___________________ 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 Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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Thanks OU for continuing to highlight the chaotic state of Affairs in " Nigeria." However, I think the world is becoming immune to this news, each day another story of some people being shot or killed, all in the name of this God forsaken country foisted uopn us by the western world, not once but twice, and every day since.
We continue to wait, to make history in neo colonial africa, to demonstrate to the world that we may be negroes, the REAL ONES, but we will draw our own borders and not any white man, and WE WILL HAVE COMMAND OF OUR OWN RESOURCES. And not any oil companies.
Infact, the more I think about it, the more I feel that we should perhaps put an end to all this oil exploration in our territories... after all it is the oil that keeps Nigeria interested, so if we no longer mine for oil in our ancestral lands then the oil companies can go home with their politics, and so can all the Nigerian buffoons with the Big bellies.
Afterall, the communities are actually loosing money by having these oil prospectors there, and they do not see any of the resources that are generated from their land, so why mine for oil folks???
Its the oil that keeps all these people interested, if the oil stops flowing maybe everyone can just go home???
Yeah, just GO HOME LIKE MY PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED TO DO ALL OVER NIGERIA....
Yeah, if they are not buying and selling, then JUSt GO HOME.
Maybe the Nigerians need to go home too....
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And when we talk about Homes, there are different types of homes, the eternal and the temporary...
If we do not scurry home to the temporary ones quickly enough, rest assured with a little help of our Nigerian "friends" we will be speeded to the eternal one in a box, or rather as nigerian fashion dictates, in an unmarked mass grave.
But trouble not your little souls over these details, nor ask the question of which of these homes do we speak when we refer to nigerians, for remember this, no one gives a damn here, and its time we started making sure that the world understands that they may not but we do, and make sure that our people are properly treated with the dignity and respect with which all mankind should be treated.
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quote:Piqued by the slow response of the Federal Government four months after the killing of Tiv and ransacking of some villages in Benue State, the Tiv are to head for the World Court in the Hague to seek redress. Describing the October massacre as a clear demonstration of attempts to eliminate the Tiv nation, Waku said the Tiv have suffered enough injustice and discrimination under the President Obasanjo administration.
___________________ 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 Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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At least we need to give it up for them. 33 -34 years later, we still don't even have the guts to go to the Hague for all of our perceived grievances.
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Your leaders cannot find their way to the Hague to make your case "33-34 years later" because they helped bring about your demise in that war, as saboteurs. To them, fortune knocked on their door when the British and friends squashed the "oha" Igbo and rewarded the saboteurs as Igbo leaders with juicy crumbs from stolen Igbo oil resources a la "one Nigeria."
Tell me, Ednut dear, how do you expect your non-nationalist traitors, ahem, "leaders" to lodge a complaint for you at the Hague? Perhaps, AfricaWest and Ohafia could do the trail-blazing for you at the Hague in Europe, if you ask nicely. Emancipate yourself from your crop of leaders. Those dogs won't hunt.
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Ednut, Self emacipation first before you should lay blames on any body. have you asked your self what it takes to go to the world court,what is your agenda to the world court. why not first, go into yourself and shake of your image of nwobodo,iwuanyawu,ojo,pious and the rest of them who has sold thier birth right and prefer to eat the fallover,who never see any thing wrong in all the pogroms agianst Igbo/Biafra by thier masters housa/fulani/yoruba. untill your are able to prove other wise you will remian a baseless advocate with no clear mission but just games. good luck.
___________________ He likened the second coming of Christ to the realisation of the Biafran dream, stating that at a time people least expect, the much sought Biafra would be a reality..Rev. Fr. Cornelius Ezeiloaku Posts: 622 | From: santiago, chile | Registered: Jan 2002
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Hey guys I want to go to the world court! What says you Ohafia and Africa west, lets make it an ongoing project, to get the guys there to answer for the charges, seems to me the world has already forgotten about Biafra.
I want Obasanjo tried for his war crimes, I want Danjuma, I want murtala muhammad tried post humously along wi th Awlowo, I want to hunt them down to answer their charges, every single one of them.
