Fani-Kayode Faults Buhari, OBJ, Jonathan, Atiku, Obi, World Leaders For Congratulating Biden
Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Monday faulted the world leaders for congratulating the United States President-Elect, Joe Biden, noting that they were too quick to do so.
Fani who disclosed this via his facebook handle commended the likes of Russia, China, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Hungary, Iran, North Korea and a number of others for refusing to do so.
Kayode who is an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, said he was surprised to see President Muhammadu Buhari, Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, Abubakar Atiku, Bukola Saraki, Peter Obi and countless others congratulating Biden, without waiting for an official announcement to be made by the relevant authorities in America.
Below are his words: “The Kremlin has said that Vladimer Putin will not congratulate Joe Biden until all legal processes have been exhausted and an official announcement has been made by the relevant authorities in America that he has won the presidential election.
An announcement by CNN, FOX News, Al Jazeera, BBC and all the other television and media outlets in the world is NOT good enough for them.
I commend the Russians who have decided to tread the path of caution in view of the circumstances under which Biden has emerged.
This is how foreign Governments are meant to react to the unfolding and increasingly unsavory events in America.
Shame on ALL foreign leaders who have congratulated Biden on winning an election in which only the media has declared him as winner.
Kudos to Russia, China, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Hungary, Iran, North Korea and a number of others for refusing to do so.
I am disappointed with the premature congratulatory messages offered to Biden by the UK, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Israel, India, Pakistan, Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, South Korea, Japan and a number of other countries.
I am dumbfounded by some Nigerian leaders who have also congratulated Biden including Muhammadu Buhari, Olusegun Obasano, Goodluck Jonathan, Abubakar Atiku, Bukola Saraki, Peter Obi and countless others.
This unnecessary fawning and belittling expression of love and support for their preferred candidate could at least have waited until the matter has been properly concluded.
If Donald Trump eventually prevails and he is sworn in on January 20th for a second term there are going to be a lot of very red faces on the world stage.
Whether anyone wishes to accept it or not, the fact of the matter is that the election results have NOT been confirmed and the Electoral College has NOT formally met and declared the outcome.
To add to that there are serious and credible claims of fraud, cheating, perfidy, voter suppression and election irregularities which the courts are yet to look into and clearly there is still a long way to go before the whole matter is brought to an end and formally concluded.
Congratulating the candidate of a political party that may well have ruthlessly and corruptly rigged his way to what is likely to end up being a pyrrhic and short-lived “victory” is not in our nation’s interest, is not the way to enhance, strengthen, support and entrench democracy and does not speak well of those who have done so.
Whether you support Biden or Trump, let us at least wait for the matter to be properly concluded and a winner officially declared by the relevant authorities before we start dishing out our congratulatory messages like confetti at a white wedding.
Anything less is inappropriate, irresponsible, unbecoming, embarrassing and utterly slavish.”
Source: Vanguard
WHY MAJORITY OF BLACK AFRICANS IN AFRICA SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP MORE THAN DIASPORA AFRICANS IN AMERICA
The average Nigerian-led Black African Diaspora in America who is often over-fed with sumptuous dishes of American freedom and democracy against the background of their historical Continental origins see themselves with the carriage of superior knowledge over their Continental compatriots. They feel that because they take tea or cofee and bread as their breakfast the same menu should be considered right for the Black Africans whose hot climatic condition and excessive manual engagements require heavy-duty cabohydrates. It does not occur to them that every society has its peculiar character on which are alied its peculiar ways of life and problems, including type of food.
This expains why the Black Africans in Continental Africa see the dynamics of American Presidency fundamentally through the spectacle of American foreign policy and how it affects the collective or specific progress of the Black African nations. In this case they do not care much about the internal political dynamics of the United States. Their major concern has been how America affects them either as individual nations or a group of nations. This explains why in their judgment of American core-political values what matters to them is the comparative impacts of the eight-year Barak Obama administration against the four-year Donald Trump administration. In other words, the question here is between Barak Obama and Donald Trump whose Presidency better impacted positivrly on Africa in general and Black Africa in particular? Remarkably one may add by asking, to what extent have the Black African Diaspora used the advantage of their American experience to contribute positively towards the positive development of Black Africa?
The Jewish-Americans in the midst of their overwhelming success within the realm of the American Dream are mostly concerned about how American foreign policy impacts on the State of Israel in political, economic, and security terms. The same spirit of ancestral patriotism is notable among the Indian-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Arab-Americans, and other Asian-American Diaspora. What have the Black African Diaspora in America got to show as their positive impacts of American foreign policy in Black Africa?
It is worth stating the fact that we Continental Black Africans had prayed fervently for long for an African-American to emerge one day as the President of the United States of America as a testimony to the insurmountable labor under pains, sufferings and, all kinds of deprivations their ancestors underwent in the processs of re-inventing the current American Dream.
We prayed for a true African-American whose ancestors experienced what it meant to be a segregated and deprived African-American under the tortuous experience of slavery; those whose whose ancestors invented for us the true meaning and essence of Pan Africanism and whose ideas and labors created the true spirit of African nationalism that eventually midwifed anti-colonial struggles; I mean those people with the unadultrated pedigree of John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Mercus Garvey, Martin Luther King jnr, Elija Mohammed, and Jesse Jackson. These were the people who understood what it meant to be an African-America founded on the ideals of true African identity with the nostalgic experience of an oppressed past. These were the people who looked towards Africa with unfaltering ancestral connecting spirit with the true meaning and essence of African identity. These were the people from whose descendants we expected to be granted the privilege of producing an American President.
