Ordinarily, one should not bother to respond to an ill-informed lay person who has chosen to dabble into a subject matter in the law. In this case, Oguchi Nkwocha is way over his head. But, one needs not address any legal issues to dislodge the silliness in what Oguchi Nkwocha has written.
I hope that Mr. Anichedo's response below (redacted) serves as a lesson to anyone like Oguchi Nkwocha who sets out to use the Internet for telling lies. I cannot believe that a loose canon like Oguchi Nkwocha, who engages in such reckless statements is the spokesperson for a group that wishes to be taken seriously on the life and death issues of Biafra. Unfortunately, and from its silence, there is every reason to believe that Oguchi Nkwocha's outbursts were approved by BF leadership. No wonder that group is associated with a pathos, a culture of lies; and everything associated with BF, from "Biafra House" to "VOBI" has become nothing but laughable fiction.
Yes, for many years now, my e-mail address has been adaeze@voiceofbiafra.com. You can verify that from persons who have written me from this board and many people, including some in the BF/Ekwenche mailing list at Yahoo with whom I have worked privately on the Biafra question. I am told that several of them are or were members of that BF/Ekwenche mailing list at Yahoo.
Some years ago, I was urged to provide free legal services in support of a UN petition spearheaded by Uwazuruike's designated representative of MASSOB in the US. Of course, my very first step was to verify that the woman in question was indeed properly designated as MASSOB's rep in the US. After I completed my investigations, I obliged. Before then, I was already using the voiceofbiafra.com e-mail address paid for by the operators of the original Voice of Biafra whose web address is http://voiceofbiafra.com. From my BBC subscription, there is a long record going back many years of my use of the voiceofbiafra.com address. Thus, it is simply idiotic for anyone to suggest that voiceofbiafra.com was recently registered to take traffic away from Nkwocha's phantom "VOBI," which I am informed did not even begin to pretend to exist until October 2001. Voice of Biafra located at http://voiceofbiafra.com predates the BF/EkweNche "VOBI." Thus, it is fraudulent and absurd to claim that the original Voice of Biafra was created to divert traffic from "VOBI." Anyone supporting that claim after it was made is a crook after the fact.
Sometime ago, I read that a certain member of BF was a judge. Judges should first be lawyers. Unfortunately, what has become shamefully evident from the loose tongue of Oguchi Nkwocha is that his group has no lawyer who would have advised it on the proper steps to take before choosing a name for the group or its organs, even if such organs are only intended to be used later. A simple legal search conducted before picking the name "VOBI" would have revealed that Voice of Biafra was already in existence and had a website at http://voiceofbiafra.com. That is what happens to people who decide to be their own lawyer because they are foolish victims of pedestrian clichés about legal services. BF represents a uniquely disturbing case of the blind leading the blind.
Like others, I don't understand why these BF people insist on dragging MASSOB or Uwazuruike into every dispute that they get themselves into. Perhaps it is because their particular faction of BF is mainly an Okigwe group. If on account that Uwazuruike is from Okigwe, some "local champions" in BF are bent on reducing Uwazuruike's MASSOB to a clannish group, then, we shall see that support for the group is confined to the clan that those BF goons come from. It is time for Uwazuruike to come out openly and rebuke these BF criminals, or he risks being associated with the crimes they are committing with his name.
If Ralph Uwazuruike is not able to see that he is being used by cranks like Oguchi Nkwocha for their own selfish purposes, then it is time for some of us to re-examine our support for Uwazuruike and his faction of MASSOB. The Biafra struggle must be led by people who can detect the type of fraud represented by these crooks from the Okigwe axis and their beshevelled allies who are only supporting Uwazuruike because "he is from our place." After all, there are many genuine Biafra organizations led by sharp intellectuals with the heart to do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may.
quote: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Fwd: [excalibur] On Voice of Biafra, BiafraNet, BNW, and Support for Uwazuruike/MASSOB] Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 03:22:31 -0400 From: …. Reply-To: …
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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [excalibur] On Voice of Biafra, BiafraNet, BNW, and Support for Uwazuruike/MASSOB Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 02:59:04 -0400 From: …. To: ….
