Anyi Kings Official

03/02/2025

Appeal court's pronouncement over IPOB's illegal proscription is a betrayal of constitutional provision and a r**e of Justice - IPOB

IPOB Press Release
Published On The Biafra Post
Febuary 3, 2025

The Noble family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide condemn judgement of the appeal Court upholding the illegal, unconstitutional and discriminatory proscription of IPOB by late judge Abdul Kafarati is a r**e of justice and shameless disregard of the laws of Nigeria under which this injudicuous proscription was affirmed.

Firstly, it is elementary law that ex-parte decisions are only a stop gap measure designed to last no more than 14 days. This illegal act has now subsisted for nearly 8 years. This is clearly against the said same laws of Nigeria. It therefore stands to reason that some justices in Abuja under the influence of the haters of IPOB are those telling the courts which decisions to render regardless of the consequences to the damage such ridiculous judgements have on the sanctity of the rule of law and it's implications for the administration of common law in Nigeria.

The rule of law in the proscription of any organisation as provided for in the constitution of Nigeria is very clear.

1. You cannot use ex-parte court orders in a civil procedure to confer criminal liability on any individual or organisation as was done by Kafarati against IPOB. This is kindergarten law.

2. Before threat to national security can be invoked to justify any breach or violation of rights of individual IPOB members, a state of emergency MUST be declared in the affected areas. No state of emergency was declared in any part of the South-East or South South; neither was any public disorder attributed to IPOB to justify the proscription of our movement by Kafarati. Therefore the using threat to national security to justify a breach of a constitutionally guaranteed right, is a clear display of poor knowledge of the law.

3. The law states clearly that the President of Nigeria ought to sign the memo authorising the proscription of IPOB. As lawyers everywhere knows, when a law states how something should be done, that procedure must be followed. Court papers will show that neither Buhari nor former vice president Osinbajo signed this memo. Instead it was signed by the late Abba Kyari whom the law did not recognise nor give the authority to proscribe IPOB.

The courts in Abuja appear not to be adhering to the rule of law when it comes to this singular issue of illegal proscription of IPOB.

What Appeal Court Abuja appear to say in their ruling is that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which is the supreme law that governs life in the country, is no longer supreme. The justices that affirmed the flawed ruling of Kafarati, failed the most basic test of any judicial panel worth its salt, when it elevated a flawed piece of legislation over and above a clear constitutional madate that states very clearly that Nigerian government cannot deprive any person his or her liberty or proscribe their activity without first placing them on notice regardless of whatever concocted reason the government may have. This is what the supreme law of Nigeria (constitution) says. Even a tomato seller knows that this is the basic position of the law. How long government controlled Abuja courts think they can continue this unedifying and shameless emasculation of common law is beyond comprehension. The law states quite clearly that you cannot use ex-parte motion to deny a group their fundamental right to freedom of association, but a supposed court of law said in their ruling that they disagree with the constitution. It begs the question therefore, between the dictates of the constitution and that of the courts, which one is superior; especially when the court is in clear contradiction with what the law says should happen.

Appeal Court went further to confirm that Buhari was not the President of Nigeria when IPOB was illegally proscribed, because it was the late Abba Kyari Chief of Staff to Buhari that signed the proscription order, when the law was clear that only Buhari should sign it. Abba Kyari was not the vice president either, assuming that Buhari was incapacitated and unable to sign it. Why didn't former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo sign the memo prescribing IPOB? Both former AGF Malami and late Abba Kyari decided to sideline Osinbajo and went on without authorisation from the National Assembly to assume the powers of president Buhari in violation of the laws of Nigeria.

Both Malami and late Kyari knew very well that a learned lawyer like Osinbajo would not have signed such a memo to proscribe IPOB because it is against the law. It is safe therefore to conclude that Fulani Janjaweed cabal is using their Abuja courts, presided over by Fulani judges and justices, to pervert the law and unleash judicially sanctioned violence against IPOB contrary to what the law says should happen.

Another curious and disturbing trend is how Fulani justices in Abuja courts abandon the rule of law and instead place dubious reliance on a ruling in Asari Dokubo's denial of bail application, to provide judicial cover for egregious violations of individual rights by citing non existent threat to national security.

How is it possible to transit from threat to national security- which in the case of IPOB only arose because our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was received by a mammoth crowd of people at Ekwulobia, Abakaliki, Onitsha, Owerri, Port Harcourt and Aba- to that of a terrorist without anybody being charged or convincted of terrorism. When did addressing a crowd of people become a threat to national security that morphed into an act of terrorism? This the question any right thinking person must ask.