But against our prayers we were given a Barack Hussein Obama–a first generation African-American who lacks the ancestral connectivity to ithe true African-American experience and spirit; one who has no nostalgic story to tell about his African-American root; and a man whose conception of Black identity is as whitewashed as his understanding of the Black African moral core-values. It is worth stating the fact that the tragedy of Black Africa’s alienation from her core values came with Obama’s era as the President of the United States of America. It is the worst that ever happened to Black Africa in her many decades of eventful relations with the United States of America.
Under Obama’s Presidency Black African nations were forced to accept against their core moral values, the deplorable culture of homo-sexualism, and those African leaders who audaciously questioned his impudent Sodom and Gomorah policy like President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria were sentenced to his political gaol. Nigeria and Libya have never been themselves since the time of President Obama. Under President Obama Black Africa was greeted with reckless Islamic insurgences through his subtle and covert alignment with Islanmic Jihad; Christians all over the World were slaughtered everywhere by Muslim Jihadists without a single word of defence from President Obama, just as the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh are being massacred by Azerbaijan forces with the connivance of Turkey and her Islamist jihadists from Syria, notwithstanding the fact that the United States of America was founded on the ideals of Christian freedom as championed by the historic 1620 Pilgrims Landing at Plymouth. These were the dilemmas Black Africa and the World Christendom were facing when Donald Trump arrived the political stage to remedy the fouled situation.
Donald Trump came with the spirit of John 8:32 and the boldness of Saint Paul the Tarsus. He did not say one thing and did another. He was a man of his words and his actions matched his words. We saw an America once turning towards Sodom and Gomorrah being returned back to God. We saw him threading where his predecessors feared to thread. He stated that he would transfer American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and he did as he stated. He threatened to ban certain Muslims from entering the United States of Anerica and he did as he stated and that stopped the once reckless killigs and bombings in United States by Muslim extremists. He opened up the flood-gates of unexpected peace between the State of Israel and the Arab World such that none of his predecessors were not able to do. He promised to end ISIS and today that monster of Islam is gone. He promised to make America great again and most of us believe that America gained more respect as a Global Power under him than any of his recent predecessors. What else does one need to define success in leadership?
Since being elected President of the United States of America in 2016 no past American President, not even Barack Obama received the kind of enthusiastic support by majority of Black Africans in the Black Continent in particular and the World Christendom in general. This is because Trump’s American core-values which are strongly founded on Christian moral core-values are in full agreement with traditional African moral core-values. No sane Black African will be proud of any American President who tells him it is right for a woman to marry a fellow woman, and a man to marry a fellow man, while at the same time criminalizing polygamy.
These are coming against the deplorable anti-Trump hate-filled utterances by majority of Black African Diaspora of America. These well-fed, well-clothed, gainfully employed and well-protected under the law nouveau Black African Diaspora especially the wide-mouthed Nigerians among them often cite the alleged but unfounded Trump’s racist inclinations as their only basis of their hatred of the man.
They forgot that there is more to the inherent political problems of Black Africa which only a Donald Trump has the liver to confront than the subjective word “racism”, and they expect the Black Africans of the homeland to believe in their hollow thesis of racism as a recipe to their intractable myriads of political and economic problems. They tend to forget that if given the option under the current state of failed States the average Black African would choose to go back to his European colonial stage than continue with his present self-inflicted political dungeon miscalled indpendence.
Thus as far as Black Africa is concerned the question of racism does not have a place in her political dictionary. We have ethnicity, Islamism and Xenophobia which are more deadly than racism and thus we must confront these divisive political monsters first before pointing accusing fingers at those who brought the light of modern civilization to us and focus on how we can best utilizes their mentorship to become politically and economically self-sustainable like the Asian countries.
Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD
Obigbo :110 Killed ,200 Injured By Army & Police in 6 States- InterSociety
Unveiling The Obigbo Army Killing Fields: 50 Killed, 80 Injured, Scores Disappeared & Hundreds Held In Secrecy
…in all, 110 killed & 200 injured by Army and Police in Rivers, Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi & Enugu via EndSARS
Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria
Friday, 6th Nov 2020
The Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law can circumstantially, verifiably and statistically state that the EndSARS protests in the Igbo States of Rivers (largely Igbo), Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia and Imo were turned into shooting and killing spree by ethno-religiously imbalanced armed soldiers of the Nigerian Army and personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, leading to close range shooting to death of at least 110 unarmed citizens and terminal injuring of at least 200 others.
These, including Gov Wike aided Army massacre in Obigbo and environs, generally took place in 14 days or from 21st Oct to 4th Nov 2020. The killings were so glaring that the corpses of the slain littered inside the bushes and by the roadsides; with some buried shallowly or left to decompose and others picked up by their relatives or emergency officials of some of the affected States especially Rivers and Enugu States. There are also independent reports of scores of bodies of the slain buried atrociously by soldiers in shallow graves including melting them with acid substances. Such was the case in Aba in Feb 2016 and Sept 2017 and Onitsha and Nkpor in May 2016.
