazu, Willie Obiano and others is making every effort to tarnish impeccable global standing of IPOB. This latest evil plot, already perfected, is designed to legitimise even more brutal deaths, arrests, torture and detention without trial at the hands of Nigerian soldiers and police. Okezie Ikpeazu in his jealousy fuelled vendetta against IPOB, have unwittingly turned hitherto peaceful Abia State to a killing field for blood thirsty Islamic Jihadists from Arewa North hell bent on spreading Islam to every nook and cranny of Biafraland.

Today, Okezie Ikpeazu and his Northern masters have successfully hired unscrupulous individuals and groups to cause crisis in order to justify their  black market order obtained from the Hausa Fulani Islamic judge, Justice Kafarati designating IPOB a terrorist organisation. That civilised nations steadfastly refused to buy into the tagging of IPOB as a terror group continues to irritate and anger Igbo governors and their Islamic masters from the North.

We are also aware that Nigeria security agents has also positioned themselves in strategic places for any eventuality, should communities rise up against these terrorists imported into Abia to kill innocent people. Equally, Abia State Police Commissioner a non Igbo from Edo State, with no interest in the protection of lives and property in the state, have also readied his men to attack anybody who stand to oppose this evil plan against the people of Biafra. Nigerian government through her unprofessional army and police have commenced house to house search to abduct and kill those suspected to be IPOB members across Biafraland and Abia State in particular.

IPOB is therefore calling on all conscientious and civilised men and women, lovers of freedom, the international community especially USA, EU, Britain, Russia and France to intervene to stop this horrendous ethnic cleansing going on in Abia State, for the sake of humanity. The scale of killings going on right now is a tragedy of immense proportions and until the world brings this scale of barbarism to a halt, injustice will continue to reign supreme in Nigeria.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

NIGERIA @57: HOW THE TRIBES WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER AS NIGERIANS.

NIGERIA @57: HOW THE TRIBES WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER AS NIGERIANS.

By Lazarus Obinna

The problem we are facing today was created by the British commercial interest. In 1851, Lagos was attacked by British forces. King Kosoko was defeated and deposed . In 1861, Lagos was ceded to British Crown. King Docemo signed the treaty of cession.

From 1851 to 1866, Lagos had its own Governor. From 1866 to 1874, governor of Sierra Leone ruled Lagos through administrators and from 1874 to 1886, Lagos was under the Governor of the Gold Coast. From 1886 to 1906 successful military campaigns were carried against Yoruba rulers and by 1906 pacifying missions brought Yoruba land under British rule. The territory was placed under the Governor of Lagos and called the colony and protectorate of Lagos.

The commonwealth report of 1956 reported that trade developed in the Niger Delta areas both on the coast and also in the hinterland. From 1832 , British merchants went up stream and traded with the natives on the banks of the River Niger as far as Lokoja. When the use of quinine made it possible for Europeans to settle in the interior, hinterland trade rapidly developed and many English companies were formed to exploit the resources of the interior. Acute rivalry developed among the traders who in 1879 , under the leadership of Sir George Goldie amalgamated , forming the United and later National African Company. Goldie defeated and eliminated a French rivalry company.

The English company was supreme in Niger valley and began treaty-making with tribes of the middle Niger, offering them British protection in return for exclusive trade with the company as well as mining concessions of all kinds. It was owing to the activities of this company and it's leader Goldie, that Britain was able to claim at the Berlin West African conference of 1885, that her interest were paramount in the Niger territories.

In 1886, a charter was granted to the National African Company ( which later took the name of the Royal Niger Company) to administer the protected territories in Northern Nigeria. In 1894 a treaty was signed with Bornu placing that territory under British protection. In 1897, the Emirate of Nupe and Ilorin  were defeated militarily. 1899 the charter of Royal African Company was revoked, the protectorate of Northern Nigeria proclaimed and the Company's territory came under the British Crown.

According to the commonwealth report, the area known as the Eastern states on the coast, as in the hinterland, events moved swiftly. With the development of trade, the British consular post on Spanish Island of Vernando Po was removed to old Calabar on the Eastern Nigeria Coast. Treaties were concluded with various coastal rulers placing their territories under British protection. In 1885, the oil River protectorate was declared. In 1891, the consul in Calabar was created commissioner and in 1893, the territory was renamed, the Niger Coast protectorate.

