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When I tell my audience that Nigeria is built on bribery corruption and that Gen Buhari is corruption personified, many people gullibly argues with me.

But now, the revelation of Amnesty International which has it that Nigeria government approached them with bribe to cover the atrocity they committed against Biafra has vindicated my position that Nigeria government fears no organization, institution or government while bribing against Biafra.

My advice to Amnesty Int'l is to keep intact the recorded conversation of the bribery attempt by Nigeria as one of the exhibits when AI meet with Nigeria at #ICC. Let Nigeria govt also approach #ICC with bribery just as they bribed Fatou Bensouda when the team visited Nigeria on fact finding mission as ICC prosecutor. Nigeria is an empire of bribery. Useless country!

By Onyebuchi Eze
For Family Writers

When I tell my audience that Nigeria is built on bribery corruption and that Gen Buhari is corruption personified, many people gullibly argues with me.

But now, the revelation of Amnesty International which has it that Nigeria government approached them with bribe to cover the atrocity they committed against Biafra has vindicated my position that Nigeria government fears no organization, institution or government while bribing against Biafra.

My advice to Amnesty Int'l is to keep intact the recorded conversation of the bribery attempt by Nigeria as one of the exhibits when AI meet with Nigeria at #ICC. Let Nigeria govt also approach #ICC with bribery just as they bribed Fatou Bensouda when the team visited Nigeria on fact finding mission as ICC prosecutor. Nigeria is empire of bribery. Useless country!

Written By Onyebuchi Eze
For Family Writers

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said corruption led to the rise of Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria.
He stated this at the OECD global anti-corruption forum in France on Thursday.
Osinbajo said there was no way one could ignore the link between corruption and insurgency.
“Besides, we have seen in Nigeria, in recent years, how corruption directly fueled the terrorist insurgency in the North-East. And how in turn that has led to one of gravest humanitarian disasters in the world.


“Also the adverse implications for education, healthcare, social services, infrastructure and indeed the quality of life no longer requires making a case .
“Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because for practical purposes it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term,” he said.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie has decried the suspension of former Senate majority leader, Ali Ndume.
Onochie in a Facebook post on Thursday said the Senate has been hijacked by some persons who are being haunted by their past.
She added that the upper chamber has no right to denied any part of the country representation in the legislature.



She wrote, “It is very clear that the people’s parliament, otherwise known as the Senate, has been hijacked by a few unwholesome men who are haunted by their past and yes, the present.
“There is no power in the constitution of Nigeria that gives the right to the Senate to deny any part of Nigeria their representation by suspending any senator.  That is where I stand!
“The Nigerian Senate continues to play the role of the accuser, the police, the court and the executioner. Impunity and the height of ignorance.
“It is obvious that the Nigerian Senate has no regard for our institutions like the police and the law courts. We can’t remember when they had evidence against anyone and handed the matter to the police.”

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has said the continued detention of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu is to impress President Muhammadu Buhari.
IPOB in a statement by its spokespersons, Ikenna Chinaka and Iyom Grace Ukpai said President Muhammadu Buhari had in a media chat in 2015 said Kanu does not deserve freedom.
The group accused Buhari of sounding autocratic in a democratic setting.



IPOB said, “The President declared before a stunned civilized world that an ‘accused’ person that a court of law granted bail is undeserving to be freed despite the fact that such bails were granted by a court of competent jurisdiction.”
“The order made by Justice Ademola of the Federal High Court to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally is still subsisting and has neither been appealed by the agents of All Progressives Congress, APC, led government of President Buhari, vacated or set aside.
“Instead of the Federal Government to vacate the order, they resorted to using Justice Nyako to achieve the dictates of the President in the case against Kanu and others by trying to invoke the principles of Sharia law in a matter pending before a Common Law, just to impress her kinsman whose language and disposition have always been to continue to detain Mr. Kanu and others being tried with him.


