Law allows Nigerians to defend themselves from attacks – Sagay
Posted By: Joseph Jibueze On: March 26, 2018
Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman Prof Itse Sagay (SAN) on Sunday said the law allows Nigerians to defend themselves from being massacred.
He backed the advice by a former Minister of Defence and an elder statesman, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd.) that Nigerians should defend themselves against killers.
Sagay urged the Federal Government to investigate Danjuma’s allegations that the armed forces were not neutral.
According to him, the allegation that the armed forces guide the bandits to kill people and cover them up were “serious”.
Sagay said: “General Danjuma did not say that the military is incapable. But he accused them of bias and not protecting the people deliberately. That’s a very, very serious accusation.
“And this is coming from such a senior man in Nigeria’s military – probably apart from former General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Yakubu Gowon, he (Dajuma) is the most senior former military officer we have – and he’s a man who has tremendous influence.
“He has held important positions – chief of staff, minister of defence – so, he won’t speak lightly. So, his allegation needs to be investigated.
“If there are elements within the military doing this, then the government has to take immediate steps to deal with them and put people who are responsible and patriotic in the positions.”
Asked whether resort to self-defence by Nigerians would not result in anarchy, he said: “That’s an interesting point. It’s a point I’ve always made myself. It’s not an illegal measure for Nigerians to defend themselves. If you look at our criminal law, there is the principle of self-defence.
“If someone attacks you, and you feel endangered, and you defend yourself, and in the process you kill the person, the fact that you were defending yourself is a complete defence to any charge. The right already exists.
“So, I think what General Danjuma is saying is that instead of each individual exercising that right, they should begin to exercise it collectively in their communities. I think that’s reasonable too.
“There is breakdown of law and order if you’re in your house and someone comes and kills you. I think there will be less danger of breakdown of law and order if that person knows that the next time he comes to your house, all your neighbours would gather and stop him.
“So, I think it’s worse for people to lie down complacently doing nothing while they’re being massacred,” Sagay said.

Exposed: Sergeant David Bako Deserts Nigerian Army, Leaks How Dapchi Girls' Abduction Was Planned In The Villa With N80 million
March 24, 2018
As many Nigerians continue to react to the Dapch girls' kidnap drama, a certain Nigerian Christian soldier, Sergeant David Bako from the Middle Belt, Plateau State to be precise has revealed how the Dapchi girls kidnap drama was plotted and executed.He said he found it absolutely necessary to make the confession considering the criminal killings across the country which he likened to ethnic cleansing.In an email sent to Daily Globe, Sergeant David Bako said the plot was planned and rehearsed for two weeks by Buhari's loyalists in the army of which he was one.He said the desperation by Buhari to rule Nigeria for another four years drove him on to employ all means to make sure he remains in power. President Buhari, he said, will be no pushover in 2019 because he has perfected plans to remain in the Villa beyond 2019.Continuing the story, he said, they were given N80 million to execute the plot to restore the peoples' waning confidence in the Buhari government as Boko Haram stepped up attacks recently which was a complete embarrassment to the Buhari government after claiming to have defeated the Islamist sect.He said the resurgence of Boko Haram attacks and killings in the northeast drove the government to find all means possible to regain the peoples' confidence seeing that 2019 election is as good as lost.Buhari, he said, does not want to leave the Villa under any guise in 2019. In the email below he narrated how the plot was planned and executed.He wrote: ' ' I feel constrained to make this confession and as I make this stunning confession, I am no longer in Nigeria because I have to unavoidably desert the Nigerian Army to save my life and that of my family from a possible summary execution by Buhari's secret agents.Barnawi faction of Boko Haram knows nothing about the abduction of Dapchi girls. We were paid N80 million to carry out the abduction which we planned and rehearsed for two weeks to make it look real. 16 of us, strong Buhari's loyalists took part in the plot and were given N80 million and some trucks with which to carry out the operation.On February 19, 2017, after we had received the money, we were told to make it a top secret and further told we would be handsomely rewarded if the plan pays off. The plan, according to our unit commander, is to make Nigerians regain their confidence in the Buhari government, demobilize the PDP which we all dislike with a passion and the Obasanjo coalition which the Villa saw as an emerging threat if something is not urgently done.Obasanjo, our commander told us will succeed in dislodging Buhari from the Villa in 2019 if we do not contrive a means to make Nigerians believe more in Buhari's leadership.

