RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Names Of 350 Igbo Communities andVillages in Nigeria Occupied by Fulani and Shuwa Arab Jihadists [ InternalColonization through Terrorism by Right Wing Fulani in Nigeria]

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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How many towns and villages in the North are occupied by Igbo pentecostal crusaders?

It is better to seek to defuse tensions  than to aggravate them

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Names Of Occupied 350 Igbo Communities And Villages by Fulani and the Shuwa Arab Jihadists.

This is a well articulated research/study.

Enugu: 72 Locations: Ibite Ogbaku, Akpugo, Achi, Inyi, Nachi, Ukpabi-Nimbo, Ukpata, Akegbe-Ugwu, Ugwuoba, Eka Aku, Igbo-Etiti, Amagunze, Amaechi Idodo, Ugwu-Onyeama, Egede, Adada, Nkpologwu, Afa, Uvuru, Ugwu Aboh, Waziri Estate-Nsukka, Enugu-Ezike, Neke-Uno, Akpogasi, Ugwuogo, Ekpebe, Madonna University Layout, Ihuokpa-3-Corner, Akwuke, Industrial Layout-Emene, Unity Layout, Ibagwa-Nike City Layout-Amokwe, Heritage Layout-Oyoho-Nike, Odo Rice-Emene, New Zion State Layout-Ugwu Onyeama, Phase 11, Independence Layout, 4-Corner (Enugu), Redemption Layout (Enugu), Amokpo, Ugbaka-Nkanu, Aninri, Umuabi (near FRSC Regional Training Headquarters in Udi), Awgu, Nenwe (in Aninri LGA) and Amiri Village in Nkanu West LGA. Others are: Eziani (Nsukka LGA), Ugwuogo-Nike, Oyoho Village (Nike), Ngwo, Ibeagwa Community (Enugu East LGA), Amaoji (Enugu East LGA), Okutu (Enugu North) and Akwegbe-Agu (in Igbo-Etiti LGA); Imezi-Owa, Umuna-Ndiagu, Umuna-Ndiuno, Oha-Ndiagu, Okpogho-Mgbata, Amankwo-Ndiagu, Amansiodo-Ihuonyia and Owa Communities; all in Ezeagu Local Government Areas; and Adani, Igga, Urobo, Ugbene-Ajima, Nkpunator-Nkpologwu, Umulokpa, Adaba, Opanda, Ojor and Asaba in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Areas.

Anambra: 70 Locations: Nteje, Ogbunka, Ndiukwuenu-Obaeze (location of Mamu River Forest), Amaetiti, Ufuma, Ezira, Umunze, Ozubulu, Oba, Umuchukwu, Akpu, Ndikeilionwu, Ogboji, Ndiowu, Mmiata-Anam, Achala, Ebenebe, Ogbunike, Ihitte (Orumba South), Umunnachi (hilltop), Okija, Ihiala, Dunukofia, Agulu, Neni, Ogbu, Awkuzu and 3-3 Area of Nsugbe. They have also violently settled in Atani, Akiri-Ogidi, Akiri-Ozizor, Aminyi, Mputu, Obeagwe, Ohita, Ogbakuba, Umuodu, Ossamala, Ogwu-Aniocha, Umunankwo, Umuzu and Ogwuikpere; all in Ogbaru LGA (using Odekpe/Atani/Oba/Ozubulu Forest Swamp as their main base).

It is strongly suspected too that the Herdsmen have infiltrated and settled in Ukpo, Lilu, Akwa Ihedi and Unubi (in Nnewi South LGA); all owing to their difficult terrains or topographies. Other Anambra Communities involved are Amanuke, Ugbene, Ugbenu, Amansii, Urum, Ukwuru, Isu Aniocha and Mgbakwu, all in Awka North LGA; and Umuawuru, Awka, Isiagu, Ntoko, Ndikpa and Nibo in Awka South LGA. In Anambra East LGA, they have infiltrated and settled in Aguleri, Nando, Nsugbe and Igbariam and in Aghamelum (Ayamelum) LGA, they forcibly settle in the whole eight communities of Anaku, Omor, Umueje, Omasi, Igbakwu, Umumbo, Umuerum and Ifite-Ogwari.