“IPOB worldwide is implacably opposed to the adoption of elements of Sharia Law in the trial of our leader and other Biafrans  and  Justice Nyako must bear the following in mind, if she is to continue presiding over the matter.”

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, yesterday, took a look at the ongoing controversy between the Senate and the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali (retd.), describing the development as mere distractions.
Dogara, who fielded questions from senior journalists in Abuja, said the most important thing that should have been considered was whether the man had delivered on his mandate.
Although he did not mention the upper legislative chamber in his briefing, Dogara said that it was also necessary to look at what the Nigerian laws say about wearing of uniforms by public officers and see whether any of the laws had been adhere to or breached by Ali.
“So you have to look at all these issues before you come to a conclusion. As far as I am concerned these are mere distractions. They are not supposed to be; the main issue is delivery. What is it that we are delivering? That is it,” Dogara said.
The Speaker said that although he could not say whether the House of Representatives would support the resolution passed by the Senate against Ali, he would only wait to see what happens when the discussion gets to the floor of the House for debate.
He said, “But for a decision to be made in line with what the Senate proposed to the House, you can only wait till the matter comes before the House and that decision will be taken and Nigerians will know”.
The Speaker, who also took at look at the performance of the federal government since coming to power in 2015, claimed that the administration could not be accused of disappointing Nigerians given where it was coming from and what it inherited from the previous administration.
He said, “We have gone very far in trying to tackle this issue of insurgency and as a matter of fact all hostile spots have been liberated. This Government through various interventions has been able to ensure that the terrorists are not holding unto any swatch of land.
“I believe this is one major thing that has given some hope to Nigerians, for the very first time that we are in a position to overcome this problem, and it is critical, even if it’s for nothing else that our citizens in the Northeast zone down to Abuja can move around more freely than before, that is something.
“For me, I can say that a lot has been achieved even though unsung in most cases. In the context of our society, people want to see first-class roads, hospitals, they want to see the tangibles, but nobody places value on the intangibles.
“For us who come from the Northeast, even some of us who live and work in Abuja, remember how dire this issue of terrorism was. We were all living on the throes of violence.
The Police Headquarters here was bombed, U.N Mission here in Abuja was bombed, bombs exploded in Kaduna, Kano, Jos, in Nyanya as well and there was even threat of this mayhem being exported to the Southwest and other regions of this country.
“If you look at it today, we have exited from that. The biggest problem of democracy is that with violence you cannot take the benefits of democracy.
Democracy as we practice: Presidential democracy has three promises: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The number one responsibility of Government is the security and welfare of the citizens.
But the Speaker expressed disappointment with the treatment meted out to the Peace Corps of Nigeria even with the passage of the bill to make it a national security outfit in Nigeria by the National Assembly.
Dogara made it clear that the National Assembly would muster the required majority in both chambers to veto the President on the matter if he withholds his assent to the National Peace Corps Bill already passed and transmitted to the Presidency.
He maintained that there could be no limit to spend in securing the lives and property of Nigerians since the government exists to protect lives and property.
He warmed, “So the Bill is still there before the President for his assent. If he doesn’t assent to it for whatever reason, we are at liberty to recall it back to parliament and muster the 2/3 in the House and Senate and pass in spite of Mr. President’s veto. But right now that is not the discussion.
The Speaker also express dissatisfaction with the way the executive has been treating resolutions from the NASS with levity and hinted that a committee had been raised to compile resolutions passed but not complied with by the executive for necessary actions.
Mr. Dogara promised to take steps to ensure the amendment of the Local Government Law in Nigeria to give autonomy to the 774 councils in the country and return the conduct of local elections to INEC to ensure credibility, fairness and competitiveness as opposed to the current hijack of the process by the respective states.
He said the removal of autonomy from LGAs had created middlemen who deny the councils of the needed development.
“The current system is not working, and it has become a system whereby some have constituted themselves into middle men along the lines; they grab the resources meant for the development at the grass root and appropriate it the way they deem fit.
“And, there is a twin evil which is that of state independent electoral commissions that gives birth to a total mockery of democracy in the way the State Independent Electoral Commissions conduct elections that are usually won by just one party in power in the respective states.
“I have never seen where democracy is mocked like in Nigerian local government elections. I don’t know how we can continue to mock ourselves that we are practising democracy at the third tier of government.

