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NIGERIA IS A COUNTRY OF PATHOLOGICAL LIARS; BIAFRA IS A COUNTRY OF TRUTH AND HONESTY.
If you have a friend who insists on building his entire life on an unending series of lies, untruths, and falsehoods, you must conclude that one day this person’s life will crash and disintegrate like a clay pot falling from a palm tree. And so it has been with Nigeria, a country of pathological liars; a country established on one big lie (UNITY); nurtured on big lies; ruled and administered by big liars; and whose institutions of government (police, army, uniformed services, civil service, the judiciary, the legislature, the executive) are built on big lies and manned by big liars.
Over the years the big lies and the big liars who told them have infiltrated every fabric of the Nigerian society and soaked them with its message of lies, and falsehoods. Today every single strand of people, every ethnic group, every social stratum, every social organization, every profession, every institution, has, like a sponge absorbed this message and now lives, breathes, and feeds itself on lies, untruths, and falsehoods. Now, the catastrophe which befalls the pathological liar, like an ominous hurricane cloud has descended on Nigeria and there is no escape. Nigeria is caught in the whirlwind of its lies, its deceptions, its falsehoods, and yes its destruction and it will crash and disintegrate.
From the amalgamation of the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria, to Nigeria’s independence, to Yakubu Gowon’s “Go On With One Nigeria”, to Nigerian Population Census, to 12, 19, 30 and 36 State Structure, to Constitutional Arrangements since 1960, to Petroleum Decree 1969, Land Use Decree 1978,to Nigerian Parliamentary and Presidential Elections, Political Transitions, to Second, Third and Fourth Republics, to Revenue Allocation Formula, to Operation Feed the Nation, Better Life for Rural Women in NICON NUGA, to MAMSA, PTF, SAP, NDO, DIFFRI, VISION 2010, all have been one big lie upon another, upon another, upon another told by big, pathological liars who have lost any pangs of conscience and have simply degenerated into psychopaths.
In 1900 Lord Lugard took a close look at the peoples of Northern and Southern Nigeria and declared as follows: “The North and the South are like oil and water, they will never mix.” Then he went ahead and amalgamated them, lied to himself and to them that they are “One country (Nigeria) and one people”. They have been living this lie since 1900 and have been killing each other in millions.
In 1964 Chief Obafemi Awolowo described Nigeria as “a mere geographical __expression” and stated categorically that Nigeria is not one country. Three years later in 1967, he accepted the post of Vice Chairman of the Supreme Military Council under Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon and collaborated with other Northerners who had slaughtered more than 50,000 innocent people of Eastern Nigeria in launching a war “To Keep Nigeria One”. He also orchestrated the starving to death of two million people of Eastern Nigeria origin during that war. He was lying to himself and the people of Nigeria? In 1964, Chief Anthony Enahoro stated in his book “Fugitive Offender that unity is meaningless if it must be maintained by force. He said, “…unity can now only be achieved by persuasion and voluntary acceptance”. Two years after making this noble declaration he became a turn coat and joined Yakubu Gowon and Awolowo in declaring, and fighting a genocidal war to force Biafra back into Nigeria and in overseeing the starving to death of two million Biafrans children, pregnant women, old women and old men. He was lying to himself and deceiving the people of Nigeria. In 1975 when General Abacha wanted to kill him he ran away to the United Stated and in April 1997, in a speech to the Yoruba National Convention the same Chief Enahoro told the audience that the true problem in Nigeria and indeed sub-Saharan Africa is the failure to recognize self determination of true Nation States distinct from the creatures and relics of imperialist marriages and actually suggested to the Yoruba gathered at the convention: “you would have to seek your people’s destiny outside Nigeria.” Flip Flop Enahoro once again was lying to himself and deceiving the people to whom he was talking.
When the protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria were amalgamated, the Sarduana of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello declared it “A Mistake” and pursued a northernization policy that classified and treated Easterners as strangers in Northern Nigeria. Yet he insisted that revenue generated by and from the resources of the people of Eastern Nigeria be disproportionately allocated to Northern Nigeria. He was lying to himself and the people of Nigeria?
In 1964 Alhaji Usman Liman, (Sarikin Musawa) declared in the Northern House of Assembly: “East is for Easterners, West for Westerners, and North for Northerners, and the Federation for us all.” Where is the federation we ask? On July 29, 1966, Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon, the leader of the July Coup read an address to Nigerians in which he stated: “taking all things into consideration, the basis for unity does not exist.” Exactly one year later on July 6, 1967, he launched a genocidal war against the people Biafra. His reason? To unite Nigeria - to keep Nigeria One. He was lying to himself and the people of Nigeria?
During the Ad Hoc Conference on the Nigerian constitution convened by Yakubu Gowon in September 1966, the Northern Nigeria delegation stated as follows: “All Nigerians realize the advantages of a united country which is economically strong, politically and socially stable and respected all over Africa and the entire globe. Recent events have shown that for Nigerian leaders to try and build a future for the country on rigid political ideology will be idealistic and disastrous. We have pretended for too long that there are no differences between the peoples of this country. The hard fact which we must honestly accept as of paramount importance in the Nigerian experiment especially for the future is that we are different peoples brought together by the recent accident of history. To pretend otherwise will be folly.” It was the same political and military leaders from Northern Nigeria who allied with their counterparts from Western Nigeria and declared a genocidal war on the people of Biafra ostensibly “To Keep Nigeria One”. Even today you still hear Nigerian political and military leaders including some people from Eastern Nigeria lying to themselves and to Nigerians that the peoples of Nigeria are “One.” We ask them now, when will you stop lying to yourselves and to Nigerians?
