Nigeria's Tribalized, Sectionalized, Personalized Security Agencies.

It is frightening to see the level of tribalism and sectionalism in Nigeria’s security departments. The recent report of alleged IPOB affiliated persons being responsible for the deaths of five Hausa-Fulani Nigerians in Abia state was a final straw.

Nigeria’s Department of State Security, DSS added that report to one on the capture of one of the most deadly terrorists in the world, the leader of Ansaru faction of Boko Haram, Khalid al-Barnawi. While all acts of terror can be lumped together, the disparity in the reactions of the security departments to acts of terror by different ethnic and religious groups, of note, the so-called 95 and 5%s is catastrophically dangerous for Nigeria.

NOTE:

1. The DSS has never released a single statement (to my knowledge) on systematic and synchronized Fulani “herder” massacres across Nigeria. (Qualified as Boko Haram by the Nigerian senate).

2. The DSS has never released a statement describing how it is investigating suspected Fulani murders (assuming they are not the perpetrators), but in its statement against IPOB, the DSS described how it made immediate arrests and interrogations to unearth the suspects.

3. The DSS has not released a single statement in regard to the Agatu genocide of hundreds of “enemies” of Fulani herders, that has caused mass displacement and untold suffering with properties burned in several communities and hundreds killed.

4. The Attorney General, Mr Malami of the federation has defended murderous Boko Haram terrorists; the likes of Khalid al-Barnawi from death, their due sentence as prescribed by the law. This while State security departments murder protesting and praying youth with no blood and lives on their hands in Aba and Zaria.

5. While in the IPOB case, a prompt investigation was launched according to Tony of the DSS, in the Agatu massacre case, the police were sent to mediate between the killers and their victims and murderers who openly defended their acts of carnage were left to go home with no single arrest till today. In news reports, suspected above-the-law Fulani have since killed an APC youth leader in Benue and just killed University staff and others in Delta, while the DSS focuses only on IPOB.

6. Not a single Fulani suspect has been arrested by the DSS, at least according to their Press statements or lack of them in the regard. In the past when Hussaini Monguno was arrested, we mentioned this fact: on how State agencies are quick to investigate and arrest those they personally hate or feel personally attacked by; but the same agencies fail to arrest terrorists, especially Boko Haram and Fulani brand and when they do, they promise them repatriation into society, amnesty and safety from death sentences.

7. There is no similar report of a DSS investigation into the Zaria massacre, even if to arrest more Shia Muslims. The Police and DSS should by now have been involved in such investigations into the incidents of the massacre including the allegations of mass murder, mass burials, the reported mass graves found, demolitions and other potential legal infractions and crimes. These are state security tasks of the professional police and DSS and not civilian conference-room panels. However the DSS has its apparent personal priorities.

8. The state security agencies while harsh on other groups are appearing frighteningly compassionate to Boko Haram and Fulani Fulani terrorists. The promised repatriation camps for terrorists including those who have killed and raped our women is a violation of the laws of the land and God. This seems to serve foreign fanatic Takfiri sponsor governments’ interests. Nigeria’s laws clearly state that terrorists who have killed must be killed. We see Reverends being sentenced to death; robbers being so-sentenced; but Boko Haram and Fulani herder rampaging murderers being spared.

9. In remarkable contrast, the Buhari government addresses Fulani herder open violence and frank terror with a promise to create ranches and “address their agitations.” While in contrast, non-violent IPOB Igbo protests are not addressed based on their agitations and concerns, but this section of Nigerian society is rather further undermined, castigated, implicated, killed in protest and prayer and associated with Khalid al-Barnawi.

10. There is ample evidence that the Security department is once again being used as an intimidation instrument of the ruling political party; as it was in prior administrations. There is video evidence of an alleged APC politician/candidate harassing an INEC officer in Rivers to refund bribe money paid him, while State military and police look on. This video gives merit to many other tales of security officers being dispatched by the security chiefs to protect ruling party interests and not those of the people.

We would like to urgently call on the repositioning of the Nigerian police, DSS and army to be detribalized, desectionalized and nonreligious instruments. These agencies must remember that they are employed and paid by all Nigerians and there to protect all Nigerians and their interests equally.