The money we got was not paid into our accounts but was brought by car from Abuja totaling N80 million naira which was shared amongst us with trucks to carry out the operation.On that night the soldiers stationed in the neighbourhood were deployed to other locations to enable us carry out the operation hitch-free which we did. The Boko Haram flag you saw us carrying was designed by us and had ourselves wrapped up like the insurgents.There was no such thing like kidnapping by the Barnawi faction of the Boko Haram. We drove into the school compound in a commando style, broke through the school gate while the night guards numbering three or more ran for their dear lives as they heard our gunshots and chanting Islamic war songs amid 'Western education is a sin''. We drove straight into the school dormitory and ordered the girls to get onto the trucks some of whom slept naked because of the scorching heat. Although we had been given warning by our commander not to molest or rough handle the girls as such action would not be tolerated under any guise.
We were given 1 hour and 45 minutes to carry out the operation from where we drove to the school and the operation did not last for more than 45 minutes to get the girls on board the trucks. So they had no time to carry any of their belongings.We drove them to an undisclosed location which was unknown to any of us because our unit commander led the way until we arrived in where they all were carefully kept.The claim that five of them lost their lives is of course not true as we did not kill or even shoot any of them following the strict orders and instructions that they should be treated gently, kept safe and unharmed.
While where they were kept we were told to preach to them, make ourselves look like terrorists to enable them to believe, recount and narrate what they saw which would make people believe the abduction story.We were not allowed to go with our phones to the location where the girls were kept, therefore we could not take photographs of the girls and the location. Was there any statement released on the abduction by the Barnawi group? Was there any video footage by the Barnawi group like that of the Chibok girls? That was to make it a top secret which the government does not want to play it.On the day we were asked to return the girls, police and our colleagues were deployed out of the route to avoid any possible confrontation - I mean with those who knew nothing about the plot.While leaving, we told them to embrace Islam and gave them clothing because some of them were taken away naked with wrappers they slept with when we abducted them from the dormitory.Out of the money that was shared, I got N3 million and on second thoughts I decided to return the money to my unit commander to keep it for me as I have no ready use for the money. I told him I would be traveling to Jos to see my mother who was very ill and that on return I will collect it back from him and take it to my bank.Unsuspicious of my motives, he collected it from me and gave me five days to report to my duty post.With the visa I had in my passport I had to go as far as Port Harcourt where no one knows me and flew out of the country while asking God forgiveness for the part I played in the whole operation.

What actually made me repent of the evil is the plot on the ground to carry out ethnic cleansing in Nigeria and as I write this piece, I make bold to say here that every Nigerian community in the southern part of the country has been infiltrated by armed militias imported from Niger, Mali, and Chad by the Buhari government to unleash terror on Nigerians if they by a twist of fate resist the ongoing ethnic cleansing.My colleagues have often boasted that the Quran, according to the late Sardauna, must be read in the sea and that is what this government is doing. The Dapchi girls purported abduction is to make Nigerians believe the Buhari government is working and it would, therefore, make no sense to vote him out.The remaining four years is to make him execute the hidden agenda to carry out ethnic cleansing. The plot on the ground is to have every dissenting voice executed that would be a threat to the successful execution of the agenda. That is the reason why they first came up with the cattle colonies which the southern leaders rejected.

As I write this piece, my heart bleeds for Nigeria and I regret the part I played in the abduction of the Dapchi girls to further swindle Nigerians into believing Buhari is the best person to lead the country in the coming years. Please Nigerians, I beg for forgiveness and ask you to help me with prayers to God for forgiveness in the role I played. Share this story and let it go round to save Nigerians the grave danger of allowing President Buhari to continue beyond 2018 in the Villa. I will return to Nigeria when Buhari leaves power, God willing.''

