In continuation of our provincial rally, at about 10am today March 29th 2003, we were in a convoy to Umuahia, Aba and Port-Harcourt via Okigwe for a rally but were halted at Onuimo by a combined team of Nigerian armed mobile police men, who on sighting us opened fire recklessly on us without consideration to life. As at the time of this release, our leader Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and 150 others are still missing while in our custody are 300 biafran men battered by bullets and 50 others instantly dead. BLF/MASSOB therefore demands as follows:- • That our Leader Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and 150 others should be unconditionally released dead or alive within the next 48 hours. • That the commissioner of police, Imo state command should resign with immediate effect. • That the Governor Chief Achike Udenwa should explain to MASSOB/BLF why such incident should happen again in his state.
While BLF/MASSOB remains non violent, we warn that we shall not hesitate to defend and protect our lives by any means deemed necessary.
All Easterners, Igbo groups, Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, human rights Organizations and the international community should take note. That a snake sleeps does not mean that it has lost its striking powers.
Hopefully, there will be some Biafrans left after you get “Igbo president.”
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This struggle must now enter a new phase - a phase of enlightened self defense that imposes severe consequences upon those who kill Biafrans. Enforcement of this phase should not be left to MASSOB. I do not think we need to wait till the end of the elections for this to start.
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We can't win this struggle by prostrating Yoruba-style to state intimidation. We must match force with force. A price must be put on the head of the nigerian cop who ordered this attack. He and 49 others must be declared dead meat in Biafran territory.
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Does it really make any difference to you if it is one or fifty of your kins men that have been brutally massacred ? Can you not find less offensive ways to make an ass of your self?
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it doesn't matter how long it take us, Obasanjo and Udenwa are going to pay for treating Igbo lives with disdain.
We couldn't care less whether your name is Omar Sandals or Bloody Balogun, nobody is going to get away with the murder of the Igbo. You will see.
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It does not matter the number of those killed by the police and I feel for them and their family however, their leaders should either find a way to protect this guys i.e arm them or disban them. This guys (MASSOB members), when they are protesting, are sitting ducks for the inept nigerian police and its army. With arms, you should see the police run when they hear of this guys and as they do with armed robbers and OPC. Nigeria is not United States or UK were you can protest and have the constitution on your side, it is a country of the featest. You should not make yourself a permanent victim. Do something, if what you are doing is not working.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Ednut probably the best assessment I have ever read from you.
MASSOB, company, Uwezurike and whoever is in charge are nothing but bunch of unbiafrans, cowards who will not achieve anything in Igbo land by assuming the role of a non-violence group for social change. Freedom does not come that easy. They were the same gutless grits who swore never to have election in the East. There is no indication such will happen. And that diminishes their capacity to be feared or respected. Nigeria is not civilized to understand their method of social and civil disabidience to affect a change. The group should become combatant across the nation while assuming the status of non violence. What the group should do is to masquared themselves as non violence into a colonial warfare, strike and hide, inflict fear in the police. For now I see them as soft and bunch of sissys with no guts.
Hail Biafra
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Happy April fool's day. I hope those fools that call themselves MASSOB leaders should wake up and smell the coffee. Arm your self or disban. Stop making jest of the Igbo
Waypoint,
When I was responding to Chiboy, I was surprised that what I had written sounded like you wrote it.
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Are you guys suggesting that any BiafraNigerian that is NOT armed deserves to be shot at and killed by the police?. Is that your belief? That people require arms to hold a rally?
The last I checked the OPC Ednut recommends did NOT carry arms in their solidarity rally for Obasanjo neither were they shot at and killed.
Waypoint talks about Election, there was no mention in that report that the MASSOB guys were headed for the ballot box in Okigwe.
What you guys don't realise is that wether you are armed as Bakkassi or unarmed as MASSOB, Obasanjo believes every Igbo opposed to him and the status-quo deserves to die.
We are going to make him pay in due course.