The people of Eastern Nigeria were slaughtered in three waves beginning on May 29, July 29, September 29 1966. Each time it lasted more than two weeks. By the middle October 1966, Northern Nigeria soldiers, policemen, and civilians had killed more than 50,000 civilian Easterners including Igbo, Efik, Ekoi, Ibibio, Ijaw, Ogoja, Ogoni, Anang, Kalabari, etc. Here is the Time Magazine eye witness account of what happened: “The massacre began at the airport near the 5th battalion home city of Kano. A Lagos bound jet had just arrived from London and as the Kano passengers were escorted into the customs shed, a wild eyed soldier stormed in brandishing a rifle and demanding “Ina Nyamiri” the Hausa for “where are the damned Igbos? There were Igbo among the customs officers and they dropped their chalk and fled only to be shot down in the main terminal by other soldiers. Screaming the blood curse of a Moslem Holy war, the Hausa troops turned the airport into a shambles, bayoneting Igbo workers in the bar, gunning them down in the corridors, and hurling Igbo passengers off the plane to be first lined up then shot.” Time Magazine October 14, 1966.
“From the airport the troops fanned out through downtown Kano hunting down Igbo in bars, hotels and on the streets. One contingent drove their land rovers to the rail road station where more than 100 Igbo were waiting for a train and cut them down with automatic weapons fire. The soldiers did not have to do all the killing. They were soon joined by thousands of Hausa civilians who rampaged through the city armed with stones, cutlasses, machetes, and homemade weapons of metal and broken glass. Crying Heathen! and Allah! the mobs and troops invaded Sabon Gari (strangers quarters) ransacking, looting, and burning Igbo homes and stores and murdering their owners. All night long and into the morning the massacre went on. Then tired but fulfilled, the Hausas drifted back to their homes to have breakfast and sleep. Municipal garbage trucks were sent out to collect the dead and dump them into mass graves outside the city.”
Walter Partington of the London Daily Express reported thus: “ I talked in Kaduna with the Airline Charter Pilot who flew hundreds of Igbo to safety last week. He said that the death toll must be far in excess of 3,000. I talked to families who fled from the bush town of Nguru, 176 miles North. They escaped in about three Land rovers from the town where about fifty Igbo were murdered by mobs drunk on beer in some European shops. In Jos Charter pilots who have been airlifting Igbo to Eastern safety talked of at least 800 dead. In Zaria, forty five miles from Kaduna, I talked with a saffron-robed Hausa who told me: We killed about 250 here. Perhaps Allah willed it.”
Collin Legum in the London Observer of October 16, 1966 summed up the situation as follows: “Men women and children arrived with arms and legs broken, hands hacked off, mouths split open. Pregnant women were cut open and the unborn children killed. After a fortnight the scene in the Eastern Region continues to be reminiscent of the ingathering of exiled into Israel after the end of the last war. The parallel is not fanciful. ”
John Bulloch of the London Daily Telegraph, October 22 1966 reported: “This uninhibited violence has been put forward as another hysterically spontaneous demonstration of Northern dislike of the Ibos. That might be accepted if the massacres had spread in a chain reaction. But they did not. In Kano, Kaduna, Jos, Zaria and a dozen other places the killings all began about 7.00 pm on Saturday. At each place Hausa soldiers with loaded weapons were on hand, with gangs of young thugs imported from the surrounding countryside to help the troops. These groups were armed not only with sticks and machetes but also with typed lists of addresses of Ibos.”
What was described here by these European journalists happened in every city, town and village in Northern Nigeria in 1966. Yet when Obasanjo set up the Oputa Judicial Panel in 1999 the Arewa Consultative Forum went before this Panel and blatantly lied that no Easterners were ever killed in Northern Nigeria in 1966. If these people could lie about clearly documented slaughter of thousands of Easterners by Northerners in 1966, what will they not lie about?
Yakubu Gowon in 1966 lied about the constitutional conference and then dismissed the conference when delegates from the West, East, and Midwest recommended confederation. Then he went to the Aburi conference in Ghana where all the military governors including Yakubu Gowon agreed on confederation. When Gowon came back to Lagos he lied and reneged on the Aburi Agreement. Then the string of lies continued – every other constitution since then has been one big bundle of lies, deceit and untruth. During census of 1963, the government of Northern Nigeria suddenly became desert explorers and discovered new magic kingdoms in the desert jacking their population up from 22 million to 31 million in three months and making the desert North more densely populated than the rich lowlands of the Niger and Benue river basins. Western Nigeria also jacked their population up from 8 million to 11 million in three months. Only the East and Mid West remained the same; the East from 12.4 million to 12.4 million and the Mid West from 2.2 million to 2.5 million. Out of jealousy and greed for the Oil resources in Eastern Nigeria the North and West lied and passed what they called the Petroleum Edict, Land Use decree, then the Revenue Allocation Edict designed to steal the resources that rightly belonged to the people of Eastern and Mid Western Nigeria.
Parliamentary and Presidential elections have become jokes as all have been nothing but lies. When Babangida wanted to be civilian president he lied and set up MAMSA and NDO. DIFFRI, OFN were lies told by Obasanjo which produced no food but millions of dollars for his Ota farm. Better Life for rural women was a blatant lie told by Miriam Babangida and happened only in Nicon Noga Hotel Abuja. PTF was one huge lie told by Abacha and Buhari to benefit the North. And so on and so on and so on.
