SMK: The Philanthropist

By
Sefinatu Ohunene Umaru

A philanthropist is a person who donates time, money, experience, skills or talent to help create a better world. Some philanthropists are known for giving away substantially to society and the candidate for the Kaduna South Senatorial seat, Honourable Sunday Marshall Katung (SMK) happens to be one. He has regularly donated his time, resources and talent for the benefit of the good people of Kaduna South Senatorial District.

His philanthropic activities span from education, providing succour to the indigent, empowerment and influencing employment opportunities in addition to providing legal services. Specifically, they include:

 a. Eduction and Empowerment:

1. Setting up an informal scholarship scheme for youth seeking higher education. This scheme has over a hundred (100) beneficiaries across higher institutions in Nigeria in just its first year.
2. Funding preparatory JAMB and SSCE candidates.
3. Partnered SMEDAN to conduct skill acquisition training and empowerment schemes for artisans and micro small scale entrepreneurs.
4. Providing business start up seed capital to over three hundred (300) female entrepreneurs. b. Health:
5. Outreach programmes that offer free screening, check up, basic surgeries, drugs treatment and therapy
6. Distribution of mosquito nets for mothers and their children to combat malaria
7. Outreach has conducted over three thousand (3,000) free surgeries

c. Agriculture:

1. Distribution of fertilisers by the truck loads
2. Distribution of improved seedlings

d. Amenities:
As a former member Federal House Representative –
1.He was able to influence the installation and deployment of solar powered street light in Kwoi Town.

2. moved a motion on the floor of the green chambers for the urgent rehabilitation of the Kwoi -Kurmin Jibrin Road, an important road artery in Southern Kaduna.
3. Provision of transformers for rural electrification, solar, mechanical and manual (hand) powered boreholes. e. Employment:
4. Ensured Southern Kaduna youth were not sidelined when the following agencies conduct recruitment:
   i. Federal Fire Service
   ii. Nigeria Immigration Service
   iii. Nigeria Railway Corporation
   iv. National Information Technology Development Agency
   v. Nigerian Postal Service
   vi. National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies
   vii. DSS
   viii. Animal Research Centre, Vom.
   ix. Etc.
5. Reinstatement of sons and daughters wrongfully dismissed from employment in the private sector. He also ensured those retired received the gratuities and benefits due to them. f. Humanitarian Commitment:
   Sunday Marshall Katung (SMK) has a special gift of compassion and is always at his best when it comes to touching the lives of the less-privileged. Over the years during his birthday, he always extends his hand of love to those in need as he celebrates with widows and orphanages.

He has also provided succour to victims of ethno-religious crises in Southern Kaduna with provision of meals, medical supplies and education for victims in IDP camps. Also, during the lockdown brought about by the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020, Honourable Sunday Marshall Katung (SMK) donated palliatives to indigent families and those whose means of livelihood were negatively impacted.

In terms of philanthropic activities, Honourable Sunday Marshall Katung stands at the head of this assembly and brought true light to life to the people of Southern Kaduna, thus touching their hearts.
He believes that philanthropic gestures alone cannot solve all societal problems and that only effective and people friendly legislation could. With the right legislation, the right atmosphere that will harness the economic potentials of Southern Kaduna and create employment opportunities can be done.

Let all sons, daughters, residents and lovers of a better Southern Kaduna come together and Get Involved by supporting him to represent Southern Kaduna Senatorial District come 2023.

Thank you.

ON BUHARI’S TENURE EXTENSION: ELDERS SHOULD NOT SCUTTLE DEMOCRACY LIKE ANTI JUNE 12 1993 TRAITORS – SAYS HURIWA

Prominent Civil rights advocacy group- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has asked the Octoagenarian Senior Advocate of Nigeria Robert Clarke to concern himself with the type of legacies he wants to bequeath to generations unborn rather than play the role of a spoiler who is actively plotting to destabilise democracy with unrealistic and toxic proposals in such an old age such as a contemplation of tenure elongation for President Muhammadu Buhari. “We think that when elders talk they should show wisdom rather than make people begin to wonder what type of warped logic is being unleashed”. 