Biafra: Alaigbo demands anti-open grazing laws in S/East, S/South
Prominent Igbo group, the Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF), has demanded that governors of the five South East states and their counterparts in Delta and Rivers states in the South-South zone should immediately begin the process to enact Anti-Open Grazing laws to check the illegal activities of herdsmen in the region.
The leaders urged the governors to submit draft bills to their Houses of Assembly to stop the systematic and reckless grazing of cattle on cultivated agricultural lands, destruction of crops, attacks, abduction and killings of farmers, rape of their women and daughters, and in many cases the sack and displacement of whole communities in the zones.
In a statement signed by its President, Prof. Uzodinma Nwala; Secretary, Prof Nath Aniekwu; ADF Anti-Open Grazing Bill Committee Coordinator, Barr. Max Ozoka and Mr Onochie Ukeme, the group appealed to the governors of two states (Rivers and Delta) with Igbo-speaking population to also heed its admonition.
ADF said that it is in “support of the political will of both our Assemblies and our Executive Governors, as well as the determination of our people to defend their life and property”.
It said: “Recent revelations show an unmistakable collaboration between the last two terrorist organisations (Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen). Boko Haram itself began as a political instrument of some northern politicians until ISIS became its major patron.
“But it appears that Boko Haram is now being integrated with the Fulani herdsmen. In recent times, the movement of these terrorist groups into the southern parts of Nigeria increases daily just as sophisticated military equipment are being shipped to the South with increased terrorists’ attacks in several parts of the South.
“It has been firmly established that what is afoot is a Jihad being waged by the Fulani Muslims in the guise of herdsmen. The heavily armed Fulani herdsmen include both Fulani citizens of Nigeria and other Fulanis from other West African countries such as Niger, Cote d’Ivoire and Cameroon.
“There is hardly any state in Nigeria which has not witnessed the horrors inflicted by these Fulani herdsmen armed with AK-7 and other sophisticated weapons”.
The Igbo leaders said that the proposed bills should state that any lease or permission granted for a ranch in any of the states “is a privilege and shall not create any ownership right, title, interest or estate to the land. The land shall remain vested in the Governor in accordance with the provisions of the Land Use Act, 1978”.
It also stated that permit for ranching may be revoked at any time subject to approval of the governor without the payment of compensation to the rancher if it is because of “breach of state security and peace, breach of any term or condition of the lease hold or overriding public interest as stipulated under the Land Use Act;
“No land allocated for a ranch shall be sold, transferred or mortgaged unless in accordance with provisions of the Land Use Act requiring the prior consent of the governor; any livestock that strays into any other person’s land other than a ranch and causes destruction to agricultural crops and/or contaminates any source of water supply, the owner or management of such livestock shall be liable to pay damages or compensation to the owner or community with proprietary interest in the land or source of water as may be determined by a proper valuation ordered to be done by the Department”.
The group added that “anyone who engages in open grazing outside permitted ranches after the enactment of the law shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction, be liable to five years imprisonment or N1million fine or both.
In case of an injury to any person within the state, the owner or manager of such livestock shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction be liable to two years imprisonment in addition to footing the medical bill of the victim and paying relevant compensation as the court may determine”.
In a case where such contravention causes the death of any person within the state, ADF posits that the owner or manager of such livestock shall be guilty of an offence of culpable homicide punishable under the Criminal Code Laws of the State.
”Movement of livestock should be only by rail, wagon, truck or pick-up wagon,” the ADF said, adding that “any person(s) found moving livestock on foot within or across urban centres or rural settlements commits an offence and is liable on conviction to N500,000 fine or one year imprisonment or both for a first offender; or for a second offender, N1milllion fine or three years imprisonment or both”.
ADF continued: ”No livestock owner, manager and rancher shall possess firearms, licensed or unlicensed, on the ranch or outside the ranch and that any of them who possess or owns firearms or arms shall be prosecuted under the Robbery and Firearms (Special Provision) Act”.
The group therefore called on traditional and community leaders as well as the clergy to ensure that the provisions of the proposed law are effectively implemented”.
The Biafra Times | Saturday, March 24th, 2018
By Chuks Oyema-Aziken
THE BIAFRA TIMES 2018