We understand that this fresh administration has exuberant, excited agents eager to “impress” the President in whatever ways they deem valuable, however they must realize that they do harm to themselves, the president and Nigeria, planting seeds of tomorrow’s terror and chaos with their disproportionate brutality and lack of equity and justice.

If there is no justice, there can never be peace; and if there is no peace, there can never be progress and development.

Dr Peregrino Brimah; @EveryNigerian

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DSS ABIA STATE DEBUNKS THE "TERRORIST" TAG ON IPOB.

The effort of Buhari to use CHANNELS AND NTA TV in propagating lies and falsehood, have once again met a dead end, after the sporadic counter measures undertaken by IPOB to refute their claims. Having seen the offensive approach in which Biafrans aggressively sprung to debunk their lies, they had no choice than to crawl back into their shell.

Every plan of Muhammadu Buhari and his DSS in Abuja, to tag IPOB a terrorist organization, knowing fully well that we are a people, has proven abortive as their lies has been exposed this time around, not by any other person but by their very own DSS unit in Abia state.

It will be recalled that on the 10th of April, 2016,  the Directorate of States Security Service released a falsified information via Buhari's pay-rolled Tv stations, namely CHANNELS and NTA TV, claiming that the members of the indigenous people of Biafra murdered 50 Hausa-fulani herdsmen and dumped their bodies in Umuanyi in Abia State. How could they have used the word "member" when it is a verifiable fact that Biafra is a people?

Read also:THE UNSUCCESSFUL FRAMING UP OF IPOB AS A VIOLENT AND TERRORIST GROUP: BUHARI AND DSS SHOULD TRY HARDER NEXT TIME
A credible media house with prior knowledge of its onions, would have sought further clarification, if possible an evidence before airing such ambigous news, knowing how inciteful it was. But being an avaricious set of people riding under the guise of credible Journalism, their sense of judgement was overtaken by greed with the hope of being rewarded handsomely by Buhari. If not for the radical approach followed through by IPOB's leadership in countering this horrible statement, perhaps it would have provoked unwanton tension in the polity.

 The DSS of Abia state has made a perspicuous affirmative statement, which states that the indigenous people of Biafra have not in anyway erred or obstruct peace, much more kill anybody to warrant being labelled a "Terror group". We have not gone against their law, neither have we in anyway pursued our prerogatives violently.



It is imperative that the world is made aware that an interview was scheduled to take place on the 10th of April 2016, by a Nigerian online Radio station popularly known as African Fm, to debate the unfounded lies peddled by Channels with regard to the killing of Fulani herdsmen by IPOB, but alas DSS Spokesperson could not show up. The host took a step further to put a call across to a DSS agent, who did not hesitate to debunk the peddled lies by Channels and NTA.

We are hereby putting the world on notice that Buhari the president of Nigeria, the DSS and Nigeria Television Authority in conjunction with Channels Television are inciting ethnic violence between Biafrans in Northern part of Nigeria and the Hausas-Fulani,as a good number of our people will be exposed to a catastrophic end if this unwarranted tension is uncurbed. Should any calamity befall Biafrans as a result of this provoked inciteful statement, what will follow is better left imagined. Channels and NTA as a matter of fact will be sued for defamation of character and inciting violence between Biafrans and the Hausa-Fulani people, so as to teach others not to attempt such an atrocious smear campaign of this great magnitude.

Written By Amalahueze Eminence Akaeze
Artist: Judy Chidimma
Edited And Published By Nwosu C.S
By Biafra Writers
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT MUST TAKE BIAFRA PROTESTS SERIOUSLY, SAYS LABOUR MP BY CONOR GAFFEY.

Pro-Biafra supporters call for the release of Nnamdi Kanu in Aba, southeastern Nigeria, November 18, 2015. A British Labour MP says that the U.K. government must investigate alleged human rights abuses of Kanu and pro-Biafra supporters in Nigeria.

A British opposition politician is calling on the U.K. government to investigate allegations of human rights abuses against Biafran independence protesters in Nigeria.

