Senator Shehu Sani on Monday declared the herdsmen and bandits killing in Northern Nigeria a terrorist group.
The Senator representing Kaduna Central senatorial district made this known via his Twitter handle, as he reacted to the killings that took place in Birnin Gwari on Sunday.
He said the people perpetuating the killings in the North are terrorists, except if the truth was not being told.
What should be the expectation of Ndigbo as President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to run for a second tenure?
This raises a question whether the Igbo should support Buhari to win so that in 2023, Ndigbo will have an indisputable right to field a candidate for the Presidency or they should allow him to be defeated by perhaps another Northerner, who will be there for another eight years and that will cancel the chances of a candidate from the South East in 2023.
Another important question is what do those in Biafra land want. Is it Nigerian presidency or self-determination or the actualisation of Biafra. That is an issue that has to be resolved. These are the questions to be answered with as much rationalisation and logic as possible.
Who among the Igbo would answer these questions?
It is a difficult one. You will notice that if any group comes up to talk, another group will stand up and discredit it. It makes the thing look cacophonic. There is a disharmonious communication. One person will say one thing, another person will counter it and say a different thing.
A case in point to illustrate what I’m saying is what happened recently. The President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, got a report that the youth wing of Ohaneze had sacked him. What did he do? What is their locus for saying that? Is it the tail wagging the dog or the dog wagging the tail? All these kinds of situations are proofs of what I’m saying. The Igbo have to get their house in order. The people of Biafra land should get their house in order.
We have Alaigbo Development Foundation, South East Elders Forum and Even the Supreme Council of Indigenous People of Biafra, apart from Ohaneze Ndigbo. Which among these groups is qualified to address the issues?
Of course, they are all qualified.They are all legitimate Igbo organisation working for the interest of the Igbo people.
What is your own perception of the declaration of President Buhari to contest in 2019 ?
These are issues that have to be balanced. Buhari has every right to contest, if he so wished. It is for the Nigerian electorate to decide whether he deserves a second tenure or not. There is a school of thought in assessing him, I think judging from the way he ran the first four years; the suffering of people of the South East and the cry of marginalisation, another four years will make it appear like 40 years of neglect and marginalisation of the whole of South East.
The reference point is the reaction to the so-called Fulani herdsmen’s sacking of villages, communities and towns, planting themselves and carrying dangerous weapons without licences.
Why do you think the Fulani herdsmen attacks have continued unabated?
Now, it is understood that certain things happened during the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War. Biafra declared its independence on May 30, 1967 and the then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, said he was declaring a war against Biafra and expected that it would last for few weeks. He then underated the resistance and resolve of the Biafrans.
When the thing did not end in three weeks as he expected, he engaged mercenaries who came and fought, took their money and left. But Biafrans did not surrender. Then he was told that the Nigerian troops could take Port Harcourt, that so long as PortHarcourt was in Biafra land, Biafra will not cave in. To reach Port Harcourt, he apparently signed an agreement with the people of Cameroon that they should allow him access through Bakassi area to Port Harcourt and at the end of the war Cameroon should take Bakassi. That was done.
He signed that agreement as Nigeria signing away part of Biafran land while at that time Biafra was a sovereign state of its own recognised by some countries and Nigeria should have no legal right to sign away any part of its land. Notwithstanding, Biafra did not fall.
Gowon was said to have obliged to enlist help from Muslim soldiers from other West African countries where a good number of them came to help fight and decimated Biafra to bring it back to Nigeria. The condition for that service was that they would be allowed grazing rights all the way down Eastern Region, that was agreed.
And it appeared that looking back after the war, Cameroon claimed Bakassi and sacked natives of Bakassi who said they were Nigerians. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo as at that time took the case to the International Court of Justice (ICC) which ruled against Nigeria.
Similarly, Fulani herdsmen from neighboring countries are of the assertion that based on the agreement with the Nigerian government during the civil war, they will graze their cattle at any place they want. And they now have the temerity to sack villages, communities and towns. And when they do, they just set up their homes and it appears that Buhari’s hands are tied because of that agreement allegedly signed by Gowon.
