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In a statement personally signed by Barr Emeka Emekesri and forwarded to BVI ,Barr Emeka told the Minister of Agriculture that CATTLE COLONIES in Biafraland is not possible.
Emeka Adolf Chigozie Emekesri Esq is a tripartite professional trained in both secular and sacred studies,in science and Arts,Law,Theology,Estate Management,Planning and Environmental Studies.Along with his professional practice, he is the presiding Bishop of a Charismatic Pentecostal Church known as Christ The Rock Community and operates the gospel ministry in the pattern of the Apostle Paul who laboured with his own hands to feed himself as well as preach the gospel without motive of financial gains.
Bar Emeka is the Solicitor for Indigenous People of Biafra as well as the Legal Adviser,Supreme Council of Elders Of Indigenous People of Biafra.He is the Lead Council to the case between the Indigenous People of Biafra and Federal Republic of Nigeria & The Attorney –General of the Federation with Suit No FHC/OW/CS/192/2013 at Federal High Court ,Owerri,Imo State.
The detail of the statement reads:
‘I have just read the news report published by the Nation Newspaper on 9 January 2018 where the Federal Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development, Mr Audu Innocent Ogbeh, said as follows:
“On the issue of cattle, we have to start immediately; 16 states have given us land to work on. The programme is not going to be cheap. Mr President has personally informed me that if we seek help from him, he will give it to us over and above the budget we have, and when that budget is released I plead with all of you to come on board to work hard to achieve results. We are talking of cattle colonies, not ranches, so to speak, where we will provide water, grass, training for herdsmen, cattle breeding and insemination….Nigerians are getting extremely uncomfortable with these killings….Let us do our own duty by eliminating the conflict by creating cattle colonies”.
Well, Mr Ogbeh did not mention the names of the 16 States that have given them five hectares of land each to create cattle colonies for settlement of the Fulani herdsmen. I hope his village in Otukpo is one of the cattle colonies. Some of you may not understand what one hectare of land means. Let me explain it as an Estate Surveyor & Valuer. One hectare of land is 10,000 square metres. Five hectares of land is 50,000 square metres. Perhaps, you still do not understand. 50,000 square metres is approximately 108 plots of land measured in 50’ x 100’. This is sufficient in law to form a Fulani village and ward in the area they settle as colonies with equal right to have Councillors to represent their wards in the Local Government. They now have 16 colonies in 16 States. Let me make it clear to Mr Audu Ogbeh and his cattle associates that we will not give an inch of our land to the Fulani herdsmen to establish cattle colonies in Biafraland. If the Federal Government thinks that they can go through our Governors under the Land Use Act 1978 to give our lands to the Fulanis by compulsory acquisition, then they should get ready for real trouble. We shall resist and nullify the Acquisition Notices issued by the Governors.
Many people have heard me say several times that we shall use the law, politics and diplomacy to fight for our freedom. There is a provision of the law that gives us the power to resist and nullify the compulsory acquisition of lands if it is not in our best interest. It is unfortunate that many people are ignorant. Everything we do in our freedom movement shall be lawful because we believe in the legal methodology. I now advise all the Biafran people to watch out for any Public Notices of Acquisition of lands issued by any State Government in Biafraland and inform the Biafran lawyers immediately. We shall advise the communities to resist the compulsory acquisition because it is not in the public interest but for the selfish interest of the Fulanis. Did they acquire lands in Sokoto State for the Igbo Yam and Cassava colonies? Did they acquire lands in Bauchi State for the Igbo Motor Spare Parts colonies? Did they acquire lands in Kano State for our Computer Village colonies? Did they acquire lands in Adamawa State for the Igbo Hotels and Restaurants colonies? Did they acquire lands in Niger State for the Igbo Palm Produce colonies? What about our fleets of vehicles for transportation all over the country? Did they acquire Luxury Bus Terminals for our transport colonies? They are talking nonsense. Cattle business is not more important than other businesses in Nigeria. Why should the Government promote cattle business at the expense and detriment of other businesses run by the citizens from other parts of the country? Mr Audu Ogbeh is talking rubbish, with due respect.
We know that the creation of cattle colonies is a plan to give the Fulanis the power to Islamize the whole country called Nigeria. By the use of the colony system, they will colonise the whole area and in future they become Fulani Communities. Thus, they will be protected by law and given seats in the Local Government Councils and State Houses of Assembly as indigenes of the land. It will take about 200 years and the area will become Islamized with their Emirs ruling the communities. This is how they took over the indigenous Hausa communities when they came from the Futa Jallon Highlands. They have already penetrated into Ebonyi State and established the largest Islamic centre in Africa soon to be upgraded to an Islamic University while our people were sleeping. The indigenous peoples of the land will be assimilated by the Fulanis as they will be given incentives such as free education and quick promotions in government offices. The social psychology of Nigeria is that the Nigerians usually follow any person with money and power, and not the person with brain. The Fulanis have the money and the power. They are now combining their money and power with legal and diplomatic wisdom to rule over the nation forever.
The plan to Islamize Nigeria did not start today. I give the Fulanis the credit of foresightedness and planning ahead for the future of their people and for holding unto their religion and culture with unflinching loyalty. They have a vision to Islamize the whole world, not only Nigeria, and they are holding unto their vision. At Page 278 of my book published in 2012 titled, “Biafra or Nigerian Presidency- What the Ibos Want”, I stated as follows:
“Officially Nigeria is an Islamic Country
The plan to convert Nigeria to an Islamic country was made by General Murtala Muhammed and given to Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida to implement. The Federal Government of Nigeria under General Buhari and General Tunde Idiagbon registered Nigeria as a member of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) with Observer Status but in 1986 General Babangida made Nigeria a full member of the OIC. He brought Obasanjo to power and on 24 February 2001 General Obasanjo attended the D8 Summit of Islamic countries in Cairo, Egypt. The members of Boko Haram are aware that Nigeria is officially an Islamic country. They are therefore trying to implement what has been signed by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Their religion allows them to use jihad and make converts by force and by conquests. It is very likely that they will succeed in implementing what has been signed. Only the Igbo territory has remained immune to the Islamic onslaught. Nigeria is an Islamic country!”