HURIWA called on Nigerians in their millions to resist the subterranean plots by President Muhammadu Buhari to extend his tenure by employing surrogates who would flood the media to inundate us with unsustainable and illogical calls for third term for Buhari who has virtually become a dictator. HURIWA demanded from Chief Clarke what he intends to achieve by causing civil war with such an absolutely irrational proposal. 

“Those who want us the younger ones to call them elders and respect their old age because of what that concept means in a lot of African cultures and cosmological deduction as symbolising wisdom,  then these elders must not speak like little minds and make proposals that may imperil the entire nation all because of the pursuit of some selfish ambitions for some alleged or perceived pay masters.”

“President Muhammadu Buhari is the major cause of the escalation of violence and terrorism in Nigeria since the last 7 years that he came on board controversially through two very disreputable elections. Muhammadu Buhari’s administration gave birth to the insurgency of Fulani terrorists in the North West because of his nepotistic appointments of only Fulani heads of internal security institutions like the DSS, NIA, Immigration, Customs, Police, Prisons, civil defence”. 

“President Muhammadu Buhari in the last 7 years has left the compromised internal security chiefs who have looked on as Fulani terrorists have amassed assorted military grade weapons of mass destruction and have shot down military jets. Is it by giving him 6 months that he will solve what he refused to resolve in 7 years? Even if you give Muhammadu Buhari till eternity, he can’t improve the security situation because he is grossly incompetent and is a bigoted Islamic religious extremist. So proposing any extension of tenure after his statutory two terms of 4 years each, is a nationsl suicide and we wonder what the intentions are for this anti democratic and anti people position being canvassed by someone who wants us to address him as an elder or is Mr Clarke in another planet these past 7 years?”

HURIWA recalled that senior lawyer, Robert Clarke, SAN, Monday in Abuja, said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), should serve for an extra six months to give him enough time to address the country’s security woes.

Clarke stated that with less than a year to the 2023 elections there was not enough time to address the insecurity to ensure a safe exercise.Speaking on Arise Television programme, he noted that the Constitution provided the President to extend his tenure for six months in the first instance if conditions were not ripe for an election.

HURIWA however dismissed these positions as infantile and unreasonable just as the Rights group said rather than tenure extension,  President Muhammadu Buhari should either be impeached for failing to protect lives and property of Nigerians as canvassed by Section 14(2) (b) of the Nigerian Constitution as the primary duty of government or resign.

The Rights group through its National  Coordinator  Comrade Emmanuel  Onwubiko condemned unreservedly, Chief Clarkes position and described it as retrogressive and not different from the anti democracy action of Chief Arthur Nzeribe who went to the Abuja High Court then to secure the controversial annulment of the 1993 June 12th election  adjudged by the local and international observers as free, fair and transparent.”

 HURIWA said if President Muhammadu Buhari can’t solve the insecurity in 7 years, he can’t resolve it even if he is given two life times to rule Nigeria. HURIWA said election of 2023 must go on come rain come shine or even full scale war just as the group called on Nigerians to reject the position of Chief Clarke which will plunge Nigeria into a civil war should President Muhammadu Buhari tries to extend his tenure by even one day. 

Why govs, security agencies must end killing of cows in South-East –HURIWA

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA)  on Tuesday, tasked the five governors of states in the South-East as well as security agents to end the killing of cows by gunmen in Enugu, Imo, Anambra, Abia and Ebonyi states. HURIWA has also condemned the spate of killings by all kinds of groups including the security agencies and the so-called Unknown gunmen just as HURIWA appeals for peaceful and constructive dialogues. 

HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, stressed that not only Fulani pastoralists are involved in cattle business in the South-East but a lot of Igbo businessmen are also engaged in the trade.

The group said the consequence of continuous killing of cattle by gunmen angry against the Fulani ethnic stock for whatever reason would affect Igbo traders and son of the soil who are also actively involved in cattle business in the five South-East states.

