NEWS: End SARS: End all street protests, dialogue with my govt on police – Buhari begs you

 

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday urged Nigerian youths to shun street protests and engage his government in meaningful discussions on police reforms.

Buhari said Nigerian youths should engage his administration in discussions that would bring about comprehensive reforms to end all forms of police brutality against.

He spoke in his message to the maiden National Youth Day celebration, observed on November 1, which coincided with the African Youth Day celebration.

Represented by the FCT Minister, Muhammad Bello, Buhari assured that his administration has heard the pleas of Nigerian youths.

A statement by his spokesman, Garba Shehu quoted the President as the Federal Government ‘‘now wants to hear concrete and practical ideas.

”You must realize that protests cannot last indefinitely. My government will not lift a hand to stop or suppress you.

”However, the fact of the matter is that other forces and actors will seek to take over your protests that they may redirect them in ways you did not intend and perhaps do not agree with.

”Every successful protest movement the world over has understood that there comes a time when activity must move from the street to the negotiation table. That time for you has come. Do not be afraid of this reality. You should welcome it.”

Social media regulation shows Nigerian leaders are irresponsible -Tuface

 

Music legend, Tuface Idibia has described the plans by Nigerian government to regulate social media as irresponsible.

DAILY POST recalls that the minister of information, Lai Mohammed on Saturday said the Buhari-led government had no intention of shutting down social media.

According to the minister, the government has regards for freedom of speech and therefore plans to only regulate social media in order to stop sending fake news and promoting hate speech.

According to him, a responsible government would not talk about regulating social media at a time where the youths are demanding an end to bad governance, amongst others.

Reacting, Tuface urged the leaders to do the needful first before regulating social media.

On his Twitter page, he wrote: “It is the irresponsibility of Nigeria’s successive governments, political elites, corporate greed and thievery that made social media enter Nigeria without regulation in the first place.

“All this talk against it now stinks of desperation from irresponsible leaders.Do the needful 1st!

“’If to say them be responsible governments no be now them for dey talk this one.’ It shows how irresponsible all of them have been

“Everything I talk na PDP and APC join o. Don’t get it twisted. They are the same.”

Tuface, however, added that everything is expected to be regulated in order to maintain law and order in the country but not in the direction the government was planning.

“Everything is supposed to be regulated. There must be law and order, but no be this one wey dem dey talk. This their own na fowl nyash wey open dem wan cover,” his tweet added.

NEWS LAND : Igbo agitating for Biafra because of marginalisation – MASSOB

 

Chukwudi Akasike

THE Movement for the Actualisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra has said its insistence on Biafra is due to the marginalisation of the Igbo in the affairs of the nation.

According to MASSOB, the Federal Government has no investment in the South-East, save prisons, police stations and army commands.

The National Director of Information of the movement, Mr Sunday Okereafor, added that while the Igbo had shown interest in Nigeria through their investments in the North and other parts of zones, all they got in return was marginalisation.

Okereafor, who spoke in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, said, “The Igbo people welcome other ethnic groups in Nigeria, and that explains why we go to the North and establish there. We have houses and businesses there.

“It is like that in the West and the Middle-Belt. It shows that the Igbo are the people who want Nigeria. Other ethnic groups are not investing in Igboland; they don’t have houses in the South-East. In Kano State, the Igbo have houses there.

“Herbert Macaulay and Nnamdi Azikiwe fought for independence; so, why would Igbo fight Yoruba? No, we love Yoruba because they are our brothers. But the Nigerian Government does not want the Igbo again.

“The only investments you see in eastern Nigeria are prisons, police stations and army commands. We, the Igbo, are being marginalised. We, as Igbo, want Nigeria, but they say no. That is why we are saying we are tired and we say it is Biafra or nothing.

“At 60, an individual should be looking forward to retirement, but at 60, Nigeria is still a minor in the comity of nations, in terms of development. It will not take Biafra more than 10 years to develop. I am saying this because we have everything that can propel our speedy development.”