Imo: 61 Locations: Onuimo, Ehime and Isiala Mbano, Ndegwu and Orogwe in Owerri West, Ogbaku in Mbaitoli LGA, Amakaohia-Ubi and Obokofia (Owerri West LGA), Obudi-Agwa Community (Ohaji/Egbema LGA), Okohia Village of Umuduruodu-Okwelle (Onuimo LGA), Ejemekwuru, Eziorsu, Izombe and Agwa Communities (Oguta LGA), Nkwerre, Eziama, Obaire, Amaigbo and Umozu in Nkwerre and Nwangele Local Government Areas, Oru (Ahiazu Mbaise), Ikpa-Ocha (Arondizogu-Ideato South LGA) and Agbala Community (Owerri North LGA), Umuekune-Irete Community (Owerri West LGA), Umuchima, Ugwuaku-Ezinnachi and Umuowa-Ibu (Okigwe LGA), Umuoma (Ihitte Uboma LGA), Naze Cluster (Nekede) and Nekede Old Road Forest.

They also include: Osina, Obinze (near Military Barracks); Umundugba, Nkume and Abba Communities in Orlu Local Government Areas; Mbieri and Ubomiri in Mbaitolu LGA; and Agbabo Village in Umulolo and Mechanic Village; all in Okigwe Local Government Area; Uratta (Owerri North), Emeabiam and Amakohia-Ubi in Owerri West,  Umuanyim Village (Onumiri) in Ngor-Okpala LGA, Achicha Community in Ngor-Okpala LGA, Olokwu na Umusu Village in Owerri West, Umunakara Village in Ngor-Okpala LGA and Ngwuru Village in Ngor-Okpala LGA. 

Also out of the 24 Communities in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area, over half of them or at least fifteen are now occupied by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen. They are Umuagwo, Oloshi, Umunkwaku, Umapu, Obile, Obitti, Opuoma, Mgbirichi/Abakuru, Assa, Awara, Ikwerede, Umuokanne, Obiakpu, Oroba, Obosima, Abackeke, Abaezi, Ekugba, Obeakpu, Obiakpu, Mgbara, Umuoji and Mmahu-Opuoma. The Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen violent settlement in the area follows high presence of military and police roadblocks mounted because of crude oil exploration; to the extent that from Obinze/Umuagwo to Elele in Rivers State, there are no fewer than 44 roadblocks including at least ten military (Army and Navy) roadblocks. The route to Port Harcourt is a journey of not more than one hour under normal circumstances.

Abia: 43 Locations: Leeru, Ohambele-Ndoki (Ukwa East), Nkpa, Ohafia, Bende, Ubakala and Owerre-Nta, Obohia-Ndoki (Ukwa East LGA), Aru Umuonyeukwu in Aru-Ngwa (Osisoma LGA), Umuora/Umuchichi (Osisioma LGA), Owaza Village (Ukwa West LGA), Ebem/Okagwa Ohafia (Ohafia LGA), Ihechiowa (Arochukwu LGA), Ututu Village-Arochukwu (Arochukwu LGA), Lokpanta (Isuochi LGA), Eberi Omuma (Abia State), Umuenye Village (Isiala Ngwa LGA),  Ama Oji, Isiokporo (Isiala Ngwa LGA), Abiriba-Uzo (Ohafia LGA), Igbere (Bende LGA), Ugwueke (Bende LGA), Abam (Bende LGA), Alayi (Bende LGA), Item Village (Bende LGA), Omuma-Uzo (Ukwa West LGA), Umuorie (former site of old Imo Airport) Isiala Ngwa South LGA), Ozu Item and Ozu Abam (Bende LGA), Obeaku City (Ukwa West LGA), Amaeke-Abiriba (Ohafia LGA), Ndiebe Abam (Bende LGA), Mkpa Community (Bende LGA), Uzuakoli (leprosy center) Bende LGA, Alaojii Village (Obingwa LGA), Assenentu Village (Ugwunagbo LGA), Umuakpiti-Nkara (Isiala Ngwa LGA), Umuokpo Village (Obingwa LGA), Mkpuko Ohuhu-Ala (Isiala Ngwa LGA),  Umuako Nsirimo (Umuahia South LGA),  Umuakuma Umueze (Isiala Ngwa South LGA),  Umumba Nsirimo (Umuahia South LGA) and Umuerim Nsirimo (Umuahia South LGA).

Ebonyi: 36 Locations: Emoha, Nkalagu, Afikpo, Izzi, Ezza, Ezzaegu, Ezamgbo, Ukpo, Ekeimoha, Akpoha, Abomege, Onicha, Ohaukwu, Umuogudu-Akpu, Ukwagba-Mgbo Community (Ohaukwu LGA), Uburu (Ohaozara LGA), Okposi (Ohaozara LGA), Aga Village (Ohaukwu LGA), Ama Nguzu in Nguzu Edda (Afikpo South LGA), Ama Oso Edda (Afikpo South LGA), Eziedda (Afikpo South LGA), Amangwu Edda (Afikpo South), Oso Edda (Afikpo South LGA), Owutu Edda (Afikpo South LGA), Agharosa Village (Izzi LGA), Ndiohia Iboko (Izzi LGA), Ezza Egu Ndebo (Izzi LGA), Ishiagu (Izzi LGA), Amuzu Igeagu (Izzi LGA), Nkaleke Igbeagu (Izzi LGA), Ndu Nwanphu Igbeagu (Izzi LGA) and Uzashi Igbeagu (Izzi LGA), Ndiakpurata Oguzereonwiya (Igbeagu) in Izzi LGA, Ndiegbe-Onuebonyi, Igbeagu (Izzi LGA) and Nwanwu-Igbeagu (Izzi LGA).

Delta (Anioma Land): 21 Locations: Agbor, Olor, Ewulu, Okpanam, Iselleukwu, Oshimmili, Onicha-Ugbo, Ndokwa, Umunede, Ogwasiukwu, Ibusa (forest), Kwale, Obiaruku and Igbo-Akiri (boundary Igbo towns with Edo), Asaba (rural), Ella, Ubulu-Ukwu, Ubulu-Unor, Abor, Akwkwu-Igbo and Issele-Azagba. While they have infiltrated and lived in the named 21 communities, they violently operate in 20 Delta Igbo communities spread across Aniocha North, Aniocha South, Oshimiri North and Oshimiri South LGAs of the State.

Rivers: 15 Locations: Onuimo, Ugurunta, Omoku, Ahuada, Omuha (Umoha), Emeoha, Okehi, Isiokpo, Oleh, Umuechem, Agbomchia Farm Road/Pipeline, Eleme, Emeagwa Int’l Airport area, Ubima/Nval War College (Isiokpo LGA) and Elele

Signed:

For: Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law

Emeka Umeagbalasi

Criminologist & Graduate of Security Studies

Master of Science, Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution

Board Chair

Amaka Damaris Onuoha, Esq., LLB, BL

Head of Campaign & Publicity

Chinwe Umeche, Esq., LLB, BL

Head, Democracy & Good Governance

Ndidiamaka Bernard, Esq., LLB, BL, LLM (Cyber Law)

Head, Int’l Justice & Human Rights



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Olusola Ayandele

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Rwanda 2.0 loading 😱

We also have our "occupiers" in their communities and villages!

Please let's be guided

Olusola

Femi Segun

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Omoba, OAA
I agree we must diffuse tension but this must be done logically. How many people have been killed by the so-called Igbo Pentecostals in the North? Have many  people have  they  kidnapped for ransom in the North? Do you have records of shops or businesses of Hausa/Fulani people that the Igbo people in the North have willingly destroyed as the Fulanis are wantonly destroying peoples' farmland without remorse? There is no smoke without fire. How will the Northerners take it for any Igbo or Yoruba man or woman waking up and claiming ownership of the land in Sokoto or Maiduguri or even violently destroying the farms of those people? The intellectuals and apologists making excuses for what is happening in the South today will condemn such an act. Honesty, objectivity and empathy are central to diffusing tension. Rather than dismiss any information, we must evaluate them with the consideration that there are causes and effects. The silences of the President remain very perturbing and subject to many interpretations. If he is on leave-as it seems he is permanently so, there is a Vice President who can speak on behalf of the Presidency.  Agba ki wa loja, ki ori omotuntun wo. Nigeria has a bitter experience to learn from. Let's avoid another catastrophe of largescale violence against ourselves. Let leaders of thought put sentiments, sense of false security and ethnic arrogance aside and call for national dialogue. If left unfettered, the current  current is an ill wind that will blow no one any good. 

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Femi Segun,

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Dear Pan-Africanists,

BTW, I love the way that Professor Mobolaji Aluko usually signs off some of his epistolary contributions, his “May your tribe increase” and his trademark Q.E.D. signature: “And there you have it!”

I started following Professor Aluko at DAWODU.COM at least a decade before I joined this forum.

Given the demographic nature of the “one man one vote” reality, the goodwill and sincerity in “May your tribe increase” should not be easily underestimated. It is not the kind of prayer or sentiment that a political savvy man and a Nigerian professor at that, wishes for his rival or his enemy/ enemies. As Malcolm X said when distinguishing the House Negro from the Field Negro, when the Massa’s house caught fire the Field Negro would pray that out of nowhere a strong wind would come along and fan the flames. I doubt that there are any “House Negroes” among us, but one never knows, can never be sure, depending on who they regard as “Massa”., especially those who have or claim to have special connections with the inner Cabal. It should also be understandable that e.g. the Fulani Herdsmen would be faithful to Brother Buhari, as the boss, the Massa, the Gold Standard, the President of all Nigerians and all Nigeria, and of course this Massa idea/ ideology is particularly strong in some of the most feudal-minded. However, the comparison ought not to apply to Nigeria, given that ideally, we take Nigeria to be one house , and we know - as Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand" and can only result in Professor There Was A Country & The Trouble With Nigeria Chinua Achebe quoting Yeats:

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; “

And two lines later, it looks that we are surely, already there, in the midst of it in our Nigeria - as if – as the Pentecostals say, as if we are truly living in the last days with Boko Haram still running wild, ransom kidnappings, marauding Fulani Herdsmen steadily moving south menacing and occupying what they believe is their God-given portions, that their national birthright is might and their man sitting at Aso Rock gives them THE MIGHT and THE RIGHT to freely rampaging all over the place as part of the general lawlessness that has engulfed the nation:

“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,,,”

God sees and we also witness what’s happening.

That said, it’s back to basics: Here is the statistical reality: The Demographics of Ethnicity in Nigeria and its impact on Nigerian Politics

Given the current frenzy and hysteria about the Fulani, one is left wondering how such a tiny, numerically weak “tribe” that accounts for no more than 6% of Nigeria’s population, should be viewed as a threat or provoke such a disproportionately inordinate fear of domination, not least of all among the Yoruba and the Igbo people. How can the great and awesome majority fear such a tiny minority? Ignoramus wants to understand.

“Hausa 30%, Yoruba 15.5%, Igbo (Ibo) 15.2%, Fulani 6%, Tiv 2.4%, Kanuri/Beriberi 2.4%, Ibibio 1.8%, Ijaw/Izon 1.8%, other 24.7% (2018 est.) “

OK, so the Fulani are riding on the backs of their Hausa vassals.

There’s also this far away reality which shows the importance of peace with your neighbours and that that it’s not always only a matter of size and numbers

For this Pan-Africanist, the latest and most distressing piece of news is about the alleged Fulani “colonization” and “occupation” – as if Nigeria's Fulani folk are from another country:

350 Igbo Communities and Villages in Nigeria Occupied by Fulani and Shuwa Arab Jihadists

Maybe it’s an emotion marinated in ignorance but my own gut reaction was, so everybody is in Lagos (all tribes) – and maybe Abuja – but truly speaking that’s neither colonisation nor occupation. The last time it was supposed to be either of these (colonisation and occupation), was the news that the Oba of Lagos was threatening to drown Igbos in the Lagos Lagoon (if they did not support his chosen candidate) but this turned out to be a joke… the Oba had been joking with his fellow Nigerian-Igbo friends

The second gut reaction:  Even if The Bible-thumping Igbos see the influx as a provocation - or merely as a challenge, they  will probably have no choice but to, as hosts, kindly and patiently accommodate their Fulani guests, now in their midst and to at all costs avoid any high-handed actions that would be inimical to the safety of the large Igbo numbers in Northern Nigeria. The very last thing we want is retaliation and reprisals or a repeat of the anti-Igbo pogroms up North in 1966

OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Omoba:

Let those people compiling the list of Igbo communities ' colonised by Fulani herdsmen show at least 350 casualties ( one for each community listed) to bolster their hypothesis.  Then their position becomes believable and not just propaganda.

I repeat that to interpret the killings across the country by certain northerners, listen carefully to Gumi in that interview and you will find out that it is an orchestrated ill motivated, ill conceived retribution by some northerners for President Jonathan's double standards in paying off armed MEND fighters while sending his military commanders to crush BOKO HARAM fighters ( this was in part the reason for the conspiracy by the military top brass to pocket the funds for arms to crush the insurgency.)  This was why people were ' advising ' Buhari to pay for the release of BOKO HARAM captives.

This was also the context for the often misquoted statement by President Buhari that sending military commanders after BOKO HARAM fighters was a declaration of war against the North!  Because Jonathan refused to send the military after the armed insurgents in his own backyard!

This was why such elements in the North supplied arms to all manners of ' bandits' and BOKO HARAM fighters to carry out irregular war against the nation.

Although Professor Soyinka thinks the present situation may lead to a messy war in Nigeria, he needs to be updated, that messy war has already started ( if the Nigerian military is already deployed in more than 30 states shooting at and being shot at by enemy combatants, what is that if not a state of war?) and what we need now is the strategy to find closure.

Gumi said what the herder bandits are asking for ' is their share of the national cake'  (i.e. the way MEND fighters asked for and got theirs at the barrel of the gun simply because the president at the time came from their own region and the country did not object to the solution.)  So there is actually a method in this national madness.


OAA



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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Names Of 350 Igbo CommunitiesandVillages  in Nigeria Occupied by Fulani and Shuwa Arab Jihadists [InternalColonization through  Terrorism by Right Wing Fulani in Nigeria]

Omoba, OAA
I agree we must diffuse tension but this must be done logically. How many people have been killed by the so-called Igbo Pentecostals in the North? Have many  people have  they  kidnapped for ransom in the North? Do you have records of shops or businesses of Hausa/Fulani people that the Igbo people in the North have willingly destroyed as the Fulanis are wantonly destroying peoples' farmland without remorse? There is no smoke without fire. How will the Northerners take it for any Igbo or Yoruba man or woman waking up and claiming ownership of the land in Sokoto or Maiduguri or even violently destroying the farms of those people? The intellectuals and apologists making excuses for what is happening in the South today will condemn such an act. Honesty, objectivity and empathy are central to diffusing tension. Rather than dismiss any information, we must evaluate them with the consideration that there are causes and effects. The silences of the President remain very perturbing and subject to many interpretations. If he is on leave-as it seems he is permanently so, there is a Vice President who can speak on behalf of the Presidency.  Agba ki wa loja, ki ori omotuntun wo. Nigeria has a bitter experience to learn from. Let's avoid another catastrophe of largescale violence against ourselves. Let leaders of thought put sentiments, sense of false security and ethnic arrogance aside and call for national dialogue. If left unfettered, the current  current is an ill wind that will blow no one any good. 

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 10:22 PM OLAYINKA AGBETUYI <yagb...@hotmail.com> wrote:

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Femi Segun

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Omoba,
Gumi's intervention lacks any meaningful logic. The comparison of bandits with agitation for resource control in the Niger Delta is mendacious, condescending and smacks  off ethno-religious sense of entitlement. It was the same logic that made Abacha  hung Ken Sarowiwa despite appeal for clemency and despite the stage managed trial that forced late Chief Ganu Fawehinmi to withdraw. How can somebody even compare the two. The Niger Delta has been the cash cow of Nigeria's economy. The people have suffered from environmental degradation, spoilage and resource deprivation. Most oil blocs are owned by non-indigenes of that part of the country. The political elites have colluded with the oil majors to expropriate resources meant to develop the region. Peaceful agitations were crushed. The people resorted to violence targeted mainly against oil installations and not killings and general kidnapping for ransom. Yar;adua in his wisdom started the amnesty because he knew the economy depends on the oil from the region. Pray, what is the main grouse  of this bandits other than criminality? They are taking  advantage of a weak state and a nepotistic regime, who lack the presence of mind to understand that Nigeria is a plural society that should be go0verned as such./ So tomorrow, OPC or MASSOB or IPOB will also start kidnapping for ransom and one religious fanatic from somewhere will claim they are doing that because the government has paid up bandits and they must also be paid? Where will all lead  us as a country? Are we thinking back or thinking forward? Rewarding criminals, when they can be easily located, arrested and tried for their criminal activities? Oro pesi je o/ 

And form other news,
I hope you  have read that herders went to Prof Wole Soyinka's house in Abeokuta-perhaps for daring to call them out. We thank God, they couldn't kidnap him. They should read his I must set forth at dawn and see the failure of Abacha and Gwarzo in their futile attempt at silencing him. When next they try, Sango may not spare them and their cows. 

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​Names of Occupied 350 Igbo Communities and villages by Fulani and Shuwa Arab Jihadists.
This message, described as a well-articulated research/study, perhaps by the forwarder, is purported to have been signed on behalf of Int'l Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law by the following people : Emeka Umeagbalasi - Criminologist & Graduate of Security Studies; Master of Science; Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution. Board Chair. 
Amaka Damaris Onuoha, Esq., LLB, BL. Head of Campaign & Publicity. Chinwe Umeche, Esq. LLB., BL. Head: Democracy & Good Governance. 
Ndidiamaka Bernard, Esq., LLB, BL., LLM (cyberlaw). 

 I am not a lawyer but where is the evidence that the 350 Igbo Communities and Villages have forcibly been occupied by Fulani and Shuwa Arab Jihadists? What is the population of the Fulani and Shuwa Arab Jihadists in the 350 occupied Igbo Communities and Villages? How and when did the occupation take place? Answers to the above questions will expose the authors of, Names of Occupied 350 Igbo Communities and Villages by Fulani and Shuwa Arab Jihadists as mudslingers portraying themselves as sound analysts but who are only out to besmirch us with their dangerous and infantile prank. The danger posed by the list of communities and villages supposedly occupied by Nigerian Fulani and Shuwa Arab Jihadists, as compiled by the all-ethnic Igbo Barristers of Law is that other ethnic groups in Nigeria can reciprocate by publishing communities and villages occupied by the Igbo Crusaders outside their indigenous ethnic space in Nigeria.

