BIAFRA NATION:FG replies PDP, releases list of looters(FULL DETAILS)

 

The Federal Government has replied the People democratic party, PDP by releasing a list of treasury looters when the party was in power.
Below is the full statement made available to PoliticsNGR by Joseph Mutah, an aide to the minister of Information, Lai Mohammed;
“The PDP has challenged us to name the looters under their watch
They said they did not loot the treasury, Well, I am sure they know that the treasury was looted dry under their watch.
Yet they decided to grandstand. This shows the hollowness of their apology to Nigerians.
Let’s just give them a teaser with this list:

1. PDP CHAIRMAN UCHE SECONDUS
On the 19th of Feb 2015, he took N200 million only from the office of then NSA

2. Then PDP FInancial Secretary
 On the 24th of Oct 2014, he took N600 million only from the office of then NSA

3.  Then National Publicity Secretary Olisah Metuh
 On trial for collecting N1.4b from the office of then NSA

4.  Dr. Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman of DAAR Communications
On trial for taking N2.1 billion from the office of then NSA

5. Former SSA to President Jonathan, Dudafa Waripamo-Owei
 On trial over N830 million kept in accounts of four different companies

6.  Former President Jonathan’s Cousin Robert Azibaola
 On Thursday, a Federal High Court ruled that he has a case to answer for collecting $40 million from
the office of then NSA.
This list is just a tip of the iceberg, and the PDP is aware of this.
We did not make these cases up. Many of these cases are in court and the records are available.
Some of the people on this list are seeking to plea bargain, and that is a fact.
We insist that Nigeria was looted blind under the watch of the PDP, and that the starting point in tendering an apology is for them to return the loot.
It’s like a robber admitting to stealing your car and apologizing, but then saying he will keep the car anyway. It doesn’t work that way.
The PDP is a hypocrite. And that reminds me of what English writer William Hazlitt said: ”The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”
We will not stop talking about the massive looting by the PDP. They brought Nigeria to this sorry pass. We are now looking around for loans to build infrastructure, and they ask us not to but we will talk about it”

Yoruba Council Of Elders To Buhari Sack All Service Chiefs Immediately

 
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The council hinged their reason on the service chiefs’ alleged inability to effectively curtail killings in different parts of the country.
According to them, the recurrent massacre in Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states have lent credence to the accusation by a former Minister of Defence, Theophilus Danjuma, that the military was colluding with killer herdsmen to embark on ethnic cleansing.
The YCE stated this in a communique issued after their Expanded National Executive meeting held in Ado Ekiti on Thursday in honour of its late President, Chief Idowu Sofola (SAN), who died last Friday. The Yoruba Council of Elders, YCE, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack all the service chiefs.
The communique was signed by the YCE Secretary-General, Dr. Kunle Olajide and the chairman of the Ekiti Council of Elders, Prof. J. O. Oluwasanmi.
It partly read, “The Yoruba Council of Elders calls on Mr. President to relieve the present security chiefs, some of whom are already overdue for retirement of their position and immediately reconfigure the security architecture of the country to reflect the federal character clause in our constitution.
“Most Nigerians have lost confidence in the security chiefs especially the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, whom the President has publicly acknowledged as disobeying his instructions.
“The President must shed and toga of Baba go-slow and act promptly on this matter to once again inspire the confidence of Nigerians in his administration.  A military which publicly claimed to be neutral where the law of the land is being violated and innocent citizens are mindlessly murdered by armed herdsmen is definitely partisan and can no longer be trusted to protect all Nigerians.”                