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OU and AF over to you. When it gets to the financial part, just let me know.
Mr. Onwuka,
What did Senator Nwobodo ever do to you that warrants such dislike from you? The man was a great Governor, a very good Federal minister, and the best Chairman that the Rangers International Football Club ever had. He may not be a very good Senator but he is old and need to retire to the side lines.
Are you trying to pick a fight with me? Have a good weekend in Santiago.
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Ijeoma, Good idea, good project. count me in. Ednut,nothing good ever comes out from evil,have a good weekend too .
___________________ He likened the second coming of Christ to the realisation of the Biafran dream, stating that at a time people least expect, the much sought Biafra would be a reality..Rev. Fr. Cornelius Ezeiloaku Posts: 622 | From: santiago, chile | Registered: Jan 2002
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I heard that IBB and his brother Gen. Abubaka(sp) have the best homes or are they manors, in BiafraNigeria. I also heard that their kids attend(ed) the best schools outside Nigeria and you say nothing good comes from evil? Who told you that lie? And Abubarkar is in Zimbabwe today representing United Nations.
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Ednut, Only the wicked rejoices with evil,however, no matter how you pretend to present goodie out of evil,the evil has its own day, the day of evil will be doomed and deciecive which no evil doer will escape the the judgement of the anger of GOD. The fight of good over evil is on going now, do you think that what is going on between the west and those mullahs will not come down to Africa and right into your backyard Biafranigeria.may be the end of allthese will come soon and the wicked will suffer the concequence of evil. think twice.
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I must say your thoughts are well placed concerning bringing to book those who have committed crimes against humanity in Biafranigeria.
We must continue to follow the relevant international debates and influence these debates where possible. At present, we cannot take Obasanjo to the World Court (officially known as the International Court of Justice)("ICJ")because only "states" can bring actions before the the ICJ.
Recently, the brave Belgian Prosecutor gave many of us hope (when he prosecuted the fromer Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet)that someday we may be able to make the reckless African dictators pay for their crimes against humanity and do so during their life time.
However, as I understand it, a recent decision by the ICJ attacks the validity of the extra-jurisdictional nature of the Belgian criminal code which could be used throughout Europe (and in theory, the world) to arrest a former repressive dictator for crimes against humanity. Further, it "seems" (by implication) the ICJ reaffirmed "immunity" as a valid defence and reason available to a state functionary to avoid criminal trial beyond his/her territory.
That leaves us with one option; the proposed International Criminal Court ("ICC"). We must support its formation and push for its "powers" to be "retroactive". Furthermore, aggrieved individuals or groups of individuals should be allowed to prosecute those who were responsible for their pains and suffering.
The burden of proof should lie with the accuser and the standard of proof should remain the same as in most "civilised" criminal trials (i.e beyond reasonable doubt).
Assume for a moment, that the powers available to the proposed ICC is retroactive. Obasanjo, will not be able to hide behind the cloak of immunity because he was not a "head of state" or "president" or "minister of state", when he committed genocide at Asaba. Therefore, even if "immunity" becomes an "unqualified defence" available to those who engage in mass killings of defenceless people at the proposed ICC, Obasanjo and others like him, will not be able to avail themselves of that defence.
Notwithstanding the recent ICJ's deision, I doubt very much that immunity will protect any government functionary in the future ICC. The recent trials at the Hague concerning crimes against humanity is encouraging, just like Neurumberg was in the mid-1940's. However, we need an ICC established a.s.a.p to somewhat prevent people like Obasanjo committing similar genocide as the kind he committed at Asaba and living out the rest of their lives unpunished.
Brethren, this issue must not die! We must keep it alive!!
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It is not my place to advice the Tiv nation. I believe they have very capable people to turn to.
However, I fail to see what use it will serve pretending that the World Court will grant audience to their grievences. In legal terms, the Tiv nation do not have "locus-standi". The last time I checked, the Tiv's were still part of the "one-Nigeria" state.
Food for Thought: Only "states" can bring claims at the World Court.
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