Ivanka Trump will take an official government role as an unpaid adviser to her father US President Donald Trump, the White House announced on Wednesday.
The first daughter, whose husband Jared Kushner also works as a senior advisor to the president, will not receive a salary for her work as a federal employee. Kushner, a real estate developer, is also unpaid.
“We are pleased that Ivanka Trump has chosen to take this step in her unprecedented role as first daughter and in support of the president,” a White House statement said.
“Ivanka’s service as an unpaid employee furthers our commitment to ethics, transparency, and compliance and affords her increased opportunities to lead initiatives driving real policy benefits for the American public that would not have been available to her previously.”
In the couple of months since her father became president Ivanka, 35, has been a regular presence at the White House, where she already has an office.
She was present when her father received Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in January, and earlier this month took part in a round-table discussion with President Trump and Chancellor Angela Merkel during the German leader’s visit to the White House.
Her involvement with her father’s official duties has raised eyebrows in some quarters over possible conflicts of interest.
But Ivanka, who was part of her father’s business empire and ran a fashion line, said those qualms are unfounded.
“I have heard the concerns some have with my advising the president in my personal capacity while voluntarily complying with all ethics rules, and I will instead serve as an unpaid employee in the White House Office, subject to all of the same rules as other federal employees,” she said in a statement.
“Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House Counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role.”
Neither Kushner nor Ivanka Trump has any experience in elected office or public policy.
In addition to raising questions over possible conflicts of interest, the young couple’s influence on the president has fueled broader debate on the absence of clear boundaries between the Trump family’s business dealings and its member’s political activities.
Ivanka Trump’s lawyer, Jamie Gorelick, told the news website Politico last week that the president’s daughter will have access to classified information and be bound by the same rules that apply to other White House advisers who are on the government payroll.
“Our view is that the conservative approach is for Ivanka to voluntarily comply with the rules that would apply if she were a government employee, even though she is not,” Gorelick told the outlet.
“Having an adult child of the president who is actively engaged in the work of the administration is new ground.”
Part of the novelty stems from the fact that relatives of elected officials cannot legally be hired for most federal jobs due to potential conflicts of interests.
Yet Trump succeeded in getting Kushner on board at the White House by arguing that the executive office of the president was not covered by federal anti-nepotism rules. Kushner said that by putting his interests in a trust, and not being paid for the job, he could avoid the rule.
Kushner’s family business has invested some $7bn in property acquisitions in the past decade, often with overseas partners – and his father-in-law now is formally in charge of financial regulation.
Two Democratic senators, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tom Carper of Delaware, sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics on Wednesday saying that Ivanka Trump’s “increasing, albeit unspecified, White House role … (has) resulted in substantial confusion,” and questioned how her ethics compliance would be ensured.

