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MASSOB Leader Kidnapped by Obasanjo’s Gestapo
Ever since the leader of MASSOB, Chief Uwazuruike, was kidnapped last weekend, (on July 21, 2001), the BiafraNigerian Gestapo (SSS) that kidnapped him has refused to confirm his whereabouts, allow his family and followers to visit him, or release him from illegal detention. Obasanjo must order his thugs to release the kidnapped Chief Uwazuruike without any further delay. Otherwise, Obasanjo should immediately charge the MASSOB leader and his followers with a punishable offense.
There is no reason that any citizen of BiafraNigeria should endure torture at the hands of thugs that work for a supposed democratically elected government. Increasingly, the Abacha death-squads that we chased out of Abuja now look like alter-boys in comparison with Obasanjo’s Gestapo. Obasanjo is perpetrating state-sponsored terror, kidnappings, and murder on the members of MASSOB. The illegal seizure, torture, and detention of MASSOB members and their leader by Obasanjo’s Gestapo are no longer acts that can be properly considered legal arrests. This is the message that must be urgently communicated to the international community and BiafraNigerians everywhere.
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I hope nothing happens to him but if anything terrible happens to that young man, Ohanaeze Ndiigbo should be the first to be attacked. Posts: 615 | From: Houston, Texas | Registered: Jun 2001
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I see you've come out of hiding to spew your usual rubbish. Please read the following carefully and tell me if that is how "arrest of citizens" is done in a democratic society. Even the police who were involved in the invasion of this man's privacy DID NOT know what he was being "arrested" for. ~~~~~~~~~~
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Date of Article: 07/24/2001 Topic: MASSOB Leader Still Detained
Author: Lukkey Abawuru and Paul Ohia Full Text of Article: The Police in Lagos, yesterday, denied primary responsibility for Saturday's arrest and subsequent detention for the leader of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazurike and 50 others. Uwazurike and others were said to have been arrested in his residence at Ijesha, while holding the association's weekly meeting. He was still being interrogated at State Security Service (SSS) office at Shangisha, Lagos, as at press time. Speaking with The Post Express yesterday, in a telephone interview, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, said "Uwazurike was arrested by the State Security Service (SSS), we only provided a back-up to them." Okiro stated that the reason for the arrest of Uwazurike was still not revealed to him as at press time. Denying allegation that the controversial leader was arrested for allegedly breaching the public procession order, Okiro said "the police would not have arrested him for holding meeting in his house unless it was discovered that the meeting would breach public peace." Insisting that Uwazurike's case was totally that of SSS, Okiro said that the men of the Services approached him to release some policemen to them to enable them arrest the leader which he approved without going into details of the reason(s) for the arrest.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
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Kunle: Which of the elements of criminal kidnapping do you think is missing from the incident in question? Simply the fact that the kidnappers wore SSS uniforms? Is that the standard? The clothes you choose to wear when you commit a crime do not vitiate your criminality.
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Seun, Thanks for reiterating this Gestapo-like kidnapping which I did highlight in the other thread. How can one describe the 'arrest' according to Kunle of peace-loving men like Uwazurike & Co with seven Nigerian police jeeps and days after their illegal 'arrest', same police that kidnapped him cannot confirm if they actually took him and his followers to custody or not? Seun, thanks for putting conscience before tribe!!
Mr. Kunle, could you for fairness sake tell the world what is kidnapp if this is not. It's sad that some of you Yorubas due to tribal reasons are committing and supporting the same man-to-man inhumaity Abacha and Co visited on some of your leaders during the former's thuggery rule. That Obasanjo, one of your own is committing same crime Abacha committed and was condemned world-wide does not make the latters crime less condemnable, on the contrary, every fair-minded and lover of government of the people by the people MUST condemn this illigal act because we are supposed to be in a democracy. If Uwazuruike was 'arrested' as you want us to believe, the standard rule in a democracy is first for those who arrested him to confirm his arrest and to charge him to court.
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Obasanjo is turning this constant harrassment of Ndi-Igbo, into Yoruba/Igbo problem. I hope he will be able to face the consequence, if this whole thing gets out of hand, As it is becoming too dangerous, from the look of things. It appears Obasanjo is not thinking.
I hope his handlers are advicing him right,because he is presently power drunk.
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Seun: Thank you for calling a spade a spade, so to speak. The trouble with BiafraNigeria is that people insist on using incorrect terminology. They see a kidnap, and they call it an "arrest." They see the rape and sexual abuse of a minor, and they call it "marriage."
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They also see gross violation of the constitution in the name of Sharia, and they call it the will of the people. They see dismemberment and severe bodily mutilation of the poor and helpless and they tag it punishment.
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Brother where have you been? thanks for coming in to give us your unadulteretd objective input. Obusonjo is digging his grave, The last time he had a good laugh at Igbos expense this it will be at his own expense. Let him continue he will help Biafrans achieve their goal of actualizing Biafra.