The MASSOB spokesman also decried the killing of Igbo in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State by soldiers searching for members of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

“It is wrong to tag an innocent person IPOB and kill him. Is IPOB written on anybody’s face?” he queried.

Go and sin no more, you’re forgiven – Ohanaeze tells Nnamdi Kanu

 Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has described the unreserved apologies of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, as a welcome development.

Kanu is said to have tendered the apology during his interview with veteran Journalist, Dele Momodu, on Thursday evening.

OYC, in a statement to DAILY POST signed by Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, its Secretary General, said it “commended Kanu for heeding to the advice of its (OYC) leadership to immediately tender his unreserved apologies to Ndigbo,” still called on the IPOB leader to retract his End SARS verbal attacks, inflammatory threats, and stop all unnecessary violent protests in the Southeast and the whole of Igboland.

OYC said “it’s unimaginable and taboo for anyone to speak for Igbo without proper consultative approvals from Igbo stakeholders. Ipob were gradually losing relevance after their failed protests and needs to change tactical direction.”

The Igbo apex youth organisation believes that “Yoruba politicians and Northeast presidential aspirant through their Selfishness are manipulating IPOB activities indirectly for 2023.”

According to the group, this is to “Scuttle Igbo presidency project” warning that “It should stop henceforth, Nnamdi Kanu should learn from history especially Awolowo’s betrayal against Igbo legend, Dimm Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in 1967.”

OYC said it “wishes to inform Nnamdi Kanu, that his sins have been forgiven by Igbo Youth leadership led by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, he should,” adding that he should “go and sin no more.”

NEWS LAND : Why I am fighting for Biafra, by Kanu

 

By Chris Njoku, Owerri

Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu has said that the convergence of the diverse core value systems of the North, West and East is posing a serious obstacle for Nigeria to function as a viable state.

Kanu who said this on Friday in an interview with an publisher of Ovation magazine, Chief Dele Momodu on an IPoB community radio, argued that bringing Nigerians together without paying attention to the core value system of these ethnic groups was the bane of development and unrests in the country.

”So, these are the anomalies that Africans particularly educated Nigerians need to sit down to address. That’s why we have unrested development, that’s why nothing seems to be working because the convergence of these diverse core value system of Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo is making it  impossible for Nigeria to function as a viable state.”

The IPOB leader made it clear that he would not have been agitating for sovereign state of Biafra if Nigeria was created by a Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa man.

“Nigeria was not constructed by a Yoruba man, if it were I would have accepted it, Nigeria was not created by a Fulani man,  if that was the case who knows I might have accepted that, Nigeria was not created by an Hausa man either, Nigeria was created by a white man and named by a woman.”

“Nobody came from these ethnic groups, they never got together to say our name should be Nigeria.  A white man determined that. I cannot get to England to  say to the English people I want to rename Liverpool, I want to give it another name, I am sure they will think I am mentally ill or unstable and put me in jail.

Now the problem is why should Nigerians or Africans  accept the name Nigeria,  which does not mean anything in Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa language,”  he stated.

SARS secretly killing, selling body parts of our members to ritualists – IPOB alleges

 

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Monday, alleged that operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, were secretly killing and selling body parts of its members.

IPOB claimed that SARS operatives were killing and selling the body parts of its members to ritualists.

The separatist group made the allegation in a statement signed and issued by its spokesman, Emma Powerful.

According to Powerful: “We the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great Leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to bring to the notice of the international community the unabated secret abduction, torture, detention, and killing of our members by the wicked Nigeria security agents.

“These callous beings in security uniform also sell off the body parts of some of their victims to ritualists. At the helm of this atrocity and inhumanity is the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS).

“The Nigeria Police SARS in Awkuzu Anambra State and Obigbo in Igweocha Rivers State as well as Anti kidnapping squad security stationed at Enugu Ukwu in Anambra State are in constant hunt for IPOB member. They have also been responsible for the disappearance of many innocent Biafrans some of whom they have wasted thinking they are IPOB members.