Though Nigerian market offers a massive investment opportunities that would have boosted operation of U.S companies in the country massive, but the ability of government to tackle infrastructure shortfall and address the high cost of doing business in the country may be keeping investors, particularly Americans from Nigeria, United States Consul General in Lagos, John Bray, said on Tuesday.
Bray, along with other stakeholders discussed on “Improving the Ease of Doing Business in Nigeria” at breakfast meeting of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) insisted unless the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan is properly implemented, the desired objective may remain elusive.
Lamenting on harsh business environment, he said: “We know of these challenges and tend to sit on the positive side of this pendulum. We know that the challenges are small and Nigeria has the talent, resources and ability to fix all these problems I have mentioned.
“I can promise the U.S. Government will be Nigeria’s biggest cheerleader and we will be available with ideas, programmes, and media connections to strengthen Nigeria’s economy.”
From about 96 position in 2006 Nigeria currently ranked 169 among 190 economies in the latest ease of doing business statistic of the World Bank. Though Bray lauded efforts to put the country back on growth path, he lamented that access to forex as a one-stop shop whose success will be determined by executing its plan and a common resolve and commitment of government and civil societies to work together in new and innovative ways.
National President and Chairman of Council Nigeria-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC), Olabintan Famutimi, said the current rankin of Nigeria in the the World Bank’s Ease of doing business is unacceptable and must be reversed.
Noting that “The parlous ranking of Nigeria on the global index as one of the most unfriendly places to do business has dodge the country for many many years,” Famutimi lauded effort of government to ease business operations in the country but called for a firm implementation.
The President, the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, said unless there is a paradigm shift in government’s efforts and particularly in the attitude of public servants desired economic growth may remain un achieve.
Calling for a massive paradigm shift, Aig-Imoukhuede said though there is a 20 percent improvement in tax payments and a 4 percent increase in electricity supply, trading across borders and other aspects of the economy remained poor.
Coordinator Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC), who is also special assistance to the President on Industry, Trade and investment, Jumoke Oduwole, analysing efforts of the administration to create business friendly environment urged the private sector to corporate with government in addressing the challenges.
She said government aimed to build institutional capacity, sustain efforts and develop strong political will.
Oduwole added that government would also foster collaboration with all agencies and continue to improve its plans.

The Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. Segun Awolowo, wednesday said the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland, has agreed to work with the council on a trade paper on the challenges and opportunities of the Brexit on Nigeria.
Speaking on the impact of Brexit on ARISE TV in Abuja, Awolowo said since the Britain has triggered the Brexit process, it means both opportunities and challenges.
“There are two words to describe this which is opportunities and challenges. Of the two countries, Britain is a big economy in the world and Nigeria is the 24th largest economy in the world and with the colonial background, we have a strong relationship with the United Kingdom (UK). “Nonetheless, trading with a big economic block in base is much better to do but even that has its challenges.
“For Nigeria, we tried negotiating a very complex free trade agreement that is the partnership agreement with the EU and I think two other nations in West Africa but have not signed yet. So of course it is easier negotiating with a single country so that is the immediate advantage in that and when it is a partner, historically because we have about two million Nigerians in Diaspora so it is a big market for export and services both in ICT and financial sector. So that is why I would say there are opportunities and challenges but even with that, we don’t know how this is going to extend to us,” he said.
According to him, whatever the outcome is, Nigeria is going to trade with Britain, stressing, “It is just going to be on how we direct our trade. And I think Nigeria is very important we are their second largest trading partner in Africa and they are our third largest trading partner. So we are going to trade anyway.”
Speaking on the trade deficit with UK, Awolowo explained that Nigeria has been trading only one commodity over the years and that is oil.
“We are just in a position of a serious attempt to diversify the economy. Nigeria has released its Nigerian economic recovery and growth plan which is what we are going to use to get us out of this recession. And on the background of that is the strong emphasis on export because we believe once we are able to trade other things than oil then we would have a balance in our trade deficit all across the world. So Britain is very key. They are our largest foreign direct investment partner and this the time we are urging them to invest in manufacturing and industry in Nigeria. So that market is very big and very key,” he said.
Meanwhile, a chemist and pharmacist, Mr. Sam Ohuabunwa, has called for the issuance of new standards that will control the level of benzene in food products in the country, the former Chief Executive Officer of Neimeth Pharmaceuticals Plc, who made call against backdrop of controversy Fanta and Coke.
Benzene in soft drinks is a public health concern and has caused significant outcry among environmental and health advocates.
Speaking on ARISE TV, Ohuabunwa said scientific fact available showed that this reaction does occur but might not be a such a great harzards.
“However, most countries, have gone ahead to limit the benzene content in soft drinks and any liquid. They try and accept standards, I believe that is the issue in our country and believe we need to set standards local manufacturers can comply with,” he said.
He called on the Nigerian Bottling Company to be transparent by coming out with more information on its products, adding that the company should also comply with what they have been asked to.
He disclosed that benzene is present in the water we drink.

