Radio Biafra has published the letter from James Duddridge, the minister for Africa of Commonwealth of Nations, on the continued detention of its leader Nnamdi Kanu.
Pro-Biafra Protests Hit Ukraine
The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) in Ukraine (a country in Eastern Europe) took their protest to Nigeria Embassy and International Amnesty in Kiev.
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Just as protest is currently going on in other part of the world, it is as well hitting and shaking the entirety of Biafra land.
Protesters are demanding the release of a detained radio station chief who advocates restoration of Biafra state and its independence from Nigeria.
People carried placards with slogans such as “Free Nnamdi Kanu” and waved the Biafran flag – a golden rising sun on red, black and green.
Nnamdi Kanu, director of Radio Biafra, was arrested in October by the Department of State Services. Media reports say Kanu was charged with offenses related to his station’s broadcasts.
A civil war over the self-styled Republic of Biafra ended in 1970, but the cause, which has persisted for decades and stays a sensitive issue, has seen a recent revival.
Ukraine does not take kindly to Russian President Vladimir Putin and separatism moves that have been hitting the country since 2014.
From the end of February 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and anti-government groups took place in major cities across the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine.
Nigeria Will Break Up, Biafra Will Emerge – Prophet Clifford Nmenabu
High Priest Clifford Nmenabu, the general overseer of God’s Covenant of Christ Sabbath Mission, Amannachi, in Orsu local government area of Imo state, has made new revelations about Biafra and Nigeria.
Daily Post reports that the prophet said he went into a trance during which the Lord showed him that Nigeria may be soaked in blood if the federal government fails to release the detained Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the director of Radio Biafra.
Warning against bloodshed, Prophet Mmenabu called on the international community to intervene in the Biafra situation in Nigeria, asking for the release of Nnamdi Kanu.
Addressing journalists yesterday, Wednesday, November 25, he said: “Kanu was not speaking against anybody or group of persons. His broadcasts were truth-oriented and consciousness-awakening. It was a divine arrangement for a renaissance and liberation of a particular sect who have been under bondage.”
He revealed that the prophecy of the coming of a geographical entity called Biafra was revealed to him in 1971, a year after the end of Nigeria-Biafra civil war.
According to him: “The revelation came this way: the spirit of God showed me a finger that pointed at the Nigerian map. It subsequently showed the map divided in two, one part was named Biafra and the other, Nigeria. Also in 1996, God visited and showed me, in a trance, where properties belonging to Nigeria were kept in a place at the Bridge Head, Onitsha. While some of the properties were thrown across to the Asaba end of the Niger bridge, the other was thrown across to the Onitsha end. The prophecy also says that the one thrown to Asaba area belongs to Nigeria, while the other belongs to Biafra.”
Nmenabu maintained that the Biafran project must come to fruition adding that the recent bombings in the country and particularly the bombing of the Catholic Church in Abuja were signs of ‘liberation’.
Meanwhile, Igbo leaders had a meeting in Enugu three days ago and decided to set up a delegation of elders to meet President Muhammadu Buhari concerning the marginalisation of Igbos in Nigeria.
SSS wants to transfer Mazi Kanu's case to higher court
The State Security Service on Monday asked an Abuja
magistrate court to discontinue its case against the leader of
the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.
Mr. Kanu was arraigned for criminal conspiracy, engaging in
unlawful society and criminal intimidation, which violate
Section 97, 97B and 397 of the penal code.
The presiding magistrate, Usman Shuaibu, had issued an
order for the bail of Mr. Kanu on the condition of presenting a
surety of Grade Level 16 with a landed property in Garki or
Wuse areas worth N20 million.
On resumption today, the prosecution counsel, Moses Idakwo,
told the court the accused person was yet to fully meet the
requirement for his bail.
He explained that the reason for Mr. Kanu’s continued
detention in the custody of the SSS was his inability to fully
meet the requirement for bail.
