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Herdsmen has early this morning attacked a town called Dowaya outside Numan in Adamawa state, slaughtered 33 women, children, and injured 78 others.

Starnews reliably gathered that the victims were Christians that were praying and conducting a wake-keeping for others in their community that had been murdered by the herdsmen a few days earlier.

In a swift reaction, chief Femi Fani Kayode has pointed accusing finger at the military, alleging complicity in the incident.

In one of his tweets, Chief Fani Kayode said :

“The soldiers that were posted to Dowaya refused to protect them and stood by and watched as the carnage took place before their very eyes,” he said.

A leading Igbo socio-cultural group, Igbo Bu Igbo, has condemned what it terms “the continued indiscriminate arrest and persecution of political and business leaders of Igbo extraction by overzealous security agents”.

In a statement signed by Dr Law Mefor-Anueyiagu and Jude Ndukwe, Chancellor and Head, Media Directorate, respectively, the group stated that ” With this latest arrest of Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, it has become indisputably obvious that Ndigbo have been deliberately marked out for intimidation, harassment and, ultimately, perpetual subjugation”.

Continuing, the Igbo group said, while they believe in the efficacy of the rule of law which also implies that no one is above the law, “we will not accept a situation where our leaders are subjected to random humiliation without recourse to decorum and constitutionalism”. “We call on good-spirited Nigerians, human rights organisations and the international community, to take note of the systematic use of state institutions to persecute opposition members and those who hold divergent views from the government.

“Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe is a ranking Senator of the Federal Republic, and, it is our belief that, if not a system where things are done crudely and where persecution takes the place of persecution of political opponents, the Senator should have been invited rather than arrested in a manner executed to humiliate him. “Let us assure those on this path of error, that, just like it was with our leaders and people who have faced one form of persecution or the other under this government in the recent past, Ndigbo will never be intimidated to abandon their own.

The era when our common traducers used to pitch us against one another for their own selfish interests is gone. Today, our common age-long  persecution in the country has taught us to be together and be there for one another no matter the circumstances. It is therefore needless for any person, group of persons and or institution(s) to continue picking on Igbo sons and daughters in the hope that such victims of persecution would be abandoned by their people; rather, such actions bind us even closer and stronger. “Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe remains one of our leading lights not only in Igboland but also the entire country. We hereby demand his unconditional and immediate release,” the statement concluded.

A reputable non-governmental and pro-democracy organization – Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) – has asked the United States of America’s government and the European Union to impose sanctions on Nigeria over the spate of killings of civilians by security forces in the last two years ago which are unaccounted for, despite global outcry.

The rights group has also asked the United States Congress to freeze the sale of weapons to Nigeria already approved by President Donald Trump during a recent state visit by the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari under whose command and control over a thousand unarmed Igbo demonstrators and sympathisers of the now proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra were mauled to their gruesome deaths by Nigeria Army.

HURIWA also described as strange, the decision by Donald Trump to sell sophisticated weapons to the Nigeria Army who are responsible for the gruesome mass murder of unarmed members of the Shiites Islamic movement and the unjust incarceration of its leader; his wife and hundreds of other members arrested and dumped in detention facilities for demanding the release of their leader who was thrice granted bails by Federal High Court but for which the Nigerian government disrespected.

In a statement by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Miss Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA condemned the inhumane decision by Donald Trump to approve the sale of fighter Jets to the Nigerian government whose security forces killed thousands of Nigerian civilians.

HURIWA asserted that Amnesty International had done highly scientific and evidence-based findings which indicted the Nigeria Army for the extra-legal killings of over 600 demonstrators suspected to be members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), and over 350 persons belonging to Shiites Islamic Movement who were killed by Army in Zaria over two years ago.

“We are in deep shock that, although, the United States President is aware of all the damaging facts about large-scale extralegal killings that occurred in South East of Nigeria and North West of Nigeria, but still proceeded to okay the sale of the deadly fighter jets to the Nigeria Army whose human rights record is about the worst globally.”