The tribes and rulers who resisted the British invasion were ruthlessly crushed. In 1887 punitive expedition was sent against King Jaja of Opobo, against the Jekri Chief Nana in 1894, against Brass in 1895 and in 1897 against the Oba of Benin. The coast protectorate was transferred to the colonial office in 1899 and was renamed the protectorate of Southern Nigeria in 1900.

Between 1900 and 1906, the Igbo's were defeated and pacified. Both the central and southern part of their land was occupied by British forces. By this time, the British power had now been firmly planted in the territories now known as Nigeria.

The attempt to create one country of Nigeria by British colonial master started in 1906 when the colony and protectorate of Lagos and the protectorate of Southern Nigeria were amalgamated into the colony and protectorate of southern Nigeria. A Governor was appointed and three provinces: Western,Eastern and Central were formed . All southern Nigeria was now placed under a single administration.

In Northern Nigeria, the protectorate of Northern Nigeria replaced the administration of the Royal Niger Company in 1900. Up to 1908 the chief administrator was called High Commissioner and after 1908 he was called the Governor.

Between 1900 and 1914, centres of resistance to British rule were attacked and defeated by Royal West African Frontier Force - Nupe 1901 , Kantangora 1901, Bauchi 1902, Bornu 1902, Kano 1903, Sokoto 1903. Lord Lugard carried out the pacification of the Northern Nigeria. By instituting the system of the Native Administration or indirect rule, Lord Lugard allowed the defeated Emirs and Chiefs to govern their territories in accordance with their own laws and customs under the supervision of British officers who acted as advisers to the Emirs and  restrained their excesses, whenever native customs conflict with the laws of Britain. By this system, he won the goodwill of the Emirs.

The second attempt was made in 1914 when the two administrations of Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated, and named the colony and protectorate of Nigeria. Lord Lugard was appointed Governor-General and two Lieutenants-Governors. Later Chief Commissioners were put in charge of the two divisions, Northern and southern. In 1939, the southern provinces were divided into the Western  and Eastern provinces, each under a chief commissioner, with headquarters at Ibadan and Enugu.

Certain factors made the unification of 1914 imperative. Before 1914, the North could not find sufficient funds to maintain its own administration in spite of the annual grants from the imperial treasury and from the southern administration. The financial position of the south was satisfactory due to the rapid development of trade. Amalgamation was aimed at relieving the imperial treasury of its annual contribution towards the upkeep of the North.

Unfortunately, amalgamation did not mean the complete fusion of the two administration. In the Northern provinces , important departments such as Medicine, Education, Police and Prisons were separated in policy and control from their southern counterparts.

So the creation of Nigeria was as a result of British commercial interest and the saying that Nigeria's unity is non-negotiable is a crap coined by those who has continued to benefit from this commercial establishment called Nigeria and this is the reason why 57 years after independence,Nigeria is still walking on a tightrope.

What you are seeing in Nigeria today has been with Nigeria from creation... Let me end with part of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe's independence anniversary broadcast on October 1,1964:

" The atmosphere of the nation reeks with mutual antagonism, bitter recriminations and tribal discrimination. The causes are the enemies of Nigeria. They are tribalism,nepotism, perfidy,bribery and corruption. With tribalism on the ascendance, the personality of our nation becomes decomposed and stinks, with nepotism influencing their judgments the will of the nation becomes stifled and immolated. With perfidy as the vogue among some of our politicians  , the morals of our nation vanish to zero as no faith can be placed on the words of a crooked, double-faced, double-tongued scourge of the human race. With bribery and corruption permeating their way of life, the prestige of our nation dwindles to the vanishing point, defacing our national image, and bringing shame and contumely to those who wear the agbada of Nigerian citizenship."

53 years after this speech and 57 years after independence, has anything changed?

Is Nigeria truly independent?

Of what benefit is the amalgamation of the southern and Northern protectorate?

IPOB PRESS RELEASE 28TH SEPTEMBER 2017

28/09/2017

IPOB PRESS RELEASE

We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide would like to use this medium to clarify pertinent issues bordering on our relationship with Mr. Abdulkadir Erkahraman, a Turkish citizen, who is the current President of International Nations Commercial Association based in Turkey and also an adviser to our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Mr Erkahraman is equally a representative of IPOB on international relations in the Middle East and Asia. 

Mr Erkahraman has come under serious attack lately from the APC regime of Muhammadu Buhari who are using some Turkish businessmen in Abuja and "Fethullahist Terror Organization" (FETÖ) to threaten him to denounce his support for IPOB to the extent of inviting him to come to Nigeria to make a television broadcast publicly renouncing his support for Biafra. His life and that of his family have come under severe threat and we wish to notify the Turkish government and the world accordingly. 