Is there no way the agreement could be reversed?
The legal questions is: Did Gowon have the right to sign away Biafran land, if he did that, when Biafra was standing as a sovereign state? Did he consult the people of Biafra then? Did any of them join in signing? Did he get their consent before signing it? If he did not consult the people of Biafra, is that agreement legitimate, is it binding? These are questions that deserve resolution by a court of
law.
Source :Telegraph
On May 16, 2006, the Senate voted to reject a constitutional amendment that would have allowed the then President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to seek a third term, bringing an end to the infamous third term bid allegedly being pushed by the former President and some of his loyalists in government. The Senate’s resolution also ended a parallel debate over the controversial matter in the House of Representatives as a constitutional amendment needs the support of two-thirds of each chamber and approval from two-thirds of the country’s state Houses of Assembly.
Meanwhile, the push for a possible third term and tenure elongation of the then President was marred by allegations of bribery to entice more supporters and violence to intimidate those who actively opposed it. Ghali Na’abba, a one-time Speaker of the House of Representatives and one of those who were against the third term bid at the time, tells GBENRO ADEOYE the role he played to thwart the move and what he went through in the process
What came to your mind when you first heard about the third term bid allegedly initially being pushed by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo at that time?
What came to my mind was that the third term agenda was undemocratic and since it involved a constitutional amendment, which would eliminate constitutional term limits, it was not going to be an agenda for the President to have a third term, it was for him to be President for life. So my first instinct was to be wary of it and I thought that I must fight to ensure that it did not see the light of day. So that was how other Nigerians and I collaborated to help campaign against it and to eventually cause the National Assembly to vote against the constitutional amendment that could have allowed it.
But since you were no longer the Speaker at the time, what specific roles did you play?
As a politician, I don’t have to be a member of the legislature in order for me to be able to promote democratic causes. At the legislature, I also did a lot of things and influenced the way the legislature did its work and it is very remarkable that we gathered together as politicians and imposed our views on the legislature at that time. And luckily for us, quite a substantial number of the legislators did not like the idea even though the majority of them wanted it passed.
Why?
What happened in the 2003 elections was that the President and the party (Peoples Democratic Party) colluded to have as many members as possible that would be favorably disposed to the elimination of term limits to be brought to the legislature, so they were in the majority. If it were a simple majority that was needed to alter the constitution, that agenda would have been passed but fortunately, it was not so. For that amendment to be able to go through, it must be passed by two-thirds of the members of each of the chambers of the National Assembly and they could not get that
There were allegations that some legislators were paid several millions of naira to support the move, was that the reason why some also supported it or were there other reasons?
Yes, we were aware that money was distributed to legislators. The senators collected N50m each; the senators that subscribed to the agenda. Those who opposed it refused to collect the money and that also happened with the House of Representatives’ members. Forty million naira was offered to each of the House of Representatives’ members who subscribed to that agenda and those who did not subscribe to it were not given the money. But that notwithstanding, it was the 2003 elections that ushered in many unelected members to the National Assembly. A lot of them were not duly elected; the election was rigged for them to get into the legislature to pursue a particular political order and that order was the removal of term limits from the constitution.
How did the idea start? Did it start from the President or did some people think about it and then sell it to him?
I think some of those handling the President sold the idea to him and he bought it. That is my thinking because I never discussed it with the President and I never discussed it with his aides but that was what we suspected happened. And we, particularly I, I’m aware that the President wanted a situation whereby he wouldn’t leave the Presidency. So when they advised him, I believe he agreed because it was like they were reading his mind and the idea was sold to his supporters in the legislature. The legislature was going to embark on a constitutional amendment and the removal of term limits formed part of that exercise. And when we got substantial information and proof that the constitution amendment was going to take place, we started our own propaganda. We went to many places to campaign against it; we were holding meetings, press conferences, visiting institutions and doing all sorts of things in order to nip that idea in the bud.
