THE B F R A NA TIONALIST f o r G o d a n d H u m a n i t y 08.09.2022 / THURSDA Y No.000009 Referendum Business Technology AfricaCulture S E C R E T K I L L I N G S A N D H O U S E B U R N I N G S B Y S E C U R I T Y F O R C E S A N D A L L I E D M I L I T I A S I N T E N S I F I E D I N I M O , A N A M B R A A N D B E N U E I N P A S T J U L Y A N D A U G U S T 2 0 2 2 R E S U L T I N G I N H U N D R E D S O F D E A T H S A N D B U R N I N G S T H E C O U R T D A T E O F M A Z I N N N A M D I K A N U H A S B E E N B R O U G H T F O R W A R D T O N E X T W E E K T U E S 1 3 T H S E P T E M B E R , 2 0 2 2 A G I T A T I O N F O R A P E A C E F U L S E P A R A T I O N I S N O T T R E A S O N ! WWW .THEBI AFRAN A TION ALIST .COM God Page 9 Page 13 arriage is an institution as many will say . T o many cultures, it is more than its description as a M sacrament. Depending on your school of thought, interpretation differs. However , it is a thing of joy and prosperity , which I believe procreation embodies. Even though there are many marriages W E M U S T B E M E N T A L L Y S T R O N G F O R B I A F R A N N A M D I K A N U H O W L O N G W I L L T H I S M A R R I A G E O F I N C O M P A T I B L E S L A S T ? Page 43 By: Ukachukw Okorie
M a n y p a r t s o f t h e c o u n t r y a r e insecure as kidnapping becomes very lucrative. Elites who are easy t a r g e t s f o r r a n s o m n o w a v o i d roads in long travels for safety .
They now take to the sky in planes to avoid 'had I known'. Many parts i n t h e n o r t h a r e c o n t r o l l e d b y F u l a n i i n s p i r e d t e r r o r i s t s w h i c h they nicknamed 'Bandits' to dress down the gravity of their crime a g a i n s t i n d i g e n o u s p e o p l e . T h e fact is that election will not be possible in parts of the country due to security concerns. A n o t h e r i m p o r t a n t i s s u e i n t h e buildup to their so called 2023 elections is the circumnavigation of key issues affecting the progress o f t h e c o u n t r y. N o n e o f t h e f r o n t l i n e c a n d i d a t e s a r e t a l k i n g about restructuring or demands for partitioning by the people of O d u d u w a a n d B i a f r a , w h o make up two out o f t h e t h r e e m o s t i m p o r t a n t c u l t u r e s . U n f o r t u n a t e l y , this is the most v i t a l o f i s s u e s b e f o r e t h e i r ' b r e a d a n d b u t t e r ' p o l i t i c a l gerrymandering . E v e n
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candidates like Peter Obi who has garnered momentum among the youths is scared of annoying the Fulani who have been forcefully lording it over Nigeria. They have started warning him over massive campaign funds raised abroad. My q u e s t i o n i s , h o w c a n t h e y fi x Nigeria without talking about the most important wahala? E L E C T I O N W I T H O U T
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igerians are going to the p o l l s n e x t y e a r w i t h o u t s e c u r i t y i n t h e c o u n t r y . H o w p o s s i b l e i s t h a t ? T h e troubling situation is that there are many bright Nigerians around the w o r l d d o i n g w o n d e r f u l l y w e l l , b u t stupidity reigns supreme on its c o r r i d o r s o f p o w e r . I n N i g e r i a , y o u w i l l s e e a c a d e m i c s , i n v e n t o r s a n d experts ar guing like nonentities o n b e h a l f o f i d i o c y t h a t i s p a r t l y a n ideology in its current leadership. I n o v e r s e a s , m a n y m a r v e l a t people from Nigeria, but quickly feel unease when they see those at the help of affairs. Even though t h e r e ' s a l e a d e r s h i p i s s u e , t h e arrangement of dynamic cultures will always pose a problem. Due to t h e m a r r i a g e o f t h e s e s t r a n g e b e d f e l l o w s , t h e r e ' s m i s p l a c e d priorities especially among those on the leadership corridor .
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Wher e did we go wr ong? Is the black power r eally true? Do they worship God or r eligion? Is my colour inferior? I a m c u r s e d f o r h a t i n g Africa So much salt yet bitter taste. Sweet yam, sour cheeks. O l u m o r o c k i s n o t i n Dar esalam. N e i t h e r i s t h e r e a k i s s fr om Kinshasa to Accra, N o r c u d d l e b e t w e e n Owerri and Soweto.
Papa tilled their soil. M a m a e v e n g a v e o u t br east milk. F o o d w e p u t o n t h e i r table. Raw str ength and power . These and mor e, yet the sleep is deep. L i b a t i o n t o C h u k w u Okike. The father whose image is in the son. I offer thee a kolanut of thanks and supplication. L e t y o u r w i l l b e d o n e her e. So the naked can cover up. My colour , my pride. She baths for my colour Y et ignorance beckons. I a m m o t h e r o f a l l colours, Y e t i g n o r a n c e d w e l l i n me. I h a t e t o h a t e m a m a Africa. What is wr ong with me? Help, I say help me! Mama's br east is full of milk, Y et folks love to suckle bumps. # u k a c h u k w u o k o r i e #uyokanjo #poem #africa Ukachukwu okorie
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2. The Eastern govt was the only g o v e r n m e n t i n t h e w o r l d t h a t invested 45% of its revenues in Education.
T he Eastern Region was an a d m i n i s t r a t i v e r e g i o n i n N i g e r i a , d a t i n g b a c k originally from the division of the colony Southern Nigeria in 1954. The gap between the eastern region A T S
www.thebiafranationalist.com Page 4 and other parts of Nigeria was too much. It led to resentment and envy Look at these facts.
5 . T h e N u m b e r o f R e g i s t e r e d Business in Nigeria as at 1963 was as follows. East~ 68,220 W est ~ 5776 North~ 2407. 6 . A l l t h e p r o g r e s s t h e E a s t e r n Nigeria made was destroyed during t h e C i v i l W a r a n d w e ' r e s t i l l recovering from it.
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3. The Eastern Region had the biggest Electricity Supply . Best Hospitals And The Igbos made u p 6 0 % O f N i g e r i a n C i v i l Service 4. The Eastern Nigeria had the h i g h e s t N u m b e r o f R e g i s t e r e d Cars in Nigeria as at 1963 by a lar ge mar gin.
1. Between 1954 and 1964, Eastern Nigeria was described as the fastest growing economy in the world by Harvard reviews. Faster than China, Singapore and the "Asian T igers".
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Observing the boy from a safe distance was the man who had called him to buy his groundnuts. He had spiked the boy's drink and once he saw he was asleep, he took the limp body of the drugged lad into one of the h o t e l r o o m s a n d w h a t f o l l o w e d n e x t remains one of the evilest things anyone can ever dream up.
T h e b o y w a s c a l l e d i n t o t h e f a m o u s Otokoto Hotel and the little groundnut seller was visibly very excited since it was a hotel, it meant that the new 'customer' w o u l d p r o b a b l y b e b u y i n g p l e n t y
groundnuts which will mean more money to take home to make his parents happy and assist his struggling family .
HOW DID THE INFORMA TION LEAK OUT : A f t e r t h e g r i s l y m u r d e r o f t h e l i t t l e Okoronkwo by Mr Innocent Ekeanyanwu (what a name, innocent indeed), he left the hotel to deliver the head where it was n e e d e d H e t h e n S t o p p e d a B i k e m a n (Okada rider) to convey him to the place.
A f t e r t h e b o y ' s h e a d w a s c u t o ff , h e disembowelled his torso, removed his liver and other parts he needed. Not done yet, the boy's genitals were not spared as well.
T h e l i t t l e b o y w a s h a w k i n g b o i l e d groundnuts, which was his daily routine. He strolled along, selling his groundnuts for peanuts to whoever wanted to buy . When he got to Amakohia area of Owerri, his eyes lit up with joy when a customer b e c k o n e d o n h i m t o a p p r o a c h T h a t ' c u s t o m e r ' w a s n a m e d I n n o c e n t Ekeanyanwu, aged 32.
People came out in 1000s to protest the boys ritual killing. They stayed around and within the hotel premises, waited for the police to confirm that it was indeed a ritual n 19th September 1996, during O the regime of late General Sani Abacha's, in the city of Owerri – Imo State, an innocent 1 1year old boy named Anthony Ikechukwu Okoronkwo was murdered for Ritual purposes.
So Ekeanyanwu had no other option but to return to Owerri with the boy's head.
It was the Okada man named Opara, whom he stopped to take him to his destination in Eziama that realized that was his passenger was carrying inside a polythene bag was a fresh human head. It was still dripping with blood. When he alighted,the Okada man quickly alerted the police. The Police then intercepted Ekeanyanwu on his way back in a Peugeot 504 car , he was carrying the head with him in the polythene bag. He was going to the residence of a highlyi n fl u e n t i a l fi g u r e n a m e d C h i e f L e o n a r d Unaogu at Eziama, Ikeduru Local Council Area with the head but upon arriving, he was told Mr Unaogu had gone to Lagos.
After butchering the boy , and sorting out the or gans, he packed his head inside a polythene bag and buried his remains.
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While waiting, the boy was treated like a guest, he was given a bottle of CocaCola to cool off from the punishing heat of tropical Africa.
A sharp cutlass emer ged from nowhere and the boy's head was severed from his body He was beheaded in a matter of minutes.
The Butcher , Ekeanyanwu then took the polythene bag containing the boy's head and headed for the next destination: to the house of the man who needed the fresh head. The man who is behind it all.
When it was time to take the headless body of Ikechukwu to the local mortuary , there was a massive procession and protested by Owerri people.
Innocently , he took the Coke and gulped it with relish. As he was sipping his soft drink and taking a look at the glittering surrounding of the hotel, he could have imagined having a hotel of his own too later in the future. As he was dreaming, his vision became blurry a n d t h e s o u n d s a r o u n d h i m b e c a m e muzzled and dull. In a matter of minutes, he dozed off, never t o w a k e u p a g a i n . H i s t r a y f u l l o f groundnuts was lying in a corner
The story of Otokoto money ritual killings of 1996. September 2022
It was in the midst of this tension that the l o c a l m e d i a s t a t i o n m a d e i t s miscalculation. They showed the image of Innocent Ekeanyanwu holding the head of his victim. The goal of the media was to assure the people, assuage public fear , ask the public to help identify the boy and show official transparency but what followed next was a catastrophe. All hell broke loose as the enraged people of Owerri went haywire after the image was the first broadcast on the 24th of September A l l O w e r r i r e s i d e n t s abandoned their b u s i n e s s e s a n d c o n g r e g a t e d a t t h e t o w n ' s c e n t r a l m a r k e t p l a c e I t w a s t h e r e t h e y d e c i d e d o n t h e n e x t p l a n o f a c t i o n a n d o u t l i n e d t h e i r strategies to deal with the Otokoto 'headhunters'.
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The rampaging crowd first went to the mor gue and from there, they rushed to the Otokoto Hotel and burnt it to the ground.
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F r o m t h e r e , t h e y w e n t t o t h e n e a r b y palatial mansion of Chief V incent Duru and destroyed his property , his expensive c a r s w e r e w r e c k e d a n d D u r u h i m s e l f narrowly escaped.
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T h e Z u b a i r u l e d g o v e r n m e n t l a t e r c o n fi s c a t e d a l l t h e p r o p e r t i e s a s r e c o m m e n d e d b y t h e p a n e l w h i c h w a s headed by Justice PC Onumajuru. From there, they rushed to the palace of the traditional ruler and chairman of the state c o u n c i l o f t r a d i t i o n a l r u l e r s , E z e O n u E g w u N w o k e ( l a t e r i n d i c t e d a l o n g s i d e
Ekeanyanwu, who murdered the boy , was aged 32 and he worked as a gardener inside the Otokoto Hotel.
BACKGROUND T O THE ST OR Y B e f o r e t h i s h o r r i b l e i n c i d e n t , t h e p e o p l e o f O w e r r i w e r e a l r e a d y v e r y m a d a t t h e bizarre actions of some loud, e x t r e m e l y p o w e r f u l a n d o b s c e n e l y w e a l t h y i n d i v i d u a l s i n the state. These p e o p l e w e r e h i g h l y connected and o p p r e s s e d e v e r y o n e w h e r e t h e y went.
Whatever the case, these rich people who had no real tangible or easily traceable sources of wealth kept on living lar ge and instilling an atmosphere of terror and fear on the Owerri populace.
Rumours were all over the place as to their very dark dealings and even the possibility of ritual murders and killings but no one r e a l l y h a d a n y h a r d e v i d e n c e y e t o r probably those who had it were too jittery to say anything.
D u r u ' s h o t e l w a s m a d e u p o f t h r e e b u i l d i n g s , ( 3 , 5 & 6 S t o r i e s e a c h , o n e behind the other). It was owned by Chief V incent Duru, the father of Obidiozor Duru, the leader of the B l a c k S c o r p i o n s s e c r e t c u l t t h a t w a s responsible for robberies and kidnapping of children in the state.
Unemployed and disgruntled youths took over the parks and issued threats to the Owerri millionaires.
From there, the crowd split into attack groups and spread out to other sites of the privileged elite and unleashed maximum
From the Owerri main market, the riots e x p l o d e d a n d s p r e a d . T h e p a t t e r n o f destruction was neat.
murder while more were matching and trooping to the scene of the Ritual Murder as the news was spreading.
This was how Owerri was described at that time: When the people heard of what happened inside the hotel to the boy , Owerri exploded with anger and resentment that had been piling up for years. For two straight days, the people of Owerri trooped out in their thousands, protesting and rioting.
Aneke and Abure by the panel of inquiry) and burnt down his residence and his petrol station. They also destroyed the king's 15 air conditioners and many of his cars. They were not done yet. From there, the crowd 'troops' headed for the residences of former Imo State officials.
T h e s e a d m i n i s t r a t o r s w e r e t a r g e t e d because of what was described as 'their alleged unwillingness to properly tackle several cases of ritual murder , kidnapping and robbery while in office.' The angry rioters only agreed to calm down when the military administrator (MILAD), assured them that a full, statelevel investigation of the incident was going to be launched.
THE OT OKOT O HOTEL At the time of its existence, Otokoto Hotel was located in an upscale area of Owerri, specifically the Amakohia side, and it was a favourite location for the rich and wealthy youths to meet, drink and have all manners of fun.
The news spread r a p i d l y , e v e r y home in Owerri had heard the news or seen the image of Okoronkwo's head or his shallow grave.