Gowon, Babangida, Obasanjo, Abacha, Abubakar, Buhari, Shagari, what will you call them? You call them compulsive pathological liars. Look at every thing each of them has done and point at one truth in their behavior. There is none. Nigeria has choked on the vomit of her own lies and will drown in her own river of lies and deception. Biafra Foundation calls on all men and women of conscience, all honest Biafrans and Nigerians and indeed all progressive people throughout Africa and the world to tear down this monster called Nigeria. Nigeria is antagonistic to freedom, liberty, democracy, justice, peace, prosperity and the welfare of Black people and indeed of free people everywhere. Its demolition will usher in freedom for the largest concentration of Black people in the world.
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The biggest lie of all has to be Ndi Igbo who against all prove continue to commit the unimaginable of still preaching ‘One Nigeria’, when as back as 1953, June 1, it had already become crystal clear that Nigeria was a mirage or a 419 by Britain against the Nations that make up Nigeria.
But why should I preach when a research by Ekwe Nche Research Institute/Organization gives us the full gist from as far back as 1953!
“The roots of the trouble are not in colonial oppression (in modern Nigeria, there is none) but in the casual lumping together of conservative Northern Moslems with precocious Southern Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity” - TIME
TIME Foreign News Bloodshed in Nigeria
Jun. 1, 1953 Long-legged, black Haussa farmers in white robes and turbans loped into mud-walled Kano (pop. 120,000), the largest city in Northern Nigeria. Near the green-domed mosque, the Haussa mingled with their Moslem coreligionists, the fierce Fulani, and waited in the midday sun for the decision that would come from the palace. Abdullah Bayero, the fat and scented Emir of Kano, was wrestling with a problem. Both the royal flatterer and the court jester cowered in the background as he pounded across the Oriental rugs in the baked mud stronghold. At last the emir spoke: "Tell the Southerner my answer is no." State of Emergency. The Southerner was Samuel Ladoke Akintola (B.A., Oxon), slick-talking Yoruba lawyer who had just resigned as Minister of Labor in Nigeria's central Council of Ministers. A nationalist who wants home rule (within the British Commonwealth) by 1956, Akintola had journeyed to Kano hoping to arrange a meeting which would whip up Northern enthusiasm for his independence movement. Apparently he had forgotten, or did not care, that the proud Moslem emirs of the Northern region have no taste for independence if it means exchanging their British masters—who in the main are just, if aloof—for a group of African Oxonians recruited in the coastal cities. Kano is a city that flourished in the days of Scheherazade; its sturdy peasantry, like 11 million other Northern Moslems, loftily disdain the nimbler-witted Ibos and Yorubas who dominate Southern Nigeria. When Emir Abdullah's decision was announced, Haussa and Fulani alike broke away from their mosque and poured into the Saba N'Gari (Stranger's Quarter), where 60,000 Ibos and Yorubas conduct Kano's retail business. Rioting went on for three days; when it was all over last week, 45 were dead, 200 injured. Speechmaker Akintola was bundled into a government plane and shipped back South, where he promptly indicted his attackers as "victims of imperialism, who have lived so long in bondage as to lose every taste for liberty." Constitutional Flop. In far-off London, the House of Commons showed its alarm. Nigeria, more than twice the size of California and rich in palm oil, tin and perhaps uranium, is Britain's most populous (30 million) colony. Under a federal constitution promulgated in 1951, it seemed to be driving hard towards self-government, along the same boisterous lines as its rival-neighbor, Prime Minister Nkrumah's Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9). Yet last week the Colonial Office admitted that the constitution was a flop, and Nigeria in a jam. The roots of the trouble are not in colonial oppression (in modern Nigeria, there is none) but in the casual lumping together of conservative Northern Moslems with precocious Southern Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity. The Ibos, about 3,000,000 strong, live east of the steamy valley of the Niger, Africa's third-largest river. Their leader, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, 48, is a U.S.-educated tub-thumper whose chain of bush newspapers helped him launch Nigeria's most powerful political party. In the Southwest, an equal number of Yorubas make their headquarters in Ibadan (pop. 400,000), Africa's largest native city, and support Zik's chief rival, 43-year-old Barrister Obafemi Awolowo. Usually Zik and Awolowo fight each other, but when they got together in support of independence by 1956, the two-sided South was united for race against the Moslem North. Result: bloodshed in the streets of Kano.
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You do not understand the issues. Asiegbu, as an individual, can have any opinion he wants. But, check out his article, he was reported and quoted as the President of ASA-USA, in which case, and even by his own admission, he was writing on behalf of and speaking for ASA-USA. That is wrong.
And, even though it is also wrong for Asiegbu to appoint himself the "People's Servant," we can forgive his immaturity and grandiosity: fact is, no one appointed him that but himself, and he is not acting like a Servant, any way; he is acting for himself AND BY HIMSELF only. Pity, he believes in his little mind that he is speaking as the "Servant" of the "People."
So, you need to understand the issues. I also want to disabuse your mind of another wrong notion. Come 2007 (assuming 2007 comes to Nigeria before Nigeria implodes on her own), the only Igbo you will find in Nigeria are the likes of Asiegbu who will be there to continue to entertain you remnant Nigerians with his rubbish. Igbo is Biafra, and Biafra will not be in Nigeria in 2007.
