PressRelease: #IPOB and #NDavengers are inseparable, #NnamdiKanu is not negotiating with Nigerian govt for his release
August 13, 2016
Press Statement:
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA AND NIGER DELTA AVENGERS ARE INSEPARABLE IN THEIR QUEST FOR BIAFRA RESTORATION: NO FREEDOM FOR NNAMDI KANU NO PEACE
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO hereby categorically state that we and our brothers the Niger Delta Avengers (N.D.A.) are inseparable in our quest for Biafra restoration. Just as N.D.A. stated in their demands which the Nigerian Government is very much aware of but has chosen to ignore, there will be no negotiation if there is no freedom for the leader of IPOB Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Nigeria will avert imminent doom only if Buhari is compelled by civilized nations to obey existing court orders and release Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally.
Trying the discredited divide and rule tactics of using the media to claim Nnamdi Kanu denied N.D.A. in order to engineer acrimony and hatred between him and N.D.A. has failed woefully. South South and South East are united in this noble quest for freedom and no amount of media manipulation can alter this fact. Only if Buhari knows who Nnamdi Kanu truly is or the amount of influence he commands among the people of South East and South South he won't listen to the lies Lawal Daura of DSS and Ohanaeze Ndigbo have been feeding him.
Although we acknowledge that our lawyers spoke out of turn in a recent press conference, we are also aware that Mr. Rochas Okorocha who parades himself to the contrary as an Igbo man has been working as a front man for Muhammadu Buhari to penetrate and compromise IPOB governing structure and our lawyers. We are aware of the grand conspiracy orchestrated by Rochas Okorocha to penetrate IPOB by all and any means necessary. We know that one of our lawyers has been meeting with Okorocha clandestinely in the past few weeks just like Buhari through Lawal Daura of DSS has been doing through inducements and threats. Some of our lawyers are currently being investigated by the EFCC at the behest of Daura of DSS over a land case settled years ago, in order to unsettle them sufficiently to turn to DSS informants and ultimately undermine the legal defence of our leader as was the case with Vincent Obetta.
In spite of all these shenanigans by Buhari through Daura of DSS and his co-jesters in the media peddling falsehood about negotiations that our leader never consented to, IPOB worldwide is unwavering, determined and resolute under the supreme command of Nnamdi Kanu. No other person dead or alive has the right to command or can command IPOB whether that person is residing in Government house in Owerri or from a private hospital in Nnewi. Only Nnamdi Kanu can tell us in IPOB what to do and we obey. Anybody else attempting to do so will be comprehensively disgraced.
IPOB rank and file is with their leader Nnamdi Kanu and we speak with one voice. Our decision remains that there will be NO negotiations with Nigeria until Buhari obeys court orders for the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu.
We would like to remind everyone that whatever statement or information is provided by IPOB either through our spokespersons or live on Radio Biafra broadcast by our Deputy Director is exactly the mind of our leader Nnamdi Kanu because he trained us to always put the needs of Biafra restoration first and never to retreat nor surrender. From the time of the arrest of our leader till date he has never at any time disputed publicly or in private, through his wife or family members any press statement issued by IPOB official spokespersons.
Furthermore, IPOB is aware that Buhari is planning to kill our leader Nnamdi Kanu and is doing so with active connivance of some Igbo politicians with certain executive members of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. We warn Buhari and his cohorts that the murder of Nnamdi Kanu will spell doom not just for Nigeria but the entire sub-region because the fall out will be too disastrous for a sane mind to contemplate. Anybody from the government of Nigeria or Ohanaeze Ndigbo that thinks that Nnamdi Kanu can be another Ken Saro-Wiwa or M.K.O. Abiola is digging their own grave.
IPOB is a global phenomenon, unprecedented in the history of freedom fighting anywhere on earth. We are all over the world with fanatical following. That IPOB has vowed to maintain a peaceful approach to liberating Biafra from the contraption called Nigeria does not translate to allowing Buhari and his conniving so-called Igbo elites to assassinate Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and go scot-free. That will never happen.
We would like to state that IPOB is aware of the fact that all over the world terms for self-determination is always negotiated. But what we insist on is that for Buhari to start any negotiation with IPOB on a peaceful exit of Biafra from Nigeria he must first obey court orders on the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu. Buhari should also release all Biafrans illegally detained in various prisons in Nigeria.
