Nnamdi Kanu Continued Trial, a Show of Stupidity By Nigerian Judges

 

By Utiung Mathias | For The Biafra Times

November 30, 2020.

The leader of the freedom-fighting group, Indigenous people Of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was arrested by Nigerian government on 15th October 2015 on some baseless charges. He was released on bail after 18 months in detention on strenuous bail conditions.

Kanu was to appear in court on 17th October 2017 but on 14th September 2017, the Nigerian army acting on the orders of Abba Kyari, the then chief of staff to the president, invaded his house with the sole aim of killing him. 28 men died resisting that assassination attempt, with a lot more sustaining grave injuries, and many still abducted. The target, Kanu, however escaped the assassination attack but with life-threatening injuries.

Despite the overwhelming evidence and the gross consequence of the senseless action of the Nigerian military, the Supreme Court ruling on the charges of Kanu, failed to question the military over the attempted assassination of a man standing trial.

In their duplicity, the judges ruled against Kanu and even revoked his bail. What a regressive approach to judgment!

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#EndSARSReloaded: Evaluating the efficacy of the Nigerian youths

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers 

November 29, 2020

During the #EndSARS protests, a plateful of potentials of the Nigerian youths was demonstrated for the world to see. To start with, the Twitter account of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) was hacked alongside the website of the Nigeria Police Force by the angry youths. The EFCC and INEC websites were not left out.

Still on that, both the Dstv and Gotv channels were hacked as evident in the Twitter comments of their subscribers.  We saw defenseless youths who were able to invade police stations, discover and invade the warehouses harbouring  corona virus palliatives. These and lots of other things which played out in that two weeks of protest defined their herculean rough side.

The government may have succeeded in chasing them back to their homes by unleashing on them the murderous military, but is the problem solved or the rage of the Nigerian youths aggravated?

When one thought they have been cowed into submission, they resurfaced again with different hashtags #WeMove, #EndSARSReloaded #SoroSoke.  "We are coming," they say.

As the Nigerian youths have set December 7th, 2020, as the day they will return to the streets protesting, the world is now watching how the Nigerian government will approach the issue again especially now that the world giant media houses are reporting it.

What does the Nigerian youths mean by "we are coming?" of course they understand that the government which chose to annihilate them is not ready to heed their voices. What other option is left for the devastated youths? Violent engagement it seems. But they need the government to push them again, hence #WeMove. 

The French revolution that was a turning point event in modern European history had a semblance of this one. When the French people were dissatisfied with their king’s extravagant life and bad economic policies, youths expressed their anger on the government. They first rioted. Secondly, they looted and thirdly, they struck.

The Nigerian youths have rioted and have also looted. Let their next move not be what I am thinking because its calamities will be unheard of in the world. Yet again, someone looks ready to provoke them.

Dialogue now.

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SARS to SWAT: APC and Their Cosmetic Change

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu | Biafra Writers

November 25, 2020.

At the fetus stage of the 2015 Nigerian election campaign, the APC party presented itself as that political party the people has been longing for. To the rest of Nigeria, except the Southeast region where he lost woefully, APC was a Saint.

But looking at how APC has piloted the affairs of this country in the last six years, one can see that the condemnation the APC used on PDP to buy people's trust was a cosmetic condemnation. This is because the current dispensation of APC has done more harm than all the PDP past dispensations put together.

The change they promised the people was also cosmetic. A change to make Nigeria a safe home for all Nigerians is now a promise to make Nigeria a safe home for all Fulanis in West Africa instead.

During their campaigns, APC promised to end insurgency in the country in just six months. This of course startled the people and resultantly won them over. With the APC takeover however, killings intensified within the said six months.

The promise is that Boko Haram will be defeated. To confuse the people, the APC party strategically figured out a way to make the people think that they have defeated insurgency by changing the narratives of Boko Haram attacks.

Boko Haram attacks are now ascribed “Bandits attacks.” The Nigerian media aided in this cosmetic change by replacing the name Boko Haram with Bandits and Fulani Herdsmen in their various reports.

Still on the same cosmetic change, the APC once again changed the name of the Nigerian Prison Service to the Nigerian Correctional Service amidst calls to reform Nigeria prisons.