  

Having purchased a black market order from the court of Justice Kufurati sitting in Abuja labelling the peaceful IPOB a terrorist organisation, an act designed to alienate friends of Biafra from publicly associating with the IPOB led movement for self determination, this Nigerian government is hoping to isolate the movement for Biafra restoration away from international supporters. This scare tactics will not work because Mr. Abdulkadir Erkahraman is a conscientious Muslim who understand what human rights is all about and the need to preserve same. He believes that freedom for Biafra supersedes everything else in life, even his own religion. 

When he visited our leader in his home town Afaraukwu Ibeku Umuahia, their discussions focused exclusively on areas of infrastructural development and how such partnerships can be developed to help alleviate the suffering of the people of Biafra. He is not a Turkish diplomat, he has never claimed to be one and our leader did not receive him in such capacity. Those on online news platforms in Nigeria referring to him as a diplomat are deliberately misleading their readers. 

Some of these publishers are nothing more than sponsored agents, in the pay of the Ministry of Information, used to carry out smear campaigns in the hope of tarnishing the image of Mr. Abdulkadri Erkahraman and Biafra. Their sole aim is to cause misunderstanding in Turkish diplomatic circles. We strongly advise the Turkish mission in Nigeria to disregard the discredited lying antics of Lai Mohammed and their attempt to deflect attention from their murderous ill fated Operation Python Dance currently going on in Biafraland.

The world should know that this Nigerian government has become so desperate to the point that they can go to any length to try and stop the restoration of Biafra, believe it through blackmail, intimidation and cold blooded murder. If you consider that this same Buhari regime in recent days have accused their staunchest allies United Kingdom, France and USA of financing terrorists [IPOB] you will begin to appreciate how paranoid they have become.

The Buhari regime should leave Mr. Abdulkadri Erkahraman alone and stop using his name to settle old scores with the Turkish government over Buhari's sponsorship of the failed coup in Turkey. It is public knowledge that Turkey have ordered the Nigeria government to close down all the schools bearing Turkish names in Nigeria used as front for the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ). Until now this Buhari government have refused to close down these schools and organizations, they still bear Turkish names. 

We call upon the government of Turkey and the president of Turkey, His Excellency Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to look critically at the activities of the government of Nigeria in Turkey. Mohammed Buhari is a known sponsor of terrorism and was named as Boko Haram chief negotiator before becoming president of Nigeria. He is presently the grand patron of the fourth most deadly terror group in the world, Fulani herdsmen better known as Miyetti Cattle Breeders Association. He is a man given to violent impulses and will not hesitate to sponsor another coup or fund terror attacks against Turkey, as long as it leads to bloodshed and loss of life. 

Buhari is a well known supporter of Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ). He has given them protection and cover since he came into power. He is now using them to attack the Turkish government and her people. The Nigerian government imported arms into Nigeria ports under the guise of FETO in order to tarnish the image of IPOB and Mr. Abdulkadri Erkrahram and by extension that of Turkey. 

The Turkish government should as a matter of urgency review the activities of Nigeria government against the Turkish state and if need be expel the Nigerian mission in Turkey before it's too late. FETO is hiding under the Nigeria government to tarnish the image of Turkey and that of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Nigeria government are hoping to use IPOB and Mr. Abdulkadir Erkrahram as bargaining chip in this Cold War with Turkey which we cannot allow.

Sign: Emma Powerful

 Media & Publicity Sec

 IPOB

BREAKING!!! 5 REPORTED DEAD AS THE NIGERIA MILITARY INVADES THE BIAFRA LEADER'S RESISTANCE

HAPPENING NOW! At least 5 people have been reported dead as the Nigeria military invaded the residence of the biafran leader and many more have been wounded.

WATCH VIDEO HERE

More updates coming soon..

IPOB PRESS RELEASE 9TH SEPTEMBER 2017

IPOB Press Release 

We the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and it's leadership worldwide under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu condemn the deceptive and provocative use of stage managed parade of 'criminals' as part of a very cheap tactless propaganda by the clueless Buhari led administration to blackmail the most peaceful mass movement on earth. Nigerian Government and their obviously unintelligent Police command in Awka Anambra State are so daft that they think that using our revered insignia and hallowed flag in their stupid mock parade, of those they termed armed robbers and cultists, will deter us from pursuing our legitimate and nonviolent agitations for Biafra restoration. Only a wayward government populated by clueless individuals such as this APC government will descend as low as planting IPOB memorabilia among bullet casings to convey the impression that IPOB is now an armed group. They tried this gimmick and failed, so will they fail this time around also. We are aware that many more stunts are coming, all in a bid to justify the militarisation of Biafraland.