According to media reports, gunmen, last Sunday, attacked and set ablaze a truckload of cows along Ezinifite-Uga expressway in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. The Sunday incident was not the first as gunmen, in February 2022, attacked a cattle market in Aba in Abia State, killing eight traders and 51 cows.

Reacting, HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “Security agents must stop the condemnable trend of mass killing of cattle in the South-East. Nobody’s business deserves to be attacked no matter the crimes they have committed; the law should be allowed to take its cause.

“Also, the fact that the cattle are not owned by Fulani or Hausas alone but by Igbo traders too is enough reason for aggrieved persons to simmer down and stop unleashing terror on cattle businesses in the South-East.

“It is noteworthy that the cattle business is a provider of jobs for teaming youths in the South-East as it is a business for all. According to the Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, the state consumes over 6,000 heads of cattle daily and over 1.8 million heads of cattle annually with a yearly a transactional value of over N328bn. This is a lot of money.

“Without any assumption, the total volume of cattle consumed in the whole of South-East and the money that accrued from it should be equivalent to that of Lagos or above it. It is, therefore, important that the cattle value chain and business be protected against gunmen attacks as the continuous killing of hundreds and thousands of cows in the South-East will lead to economic hemorrhaging. The South-East governors must act immediately and dialogue with all stakeholders and aggrieved persons to end the whole mess. There must a transparent enforcement of extant laws against open grazing of cattle just as the Rights group said the spiralling violence in South East will do nobody any good but destroy the Igbo homeland”. 

May 10, 2022
Emmanuel Onwubiko
National Coordinator – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA)

Nigeria: The Sham 1999 Constitution is The Entry Visa For Fulani – A Non-Indigenous People

By Ndidi Uwechue

09 May 2022

Nigeria is a multi-national country, made up of several Ethnic Nations that could have been countries in their own right if not that Nigeria happened to them. For several years, but most especially now, the Ethnic Nations of the NINAS Alliance Territory (the South and Middle Belt) have been regretting being in this Union, and those who can have joined the mass exodus out of Nigeria, seeking a new home abroad. Now, thanks to the non-violent NINAS Movement, people have become aware that it is the Fulani Caliphate Agenda of conquest and control, that is inflicting miseries, and an existential terror, upon indigenous peoples. 

The Fulani were through trickery, manoeuvred into power by the departing British at Independence in 1960. Since that time, despite their status of being non-indigenous immigrant settlers, the Fulani have had a hostile “born-to-rule” supremacist attitude towards the Owners of the land. Now that indigenous peoples are being slaughtered by armed Fulani and their terrorists for land grab, the question is being asked: The Fulani live among us, but do they have a right to be on our land?

That is a very good question. The answer is that the illegitimate 1999 Constitution is both ENTRY VISA and PERMANENT STAY VISA for the Fulani. Without that 1999 Constitution, a forgery, Fulani would have no legitimate right to enter, or stay in the Middle Belt or South. That Document is a fraud, foisted upon Nigerians. It is the illegitimate powers obtained from that 1999 Constitution that the Fulani use for land grab activities, policies, or (future) plans, for example: 

1. The quite absurd narrative of “farmer-Fulani herdsman clash” has been completely debunked. It is outright ethnic cleansing (genocide) by armed Fulani for land grab that is going on.

2. Although it is a deceit to amend a forgery, in the most recent round of “amendments” of the 1999 Constitution, the National Assembly passed provisions for Local Government autonomy. That means LG Areas would be directly controlled by the Fulani-led Central Government, via getting funds, and via a government-controlled INEC controlling elections. 

3. The National Waterways Bill is a ruse for the Fulani-led government to control the waters and their surrounding banks, including ground waters, in all parts of Nigeria.

4. RUGA are straight off Fulani colonies, but labelled as cattle colonies. 

5. Cattle grazing routes. Fulani are new-comers to the NINAS Territory, and it is the British who brought them into the South via Amalgamation (really an Annexation) in 1914. There are no records that indigenous peoples properly agreed to any cattle grazing routes for Fulani. This is just another attempt by the Fulani to lay claim to what is not theirs.

