BIAFRA: Managing A Complex Civil War Backlash
Massob protest in Port Harcourt… last week
• I’m Against Lugard, Would Die For Biafra — Nnamdi Kanu
• DSS Complicates Kanu’s Detention
• FG Mishandling Free Speech-Intersociety
DID embattled Biafra self-determination activist of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, fly into Nigeria to actualize his declaration that the geographical expression known as Nigeria would cease to exist by September 30, 2015?
The Department of State Services (DSS) arrested the activist on Saturday October 17, 2015 in a Lagos Hotel shortly after he came into Nigeria from his United Kingdom base. He was flown to Abuja where he was also arraigned in a Magistrate court, which granted him bail to the tune of N2m and a surety in the same amount.
However, after perfecting the bail conditions, Kanu could not be produced in court on October 23, being the return date given by the magistrate, even as the DSS did not give reasons for not bringing the activist to court, thus fueling speculations of extra-judicial detention over the separatist comments of the pro-Biafra activist.
Chairman of Intersociety, Emeka Umeagbalasi condemned the extra-judicial detention of Nnamdi Kanu, even as he urged the DSS and Federal Government not to repeat the mishandling of the Yusufiyya movement that led to the extra-judicial killing of the group’s leader, Mohammed Yusuf stressing that Kanu’s fundamental rights should be respected.
In an interview with select journalists in Enugu during the 47th anniversary commemoration of Biafra Day, on May 30, 2014; Kanu projected that by September 30, 2015 Nigeria would cease to exist even as he declared his readiness to fight all the way until Biafra is carved out of Nigeria as a separate republic.
He traced the killings of Igbo people, whom he called the indigenous people of Biafra; in the northern part of the country to the lopsided development and federal superstructure that tended to reward mediocrity to the conspiracy against Igbo, saying that, “injustice makes life unbearable to our people.”
He regretted, for instance, that 47 years after the war, war veterans from the Biafran side had not been paid their allowances like their colleagues, saying; “These men fought under the Coat of Arms of Nigeria. The war broke out and they fought for their country Biafra and they have not been paid. It is a great injustice. It is a continuation of the same injustice that led us to try to extricate ourselves from this Luggard creation called zoological republic of Nigeria. That is why it is very disheartening that you see old men in every blessed month crying and wishing that their money will come to them and nothing happens”.
“As long as the intention and purpose of the amalgamation of North and South were designed to cheat the South,” he went on, “the nation would never move forward, because any country that makes injustice its watch word can never prosper.”
“The Yorubas have been paid, the Hausa Fulani have been paid; then those of them belonging to Biafra have not been paid. It is an injustice that must be addressed and it is part of the reason why we are doing what we are doing because in the new Biafra we would not have this level of injustice”.
He said no amount of national conferences can solve Nigeria’s problems, because of deep-rooted hatred among the different nationalities in the country, adding that the only panacea to Nigeria’s problems is to split it into different regions.
Kanu regretted that despite the declaration of the “No Victor, no Vanquished” outcome of the 30-month Nigeria versus Biafra civil war in 1970, “successive governments had continued to deliberately marginalize and make life unbearable for the Igbo nation and its people”.
While calling on all genuine Igbo people across the globe to rise up and join the crusade of ensuring the emergence of the Biafran Republic, Kanu maintained that it was time for the Igbo to pull out of Nigeria, which according to him is a failed nation where nothing works.
He declared: “There is no going back, by September 2015, Nigeria would have seized to exist; we shall fight until we get Biafra, if they don’t give us Biafra, no human being will remain alive in Nigeria by that time; we shall turn everybody into corpses; you better go and buy your coffins. I wonder how any right thinking fellow would want to remain in a nation where he or she has no stake or recognition. The Igbos would soon move from bondage to the promised land where God has already prepared for them, like the Israelites when they left Egypt.”