T h e m a n t h a t E k e a n y a n w u m e n t i o n e d before he was poisoned to death, Leonard Unaogu, was a business tycoon. And he was the junior brother to Laz Unaogu, a serving minister under Abacha. Leonard Unaogu was eventually arrested by the police. When the police arrested Unaogu, he lied with a straight face that he never knew anyone called Innocent Ekeanyanwu and that he was not even in Owerri when the crime was committed, saying he was in Lagos.
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When the case finally resumed, many were pissed off. Leonard Unaogu, the minister's brother , was transported in a new station wagon from the prison to the court like a royalty V incent Duru and other suspects Not even the strongarm tactics of the Imo S t a t e m i l i t a r y a d m i n i s t r a t o r, C o l o n e l T a n k o Z u b a i r u , c o u l d s t o p t h e m ( t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f t h e f o r m e r m i l i t a r y
For the murder of Ekeanyanwu. They were: Ifeanyi Anozie, an assistant commissioner of police Chukwu Obasi, an assistant superintendent of police Kevin Ezirim Christian Nnazi Clifford Odiaka Felix Nnorom Christopher Aguobi Ignatius Igwe James Ibezere Josephat Nwosu The case snailed on till 14th October 1997, o v e r a y e a r , a n d a f t e r s e r i e s o f a d j o u r n m e n t s , a b s e n c e o f l a w y e r s , t h e P r e s i d i n g j u d g e , s u s p e c t s o r e v e n t h e retirement of judges or their transfer etc.
On 20th August 1997, a senior magistrate court in Owerri docked 9 police officers.
The Owerri public had no faith in the p o l i c e a n d a s a m a t t e r o f f a c t , t h e commissioner of police at that time, David Abure, was seen as the personification of corruption who wined and dined with the evil ones. THE INVESTIGA TION Following the arrest of Ekeanyanwu, he was remanded in police custody while awaiting trial. But while he was in the police custody , magic happened! He was killed by food poisoning 4days after . He killed the boy on Thursday and by Sunday morning, he was found Dead. But luckily for the interrogators, before he was k i l l e d , E k e a n y a n w u c o n f e s s e d a n d mentioned Leonard Unaogu as the brain behind the ritual killing syndicate. He confessed that the ritual killing ring w a s a w e l l o r g a n i z e d m a c h i n e t h a t specialized in the harvesting of human b o d y p a r t s a n d s o l d t h e m t o t h o s e interested in using them for rituals and all the usual nonsense they claimed to be using them for . He also said it was Unaogu who ordered him to get a human head.
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governor Navy Captain James Aneke was already seen as corrupt, 419based and even complicit in the protection of the Otokoto men. They simply ran amok and the national and international media focused on the Owerri riots of 24th and 25th of September , 1996, a l s o k n o w n a s t h e O t o k o t o r i o t s . T h e people felt they had had more than enough. Any property suspected to belong to the 'Otokoto men' were set ablaze, from posh hotels to luxury supermarkets, their flashy a u t o m o b i l e s , p a l a t i a l m a n s i o n s , everything was destroyed and burnt to the g r o u n d A n y s u s p e c t e d m e m b e r o f t h e Otokoto gang was lynched. Prior to the riots, the youthful members of the Otokoto gang & other secret societies (believed to be offshoots of campus secret c u l t s ) i n v o l v e d i n r i t u a l k i l l i n g s w e n t everywhere oppressing others with their i l l g o t t e n w e a l t h a n d m a k i n g o t h e r hardworking youths look clueless & silly .
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Reports have it that the Otokoto saga had been in place as far back as 1976. Confessional statements revealed that no o n e w a s s p a r e d a t t h e O t o k o t o H o t e l . I n n o c e n t g u e s t s a n d u n s u s p e c t i n g travellers who lodged at the hotel were drugged or attacked in the middle of their sleep and hacked to death after which they were cut into pieces for sale. Police officers who swooped upon the hotel d i s c o v e r e d n o t o n l y t h e s h a l l o w g r a v e containing that of the little boy but also graves containing other victims with their decomposing and dismembered corpses. N o o n e k n o w s t h e e x a c t e x h u m e d a t Otokoto Hotel was up to 24 bodies. Some w e r e b u r i e d a t i n c o n s p i c u o u s l o c a t i o n s such as under the flowerbeds. Such evil, such horror!
History: The story of Otokoto money ritual killings of 1996.
The trial started on the 9th of December , 1996, with Hillary Ngozi Opara as the first prosecution witness. Nine people testified before Justice S.O Ekpe, who took over from Justice Gabriel Ojiako, the retired chief judge of Imo State, during the trial. The court also admitted the c o n f e s s i o n a l s t a t e m e n t o f I n n o c e n t Ekeanyanwu. Mar garet Acholonu, a receptionist at the hotel, stated that two spots were dug at the hotel premises and it was from the second o n e t h a t t h e b o d y o f O k o r o n k w o w a s exhumed. She also implicated Chief Duru. She also said that on that fateful day , she saw Ekeanyanwu with a black bag and he told her he was going to his village at Eziama A ser geant, Sunday Onwucheka, told the c o u r t h e w a s i n t h e o ffi c e w h e n Ek ean y an w u w as ar r es ted w ith a f r es h human head of the innocent boy A c c o r d i n g t o O n w u c h e k a , b e f o r e t h e police took Ekeanyanwu to Otokoto Hotel, the crime scene, he confessed to killing the boy at Mba River in Ikeduru and dumped t h e b o d y i n s i d e t h e r i v e r T h e p o l i c e followed the false trail but found nothing at the Mba River S o a t a b o u t 7 : 0 0 p m o n t h e 2 0 t h o f September , they returned to Owerri. The following Monday , they continued with their investigation and took him to Otokoto Hotel where the headless body of the boy h a d a l r e a d y b e e n i d e n t i fi e d b e f o r e t h e police team arrived.
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CONCLUSION: Nigeria is still in the grips of ritual killers, almost two decades after the Otokoto saga. The same factors that gave birth to the 1996 Otokoto ritual killings are still in place t o d a y : p o v e r t y , i r r a t i o n a l b e l i e f s i n supernatural powers that lead people to believe money can be made from flesh without doing any work, weak/corrupt law enforcement agencies and a super slow judicial system.
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R o b b e r y a n d F i r e a r m s T r i b u n a l o n t h e char ges of armed robbery , a capital offence.
After judgment, the convicts all moved to the Port Harcourt Prisons in the middle of February 2003 pending their execution.
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H i s e x e c u t i o n t o o k p l a c e o n S u n d a y , November 13, 2016. This was 13 years after his 2003 conviction. This was after the government approved the execution warrant.
E a c h t i m e t h e i s s u e o f r e t u r n i n g t h e confiscated property to the Otokoto family , Owerri people rise and protests.
This because 'THE DEVIL HAS NO FREE GIFT'. So Y ouths, be careful. were brought in a Black Maria from prison to the court, with handcuffs. Duru protested the preferential treatment given to Unaogu. Many judges handled the case. First, it was Gabriel Ojiaku, then Simeon Ekpe who was almost done with the prosecution until he was elevated to Court of Appeal. Then finally on 28th April 1999, Justice Chioma NwosuIheme. J u s t i c e C h i o m a N w o s u I h e m e Judgment: S h e S e n t e n c e d A l l t h e s e v e n suspects to death, they were: Chief V incent Duru. The owner of t h e O t o k o t o H o t e l a n d U n a o g u d e n i e d k n o w i n g e a c h o t h e r , b u t Justice NwosuIheme said that was a lie. He appealed the sentence in 2012 but he was unlucky as the sentence was upheld by the Appeal Court Leonard Unaogu: He would later d i e s o m e y e a r s a g o a t t h e P o r t Harcourt Prisons in what has been d e s c r i b e d a s v e r y m y s t e r i o u s circumstances.
The presence of these factors explains why after bloody Otokoto saga, the country still had to face the Okija/Ogwugwu shrine saga in Anambra State and the Soka forest horror of Oyo State.
Otokoto happened in as far back as1996 when many Y ouths who are involved in Y ahooY ahoo, Y ahoo Plus, Ritual Money etc, were not even born then.
Prior to the case of Okoronkwo, several children had disappeared in Owerri, never to be found to date. Some were kidnapped a n d t h e i r w e a l t h y p a r e n t s w i l l p a y a ransom. It was so serious that in May 1995, the daughter of Dr Okoh, a Physician in the c i t y w a s k i d n a p p e d b y t h e B l a c k Scorpions, one of the elite secret cult, asked the doctor to pay $12000 before the girl W ill be released. Eventually , the police stormed the hideout of the Black Scorpions and months later , the leader of the cult, Obidiozor Duru (who happens to also be the son of Chief V i n c e n t D u r u , o w n e r o f t h e O t o k o t o Hotel) and Amanze Onuoha, were both arrested. They were brought before the Imo State
B u s i n e s s m a n a n d p o l i t i c i a n E m m a n u e l Iwuanyanwu were also mentioned in the saga but he denied ever knowing anything about the case. What happened next was nothing but a mockery of justice. Duru and Onuoha were treated like royalties in the prisoner rather than criminals awaiting the death penalty T h e y g o t t h e m o s t l i b e r a l v i s i t i n g privileges, ate food cooked and brought from their homes. They were like lords and Duru (a PhD holder in psychology from C a l i f o r n i a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y ) e v e n impregnated one of his female Jailers and did a 'traditional wedding' with her before he completed his case. And while they were incarcerated, the rate o f c h i l d k i d n a p p i n g s i n I m o d r o p p e d drastically . In 1997, six people were executed by a fi r i n g s q u a d f o l l o w i n g a j u d g e m e n t b y Justice Emmanuel Nnodim. One of those killed was Obidiozor , the son of Chief V incent Duru, leader of Black Scorpion Cult. W H E R E I S O T O K O ( V i n c e n t D u r u ) NOW?: Chief V incent Duru(alias Otokoto), one of the men convicted in the celebrated case of the ritual murder of September 19, 1996, in Owerri, Imo State, was reportedly hanged.
W e should stop our great pf “Getting Rich Quick” Syndrome.
History: The story of Otokoto money ritual killings of 1996.
The Nigerian disease is still there – yet to be healed.
Funny enough, all those who involve in Human Ritual Killing, doesn't end well.
For His Properties: During the administration of Ikedi Ohakim as governor , he tried to revoke the right of occupancy of the police to the confiscated Otokoto properties but people were said to have kicked against it. The Duru family was also said to have approached Governor Rochas Okorocha over the confiscated property saying the property belonged to the Otokoto Group and not Duru. Okorocha stylishly brushed the matter aside.
troubling and murderous entities killing and burning at will in Imo State.
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In Anambra State, the soldiers of the 302 Artillery Regiment/General Support of the Nigerian Army , Onitsha and the personnel of Ogbaru Naval Base and the Nigeria Police Force as well as operatives of the A n a m b r a V i g i l a n t e S e r v i c e a r e t h o s e involved in rising cases of killings and h o u s e b u r n i n g s a c r o s s t h e S t a t e . T h e A n a m b r a V i g i l a n t e S e r v i c e o p e r a t i v e s f u n d e d b y t h e p r e s e n t G o v e r n m e n t o f Anambra State were recently reor ganized and kitted with total face cover masks and offensive weapons. They are joined by hundreds of exmilitants recruited from Bayelsa State and other parts of the Niger Delta Region. Although tasked to go after 'Unknown Gunmen' holding the State to r a n s o m i n r e c e n t m o n t h s i n c l u d i n g abductions, forceful payment of ransoms and deaths in captivity , but little or nothing is publicly known about their operational c o d e s i n c l u d i n g c h e c k s a n d b a l a n c e s t h e r e b y r a i s i n g s t r o n g f e a r s o f b e i n g “licensed to kill or maim or destroy at will”. Fears are ripe that the State m a y d e s c e n d b a c k t o t h e inglorious epoch of Bakassi Boys (19982002). In Benue State, the N i g e r i a n s e c u r i t y f o r c e s p r o t e c t e d J i h a d i s t F u l a n i Herdsmen have continued their m a s s a c r e s p r e e t a r g e t e d a t defenseless civilians in the past two months of July and August 2022. How Nigerian Military Secured Eastern Forests And Bushes For Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen S t r o n g a c c u s a t i o n s b y Intersociety abound against the Nigerian Military concerning the above. Since 2016, Intersociety had remained firmly consistent in strongly accusing the Nigerian Military especially the Nigerian A r m y o f h e a v i l y c o m p r o m i s i n g i t s neutrality and non partisanship doctrine by being remotely behind the Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen terrorism in the East and Benue State. Intersociety had embarked on series of field trips in the SouthEast and the S o u t h S o u t h f o l l o w i n g t h e N i g e r i a n Military's camouflaged military operations i n t h e t w o r e g i o n s , p a r t l y c o d e n a m e d “ O p e r a t i o n P y t h o n D a n c e ” W e h a d followed the patterns and trends of troops' deployments during the deceitful military e x e r c i s e s a n d f o u n d o u t t h a t s u c h d e p l o y m e n t s w e r e c o d e d w i t h m i l i t a r y p r o t e c t e d m a s s m o v e m e n t s o f J i h a d i s t F u l a n i H e r d s m e n i n t o s t r a t e g i c E a s t e r n forests, bushes and farmlands. These were . . . A r m y , P o l i c e c o n t i n u e d t o s h i e l d j i h a d i s t F u l a n i H e r d s m e n a n d t u r n e d t h e i r w e a p o n s a g a i n s t d e f e n s e l e s s c i v i l i a n s a s terr orists O n i t s h a , E a s t e r n N i g e r i a . F r i d a y , 2nd Sept 2022 T h e t r i o s o f t h e N i g e r i a n s e c u r i t y f o r c e s , J i h a d i s t F u l a n i H e r d s m e n a n d G o v e r n m e n t M i l i t i a s h a v e i n t e n s i fi e d t h e i r k i l l i n g s a n d h o u s e burnings in the past two months of July a n d A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 with Imo, Anambra and Benue States as t h e h a r d e s t h i t I n I m o S t a t e , t h e s e c u r i t y f o r c e s i n v o l v e d i n t h e s e c r e t k i l l i n g s a n d h o u s e b u r n i n g s i n c l u d e soldiers of the 34 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army , Obinze near Owerri, the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, Imo S t a t e C o m m a n d a n d t h e I m o S t a t e G o v e r n m e n t f u n d e d a n d A r m y a l l i e d Ebubeagu militias. The culpable non state a c t o r k i l l e r g r o u p s r u n n i n g r i o t o n defenseless civilians and their properties i n t h e S t a t e a r e t h e N i g e r i a n A r m y p r o t e c t e d J i h a d i s t F u l a n i H e r d s m e n operating in OkigweUmulolo axis and o t h e r o c c u p i e d f o r e s t s , b u s h e s a n d farmlands across the State. Government r a i s e d a n d s p o n s o r e d ' F i f t h C o l u m n i s t Armed Counterfeiters' are also part of the
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of defenseless civilians especially those in t h e p r o d u c t i v e m a l e a g e b r a c k e t s a n d tagging them terrorists while turning blind e y e s o n J i h a d i s t F u l a n i H e r d s m e n massacring Easterners. The killer soldiers have also sold their consciences to the Devil by murderously going after children, p r e g n a n t w o m e n a n d n u r s i n g m o t h e r s ; a b d u c t i n g a n d t o r t u r i n g o r k i l l i n g o r sexually molesting them in captivity . P i e c e s o f e v i d e n c e a b o u n d f r o m o u r s e v e r a l i n v e s t i g a t i o n s e x p o s i n g h o w soldiers invaded hospitals and abducted nursing or heavily pregnant women and bundled them from their maternity beds. In all these, reverse would have been the case had the authorities of the Nigerian Military stuck to professionalism and neutrality in c o m p o s i n g t h e o ffi c e r c o r p s o f t h e i r f o r m a t i o n s i n t h e S o u t h E a s t a n d t h e SouthSouth in line with Section 217 (3) of the 1999 Constitution. Clear evidence of the Northern Muslim domination of the officer corps of the Military formations in the East is as follows: current GOC of the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army , Enugu, M a j o r G e n e r a l U m a r M u s a ( n o r t h e r n Muslim); Brigade Commander of the 34 Brigade Obinze, Imo State, Brig General S a n i S u l e i m a n ( n o r t h e r n M u s l i m ) ; t h e immediate past Brigade Commander of the 14 Brigade Ohafia, Abia State (held sway t i l l 1 7 t h A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 ) , B r i g G e n e r a l Mohammed Dahiru Abuwashi (northern Muslim). He was replaced by Brig General Adegoke Adetuyi, another non Easterner; a n d C a n t o n m e n t C o m m a n d a n t o f t h e Onitsha 302 Artillery , Anambra State, Col Abdulkarim Usman (northern Muslim).