We must prepare for war of self-defence now because the Fulanis have prepared themselves for what they call “holy war”. The State Houses of Assembly in the East can pass the necessary Bills into law for the security and protection of our Region. In my previous message, I explained how the Bakassi Boys security organ was created and given legal status by the Abia State House of Assembly because I was there and some of the Boys were my clients while I lived in Aba. Any private army you form in any State without a Bill passed into Law by the State House of Assembly to give it a legal backing is unlawful and treasonable. We cannot form a Biafran army now or Biafran Security Service because Biafra is not yet sovereign but we can have Security Organs like the Bakassi Boys created and regulated under the State Law. Many Biafrans have not read my book quoted above and yet it contains the master plan and blueprint for our independence struggle. I blame the Biafran activists of today for not being wise enough and for being short-sighted. Many Biafran activists have no time to read and understand issues. We left our own Customary Law System while the Fulanis uphold their Sharia Law System, and yet both the Sharia Law and Customary Law are provided by the Nigerian Constitution. We develop the North and the West with multibillion naira investments but abandon the East. We left our own Efi Igbo (Ehi Igbo) to start consuming “NAMA” and patronizing the Fulani Herdsmen. The Biafrans compete among themselves in buying many cows for their celebrations every week without realizing that they are actually contributing money for the Fulani herdsmen to purchase more bullets. Why should cattle rearers move about with heavy sophisticated machine guns such as AK47? I consider them as terrorists and not cattle rearers! We shall not give our lands to terrorists and religious fanatics from the Futa Jallon highlands who believe that God appointed them to rule over Nigeria!
Most of the Biafran activists are not knowledgeable. We are not in power, not even at the regional level. The Biafran activists have nobody in the Houses of Assembly in the East. The present Igbo politicians do not have interest in the Biafra Project otherwise they would have presented the Biafran Bill for debate in the National Assembly even though the Bill will not succeed at the first attempt because the North has the majority seats in the National Assembly. The worst thing is that some of the Biafran activists have told their fans and followers not to participate in the politics of Biafraland but to boycott the elections. Their argument is that the Nigerian Constitution is fraudulent. Now let me explain this issue again.
We know that the Nigerian Constitution is fraudulent and skewed against us because it was not made by us but imposed upon us by the Military Government of Northern Nigeria. However, there is a rule of law that says that every law remains valid until it is abolished or set aside. At the moment, the Nigerian Constitution has not been abolished and therefore remains valid. I heard about some Biafran activists who have challenged the Nigerian Constitution in Court praying the Judge to declare the Constitution null and void ab initio. The problem is that the Judge and the Judiciary were created by the same Constitution and if the Judge should declare the Constitution null and void, the whole Judiciary would collapse immediately; the Judge would sack herself or himself immediately because he is sitting on a fraudulent judicial seat created by a fraudulent Constitution; the Senate and House of Representatives would be dissolved immediately; all the States in Nigeria and their Houses of Assembly would be dissolved immediately because the States were created by the Constitution; all the Local Government Councils would be dissolved immediately; all the University Degrees and Certificates obtained under the Nigerian law would become invalid; all the Nigerian Passports and Driving Licenses held by all Nigerians anywhere in the world would become invalid; the Nigerian currency, Naira and Kobo, would cease to be legal tender; the Nigerian Army and Nigerian Police would be dissolved immediately; in fact, there would be anarchy! For this reason, the Judge would uphold the public law principle of “salus populi est suprema lex” to resolve the problem. It means, “the safety of the public is the supreme law”. The Judge would decide the case in the interest of the public to ensure that the people are safe and protected until the Constitution is abolished by due process.
Therefore, as long as the Nigerian Constitution remains valid, we shall use the law, politics and diplomacy to fight for our freedom. At least, we have the Houses of Assembly in the East which can pass our bills into law to protect our territory. It is quite unfortunate that while we advise the Biafrans to participate in politics and vote the Biafran activists into power in the States, some Biafran leaders advise their followers to boycott the elections. How shall we then put our people in the Houses of Assembly to pass the necessary Bills into law to protect our territory if we boycott the elections? How shall we establish our Regional Government and govern ourselves by laws made by our own Houses of Assembly before outfight independence if we do not put the Biafran activists in power? Now is the time to checkmate the activities of the Fulani Herdsmen. They are using the Nigerian law to gain access to our lands. We can also use the Nigerian law to stop them from gaining access to our land. Our State Houses of Assembly can pass the Anti-Grazing Bill or Anti-Cattle Colony Bill into Law to protect our region. Every law validly made by the State House of Assembly is deemed to have been made under the Nigerian Constitution because it is the Constitution that gives power to the Houses of Assembly to make laws. Unfortunately, we have no Biafran activists in the Houses of Assembly because their leaders have advised them to boycott the politics of Biafraland so that the United Nations would give us Referendum. This is foolish advice hyped into the hearts and minds of the people by false radio propaganda. This is zeal without knowledge, without wisdom and without understanding. It is quite unfortunate.
If you are convinced that the Biafrans must take over political power in the Eastern Region and pass the necessary Bills into laws to protect themselves and establish our regional government before outfight independence, please contact MOBIN at www.mobinbiafra.org and join the first and only political movement of the Biafrans now. We must re-orientate the minds of the Biafrans to participate in politics and take over political power in our region. We must stop Mr Audu Ogbeh and his cattle colonies now!