The entire civilised world which Nigeria appears not to be a part of, are fully aware that IPOB is a non-violent movement with unprecedented following all over the world. This hopeless and shambolic attempt by this government to portray IPOB otherwise by Hausa Fulani men of the Nigerian police should be roundly condemned by all men and women of good conscience.

As a necessary precaution, we have instructed the chambers of Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor our lawyers, to commence legal action against Anambra State Police Command for this pathetic attempt to impugn the integrity of IPOB. The Hausa Fulani controlled Nigerian Police must know that the world is watching this latest episode in stupidity and pathetic attempt to frame IPOB. Any Nigerian with any sense of dignity must be thoroughly ashamed of what this Buhari administration is doing in their name. 

It is unfortunate that the Nigerian police command in Awka Anambra State that claim to have educated people in their ranks, will stage manage a crime scene simply because they have lost the argument on self determination and are seeking for ways to label IPOB as a violent organisation to justify their murderous tendencies. These clearly uneducated men of the Nigerian Police, in concert with the Nigerian Army, are not aware that IPOB members are under sacred oath not to lie or engage in any form of illegality. Both the police and army are in possession of the oath every IPOB family member must take before they are admitted into IPOB. They should refer to it and stop disgracing themselves before the world. 

Despite the fact that IPOB congregate in their millions during rallies, has it ever been reported that any person or persons lost their personal belongings? The answer is no, because IPOB family members cannot even steal a common purse or wallet, talkless of engaging in armed robbery. Rather it is IPOB that has been at the forefront of fighting police and army criminality and banditry all over Biafraland culminating in the 'Say No To Extortion' campaign launched by our leader a few days ago.  

We are well aware that Nigeria security operatives and some politicians in Anambra State are actively recruiting non Biafrans with IPOB paraphernalia to be used to wreak havoc on unsuspecting populations with the view to tarnish the squeaky clean image of IPOB. Only gullible Nigerians can be deceived with such kindergarten antics. People are more reasonable and wiser now and cannot be deceived so easily by such amateurish display by the police. What made Buhari's to think that they would succeed this time around when they failed so miserably with their previous concoctions like the killing of 5 Hausa men in a forest in Okigwe by IPOB.

We IPOB family under the command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have conducted 298 peaceful protests and rallies around the world without a single recorded incident of violence or destruction to property. Instead it is the Nigerian Army and Police that have specialised in killing and abduction of IPOB members. Despite all these criminal provocations, IPOB has remained peaceful and never retaliated. We shall maintain our peaceful nonviolent stance and will not be provoked into armed conflict by this uncivilised and barbaric regime of Buhari. We keep wondering why Nigeria Government and her security operatives would be fabricating lies and accusing the most peaceful mass movement in the world of carrying arms without proof.

This latest show of shame is one propaganda too many and we will not rest until those involved in this despicable criminal act within the Nigerian Police is brought to book. Buhari has turned out to be a worse dictator than Abacha. Nigerian Police and Nigeria Government at large  led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari are peddling fake stories, lies and propaganda to dent the image of IPOB under Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, but they cannot succeed with their predictable crude third world approach. We hereby advise the hapless and lying Nigerian Government and her security operatives to come up with a more believable storyline. Currently, these methods they are using cannot yield the right results for them.

We are laughing at these individuals and politicians in Aso Rock because they are amateurs and no match for IPOB. We are therefore, urging our people to be more vigilant and cautious because soon they will come out with a different and new fake story, cheap propaganda and lies against the peaceful and nonviolent family members of IPOB under Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. The more they fabricate their lies against IPOB, the more we expose them for the liars they are. 

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

OPEN LETTER TO THE SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS

OPEN LETTER TO THE SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS 

By Charles Ogbu.

Greetings, your Excellencies -the governors of the land of the Rising Sun.

It is with a heart burdened with sorrow that I write you today to register my grave displeasure over your criminal complicity in the woes of the people you purport to preside over.

With your permissions, your Excellencies, I will like to start this piece with questions which have dug a very deep hole in my heart for a very long time and the questions are:

Whose interests are you representing as governors?

