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Please do not let your guard down. The Jihad has started 2 Likes |
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Genocide is going on in Nigeria right now. Going to pray will not solve the problem. My people rise up. 1 Like |
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Until they kill everybody in the south before you know you are at war. This is genocide. 1 Like |
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Rise up Rise and Fight. They are raping your wives and daughters, taking your farm land. Chasing you people the bush and you are looking like zombies. 2 Likes |
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Prayer will not help you without you helping yourselves by protecting yourself and your loved ones. The JIHAD has started killing of southerners has begun and the government is aiding this JIHAD. 1 Like |
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NIGERIA is at WAR right now but if you wait for it to get to your doorstep then you have yourselves to blame. 2 Likes |
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Attacks on harmless villagers and the government refuses to make any arrest what does this tell you. The Jihad has started the earlier you southerners prepare the better. 2 Likes |
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The war has started like joke like joke. 1 Like |
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Banning cow meat will not help the situation arm yourselves and face this fuckers. |
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The southern part of Nigeria should stop crying arm yourself and face this marauders because the only language they understand is violence.The Nigerian security apparatus are involved in this Jihad and if care is not taken the south will be no more but slaves in there own land. Time to stop crying. Call your leaders and buy arms because Nigeria is at WAR. 3 Likes |
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Nigerians where murdered in cold blood under his watch. We must not close our eyes to this atrocities. We must petition Britain to repatrate this killer so that he can face justice in the Hague. 1 Like |
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Under a sane climate he would be tried and executed because he has blood on his hands. Is it because we are not europeans or Americans. We have rights as nation to demand justice. We the people demand justice that Kayode Ogundamisi be tried for crimes against humanity. What is the difference between Kayode Ogundamisi Slobodan Milošević and other mass murders? 1 Like |
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Kayode Ogundamisi is a mass murderer he should be tried in the Hague for crimes against humanity. He admitted to it himself. We cannot continue to allow this killers to walk free. Under his watch thousands of people where killed. He his a war criminal. 2 Likes |
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We must send this to world press that the Buhari government is supporting a war criminal that committed genocide against his own people. 3 Likes 1 Share |
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Kayode Ogundamisi must face judgement in the Hague. He has committed war crimes and he confessed. 3 Likes |
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Kayode Ogundamisi must be arrested for crimes against humanity. He order the killing of thousand of Northers in Lagos. What is the difference between Kayode Ogundamisi and Slobodan Milošević that was tried for war crime in the Hague. 4 Likes |
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https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Yoruba-militia-killed-10-000-20060308 Yoruba militia 'killed 10 000 Yoruba militia 'killed 10 000' 2006-03-09 12:18 Abuja - The Nigerian government has accused an ethnic Yoruba militia of killing and maiming 10 000 people in the past seven years, according to court documents. The accusation was made at the trial of six members of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), part of a broader government crackdown on ethnic organisations that challenged the unity of Africa's most populous country. An affidavit filed on behalf of the attorney-general read: "The OPC is a callous, murderous, tribal and secessionist organisation that has no regard for life and has killed and maimed more than 10 000 people within the last seven years." Unlawful group The document also said the six OPC members, who were charged with subversion, illegal possession of arms and operating an unlawful group, can't be tried in the Yoruba-dominated southwest, where the alleged crimes were committed. It said: "If this trial is held either in Lagos or Ogun state, the trial judge, prosecutors and witnesses will certainly be killed violently by OPC stalwarts." The OPC was founded in the 1990s to defend the interests of the Yoruba, Nigeria's second largest ethnic group after the Hausa-Fulani in the north. Nigeria had about 300 ethnic groups and tensions between some of them had boiled over since the end of military dictatorship in 1999. Machetes, guns At least 14 000 people were believed to have died in ethnic and religious fighting since then. Hundreds were killed in clashes between the OPC and Hausa-Fulani groups around Lagos in 1999 and 2001. OPC members were mostly unemployed young men, who acted as a parallel police force, armed with machetes and guns, in return for protection money. Like other ethnic militias in Nigeria, the OPC had been linked to cases of lynching and illegal detention. The trial of the OPC six, including factional leaders Frederick Fasehun