We all remember that in 2017, the Indigenous People of Biafra grew wings in Nigeria. The separatists created National Guard and Biafra National Secrete Service. They blocked roads and were collecting taxes from road users. The impending Anambra governorship election, they declared, would not hold unless a referendum was held to decide if the Igbo wanted to remain part of Nigeria or not. The Igbo leaders kept silent and blamed the uprising of IPOB to the marginalisation of the Igbo in Nigeria. The last rod that broke the camel's back was the successful sit-at-home protest organised by MASSOB and IPOD to mark the 50-year anniversary of the declaration of Biafra on 30 May 2017. The success of the sit-at-home protest throughout the Southeast caused a group, who claimed to be representing all the 19 Northern states in Nigeria, to convene a meeting in Kaduna on 6 June 2017. The group's name was Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, and their National President was Yerima Shettima. At the end of their meeting in Kaduna, they declared, "From today June 6, 2017, when this proclamation is signed, the North, a critical player in the Nigerian project, hereby, declares that it will no longer be disposed to coexisting with the Igbos and shall take definite steps to end the partnership by pulling out of the current federal arrangement. We are hereby placing the Nigerian authorities and the entire nation on notice, that as from the 1st of October 2017, we shall commence the implementation of visible actions to prove to the whole world that we are no longer part of any Federal Union that should do with Igbos." Abdul-Azeez Suleiman who was the National President of the Northern Emancipation Network, one of the groups that formed AYCF said that all northerners residing in Eastern Nigeria should within the period of the ultimatum return to their States in the North. He clarified the notice, "With effective date of this declaration, which is today Tuesday, June 6, 2017, all Igbo currently residing in any part of northern Nigeria are, hereby, served notice to relocate within three months and all northerners residing in the South-East are advised likewise."  The AYCF stand was that since the Igbo had decided not to share the same country with them, they too have accepted not to share the same country with the Igbo. Therefore, they thought that the best and quickest way of doing it was repatriations of all South-easterners and Northerners to their respective home states.

Igbo leaders and all the Southeast Governors who up to the time of AYCF notice were quiet over IPOB's separatist agitation for Igbo's exit out of Nigeria woke up. According to Online Premium Times Nigeria, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, told a cross section of Ndigbo leaders in Abuja on Thursday, 6 July 2017,  "that no ethnic group has more stake in the Nigeria project than the Igbo and as such Igbos cannot consider a break up as a viable option. There is no part of this country where Igbos have not invested their resources . . ." In the Online Igbolive.com , the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha was reported saying, "Check it out, no Hausa man living in the South East owns a duplex, neither can you see a Yoruba man who lives in a room and parlour apartment of his own or an investment worth N20m. But should Nigeria break up today, Igbos will lose trillions of properties and other investments in Lagos, the North and other parts of the country. . . . . This is why I said IPOB were childish in their struggle. We should all condemn the call for secession because if Nigeria breaks up, Igbo will lose."  ​http://igbolive.com/igbo-play-worst-politics-in-nigeria-okorocha/ 
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday, said Igbo play the worst politics among the ethnic and geopolitical zones in the country, and advised them to
​He repeated the same thing in the Sun News Online of the same date with additional accusation that Igbo leaders kept quiet and were supporting IPOB. He concluded, "We thought we are getting at the Federal Government. It was very childish and those who are behind these should stop." Speaking at the third inauguration of the State and Local government executive Committees of Abia State Chapter of Ohaneze Ndigbo on Thursday, 5 October 2017, the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo said, "There are 11.6 million Igbo people living in the North and, it will be wise for Igbo living in the South East, and elsewhere, to put them into consideration while speaking or engaging in certain activities. I urge Igbo youths to desist from activities and comments that could spark violence in the nation."​ https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/245268-biafra-not-igbo-agenda-ohaneze.html  
If, as at October 2017, there were 11.6 million Igbo living in the North, and which by now must have increased, Emeka Umeagbalasi and his team of Barristers at Law, should quantify the total population of Nigerian Fulani and Shuwa Arabs that are now living in the South East by force against the wish of the Igbo aborigines. Simplified, how many Fulani/Shuwa Arabs are in the Southeast as compared to 11.6 million Igbo in the North?