Signed:
Emeka Emekesiri, Esq., Barrister & Solicitor
Founder & Vision Bearer, Indigenous People of Biafra
Umeh dedicates victory to rule of law
The Senator-elect of Anambra Central Senatorial District, Chief Victor Umeh, has dedicated his victory to the enforcement of rule of law.
Umeh, who was reacting to the conduct of the rerun election and his eventual victory on Saturday, said the entire thing was not about him, but doing things the right way.
He said by the conduct of the rerun election, he had made a point that it was unacceptable for anyone to circumvent the process, disobey the laws of Nigeria, and still want to serve the same country.
The former national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) stressed that the only way to have enduring democracy is for all who want to take part in it to submit themselves to due process.
“For those who have prevented this election from taking place for more than two years, unfortunately for them, it is not about Victor Umeh, it’s about our people and doing things the right way.
“The only way we can have enduring democracy is for everybody, who wants to partake in it, to submit himself or herself to due process; to what the law says at all times; winning elections with the votes of the people, not through any other means, and I think our people will be happy for this.”
On the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) he said: “One thing that is certain with this process is that the INEC has proved to those who doubt the integrity of the commission that it is ready to defend democracy and rule of law.
“The one that is very important in this process is obedience to the rule of law. The commission’s leadership has shown remarkable integrity at this time where it refused any form of intimidation and manipulation and stuck to what the law should be, that is why the election was possible.”
The APGA candidate, Chief Umeh, yesterday had a landslide victory in Anambra Central Senatorial District rerun election to emerge the Senator for the district.
Umeh scored 64, 879 votes to end the two years tortuous journey to the red carpet chamber of the National Assembly.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) came a distant second with 975 votes while the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) came third with 116 votes.
Umeh’s victory gave APGA its first Senate seat.
Declaring the result after the final collation of the results at INEC headquarters, Seka, the Returning Officer and Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Prof. Charles Esimone, said Umeh, having scored the highest votes, satisfied the provisions of the law and he “is, hereby, declared winner and duly returned.”
The results showed that APGA scored the following votes in the local governments areas: Njikoka Local Government Area , 11, 506; Awka North LGA, 7,572; Idemili South, 4,647; Dunukofia LGA, 7,307; Awka South, 12,384; Anaocha, 12,245 and Idemili North Local Government Area, 9,218.
In a related development, APGA Women for Good Governance, has congratulated Umeh over his victory on Saturday. The women group said Umeh’s victory was well-deserved and sweet music in the ears of all lovers of democracy in Nigeria.
A statement signed by the National Coordinator of the women group, Mrs. Grace Chike, said for over two years, the people of Anambra Central Senatorial Zone were denied effective representation that would have provided dividends of democracy to them at this period of economic recession and political upheavals in the country.
The group commended Umeh for his sagacity and tenacity of purpose .
in pursuing and recovering his stolen mandate, saying his victory is for due process and rule of law.
It also commended INEC for being fair, firm and decisive in complying with a clear order of the Court of Appeal to conduct the rerun poll despite unprecedented blackmail, harassment and intimidation by political hirelings masquerading as democrats who did not want the fresh election to hold till 2019 general polls.
“For over two years, Anambra Central Senatorial Zone has no representative in the Senate, due to multiple litigations instituted by opposition political parties and their candidates/aspirants in the zone to frustrate the conduct of the court ordered rerun poll on March 5, 2016.
“A man of enormous intellectual ability and charisma, his courage in defence of democracy and rule of law are reflection of his vision and mission to provide quality representation to the longsuffering people of Anambra Central Secretariat Zone, indeed, to all marginalized and oppressed people of Nigeria. It is a new dawn to Anambra Central Senatorial District compatriots. It is a new dawn to representative governance in Nigeria.
“We call on aggrieved political parties and politicians to stealth their swords, give peace a chance and support Victor Umeh in the Senate and Governor Willie Obiaro in providing good governance that will raise the people’s standards of living.
“We commend the Independent National Electoral Commission for being fair, firm and decisive in complying with a clear order of the Court of Appeal to conduct the rerun poll despite unprecedented blackmail, harassment and intimidation by political hirelings masquerading as democrats who do not want the fresh election to hold till 2019 general polls. It is time for patriotism. It is time to consolidate Nigeria’s fragile democracy and respect the will of the people on who sovereignty resides,” the group said.
SOURCE: SUN
Are Nigerian economists masters or pupils of their game?
If the question, do Nigerian professional economists know economics, is asked, there may be some feeling someone is beefing another. This is especially in the light of the fact that some of these Nigerian economists come with star-bright and shiny diplomas. And a pretty good number of these diplomas come from the gold standard institutions. The Yales, the Harvards, et al.
But the possession of diplomas, however sterling, is really a certification of nothing, professionally. At best, it is proof of your accomplishment as a student, not as a professional in practice. Of course, history has records of first-class-making students who are professional failures. Worldwide, there is the infamous example of the ‘’best and the brightest’’. They and their star-lit credentials ran America aground and into humiliation in Vietnam.
And on the flipside, history also comes with tales of third class pupils who smashed through the race and ended as enduring professional superstars. Late Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, is such an example.
Finally, the only professional judgment upon a student, post-pupilage, is his record of achievement. If he is not able to turn water into champagne, or rot into gold, then there must be a question mark on his alleged brilliance. In fact, such as one may be counted a failure, Yale or no Yale.
Now, for the Nigerian professional economists, the jury is out. The national economy is a basket case. Nothing is working. Yes, it is true the clueless insanitary and nepotistic governance of APC has worsened things. However, the rot had set in before APC bewitched the nation with fake news and dud promises. That is to say, the Nigerian economist as a professional genus has failed. They have failed us and themselves.
