Umahi declares war on IPOB

Ebonyi State Governor and Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum, Dave Umahi, says counter-secessionist groups may rise in the South-East geopolitical zone if the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra does not call its members to order and stop the threats and killings.

Umahi, who also described the agitation for Biafra as “madness”, said South-East elite do not want secession but want the zone to be treated fairly and equitably as other zones in the country.

The governor also vowed that the South-East zone won’t be turned to a killing field and grounded by secessionist agitators.

He said youths in the region, who shunned dialogue to make their grievances heard and resolved but chose the path of agitation to cause criminality, would be “isolated as criminals”.

Umahi spoke on Wednesday as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme monitored by The PUNCH.

https://punchng.com/counter-secessionist-groups-will-rise-in-south-east-if-ipob-doesnt-stop-killings-umahi/

There’re over 30 separatist groups in South-east Nigeria – Abaribe

The senator said Buhari’s administration brands IPOB members as terrorists, while it continues to “beautify” perpetrators of insecurity in the north as bandits.

The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, said there are over 30 separatist groups in Nigeria’s South-east, besides the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) which has been proscribed by the Nigerian government.

Mr Abaribe (Abia-South/PDP) who spoke on Tuesday in a Channel TV’s programme, Politics Today, said the media was creating an impression that IPOB was the only group agitating for Biafra in the South-east.

The senator made the remark when the programme anchor, Seun Okinbaloye, asked him if he was IPOB’s supporter.

“Are you a supporter of IPOB?” Mr Okinbaloye asked the senator.

“I am a supporter of the cries of our people against injustice,” he responded.

Continuing, Mr Abaribe said, “Last Friday, I was chairman of a book launch – Children of Biafra. It is a book about the Biafran war, seen through the eyes of a child.

“Several people wrote their childhood experiences, a very poignant book that everybody needs to read. And in my statement, I said that a short while ago, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar made a statement, whether jokingly or not. And that statement was that the actions and policies of this government is turning everybody into a Biafran.

Everybody is complaining about injustice, everybody is complaining about marginalization, everybody is complaining about nepotism.

“I stand with my people.

“There are more than 30 different separatist organisations, apart from IPOB.

“Why we are having agitations in different parts of Nigeria is that we aren’t able to manage our diversity.”

Senator Abaribe blamed President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration for the lingering security challenges in Nigeria.

He said the administration was applying double-standard in its handling of the security challenges in the South-east and the North-east and the North-west.

He said the administration brands IPOB members as terrorists, while it continues to “beautify” perpetrators of insecurity in the north as bandits.

“The single most dangerous part is this influx of non-Nigerians with military-grade weapons sweeping across our country, going into the countryside and committing mayhem, but no effort is made to profile them, no effort is made to ensure that there is a counter surge against them. All that has been happening is the attempt to reach (an) agreement. How do you reach (an) agreement with a terrorist who is coming from outside the country, trying to take over?”

The senator faulted the argument that Mr Buhari inherited the current security challenges from the Goodluck Jonathan-led administration.

“In the build-up to the 2015 election, we didn’t have insurgency in the North-west, we didn’t have any in the South-west, and neither did we have any in the South-east.

“The problem in the South-south, in the Niger Delta, had been largely resolved by the PDP government of President Yar’Adua,” he said.

Mr Kanu was “abducted” in Kenya and sneaked into Nigeria in June this year after he fled the country. He is standing trial in Abuja for alleged treason.

Senator Abaribe said he does not regret being a surety for Mr Kanu, and that he would do it again if he has the opportunity to do so.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/488422-therere-over-30-separatist-groups-in-south-east-nigeria-abaribe.html

A member of the House of Representatives, Ben Rollands Igbakpa, on Tuesday challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to expose the lawmaker sponsoring the secessionist agitators in the country.

Buhari had in his independence anniversary address last Friday, said the government had identified sponsors of the secessionist groups and their leaders.

He added that among them were members of the National Assembly.