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hundreds in the past two months of July and August 2022 and several dozens of civilian homes burnt by security forces and allied militias in Imo and Anambra States. It must be recalled that between Oct 2020 and June 2022, a period of 20 months in Eastern Nigeria, according to our recent documentary report, 1,360 civilians were killed, 150 communities attacked, 1,450 h o u s e s b u r n t o r d e s t r o y e d a n d 5 1 , 0 0 0 p e r s o n s r e n d e r e d h o m e l e s s b y s e c u r i t y forces. The number is most likely to have i n c r e a s e d t o 1 5 0 0 d e a t h s , 1 5 0 0 h o u s e s b u r n t a n d 1 5 0 0 r e n d e r e d h o m e l e s s . Properties worth over N 5 7 b i l l i o n w e r e a l s o lost under the said 20 m o n t h s S i n c e t h e n a n d i n t h e p a s t t w o m o n t h s o f J u l y a n d A u g u s t , I m o a n d Anambra States have accounted for no fewer than 140 more security k i l l i n g s D o z e n s o f d e f e n s e l e s s c i t i z e n s have also been secretly h a c k e d t o d e a t h b y J i h a d i s t F u l a n i Herdsmen in different parts of Imo and Anambra States. Apart from killing seven defenseless natives of Otulu in A womama on 13th July 2022 and unspecified number of A womama natives, there have been several reports of mass k i l l i n g s b y s o l d i e r s a n d t h e i r a l l i e d Ebubeagu militias across the State since then. Army Killed Three Block Molders At EkeUtutuOrsuIhiteukwa And Labeled Them “IPOB” The latest of such killings was T uesday 3 0 t h A u g u s t k i l l i n g o f t w o b r i c k l a y e r s (block molders) at their workplace and shooting of another elderly man nearby who later died. The killings perpetrated by soldiers of the Nigerian Army had taken place at EkeUtutu part of OrsuIhiteukwa to the extent that new military and police checkpoints were created to protect the J i h a d i s t s i n t h e i r n e w s e t t l e m e n t s , i n a d d i t i o n t o s e t t l i n g t h e m n e a r e x i s t i n g military and police formations and in the end, it was found that “out of every five m i l i t a r y r o a d b l o c k s o r f o r m a t i o n s , camouflaged herders and their herds of cattle are found or sighted nearby The military protected Jihadists invasion was also fueled by a 2015 alleged Nigerian M i l i t a r y f o r e s t / b u s h m a p p i n g e x e r c i s e a c r o s s t h e c o u n t r y a s w e l l a s t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n o f t h e N i g e r i a n A r m y / M i l i t a r y R a n c h i n g p o l i c y . Emer gence of stooges or surrogates as Governors in some States also aided their invasion and terrorism in Eastern Nigeria till date. Intersociety had identified no f e w e r t h a n 7 0 0 b u s h / f o r e s t / f a r m l a n d l o c a t i o n s i n t h e E a s t , Benue and Kogi States a s ' n e w l y o c c u p i e d areas by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen'. In a 2020 s t a t e m e n t , a f o r m e r D I G i n c h a r g e o f I n t e l l i g e n c e a l s o corroborated our report t o t h e e ff e c t t h a t : “ h e i n t e l l i g e n c e r e p o r t a t h i s d i s p o s a l s h o w e d t h a t A K 4 7 a r m e d Fulani Herdsmen have occupied 336 locations i n t h e S o u t h E a s t alone”. GOC 82 Division And H e a d s O f 3 4 A n d 1 4 Brigades And 302 Artillery Are Northern Muslims S e v e r a l fi n d i n g s b y I n t e r s o c i e t y h a v e continued to indicate the fact that the near t o t a l t a k e o v e r o f c o m b a t a n t c a d r e a n d s e n i o r c o m m a n d i n g p o s i t i o n s i n t h e Nigerian Military particularly the Army by northern Muslims in Eastern Nigeria will c o n t i n u e t o r i d i c u l e t h e n e u t r a l i t y a n d p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m c l a i m s b y t h e H i g h Commands of the country's Military and reduce their operations to nothing more than 'ethnic and religious witchhunting, profiling and persecution'. T otality of the above has been the case in the SouthEast and the SouthSouth since 2016 and has also destroyed professionalism in what r e m a i n s a s ' N i g e r i a n M i l i t a r y ' . T h e s e explain why the deployed security forces h a v e b e e n g o i n g a b o u t w i t h r e c k l e s s abandon, hatefully massacring hundreds
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Intersociety has severally maintained and still maintains that it has no sympathy for v i o l e n t l y a r m e d p e r s o n s u s i n g o r advocating for violence a n y w h e r e i n N i g e r i a , however , we shall not s i t b y a n d w a t c h innocent citizens being m o w e d d o w n b y s o l d i e r s a n d o t h e r s e c u r i t y f o r c e s w i t h reckless abandon. That is to say that the Army s t a t e m e n t i s r o u n d l y f a l s e a n d s t r o n g l y condemned. The Army s t a t e m e n t i s n o t d i ff e r e n t f r o m s i m i l a r f a l s e h o o d s c o n c o c t e d a n d d i s h e d o u t l a s t month (July 2022) by Government of Imo State and the Imo State DSS Directorate in which the due falsely labeled the A womama massacre victims as “being ESN members gunned down in their hideout”. V iew Our July 18, 2022 Int'l Documentary Here: https://youtu.be/RehqzLpkjeQ Signed F o r : I n t e r n a t i o n a l S o c i e t y f o r C i v i l Liberties and Rule of Law Principal Officers: E m e k a U m e a g b a l a s i (Criminologist/Researcher), Board Chair Obianuju Joy Igboeli Esquire, Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law C h i d i n m a U d e g b u n a m E s q u i r e , H e a d , Campaign and Publicity Contacts: Phone/WhatsApp: +2348174090052 Email: info@intersocietyng.or g W ebsite: https://intersocietyng.or g in Orsu Local Government of Imo State. The soldiers had stormed the area and o p e n e d fi r e , s h o o t i n g i n d i ff e r e n t directions; forcing defenseless citizens to run for their lives. T wo d e f e n s e l e s s c i t i z e n s molding blocks at their w o r k p l a c e w e r e g u n n e d d o w n w h i l e another elderly man of over 70Y ear Old, who c o u l d n o t r u n , w a s terminally shot at his t w o l e g s a n d l e f t t o bleed to death. He was reported to have died t h e r e a f t e r . T h e n a m e s of the two slain victims w e r e g i v e n a s U g o c h u k w u O b i a n a l i and Chinonso while the name of the shot elderly man who was reported to have died later was given as Pa N i c h o l a s O n w u g h a l a N o t d o n e , t h e s o l d i e r s i n v a d e d a C o m m u n i t y H e a l t h C e n t e r i n n e i g h b o r i n g A m a l u l u a t l a t e n i g h t o f 3 0 t h A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 , s h o t sporadically , broke the doors of the Heath Center and arrested scores of the staff crew members and patients on admission. The soldiers later took them away and claimed that “they got an intelligence report that a s u s p e c t e d I P O B m e m b e r ' s w i f e w a s admitted at the Health Center as she was about to put to bed”. A female staff spoken to said they were later released in the early hours of the next day being 31st August 2022. One of the most recent arsonist attacks on Imo Communities by security forces was t h e b u r n i n g d o w n o f s e v e r a l c i v i l i a n h o u s e s ; e i g h t e e n m a r k e t s t a l l s s t o c k e d w i t h g o o d s a n d e i g h t p r i v a t e c a r s i n U m u o k w u a n d U g b e l l e v i l l a g e s (communities) of Izombe in Oguta Local G o v e r n m e n t A r e a o f I m o S t a t e . T h e dastardly act was perpetrated by soldiers and their allied Ebubeagu militias as well as personnel of the Nigeria Police Force. This followed a report of attack at a local police station in the area by armed persons. In the past two months of July and August in Anambra State, there have been reports of mass killing of unarmed citizens and burning down of homes by soldiers, naval p e r s o n n e l a n d f a c e c o v e r e d v i g i l a n t e s , j o i n e d b y r e c r u i t e d e x N i g e r D e l t a militants. The affected communities had included Ogbaru, Uli, Ukpor , Nteje and so on. The killings did not include a handful of violent armed persons caught in the act
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When you look at the top 20(twenty) positions in NNPC management, you will know who is responsible for crude oil theft “officially”. A nepotic cabal runs all the critical positions that can allocate, load and release products. The h h c k s d swamps. They're in the air conditioned offices, speaking the same language and praying together . No one is a fool. Y AHUZA AHMED GETSO Me : Some ar e saying this is not the curr ent list. But this doesn't takeaway the fact that it was corr ect list at a time.
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T h a t a t t h e e n d o f t h i s v e r y r a c e , e v e r y b o d y w i l l t e s t i f y t h a t i n d e e d ChukwuOkike Abiama, our own very God is indeed OminiPotent and Owner of this Biafra agitation. No human can stop it. “The next two weeks will be pivotal. N e x t t w o w e e k s w i l l b e v e r y v e r y important in this very mission that we have embarked upon. “(The two weeks, was after his abduction and the call by the enemies to destroy the structure of IPOB) He continued “The devil will do everything, and you are going to watch s p e c t a c u l a r l y h o w w e a r e going to destroy and shame the enemy That at the end, every glory and adoration will belong to God and not to man. “ “I want those of you who are h a r d c o r e , w h o w e r e c h o s e n before you were born. There were some people who were chosen before they were born t o a g i t a t e f o r B i a f r a Restoration. This is a message for you. Those who from their m o t h e r ' s w o m b , t h e y w e r e born to do this very work. “ “ Y o u m u s t b e v e r y v e r y s t r o n g , b e c a u s e B i a f r a w i l l open the eyes of black people all over the world; because B i a f r a w i l l m e a n t h a t b l a c k s f r o m A m e r i c a , b l a c k s f r o m C a r i b b e a n , blacks from South America they will all flood into Africa. It will be like when Y eshuah (Jesus Christ) was born. Biafra is like a light, a beacon. They will follow it. They will say let us go and see what's happening there. “
H e k n e w h e w i l l b e abducted but night before his abduction, he said “This evening, I want to place it on record that our e n e m i e s a r e i n t e n s i f y i n g t h e i r a t t a c k s a g a i n s t u s from every corner I am not saying this as lamentation o r c o m p l a i n t . I a m o n l y trying to prepare our people for what is to come. The time has come to separate the chaff from the wheat. Our March is very very near .” “But I must say that we are getting attacks from everywhere all over the world. And very soon, they will buy some of you over . The spirits of Ukpabi Asika and Ifeajuna are still in some of you. When the time comes, they will buy some of you over “ I am doing this programme tonight, not to ask all of you to be strong. I am doing it to remind you that if they succeed in buying you over , you are not going to stop what we are doing. Y ou can't! Y ou cannot, not in a trillion years. But I need you to appreciate one very simple fact:
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“That is what the neocolonialists do not want. They don't want Biafra to come. I am telling our people so they will understand the mountains in front of us that we need to overcome. And for us to overcome it, we need to be very strong mentally….”
I f he didn't know that Satan will use him, he wouldn't have publicly warned him never to allow Satan enter him. If this and o t h e r o f h i s p r o p h e c i e s didn't come to pass, many won't believe he was sent by Okike to do this work.
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The Nigerian Army had in its statement s t a m m e r e d a n d d e l i b e r a t e l y d o d g e d critical issues raised in our statement. F o r i n s t a n c e , I n t e r s o c i e t y h a d debunked the Army's false claims of “ k i l l i n g t w o E S N / I P O B t e r r o r i s t s specialized in detonating improvised explosive devices around Ekeututu in Orsuihiteukwa part of Imo State on 3 0 t h A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 ” W e h a d investigated and found that the slain were defenseless block molders shot a n d k i l l e d a t t h e i r b l o c k m o l d i n g industry arena while the third person was an elderly man of over 70 Y ears d r a g g e d o u t f r o m h i s abode, shot at his two legs and left to bleed to death who later bled to death. Intersociety also g a v e t h e i r n a m e s a s C i t i z e n s U g o c h u k w u Obianali and Chinonso a n d S e n i o r C i t i z e n N i c h o l a s O n w u g h a l a . Soldiers of the Nigerian A r m y a l s o r i o t o u s l y i n v a d ed a C o mmu n ity H e a l t h C e n t e r i n neighboring Amalulu at l a t e n i g h t o f 3 0 t h A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 a n d abducted scores of the Health Center's staffs and patients on admission, claiming that “they got an i n t e l l i g e n c e r e p o r t t h a t a s u s p e c t e d IPOB member's wife was admitted at the Health Center as she was about to put to bed”. In the Army statement, two issues above were silenced. Silenced t o o w a s t h e fl o o d i n g o f k e y A r m y f o r m a t i o n s i n t h e S o u t h E a s t w i t h I n t e r n a t i o n a l S o c i e t y f o r C i v i l L i b e r t i e s a n d R u l e o f L a w ( I n t e r s o c i e t y ) , N i g e r i a ' s l e a d i n g r e s e a r c h a n d i n v e s t i g a t i v e r i g h t s , democracy , rule of law and p u b l i c s e c u r i t y a n d s a f e t y advocacy or ganization since J u l y 2 0 0 8 , h a s r e a d a n d a n a l y z e d t h e N i g e r i a n A r m y ' s s t a t e m e n t o f S a t u r d a y , 3 r d S e p t 2 0 2 2 , signed by Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu. Not only that nothing meaningful was said in the Army's statement but c r i t i c a l i s s u e s r a i s e d b y I n t e r s o c i e t y w e r e deliberately dodged and left u n a d d r e s s e d . T h e N i g e r i a n Army was responding to our detailed statement of Friday , 2nd Sept 2022, titled: Secret K i l l i n g s A n d H o u s e B u r n i n g s B y S e c u r i t y F o r c e s A n d A l l i e d M i l i t i a s I n t e n s i fi e d I n I m o , A n a m b r a A n d Benue In Past July And August 2022 Resulting In Hundreds Of Deaths And Burnings…Army , Police continued to shield jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and t u r n e d t h e i r w e a p o n s a g a i n s t defenseless civilians as “terrorists”.
