IPOB - WHEN STAYING AT HOME ‘SOLIDARITY’ ON 23RD SEPTEMBER TURNS APPRECIATION FOR KANU’S SACRIFICES

By Ifeanyi Chijioke
September 19 2016

When he stood and decided to take the risk, I was so shocked because I never knew his kind of man still lives, his passion to want to die for his people is spontaneous. What else can his people do if not to honour him and appreciate him; this has nothing to do with contradicting views, it has so much to do with being a human and respecting a genuine suffering. Nnamdi Kanu deserves respect and staying at home on 23rd of September is the least thing we could do for a man that has lost everything for the sake of his people.

Having rejected gold and silver and turned down every promise urging him to forfeit Biafra and be given a heaven. Having been given freedom at the expense Biafra, he rejected and chose to languish in Prison custody for the sake of the freedom of his people. It is crucial that we not only sit at home for such man but that we do more than sitting at home for all his sacrifices. We must show solidarity and appreciate him; we must prove to him that we are solidly behind him for the suffering he has chosen for our sake.

The boldness therein is freaking, a brave Prince that chose a path nobody will love to walk on; the burden is tremendous and one begins to ask what is behind his motivation. Despite the ingrates that have worked to bring him to zero; he still remained strong and living up to his promise that he would never betray the people of Biafra. This is one man that has set example by defining resoluteness and determination, consistence and belief in his reason on the path of perdition to the tent of glory. I have asked time and time; what shall it cost to die for he who has died for us?


On Friday 23rd of this month; there is an opportunity to show solidarity and appreciate a suffering for the kings and the servants. There is opportunity to say ‘Thank you Nnamdi Kanu for being in prison for a year now for the sake of your people’ there is opportunity to show solidarity and make a difference. Only by staying indoor on 23rd to show appreciation and solidarity; what shall it cost to take one day off for the man that has taken one year off and in pains for us. While we enjoy freedom and the warmth of our lovers; he is exposed to slavery and suffering for our freedom. Now on Friday 23rd of this month; you shall suffer not but sit at home and reflect on the project for the restoration of Biafra.


We must learn to appreciate irrespective of our difference and views; we must admit the fact that leaving London for Kuje Prison is not an easy task. We must admit the fact that we have another scenario of ‘Jesus Christ’ who came from heaven to die for us. When staying at home turns appreciation and solidarity for the sacrifice, why won’t we wholesomely sit at home again and again? There is no hiding to the fact that Biafra has reached a point of no return and there is the need to show that we really want Biafra.

We must do everything possible to preach and convince everyone that appreciating Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB for the relentless effort in pushing for the freedom of our people which would start by sitting at home come 23rd of this month is key to motivation and support needed to show we are sufficiently behind Nnamdi Kanu the one and only leader of Indigenous People of Biafra. It becomes a necessity to sit down at home on Friday 23rd of September; closing every schools, banks, and institutions to sacrifice likewise, what a cheap sacrifice to show our support for Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB.

Mr.Ifeanyi Chijioke writes for Biafra Post
Editor/Publisher: Akachukwu Udo
For Biafra Reporters

BIAFRA - DON’T COME TO CHURCH ON FRIDAY IF THAT WILL MAKE YOU NOT TO SIT AT HOME- BISHOP PAUL NWACHUKWU ANNOUNCES

By Ifeanyi Chijioke
September 19 2016

The quest for the release of Nnamdi Kanu the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra who was arrested and detained since October last year is gathering momentum and unusual support as Bishop Paul Nwachukwu announced yesterday the 18th of September during a Church service that all the Church members should stay at home and never come out on Friday being 23rd of September. He further noted that nobody should even come to the Church on that Friday but sit at home and resume anything or activities the next day. The announcement was made at the Church Headquarter located along Onitsha-Otuocha express way during a Church service.

The Indigenous People of Biafra had announced a week ago that 23rd of Friday shall be a protest day; where the entire people of Biafra will sit at home in solidarity for the campaign for the release of Nnamdi Kanu. Having avoided violence despite provocations so far; the people of Biafra have chosen to use everything possible to press for the release of their leader. The declaration for sit at home came when the economy of Nigeria is in coma and as expected, the protest will cripple economic activities in Biafra land; Nigeria will have its wound to lick for detaining Nnamdi Kanu.


There has been criticism based on lack of support from the political leaders in Biafra and their religious Leaders who have done less or nothing in stopping the gruesome murder of the innocent people of Biafra agitating for the release of Nnamdi Kanu and restoration of Biafra. In spite of the fact that Nnamdi Kanu seems to be an opposition to the Islamization of the people of Biafra; the Church has done nothing in facilitating his release from illegal detention. The more deadly occurrence was the genocide that took place on a prayer session which would have been a benchmark for the interference of the Church but yet, the Church allowed such profanity to go away without putting up visible condemnation.