Life is not about "sharing booty," which is the way it is in Nigeria, which is precisely why Nigeria is going to blazes. That's another reason to have Biafra where we can use our God-given potential to Create and to Give, rather than to steal and to take. That's why we shall have Biafra; there has to be a place where Corruption, Parasitism, Hypocrisy, Exploitation, Robbery, and such, shall no longer run, rule and ruin peoples' lives. Hopefully, whatever Ethnic Nation you belong to, will have also figured out that for themselves, and will not continue in your current delight with sharing booties as Nigerians. But, that's your choice--it's really a free world; WE CHOOSE BIAFRA.
It's one thing for the one-eyed man to lead the blind. It's another for a blind to FOOL HIMSELF into thinking that he sees enough to lead those with two seeing eyes; when the blind man's friends humor him by agreeing with him, that is truly cruelty!
I bet neither you nor Asiegbu even knew that the Igbo built Abuja? How would you know the reported fact that the Igbo provide 80% of the services in Abuja today, but the Northerners own 80% of the certificates of occupancy--all by deliberate arrangement in which land and business property ownership was denied the Igbo, so that the Igbo can only "lease" from the Northern landlords in Abuja? I bet you don't even know what El Rufai did just this year against the Igbo doing business and providing services in Abuja. For your information, investment in Abuja is not news to the Igbo. The Igbo know about it. The problem is that Nigeria and its agents--Obasanjo, El Rufai, the Yoruba and the Northerners, change the rules to keep the Igbo out. If you knew this, (of course, that still would not make any difference for you) you wouldn't be too keen to praise the kind of Igbo you Nigerians like--those who praise those who are cheating and killing their own Igbo people, like Asiegbu.
Obasanjo is only a personification, in the current dispensation, of Nigeria's ongoing anti-Igbo/Biafran policy--the ripe head of a huge, malignant pimple whose aim is to destroy and scar the face of Igbo-Biafra. Since Nigerians acquiesce to such a policy and actually enjoy helping Obasanjo and other Nigerian agents carry it out, Nigerians are in fact the body of that ugly pimple. IN spite of that, Biafra lives! That, Tina, is the big picture. And, never you forget it.
Oguchi Nkwocha, MD. Nwa Biafra A Biafran Citizen
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quote:Nigeria (is) a mirage or a 419 by Britain against the Nations that make up Nigeria.-- Oha Ka
I fully agree and proof abounds as Harold smith , ex colonial officer in Nigeria, reveales more facts on 20 August 2005 on the libertas home page.
quote: "In many respects," Smith says, "it was difficult to detect in the North where the British administration ended and Northern rule began. Thus, through a cynical display of horse dealing, the 1959 Federal election became a mockery, because the outcome - Northern domination of Nigeria after independence - was assured before a single vote was cast.
"The Northerners never really wanted the British to leave. They feared the Southerners more than the British. The British and the Northern elite worked so closely together that differences of policy could hardly exist. The British claimed that the Northerners demanded - and must have - 50% of all the seats in a Federal legislature. Was it really the Emirs who thought this up or did the British put them up to it? The British agreed anyway... Whoever controlled the NPC controlled the North and the whole of Nigeria. As the British and the Emirs were inseparable, elections were a mere formality.
"This is the story of evil committed by kind, nice, decent British politicians. They sought to keep Britain from bankruptcy and found a solution in the mineral-rich Empire on the point of independence. It was necessary to bend the rules and sadly, in due course the rules were totally forgotten. Those who got in the way were innocent but had to be dealt with quite harshly."--Harold Smith
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In as much as Nigeria has been and continues to be a figment of the imagination of our colonial masters, who thought it their God given right to determine our national structure, to impose upon the will of our people this treacherous relationship which has driven our people to the brink of destruction, subjected us to a genocidal war, far exceeding in numbers even Rwanda, and yet which the western world and Nigeria herself has seen fit to brush under the carpet, in as much as all this was covertlt done, we will not rest until this misdeed is unravelled,thread by thread. Apeople cannot be held by force, a country is a willing association of peoples. We have declared repeatedly, as have the peoples of the south south that we do not want to be a part any longer of the federation of Nigeria. We as a people do not believe that the federal republic of Nigeria can be relied upon to protect the citizens of our region. We are worried about the continued arrest and imprisonment and murdering of igbos that continues in the federal republic of Nigeria. We are worried about the attempts to stop free association ans speech inth e eastern territories. We continue to insist to the world at large, and to all that will listen,that we refuse to recognise the borders drawn up by the colonialists as legal; that these borders were drawn up without any consideration of the tribes of our region. If other African countries choose to recognise the borders that were drawn up by the colonialists is their own affair, however, we must insist upon the illegality of these borders, and just as the biafran war was the first civil war in black subsaharan africa, we must set the example, in being the first black african nation to rectify her borders,in respect to the different tribal affinities.
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ibi like say na babalawo go helip u for dis kain ur kalabule wahala. Abi u won come dabaru di kain gofment wey Unkul Sege come make us dey miliki nyafunyafu so tey we don dey hala say make Unkul sege dey carry us dey go yonder. Which one usef dey? Na real wah!
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In as much as colonialism was illegal, in as much as the domination was done by force, the borders thus construed ina truely arbitrary manner by a foreign people who had no knowledge of our people nor even of our history nor our language, nor even for the most part was there ever at that time expressed any interest in us as a people; and even if so, the final result of these borders, which even if done without express malice can at best be said to have been done in total IGNORANCE and with a lack of appreciation for the different peoples involved.
No matter the motivation or lack thereof, we declare these borders illegal, in so far as they derive their origin from an illegal occupying force namely that of the british colonialists who forcefully annexed Igboland, and thus the continued borders are ileegal as they are a continuity of an illegal border in the first place.