You and the President have a history which goes back to the time that you were the Speaker of the House of Representatives and even moved for his impeachment. Looking back, do you regret that your plan to impeach him at the time did not succeed, considering that his alleged third term bid came after that?
Really, I regret that the impeachment was not able to go through on the advice of certain former heads of state that we had tremendous respect for. And one of the reasons why we thought we should impeach him was simply because (we felt) something like the removal of term limits was going to be initiated and that was why we thought we should impeach him at the time.
There are insinuations that he worked against your re-election at the time.
It is true. He colluded with my state governor then and thwarted my re-election.
Was that one of the reasons why you also actively kicked against his alleged third term bid?
My personal disposition is such that I fight anything that goes against democracy. If I had not lost the election, I would have been in the legislature and if I were in the legislature, definitely any idea that term limits should be removed from the constitution would not even be initiated by anybody because everybody knew my mindset.
A former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, once said that when he considered the kind of leaders Nigeria had had since Obasanjo left, he felt like weeping and that maybe he should have been allowed to stay for a third term and this sentiment is shared by some other people. Do you also think so?
I think that is his opinion and we should not forget that the two presidents that came after Obasanjo left, came to power through the machinations of former President Obasanjo, so the issue is that there is really a contradiction there because this is somebody who was going to leave power and then he brought in Presidents who could not perform after him. So I don’t think that was a credit to him. What would have given credit to him is if he had midwifed the coming of somebody who could really perform as President.
If the third term bid had succeeded, what would have been the implications of that to Nigeria and Nigeria’s polity?
We would have been under dictatorship because that same President would still be the President today because once term limit is removed, he would have enjoyed as many terms as possible.
But some people will look at some of the actions of President Muhammadu Buhari today and say that perhaps not much would have changed because of his alleged dictatorial tendencies. What would be your response to that?
That is why some of us are really surprised because when we were fighting against the planned removal of term limits or third term agenda, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) was with us. We were going to places together and holding meetings together. Everything we had to do at the time, we did together. So today, some of us are asking, ‘Why was this man with us, fighting against the planned third term agenda or to ensure we did not have dictatorship when in fact he too has a dictatorial disposition?’
Who were the other big players that ensured that the move to remove term limits was thwarted?
Apart from me, the late Abubakar Rimi (Governor of Kano State during the Second Republic); the then Vice President, Atiku Abubakar; Chief Sunday Awoniyi; the then Governor of Niger State, Abdulkadir Kure; the then Governor of Benue State, George Akume; the then Governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna; the then Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu; a former Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Muhammadu Gambo; Chief Tom Ikimi; and Chief Jim Nwobodo, were some of those involved.
But some people will look at the names, which include you and Atiku, who had a long running problem with Obasanjo, and say you were probably against the third term bid for selfish reasons. Could some of the players have been against it because it would have affected their own ambitions?
At that time, nobody cared whether it was for personal reasons or not, what mattered was to ensure that it did not succeed.
A former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, once said that Obasanjo went after politicians who worked against the third term bid and their businesses and that he lost his Slok Airlines as a result of that. What did you lose?
Yes, they went after those who had certain things they could go after. I was not in office. What I also know happened is that every time we had to go for a lecture, we would meet policemen there. There was a time that they even tear-gassed us in Jigawa State and there was a time when we were supposed to hold a meeting in Abuja in the night and when we got there, we met a lot of policemen, including the then Commissioner of Police of Abuja. And they told us that we had no permit to meet in the hotel. I was there, the vice president (Atiku) was there, Buhari was there, Governor Kure was there, and others because a lot of us were there. So we had to leave and finally we went to the residence of Governor Kure and met there. Then, there was a time I went to Ahmadu Bello University on the invitation of the students to lecture them on the evils of removal of term limits. When I got there, I was told the school’s vice chancellor wanted to see me. When I got to his office, he pleaded with me and said that I should not be angry. He told me that the police IG had called him and informed him that the lecture should not take place. Some of us were even attacked; these are some of the things we suffered. Our businesses, of course, were not patronised.