Thousands of people have demonstrated across southeast Nigeria in recent months, calling for a referendum on independence for the former Republic of Biafra, which existed between 1967 and 1970 and was mainly populated by members of the Igbo ethnic group. Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of a prominent pro-Biafra group called the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was arrested by Nigerian security forces in October 2015 and has been in detention since. Kanu is to stand trial in Nigeria on Monday charged with treason, which carries a maximum life sentence in Nigeria.

Angela Rayner, Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions and Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in northwest England, tells Newsweek that she raised the issue with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) after receiving evidence from constituents alleging human rights abuses against Kanu—who is a dual U.K-Nigerian national—and pro-Biafra protesters in Nigeria.

“There is a strong Biafran presence in my constituency and I’m concerned that we don’t sit on our morals,” says Rayner. “I expect the government to take the issue seriously and to ensure they do everything in their power to protect individuals across the world.”

Kanu’s group alleges that scores of their members have been killed during protests since October 2015 and Amnesty International told Newsweek earlier in February that it was investigating reports of abuses in at least four locations—Aba, Enugu and Onitsha in southeast Nigeria and Port Harcourt in southern Nigeria.

An FCO spokesperson told Newsweek: “The U.K. takes all accusations of human rights abuses seriously. We do not share the assessment that there is institutionalized persecution of the Igbo or any other peoples by the Nigerian authorities.” The spokesperson added that British consular officials had visited Kanu several times and that, on each occasion, the activist was in good health and said he had access to a doctor and his lawyer.

Rayner spoke to Newsweek ahead of a pro-Biafra demonstration held outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday, which she attended. A pro-Biafra demonstrator attending the event told Newsweek that around 150 people had gathered with Biafran flags to demonstrate.

Pro-Biafra demonstrators gather outside the Houses of Parliament in London, March 2.Add caption

While Rayner declines to comment on whether the group should be granted a referendum on Biafran independence, she says that the issue must be dealt with in accordance with international human rights law. “My role is to continue to ensure that our FCO is keeping an eye on what’s happening there and that the rule of law is applied in all cases,” says Rayner.

The Nigerian government has declined to comment on the pro-Biafra protests and Kanu’s detention despite several requests from Newsweek. In December 2015, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said that Kanu could not be released on bail because he posed a flight risk and that he should face justice in Nigeria.

Nigerian military officer Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra to be independent from Nigeria in 1967, sparking a three-year war with Nigerian forces in which more than one million people died.

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NIGERIA WILL DEFINITELY BREAK UP- EMEKA EMEKESRI.

An expert in law and diplomacy,Emeka Emekesri is the Solicitor for Indigenous Peoples of Biafra as well as the legal Adviser ,Supreme Council of Elders of Indigenous People of Biafra.He is based in the United Kingdom and has traveled all over the world advancing arguments in favor of the actualization of the Republic of Biafra.Emeka Adolf Chigozi Emekesri,B.SC(HONS)Nig,LLB,BL,LLM,B.Th.,MA,PHD,ANIVS,RSV,AMNIM(Solicitor of England & Wales,Estate Surveyor & Valuer) is a tripartite professional trained in both secular and sacred studies,in science and Arts,Law,Theology,Estate Management,Planning and Environmental Studies.Along with his professional practice, he is the presiding Bishop of a Charismatic Pentecostal Church known as Christ The Rock Community .In this interview with Correspondent ODOGWU EMEKA ODOGWU,Emekesri who spoke on the 50th anniversary of the first military coup in Nigeria and its significance for Nigeria’s political development,says unless Nigeria learns from history,it may not stand the test of time as a nation for many years longer. Excepts;

QUESTION:Last Friday,January 15,2016 to be precise,Nigeria marked the 50th anniversary of the first military coup d état in the Country which took place on January 15, 1966 resulting in the incursion of the military into politics. What
significant does it have for Nigeria in relation to the current dispensation?

ANSWER : Well, I have seen no difference between the past governments by military rulers and
the present governments by military men who turned themselves into civilian
presidents. A retired soldier is still a soldier. He was trained as a soldier. He was not
trained in the art and science of governance so I do not believe that a soldier can
govern the people in a democratic dispensation even if he pretends to have become a
civilian.