6. The National Livestock Transformation Plan is a means of imposing Fulani cattle ranches throughout Nigeria, using public money. This is land grabbing.

7. “Repentant and rehabilitated” terrorists are being REINTEGRATED into communities, and there are reports that they are even placed in the Nigerian Army. Just last week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (who has Amina Mohammed, a Fulani among his staff), praised Buhari for the ongoing Reintegration of “repentant” terrorists. This is all quite baffling because no UN boss has advised the USA to Reintegrate the foreign terrorists of the 911 terror attacks. Buhari himself has been quoted as saying, “But those with sophisticated weapons, with Ak-47, are from the Sahel area. They are Fulani people from Mauritania, Central Republic Africa…” Thus, Buhari’s Reintegration of terrorists is another form of land grab because Reintegration would mean accepting these Fulani killers into ancestral lands. 

These are just seven examples of how, having gained entry into ancestral lands using a forgery – the 1999 Constitution, Fulani are “ruthlessly” hoping to bring about their Ahmadu Bello’s vision that Nigeria is to be an “estate” of the Fulani.

The illegitimate 1999 Constitution is the ENTRY VISA for Fulani. However, do note that it is indigenous politicians who OPEN THE DOOR for Fulani to enter ancestral lands, by upholding and defending the illegitimate 1999 Constitution. Thus, if indigenous politicians did not collaborate with the Caliphate, Fulani would not be able to enter the ancestral spaces of indigenous peoples. Indigenous politicians are therefore DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the slaughter of their people by armed Fulani, and for the decay and retardation seen throughout their Ethnic Nation, as those are the fruits of the 1999 Constitution. The 1999 Constitution has been Repudiated. Thus, indigenous politicians are soulless traitors of their people by clamouring for, and pushing for Elections 2023 to renew the life of that 1999 Constitution, giving Fulani another four years of illegitimate entry into the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples. 

In conclusion, Fulani are using sorcerer’s tricks and murder to dispossess and grab ancestral lands through ethnic cleansing (genocide), and by policies or laws such as RUGA and Waterways Bill. There is no hope whatsoever for indigenous peoples under such conditions so tens of thousands have fled abroad as migrants, too terrified to return. But the Fulani can be stopped! It is by focusing on indigenous politicians, for they are the ones who hold up the sham 1999 Constitution as a ladder for the Caliphate and their armed Fulani to enter ancestral lands. Therefore, to STOP indigenous politicians means to STOP the Fulani. Indigenous peoples must find a way to stop their politicians from carrying out Elections 2023 which renew the life of the 1999 Constitution, the ENTRY VISA for Fulani. 

Ndidi Uwechue is a British citizen with Igbo heritage from the Lower Niger Bloc. She is a retired Metropolitan (London) Police Officer, she is a signatory to the Constitutional Force Majeure, and she writes from Abuja.

IPOB’s Close Shave With Disaster Is An Opportunity To Rethink And Recalibrate 

Tony Nnadi

LNC-NINAS Joint Secretariat.

07 May 2022

It appears that the May 6, 2022 story on the UK terror-designation of IPOB (Indigenous People Of Biafra) was a mischievous online media exaggeration of adjustments announced by the UK about asylum seekers. 

While some sigh of relief would not be out of place, even if only for the huge collateral damage that would have accompanied such a designation by the UK, the incident is an indication of where things could go next for IPOB, not only in the UK but in the US and Europe. 

The situation also offers the leaders of IPOB, fractured as it may be, as well as all the other “Biafra Restoration” groups, an opportunity for deep introspection and a total reconfiguration of strategy if Self-Determination and Freedom are really their goals. 