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Sebastine Hon, said on Thursday that the summons issued on the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), was unconstitutional.
The Senate had on Wednesday summoned Sagay over his comment in a publication by The PUNCH criticising the Senate for refusing to clear the 27 Residential Electoral Commissioners until the President removed Mr Ibrahim Magu as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
But Hon, an author of legal books, said even though, Sagay’s comments were “not salutary”, they did not merit invitation by the Senate.
He said, “The summons by the Senate to Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN to appear before it over and concerning the learned Professor’s obviously wrong description of Distinguished Senators is unconstitutional. While those comments are not salutary, they do not merit an invitation to appear before the Upper House.
“A similar situation had played out in the 1980s, in the case of Senate of the National Assembly vs. Tony Momoh ((1982) FNLR 307. In this case, Prince Tony Momoh had published in the Daily Times of 4/2/1980 an article the Senate of the Second Republic considered was injurious to its image.
“A Senate Committee then invited Prince Momoh to appear before it to ‘clarify’ those press comments. Prince Momoh challenged the invitation in court.”
He said the Court of Appeal had in its decision in the Tony’s case, laid down the principles for oversight functions by the Senate.
“Even though the Court of Appeal held that Prince Momoh’s action was premature – since the Senate had not taken steps to compel his attendance – it laid down general principles regarding exercise of oversight functions by the National Assembly, thus:
“The powers of the National Assembly to investigate are not general but are limited to the executing or administration of laws enacted by the National Assembly and the disbursement and administering of moneys appropriated by it.
“In other words, the constitutional provisions granting oversight functions do not constitute the National Assembly as a universal ‘Ombudsman’ with power to invite and scrutinise the conduct of every member of the public.
“The powers of the National Assembly in this regard are further circumscribed and limited by subsection (2) of the equivalent of section 88 of the 1999 Constitution – in that the National Assembly can only invite members of the public when it wants to gather facts for the purpose of enabling it to make laws or amend existing laws.
“Since from the resolution, Exhibit A, and the proceedings of the Senate, Exhibit C, the purpose of the invitation was to show resentment for Prince Momoh’s affront in daring to publish a matter against the Distinguished Senators rather than for the stated constitutional purposes, the invitation was not proper.”
He also said the principle was stated in the decisions in Court of Appeal in El Rufai vs. House of Representatives (2003) FWLR (Pt. 173) 162, “wherein the present Governor of Kaduna State, then Director-General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, upon being investigated by an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives, wrote and circulated certain offensive materials against the House. ”
He also cited Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Attorney-General of Abia State vs. Attorney-General of the Federation (2006) All FWLR (Pt. 338) 604 at 674.
According to Hon, the Supreme Court’s decision had circumscribed “the oversight functions of the National Assembly in the following words:
“Oversight functions can only be exercised within the lawmaking powers of the National Assembly. The functions are not at large and must be exercised within the provisions of the Constitution.”
He said the apex court’s position was in consonance with that of the United States of America’s Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal’s in Watkins vs. United States, 354 U.S. 178, 187 (1957); Townsend vs. United States, 95F 2d 352, 361 (D.C. Cir. 1938); McGrain vs. Dougherty, 716 Ed. 590, etc.
He said, “In conclusion, while I agree that Prof. Sagay’s comments against the Distinguished Senators were inappropriate, I make bold to state that the Senate lacks the constitutional competence to summon him to appear before it merely on account of those comments.
“Let me also add that the Legislature should be cautious in extending summonses to persons under its constitutional oversight functions. If it engages with personalities just because they have made snide comments against it, this will amount to the Legislature reducing its constitutional as an arm of government.
“The legislature qua the National Assembly should as much as possible conduct itself in such a way as not to be seen to be quarrelsome or petty.”