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If the dream of freedom in a totalitarian state of Nigeria is crazy, then surely, i am mad! But better to be mad and dream of Biafra than to be "sane" and tolerate the state of affairs in Nigeria as "normal". We owe you no reason for opting out of your "federation" which wanted to prove its federalism by denying us our basic human rights. We owe you no apologies for "spoiling" your fun, which has been totally at our peoples expense; of course it would be "simpler" for us to putup with the human rights abuses that are ongoing.
But time and again in the history of peoples, silence serves only to exacerbate the abuse, just as is ongoing in Nigria now, as obasanjo imprisons more and more young igbo men and detains them for no reason. Hitler did not stop murdering jews while the world was quiet.
We are left with no choice but to continue to insist upon our right to self determination; to continue to insist until every igbo man and woman is free, free to live in peace and with the dignity that all humans must insist upon. Our failure to insit on our peoples just treatment is our failure as a people ; as long as one igbo man suffers injustice we are all at risk of having our rights denied us.
We must not forget the genocide, and we must always keep alert as to how these genocides started, little by little infringeing upon the rights of a people until the collective mentality became, that these people are not quite 'human'. As long as we remain a part of this infrastructure there will always remain the everpresent danger that the collective Nigerian mentality will once again condone the brutal mass murders of helpless igbo civilians. This my friends, is the sad reality of our existence in Nigeria.
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Unfortunately, merely using words to insist upon a right to self-determination will avail nothing: certain forces within Nigeria shall use violence to maintain their grip upon the Petroleum producing areas of the country as long as no alternative source of income is discovered.
So the question is: what action should be taken?
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“Finally so the question is: what action should be taken?” – Maazi Odogwu
Umu Igbo, we seem to be getting somewhere. We have done the talking, now lets put our money where our mouth is and do the working.
“On the 1 st of July 1998, Ekwe Nche applied for non profit status. On the 13 th of August 1999, the application was approved, and Ekwe Nche became a 501(c)(3) organization.
Below is the article 4 of the articles of incorporation of Ekwe Nche organization:
Article 4. The purposes for which the corporation is organized are:
To worship Almighty God, The Supreme Being, in accordance with Igbo culture and tradition; To promote the religious, cultural, educational, civic, social, literary, economic, scientific and benevolent advancement of Igbo people worldwide; To conduct research in order to facilitate the accurate dissemination of information to be used to actively stop all forms and acts of genocide perpetrated and/or engaged upon Igbo people worldwide; To strive for unity of Igbo people around traditional leadership models focusing towards the realization of a sovereign and independent Igbo nation-state.”
I have included article 4, of the articles of incorporation of Ekwe Nche Organization, to show that it is legal to take the step that I hope we will consider -
“To conduct research in order to facilitate the accurate dissemination of information to be used to actively stop all forms and acts of genocide perpetrated and/or engaged upon Igbo people worldwide;”
Umu Igbo, it is legal to bring a series of legal actions against Nigeria in American courts:
1) Genocide and holocaust; 2) War crimes; 3) Crimes against humanity 4) Illegal seizure of the properties of so called citizens of Nigeria; 5) Marginalization; 6) Pauperization of Igbo – stealing of the wealth of Ndi Igbo (20 Naira exchange)
Just to name a few.
Until the criminals who sanctioned, planned and took part in these barbaric crimes are brought to justice and Nigeria is forced to pay trillions of dollars to those affected, the lives of Ndi Igbo and other oppressed nations in that abomination will be worthless.
Umu Igbo, the part is clear, we have done the talking, now let us put our money and our expertise where our mouth is.
The questions is: are we up to the task?
Oha Ka
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Below is an ongoing discussion, and since is in line with our current discussion, I have taken the liberty to post it as part of our discussion. Hope it will address the fears and doubts of some our brethren who are still sitting on the fence or those that have sold their souls.
Since I did not seek the approval for the posting, I have deleted the names of the discussants.
Oha Ka
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Subject : Re: Special appeal to Igbo attorneys on Biafra Genocide
Ndeewo Maazi &&&&,
If the views expressed by our brethren below, is in line with your concerns, you have nothing to worry about.
Allow me to side track a bit.
For more than thirty years, Ndi Igbo led by their compromised leaders sat on their hands, as was planned by our conquerors, while Oha continued to suffer all kinds of humiliation, marginalization and death. All it took was a handful of brethren, to say no. That Maazi, changed the equation.
Maazi, believe it or not, you are part of a group that happen to be master planners or strategists, with Ama Ama Amasi Amasi in charge. What is being implemented now , was put in place at least eight years ago. One would have expected that after all these years as a member of Ekwe Nche, you will have been convinced that there was something greater than all of us in play.
"It will take at least 3 years of sensitization."
If we were to wait for at least 3 years to sensitize our brethren, we will continue to wait for ever. Had we waited to sensitize our brethren about the Biafara actualization and Igbo renaissance, we will still be waiting!
"You have to water the ground in Nigeria and the international community"
Maazi, the ground has already been watered, those who see the possibilities are already on board, others will follow, for they have no choice in the matter. The Igbo genocide is one of the most documented in history, the world has no choice but address the matter. Ndi Igbo are those holding the world back. Go to court, and the international community will be forced to address our grievance, they have no choice in the matter.
"You have to have sympathetic ethnic groups, not just ndiIgbo signing up for it, or at least indicating that they will not oppose it."