Nnamdi Kanu, who is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was abducted in an undisclosed country on June 27.

He is standing trial for alleged treason and other allied charges at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

The self-professed Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, was arrested in the Benin Republic in August for entering the country illegally.

He was declared wanted by the Department of State Services (DSS) for alleged illegal possession of AK-47 rifles and more than 5000 rounds of ammunition following a raid on his Oyo State residence on July 1.

Igbakpa, who is representing the Ethiope Federal Constituency of Delta State, addressed his colleagues under the matters of privilege.

In his response, the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila said the matter had been noted, adding that the leadership would get back to the lawmaker.

He, however, said the matter was not up for debate.

The speaker said: “Thank you Hon. Ben, your privilege is noted and we will get back to you on that.”

Another lawmaker later interjected, saying “this is serious.”

Gbajabiamila stopped the lawmaker and ended the proceedings.

He added: “What is serious? He (Igbakpa) came under matters of privilege and it is not to be debated.”

https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/rep-dares-buhari-to-expose-kanu-igbohos-sponsor/

ba7man:
Oh, you mean the 77 dead that can't be identified 1 year later?

No be today, Nigeria army begin disappear dead body! It have tey.
You're too young to know this

Former governor of Imo, Rochas Okorocha, says though he has enough justifiable reasons to support the breakup of the country, Nigerians should rather pray and work for a united indivisible Nigeria.

Lamenting increased violence and bloodshed across the country, Mr Okorocha, a serving senator said, “My heart bleeds with the killing of countless Nigerians; the bloodbath in the north is worrisome but it is not over with Nigeria yet as there are better days ahead.”

Insecurity has taken a frightening trajectory in Nigeria with herdsmen killings in the west, and unknown gunmen killing and burning down government properties in the South-East, while bandits, kidnappers, and Boko Haram terrorists ravage the entire northern part of the country.

Aside from kidnapping hundreds of students in Katsina, Kagara Niger State, Kaduna, Kebbi and Zamfara State, bandits in July bombed a Nigerian Airforce jet and also raided the Kaduna branch of the Nigerian Defence Academy in August, killing two.

https://gazettengr.com/i-have-reasons-to-want-nigerias-breakup-okorocha/

***Throw back from last year***

In February last year, US government opposed Nigeria’s plan to hand Kebbi governor $100m from Abacha loot.
By Dennis Erezi.

US Department of Justice said Bagudu was involved in corruption with the late Abacha who Transparency International (TI) said may have looted as much as $5 billion during his 1993-98 rule in Nigeria.

DoJ also contends that the Nigerian government is hindering U.S. efforts to recover allegedly laundered money it said was traced to Bagudu, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

DoJ said in a statement earlier in the month that Bagudu with Abacha and Abacha’s son Mohammed Sani Abacha “embezzled, misappropriated and extorted billions from the government of Nigeria and others, then laundered their criminal proceeds through U.S. financial institutions and the purchase of bonds backed by the United States.”

“The United States has asked the government of Nigeria to withdraw litigation it has instituted in the UK that hinders the U.S. effort to recover these additional funds for the people of Nigeria,” DoJ said in February 2020.

“Instead of welcoming U.S. efforts, Nigeria’s lawyers appear to be supporting the interests of one of the country’s most powerful families.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/guardian.ng/news/us-opposes-nigerias-plan-to-hand-kebbi-governor-100m-from-abacha-loot/amp

Imagine Satan telling a Christian that Jesus is blind

Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau, has backed the call for the Presidency to move to the South in 2023.
Naija News reports that the South Governors had on two occasions demanded that the 2023 presidency should go to the Southern region of the country.

But the Northern Governors at a meeting in Kaduna last month rejected the idea of a southern presidency in 2023, claiming the demand is unconstitutional.

In an interview with Channels Television on Monday, Shekarau stated that it would be unfair for another Northern to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

The Senator representing Kano Central in the National Assembly stated that zoning the 2023 Presidency to the South is the best thing to do in the interest of justice and fairness.