UKNC-O HISTORY LESSON – U.S. URGED TO UNDERTAKE IMMEDIATE BIAFRAN AIRLIFT WITH OR WITHOUT NIGERIA'S PERMISSION
August 2, 1968
U.S. Urged to Undertake Immediate Biafran Airlift with or without Nigeria's Permission
In a "Letter to the Editor" of New York Times, Edward S. Morse, an American, urges the United States to undertake a massive military relief airlift to Biafra.
{Reports published in the New York Times of dwindling food supplies getting through the federal blockade to the starving millions in Biafra coupled with the ugly threat of the Nigerian federal forces to shoot down planes flying medicine and food for civilian relief calls for an immediate airlift by United States military aircraft of supplies to Biafra. A dispatch from Umuahia in the Times of July 22 quoted relief agencies as stating that Biafra had received less food from abroad in the last three weeks than it did in the same period in April and May.
The total of 123 tons in the three weeks of July, the dispatch continued, contrasts with a minimum of 200 a day estimated as needed to slow down the starvation. It was estimated that several times more than 200 tons a day was needed. The Vatican report states that antiaircraft fire from Nigerian troops had made relief flights extremely hazardous. A Geneva dispatch has announced that the International Committee of the Red Cross had chartered a plane to carry several tons of relief supplies for Biafrans with another aircraft scheduled to leave the next day or so.
With such facts before us, there is a clear call for direct action by our government on humanitarian grounds. If a safe conduit cannot be negotiated for such mercy flights, we would have ample justification for ordering a fight from the Seventh U.S. Fleet in the Mediterranean. Without question, we have the capacity. Witness the Berlin airlift. Do we have the will? This is a matter of hours and days, not weeks and months. The American people will find it hard to live with their consciences if we stand idly by, protesting technicalities, in the face of the threat of the greatest mass starvation witnessed in our generation. }
Edward S. Morse
New York, July 25,1968
(New York Times)
August 2, 1968
U S President Johnson under Pressure for Biafran Relief
United States' Senator Eugene J. McCarthy called on President Johnson today to ask the United Nations for a mandatory relief airlift of mercy to Biafra. Mr. McCarthy said it was intolerable that the Administration had so far “contented itself with what must be seen as vain and futile gestures while human life is at stake” in the secessionist former Eastern Region of Nigeria.
Associated Press U.S. Sen. Eugene McCarthy and Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey
By “vain and futile gestures,” the Minnesota Democrat, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, was apparently alluding to pleas by President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk that the Nigerian Government permit the passage of relief supplies into Biafra. Soon after McCarthy's office issued his statement, Vice President Humphrey called for an international effort to get food to starving Biafrans.
Mr. Humphrey, campaigning in the Midwest for the Democratic nomination, issued a statement saying that it was normally intolerable to have innocent children and adults starving because of a political dispute and that the United States should support any United Nations effort to move in supplies. He declared that the United States should reiterate its willingness to support the Red Cross with more food funds and equipment. “We should also lend our support to any efforts of the United Nations to get food and medicine to those in need," he said. Meanwhile, Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota sent a letter to President Johnson, co-signed by 16 other Democratic Senators and two Republicans, urging him to support a United Nations or private airlift of supplies, but to avoid any United States "involvement in any armed conflict."
The Other signers were Senators Frank Church of Idaho, Fred R. Harris of Wayne Morse of Oregon and Harrison A. Williams Jr. of New Jersey. Also Senators Stephen M. Young of Ohio, Philip A. Hart of Michigan, William Proxmire of Wisconsin, Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut, and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. The Republican signers were Charles H. Percy of Illinois and Hiram L. Fong of Hawaii. Although the United States has proclaimed neutrality in the civil war that began a year ago, it supports the principle of Nigerian unity.
Today Mr. McCarthy charged that "political considerations have kept us from doing what is just and right." This was apparently an allusion to the reluctance of the Administration to oppose Britain, which supports the Nigerian Government. (New York Times)

Nigeria Would Break-up Because The North Are The Big Problem We Have- YCE replies ACF
March 23, 2018
Dr Kunle Olajide, the secretary general of the Yoruba Council of Elders, has said that the north is a big problem and great obstacle to the development of Nigeria.

Olajide made the statement in Osogbo on Thursday, March 22, at the first memorial lecture of Nathaniel Abimbola organised by the Osun state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Punch reports.

The News Cable notes that the statement was a reaction to the statement credited to the chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum and former inspector general of police, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, who said that Nigeria could not survive without the north.

