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How Nnamdi Kanu’s Family Reacted To Police Claims Over Recovery Of Lethal Weapons
The Family of the leader of proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has faulted claims by Abia Commissioner of Police, Anthony Michael Ogbizi that police recovered lethal weapons when, in a joint exercise with the Army, raided their compound at Afara Ukwu on October 8.
ORIENTAL TIMES recalls that Mr Ogbizi had said during a press briefing in Umuahia on Thursday that lethal weapons including petrol bombs and one double-barrel gun were recovered during the raid.
In a swift reaction, Mr Kanu’s family spokesman, Emmanuel Kanu in a telephone chat with journalists, however, denied that the family had any gun in the house, adding that if actually there was any gun the police found, it was planted by them during the first raid.
The family accused Mr Ogbizi of fabricating the story to justify what he described as illegal raiding of their compound and also to appear as if he was working in order to please his masters.
“This new CP was the same man who came to our house two days after the September 14 invasion with two Hilux vans and his Prado SUV and pulled down the car porch and destroyed the vehicles parked outside.
“This same CP hurriedly after the invasion on the October 8, issued a press release telling the whole world that they discovered bombs in my house. The army on the other hand, denied that there was no invasion and that they never went to my house, what a contradiction.
“A house that there has not been any person inside except our guard who we asked to look after the house, all of a sudden they invaded the house and came back to say they found a den gun, double barrel gun and petrol bomb. Who manufactured them? Who kept them there? That is the question to ask.”
“The policemen came to our house and ransacked the entire compound including my mum and my father’s rooms, removing my mum’s boxes, our TV and generator sets, bags of rice and many personal belongings without knowing that we had a CCTV recording their activities in the house. But when they got clue about the CCTV and in order to concoct whatever that they would present to the public to label our family bad, they came back and removed the CCTV from where they were hung.
“I am telling the international community to prevail on this people. What the Police and other security agencies are doing in my house, my community, in my state and the entire Biafran Land is evil. It is clear that out of desperation, they are trying to cover their tracks and they have failed.
“Nobody can tag IPOB a terrorist organisation. We don’t carry arms and arms never solved any dispute. They should engage IPOB leadership genuinely. We are not violent. We don’t give life and we can’t take one. They have rubbished the name of the country called Nigeria, that’s why we are called Biafrans.
“They invaded the house and took away the CCTV now they said that they discovered petrol bomb and the rest of it, when we had only one person in the house. How possible is that? Who planted them?”
Kanu further stated, “If Ogbizi was serving in his Cross River State, he wouldn’t have raided the palace of the Obong of Calabar under any guise the way he raids my father’s palace and boasted he would raid it again, this can only happen in Igbo land.
“And let me tell you something, the reason they removed the former CP (Adeleye Oyebade) was that he knew that IPOB has been non-violent in their activities and he stood on the side of truth, he refused to be compromised that was why they removed him and brought this one from Cross River State who is on a mission he will never accomplish.”
Beedone Duruji
October 15, 2017 at 1:07 pm
Good my brother please keep on
Emeka Dominion Godwin
October 15, 2017 at 7:30 am
Zoo police
Chizoba Ubaezu
October 15, 2017 at 6:10 am
SOUTHERNERS; WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
By Charles Ogbu.
This one is not hear-say. This is from the horse’s mouth.
President Muhammadu Buhari specifically asked the World Bank to focus all their developmental activities in the North.
Let me quote the World Bank boss in his exact words:
“You know in my very first meeting with President Buhari, he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the Northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult”
This is from the World Bank Oga kpatakpata.
Monies from NNPC are going to the north.
Firms are being compelled by the same NNPC to contribute 100million monthly to develop the North.
There is NorthEast Development Commission fully funded with oil money from the South.
There is a special percent of VAT kept specially for the North even as alcohol which is a major source of VAT is banned in the Sharia North.
Rail-lines connecting the North to even Niger Republic are ongoing.
As I write this, president Buhari has signed the 3,050MW Mambilla Hydro project in a strategic move to empower the North. In addition, the govt just re-acquired the Ajeokuta steel plant to supply steel to the Mambilla Hydro project. The local content participation in the project is almost 1billion United States Dollars.
All going to the North.
You can make your own finding to confirm all these.
Don’t forget how much billions of dollars that have been borrowed specifically to develop the North due to the boko haram activities.
How much was borrowed to develop Ala-Igbo after the Biafran war even when 3Rs was declared?
How much effort has been made to develop the Niger Delta which is the main area all those monies are coming from but which is unsafe for even non-living things to live in, due to oil exploration??
Meanwhile, a bill to gift Lagos state with a special status was killed in the National Assembly by Northern lawmakers with the help of their fraudulently acquired numerical strength.