The genocide happened to Ndi Igbo and their neighbors, it is up to each affected group to plot its path. Sympathy is irreverent in this matter, it is about genocide, holocaust and crime against humanity. Each ethnic group has a right to follow a path that is in her best interest. Igbo must plot her path without consideration of what other ethnic groups think, it is irrelevant!
"You have to prepare ndiIgbo who have properties in the North to be ready to bail out because the North will signal this move as an act of aggression"
Nobody bails out, in fact, the safety of our brethren in all parts of the British Birthed Abomination, Nigeria will be guaranteed as soon as the law suit is filed. Remember that all the emirs, all their political leaders at that time and since then were involved. The eye of the world will be on Nigeria, Ndi Igbo, will become the safest group in Nigeria. Nigeria can not afford any more bad press! The matter is beyond Nigeria or even Britain, it is now an international matter, and Britain and Nigeria stand on the wrong side of the law. Maazi, the safety of Igbo will be finally guaranteed when Igbo finally does what Igbo should have done years ago - MAKE NIGERIA AND HER WAR CRIMINAL LEADERS WHO COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY FACE THE MUSIC!
Emeka.
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Umunnaaa:
Please read this piece by attorney &&&& carefully. It addresses some of the concerns in my mind regarding the complexities that will have to be resolved in a genocide action against Nigeria. Read this; I will be interested in your response to what &&&& said.
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Subject: Re: Special appeal to Igbo attorneys on Biafra Genocide Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 1:38 PM
If I decide to sue NdiAwusa for Igbo genocide, as I might someday, it will take at least 3 years of sensitization. You have to water the ground in Nigeria and the international community. You have to have sympathetic ethnic groups, not just ndiIgbo signing up for it, or at least indicating that they will not oppose it. You have to prepare ndiIgbo who have properties in the North to be ready to bail out because the North will signal this move as an act of aggression. It won't matter how you say it to them, it will be considered an outright hostility (and that is good politics on their part, even if it is crude), and you have to prepare ndiIgbo for what will happen - violent acts against NdiIgbo in the North. However, the violence can be mitigated if you do your political consultation well and the North looks around and sees that it will be isolated in their response to ndiIgbo. The politics is critical, my friend.
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For Ndi Igbo who still doubt the possibility of what we propose, who have forgotten that Chi Ukwu, the father of the fatherless, mother of the motherless, defender of the oppressed, is an equalizer and works in mysterious ways, - dragging Nigeria and her war criminal leaders to court, we ask a simple question:
Why has Obasonjo refused to hand over Taylor to the international body to face the music for his crimes against humanity?
The days of those who committed crimes against humanity and war crimes in Nigeria are numbered. It has been written, so it shall be - ISEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Below is an interesting news from BBC:
Warrant issued for ex-Chad leader
Belgium has issued an international arrest warrant for the former President of Chad, Hissene Habre, charging him with atrocities while in office. Mr Habre, who led Chad from 1982 to 1990, now lives in exile in Senegal.
The warrant relates to the activities of his intelligence service, which is accused of arbitrary arrests, mass murder and systematic torture.
It was issued under Belgian law, which allows prosecutions for crimes against humanity wherever they were committed.
Belgium has also made an official extradition request for Mr Habre to the authorities in Senegal.
Human rights
Mr Habre, 63, ruled the former French colony of Chad for eight years until deposed by the current leader, President Idriss Deby.
Human rights groups accuse Mr Habre's regime of some 40,000 executions and the torture of 200,000 people.
A spokesman for Human Rights Watch, Reed Brody, welcomed the warrant for the former president's arrest.
Mr Habre could become the first ex-president to be extradited to face human rights charges in another country, he told Associated Press news agency.
Efforts to prosecute Mr Habre in 2001 in Senegal failed after the country's highest court ruled he could not be tried there, as his alleged crimes were committed outside the country.
This time, his alleged victims filed complaints under Belgium's "universal jurisdiction" law, which allow Belgian judges to prosecute human rights offences anywhere.
Two years ago, Belgium's highest court rejected attempts to use the law against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George W Bush, over Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and the first Gulf War in 1991.
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NIGERIA: An Anomaly Among States By Rev. Ft. Ahamefule Nnorom, Ph.D.
THE DISASTER
Do you know that before you finish reading this article, a pregnant Nigerian woman will be dead. Yes, a Nigerian woman is condemned to death by pregnancy every minute due to a lack of basic healthcare in many parts of the country. Do you know that according to the Washington, D.C.- based Population Reference Bureau, the average Nigerian family income is $240, the lowest in West Africa and among the eleven poorest in the world? Yes, while Nigeria's military misrulers were spending $5 billion to "bring democracy" to Liberia and Sierra Leone, while civilian politicians are presently spending millions of dollars on salaries and other creature comforts, 67 million Nigerians live below the poverty line, existing on less than $1 a day. Do you know that in 1979, one naira was equal to two US dollars, and that today, it is worth less than one cent? Do you know that in the 1960's, Nigeria was the world's premier producer of palm oil and taught Malaysia how to grow the crop? And that today, the "giant of Africa", is at the bottom of the palm oil producing countries while by the 1970's, Malaysia already accounted for about 80% of net world output with export earnings averaging $5 billion and the main source of livelihood for 300,000 families.