Where does your loyalty lie?

Why does it seem like your dominant default instinct is to please the Caliphate even if it means displeasing your people?

Dear governors, those are questions on the lips of almost every Igbo youth and those questions must not just be asked, they must be answered.

Your Excellencies, do you ever sit back and wonder why millions of Ndigbo have chosen to willingly follow Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his quest to restore Biafra?

I will tell you:

As a people, Ndigbo have been oppressed, suppressed, dejected, isolated, marginalized, ridiculed, humiliated, haunted and murdered by the moral criminals and executive terrorists running the affairs of the Nigerian state since after the Biafran war. When Mr Hate-Made-Flesh, President Buhari, came on board, he elevated Igbo marginalization and dehumanization as an official govt policy. Two days ago, the Buhari-led govt brought in tanks and sophisticated military hardware into Ala-Igbo. It doesn’t take a ‘Dibia’ to know that those weapons will be used on the same people whose lives you are being paid to protect.

In all these,

You, the people who presume to be our governors didn’t just maintain criminal silence, you connived with our oppressors to ride roughshod over our wounds. Just for the pittance known as monthly allocation, you had no qualms turning a blind eye and living in denial of our pains and miseries and wars and woes.

This year alone, you, the southeast governors, have visited Asorock more times than I can remember, to pledge your commitment to #OneNigeriawhich begs the questions:

How many times have you visited Aso Rock to ask why Onitsha Seaport has remained comatose for years or to protest the non-inclusion of the Southeast in the rail project?

How many times have you visited Aso Rock to ask why the entire production processes in Ala-Igbo have been emasculated to keep your people in the state of perpetual penury?

Despite being the most peaceful region in the entire country, the southeast has thrice the number of police and military men deployed to the Boko-haram ravaged Northeast. Even violence prone Gaza Strip and terrorist-infested Mount Sinai in MiddleEast do not boast of such high level of militarization. And these uniformed thugs brazenly extort monies from motorists and Okada riders and humiliate those who try to resist their savagery.

How many times have you gone to Aso Rock to protest this?? But how can you, when those uninformed extortionists and invaders are in Ala-Igbo with your full permissions??

What kind of #OneNigeria do you really want? A Nigeria where mediocrity and injustice walk on all four as obtains now or a Nigeria characterized by merit, justice and fairness??

Dear governors, we have lied to ourselves for far too long. Permit me to honour you with the courtesy of being blunt:

We, Ndigbo, ARE NOT in the mess we are in today because we have a president whose access to oxygen seems to depend solely on how much hatred he can dish to us. Not at all. We are where we are today because we have the singular misfortune of being cursed with one of the most criminally insensitive sets of governors in our history. A set of governors whose sense of governance is simply atrocious. A set of governors whose ‘Onye Ayana Nwanne Ya’ spirit is simply non-existent. A set of governors who are indeed Pharaohs robed in the garbs of Moses.

Your Excellencies, you are the biggest singular tragedy of Ndigbo. It grieves me beyond word to publicly admit this but it grieves me even more that it is true.

Those millions of people you see following Nnamdi Kanu are indicative of the fact that the people you pretend to lead have lost faith in you.

You have failed your people. You have failed Ala-Igbo and if you have any shred of honour, you will not disagree that you have failed even yourselves.

You act and speak like psychological slaves and you waste no time in proving your loyalty to your Fulani masters even if it means sacrificing your people. Your default inclination is to the Caliphate.

Recently, one of you, governor Rochas Okorocha, bested Uncle Lucifer when he used soldiers to carry out a festival of blood reportedly killing not less than 4 persons including an 11-year-old Somtochukwu Igboanusi, all in a bid to demolish the ancient Eke-Ukwu market in Owerri. And I’m wondering, how does Okorocha sleep at night knowing he’s responsible for the death of the only male child of his parents??

The “No More Elections In Biafraland” currently being championed by IPOB is receiving wide acceptance NOT NECESSARILY because of Nnamdi Kanu but because when an average Igbo man looks around, he finds it extremely difficult to point to any time any of you Igbo governors have defended his interests.

When Fulani terrorists visit us with death, rather than act like Governor Fayose, you act like Jeremiah, the weeping prophet. When our dues are denied us in Nigeria, you play deaf, dumb and blind. When Fulani soldiers kill and bath us with acid even inside a Church, you play the devil’s advocate but when we say we want a referendum to enable us to decide our future, you rush to Aso Rock to counter us.

How can a people live with so called leaders who act like that??