and Gani Adams who were respected members of the Yoruba establishment, was one of several recent moves by federal authorities against a variety of ethnic organisations. Third biggest tribe Police had arrested the leader and hundreds of members of the Movement for the Actualisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra, which campaigned for the Ibo-dominated southeast to secede peacefully. The Ibo were the third biggest tribe in Nigeria. Police had also vowed to clamp down on the Bakassi Boys, an Ibo vigilante group accused by Amnesty International of being responsible for more than 1 000 executions in which victims were often mutilated with machetes and set on fire. The government had also banned the Hisbah force, volunteers who uphold Islamic Sharia law, in northern Kano state. The federal authorities accused the Kano state government of seeking foreign sponsorship to train Hisbah volunteers as "jihadists" and said this posed a threat to national security. 2 Likes |
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https://allafrica.com/stories/200202050281.html Nigeria: Hausa, OPC Clash Revisited: We Lost 30 Houses - Garba Baara By Suleiman Mohammed As Lagos metropolis struggled to recover from the death of more than 1,000 people in a munition blast, the perennial clash between members of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and Hausa community recurred at the weekend. The Sarkin Hausawa of Idi-Araba, Mushin local government of Lagos State, Alhaji Garba Baara, yesterday confirmed that over 30 houses belonging to the Hausa community were burnt at the wake of last Saturday attack by members of the Oodua Peoples Congress. 2 Likes |
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.nigeria/ETW4ipWzQMo -------------------------------------------------------------------------- : : STAR INTERVIEW: OPC's Ogundamisi by TIME Magazine : : October 27, 2000 : : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - : : http://www.time.com/time/europe/webonly/africa/2000/10/ogundamisi1.html : : TIME EUROPE : Friday, October 27, 2000 : : Will Ethnic Violence Tear Nigeria Apart? : : An exclusive interview with Kayode Ogundamisi, national secretary of : the Odua People's Congress : : Since President Olusegun Obasanjo came to power in May 1999 as the : country's first democratically elected leader in more than 15 years, : thousands have been killed in clashes between Nigeria's main ethnic : groups. The problem has been exacerbated by the re-introduction of : Islamic Shari'a law in the predominately Muslim north and calls by : many groups for greater autonomy within the federation. Violence : flared this month in the commercial capital Lagos, where more than 100 : people were killed in clashes between Yoruba nationalists from the : south and Hausa from the north. : : President Obasanjo says he is working to end the violence. He blames : recent problems on the Odua People's Congress, a fast growing : "cultural and social group" representing Yoruba interests. Police : recently arrested the group's mild mannered leader Frederic Fasheun, a : physician, and 41 other members, charging them with murder, illegal : possession of arms, and arson. TIME's Nairobi bureau chief Simon : Robinson talked with OPC national secretary Kayode Ogundamisi, who : escaped police custody at Lagos airport before flying to the Kenyan : capital via Ivory Coast. "People haven't heard our side of the story," : says Ogundamisi. "They're just spreading rumors that we are a : terrorist group and that we are just rag-tags in the streets." : : Excerpts: : : TIME: How did the latest violence begin? : : Ogundamisi: The state of insecurity in Lagos has become alarming. : Armed robbers have taken over the state. The police are corrupt and : inefficient. You call the police and they never turn up. So OPC : members have formed vigilante groups. The landlords now have to rely : on the OPC to protect them. But because of the viciousness of these : robbers we see some vigilantes lynch them when they catch them. : Because in most cases when they hand them over to the police, the : police will give them the names of the vigilantes and the armed : robbers will unleash terror on those vigilante groups. : : We now have cases where if you pick a Hausa man and you mete out the : same thing you mete out to a Yoruba man, because of the ethnic problem : on the ground, the Hausa community will see it as an attack on the : entire race. This latest case was caused in that way. OPC cadres were : on patrol [in a poor suburb of Lagos] and got a Hausa man with arms : and ammunition. They took him to a Bale [a traditional leader] but the : Hausa got angry and launched an attack. It was not just OPC then. It : became Yoruba against Hausa. It went on for three days. I personally : counted more than 150 bodies. It would have become more than what it : was but we went around other zones and told the Yoruba not to get : involved and calmed our own people down. But the government just : announced that the OPC was the guilty party. And when they sent in the : military, which is dominated by northerners, if you had tribal marks : you were attacked and you started having extra-judicial killings. The : government declared the OPC a violent organization so we went : underground ... They arrested over 40 Yoruba but not one single Hausa. : : TIME: Where are the other OPC members? : : Ogundamisi: I took 150 with me to Benin where they are hiding out. The : Nigerian government wants to get the leadership, the articulate ones, : so they can paint who's left as hoodlums. : : TIME: What will you do when your Kenyan visa expires? : : Ogundamisi: I'm going to the Netherlands to hold