BIAFRA : UniUyo alumni decries attack on undergraduates by suspected cultists

In a statement signed by its President, Professor Gabriel Umoh, and the Secretary,

 Dr. Jude Iwok, the group said the unhindered access into the hostels by hoodlums who attacked the first day and returned the next day to raid another hostel was an indication that insecurity has reached a high level in the institution.  

 The University of Uyo Alumni Association on Thursday condemned what they described as “unrestrained attacks” on students of the institution by suspected cultists.      The Alumni, however, called on the school management to tackle the insecurity immediately before it gets out of hands.

According to the statement, “We have watched with dismay the growing insecurity situation within the University and its environ. From snatching of phones from students at any hour of the day, the invasion of hostels and heightened cult activities, the state of insecurity in the institution has reached an alarming heights.

“The recent invasion of female hostels twice in one week was a clear indication that the insecurity in the school has hit an all time low with all its attendant negative implications.

“We are deeply worried that hoodlums would have such leeway into hostels, rob students of their belongings and returned again a day after to raid another female hostel with impunity having served notice that they were coming back as widely reported in the media.

“We condemned in totality the free reign of crime that has become a recurring decimal in the University of Uyo, and call on the school authorities to be more proactive, sure-footed and decisive in tackling this clear and present danger before it degenerates to something that cannot be managed anymore.”

The statement called on the school authorities to beef up security within the institution especially around the hostel areas to forestall similar incident.

It called on the school authorities to take advantage of the proscription of cultism by Governor Udom Emmanuel and fish out those involved and hand them over to the appropriate authorities for prosecution to serve as a deterrent to others.

The statement further called on the students to remain calm and be vigilant and go about their studies without any fear, as the government is doing everything possible to address their plights.

BIAFRA : Ohanaeze blows hot over alleged murder of woman by herders in Enugu

Mrs Ngwu’s body was found on Thursday after she went missing on Wednesday from farm in Nchatancha community.   

 The Apex Igbo Social-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has condemned the brutal

 killing of one Mrs. Pat Ngwu in Enugu State.   

The group, in a swift reaction, warned that Igbos will be forced to resort to self help, if nothing is done stop the alleged killings by herdsmen in the Southeast.

Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Uche Achi-Okpaga, gave the warning in a statement on Thursday in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital.

The statement reads, “The spate of rape, kidnapping and killings in Igbo land by the dare devil Fulani herdsmen has reached an alarming crescendo. The recent killing of an innocent woman in Nchatancha, Enugu, buoys the staccato out cries of national insecurity.

“With the situation virtually out of hand of the security agencies, the people may be compelled to resort to self help for survival unless a drastic effort is exerted, by the security forces, to quench the impending national holocaust.”

Achi-Okpaga further called for thorough investigation and prosecution of the killers to assuage the people.

“We therefore call on the Police, to as a matter of urgency, investigate this condemnable killing of this innocent woman and bring the culprits to face the wrath of the law in order to restore the confidence of the people”

“The people’s patience have been stretched to their elastic limits and only a thorough investigation, exposure of the criminals and totally check the seemingly intractably crimes will assuage the frayed and bruised nerves of the people.”

BIAFRA : Ohanaeze youths take position on IPOB’s threat against Southeast governors, other leaders

OYC stated this while calling for a truce between Southeast governors and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, 

IPOB, following the recent attack on former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, in Germany. Recall that Southeast governors had issued a stern warning to IPOB leader, 

Nnamdi Kanu and his group over threats to attack them and other Southeast leaders abroad. 

 The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, OYC, on Thursday vowed to “do everything possible” to shield Southeast governors from attackers both in Nigeria and abroad.      In a statement signed by its President-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, OYC urged Southeast governors to tighten up security around them.

The statement forwarded to BIAFRA NEWS MEN reads: “We angrily call for a truce, and immediately cease-fire ranging on between the southeast Governors and IPOB over the threat and counter threats being harvested from both quarters.

“We can no longer afford to slaughter our collective image and integrity over actions being sponsored by politicians outside Igbo land to Smack the images of Igbo Presidential hopeful ahead of 2023.

“We have uncovered the real plot behind the recent harassment and threats of placing one million Naira bounty on anyone who gives useful information about overseas travel itinerary of South-East Governors as an evidence that they are being sponsored by politicians outside Igbo land to discredit our leaders with millions of Naira given to them to hack down South-East Governors.

“How come they have millions of Nigeria currency instead of Biafra pounds? We will do everything possible to shield South-East Governors from external aggression being sponsored by politicians to hack down South East Presidential hopeful.