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From your list, it appears that more northerners were against it. Could that have been because the northerners felt it would affect their chances in 2007 since they had expected that a northerner would take over from Obasanjo?
Really, the third term agenda or the attempt to remove term limit was looked at from many perspectives but the interesting thing was that it was the combination of northerners and southerners that got together and fought against the agenda. So this was remarkable because the minimum expectation was that there must be democracy in Nigeria and this fact was accepted by both northerners and southerners. There were many southerners who also participated in it. The founder of ThisDay Newspapers, Nduka Obaigbena, also fought against the third term agenda. In fact, all the newspapers in the South fought against the agenda.
You said recently that Buhari had not added any value to democracy. How do you think his administration has fared compared to that of Obasanjo in terms of that?
I think the regime of Obasanjo was better because at least one could see that there was activity within the PDP, even though some of them were geared towards his interest. But in the case of Buhari, nothing takes place in the party- absolutely nothing. It is very strange coming from somebody who fought against tenure elongation.
Many people have spoken against the ongoing killings in the country, including Obasanjo. What would you say about the killings in the country?
It is very unfortunate and it has conclusively shown that there is no governance in the country because you can’t have a country where there is governance and every day, people are killed – not one person, not two, but 30 people, 50 people, 80 people, this is too much.
The government insists it is tackling the problem, why do you think the problem has persisted?
It cannot tackle the problem because the decision making process of this government is too slow. It is too slow to solve any problem, so it can’t fix any problem.
You’re still a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress. How would you describe the performance of the APC-led government so far considering the cardinal focus of security, economy and anti-corruption?
I don’t think the country is being well-managed. You can’t have a President who claims he has monopoly of wisdom. That is what it is. This is the narrowest government in the history of this country. The base is too narrow for the country to have stability and the President has a choice to make the government as wide as possible so that all shades of opinions are represented in the government. He has that choice but he chooses to make it the narrowest government in the history of this country and it is the consequences of that decision that we are seeing today. Even though, they will deny it; they will tell you that they have restored security, they are fighting corruption and things like that and corruption is systemic, you can’t fight corruption alone. If you want to fight corruption in this country, you have to carry every institution along. This is like an exercise in self glorification; that is what we are seeing. The executive can only arrest, charge and prosecute people; the other functions belong to the judiciary. But the judiciary is not being carried along in this fight against corruption from the outset and I believe that all shades of opinions should be involved in the fight against corruption because corruption is systemic. And he (Buhari) shows that it is the government that is the victim of corruption. But all Nigerians are victims of corruption; people are resorting to self-help because they cannot have basic necessities of life, so this must be discussed. If you want to eliminate corruption in the Nigeria Police Force, for example, you cannot do that without solving the problem of welfare and accommodation of the police personnel and it is so for other forces and also the civil service. Every particular class of the society has one thing or another against the state so this must be discussed. But right now, what I see happening is punishing for corruption, which is of course desirable, but it should not be mixed up and it is not the same thing as fighting corruption. Fighting corruption is something totally different. The war against corruption is not being fought in a way that it can be successful.
Ahead of the next elections, a lot of coalition movements are springing up and one of them is Obasanjo’s Coalition of Nigeria Movement and the PDP has also said that it is ready to work with other parties. Do you think they stand a chance against the APC in the next elections?
Anything is possible.
If you were the Speaker of the House of Representatives today, what would be your reaction to the recent letter sent to the House by President Buhari that he had paid $496m for the purchase of Tucano aircraft from the United States without the consent of the National Assembly?
What can be more serious than not getting approval for spending $496m? It is a lot of money but impeachment is a very serious affair. Even when you look at when we decided to use the impeachment card in 2002; prior to 2002, since 1999, impeachment offences were being committed by the President but we never even discussed it or take a decision to impeach him. It was when we realised that what was taking place was too much that we decided to impeach him, but it is left to the members of the National Assembly to decide on what they want to do.
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The Nigerian police on Friday declared wanted four of the gangsters who participated in the bloody bank robbery incident in Offa, Kwara state on April 4, releasing simultaneously their photographs, while in action.