“Many Biafran youths detained illegally in their different cells have disappeared mysteriously without any trace of their bodies until recently when our intelligence revealed that body parts of these innocent victims are being sold to ritualistic, while some are destroyed with acid to conceal evidence. IPOB members in Anambra, Enugu, Igweocha Rivers, Delta, Abia, Imo and other states are missing everyday.

“It is regrettable that many parents and families looking for their children detained illegally in the SARS cells across Biafraland, may not see them again. For instance.

“Mazi Isaac Okwuchukwu from Ogidi, Mazi Solomon Nwankwo from Oraifite and Mazi Tochukwu Onyebuchi from Nkpor and many others, were all taken away and killed by the men of Nigeria SARS at Awkuzu in Oyi LGA of Anambra State.

“Since 1945 the elimination of Biafra civilian population and unarmed citizens has been continued unabated in Nigeria. But it’s time to stop this systematic massacre of Biafrans in Nigeria. IPOB will no longer tolerate this dastardly act and state -sponsored genocide.
The world must rise against this abomination.

“It’s rather a shame and an international embarrassment that the same Nigeria security which could not protect Borno State Governor from Boko Haram terrorists who attacked his convoy and killed no fewer than 30 persons including security operatives, is busy chasing innocent IPOB members in Biafra land. Instead of dealing with the terrorists that are daily reducing the number of Nigeria soldiers and civilians, the security agents are busy crushing unarmed freedom agitators. What a shame!”

IPOB Begs Israel, UN For Biafra Actualisation, Knocks President Buhari For Persecuting Members

 Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), living in South Africa, have urged the Israeli government and the United Nations to put pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the persecution of their members in Nigeria.

In a statement sent to SaharaReporters on Saturday, they complained that the Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested people for listening to Radio Biafra, an online radio station created by the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

They appealed to both the Israeli and UN government to force Nigeria to drop all charges against Kanu and release all their members in Nigerian prisons.

Part of the statement read: "IPOB South Africa is urging the Israeli Embassy and the United Nations to uphold Its charter on indigenous peoples rights of self-determination and freedom, by compelling President Buhari and the Federal Government of Nigeria not only to release all Biafrans held in secret locations but also to tread with the utmost restraint and caution when dealing with those that are agitating for Biafra.

"We are calling on the Israeli Embassy also to see to the question of savagery, brutality, blatant disregard to the rule of law and undemocratic ruling of Muhammadu Buhari, and to see to it that, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), will peacefully restore Biafra as a Sovereign State."

According to the statement signed by the coordinator of IPOB members in South Africa, Ogechukwu Isu, "they – Biafrans are not fearful of the prospect of a second civil war. They are not prepared to settle for crumbs, and neither do they fear death, conflict, defeat, incarceration, butchery or persecution. Biafrans determined to restore Biafra.

"They are imbued with a spirit that cannot be suppressed and the more they cry "Biafra", the more the spirits of the millions that were slaughtered on the Biafran side during the Biafra/Nigeria war, are invoked. The more they cry "Biafra", the more the souls of the hundreds of thousands of their people butchered during the barbaric pogroms in the North and Lagos in the mid-60s and after that, are remembered.

"The more they cry "Biafra", the more they remember how their fathers were stripped of everything after the Biafra/Nigeria war, and how they have been denied the opportunity to rise to the highest office in the land. The more they cry "Biafra", the more they acknowledge and recognise the bitter fact that the Buhari administration regards their kith and kin as nothing more than third-class citizens and unfortunate prisoners of war. The worst thing that the Nigerian authorities can do is to treat us with levity or contempt."

In the statement, IPOB members argued that those seeking the actualisation of an independent state of Biafra have the fundamental right to self-determination and should never be maltreated by the Nigerian armed forces.