A bill to establish the Southeast Development Commission was killed by Northern lawmakers with the help of their fraudulently acquired numerical strength.
Even the Original Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) was killed by northern lawmakers at the national Assembly. They only accepted the corrupt version of the bill when they succeded in smuggling two Northern states as beneficiaries of special fund known as “Host Community Fund” even when those two northern states are not hosting even a litter of oil.
When Buhari or any Northerner tells you that the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable, this is exactly why. Nigeria as presently constituted, is their ATM.
Those of you inaundating us with your rhetorics and verbal gymnastics about RESTRUCTURING, you need to quit living in denial.
Telling us the benefit of restructuring is like selling coal to Newcastle. Even Ikenga, my two day old son knows the benefit of Restructuring. What he doesn’t know, like the rest of us, is how you guys plan on achieving that in the face of Northern resistance.
Go read El-rufai speech few day ago. He’s the Chairman of APC committee on restructuring. He made it clear that those saying they want to control their resources are just being selfish and that such a thing will never happen because it will not benefit other Nigerians. He advised them to think of other Nigerians.
I’ve said it before and it bears repeating now, those expecting any form of RESTRUCTURING through the existing constitutional framework are either ignorant or dishonest or even both. But there is another option: they are fans of the status-quo who are simply using the Restructuring rhetorics to douse the Biafra agitation.
To restructure, you need to change that iniquitious document that calls itself the 1999 constitution. And to do that, you need 2/3 (not a simple majority) of all members of the national Assembly as well as that of the state houses of Assembly in the entire country.
The entire southern federal lawmakers won’t give you 2/3 even if you borrow 3 North central states join them. And don’t forget, some southern lawmakers actually prefer the status-quo where they are getting billions just for going to the NASS to sleep and snore.
YOU CAN ONLY GET GENUINE RESTRUCTURING THROUGH A RADICAL APPROACH.
Hate Nnamdi Kanu or love him, you cannot deny that he understands Nigeria problem and the best way to solve it better than all these theorists.
For weeks that we’ve not heard from Kanu, have we heard anything concrete from the Restructuring group??
SOLUTION:
Niger Delta boys, you all need to borrow yourselves some sense. Insist that no oil is lifted from your region until you are allowed to control your resources. You have the means to enforce this. You also have the bargaining chip.
Stop selling your dignity by collecting crumb in the name of amnesty. You are supposed to be the giver, not the receiver. Look at your environment for crying out loud!
OHANEZE NDIGBO, AFENIFERE and all Southern group, you people need to stop theorizing and get real. So far, you all have been full of rhetorics. Nothing more.
Tell your people the time-bound practical steps with which you plan on achieving RESTRUCTURING in the face of Northern resistance. Do this and do it now. If you can’t, then shift one corner and allow the youths do this the youthful way.
I am particularly disappointed that Ohaneze Ndigbo and Igbo elites, from governors to federal lawmakers, all seem to be on a mission to end the Biafran agitation by all means EVEN WITHOUT GIVING THEIR YOUTHS AN ALTERNATIVE. This is quite disheartening. Very disappointing.
Buhari and his gang are not here to develop Nigeria. They are here to implement a northern Muslims agenda. This is a govt of the North, by the North and for the North.
When all this is over,
The question will be, while the Daura born Northern irredentist was busy implementing a Northern agenda, what were Southern leaders doing??
Charles Ogbu share
Nnadison Fitzpatrick Uba
October 15, 2017 at 5:55 am
Fuck them
Solo KC
October 15, 2017 at 4:35 am
islamic police
Okechukwu Okiyi
October 15, 2017 at 3:11 am
Sad
Friday Ibe
October 15, 2017 at 1:42 am
But u are there for gossip
Henry-Paloka Adimonye
October 14, 2017 at 10:40 pm
All hail Biafra
Tochukwu James
October 14, 2017 at 9:42 pm
They re just criminals
Salihu Aliyu
October 14, 2017 at 9:40 pm
Biafra my foot
Solo KC
October 15, 2017 at 4:34 am
nizooria my anus lazy beggers
Siver Chiben
October 15, 2017 at 7:12 am
Hbp
Ifey Bekee
October 14, 2017 at 9:01 pm
John Jude
October 14, 2017 at 8:57 pm
Well Spoken!!!
Chinecherem Uwaoma
October 14, 2017 at 8:53 pm
Chris John
October 14, 2017 at 8:37 pm
Apc=armed personnel conspirators
Austin Anslem
October 14, 2017 at 8:25 pm
another lie again
Beedone Duruji
October 15, 2017 at 12:53 pm
Which lie?