The images provided were the clearest, since the incident exactly a month ago. The police said the Kwara State Government has also promised a N5 million bounty for information about the suspects.
It was the latest update provided by the police, following the arrest of 20 principal suspects earlier and the recovery of two Beretta pistols, bullets, phones and SIM cards of some of the victims.
“All the suspects are cooperating with the police in the investigation into the incident. Currently, some of the other gang leaders and principal suspects at large are being identified and their pictures obtained for further investigation”, Assistant Commissioner of police, Moshood Jimoh said.
Police asked for public help to apprehend the gangsters still at large and said they have also been placed on INTERPOL watch list and red alert.
“Other sister security and safety agencies are equally implored to arrest them and hand over to the nearest police station or formation across the country or avail the police with any information they may have or come across about these suspects”, Moshood said.
The police had earlier revealed the identities of 12 suspects who were arrested for alleged connection to the robbery in Offa.
Armed robbers stormed the community the afternoon of April 5, killing 17 people and raiding five banks. Eight police officers at Owode Division, Offa, were also killed in the attack, and the robbers made away with police arms and ammunition.
Prior to the arrest of the 12 suspects, the police had arrested seven suspects within the first two days of the attack, and made more arrests on later dates.
The police had earlier withheld the names of the first batch of suspects, saying doing so could jeopardise efforts to arrest the remaining members of the gang or/and threaten the entire investigation into the deadly robbery that had gripped the nation.
President Muhammadu Buhari and other Nigerian leaders have condemned the attack and called on the police to take immediate action to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Some of those earlier arrested include, Adegoke Shogo, 29; Kayode Opadokun 35; Kazeem Abdulrasheed, 36; Azeez Abdullahi 27, and Alexander Reuben, 39. Others were Jimoh Isa, 28; Azeez Salawudeen, 20, and Adewale Popoola, 22; Adetoyese Murtaugh, 23; Aminu Ibrahim 18; Richard Buba Terry, 23 and Peter Jaba, 25.
Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) again took to the
streets of Abuja to protest the continuous detention of their leader, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.
The protesters comprising mostly children, young boys, girls and the elderly who came in chartered buses, SUVs and other vehicles chanted various abusive songs as they called on government to release their leader without delay.
The protesters who came into the nation’s capital from the Gwagwa/Karmo/Jabi axis of the city, however, did not have any confrontation with the police. Unlike in the past when the police chased and dispersed them with teargas and water canons, yesterday, the security agents provided escort for the protesters.
The presence of Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) notwithstanding, motorists around the Jabi, Utako and Berger junction had a hectic day owing to heavy traffic as they spent hours waiting for the protesters to march past the areas.
Security sources told Daily Sun that the decision not to apply force might not be unconnected with security reports that the protesters were prepared to fight back with dangerous weapons if the police continued their “brutal act.”
When contacted on why the police decided to provide security for the protesters in the last few days, spokesman of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Anjuguri Mamzah, said he was not aware that the Shiite members embarked on a protest yesterday.
source :Sun
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An Austrian man with a violent criminal past on Wednesday admitted to killing a woman, dumping her body in a lake and keeping one body part for “tasting,” a prosecution spokeswoman said.
The case came to light in mid-April when a fisherman found the woman’s torso floating in Lake Neusiedl near
Rust, a town east of Vienna.
The suspect told police that he killed the woman in the heat of an argument in his flat and cut up her body for disposal in late March, less than two years after he was released on probation from an institution for mentally disturbed convicts.
The man, who was born in 1955, had a violent and sexual criminal history, prosecution spokeswoman Verena Strnad
told a press conference in Eisenstadt.
Police are still trying to identify the woman, who was between 25 and 30 years old.
Police investigator Harald Brenner said he could not rule out that she was from Slovakia.
Investigators said the man got to know the woman near Vienna’s Westbahnof train station, and that she possibly
did not give him her real first name.
“He cut her up into several parts and dumped them in the bay” of the lake, Strnad said.
After the parts were discovered, investigators found one fishing hut in the lake owned by a previous convict.