Rather than enhance the mode of service there and make the prisons more inhabitable for inmates, they only renamed it. But the same complains are still flooding in and the prisons remain unkempt and so archaic.

Currently is the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The SARS is a horrible squad in the police service with activities quite similar to the Fulani sharia practices. Sharia opposes Western life and SARS also does that.

As the citizens are clamouring for this group of police force to be closed, the APC party in their cosmetic change, as usual, changed the name of the force from SARS to SWAT. Say no to APC cosmetic change.

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History repeating itself, Wike and Ken Saro Wiwa - Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

November 10, 2020 | The Biafra Times

 A little over 50 years ago, a young pretender to the throne Wike is aspiring to occupy today, by the name Ken Saro Nwiwa, later named Wiwa, just as Nwike is now Wike instead of Nwike by removing the first letter 'N' in his Igbo surname, made the mistake of betraying his own, the people of Biafra. Today his village has not only been destroyed by pollution courtesy of successive regimes of the same cattle herding, intellectually backward and roundly primitive Fulani tribe, they also KILLED him. And I ask, is Ogoni free today as a result of Saro Wiwa's betrayal? We all all know the answer to that. Wike, this is the same prize you will pay for your betrayal of Biafra but yours will be worse because the name Wike will no longer exist. 

To add a lorry load of insult to injury, they have now converted Saro Wiwa's village to a land of prisoners and the dead. An important lesson to the people of Ogoni and those who may be contemplating supporting Wike. You all must know that betrayal of your people never pays! In the end your Fulani masters will kill you and the same people you claim you are trying to shield from Biafra, enslaved for life.

Read Also: #EndSars: Nigerian Youths failed because they had the Wrong People in Mind

Exact scenario in Ogoni land played out a while back in Oduduwa land. A Yoruba prince and warrior named Afonja the then Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland from Illorin a core Yoruba territory, betrayed his nation by serving the cause of the Janjaweed Fulani caliphate as Bola Ahmed Tinubu is doing today. Like Ken Saro Wiwa, he too paid with his life because the Fulani Janjaweed he so dilligently served killed him and took over his land. They did not just build prisons and burial grounds in Illorin, they took the whole town over and in place of the usual Yoruba Oba they installed their Fulani emir. To this day Fulani has been ruling Illorin a Yoruba town. Illorin now report to Sokoto not  Ife. Betrayal of your people never pays!

Sometimes I wish Nigerian youths and some of their confused, ego-maniacal and murderous rulers like Wike can pause and have regard for history.

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Unveiling The Obigbo Army Killing Fields: 50 Killed, 80 Injured, Scores Disappeared & Hundreds Held In Secrecy - Intersociety

 

…in all, 110 killed & 200 injured by Army and Police in Rivers, Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi & Enugu via EndSARS

Friday, 6th Nov. 2020 | The Biafra Times

The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law can circumstantially, verifiably and statistically state that the EndSARS protests in the Igbo States of Rivers (largely Igbo), Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia and Imo were turned into shooting and killing spree by ethno-religiously imbalanced armed soldiers of the Nigerian Army and personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, leading to close range shooting to death of at least 110 unarmed citizens and terminal injuring of at least 200 others.

These, including Gov Wike aided Army massacre in Obigbo and environs, generally took place in 14 days or from 21st Oct to 4th Nov 2020. The killings were so glaring that the corpses of the slain littered inside the bushes and by the roadsides; with some buried shallowly or left to decompose and others picked up by their relatives or emergency officials of some of the affected States especially Rivers and Enugu States. There are also independent reports of scores of bodies of the slain buried atrociously by soldiers in shallow graves including melting them with acid substances. Such was the case in Aba in Feb 2016 and Sept 2017 and Onitsha and Nkpor in May 2016.

While most of the shootings, killings and injuries had occurred between 21st and 24th Oct 2020; a period of three days, in Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo and Abia States, those of Obigbo and environs in Rivers State took place between 21st Oct when the Gov Nyesom Wike imposed curfew in Oyigbo Local Government Area, targeting Obigbo and environs and 4th Nov, a period of 14 days, when the curfew supposedly elapsed and the massacre forced to subside following public outcries. Since then, Gov Wike has been running from pillar to pole defending himself, saying he ‘did not invite soldiers to kill Obigbo residents”.

