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IPOB PAYS MEDICAL BILLS OF INJURED VICTIMS AND REIMBURSES PERSONAL MONEY SPENT

By Ibeh Gift Amarachi
For Family Writers

handing over of cash
The Indigenous People Of Biafra under the Leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,have cleared the Hospital Bills, Reimbursed bills previously paid and bought Crutches for the injured victims that are in various Hospitals in different State who were brutalised and maimed by the Nigeria Government, on 30th May 2016 Heroes Remembrance day. Furthermore, IPOB Leadership have commenced with the catering of the Families of the victims, which includes paying  of their Childrens School Fees, House rents, catering for Widows whose husbands were killed in various protest and buying of drugs if need be. This was done after rejecting the bill payment offer of the Anambra State Governor Willie Obiano at Multi-Care Hospital in Omagba Phase2 Onitsha in Anambra State, who in collaboration with Muhammadu Buhari the President of Nigeria, ordered for the shoot at sight at the unarmed victims who marched to Nkpor Anambra State,in respect of May 30th Biafra heroes Remembrance Day.

 This positive and unprecedented act was done through IBEH GIFT AMARACHI Of Family Writers, who represented the Leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra and Director Of Radio Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the entirety of IPOB Leadership, as she travelled to various Hospitals in different States where the victims were receiving treatment from and their Hospital bills was cleared, which led to their discharge. Before the discharge from the Hospital, each victims Personal Bank Account details for further catering was taken, the bills from the various Hospitals was taken and Money paid into the Hospital's Account.



  The Victims displayed shocking excitement, by singing various Biafra Songs, Praising the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and appreciating IPOB for immensely seeing to their welfare. They screamed in joy to the hearing of other Hospital Patients and to the amazement of the Hospital managements, which led to Nurses rejoicing alongside with them. One of the bravery and exciting act was seen, at Multi-Care Hospital, same Hospital where IPOB Leadership rejected the offer of the Governor of Anambra State. A Brave victim by name Okechukwu Solomon who was Shot and Bath with Acid at Anambra State Barracks,stated " I am Proud to be a Biafran.


My Parents did not force me to join this struggle,I personally made my decision and joined the Biafra struggle. I shall never give up and wish to stop using these crutches soon. I thank my Leader and Commander Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,IPOB Worldwide and promise that there will be no going back, until Biafra is restored". The wife of Mr. Egwu Joseph, who has been receiving treatment at Umuika in Abia State, appreciated the effort of IPOB for seeing to her husband’s bills and showing passionate love for him. Other victims numerous to mention, all promised never to stop agitating for Biafra under the Leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and have promised to join any protest without fear of gunshot or killings.


 The Indigenous People Of Biafra under the Leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,have indeed practiced what its being routinely preached "Ononube Nwanne Agbanoso(Who hears the cry of his Brother,should not run away)" and have proven that, we are united, strong and will forever cater for ourselves without the aid of aliens from Nigeria and Britain the creator of the murderous establishment called Nigeria. IPOB is capable of taking care of the victims who were abysmally brutalised by the Nigeria government, in collaboration with the British Government.

 Nigeria Government has destroyed the Lives of innocent civilians who only exercised their rights to Self-Determination with impunity. The British Government, Nigeria Government in conjunction with other Islamic Countries, have been passionately bent to the total extermination, subjection into perpetual poverty and trampling on the human rights of Biafrans. This is one of the reasons, most World Leaders are totally mute over the barbaric act by Muhammadu Buhari led regime, against the Indigenous People Of Biafra. This calamity of killing and molesting unarmed civilians, with impunity is against humanity and a stain to the white cloth of justice.


The World must boldly rise up, to defend the interest of the oppressed. In the words of Martin Luther King Junior "THE ULTIMATE TRAGEDY IS NOT THE OPPRESSION AND CRUELTY BY THE BAD PEOPLE BUT THE SILENCE OVER THAT BY THE GOOD PEOPLE". I would also leave the statement of Thomas Paine to the British Government and every other alien country supporting the maiming of the Indigenous People Of Biafran(IPOB) "HE THAT WOULD MAKE HIS OWN LIBERTY SECURE,MUST GUARD EVEN HIS ENEMY FROM OPPRESSION,FOR IF HE VIOLATES THIS DUTY,HOUR ESTABLISHES A PRECEDENT THAT WILL REACH TO HIMSELF".