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OHAFIA, these guys cannot achieve any social change in Nigeria with such principles. They cannot actualize Biafra with the name MASSOB and die like wet rats. They are sitting ducks. Massob stands for break away from Nigeria not good roads or seeking a position at the govenment level. Non violence is not gonna cut it. Either they are feared by the police or be killed by them. Nigeria does not have any law to protect any social group geared torwards social change,particularly when that movement is Martin Luther style. What Nigerian government undertsands is violence, disrupt the dying economy then people will take them serious. Hit and run with extensive damage. As of now they are bunch of noise makers with chicks backbone.It is not gonna happen for Massob. My recommendation------------> Colonial warfare or Gorrilla warfare..both are the same.
Hail Biafra
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quote:Are you guys suggesting that any BiafraNigerian that is NOT armed deserves to be shot at and killed by the police?. Is that your belief? That people require arms to hold a rally?
OU,
I am not suggesting that but then again how do you know that those guys were really the police? Is it because they looked like the police i.e uniform, automobile, e.t.c or acted like the police not? This people are trained thugs and the only way to confront them is to let them know that they might not make it alive after some of these attacks to their loved ones, this is WAR and MASSOB needs to be more combatant. OU, in nigeria, you do need arms to hold rally, you(MASSOB LEADERS) have to be a resident of some utopia world and not nigeria, if you think otherwise. If you are armed, their will be mutual respect from both sides. My friend, nigeria is at war with herself and the so called leadership of MASSOB with their stupid 'bed sheet hausa dress in Igboland' need to understand that or send this uninformed kids back to productive use of their man hours for self salvation.
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What you guys are yapping about is akin to asking Arafat to change his party to Hamas/Islamic Jihad OR Sinn Fenn to become IRA and real IRA. Both the violent and non violent and the not-so-violent are needed in any real struggle. Now, if Uwazurike and his friends are fronting the non-violent angle why can't Waypoint1Biafra and Ednut lead the combatant aspect of things. Okwa agbakota aka nyua amiri, ya agboo ufufu! Just like I tried to support and defend MASSOB, you guys can count on my support when you embark on your "shock and awe" campaign.
Even the above analogy falls short of the BiafraNigerian reality. I won't have to go far to tell you that Uwazurike and MASSOB face the same problem every Igbo who steps out will face and that is wahalla from enemies within.
quote:The Ukwa Ngwa delegation, which was led by Eze Solomon Isiguso, expressed gratitude to the president for his strong position against illegal militias which led to the abolition of Bakassi Boys in Abia state assuring him of the full support of Ngwa people in his re-election project.
So even if he had to pick up weapon the most potent enemy may be his fellow Igbos!
We were here when an Igbo got up in an Igbo house of assembly and demanded that MASSOB members be shot at site. Some diaspora Igbo people got together and decided to contribute money for a BiafraNigerian newspaper press release. Needless to say that a fight broke out before the contribution was done. Damn!
We were all here when the MASSOB crisis and power tusle broke out. There were claims and counter allegations. You needed a clear head to make sense of the whole shenanigan. The issues where non-issues and I mean it wasn't enough to mortagage the destiny of millions of Biafrans. Yet it deteriorated to the point that some fell by te wayside and would rather work for Aremu the enemy. Today, the Bobito chap that attempted to usurp the MASSOB leadership is the Vice presidential candidate of one of the political parties. I don't know what my comrade Onumonu makes of that. Our propensity to self-destruct is astounding. I have a record were the other faction was accused of meddling in politics.
The problem some of us have in our commentaries is that we place a huge burden of expectation on the shoulders of anybody who dares to step out. I don't know Uwazurike. I do not belong to MASSOB. I don't like the lack of a concrete succession program in his MASSOB. But he has chipped in his widows mite. To flaunt Biafra in the face of BiafraNigerians when some "Ibo leaders" think it is even a big deal to scream their Igboness from the roof top, is worthy of commendation. Some of our compatriots who write fine analysis can use their real names at "Nigeria" World and then use a silly handle at "Biafra"nigeria world. "Ibn Batuta" here and "ugonna Amechina" there. Silly handles confer some sense of invincibility on some of the bearers if you know what I mean. It also means some who think nobody knows them can poke fun at any and every serious issue.