Nd'Igbo and Biafrans:
I suggested earlier that Oguchi Nkwocha is a mean-spirited liar. For Mr. Oguchi Nkwocha's selfish reasons, he is determined to manufacture enemies for Chief Ralph Uwazuruike. Oguchi Nkwocha has claimed that voiceofbiafra.com was "registered recently," and that the Biafrans at BNW dislike Uwazuruike. Anyone who has any brains should read the contents of following link in its entirety. The discussion took place in June 2001 at the BNW Message Board.
After reading the discussion, two things should be absolutely clear:
1) that Voice of Biafra, located at http://www.voiceofbiafra.com is older than Mr. Oguchi Nkwocha's "VOBI," and many Biafrans were already enjoying the use of the voiceofbiafra.com e-mail addresses long before there was anything like "VOBI."
2) that No group has shown more support for Chief Uwazuruike or MASSOB than the Biafrans at BNW and the sponsors of BiafraNet and the original Voice of Biafra.
Particularly, note the post below made by Ambrose on June 14, 2001 at 10:18 PM. That post was made more than three months before Mr. Oguchi Nkwocha's so-called "VOBI" was created in October 2001. Once again, one has to ask, what does Mr. Oguchi Nkwocha mean when he claims that voiceofbiafra.com was "recently created?"
Ambrose Senior Advocate Advocate # 6
Advocate Rated:
posted June 14, 2001 10:18 PM
Amanda and Ohafia: For the tremendous efforts and remarkable jobs you guys have done in this Magnificent forum, I have ordered a special email address on your behalf. All you need to do is send your username to: webmaster@voiceofbiafra.com. Your email address would be anyname@voiceofbiafra.com. Once again, thanks for your efforts.
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If the new nation of Biafra is founded on lies, it will not be long before it collapses just like Nigeria is bound to collapse. For telling lies like the one Mr. Oguchi told a few days ago, he and those behind his lies are more dangerous to Chief Uwazuruike and MASSOB than Obasanjo and the rogue state called Nigeria.
How do you know that BF/Ekwenche did not know about Voice of Biafra at http://voiceofbiafra.com before they registered their VOBI? I think it was clear to them that Voice of Biafra was already in existence. They know why they registered it anyway.
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It is essential that umuigbo participate more in Igbo affairs, at least by making their voices heard. It is the only way of preventing a few people doing whatever they like in the name of Nd'igbo, including lying and manipulating others.
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This puts things in perspective, a lot. Have the leaders of that group apologized for stealing that name?
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Dear fellow proud to be Igbo, I believe the more we respond to this benin chap (othniel) the more we give him the avenue to continue his insult, which unfortunately as a youth he does not see. In his mind insults could only come in the form of words like "idiot, stupid, fool" and the like without the realization that when you make fun of someone's last name for instance it is considered a form of insult.
Please encourage the other Igbo/Biafrans to give him the silent treatment no matter how provocative he might get and will get. This would ultimately spell his end take it from someone who knows. As you can tell he and his fellow traitors are yet to attempt an answer on my simple question. Know why? None exists, zero zip! You also may have noticed my behavior (ignore) lately towards him until they answer my simple question "what is the LITERAL meaning of Benin?" Don't you think if he has the slightest meaning of this word with his rate & frequency of posting the info would have been swift in coming? To his credit, his direct rudeness seems to be subsiding lately unlike his earlier writings which portrayed someone on sugar in overdrive. I'm done.
To the Yoruba who might have a twisted opinion about me based on my strong expose of the evil they (male) have committed on my race let me share an experience this past Sunday.