The former minister asked the governors to rather dialogue and lobby their Northern colleagues in order to make their wish come true.

He also berated the Northern governors for saying that the demand of their Southern counterparts is unconstitutional, asking them to thread with caution.
https://www./2021/10/04/2023-presidency-should-go-to-south-shekarau-tells-northern-govs/

– Saraki explains why Nigeria will remain work in progress.

Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has noted that Nigeria will remain a work in progress because it was two countries joined together by the British for administrative purposes.

Saraki said this while responding to a question from DAILY POST on Nigeria’s progress since its Independence on October 1, 1960 during an Independence Day lunch with diverse Nigerian youths, held in Abuja at the weekend.

He said that Nigeria should not be compared with some other countries that do not have diversity from day one in terms of its process.

“I read a book on how Nigeria was formed and I realized that we were never one country. We were two countries but it was efficient for the British to bring the two countries together for administrative purposes,” Saraki said.

“It made sense at that time to bring the two countries together for commercial purposes. From day one, Nigeria is going to be a work in progress because it’s a country with so much diversities. So we can’t compare ourselves with some other countries that don’t have diversity right from time.

“A society that continues to allow that, where is the values for hard work? Where’s the value for doing things right? What message are we sending? The message that we must cut corners? As a country, we need to redefine that.”

https://dailypost.ng/2021/10/04/we-were-never-one-country-saraki-explains-why-nigeria-will-remain-work-in-progress/

Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, has reiterated the call for sincere national dialogue on the state of the nation as well as the urgent need to restructure Nigeria in the spirit of true federalism.

Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, the governor restated his position that Nigeria is in dire need to a national dialogue and a new constitution that would put the country in good stead for national cohesion and sustainable economic performance.

National dialogue on a new Constitution and True Federalism constitute a veritable window for resolving all developmental, economic and political challenges facing the nation, he pointed out, saying that peace and progress were achievable if leaders were resolved on patriotism and honesty and the citizenry were law-abiding.

Okowa said: “There is no auspicious time than now to address the nagging issues of restructuring and true federalism in the country’s polity especially as more voices were added and have become louder on the imperative of these burning issues regarding the desired unity in the country.

“These challenges are not insurmountable as we continue to hope that Nigerians will live together to build a great and perfect nation as envisioned by our founding fathers.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/10/02/again-okowa-calls-for-national-dialogue-true-federalism/

https://streamable.com/4trzvn..

Why will vardy do this to nacho?? So bad

ablejesus26:
Ipob is not a terrorist group.
[s]Yes they have nothing good to offer bcus na big scam occult group,but there is no place for terrorism in Igbo heritage and ideology.[/s]

Shut up!

It's one thing to accuse someone, but it's another thing to be able to substantiate that your claim in a court of competent jurisdiction...

FG has no evidence against ipob because ipob is not a violent group... So All they do is result to cheap media blackmail, like their agents are doing seriously here in Nairaland..

that's why Kanu may not be produced in court..

PrinceOfLagos:
May God turn this blood sucking demons against themselves Amen

Be deceiving yourself

I knew it was a DSS concocted lies from the pit of hell to deceive gullible Nigerians

You know There will..and there's nothing Nigerians can do about it

Who receives the highest allocation from oil sales - the North

Who controls the southern oil and eastern/western ports - the north

Who benefits more from one one Nigeria -the north

Who are more in the senate - the north

Who are more in the house of representatives - the north

Who decides who becomes governor in the east/ west- the north/Aso rock( case study hope vs ihedioha)

Who decides who becomes president, THE NORTH.. So why would their elites wanna restructure or balkanize a country that they so much benefit from..
It's easier for lai Mohammed to say the truth than for north to allow a restructuring of the country.

Amnesty International has accused Nigerian security forces of using excessive forces against separatists in the country’s southeast.

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have been campaigning for the independence of the region. The agitations, spearheaded by Nnamdi Kanu, have been met with crackdowns by the Nigerian government.