However IPOB would like to take this opportunity to commend the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) of Nigeria, Hon. Abubakar Malami (SAN) and all those endowed with common sense who have come to understand that all IPOB family members arrested must be released unconditionally because our quest is the restoration of Biafra and not to take over the rulership of Nigeria.
It is instructive to note that the AGF dropped all the charges against IPOB members in Abia State even when Okezie Ikpeazu Abia State governor and other killers of innocent Biafrans in government houses were hell-bent on forging ahead with the ridiculous treasonable felony charges. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and those like him specifically directed Hausa-Fulani controlled JTF to undertake the indiscriminate slaughter of fellow Biafrans in Aba on more than two occasions. Their judgement is coming and Nigeria they so diligently serve now will abandon them as is happening already with Ikpeazu.
It is a fact that some people within the Judiciary know that there is no evidence of treasonable felony in the case against Nnamdi Kanu which was why a more learned and highly respected judge like Ademola dismissed these charges at the same Federal High Court John Tsoho is now sitting today to make a mockery of himself and justice.
Finally, we want to reiterate that IPOB and N.D.A. share the same ideology and philosophy concerning the liberation of Biafra from Nigeria and this will be the centrepiece of any negotiation that will take place after the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu. We re-emphasize our stance that there is no negotiation going on at this time and that IPOB and N.D.A. are inseparable in their objectives and expected outcomes.
It is either we get Biafra or we die trying to get Biafra. There is no middle ground, there is no compromising this cardinal point. Let it be known to humanity that there will be no negotiation without first effecting the release of Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally.
The restoration of the blessed nation of Biafra is a divine mission from God Almighty of which Nnamdi Kanu is the chosen messenger.
We are unstoppable, unchangeable, irresistible, and irreversible whether Buhari and Lawal Daura like it or not!!!
Signed
Barrister Emma Nmezu
Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya
Spokespersons for IPOB
The Biafra Post: IPOB PRESS RELEASE: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF BIAFRA AND NIGER DELTA AVENGERS ARE INSEPARABLE IN THEIR QUEST FOR BIAFRA RESTORATION: NO FREEDOM FOR NNAMDI KANU NO PEACE
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FG ORDERED ALL MEDIA HOUSES TO CONCEAL THE MAJOR DEMAND OF NIGER DELTA AVENGERS-REPORT
By Ifeanyi Chijioke.
The quest to disclose the truth to the public will never stop; and the major blow Nnamdi Kanu gave Nigeria was disclosing a deceit of over 65years. Biafra land was divided through imposition of geographically impossible Southsouth, this however caused a notable division in Biafra. Despite that oil is found in almost all the states of Biafra, they have tried to differentiate us with oil. While Imo is oil producing state, Abia and Anambra with exclusion of Abakiliki and Enugu that are endowed with other natural resources, they have continued to push for a division.
Nnamdi Kanu won the award of the great liberator of the people of Biafra; he is a man that never raised a stick let alone guns and bombs. The people were liberated with words of truth and that feat has accrued sympathy to his cause. Nothing can attract the people and hold them so long on a cause if not truth. the people of Biafra has been consistent and resolute in their pursuit for a sovereign nation, despite efforts from Nigeria to lobby, compromise or break Nnamdi Kanu, he has proved stubborn to his cause. It was once reported that a DSS personnel said he has never seen such a staunch believer of his cause like Kanu; no matter what you do or say to him, he keeps saying is “Biafra or death”.
On 15th of October last year, Nnamdi Kanu was arrested en-route to Biafra land, after his arrest that sparked protest across the ten states of Biafra and subsequently, the combined forces of Nigerian Army, Navy and police launched attack against lawful and peaceful Biafra activists that had carried placards to register their anger and in demand for the unconditional release of their leader. This attack was sustained and lead to the death of hundreds of Biafrans. The attack extended to arresting and executing injured victims from the various hospitals they were taken to but that never affected the push for the unconditional release of Kanu and restoration of Biafra.