The Grand Strategy (of Constitutional Force Majeure) already deployed by the LNC and its NINAS Allies for the Liberation, Self-Determination and Freedom of Eastern Nigeria and the other constituent components (ie NINAS Territory) of the defunct Federation of Nigeria is already yielding significant results, especially in the defeat and termination of the operation of the 1999 Constitution along with the Unitary Union it foists, in a setting that precipitates the Transitioning that will midwife Regional Self-Determination Referendums as first steps towards the emergence of fresh constitutional protocols dictated by the outcome of the Referendums, as well as the inalienable Self-Determination imperative for freed constituent components.  

This is irreversible progress towards the Self-Determination Destination and so those in the South and Middle-Belt of Nigeria who also seek that Destination, will do well to realign their campaign to this NINAS Grand Strategy which is POTENT, and is moving on with increasing determination and successes.

In all of this, LNC-NINAS makes a distinction between the clear-minded criminals (conmen) who set up the rogue Biafra Franchise, and the hoodwinked Biafra-seeking multitude. Therefore, this invitation is for that disillusioned and now frustrated multitude who have simply been wanting their inalienable right to Self-Determination.

Army must not hide under soldiers’ murder to wipe out Igbo youths –HURIWA

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Thursday, urged the hierarchies of the Nigerian Army not hide under the pretext of the murder of two about-to-wed soldiers to launch full-scale genocide in th South-East. 

HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, condemned the gruesome murder of Master Warrant Officer Audu Linus (retired) and Private Gloria Matthew.

The group tasked security agents to give the assailants a hot chase and bring them to book, noting that such cannibalism should not go unpunished.

Gunmen had killed the two lovers on April 30, 2022 when they were on transit to Imo State for their traditional wedding. Matthew was first raped before she was shot dead along with her lover, Linus, both beheaded, while the criminals had made a video of the incident and circulated it online.

The Nigerian Army, the Presidency, and many Nigerians had condemned the brutality and described it as terrorism taken too far.

The Army had also accused the Indigenous People of Biafra and its arm, the Eastern Security Network of the heinous crime but IPOB led by embattled Nnamdi Kanu, had denied the allegation, saying it knew nothing about it.

Reacting in its statement, HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “It is disappointing that the Army and the Presidency are threatening fire and brimstone against imaginary enemies they identified as IPOB even without verifiable, forensic evidence pinning IPOB to the cruelty and gruesome beheading of the Igbo female soldier and her lover. 

“HURIWA unequivocally condemns any primitive act of murder like the killing of these two soldiers and other security personnel.

“However, the government should blame itself for its inability and unwillingness to expose with concrete evidence the real perpetrators of the many violent killings in the South-East attributed to people known and  called unknown gunmen. 

“Government should tell us how it reached the conclusion of the group responsible for the spate of attacks in Igboland with speculative and unsubstantiated tales by moonlight. 

“HURIWA warns the government and soldiers not to hide under the anger over the brutal murder of the two soldiers to kill off innocent Igbo youths that may be roped in with phantom charges of involvement even with no scientific evidence.

“Terrorists are overrunning the country, bringing down Nigerian Air Force jets in Zamfara and other parts of the country, bombing moving trains in Kaduna, attacking airports all over the North-West. The terrorists also kill, maim and kidnap innocent Nigerians. They are everywhere and HURIWA posits that they have infiltrated the South-East to cause unprintable horror.

“The government and the Army must fish out the exact killers of the two lovebird soldiers and the perpetrators of other despicable and dastardly acts of criminality in the South-East and other parts of the country so that the innocent won’t be punished while the real devil walk away freely.”

May 5, 2022

Emmanuel Onwubiko

National Coordinator – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA).

The Nature Of The War Of Invasion Indigenous Nationalities Of Nigeria Are Caught In, And The Remedy 

Tony Nnadi, NINAS, 

Issued 05 May 2022

There is a huge war that is already upon us in which the Fulani who are already invading us, seek to conquer and exterminate the indigenous peoples of Nigeria in an undisguised ethnic cleansing onslaught. The Fulani main objective is to permanently take ownership of our ancestral homelands and make Nigeria a homeland for Fulani from all over Africa particularly. 