Kanu himself is undergoing a trial for treason in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. Amnesty International Nigeria said the violent crackdowns have led to the death of at least 200 separatists since June 2021.
“The evidence gathered by Amnesty International paints a damning picture of ruthless excessive force by Nigerian security forces in Imo, Anambra and Abia states,” said Osai Ojigho, the group’s Nigeria director.

AI group said the security operations launched by the government focus primarily ESN members, relatives of the many victims told the rights group that they were not part of the militant groups who were attacking security agents.
Amnesty said it also documented cases of arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment, and torture in the region.

It said that in May 2021, the Imo state government announced the arrest of at least 400 people allegedly linked to the violence.

“Amnesty International’s investigation indicates that most of them were randomly picked up in their homes and off the street and had nothing to do with ESN.

August 5, 2021By Abdul Seye

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) recently accused the Nigerian government of abducting him from Kenya.

Aloy Ejimakor, the lawyer to Kanu, who visited him at the State Security Service (SSS) detention, narrated the circumstances of the arrest of his client, putting an end to series of speculations on the place he was arrested and brought to Nigeria.

The latest clarification by Kanu, through his lawyer, has generated further controversies in the past couple of days. In an interview with BBC Pidgin, Mr Ejimakor said that Kanu, who had been in Kenya since May, was arrested at the airport while he was trying to pick up an unknown person.

He claimed that the “Kenyan Government was deeply involved in the abduction, detention and ill-treatment of my client before the illegal handover to their Nigerian counterpart.”

The account by the lawyer clearly contradicts the position of the Kenya High Commissioner to Nigeria, Wilfred Machage, who at a press briefing, denied the involvement of the government of Kenya in the “abduction.”

Kenya’s Director General of Immigration Services, Alexander Muteshi, in an interview with Kenya Nation, said he was not aware that Kanu was in the country. However, Kanu’s lawyer has insisted that he was with the passport of his client which shows he was in Kenya.

Also, the Nigerian government had refused to state where and how Kanu was adopted. The Attorney General of the federation, Abubakar Malami, while announcing the capture of the IPOB leader, said he was intercepted through the collaboratory effort of security agencies.

Equally, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had also evaded questions on where and how Kanu was captured.

History of abduction

Notwithstanding the back and forth between Kenya officials and Kanu’s lawyer, what is not in doubt is the entanglement of President Muhamadu Buhari with alleged abduction.

Mr Kanu’s abduction bear similarity with the failed abduction of Umar Dikko, a former Minister of Transportation under President Shehu Shagari, in July 1984.

Mr Dikko was abducted in front of his house at Bayswater in London, unfortunately for the kidnapper, the personal secretary of Mr Dikko, Elizabeth Hayes had witnessed the grabbing and reported to the police.

Charles Morrow, Custom officer at Stansted Airport that foiled the kidnapping, in an interview with BBC, noted that the appearance of the Nigeria Airway Booing 707 at the tarmac to pick up diplomatic bags from the Nigerian High Commission in London, raised suspicion.

Also, Scotland Yard had raised a warning about possible smuggling of a Nigerian exile who had been kidnapped

Furthermore, the agents failed to tag the crates with the diplomatic tag in compliance with the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, which would have prevented the customs officers from inspecting the content.

17 persons involved in the incident were arrested, and according to the Minute House of Common session sighted by DAILY POST, the then Secretary of State for the Home Department, Leon Brittain, said the Nigerian government failed to use the Fugitive Offender Act, which applies to Nigeria. This means the Nigerian government could have formerly requested the arrest of Dikko.

In the aftermath of the diplomatic fiasco, the Nigerian Government had seized the British Caledonian plane and two British engineers were arrested and spent 25 months in prison for stealing a private jet.
https://dailypost.ng/2021/08/05/how-nnamdi-kanus-alleged-abduction-bears-semblance-to-kidnapping-of-umar-dikko-in-1984/

One day, Bush meat go catch the hunter.
Prophet sound sultan

Warri is Biafra..
We move!