Decrying the sufferings and agonies being faced by ordinary Nigerians as a result of corruption and bad governance, Kanu asserted: “It is the watershed in the history of the geographical expression called Nigeria. It is the aftermath of the mistake of the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates by Lord Lugard. Nigeria is doomed, especially since the country is driven by world-acclaimed selfish and corrupt leaders, who do not believe in the wellbeing of the poor masses.”
Battling Elite Aloofness
BEFORE his latest travails in the hands of the DSS, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, had been at war with his former comrades in the Movement for Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and some Igbo elite, who saw his agitation as juvenile attempt to rehash history.
Yet, despite elite public rejection of any attempt to resurrect secessionist designs in the South East geopolitical zone, the resurgence of pro-Biafra organisations in the area has continued with incredible passion just as the Police and other security agencies continue to clamp down on them.
For instance, last year, barely 24 hours after the South-East Governors’ Forum (SEGF) rose from its meeting in Enugu to condemn the attempt by another separatist group, Biafran Zionist Federation (BZF) to seize the Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) radio and television station to declare a Republic of Biafra, the cenotaph built by Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB was destroyed by unknown persons.
In a communiqué signed by Governors Theodore Orji, Martin Elechi, Sullivan Chime and Deputy Governors of Anambra and Imo States, Dr. Nkem Okeke and Eze Madumere respectively, the SEGF had distanced themselves from activities of the pro-Biafran group recalling how it attempted to invade Enugu State Government House to hoist its flag.
The then chairman of SEGF, Governor Orji, who read the communiqué to journalists said they were totally against such a move to declare a State of Biafra stressing that’ “We condemned the attempt by the so-called Biafra Zionist Federation led by one Benjamin Igwe Onwuka, who earlier attempted to gain entry into government house, for the purpose of hoisting their flag and for invading the ESBS on Thursday, 5th June, 2014 in an attempt to take over the media house and declare the state of Biafra.”
Supremacy Battle
WHEN the Biafran Heroes Cenotaph at Ngwo, Enugu; was destroyed accusing fingers were also pointed I the direction of the MASSOB, which leader, Raph Uwazurike, was alleged to have sent the over 30 young men that destroyed the cement sculptures constructed by IPOB.
Though the MASSOB leader, Chief Raph Uwazuruike could not respond to the allegations that his men destroyed the multi-million cenotaph, sources close to the MASSOB leader disclosed that Uwazuruike was peeved at the effrontery of IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to raise a rival group to fight the cause of Biafra.
The source alleged that Kanu’s offence against Unwazurike was that he allegedly embezzled the sum of N4 million given to him by Uwazuruike to set up Radio Biafra, adding that Kanu fled the country abandoning his wedding ceremony when MASSOB members invaded his hometown in Umuahia to hold him to account for the money.
But the IPOB leader, Kanu, denied the allegations, saying that Uwazuruike sent his men to destroy the cenotaph that cost millions of naira out of envy, adding that “Uwazuruike destroyed the Ngwo monument because he could not build one; he knows if he builds one he will die because he is a liar and deceiver.”
While pointing out that he has done what Uwazuruike could not do, Kanu stressed, “we have raised Biafrans in over 88 countries while he is only relevant in Okwe; he is a thug for politicians and not a freedom fighter.”
On the allegation of embezzlement the IPOB leader exclaimed, “Embezzled four million naira? Lol! How can I embezzle money to run Radio Biafra? Stupid black people who can’t reason properly; I did not embezzle any money. I became bankrupt because of what I put into Radio Biafra, lies and liars.”
Buhari Versus Igbo
RELATIONS between the Federal Government headed by President Muhammadu Buhari and Nd’Igbo have not been smooth as a state of mutual suspicion and disdain underpins the relationship because while President Buhari believes that Igbo do not like him, Nd’Igbo accuse the president of punishing them for not voting for him during elections.
Igbo leaders, especially the Igbo Leaders of Thought, led by Prof. Ben Nwabueze, have continued to complain against the lopsided appointments made by President Buhari, saying that out of desire to pursue vendetta against Igbo, the president has been flouting constitutional provisions and tenets of Nigeria’s federalism.