QUESTION: Does the coup have any lessons in today’s Nigeria especially for Ndigbo?

ANSWER :In this discourse, I will use the term “Igbo” as an adjective as well as the Language of
the people and “Ibos” as the people themselves because of the etymological and
etiological origin of the two words. I wonder why you made a special and particular
reference to the Igbo people. The coup was not an Igbo coup. It was plotted and
executed by the military boys for the benefit of Chief Obafemi Awolowo who they
wanted to install as the Prime Minster in place of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa. It is
unfortunate that when the war broke out, the coup was tagged an Igbo coup and the
“would-have-been beneficiary” of the coup joined the Northerners against the Ibos.
The fact is that the Nigerians do not learn any lessons from history. The history of the
coup and how the military entered into Nigerian politics is never taught in the
Nigerian schools. The history of the Biafran War of Independence is not taught in the
Nigerian schools. In fact, it appears that the Nigerian Government does not want any
remembrance of Biafra. So, I do not think that anybody has learnt any lesson from the
coup of 1966.

QUESTION: Does the current agitation by MASSOB/IPOB and others for the actualization of Biafra take any bearing from the coup and its aftermath ?

ANSWER :Sorry, I think you have not read the history of what happened in 1966. The coup was
not made for the secession of the Ibos. The military boys wanted a better Nigeria and
wanted Chief Awolowo to take over as the Prime Minister. They said that the Balewa
Government was terribly corrupt. The coup had nothing to do with any call by the
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Ibos for secession. The Ibos were everywhere in top positions in Nigeria and had no
need to secede from Nigeria. They did not agitate for independence. It was the
northerners that started clamouring for “ARABA”, meaning “SECESSION” in Hausa
Language because they wanted the Ibos to leave the north. They accused the Ibos of
dominating everywhere in the north. The same accusation was against the Ibos in the
west. Truly, the Ibos were and are still ubiquitous, actively participating in all aspect
of the economy everywhere in Nigeria. Most often, they perform better than the
indigenes of the locality and this causes hatred and jealousy against them. They coup
plotted by the military boys headed by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu of the present
Delta State was a trigger event the Northerners and Westerners were looking for to
kill the Igbo people in the North and West and throw them out of Nigeria. The
agitation for Biafra now is that we want to be free from Nigeria and there is no law
that makes it an offence for a people to desire freedom. Self-determination is a
fundamental human right. This is why we have taken Nigeria to court in the Federal
High Court Owerri seeking to exercise our right to self-determination. The case is in
progress and may soon be referred to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

QUESTION: Is the economic situation and political situation that led to the war then, same
today?

ANSWER :The question about the economic and political situation of the country then and now
is quite instructive. Well, the foundation of Nigeria was laid in fraud and corruption.
The Bible says that a bad tree cannot produce good fruits. The British Officer, Harold
Smith, has told us how they rigged the census and election in favour of the North to
ensure that power was given to the North. On 9th July 2000, Chief Richard Akinjide,
SAN QC, in his lecture informed us that the amalgamation of the peoples of the north
and south to create Nigeria was a fraud. Everything about Nigeria appears weird. The
Nigerian demographical equation states that population increases towards the desert
and decreases towards the sea. This is why the North will always have higher
population figure than the South. Therefore, by the Nigerian formula, more people
live towards the desert than towards the sea. That is the Nigerian demographical
equation. It has always been a corrupt country and the politics has always been the
same. If we need change, it must start from the root.

QUESTION: What is the way out since nobody including you wants a coup d état in
Nigeria again?