Post Express wired Category: News Date of Article: 07/31/2001 Topic: Gani Adams, OPC Leader, Holds Rally in Ondo
Author: Atoki Ajibola,Akure Full Text of Article: Despite the purported manhunt for the leader of the militant faction of the Oodua People Congress (OPC), a yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Mr. Gani Adams, he has continued to appear in public celebrating his invincibility without being molested. Recently he held rallies in Kwara, Osun and Lagos states notwithstanding the N100,000 ransome placed on his head by the Lagos state police command. Infact, Gani Adams will for four days from today, hold a rally in Ondo State. The rally is expected to end Friday. Leaflets containing the itinerary of the organisation explained the motive behind the rally which it said was purposely in solidarity with the Yoruba and in furtherance of one of its mandate to educate the people over the activities of the OPC. Reverend Isaac Igbakin the new state, explained that there has been a sort of re-organisation of the OPC with the view of taking out some members who are no more relevant with the objectives of the organisation. Igbakin warned that his members would not condone violence because, according to him, there has been a new guideline directing all its members to comport themselves peacefully during the rally which would take members to Ikare, Ondo, Ore, Okitipupa, Igbokoda, Owo and ending up in Akure state capital. The state co-ordinator explained that the disagreement between Gani Adams and Dr. Frederick Fasehun was a family affair which would be settled by Oodua - the progenitor of the Yoruba race. Meanwhile the state police command has deployed about 500 policemen in the state capital to forestall any violence saying the planned rally was illegal since the OPC has not extended invitation nor deem it fit to ask for a permit. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Rauf Usman said yesterday that his men were equal to the task to provide security of lives and property. Although, the police boss factually denied any knowledge of the OPC rally, he said, the command had sought for additional policemen from neighbouring states.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
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Obasanjo’s SSS Gestapo now burns newspapers and detains newsmen and women for carrying news about MASSOB.Posts: 199 | Registered: Mar 2001
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I read the article and I have not deviated from my assesment about Nigeria. Nigeria will never grow, and will remain only a geography where people will only call a country. There is no doubt in my mind that foreign investment and growth is based on how a GOVERNMENT respects the indigenes. Nigeria's government is too large and too powerful to function as democratic and civilized state .
Hail Biafra
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Now the world has heard......Aremu can now choose peace or pieces! We are Biafrans and very proud of it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Biafra Foundation Accuses Nigeria of Human Rights Violations U.S. Newswire 2 Aug 14:05 Extra-Judicial Killings, Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed By The Nigerian Government, Says Group To: National and International Desks Contact: The Biafra Foundation, 202-347-2983
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Biafra Foundation:
On July 21, 2001, Ralph Uwazurike, the leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) was arrested, along with several of his aides, by a combined team of the Nigerian Army and Police. The arrests were ordered by the Federal Government of Nigeria, headed by Olusegun Obasanjo, a retired army general. MASSOB and its supporters within and outside Nigeria are urging the international community to pay attention to the persecution of Uwazurike and his colleagues, and the implementation of a carefully crafted scheme by Islamic militants to islamize all the people of Nigeria, including the predominantly Christian people of eastern Nigeria.
Persecution of MASSOB members and supporters, and the imposition of strict Islamic (Sharia) law on the millions of people of the eastern Nigeria (formerly known as Biafra) living in northern Nigeria has been going on for over a year, and has been ignored by the Nigerian government despite many appeals. Rather than confront the forces of disintegration that are trying to turn Nigeria into a west African version of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Nigeria's federal government has been using extremely harsh tactics against MASSOB and its leadership. Scores of MASSOB members and supporters have been shot dead by the Nigerian army and police during raids in various towns and villages in eastern Nigeria. Thousands have been thrown into jail for several months without trial, and subjected to torture and the deprivation of food and medicine. Most of the detainees have been kept in conditions that conscientious people would regard as unacceptable even for animals. And now the leader of the movement and more of his lieutenants have been arrested and taken to unknown destinations by the Nigerian government. MASSOB is a civil rights organization fully committed to non-violence in the pursuit of its ojectives: the right to life,liberty and self-determination for the long-suffering people of eastern Nigeria, through the actualization of the sovereign State of Biafra. MASSOB is strongly opposed to the plot by Islamic fundamentalist to turn Nigeria into a harsh Islamic country, similar to Iran, Sudan or Afghanistan.
While Nigeria's federal government turns a blind eye to the calculated scheme by hard-line Nigerian Muslims to impose Islamic law on the rest of the country, it has ferociously pursued members of MASSOB, employing the most heavy-handed,Gestapo-like tactics against them. President Olusegun Obasanjo harbors a barely concealed disdain for eastern Nigerians, especially the Igbo. Troops under his command committed numerous war crimes against the Igbo and other peoples of eastern Nigeria during the Nigeria/Biafra war.