In a communiqué by ILT after its meeting in Enugu Saturday, the group decried President Buhari’s one man rule, saying the president’s leadership style “had generated much tension and retardation as well as serious retardation of the economy, social dislocation, insecurity and polarization along ethnic and religious lines.”
Part of the communiqué read: “The ILT noted that five months since he was sworn in President Buhari has not been able to form a government but has continued to rule alone. The ILT noted that the President Buhari has violated the Constitution of the country in so many ways, including the appointments he has made so far.
“The ILT noted that President Buhari’s one man rule has generated much tension in the land, and has caused serious retardation of the economy, social dislocation, insecurity and polarization along ethnic and religious lines. The ILT supports the fight against corruption provided it is not selective and subject to constitutional limitations on power, especially limitations arising from our federal system and the guarantee of civil and political rights.
“The ILT reminds the President that the main problem of the country today is the national question, which demands, among other things, the restructuring of the federation, and calls on him to set up immediately the machinery for the purpose and for the implementation of the 2014 National Conference resolution. The ILT noted that Igbo young men who are protesting against brazen injustices against Ndigbo are being hounded. The ILT would like to remind the President that the constitution of this country guarantees freedom of expression, manifested particularly in lawful protests, as a fundamental right.”
DSS Complicates Kanu’s Detention, FG Mishandling Free Speech-Intersociety
CHAIRMAN of Board of Trustees of International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) Mr. Emeka Umeagbalasi, has cautioned the Federal Government not to repeat the mistake it made in the extra-judicial killing of the leader of the Yusufiyya Movement, Mohammed Yusuf, which snowballed into Boko Haram insurgency.
Commenting on the handling of the arrest, detention and secret arraignment of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Radio Biafra (RB) Nnamdi Kanu the Intersociety activist disclosed that the mishandling and persecution of the Biafran self-determination activist has fueled much international outcry and concern, stressing that the “torrential calls made to us and concerns expressed by millions of Nigerians, the media and foreign nationals and bodies over the ongoing ordeal of detained Citizen Nnamdi Kanu”, leave a mixed feeling of sadness and joy.
In a statement made available to The Guardian, Intersociety stated: “We are sad because a new potentially dangerous dimension has been introduced into the ordeal of the detained Biafran self-determination activist. His detention has now graduated from judicial detention to extra-judicial detention.
“That is to say that he is no longer being detained on the orders of the named Magistrate Court upon the Court’s harshly imposed bail conditions; rather, he is now detained extra-judicially according to administrative and operational whims and caprices of DSS. These administrative and operational whims and caprices lately deployed by the DSS are totally unknown to the principles of the rule of law, constitutional democracy, the 1999 Constitution and local and international human rights and humanitarian norms.”
The rights group added: “On the other hand, we are happy because, it is triumphantly necessary to inform the world that the harsh and draconian bail conditions so imposed have been met by Citizen Kanu‘s lawyers and associates as at Tuesday, 2oth October 2015, leading to filing of all necessary papers and completion of their processes in good time.
“The DSS ought to or was expected to have completed its verification process by Thursday, 22nd October 2015 and caused Citizen Nnamdi Kanu to be released in compliance with the order of the Abuja Municipal Magistrate Court, dated 19th October 2015. This, the DSS failed woefully to do till date.
“Upon meeting all draconian bail conditions so attached leading to refusal by the DSS to release the detained Biafran self-determination activist, the Presiding Magistrate made an express Production Order on Friday, 23rd October 2015 for the DSS to produce Citizen Nnamdi Kanu before his Court same date and explain why it failed to release the detained activist upon meeting the imposed bail conditions.”
While noting that Citizen Nnamdi Kanu should be set free or be tried fairly before a court of superior records or competent jurisdiction under laws clearly written with expressly defined penalties tailored in international human rights and humanitarian norms, Intersociety declared: “Our heart is further gladdened because Citizen Nnamdi Kanu was allowed for hours to meet with his lawyer, Egechukwu Obetta, in good health with access to food of fair health, hygienic and delicious standard as well as access to physician.