Christopher Ochini
October 14, 2017 at 7:30 pm
Ok
Chikezie Nelson
October 14, 2017 at 7:24 pm
IPOB press release Today: 14/10/2017 We the indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) and it’s leadership worldwide under the command of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to inform Biafrans across the length and breadth of Biafraland to return our children back to school from Monday October 16, 2017. This directive is important because we have determined that for the time being, men of the Nigerian Army responsible for the murderous outrage of forcible vaccinations of our children has been withdrawn from our schools and banned from continuing with this criminal exercise. We want to use this opportunity to inform parents and guardians, particularly those in Anambra State, to return their children back to school on Monday 16th of October 2017. Right now, IPOB have ascertained that Nigerian soldiers have withdrawn the vaccination program. IPOB will continue to monitor the situation in schools in and around Biafraland and particularly Anambra State until this evil plot by the APC Nigerian government and their accomplices in Igbo land like Gov. Willie Obiano, is totally terminated by Nigerian Army HQ. Our early warning team is in place all over Anambra State and should anything untoward be spotted on Monday morning or Nigerian Army vehicles found anywhere near any school, IPOB would raise the alarm immediately to recall our children as was the case last week Thursday. We are determined to ensure the safety and well being of our children and under no circumstance will we allow them to be poisoned with killer virus administered by those that want all Biafrans dead. The plan of Willie Obiano and corrupt Igbo governors, including political contractors in Abuja to sacrifice the lives of our children to please their fellow blood thirsty Hausa Fulani Islamic caliphate in Arewa North for the sake of second term in office or political position, will not be allowed. At IPOB, our children are important to us, after all we are sacrificing our lives on a daily basis in pursuit of Biafra that we may give them a future to be proud of. COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.
Mercy Iloelunachi Onwurah
October 14, 2017 at 7:09 pm
Curse be on anyone who works on the side of evil.
James Akwari
October 14, 2017 at 6:37 pm
The struggle of a drowning man. He will grab and trash at anything. What a pity.
Ogbuefi-Ogunabu Obarezi Obinna
October 14, 2017 at 6:36 pm
I pray for those that believes in one Nigeria.
May all your life endeavors, resemble Nigeria.
May anything you lay hands to do, take the shape of Nigeria.
May your entire life , be like Nigerian roads.
May God shine his lights upon your life, like that of Nigeria power supply.
May heaven harass you the same manner Nigerian police/ military harass people.
May your children’s behavior be like that of boko haram.
May the spirit of buhari revolve in whatsoever you and your family do.
May your peace be like Nigerian peace. May God bless you the same manner and measure Nigeria blesses her workers.
May you waste many years laboring with nothing to show like Nigeria’s graduates.
May lack access to success like Nigerians lack access road.
May waters around you dry up like Nigerians lack drinkable water.
May your blessings turn to curses like that of Nigeria.
May no one care for just like Nigeria cares not for her citizens.
May your achievements be like, that of Nigeria.
Finally may God abandons you like abandoned projects in Nigeria. Amen.
Thomasella Yayacella
October 14, 2017 at 8:17 pm
Dont allow d cares of this world 2over take u from.-..-naked ur going back
Mazi Micheal Ike Okonkwo
October 14, 2017 at 6:35 pm
His brother Emmanuel , is busy giving a sugar coated speech at non violent agitation event..
J Boy Montino Obi
October 14, 2017 at 7:53 pm
Ur a stupid fool idiot may devil punish ur generation useless saboteur
Mazi Micheal Ike Okonkwo
October 14, 2017 at 8:35 pm
Do u expect me to respond to an idiot like u?.. you want to play as NnamdiKanu_most_loved.. you are nothing but an idiot. I am a core biafra.. And I will never be ashamed of ths struggle. But for an idiot like u, keep clapping for Emanuel in his foolishness. A man whose parents and brother are missing, including many dead in thr compound, he rushed to Abujato give a talk and seek a cheap popularity..you think such man is sane , including a sycophant like u who stays on d sideline to cheer him
John Iheanacho Ezugwu
October 14, 2017 at 6:32 pm
They have already failed and they must pay dearly for all atrocities against our people in due time.
Uchenna Ossai
October 14, 2017 at 6:27 pm
Ekwegh Chimaobi
October 14, 2017 at 6:23 pm
Ohamadike the son of rainbow.
Usman Muhammad
October 14, 2017 at 6:19 pm
Let them be arrest too
Chinedu Egbe
October 14, 2017 at 9:18 pm
Aboki qura metusa
Prince Pachigo
October 14, 2017 at 6:13 pm
They have rubbished this country to nothing.. All hail Biafra
Dom Ngubo
October 14, 2017 at 6:09 pm
FG have tried and failed and they will continue fail
Ernest Chukwuemeka EmmyGod
October 14, 2017 at 6:07 pm
Why this APC government like to plot armed evil against another person
Emmanuel Emeka Elemçhi
October 14, 2017 at 6:03 pm
Very sorry for this despite and failed government