Kidnap for ransom is not new in Nigeria. It started gradually in the Niger Delta under Obasanjo's regime and escalated at the beginning of Yar'Adua tenure. Youths in the Niger Delta saw their parent's farms and fish ponds destroyed by spills from oil drilling explorations with no benefit to the people. Yar'Adua granted to the waring youths amnesty and started economic programmes to alleviate the negative effect of oil drillings. Kidnapping for ransom then shifted and proliferated in the South East around 2010.  For those who now pretend as if kidnapping for ransom is a new phenomenon associated with Fulani because Buhari, the president, is a Fulani it will be a good reminder to them that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was President of Nigeria on August 12, 2011, when the father of John Mikel Obi, the Nigerian National football team midfielder and Chelsea star player, was kidnapped in Jos, Plateau State. The Kidnappers demanded $4 billion in ransom. Mikel Obi's father was rescued by the police in Kano on 20 August 2011, although the kidnappers were not apprehended. The popular view then was that some Hausa/Fulani were behind the kidnapping of Mikel Obi's father until August 2014 when the kidnappers were arrested in Anambra and all were found to belong to Igbo ethnic group. ​https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/15-wanted-kidnap-kingpins-arrested-anambra/
Vanguard News. A Nigerian newspaper and Online version of the Vanguard, a daily publication in Nigeria covering Nigeria news, Niger delta, general national news, politics, business, energy, sports ...

In Anambra State itself Governor Willie Obiano went to the extent of demolishing church over kidnapping activities. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXChufbH8E 
Before Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, the multi-billionaire kidnapper was arrested in 2019, all the kidnappings he perpetrated was attributed to Fulani herdsmen. the supplier of arms and ammunition to him was eventually apprehended and identified by the name, Godwin Chinyere.​ https://www.tori.ng/news/127050/man-who-supplied-guns-to-kidnapper-evans-finally-caught.html
Security operatives have finally apprehended the man who supplied deadly weapons to kidnapper, Evans.
​For those who would associate only the Fulani people with kidnapping in Nigeria, I can only appeal to them in accordance with Leviticus Chapter 19 :15 in the Bible, "Do not pervert justice, do not show partiality to the poor or favouritism to the great, but judge your neighbour fairly . . . ."
S. Kadiri



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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Omoba:

Once you state ' the people resorted to violence' you lost me.

The people cannot resort to violence for any  reason and not lose the integrity of their case.  The oil blocks belong to all Nigerians under Nigerian laws.  We were all equally expropriated!

Resorting to arms and being paid off negates the Biafran doctrine for which millions of lives were lost:

that no one will be allowed to take up arms against the federal government to solve any problems without being militarily crushed.

As such citizens of the Nigerian South East should have led the protests against the implementation of the MEND pacification and the double standards it entails, no matter who put the programme in place.

That the herders went to Professor Soyinka's house must have convinced him the messy war he feared has already started.  Yes it started during Jonathan's administration.  This is why for me clearly defined war is preferable to this ' kòseku/ kòseye  wars( amorphous wars) in which our priceless citizens are sitting targets.  

The Ogun State Governor must now make a definitive state broadcast if a world citizen of Soyinka's stature can be threatened in his own state.  The governor should, as a member of the National Security Council reach out to President Buhari and leaders of the National Assembly immediately!  

OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Well researched in Baba Kadiri's usual style.  I hope Toyin Adepoju and Omoba's 'Fulani kidnappers' have now been unmasked for good.

Again the lasting solution will be to mop up all arms in circulation and prohibit possession of arms except for bonafide law enforcement agents, dissolve the Nigeria police and commence state policing without further delay.


OAA



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Femi Segun

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Omoba OAA:
'Again the lasting solution will be to mop up all arms in circulation and prohibit possession of arms except for bonafide law enforcement agents, dissolve the Nigeria police and commence state policing without further delay.' On this we agree. But in addition, there is a need for a new compact on the functioning of the Nigerian federation. This Decree 34 of 1966 arrangement is no longer sustainable. There is the need for a massive program of education to reorient the minds of people from primitive accumulation through public office. We need a new value system that redefines the essence of life from the present craze for materialism, shortcut to riches and irresponsible political leadership, The program of education must also include making all ethnic nationalities know  none is  superior to other groups, irrespective of false narrative of claims to the land of others.  


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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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We are in TOTAL agreement!
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