My stand is that nobody is entitled to Igbo lives just like that. That some of my kinsmen chose to do business in ugwu awusa does not mean they should be killed. Anybody killing any Igbo any how will pay a price in due course.
That is my stand, and I have forwarded as many recorded cases of Igbo murder to the rest of the world as I can. We shall tell them we warned them it was gonna happen.
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If Igbos are the real obstacle to Massaob then they should try assassinating those who speaks out against them. That ought to teach them a lesson or two before they speak. They cannot achieve anything without fear or intimidation. Get ride of the goddamned Igbos who oppose to their causes. A Sniper will do the job.
Hail Biafra
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The fact is that my view is not the ‘simplistic viewpoint’ as you attained and that is why it has been avoided for what I will call a sitting duck approach. This is 2003 nigeria and not 1920’s South Africa (Ghandi) or his later years in the 1930’s and 40’s neither is it 1950’s and 60’s USA (MLK) and you are dealing with semi literate dictators masquerading as democrats. You may recall how many military jets and helicopter were in Enugu when OBJ decided to start his re-election campaign their. You may also recall that the SSS and the oxymoronic Nigerian intelligence agency were in Enugu weeks before and on that day, the army and plan cloth officers were all over Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium. Yes OU, you do need arms for your own protection at least, if you plan any type of rally in Nigeria that could rock someone’s boat.
quote:Now, if Uwazurike and his friends are fronting the non-violent angle why can't Waypoint1Biafra and Ednut lead the combatant aspect of things.
OU, At the beginning of my response to I believe chyboy or was it you, I stated that MASSOB can either continue with their quest but with a different approach, or DISBAN and let their ground troops go home to their villages/cities to resume normal activities. Either approach is better that the current one. Now if you expect me to go to a country that I spent a minimal part of my life in and that I have only spent less that a month in the past 21/22 years, you got the wrong guy. Simply put, I am not even a citizen anymore and don’t plan to ever be one again but that said, I do know injustice when I see one.
quote: So even if he had to pick up weapon the most potent enemy may be his fellow Igbos!
OU,
There are ways to discourage those Igbo’s from ever making such stupid statements. Do you think that any self respecting Yoroba(sp) man would have made that statement about Abacha during his days without paying heavily for it? Thanks to the OPC or just the youths of that town, they all know they will eventually pay a higher price for that betrayal.
quote: Today, the Bobito chap that attempted to usurp the MASSOB leadership is the Vice presidential candidate of one of the political parties.
But this “Bobito” chap is not Igbo and we are here talking about Igbo issue and Igbo boys and men getting killed in cold blood by the cowardly nigerian police.
quote: The problem some of us have in our commentaries is that we place a huge burden of expectation on the shoulders of anybody who dares to step out.
OU,
Don’t you think that the burden needs to be even more stringent? If you(generically used) are going to ask Igbos to risk getting killed and to walk around and listen to you make useless speeches after useless treats just to boost your personal ego, you better have a good survival plan for them. This is what got us into this mess in the first place and set us back decades.
quote: My stand is that nobody is entitled to Igbo lives just like that. That some of my kinsmen chose to do business in ugwu awusa does not mean they should be killed. Anybody killing any Igbo any how will pay a price in due course.
I Agree 100%.
If we cannot protect these guys or allow them to protect themselves, disban period.
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To hell with the non-violent movement of MASSOB! It is a cheap strategy in the nigerian context, where the opponent - the backward nigerian government - only acts against Igbo interests and has not moved up to the level of civil and non-violent liberation philosophy.