HURIWA recalled that a Frontline rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) on recently accused the Nigerian Army of illegally killing about 150 pro-Biafra activists last year apart from the number listed by Amnesty International. It alleged that the crime was committed last year and covered up under the blanket of Operation Python Dance II.

“The allegation was contained in a statement signed by Intersociety Board Chairman, Emeka Umeagbalasi, and Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Programme, Barr Obianuju Joy Igboeli,” the group noted.

It said the statement released from the group’s head office in Onitsha, Anambra State, reads: “The combined authorities of the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force are responsible for the killing of no fewer than 456 defenseless and unarmed citizens of the country in 2017 alone. The killings included jet-bombing of no fewer than 236 Christian IDPs at Rann IDP camp in Kale-Balge LGA of Borno State on 17th January 2017.

“There were also no fewer than 20 supporters of Biafra Indigenous People, shot and killed by soldiers at pro Trump Rally in Port Harcourt on 20th January 2017; no fewer than 50 rural Christians bombed to death in Numan, Adamawa State on 4th December 2017; and no fewer than 150 mainly supporters of Biafra Indigenous People killed on 12th, 13th and 14th of September 2017 in Afara-Ukwu, near Umuahia (105 deaths), Isiala-Ngwa (20 deaths) and Aba (25 deaths). Over 100 unarmed and defenseless others were also shot and wounded particularly in Afara-Ukwu; which witnessed the highest number of injuries and Aba with the second highest number of injuries.

“In 2016, the Nigerian Army, joined by Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies killed no fewer than 200 pro Biafra activists in Aba on 18th and 29th of January and 9th of February (60 deaths including 16 slain bodies dumped in two burrow pits and over ten recovered slain bodies) and 29th and 30th of May 2016 at Nkpor, Onitsha and Asaba (140 deaths with only about 15% bodies of the slain recovered and buried by their families).

“In 2015, the Nigerian Army, joined by Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies killed no fewer than 50 unarmed pro-Biafra campaigners. They were killed at Awka and Onitsha on 30th August; again in Onitsha and Aba on 2nd December and lastly for the year in Onitsha on 17th December at Niger Bridgehead. Out of no fewer than ten killed in Aba on 2nd December 2015 along Aba-Port Harcourt Road, five slain bodies were later dumped inside a burrow pit.

“The remaining number of deaths associated with army massacre of pro-Biafra Campaigners came from other violent crackdowns that greeted their street protests between 2015 and 2016 in Asaba-Delta State, Enugu-Enugu State, Abakiliki and environs-Ebonyi State, Yenogoa-Bayelsa State, Port Harcourt-Rivers State and Uyo-Akwa Ibom State. There are also unreported others technically classified as dark and grey figures of crimes. In the above-highlighted massacre operations, no fewer than 500 were shot and maimed with some crippled for life and a number of others died from injuries sustained.

“The Nigerian Army is also responsible for killing between 12th and 14th of December 2015; of no fewer than 1,000 members of Islamic Movement in Nigeria or IMN. The killings took place in Zaria, Kaduna State during the annual sacred procession of the sect. Subsequent killing by security forces in 2016 and above; of the unarmed Islamic sect members also led to no fewer than 120 deaths.

“There are also other military killings resulting from custody related deaths in Northeast Nigeria. These deaths perpetrated in conflict environment and outside military necessity, clearly constitute war crimes. They include torture-deaths (including starvation and malnutrition) in army detention centers involving hundreds of civilians including newborn and others aged not above five. Among such deaths were 240 deaths recorded in the Giwa Military Barracks in 2016 in Borno State. Statistics relating to these custodial deaths are contained in the reports of Amnesty Int’l including its 2016/2017 and 2018 reports on Nigeria.”

HURIWA said: “We have resolved to dispatch letters directly to the United States Congress to demand for immediate imposition of military sanctions and immediate embargo on proceeding with the military commercial partnership with Nigeria not until the Nigerian state is able to prosecute and punish all the armed operatives responsible for these massive extra-legal killings in the South East and also the killers of Shiites Moslems.”