NAMES OF BIAFRANS KILLED BY THE BUHARI LED GOVERNMENT ON THE ORDER OF BUHARI DURING BIAFRAN DAY PEACEFUL PROTEST OF 30th MAY 2016 (The areas covered are Asaba and Onitsha). May their souls rest in peace

Those killed in Asaba include:
  1. Ichoku Ndu
  2. Ebere Obidike
  3. Nwabueze Uzonna
  4. Okey Roland
  5. Chukwudi Ifenna
  6. Isaac Uzochukwu
  7. Eberima Aguh
  8. Henry Gideon
  9. Efion Apani
  10. Abuchi Obi
  11. Ozoemena Chukwuma
  12. Lotenna Ifeajuna
  13. Ifebuchi Okenwa
  14. Wisdom Omota
  15. Ejike Abunchukwu
  16. Ozobu Ogbonna
  17. Emeka Madueke
  18. Paschal Gideon
  19. Afam Onyeburu
  20. Izu Onwubiewe
  21. Okey Agubata
  22. Celestine Nnamdi
  23. Obieke Lotenna
  24. Nwabueze Oti
  25. Chijioke Ozoro
  26. Nwadike Chibuzo
  27. Azuka Ifeake
  28. Chioma Nkemjika
  29. Obiora Okonkwo
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Those killed in Onitsha area include:
  1. Obi Nkemakonam
  2. Ubani Nwenneakonam
  3. Nwuzo Friday
  4. Ilo Friday
  5. Olisama Chukwuemeka
  6. Awah Sopuruchi
  7. Okoye Chinedu
  8. Ezeilo Chuka
  9. Onyeduna Ifesinachi
  10. Nnamani Sunday
  11. Chinonso Amadi
  12. Tagbo Chibuzo
  13. Anyanwu Chika
  14. Egbe Johnson
  15. Osukwe Ijeoma
  16. Nkechukwu Ikechukwu
  17. Kenneth Eni
  18. Orjichukwu Chigozie
  19. Solomon Izundu
  20. Ebili Edward
  21. Gabriel Onyedikachi
  22. Ilo Ozoemena
  23. Nwauju Charles
  24. Onuoha Chidozie
  25. Onyemaechi Nwaezeoma
  26. Innocent Obodoekwe
  27. Ifeanyi Azubuike
  28. Adigwe Chukwudi
  29. Ogochukwu Mbam
  30. Obiosa Chukwueme
  31. Ugochukwu Samuel
  32. Onuoha Chigozie
  33. Maduka Egwela
  34. John Onuchukwu
  35. Maduabuchi Onwukanjo
  36. Izuchukwu Nwaogba
  37. Nnamdi Okonkwo
  38. Ibekwe Okechukwu
  39. Felix Odianwu
  40. Okafor Moses Madukasi
  41. Egwu Joseph.

I am still wondering how Buhari will get away with genocide.


SEPTEMBER CALL FOR JUSTICE


This September 5th  to 9th; Biafrans and friends all over the world will commence another round of phone campaign to officials of United States of America (USA); European Union (EU) and United Nation (UN).