So, the next move is to ask why and how. We have suggestions. A key part of the failure of Nigerian economists is their narrow cast, pitifully granular understanding of economics. I am yet to sight any practicing Nigerian economist who is compositional in his understanding of economics. Too often one hears them mouth one bromide or another. For example, they are wont to claim that, if the economy goes well, all the nation’s sectarian wahala, a la Boko Haram, Niger Delta, IPOB, OPC, etc., will wither away. The lie in this is their assumption that, in economics, politics is an inertial mass, that politics is not a framework of economics or the markets. To them, economics and the markets can prosper in spite of institutional and institutionalised injustice. Can they? The answer is no.
Just the other day, The Guardian ran this insightful report: Akwa Ibom State government has lamented the absence of Federal Government infrastructure in the state. The state’s commissioner for information and strategy, Mr. Charles Udoh, disclosed this position yesterday in Uyo. According to him, the state lacks Federal Government investments, despite its over 40 per cent contributions to the country’s economy. On effort to relocate the headquarters of international oil companies to the state, he said the ongoing 21-storey building being built by the state is to create facilities for modern offices, “Akwa Ibom contributes much to the Federal Government, gets nothing in return.” (https://guardian.ng/news/akwa-ibom-contributes-much-to-fg-gets-nothing-in-return/)
Now, is it not clear that no amount of filibustering or obstructionist wizardry shall make such a naked and bleeding injustice sustainable or bankable? In fact, the logic of apartheid has proved beyond doubt that economic philosophy of Bantustanism cannot run. You cannot exclude a people from their wealth and be deluded you will have peace or economic prosperity. It has never happened.
Now, there is an American theoretical physicist that is my G, my guy, as the millennial youths will say. I just love him. Murray Gell-Mann says, and correctly, that there are only fundamental laws and accidents. The important point of this insight is that an accident, of history or whatever else, cannot be built or reconstructed into being a fundamental law. For example, the civil war and the temporary seizure of the oil revenues by Gowonism cannot be a basis of eternal Nigerian governance. And it makes sense, accidents are not by definition laws. They are blinks you notice and repair, and restore to the ancient bankable orders.
The other point is that injustice has its diseconomies. Injustice is too much a cost to run while trying to run an economy. Its diseconomies never lets the parent economy make a hit.
Now what is to be done? The Federal Government should, first of all, thank its stars that they have a G, a guy, a statesman running shop in Akwa Ibom. Udom Emmanuel, the governor, is literally a guy cut out of the great tradition. An ace and big ticket banker, his wide international exposure has gifted him with enviable tools kit. The first is his insider knowledge and practice experience as a banker. The fact is that, as a prince of high finance, he possesses the informed vision and grit that one can crush stones and press for milk. All he has been about in Akwa Ibom is to download this unique proposition. And that is a proposition that served him as a banker. Now, he wants same for the greater collective, the citizens of Akwa Ibom. And records are that he is succeeding. And like all great entrepreneurs, all he did was to awaken the imagination and inner hitherto dormant assets of the people. A great politician, by the way, is a state-transformation entrepreneur.
No less important is the cross-cultural exposure his financial workload afforded him. In dealing with across-cultures, across-currencies entrepreneurs, he has a homerun ability. It is to fix diplomatically what others may seek by war and mayhem. So he canvasses peace in the creeks, the streets, while he awaits a headstrong nation to bow to greater reason. Via diplomacy, he is telling them like he knows that the most sustainable and successful enterprises in business or politics are those in which all players are granted dues, are granted justice.
Now imagine a scenario where it was not possible for him to crush stones and press for milk. Imagine a scenario where he was one of these street-side governors whose instincts are like those of rogue elephants. Imagine if he like a rogue elephant were calling for jungle justice, calling for wars and alarums of wars? Just imagine! The nation should be thanking Emmanuel. He has kept his people non-restive, thanks to his stone to milk economic beneficiation, thanks to his all-inclusiveness. What then is the Federal Government to do? Let the Federal just push for a signal relocation of the international oil companies (IOCs) from wherever to the Niger Delta. That is a place to start from. Already, Akwa Ibom state, under Emmanuel, has constructed befitting headquarters for IOCs. That is a brilliant pull factor. All that we await is the push force. And that is to come from the Federal Government. We, economists and all, must canvass for this. Justice is the only path that an economy, any economy, grows on.
Simply put, it is insanitary to run Nigeria as a colonial outpost. Lagos or Abuja are designated like imperial capitals and the South-South as extractive backwaters, pollution, degeneration, degradation and all. With nothing to show for the wealth you drain out of her. Just like the Brits did to the whole of Nigeria and her other imperial possessions? If, however, the nation insists on the current order, then things may unhinge. “Federal presence” must begin to look towards Akwa Ibom and indeed the greater Niger Delta. It is vital for our own economic development and growth as a people, as a nation. Justice is the first economic good. Justice, not profit.
source : sun written by Jimanze Ego-Alowes
Evangelist Joseph Agbo mourns Mother
Public Announcement
Evangelist Joseph Agbo loses his lovely mother- Late Mrs Cecilia Agbo(Nee Onah).
The final internment has been announced by the family as follows: Date – 12/1/2018.Venue- St .Stephen Church,Neke,around Ugwogo -Nike and the Agbo Compound ,less than 30 minutes drive from Nike lake resort,Enugu along the nsukka road.Time- 10am
Note that Evangelist Agbo is the PRO of CG-IPOB and a Director in MOBIN.All those under the authority of CG-IPOB are invited to attend the burial ceremony.
You can reach him via 09070609871 to send your condolence messages.
Directorate of Information,CG-IPOB
FRAUD BY NIGERIAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
HOMEWORK! HOMEWORK! AND MORE HOMEWORK FOR PARENTS.
It has become clear to many parents that the task of teaching their children has been shifted to them despite the huge fees they keep doling out to private schools.