Olajide said: “The newspapers reported the Arewa Consultative Forum as saying that Nigeria cannot survive without the north. Whatever was meant by that statement credited to the ACF chairman remains to be understood.

“However, I congratulate him for accepting that the north as it is today represents all that is wrong with Nigeria. The northeast is ravaged by insurgency costing the country billions of dollars annually. The northwest is home to religious crisis, the north-central is ravaged by herdsmen of northern extraction. Collectively the north is home to all negative indices of the quality of life. Infant mortality rate is highest in the north.

“Illiteracy rate is highest in the north and the number of out-of-school children is highest in the north. The poverty index in the north is high while the twin evil bedeviling the north is feudalism and religious fatalism. It will not be out of place to say the north has in fact been dragging Nigeria down since independence. All sorts of mischievous phrases were coined by the very tiny political/military elite of the north to give undue advantage to the north."

According to Olajide, the north staged-managed the military coup which removed former president Shehu Shagari from power on December 31, 1983. He stated that the northern oligarch feared that there could be revolution in the country and they allegedly planned the coup with the military in order to ensure that power remained in the north.

Olajide added: “Let me assure Alhaji Coomassie that much as we want a fair and egalitarian Nigerian society, it is not at all costs. The rest of Nigeria will survive, flourish and join the league of first world countries within two decades if the north exits. If it desires to leave Nigeria, join me in saying goodbye to the exiting north, I wish them a safe journey into the desert."

Parliament approves controversial US ‘military base’ deal
March 23, 2018
Parliament on Friday night, March 23, 2018, approved the controversial Ghana-US defence cooperation agreement which seeks to provide the United States access into the country to camp its military forces.
The approval was done by only Majority Members of Parliament because the Minority staged a walkout during the debate on the Floor of the House.
It appears the House was bent on getting the agreement through before it rises for recess.
“This House adopts the report from the joint committee on defense and interior,” the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye said after the approval.
Prior to staging the walkout, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, spoke for close to 17 minutes giving a litany of reasons why they believe the agreement should not be ratified by Parliament.
Cabinet approves MoU
Ghana’s Cabinet had agreed to provide the US’ military troop a place near the Kotoka International Airport, and also give them unhindered access to some key installations following a Memorandum of Understanding between the government of Ghana and the US government.
The MoU was laid before before Parliament on Tuesday recommending to Parliament to ratify the agreement, but it was rejected by the opposition in Parliament.
With the agreement ratified, it means that the US troops will among other things be exempted from paying taxes on equipment that are brought to Ghana as well as use Ghana’s radio spectrum for free.
The troops and their equipment will also have unhindered access to the US forces and their equipment.
Although many Ghanaians have expressed resentment over the clauses of the agreement, the Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, said the agreement is in the best interest of Ghana.
The Government has consistently explained that it was only respecting the existing Status of Forces Agreement with the US signed since 1998 and reviewed in 2015, under the previous NDC administration.
But the NDC Minority has downplayed this argument saying the agreement as existed in the past, did not have the same clauses like the current one that gives the US unlimited access to Ghana’s military facilities.
The US Embassy in Ghana has also explained that it is only planning joint security exercises with Ghana, which will require that US military personnel are allowed access to Ghana’s military facilities, and that they are not building a military base.
“The current Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States of America and the Republic of Ghana is approximately 20 years old. It does not cover the current range and volume of bilateral exercises and assistance. This year, the United States of America is investing over $20 million in training and equipment for the Ghanaian armed forces. Ghana is also once again preparing to train U.S forces – as it did in 2017. The United States and Ghana are planning joint security exercises in 2018, which require access to Ghanaian bases by US participants and those from other nationals when included,” a statement from the US Embassy said.
Minority blocks report
The Minority on Thursday blocked the laying before Parliament, the report of the Joint Committee on Defence and Interior and Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, on the agreement seeking to ratify the hosting of US military troops in Ghana.
It was however laid today, Friday, March 23, 2018, and subsequently approved late hours on the same day.
‘Protests today, expect more Wednesday’
Earlier today [Friday], a number of protesters who tried to gain access to Parliament to kick against the anticipated approval of the deal were prevented from entering the House.
The main entrance of the House was shut with strict access checks being conducted for members of the public and workers seeking to enter.
The protesters however chanted slogans and songs outside the House.
The leader of the protesters, a suspended CPP executive member, Ernesto Yeboah, who was dissatisfied with Parliament’s decision, said they posed no threat to the security of the House.
“Are we holding guns? So on what basis are we disallowed from entering Parliament to have a sight of the proceedings in Parliament? They have absolutely no basis to restrain us from entering to have a sight of the proceedings. We are going to enter, we are going to sit down, we are going to observe the rules of Parliament.