The tide seems to be changing as Bishop Paul Nwachukwu has called on his members to be disciplined towards the sit at home order by Nnamdi Kanu the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, this support for the release of Nnamdi Kanu could be a game changer having seen among religious leaders. According to an Evangelist in the Church who attended the Church service and who spoke to this reporter-Ifeanyi Chijioke on the condition of anonymity due to fear of being shot or arrested by the murderous Nigerian security agents under the command of Buhari stated that the Bishop made it clear that nobody should come out on 23rd being Friday.

I don’t want to mince words and I want to make it clear that Daddy really announced that nobody should come out on 23rd being Friday. He even said that nobody should come to the Church if the Church is what will make you not to sit at home. Daddy is more conscious of the safety of his people and that is what is behind the warning or rather announcement. The Nigerian forces might shoot as usual due to frustration or there might be risk. You might as well interpret this as support for Nnamdi Kanu and why won’t Daddy support a man illegally detained? Nnamdi Kanu bears no arm or neither do Biafrans constitute a nuisance under his leadership; the Bible has respect for the just and this is why your interpretation is right” he continued.

Nnamdi Kanu might not be a member of Grace of God Mission but Bishop Paul Nwachukwu is the father of everybody and he has nothing to fear in announcing that everybody should sit at home on Friday. The previous time, I mean on 30th May; he warned everybody not to come out and this time again; he is announcing that there should not be movement and if you move; you have yourself to blame should anything happen. When spiritual leaders talk; it is always wise to listen” he concluded


Meanwhile, this might be a wakeup call to Muhammed Buhari and his government to understand that the more Nnamdi Kanu is detained is the more the quest for the restoration of Biafra is gaining support and sympathy. There is visible foolishness in detaining Nnamdi Kanu and giving millions of people of Biafra not detained a reason to keep agitating. The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu serves as a driving force and neither will it end soon until he is released and dialogue initiated for the restoration of Biafra.

Mr.Ifeanyi Chijioke writes for BiafraPost
Editor/Publisher: Akachukwu Udo
For Biafra Reporters

Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM) freedom fighter dissociate self from Edwin Clark's peace initiative

New regional militia in Nigeria, the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), has warned the Federal Government and its agencies to be wary of overtures for peace in the oil-rich region spearheaded by elder statesman and erstwhile information minister, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark.

In an e-mailed statement on Sunday the nascent militant group dissociated itself from the reported decision by the NDGJM to buy into the peace plans apparently being pursued by the Buhari administration to halt the embarrassing spate of violent agitation signposted by the series of attacks on oil and gas installations in the Niger-Delta.

Specifically, the group said that it has no member by the name of “Odu” alleged to be representing the NDGJM in the reported peace moves with the Federal Government under the Clark-led negotiation initiative, threatening to continue its violent campaign of bombing oil and gas installations outside the creeks and coastal parts of the region.

The octogenarian national Ijaw leader is widely believed to have won the confidence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s team saddled with getting around the knotty issue of restoring enduring peace in the region as one of the visible personages in the area.

Only two weeks ago, Clark convened a Niger Delta stakeholders meeting in Effurun (near Warri), Delta State, was primarily to establish a roadmap for fashioning enduring peace and security in the region.

The round-table event was attended by Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, who used the occasion to reiterate his administration’s real concern about the disruptive activities of the resurgence of militancy in the state and Niger Delta vis-a-vis the direct financial costs to the state in terms of monthly declining revenue from the Federation Account.

However, the NDGJM condemned what it said was an attempt to fraudulently include it in the list of agitating groups he (Clark) had brought to the negotiation table, saying it does not trust the role of Clark alleging that lucre, rather than peace in the Niger-Delta, appeared to be the real interest of elder statesman and politician.

In the statement by “General” Aldo Agbalaja, spokesman of the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, in Asaba on Sunday, the new militia denounced the aforementioned recent stakeholders meeting at PTI Conference Centre, Effurun, as being practically an Ijaw affair as have been the reported negotiation with the country’s central government.

Agbalaja said, “We have warned the Federal Government to be wary of the old man, Chief E.K Clark, and his antics; he can do anything to make dirty money. He and his cohorts, in their desperation to make the unsuspecting government, oil companies and the general public believe they are indeed ‘lords’ of the Delta, created a big fat lie, another charade, in the name of a nonexistent cease fire by the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate.

“For the avoidance of doubts, we have seen no reason to halt our anger against the Nigerian federal government, not when the oppressive system has yet to move a muscle to respond to our requests. We want to categorically say that we have no member, less talking of leader by the name ODU, as quoted by the Vanguard newspaper.

“This said call and the so-called ceasefire is all a job, just like the Ijaw-dominated, Clark-convened Niger Delta stakeholders meeting in Effurun was, they both are meant to justify money they hope to obtain from government. The High Command of the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate uses this medium to alert the world to disregard this fraud. We have our means of communicating, definitely not a call.”

Titled “Clark and Co at Ut Again”, the statement further advised the Nigerian security agencies to go after those who allegedly claimed to have made telephone contact with the NDGJM through the said Odu said to be its leader.