The most viable response mechanism for the indigenous peoples is to terminate the master-servant Union created by the Caliphate-imposed 1999 Constitution in order to delegitimize the presence of the murderous Fulani in the Alliance Territories (South and Middle-Belt). 

In other words, to terminate the toxic Nigerian Union in order to get rid of the Fulani who are operating the illicit Unitary Nigeria (and therefore masquerading as “Nigerians”), from our ancestral spaces across the Alliance Territories and simultaneously activate our right to armed Self-Defence as an integral component of our inalienable right to Self-Determination. 

That is the whole purpose of the Constitutional Force Majeure which itself was the culmination of a 20-year process to create a solid consensus against the 1999 Constitution amongst the Alliance Territories of the South and Middle-Belt.

Accordingly, the most urgent task before all of us in Yorubaland, Igboland, Ijawland, Tivland, Urhoboland, Edoland, Jukunland, Ogoniland, Biromland and everywhere in between, who genuinely seek extrication from the stranglehold of Caliphate Nigeria, is to Take Down the 1999 Constitution upon which that Caliphate Nigeria is erected, and so, whether we seek the emergence of an independent “Yoruba Nation” or “Igbo Nation” or “Biafra” or even Regional Autonomy or the so-called Restructuring of Nigeria, the first order of business is to break the constitutional cage called One-Nigeria in which we are currently held. Any other effort outside this urgent need to break the cage is simply self-entertaining and could only be informed by a dangerous mix of ignorance, dishonesty and naivety 

Having roundly Repudiated the fraudulent 1999 Constitution via Solemn Assemblies, the Alliance of the South and Middle-Belt must now find a way to halt the Caliphate’s attempt to re-inject some life into that Constitution via the so-called “2023 Elections”. 

It is in taking this action of Halting by any means necessary, the 2023 Voyage of doom called “Elections that we bring an immediate end to the defeated 1999 Constitution, as well as the Unitary Union of death anchored upon that Constitution, as encapsulated by the December 16, 2020 Joint Multi-Regional Constitutional Force Majeure (CFM) Proclamation by NINAS. (This strategic action is depicted in the LNC-NINAS Domino-1 and Domino-2 graphics) 

At a time the embattled peoples of the South and Middle-Belt of Nigeria caught in the urgent existential threat of Fulani extermination are battling to terminate the Caliphate-enabling 1999 Constitution by Halting the Voyage to 2023, it is a tragedy of monumental proportions that the renegade political merchants from the South and Middle-Belt of Nigeria, supported by blind and selfish Church-leaders will be railroading the same endangered but ill-informed populace into the Caliphate electoral train for 2023. 

It is against this backdrop of these realities that we invite the educated and enlightened segment of our society to find the discipline to examine and grasp the workings of the NINAS Self-Determination Template in order to facilitate the urgent self-redemption tasks thrust upon us by the deadly mischiefs and murderous intents of our erstwhile compatriots in the failed Lugardian Experiment of 1914 called “Nigeria” so that we can in an orderly manner, chart a future in Self-Determination for the trapped constituent components of the defunct Federation of Nigeria that collapsed since 1966, which carcass was hijacked and is being operated by the Caliphate that now seeks to exterminate the indigenous peoples to take over our ancestral homelands for the Fulani permanent holding.

I enjoin us to critically review the audiovisuals in 4-parts titled, “NINAS Extraordinary Alerts April 2022” available at the NINAS Voice YouTube channel, which are really battlefield instructions and help spread same to all our people who hail from the Alliance Territories wherever they may be across the world. 

The recent visit of UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres to Nigeria was orchestrated by Amina Mohammed and her principals in Abuja, to set up a counter-narrative to the self-evident complicity of the Fulani President of Nigeria (Buhari) who is also the Commander-In-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, in the Fulani invasion of the rest of Nigeria, just as the false narrative of farmers and herders clashes was set up and marketed in Washington DC for years until the LNC-NINAS Team shot it down in 2019. 