While most of the shootings, killings and injuries had occurred between 21st and 24th Oct 2020; a period of three days, in Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo and Abia States, those of Obigbo and environs in Rivers State took place between 21st Oct when the Gov Nyesom Wike imposed curfew in Oyigbo Local Government Area, targeting Obigbo and environs and 4th Nov, a period of 14 days, when the curfew supposedly elapsed and the massacre forced to subside following public outcries. Since then, Gov Wike has been running from pillar to pole defending himself, saying he ‘did not invite soldiers to kill Obigbo residents”.
We also wish to state clearly that the 50 death figures and 80 gunshot injuries in Obigbo and environs are most likely to be very conservative. This is going by the fact that pieces of credible information are still filtering in and what we have given here is the general evaluation of what happened. The projected 50 deaths and 80 injuries were temporarily arrived at based on credible information gathered from some of the survivors, who also told us that “they saw soldiers driving away dozens of blindfolded residents of their area (Obigbo and environs) with their hands tied behind their back and taken away half naked in batches of military vehicles”. Intersociety is presently carrying out extensive investigation into the massacre especially with regard to ascertaining the final figure of the dead, the tortured, the sexually harassed including the raped; the burnt, the destroyed, the looted, the arrested and incarcerated and the permanently disappeared.
The number of those blindfolded and made half naked who were independently seen being taking away is estimated at over 200. Our contacts who independently verified from police authorities said police told them that none of them arrested and taken away by soldiers since 21st Oct has been handed over to the Rivers State Police Command as at 4th Nov 2020. This raises serious suspicion of secret killing of scores of them by soldiers and possible decimation of their bodies with acid substances for purpose of erasing traces. We also seriously suspect that those arrested since two weeks and possibly held illegally in secret Army custodies are most likely to be undergoing outlawed and agonizing detention practices.
Therefore, as statistics conscious rights group, Intersociety has refused to speak categorically on Obigbo massacre until pieces of reliable statistics or information are gathered. That is to say that this position of ours on the number of the slain and the maimed arising from the massacre is not final, but a credible attempt to present the thirsty global community with a general statistical idea of what the ethno-religiously lopsided Nigerian Army did to Christian citizens of old Eastern Nigeria in Obigbo and environs, in full conspiracy of Gov Nyesom Wike.
We are also in possession of dozens of photos and videos of the slain and the maimed, collected from Rivers, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Enugu and Abia States. Apart from getting them from direct source, they have also been manually and forensically investigated. The photos and videos, many of which not public image friendly, except on personal or formal request, clearly depict deadly use of force by the culpable soldiers and police personnel particularly in Obigbo and environs where ‘heavy’ military bullets were used against unarmed and defenseless citizens.
The victims were also targeted and shot at close range and forbidden or sensitive parts of their bodies; all with intent to massacre or slay. That is to say that the slain victims seen and verified were shot at close range and their sensitive parts including forehead/brain, chest/heart, abdomen/manhood, stomach, and eyes/nose/mouth regions. For instance, Intersociety agrees with Gov Nyesom Wike, to an extent, that “some photos and videos being flooded in the social media as those linked to Obigbo massacre are fake or not connected with same”, but not all of them are fake or with different origins.
Gov Wike’s position on this has implied that ‘soldiers and proscribed SARS operatives did not kill defenseless residents of Obigbo and environs, or destroy and burn properties including residences, or sexually harass including engaging in forced sexual intercourse with or raping unmarried/young married women, or carry out general acts of torture, or blindfold some defenseless residents, take them to unknown military destinations and possibly kill them, or engage in mass arrest of hundreds of the residents of the area; etc. Contrarily, reverse is the case.
Obigbo Casualties & Injuries: Therefore, in Obigbo and environs in Rivers State, we can temporarily confirm the killing of at least 50 unarmed citizens and injuring of not less than 80 others. We can also confirm eleven deaths so far out of which, eight has their names identified and three yet to be named. Their names are: (1) Pastor Igwe (slain husband of Mrs. Amara Igwe), (2) Queen Nwazuo (slain fiancée of Mr. Monday Bakor), (3) Okoro Peter and (4) Chinwendu O.: they were shot at close range and killed instantly by soldiers on 24th Oct 2020 few meters away from Gov Wike’s convoy.
The Gov was visiting Obigbo to assess his military deployment and curfew same day and the two young residents barely emerged from their houses to hear what their Gov has come to tell them when soldiers sighted them and opened fire, killing them instantly. They were shot at forehead, forcing the brain-box of Late Chinwendu to bust and emptied at the center of the road. Other dead citizens were: (5) Jude Egejuru (died from gunshot injuries), (6) Clifford Nkemdilim, (7) Late Miss Ngozi Ozuo, (8) Udeme Ossy Monday, (9) a yet-to-be identified dead citizen, (10) second yet-to-be-identified citizen and (11) third yet-to-be-identified dead citizen. It must be noted that soldiers took away bodies of most of those killed.
Among the deadly injured are: (1) Chukwuma Chinonso, (2) Nwoke Okwudiri Nwonye, (3) Uche Ogbonna, (4) Chikaodi Agwu, (5) Michael Okwudiri, (6) John Emeka, (7) Agwu Enyi, (8) Obichukwu Chibuike, (9) Izuchukwu Igwe, (10) Eluu Chukwuemeka, (11) Arinze Joshua, (12) Nwakama Izuegbe, (13) Destiny Okorie, (14) Michael Nkama, (15) Israel Asoh, (16) Emeka Heart, (17) Victor Heart, (18) Orji Amaoji, (19) Paschal, (20) Obasi Emela, (21) Chiwuzu Orjinta and (22) Sylvester Odoche.