Intersociety lamented that “various signs of triggers of constitutional dictatorship have continuously been on increase in Nigeria since June 1, 2015 with the most shocking being collective silence or leprous opinions of the hitherto mainstream civil society of the Southwest zone.”
“Our several studies of the root causes of African dictatorship clearly indicate that dictatorship is often made possible by collective silence or misguided quietness and conformism of attentive public including professional bodies in natural and social science disciplines, labour leaders, academia, church leaders, media and rights based civil society organizations and their leaders and the Civil Society.
“Recent experiences have also shown that the doctrine of checks and balances is no longer situated among the executive, the legislative and the judiciary arms of government, but strictly between these three arms of government on one part and the civil society on the other. The collective quietness of the civil society in constitutional democracy is a clear recipe for constitutional dictatorship,” the statement further noted.
While noting that constitutional dictatorship goes beyond elongation of tenure of office to include rapacious turning of the State coercive institutions or establishment against the ordinary or common citizens and members of dissent community, Intersociety declared: “If the excesses of President Muhammadu Buhari administration are condoned and shepherded by those destined to speak out on account of civil society-opposition (former) conspiratorial demographic theory and national cake, their safety and comfort are at risk.
“Running a government of vendetta or vindictiveness clearly amounts to laying a foundation of intractable sectional discords and social fragmentation and intractable violence of tomorrow. Nobody stays in the corridors of power forever and there is even a limit to political harlotry or leprosy. Political wounds have never been healed by their direct or indirect perpetrators by running from pillar to pole using vicarious liability mantra placed upon the heads of their former terror bosses as blame game.”
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MEND started with blood letting, massacre of its own people and was settled with Oga Jonathan, immediately after the Caliphate was declared with same blood letting and massacre and Generalissimo Buhari is maradonaed in as possible mitigation against it (is it working? Now it is another Nnamdi Biafran move. Is the Ohaneze roboting the Ibos for self slaughter as a means of being settled with Ibo presidency.
Well time will tell. The experience with Ojukwu, Azikwe and others lead failed Biafra should not be forgotten. Their should be a better, humane and respect of human life way of Ibos achieving the reintegration drive, which i want to believe is the hidden objective behind the present wave of Biafranism or is it not?
No, if anything happen to Nnamdi Kanu Buhari will be held accountable and he will pay dearly . it is morally wrong for Buahri to hold Nnamdi Kanu to ransom .
Below is Buhari quote at the just concluded UNGA.
Mr. President,
27. As we engage in these annual debates, we need remind ourselves of the principles that led to the founding of the United Nations. Among those are peaceful coexistence and self-determination of peoples. In this context, Mr. President, the unresolved question of self-determination for the Palestinian people and those of Western Sahara, both nations having been adjusted by the United Nations as qualifying for this inalienable right must now be assured and fulfilled without any further delay or obstacle.
28. The international community has come to pin its hopes on resolving the Palestinian issue through the two – states solution which recognises the legitimate right of each state to exist in peace and security. The world has no more excuses or reasons to delay the implementation of the long list of Security Council resolutions on this question. Neither do we have the moral right to deny any people their freedom or condemn them indefinitely to occupation and blockade
Who was born a Slave. Yorubas? Hausa? Fulanis? or the remaining 323 lingua tribes that makes Nigeria. Let not the treachery, greediness, spiritual cowardice, proudness, loudmouthed and etc. mistakes of the past be again our downfall. Remember Zion as claimed by the Ibos have no geographical limitations.