He told the court that although the service had confirmed the
office of the surety presented by the accused, the location of
the surety’s plot was yet to be ascertained.
Counsel to the defense, Vincent Obete, however informed the
court about the affidavit before it, noting that the prosecution
refused taking the necessary step to confirm the location of
the surety’s plot of land.
“If it takes this long to confirm a mere location of a plot that is
just next door to us in Abuja here, then we are in trouble,”
said Mr. Obete.
Mr. Idakwo however told the court that the SSS had stumbled
upon fresh information that had made the case outside the
jurisdiction of the magistrate court.
He therefore made an application based on section 108 sub
section 1 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, that
the case be discontinued and taken to a more appropriate
court.
In response, another defense counsel, Jude Abojeh, said the
court had given several orders to the SSS to release Mr.
Kanu on bail to no avail.
He noted that “whoever wants to come to justice should do so
with clean hands”, saying since the SSS was asking for the
discontinuation of the case, they should first comply with the
orders of the court.
He also told the court that Section108 referred mainly to a
directive by the Attorney General.
“Your Lordship, there is no such order from the AGF before
the court,” he countered.
He argued that an order was pending before the court to be
obeyed by the prosecution counsel, hence the prosecution
could not bring an application before the same court it had
disobeyed.
Mr. Idakwo however argued that the section made a provision
for an alternative if an order was not made to the AGF.
He said his client did not compulsorily need to get a directive
from the AGF.
The magistrate therefore said he had taken note of all the
proceedings concerning the disregard of his orders by the
prosecution counsel when he asked for the confirmation of the
location of the surety’s plot of land.
He added that he had already signed the affidavit from the
defense counsel noting his refusal to confirm the location of
the surety’s plot.
He said the court would look critically into the various
applications and counter applications before coming up with
its ruling.
The case was therefore adjourned till December 1 for ruling.
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Biafra : Intimidation has no effect on Us -MASSOB
NNAMDI Kanu
Group slams FG over Kanu’s detention
Traders woo Buhari
Uwazurike hosts Bianca Ojukwu
By Nwabueze Okonkwo & Chimaobi Nwaiwu
Nnewi— The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign
State of Biafra, MASSOB, has said that no amount of
intimidation, harassment and blackmail will ever deter its
leader Chief Ralph Uwazurike from dropping the agitation for
the actualization of Biafran Republic.
This was disclosed by the Regional administrator for
MASSOB, in Isu, Imo State, Prince Ogaraku Venatus in a
statement made available to Vanguard.
“We have absolute confidence, trust, respect, and faith in our
leader and father of the agitation for Biafra actualization Chief
Ralph Uwazuruike’s leadership traits and strong conviction to
actualize Biafra.
“We have also uncovered a planned move by some
disgruntled Igbo politicians to stage anti-Biafra rally in Abuja.
That move will fail and our leader Chief Uwazurike is not
worried about such silly and selfish move by the people we
understand have been paid heavily to do the protest.
“Chief Uwazurike has succeeded in telling the Federal
Government of Nigeria that he does not mince words in his
determination to achieve the Biafran state and equally expose
the injustice done to Ndigbo . So, the politician whose interest
is nothing more than money in their pockets cannot stop
MASSOB or any other pro-Biafra group,”he said.
Prince Ogaraku also prayed that no evil plan intended to
scuttle the Biafra struggle will succeed.
Restoration of Biafra
Similarly, another Igbo political group, Ndigbo United
Assembly, NUA, yesterday, added its own voice in the on-
going agitation for the restoration of Biafran state, saying that
Biafra is on course.
Speaking to newsmen during a peaceful demonstration
embarked upon by members of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, IPOB, President-General of NUA, Comrade Peter Okala
declared: “My take on the Biafran agitation is positive in the
sense that our colonial masters knew our differences before
making a contract of amalgamation to try if we could
understand ourselves, but the fact remains that till date, the
centre could not hold and the South East is still hated with
passion by our Northern and South West brothers.”