We also wish to state clearly that the 50 death figures and 80 gunshot injuries in Obigbo and environs are most likely to be very conservative. This is going by the fact that pieces of credible information are still filtering in and what we have given here is the general evaluation of what happened. The projected 50 deaths and 80 injuries were temporarily arrived at based on credible information gathered from some of the survivors, who also told us that “they saw soldiers driving away dozens of blindfolded residents of their area (Obigbo and environs) with their hands tied behind their back and taken away half naked in batches of military vehicles”. Intersociety is presently carrying out extensive investigation into the massacre especially with regard to ascertaining the final figure of the dead, the tortured, the sexually harassed including the raped; the burnt, the destroyed, the looted, the arrested and incarcerated and the permanently disappeared.

The number of those blindfolded and made half naked who were independently seen being taking away is estimated at over 200. Our contacts who independently verified from police authorities said police told them that none of them arrested and taken away by soldiers since 21st Oct has been handed over to the Rivers State Police Command as at 4th Nov 2020. This raises serious suspicion of secret killing of scores of them by soldiers and possible decimation of their bodies with acid substances for purpose of erasing traces. We also seriously suspect that those arrested since two weeks and possibly held illegally in secret Army custodies are most likely to be undergoing outlawed and agonizing detention practices.

Therefore, as statistics conscious rights group, Intersociety has refused to speak categorically on Obigbo massacre until pieces of reliable statistics or information are gathered. That is to say that this position of ours on the number of the slain and the maimed arising from the massacre is not final, but a credible attempt to present the thirsty global community with a general statistical idea of what the ethno-religiously lopsided Nigerian Army did to Christian citizens of old Eastern Nigeria in Obigbo and environs, in full conspiracy of Gov Nyesom Wike.

We are also in possession of dozens of photos and videos of the slain and the maimed, collected from Rivers, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Enugu and Abia States. Apart from getting them from direct source, they have also been manually and forensically investigated. The photos and videos, many of which not public image friendly, except on personal or formal request, clearly depict deadly use of force by the culpable soldiers and police personnel particularly in Obigbo and environs where ‘heavy’ military bullets were used against unarmed and defenseless citizens.

The victims were also targeted and shot at close range and forbidden or sensitive parts of their bodies; all with intent to massacre or slay.  That is to say that the slain victims seen and verified were shot at close range and their sensitive parts including forehead/brain, chest/heart, abdomen/manhood, stomach, and eyes/nose/mouth regions. For instance, Intersociety agrees with Gov Nyesom Wike, to an extent, that “some photos and videos being flooded in the social media as those linked to Obigbo massacre are fake or not connected with same”, but not all of them are fake or with different origins.

Gov Wike’s position on this has implied that ‘soldiers and proscribed SARS operatives did not kill  defenseless residents of Obigbo and environs, or destroy and burn properties including residences, or sexually harass including engaging in forced sexual intercourse with or raping unmarried/young married women, or carry out general acts of torture, or blindfold some defenseless residents, take them to unknown military destinations and possibly kill them, or engage in mass arrest of hundreds of the residents of the area; etc. Contrarily, reverse is the case.

Obigbo Casualties & Injuries: Therefore, in Obigbo and environs in Rivers State, we can temporarily confirm the killing of at least 50 unarmed citizens and injuring of not less than 80 others. We can also confirm eleven deaths so far out of which, eight has their names identified and three yet to be named. Their names are: (1) Pastor Igwe (slain husband of Mrs. Amara Igwe), (2) Queen Nwazuo (slain fiancée of Mr. Monday Bakor), (3) Okoro Peter and (4) Chinwendu O.: they were shot at close range and killed instantly by soldiers on 24th Oct 2020 few meters away from Gov Wike’s convoy.