Sorry it is not.this time nobody is interested in Nigeria or her presidency.nobody is interested in money inducement or political appointment.what we seek is freedom.we have nothing in common.Nigeria is British made and was made to last for 100 years after all before the British came my forefathers doesn’t know anything call Nigeria.we must go back as we were before lugard came.there is no justification whatsoever for the continuous existence of this fraudulent contraption call Nigeria.you can not have the Atlantic ocean surrounding our land but we go thousands of miles to clear our goods in Lagos instead a desert WARF was built in Kaduna where this no sign of any river and one must have his goods in Lagos and then go to Kaduna to clear them before transporting it back to aba.there is no justification that my son from aba must score 138 scores in order to enter a unity school while his peers from zamfara is required to score 9.there is no how one can accept international airports in all north and Lagos while he must stop at kano before flying in/out from Enugu thereby making Enugu a false international airport.there is no how umaru from jigawa owns 90% of oil wells in ukwa,obehie,uguta etc at my back yard while my son is chased away to Malaysia where police haund and propel him to jump from skyscipper building.the reason for Biafra restoration is unlimited.beside the name Nigeria means nothing in Igbo,awusa or yorobber dialects.the name Nigeria was concocted by a harlot without anybody’s consent.our value system is never the same.how can a man come from nowhere without any invitation or visa and come to say hey you,you,you from today your name is Nigeria and you are clapping for him.can you go to Jakarta now and say from today this city is called okorocha?is it possible?no! They will see you as a lunatic and put you in a psychiatric.the amalgamation report stated that the people so amalgamated are like oil and water that never mix and therefore after 100 years the indigenous people within the geographical sphere call Nigeria can go their separate ways as they were before the advent of colonialism.on the other hand,how can Mohammed be free to carry his kettle freely in iron or uyo but kalu is not free to drink a bottle of harp in katsina? Let us stop deceiving ourselves.you can practice your value system in sambisa and chop off limbs as it pleases you in your caliphate of the north while we Biaftans can drink our harp in igwueocha as we so desire.we are better off as neighbours than this false marriage that never worked and can never work even in a thousand years to come.no wonder after 100 years there is no electricity despite the huge availability of coal,gas,oil and even sun for solar energy generation of electricity.there is no reasonable argument for the continued existence of this evil contraption that has taken millions of heads.tell the terrorist pedophile buhari to release Nnamdi Kanu and let the UN conduct a referendum to determine if the people supports Biafra or wants to remain in this fraud.this is simple than all these rancur.
thy should let things be the way thy suppose to be
but please why dont you answer your name? must you bear Igbo names to comment on issues bordering Biafrans? the truth is that you cannot hide from whom you are no matter what you do
Nwaizu Ikechukwu remember we can’t always use the past to judge our future. Change is constantly in nature. Those people you called failed because they believed they can achieved it with their own power. But Nnamdi kanu is on mission from chiukwu okike abiahma to restore BIAFRA. He depend on God not man to restore it.
You are stupid
He is very stupid even more if there is anything more than that…
The facts remain that zoo Nigeria can never be one.. Creation of Nigeria is just on paper not on real ground. Nnamdi Kanu must be release whether Buhari likes it or not.. Buhari should know that he is not god and he is prune to anything even death. Now, Nnamdi kanu is already in his net.. he has power to kill him and let him kill him so that we will know that he is a despot ruler. Then, he will know that the fire he ignites he will not live to see the end of the fire to quenched.