Casualties & Injuries Across The Southeast: In Ebonyi State, where at least ten citizens were killed, among them were: (1) Nwibo Chibueze, (2) Nwali Emeka, (3) a yet-to-be-identified young man in his twenties and (4) Ofoke Sunday. Among at least 30 victims of gunshot wounds in the State are: Oshopo Chinedu, (2) Ngoke The, (3) Nwoji Ikechukwu, (4) Nwovu Ikechukwu, (5) Nwofe Lewis, (6) Elom Chimezie, (7) Opoke Mbakwe, (8) Onwe Monday, (9) Elochukwu Suday, (10) Onwe Ezekiel, (11) Igwe Uchenna, (12) Nwudele Uchenna, (13) Nwudele Uchenna, (14) Nwamiri Chukwudi, (15) Nwebi Stephen, (16) Nwofoke Ugochukwu, (17) Nwoke Peter, (18) Mbam Emmanuel, (19) Okey Emeka, (20)Egba Izuchukwu, (21) Awoke Nnamdi and (22) Alo Peter.
In Enugu State, where at least ten citizens were killed, among them were: (1) Christian Ugwuaja, (2) Sunday Chime, (3) Victor Igwe and (4) John Ikemuefuna. Among at least 30 gunshot victims are: (1) Okafor Kosisochukwu, (2) Ezeagbo Ifeanyi, (3) Odigomma Chimazom, (4) Ajah Chukwuemeka, (5) Somtoo Nwaeze, (6) Innocent Ominyi, (7) Friday Mgebebu, (8) Ezinduamaka Osondu, (9) Happiness Chidiebere, (10) Chinonso Obodoagu, (11) Idoko Ebuka, (12) Ibebuike Uzoigwe, (13) Chidi Oguejiofor, (14) Odinaka Ejim, (15) Solomon Okafor, (16) Ani Ifedibalachukwu, (17) Ituma Tochukwu, (18) Oge Simon, (19) Ezeaga Chukwuma, (20) Onwuna Kosiso, (21) Onwe Humphrey, (22) Sunday Kingsley Nweze and (22) Akpataobi Peter.
In Anambra State, where at least ten unarmed citizens were killed, among them were: (1) Ezenwile Okwuchukwu John, (2) Obasi Mmaduabuchi, (3) Nwafor Ikechukwu and (4) Ekeh Emmanuel Friday; and among 20 wounded citizens are: (1) Okafor Chidi, (2) Ogbada Chinonso, (3) Chigozie Ezenwa, (4) Nwokwu Anayochukwu and (5) Onuoha Kalu. In Abia State, where up to, if not over 20 citizens were killed, among them were: (1) Ifeanyi Nwaogu, (2) Isaiah Chiedozie, (3) Chijoke, (4) Chinedu, (5) Kelechi Godslove, (6) Uche (killed at Ogbohill, Aba), (7) Gorge (killed along Cameroon Road, Aba) and (8) Chukwuka Odinaka Omemma; and among some 25 gunshot injured citizens are: (1) Cyprian Onwe, (2) Uchenna Kalu, (3) Nze Anayo Okoro, (4) Enyinnaya Agha and (5) Chinomso Nkalu. In Imo State, ten persons were killed in Mbaitolu and Orlu and about 15 others shot and injured. Among the dead were Late Mr. Agomuo of IMSUBEB (killed by Army at Nworie-Ubi, Owerri) and Mr. Uwadi Ebuzoeme shot dead in Orlu.
Signed:
Principal Officers: Emeka Umeagbalasi (Board Chair), Chinwe Umeche, Esq., (Head of Democracy), Obianuju Igboeli, Esq., (Head of Civil Liberties), Ndidiamaka Bernard, Esq., (Head of Int’l Justice & Human Rights) and Comrade Sam Kamanyaoku (Head of Field Data Collection &
Deputy IPOB leader Goes Underground ~ Investigation
The former deputy leader of the proscribed Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), Uche Mefor has suddenly deleted his Facebook page and disappeared into the thin air. This recent development has finally collaborated the crack earlier reported in August.
The estranged deputy leader, Uche Mefor who became very vociferous called for a change of approach and attitude among the members of the movement but his appeals fell to the wrong ears. Instead of resolving Mefor’s outburst diplomatically, Nnamdi Kanu ordered his attack dogs to shred Mefor’s personality into pieces.
Kanu even boasted on his malicious radio that any principal officer of the rogue movement that shares contrary view with that of his own will be automatically dismissed from the organization and punished severely.
It was reported about a feud between Mefor and Nnamdi Kanu which culminated to a very serious war of words between the duo.
Sources who are very close to IPOB DOS told our Reporter that Kanu who could not condone the overbearing nature of Uche Mefor secretly dismissed him from the hierarchy of the organization. His removal was done clandestinely to avoid raising unnecessary eyebrows which could further whittle the scant patronage currently enjoyed by the crooks in charge of the outlawed organization.
Though when our Reporter probed another source concerning the whereabouts of Uche Mefor and why his Facebook page was taken down, the source said that Mefor took that very decision because of security reasons.
Another reliable ally of Mefor said that Nnamdi Kanu crossed the red line after he disgraced their former African representative, George Onyibe who was a strong hitman of IPOB out of office. What will befall Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB in no distant time will be shocking. Any ear that hears it will tingle, the ally said.