You can see the futility of non-violent struggles in the affairs of nations or people. States or organizations that win more often and enjoy higher living standards are those that are willing to pursue their vision of controlling others regardless of the cost in human lives. That Africans have made no progress in material development is because they have failed to remain pro-active in the use of violence to achieve any objective. NO VIOLENCE, NO GLORY!! On the other hand, the Hausa/Fulani are in control of parts of Yorubaland today - and advancing - because they made the necessary expense in human life to achieve islamic inroads in Odua country.
We are late to the game, but better late than never. Non-violence by MASSOP is a failed strategy and puts the organization in a position of hopeless weakness. NdiIgbo must not be associated with weakness. Therefore, MASSOB must rethink its methods now, and immediately equip a military wing to carry out gorrilla warfare with the nigerian state. It is crazy to have armed nigerian forces in a major ambushed confrontation with defenceless MASSOB in Biafra, with 50 Biafran citizens dead, without exacting a higher price on the nigerian riffrafs. Where is the deterrence?
Again, we must accept huge looses in human life to achieve our goal of actualizing Biafra. Our struggle is just. Otherwise, ndiIgbo must call off the battle right now, join the failed state, and accept a full membership of the inept "DARK CONTINENT" run by the likes of Olusegun Obasanjo. What a nightmare!
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The strategy of Ndigbo should change and introduce a well-organised military wing similar to IRA. I feel sad when some of you here use OPC as an example. OPC is a disorganised tool that the yoruba used to blackmail or checkmate hausas from time to time. We should be using something much better. Something that cannot be bought! Something that cannot be intimidated! Something that once it starts, will not give up no matter the cost!
The time is ripe in Biafranigeria to commence a guerilla war that will bring the Government to its knees very quickly.
The "south-south" have created a precedent The Biafranigeria army is at it's weakest ever period in history The international community will most likely listen now The west (US and UK) will most likely not want to deal with a moslem state any longer
This should commence with the elimination of all Igbo traitors used by the government against ndigbo!
I'm very very busy so I shall be drifting in and out of this thread.
Cheers,
OU
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I've always beleived that a militant Biafra movement is the only solution to our eventual disengagement from nigeria. I didn't want to put it forward out here in any discussion since BNW, BAF etc has non violence as a critical part of it's foundation. Like, ednut said b4, massob should either disband or go underground. Nigeria is not civilized enough for non-violent methods to make any impact. Each of those precious lives lost was worth more than 20 of those murderous nonentities that ambushed them. Infact, it doesn't even qualify as an ambush. This is simply a premeditated mass homicide. Igbo lives should be made as expensive as possible from now onwards. We need to be prepared for an effective confrontation if it comes to that and the key lies with all Igbos both at home and abroad as well as those currently at the helm of affairs of the south eastern states. If only they could revitalize our local industries and Agricultural sector and acheive greater self sufficiency. Unfortunately, majority of our people may not be ready since the taumar of the last war is still lingering. Presently, we are not ready in any shape or form ready to resist nigeria militarily. It will take a some yrs to prepare and logistics will be the biggest problem. It's very important that our people should make contingency plans while we are still co-existing with this dark hole called nigeria. How long will this killing go on? . I still doubt it if our people will make hay while the sun is still shining since we always react when it's too late. A race with a population of 30milion+ has every right to self determination as well as rule her own destiny.
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I am just curious about how you reached the conclusion that BNW is a resistance movement or that BNW "has non violence as a critical part of it's foundation?" Please, explain.
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Ike, I never said that BNW is a resistance movement. My perception of BNW is just as a platform where biafrans can discuss issues affecting them as well as exchange ideas. Unless I'm mistaken which I doubt because I remember reading about nonviolence as the acceptable way of actualizing biafra. Even massob also beleives in this nonviolence. I'd suggest u check out the BAF website. If you listen to VOBI you'll hear the newscaster reiterate this point.
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