From threat to national security, a Fulani judge branded IPOB a terrorist organisation without proof of any act of terrorism being placed before any court in Nigeria. What sort of society allows the criminalisation of an activity that is protected by law. IPOB is an organisation seeking self determination by legal means, so how does that manifest as a terrorist act? Where is the terrorist act IPOB committed in October 2017 when it was proscribed? There is none and there will never be any. Instead it was the Nigerian Army that levied Operation Python Dance to kill, abduct and imprison IPOB members without any provocation whatsoever. This is the finding of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

We re-echo what our lawyers said earlier their public statement to the effect that we would challenge this unconstitutional and perverse decision of the Appeal Court and will litigate to the fullest extent of the law, any person or persons that dare refer to IPOB as proscribed or outlawed organisation without proof of any attributable commission of terrorist act.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

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29/01/2025

Police Arrest Inspector, Three Orders Over Murder Of Imo Lawyer, Chinedu Nwowu

Published On the Biafra Post
January 29, 2025

According to him, the police informed the NBA delegation, during a visit to the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma, on Monday.

The Imo State Police Command has arrested four suspects including a police inspector in connection with the murder of Barrister Chinedu Nwowu.

The police inspector identified as Augustine Odidika was reportedly arrested last Thursday shortly after the gruesome murder of Nwowu in Mgbidi Town last Wednesday.

SaharaReporters learned that the police inspector had threatened to kill the lawyer for which he petitioned the Assistant Inspector General of Police for threats to live, a petition that was yet to be investigated before he was murdered.

Chairman of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Owerri Branch, Chief Chris Ihentuge, revealed this development to SaharaReporters on Tuesday in a telephone interview.

According to him, the police informed the NBA delegation, during a visit to the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma, on Monday.

"During the meeting, the Bar leaders urged the Police to ensure that the perpetrators of this heinous crime are brought to justice. They assured the Police of the willingness of the Bar to collaborate and support the ongoing investigation," he said.

However, during discussions, the police informed the delegation that investigations have commenced, adding that the case file and suspects had been transferred from the Mgbidi Police Division to the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID).

"The Deputy Commissioner of Police disclosed that four suspects, including a serving Inspector of Police who is also the deceased’s kinsman, have been arrested in connection with the murder. Efforts are also underway to apprehend a warrant officer serving in Enugu who has been implicated in the case," he said.

He added, "The Police Chiefs assured the Bar of an impartial and thorough investigation. They emphasized that the involvement of a serving police officer would not hinder the pursuit of justice, vowing to prosecute all those responsible for this crime."

He explained that the reason they were showing much interest was because of the involvement of a police inspector.

He said, "You know they may like to use his position to influence whatever but the commissioner and deputy commissioner have assured us that no matter how highly placed the people involved are that they will do the needful. And one of the persons that they are still looking for is a Warrant Officer in the Army, he is serving in Enugu.

"So they are also putting things in place to make sure that he is apprehended. We assured them that we are going to cooperate with them in whatever they are doing to make sure that justice is served. So the NBA is ready and willing to assist, the person that was murdered is our colleague, so we can't leave like that."

He revealed that in the past two years, four lawyers had been killed in the state by unknown assailants.

"Let us say in the past two years, more than four of our colleagues have been killed whether by known people or unknown persons. Last time when a chairman of customary court was murdered in court at Agwa in Oguta local government, we boycotted court, had a protest march to the office of the commissioner of police.

“We are still looking out at the other options but we want to watch how police will investigate this matter," he said.

Regarding whether the NBA is going to support the police with money to carry out the investigation, he said, "I know in this case that having known that NBA is interested they may not demand money for investigation but if money will prevent it, NBA will fund whatever investigation.

“It is part of our obligation and we do it for people who are not lawyers and what about somebody that is our colleague. So if money will stop the investigation, NBA will come in to help.

“Even the NBA at the national level is also interested in the matter. The president of the association, Mazi Afam Osigwe has been calling us to find out what is happening. So everybody is interested in the matter."

On whether there has been any clue as to why the lawyer was killed, the NBA branch chairman said the investigation will unravel that, warning against speculation.

He said, “Honestly, I cannot say, all these things will be unraveled by the police investigation, we cannot prejudge the investigation.

“Let them come out with their investigation, it is not good to speculate on some of these things. But the policeman that was arrested, I learned that there was a petition written by the deceased to the Assistant Inspector General of Police against this policeman for threats to his life and the man said that he would kill the lawyer.

“As a result, he wrote the petition for which was yet to be treated before he was murdered."