 FROM LEFT: CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF, AIR-MARSHAL SADIQUE ABUBARKAR; CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF, GEN. ABAYOMI GABRIEL OLONISAKIN; VICE PRESIDENT YEMI OSINBAJO; PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI; CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF, LT-GEN. TUKUR BURATAI AND CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF, VICE-ADMIRAL IBOK ETE EKWE IBAS, AT THE DECORATION OF SERVICE CHIEFS AT THE PRESIDENTIAL VILLA IN ABUJA ON

Nigerian govt commences secret trial of Nnamdi Kanu’s co-defendants

 
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The Justice Binta Nyako-led court had in 2017 granted Kanu bail but ordered that the four other IPOB members be remanded in Kuje prison.
The secret trial of four members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, resumed at the Federal High Court, Abuja with the Nigerian Government calling its first witness, on Thursday.
Bright Chimezie, Chidiebere Onwudiwe, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, are facing charges alongside the elusive IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
However, the Nigerian Government had on March 20, 2018 re-arraigned the four IPOB members on an amended three-count charge.
Speaking during Thursday’s trial, the witness, simply identified as Mr AB, gave his testimony behind a barricade, where only the judge, the defendants and the counsel could see him as he was shielded from the public.
Led in evidence by Shuaibu Labaran, counsel to the Department of State Security Services, (DSS), AB told the Justice Nyako led court that he met Chimezie in 2016 when he was brought to DSS office for interrogation.
According to AB, “My boss asked me to interview him and in the process, he told me why and where he was arrested. He also told me that he is a member of IPOB and that he joined while in Port Harcourt.
“He also said that he took a delivery imported by the group containing a container from Lagos to Ihiala, Anambra, to the compound of Benjamin Madubugwu, the second defendant.
“It was also revealed that Chimezie, in 2016 was in-charge of the welfare of the members of the group and he collected money from some of the group’s sponsors based abroad for the members.”
AB, while being cross-examined by counsel to Chimezie, Chukwudi Igwe said he was not part of the officers who arrested the defendant but was only asked to interview him.

After listening to his testimony, Justice Nyako adjourned the matter until May 21 for continuation of trial.

BIAFRA NATION:Deal with herdsmen same way you treated IPOB – Anglican Bishop, Nwokolo tells Buhari

 
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The Bishop of the Diocese, Rt Rev. Owen Nwokolo said such step would project the government as being serious about providing Nigerians with adequate, unbiased and nepotism-free security.   The Diocese on the Niger, Anglican Communion, has challenged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to deal with killer herdsmen the same way it treated the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
He said this while addressing newsmen yesterday in Nnewi, Anambra State.
Nwokolo said: “The killings and murderous activities of herdsmen in Nigeria are enough for the Federal Government to treat them as a more dangerous group than the IPOB and any treatment short of what has been given to IPOB amounts to support of what the herdsmen are doing to Nigerians.
“If the Federal Government fails to sit up and show genuine commitment and readiness in addressing the menace of herdsmen squarely, I urge Nigerians not to trivialize or ignore the call by the former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma for them to defend themselves.
“Nigerians should therefore, look at the activities of the herdsmen and the reaction of the armed forces from what retired Lt. Gen. Danjuma said. We have waited for so long for him to say something about the security of the country and the activities of herdsmen.
“Having been the Chief of Army Staff and the Defence Minister and having fought for independence of Nigeria, fought for Nigerian unity during the civil war and always stood for the unity and peace in the country, calling for people to defend themselves means something bad is seriously happening that he could no more ignore and contain.
“Coming up to say Nigerians please defend yourselves, is an indication that there is no more security for the people and we do not expect the government to bring sentiment and politics into it. They should not pretend that all is well or play politics with the statement when they should sit up and address the situation that made a man like Danjuma to make that call and accuse his constituency, the military of taking sides and not doing enough.
“We have seen the way the issue of herdsmen are being handled. It appears the Federal Government is turning deaf ear to the pleas of the people. They feel unconcerned about the killings in different states of the federation, behaving as if nothing will happen because they have the power.
“Nigerians are tired and there is nothing else we can do. We have appealed to the Federal Government to defend the citizens. It appears nothing substantial is happening. It’s not as if the Armed Forces are not making any effort but they have not applied drastic measures that will curb the activities of herdsmen. 
“When the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, was reigning and engaging in their protests and rallies, we saw how the government sent different ‘dancers’: the Python dancers, and the Crocodile dancers and what have you. They dealt with the problem but nothing substantial has been done about this one.
“We do not know what else to say other than to ask people to defend themselves but we still appeal to the Federal Government to tackle the matter headlong, because that is the only solution.
“We do not want to believe that the recent directive by the Inspector General of Police to withdraw arms and ammunition from even those who registered with the government whether you call them community vigilante or any name is to make way for more killings by the herdsmen.”