The Gov was visiting Obigbo to assess his military deployment and curfew same day and the two young residents barely emerged from their houses to hear what their Gov has come to tell them when soldiers sighted them and opened fire, killing them instantly. They were shot at forehead, forcing the brain-box of Late Chinwendu to bust and emptied at the center of the road. Other dead citizens were: (5) Jude Egejuru (died from gunshot injuries), (6) Clifford Nkemdilim, (7) Late Miss Ngozi Ozuo, (8) Udeme Ossy Monday, (9) a yet-to-be identified dead citizen, (10) second yet-to-be-identified citizen and (11) third yet-to-be-identified dead citizen. It must be noted that soldiers took away bodies of most of those killed.

Among the deadly injured are: (1)  Chukwuma Chinonso, (2) Nwoke Okwudiri Nwonye, (3) Uche Ogbonna, (4) Chikaodi Agwu, (5) Michael Okwudiri, (6) John Emeka, (7) Agwu Enyi, (8) Obichukwu Chibuike, (9) Izuchukwu Igwe, (10) Eluu Chukwuemeka, (11) Arinze Joshua, (12) Nwakama Izuegbe, (13) Destiny Okorie, (14) Michael Nkama, (15) Israel Asoh, (16) Emeka Heart, (17) Victor Heart, (18) Orji Amaoji, (19) Paschal, (20) Obasi Emela, (21) Chiwuzu Orjinta and (22) Sylvester Odoche.

Casualties & Injuries Across The Southeast: In Ebonyi State, where at least ten citizens were killed, among them were: (1) Nwibo Chibueze, (2) Nwali Emeka, (3) a yet-to-be-identified young man in his twenties and (4) Ofoke Sunday. Among at least 30 victims of gunshot wounds in the State are: Oshopo Chinedu, (2) Ngoke The, (3) Nwoji Ikechukwu, (4) Nwovu Ikechukwu, (5) Nwofe Lewis, (6) Elom Chimezie, (7) Opoke Mbakwe, (8) Onwe Monday, (9) Elochukwu Suday, (10) Onwe Ezekiel, (11) Igwe Uchenna, (12) Nwudele Uchenna, (13) Nwudele Uchenna, (14) Nwamiri Chukwudi, (15)  Nwebi Stephen, (16) Nwofoke Ugochukwu, (17) Nwoke Peter, (18) Mbam Emmanuel, (19) Okey Emeka, (20)Egba Izuchukwu, (21) Awoke Nnamdi and (22) Alo Peter.

In Enugu State, where at least ten citizens were killed, among them were: (1) Christian Ugwuaja, (2) Sunday Chime, (3) Victor Igwe and (4) John Ikemuefuna. Among at least 30 gunshot victims are: (1) Okafor Kosisochukwu, (2) Ezeagbo Ifeanyi, (3) Odigomma Chimazom, (4) Ajah Chukwuemeka, (5) Somtoo Nwaeze, (6) Innocent Ominyi, (7) Friday Mgebebu, (8) Ezinduamaka Osondu, (9) Happiness Chidiebere, (10) Chinonso Obodoagu, (11) Idoko Ebuka, (12) Ibebuike Uzoigwe, (13) Chidi Oguejiofor, (14) Odinaka Ejim, (15) Solomon Okafor, (16) Ani Ifedibalachukwu, (17) Ituma Tochukwu, (18) Oge Simon, (19) Ezeaga Chukwuma, (20) Onwuna Kosiso, (21) Onwe Humphrey, (22) Sunday Kingsley Nweze and (22) Akpataobi Peter.

In Anambra State, where at least ten unarmed citizens were killed, among them were: (1) Ezenwile Okwuchukwu John, (2) Obasi Mmaduabuchi, (3) Nwafor Ikechukwu and (4) Ekeh Emmanuel Friday; and among 20 wounded citizens are: (1) Okafor Chidi, (2) Ogbada Chinonso, (3) Chigozie Ezenwa, (4) Nwokwu Anayochukwu and (5) Onuoha Kalu. In Abia State, where up to, if not over 20 citizens were killed, among them were: (1) Ifeanyi Nwaogu, (2) Isaiah Chiedozie, (3) Chijoke, (4) Chinedu, (5) Kelechi Godslove, (6) Uche (killed at Ogbohill, Aba), (7) Gorge (killed along Cameroon Road, Aba) and (8) Chukwuka Odinaka Omemma; and among some 25 gunshot injured citizens are: (1) Cyprian Onwe, (2) Uchenna Kalu, (3) Nze Anayo Okoro, (4) Enyinnaya Agha and (5) Chinomso Nkalu. In Imo State, ten persons were killed in Mbaitolu and Orlu and about 15 others shot and injured. Among the dead were Late Mr. Agomuo of IMSUBEB (killed by Army at Nworie-Ubi, Owerri) and Mr. Uwadi Ebuzoeme shot dead in Orlu.    