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23/01/2025

TRUMP CHANGES DIVORCE LAW
.No 50% Property Share.

Newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump has continued makes drastic changes two days in office.

The latest change, President Trump has tipped to change is the marriage law on the part of divorce. President Trump has broke the divorce law that is said to have been tormenting men in the US.

Trump just became the 47th president of the United States and he finally wants to look into the divorce law that has been tormenting men.

“Just because you get married to a rich man doesn’t mean you have to get half of his wealth and end up rich after divorce.

Divorce has become a very lucrative business for women in the United States and I’m gonna put an end to it. If a woman marries a rich man, it doesn’t mean she gets to leave as a rich woman after divorce.
If upon divorce the woman needs money, the man can borrow her a maximum of $1-million if she has a colleteral. $1-million isn’t alot of money for the rich man but it should be a lot about for the woman because she didn’t work for it.

If I’m worth $50-million, I’m not gonna give you $25-million after divorce. It’s my money and I worked very hard for it. I don’t care if we’ve been married for 6 years or even 25 years or even have children. If you don’t have enough money to take care of our children, leave them with me. I think that just because somebody marries somebody that built something huge, doesn’t necessarily mean that just because they get a divorce, that they should end up like the Queen of Sheba,”

Donald Trump.

21/01/2025

The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) has Congratulated President Donald Trump On His Victory And Inauguration As The 47th President Of The USA. IPOB Expressed Confidence That His Administration Would Bring About Positive Change In Favor Of Self-Determination Seeking Indigenous Peoples Across The Globe. The statement reads in full:

"The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra congratulate President Donald J Trump on his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States."

"The Indigenous People of Biafra are hopeful that your second tenure as the President of the United States of America will bring positive change across the globe but more so to Indigenous Peoples and Nations seeking for justice and freedom."

Family Writers Press InternationalThe Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) has Congratulated President Donald Trump On His Victory And Inauguration As The 47th President Of The USA. IPOB Expressed Confidence That His Administration Would Bring About Positive Change In Favor Of Self-Determination Seeking Indigenous Peoples Across The Globe. The statement reads in full:

"The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra congratulate President Donald J Trump on his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States."

"The Indigenous People of Biafra are hopeful that your second tenure as the President of the United States of America will bring positive change across the globe but more so to Indigenous Peoples and Nations seeking for justice and freedom."

Family Writers Press International

19/01/2025

This is a warning and advice to Ijaw people. We do know that there are some Ijaw conscientious people, some of whom supports Biafra self-determination. However, we are warning the Ijaw people who sees the Igbos as their problem that the era of being used as a willing tools to commit crimes and destitution in Igbo land has come to an end. The Ijaw nation have for no reason resented the Igbos even though we dịd nothing to them. IPOB will no longer tolerate their excesses of the Ijaw folks. IPOB is championing for Biafra referendum and if you are not interested, you can decline induction into the Biafra nation. But, IPOB will no longer tolerate the excesses of the Ijaws against Ndigbo. It is only the Ijaws who have voluntarily accepted to consolidated project of killing Ndigbo and i have not seen such betrayal being reciprocated by Ndigbo instead the Igbos have provided shelter and all sorts of brotherly support. In this 2025, IPOB will no longer tolerate the excesses of bigoted Ijaw boys against Ndigbo. No one has monopoly over violence.

Mazi Chinasa Nworu
Live Radio Biafra Broadcast, Update By FWPI

18-01-2025

16/01/2025

BREAKING: Lagos Court Clears Igbo ‘Chief’ Frederick Nwajagu Of Terrorism Charges, Sentences Him To 12 Months For Impersonation

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12/01/2025

"I MADE CHIOMA UNDERSTAND THAT I WILL NEVER HAVE ANYODA CHILD OUTSIDE AGAIN IF WE GET MARRIED AND BECOME ONE"

"Before she said "I do" publicly to me in the eyes of God and man.

One day, before she served me one of her finest sumptous meals, she wore a mild smile like Queen Esther and called my name in her Igbo way which bursts my head!

She said "Davim I truly love you and will be glad to spend the rest of my life until the next with you, but my problem is fear. The fear of you having too many children outside our marriage.

See I have no problem with you being Davido, the king of 30BG as that is your charm and who you are.

I know you are an artiste and it's normal for most women to want you and somehow as a man, you will pierce some of them.

But my fear is you, you not using c9ndoms to protect yourself and the family.

My fear of you having another child outside our loving home, I cannot stand the shame and it will bre me"

You see those words hit me so hard, I promised her I will be that man that will not break her.