At a time key stakeholders in Nigeria are considering what viable options are available for managing the Extraordinary Emergency thrown up by the fact that Nigeria’s President and Commander-In-Chief is openly complicit in the terror ravaging Nigeria, it takes being blind not to see through Amina Mohammed’s harebrained scheme of bringing the UN Secretary-General to Nigeria to hail, endorse and praise Buhari’s Government for the Afghan-style “Rehabilitation and Reabsorption” of “Repentant” Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorists into Nigeria’s Military, and therefore set up a counter-narrative. 

Unfortunately for Amina Mohammed and her Fulani kinsmen, the roots of the LNC and NINAS at the UN go far deeper than the Executive Secretariat Level which is where Amina Mohammed and her boss, the Secretary-General of the United Nations belong. The business of what has to be done about the wobbling Nigerian Federation, resides with the UN Main Organs particularly the UN Security Council and Trusteeship Council. not the Secretariat. 

Just like the Governors’ Forum in Nigeria has a Director-General who heads the Secretariat Staff for the Governors’ Forum while the Governors themselves call the shots for what the Governors’ Forum does, the UN Secretary-General is merely the head of the UN Executive Secretariat but it is the member countries, particularly at the UN Security Council that call the shots. 

The UN Secretariat is only there to provide administrative mechanisms for implementing the decisions of those organs.

Let it be recalled that in the LNC-NINAS 8-Point Strategy document which has been in the public domain since 2018, we allotted percentage weights to the different task components for the Liberation Project. While the task of Taking Down the 1999 Constitution weighed in at seventy-five percent of the overall task profile, International imperatives weighed in at a mere five percent, most of which had been accomplished between 2007 and 2019.

This indicates that most of what needs to be done to free ourselves from the bondage of Caliphate Nigeria is in our hands, and is our responsibility to do and so we must rise up to the challenge of now. No one is coming from the international community to do our tasks for us especially now that the task is reduced to only one item: Halting the Voyage to 2023 Elections as a final act for Taking Down the defeated 1999 Constitution. It is when we do that One Final Task that we precipitate the Constitutional Logjam that will usher in the Transitioning that will midwife the Regional Self-Referendums to recommit to, or opt out of the Union of death that Nigeria has become for its constituent components.

2023 ELECTION: SOUTHERN KADUNA YOUTHS WILL ONLY SUPPORT ASPIRANTS WITH EMPATHY FOR OUR PEOPLE

Southern Kaduna Youths under the auspices of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU YOUTH) have said that they will only throw their supports behind aspirants that have shown empathy to the people of the area.

This was contained in a statement issued by the national coordinator, Comrade John Isaac on Wednesday in Kaduna.

The Group noted that Southern Kaduna has suffered unprecedented terror attacks leading to mass killings and destruction of communities in the last seven years. It said only those who stood with the people will get the support of the youths of the area.

The statement reads in parts;

“As the 2023 general elections inches closer, it is important to remind aspirants across all political parties in clear terms that Southern Kaduna which has in the last seven (7 ) years witness unprecedented number of attacks, with thousands killed and slaughtered in cold blood, properties worth billions of naira destroyed and millions displaced, is a no go region for aspirants who have no human feelings, regards for human lives and have shown little or no concerns and empathy to the Southern Kaduna people.

“We have observed also with dismay in recent times the pretentious attitudes and more worrisome the unfolding loop-sidedness in the activities of some aspirants who have been going about their bid for the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Governorship of our dear state Kaduna, without reference to the plight of the Southern Kaduna People, let alone condemn the continuous killings nor proffering possible solutions to the acts of terrorism orchestrated by terrorist Militia across Southern Kaduna over the recurring attacks on the innocent people of Southern Kaduna.

“While we appreciate the generosity of some of the aspirants towards amelorating the living conditions of displaced persons in the state, we will like to call on all aspirants across all political parties to emulate the kind gestures of those whom have extended support to the people of Southern Kaduna and Kaduna state at large.