    As free and peaceful people that have refused to lift a stick or raise a gun in spite of all the provocations so far; the military action against the lawful people of Biafra has been sustained. While there is an intense move to silence and extinguish Biafrans; in good faith and with the hope that the world authorities will stand to defend the international conventions that propel the Indigenous People of Biafra. It is, therefore, imperative to know that Biafrans have endured so much and now exploiting every civil means to get justice. This September call is done that there may be justice and a halt to the right violation that has faced them.
    As this extermination continues; it is noteworthy that the people of Biafra have committed no crime known to any law but have thrived on freedom of speech which has brought death and mayhem upon them. While this is the case; they have been conspired against, and everybody has gone deaf and dumb while a part of the world is about to be extinguished. The killing of six million Jews started just this way, and negligence tends to play a remarkable role in abetting such evil against the people of Biafra. While there is visible genocide in Biafra; it is believed that calling the world or international community will trigger sympathy and awaken the consciousness of men to the inhuman State treatment of Biafrans. A call from you can save humanity and a people faced with a second genocide.
    The more there is silence is the more this ongoing genocide is sustained, and there is need to intensify the call for justice to the international community and world relevant authorities. The non-violent approach applied by Nnamdi Kanu and the Indigenous People of Biafra means every alternative must be exploited to save humanity from extermination. This call for justice must be given every attention needed and to enforce due action to arrest the lawlessness that has narrowed Biafrans to animals whose rights are not respected or a species of terror.  Having arrested Nnamdi Kanu the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, the call for his unconditional release has been sustained and met with unwarranted military action against the people of Biafra.
    ISIS- like execution of the people of Biafra is now rampant with Amnesty International on top of the game they know how best to play; browsing and uncovering the genocide going on in Biafra and reporting to the world- details of how Biafrans are shot without provocation. Forceful disappearance is the order of the day, and there seems to be no end to this evil against Biafrans. This evidence via report from leading human right institution buttresses the position of the people of Biafra who has been crying day and night over the genocide being perpetrated on them. It is the collective responsibility of the entire people of the world to stand and fight for the safety of people without any record of provocation or threat but people that have contributed immensely to the development of the world at large.
    Nnamdi Kanu who has been in unlawful detention has rigorously been pleaded and forced to renounce or negotiate with FG of Nigerian which he obviously declined and reiterated that it is Biafra or nothing. While there is no hope of Buhari breaking him; they have intensified their move and have attempted to murder him the second time in the space of one year. Spain is not killing Catalonians and UK is not killing Scots; why then must Nigeria kill Biafrans. Through this call, the world should be made to know that the people of Biafra deserve equal treatment with other human beings. Nigeria must be rebuked and condemned; there should be compulsion for the release of Nnamdi Kanu and halt to the military action against unarmed people.
    It is clear that Nigeria is a lawless state and would do nothing but contravene its laws and constitution let alone respecting international conventions. For this reason, it is crucial to remind the world of the role they should play when human rights that are protected without boundaries are abused by a State. Therefore; it is overdue for the world authorities to step up and compel Nigerian State to respect what she signed to respect. The 2007 UN declaration on the rights of Indigenous People is a sacred convention and must be respected or compelled to be respected if need arises.

    This current situation in Biafra land is to form part of the message in the phone campaign to the US, EU and UN officials. Biafrans and friends of Biafra all over the world are expected to be part of this campaign. Everyone is to call and declare to them the plight of Biafrans and why they should help to save the souls of Biafrans (SOS).

The numbers to call are Us Congress direct number +1 202_224_3121 & +1 202_225_4316 United Nations Office at Geneva +4122_917_4635 Time to call is (3pm to 11pm Biafran Time) 

Biafra is going places and there is nothing the enemies can do about it. Use the following prompts when you call: “Hello, my name is (--------); I’m calling to appeal to the President (or the relevant government official) to:

1.    Nnamdi Kanu’s right is being violated without constraint by asking him to renounce a legitimate demand before he is released. This simply shows that he is being held by no law but by Nigeria (a man) who has no right to his life and freedom. Ask them to help in working to free the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu – the prisoner of conscience. Tell them how he was illegally abducted for exercising his right under United Nations rights of Indigenous peoples and self-determination.

2.     Investigate the numerous reports by Amnesty International bothering on continued arrest, execution and State kidnap by Nigeria Police and military; and to punish those found to have played a part in committing the atrocious act.

3.     Plead with them to force Nigeria forces of occupation – the military and Police – as well as to stop the Buhari led Nigerian government to stop the murder of Biafrans, released of all unlawfully arrested and kidnapped Biafrans.

4.    Tell them how Biafrans are made to suffer in their land by the evil Nigerian state; and that Biafrans are looking up to them, to use their good offices in helping for the restoration and independence of Biafra.

(Thank you!) Support the restoration and independence of Biafra. (Thank you!)