With tears in her eyes, she affirmed she will be my wife"

Awwwww...God help and bless your home

08/01/2025

8th January 2025

Re: Tinubu’s refusal to honour Seyi’s pact with us disappointing!

The above headline of an article which appeared in the Vanguard newspaper’s January 3rd 2025 online edition has come to the attention of the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra (the DOS).In the said article, a statement was credited to Emmanuel Kanu younger brother to Mazi Nnadi Kanu that he Emmanuel Kanu held a meeting with Seyi Tinubu the son to Bola Ahmed Tinubu with the agreement that the indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will not call for the boycott of the last 2023 general election with the understanding that Tinubu will release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu if elected president.For the avoidance of doubt, the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra has been working and will continue to work for the freedom of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

The DOS however has deemed it imperative to address the incorrect information contained in the Vanguard news article mentioned above. To set the records straight, neither the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra worldwide nor any member of the Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra had any knowledge of not to talk of holding a meeting with Seyi Tinubu or any person relating to Bola Ahmed Tinubu.It is important to state that Emmanuel Kanu or any other member of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s family do not hold any position of service to the Biafran people or position of leadership in IPOB and do not have the capacity to represent IPOB in any meeting or to coopt IPOB into whatever family meeting they have held or may wish to hold in future. If such a meeting in question held, Emmanuel Kanu could not have been there representing or committing IPOB to any agreement or understanding because he does not have the capacity to represent IPOB in any meeting whatsoever for the simple reason that he was never and is not a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra worldwide.I have been instructed by the Directorate of State to make these clarifications both as it relates to the article in question and for future reference.In his last National Broadcast on January 1st 2025, the Head of Directorate of State, enumerated areas of IPOB’s policy engagement that will address issues that concern the Biafran people in 2025. The head of Directorate directed me to urge IPOB family members worldwide and Biafrans in general to keep focused on our match to freedom and repudiate any thing that will be a distraction to our dedication to the cause of our freedom.

Signed
Press Secretary to the
Directorate of States (DOS)

05/01/2025

For Biafra To Succeed, Godfatherism And Gangsterism Must Be Expelled

The struggle for Biafra is a movement fueled by the collective aspirations of a people long subjected to oppression, marginalization, and systematic erasure. It is a sacred mission that demands unity, transparency, and accountability. Yet, like termites gnawing at the root of a mighty iroko tree, the twin evils of gangsterism and godfatherism have emerged as threats capable of undermining the very foundation of this struggle.......

Icons News

01/01/2025

Good afternoon, good morning and good night to all of you wonderful Biafrans. I am from Iheoma, and by the grace of ChukwuAbiama, I serve the Biafran people. Happy New Year. I welcome you in the name of our ancestors and ChukwuAbiama

Mazi Chika Edoziem,
Live Radio Biafra
Update By FWPI
01-01-2025

31/12/2024

Kanu's release will faciliate the uncovering of criminals taking shelter with his name - IPOB reacts over Soludo's statement

IPOB Press Release
Published On the The Biafra Post
December 31, 2024

t has come to the attention of the noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) that His Excellency, Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo recently made a public utterance to the effect that the release of our leader Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu "may not" end insecurity in the South-East. With this statement, the governor appears to be pitching his tent firmly with those politicians who are against the release of our leader; which not only defies logic given the governor's own previous antecedents in calling for his release, but is equally counter intuitive.

If we are led to believe, as the governor inferred in his interview on Arise TV, that those allegedly perpetuating insecurity in our blessed land are doing so on the purpot that they want Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu released, would it not make sense therefore to seek his release and in so doing, call the bluff of these misguided individuals or at very least deny them any cover or legitimacy. That is why the statement made by Gov. Soludo is capable of being misread and misunderstood as being in conflict with common sense.

If criminals are hiding under the name of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB to commit any offence, then common sense dictates that if Onyendu is released, nobody would hide under his name or that of IPOB to commit any crime or do anything untoward. Any criminal or criminals hiding under his name will be flushed out or be exposed and those operating in their own name will be driven out of our land. We thought that this approach was in line with the much touted non-kinetic initiative championed by the governor himself. Why then did the governor deviate and start sounding like a propagandist or spokesman of the Nigerian Army; that institution that is always looking for justification to kill or incarcerate yet more innocent Igbo young men and women.

We must ask, is the governor unaware of the pathological hatred some Nigerian security agencies have towards the people of Biafra, especially those exercising their constitutional right to self determination.