While I was engaged in a tete-a-tete with a couple of friends, a Yoruba lady with her mother and little ones were having a hard time getting over a culvert I did what the Igbo do best I broke my conversation and ran to their rescue. It was the Igbo in me and all Igbo that propelled me as I am sure she and her family are not enemies of mine. Can a Yoruba/Benin speak similarly? Hmmm?
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2482 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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What I can conclude from this Voice of Biafra issue is that the group BF understands that the first person or group to register and use the Voice of Biafra name has priority. If so, what does the group plan to do now that they know that the name was already in use by another organization before BF misappropriated it as "VOBI?" If they continue to use the name for their "VOBI," then they are dubious.
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What annoyed me the most about the BF/Ekwenche mailing list was that we were invited there by people named Emmanuel Enekwechi, Oguchi Nkwocha, and Matthew Uzukwu. They told us that everyone had to use their real names. But, when we got there, we found out that most of the people in the BF part of the BF/Ekwenche list were using fake names. Even the ones that seemed to be obeying the real names rule had backup fake names.
If you disagree with them, all of a sudden, you see some unkwown person jump out from the woodworks and blindsight you. I guess that is what my brother Ukaobasi calls "assymetrical" warfare.
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Biafra, I don't belive all this accusations on the person of Dr.Oguchi Nkwaocha, He may not afterall be what you're trying to make us belive he is.
I may suggest that you sort your personal grudges out and not to paint the dog black inother to hang it. Dr. Nkwocha, I belive, is a credible man.
___________________ 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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Please, don't derail this discussion with your one-liner. If you don't have information about what is going on, then keep your mouth shut. If you don't agree with something, be very specific and focus on the issues.
I was one of the people that your "dog" with a good name banned from that mailing list. I know that you are a member of that mailing list and you kept quiet while priests and clergy were being insulted by some strange handles who support your "dog." Your sweet little Oguchi Nkwocha quietly banned many people secretly simply because they disagree with him. Are you going to deny that? Everything Biafra said is true.
Since your tongue is tied over there, who will defend the people that have been banned?
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quote:Please, don't derail this discussion with your one-liner. If you don't have information about what is going on, then keep your mouth shut. If you don't agree with something, be very specific and focus on the issues.
Nwagu,
Count me off your politics of bitter rivelary, if indeed the intentions of you guys is to actualise Biafra, then hasten and put your acts togethere and stop dancing naked in the market place, formulating mafian groups within the Biafran actualisation drive will do you no good.
Yes, I belong to the mailing list, i read mails when i recieve them and I'm not confused about the insults you guys are raining on one another. if you feel that you're unjustly banned by Oguchi, then sue him to court and stop playing innocent.
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quote:i read mails when i recieve them and I'm not confused about the insults you guys are raining on one another. if you feel that you're unjustly banned by Oguchi, then sue him to court and stop playing innocent.
If you know that people were "raining insults on one another," and you don't know who started it, why don't you go and find out, instead of making a fool of yourself in public?
You must be a big joke if you expect people to go to court simply because they were removed from some crummy mailing list. BIG JOKE! And, what makes you think that you will not be "dancing naked in the market place" when you get to court? Is court a secret place? Stop smoking that stuff in Santiago.
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I am saddened by the level of animosity shown towards brothers in this room we cannot be seen as insulting one another in our discussions as there will always be disagreements. We must join as one and speak as one or agree to disagree while allowing our adversaries to engage in the vindictive response to a challenge. The insulting words are what the yoruba and benin use when they address us therefore exercise caution with restrain when responding to another perspective.
Though this is a different thread but to buttress I established my strong opposition to honoring Philip with a picture of him on national currency in the other forum without cursing his supporters instead I made information, Chioma Ezeilo's article that might change their minds available.
Please guys express your dissent without the innuendo if the other perspective is stronger, backed by facts, then the sentimental aspect should be dropped. Let's keep it safe our cause is to break away from the nonsensical arrangement they call nigeria.
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2482 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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Even when some of us knew that those Yahoo mailing lists, especially the BF/Ekwenche one were porous and we knew that Yoruba and Hausa people had access to them, we continued to humor the operators by going there to write about Biafra. So, what some people here think is closed to our enemies, is really open to all. We are only dicussing things here that are already all over yahoo and therefore already in the hands of the Hausa-Fulani/Yoruba.
How can Igbo people tolerate IBB in our midst? No one in Igboland loves Ojukwu more than I do. But, loving Ojukwu is no excuse for anyone to impose IBB tactics on Igbo people or Biafrans.
A few days ago, Emeka Onumonu published an article attacking our respected leader, Dim Ojukwu. I was one of the very first people to go after Onumonu for his baseless attacks on the Ikemba. I even called Onumonu an efulefu for writing that nonsense.
Then, Oguchi Nkwocha who is the moderator of the BF/Ekwenche mailing list initiated a vote. He wanted members of the mailing list to decide if Onumonu should be expelled from the mailing list. He gave a 48-hour period for everone to submit their vote. After the vote ended, 98% of the voters voted that Onumonu should not be removed from the list. Then, suddenly, Oguchi Nkwocha went underground for two days. When he re-emerged, he sent all of us a note that he had removed Onumonu from the list.
That was not the end of it. After he removed Onumonu, he went back and removed all the people he thought voted against banning Onumonu. I was a victim of that action. I wrote to Oguchi Nkwocha and warned him that he was behaving like IBB who conducted an election in BiafraNigeria in 1993, and then turned around and annulled it when he did not like the result. That is not the kind of Biafra that we are looking for. Igbo people and Biafrans put a lot of value on the decisions of Oha. Oha had spoken, and one man and his secret cult reversed the decision.
It was the same Oguchi Nkwocha who lied to members of his forum and to Igbo people worldwide that voiceofbiafra.com was registered only recently. If you go to that forum now, what you will see is a BF agent using the handle "John Zimuakor" or "Zimuakor Orji" attacking all the Catholic priests and all other Biafrans that they think were opposed to their Nazi tactics.
Okwyonwuka who is running his mouth here was one of the people who voted in support of removing Onumonu from the BF/Ekwenche mailing list. He knows more than he is telling. The funny thing about the whole thing is that Onumonu who is in Ekwenche was one of the creators of the mailing list, even though Oguchi Nkwocha manipulated his way to take control.
If we don't write these things down now, a few years from now, they will start fabricating lies and some unsuspecting people will buy it. We are not going to permit an IBB type of Biafra to emerge.
That was not the end of it. After he removed Onumonu, he went back and removed all the people he though voted against banning Onumonu. I was a victim of that action...
If we don't write these things down now, a few years from now, they will start fabricating lies and some unsuspecting people will buy it...
On Aburi We Stand.
Efulefu is a common Igbo expression as far as I’m concerned no biggy. Without equivocating you're right to trash someone who came out firing insults to any of our venerable elders back in BIAFRA or anywhere for that matter in the same manner I handled the young lad who didn't see his wanton inquisition on BIAFRA as insult on the Igbo.
The second line is a serious African disease that has no place there given the moderator’s attempted democratic call on you guys to decide how the errant fella should be handled. Needless to inform ya that your being a victim of the boot cranked me up I’m still rofl (rolling on the floor laughing). Democracy African style?
Lastly, I support our effort to set the record straight for posterity, as our children of the yore would not forgive us if we don’t. All I say is let’s remember as you rightly opined that the foreigners to our land have access to our tete-a-tete.
By the way there should be some measures taken to filter who gets on. Some sites should be reserved for authentic Igbo only if it means forwarding application with verifiable info to accredit that individual's Igbo heritage so be it. I’m not sure if an Igbo can be allowed to infiltrate Odua or Arewa forum without being deluged with hostile replies and the inevitability of access denial to the Igbo.
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2482 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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Biafra, Let me put things in black and white to you and before every body and permit you to continue "running your mouth".
I had been a regular reader with little or no contribution to the referred yahoo free forum, on many occasions, I had read you insult Oguchi Nkwocha with baseless accusations like "blatant and habitual lair". I also observed that Oguchi Nkwocha either ignores your accusations or come out with some modest explanation to you, I am also aware that you always post part of this forum discussions to the mailing list without hindrance.
I do not know Oguchi Nkwocha, neither do I have anything with him, the first and only time i had personal communication with Oguchi was about two and half years ago when i wrote him on his capacity as the moderator of the forum to find-out some facts about my mails. My recent reaction was only when i read one Emeka Onumonu who has been a regular contributor to the forum heap insults on the person of Dim Ojukwu and arrogating to himself all knowledge on Igbo heritage and wisdom. If Emeka was the fonder of the mailing list, I do not know, my only concern was about his habit of penchant insults on Dim Ojukwu and Chief Uwazulike .
When the said vote was called for, I voted that he be removed from the list to stop further distractions, the reason for my vote was quite explained on my voting mail to the forum. I do not know if Oguchi stole your trademark or not, I do not belong to BF/Ekwenche or whatever, what i know i have just explained.
My take is take is that you are attacking the man unjustly, try to put personal dislike on yourself and stop polluting the mind of other people about somebody who has done no evil.
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quote:Originally posted by okwyonwuka:May 13, 2004 08:53 PM
Biafra, I don't belive all this accusations on the person of Dr.Oguchi Nkwaocha, He may not afterall be what you're trying to make us belive he is.
I may suggest that you sort your personal grudges out and not to paint the dog black inother to hang it. Dr. Nkwocha, I belive, is a credible man.
The next day, on May 14, 2004 06:27 PM, Okwyonwuka wrote:
quote:I do not know Oguchi Nkwocha, neither do I have anything with him, the first and only time i had personal communication with Oguchi was about two and half years ago when i wrote him on his capacity as the moderator of the forum to find-out some facts about my mails.
Will the real Okwyonwuka please stand up? By the way, were you not the same person who came up here and told this board that you were not a member of the Ikenga Think Tank, when many of us knew that you requested membership and you were approved. You have been advised to keep your mouth shut about things you don't know. I suggest you heed that advice.
Na real wah oh! Ibi like say u don dey get long tail come be agbalagba wey no dey fear. Dat "running your mouth" pass man oh. So Biafra go let u pass dis one ehn? Na real wah!
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If you're looking for another okwyonwuka, don't worry for i have taken my destiny into my own hands and the rest is now history.
Yes, i stand on everything word i wrote on my last post, if you have facts to prove me wrong, please demonstrate them without using unnecessary treat.
It's funny that you raised the Ikenga Think Tank issue here, I suspect some ulterior motives, nevertheless, I was very sincere to forumites on that issue and the person that communicated the approval to me on can only attest to that.
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quote:I do not know Oguchi Nkwocha, neither do I have anything with him...
If you don't know the guy and you have nothing with him, why then are you opening your fly-trap on this issue when you know he is the central person involved?
Do you have anything to add about this topic? You are not making any sense.
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Some confused clowns in the BF/Ekwenche mailing list said that there must be no advertisements on sites that deal with Biafra; they said it comercializes the struggle. So, I visited their mailing list at yahoo.
Do you know that the BF/Ekwenche mailing list is now peddling all sorts of advertisements on its site and selling Biafra cheap? Check this out.
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Does that make you want to scream hypocrisy? If you don't want to buy Safari planners or sky auctions, hey, they have even taken Biafra itself to the auction block at eBay.
Let me add my voice to this so-called "Ekwenche." All indications point to the raw fact it could be a branch of WIC or Ohana... whatever therefore should be ignored (unsubscribe). If it quarks like a duck, walks like it, it sure as hell is.
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2482 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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