It endorsed the investigation by the Onitsha based NGO which stated that: “From our findings following several months of investigation, no fewer than 150 pro-Biafra activists and other defenseless members of the public were killed by the Nigerian Army; with 70% of the deaths arising from Afara-Ukwu massacre. In the Afara-Ukwu massacre of 14th September 2017, no fewer than 105 deaths were recorded.

“No fewer than 20 deaths were also recorded at Isiala-Ngwa Army Checkpoint, while 25 others occurred in Aba. The Army massacre operation in Afara-Ukwu; which commenced around 3.26pm of 14th September 2017, resulting in the death of not less than 105 citizens, was executed in less than three hours during which no fewer than 70 others were shot and injured. No single soldier lost his life in the operation. Sixty (60) unarmed citizens including survivors of the massacre and other members of the public were also arrested during and after the massacre and arraigned at Umuahia Magistrate Court on “terrorism charges”. They were later reminded at Aba Prison Custody.

“As it has become the atrocious practice of the Nigerian Army military since mid-2015, approximately 80% of the bodies of those shot and killed in Afara-Ukwu, Isiala-Ngwa and Aba were taken away and dumped in undisclosed locations till date. For instance, days after the Afara-Ukwu massacre, corpses numbering eight were found inside a bush at a location in Umuahia. The dumped dead bodies later identified as supporters of Biafra Indigenous People and its leader, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu by their survivor-colleagues.”

HURIWA said these killings must be accounted for and the mass murderers in military uniforms identified, prosecuted and punished for these crimes against humanity.

Source News Express

About 200 beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme are currently undergoing training in Ondo State as the process of reintegration of ex-agitators in the Niger Delta gets a boost.

Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Amnesty Programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo was quoted as saying this yesterday in Abuja in a statement issued by his media adviser, Murphy Ganagana.

“We have a lot of training programmes now; we have a training programme in Ondo and most parts but for me, that of Ondo is the most spectacular in the sense that we are training about 200 people and they will not just be trained, but they are going to be employed by the firm that is training them. It is an exciting example of reintegration. It only not trains you but empowers you to work, earn a living and pay taxes also”, Dokubo was quoted as saying in the statement in an interview with Radio Nigeria.

The presidential adviser was also quoted as saying that with the Amnesty Programme at the critical stage of reintegration, vocational centres have been set up in states across the Niger Delta for training of ex-agitators to enable them to become self-reliant and contribute to the development of the country.

“It is mostly about reintegration. You train people and retrain people. They must also be part of the society, the wider society that they were not part of. So, we are trying to reintegrate. We train them; we also give them jobs and make sure that they earn their own and not depend on the stipend of the Amnesty Programme, and the process has been going on very well. The vocational centres have been set up, and so we are training them with expert trainers, dealing diligently with the work they’d like to do.

“The training is taking part of the work now because some people have been trained for a very long time now and they have lost the knowledge of what they have studied so what we are trying to do is to retrain them again before they are given hands-on on whatever they want to do.

“We are also thinking of setting up clusters so that when you train them and they don’t have a job, they can also fend for themselves in the business clusters. We are doing that at the same time”.

Dokubo added that proper training and retraining of beneficiaries of the programme was vital for their smooth reintegration into the society. “If we cannot train them, we cannot reintegrate them, if you cannot give them assistance in setting up things, they will always be dependent on the Amnesty Office. We want them to be cast out of the armpit of the Amnesty Office and have a firm hold in whatever they are doing”.

Dokubo assured of his determination to ensure the sustenance of peace and security in the Niger Delta through training and empowerment of beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme, as he spoke on his vision. “I am a new broom and I am sweeping well now; but then, the Niger Delta people will give me time to set this office in motion. I want to leave a footprint that people will say that there was a man called Charles Dokubo; he did his best for this programme”.

