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IPOB reveals discussion with US that jolted Buhari's Federal Government

The Indigenous People of Biafra has revealed its discussion with the United State of America State Department that allegedly jolted the Federal Government.
According to the spokesperson for the proscribed secessionist group, Emma Powerful, the presentation was made to US Department in June, 2019 by IPOB's leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

The Presidency had recently accused the Indigenous People of Biafra of masterminding international campaigns of calumny against the Federal Government, alleging the persecution of Christians in Nigeria with financial backing of $85,000 monthly.


The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, had in a statement on Sunday berated IPOB over claims that Christians in the country were being persecuted.

Shehu said, “The Presidency wishes to draw the attention of all citizens and the international community to a most misleading campaign spearheaded by the so-called IPOB, using false allegations of persecution of Christians against the Nigerian State.

In a document made available to our correspondent in Awka on Tuesday, IPOB said the purpose of its submission to the US State Department was to formally bring to the attention of the Government of the United States, the violent Islamization that is taking hold in Nigeria against Christians and Jews, especially of Biafran extraction.

The document read in part,"As shall be demonstrated, this Islamization is by both State and by non-State actors that enjoyed the patronage and tacit support of the State. It is such that may lead to another genocide that will offend the conscience of nations, including particularly the United States, which possesses the singular capacity to intervene with lasting solutions.

"Nigeria is an oil-rich country and a regional power in West Africa. It is a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual country with a population of about 180 million people.

"There are three major ethnic groups, the Igbo (also known as Ibo), the Yoruba, and the Hausa-Fulani; and 250 other smaller ethnic groups.

"The Hausa-Fulani are predominantly Muslims, and live in the Northern (Sahelian) part of Nigeria; the Yoruba who live in the Southwest are split almost evenly between Muslims and Christians. Yoruba Muslims profess a moderate form of Islam, as opposed to the more fundamentalist Sunni practice observed in Northern Nigeria, and from which the Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen Islamic terrorists emanated.

"There is a small Shia minority amongst the majority Sunni Muslims that are ruling Nigeria.

"The Biafrans (the centerpiece of this submission) inhabit the Southeastern part of Nigeria with a population of over 70 million. About 50 million of them - the Igbos - speak the Igbo language and are predominantly Christians, but with a rapidly growing Jewish minority.

"Their land is blessed with human and mineral resources including hydrocarbons. Biafrans are very commercially-inclined, industrious and are given to scholarly and professional pursuits. They had an established democratic institution even before colonization by the British. They are very republican and egalitarian in nature, and coexisted peacefully with their neighbours prior to colonization and their amalgamation with the rest of Nigeria in 1914.

It added, "In 1966, soon after the world commemorated the 21st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and made the customary solemn declaration of ‘Never, Never Again’, Nigeria defiled that season of reflection, commiseration and hope.

"Its military officers, the police, Hausa-Fulani emirs, Muslim clerics and intellectuals, civil servants, journalists, politicians and other public figures planned and executed the Biafran (aka Igbo) genocide – the foundational genocide of post-European conquest Africa.

"This is also Africa’s most devastating genocide of the 20th century. A total of 3.1 million Igbo people were murdered between 29 May 1966 and 12 January 1970. And had Biafran not unilaterally declared its independence in order to protect itself, the massacre would have been incalculable.


It further stated,"The 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations emphasized that, “By virtue of the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, all peoples have the right freely to determine without external interference their political status.

"The people of Biafra—recognized as distinct by British colonial authorities—were never provided an opportunity to vote for complete independence and freedom from the rest of Nigeria according to their freely expressed will and desire. They were never consulted on the subject when Nigeria became independent in 1960. Further, the 1960 Constitution of Nigeria was never approved by the people of Biafra in a referendum or otherwise. And neither has any subsequent Nigerian Constitution, including the current version decreed by a military dictator in 1999.

"After independence, Nigeria soon became a ‘house of horrors’ for Biafrans. Deprived of their right to self-determination, they were left to the tender mercies of the Hausa-Fulani of the North and the largely Muslim Yoruba of the South in a unitary state unsuited for Nigeria’s diverse tribal, ethnic, and religious groupings.

"The gruesome 1967-1970 Biafran War was emblematic. It featured ethnic-based massacres and starvation of up to 2 million Biafrans by the Government of Nigeria. At the war’s conclusion, Mr. Gowon (who led Nigeria) trumpeted, “No victor, no vanquished.” The words proved a cruel hoax. Biafrans have been marginalized, persecuted, and subjected to a Northern military political yoke ever since; and there is no end in sight as the current President Nr Buhari has ratcheted up on it, all with his burgeoning jihad.

"The Indigenous People of Biafra and its leader Nnamdi Kanu have taken up the tasks of ensuring the survival of Biafrans while pursuing a legal pathway to the restoration of Biafra.

IPOB in the presentation implored the US State Department to support a referendum on restoring Biafran independence, adding "We would be grateful for an opportunity to continue this engagement and to meet with the US Congress and White House officials to discuss our conviction that the interests of the United States in protecting Biafran Christians, defeating radical Islam, and preventing instability in West Africa would be enhanced by adjusting or altering current bilateral relations with Nigeria based on the foregoing."

Good for nothing terrorists

But on a serious note



I want us all to be together...

Maybe the fulanis can leave instead

Let the fight begin

Vyzz:
But on a serious note




I want us all to be together...


Maybe the fulanis can leave instead

Are you scared of them?

Tvibes001:
Are you scared of them?

Scared of who?

Vyzz:







Scared of who?

The fulanis?

360degreess:
Good for nothing terrorists

E painam!

360degreess:
Good for nothing terrorists

Painment.

We the IPOB miscreants, we are contributimg to destroy Nigeria,

Call us wat u want, u will hear scores soon.

Fools everywhere, ur president died a long time ago and u think all is well.

Argue with poverty, Nepa, bad road and all ur problems

I just want restructuring where every state will manage their own resources

Vyzz:
But on a serious note




I want us all to be together...


Maybe the fulanis can leave instead

Hell no, it's better for yoruba and their master Fulani to continue together, we Biafrans want out this forced marriage.