“We also want to categorically emphasis that more needs to be done in the areas of rehabilitation and reconstruction of sacked communities in Southern Kaduna as the Southern People are passing through untold hardship.

“We want to again call on the President Muhammadu Buhari Led Federal Government to as a Matter of urgency establish a Southern Kaduna Development Commission (SKDC) to be saddled with the responsibility of Reconstructing Rehabilitating and Resettlement of the over two Million (2,000,000) displaced Person across Southern Kaduna, the reconstruction of the nearly Two Hundred (200) communities, including Schools, Hospitals, and Markets destroyed by killer terrorist herdsmen.

“It is important to mention here that the killings and destruction of lives, and properties and the displacement of communities taking place in Southern Kaduna by terrorist herdsmen is of similar proportion to the Boko Haram ravaged North Eastern part of Nigeria. Therefore, a Southern Kaduna Development Commission is of paramount importance and should be supported by every well-meaning and peace loving Nigerians.”

SMK: An IDEA Whose Time Has Come

The 2023 race for the Kaduna South Senatorial seat today is the most competitive and talked about in the history of the area, not just within the 8 local government areas that make up Kaduna South senatorial District but by extension Kaduna state as a whole. Not even the race for Sir Kashim Ibrahim House has generated as much public debate as the Kaduna South senatorial race. This is partly due to the fact that some of the finest political juggernauts from the zone have thrown their hats into the ring for the contest.

The social media have been saturated with narratives and counter narratives on who should be the next Senator to represent the over 4 million people of the area, a people that have suffered various kinds of marginalisation, terror attacks, forceful occupation and injustices of the highest proportion, especially in the last seven and a half years. The area has within the period buried in Mass graves no fewer than 5,000 of its citizens murdered in the most barbaric manner and lost over a hundred communities in the last seven years.

Amongst the aspirants under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), is a gentleman by name Sunday Marshall Katung, an honourable in the real sense of the word, a lawyer, a philanthropist, one who personifies the word “humility”. Katung, who is popularly known as SMK, is a former Commissioner of Finance and Water Resources under late Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, a former House of Representatives member representing Jaba/Zangon Kataf Constituency from 2015 to 2019.

Looking at the many challenges confronting Kaduna South Senatorial District, Katung by his antecedents and impeccable track record best fits the moment and should earn the trust of the people to deliver robust representation to them, a representation that goes beyond stomach infrastructure and giving of handouts to a negligible few, in contrast to the self-serving representation that is obtainable today. Honourable is one who will put his wealth of experience, training and experience as a lawyer, a business administrator and his international and local connections together to create legislations that will directly impact the lives of the people of Kaduna South positively.

Katung by all indications has prepared himself for this great and daunting task beforehand, and this could be seen in his style of politicking in the last two years. While others were still contemplating whether to run for Senate or not, Katung clearly defined what he wanted and rolled his sleeves to get the job done. It is also evidently clear that Katung has won the hearts of some of the best and patriotic young people from Kaduna South who have been spreading the gospel of his campaign tagline “GetInvolved” to all nook and crannies of the district.

With no disrespect to any aspirant, Sunday Marshall Katung as of today is ostensibly the only aspirant that has been able to clearly outline via a concise manifesto, how he intends to tackle the many challenges confronting Kaduna South senatorial district.

My Plea to Delegates.

It is just 11 days to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Primary election, and you, our delegates, once again, will decide who becomes our Senator for the next years. Opportunity has once again presented itself to you our wonderful delegates to write your names, individually and collectively, on the sand of time. Would you vote for competency, capacity and commitment to service and active representation or you would vote for mediocrity and passive representation that has bedevilled Kaduna South in the last seven and a half years thereby short-changing the people in the committee of senatorial districts in the country? The choice is yours to make but remember that whatever decision you make on whose name appear on the ballot, we all, you included, will live with the consequences in the next four years.

I therefore urge you all to put into consideration the points I have highlighted above in making your decisions.

The ball is in your court, but we are watching keenly.

Steven Kefas writes from Kenyi, Kagarko local government Area of Kaduna state.