Perhaps you already know that Nigeria has earned more than $500billion from crude oil and is presently earning millions of dollars from its gas reserves but has little to show for it except the billions of dollars hidden in secret accounts worldwide. Do you know that until the emergence of the Bakassi Boys, the internal security situation in Nigeria was so terrible that many US- based Nigerians visiting home, especially those from the Southeast, rarely told their friends and relatives the actual time and date of arrival in Nigeria for fear of being robbed and/ or killed in transit to their ancestral homes? And that even if they arrived home safely, do you know that many did not sleep in their homes but had to move from place to place in search of more secure accommodation? Do you know that there are no known records of the thousands of Igbo and other non- Moslems killed during the recent Sharia massacres in northern Nigeria or of the mass exodus of refugees to the southern parts of the country? And that when this writer sought such information from Nigerian government officials, they said that they had none! And that even the US State Department, which monitors religious and ethnic cleansing in foreign countries through its embassies, failed to do so in Nigeria! That when this writer asked Susan Rice, the then US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, for statistics on the victims of the Sharia killings, she bluntly replied: " We have none. Bring me some if you have any."
I am sure you are aware that according to Transparency International, the highly reputed group that monitors global corruption, Nigeria is the most corrupt in the world. That most Nigerian companies are operating on one third their capacity; and that hundreds of thousands of Nigerian graduates are still unemployed six years after graduation. Perhaps you already know that in spite of Obasanjo's numerous foreign trips, few foreign companies have invested in Nigeria since he became president. No doubt, you are aware that no serious and enterprising foreign company would invest in such an unstable land, infested by Sharia- induced Muslim fundamentalism and religious and ethnic cleansing. What has happened to Nigeria, lamented Michel Camdessus, President of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), " is a historic scandal. " How", he wondered, " with the resources of this country, and the talents of so many of its cadres, can such a situation be justified for so long?"
THE WRONG ANSWER
Many prominent Nigerians have for so long battled with Camdessus' question as to why a country so blessed with such incredible human and material resources remains so poor, so chaotic, so unstable, and so ungovernable. One of the those flabbergasted by the Nigerian situation is Chinua Achebe, the famous Igbo novelist. In his book The Trouble With Nigeria, he opines that " the trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership." According to him, what the country needs is " a leader who is altruistic, dedicated, selfless, non- tribal and patriotic... one whose sincerity of purpose is not in doubt and is ... able to induce the generality of Nigerians to follow him ..." Both Emeka Anyaoku, the former Commonwealth Secretary General and Richard Akinjide, Nigeria's former Attorney General, see the amendment of the Nigerian constitution as the panacea of the country's problems. For the former, such a document must contain " ingredients for successful government in a plural society... (and) must validate both equality and diversity as well encourage interdependence among the component parts of the country. " For the latter, however, the real obstacle to progress in Nigeria lies not in the separation of powers between the executive and the legislature but in the creation of a true federal system in which each state has its own constitution. "The present structure of Nigeria", he emphasized," is a unitary system masquerading as a federal system. "Yet, for others like Olusegun Obasanjo, the problem with Nigeria is not political but economic. Indeed the retired general seems to truly believe that with the forgiveness of the country's foreign debt and an increase of external investment, Nigeria will soon reach a socio- economic and political nirvana. Another Nigerian who envisages the emergence of Nigeria as a great power is Abubakar Umar, the former military administrator of Kaduna State. In an article entitled "Healing the Nation's Wounds" in the July 3, issue of Tell magazine, he said that the solution to the country's problems lies only in its survival as a united entity. Nigerians, he believes, can only prosper in a large, diverse and democratic country, as India and Indonesia, two other large, democratic and multi- national states, have shown. But the most interesting apologia for Nigeria comes from those apologists who argue that the country is a "nascent' (young) democracy that needs several decades to emerge as a stable and prosperous country. They often cite the tumultuous experience of the US and other European countries prior to their emergence prosperous states to support their position. But like a fool at forty, is Nigeria not a fool forever?
THE REAL TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA
However, the real trouble with Nigeria is this: The would- be doctors of the country's perennial ailments have constantly and consistently made the wrong diagnoses and recommended the wrong medicine. Their approach is not unlike that of an American doctor who stubbornly continues to give his African patient asprin while the poor patient is dying of malaria. Unfortunately, they have failed to acknowledge that what Nigeria needs is not cosmetic surgery but political lobotomy. They do not know and have refused to know that the country is not a normal but an abnormal state. That Nigeria is indeed a deviation from established rules in state creation, a "weird state" and an anomaly among states. Consequently, it does not fit into either of the two terms traditionally used by social scientists to identify states.
Traditionally, political scientists have employed two terms to identify the structure of the political entity known as the state: homogeneous and heterogeneous. The homogeneous state - the nation per se - is defined as "a single people, traditionally living on a well- defined territory, speaking the same language, practicing the same religion, possessing a distinctive culture, and united by many generations of shared historical experience." Japan and the two Koreas are good examples of the homogeneous state. A Biafran nation comprising only of Ndigbo would qualify as such a state. But most states, however, are heterogeneous or multiethnic. They encompass countries such as Britain, BraziI, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and the U.S. Political scientists also call such political units nation- states, a term that denotes the gradual fusion that may occur between the diverse national and cultural groups within the state after prolonged maintenance of political control by the central government over the given territory and its inhabitants. Such a fusion was supposed to have occurred after the English conquered the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish several centuries ago in a futile attempt to turn them into good English men in a new entity known as Great Britain. Devolution- the struggle by these minority British national groups for greater autonomy - shows the futility of the earlier attempt by the English to fuse them into a greater England. On the other hand, however, and given its peculiar historical circumstances, integration has mostly been achieved in the U.S and could with great difficulty be fostered in India and Indonesia, three large democracies that have often been compared to the "giant of Africa". But such an experiment is virtually impossible in Nigeria. And here are the reasons.