“Based on the intelligence report that there’s possibility of attacking South-East Governors in Nigeria and abroad starting from next month, and we have uncovered the selfish reasons for this unholy alliance between them, We alert all South-East Governors to double their security settings and don’t fall into any traps of being provoked and distracted from tackling the insecurity challenges emanating from the activities of suspected Fulani Herdsmen, this is the finest hour for all genuine lovers of Igbo culture and values to stand up and defend their political leaders and urge Ipob to retract their steps and allow peace to thrive.”

Following the threat to attack Igbo leaders, Southeast governors had, in a statement signed by its Chairman and Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, said should Kanu and IPOB members make their threat real, they would, by all means, repatriate him to Nigeria to face the wrath of the people.

BIAFRA ; IPOB vows to continue attack on leaders

IPOB also said its struggle for the actualisation of Biafra has taken international dimension, insisting that there was no going back.

The pro-Biafra group said it had no regret attacking former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in Nuremberg, Germany at the weekend.    The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared that it would go ahead with its resolve to attack political leaders.     This was contained in a statement by its Head of Directorate of State, China Edoziem.

The group described those condemning the attack on Ekweremadu as sycophants, vowing not to relent in its struggle for a sovereign state of Biafra.

The statement partly read, “The Indigenous People of Biafra led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will continue in the avowed pursuit of our right of existence as a people, independent of the evil enclave called Nigeria.

“We’ll be unhindered, unperturbed and unfazed by the cacophony of morally bankrupt manufactured voices that appear to rally round one of them, Ike Ekweremadu.

“Going through the vomit of some of these faceless sycophants with no iota of influence on the ground in Biafraland apart from dishing out meaningless drivel in the name of press statements, one is confronted with the mindset of a people living in a Banana Republic in which all forms of freedom of expression is brutally repressed and mediocrity extolled to high heavens.

“This battle which we the Indigenous People of Biafra has embarked upon will be at a time, place and methodology of our own choosing.

“It is imperative to state that in making that choice, there will be no differentiating between the subservient Biafran politician(s) who see nothing and hear nothing wrong when Biafraland is under military siege and their caliphate masters that dehumanize, abduct, torture and murder at will.

“Very soon, we shall show Dave Umahi, the governor of Ebonyi State that IPOB has not only the capacity and reach but also the power to achieve our set objectives and fulfil our promise to the living and the dead.

“We are waiting for them and their trumpeters in all the civilized nations of the world. The story of their humiliation will become a subject of study in foreign institutions.

“Our struggle has shifted to the international arena where every eye will be watching and taking note.”    

BIAFRA : Gunmen kidnap APC lawmaker in Sokoto

The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Abubakar Sadiq, who confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sokoto on Thursday l, said that the state command received the information from the Divisional Police Officer of the area.        Unknown gunmen have kidnapped Alhaji Aminu Bodai, a member of the Sokoto State House of Assembly in Bodai village of Dange/Shuni Local Government Area of the state.         Bodai, is a member of the All Progressives Congress representing Dange/Shuni state constituency.

Sadiq said that the gunmen in the early hours of Thursday went to the residence of the lawmaker and abducted him.

According to him, upon receiving the information, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Kaoje, directed a re-enforcement to the division to track the abductors.

He said that policemen were currently carrying out full surveillance of the forest surrounding the village of Bodai and neighboring communities.

Sadiq assured that the police were working closely with other security agencies to maintain a peaceful and secured environment in the state.

He called on the public to continue to support the security agencies by providing useful information about strange activities in their areas of residence.

BIAFRA : Ekweremadu attacked over Operation Python Dance role – IPOB

The Indigenous People of Biafra has said  its members attacked former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu,  because of the role played by him and others during the Operation Python Dance saga in the South-East.

The group said Ekweremadu and others like Nnia Nwodo, David Umahi, Okezie Ikpeazu, Rochas Okorocha, Willie Obiano and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi plotted to kill the IPOB dream.

      A statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, on behalf of the group’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu,

 accused South-East leaders of plotting to assassinate Kanu, and kill the dream of IPOB through Operation Python Dance.    

 “These men mentioned above instigated, financed and defended      a full-scale bloody military invasion of Biafra land they tagged Operation Python Dance that led to the torture and untimely death of over 600 Biafrans, 28 of which fell in my compound.

“These men sanctioned the desecration of the home of an Igbo traditional ruler by Fulani soldiers and did not care if my father, HRM Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, and my mother, who were home with me during the unprovoked invasion, were killed or not. All that these desperate Igbo politicians ever wanted was my death, the death of IPOB, the death of our dream of freedom for all.

“In view of the Nuremberg encounter, it has become necessary for us to refresh our memory lest it succumbs to confusion and deliberate misinformation because most people, unlike IPOB, are in the habit of excusing intolerable evil and wickedness.