IPOB:Produce Nnamdi Kanu or go to prison – Court warns Senator Abaribe, two others

 
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The Federal High Court in Abuja has asked the three sureties in the trial of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, to produce the defendant or risk going to prison.
Kanu, who is currently facing trial for alleged treason, was required to be produced in court by his sureties. 
Kanu’s sureties were Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, a Jewish priest, Immanuu-El Shalom, and an accountant resident in Abuja, Tochukwu Uchendu.
However, the IPOB leader has not been seen after since September 2017.
Justice Binta Nyako had asked the sureties to produce the defendant.
At the resumption of the matter, however, a counsel for the sureties, Chukwuma Machukwu Umeh, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said his client had not been served with court papers relating to the order made by the judge.
He therefore made a fresh application for an order of court demanding that the prosecution serves the sureties with copies of the order, as made by the court.
In his response, the prosecution counsel, Shaibu Labaran, urged the court to resist sacrificing the demand for justice on the altar of technicalities.
Labaran countered the submission of the defence that an enrolled order was necessary to ensure compliance to the instructions made in court.
He described the fresh application as a “conspiracy” to set back the matter before the court and demanded its dismissal.
The presiding judge, Justice Nyako granted the request by the defense, but noted that the application was an evidence of their lack of readiness to proceed with the matter.
“What is clear is that you are not ready,” said Mrs. Nyako.
“The sureties are to be served with the order of this court: to show why they should not forfeit their bond or to produce the defendant in the next adjourned date, with the alternative to go to prison,” she added.

IPOB:Nnamdi Kanu remains our leader, director of Radio Biafra – IPOB

 
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The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has faulted media reports that its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has been dismissed as director of Radio Biafra.
It dismissed the report as ”a cheap diversionary tactics designed to test our dedication and resolve in the run up to the much anticipated boycott of Anambra elections on Saturday November 18th, 2017.” 
IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful, in a statement said no amount of false stories would dent the group’s resolve to restore Biafra through Kanu’s leadership.
”The preposterous and laughable idea that he has been sacked from Radio Biafra he personally established in London and IPOB he founded is tantamount to saying that the Sun is no longer part of the solar system. It is not only unthinkable, it will be foolish of anyone to contemplate it,” he said.

IPOB:ICC To Investigate Killings During Operation Python Dance

Reports of extra-judicial killings by the Nigerian Army during a military show of force tagged Operation Python Dance 2, is set to be investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague.
Soldiers were said to have in 2017, unlawfully invaded the Afara Ukwu community in Umuahia, Abia State, country home of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in a bid to arrest the IPOB leader during the Operation Python Dance.
The petition also listed the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai as part of those to be
 investigated for their roles in the military invasion. 


Reports of extra-judicial killings by the Nigerian Army during a military show of force tagged Operation Python Dance 2, is set to be investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague.
Soldiers were said to have in 2017, unlawfully invaded the Afara Ukwu community in Umuahia, Abia State, country home of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in a bid to arrest the IPOB leader during the Operation Python Dance. The petition also listed the Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai as part of those to be investigated for their roles in the military invasion.
BIAFRA NATION  that the Office of the Prosecutor, ICC, stated this in response to a petition filed to the court by a Nigerian journalist, Ahaoma Kanu, which allegedly led to the killing of several unarmed members of the group.
In a letter with reference number OTP-CR-413/17, dated March 20, 2018, which is said to be the second response by the court to the petitioner, confirmed that the military invasion and deaths recorded were already under preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor.