MASSOB Introduces Own Passport, Money

The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has told the international community to rezone the nation, in order to allow everyone conduct their own elections in peace. The Assistant National Information Director, Mr Sunny Okereafor, revealed this when he spoke to Daily Sun in Umuahia. He said that his group has already presented a vehicle plate number, bearing United States of Biafra, drivers and vehicle licences, tax receipt, international passport and currency at the World Bank, which are things that make a people a nation, there is the need for Biafrans to stay on their own. READ

Should Biafra become a reality

By Muyiwa Adetiba

The star Biafra challenges are not lessening; and, interestingly, came to Abuja a week ago when Kanu the Chief of Radio Biafra, was brought under the steady gaze of the justice's court. The challenges may be fuelled by yet to be distinguished lenders, however those fanning the coals of withdrawal are young people who have relinquished their different livelihoods to partake in the dissents. Some are doing as such for veritable, if misinformed reasons. Some, not all that real. Some won't not even be of Igbo birthplace. Be that as it may, all are despondent and disappointed with their lives and have incidentally ended up willing pawns in a mind boggling chess diversion.

After a time of concentrated yet boisterous quiet, the Igbo senior citizens have turn out to denounce the dissents and by expansion, the tumult for Biafra, by posting the numerous obstacles that anticipate the acknowledgment of Biafra. I don't think they have gone sufficiently far. The challenging young people should be taught on the inescapability of war if they proceed on this way. What's more, ought to Radio Biafra keep on maligning and affront each other tribe in Nigeria, the dissidents are going to have numerous unfriendly neighbors.

They likewise should be made mindful of the reasonable and logical additions and misfortunes of their activities both in the shorter and more terms. No separation, both of relational unions or business associations or nations is without scars and losses. The resultant "opportunity" is regularly not worth it.And talking about relational unions, our guardians were not any more satisfied in their unions than we are. Yet they generally stayed with them, learnt shared admiration in the process and gave us stable homes in which to create.

There is no confirmation that our absence of resistance which has prompted higher separation rates has made us more content as people and as a general public. The UK involves four unmistakable countries. They have been pushing and pulling themselves for whatever length of time that I can recall. They are frequently secretly derisive of each other. Yet, they understand in their astuteness, that the segments can't be preferred or more noteworthy over the entirety. So it is with Nigeria. The late history of the Soviet Union, Sudan and different nations that have needed to balkanise themselves due to uncertain inside inconsistencies arrive for all to gain from.

Give us a chance to accept today, that Kanu, Nwazuruike and their armed force of youthful Turks succeed in their wish to have Biafra. Would everything be anguish and fate for whatever is left of the nation? I think not. Yes, the nation would lose a profitable and indispensable bit of the tripod that had supported the nation. It would likely lose that segment of the nation that is most arranged to business enterprise in trade and industry. It would likewise never again have the capacity to lounge in the wonderfulness of their commitments in the diaspora.

In any case, it is not as though the crown gem has been taken away and whatever is left of us are standard stones or unimportant shafts as the radio Biafra publicity needs individuals to accept. The immeasurable in-street they have made in exchange and business everywhere throughout the nation is on the grounds that their host "countries" have been pleasing and have given a level playing field. This, obviously would stop. Regardless, it has scarcely been responded in Igbo land. The Igbos for all the clamor, don't have faith in comprehensiveness.

On the other hand put another way, they don't share well. I was once included in a national daily paper where the administrator chief was Igbo who was in charge of contracting the administrative staff. Before I knew it, every one of the cleaners, typists and errand people were from a specific piece of the nation. I needed to let him know that were the proprietor of the paper like him, neither he nor I would have been utilized in any case following the proprietor was neither Igbo nor Yoruba.

Another essential issue to consider is the place the domain would be. A portion of the maps I have seen incorporate the states in the old South-Eastern district. One even incorporates the Idomas of North-Focal! It is enlightening that pioneers of the South-South have separated themselves from the segment as the trepidation of winding up as minorities with a predominant accomplice is genuine. This was one of the numerous reasons that the late Isaac Boro battled for. One South-South pioneer critically let me know 'they will need to vanquish us on the off chance that they need us to be a piece of them'. This leaves the center Igbo land which is basically landlocked.

In any case, all the more vitally, having your own particular State like marriage, is in itself a voyage not a destination. Nothing is to say that you are all going to live respectively cheerfully a great many. Nothing is to say that one segment is not going to feel maginalised by alternate areas. This message is additionally to the individuals who are plotting for Oduduwa Republic. They ought to recall that the Yoruba have battled themselves in the past could even now do as such. In some cases, what unites you can likewise partition you.

By the day's end, what the soothing quality in the different segments of the nation is about is the hard way our pioneers have squandered the tomorrow of our young people. For a considerable length of time we have expressed the need to run a comprehensive, straightforward framework that is not taking into account ethno/religious contemplations. One has pushed for legitimacy and a hearty engagement of our young people. Presently the chicken is raising some ruckus. From North to South, the villain is giving apparatuses to the unmoving hands of our young people.

MASSOB and the other disappointed young people from alternate zones of the nation need to connect with the pioneers from inside. They have to let them know they were chosen to enhance living conditions for the whole masses and not for themselves alone. They ought to understand that a number of the lenders of challenges, uproars and killings either live abroad or have their families abroad.

The nation on its part ought to surrender some self-sufficiency to the zones. Let the diverse nationalities create at their own particular paces. We have run the unitary type of government now for more than 40 years and it truly hasn't worked. Saying this doesn't imply that that it is the main answer for the issue of the nation. Our issue is the state of mind of the pioneers to administration and it is not liable to change whether we have Oduduwa Republic or Republic of Biafra.

The trust is that zonal independence will make entomb zonal rivalry which will thus convey improvement to the general population particularly the young people. It is just a trust.

Pioneer of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

The State Security Service on Monday asked an Abuja judge court to end its body of evidence against the pioneer of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu.

Mr. Kanu was charged for criminal connivance, taking part in unlawful society and criminal intimidation, which damage Section 97, 97B and 397 of the punitive code.

The managing officer, Usman Shuaibu, had issued a request for the safeguard of Mr. Kanu on the state of displaying a surety of Grade Level 16 with a landed property in Garki or Wuse regions worth N20 million.

On resumption today, the indictment counsel, Moses Idakwo, told the court the charged individual was yet to completely meet the prerequisite for his safeguard.

He clarified that the purpose behind Mr. Kanu's proceeded with confinement in the care of the SSS was his failure to completely meet the necessity for safeguard.

He told the court that despite the fact that the administration had affirmed the workplace of the surety introduced by the blamed, the area of the surety's plot was yet to be found out.

Direction to the protection, Vincent Obete, however educated the court about the sworn statement before it, noticing that the arraignment denied stepping to affirm the area of the surety's plot of area.

"On the off chance that it takes this long to affirm an insignificant area of a plot that is simply adjacent to us in Abuja here, then we are in a bad position," said Mr. Obete.

Mr. Idakwo however told the court that the SSS had discovered crisp data that had presented the defense outside the locale of the judge court.

He in this manner made an application taking into account area 108 sub segment 1 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, that the case be stopped and taken to a more fitting court.

Accordingly, another protection counsel, Jude Abojeh, said the court had given a few requests to the SSS to discharge Mr. Kanu on safeguard without much of any result.

Rochas Okoro-hausa being an open enemy

Highlight of yesterday's master Biafra dissent in Aba was a football match by the gathering wearing T-shirts checked Biafra along significant roads of the business town. Markets and road shops were shut to urge dealers to share in the activism.

the move went ahead the heels of proceeded with challenge by master Biafra activists under the aegis of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Aba. The gatherings had organized a smaller than usual rally on Saturday to dissent the proceeded with confinement of the Director of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, by the Federal Government.

An expected one million individuals took an interest in the tranquil dissent, which constrained workers to walk long separations to their destinations even as they were fearful of conceivable confusion, which the security offices were available to avert.

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|||Reports reaching us  that business sectors and other financial exercises in Aba, were today, November 9, incapacitated after the dissents.

Biafra not Nigeria’s problem

BIAFRA is not one of the issues plaguing Nigeria. Those not able to welcome this may require a dosage of imaginative considering. Nigeria's obstinate thistle in the substance is its resolute revocation of the undeniable idea of the immutability of progress, whereupon sits a disabling unwillingness to draw in that same consistency of progress. There are two arbitrary however popular assertions – one little recalled today, the other something of a mantra – that flawlessly wrap up the national antiparty to inflexible change and its administration.

On January 15, 1970, there was a function at Dodan Barracks, Lagos, the then seat of political force. Biafran acting Head of State, General Philip Effiong, Colonel David Ogunewe, Colonel Patrick Anwunah, Colonel Patrick Amadi and Police Commissioner Patrick Okeke had gone to present Biafra's archive of surrender, which formally denoted the end of the common war. "The alleged rising sun of Biafra has set always," announced Head of State General Yakubu Gowon, on that event. In the jumps and plunges of Nigeria's turbulence, it is normal to hear government officials of changing influences pronouncing, as a method for "aiding" to balance out the posting boat of state, that "Nigeria's solidarity is not debatable."

Between Gowon's assumption of Biafra's conclusiveness, which rode on the peak of triumphalism and was hailed as judicious by numerous, including Gowon's biographer Professor Isawa Elaigwu, and the perpetually voiced avoidance of terms on Nigeria's unity, lies the nation's tricky. General Gowon is alive and skipping. Were he to genuinely remark on his 45-year old announcement today, he would promptly confess to not having completely viewed as all sides of everything. For it is unmistakably outside the limits of political power to announce the irreversible removal of human inclination and proclivity. The present hoopla around Biafra loans assurance to the statement.

Presently, there is something confusing in the oft-rehashed articulation on Nigeria's solidarity not being debatable. The announcement does not imply that Nigeria's solidarity is a fait accompli. It basically demands an angry criticism of any considered mapping out a practical street on which the expected or foreseen national solidarity must travel, free from injustice and calamities; a system for mastering the goals of national solidarity which is, anyplace on the planet, an especially overwhelming suggestion. It is on the grounds that Nigeria has held its back stubbornly swung to change that even the smallest molehill on its uncharted street perpetually turns into a sharp mountain.

Why is Nigeria unequipped for gaining from history? At the point when Biafra came in 1967, it was path relatively revolutionary. Since January 15, 1970, the world's political guide has kept on being redrawn. Ruler Haile Selassie would have begun, and marked any fantasy in which Eritrea was specified a bad dream. Eritrea increased universal acknowledgment as a free state in 1993. South Sudan was just an anecdotal build in 1970; it turned into a free country in 2011. Bangladesh was non-existent in 1970; it proclaimed its freedom from Pakistan a year later. The Soviet Union broke up into 12 free states in 1991. By 1992 Yugoslavia had cracked into around seven free nations. On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia split into Czech and Slovak Republics. Scotland held an Independence choice early this year that fizzled. There is an effective Catalan development pushing withdrawal from Spain. Separatist propensities are not on the melt away in Cabinda.

Radio Biafra and the options before FG

NNAMDI kanu, Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Director of Radio Biafra was captured on October 17 and has been in confinement or guardianship from that point forward. An Abuja Municipal Magistrate Court was said to have allowed him abandon October 19, and as per his legal counselors, the safeguard conditions have been consummated yet by Friday October 23, nothing changed notwithstanding when the directing Magistrate requested the security organization to deliver him in court and in addition clarify why the instigator has not been without set.

Kanu's capture and confinement signposts the resurgence of the Biafra development, the immense after and expanding bolster base for the development especially among the adolescents of the Southeast district of the nation. Of note is the globalization of the Biafran cause by Kanu and his shenanigans at the privateer Radio Biafra.

Be that as it may, of more concern is the Federal Government's anxious and narrow minded demeanor towards him, on one hand and the administration mien to the whole Biafran battle as spoke to heretofore by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) under the authority of Chief Raph Uwazuruike.

The interest and disturbance by the South-easterners has been putrefying in the previous couple of years with infrequent conflicts with security organizations, and this calls for alert and propriety to maintain a strategic distance from a circumstance where the interest raises and deteriorates into rough resistance in the extent of the militancy of the Niger Delta or the terrorism of Boko Haram.

There have been basic voices against the hard posing of the administration concerning Kanu's detainment with the faultfinders blaming the legislature for acting in break of the guideline of law and in opposition to the principles of majority rule government. Specifically, they contend that in created climes, such persons would be openly permitted to seek after his or her rights for self determination without mistreatment as it is the unchanging right of all. The Basque separate district of Spain is a sample' it has been upsetting for division from Spain for a very long time.

A previous Aviation Minister Femi Fani Kayode said that it was the basic right of any person or ethnic nationality to seek to be free and to have the capacity to decide their own particular fate. He focused on that the privilege of self-determination is revered in universal law and it is ensured by each ethical stricture known not.

"It is a privilege that has been practiced effectively again and again in world history and it has prompted the formation of new countries which were cut out of more seasoned ones. The disavowal of that privilege and the concealment and oppression of the individuals who endeavor to practice it prompts only insubordination, contradiction and resistance and, if not legitimately oversaw, it in the long run overflow into war and slaughter", he expressed.

The previous Minister reviewed that Mr. Alex Salmon and the Scottish Nationalist Party who began the disturbance for the Scottish freedom numerous years back were not charged to court, bolted up uncertainly or killed by the British powers however rather they were offered a submission to test the general population acknowledgment of their thoughts.

He noticed that same thing happened in the Catalan district of Spain; the Quebec locale of Canada; East Timor which selected to leave Indonesia; in Singapore which picked to leave Malaysia; the Czech Republic which picked to split far from Slovakia; Georgia, Ukraine and in addition the various previous Soviet expresses that selected to leave Russia.

As indicated by him, "The utility and significance of leading a choice on such matters keeping in mind the end goal to decide the genuine will of the general population and to respect the discoveries of that submission can't be thought little of and it remains the main way for peace."

Essentially, an industrialist and Chairman of African Center for Business Development, Strategy and Innovation (ACBDSI) Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, upheld dialog with Kanu and his co-instigators to figure out what their resentment against Nigeria is, alerted that any endeavor to smother the development by solid arm strategies may be counter-beneficial.

He couldn't help contradicting previous Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon who as of late denounced the withdrawal offer, depicting it as risk to Nigeria's solidarity. Gowon, who was responding to the late challenges by a few adolescents in different states over the fomentation, said that the Biafra matter has been closed.

As indicated by Gowon, Nigerians have put behind them the terrible recollections of the 1967 common war and that those behind these dissents on Biafra don't have suspicion about what the Biafra war cost Nigerians in the three years it kept going. He questioned if those unsettling for the autonomy of a Biafra country need Nigeria to go to another war, communicating trust that such would not happen on the grounds that those included in the battle were being driven by only a couple individuals and that dominant part of the Igbo individuals don't have the same perspective.

In any case, Ohuabunwa said that to reject the fomentation as a sworn off issue was excessively shortsighted and produced, making it impossible to trivializing a matter fit for exploding into a fire.

"With all due admiration, I think General Gowon and the Nigerian country appear not to have learnt enough lessons from the Nigerian common war, nor do we comprehend the present elements of latent resistance or self-determination in the worldwide setting", he expressed.

"To begin with is, not at all like the Niger Delta activists, they are neither outfitted or mobilized, and not at all like Boko Haram, they are not terrorists, neither do they get ready IEDs nor produce suicide aircraft. They have known pioneers with whom we can go into bona fide examinations and arrangements. Possibly a full audit and usage of the report of the 2014 National Conference would be useful".

Be that as it may, General Gowon concurred with the way that the nonconformists have the privilege to express their emotions yet not with a matter that was done.

He said, "Let them say their perspectives, yes its vote based system however we should verify they can express their wishes and yearnings yet give them a chance to recall with Biafra it is done. It is not a risk. I have said if there is anything of this sort anyplace in any piece of the nation simply like the issue of Boko Haram we ought to manage it; Nigeria ought to manage it matury."

Be that as it may, the inquiry has been raised in respect to whether Kanu took after due procedure in his fomentations. Has he kept in touch with the Federal government and world bodies like the United Nations Organization (UNO) requesting self determination? Did his activities add up to injustice? Some different persons additionally assert twofold models with respect to the administration guaranteeing that nobody was captured or charged for parts in the Radio Kudirat matter that was utilized to assemble the masses against the legislature not very far in the past.

Bajame Okpomota, an extremist contended that Radio Kudirat did not call for withdrawal, thus couldn't be giving the same treatment. "he included, in this specific case, subsequent to Kanu has embraced a peaceful methodology, the administration must take after due procedure of law by discharging him forthwith or charge him under the steady gaze of a skillful court of locale immediately".

Acknowledged that no genuine nation would overlap its arms while its power is undermined by breakaway gatherings, a deliberate way to deal with the matters in question, as contended by Mr. Obuseh Jude, an Executive Director of Conflict Prevention and Peace Building Initiative (CPPBI), would suffice as the most sensible preventive rampart against the conceivable negative result of an intense methodology.

"In the event that anything, the powers ought to abuse the open door made by the fermenting strife to start to address the developing partisan dissentions in the nation that are owing to the skewed and unreasonable tilt of Nigeria's political request", he expressed.

Not a couple of persons especially outside Nigeria trust that Kanu has put forth a convincing expression by his behavior and, as pointed out by Fani-Kayode, the ball is currently in the court of the administration and those restricted to his requests to think of unrivaled contentions yet as per acknowledged best practices.

As indicated by Fani-Kayode, "It is left for those that don't concur with him to present a superior defense and to stem the Biafran tide. That is the momentous test that those that don't concur with Mr. Kanu's perspectives or his routines have".