US Gov’t, United Nations Office at New York.  Time to Call (3 pm to 11 pm Biafra Time)
United Nations Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon
+1 212 963 1234
President Barack Obama, White House
+1 202 456 1111
US Congress Direct Number
+1 202-224-3121 & +1 202 225 4361  
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee
+1 202 224 4651
US House Committee on Foreign Affairs
+1 202 225-5021
Republican Majority Leader: Kevin McCarthy
+1 202-225-4000
Democratic Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi
+1 202 225-0100
Republican Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell
+1 (202) 224 2541
US C-span
+1202 737 3220

EU, United Nations Office at Geneva. Time to Call (9 am to 5 pm Biafra Time)


European Parliament (Brussels)
+32 2 28 49013
European Parliament (Brussels)
+32 2281 6111
European Parliament (Strasbourg)
+333 8817 4001
European Parliament (Brussels)
+322 28 42111
United Nations Office At Geneva
+4122 917 4635
United Nations Office At Geneva
+4122 917 1140
United Nations Office At Geneva
+4122 917 2127


By Ifeanyi Chijioke 



(Onitsha Nigeria, 1st of September 2016)-Following high cases of suspected death of Nigerian citizens in the custodies of the security agencies and recent violent attacks launched by security forces in some high profile prisons across the country, the leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety) is deeply concerned that the abducted IPOB activists presently in incommunicado detention by the authorities of the Department of State Security; Nigeria’s secret police, may most likely die in the DSS solitary confinement under highly questionable circumstances.
Nigerians including rights and media activists have in the past weeks raised concerns about increasing deaths in detention and violent attacks in a number of detention facilities across the country including some maximum security prisons. Such deaths in detention have been reported in the EFCC detention facilities maintained and manned by the operatives of the Nigeria Police Force and the DSS. The authorities of the Nigerian Prisons Service have also alleged attempted prison breaks and used them as a cover to unleash violent attacks on such prisons with intent to kill high profile detainees who are in awaiting or undergoing trial and blame their death on “jail breaks”. One of the most recent of such State violent attacks was reported to have been launched at the Kuje Prison; close to the cell room of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu(POC), during which tear gas canisters with possible lethal substances were reported to have been recklessly used.
The authorities of the DSS have also gone rioting; abducting, shooting, torturing, incriminating and detaining IPOB activists across the country particularly in Southeast and South-south parts of Nigeria. We had in our two previous publications dated 26th and 28th of August 2016, raised alarm and informed all Nigerians and members of the international community of indiscriminate crackdown, arrest and long detention without trial or charge of IPOB activists by the DSS. We specifically cited the case of Citizen Chidiebere Onwudiwe, who was trailed and later abducted in his sleep in his residence near Port Harcourt in Rivers State, South-south Nigeria. Citizen Chidiebere Onwudiwe (Nigeria’s National Coordinator of IPOB) was abducted in the late night of 22nd June 2016 and till date, a period of 70 days; he has not been charged to court or put on fair trial.
We cited another horrible case of Citizen Chukwuka Sunday Obasi (Nnewi-Ichi Coordinator of IPOB in Anambra State, Southeast Nigeria) who was ambushed in his sleep by DSS operatives in the late night of 16th of August 2016 in his Amuwo-Nnewi residence; shot twice in his two legs before he was whisked away till date. The DSS operatives had earlier on 13th of July 2016 raided the sleeping abode of Citizen Justice O. Udeh (another IPOB official in Abia State) in Port Court in Rivers State and abducted him in his sleep. Citizen Justice O. Udeh has neither been released nor put on trial till date.
On 26th of August 2016, the DSS operatives, joined by the personnel of the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force in Abia State, Southeast Nigeria; ambushed a commercial Hummer Bus carrying the following IPOB activists: Citizens Ikechukwu Ugwuoha (Abia State Coordinator of IPOB), Asochukwu Ugochukwu, Sunday J. Okafor, Ekene Onuoha and Joseph Okorie (Ogbuawa) and other seven passengers. They were ambushed at Ugba Junction near Aba, handcuffed and blindfolded; before they were moved to the Ngwa High School temporary headquarters of the 144 Battalion of the Nigerian Army where they were beaten and tortured for over three hours, from where they were moved to the DSS office at Umuahia and detained till date.  
As we speak, they are still detained at the Abia State Directorate of the DSS, located near Government House where they are strongly believed to be undergoing torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments or punishments. The five IPOB activists detained by the DSS; likewise Citizens Chukwuka Sunday Obasi and Justice O. Udeh, have been held solitarily and denied access to their families, doctors and lawyers. Some members of their families that visited the DSS office at Umuahia yesterday, 31st of August 2016 were told that the DSS arrested their relatives, but “they have been transferred to Abuja”. This usually means something sinister per DSS and Police SARS: it could mean that the detainees have been “wasted” (killed in custody). In the instant case, it may have been told so as to discourage the detained IPOB activists’ relatives from further visiting the Directorate at Umuahia in search of their beloved relatives.  