a press conference on : the same day Fasheun appears in court. We want to let the world know : what the OPC is about. We want to save Nigeria from self-destruction. : So if we do have to take any action, people will understand that, oh, : these people have been pushed to the wall. : : TIME: Is the OPC finished as a force? : : Ogundamisi: The government thinks it has cut off the head of the OPC. : But there's a new dimension to it: we have formed OPC International. We : had a meeting at the University of Nairobi. Yoruba living in the : Diaspora are advised to come together and take this on. Because if the : world does not know what we actually stand for the government will : paint us as killers. But the OPC is still very much on the ground. I'm : keeping in touch with the cadres via e-mail. I'm telling them not to : act now, just to keep a low profile. : : TIME: How many men have you trained to fight for the Yoruba cause? : : Ogundamisi: The OPC is nothing less than 4 million people. We have : trained about 75,000 to resist state oppression. We could launch an : attack but that should be the last option. We're getting towards that : now, though. The government cannot continue to kill a race. In a : situation whereby two people have a problem and you keep clamping on : one race it becomes ethnic genocide. And we keep telling them, the cost : of not having a sovereign conference, the cost of not sitting down to : talk about this ethnic problem is more than the cost of doing it. : Nigeria might just end up with what is happening in other African : countries: chaos. You cannot suppress the will of the people. In order : to sustain this democracy we have to solve this ethnic problem. Ethnic : violence in Nigeria is a vicious cycle. It will keep coming up unless : we stop it finally through a sovereign national conference. : : TIME: Is the introduction of Shari'a adding to the ethnic problem? : : Ogundamisi: That's why our people feel aggrieved. Almost all the : northern states have introduced Shari'a against the constitution. The : government did nothing. That's a form of self-determination. The people : in the north say, 'We want to be an Islamic state,' and they have : declared a law. And we in the south have not even got to that stage. We : are only asking for dialogue. In order to please the north the : government is clamping down on the southwest. The mistake we keep : making in Africa is that if there's a small uprising the government : says it's just some hoodlums. But we shouldn't underestimate the : minority. Democracy is: the majority have their way but the minority : would have their say. Investors are not coming in because it's still : unstable. Forget what the government says, no one wants to invest when : it's so unstable. : : TIME: Isn't Nigeria always just on the brink of chaos? : : Ogundamisi: Yes, but we shouldn't capitalize on the fact that it's : always surviving the crisis. There might come a time when it will not : survive. It kept surviving until Biafra [the 31-month civil war : beginning in 1967], but when Biafra came it was disastrous. Now it has : reached that peak. There are emotions all over. Even Yorubas who never : supported the OPC are now supporting us. : : TIME: Do you think the country should split? : : Ogundamisi: No. We want restructuring. Evolve power from the people. : The ethnic nationalities should have control over their resources. The : Ijaws in the Niger Delta should have control over the oil and then pay : tax to the federal government and then pay a percentage to the federal : government, and not the federal government coming to take their oil and : then giving them a stipend. Let the federal government become weak so : that the President cannot just go to the central bank and take [money]. : The people in the north don't do anything. There's arid land and all : they do is become oil contractors and they don't produce oil. But if : you restructure, people will be encouraged to go into agriculture. The : north used to be one of the biggest producers of cotton in the world. : Now the north does not do anything. Let us move this nation from that : mediocre state. : : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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https://allafrica.com/stories/200202080010.html Nigeria: OPC Genocide Against Northerners: the Big Cover Up ANALYSIS By AbdulFattah Olajide For keen observers of the ethnic cleansing escapades of the banned O'odua People's Congress (OPC) over the last few years, the terror which the Yoruba militia unleashed on the Hausa community in some parts of Lagos between Saturday February 2nd and last Tuesday was not particularly surprising. What has remained a worrisome bewilderment for many this time around is the curiously nasty exoneration by Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and even the police authorities, of the OPC from any culpability in the genocide which left more than 50 people dead, over 200 seriously wounded and several houses burnt. For three consecutive days the OPC militia laid siege on the predominantly Hausa settlement at Idi-Araba and their trade posts at Lawanson, Itire and Onipanu areas of Lagos, killing and maiming any Hausa man, woman or child in sight, while also setting their houses and other properties worth millions of naira ablaze. 2 Likes |