ANSWER: I have answered this question in my book, “Biafra or Nigerian Presidency- What the
Ibos Want”. It is very simple. The problem is that the Nigerians live in denial. They
know the truth but do not want the truth to prevail. At the launch of Nigeria’s Golden
Book in Abuja in 2011, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State called for the
renegotiation of Nigeria. It was published in The Sun Newspaper of 28 September
2011. He condemned the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and said,“I agree with Mimiko that we need to talk. We never sat down to develop this Constitution. It was entrusted on us. Every time amendment, amendment; let’s discuss that document entirely.
We are either a federation or not. Let’s state where we are. This is as simple as ABC. I sit
in Anambra State and get orders and instructions from somewhere else!” The last
statement of His Excellency, Governor Peter Obi, needs some emphasis: “We are
either a federation or not…I sit in Anambra State and get orders and instructions
from somewhere else!” In a nutshell, he is asking for autonomy in a federation. We
have seen that the marriage called amalgamation is not working. The marriage of all
the incompatible tribes of Nigeria by the doctrine of amalgamation in 1914 will
certainly break up unless the Nigerian polity is restructured to guarantee self-
governance to the six geopolitical regions. I speak this on the authority of law and the
historical evidence of the powers of the fourth world geopolitics. Perhaps, you do not
understand the power of the fourth world geopolitics.

The major countries amalgamated by the British Colonial Masters have broken up
along the lines of compatible tribes and tongues. India was a colony of Britain but
broke up after its independence resulting in the three countries today called India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh after brutal and prolonged civil wars. Sudan was another
great empire built by the British which broke up into two countries in July 2011 after
prolonged civil war. Other great empires of the modern world wielded together by
colonial powers have broken up along their ethnic lines. Malaysia broke up
immediately after independence into Singapore and Malaysia. Indonesia broke up into
Indonesia and East Timor. Czechoslovakia broke up into The Czech Republic and
The Slovak Republic. Yugoslavia broke up into five countries namely, Serbia,
Croatia, Kosovo, Monte Negro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The USSR was formed in
1917, three years after Nigeria, and broke up few years ago before our eyes into
dozens of separate countries. The truth is that forced marriages do not stand the test of
marriage and must be dissolved either by Court Order or by self-help of desertion. I
therefore speak with authority on this matter as an expert in law and diplomacy based
on the preponderance of evidence that I have already cited that Nigeria will definitely
break up unless restructured to guarantee self-governing status to the six geopolitical
regions in a confederation. This, in effect, is like returning to the Aburi Accord which
General Gowon and Nigerians violated. Had they implemented the Aburi Accord,
there would not have been any war between Nigeria and Biafra. Unfortunately,
Nigeria had a pyrrhic victory over Biafra but lost the peace and joy of nationhood!

QUESTION:What is your take on the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu and others by the federal government even against court orders? What does that tell you about Nigeria?

Answer : I do not know the facts of the case so I will not be able to comment properly on the
issue. I do not know whether President Buhari is holding the accused persons in
detention contrary to Court Orders. If he does so, he is wrong. The rule of law is that
every Court Order must be obeyed. But where a person is granted bail by a lower
court and a higher court sets aside the bail, the Order of the higher court will prevail.
Again, where a person is granted bail against an offence, for example, stealing, he can
still be re-arrested and detained for a different offence such as murder or
manslaughter.

QUESTION:Do we need another coup for things to take shape in a democracy? And how
would you rate Nigeria’s relationship with regards to the economy to the ethnic
nationalities in Nigeria?

ANSWER: The military rulers are the worst in governance; so, do not suggest a coup. They are
all the same. What is required is a fundamental renegotiation of Nigeria. Those who
want to be Nigerians should be Nigerians and those who do not want to be Nigerians
should be allowed to build their own country. We are Biafrans but forced to become
Nigerians. We want our own country even if other ethnic nationalities want to
continue as Nigerians.

On the question of Nigeria’s relationship with regards to the economy to the ethnic
nationalities, there is only a single index economy in Nigeria. Everything is controlled
from the centre. Whoever occupies ASO ROCK controls the economy of the whole
Nigeria. So, you do not talk about the ethnic nationalities in terms of the economy.
There is only one economy, and that is the Nigerian economy.

QUESTION; What are the problems of Ndigbo, since after the war,Ndigbo appear to have been suffering from self-loathing of sorts.For instance,it is said that rather too many of the buildings and businesses in lagos and elsewhere are igbo-owned yet Igboland is practically empty.Do you have any contrary view?