Children come home with homework that requires over 6 hours to complete and the children are usually clueless about the topic. Clearly some of these topics were never introduced in class and the burden of breaking in the topic is shifted to the parents. In some cases a topic is given a very brief introduction in class then a slew of tasks is bundled as assignments and becomes the parent’s responsibility to ground the child in the subject.
Nigerian parents remain docile. They know they are being shafted but continue to take it.
Some schools try to drive the narrative that all other kids are up to par and only yours is finding it difficult. Bull! The teachers are trained to sell you that line (the only training they seem to receive). This belief gives every parent a catch-up mentality. So you either enroll in their “extra lessons ” or you find yourself doing homework for your children everyday.
This phenomenon (fraud) was prevalent in China until parents got together and fought against it.
After paying exorbitant school fees, the schools pay peanuts to the teachers. Some private school teachers in Nigeria consider themselves unemployed because their remuneration is so small!
They can’t be bothered to be dedicated. Besides many just simply are untrained.
The private schools have found a solution: transfer the teaching tasks to the parents!
Parents must individually reject this fraud!
Insist on only one assignment per subject per week. If the schools won’t comply then we must refuse to pay school fees this January!
Insist that teaching must be in the classroom! Not through ‘extra lessons ‘!
It is a big lie that every other child except yours is doing well! They only exploit your competitive spirit!
Enough is enough! Teach our children or we will not pay the school fees! If we are doing all the work we might as well enroll them in the LEA public schools!
Edward Bobzom Umar
South-East governors’ forum lambast organizers of ‘Handshake across the Niger’ conference
The chairman of the South-East governors’ forum, Chief David Umahi yesterday lambasted the organizers of ‘Handshake across the Niger’ conference for failure to intimate the governors of the area on the event.
The ‘Handshake across the Niger’ conference is scheduled to hold tomorrow, Thursday, in Enugu, during which the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunweshi and Obi of Onitcha are expected to be in attendance.
Umahi while addressing the local organising committee, LOC, of the event led by Capital oil CEO, Dr Ifanyi Ubah which took place at the exco-chambers government house Abakaliki said that Ebonyi state will not send any delegate to the conference.
He said the State was not carried along in the conception and planning of the meeting.
The meeting being organised by Nzukor Umunna, a socio cultural organisation affiliated to Ohaneze Ndigbo is aimed at x-raying the past, present and future of Igbo/Yoruba relationship and seek for ways to boost them.
He frowned at the neglect of the state in the organisation of the event, stressing that no notable Ebonyi person is in the committee organising the event.
Umahi also noted that the committee neglected to inform him of the event on time, adding that he decided to receive them because of the high regard he had for Mr Ubah.
He, however, promised to attend future engagements of the organisation if the abnormally was addressed.
“Igbo business men and industrialists should mind their business and stop meddling into politics like their counterparts from the North and Western part of the country”, he added.
SOURCE :DAILY POST
‘Handshake Across the Niger’: How IPOB members caused stir in Enugu summit
Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday caused serious stir at the ‘Handshake Across the Niger’ summit held in Enugu.
The summit, which had earlier progressed without hitch, witnessed an uproar as soon as the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo harped on restructuring.
The Ohanaeze President while recognizing their freedom of expression in a democracy, said such must be done in a civilized manner.
This is as an array of Biafra apologists, who had stormed the summit in their numbers, disrupted his speech with a shout of “No, No, we want Biafra not restructuring; IPOB are not terrorists, herdsmen are terrorists; Nnamdi Kanu we know, who are you?”
The women among the pro-Biafra agitators, to the shock of guests, pulled off their top wears, leaving only brazier, as a way of driving home their point.
It took several minutes for the organizers to calm them down, with an assurance that they would be allowed to present their case formally to the summit.
Ubah, who later apologized to the guests over the uproar, appealed to the IPOB members to remain calm as one of them would be invited to make a presentation.
They continued pro-Nnamdi Kanu chants outside the venue, while insisting that they would not accept anything as alternative to Biafra.
Herdsmen killings: Soyinka blasts Buhari
•Says FG culpable in attacks
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to learn from history and stop treating killer herdsmen with kid gloves.
Soyinka also described incessant attacks by killer herdsmen, in many parts of the country, as a declaration of war on Nigeria.
The Nobel laureate made this known in a statement yesterday.
Soyinka specifically warned Buhari not to fall into the same trap former President Goodluck Jonathan fell into with Boko Haram insurgency when the sect kidnapped 267 girls on April 14, 2014.
“We have been here before – now, ‘before’ is back with a vengeance.
“President Goodluck Jonathan refused to accept that marauders had carried off the nation’s daughters; President Muhammadu Buhari and his government – including his Inspector-General of Police – in near identical denial, appear to believe that killer herdsmen who strike again and again at will from one corner of the nation to the other, are merely hot-tempered citizens whose scraps occasionally degenerate into ‘communal clashes’– I believe I have summarised him accurately.
“The Marauders are naughty children who can be admonished, paternalistically, into good neighbourly conduct. Sometimes, of course, the killers were also said be non-Nigerians after all. The contradictions are mind-boggling.
“First, the active policy of appeasement, then the language of endorsement. El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna State, proudly announced that, on assuming office, he had raised a peace committee and successfully traced the herdsmen to locations outside Nigerian borders. He, then, made payments to them from state coffers, to cure them of their homicidal urge which, according to these herdsmen, were reprisals for some ancient history and the loss of cattle through rustling.
“The public was up in arms against this astonishing revelation. I could only call to mind a statement by the same El-Rufai, after a prior election, which led to a rampage in parts of the nation, and cost even the lives of National Youth Service Corps members. They were hunted down by aggrieved mobs and even states had to organise rescue missions for their citizens. Countering protests that the nation owed a special duty of protection to her youth, especially those who are co-opted to serve the nation in any capacity, El-Rufai’s comment then was: ‘No life is more important than another. That statement needs to be adjusted, to read perhaps –apologies to George Orwell: ‘All lives are equal, but a cow’s is more equal than others.’