“Every perpetrator of evil, every purveyor of iniquity, every merchant of misery and every defender of injustice must and will be held to account. We will on relent until justice is served,” IPOB said.

But a prominent Igbo socio-cultural group, Igbo Bu Igbo, on Tuesday warned members of IPOB not to push their luck.

The group gave the warning while reacting to the attack on Ekweremadu, by members of IPOB in Nuremberg, Germany.

It described the attack on Ekweremadu as “a callous act of ingratitude” considering that Ekweremadu was the same person who rallied other leaders to save Nnamdi Kanu from languishing in jail.      It said, “In Igboland, the hen does not raise its beak against the one who gave it shelter during the rainfall.”

In a statement by the Group’s Chancellor, Dr Law Mefor, and the Secretary General, Mazi Chidi Omeje, the IBI lamented how “the unfortunate, unprovoked and crass attack on the senator had created the       wrong notion that the Igbo cannot conduct themselves in a decent manner.”

It said, “We reject such a notion as that is not who we are. No matter what the grievances of these misguided IPOB members could be against Senator Ike Ekweremadu, resorting to bestial tendencies to settle scores is not part of our culture.”

It called on IPOB to “desist from such actions that can be used to justify the terrorist tag it has already been labelled with by the Federal Government.”

“The orchestrated physical attack on Ekweremadu should not be seen as a democratic protest, and if not condemned by good spirited Nigerians, it will be extended even to the ordinary citizens in due course.

 “We cannot applaud barbarity under whatever guise. What is condemnable is condemnable and we condemn that mob action in Germany in the strongest terms possible. With the threats subsequently issued against Igbo leaders across the board by IPOB, they are creating a recipe for disaster,” the IBI said.

 The group urged IPOB to “convert such energy and take advantage of its reach to bring about its desired good governance in Igbo land by actively participating in politics of the region and the country if it so desires.”

Similarly, the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party condemned the attack on Ekweremadu by IPOB members.

In a statement on Tuesday by the PDP BoT Chairman, Senator Walid Jibrin, and Secretary, Senator Adolphus Wabara, it said the attack was totally uncalled for, unacceptable and could not be justified.

It called on the Federal Government to address the issue that led to the attack.

It said, “Senator Ekweremadu is a Nigerian that did not deserve this wicked treatment. We sincerely sympathise with Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his family.”

BIAFRA : Nigerian Government Discovers Hidden Multimillion Properties Linked To Deputy Senate President Ekweremadu In The US, UK And UAE

The Nigerian government has written to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom and the United States of America after discovering hidden assets owned in the three countries by Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. In the letters written to the UAE and USA, Mr. Fowler is relying on the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI), a multi-jurisdictional instrument for exposing hidden assets and incomes, to which Nigeria is a signatory. The AEoI, which kicked in Nigeria on January 1, was conceived to stop illicit financial flows.      The Nigerian government has written to the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom and the United States of America after discovering hidden assets owned in the three countries by Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

In the letters written to the UAE and USA, Mr. Fowler is relying on the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI), a multi-jurisdictional instrument for exposing hidden assets and incomes, to which Nigeria is a signatory. The AEoI, which kicked in Nigeria on January 1, was conceived to stop illicit financial flows.    Mr. Ekweremadu’s properties in the UAE were exposed by a whistleblower. In the country, the Deputy Senate President owns eight properties. Among these are Apartments EGG1/1/114 and EGG1/1/115 Emirates Garden, Apartment DFB/12/B 1204 Park Towers, Flat 3604, MAG214 and Villa No.148, MAEEN1 The Lakes, Emirate Hills. The others are Boulevard 3901, two flats of Burij Side Boulevard, The Signature; and Room 1903, Hotel Downtown.

In respect of Mr. Ekweremadu’s properties in the United Kingdom, President Muhammadu Buhari through one of the Special Assistants wrote to the Serious Fraud Office and is relying on the recently passed Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) in the country. The order prescribes forfeiture of assets valued at 50,000 pounds and above for which the owner cannot adequately explain the source of income with which it was acquired. 

 “The objective of this letter is to alert you of this development in view of the Voluntary Declaration of Assets and Income Scheme introduced by the Federal Government,” stated Fowler in the letter.   

In the United Kingdom, Mr. Ekweremadu owns Flat 4 Varsity Court, Homer Street, WIH 4NW London and 52 Ayleston Avenue, NW6, London. In the United States, the Deputy Senate President has a three-property portfolio comprising 4507 Stella Street, Bellavida Estate, Kissimmee, Florida; 2747 Club Cortile Circle, Kissimmee, Florida and 2763 Club Cortile Circle, Kissimmee, Florida.

The letter to the US government was addressed to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) under the United States Justice Department. A copy of the letter was also sent to Tunde Fowler, Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service in Abuja.