Nnamdi Kanu, who is running a salary driven freedom fighting movement has been accused of being autocratic, arrogant and fraudulent by some of his former allies.
However, IPOB is on the verge of drowning. Many are deserting the rogue movement after discovering how irresponsible and insincere the leaders have been.
Source: Elombah
Obiano presents N143.7 billion budget proposal for 2021
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The Governor said the budget estimate of N143.7 billion was premised on the crude oil price benchmark of $35 per barrel.
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra, on Tuesday, presented a budget proposal of N143.7 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval.
Mr Obiano, who tagged the appropriation bill “ Budget of Economic Recovery and Consolidation,” said that it would help sustain past performance and ensure the state maintained it status as a business hub and investment destination.
According to the governor, a total of N86.9 billion will be spent on capital expenditure, translating to 60.5 per cent of the budget, while N56.8 billion will go to recurrent expenditure, translating to 39.5 per cent of the budget.
He said the estimate was premised on the crude oil price benchmark of $35 per barrel.
Mr Obiano said that expected revenue from Value Added Tax is N20.8 billion, while other capital receipts would be N20.9 billion.
The governor said that N36.6 billion would be raised from Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).
On personnel expenditure, Mr Obiano said that N17.6 billion would be spent as salaries and wages, N16.2 billion would be spent on group life insurance, loan, pensions and gratuities of retirees, while N22.9 billion would be spent on overheads.
He said that N11.0 billion was provided for domestic debt financing, comprising of single digit concessionary programme lending for interventions in healthcare, social investments, agriculture, manufacturing and youth entrepreneurship.
The budget breakdown revealed that construction of roads, bridge works and infrastructure had the highest allocation of N32 billion followed by healthcare which had N6.8 billion.
Education and agriculture were allocated N5.0 billion and N2.5 billion respectively, while community social development projects got N1.1 billion.
Water resources and public utilities got N3.77 billion while environment got N3.4 billion and mall and medium enterprises development N2 billion.
Mr Obiano said “we have set aside the sum of N200 million for payment as compensations to our people who have proven cases of gross human rights violations, torture and death from the activities of the defunct SARS in the state.
“Over 70 per cent of my appointees are youths, therefore, we have allocated the sum of N5.4 billion to youth entrepreneurship and empowerment programmes.
“We have also allocated N1.1 billion to empower youths through vocational, agricultural and artisan training programmes as well as N120 million for the establishment of creative centres, innovation hubs and ICT related projects.
“Meanwhile, N5.8 billion has been earmarked for the completion of the proposed Anambra International Airport, N500 million for the completion of the International Conference Centre, Awka.
“This budget seeks to entrench a new watershed in the development aspirations of the state. We hope, therefore, that it will be given a speedy consideration and passage to ensure a sustained and steady advancement of our state.’’
Receiving the budget, the Speaker, State House of Assembly, Uche Okafor, said the presentation was necessary to obtain legislative consent for the amount of money to be spent in the coming financial year.
He promised that the Assembly would continue to work in synergy with the executive for the good of the people and the development of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Obiano presented a budget estimate of N101.4 billion for 2016, N115.5 billion for 2017, N166.9bn for 2018, N157.1bn for the 2019 and N137.1 billion for 2020 fiscal year, but which was later revised to N114.9 billion.
Deployment Of Killer Soldiers: Intersociety Warns Govs Obiano, Wike, Okowa, Ugwuanyi, Uzodimma, Ikpeazu And Umahi
…names of atrocity crimes chief perpetrators in Nigeria involving sixteen massacres have risen to 50 since August 2015
Onitsha, Eastern Nigeria
Tuesday, 3rd November 2020
‘’My brothers (referring to Intersociety leadership), I have been trying hard to locate you guys, my name is…., your fellow Igbo brother and a retired Commissioner of Police. There is this particular statement issued by your Organization when I was …State Commissioner of Police. It was a press statement countering my order for deployment of police personnel back to roadblocks following the resurgence of ‘armed robbers’ and ‘kidnappers’ in the State. Your statement not only attacked my directive but also called it a clear act of insubordination; that it undermined then IGP, M.D. Abubakar’s order for dismantling of most of the roadblocks across the country particularly in the Southeast. Today, after my meritorious retirement, that single statement of yours has earned me an international pariah status to the extent that wherever I go to apply and submit my CV for international consultancy engagements and related others, those in charge will open their drawers or computers to show me a copy of that publication, putting a big dent on my person and records. Please what will it take to get the publication deleted or removed from ICT circulation or countered?’’
The above was a phone based lamentation of a retired Commissioner of Police who left office in July 2014 and contacted Intersociety around 2015 or 2016. Retired IGP, Mohammed D. Abubakar, remains the only IGP in Nigeria who made skeletal police roadblocks as his major policy direction. This followed a country-wide investigation and finding by Intersociety that “there are (were) over 3,500 police roadblocks across the country with Southeast playing host to over 1,500; which illicitly yielded the NPF’s corrupt personnel N53b in three years or 2009-2011. Today, there are over 3,000 police roadblocks in the Southeast alone, illicitly yielding at least N30, 000 per roadblock daily or N90m per day, N2.7b monthly and N32.4b yearly.
Our decision to revisit the above, therefore, is to remind the chief operators of today’s Nigerian rights abusive security establishments that not only that judgment day awaits every chief perpetrator of grisly or atrocity crimes against humanity and property but also such justice must include moral or integrity and physical or judicial justice. As a matter of fact, Intersociety does not wish any senior or combat officer of the Nigeria Police Force or Armed Forces or Intelligence Services or a sitting top public office holder (.i.e. Gov or Minister) to be profiled or have a place in the research records compiled by rights groups and research institutions to track public office holders’ conduct atrocities such as genocide or crimes against humanity or war crimes or massacres or ethno-religious cleansings and related others.
We have also been calling our friendly senior service officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force, NPF, SSS, NIA and politically appointed persons at Ministerial Quarters or elected persons at Government Houses; advising them strongly to always steer clear, in the course of discharging their appointed or delegated duties, from getting involved in grisly crimes against humanity or ‘industrial scale’ human rights abuses and violations. However, we shall have zero sympathies for those who get involved or get their names profiled.
We shall join in local and global campaigns to get them, both retired and serving senior members of the Nigerian security establishments and public office holders to be slammed with appropriate international sanctions or isolations including being blacklisted (inclusive of their family members) and made ineligible in all regional and international military, policing and other security or diplomatic engagements involving corporate, individual or intergovernmental dealings such as consultancies, contracts, honours, scholarships, partnerships, exchange programs, speech deliveries, academic appointments, visa denials or withdrawals, freezing of their accounts and seizure or confiscation of their assets and mansions abroad, etc. These are in addition to ensuring that they face civil and criminal lawsuits locally and internationally at times and places considered appropriate and convenient.
We Welcome COAS’s “Spending The Rest Of My Life In Nigeria” Statement: Therefore, contrary to COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai’s recent directive to his principal officers “not to be afraid of being blacklisted or sanctioned internationally in the course of defending Nigeria including its ‘indivisibility’; his directive is remorseless and blanket order capable of instigating more slaughtering by soldiers of defenseless citizens especially on the grounds of their ethnicity and religion. A clear case in point is the ongoing military terrorism in Obigbo, Rivers State. The COAS statement that: “he does not mind spending the rest of his life in Nigeria” is a welcome development. We wish to add that justice for any atrocity or grisly conduct crimes chief perpetrator does not care about his or her location. The leader of Sudanese “Janjaweed” terror militia, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (“Ali Kushayb”) was recently arrested in Sudan and taken to ICC for his genocidal role in the Darfur massacre that took place about fifteen years ago. That is to say that grisly crime against humanity, when committed or perpetrated, does not have expiring dates so long as it is forensically documented and archived.
Defining Criminal Liability Of Chief Perpetrators Of Atrocity Crimes In Nigeria:
In indicting the chief perpetrators named below, Intersociety expertly and knowledgeably holds them to account in line with the global best practices including the principles of direct and vicarious criminal responsibilities or liabilities, Direct perpetrators are those state actors that ordered, supervised and executed the killings or the massacres; facilitated or attempted to facilitate the destruction of evidence-and colluded in protecting the command structure and rank and file culprits resulting in them not being fished out and brought to justice till date. On the other hand, vicarious perpetrators are those superiors taking bureaucratic responsibility for the acts of their subordinates or, those superiors that have the “right, ability or duty to control the activities of the violators or perpetrators of the conduct atrocities or atrocity crimes, but failed or declined to do same.
In the eyes of International Criminal Law, too, the named perpetrators many of wom in charge of strategic public offices in the present Government of Nigeria are found to have grossly shown ‘unwillingness’ and ‘inability’ to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to local justice; rather they set up kangaroo probe panels to exonerate them and supervise or attempted to supervise destruction of evidence. Totaliity of these amounts to derogation of Nigeria’s regional and international commitments. They are also a fundamental breach of the Int’l Law’s Principle of Complementarity and Zero Impunity. The Complementarity Principle is a major principle enshrined in the Int’l Criminal Court’s Statute of 1998 and recognized by same to the effect that “States have the first responsibility and right to prosecute international crimes. The ICC may only exercise jurisdiction where national legal systems fail to do so, including where they purport to act but in reality are unwilling or unable to genuinely carry out proceedings or met out appropriate punishments or sanctions against the perpetrators”..
Warning Seven Igbo Govs Against “Carry Go” Deployment Of Killer Soldiers:
Intersociety is strongly warning and raising the alarm on dangerous citizens’ rights, liberty, security and safety implications of “carry go” or “licensed to kill, torture and terrorize” deployment of soldiers in old Eastern Nigeria particularly in Anambra, Delta, Rivers, Enugu, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi States. As clearly shown in the photo attached below, concerning Gov Obiano’s last week’s (seemingly) “carry go” group photo with the newly deployed soldiers in Anambra State; the named Govs have been allowing ethno-religiously unknown soldiers to be deployed in their respective States. This they do without getting such soldiers tutored at reception arenas on the need for them to steer clear of abuse or violation of human rights including sexual harassments, unlawful arrest, torture, extrajudicial killing and roadblock extortion as well as aiding or protecting jihadists’ settlements and activities in Igbo Land. The Govs also do not care to seek and know the ethno-religious composition of the soldiers being drafted including that of their leaders.
This is more so when it is now a truism that the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Navy, the Nigerian Air Force, the Nigeria Police Force and the Intelligence Agencies, etc of pre 2015 are no longer same as the present ones and their compositions; in addition to the fact that there have been credible reports of military terrorism and terrorization of defenseless citizens in Igbo Land particularly in Abia, Ebonyi and Rivers States. As a matter of fact, the three States are the flashpoints for potential military massacre this end of 2020. This was the case in Sept 2017 in Abia with over 180 were massacred in three days and Onitsha and Nkpor in Anambra and Asaba in Delta in May 2016 where over 140 were massacred.
Gov Wike: The Mighty Has Fallen
With the ongoing reign of military terror in Obigbo and environs, involving credible reports of killings, sexual harassments, house breaking, looting, mass arrests, torture and disappearances by Nigerian soldiers, Gov Nyesom Wike has not only acted like an ‘unlettered lawyer’, but also goofed unpardonably in his last week instigation of the ongoing military mayhem in Obigbo and environs. He is therefore inescapably culpable, vicariously and legally speaking. A politically conscious and lettered lawyer-Gov should not have done what he did. It is a settled law and principle that no public office holder, whether elected or appointed, has a right or power to take or order for taking away of life of another or others. The Gov should have known better both as a lawyer and a politician that the present Nigerian Army, its composition and conducts are highly questionable and far from being secularity friendly.
Apart from earning notoriety in butchering of thousands of defenseless citizens since August 2015 mostly on the grounds of their religion and tribe and provocatively denying same; the Nigerian Army has become so blood thirsty for innocent and defenseless citizens that it looks for slightest loophole or excuse or opportunity to massacre and terrorize the defenseless especially on the grounds of their tribe and religion. This time around, Gov Wike has fallen into its trap. He is also made himself a potential guest of ICC and other international justice chambers. That is to say that reasons being adduced by the Gov are utterly inexcusable, unfounded and vexatious.
Granted that unlawful killing of service personnel including soldiers and police officers and burning of public properties are totally reprehensible and condemnable, but they did not happen as an isolated incident or restricted to Rivers State alone. They not only cut across the country, but also were instigated by the Government of Nigeria, its soldiers who massacred over fifteen peaceful protesters at Lekki Tollgate and the Islamist hoodlums allied with Nigerian Government to attack and kill protesters. For all that we know, Lagos State lost more properties and citizens than Rivers State, yet heaven has not let loose. That is not to say that those behind the dastardly act in Rivers State should be spared.
Over 200 soldiers, conservatively speaking, have independently been confirmed killed this year alone by jihadist insurgents in Borno, Katsina, etc yet the areas where they were killed are still inhabited by humans, animals and properties. Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and their patrons have renamed and occupied over 100 communities in Southern Kaduna and over 60 in Plateau State. In Igbo Land, they, aided by the military, have violently entered and occupied bushes, forests and farmlands in over 600 communities, yet Govs of those areas and Nigerian Army have not wiped them.
Therefore, Gov Wike acted extra-judicially by unlawfully and undemocratically arrogating to himself power of “investigator, prosecutor, judge and hangman”; a training and expertise he never has. His accusing fingers at the so called “IPOB” are circumstantially suspicious and politically motivated. Such accusations are nothing more than hearsay because no proper investigations have been carried out and the Gov is not a trained criminal investigator. This is more so when the riots across the country including Rivers, Lagos, Edo, Plateau, Benue and Anambra were mob in nature with simultaneous outlook. It is also militarily atrocious to levy war and terror on entire community, in the name of “searching for IPOB terrorists”. As a matter of fact, “IPOB” has become ‘a death code’ or ‘slogan of death’ used by the present Government of Nigeria to terrorize and massacre citizens of old Eastern Nigeria.
50 Chief Perpetrators Involved In 16 Military/Police Massacres In Nigeria
1. 30th August 2015 massacre of 40 defenseless citizens of Judeo-Christian faith during peaceful protests in Onitsha, Enugu, Yenagoa, Uyo, Port Harcourt and Asaba: Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Retired IGP, Solomon Arase and Retired DG, SSS, Lawal Musa Daura
2. 2nd and 17th Dec 2015 massacre of 30 defenseless citizens of same faith in Onitsha. Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Retired IGP, Solomon Arase, Retired DG, SSS, Lawal Musa Daura, Retired IGP Ibrahim Kpotum Idris (then AIG, F/OPS), Col Isa Maigari Abdullahi (then Commandant, 302 Artillery, Onitsha), AIG Hosea Karma (then CP, Anambra) and Retired CSP James Nwafor (then SARS, Anambra State)
3. 12th-14th Dec 2015 massacre of 800-1000 unarmed Shiite Muslims during their religious processions in Zaria (Government later admitted massacring 348): Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Major Gen Adeniyi Oyebade (then GOC, 1 Division, Kaduna), then Commandants/Commanding Officers of Zara Basawa Barracks & Zaria Military Depot, Zaria
4. 18th and 29th Jan 2016 massacre of 20 defenseless citizens of Judeo-Christian faith during peaceful protests in Aba; and (5) 9th Feb 2016 massacre of 30 unarmed protesters in Aba. Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Retired IGP Solomon Arase, Retired IGP Ibrahim Kpotum Idris (then AIG, F/OPS), Retired DIG (then CP) Habila Joshak (then CP, Abia), then ACP Peter Wabara (then Area Commander, Aba) and then Lt Col Sidi Umar Kasim (Commanding Officer, 144 Battalion, Ukwa)
6. 29th and 30th May 2016 massacre of 140 defenseless citizens of Judeo-Christian faith during global Igbo Heroes Day in Onitsha, Nkpor and Asaba. Perpetrators: Gov Willie Obiano, COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Major Gen Ibrahim Attahiru (then GOC, 82 Division, Enugu), AIG Hosea Karma (then CP, Anambra), CP Johnson Babatunde Kokomo (then DCP-OPS, Anambra), then Col Isa Maigari Abdullahi (Commandant, 302 Artillery, Onitsha), Lt Col (then Major) C.O. Ibrahim (Commanding Officer, Onitsha Cantonment Military Police & leader of the operation), Retired IGP Solomon Arase and Retired IGP Ibrahim Kpotum Idris (then AIG, F/OPS)
7. 2016 starvation to death of 240 civilian detainees including 29 children with ages between newborn and five years at Giwa Army Barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State (AI Report: 2016). Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai and Commandant, Giwa Army Barracks, Maiduguri and others.