“This seems to be the government view, one that, overtly or by implication, is being amplified through act and pronouncement, through clamorous absence, by this administration. It appears to have infected even my good friend and highly capable Minister, Audu Ogbeh, however insidiously. What else does one make of his statements in an interview where he generously lays the blame for ongoing killings everywhere but at the feet of the actual perpetrators!”
Reacting to comments credited to the herdsmen that the killings were in defence of their stolen cows, Soyinka asked: “How do we assess a mental state that cannot distinguish between a stolen cow – which is always recoverable – and human life, which is not? Villages have been de-populated far wider than those outside their operational zones can conceive. They swoop on sleeping settlements, kill and strut. They glory in their seeming supremacy.”
Still on the Agriculture ministry, Soyinka also recalled that there had been steps taken to quell the attacks but none had been successful, yet.
“I applaud the plans of your ministry, I am in a position to know that much thought–and practical steps – have gone into long-term plans for bringing about the creation of ‘ranches’, ‘colonies’–whatever the name – including the special cultivation of fodder for animal feed and so on and on.
“However, the present national outrage is over-impunity. It rejects the right of any set of people, for whatever reason, to take arms against their fellow men and women, to acknowledge their exploits in boastful and justifying accents and, in effect, promise more of the same as long as their terms and demands are not met. In plain language, they have declared war against the nation and their weapon is undiluted terror. Why have they been permitted to become a menace to the rest of us? That is the issue!
“Permit me to remind you that, early in 2016, an even more hideous massacre was perpetrated by this same Murder Incorporated – that is, a numerical climax to what had been a series across a number of Middle Belt and neighbouring states, with Benue taking the brunt of the butchery.
“A peace meeting was called, attended by the state government and security agencies of the nation, including the Inspector General of Police. This group attended – according to reports- with AK47s and other weapons of mass intimidation visible under their garments. They were neither disarmed nor turned back.
“They freely admitted the killings but justified them by claims that they had lost their cattle to the host community. It is important to emphasise that none of their spokesmen referred to any government neglect, such as refusal to pay subsidy for their cows or failure to accord them the same facilities that had been extended to cassava or millet farmers.
“Such are the monstrous beginnings of the culture of impunity. We are reaping, yet again, the consequences of such tolerance of the intolerable. Yes, there, indeed, the government is culpable, definitely guilty of ‘looking the other way.’ Indeed, it must be held complicit.”
Soyinka drew an analogy between activities of killer herdsmen and those of the IPOB
“This question is now current, and justified: just when is terror? I am not aware that IPOB came anywhere close to this homicidal propensity and will to dominance before it was declared a terrorist organization. The international community rightly refused to go along with such an absurdity.
“For the avoidance of doubt, let me state right here, and yet again, that IPOB leadership is its own worst enemy. It repels public empathy, indeed, I suspect that it deliberately cultivates an obnoxious image, especially among its internet mouthers who make rational discourse impossible. However, as we pointed out at the time, the conduct of that movement, even at its most extreme, could by no means be reckoned as terrorism. By contrast, how do we categorize Myeti? How do we assess a mental state that cannot distinguish between a stolen cow – which is always recoverable – and human life, which is not. Villages have been depopulated far wider than those outside their operational zones can conceive. They swoop on sleeping settlements, kill and strut. They glory in their seeming supremacy. Cocoa farmers do not kill when there is a cocoa blight. Rice farmers, cassava and tomato farmers do not burn. The herdsmen cynically dredge up decades-old affronts – they did at the 2016 Benue“peace meeting” to justify the killings of innocents in the present – These crimes are treated like the norm. Once again, the nation is being massaged by specious rationalisations while the rampage intensifies and the spread spirals out of control. When we open the dailies tomorrow morning, there is certain to have been a new body count, to be followed by the arrogant justification of the Myeti Allah.
The warnings pile up, the distress signals have turned into a prolonged howl of despair and rage. The answer is not to be found in pietistic appeals to victims to avoid ‘hate language’ and divisive attributions. The sustained, killing monologue of the herdsmen is what is at issue. It must be curbed, decisively and without further evasiveness.
Yes, Jonathan only saw ‘ghosts’ when Boko Haram was already excising swathes of territory from the nation space and abducting school pupils. The ghosts of Jonathan seem poised to haunt the tenure of Muhammadu Buhari.
Benue killings: Declare herdsmen terrorists now –Fayose
• Holds parlay with Ekiti hunters on state’s security
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on the Federal Government to the declare the Fulani herdsmen as terrorists.
Fayose also raised the alarm on imminent invasion of the state by the Fulani herdsmen and, therefore, charged the hunters in Ekiti to defend the people against any unforeseen invasion.
The governor, who raised the alarm that some persons identified as Bororos have started a surreptitious move into the outskirts of Ekiti with an alleged aim to kill and maim people and, thereby, rubbish his anti-grazing law, met with local hunters from the 16 local government areas of the state and charged them to secure the state.
He promised a strong support for them in the exercise.
Urging President Muhammadu Buhari to declare herdsmen terrorists, Fayose said: “Mr. President, declare herdsmen as terrorists group now, they are mindless and devilish.”
Fayose, who equally hosted the Benue people residing in Ekiti, expressed his sympathy for them, saying: “I sympathise with our brothers, sisters and people from Benue State who are mourning the brutality of those who killed their kinsmen.”
The governor, who observed a minute silence for the dead in Benue, was clad in a military uniform. He said: “This (military uniform) is done to charge our hunters to secure the state. I saw pictures of the killings and I wondered if those were human beings. I asked the question why people could kill human beings that way.