Obasanjo is on record for saying that Igbo people should consider themselves lucky to be a part of Nigeria. It is not surprising, therefore, that his administration has pursued a hostile attitude toward the Igbo and eastern Nigeria,as bad as,and in some ways worse than, many administrations Nigeria has known since the end of the Nigeria/Biafra war in 1970.
We urge the United States government, and all governments and people who cherish respect for human rights, to bring pressure to bear on the Obasanjo administration to release Ralph Uwazurike and the thousands of other MASSOB members now languishing in Nigerian jails. We urge the United States government, and all governments and people who respect freedom of religion, to support Nigeria's Christians in their effort to defend their rights in the face of the ongoing scheme to impose Islamic law on Africa's most populous country.
"We call on the United Nations, Human Rights Organizations, Civil Liberties Organizations and all Leaders of the Free World to condemn the state terror being perpetrated by the Federal Government of Nigeria. We call on them to prevail on the Federal Government of Nigeria to stop the extra judicial murder of innocent civil rights campaigners and the gross violation of the human rights of people of the former Eastern Nigeria(Biafra). We call on them to prevail on the Federal Government of Nigeria to release without further delay, Ralph Uwazurike, Dr. Marvin Ihionu, Mr. Chukwuma Opara, Mr. Chika Eze, Mr. Ibe Jude, Mr.Aburuchi Camillus as well as all the members of the MASSOB who are currently held in several jails in Nigeria."
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INTERNATIONAL, CIVIL RIGHTS
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"Onye akpa kwala nwa agu aka n'odu ma odi ndu ma onwuru anwu"
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
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Just in case someone is equating OU’s posting with some phantom fly-by-night scheme, the URL is as follows: we only just begun. Thanks OU. I owe you plenty.
And for Pete's sake, where are all the so-called human rights activists? Of course, I should know better than ask this dumb question. Different standards apply for Biafrans. But as surely as there's a God in Heaven, Obasanjo will acccount for his sins against Biafrans. He will roast in the hottest part of hell.
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Who the heck is Sam reffering as Olodo? Sam I hope u're calling yourself olodo not us. Stupid Sam. Posts: 615 | From: Houston, Texas | Registered: Jun 2001
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Don't waste your time with that boy by the handle "Sam". He's just paired off with Yvette and that will tell you the sort of person he is.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos
Sam I believe u'll see Nwinyi when Biafra is actualised. U'll regret being an anti-Biafrans. U can go back to your Nigeria enclave and obey the baberic sharia when we leave that cursed nation.
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Sam: I no know say na so u be o. Na u be de yeye man becos u dey, dey nak your ogogoro when Uncle Sege come raze down Odi. U dey, dey eat your fish when Abacha come clear Ogoni, and u no do anything. Na wa for u o!
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Infatigable Biafrans, I'm very proud that you kept up your good works in defense and solidarity with Biafra Actualization, inspite of onslaughts and jeerings from anti-Biafra/Igbo imbeciles.
Even though Chief Uwazuruike was unlawfully abducted by Obasanjo's terrorist squads, we were able spring to actions from all corners, in alerting the UN and other international communities about that dangerously explosive civil-war trigerring action. Lucky for Obasanjo, when the stark reality of his gestapo actions starred him on the face, he relented and promptly released the Chief.
As it is, Obasanjo has acknowledged the Biafran populace's agitation for Biafra and has promised to have a conference with the MASSOB leader, etc., for the peaceful secession of Biafra.
This did not come too easy for Obasanjo. However, the constant pressure by the UN, and the will of the Biafrans everywhere, forced Obasanjo to blink. Mark this folks, in the end, Nigeria will finally see the true color of Britain. Right now, Britain in covertly for Biafra Actualization. Eventually, when all the agreements are in place, their Biafra actualization tune will be heard in public.
So, let us remember that the dawn of Biafra Republic is being visited upon us. It is well earned and well deserved.
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Obasanjo is feeling the heat. Biafra will soon be actulised, Sooner than we think. Shame on those Igbo fools and anti Biafrans who denounced MASSOB the first time they heard about him. Uwazuruike has proven to them that money doesn't make you a great man, it is your action that makes either a great person or a loser. Uwazuruike is great.
Amanda, Welcome back to the forum. We missed your intelligent postings. Why did u abandone us like that? I need some answers immediately. Hahaha
Well anyway welcome back. I don't think u've read my my last posting on (Nigerian men-Yvette). Don't leave us againoo.
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Amanda, Queen of Biafra welcome back and take your throne. By the way where is Joy (another Queen Biafra), Colo, Adeolajide, Seun, (our neutral friends) and others.
Most of the anti Biafrans like Bature, Ahmed, Bamidele, Folanke, Rudolf, etc have retreated except that Ikpatt and Sam. Well the forum is open for all.
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