ANSWER : Yes, I have a contrary view. You have never wondered why the Ibos have been
investing their billions of naira in the North and West instead of in Igbo Land. After
the war, there appeared to be a deliberate government policy to render the East sterile
for business. The East was denied of all the facilities, amenities and infrastructures
required for businesses to thrive. Do you know that even today, the businessmen in
the East who are importers are required to go to Lagos to clear their goods and bring
the containers to the East? Do you know that Chief Sam Mbakwe of the old Imo State
went to the Nigerian Federal Government crying like a child before he could do the
little he did in the East? Do you know that the Nigerian Government denied us of
International Airport until we levied ourselves by what we called “Survival Levy” to
build the Imo Airport? Recently they upgraded the Enugu Airport to an International
Airport. Why is the second Niger Bridge being politicized? Why can’t we have more
than five bridges across the River Niger opening up the trade routes to the East? Why
do we not have functional Seaports in the East? Why did they destroy the Onne
Seaport in Port Harcourt? Why have they not dredged the River Niger Seaport to the
sea so that the containers can come into Onitsha directly instead of landing in Lagos?
Why is there no functional Seaport at Calabar? There are social catalysts that make
businesses to thrive. Without these social business catalysts, businessmen will not be
attracted to locate their investments in the East.

QUESTION :Don’t you think we have lost out in the Nigerian project following utterances here
and there against Ndigbo?

ANSWER : Yes, we have lost out in the Nigerian Project. Today, Nigeria belongs to the people of
the North and West. We believed in One Nigeria and made every part of Nigeria our
home. We settle down in every village in the remotest part of the North or West and
develop the area believing in One Nigeria but they see us as invaders from the East
coming to dominate them in their own land. Now, we want to build our own country-
the Biafran nation.

QUESTION: Do you think our present Igbo leaders in politics and religion have failed us? Why and if not why?

ANSWER :Yes, most of the present Igbo political and religious leaders have failed us. I see the
political leaders as stooges imposed on us by the northern and western political slave
masters. Most of the present Igbo politicians were made by the North and West. They
therefore serve the interests of their masters to remain in power and in money.
Regarding the religious leaders, I will say that they have turned the Churches of God
into business enterprises, making a merchandise of the flocks. The whole motive is
money. Even in the present agitation for Biafra, most of the Biafran Activists have no
jobs apart from Biafra. They feed from the people they have deceived. I know one of
them who asked the people to donate millions of dollars for him to buy arms and
ammunition to fight for their independence from Nigeria. They donated the millions
or hundreds of thousands of dollars and pounds to him. He is now one of the richest
Biafran Activists in the struggle. So, the whole problem is the love for money, power
and fame. They deceive the people and feed from Biafra. Most of the Igbo political
and religious leaders, both the old and the new ones, have failed us. I said most of
them, not all of them. There are still some leaders who have remained faithful to their
calling. They are like the Caleb and Joshua in the Bible who brought the new
generation of the Israelites into the Promise Land. God Almighty has not forsaken his
people. He has prepared a brand new breed of leaders who will emerge soon and be
led into the Promise Land by the faithful Joshua and Caleb from the old generation.
We need the faithful elders of the land who have not compromised with the devils to
betray their people.

QUESTION: Your organization is a toothless bulldog because even in Anambra nobody feels



your impact, yet you are gallivanting on the web making noise about Biafra?

ANSWER : I do not know what you mean by our organization being a toothless bulldog. In the
Biafran National Liberation Struggle, we created three platforms to achieve the goal.
The remnants of the Biafrans who were not consumed in the war were constituted into
a body called INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA in 2011 under the leadership of
the Supreme council of Elders and was formally created and given judicial

recognition in 2012 in the Federal High Court Owerri in Suit No
FHC/OW/CS/102/2012 now renumbered as Suit No FHC/OW/CS/192/2013. As the
body was a non-legal entity, it could only sue or be sued in a representative capacity.
We therefore sued Nigeria in a representative capacity by the human rights
organization called Bilie Human Rights Initiative which was authorized by the
Supreme Council of Elders of Indigenous People of Biafra to represent the Biafrans.
The Chairman of the Supreme Council of Elders is His Royal Majesty, the
Honourable Justice Eze Ozobu OFR (rtd); the Deputy is Dr Dozie Ikedife OON, JP;
the Secretary-General is the Brig. Gen Joe Achuzia (rtd). These men and the other
members of the Council were the persons who signed the Legal Instrument that
authorized the ongoing suit between Biafra and Nigeria in the Federal High Court
Owerri. The Supreme Council of Elders is the Customary Government of Indigenous
People of Biafra. If we were a toothless bulldog, why did Nigeria join issues with us
and file a defence? They should have ignored our Originating Summons if they
thought that we were a toothless bulldog. This is the case that terrifies Nigeria
because Nigeria has no good defence.