I’m submitting to you, my dear governors, that the 5 of you are the co-authors of our misfortune as a people!

But,

I have good news for you: your cups of iniquity are yet to run over. You can still redeem yourselves.

Please, in the name of the millions we lost to the Biafran war, rally round your people. Defend their right to life for once! Look the Caliphate in the eye for once and tell them that your people are not children of a lesser god. Stop holding Nicodemus meeting with Nnamdi Kanu with regards to Anambra elections. Instead, hold those meetings with the men in Aso Rock and demand that they give you something tangible, -an alternative to Biafra, promises and assurances, -to take back to your people. This is how to negotiate!

Stop giving your permission for Buhari to militarize Ala-Igbo with his occupying forces. Those soldiers are here not to protect but to kill and maim and treat Ndigbo like a conquered people.

Time for politics is over. Today, Ndigbo are facing grave existential challenges.

This is the time to borrow a leaf from Our Father, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, the Ohaneze Ndigbo PG and stands with your people because the truth is, Biafrans are like a seed. Even when you bury them, they don’t die, instead, they germinate. So when all this is over, rest assured, we will dis-remember Buhari and his fellow nightwalkers but we will forever remember your treachery and criminal complicity in our tragedy.

Remember, your Excellencies, no man, no matter how powerful, can make a private bargain with history.

Ndewonu, Umunna m,
Charles Ogbu.

BIAFRA: ROCHAS OKOROCHA DEMOLISHED EKE UKWU MARKET FOR HIS PERSONAL INTEREST

BIAFRA: ROCHAS OKOROCHA DEMOLISHED EKE UKWU MARKET FOR HIS PERSONAL INTEREST

Ben Alvin Obi, for Family Writers Press.

Following the recent demolition of people's goods at Eke Ukwu market around Douglas road in Owerri, Imo State which took peoples lives, it is now a case in court between Owerri people and Governor Rochas Okorocha. Family Writers correspondent in Owerri, has come out with facts and to notify the world that Rochas Okorocha's interest in  relocating the market has something to do with a personal business he has with Alhaji Aliko Dangote.  There have been speculations more especially from the inhabitants and indigenes of  Owerri, that Rochas Okorocha's reasons for demolishing the market is because he wants to sale the land to Alhaji Aliko Dangote.

After the  quit notice  spread all over Imo State media houses, on Friday night being the 25th of August, 2017, at about 9:30pm , almost all the villages within the  Owerri metropoly heard the news that night and swore never to give-in cheapily to such chicken tyrranical government policy. They vowed to rather die than to see their market  demolished by Rochas Okrocha and cohorts. Most of the indegenes and property owners at the designated area went on Facebook and other social media live to tell the world about Rochas Okorocha's plan to demolish their only market in Owerri municipal without proper consultations and compensations.

The Owerri metropoly comprises of:
1)Umuoronjo
2)Amawom
3)Umuodi
4)Umuonyeche
5) And Umuonyima
They were all present that night and even the next day being 26th of August 2017, before and after the demolition.

One of the elders from Umuoronjo  whom I interviewed through a phone call told me that the case is now in court. He disclosed that the Chief Judge  of Imo State High Court 1 told Rochas  Okorocha, the Governor of Imo State to pay the sum of #1,250000(i.e. one million, two hundred and fifty thousand naira for damages . And the money is to be paid to the people affected. After the last court sitting, she disclosed that the damages is as regard to the part of the market that he demolished at the earlier stage. It was reported that three  (3) people were shot dead and many were injured  due to their refusal to vacate the market. The people of Owerri were very angry that Rochas Okorocha did not see Ama-awusa market to demolish, he did not kill them, but he killed Owerri people and took over their market. The people took  to the streets of Owerri, "shouting No Election in Imo State". Also,  " Okoroawusa has killed us, Okoroawusa has left Hausa market and demolished our only source of income". What a mess!

Furthermore, earlier before now, traditional rulers were the most  respected people by the Government and communities but they were over looked and neglected by Rochas Okorocha. A woman who pleaded anonymous said that, this should be an eye opener to the people of Imo State to forget anything that concerns Nigerian Government and pull their full surport in Biafra quest and struggle.

Another witness said that the militants brought by Rochas to clamp down on Owerri people were from Ohaji. she revealed that they would stop Ohaji people from coming to Owerri to trade in any of their markets. She further stressed that Ohaji people's contribution in killing Owerri people have made them to become enemies. The question is, are those killers really Ohaji people or are they Hausa Fulani terrorists that Rochas used and tagged them Ohaji people??