“They will find no peace. It is no tribal killings, but that of mindless people. Blood of departed will find those people and they won’t know peace. It is the duty of the federal government to protect its citizens. We are not protected.
“We have never had it so bad. People must come to leadership with conscience. The federal government should have sent the army not police.
“Governor Ortom should fasten his belt and protect his people. Those seeking for help in Abuja would not find it because Abuja also needs help. I sympathise with you, this is your home and nobody will kill you. You are all safe here.” Charging the hunters, who were excited to meet him, Fayose said: “I have received letters that the Bororos have entered our reserves, they want to violate our laws.
“I want to call on the attention of the federal government that they have come to kill men and kids and women in Ekiti. We will not allow that to happen. I want you all, the hunters, to go back today to protect your people; be vigilant, open your eyes, make sure everyone entering our state is screened.
“No one in the guise of grazing should enter our land after 8:00pm. For our brothers who harbour criminals, tell them Ekiti is a no-go-area. If your plan is to make this state ungovernable, you are wasting your time. I have called this meeting for everyone to be vigilant. I will begin to support you now to secure Ekiti.
“Don’t let them take you by surprise. Don’t allow them to take Ekiti by storm. Go to the farms and keep vigil. Don’t just entertain visitors that come in the night, screen them. We don’t want visitors in our games at 8:00pm.
“Don’t take laws into your hands, but defend our people. Protect our people, check all arrivals at night coming in disguise. I am making a line available where you can make distress calls.
“I trust you can secure our people. I want to appeal to our people from Benue to pray for your state and your governor. I also learnt that they want to come and arrest people for no reasons. They will meet Gods hand in it. My hunters, you know Ekiti very well. Protect the state. We will be having monthly meetings.”
source: sun
THE SEVEN-FOLD YOKE AND THE CABAL THAT OWN NIGERIA
Permit me to share a scholarly, revealing and I daresay disturbing intervention which was sent to me by a friend. The author wishes to remain anonymous.
He wrote as follows:
“The disruptive power of the Hausa-Fulani cabal is a structural reality and will only get worse, no matter where the President of Nigeria comes from. It is a seven-fold yoke which we must break for the sake of our children.
1. THE POLITICAL YOKE:
Globally, out of the 16 Federal Republics in the world, Nigeria is the only federation where land mass is used as a primary criteria for creating federating units.
NO Southern leader (civilian or military) has ever had the guts to create any federating unit; all the federating units have been created by Northern military adventurers. 20 federating units were created from only one region (North), while 17 federating units were created from 3 regions (East, West and Midwest).
Competent leaders are easily filtered off by the rigged political structure. At every election, the evil and corrupt Northern cabal needs only a few Southern collaborators to impose any presidential candidate upon the two foremost political parties, only for the electorate to formalize one of the candidates with votes.
That’s why Nigeria has been having such mediocre leaders as President, in a country awash with extremely capable presidential materials.
This also explains why since 1960 no Southerner has ever led Nigeria except by accident.
The FIRST coming of ALL 3 Southern leaders – Aguiyi-Ironsi in 1966, Obasanjo in 1976 and Goodluck Jonathan in 2010 – followed the death of Northern incumbents!
The fourth and only other Southern leader was Ernest Shonekan and his coming followed the forced “stepping aside” of a northern Head of State in 1993. He lasted for 3 months after which he was toppled and replaced by another northern military Head of State.
For 2019 the presidential contest is being set for Atiku vs Buhari- two Fulani representatives of the Cabal.
2. THE ECONOMIC YOKE:
Nigeria is the only oil-producing country where oil wells are allocated to individuals. The Hausa-Fulani cabal allocated over 80% of the oil blocks either to the Northerners or to their Southern fronts/allies. The names of these oil block allotees are in the public domain.
3. THE RELIGIOUS YOKE:
No other faith is mentioned in the Nigerian Constitution, except Islam. For instance, in the 1999 Constitution, Christ, Christians and Christianity are not mentioned even once; whereas Islamic signposts are strewn all over the Constitution –
Sharia is mentioned 73 times, Grand Khadi 54 times, Islam 28 times , Muslims 10 times, etc..
That Constitution was written SOLELY by one Muslim Fulani Jihadist named Prof. Auwalu Yadudu (Special Adviser to Abacha on Constitutional Matters).
While the 1979 Constitution emphasized Nigeria’s secularity, the 1999 Constitution of Yadudu is a de facto Islamic Constitution, and the Cabal ensured that Yadudu was there to fight that position at 2014 National Political Conference.
Subsequently, during Obasanjo’s govt, the same Northern cabal formally adopted Islam as the State Religion in the core Northern States. Obasanjo refused to even discuss the issue, except to state that it would ‘fizzle out’. He knew fully well that it would not ‘fizzle out’ but was afraid of confronting the cabal.
4. THE CULTURAL YOKE:
The Sultanate forms a major pillar of the Hausa-Fulani cabal. As permanent President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) the Sultan is the permanent leader of all Muslims in Nigeria (whether they are Northerners or Southerners). As the Permanent Chairman of National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NCTRN) the Sultan is the permanent leader of all traditional rulers in all 36 States of Nigeria & Abuja. By the way, the current Sultan was the Brigadier-General Commanding 241 Recce Battalion Kaduna.
Many public policies are determined only with the tacit approval of the Sultanate of Sokoto and the Emirates.
For instance, when the Gender Bill was introduced in the National Assembly, the Sultan ‘killed’ the Bill simply by criticizing it publicly.
Even Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (the world’s most revered monarch) would never criticize Parliament publicly, because that would be an abuse of royal privilege.
5. THE ADMINISTRATIVE YOKE:
Nigeria is the only African country that built a new capital from scratch (using resources from the oppressed, deprived and degraded Niger Delta/South East ).