You said that nobody is hearing about us. We operate lawfully within the ambit of the
Nigerian law. We have established our Customary Government Headquarters in
Enugu. We have been granted Special Consultative Status in the United Nations
ECOSOC and granted seats in the UN Headquarters in New York, Geneva and
Vienna. We have been granted ECOSSOC status in the African Union and have
attended AU Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. Our self-determination case between Biafra
and Nigeria is still going on at the Federal High Court Owerri. Well, the Nigerian
Press has published some news on the case a few times. We do not expect the
Defendants to use their radio and media to publish it because the case is against them.
In the beginning we had a mobile internet radio station called Radio Biafra which we
planned to use to disseminate information lawfully and professionally on the case but
the person we put in charge of the station turned it into something else, broadcasting
with abuses and insults, became stubborn, disobedient and incorrigible which made
the Supreme Council of Elders to ostracize him by a Public Notice and Disclaimer.
Instead of repenting, he ran away with our mobile radio and now claimed that he is
the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra! Well, you can help to publicize the case
between Biafra and Nigeria pending in the Federal High Court Owerri. The next
adjourned date for the hearing is 30th March 2016. Please spread the good news.

SOURCE ; THE AUTHORITY DAILY 18/01/2016
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INTERVIEW GRANTED BY IFEANYI EJIOFOR, COUNSEL TO NNAMDI KANU, 5TH APRIL, 2016, TO BIAFRA WRITERS CORRESPONDENTS

BIAFRA WRITERS: Good afternoon Sir, I am Chukwuemeka Chimerue, from Biafra Writers. Sir we want to ask you first, what was really the outcome of today’s court session?

EJIOFOR: Actually the matter came up today for the hearing of our application. For the stay of proceedings in this court pending the resolution of our application at the Court of Appeal. And the application was heard and adjourned to the 26th of April for ruling. And the court has addressed the issues we raised before the court on the reason why the court should stay this case and the  issues we raised at the court of appeal are constitutional issues that borders on the rights of the accused person, which the court cannot proceed upon without the court of appeal being heard first determine upon it.

BIAFRA WRITERS: Ok Sir. So the application, when will it be determined upon?

EJIOFOR: On the 26th of April. Remember we are going to the court of Appeal on the 25th of April for the hearing on the appeal on denial of bail. Then thereafter, we come back to the court on the 26th for the ruling on the application.

BIAFRA WRITERS: Was it only an application on the denial of bail …?

EJIOFOR: We have three appeals pending at the Court of Appeal. One on denial of bail. That one has been entered. The second is the issue of Passport they denied…the issue of British passport and Nigeria passport and the money. Then, too, is against the order of this court, where this court varied its order., So we have three appeals pending at the court of appeal. But the one coming up on the 25th of April, 2016 is the one on denial of bail to the defendant.

BIAFRA WRITERS: During the court proceedings, I overhead Barrister Chuks Muoma saying the 20 minutes allowed for his speech was not allowed, what really was the problem…?

EJIOFOR: Its open to the whole world that the judge is biased, the one is no longer in contest, because , the right on adumbration  is a constitutional law provided under our procedural law and you overheard the lawyer reading that to the court. And it’s a mandatory right. By stopping him from adumbrating with the argument in the court means impeding on the defense counsel’s rights as governed by the rules of the court.

BIAFRA WRITERS: Sir we learnt that Nnamdi Kanu’s case was reported to the ECOWAS Court, what do you have to say about that?

EJIOFOR: You know when you file an application or a complaint before the ECOWAS court, the defendant is given up to 30 days to respond. But up till now, they have not responded to the application. And we have approached them for a date for the hearing. Which means within the week, they will communicate us on the date for the hearing of our application of our case before the ECOWAS court.