S e c r e t K i l l i n g s I n T h e E a s t : N i g e r i a n A r m y H a s S a i d N o t h i n g O t h e r T h a n V i b r a t i n g A n d S h i v e r i n g … p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m , n e u t r a l i t y , s e c u l a r i s m a n d p l u r a l i s m h a v e l e f t t h e N i g e r i a n m i l i t a r y s i n c e J u n e 2 0 1 5 p r e b a s t a r d i z a t i o n … c r i t i c a l i s s u e s N i g e r i a n A r m y f a i l e d t o r e s p o n d t o i n i t s v i b r a t i n g , s h i v e r i n g a n d e m p t y s t a t e m e n t a g a i n s t I n t e r s o c i e t y … r e t i r e d G e n e r a l s a n d o t h e r r e t i r e d S e n i o r O f fi c e r s o f 1 9 7 9 - 1 9 8 3 / J u n e 1 9 9 9 - J u n e 2 0 1 5 m u s t r i s e t o r e s c u e t h e m i l i t a r y O n i t s h a , E a s t e r n N i g e r i a , S u n d a y , 4 t h S e p t 2 0 2 2 September 20228/09/2022 Thurs
Critical Issues Raised By Intersociety
Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in the SouthE a s t T r i a n g u l a r o f I s u o c h i , O k i g w e , Umulolo and environs where several d o z e n s o f d e f e n s e l e s s c i t i z e n s h a v e been killed and hundreds abducted and scores disappeared without traces till date since the beginning of 2021. T ime For Retired Generals Of 19791983/June1999June 2015 T o Rescue The Military I n t e r s o c i e t y a s g l o b a l l y r e c o g n i z e d r e s e a r c h e r a n d i n v e s t i g a t o r i s i n possession of statistics of what befell national militaries of different countries t h a t c o m p r o m i s e d t h e i r n e u t r a l i t y , p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m a n d secularity especially i n t h e i r h e t e r o g e n e o u s l y o r p l u r a l i s t i c a l l y c o m p o s e d s o c i e t i e s . Most of them ended u p b e i n g e t h n i c militias or extremist r e l i g i o u s a r m e d entities. Therefore in t h e c a s e o f t h e p r e s e n t N i g e r i a n Military particularly t h e A r m y, t i m e i s r u n n i n g o u t f o r i t s r e s c u e a n d rebranding. T o this e n d , t h e r e m u s t b e i m m e d i a t e c o n v o c a t i o n o f eminently retired Generals and other r e t i r e d s e n i o r m i l i t a r y o ffi c e r s e s p e c i a l l y t h o s e t h a t s e r v e d o r h e l d sway between 1979 and 1983 and June 1999June 2015. T o be included in the list are retired Generals and others that participated in returning the country to civil rule in 1978/1979 and 1998/1999. E x c l u d e d f r o m t h e l i s t a r e r e t i r e d Generals (and their equivalents in the Navy and the Air Force) and others who held sway from July 2015 to August 2022 and those that will retire from Sept 2022 and above. The latter are excluded b e c a u s e t h e y h a v e t r a i l e r l o a d s o f c o n d u c t a t r o c i t y b a g g a g e a n d b e e n c o r r u p t l y , r e l i g i o u s l y a n d t r i b a l l y r a d i c a l i z e d . T h e f o r m e r a r e h e r e b y c a l l e d u p o n t o r e s c u e t h e N i g e r i a n s e n i o r o ffi c e r s a n d c o m b a t a n t s o f Northern Muslim extraction including t h e G O C , 8 2 D i v i s i o n , E n u g u , t h e Brigade Commanders of 14 Brigade, Ohafia and 34 Brigade, Obinze and the C a n t o n m e n t C o m m a n d a n t o f t h e O n i t s h a 3 0 2 A r t i l l e r y ; a l l N o r t h e r n Muslims. These are just to highlight but a few . P r o f e s s i o n a l i s m , N e u t r a l i t y , S e c u l a r i s m a n d P l u r a l i s m L e f t T h e Military Since June 2015 N o t e d i s t h e f a c t t h a t t h e N i g e r i a n M i l i t a r y p a r t i c u l a r l y t h e A r m y h a d suffered years of bastardization starting from Civil W ar , pos t civil w ar and military eras, but its c u r r e n t b a s t a r d i z a t i o n s i n c e July 2015 is heading t o t h e m a d d e n i n g p o i n t o f i r r e v e r s i b i l i t y . Unlike the previous b a s t a r d i z a t i o n p e r i o d s c a u s e d b y e t h n i c i t y a n d military tyranny , the p r e s e n t bastardization in the M i l i t a r y i s m o r e m e n a c i n g , t a k i n g r e l i g i o u s d i m e n s i o n which has reignited t h e o l d w o u n d s caused by ethnic and tribal divisions and hatred leading to break out of the Civil W ar . For instance, t h e N i g e r i a n M i l i t a r y w a s pluralistically , secularly , neutrally and professionally composed indigenously between 1957 and 1966, after which it was marred by ethnicity and tribalism leading to the country's bloody Civil W ar of 196770. After the Civil W ar , the Nigerian Military became semiprofessionalized leading to its handing over to civilians in 1979. The Military retained its secularity , national identity a n d s e m i p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m a f t e r J u n e 1 9 9 8 l e a d i n g t o h a n d i n g o v e r t o civilians on 29th May 1999 and same was the case till June 2015. H o w e v e r , t h i n g s g o t c h a n g e d a n d
deteriorated to present from July 2015 when radical religiosity hit the Military and infested its composition, ranking a n d p o s t i n g s l i k e a v i r u s a n d d i s a p p e a r e d i t s t r a d i t i o n a l professionalism, neutrality , secularism and pluralism. This was to the extent t h a t i n 2 0 1 9 , t h e M i l i t a r y b e c a m e m a n i f e s t l y p a r t i s a n i n t h e c o u n t r y ' s G e n e r a l E l e c t i o n s e s p e c i a l l y t h e P r e s i d e n t i a l s e g m e n t a n d m a d e negative headlines in western capitals. Earlier in Jan 2017, the Military jets bombed and killed 236 Christian IDPs in KaleBalge Local Government of Borno State. Eleven months later in Dec 2017, the Military conducted air raids s i m u l t a n e o u s l y w i t h J i h a d i s t F u l a n i herdsmen who mounted ground attacks in Numan, Adamawa State and the two s i m u l t a n e o u s a t t a c k s , a c c o r d i n g t o international rights reports and local witnesses, killed no fewer than 80 rural C h r is tian s M ilitar y helico pter s h av e s e v e r a l l y b e e n s p o t t e d b y l o c a l e y e w i t n e s s e s b o m b i n g o r d r o p p i n g weapons for Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in Southern Kaduna, Niger , Plateau, etc. Since July 2015, Jihadist Fulani H e r d s m e n h a v e u n o ffi c i a l l y b e e n p r e s i d e n t i a l l y p r o n o u n c e d “untouchables” and roundly protected by the Military till date. There have never been meaningful moves by the Military personnel deployed in Eastern N i g e r i a t o fl u s h o u t t h e o c c u p y i n g
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w r e c k e d o n N i g e r i a n C i v i l S o c i e t y Rights Community since July 2015. Apart from the Nigerian Government secretly masterminding the registration o f o v e r 3 6 0 G o v e r n m e n t a ffi l i a t e d N G O s i n c l u d i n g f u n d i n g s e v e r a l o f them to defend and launder the image of t h e N i g e r i a n A r m y a n d i t s c u l p a b l e senior officers; several leading local and international rights groups have been infiltrated and compromised. This is to the extent that some now get state c l e a r a n c e b e f o r e a u t h o r s h i p a n d issuance of their reports or statements. It has also been independently found that some cardcarrying members of national and subnational ruling parties have emer ged as their spokespersons; in addition to some researchers on Nigeria working for their international rights groups being Government moles and turning away their groups' focus on Nigeria. A Nigerian Government mole w a s a l s o r e c e n t l y i n s t a l l e d a s ' I C C President' in 20182021. W e H a v e F o u g h t F o r M a rg i n a l i z e d S e c u r i t y P e r s o n n e l , P e r s e c u t e d Muslims And Christians Intersociety's advocacy activities are b e y o n d s e c t i o n a l i s m , r e l i g i o n a n d ethnic zealotry . W e have also boldly and p r i c e l e s s l y d e f e n d e d m a r g i n a l i z e d senior and junior security personnel and have had several interfaces with the N i g e r i a n A r m y a n d D e f e n s e Headquarters especially between 2010 and early 2015. These had included written communication exchanges. W e defended the mar ginalized members of t h e N i g e r i a n T r a ffi c W a r d e n o f t h e N i g e r i a P o l i c e F o r c e e s p e c i a l l y b e t w e e n 2 0 11 a n d 2 0 1 2 i n c l u d i n g getting a respected Federal Lawmaker to work on a Bill to address the age long m a r g i n a l i z a t i o n T h e B i l l h a d successfully passed a second reading before being abandoned by the victims who said “Buhari had promised to look into it when he assumed office”. W e h a v e s i n c e 2 0 1 4 b e e n p r i c e l e s s l y defending mar ginalized senior police officers from the SouthEast and others w h o s e p r o m o t i o n s were stalled. From non s t a t e a c t o r s , w e h a v e s e v e r a l l y r i s e n i n s t r o n g d e f e n s e o f d e f e n s e l e s s M u s l i m m i n o r i t i e s i n c l u d i n g the Shiites since 2015 a s w e l l a s t h e p e r s e c u t e d a n d m a s s a c r e d C h r i s t i a n s i n B o r n o , Y o b e , A d a m a w a , N i g e r , T a r a b a , S o u t h e r n K a d u n a , P l a t e a u , B e n u e , K o g i , K e b b i and Nasarawa States, in addition to SouthW est, SouthEast and SouthS o u t h T h e l a t t e r h a s been the case since 2010. These are just to highlight but a few . V iew Our July 18, 2 0 2 2 I n t ' l D o c u m e n t a r y H e r e : https://youtu.be/RehqzLpkjeQ Signed By: Principal Officers: E m e k a U m e a g b a l a s i (Criminologist/Researcher), Obianuju J o y I g b o e l i E s q u i r e a n d C h i d i n m a Udegbunam Esquire C o n t a c t s : P h o n e / W h a t s A p p : + 2 3 4 8 1 7 4 0 9 0 0 5 2 , E m a i l : i n f o @ i n t e r s o c i e t y n g . o r g , W e b s i t e : https://intersocietyng.or g Military especially the Army This is as a matter of uttermost immediacy and national cohesive importance and must b e d o n e b e a r i n g i n m i n d t h e m u l t i c u l t u r a l a n d m u l t i r e l i g i o u s composition of the country enshrined in the country's Constitution and its T reaty Laws. The rescue must include r e t u r n i n g t h e N i g e r i a n M i l i t a r y t o professionalism, neutrality , secularism and pluralism. Our Advocacy Activities Beyond What Filthy Money Or Materialism Can Buy Or Influence Constantly labeling Intersociety and its priceless advocacy activities in the East as “IPOB sponsored or defense of ESN” is a c l e a r i n d i c a t i o n o f p r o f e s s i o n a l i s m g o n e t o a b y s s f r o m t h e N i g e r i a n A r m y . I t i s a l s o a h e i g h t o f quackery and alarmist s o l d i e r i n g S a m e s t a t e m e n t s u s e d b y Army and the Military in attacking the likes of Amnesty International and others in the North are same being used in a t t a c k i n g I n t e r s o c i e t y in the East. The only d i ff e r e n c e i s a d d i t i o n of “Boko Haram” from t h e s i d e o f A m n e s t y International and “ESN/IPOB” from the side of Intersociety . In other words, it is “Amnesty International is being s p o n s o r e d b y B o k o H a r a m ” i n t h e North as against “Intersociety is being sponsored by IPOB/ESN” in the East. It is also sad that corruption has eaten deep into the fabrics and consciences of t h e N i g e r i a n s t a t e a c t o r s i n c l u d i n g Nigerian Army , to the extent that to them “everybody or every group in Nigeria is capable of being bribed and t h e i r a c t i v i t i e s q u a n t i fi e d i n g r a f t m a t e r i a l i s m t e r m s ” . I n t e r s o c i e t y therefore makes bold to say again that its advocacy activities are beyond what filthy money or materialism can buy or influence in Nigeria or any part thereof.
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like Nduka Irabor , Jim Ovia, O m o r o g i e N w a w a n n e , C o l l i n s Edumaruse etc DEL T A ST A TE 1 1). Ika 12) Ndokwa 13) Ukwuani 14) Aniocha 15) Oshimili BA YELSA ST A TE 1 6 ) O s e k w e n i k e , A b u e t o r a n d E k e Okpokri villages, all in Sagbama area of bayelsa, are all Igbo of Ukwuani stock, and as such, are of the Anioma L I S T O F F R O NM A T I V E I G B O T R I B E S S T A T E S O U T S I D E T H E S O U T H E A S T September 20228/09/2022 Thurs
UGBO OF ONDO ST A TE)until they were rescued by Moremi and he also spoke of an aboriginal Igbo community that still exist in ILE Ife to this day The Ugbo people of Ondo State have t h e s a m e O b a t a l a l i n k a g e w i t h t h e Aborigines of Ile Ife. Note: there are s e v e r a l I g b o t o w n s i n p r e s e n t d a y Igboland that are called Ugbo. For instance, you have Ugbodu in Delta State, and Ugbo in Enugu State, just to mention a few T hese are list of Igbos indigenous to states outside the South East of Nigeria: RIVERS ST A TE 1) Egbema 2) Etche 3) Omuma 4) Ndoni 5) Ikwerre 6) Ekpeye 7) Obigbo 8) Opobo 9) Ogba EDO ST A TE 1 0 ) Igbanke/Igboakiri Arch Bishop Benson Idahosa and his wife a r e I g b o f r o m Igbanke in Uhuonde L o c a l G o v e r n m e n t area of Edo State that w a s f o r m e r l y i n Orhionwon LGA T h e m o t h e r o f t h e l a t e S a m u e l O d a i g b o v o O g b e m u d i a i s Igbanke! M o s t i n d i g e n e s o f t h i s t o w n j u s t l i k e I k a p e o p l e b e a r hybrid names that most often could just jolly well pass as EDO because of their names
www.thebiafranationalist.com Page 18 igbo clan of the Igbo ethnic group in BA YELSA CROSS RIVER ST A TE 17) ISOBO , even liyl imoke former CR governor and wife are igbos from ABI LGA – CROSS RIVER AKW A IBOM ST A TE 1 8 ) I k o t U d o I k a i n I k a L o c a l Government area of Akwa Ibom is an Igbo community . BENUE ST A TE 1 9 ) T h e I g b o s i n B e n u e S t a t e particularly those in Ado, Oju, Obi and O k p o k u L G A s o f t h e s t a t e w e r e i n existence before the advent of Christian religion in Nigeria. T h e I g b o f o u n d i n B e n u e a r e : U m u e z e o k o h a , U m u e z e o k a , O r i u z o r , Umuoghara, Amaekka and Amaezekwe a l l i n E z z a c o m m u n i t i e s , I z z i , Ezzamgbo and Effium, these are the people who would have been in presentday Ebonyi State but due to the fact that the Nigerian government then carved them into Benue in order to suppress the population of the East. Apart from the E z z a s p e a k i n g c l a n , p a r t i c u l a r l y t h e people of Umuezeokoha that has over 300 villages, if you are to calculate the number of Igbospeaking villages in Benue State, outside Umuezeokaoha, you would be talking altogether about over 600 villages. Three of the biggest markets in Benue are all in the Igbospeaking part. The markets are Inikiri Ichari, Iddah, Iduokpe. T h e r e a r e a l s o s o m e I g b o s p e a k i n g I d o m a t o w n s i n Benue State. KOGI ST A TE 20) THE indigenouse I g b o s p e a k i n g communities in Kogi s t a t e e s p e c i a l l y i n I b a j i a n d I g a l a m e l a / O d o l u L G A s a r e E k e A v u r u g o c o m m u n i t y , s u c h a s N w a j a l a , U m u o y e , U b u l i e U m u e z , o z a r a , a n d u m u o y e and many more.
NOTE The current Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, also told us that his kingdom was initially conquered by the Igbo (PLEASE KINDL Y NOTE THA T HE W A S N O T R E F E R R I N G T O T H E
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I also remember a SevenSeven song about Killiwe: “Killiwe Nwaozize Nwachukwu Abeg make you help me carry my load” Great Ibeabuchi alias Pistor Killer of Ngodo Isuochi the Lion of Africa who was a great Superman who contested a n d w o n t h e m i g h t y K i l l W e Nwachukwu in the sixties.
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H e i s r e a l T h a t w a s a n o t h r commentator And yet another . H e e x i s t e d . B a c k i n eighties, he came to our s c h o o l , w e p a i d 5 0 Kobo to watch him. He c a r r i e d 1 0 b a g s o f cement on his stomach a n d t o y e d a 5 0 4 peugeot SR with a rope on his teeth. Story had it that when he died, his body was deposited in A l a d i n m a m o u r t u a r y , h e i n t h e n i g h t , w i l l c a r r y d o n a l l o t h e r c o r p e s e s a n d s t r e c h h i m s e l f o n t h e m . H e c o n t i n u e d t h i s t i l l h e w a s r e j e c t e d b y t h e mor gue. He was real. I r e m e m b e r h e a r i n g s t o r i e s a b o u t G i a n t Alakuku as a child. But I d o n ' t r e c a l l e v e r seeing him.
“ KilliW e” Nwachukwu was for m o r e t h a n t w o d e c a d e s celebrated as a homegrown Nigerian “superman.” Some of his legendary f e a t s o f s t r e n g t h i n c l u d e d l i f t i n g b u s e s , h a v i n g c e m e n t b l o c k s crushed on his head, and allowing cars to drive over his body . S u p e r m a n K i l l i W e e N w a c h u k w u w a s t h e s t r o n g e s t m a n i n N i g e r i a P h i l i p Emeagwali Killiwe in action He was a superman who was going from p l a c e t o p l a c e t o p e r f o r m . P e o p l e paid to watch him. I saw him perform at our primary school in those days. I think h i s r e a l n a m e w a s N w o z u z u N w a c h u k w u ( o r something like that). I heard that “Killi W e” was a nickname he got after a fight with a certain man, one commentator said. A great natural Superman! Nwozuzu Nwachukwu (Son of God). “Killi W e” was a nickname he got after a fight with a s t u b b o r n m a n “ T i c k m a n ” w h o refused to pay him his money for a truck load of goods he conveyed from the market to the man's home. He used to push a wooden two wheel truck with which he carried goods for people. Then, T ruck vehicles were not around, or were not affordable. So, after dropping off the goods, the man w o u l d n o t p a y w h a t N w a c h u k w u char ged claiming it was too high. He tried to walk away and Nwachukwu r i e f a b o u t " K i l l i - W e " N w a c h u k w u , f r o m O b o r o U m u e z e O g w a , s t a e
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www.thebiafranationalist.com Page 19 grabbed him by the hand insisting he must pay . A fight ensued and he pinned the man to the ground. The man's wife ran in and came out with a wooden p e s t l e t o a s s i s t h e r h u s b a n d Nwachukwu snatched it from her , lifted the woman up and pinned her on top of her husband on the floor . Powerless, she s t a r t e d s c r e a m i n g , K i l l i W e Nwachukwu, Killi we Nwanchukwu” meaning, Nwachukwu, kill us! In the early 90's, we were asked to pay some money so that he will come and display his power . W e gladly paid the money On the D day od his assuMed coming, we waited, we couldn't see him, so, we left. The following day in school, some students that were patient enough narrated how he came, how he carried four students on each of his hand a n d s o m e m a n y p o w e r a c r o b a t Menn….. It was like a hell to me that I didn't wait to see this man.
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He started showing symptoms of the ailment in 1918, the same year the Spanish flu swept across the world k i l l i n g m i l l i o n s o f p e o p l e , a n d b y 1919, he had been diagnosed with l e p r o s y , a b a c t e r i a l i n f e c t i o n t h a t ravages the skin and nerves and causes painful deformities. Whyte and wife: In 1949 when he was cured of Leprosy he refused to leave the hospital and chose to dedicate the r e s t o f h i s l i f e t o l i v i n g w i t h t h e patients. Photo: BBC Across the world, being diagnosed with leprosy means a sentence to life i n i s o l a t i o n V i c t i m s a r e t y p i c a l l y isolated from their families and exiled to a leprosarium which is mostly far from the city center . They are never allowed to mix with healthy people over fear of spreading the disease. When Harcourt was diagnosed with leprosy at age 14, the teenager would have to live away from his family . He was sent to Port Harcourt Hospital and later to Uzuakoli Leprosy Centre in A b i a S t a t e e s t a b l i s h e d b y t h e Methodist Church, where he spent the last 45 years of his life. B e f o r e h i s a i l m e n t , h e h a d t a k e n interest in music as a student, and was an active member of his school's brass band where he played the flute and B efore his tragic death in an a u t o c r a s h i n 1 9 7 7 , I k o l i Harcourt Whyte was one of the most admired and beloved figures in Eastern Nigeria. And he's one of the few composers of his era still inspiring musicians and worshippers today . HarcourtWhyte's c a t a l o g u e b o a s t s o f t h e r i c h e s t discography of Igbo church music in Nigeria.
W h y t e i n s p i r e d m i l l i o n s w i t h h i s h y m n s w h i c h h e c o m p o s e d i n a l e p r o s a r i u m . M o r e t h a n f o u r d e c a d e s after his death, he is still remembered by a n e w g e n e r a t i o n o f Igbos and nonIgbos. H i s s t i r r i n g h y m n , “ A t u l e g w u ” ( n e v e r fear) became a source of comfort for Igbos during the 30month Civil war from 1967 t o 1 9 7 0 . I t r e m a i n s the favourite of choirs i n I g b o s p e a k i n g churches. This is the story of I k o l i H a r c o u r t W h y t e , t h e g i f t e d c h o r a l c o n d u c t o r , composer and a figure o f h o p e w h o s e l i f e h a s c o n t i n u e d t o i n s p i r e m a n y generations. D e s c r i b e d b y m a n y h i s t o r i a n s a s Nigeria's most famous leprosy victim, it will also not be out of place to call h i m t h e m o s t i n s p i r i n g H a r c o u r t W h y t e w a s n ' t b o r n a l e p e r t o h i s parents Munabo and Odibo circa 1905 in Abonnema, Rivers State.
“The popularity of his compositions throughout Igbo land, even before the impact of Y outh Fellowship, earned him the right to be called the father of Igbo church music,” Agordoh wrote in his book 'African Music: T raditional and Contemporary'. sidedrum. His ailment appeared to g i v e h i m t i m e t o b e c o m e m o r e devoted to music and he used the period of his isolation to study the B i b l e a n d t h e h y m n s s u n g i n t h e Hospital chapel. T aking motivation from his predicament, the Bible and hymns, he wrote over 200 songs and led a choir of lepers that toured towns in the East. Whyte was an outstanding Christian music composer in his own right and although a Kalabari man, his music, a c c o r d i n g t o G h a n a i a n w r i t e r A l e x a n d e r A k o r l i e A g o r d o h , h a s a very natural Igbo rhythm which is the d o m i n a n t l a n g u a g e i n U z u a k o l i where he lived most of his life. I n U z u a k o l i , W h y t e m e t a B r i t i s h m i s s i o n a r y a n d m e d i c a l d o c t o r , Thomas Frank Davey who ,according to BBC ,was a music lover and a pianist. His encounter with Davey which could be described as divine helped Whyte refine his music career . “Dr Davey taught him everything he knew about music, that he acquired by studying the Methodist hymn book,” Kanu Achinivu, a professor of music w h o w a s a f r i e n d a n d p r o t é g é o f Whyte told BBC in a 2017 interview . D u r i n g t r i p s t o s u r r o u n d i n g a n d r e m o t e v i l l a g e s t o t r e a t l e p r o s y patients, Davey , it was said, recorded
Between 1967 and 1970 when the Eastern region dominated by the Igbos went to war against Nigeria, the Igbos derived strength and inspiration from H a r c o u r t W h y t e ' s s o n g ' A t u l e g w u ' (never fear).
Seven years after the civil war , Whyte died in a motor accident and four years after his death, renowned Nigerian p l a y w r i g h t , O l a R o t i m i , w a s commissioned to produce a play for N i g e r i a ' s 2 1 s t I n d e p e n d e n c e anniversary on October 1, 1981. He chose Whyte's story . Prior to that time, Rotimi's wife, Hazel Mae Rotimi and A c h i n i v u h a d d o c u m e n t e d a r e s e a r c h w o r k o n W h y t e w h i c h served as the source o f i n f o r m a t i o n f o r Rotimi's project. T itled 'Hopes of the L i v i n g D e a d ' , t h e play was not staged for the event after s e v e r a l r e h e a r s a l s A c h i n i v u s a i d a d i r e c t o r i n t h e Nigerian ministry of culture who was not happy with the idea told Ola Rotimi “we c o u l d n ' t b e presenting lepers to t h e w o r l d o n N i g e r i a ' s 2 1 s t i n d e p e n d e n c e anniversary .” I t w a s e v e n t u a l l y s t a g e d i n s o m e school theatres. A t t e s t i n g t o W h y t e ' s g r e a t n e s s , A c h i n i v u s a i d “ H e w r o t e w i t h t h e stubs of his thumb and index finger . He wrote very slowly . It took him a whole day or more to write one page of music.”
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“Each time we gathered, the chances were that we would end up with some recording of his,” said Ejike Ago who fought in the Biafran army . “It is not only the Biafran soldiers alone. The Christians, each time we gathered had his recordings playing.”
Leprosy , Whyte refused to leave the hospital and chose to dedicate the rest of his life to living with the patients, c o m p o s i n g i n s p i r a t i o n a l m u s i c a n d e d u c a t i n g o n t h e n e e d f o r c a r e o f Leprosy patients.
the traditional music of the people and then encouraged Whyte to develop his own personal style by listening to and composing songs that sounded more like those tunes, rather than the ones in the Methodist hymn book. n 1 9 4 9 , w h e n h e w a s c u r e d o f
Whyte poses for a family portrait: The p o p u l a r i t y o f h i s c o m p o s i t i o n s throughout Igboland earned him the right to be called the father of Igbo church music. Photo: IbandMagazine
D e s p i t e a l l t h e l i m i t a t i o n s , W h y t e delivered 200 hymns before his tragic death and according to Agordoh, he m a d e t h e c h o i r o f t h e L e p e r Settlement at Uzakoli one of the best known in Igbo land.
www.thebiafranationalist.com Page 22 Azumini River In Abia State Is Originally Blue In Colour , But T urns Gr een Whenever It Rains. The River Has Become a Resort For T ourists Because Of The pleasantness it offers. Azumini Blue River Is Located In Ndoki, Ukwa East LGA of Abia State T owards Its Boundary W ith Akwa Ibom State. It's Also An Ancient Slave T rade Route Thr ough The Blue River Commonly Known In Dialect As MiniOkigo. September 20228/09/2022 Thurs A Z U M I N I R I V E R
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where it empties itself into the Atlantic Ocean. Y ou all should understand that there's a difference being landlocked and having access to the sea. A big difference. For instance, the London area is completely landlocked but London still controls m u c h o f t h e U K s h i p p i n g a c t i v i t i e s through the several river ports built on the River Thames. River Thames runs through the centre of London, emptying itself into the ocean.
O g u t a L a k e , i f d r e d g e d c a n a c c o m m o d a t e b i g s h i p s . A l l t h e s e bodies of water are navigable routes to the Atlantic ocean. Even the Imo River if dredged can be of great importance to a d i r e c t a c c e s s t o t h e s e a s t a t u s o f I g b o l a n d W h e n t h e A l a o j i P o w e r P r o j e c t w a s b e i n g c o n s t r u c t e d , t h e heavy machines and equipment were ferried across the Imo river down to Aba. W i t h t h e f o l l o w i n g p o i n t s a b o v e , I guess you believe now that Igbo land is not a Landlock and I believe you would be able to explain to folks who believe that Igboland is DOT and Landlocked. Before you start asking me to leave Riverine areas out of my igbo, Igbo Igboland was was not created in 1993 w h e n A b a c h a r e g i m e c r e a t e d geopolitical zones in NIgeria. Thank you.
