Closure Of Dei-Dei Market And Letting Okada Riders Who Are Mostly From Niger Republic To Operate Is Apartheid: HURIWA Tells FCT Minister

Frontline civil society group:- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has asked the minister of FCT Malam Muhammad Bello to re-open Dei- Dei market, find a way to rebuild the infrastructures destroyed by commercial motorcyclists in a fracas yesterday Wednesday or ban the operation of commercial motorcyclists in Deidei and Kubwa for justice, equity and fairness. 
The Rights group said it is offensive to the principle of natural justice that two parties were involved in a fracas but the authority rather than make peace and create harmony and reconciliation decided to back one of the combatants because of religious motive. HURIWA said the role of a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is that of service without bitterness or sectionalism since ministers are appointed for all of Nigeria. 
“We do not want to believe that it is true that the FCT Minister who is a Nigerian will adopt controversial and unnatural steps that offends the commercial interests of his fellow citizens and let off the motor cyclists who are largely illegal aliens from Niger Republic, Chad and just a sprinkling of moslem Northern Nigerians only because traders at Dei Dei market that fought with Okada riders are mostly Igbos from Southern Nigeria and are Christians by faith Orientation.
“We call on President Muhammadu Buhari who constitutionally is the governor of FCT to ask his subordinate the FCT Minister to adopt solution that won’t be seen as favouring a party in a fight by two parties only because the favoured party are almost 100 percent Moslems sharing same faith system with the minister. Leadership is not to bow to religious or ethnic sentiments. leadership must be altruistic, nationalistic,  just, fair and equitable and the Minister who has worked harmoniously with peoples of all faith systems and ethnicity for years, should not now be remotely connected to this sort of story of open but shameful partiality and crude biasness.”
HURIWA recalled that the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello, has ordered the immediate closure of the Dei-Dei International Building Material Market following yesterday’s violence which claimed four lives.
Trouble started at the market when an unidentified female trader reportedly fell of a commercial motorcycle and was crushed to death by an articulated vehicle.
Other traders from the market then burnt the motorcycle blaming the biker of reckless riding. Their action however prompted a reprisal from okada riders in the area who regrouped in large number and went into the timber section of the market and set it ablaze.
The FCT Minister while inspecting the scene of the incident with FCT Commissioner of Police Sunday Babaji, the Director State Security Services, alongside other sister security agencies and top officials of the FCT Administration, directed for the indefinite closure of the market.
Bello directed the community and the market leaders to fish out the hoodlums responsible for the crisis.
He said, “The community and market leaders must fish out hoodlums and bad eggs among them, unfortunately this time around hoodlums carry arms and they shot innocent people. As a matter of fact, I saw four corpses this is very sad and totally unacceptable in Abuja.
“We have agreed with security agencies that full scale investigations will be done, and the communities have to be part and parcel of the solution or else there will be no peace. In the interim the timber market and the surrounding markets, including all the activities along the road that have clustered it and made it unpassable will all stop untill the technical team reviews everything, and then we will take the next decision.
“I am appealing to other communities within the FCT that there is no tribal or religious misunderstanding because all the leadership of various communities have lived here in peace for many years. This is simply the matter of criminals and hoodlums taking the laws into their hands” he said.
On his part, the vice chairman of Timber Shed market Dei-Dei, Ifeanyi Chibata told the minister and his team that about 45 to 50 shops were burnt with 25 vehicles set ablaze during the unrest.
The secretary Tomato and Onion Sellers Association Dei-Dei, Dahiru Garba Mani disclosed that four persons were killed during the clash in the market.
They both appealed to the minister of FCT to make provision for a police division with adequate personnel.
HURIWA has however asked the minister to rescind his decision which is offensive to Constitutionalism, equity, fairness and equality before the law of natural justice and respect to human rights of all. 

Explosion: HURIWA calls for dismissal of Kano police commissioner 

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Thursday, demanded the sacking of the Commissioner of Police in Kano State, Mr. Sama’ila Dikko, for jumping to conclusion that the explosion that rocked the Sabon Gari area of the state on Tuesday was a gas explosion and not a bomb blast.

HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, lambasted the police boss for declaring the root cause of the disaster without any investigation, even as residents and eyewitnesses strongly said on live television interviews that the explosion was as a result of a bomb blast.

The explosion rocked the Aba Road of the area in the early hours of Tuesday, killing nine 

with many others injured.

The state Commissioner of Police (Dikko) had while giving an update on the incident, said it was a gas explosion from a welder’s shop close to a nursery and primary school.

But eyewitnesses disagreed with the police boss saying the incident “was not a gas explosion, but a bomb, due to the high-density vibration,” emphasising that it shook houses located about five kilometre away from the scene of the explosion.

Reacting, HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “Eyewitness spoke with Arise TV showed and they contradicted what the police said.  The witnesses said it was a suicide bomber that detonated a bomb killing himself and many others but the police lied.

“HURIWA calls for the dismissal of the police commissioner for jumping to conclusion on the cause of the explosion even before any sort of investigation is done.

“We also call for a judicial commission of inquiry by the Kano State Government together with the Federal Government and Southern Governors’ Forum because the target of the bomb blast were Igbos and other Southerners that dominate Sabon Gari Kano. 

“We also call for independent forensic probe to be done too to determine the actual cause of the explosion that eye witnesses are now attributing to bomb blasts 

“The police must show discipline and professionalism without jumping into conclusion but by exercise diligence and scrutiny in its investigations.”

May 18, 2022

Emmanuel Onwubiko

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

DSS must arrest Sheikh Abubakar Jibril for inciting Muslims against Bishop Kukah –HURIWA

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, (HURIWA) on Monday, tasked the Department of State Services to arrest a Kano-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Jibril, who is the Chief Imam of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) for allegedly inciting Muslims against the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah.

HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said Jibril was captured in a video that has gone viral allegedly telling his many Muslim followers to get the home address of Kukah and possibly attack the bishop if he is the person that sent Deborah Samuel Emmanuel Yakubu to the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto where she allegedly blasphemed against the Religion of Islam. 

Rampaging hoodlums on Saturday torched and vandalised at least two parishes presided over by Bishop Kukah and it took the swift response of security operatives to stop any attack on Kukah’s personal residence.

Rioters had on Thursday stoned and burnt a 200-level Home Economics student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, Deborah Yakubu, for alleged blasphemy of Prophet Muhammad (SAW).

The police arrested two suspects and protesters had demanded their release. The young demonstrators turned violent, vandalised, looted and burnt traders’ shops, churches and residential apartments perceived to be owned by Christians.

HURIWA accused security agencies as well as 18 of the 19 governors in the whole of northern Nigeria of supporting the brutal killing of blasphemers and for grooming Islamic extremists through the implementation of policies skewed in favour of Moslems to the neglect of many other citizens of other faiths and belief systems in those States.

The group cited Section 10 of the 1999 constitution as saying the government of the federation or of a state shall not adopt any religion as state religion.

HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “By this statement, HURIWA is putting the Department of State Services on notice to hold Sheikh Abubakar Jibril accountable for the fatal mob attack on Kukah’s parishes on Saturday. In fact we think the constant bashing of spokespersons of President Muhammadu Buhari against Bishop Kukah each time the Cleric issues critiques of some anti people’s and anti democracy thereby encouraging haters of truth and objectivity to target Right Reverend Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto for attacks by such Islamic fanatics as has just happened with the recorded video by the Sokoto Islamic preacher who openly incited his followers against Bishop Kukah.

“Jibril, in a trending video, erroneously accused Bishop Kukah of motivating Deborah to commit alleged blasphemy and that he should stop or else he will be dealt with. The inflammatory cleric (Jibril) then asked if they know his (Kukah’s) house and the listeners shouted, ‘Yes we do’. He is inciting them to attack Bishop Kukah.

“HURIWA charges the DSS to arrest Jibril immediately for questioning as the secret police had probed and persecuted the late deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Obadiah Mailafia; and other vocal Christian leaders like Kukah himself.