BIAFRA WRITERS: You recently wrote a letter, on the 21st of march, 2016 to the UK, can you throw more light on that Sir?

EJIOFOR: Em, speculations has gone round the whole places that Nnamdi Kanu is begging the UK government to intervene in his matter, no, no,  that wasn’t the essence  of the letter. We are merely reminding the British authority on their constitutional right, on the rights of Nnamdi Kanu as a citizen of UK, covered under the UK laws and conventions, ….so they will live up to that expectation. That’s all we are not begging them.

BIAFRA WRITERS: So what was their reply regarding that?

EJIOFOR:We are still waiting for their formal communication to us. They are supposed to do a letter to us in that regard. Already before now, I have communicated with them on the phone, they have called me on the phone to say they are looking into the matter, that they are also involved in that matter. They are getting involved in the matter.

BIAFRA WRITERS: Sir, do you actually believe Nnamdi Kanu begged the British for his release?

EJIOFOR: The letter speaks for itself. We never begged the British authority to get involved in the matter. As I earlier said we are reminding them of the constitutional right of Nnamdi Kanu as a British citizen, because he is a British citizen too. He has right, as provided under the laws and conventions. And that right must be protected. He has privileges. We are calling them to get involved. We are just reminding them. We were not begging them. And especially, on the face of obvious manipulations and maneuverings going on in this court, there is the reason for the international community to get involved and also know what is happening, because what is happening in the court is obvious to the whole world and the judge himself is biased.



BIAFRA WRITERS: So what is going to happen if the Federal high court delivers a different judgement from that of the ecowas court

EJIOFOR: The matter before The ECOWAS court is different from that matter before the high court. We will approach the ECOWAS court on the gross violation of Nnamdi Kanu’s constitutional rights as contained in the Nigeria constitution also under the African charter on People and Human Rights and International conventions which Nigeria is signatory to. To approach them and complain on the gross violation of that human right and also seek compensation to that effect.

BIAFRA WRITERS: Sir, what do you have to tell people of Biafra all over the world who are who are earnestly following and awaiting the outcome of the legal battle between Nigeria and Nnamd Kanu?

EJIOFOR: It is obvious to the entire world and Biafrans in particular that Nnamdi Kanu is being persecuted. And we believe in justice. We don’t believe in side talks. And we must get to the root of it. Based on the available facts before the court, not based on somebody’s opinion or speculations or mindset of anybody. The matter will be adjudged based on the facts and evidence and documents before the court. So am urging them to remain calm pending the determination of the entire process.

BIAFRA WRITERS: You have constantly hammered on the court being unfair to your client, what does your legal team want the court and the federal Republic of Nigeria to do concerning this right now?

EJIOFOR:Well in that regard, we have already filed an appeal the ruling of the court before the court of appeal. Part of our reliefs at the court of appeal is to direct the Federal High court to transfer the matter to another court. You may not believe that the ruling delivered by this court since the 9th of February, 19th of February and 7th of March has not been made available to us. And that ruling is affecting our compilation of our presentation at the court of appeal. Just like what happened today at the court….. Up till now the ruling has not been made available to us.

BIAFRA WRITERS:And why was  that so?

EJIOFOR:It’s for a reason best known to him. Constitutionally, the accused person is entitled only 7days to have the copy of the ruling by the court he is complaining on.

BIAFRA WRITERS: So if the judge goes against the rule, the order of the court, what is going to be your next line of action. Since he has not made the ruling of the court available to you, how are you going to appeal for it?

EJIOFOR: NO! He has no option than to make the ruling available to us. Its part of our complaint before the court of appeal. He must make the ruling available to us, he delivered the ruling in the open court, he must make the ruling available to us, its our constitutional right. He can’t deny us such right.

BIAFRA WRITERS: Thanks Sir for your time. That will be all.

Transcribed By Ikechukwu Nwaorisa
Correspondents: Ucheagu Chukwuemeka Chimerue
                            and Anyikwa Kelechi Cynthia
FOR  BIAFRA  WRITERS