The Cabal claimed that the location of Lagos by the ocean was a security risk, but this was just an excuse to Northernize national public service. A careful look at the map of Africa shows that only 2 nations have central capitals. The most common location for African capitals is at the coast.
London (United Kingdom) is situated at the edge of England on the River Thames. Washington DC (USA) is located along the Potomac River on the East Coast of USA. Paris (France) is located at the edge of France in the north-bending arc of the river Seine.
When Lagos was capital the Governors of Lagos State were from East, West and North. Since the Capital moved to Abuja, NO Nigerian leader has ever had the guts to appoint a Southerner as substantive FCT Minister. The FCT Minister must be a Northerner, preferably a Muslim (the current FCT Minister was appointed while he was Executive Secretary of the Hajj Commission).
6. THE DIPLOMATIC YOKE:
Any Christian leader who questions Nigeria’s membership of the two main international Sharia-driven bodies (OIC & D-8) faces the wrath of the Hausa-Fulani Cabal. So far, only Cdr Ebitu Ukiwe has ever had the guts to seriously question Nigeria’s involvement in these Islamic bodies and as a result Ukiwe was summarily dismissed from office.
7. THE MILITARY/SECURITY YOKE:
Nigeria is the only Federation in the world where all MAJOR security agencies are headed by only one section of the Federation and only members of one faith.
Army – Northern Muslim. National Security Advisor – Northern Muslim. Minister of Defence – Northern Muslim. Minister of InternalAffairs- Northern Muslim. Airforce –@ Northern Muslim. Police – Northern Muslim. Economic Financial Crimes Commission- Northern Muslim. National Civil Defence Corps – Northern Muslim. Department of State Security – Northern Muslim. Immigration– Northern Muslim. Prisons Service– Northern Muslim. Federal Road Safety Corps – Northern Muslim. Nigerian Customs Service – Northern Muslim. Chief of Defence Intelligence – Northern Muslim. Director of Military Intelligence – Northern Muslim. Fire Service – Northern Muslim. National Emergency Management Agency – Northern Muslim. Nigerian Ports Authority- Northern Muslim.
No southerner has been made substantive Comptroller General of Customs in 30 years.
Even with all his braggadocio, Olusegun Obasanjo dared not break the jinx in all this years as Nigeria’s President.
Again no southerner has ever been appointed as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission since the day it was established in 2003.
Finally the only southerner that was EVER appointed National Security Advisor was killed after he was unceremoniously removed from office by Goodluck Jonathan after the cabal blackmailed and arm-twisted him and told him that if he wanted peace he must appoint a northerner back to that post.
The above multi-faceted enslavement to the Hausa-Fulani Cabal is not an accident. Read the book by Harold Wilson which clearly states how and why the British laid the foundation for the Hausa-Fulani hegemony in Nigeria.
The principle guiding the Cabal was clearly set forth by the cabal’s patron saint, Sir Ahmadu Bello who said to the media:
“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as a conquered territory and NEVER ALLOW THEM TO RULE OVER US and NEVER ALLOW THEM TO HAVE CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN FUTURE.” – (The Parrot Newspaper, October 12, 1960).
Freedom from the Cabal is NOT about “North versus South”. In fact, the greatest victims of the Northern cabal are the Northern masses themselves. The struggle entails “Northern Cabal versus All of Lovers of Freedom”.
Nigeria is structurally unworkable and MUST EITHER BE RESTRUCTURED OR BROKEN. The Hausa-Fulani cabal will resist this with their blood, but there is no other way out of the enslavement for us and our children. We cannot continue ‘suffering and smiling’ in this un-restructured zoo called Nigeria.
The words of Harriet Tubman are relevant here. She said,
‘I freed a thousand slaves: I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves’ “.
The author of this brilliant intervention has given us plenty of food for thought.
He argued the matter in a detailed, succinct and concise manner and he stated the case very well. Though there were one or two omissions, his research is outstanding and his analysis is factual, insightful and incisive. The truth is that he has said it all.
Sadly many in Nigeria do not know that they are slaves to the cabal because they cannot feel the yoke or see their chains.
Yet slaves they are and it is time that we opened their eyes, broke their yokes, cut their chains and freed each and every one of them.
That is precisely why yours truly, and millions of others, insist on restructuring our country or, failing that, dividing her and going our separate ways.
May God help us! [truncated by WhatsApp]
INEC Releases Campaign Timetable For 2019 General Election Activities
INEC Chairman, Prof Yakubu Mahmood disclosed this in Abuja yesterday.
Under the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the Electoral Act 2010 (as ended), there are critical steps from the Publication of Notice of Election to the nduct of Polls. These have been fixed by the Commission as follows:
i. Publication of Notice of Election:
– National and State Elections – 17th August 2018
– FCT Area Council Elections — 3′ September 2018
ii. Collection of nomination forms by political parties:
– National and State Elections – 11th — 24th August 2018 – FCT Area Council Elections — —10th November 2018
iii. Conduct of party primaries, including the resolution of disputes arising from primaries:
– National and State Elections – 18th August 2018 — 7th October 2018 – FCT Area Council Elections — 4th September — 27th October 2018
iv. Commencement of campaign by political parties:
– Presidential and National Assembly — 18th November 2018 – Governorship and State Assembly — 1° December 2018
– FCT Area Council Elections —2′ December 2018
v. Last day for submission of nomination forms to INEC:
– -Presidential and National Assembly — 3′ December 2018 – Governorship and State Assembly — 17th December 2018 – FCT Area Council Elections — 14th December 2018
vi. Last day for campaigns:
– -Presidential and National Assembly — 14th February 2019
– Governorship, State Assembly and FCT Area Council Elections — 28 February 2019