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Kayode Ogundamisi killed Hausa people in Lagos state with the help of OPC. ICC calling. 4 Likes |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/976598.stm Ethnic clashes have continued in the Nigerian city of Lagos, with police reinforcements being sent in to a district at the heart of the violence, Ajegunle, after an outbreak of gunfire. The Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, appealed for peace in a broadcast to the city, and has invited community leaders to peace talks. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo Obasanjo accused of favouring the Yoruba The authorities say 24 people have been killed in two days of clashes between Hausas - who come originally from northern Nigeria - and supporters of a militant Yoruba group, the Odua People's Congress (OPC). Local residents say far more have died; some estimates put the toll at more than 80 dead. Beyond control Helecopters hovered over Ajegunle, riot police poured into the area, gunfire could be heard and bodies littered the street on Tuesday morning according to the French news agency AFP. The OPC secretary general, Kayode Ogundamisi, admitted that his organisation could not control its members. "The bloodshed is not worth it. It does not portray our cause well at all," he said. The violence was sparked off at the Ijora district in Lagos when OPC members attacked a settlement populated mostly by Hausa-Fulanis, pursuing suspected criminals. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo Obasanjo accused of favouring the Yoruba The death toll rose as violence spread to other parts of the city. The OPC group had on Saturday battled with the police in Ilorin, central Nigeria as they attempted to install their own Yoruba chief to replace the appointed Hausa-Fulani leader. Correspondents say the OPC, which was formed in 1994 to defend the interests of the Yorubas, has been blamed for involvement in several clashes across Nigeria. National importance The BBC's Lagos correspondent, Barnaby Phillips, says trouble involving the two communities is of national political importance. President Olusegun Obasanjo - who is a Yoruba - has been accused by some northern leaders of favouring his own ethnic group. Last year he threatened an all-out war against the OPC after blaming it over riots in Lagos's Ketu district in which more than 100 people died, most of them Hausas. Although clashes have occurred with police most prominent OPC leaders have continued to operate unregulated. We must expose this fraudster and ethnic bigot. |
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Under his watch northerns where killed by OPC in Lagos state. We are going to expose this fraud. https://www.news24.com/xArchive/Archive/Lagos-clashes-leave-80-dead-20001017 Lagos clashes leave 80 dead 2000-10-17 19:34 Lagos - Fierce ethnic clashes erupted for a third day running in Nigeria's commercial centre, Lagos, on Tuesday leaving more than 80 people dead and bodies littering the streets. Police helicopters flew over the Ajegunle area which was the main scene of the fighting as anti-riot policemen poured into the district amid the constant sound of gunfire. Smoke rose into the sky over Lagos's main Apapa Port area, leading to Ajegunle where dozens of cars and homes were burnt. The fighting between Nigeria's two largest ethnic groups began on Saturday in the central Nigerian city of Ilorin in a dispute over the naming of a Yoruba traditional ruler for the town. Police clashed with a Yoruba militant group, the Odua Peoples' Congress (OPC). Police said six people died but the OPC said nine had been killed. On Sunday, OPC members launched what a senior OPC official said were reprisal attacks on Hausas living in Lagos. OPC secretary-general Kayode Ogundamisi told AFP on Monday the killings were regretted and admitted his organisation could not control its members. "The bloodshed is not worth it. It does not portray our cause well at all," he said. At a police barricade set up on Tuesday on the Malu Road into Ajegunle from Lagos Island, police caught two Yoruba men, one of them disguised as a woman and carrying a machete, trying to enter the area. Rumours - likely to inflame the situation - circulated that the Hausa leader of the Ajegunle district had been killed early on Tuesday. Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu on Monday night slapped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the area around Ajegunle and on Tuesday convened an emergency meeting of the leaders of the ethnic Yoruba and Hausa communities. Lagos Information Commissioner Dele Alake told AFP the city authorities were "doing a lot" to try to restore calm. "We really want to get the situation under control," he said. Meanwhile, witnesses put the toll from the clashes in Lagos at at least 72. Victoria Adeleke, a nurse who was working in Lagos's Alaba district where fighting took place on Monday, told AFP she had counted 22 bodies on the street. Another witness, Patrick Adum, said he had seen 20 bodies in the Okokomaiko district of the city. Other witnesses said they had seen eight bodies in the Orile district and 21 bodies on the outskirts of Ajegunle, the main area where fighting took place. The fighting again focused attention on the OPC, set up in 1995 to promote the interests of the Yoruba, one of Nigeria's three largest ethnic groups, alongside the Hausa and Igbo. The OPC is accused by its critics of being behind a series of attacks on other ethnic groups in the Yoruba-controlled southwest of the country. The government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, himself a Yoruba, last year threatened an all-out war against the OPC after blaming it for riots in Lagos's Ketu district in which more than 100 people - mainly Hausas - died. Since then, though regular clashes have occurred with the police, the most prominent OPC leaders have continued to operate publicly. - Sapa-AFP 2 Likes 1 Share |
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