Is Nigeria the Only Country Where Idiots Rule?

 

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For over four decades now, another  Nigeria-Biafra war has been looming.  These two entities, forced together by the British in 1914 have increasingly moved towards direct confrontation for the first time since 1970.

Over time the Nigerian government has become comprised of mainly Muslim participants from the North whose occupations are mainly cattle herders with little or no education.  These Muslims served in the Nigerian military, which adds to their inability to govern correctly and institute sound economic policies.  The world has begun to label Nigeria “the only country where idiots rule.”

The Oxford English Dictionary defines genocide as “the deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group …” The UN general assembly also defined it in 1946 as “… a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups”.  Biafrans have consistently charged that the Nigerian government has in fact always had a design to exterminate the Igbos of Biafra.

In recent times their sole aim has been focused on exterminating Biafrans, made up of mostly Christians with Hebraic roots and those who have rejoined the Jewish Nation  Biafrans control some of the most fertile grazing lands and oil reserves in Nigeria.  

The current attacks on Biafra have been traced to the government supported Hausa/Fulani herdsmen  who are actually full members of the Islamist Boko Haram.  According to Article 2 of the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide-to which the US and all current members of the UN Security Council are party to, genocide encompasses not only the deliberate killing of members of a “national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such,” but also “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” Both clauses are occurring in Biafra region in Nigeria right now.

This situation was premeditated by mainly Islamic extremists within the Nigerian army.  These elements have been looking to the turn the heat up. Since protests broke out we have seen the systematic killing of innocent and unarmed civilians by the Nigerian military.  Despite the fact  that the army chief has admitted that his men indeed killed Biafrans indiscriminately as we have witnessed in Aguta, Aba, Enugu, Igweocha, little or nothing has been done by the  Buhari government to bring the attackers to justice.

Biafrans are still waiting for world leaders and lovers of democracy and freedom to step in and protect civilians who have suffered loss of life, confiscations and destruction of properties.  The agenda is clear.  The Arab and Islamic world is pushing for Nigeria to become a full member of the Islamic world.

Evidence of another genocide

Biafra has now become the headquarters of a military battalion set up in order to kill innocent young men and women and even children who seek self-governance.   These people strive for better lives due to decades of marginalization from previous and current governments. This has been reported by numerous human rights groups like HURIWA which have made it clear that the Buhari regime’s genocidal intent is beyond the pale of acceptable civilized behavior.

The international community must act and act swiftly to avert another civil war.  This time, an explosive war pitting the Judeo-Christian Biafra against the Radical Islamic movement that has overtaken Nigeria has the potential to become a wider regional war than the previous conflict which occurred over 45 years ago.

Time is of the essence.

SOURCE: ISRAEL RISING

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TO SUE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT

Amnesty international recently released a press statement stating that the Nigerian government is attacking the Amnesty joint situated in Nigeria. This follows the anti-Amnesty protest which was sponsored by the Nigerian government, threatening the amnesty to vacate the country or face the consequences.

The Amnesty International Africa Updated thus on their Facebook page:

 

 

Nigerian Government is Attacking Us Because We Refused to Be Bribe With Money.

 

You cannot kill (200) people within 24hours and expect us to remain silent, you must be questioned for such atrocities.

 

We look forward to meet the Nigerian government in court

 

#IStandWithAmnestyInternational

OBIANO, IKPEAZU AND WIKE CONNIVING WITH HAUSA FULANI SOLDIERS TO HIDE THE TRUTH OF THEIR BRUTAL MASSACRE OF IPOB MEMBERS & OTHER ATROCITIES

-They want to whitewash the damning Amnesty International Report on the killing of unarmed protesters in their states.

-IPOB calls for a fully independent international panel of enquiry headed by a non black African to investigate these crimes against humanity committed by the Nigerian Army and Police

        The indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and it's leadership worldwide raises alarm over the conspiracy between the FG and some State Governors to conceal the true impact of the Amnesty International reports on the killings of unarmed peaceful members of IPOB.

        We wish to bring to the attention of the world the activities of the Governors of Abia, Anambra and River State who have been  in constant clandestine meetings with Nigerian Army to whitewash the Amnesty international reports which stated categorically the killings of unarmed peaceful members of IPOB in their respective states. Willie Obiano, Okezie Ikepeazu and Nyesom Wike supervised the repeated killings of unarmed defenseless civilians exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to peaceful assembly.

        IPOB Intelligence unit discovered how these three governors held series of meetings to rent a mob of poverty ravaged unscrupulous individuals in the society, to protest against AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL reports which indicted this current Nigerian Government and her security agencies especially the Nigerian Army.

        We are minded of the current trend of this APC led government to rent a mob of miscreants for the paltry sum of 1000 Naira per protester, to put up a show of shame against any group or individuals that dares to challenge them with facts and figures.  A few days ago, such mob of recession ravaged miscreants were hired to shore up the crumbling, almost non-existent, reputation of President Buhari in Igweocha (Port Harcourt) Rivers State capital. 

        Also, it is on record that this visionless government of President Buhari are also in the despicable business of setting up phantom and in most cases completely fraudulent non-governmental organisations that nobody has ever heard of before, to protest against renowned organisations like the Amnesty International. The APC show of shame in the Abuja offices of Amnesty International last week, where the hired crowd were seen collecting their share of money that APC government promised them, serves as a warning to those involved in ensuring that justice is served in the case of the murdered IPOB protesters. A government that will take advantage of economic hardship to mobilise a mob at will should not be trusted to handle an inquiry of the magnitude being proposed, in order to uncover the reason behind the endless massacre of IPOB unarmed rally goers.

        It is unfortunate that the Government of Nigeria and her security agencies especially the Army would allowed themselves to be at the forefront of deplorable human rights abuses committed and still being committed in a desperate attempt to stop Biafra restoration.

        Therefore, we call on all Biafrans and lovers of freedom to beware of the proposed protest against the Amnesty International reports on the killings of unarmed peaceful members of IPOB sponsored by Willie Obiano and Okezie Ikepeazu with the help of a few Igbo and South South retired military personnel.

        The facts are that the whole world are today asking questions as to why the Nigerian Government of President Buhari persistently kill innocent civilians on a peaceful protest. Buhari's APC regime has now connived with two Igbo political desperados in Obiano and Ikepeazu to produce a false report that will claim that people were not killed. They have even perfected their plans to rent a few who will claim they are IPOB members to help cement their lies. Their whole aim is to thwart the arrival of an independent world investigative team that is slated to come to Biafran to conduct a thorough public enquiry.

        IPOB is disappointed with the three governors who knew when the various Army and Police formations in their respective states went on unprovoked rampage, killing and maiming unarmed members of IPOB under the supreme leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. They have sold their soul and conscience to money and political power hence their willingness to use their executive powers as state governors to testify against what they know really happened in their states.

        Anybody who is responsible or complicit in the killing of IPOB members, from Buhari to Obiano, Ikepeazu, Wike to the last army recruit that fired their riffle at peaceful protesters, will be held accountable. None will go unpunished because the blood of the dead will not allow us to forgive those responsible for these crimes against humanity.

        COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL

The leader of IPOB On the 20th of January 2017 campaigned in the favor of housa's whom their brothers and sons were detained by the Nigerian DSS for some years without bringing them to any court of justice which is seen as a crime against humanity.

Watch the video below:

https://youtu.be/9_kqyVQHSFo

Nigeria in for another trouble, as Dead Morrows Marine the newly dreaded emerged group in Rivers State, launches a fresh attack on dwoo Shell pipeline Afam Obigbo in Rivers State by 8:59pm on Tuesday.