M y brother Igbo land is not Landlocked . Though I first made this post last year
In fact, Igboland stretches to Igbanke in Edo state, Umuezekaoha in Benue and as far as Port Harcourt, known hitherto as Igwe Ọcha, Opobo and Bonny in Rivers State. Opobo which just lies close to the Atlantic Ocean was founded b y a n I g b o m a n c a l l e d M b a n a s o Ozurumba, otherwise known as King Jaja. Are you shocked? The town today has both the Igbo speaking parts and Ibani speaking parts.
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See the true extent of Igboland I a l w a y s c h o r t l e w h e n p e o p l e i g n o r a n t l y s a y t h a t I g b o l a n d i s landlocked and doesn't have access to the sea. That's completely spurious and blatantly misleading. Igboland is not and will never be landlocked. I have m a d e a s i m i l a r p o s t l i k e t h i s e a r l y 20221 in this same page 2 weeks before I published this one same 2021. According to W ikipedia, a landlocked s t a t e o r l a n d l o c k e d c o u n t r y i s a sovereign state entirely enclosed by land, or whose only coastlines lie on closed seas. Now , that we have known what a Landlocked country is, I will explicitly explain why Igboland is not landlord. Let's go.1. River Niger , one of the two lar gest inland water bodies in N i g e r i a p a s s e s t h r o u g h I g b o l a n d c o n n e c t i n g t h e t w o m o s t i m p o r t a n t cities in the region, Asaba and Onitsha together River Nigeria then journeys downwards relentlessly through other Igbo villages down to the Niger Delta
Even in the South East, we have big beaches in Obuaku Ndoki which came about as a result of the confluence of Imo river and the Azumini Blue River . Obuaku port when functional is just 25 nautical miles from the Atlantic ocean. W e also have Ndibe beach in Ebonyi.
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Igboland doesn't stop with only Abia, Imo, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi. The so called South East, which was created i n A b u j a b y G e n S a n i A b a c h a i n 1993.There are huge population of the Igbo People in Delta and Rivers State.
Obiano assented the Cattle and Other L i v e s t o c k O p e n G r a z i n g P r o h i b i t i o n a n d R a n c h e s E s t a b l i s h m e n t B i l l o f Anambra State in 2021.
Speaking in a chat with The Nation, he said; “Majority of us (Fulanis), don't know any other business more than rearing of cattles in this W orld.
“ O u r m e m b e r s h a v e r e m a i n e d committed to peaceful coexistence with their host communities in the State and the Southeast geopolitical zone at lar ge.
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The Law Against Cattle Movement, recalls the Anambra State Governor , p r o h i b i t e d t h e m o v e m e n t o f cattle on foot in every part of the s t a t e a b o u t t w o weeks ago. S o l u d o , w h o m a d e t h a t a n n o u n c e m e n t w h i l e m e e t i n g with members of t h e A n a m b r a S t a t e C a t t l e M e n a c e Committee at the G o v e r n m e n t H o u s e , A w k a , s a i d t h e b a n complied with the 2 0 2 1 a n t i o p e n grazing law of the State. He said the ban was in compliance with the 2021 antiopen grazing law of the State, adding that enforcement would begin from September , 2022.
According to him: “Now that we have a l a w b a n n i n g o p e n g r a z i n g , t h e l a w enforcement agents have been directed to implement it.
Sidikki used the point that MACBAN members have been living peacefully in the state as part of the points to strengthen his appeal.
W illie Obiano but was not enforced.
It is the same law that Soludo has now shown his readiness to enforce.
He said the ban is too sudden and many o f t h e c a t t l e r e a r e r s h a v e n o o t h e r means of livelihood, ar guing that the ban will have a negative effect on them and their livelihood.
T h e l a w a g a i n s t o p e n g r a z i n g i n A n a m b r a w a s s i g n e d d u r i n g t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o f f o r m e r G o v e r n o r
“Though the law has been in existence since almost one year ago, cattle rearers keep parading certain areas in the State in contravention to the law .”
“Some of us were born and bred in this r e a r i n g o f c a t t l e b u s i n e s s h e r e i n Anambra state. W e have no other place to go. “The herders are aware that the state governor has flagged off massive tree p l a n t i n g e x e r c i s e i n t h e 1 8 1 communities as part of measures to control the spread of gully erosion in the state. “And as law abiding citizens, we have cautioned all our members and equally ur ged them to protect the trees in their various host communities.
T h e l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e M i y e t t i A l l a h C a t t l e B r e e d e r s A s s o c i a t i o n o f N i g e r i a (MACBAN) has appealed to Anambra G o v e r n o r C h u k w u m a S o l u d o t o temporarily suspend the ban on cattle movement on foot in the state, The B i a f r a N a t i o n a l i s t l e a r n t v i a ANAMBRA PEOPLE reports. The appeal was made on Monday by t h e S o u t h e a s t l e a d e r o f M A C B A N , A l h a j i G i d a d o S i d i k k i , i n A w k a , Anambra State.
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“ W e t h e r e f o r e , c a l l o n c o n c e r n e d s t a k e h o l d e r s i n c l u d i n g t h e m e d i a t o help us beg the governor , if possible, to revisit his decision on the ban”.
I n 1 9 7 1 , B a n g l a d e s h s e c c e e d e d f r o m Pakistan. I n 1 9 9 2 9 3 , t h e t w o p a r t s o f Czechoslovakia agreed to each go their o w n w a y . T h u s w e r e b o r n t h e C z e c h Republic and Slovakia after what's been named the “V elvet Divorce”. About the s a m e t i m e , a n o t h e r k i n d o f s e p a r a t i o n occurred, of course, in Y ugoslavia. This one led to a bloodshed. in 1965, Singapore split from Malaysia for a variety of reasons, including religious (Malaysia is majority Muslim, Singapore isn't), ethnic/racial (Singapore has a very lar ge majority Chinese population) and concerns over the Malaysian Bumiputra policy , which was (and is) basically a form o f " A ffi r m a t i v e A c t i o n " f o r M u s l i m Malaysians who make up the majority population in Peninsular Malaysia. Ethiopia and Eritrea Sudan and South Sudan are now separate countries USSR is now broken down into several countries. indly help send this writeup to as many people as possible may be it gets to people that can help Nigeria not destroy itself with the delusion of a one Nigeria that is even no longer on paper talk less of reality Let us restructure the country or peacefully go our many separate ways. Dosumu.
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SEP ARA TION IS NOT ABOUT W AR, IT HAS PEACEFUL ASPECT In 1776, the USA split from the UK In 1830 Belgium separated from the Netherlands In 1965, Singapore split off from Malaysia. in 2002, East T imor got split off from Indonesia. In 1921, Ireland split off from the United Kingdom, and (possibly in the future) there will be secession of Scotland. In 1944, Iceland split from Denmark with remarkable ease. In 1905 Norway split from Denmark. I n 1 9 0 5 , N o r w a y a n d S w e d e n a l s o peacefully split ways. One got the car the other got the kids. In 1947, the British India Dominion was partitioned into India n Pakistan.
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T h e A r o l e O d u d u w a , O o n i A d e y e y e Ogunwusi, Ojaja ll, the Ooni of Ife has i n a u g u r a t e d 2 2 m a n c o m m i t t e e t o i n v e s t i g a t e t h e Y o r u b a f r e e d o m fi g h t e r S u n d a y A d e y e m o (Igboho) matter The members are: 1. Olugbon of Igbon, Oba Olusola Alao. 2 S e n a t o r B i o d u n Olujimi. 3. T oyin Saraki. 4. Segun A wolowo. 5. Doyin Okupe. 6 O t u n b a G b e n g a Daniel. 7 P r i n c e O y e Oyewumi. 8. Muyiwa Ige. 9 G e n e r a l O l u Okunnowo. 10. DIG T aiwo Lakanu (rtd). 1 1 . S o l a E b i s e n i , Afenifere Secretary 12. Jimi Agbaje 13. Sola Lawal 14. Debola Oluwagbayi 15. Dupe Adelaja 16. Dele Momodu 17. Senator T olu Odebiyi 18. Dr Olusegun Mimiko 19. Dr Seun Obasanjo 20. Makin Soyinka 21. Dele Adesina (SAN) 22. AIG T unji Alapinni (rtd.) Agitation for peaceful separation is not treason. It has happened historically and will still happen. A G I T A T I O N F O R A P E A C E F U L S E P A R A T I O N I S N O T T R E A S O N ! September 20228/09/2022 Thurs
T h e s o c a l l e d u n i t y o f N i g e r i a i s v e r y negotiable!
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The former is today 10.6 million people and the latter 5.4 million. Added together , they're not up to Lagos. Y et, they split for peace. T wo masters can't be in the same house. Y u g o s l a v i a i n 1 9 9 1 w a s 2 3 2 m i l l i o n , b a r e l y m o r e t h a n L a g o s p o p u l a t i o n . I t broke into six countries same year all along ethnic lines, namely: Bosnia and H e r z e g o v i n a , C r o a t i a , M a c e d o n i a , Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. Then the big brother , USSR. It had, at least, the following ethnic groups identified by their languages: Regional languages: U k r a i n i a n , B e l a r u s i a n , U z b e k , K a z a k h , G e o r g i a n , A z e r b a i j a n i , L i t h u a n i a n , M o l d a v i a n , L a t v i a n , K y r g y z , T a j i k , Armenian, T urkmen, Estonian.
T h e C o m m u n i s t e d i fi c e s i n Czechoslovakia, Y ugoslavia, and the big brother , USSR, all collapsed, while the two Germans that are ethnically the s a m e b u t s p l i t b y c o m m u n i s m v s c a p i t a l i s m w e r e r e u n i t e d S u c h i s t h e power of ethnic nationalism. Czechoslovakia was made up of two ethnic groups, the Czech and the Slovakians. Both separated peacefully on 1st January 1993.
LETS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE AND SEP ARA TE HONORABL Y . T h i s i s w o r t h s h a r i n g o v e r a n d o v e r again... British named them Burma. They rejected i t , r e s t r u c t u r e d & r e n a m e d t h e m s e l v e s Myanmar . British named them Upper V olta, but they r e j e c t e d i t , r e s t r u c t u r e d a n d r e n a m e d t h e m s e l v e s B u r k i n a F a s o L a n d o f Incorruptible People. British named them Gold Coast, they r e j e c t e d i t , r e s t r u c t u r e d a n d r e n a m e d themselves Ghana. British named them Southern Rhodesia. They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Zimbabwe. British named them Northern Rhodesia. They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Zambia. British named them T anganyika. They r e j e c t e d i t , r e s t r u c t u r e d & r e n a m e d themselves T anzania.
Minority languages: A b k h a z , B a s h k i r , B u r y a t , C h e c h e n , Finnish, V olga German, Korean, Ossetian, T atar , and various others. T oday , your fingers will not be enough to count the number of countries that have emer ged from the USSR.
The latter country , Switzerland, has four ethnic groups. Each of them rotates the presidency annually through seven cantons that constitute the federation units. All the four languages of the four ethnic groups are recognized as official languages and school l a n g u a g e s t o b o o t , n a m e l y : G e r m a n , French, Italian, and Romansch that has just a few thousand speakers!
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restructure and give themselves a befitting new name.
There's nowhere in the world where the Caucasians allow the domination of their group by another In Canada, Quebec is the only full Frenchspeaking province, aside a little section of N e w B r u n s w i c k T h e o t h e r s e v e n p r o v i n c e s a r e E n g l i s h s p e a k i n g Y e t , Canada is bilingual for the sake of Quebec! And each of the provinces is lar gely selfgoverning.
Germans named them colony of South W est Africa. They rejected it, restructured and renamed themselves Namibia.
In the case of Nigeria, I am sensing a healthy competitive development among t h e o r i g i n a l c o m p o n e n t p a r t , t h e N o r t h / W e s t / E a s t e a c h m a k i n g u s e f u l progress while competing with the others. It is not about war after all there is nothing wrong for one to decide he is no longer comfortable with the union and therefore want to opt out.
Belgium named them Zaire. However , they rejected it, restructured & renamed t h e m s e l v e s D e m o c r a t i c R e p u b l i c o f Congo (DRC). B r i t a i n n a m e d a b u n c h o f p e o p l e Nigeria. They rather kill to preserve it than
W estminster That's something some of us are asking for , but you're fighting against it in your own country wracked by ethnic crisis. Y our own people are better off under oppression of fellow black men because your people have bad leaders who can't do better than their new internal colonisers.
I see separation as an avenue for a healthy competition for development as the case of S i n g a p o r e a n d M a l a y s i a , I n d i a a n d Pakistan, Norway/Denmark/Switzerland.
"It is only an animal that bears the name that is given to it by his enemy" (Proverb). H E F U T I L I T Y O F P R E S E R V I N G
NIGERIA My angry reaction earlier today on APC UK platform: For most of the Diasporans here living in Europe, can you show me one multiethnic s t a t e i n E u r o p e w h e r e o n e g r o u p i s positioned to dominate the rest that hasn't broken up? For those who do not know , what you call ethnic groups in Nigeria are called nations in Europe. There's nowhere in the world where the w h i t e m a n a c c e p t s d o m i n a t i o n f r o m another white man in perpetuity It used to be so under the Roman empire a n d t h e l i k e N o t a n y m o r e T h e Communists tried it, dividing society into c a p i t a l i s t s a n d p r o l e t a r i a t s , d e l u d i n g t h e m s e l v e s t h a t e t h n i c i t y i s e ff e c t i v e l y swept under the carpet, but what followed?
F r a n c e n a m e d t h e m D a h o m e y . T h e y r e j e c t e d i t , r e s t r u c t u r e d a n d r e n a m e d themselves Benin.
Sit down there and be preaching unity in Nigeria as if you're the kindest gentleman on earth while you have no solution to the genocide in Southern Kaduna, the illegal but officially condoned arms in the hands of killer herdsmen roaming the country , and be condemning those better informed a b o u t t h e f a c t t h a t t h e c o u n t r y i s under going the strains of a forced union and should be peacefully restructured or let people go their separate ways. In Europe, the two best examples of fairly stable multiethnic states are the UK and S w i t z e r l a n d . T h e f o r m e r i s l e d b y reasonable men who permitted regional autonomy to the Irish, the Scots and the W e l s h , w h i l e t h e E n g l i s h d o m i n a t e
7. AUSTRALIA: 27 million. 8. RUSSIA: 18 million 9. MEXICO: 16 million 10. TURKEY : 14 million. B. T OP 10 MILK EXPOR TERS
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3. Non of the top nations earning billions of dollars annually from the cattle business condone the killing of citizens for cattle.