#NoelectioninBiafraland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

August 22, 2017

Press Statements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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17th August 2017

To Nigerian News Editors

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed

Mazi Chika Edoziem

Head Directorate of state

Indigenous People of Biafra

IPOB PRESS RELEASE 7TH AUGUST 2017

Press Release

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

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

IPOB PRESS RELEASE: July 29, 2017

IPOB PRESS RELEASE:

July 29, 2017

We the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and it's leadership, under the supreme command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wish to commend Biafrans in Owerri and it's environs for the unprecedented and record breaking crowd that trooped out to welcome our supreme leader during his unscheduled private visit to a friend in Owerri Imo State capital. Conservative estimate put the number of people that thronged the streets at between 3-4 million.

We would also like to use this opportunity to thank Biafrans and IPOB members in Anambra, Rivers, Ebonyi, Abia and Imo states respectively for the overwhelming and immeasurable welcome they gave to our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu during his visit to the respective States. We equally thank God Almighty (Chukwu Okike Abiama) for making the outings and visits a successful one without any hiccups or breakdown of law and order despite the provocations of the Nigerian Army and Police in Ebonyi State. Those behind the evil plot to cause mayhem in Ebonyi State, with the sole intention of tarnishing the revered image of IPOB and our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu the prophet of our time, through their false media reportage, have failed woefully. They should tell their Hausa Fulani masters in Sokoto and Kaduna that the IPOB recovery exercise in Ebonyi was a successful one. Today Ebonyi State has regained it's lost status as the power house of the new Biafra resurgence.

Since the inception of these private visits to various towns in Biafraland by our leader, we have not had any altercation, interruption or any act of misunderstanding between IPOB, the public and law enforcement agencies. At IPOB we make it a point of duty to stream live videos across the world of our movements and events, to prevent our enemies from instigating trouble with which they can use to justify their illegal arrests and mass murder. With the notable exception of Gov. Umahi's illegal and wholly unconstitutional road block on our way into and out of Ebonyi State, there has never been any recorded incident of police or army trying to impede our movement. Those that derive joy from peddling cheap lies and deliberate misinformation through certain media houses should hang their heads in shame. The fake fabricated report that there were interruptions or public displeasure at these events are pure lies. Anybody in doubt should watch the videos online. Those governors in the habit of paying journalists to write junk news about the movement of our leader are only doing so to serve the interest of their pay masters in the North.

We demand these publishing houses to show the world proof of where IPOB is said to have had issues with any person or group of people since IPOB started this struggle to free Biafrans from bondage in Nigeria.

It is unfortunate that some unscrupulous journalists report pure fabrication after being coerced or bribed by some unprincipled politicians and individuals. Newspaper houses must verify all their stories before committing it to print or online publication.

We therefore call on Biafrans, IPOB members and the general public to disregard fake media reports of any sort which says that some youth organisations disrupted our leader's visit to Owerri Imo State capital. The overwhelming enthusiasm and rapturous reception accorded our leader wherever he goes is indicative that all and sundry are with him. Nobody issued any statements disowning IPOB activities, they were manufactured by unscrupulous journalists and peddled by unethical media houses. IPOB remains the most peaceful mass movement anywhere in the world today. Our discipline and code of conduct in IPOB is second to none. Even the Nigeria Police Force in Rivers, Abia, Anambra, Imo and Ebonyi states can attest to this fact.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

PUNCH NEWSPAPER, THEIR CAMPAIGN OF LIES AGAINST IPOB AND GAMES OF THE MINDS

PUNCH NEWSPAPER, THEIR CAMPAIGN OF LIES AGAINST IPOB AND GAMES OF THE MINDS


By Ikechukwu Innocent Onyeji
For Family Writers Press

Just like the enemies of Biafra are not sleeping, Biafrans are not sleeping either. They have unanimously employed many propaganda mercenaries to concocting and distorting information about IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu so as to discredit their activities in the quest for Biafra restoration. The recent publication by Punch Newspaper is nothing short of unprofessional journalism, where they fraudulently asserted that a certain non-existent youth in Owerri, Imo state yesterday disrupted the Biafra evangelism rally led by the leader of Indigenous People Of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It should be cleared that there are pictorial and video evidences to buttress and substantiate the fact that there was no youth disruptions in the said rally. The report by brown envelop, biased, junk and gutter Nigerian media outfit called Punch Newspapers is a hoax as there are no such thing.