Protesters were blocked from entering the House

Hosting US soldiers will trigger terror attacks – NDC
The NDC at a news conference on Thursday, said Ghana could become a target for extremists if the agreement was allowed to go through.
The General Secretary of the party, Asiedu Nketia, who said this indicated that a ratification of the agreement will send wrong signals which could subsequently make Ghana vulnerable to attacks.
‘We’ll review deal in 2021’
He indicated that, the deal, if ratified by Parliament, will be suspended and reviewed by the NDC if it returns to office in 2021.
“We wish to state here and now that if President Akufo-Addo and his NPP administration proceed to ratify the agreement despite protests and public sentiments, the NDC administration which will assume the reins of government in 2021, will suspend the agreement and initiate a far reaching review.”
‘You can’t compare ‘military base’ deal to Gitmo 2′ – Ablakwa
Minority Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, had said that the previous John Mahama administration’s handling of the hosting of the two Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees in Ghana, cannot be compared the current government’s handling of the proposed US military camp in the country.
This is in spite of the fact that the Supreme Court declared that agreement illegal because it wasn’t approved by Parliament.
Some Ghanaians had questioned the Minority’s moral right to take on government seeing the controversy that surrounded the hosting of the ex-Gitmo two who have now become a burden for the government.
But speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Ablakwa refuted these claims, insisting that unlike this current deal, the previous government consulted key stakeholders, including political party leaders before sealing the Gitmo two agreement.

BIAFRA: International Criminal Court To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members
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BIAFRA: International Criminal Court To Investigate Killings Of IPOB Members
The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has indicated that it will investigate the September 2017 invasion of a community in Abia State, Nigeria by soldiers of the Nigeria Army during a military exercise codenamed Operation Python Dance.

This was contained in a letter from the office of the prosecutor in response to a petition filed to the court by a Nigerian award winning journalist, Mr. Ahaoma Kanu, following the military occupation of Afara Ukwu community in Umuahia in a bid to arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, which led to the killing of several unarmed members of the group.

The letter with reference number OTP-CR-413/17 dated March 20, 2018, which is the second response by the court to the petitioner, confirmed that the military invasion and deaths recorded relates to a situation already under preliminary examination by the Office of the Prosecutor.

“Accordingly, your communication will be analysed in this context, with the assistance of other related communications and other available information,” the letter signed by Mark Dillon, head of the Information and Evidence Unit at the Office of the Prosecutor, read.

Members of the IPOB have come under constant attack by security agencies in Nigeria including the Nigeria Army, Directorate for State Security (DSS) and the Nigeria Police leading to the extrajudicial killing of hundreds of their members since 2015 when Nnamdi Kanu was arrested on charges of treason. After the September 16, 2017 attack on his country home, Kanu and his aged father have not been seen till date fuelling speculations he was being held by the state.

Following petitions by civil rights groups, ICC commenced and concluded preliminary investigations into the alleged killing of over 200 members of the Islamic M0vement of Nigeria (IMN) in December 2015 as well as opened preliminary investigations into the killings of members of the IPOB by the Nigeria Army soldiers in October 2015.

In a September 24, 2017 petition, CNN African Journalist Award winner, Ahaoma Kanu, filed a petition to the ICC calling for an investigation and prosecution of the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai and all members of the Nigeria Army involved in the extrajudicial killings of the IPOB members during the Operation Python Dance exercise. Dillon stated that,” Under Article 53 of the Rome Statutes, the Prosecutor must consider whether there is reasonable basis to believe that crimes within the jurisdiction of the court have been committed, the gravity of the crimes, whether national systems are investigating and prosecuting the relevant crimes, and the interests of justice.”
He went further to say that “Analysis will be carried out as expeditiously as possible, but please be aware that meaningful analysis of these factors can take some time,” promising to provide reasons for any decision reached by the court to proceed with the investigation.