2. Non of the top cattle producing nations c r e a t e c a t t l e c o l o n i e s o r e n g a g e i n primitive cattle grazing. All the top cattle producing and exporting nations utilise modern t e c h n o l o g y a n d r a n c h i n g m e t h o d s t o maximise production and profit.
www.thebiafranationalist.com Page 28 22. Edo State: 17,802KM². 23. Delta State: 17,698KM². 24. Ogun State: 16,762KM². 25. Ondo State: 15,500KM². 26. Rivers State: 1 1,077KM². 27. Bayelsa State: 10,773KM². 28. Osun State: 9,251KM². 29. Federal Capital: T erritory 7,315KM². 30. Enugu State: 7,161KM². 31. Akwa Ibom State: 7,081KM². 32. Ekiti State: 6,353KM². 33. Abia State: 6,320KM². 34. Ebonyi State: 5,670KM². 35. Imo State: 5,530KM². 36. Anambra State: 4,844KM². 37. Lagos State: 3,345KM². Anambra + Enugu + Abia + Imo + Ebonyi = 29,525KM² Kogi = 29,833KM² Ogun + Oyo + Osun + Ondo + Ekiti = 76,320KM² Lagos = 3,345KM². Niger alone = 76,363KM². Niger State = Entire Southwest States Lagos. The entire Southeast is a little less than Kogi State only JUST FOR OUR RECORDS. The North Has enough land for ranching and cattle colony W e in the South W est have little land mass. P L E A S E L E T U S B E ; L E A V E U S A L O N E TO M A N A G E T H E L I T T L E LAND WE HA VE.
MY CONCLUSION : When many commentators read and repost or share your articles with many of their friends and contacts, they do so because they want others to learn. E R I A ' S 3 6 S T A T E S & F C T R A N K E D I N O R D E R O F L A N D SURF ACE AREA (KM²).
7. AUSTRALIA: $852 Millio 8. BELARUS: $637 Million. 9. UK: $569 Million. 10. SAUDI ARABIA: $556 Million. C. T OP 10 BEEF EXPOR TING NA TIONS (2016).
4 . N i g e r i a ' s c a t t l e b u s i n e s s r e q u i r e s a complete rethink now and not later , for posterity's sake. Here we are in Nigeria, you have people a r g u i n g v e h e m e n t l y t h a t a d e c r e p i t , s t r u c t u r a l l y fl a w e d , a n d c r i s i s p r o n e artificial contraption badly configured by the British only needs good people to survive. Why not centralise the powers of the British regions to London and see what happens?
1. NEW ZEALAND: $4.4 Billion. 2. GERMANY : $2.6 Billion. 3. NETHERLANDS: $1.9 Billion. 4. FRANCE: $1.5 Billion. 5. USA: $1.4 Billion. 6. BELGIUM: $1.2 Billion.
8. CANADA: $1.5 Billion. 9. URUGUA Y : $1.4 Billion. 10. GERMANY : $1.3 Billion.
Additional Considerations: 1. Nigeria is not among the top 20 nations in the global cattle business.
1. Niger State: 76,363KM². 2. Borno State: 70,898KM².
7. Zamfara State: 39,762KM². 8. Adamawa State: 36,917KM². 9. Kwara State: 36,825KM². 10. Kebbi State: 36,800KM². 1 1. Benue State: 34,059KM². 12. Plateau State: 30,913KM². 13. Kogi State: 29,833KM². 14. Oyo State: 28,454KM². 15. Nasarawa State: 27,1 17KM². 16. Sokoto State: 25,973KM². 17. Katsina State: 24,192KM². 18. Jigawa State: 23,154KM². 19. Cross River State: 20,156KM². 20. Kano State: 20,131KM². 21. Gombe State: 18,768KM².
A. T op 10 NA TIONS in terms of Cattle inventory (2017).
3. T araba State: 54,473KM². 4. Kaduna State: 46,053KM². 5. Bauchi State: 45,837KM². 6. Y obe State: 45,502KM².
1. INDIA: 303 million 2. BRAZIL: 226 million 3. CHINA: 100 million. 4. USA: 93 million. 5. EU: 89 million. 6. ARGENTINA: 53 million.
GLOBAL CA TTLE BUSINESS: F ACT SHEET
1. AUSTRALIA: $5.6 Billion. 2. USA: $5.2 Billion. 3. BRAZIL: $4.3 Billion. 4. INDIA: $3.7 Billion 5. NETHERLANDS: $2.7 Billion. 6. IRELAND: $2 Billion. 7. NEW ZEALAND: $1.9 Billion.
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Usman Dan Fodio who was subsequently known as Shehu or Sheikh was born a Fulani in the Hausa state of Gobir about 1750. He was brought up with his brother Abdullahi as a strict Muslim and after studying for some years in Agades he felt the call to dedicate his life to teaching the faith. On his return from Agades, Dan Fodio acted as a t u t o r t o t h e S a r k i n G o b i r ' s t w o s o n s i n Alkaluwa. One of these was Y unfa who was later to succeed to the throne.
The notable exception is the Bornu Emirate to the north/east which is inhabited by the Kanuri. What we now know as the provinces of Sokoto, Gwandu, Katsina, Kano, Zaria, Bauchi, Adamawa, Plateau and Niger fell under varying degrees to the influence of the Fulani aristocracy Northern Nigeria was by no means a void nor was it without history W e do not propose to delve into ancient history . This is hardly a useful exercise here. Suffice it to say that British expansion met established Hausa states at varying levels of development and prosperity They were in all at this stage 14 Hausa states w h i c h c o m p r i s e d , D a r u a , K a n o , Z a r i a , Gobir , Katsina, Rono and Biram (the Hausa Bakwai or legitimate 7 states); Zamfara, K e b b i , N u p e , G b a g y i , G a u r i , I l o r i n (Y oruba) and Kwararafa (the banza Bakwai or upstart seven which developed to the south and west of the original group). Each state had its own traditions and legends of origin and at varying degrees had embraced or come under the influence of Islam. It had been said that it would be strictly incorrect to refer to these Hausa states as if they belong to the same ethnic group. They were people who spoke the Hausa language and adopted the Hausa mode of dress and life generally When the 19th century opened, the F u l a n i a p p e a r e d t o b e t h e p r e d o m i n a n t r a c e i n t h e S u d a n Fulani is the Hausa name for the people who call themselves Fulbe. They themselves made a distinction between the Cattle Fulani and the T own Fulani; The latter included the aristocratic families such as T orobe.
T h e F u l a n i u n d e r s t a n d i n g conquest took to their new masters the British and in return for their new found c o m p l i a n t a t t i t u d e L o r d Lugard made every Emir in every town in the north a Fulani, inadvertently giving power back to the Fulani. (I wonder if this is where the p h r a s e “ t h e o n l y t h i n g Nigeria understands is war” stems from).
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S o u t h e r n e r s c o u l d n e v e r fi t i n t o t h e s o c i a l / p o l i t i c a l s y s t e m a s i t w a s n o t designed to do so. (Oil doesn't mix with water). Now the British have left following independence the Fulani are still conquering as is there nature by political means.
T ribunal 1966. For a century before the advent of British a d m i n i s t r a t i o n i n N i g e r i a , t h e F u l a n i p r o v i d e d t h e r u l i n g c l a s s o f m o s t o f Northern Nigeria.
T o explain in full detail one must read: Historical background of Northern Nigeria in the Report of the Justice G.C.M Onyiuke
The origin of these people is less than clear . What is more certain, however is that by the 16th century , there was a s t e a d y m o v e m e n t o f t h o s e F u l a n i people from the region now known as S e n e g a l t o w a r d s t h e E a s t t h r o u g h Messina and the Hausa states toward Chad and Adamawa and beyond.
F r o m t h e r a n k o f t h e F u l a n i t h e g r e a t r e l i g i o u s l e a d e r s o f t h e 1 8 t h a n d 1 9 t h centuries came in the Sudan to launch a series of religious movements which, as o f t e n h a p p e n e d i n I s l a m , p a s s e d i n t o political wars. W e are here concerned with t h e r e l i g i o u s m o v e m e n t t h a t a ff e c t e d Northern Nigeria.
In the interval before his accession Dan F o d i o f e l t o b l i g e d t o w i t h d r a w f r o m Alkaluwa giving his reason the reversion to pagan practices by the court on the hostility T o understand Nigeria you need to k n o w t h e h i s t o r y t o e x p l a i n t h e politics. When the British arrived in what became Northern Nigeria, there were by then lets say for ar guments sake two nations ruling the North predominantly the Fulani and then also the Indigenous Hausa, the latter of which the Hausa kingdoms were constantly b e i n g a t t a c k e d b y t h e F u l a n i w h o a r e c o n q u e r s b y n a t u r e . T h e B r i t i s h t o k e e p a b a l a n c e assisted the Hausa and with t h e i r h e l p c o n f r o n t e d t h e Fulani.
T h e n i n 1 9 1 4 f o r fi n a n c i a l r e a s o n s t h e British amalgamated the Northern Nigeria P r o t e c t o r a t e w i t h t h e S o u t h e r n Protectorates, now these were entirely two v e r y d i ff e r e n t r e g i o n s , a s t h e s o u t h e r n protectorate wasn't a conquered region it was a democratic area of many nations that had been developed over thousands of years of trading with foreign lands (the southern protectorate agreed upon to protect trading) and was religiously predominantly Judea Christian and in every sense was far more developed than the north in every aspect; education, standard of living etc.. following the amalgamation there was a great need in the north for jobs only the southerners could really do for development of the country like railways, education etc.. So they were sent to the north, however they were still the foreigners and they could never fit in, understandably deep seated bad feelings embedded itself as the Northerners f
The British, by force of arms, broke the Fulani ascendancy in the north, but by twist of irony , restore that supremacy under the system of indirect rule. Once the suzerainty of the British was accepted by the Fulani, the British were content to allow an even to support and consolidate the authority of the Fulani Emirs in their various Emirates. The Fulani Emir was left as the head of the native administration, the head of the native judiciary , the religious head, and practically t h e h e a d o f e v e r y t h i n g i n h i s e m i r a t e Offices in the native administration, in the native administration police, in the native judiciary , what filled by appointees of the emirs. These appointees were invariably the r e l a t i o n s o f t h e E m i r o r h i s c o u r t i e r s Moslem religion preempted every aspect of life in the Emirates. This society became a ' c l o s e d s h o p ' S t r a n g e r s e s p e c i a l l y n o n Moslems, had no place in the society It is generally accepted that in 1966 there were over 2 million Easterners in Northern Nigeria. Their presence in the north it was all connected with the amalgamation of northern and southern Nigeria in 1914 by the British. Unfortunately , although they were there in such lar ge numbers and for so
At the beginning of the present century , the British administration emer ged in Northern Nigeria. They based their title on conquest. S i r F r e d e r i c k L u g a r d , t h e fi r s t B r i t i s h governor of Northern Nigeria asserted in one of his early reports as follows: “The F u lan i h o ld th eir s u zer ain ty b y r ig h t o f conquest. I can myself see no injustice in the transfer of the suzerainty thus acquired to the British by the same right of conquest”. The Fulani caste seemed to have accepted their masters without much resistance. The explanation of this, it is said, was due in part to the insecurity of the Fulani position in relation to their subjects who had shown little loyalty to the Fulani during the period of their confrontation with the British.
T h e e m e r g e n c e o f p o l i t i c a l p a r t i e s i n Nigeria did not improve matters in the north either As far as the north was concerned it did not succeed in breaking down the old barriers. The dominant political party in the n o r t h ( t h e N o r t h e r n P e o p l e ' s C o n g r e s s ) started off as a party of native administration functionaries and appointees of the Emir's and never really went beyond that.
S i n c e 1 9 5 0 a t t e m p t s , e s p e c i a l l y b y southerners, were made to bridge the gap but such attempts were regarded by the northern aristocracy as an imposition from the south and were smashed.
long and filled a very important position in the economic and political development of Northern Nigeria, they were never fully integrated into the mainstream of life in society . They became what sociologist call a privilege pariah class 'privileged' because p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n a n d b e n e fi t i n g f r o m t h e m o d e r n i z i n g s e c t o r s o f t h e e c o n o m y t o w h i c h t h e n o r t h e r n M u s l i m s h a d b e e n induced to turn their back. Their standard of living was higher than the normal run of life of most northerners. They were 'pariah' because they were kept outside the rank system of society Because of the attitude of northern Muslims to modern education, the administrators of the day were compelled to employ these Easterners though they disliked having them. It cut across the policy of the day of separating the north from the south.
'Divide and rule' is a cliché which is grown o d i o u s b y b e i n g f r e q u e n t l y u s e d f o r a l l situations weather appropriate or not; but it really enshrined an important gem of British colonial policy . The north and south were amalgamated in 1914 ostensibly under One government yet the 'writ' of the legislative Council in Lagos did not run into Northern Nigeria. The British colonial administrator reserved the right to legislate alone for the n o r t h u n t i l t h e R i c h a r d s c o n s t i t u t i o n o f 1946. E a s t e r n e r s i s a n d i n f a c t o t h e r n o n northerners were restricted in most of the towns to strangers quarters called Sabon Gari. In these circumstance the Easterners a n d N o r t h e r n e r s g r e w u p a s e p a r a t e c o m m u n i t i e s D i s s i m i l a r i t i e s w e r e accentuated and old prejudices hardened.
#thebiafranationalist Source Gossip House shown towards the Muslim faith. When Y unfa finally became king, he sort out his old tutor and encouraged him to resume his itinerant preaching. Dan Fodio soon fell out with the new king and in 1804 was driven to flight. A party rallied to him, defeated the king, and proclaimed Dan Fodio, (now their leader) Sarkin Musulmi Commander of the Faithful, a title which is still held by his successor , the Sultan of Sokoto. A general movement broke out all over the area which later became Northern Nigeria.
It is our view that the foundation of Nigeria contain the seeds of her own destruction.
T h e l i n e o f c l e a v a g e d i d n o t r u n c l e a r between the Fulani and the Hausas but the F u l a n i w h o p r o v i d e d t h e e n e r g y a n d ambition to the apparent religious cause. E v e r y w h e r e f o l l o w e r s o f t h e S h e h u , appointed or selfappointed, received flags f r o m h i s h a n d s T h e y c a l l e d u p o n t h e faithful to drive out the old Hausa or as they were called the Habe dynasties and then set themselves up in turn as rulers subject to Sokoto which had become the seat of the Fulani authority in 1810. Not only was this c h a n g e a c c o m p l i s h e d i n t h e o l d H a u s a k i n g d o m s b u t i n t h e i m p e t u s o f t h e m o v e m e n t , F u l a n i l e a d e r s p u s h e d t h e boundaries of Islam south, incorporating in varying degrees many pagan tribes. A s i n d i c a t e d e a r l i e r t h e m o v e m e n t f o r r e l i g i o u s r e v i v a l d e g e n e r a t e d i n t o a political war of conquest. Consequently the son of the Shehu, Bello, who succeeded him became more interested in the military and political results of the religious revival than in spreading the faith.