His apartment did not only contain DNA traces of the victim but a cut-up body part in the freezer.
“He said he had considered tasting it at a later point in time,” Strnad said.
Dozens of people were killed and 56 injured in two suicide bomb blasts in the city of Mubi, Adamawa State, the principal medical officer, Mubi General Hospital, Dr. Edgar Sakawa, has confirmed. A source at the hospital said 37 dead bodies were brought in at the time of filing this report.
A dependable police source who spoke on the condition of annomity as he was not authorised to speak with the press told Daily Sun that over 70 people lost their lives in the twin bomb blasts. Residents who attended the funeral of the victims also said that over 70 graves were dug.
Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdullahi Yerima, had earlier told Daily Sun that scores of people were feared dead and over 20 were critically injured in the suicide bomb blasts in Mubi main market.
The commissioner said that the police anti-bomb squad has been deployed to the scene of the incident to manage the situation.
We gathered that the bombs went off at around 1pm yesterday, as Muslim faithful were getting ready for afternoon prayers.
The first blast was reported to have gone off at the market mosque, killing worshippers, while the second bomb was said to have gone off in the second-hand clothing section of the market, approximately 200 kilometres away from the mosque.
Details of the number of casualties remain sketchy but sources from Mubi told Daily Sun that the military has cordoned off the area to prevent further casualties from any possible explosion.
The Adamawa State head of operations, National Emergency Management Agency, Imam Ambani, confirmed the incident but said the agency has deployed personnel to ascertain the situation, as the agency could not confirm the number of deaths yet.
SOURCE: SUN
The Indigenous People of Biafra has called on President Donald Trump of America who is scheduled to meet President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday to pressure him(Buhari) to release their members in various detention facilities, who were hauled in for celebrating his inauguration.
IPOB said that it views the invitation of President Buhari to the US as a slap on democracy, especially as his actions since coming to power in 2015 has shown his aversion for democracy.
Speaking through its media and publicity secretary, Mr Emma Powerful, in a press release issued to DAILY POST in Awka, the group faulted the US embassy in Nigeria, blaming it for not transmitting to President Trump the incessant killings going on in Nigeria under Buhari.
Part of the release reads, “We would like to seize this opportunity of a meeting between President Trump and ‘Buhari’ to draw the attention of the American people to the plight of Biafrans in detention across Nigeria especially the four that are still in detention in a maximum security prison simply because they came out to celebrate with millions of other people around the world the day Trump was sworn into office.
“It is also important that we remind the US presidency, since it appears the US embassy in Nigeria failed to do so, the enormity of the brutality and cold blooded massacre of innocent citizens merely exercising their right to freedom of assembly on that fateful day of January 20, 2017.”
The group said there is something morally repugnant about Buhari visiting Washington to discuss democracy when his administration is anything but democratic.
It said the failure of United States government to hold this regime to account is what may have emboldened and encouraged them to embark on the wholesale ethnic cleansing of parts of Benue State.
It added that, “IPOB would like to know if President Trump, by virtue of this invitation to Buhari, is justifying the cold blooded massacre and illegal detention of tens of innocent Biafrans that rallied in Igweocha (Port Harcourt) on that fateful day of January 20, 2017 during his inauguration.
“What the Trump administration appear to be doing is inadvertently giving the green light to brutal anti-democratic regimes in Africa of which the ‘Buhari’ APC is one, to murder and detain at will. There is nothing democratic about ‘Buhari’ to justify his invitation to the White House.
“Whoever it is at the United States embassy in Abuja, responsible for compiling and transmitting reports of regime atrocities back to the State Department in Washington, failed woefully in his or her duty, because this current ‘Buhari’ regime is the worst government in the history of Nigeria. Both in terms of brutality, wickedness and total disregard for democratic norms and rule of law. There is nothing about this ‘Buhari’ regime that qualifies it to be given the honour of visiting the office of the leader of the free world.
The group said welcoming Buhari to the White House means welcoming tyranny into the bowel of democracy, and sends out the message that United States of America is standing shoulder to shoulder with a mass murderer and tyrant, contrary to its stated objectives.