“Anything short of the arrest of Jibril is sentimental and condemnable. Nothing must happen to Kukah. Nigerians are watching and are not fools.

“HURIWA again enjoins all Nigerians of conscience to come out enmasse as announced by the Christian Association of Nigeria and protest the killing of Deborah to pressure the Muhammadu Buhari led government to serve justice on the matter and for her killers to be punished according to extant laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

May 16, 2022

Emmanuel Onwubiko

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

Gideon & Funmi Para-Mallam Peace Foundation Condemns Deborah’s Murder, Calls for Thorough Investigation

As reactions continue to trail the gruesome murder of Deborah Emmanuel, a 200 Level student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, a non governmental and non for profit organisation, Gideon & Funmi Para-Mallam Peace Foundation has called for thorough investigation and proper punishment for all those involved in the barbaric act.

The peace advocacy organisation with impeccable track records in building and enthroning peace in Nigeria in a statement signed by it President Rev. Dr Gideon Para-Mallam likened Deborah’s tragedy to the tragedy of Leah Sharibu a Christian school girl that was abducted by Boko Haram terrorists a secondary school in Yobe state in 2018.

The statement reads in parts;

The Gideon & Funmi Para-Mallam Peace Foundation deplores and condemns the horrendous murder of Ms Deborah Emmanuel, a 200 Level student of Home Economics at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto yesterday. The killers, some of who were her fellow students, took it upon themselves to stone and then burn her alive, for alleged blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. We condemn this criminal act of injustice done to Deborah by its perpetuators and any who aided and assisted in planning this latest affront to humanity in Nigeria, those who stood by and failed to help Deborah, those who encouraged the killers, and anyone who may have incited them.

Deborah had a right to life; she had a right to live that life with dignity and to fulfil her human potential. Instead, this young woman’s life has been cut short, and in monstrous circumstances. All those dreams and hopes for the future, destroyed in a few moments of profound evil. How is it that our young people behaved in this way? They clearly think they can do what they want and will get away with it. We wish to extend our profound condolences and sympathy to her family and friends who are mourning the loss and the horrific circumstances of her murder. We are all pained.

We see this wicked act as having been facilitated by successive governments failing to respond effectively to religious extremism and violence. This impunity has gone on for too long. This is one too many and collective action is required, not rhetoric. Nigeria, under many regional and international treaties, is legally bound to protect its population from violence, abduction, abuse and other ill-treatment. There is an urgent need to adopt effective measures for the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and punishment of such abuses. The tragedy of Deborah, like the tragedy of Leah Sharibu (still in captivity) and countless others, killed or abused because of their religion, confirms how successive Nigerian governments have reneged on their international obligations. It is time to move beyond rhetoric to action. It is as simple as that. Nigerian leaders need to act to redeem this country.

This dastardly act must be thoroughly investigated, prosecuted and punished. All those involved, from the killers to their accomplices to any who may have incited them, must be held to account. We and many others here and abroad will be closely scrutinising the actions of the Sokoto State and its criminal justice system. In addition, we anticipate that the Federal Government will monitor the process to ensure compliance with the rule of law on this matter. The Nigerian government also needs to face up to its responsibilities of protecting its citizens from the violence that is engulfing this once beautiful and peaceful nation now turning ugly in the name of religion! How can we remain passive over such basic matters of life as a nation?

The murder of Deborah Emmanuel is a defining moment in our collective history. This is not the Nigeria that we love and cherish. The Para-Mallam Peace Foundation calls for calm and restraint. While demanding fundamental changes and holding the government and the perpetrators to account, Nigerians must pursue the paths of peace and justice. We commend those Islamic scholars and leaders especially the Sultan of Sokoto, whose voice is respected within the Muslim community in Nigeria, who have already spoken up against this perverse action as being plain and simple criminality, and who have appealed for calm. We welcome those Muslim voices who are speaking up against this evil. We must all act in a way that keeps this situation from spiralling out of control. JUNGLE JUSTICE IN THE NAME OF RELIGION MUST STOP!!!