Okala who is also a one-time governorship candidate of the
National Conscience Party, NCP, in Anambra State asked:
“Could you imagine Wole Soyinka using Igbo people to
popularize his seminar topic in far away United States of
America, where he was quoted as saying that Igbo people
can only vote at the direction of their stomach? So, what kind
of a hopeless statement from a so-called prominent citizen is
that?
“In Nigeria today, if one is asked to name 100 most corrupt
people in Nigeria who have emptied our treasury , hardly will
an Igbo man be among them. But we are abused in every
part of Nigeria as people, who could do anything to get
money simply because the West is in control of the media and
the North has partnered with them to marginalize the South-
East.”
Okala also observed that the inabilty of political office holders
in the South -East to join the pro-Biafra movement is not a
crime because it may be a treason in Nigerian laws, but it’s
the right of every person to choose an association or a
country he or she should belong to and there is no law that
will empower anyone or institution to stop it.”
Quenching agitations
Uwazurike
Meantime, a coalition of civil society organizations based in
the South-East geo-political zone has advised the Federal
Government to stop chasing shadows by deploying huge state
resources that should be put for good public use, into
influencing and compromising some individuals and groups,
in an attempt to quench the on-going agitations.
The group advised the federal government to rather look
inwards critically so as to study and identify those issues that
have remained unaddressed till date that resulted to the
earth-shaking agitations in the South-East and the South-
South zones.
The group said that trying to influence or compromise some
individuals or groups would rather end up escalating the
issue and possibly blowing same out of proportion and push
agitators to a radical and uncontrollable end, which may lead
to another round of insurgency.
In a press statement, yesterday in Onitsha, Anambra State,
the groups stated that the Federal Government must be told in
a clear terms that those being compromised and influenced to
recant are not in control of the movement and millions of its
supporters and sympathizers.
It added: “These sets of conformist individuals and groups
have long disgraced themselves and lost touch with the
mainstream grassroots of the South-East zone, which is why
in a bid to justify crumbs federally received, they end up on
the pages of newspapers with their faceless and mushroom
groups.”
In the statement jointly signed on their behalf by Comrade
Aloysius Attah, for CLO; Comrade Peter Onyegiri for Centre for
Human Rights & Peace Advocacy; Comrade Samuel Njoku for
Human Rights Club (a project of LRRDC); Comrade Justus
Uche Ijeoma for Forum for Justice, Equity & Defence of
Human Rights; Comrade Chike Umeh for Society Advocacy
Watch Project; Obianuju Joy Igboeli, Esq. for Anambra Human
Rights Forum; Comrade Emeka Umeagbalasi for Intersociety;
Comrade Alex Olisa for Southeast Good Governance Forum
and Eze Eluchie for: PADDI Foundation, the coalition said the
first critical step is to withdraw all trumped up charges leveled
against Citizen Nnamdi Kanu and to release him
unconditionally with immediate effect from the DSS captivity.
According to the coalition, “A Nigeria of pluralism and
democratic constitutionalism, equality and fairness with no
distinction in theory and practice as to ethnicity, place of birth,
education, sex, class, oligarchic or aristocratic background
and religion is always a preferred option and can be safely
described as a united Nigeria. But a Nigeria of the opposite
remains the worst option, while assertion of right to
independent statehood is its best alternative. This is because
it is better to live free in a land flowing with poverty than to
live buoyantly in a land shackled and manacled by chains of
slavery and enslavement”.
It further added: “To assuage the earth-shaking agitations
and placate the people of the Southeast zone, all the age-long
structural imbalances must be redressed especially the
country’s geopolitical imbalances including lopsidedness in
the number of States, LGAs, Senatorial Districts, Federal
Constituencies, Federal Roads, Fiscal Allocations and
geopolitical compositions of the field formations and
headships of the Army, Police, Air Force, Navy, DSS, NIA,
FRSC, Prisons and Customs”.