INDIA
With a population of one billion people and 400 ethnic groups consisting of Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, Marathi, and others who speak more than 200 languages, India is the second most populous country in the world. It has a land area of 1.2 million square miles or a little two- fifths the size of the continental U.S. The birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, the country has really only 12 languages of major importance. It gained its independence from Britain in 1947. Yet, inspite of its diversity, India qualifies as a nation- state. It has a national language and a predominant religion, Hinduism, which is practiced by 90% of the population. Its diverse peoples have a long history of cohabitation having been once ruled by the mighty Moslem Mogul empire. Moreover, India's founding fathers were determined to build one united country even before independence; and in a steely determination to achieve their objective, smashed and neutralized the country's ancient and powerful kingdoms that could have promoted centripetal nationalisms and loyalties. Consequently, India is today a nuclear power, a computer giant, and feeds itself. This Asian power has developed a powerful navy that is the main challenge to the U.S navy in the Indian Ocean. And despite the troubles in Kashmir, Sikh revolts, and occasional Hindu attacks against Christians and Moslems, India is a stable country. It possesses at least three elements necessary for nationhood: a national language, a predominant religion and a long history of organized cohabitation among its various peoples.
INDONESIA
Populated by 210 million inhabitants who live on 17,000 islands and speak more than 300 languages, Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country. Inhabited by ancient peoples and kingdoms like the Balinese, Batak, Asmat, and others, it is a proto- type of the multi- national state. Yet, the country has greater potential for integration than meets the eye. Like India, Indonesia boasts of at least three elements of nationhood: It has a national language, Bahasa Indonesia, a predominant religion, Islam, which is practiced by 90% of the population (the world's largest Muslim population), and was ruled in the 1300's by a foreign power, the Majapahit Hindu empire. Two other factors have also facilitated the fostering of a common Indonesian identity: the shared experience of the people in the bloody war that led to independence from the Dutch in 1949, and the ruthless suppression of national groups bent on the creation of separate independent republics by Sukarno, the country's first president. Thus, despite the present struggle for self-determination in the Acheh region and the Moslem slaughter of Christians in the Muluku islands (Spice Islands), Indonesia has prospered. Its gross domestic product per head has grown from $200 in 1974 to $1,000 in 2001. The country is unlikely to disintegrate because it has, at least, three qualities necessary for nationhood: a common language, a predominant religion, and a long history of co-habitation as well as a more recent history of common suffering under the Dutch.
THE UNITED STATES
But the greatest mistake is made by those who propose the US to Nigeria as a model of integration for its various peoples, races, religions, and cultures. Indeed such proponents have failed to understand three important and interrelated aspects of American political history and culture. First, they do not seem to realize that integration in the US - no matter how selective and convoluted - was, nonetheless, a sacred canon even at the very dawn of the republic. And that the American founding fathers were determined from the earliest years of the country to build from many nationalities, cultures, and religions, one nation (e pluribus unum) and to usher in a new world order (novo ordo saeculorum) Second, that America does indeed have a national culture built on the mainstream White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) values- Christian, European, and based on English common law. Third, that while this culture tolerates diversity by allowing non-WASP minority national groups in the US to preserve and even to nurture their respective cultures and traditions, it also demands in a non- subtle manner that those who want to achieve the American dream must , first, join the American mainstream by embracing the WASP way of life- the American way. This is the reason for the often rabid opposition by many Americans to the introduction of Spanish as a second language. However, the opportunity to join the mainstream is a challenge that many immigrants- often fleeing the poverty and instability of their ancestral homelands- have historically and gladly accepted. For with the exception of American- Indians and African- Americans, integration was mostly by choice and not by force among Americans. Therefore, America should not be seen as a model of integration for Nigeria.
NIGERIA
Like India, Indonesia and, the US, Nigeria is also a multi- national state. Populated by about 100 million people (no one is really sure of the numbers since there is no accurate census), it is made up of 300 national groups and is endowed with incredible human and material resources. Like Indonesia, it is a major oil producing country - number one in Africa and fifth in the world. But unlike India, Indonesia and the US, it lacks all the basic requirements for nation building. It has no single major national group capable of forming the basis for national integration. Rather it consists of three major nationalities, Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa, each claiming a population of about 40 million people. The remainder of the population is made up of hundreds of larger and smaller minority groups- Ibibio, Ijaw, Efik, Tiv, Bini, Urhobo and others. Indeed the root of the country's problems is due to the anomalous political structure imposed by the British on the diverse and disparate peoples of Nigeria. And the foundation of that structure was based on the Moslem Hausa- Fulani, a group that the British had chosen as the master nationality that would perpetually rule Nigeria and guarantee its stability. It is, therefore, against this background that the northern Nigerian Moslem ruling elite developed a "born to rule" mentality, a fanatical and aggressive state of mind propelling their dogged and unrelenting efforts to "Sharianize" Nigeria and impose the Hausa and Arabic languages and culture on its peoples. But in his important book, This House Has Fallen, Karl Maier, an American journalist who was once based in Nigeria, warned that as a result of the greed, corruption and colossal ineptitude displayed by the northern Nigerian Moslem ruling class, the political architecture created for Nigeria by the British had already collapsed. In the same vein, the erudite and perceptive Professor Adebayo Williams has warned of the danger inherent in any attempt to engineer a Nigerian nation. In an article entitled "Lord Lugard and the End of an Epoch", in the May 2000 issue of Africa
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