Sorry it is not.this time nobody is interested in Nigeria or her presidency.nobody is interested in money inducement or political appointment.what we seek is freedom.we have nothing in common.Nigeria is British made and was made to last for 100 years after all before the British came my forefathers doesn’t know anything call Nigeria.we must go back as we were before lugard came.there is no justification whatsoever for the continuous existence of this fraudulent contraption call Nigeria.you can not have the Atlantic ocean surrounding our land but we go thousands of miles to clear our goods in Lagos instead a desert WARF was built in Kaduna where this no sign of any river and one must have his goods in Lagos and then go to Kaduna to clear them before transporting it back to aba.there is no justification that my son from aba must score 138 scores in order to enter a unity school while his peers from zamfara is required to score 9.there is no how one can accept international airports in all north and Lagos while he must stop at kano before flying in/out from Enugu thereby making Enugu a false international airport.there is no how umaru from jigawa owns 90% of oil wells in ukwa,obehie,uguta etc at my back yard while my son is chased away to Malaysia where police haund and propel him to jump from skyscipper building.the reason for Biafra restoration is unlimited.beside the name Nigeria means nothing in Igbo,awusa or yorobber dialects.the name Nigeria was concocted by a harlot without anybody’s consent.our value system is never the same.how can a man come from nowhere without any invitation or visa and come to say hey you,you,you from today your name is Nigeria and you are clapping for him.can you go to Jakarta now and say from today this city is called okorocha?is it possible?no! They will see you as a lunatic and put you in a psychiatric.the amalgamation report stated that the people so amalgamated are like oil and water that never mix and therefore after 100 years the indigenous people within the geographical sphere call Nigeria can go their separate ways as they were before the advent of colonialism.on the other hand,how can Mohammed be free to carry his kettle freely in iron or uyo but kalu is not free to drink a bottle of harp in katsina? Let us stop deceiving ourselves.you can practice your value system in sambisa and chop off limbs as it pleases you in your caliphate of the north while we Biaftans can drink our harp in igwueocha as we so desire.we are better off as neighbours than this false marriage that never worked and can never work even in a thousand years to come.no wonder after 100 years there is no electricity despite the huge availability of coal,gas,oil and even sun for solar energy generation of electricity.there is no reasonable argument for the continued existence of this evil contraption that has taken millions of heads.tell the terrorist pedophile buhari to release Nnamdi Kanu and let the UN conduct a referendum to determine if the people supports Biafra or wants to remain in this fraud.this is simple than all these rancur.
You said it all. God Bless you real GOOOOOD.
First go and wrestle back your so called Biafran right that was cowardly handed over to an Efik, before speak as not a porridge eater.
Nwaizu Ikechukwu, please Nnamdi kanu the indigenous people of BIAFRA leader and his group of IPOB worldwide are not interested in Nigeria politics be it President to counselor. They can’t be partaker in corrupt country. All they want is BIAFRA. They want freedom. They are not Nigeria and can never be one in Nigeria. So please go and read their manifesto or enquire well before posting selfish thoughts.
N. Kanu MUST be set free. All hail BIAFRA
We are sick and tired of this useless product of lugard creation, as this force marriage CANNOT work, so should be dissolved. All hail BIAFRA.
Our leader Nnamdi Kanu must be release unconditionally. We are not going to relent for our self determination. Biafra is my Nation
Most Nation are found on ideas but one special thing about Biafra is that it’s an identity. I’m not only a Biafran rather I’m Biafra. Nigeria have long denied me of my rights and riches but now is time to go back to my roots. FREE NNAMDI KANU AND GIVE ME BIAFRA
eboes are troublesome…wallahi…
you don’t even know how to write Igbo, it and your fathers that are trouble some. what are you looking for here? boko haram peaceful destroyers
apostle…have you set someone on fire recently?
Why not let them go while you stay your own?
who dey hold nyamiri?…na dem dey come everywhere de sell am for spare parts and fake medicin…
You forgot the KATO’n BANZA, fa.
I wish Ndigbo well in the quest for their country. Nigeria is hopeless as far as I am concerned. It is a country that will either collapse due to willful negligence of the elite to do what is right or survive after a restructuring according to the wishes of its component parts.
I however do not see why the mainstream members of the civil society who are based in the south-west should rise to the defence of Mr. Kanu. Kanu is known to have threatened violence the way of the south-west and its occupants. Besides, meddling with Igbo self-determination affairs never end well for people from the south west no matter the side they pick. Case in study: Awo, Banjo and Soyinka.
It is unbelievable that Nigeria continues to destroy fellow black people to maintain the plantation constructed for them by far away Britain. Does anyone think hat Nigeria was created for the benefit of black Africans? How pathetic!