Now this is the real gist. Fellow Biafrans, Yesterday in Owo-Eri(Owerri), Biafraland , we all witnessed, not for the first time, a sign of approval from the elements(Sun, Moon and the cloud). We watched as the slightly red half-moon came out of the sky while the sun was at full strength, and proved to us that indeed, our supreme leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is embarking on a mission  which has a solid divine mandate and that mission is to restore Biafra, so that we can be free from this hell on Earth called Nigeria. Many of us who are faint of heart, might be waiting for their emotional thieves in designer suits who call themselves Pastors and 'gods of Men" to confirm and ordain Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's mission before they join the struggle. I have nothing but pity for such people because they are slaves of their own minds, and are spiritually dead as well.




A man is a slave until he learn how to use his mind. A man is ignorant until he learn the power of his mind and how to use it for his own good. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a man who has learnt how to use his mind. He is not ignorant, he is not a slave both in birth and in ideology, he has mastered the power of his mind and the earlier we shun the lies from our enemies and follow suit the better. This is why he strongly believes in himself and  does not care about what other people think about him. He is fearless before his enemies and pays no heeds to the cheap propaganda and lies the Nigerian Media outfits disseminates. He is a man who strongly believe in the divine providence of his mission. This is the time every right thinking Biafran and all lovers of freedom in this Lugardian cage called Nigeria, who wants to take their future in their own hands does same for the benefit of themselves and generations to come because the clock of freedom is ticking and those who are awake should not allow themselves to be left behind.


Biafrans, It is time to shun the propaganda of the enemies and start believing in the divine project of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu -which is to restore Biafra for our own good. Have you asked yourself, "to whose benefit is it, that we continue in this slavery?" "who benefits the most in this fake union called Nigeria? " is it you, your family or generations yet unborn? Until we break free from this mental slavery , they will continue to manipulate our minds with impunity. They will tell you that Biafrans are the purveyors of all manner of crimes in this cursed contraption, yet they do not want us to restore Biafra and make her our country, even as most of us stupidly believe it is in our best interest to remain in this mess. This is really beyond my ken as to what we have made ourselves to believe.


However, the merchants of that utopian and unrealisable dream called Restructuring are the "house slaves" who are unaware of the hell the "field slaves" are passing through therein. But thank God for sending us an incorruptible leader who has opened our eyes to their subterfuge and lies, that enriches them and their army of sycophants alone, leaving the poor masses to wallow in endless poverty and slavery. Notice the ways they report Biafra issues in their biased and compromised media outfit and see the orchestrated conspiracy they have instituted against Biafra restoration. But If you are convinced that they are for the interest of Biafrans, why did they stoop so low and keep reporting junks and lies against Biafra without giving accurate information or even report the truth at least? Why have they embarked on a campaign of lies to belittle the giant strides made so far towards Biafra restoration everyday? And still, there exist some Biafrans who think the Nigerian state and their media allies bears their interest at heart. You must be hallucinating if not an imbecile.

 A slave they say is half way to freedom once he realises the fact that he is truly a slave. We are nothing but slaves in a country we call our own, as in third class citizens to our collective internal slave masters. And Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is on a divine mission to rescue Biafrans, who are the descendants of Eri the 5th son of Gad, from this Egypt of Subjugation, slavery, poverty and corruption called Nigeria. The earlier we realise that nobody can possess our minds until we give them the power to do so the earlier Biafra will come. The true power we crave for belongs in our collective minds. Let us decide today to follow Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's lead and discountenace all the Nigerian lies and propaganda which have never helped us and never will. Let us unite in this struggle and show our detractors that true power and legitimacy lies in the crowd-"Igwe bu ike". Let us unequivocally in one voice shout in their ears,  that no matter their lies and incoherent propaganda that we are a formidable people who are unshakeable in our resolve to restoring Biafra. Let us show them and the whole world watching that we have rejected the evil amalgamation, oppressive constitution, overlashing policies, corrupt politicians, feudal system of government and above all, the country as a contrapted entity, by uniting in our minds and queuing behind Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wholeheartedly. If we are able to achieve this then, it will only be a matter time before Biafra comes.


Conclusively, Biafrans, do not allow your minds to be conquered. The fight for freedom and liberty through history has always been a struggle for the minds of the people. Let us not allow our minds to be possessed by the enemies, and it will not be long before Biafra comes.


Edited by Ebere Okolie
For Family writers Press.