“When we make our next ‘LOUD’ statement, they (security agencies) should go after ODU, who just claimed to be the leader of the mandate”, it said.

The statement also denounced what it called “an Urhobo group, thus the frequent and deliberate characterisation as such by a section of the media”; it claimed that the erroneous tag on the group has prompted “a reckless military invasion of some Urhobo communities”.

It restated its earlier call that residents around oil and gas installations in its target areas should vacate them, saying only it had no immediate plans to halts hostilities.

According to the statement, “We are warning and at the same time appealing to residents around major oil and gas facilities across our region to please evacuate immediately. This warning has become necessary because of the fact that we do not wish any of our people, for whom we have taken up this crusade, to become casualties of our campaign.

All the marked facilities in all the states have been rigged with explosives at strategic points, waiting to be detonated. We are only being slowed down because of the presence of those still living close by. This struggle will only cease when the adversarial Nigerian system yields to reason.”

CBN, Governor Godwin Emefiele reply Emir of Kano Sanusi

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has reacted to commens on foreign exchange policies by the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
Sanusi, a former CBN Governor, had at the 15th Joint National Council on Development Planing meeting in Kano, criticized President Muhammadu Buhari’s endorsement of CBN’s foreign exchange policies, adding that it encourage corruption.

Speaking at the National Institute for Policy and Strategy Studies (NIPSS), shortly after he delivered a lecture titled “Managing Monetary Policy in Turbulent Time,” the CBN governor said it was better to provide creative advice that would help the economy than sitting back criticising.
Emefiele said: “It is easy to criticise from outside but my advice is not to sit back in a garden and call press men and begin to raise criticisms that are untrue and unsubstantiated.

“We need advice of former CBN governors, there are channels they can use but not sit in their garden and call pressmen to raise criticism and say what is not true.”

The CBN governor advised Nigerians to look inwards in order to come out of the present economic predicament.
He lamented that Nigerians spend about £2 billion on their children studying abroad at the detriment of the the nation’s educational sector.
Emefiele further blamed the elite who preferred imported materials to local ones for the current crisis, and wondered why CBN is often condemned whenever it takes decisions to reposition the economy.

“When you introduce a new policy and people do not complain, then that policy is not working. But when policies are introduced and people are shouting and complaining, then the policies have reached the right place.

“It means the policy is working. We should not use our hands to destroy ourselves, we should not use our hands to kill ourselves,” he said.

THE Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate ask residents to vacate oil facilities
From Paul Osuyi, Asaba and Ben Dunno, Warri

THE Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM), a militant group has warned residents around major oil and gas facilities across the region to evacuate with immediate effect in order not to end up as casualties of militancy.

NDGJM said all marked facilities in the region have been rigged with explosives at strategic points, waiting to be detonated, adding that the detonation was being held back because of the people in the environment.

“One more time, we are warning and at the same time appealing to residents around major oil and gas facilities across our region to please evacuate immediately.
“This warning has become necessary because of the fact that we do not wish any of our people, for whom we have taken up this crusade, to become casualties of our campaign.
“All the marked facilities in all the states have been rigged with explosives at strategic points, waiting to be detonated.

“We are only being slowed down because of the presence of those still living close by. This struggle will only cease when the adversarial Nigerian system yields to reason,” a statement by the group’s spokesman, Aldo Agbalaja read.

Agbalaja further warned the Federal Government to be wary of Chief Edwin Clark, insisting that the ceasefire declared by the elder statesman on behalf of militants was “a big fat lie, another charade.”
He said Chief Clark and his cohorts were desperate to make money from government, oil companies and the general public out of the present situation in the name of a “non-existent cease fire by the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate.”

He maintained that there was no reason yet for the group to halt its assault against oil facilities when the government was “yet to move a muscle to respond to our requests,” adding the group has no member or talking leader by the name ODU.
“This said call and the so-called ceasefire is all a job, just like the Ijaw-dominated, Clark convened Niger Delta stakeholders meeting in Effurun was, they both are meant to justify money they hope to obtain from government.

“The high command of the Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate uses this medium to alert the world to disregard this fraud. We have our means of communicating, definitely not a call.
“With this development, if the Nigerian security system is serious about catching frauds and militants, they should get those who claimed to have spoken on phone with ODU, they should still have his physical contacts.

“When we make our next ‘LOUD’ statement, they should go after ODU, who just claimed to be the leader of the mandate,” the statement added.
It maintained that the group was not an Urhobo as has been reported in a section of the media, noting that as a result of the Urhobo tag, there has been reckless invasion of some Urhobo communities by the military.

The group has also reaffirmed its lack of confidence in the Chief Edwin Clark-led team to dialogue with the federal government. The group insisted it has not appointed anyone or group to go into negotiating with anybody or government on its behalf. The group, in a statement signed by Gen. Aldo Agbalaja, warned the federal government to be wary of the antics of some leaders in the region who out of desperation to make money are capable of doing anything to defraud anyone in the guise of championing the course of the Niger Delta region.