The commander of this dreaded group, Gan Tamuno  A.K.A CONNECTION BOY have warned and vowed to launch incessant attacks, which will not just zero the Nigeria economy, but cripple the entire activities in Nigeria, if the Leader Of IPOB Nnamdi Kanu is not released unconditionally and   their demands not totally met.

Other than the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, the group drew the battle lines with the Muhammadu Buhari's led Government, if other Biafra incarcerated detainees are not released from detention with immediate effect.
The group have also given a One Week ultimatum, for Oil Companies to evacuate
South-South and South-East oil producing regions with immediate effect, for forcefully exploiting their resources and contaminating their environment with long lasting oil spillage.

The new group, spelt it out to the Buhari led Government that, it will be to their peril, if any Politician is met on their behalf, as is totally insane for anyone to think, they emerged politically or seek for any negotiation, except meeting to their boldly spelt out terms.

SOURCE: BIAFRA HERALD

Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the defense counsel to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on Monday, following an application, prayed the court to vary its earlier ruling on the protection of the Federal government witnesses.

Justice Binta Nyako had maintained that the ruling on bail application will not stop the trial which has to go simultaneously. She however, told the parties that she won’t reverse her earlier ruling on secret trial.

She maintained that the aim of secret trial was to protect the identity of the security operatives who would be appearing before the court as witnesses.

At the trial, Kanu’s counsel, Barrister Ejiofor, informed the court of a pending application which he had already served to the Prosecution counsel. He said that the application was pursuant to the Criminal Procedure Act anchored on the rights of the applicants to bail.

But counsel to the Prosecution, Shuaibu Labaran, opposed the application, informing the court of a counter affidavit in that respect.

Ejiofor told the court that his client is ready to clear himself of all the bogus charges preferred against him, adding that those charges were merely concocted to circumvent the order made by Justice Adeniyi Ademola on 17th December, 2015, directing the DSS to release Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally.

However, in an interview granted to Biafra Writers shortly after the proceedings, Barrister Ejiofor, said that the striking out of 6 out of the 11 count charges has changed the status quo which paved way for a fresh bail application for the defendants.

He explained, “You know on the first day of March, 2017, a ruling was delivered on an application challenging the competence of the eleven count charges preferred against the 1st to the 4th defendant, wherein six counts out of the eleven count charges were struck out which fundamentally changed the status-quo because the defendants entered a new plea and in pursuant of which we informed the court that we are going to file fresh application for their bail and that was filed on 2nd of March, 2017, so it was just been heard and adjourned for ruling on 25th of April, 2017.

“We also filed an application asking the court to review the order for protection of security operatives who will be coming to give evidence in court of which its order was made by his Lordship last year and it was proportional to Section 732 of the ACJ Act and also Section 32 of the Terrorism Protection Act.

“But that was when we have eleven count charges that borders on terrorism offence preferred against the 2nd defendant was subsisting.

“So, on the basis of the fact that the count of terrorism preferred against the 2nd defendant was struck out on the 1st day of March, we have to file an application because the foundation upon which that order was made have been kind of overtaken by tsunami, so we filed an application to ensure that the order which the lordship has made is reviewed.

“And you know that application borders on the form of trial which we are guaranteed the fundamental right to fair hearing and fair trial, so the court has to, first of all, hear the application.”

Ejiofor insisted that the judge must listen to their argument before delivering a final ruling on the application when reminded that the judge gave an express order that she will not vary on her decision.

He said, “For the fact that she said it but the court has a duty to listen to the argument from both sides of the divide, and rule on it because if a ruling is delivered one way or the order, we will know what to do. But the most important thing is that the foundation upon which that order was made, the application was premised on Section 732 of the ACJ Act and Section 32 of the Terrorism Protection Act which borders on the offence of terrorism which has been quashed by the court.

“This further means that the order can no longer stand because the 5 count charges are now standing as a new charge and none of them has to do with offence of terrorism and none of them is envisaged under Section 732 of the ACJ that can be tried in any form of protection.”

Written By Chukwuemeka Chimerue
SOURCE: BIAFRA TIMES