It is also feared in some quarters that Citizen Chukwuka Sunday Obasi has died in the DSS custody following two gunshots he received from DSS in the course of his abduction in the late night of 16th of August 2016. It is on record that arrested citizens shot and wounded by their arresters and detainers are rarely treated medically. It is also recalled that the leader of the Muslim Movement of Nigeria, Sheik Ibrahim El-Zaky Zaky (POC) was brutally shot severally and battered during the Army attacks and massacre of over 800 of his unarmed followers in December 2015. He was violently arrested and taken into custody. Till date, a period of nine months, he has neither been seen nor released or tried. He is believed to have been transferred to the DSS custody by the Nigerian Army and fears have heightened that he has died in custody.
The renewed crackdown on IPOB activists has not only heightened fears, but also forced hundreds of married women who are members and supporters of IPOB and its activism to abandon their children and marriages and go into hiding particularly in Aba, Abia State where the DSS and the Nigerian Army have let loose and gone on rampage. Among the 20 IPOB activists freed on 11th of August 2016 by the Aba Magistrate Court 1, on account of the AGF directive; six of them are married women with kids and they have gone into hiding following the DSS crackdown. There are over 150 married women who are sympathetic to IPOB cause in Abia State alone and most of them have at least two kids each. Those kids and their fathers have been abandoned and uncared for till date.
It is shocking and alarming as why the DSS could be dissipating its energy and wasting the country’s lean resources by unleashing a crackdown on Citizens who never use or advocate violence while it turns blind eyes on the activities of murderous entities like the Fulani Terror Group or Fulani Janjaweed. The leadership and members of the Miyyati Allah Cattle Owners and Herders in Nigeria, who have become a criminal entity and individuals, are rewarded on daily basis for massacring hundreds of innocent and defenceless Nigerians every month, yet a group of unarmed and nonviolent citizens are hunted by the DSS with reckless abandon; to the extent that innocent and law abiding married women with toddlers are now forced out of their marriages and homes on account of the DSS recklessness.
We hereby call on the Attorney General of the Federation to call the authorities of the DSS and the Nigerian Army to order. It is a height of securitization recklessness and brigandage for the authorities of the DSS to flout and disrespect the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, upon which the recent directive of the AGF is predicated; by running riot on unarmed, nonviolent and defenceless citizens. The latest brigandage and rioting of the DSS must be cut to sizes!
The long periods and other unconstitutional measures adopted by the DSS in abduction, shooting and detention of IPOB activists are a clear case of the fact that “the DSS now exercises its powers of arrest, detention and use of force arbitrarily and has no single credible criminal accusation and evidence against the IPOB activists”, except its utter desperation using torture to concoct one. The silence of the Government of Abia State in the ongoing macabre act of the DSS in its State is also shocking.
The AGF is also called upon, as the Chief Law Officer of the Federation, to ensure the immediate cessation of the DSS atrocities under complaint. The Department must be stopped at all costs from its steady suicidal match into the abyss of lawlessness. There is no law in Nigeria that empowers the DSS to detain those it clamps into its custody for whatever reasons for 70 days without trial. The Department also grossly oversteps its statutory bounds by arresting, detaining, shooting and torturing citizens under “trial-by-ordeal” or jungle justice.
In the instant case, therefore, the DSS must be directed to free all the IPOB activists in its unlawful custody and if any of them dies in its custody, the Principal heads of the Department shall be held to account. The Department must be reminded at all times that crimes particularly those against humanity are not statute-bared! Blaming its regime atrocities of today on “the Buhari Administration”, when the latter must have ceased presidentially and democratically, will also not be acceptable to us.
The “Hissene Habre justice” will surely be replicated here at the appropriate time!!  
Signed:
For: International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety)
Emeka Umeagbalasi, Board Chairman
Mobile Line: +2348174090052
Website: www.intersociety-ng.org
Obianuju Igboeli, Esq., (LLB, BL)
Head, Civil Liberties & Rule of Law Program
Mobile Line: +2348034186332
Chinwe Umeche, Esq., (LLB, BL)
Head, Democracy & Good Governance Program
Mobile Line: +2347013238673
Email: chinwe.englewood@gmail.com

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