Months after, Niger Delta militants lead by one General Ben who also is the spokesman of the group gave the federal government ultimatum to unconditionally release Nnamdi Kanu with other conditions that followed. Upon the expiration of this ultimatum that lasted 31days, hostility commenced across the Niger part of Biafra and up till date, it has gone unabated. Few months later, the dreaded but peaceful Niger Delta Avengers surfaced, their mission is to bring oil export to zero without shedding any blood and their demand was the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu. Other militants that surfaced all demanded the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu.
In an effort to narrow the condition for an end to hostility, the militants openly said that Nnamdi Kanu would be their chief negotiator when FG pressed for negotiation but Buhari paid deaf ears to that and media suppressed the news. The militants went as far as speaking on a live radio Biafra program that Buhari should not come to Niger Delta to buttress the fact that hostility across the Niger is as a result of continued incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu but FG and her press feigned ignorance of that fact. Recently, the militants released a video with Biafra flag hoisted and threatened the family of Buhari if he doesn’t release Nnamdi Kanu. They have yet feigned ignorance of that; this however prompted this independent investigation by Ifeanyi Chijioke.
Ifeanyi Chijioke can reliably report that Buhari ordered media houses to play down the major demand of Niger Delta Avengers. I previously released a report of how the FG paid media houses to stop carrying Biafra news, sufficient money was disbursed but due to Biafra news is what cannot be overlooked; it has not been effective to stop carrying news concerning Biafra. There has been direct action, where soldiers tried to start seizing newspapers with Biafra headline and news, but that could not solve the puzzle as it would only add fuel to the flame.
Speaking on the order, a high government official compromised to confide in Ifeanyi Chijioke but strictly pleaded on no condition should ‘the’ name be in print or mentioned anywhere. “I can authoritatively tell you that there is a kind of order, this is not a direct order but it was conveyed in a patriotic form. The government is insincere to itself, self deceit is destroying everything, and you have to be sincere to yourself. This insincerity is behind the reason militancy cannot stop in that part of Nigeria. We have to admit the reason youths are bombing oil installations and this bombing started after Nnamdi Kanu was arrested, Kanu is the reason Niger Delta Avengers are fighting us and this will never stop until we admit the reason” he said.
Speaking on the position of the press, ‘THE’ regretted that such things are happening in Nigeria when Nigeria needs truth to survive “I personally regret it but the press have no option, they cannot help to divide Nigeria. FG made it clear that promoting the major demand of the militants won’t help the country, they want the unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu, and they are fighting because of the injustice meted on Kanu.
If you assess the situation, you will see that the militants are right; they are doing what peaceful protesters cannot do, giving the right balance. FG got it wrong by arresting Nnamdi Kanu which worsened the situation; militants are demanding his release and would definitely have support of the people and the world at large”
When Ifeanyi Chijioke contacted a reliable source to Niger Delta militants, he was pleased that I embarked on the investigation. “The problem is insincerity, if we can be sincere, this whole thing will end. We the militants are Biafran people and we have one mission, Nnamdi Kanu and Biafra restoration, it is sad that Nigerian press chose to hide our major demand, they have said we want money, they said we want Niger Delta republic, they said we want oil blocs and they said we want 95% without mentioning what we really wanted. We want the release of Nnamdi Kanu, we are aware that there is no other way he would be released if not getting rid of pipelines. If they choose to hold him, which is their decision as we shall continue getting rid of pipelines till no one is left. If they want peace, let them release Nnamdi Kanu and we can talk”
On the same note my source noted that they won’t be intimidated into being in a frame they don’t want “They want us to declare that we are IPOB members so they would have a reason to justify their onslaught. So they can start open execution and massacre of Biafrans on condition that they are militants and terrorists. They are stupid and thoughtless, we are Niger Delta militants and Niger Delta is Biafra territory, we are freedom fighters fighting for our nation-Biafra. Nnamdi Kanu is the leader of the people of Biafra; we have chosen to fight with arms just as IPOB chose to fight without arms. If they want they should release Kanu, if they don’t want, they should hold him and suffer our actions” he concluded.
Authored by Ifeanyi chijioke, for the Great Biafra Journalists.
Published by Okpalaeze.
http://www.thebiafratimes.co/2....016/07/fg-ordered-al
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