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@And the second reason for our Jihad was t h a t t h e y w e r e h e a t h e n s , t h e p e o p l e o f Hausa. A further reason for the war was that we sought to aid truth against falsehood and to strengthen Islam. For to make war on the heathen from the beginning, if one has the power is declared a duty So also it is it's a duty to make war on those heathen who have converted to Islam and later have reverted to heathenism, if one has the power In truth we stated at the beginning of this that the Hausa chiefs, their people and their mallams were evil doers”.
The record for Fulani success had some important exceptions. The ancient Kanuri kingdom of Bornu with its capital near Lake Chad and itself Moslem, threw back the Fulani invaders. The holy man of Bornu, ElKanemi, taunted Shehu Usman Dan Fodio with having turned a war of religion into one of conquest and with attacking his coreligionists. ElKanemi frankly admitted that some of his Chiefs had relapsed into heathenism, t h a t t h e A l k a l i s o r M o s l e m j u d g e s sometimes took bribes and women went unveiled; but he ar gued that this was not sufficient excuse for war This opposition from Bornu, as we shall see when we come to consider the pattern and the spread of the atrocities in the 1966 program, seems to appear its head once again in 1966. Bello in his defense of his fathers action justified mainly on the ground of proselytism. Said he:
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Presumably some people hoped that the U m u e z e o k o h a p e o p l e w i l l l o s e t h e i r identity as is happening with some Ikwerre p e o p l e i n R i v e r s S t a t e . U m u e z e o k o h a community is in the present Benue state and comprises of over 300 villages of Igbo speaking areas. Ado, Oju, Okpoku and Obi are local government areas that are part of the newly proposed Apa state that, which the Idoma have been calling for Inikiri Ichari, one of the market in Benue I g b o s e r v i n g t h e U m u e z e o k o h a community . Apa state must be obtained and added to t h e S E i n t h e i n t e r e s t o f u n i f y i n g t h e peoples with their kith and kin in the SE. T A T E O R
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According to the President, Benue Igbo Union, Mr . Nweke Cedrick Ifeanyi, his p e o p l e a r e w a l l o w i n g i n p o v e r t y a n d neglect and are often denied democracy d i v i d e n d s , i n c l u d i n g o b t a i n i n g l o c a l g o v e r n m e n t i d e n t i fi c a t i o n l e t t e r s f o r e m p l o y m e n t i n a n d o u t s i d e t h e s t a t e .
" Gone are the days where we don't k n o w w h er e I g b o id co mmu n ities are hidden. I have now put Anioma and them on the map for future reference. They are in 4 local government areas of Benue State namely Ado, Oju, Okpoku and Obi, all in Benue State. These are ethnic Igbo. These are known as the Umuezeokoha people. Some people were speaking about Igbo trying to annex other people's land, but look at how sizable amount of Igbo were cut off and place in the North as northern communities.
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“Although before the independence and the Nigerian civil war , which lasted for about three years, we used to experience government attention to the extent that the m i s s i o n a r i e s t h e n e s t a b l i s h e d o n e l o c a l p r i m a r y s c h o o l a t U m u e z e o k o h a c o m m u n i t y w h i c h c o m p r i s e s o v e r 3 0 0 villages of Igbo speaking areas that time. The school was generally accepted by our elders then and we did witness medical attention. “But since after the civil war , we in the entire 300 Igbospeaking villages in Benue State have been dumped by the Nigerian government.
Interestingly , the people share the same Benue South Senatorial Constituency with S e n a t e P r e s i d e n t , D a v i d M a r k . T h o u g h Igbos , the Umuezeokoha Community , due perhaps to accident of history , are found in Benue State instead of Ebonyi State , being the closest Igbo state where their kinsmen, the Ezza Ezekuna kindred are found.
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There are over one million of them spread a c r o s s f o u r l o c a l g o v e r n m e n t a r e a s o f Benue State. Y ou can find them in Ado, Oju, Okpoku and Obi, all in Benue State. They are ethnic Igbos. Before the Nigerian c i v i l w a r , t h e y l i v e d a h a p p y a n d meaningful life, mingling freely with their kith and kin in the state. But today , things have fallen apart. Instead of the joyful songs, they were used to, they now sing dir ges. The Benue Igbos who are called by the name Umuezeokoha are not happy that they have been neglected f o r a l o n g t i m e n o w b y s u c c e s s i v e governments, federal, state or local, and they are blaming this on their ethnic origin and the fact that they are in the wrong state.
Historical background of Igbos in Benue Mr . Nweke said the Igbos in Benue State; particularly those in Ado, Oju, Okpoku and O b i L o c a l G o v e r n m e n t A r e a s w e r e i n existence before the advent of Christianity in Nigeria. But since then, he lamented, t h e y h a v e n o t b e e n r e c o g n i z e d b y successive governments both at the state a n d f e d e r a l l e v e l s i n b o t h E b o n y i a n d Benue states. School constructed by the Missionaries in 1942 at Umuezeokoha in Benue.
Although, we have being facing a lot of unexpected harassment but we are firmly assuring you people that no amount of political deprivation or subjugation will m a k e u s t o d e n y o u r i d e n t i t y a s I g b o speaking people of Benue state and we must forever remain resolute to achieve our political freedom….. People should stop misdirecting the public with messages full of deceit and shenanigans that we are farm settlers in Benue state. WE ARE REAL INDIGENOUS IGBO IN BENUE W ritten by Okechukwu Okonjo on 13th October 2014 and edited by Ukachukwu Okorie.”
Unequivocally , Benue Igbo people are not known as farm settlers, as some prominent Igbo men are going about broadcasting to the public that we are only settle here for sake of farming. Comprehensively , farming is our pride in relation to our kith and kin in Ebonyi state, namely :. Ezza, Izzi Effium and Ezzamgbo people. These people mentioned here are today the strength of Abakaliki political block and also the farming strength of Ebonyi people For more than hundred years ago we have being in Benue state even, during the time of civil war Nigeria government used all her machinery against us in Benue here which later turn to futile and disgrace to them and still today we are pronouncing widely in popularity more than expected. Nigeria government, I think this is the right t i m e t o e m b r a c e j u s t i c e a n d s t o p t h e political ostracism against the Benue Igbo.
M r . N w e k e a l s o n a r r a t e d h o w t h e i r children die in their lar ge numbers because of lack of immunization, which he said they have never witnessed since the return of democracy . H e als o painted a gory picture of how they were swindled of N 6 , 0 0 0 e a c h f o r i n s e c t i c i d e t r e a t e d mosquito nets, which were given free to neighbouring communities by the federal government.
On the September 23, 2016, their umbrella o r g a n i z a t i o n , B e n u e I g b o D e v e l o p m e n t Union – BIDU issued a press release: WE ARE REAL INDIGENOUS IGBO:
Chief Nwali also said that during rainy season, their people get drowned in water and disclosed that none of the streams, r i v e r s a n d l a k e s h a s a n y b r i d g e a n d lamented that during the last flood incident, they lost almost all their farm lands and every other thing they had laboured for .
“W e are lacking so many things, including a health centre, political ward, good roads, good water , and electricity There is no salary earner in our place to the extent that the mosquito treated insecticide nets given freely by the federal government was sold to us at the rate of N6,000 each, some even paid without claiming it till date,” Nweke said. “All our roads are narrow; we do not have any motorable road in our area at all, last time when we visited the local government chairmen and complained about the issue of selling mosquito nets to us, what they said was that the era of mosquito nets had come and gone. This attracted exchange of gazes, and the question whether we are still a part of this country . Imagine as we are in this dry season, we hardly see water to drink, wash and cook, talk less of taking bath. Before we see water to do something, one has to trek up to 30 kilometres to a place where there is unpurified dam water , but in this place, you must queue up in a line before it will get to your turn,” he said. Another member of the community , Chief John Nwali also narrated the ordeal of the p e o p l e i n t h e h a n d s o f s u c c e s s i v e g o v e r n m e n t s i n t h e s t a t e , a d d i n g , “Sometimes we do lament whether we are different from other human beings created by God. Some of them that claim to be
An octogenarian, Pa Nwankwo Alo said: “Our children have not been immunized over the years, let alone polio eradication programme. Our women do not even know what hospital is when they are pregnant because there are no hospitals to attend and yet we have up to 32 polling units. W e have even called for more polling units because we are more than the present one but the government refused even as the national confab in 2014 came; there was nobody to speak for us.”
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“The political oppression which we have been subjected to is very serious. Even one o f t h e b i g g e s t r i v e r s w e h a v e h a s n o t a t t r a c t e d g o v e r n m e n t a t t e n t i o n , j u s t t o build a bridge across it. Last year , more than 20 people died while trying to cross the river for their normal daily business. W e m a d e s o m a n y e ff o r t s t o v i s i t o u r former Governor , Gabriel Suswan and our Senator , David Mark, to table our problem before them, but all to no avail.”
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I t i s w o r s e f o r t h o s e i n B e n u e S o u t h S e n a t o r i a l D i s t r i c t W e h a v e n e v e r experienced any government attention, let alone a project from the local, state and federal governments up till date.” The Igbo Union President also disclosed that a place with a population of over one million people has no designated political ward, no councillorship representative neither at the local government level nor at the state g o v e r n m e n t l e v e l d e s p i t e t h e i r v o t i n g population. He said even Senator David Mark and Governor Gabriel Suswan have been winning all their elections in the area. They lack portable water for their families.
natives of the state mock us by telling us to wait to benefit from government only when the Biafran nation which we fought for comes into reality .” “At times we nurse the idea of belonging to another country . In fact, if we are close to another country , we could have declared our intention to become their citizens, but this one we are in the midst of Nigeria, we s p e a k N i g e r i a n l a n g u a g e , p r a c t i c e N i g e r i a n c u l t u r e a n d r e l i g i o n , i n e v e r y election we vote and still we are treated with great scorn and neglect as if we do not e x i s t . Y e t , w e h a v e s o m e b o d y l i k e t h e Senate President, living in Abuja with our mandate. Even in the last 201 1 general election, I was the PDP Campaign Coordinator for Benue Igbo branch, but since that time till now , we are still in the same condition. W e have been regarded as slaves in the country of our own. Even the only primary school that w a s b u i l t b y t h e m i s s i o n a r y b e f o r e I n d e p e n d e n c e i s n o m o r e a t t r a c t i n g government attention. The school is now in a sorry state. The only secondary school we have as of now is one at Saint Charles C a t h o l i c C h u r c h a t A p a O g b o z u community , which was initiated by one Reverend Father .” “W e do not have anybody in the Benue State Government cabinet both in the local, s t a t e a n d i n f e d e r a l l e v e l s W e a r e a l l confused on what to do and where to go b e c a u s e w e d o n o t k n o w w h e n t h i s indefinite discrimination will come to an end because even to the extent that the local government identification letters are no m o r e b e i n g g i v e n t o u s a n y l o n g e r a s Nigerian citizens.”
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" I f y o u l i k e r e c o r d m e , I don't care W e will call all the d e i t i e s / g o d s o f Lagos to send all the Igbos packing . Any Igbo person that c a n ' t m a r r y Y o r u b a should leave our land because we have to inherit you, we will inherit all the Igbos h e r e t o o u r t r i b e ( Y o r grace. you guys (Igbo) so our relationship, are angry with you.. my blood sister even gave birth for an Igbo guy Should I go call ObiEze? compromised.
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dominate no matter what! Y ou guys aren't the only tribe in Lagos, there are Hausas, Calabar etc.. we all gave them space to thrive here in Lagos. Y ou are now daring our authority as owners of the Land?
God will not allow you take over us, we shall dominate you people here no matter what! I don't care if you are recording." T inubu
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form a united European Union. Many members of the EU were former satellite states, but their e m e r g e n c e a s s o v e r e i g n s t a t e s h e l p e d s u s t a i n e d p e a c e . T h e outright condemn of Russia in its i n v a s i o n o f U k r a i n e i s a c l e a r testament to the feelings of this g e n e r a t i o n . F r e e d o m i s a n i n a l i e n a b l e r i g h t . T h e c a s e o f Nigeria is not far from my analysis a s i t w a s p u t t o g e t h e r l i k e a n empire to lay siege on cultures and c u r t a i l t h e i n d u s t r i a l t a l e n t s o f indigenous people. W e have seen how the great Hausa culture was swallowed by a migrant nomadic Fulani. In the disguise of spreading Islam, they laid s i e g e o n t h e i r l a n d , a n d n o w e x t e n d i n g t o o t h e r smaller nations. The emer gence of Nigeria as an independent country q u i c k l y e x p o s e d t h e dysfunctional arrangement and clash of culture. Like a marriage of incompatibles, t h e b i c k e r i n g i s a c o n t i n u o u s p r o c e s s . A l r e a d y m o r e t h a n 7 m i l l i o n d i e d i n t h e w a r b e t w e e n N i g e r i a a n d t h e p e o p l e o f B i a f r a f r o m 1 9 6 7 7 0 . B u t t h e h o n e s t truth is that this experiment called Nigeria has taken millions of lives more since the end of the official war in 1970. The war has been u n o ffi c i a l l y o n s i n c e 1 9 7 0 i n different facet of the country's life.
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P AR T 2 in next edition in tatters yet things are bottled up for different reasons. The fact is m a n y m a t r i m o n i a l u n i o n s that see no p e a c e a n d p r o g r e s s c o l l a p s e a s c o u p l e s g o t h e i r s e p a r a t e ways. S i m i l a r t o this human d e v e l o p m e nt is the rise of Nations. T h e g l o b a l h i s t o r y h a s k e p t f o r h u m a n i t y r e c o r d s o n t h e r i s e o f a n c i e n t c u l t u r e s a n d i t ' s irrepressible people. As t h e w o r l d e v o l v e , humanity grow with it s h o w i n g o ff i t s i r r e s i s t i b l e c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s . A k e y quality here is the desire f o r f r e e d o m . T h e hunger for freedom is unquenchable in man. A s i t i s i n m o d e r n marriages, so it was in Empires where cultures w e r e b o t t l e d u p a n d n a t i o n a l i s t s u s e d a s fi r e w o o d t h a t c o o k e d the delicacy of tyranny and dictatorship. The age of Empires have gone. E v e n t h o u g h w e h a v e s i m i l a r s t r u c t u r e s t o d a y , t h e r e i s n o s t a b i l i t y w h e r e t h e m o d u s operandi copied the old pattern. Europe jettisoned it to enable her