You sound like the guy who was correctly picked up by the DSS – listen to the hogwash that is reported here that he said is the reason for his wanting a separate country for himself –
“”He regretted, for instance, that 47 years after the war, war veterans from the Biafran side had not been paid their allowances like their colleagues, saying; “These men fought under the Coat of Arms of Nigeria. The war broke out and they fought for their country Biafra and they have not been paid”””
I say, they should find him a wife, if he is not married or let his wife tell him she loves him…as it seem he is trying to impress someone with this infantile suicide mission.
You are a big fool,why are you throwing yourself on other people who do not want to stay with you in the same useless nation? Is it by force to stay together,why can’t you accept rejection if you got one? Easterners have their right to self determination and they cannot be forced forever to stay with mad idiotic people like you,who cannot grow up to do things by yoursef.
You hate this people and still dieing to live with them,perhaps they are better than you,i don’t get it. You will only learn to stand up and work if these people go to Biafra ,stop being afraid ok.
Yes there are many of us.
I think you are ignorant of the situation on ground concerning the demand for Biafra. If we reallly have right thinking leaders they should know that hounding people even in this 21st century on issues concerning self determination is absolutely wrong. The civil war ended in 1970 and till this day the real causes of the civil war are still prevailing all over the country. Ndigbo are no slaves but the only way for any person in authourity to let his voice heard is to abuse, arrest, deport, kill etc the Igboman. At a point in time in peoplles lives they would say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH and that is what Ndigbo is saying. For me I saw the civil war, knew the causes and the consequences. However, I don’t know when and I don’t know how but one thing is sure, BIAFRA will come to be one day.
I am disappointed in Nigeria government in mis using of power. the government shld tell us the offense of Kanu and where he committed it. remember, if God does not watch a city, a watch man is watching in vain. free Nnamdi now and respect human right.
Did you read this report here at all..,the guy is on a suicide mission and so the DSS must try to save him from himself
Nnamdi Kanu has fulfilled all the bail conditions buhari let the Biafra leader and freedom fighter go
Nigeria irritates me now. I dislike Nigeria with a passion.
On Biafra we stand
Biafra will surely come
I can. Confirm with all accuracy that uwazurike is a business man not a freedom fighter. At least I know his hostel in owerri built with Biafra money. When I saw that hostel I lost confidence in uwazurike. May be he started well but along the line he lost the vision and the struggle. Nnamdi Kanu has done exceedingly well because he has taken the struggle to an international level and built IPOB and Biafra into an institution.
Whoever that wrote this piece is a deceiver.
Ojukwu was our Moses Nanamdi Kanu is our Joshua, we are heading to our promise land Buhari with all his federal might is not up to the walls of Jericho and it will fall on God’s appointed time. Biafrans, prayer is the key.
We must recover our stolen billions…all these noise about non existing Biafra is attempt to distract from the job of recovering all the loot by the PDPlutocrats who bled and stole Nugeria to a comatose near-failed-state status….it is not lost on us that the same folks singing the separation songs now we’re also major actors in stealing the billions.
One statement that confirms the need for a psychiatric examination of this Kanu guy besides his messianic strain is his statement that Nigeria should pay those who fought for Biafra and lost!!!!….not prosecute them for treason..but actually pay them for fighting for the breakup of Nigeria…I wonder who is paying Kanu and these people …whoever it may be. The federal government must enforce rule of law and ensure that justice is served without fear or favor against this wannabe Oligarch with messianic strain:
Guys we are better off with Nnamdi Kanu in detention because that will account against this iliterate govt on human rights .When the White minority govt kept mandela in detention it galvanized the black south Africans into the struggle for freedom.
We should now set up different groups to take the struggle for BIAFRA outside Nigeria,let us articulate all the injustices of the past including the criminal kidnap of Nnamdi kanu by buhari and his agents in DSS.