“In the area of federal public office holders in Nigeria drawn
from the six geopolitical zones, the Southeast zone is
abysmally represented. For instance, no senior police officer
from the zone is among the current heads of the country’s 12
Police Zonal Commands and the few serving AIGs from the
zone have since gone on statutory retirement leaving the zone
no known serving AIGs out of the country’s current Police
AIGs of at least 22″.
“All these are owing to age-long deliberate policy designed to
stunt their promotions and posting till in the twilight of their
statutory retirements when they are given retirement
promotions. The composition of CPs and AIGs’ cadres of the
Nigeria Police Force is also grossly lopsided in fragrant
breach of Section 14 (3) of the 1999 Constitution. The same
gross lopsided composition is the case in the Nigerian
Custom, Nigerian Immigration Service, the Nigerian Prisons
Service, the DSS, the NIA, Army, Navy and the Air Force.
“In the headships of SPUs, ATSs, SARS, Federal Highway
Police, the Mobile Police and Border Police composition and
headship in the Nigeria Police Force; same is the case;
likewise the country’s federal Appeal and Federal High Court
and Appeal and Supreme Court Judges and Justices in which
the zone is acutely represented. The same gross lopsidedness
and exclusion are the order of the day in federal ministers,
directors, headships of federal executive bodies as well as
Service Chiefs and other top non ministerial federal
appointments”.
Drumming support for Buhari
However, a group of traders under the aegis of South East
Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, SEAMATA, has
disowned the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign
State of Biafra, MASSOB and the Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB, and their agitation and activities for the actualization of
Sovereign State of Biafra.
Addressing newsmen yesterday in Onitsha, the traders
through a statement signed by Chief Okwudili Ezenwanko and
Honourable Temple Udeh, President General and Secretary
General respectively, of SEAMATA, said they are constrained
to react to the continuous calls for the closure of business in
South east in protest and solidarity for actualization of Biafra
agitators.
The news conference by the traders was attended by Chief
Christian Nwabuani, Vice President, Abia state, Peter Obah,
Financial Secretary, Ebonyi state, Elder Martin Inuozor,
Treasurer, Imo State, Austin Onyia assistant Public Relations
Officer, from Enugu State, including other officials from the five
South East states of the zone.
SEAMATA said “the difficulties and hardship which the traders
in particular and residents in general suffer during these
protests has made the traders to direct that we react to the
situation and development which is adversely affecting them”.
Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, sandwiched between
security operaives, leaving the court in Abuja.
“The traders in the zone are therefore, disassociating
themselves jointly and severally from the activities of these
agitators, the invasion of markets and other business outfits
and the destruction of private property of individuals like
shops and vehicles in the name of pro Biafra protest is not
only condemnable but also unacceptable.
“We are yet to understand the wisdom in the protest where
the properties and other valuables belonging to Igbos are
either vandalized or destroyed by the fellow Igbos in the name
of Pro Biafra protest, when the hardship which the Igbos that
relocated from North East in the wake of Boko Haram
insurgency are passing through is still staring on our faces,
and the agitators are calling on other doing their normal
business in other parts of Nigeria to come back to South
East.”
MASSOB reacts
But reacting to the allegation of destruction of properties,
shops and personal belonging of fellow Igbos, MASSOB
factional National Director of Information, Comrade Uchenna
challenged SEAMATA and their leadership to name and show
evidence of anybody whether or not whose property has been
destroyed since the protest started.
“Even the Police Divisions in Onitsha and Onitsha Area
Command and their boss has confirmed that all the protest by
Biafran agitators has been peaceful and it was reported by
different media organization in and outside South East states
including the ones at Abuja.
“Chief Ezenwankwo is not SEAMATA President General
because at no time was he elected by South East traders,
neither is he elected by Anambra traders as AMATAS
President General, he and his groups he claim to head both in
South East and Anambra State do not represent the Igbo or
Anambra traders, but their pay masters, South East Governors
and Anamnbra State Governor, who appointed them to collect
revenues from traders for government of the respective states,
with their own share included in the levies they collect.