The petitioner said he is very optimistic that the court will reach a decision to go ahead with an investigation because of the weight of evidence attached on a memory stick attached to the petition.

“I have no doubts that very soon the people responsible for turning the Nigeria Army into a killer squad which exterminates her citizens will be brought to justice. This is the second correspondence I am getting from the court and will be ready to assist the investigations as we have hard evidences to show to the investigators when the time comes. This will go a long way to show soldiers that use their weapons to shoot innocent people in Nigeria that the world is watching and justice will always catch up with them.”

Breaking breaking!
FULANI TRIBE IN NIGERIA, CALLS FOR WAR!
Danjuma's Rage: Buhari should declare state of emergency Now MEDIA RELEASE FROM RESOLUTION ADOPTED TODAY March 26, 2018.Kano
President On behalf of the Fulank Nationality Movement, (FUNAM) we express our RESOLUTION as adopted today on the state of the nation.
( 1) We observe with great concern the continuos demonisation of the Fulani people by some reclacitrant ethnic groups in Nigeria. We see the outburts of General Theophilus Danjuma who was brought up and fed by the Fulani, as an extension of the hate against the Fulani people.
( 2)We call on the President, Mohammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in Nigeria. This follows the obvious threats against the Federal Government as demonstrated further late last week when former Chief of Army Staff, Theophilus Danjuma called on Nigerians to take up arms against a constituted authority led by a Fulani President President Buhari has the legal right to act now before it is too late.
(3) The statement of Gen Danjuma is nothing but a direct call for arms. He is fuelling anger and rage against the President for nothing other than that the President is a Fulani man. 3) We urge President Buhari to see this as a direct assault on Nigeria as a sovereign state and an assualt on the Fulani people all over the world.
(4) We have said it several times that the Middle Belt people cannot be trusted, either Christian or Muslim. They are the same with their Southern collaborators who do not see anything good in Fulani but rather to exterminate us.
(5) It should be clear to any reasonable person that Nigeria as a country cannot have too many masters. Every country is usually endowed with those saddled with political power and those saddled with economic power.
The Fulani do not contend the economic power with Southerners and their new found allies in the Middle Belt. What we reject is the plot to estaminate the Fulani from the economic front and then made to be subservient on the political field.
In 1804, politically Nigeria would have been our own booty but for the intervention of the British. We call on Fulani all over the world to prepare for the coming battle. We have to settle this contest once and for all. Either you are a Muslim or Fulani Christian minority,
Nigeria is the only country in the world where we are in control of the political machinery. To give up this country will amount to betrayal of Fulani all over the world. It will amount to humiliation; it will amount to suicide. Negotiating political power with those who have no honour and culture is a weakness. We should rise and assert ourselves. The time is today; tomorrow may be too late.
( 6) General Buhari has failed to produce the firm leadership required. Retaining military hardwares in the Middle Belt pose threat to national stability. We say again that it is time to move all the military hardwares from enemy territories of the Middle Belt.
The time for half measure is not now. Fulani all over are being killed and massacred. In Mambilla, over 1000 Fulani were killed in cold blood. Our movement is being restricted, yet we are Nigerians who do not and have never restricted the movement of anyone.
(7) We call on all Fulani to prepare for the Jihad. This is the basis of the anger of the poor people in the North today against their politic leaders. They are angry that politicians have failed them. They are angry that instead of defending the Fulani, they are busy supporting those against Fulani, dining and wining with infidels.
These are the factors responsible for the rise of radical Islam. The political leaders should either take the bull by the horns and damn the consequences or the ordinary Fulani poor will and can do it by themselves. Enough of ostrich game.
Signed on behalf of FUNAM
Badu Salisu Ahmadu
National President and
Umar Amir Shehu

Fayose asks Nigeria government (FG): How can you discuss ceasefire with ‘defeated’ Boko Haram?
Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, is against a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram insurgents.
On Sunday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information, said the federal government had been in “wider cessation-of-hostility” talks with the insurgents.
He said the ceasefire talks secured the release of the 113 students and pupils kidnapped from Dapchi, Borno state, as well as the police officers’ wives and the University of Maiduguri lecturers also abducted by Boko Haram.
Writing via his Twitter handle on Monday, Fayose wondered why the government would discuss ceasefire with the insurgents, despite claims that the group has been defeated.
Fayose said Mohammed’s statement shows “someone is obviously lying to Nigerians”.
“How can you discuss ceasefire with the same Boko Haram you claimed to have defeated and decimated?” he wrote.