We need to post these to Barak obama,David Cameron,Putin,Netanyehu,French govt,Banki moon of U.N,World Bank,ICJ,etc.We must mobilize our people all over the world to demonstrate in front of nigerian embassies abroad if possible burn them down,attack the president if he shows up anywhere outside nigeria with water,melon and eggs.
Biafra is dead and will remian so , as long as the igbos dont put in to account that they are strangers in land we now call nigeria.they migrated from middle east to present day nigeria during the Arab conquest of their land which is the present day Isreal , they are the only tribe that claim to be the jews which is a fact but nigerian is located in Africa not in the middle east ,that bring us back to the question of their origin. the Benin Empire was the power then at the same time when Egyptian empire was. it is the right every human to be free from oppression and right right of self determination but not in your host land. the igbos should know why they where sold in to slavery and who where the Managers of that Enterprise and why was the slaves traders in demand for igbos slaves more than every other natives africans. the managers of that Enterprise is the same people occupying their land.this is part of the igbos history they dont want to talk about. the Benin, Hausa and yorubas once had empire or kingdom to their names but the igbos dont have one in the continent they call home of their ancestors and being among one the lagest population in africa. Biafra will come to life but in the land of their farthers and which is located in the middle east.
Nnamdi Knau is not guilty of anything. There should be press freedom in Nigeria. However for 47 yrs after the Nigerian Biafra war, Biafrans are still humiliated and marginalized and penalized in Nigeria. The wide support Nnamdi Kanu is enjoying in SE is very obvious.The police have been killing IPOB members but they should be ready for the backslash when it comes.Those that stirred the nest of bokoharam are reaping the benefit today. Nigerian armed forces should stop acting before thinking and think before acting. The federal gov of Nigeria is responsible for demand for state of Biafra.If the government had not utterly neglected the former Biafran regions this would not arise.Continued stubborn incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu will lead to more harm to unity of Nigeria.
biafrans go back to israel where you come from if you are no longer please. if you dont want peace africa want to live in peace united enough of unforgiven statements you are causing troubles please dont share the blood of innocents again with individual selfish interest
While you embark on your “self deteermination” suffice me to say Leave the Southwest out of this and I quote the article-Intersociety lamented that “various signs of triggers of constitutional dictatorship have continuously been on increase in Nigeria since June 1, 2015 with the most shocking being collective silence or leprous opinions of the hitherto mainstream civil society of the Southwest zone.”
Nigeria is a doom nation,
What a parasitic country?
Even though am not an igbo man I believe in biafra!!!
And those that thinks that this is the 66/70s are going to be in the shock of their lives!
In Nigeria we are nothing but a divided people.
If trouble should breakout this time around, I can bet anyone it will be to your tent o Israel.
Enough of these monkey they work and bamboo they chop unity.
I wonder why the agitation for Biafra has suddenly grown in velocity, after all a little over a year ago most south easterners were extremely patriotic about Nigeria. Could it be because of the election loss of Ebele to Muhamadu ? I urge my Igbo brethren to consider the real reasons (endogenous and exogenous) why Biafra did not work in the first place between 1966-1969, learn those lessons before embarking on another journey that might end up putting them in a worse pace than they started. They should learn from the Japanese and from the Germans.
I keep wondering what the issues are with the agitation for the “republic of biafra”. As at the last time I checked, Igbo communities are largely autonomous. Meaning that battle for supremacy is evident. Nigeria can not afford to have Biafra as her neighbour. If at the level of agitation, MASSOB, BZF and IPOB could not agreed on their modus operandi, what do you expect from Banana Republic of Biafra that is being sought?
Bayelsa, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Edo and largely Delta states are not Igbos and can never agree to go with them. When Wachukwu was appointed as GMD of NNPC, Igbos started saying that the guy is not an Igbo man because he’s from Delta extract of the tribe. So, what is the essence of Biafra that can never unite.
I want to advise Kanu and his co-travellers from Igboland to talk to their leaders and political officeholders to use the resources available to them to develop their states and empower their people instead of embarking on suicide mission.
We will review and take appropriate action.