“Those people who call themselves SEAMATA are South East
Governors stooges, used in siphoning the traders, they are
used to milk the traders dry in the name of revenue collection,
most of them do not have shops in the markets.
“Most of the people that are demonstrating are traders who
out of their love for Biafra willingly closed their shops to join
in the agitation of Biafra and release of Nnamdi Kanu, Igbo
traders for your information are not complaining about the
closure of market which MASSOB or IPOB did not even
direct.”
Also reacting, one of IPOB’s spokesmen, Mr. Emma Powerful,
dismissed SEAMATA claim of destruction, saying that they are
not recognized in Igbo land, adding that “we have been doing
this protest in different parts of the world and the international
community knows that we have been peaceful and civil in all
we are doing,”.
Uwazuruike hosts Bianca
In another development, the Leader of the Movement for the
Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief
Ralph Uwazuruike yesterday revealed that the movement has
concluded arrangements to host important dignitaries at this
year’s fourth annual ceremony marking the memorial
anniversary of the late Biafra’s Head of State and Ikemba
Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.
In a press statement issued to newsmen in Onitsha, Anambra
state on behalf of Uwazuruike, MASSOB’s Deputy National
Director of Information, Chris Mocha, confirmed that already,
wife of the late Ojukwu, Bianca; former Chief Security Adviser
to late General Sani Abacha, former military Head of state,
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha and Leader of Movement for the
Emancipation of Niger-Delta, MEND, Alhaji Mujaheed Asari
Dokubo have indicated their interest to attend the occasion.
Pro Biafra groups reject South East Governors Resolution
The South East governors have failed in their effort to end
ongoing protests by members of the Movement for
Actualization for Sovereign State of Biafra and Indigenous
People of Biafra, over the continued detention of the director of
Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
In a statement on Wednesday, MASSOB rejected the
resolutions, arguing that it did not address the major reason
for the protest – the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu.
Igbo leaders including present and past governors, ministers,
national assembly members, held a meeting and resolved to
set up a committee to dialogue with the pro-Biafra agitators.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, who spoke to
reporters on behalf of the participants after their meeting at
Government House in Enugu on Sunday, said a committee
would be set up to dialogue with the pro-Biafra agitators with
a view to ending the crisis.
But the National Director of Information of MASSOB, Uchenna
Madu, said the only way to end the crisis is the unconditional
release of Mr. Kanu.
The group also said it was worrisome that South East
governors met without their counterparts from the South
South region, which also witnessed some protests.
“MASSOB is not satisfied with all the meeting of Igbo leaders
on Sunday because of no seriousness on the plight of Nnamdi
Kanu,” Mr. Madu said.
“How can revered Igbo leaders waste a whole day in a
marathon meeting without discussing our simple demand of
Nnamdi Kanu’s release?
“Are they afraid of Northern oligarchy, western alliance with
north or President Buhari? The governors, Ohaneze and other
Igbo leaders have proved that they’re not representing the
interest & demands of Ndigbo.
“They have shown their soft mind, inferiority complex and
loyalty to our oppressors, we shall prove to Nigeria that the
Igbo governors, national assembly members, other Igbo
leaders are not truly in charge of affairs in Igboland.
“DSS is buying time for long incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu to
impress Buhari and Northern political cabals that they can
frustrate Biafra revolution.
“Long incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu by DSS will only
motivate, inspire and increase the moral of Biafran agitators.
How long shall they continue to detain an innocent man who
already commands the massive respect of Ndigbo even in
detention?
“MASSOB and IPOB members are not demonstrating or
protesting against infrastructural decay in Igboland or non
inclusion of Igbos in major political appointments but the
release of our brother, Nnamdi Kanu, who represents the
genuine desire of the people eastern region.
“Other demands and clamour of Ndigbo as a result of the
current political tension are good but major one now is the
release of Nnamdi Kanu.”
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