8. 7th Jan 2017 military massacre (air bombing) of 236 internally displaced persons (IDPs) at Christian IDP camp in Kala-Balge, Borno State. Perpetrators: Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique, Chief of Air Staff, COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai and others
9. 20th Jan 2017 massacre of 20 unarmed protesters (pro-Trump rally) in Port Harcourt: Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Retired IGP Ibrahim Kpotum Idris (then IGP), Late CP Francis Odesanya (then CP, Rivers), Retired DCP Ahmed Magaji (then DCP, OPS, Rivers), Major Gen Enobong Okon Udoh (then GOC, 6 Division, Port Harcourt), Col Aminu Illiyasu (then Deputy Director of Public Relations, 6 Division)
10. 4th Dec 2017 massacre (air bombing) of 50 rural Christians in Numan, Adamawa State: Perpetrators: Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique, Chief of Air Staff, COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai and others.
11. 12th to 14th Sept 2017 massacre of over 180 unarmed and defenseless citizens of Judeo-Christian faith in Ogwe, Aba, Isiala-Ngwa and Umuahia, all in Abia State: Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Major Gen Adamu Baba Abubakar (then GOC, 82 Division, Enugu), Gov Okezie Ikpeazu, Brig Gen Abdul Kalifa Ibrahim (then Commander, 14 Brigade, Ohafia), Brig Gen I.H. Bature (then Commander, 34 Brigade, Obinze, Imo State), Brig Gen E.O. Anaryo, 82 Division Transport, Big Gen A.I. Adegboye, 82 Division Army Supply, Brig Gen Mark Mamman, Commander, 82 Division Army Engineering, Brig Gen Lasisi Adegboye (current GOC, 82 Division and then 82 Division Garrison Commander), Navy Capt Abdullahi Aminu (then Commanding Officer, Navy School of Finance & Logistics, Owerre-Nta, Abia State), Col Sagir Musa (then Deputy Director, 82 Division Public Relations), Lt Col Umar Sidi Kasim (then Commanding Officer, 144 Battalion, Ukwa), DIG (then CP) Anthony Ogbizi (then CP, Abia State) and combatant Utsman Mustapha (caught raining live bullets on defenseless citizens amid shouting of “kill the pigs! Kill the pigs!! Kill the pigs!!!”
12. 29th and 30th Oct 2018 massacre of 47 Shiite Muslims in Abuja. Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Brig Gen Johnson Orefin (then Commander, Defense Headquarters Garrison, Abuja) and Brig Gen Umar Musa, then Commander, Guards Brigade, Abuja.
13. 29th/30th June 2020 massacre of 30 unarmed Tiv Christians in Taraba State: Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Major Gen John Enenche, Director of Information, Defense Headquarters, Abuja, Major Gen Nuhu Angbazo, then GOC, 6 Division, Jos, Brig Gen Sani Garba Mummmad, Commander, 23 Brigade, Yola, Lt Col Sani Adamu, then Commanding Officer, 20 Battalion, Gembu and then Commanding Officer, 93 Battalion, Takum in Taraba State (Lt Col Ibrahim Babatunde Gambari?)
14. 23rd August 2020 massacre of 30 Judeo-Christian worshippers and sports activists in Emene, Enugu State: Perpetrators: CP Ahmed Abdurrahman (CP, Enugu), AIG Danmallam Mohammed (AIG, Zone 13, Awka), Mr. Obande Olotu, then Director of SSS, Enugu State, Air Vice Marshal Idi Amin, Air Officer Commanding Ground Training Command, Enugu and Major Gen Lasisi Adegboye, GOC, 82 Division, Enugu
15. 20th night of Oct 2020 massacre of over fifteen defenseless protesters at Lekki Tollgate, Lagos State: Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Lt S.O. Bello, Commanding Officer, 65 Battalion, Bonny Military Cantonment, Lagos and others to be identified.
16. Ongoing Obigbo Army Terrorism (Massacre): Perpetrators: COAS, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai, Gov Nyesom Wike, Major Gen Olu Orefin, GOC, 6 Division, Major Charles Ekeocha, Deputy Director, 6 Division Army Public Relations and others to be identified.
Also vicariously culpable in the sixteen highlighted massacres are Mr. President and Mr. Vice President of Nigeria. See again above the legal definition of vicarious criminal liability.
Signed: Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chinwe Umeche, Esq, Obianuju Igboeli, Esq., Ndidiamaka Bernard, Esq., and Comrade Sam Kamanyaoku
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