Herdsmen attack: IPOB backs Danjuma’s call
— 26th March 2018
• Asks South East gov, Ohanaeze to emulate ex-soldier’s courage
• APC, PDP fight over statement
Geoffrey Anyanwu, Awka; Romanus Ugwu; Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO has tasked the South-East governors and the leadership of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo to emulate Lt. Gen. Danjuma by summoning the courage to speak boldly about the failure of the government to protect the citizens.
Reacting to Danjuma’s statements calling on victims of herdsmen attacks to defend themselves, IPOB said though belated, it was still heartwarming that the retired army general from the Middle Belt had woken up to the reality of the condition of Nigeria as a failed state.
In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, the group said the senseless killings by the herdsmen would have been averted had the nation listened to its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, four years ago.
The statement read in part: “Today, what the supreme leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPO, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said in 2014 is being re-echoed across the political landscape of Nigeria by no other than the very influential Lt. Gen. T. Y. Danjuma, who can be rightly classified as part of the northern ruling elite.
“Every categorical statement, prediction and utterance of our leader has come to pass. What is happening before our eyes today was foretold by our leader many years back and had those in powers in Abuja listened to him rather than lock him up without trial, thousands of innocent lives could have been saved across Nigeria.
“We state without any equivocation that all those killed by marauding Fulani herdsmen and the Nigerian military that provides them covert support died in vain because people like T. Y. Danjuma initially supported the oppressors and vilified Mazi Nnamdi Kanu instead of paying careful attention to what he was saying.
“The same way the likes of T. Y. Danjuma from the Middle Belt have woken up to the reality of the failed state that Nigeria has become, hopefully, so will South-East governors, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and PANDEF do in the coming months, assuming they will borrow a leaf from Danjuma and have the courage to speak the truth as boldly as Danjuma has done.
“Going by their previous slavish antecedents, it remains doubtful they will ever do so because of their lowly status in the affairs of Nigeria.”
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) have clashed over Danjuma’s call that Nigerians should defend themselves against killer herdmen.
While the opposition party said the call was a glaring evidence of the failure of President Buhari’s administration, the ruling party condemned it saying it was an invitation to anarchy.
According to Bolaji Abdullahi, the ruling party spokesperson: “My take on it is very clear. He accused the military of being partisan and I cannot comment on it because the military is more than capable of responding to that.
“But, my response on his call that people should take up arms and defend themselves is to say that such statement is very wrong. It is a call to anarchy and we are not in support of it. If the security forces are not doing well, we have the responsibility to call on them to do more.
“If we suspect that they have abandoned their roles, we have the responsibility to request more from them. But for him to tell people to take up arms and defend them is condemnable and call to anarchy. We are not in support of it and I feel that someone of his calibre should not be making that kind of statement,” he said.
But the APC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said Danjuma’s statement has justified its stand that the APC-led administration was grossly incompetent and deceitful.
According to him, the fact that citizens across the country are resorting to self-defence is clear indication that Nigerians have completely lost faith in the President Buhari-led Federal Government.
“It is instructive to recall that former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, both former military leaders, army generals and patriots, had earlier raised the issue of unabating bloodletting and pogrom in our country under the APC and the Buhari Presidency.
“Painfully, the APC-controlled Federal Government has not only failed in finding solution, but is also contending with allegations of conspiracy and acts that are believed to have emboldened attacks against innocent Nigerians. Nigerians are no longer feeling secured in their land.”
But Abdullahi dismissed the PDP’s statement describing the ruling party as grossly incompetent and deceitful as mere rubbish.
“We are not going to be responding to the same comment from the PDP. Their spokesperson is immature. We are not expecting anything less from a man who opens his mouth and talks anyhow,” Bolaji said.