ComrdDRS1:
Buhari is evil

Very evil

Top Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa says governors in the southeast region of Nigeria should support the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB’s) planned lockdown.

POLITICS NIGERIA understands that IPOB wants to ensure that people of the South-East, Delta and Rivers States observed lockdowns every Monday.

The total lockdown every Monday, which is tagged: “Ghost Monday” by the group, has been scheduled to continue until the leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, was released from custody.

“The SouthEast Governors should make U-turn now and support the civil disobedience of those who elected them. The sit-at-home order must be adhered to if Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not released. The case of Abba Kyari should’ve been an eye-opener to how America goes after criminals,” Ekpa wrote on his known Twitter handle on Wednesday.

IPOB is a Biafran separatist and Igbo nationalist organization in Nigeria. Its main aim is “to restore an independent state of Biafra in the South East of Nigeria through an independence referendum”.
https://politicsnigeria.com/southeast-governors-should-support-Igbos-ghost-monday-simon-ekpa/

Nemesis: ****Facts on DIG Egbunike who will probe Abba Kyari.

For DCP Abba Kyari, every day is now a step into the pit of hell. After the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) found clasping evidence of collaboration with the global fraudster, Hushpuppi Abba, against him, Kyari is to face DIG Joseph Egbunike’s four-man panel of inquiry this week. He is to tell the panel what he knows about the $1.1 million Internet fraud.

Deputy Inspector General of Police, Joseph Egbunike who hails from Onitsha in Anambra State, is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He holds a B.sc (Hons) Accounting, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons.), B.L. and, according to a report by inlandtown.com, a Masters in International Law and Diplomacy (MILD) and PhD in Criminology.

“He has bagged about 33 years experience in Nigeria Police Force and currently serves as Deputy inspector general of police

Joseph had a stint at the Group Accounts Division at the NNPC Headquarters, Falomo as Account Bills Officer, during his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

Professionally, he is a member of the following bodies: International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP); Association of National Accountant of Nigeria (ANAN); Nigeria Bar Association (NBA); Member, Institute of Cost Management (ICM); Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM); and Member, Chartered Institute of Fraud Examiners. Joseph is an astute financial manager and an apostle of good corporate governance.

https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2021/08/03/nemesis-facts-on-dig-egbunike-who-will-probe-abba-kyari/

Looking for Reno Omokri's monika.

******NNPC reports N104.3bn loss as refineries record zero output.

*****NNPC’s trading deficit soars by 200% to N30.8bn.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) continues to post operational loss on the three refineries it manages on behalf of the government.

NNPC operates Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company,
Port Harcourt Refining Company and Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company.

Between February 2020 and February 2021, NNPC reported a loss of N104.3 billion as the country’s refineries refined zero oil, its updated financial statements disclosed.

A breakdown of the financials showed that N9.36 billion loss was recorded in February, N10.3 billion in March, while April and May losses were N9.69 billion and N9.55 billion respectively.

In June, NNPC reported N10.23 billion loss, and N9.1 billion in July, although the figure dropped to N7.1 billion in August, it declined further to N7.04 billion in September.

In the next month, the Nigerian-owned oil company recorded N5.99 billion loss, and N5.49 billion in November, but it ended December with N8.28 billion loss.

The consolidated financials showed that in January 2021, NNPC recorded N5.37 billion loss, and in February, the refined oil distributor reported N6.88 billion loss in February this year.

God bless president Mohammadu Buhari.

Popular Nigerian socialite and Bureau De Change operator, Ismail Mustapha alias Mompha said he was contacted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after Hushpuppi was arrested, and advised to pipe low..
Mompha stated this on Saturday night after appearing on Daddy Freeze’s Instagram LIVE.

He said he was told by EFCC to delete his social media page and maintain a low profile after the incident.

However, Mompha said Hushpuppi’s downfall came as a result of his stubbornness, high-handedness and failure to follow instructions.

”On the day Hush was arrested, I received a lot of calls and even the EFCC had to call me directly and advice me to close down my social media and maintain a low profile”.

Killer cop