He listed the gains of the Amnesty Programme to include peace and security in the Niger Delta with the attendant increase in oil production and empowerment of the people in the region.

Like it did between 1967 and 1970, Britain is crafting an entrance-way into Nigeria to aid another ethnic cleansing of Biafrans

Why is it difficult for British government to legitimately go to owners of resources in Biafraland to negotiate with them, instead of arming the murderous Fulani people and using them as proxies to “ethnic-cleanse” Biafrans and take the resources by force?
Elements of British government, like they did 51 years ago (1967 – 1970) have been looking for ways to pump deadly arms into Nigeria, with the intent to arm its house-slaves (the Fulani people), without its citizens and the world being the wiser. Meanwhile, the arms would not be for any good purpose other than to annihilate Biafrans so that their oil resources will be available for free.
They appear to have found a way.
The recent news planted in some British newspapers few days ago appears to have revealed the method they have chosen. Simply put, the news was that the British have discovered terrorists were being trained in Nigeria with the aim of attacking the British.
The news had it that 150 British troops were conducting counter-terror training with Nigerian forces in an attempt to stem what they called a bloody tide of Islamic State (IS) taking hold of the region. It claimed that during a training session in the city of Kaduna, that a senior Nigerian Air-force Officer revealed that his country’s jihad groups were learning tricks from IS after swearing allegiance to its black flag. “They come and train their fighters here and some of our insurgents too are granted access to their training in Yemen and Syria, acquiring those skills and they come back and teach others”, it claimed the officer, who had been fighting terrorism since 1991 said.
Many Biafrans like this writer refused to accept this false flag called news story by British newspapers. Such activities are not new. They had been on for such a long time in Nigeria, and why is the British government speaking out about it now? The answer is simple: it is for a sinister purpose.
Is British government claiming to be asleep when two Nigerian jihadist youths (Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale) stabbed Lee Rigby (a British soldier) to death on a street of London in 2013. What about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab popularly known as "Underwear Bomber", was caught in London Airport in 2012 about to bomb the plan he boarded.

Adebowale: One of the British soldier killers
Did Nigeria terrorists and their connection with IS and other terrorist groups from the Arab world start today? British government were you not aware? Where you not aware that Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Nigerian Army, Navy and Air-force, are all terrorist groups under one chief commander, Muhammadu Buhari.
British government was there when Nigerian Army invaded the home of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in September 2017 (a British citizen), to murder more than 28 people; and then “disappeared” his parents. What did British government do? British government, you were aware that your poster boy (Muhammed Buhari) has turned the whole of Nigeria into one massive killing field; killing Christians everywhere, and you have not spoken out. Why are you speaking out now; planting stories in British newspapers?

al-Asiri: Court under disguise
British government, you were there in 2015, when Nigerian government granted visa to Amad al-Asiri (known popularly as emir of IS in Lebanon), who is wanted and high-up in IS leadership. He was court under disguise. He was one of the most wanted persons in high command of the dreaded IS, and the visa was granted to him by your chief house-slave Muhammadu Buhari. British government, what have you done to Buhari since then? Have you not been in bed with him facilitating and training his chief terrorists called Nigerian armed forces? Have you not watched him drench Nigeria in the blood of Christians and Biafrans as he continued with his Islamic sharia law obsession?
The reality is that British government is looking for excuse to transfer heavy armaments to Nigerian government, hoping it would use same to prosecute an unjust war against Biafrans (a cloak for another genocide). British government does not want its citizens to know what it is planning. The British government does not want the world to know of the next evil plan it wants to perpetrate in Biafraland against Biafrans.
This is the time to let the British government know that nobody is fooled; nobody is deceived. It is time for Theresa May, British Prime Minister, to come out clean and declare that it wants Biafra oil. Nobody will deny you the oil, but negotiate with the owners and stop this wicked plan to use your house-slaves (the Fulani) to perpetrate a second genocide against Biafrans
We are not fooled one bit!