Signed:

Principal Officers: Emeka Umeagbalasi (Board Chair), Chinwe Umeche, Esq., (Head of Democracy), Obianuju Igboeli, Esq., (Head of Civil Liberties), Ndidiamaka Bernard, Esq., (Head of Int’l Justice & Human Rights) and Comrade Sam Kamanyaoku (Head of Field Data Collection & Documentation)

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#EndSars: Nigerian Youths failed because they had the Wrong People in Mind

By Eluwa Chidiebere Chinazu

Wednesday,November 4, 2020.

Wars are won only when you weigh the strength and strategy of your enemy. This is impossible though when you are dealing with an unseen enemy. You cannot defeat what you cannot see. IPOB soars like eagle because they realize who their true enemy is.

During the promising #EndSars protest that even the old were happy with and had hoped would correct their past mistakes, the youths had the wrong people in mind while protesting and this authored their failure.

Some people refer to Nigeria as a movie script of Britain, others as a British enterprise. Whichever name one might prefer, all points to what it was – Royal Niger Company of Britain, instituted for British gain. When this argument of British influence in Nigeria crops up, some will say that Nigeria has gained her independence and so that is all in the past now. But has Britain lost her influence in Nigeria? Till date, whenever Nigeria faces trial, the first people that badges in is the British. The Lekki Tollgate massacre instances this.

Less than forty eight hours of the British High Commission’s meeting with the 2023 presidential aspirant in Nigeria, Chief Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu, the Nigerian soldiers were deployed to massacre the peaceful protesters at Lekki Tollgate. This meeting that led to the killing of the people could be best described as a meeting between a CEO of a company and an employee. The British government is ready to waste thousands of Africans in order to protect their company as the CEO they are. This is the same reason why the British Broadcasting commission (BBC) has failed to report the truth.

Like the Biafra-Nigeria war which the British government under Harold Wilson instigated to shake off the Biafran whom they saw as a stumbling block, they plotted the Lekki massacre to nip in the bud the an uprising that could have cost them the life of their Royal Niger company. It should be remembered that until the British High Commissioner, Catriona Laing, came into the scene, there was no record of such brutality.

The youths should now know their real enemy and do something about it. We cannot continue to allow the British instigate blood bath in our land. We all should rise up and confront our problem.

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The Failed Revolution and the Wrong Choice of the Revolutionaries

Offor Princewill Akubumma |For Biafra Writers

November 3, 2020.

During the brief revolution that took place in Nigeria, the youths were left with two options: food and the key to their destiny. There is no gainsaying that the destiny of most Nigerian youths has been under lock and key – a situation orchestrated by the ruling class.

Had this recent revolutionary march been sustained for two more weeks, absolute freedom would have been attained. But the youths chose their stomach over freedom of oppression from the government. They succumbed to the government's tricks and allow themselves to be lured with food and Covid-19 palliatives.

The revolution lasted for just two weeks and the youths were already wining; the government, apparently in a tight corner, was yielding. Moreover, international community was backing the youths.

As the scenario snowballed into a battle between the ruling class and the poor masses, the ruling class hired some unscrupulous elements to disrupt the protest, attack individuals and destroy property, thus making the whole show look violent in nature.

Using this as a pretext, curfew was imposed and the murderous military officially unleashed on the protesters.  And as the youths retired back home, the media houses, under the brutal control of the government, were conveniently deployed to paint the brief revolution black. The protesting youths were demonized, and now being labeled hoodlums, are massively incarcerated.

As the saying goes, unless the lion learns to tell its own story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. The youths must as a matter of urgency rise up to correct the false narratives of the government and its pocketed media. They should let the world know that the government has reneged on all its promises as it concerns the demands of the protest.

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