NINAS Extraordinary Alerts and Battlefield Instructions, 5th Episode, Parts 1-4

NINAS Secretariat

12 May 2022

As the Union Dispute declared on December 16, 2020 [ie Constitutional Force Majeure], by the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) moves from the Enlightenment and Mobilization phases to Enforcement, and as constituent components of the distressed Federation of Nigeria continue to consider viable options for redemption from the terror, land-grab and conquest onslaught of the Federal Government-backed Fulani invasion, we are glad to announce to all, that NINAS has the 1999 Constitution in a Chokehold and the Caliphate proprietors of that Constitution in a Pinfall.

This means that both the prison walls and the prison gate of Unitary Nigeria are now irreversibly compromised by the NINAS Strategic Designs and the joint-jailbreak to Freedom is imminent.

These Battlefield Instructions speak to the Actions we need to take Now to terminate the Fraud of 1999 to end the Mischief of 1914, liberating ourselves therefore from the over 100 years of bondage.

Here is an important broadcast from the NINAS Secretariat as a four-part series of videos.

Part 1: 1999 Constitution in Chokehold; Enforcers in Pinfall: Victory in the Horizon Over the Invaders.

Part 2: What We Must Do Now To End Our Bondage

Part 3: UN Scribe’s Terror Therapy; Amina Mohammed Narrative Gambit Dead on Arrival

Part 4: Union Dispute: Transition Now, Not Elections 2023

PDP is a scam, HURIWA slams party for shunning zoning 

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria,(HURIWA)on Thursday, slammed the Peoples Democratic Party for throwing open its presidential ticket ahead of its primaries slated for May 28 to 29 2022.

HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, described PDP as a “huge scam” for jettisoning the zoning of the party’s presidential ticket to the Southern region, especially the South-East. 

The group, which said the PDP has shown that it does not respect equity, fairness, and justice, urged Nigerians to get their Permanent Voters Card  ready to oust the PDP and the All Progressives Congress should any of the party field a northern candidate at the end of their individual presidential primaries at the end of May. 

The National Executive Committee of the PDP had on Wednesday night at its 96th meeting held in Abuja dumped the principle of zoning and threw the presidential slot open in 2023.

Reacting, HURIWA’s Onwubiko said, “We condemn the decision of Peoples Democratic Party to throw its presidential ticket open thus throwing the spanner in the works and campaigns of elder statesmen including Pa Ayo Adebanjo, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Edwin Clark, Ohanaeze President George Obiozor, amongst others that the PDP and the All Progressives Congress should zone the office of President to the South-East.

“PDP’s decision not to heed the wise counsel of these elder statesmen is blameworthy considering that the South-East is the only zone that has not produced a democratically elected President out of the three major ethnicities since Nigeria’s Self government after over 60 years existence as a Sovereignty.

“Throwing the contest open has confirmed that PDP has scammed the South-East even after the zone has suffered marginalisation and exclusion from the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Since 1999, Nigeria’s fourth Republic, the South-South (Goodluck Jonathan) has been in power as Vice-President and President from 2007 to 2015. Obasanjo (South-West) was President from 1999 to 2007 while Atiku Abubakar (North-East) was his deputy for the eight years. Buhari (North-West) has been President since 2015 and would leave in 2023 while Yemi Osinbajo (also from South-West) has been his deputy.

“No South-East politician has been President or Vice-President since 1999 and before. PDP’s decision shows that itself and APC indeed plots to retain presidential powers in the North because it is likely that APC will do the same thing as PDP. 

“What PDP has done shows clearly that it is indeed a 419 political contraption and our plea is that Nigerian voters who don’t have PVCs should get their cards so as to reject both PDP and APC should both feature Northern candidates for President.

“HURIWA must warn PDP that its decision will divide Nigeria in such a way that Nigeria may collapse because a lot more elite and hitherto patriotic groups and persons in the South will openly oppose the so-called ‘One Nigeria’ which is not different from ‘Yahoo-Yahoo’ mantra. The South-East should be the zone to produce President in 2023 for peace, unity and stability of Nigeria beyond 2023. Nigeria’s end is near.”

May 12, 2022

Emmanuel Onwubiko

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

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)

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).