“What those who are behind this visit of ‘Buhari’ to the White House may have succeeded in doing is give the official Trump administration endorsement to ‘Buhari’ to go on killing and locking people up at will, including those that came out on the streets to celebrate President Trump’s victory.
“It makes a mockery of the ideals, values and founding principles of the United States of America that the man responsible for the illegal detention and brutal murder of those celebrating the election of a US president is being welcomed to White House as if nothing happened.
“Does it mean President Trump is not aware of the 20th of January 2017 massacre at Port Harcourt or the US mission to Nigeria, especially the US ambassador, failed to inform the president.?
It listed Ikenna Igwe, Uchenna Innocent, Bright Sunday Okoro and Chidinma Godwin Nwafor as those still languishing in prison for no other reason than the fact that they were celebrating Trump’s victory.
SOURCE: DAILY TIMES
ENUGU—THERE was anxiety in Enugu yesterday, following the explosion of Improvised Explosive Device, IED, at the country home of the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, at Ukehe, in Igbo Etiti Local Government Area of the state.
The incident happened at about 5.30 am when members of the household were getting ready for the early morning Sunday mass. A statement by Nwodo’s Media Aide, Emeka Attamah confirmed the bomb attack. Police Spokesman in the state, Superintendent Ebere Amaraizu also confirmed that there was an explosion in Nwodo’s house saying that investigations had started to unravel the reasons and those behind it.
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has condemned the attack on Nwodo’ s compound saying it was the handiwork of “terrorists disguised as herdsmen.” Earlier,on Saturday, the IPOB, circulated a message reportedly signed by the Legal Adviser to Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Barr Chuka Momah, raising an alarm, over alleged plans by security agencies to bomb public places including schools and police stations as well as kill innocent citizens in a bid to incriminate IPOB and make it look like a terrorist organisation.
Nwodo’s media aide, Attamah’s statement read in part: “A bomb explosion took place today (yesterday) Sunday, April 29, 2018, in the country home of the President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo. A cursory look by the Police Bomb Disposal Unit suggested it was an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, that was hurled over the fence into the compound causing damage to the windows, the ceiling of one of the houses in the compound and an air-conditioning units. “The Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Danmallam Mohammed, accompanied by the Area Commander for Nsukka Police Command and the Divisional Police Officer for Igbo Etiti LGA, were there to inspect the scene of the bomb blast, which created a crater in the compound. “The Commissioner ordered that security be beefed up in and around Chief Nwodo’s compound and promised that the perpetrators would soon be identified and brought to justice.
“Earlier, the Commander of the Bomb Disposal Unit, DSP John Aniche, had briefed both the Commissioner and Chief Nwodo on the items they collected from the scene including batteries, pellets and other materials used in preparing the IED and said that they would be carefully scrutinised and analysed. “Welcoming the Commissioner to his home, Chief Nwodo expressed surprise that anybody would be after his life but added that the incident would not deter him from leading his people. “He thanked the Commissioner for his prompt response to the incident.
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has condemned in strong terms, the bombing of the country home of the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, in Ukehe, Enugu State. He said: “I call on the security agencies to get to the root of this devilish act and ensure that the culprits and masterminds are brought to book immediately.”
FG plans to incriminate us—IPOB
Members on solidarity march for Trump Reacting to the explosion in Nwodo’s house later, the IPOB said that those seeking to implicate IPOB will end up implicating themselves. The organisation in its statement signed by the Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful said: “The organisers of this terror campaign intend to divert attention from the massive embarrassment and public humiliation that awaits ‘Buhari’ in Washington DC courtesy of IPOB in the USA. “They may have wrongly calculated that embarking on mass murder and destruction is the only way to convince the US authorities that IPOB is a terrorist organisation deserving of proscription and extra judicial executions.” Whatever the motives of these terrorists, they have failed woefully. Our modus operandi remains the same – a sustained campaign of civil disobedience, targeted global campaigns, protests, boycotts and rallies.”
Source :Vanguard