With the greatest respect, His Excellency was domiciled in Abuja at the peak of the killer herdsmen reign of terror in Igboland and entire east. So he was unable to grasp the magnitude of the problem at that time, the shame Igbo race had to endure and what it took IPOB through ESN to bring it to an end. If the same person, Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu that brought to an end the full-scale invasion, slaughter and humiliation of the Igbo race at the hands of these killer herdsmen from the Sahel that were rampaging unchecked through our forests, farmlands and villages a few years back, the same Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will surely end insecurity in the South-East and beyond.

If there is any other ulterior motive guiding the reluctance of South-East governors to frontally seek the release of Onyendu in accordance with their public pledge, then South-East Governors Forum should be brave enough to come out and tell the public.

We make bold to reiterate the commitment our leader made during one of his outings in court, by way of a challenge to those that doubt the potency of our worldwide movement, that if Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is released and insecurity does not cease in its entirety within 2 weeks only, IPOB shall cease to exist. This is how bold and confident we are in demonstration of our utter repudiation of anything that may bring or cause hardship to be brought upon the people of Biafra.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.



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30/12/2024

ORIGIN OF BRITISH PROJECT OF DE-IGBONIZATION OF RIVERS IGBO AND
THE ROOT CAUSES OF IDENTITY DENIAL IN IKWERRE, OGBA AND MOST IGBO TRIBES IN RIVERS STATE~Written by Professor Chidi Osuagwu

1. The British project of De-Igbonization of Riverein Igbo/Plot of War against the Igbo has basis in Resources control and started actively after the Iva Valley/Enugu Coalmime Massacre of 1949. The British, after World War II, had a policy of using resources from the Colony to rebuild war devastated Britain. Coal, mined at Enugu and shipped to Britain was part of the grand plan. The 'rebellious' Igbo had other thoughts. The British were plundering the Igbo coal and paying pittance to the Igbo Coalminers. The Mners protested and the British massacred. The immortal Osadebe song "Onuigbo" memorialises the massacre. The Enugu massacre didn't end at Enugu. It led to a general strike, led by Michael Imoudu, in Nigeria. It reverbrated across the British empire, particularly, Africa and speed up the independence campaigns. The British marked out the Igbo for destruction, including War. This is the origin of the plot for the Biafra War, which was originally scheduled to take place before or by 1958. Sir Robert Stapledon, Governor of Eastern Nigeria pressed Britain to defer the War.
2. At the time, Britain already knew that some much bigger resource than coal existed in Eastern Nigeria...Petroleum. They moved fast to insulate it from Igbo control and influence. Independence, as Decreed by the United Nations after World War II, was unrushing and Britain moved fast. They sought to create Rivers Region as outlined below and failed. They moved HQ of Shell Petroleum from Owerrri to Port-Harcourt. They set out to, ferociously, deigbonise the Reverein Igbo, recruiting Local Hyenas to their cause. They used the pretext of the Biafra War they ploted and excucuted to destroy the Igbo and Igbo culture in their 'Rivers Region' as outlined below.
3 . Kay Williamson is well known to me (she was there when I took my PhD at the University of Port-Harcourt). She was a British agent recruited, from University of Ibadan to University of Port-Harcourt. Her sole mandate was to prove that Riverein Igbo dialects were Igboid languages and not Igbo dialects. She was executing all kinds of linguistic 'Bubuyaya', until Computer programming came up. With Language-markers she had programmed the computer to draw map of Igbo Language Area and Igboid Languages areas. When the computer, based on the Language-markers, could not identify Igboid languages, but classed her Igboids as regular dialects of Igbo, as known by linguists all along, she broke down and died. When she died the Ijaw buried her at Kaiama, their traditional headquarters, as National heroine. She was expanding their territory and diminishing the Igbo. Not minding that the majority of the people of Degema Division are of Igbo stock, not Izon, and yet the Igbo, in good faith, accept their Ijaw identity...not claiming them as part of Rivers Igbo. All parties mock the 'Igbo-Sampson-at-Gaza'!
4. Kay Williamson's career was in furtherance of a secret colonial office policy document to the Willink Commission of 1957/58. The British had wanted the Commission to create a Rivers Region for 900,000 Ijaw. In effect, de-Igbonizing the Igbo in the then Rivers Province.
5. The Willink Commission put a final seal on the identities of the peoples of the then Rivers Province by:
a. Noting that the number of 900,000 Ijaw claimed by the British Colonial Office memo was fictional. This is because an earlier working document on the population of Rivers Province earlier given to them, by the same colonial officials, had indicated that the Province had a total of 703,000 people. Of these 150,000 were Ogoni of Ogoni Division. 250,000 were Ijaw of Brass and Degema Divisions. 303,000 were Igbo of Ahoada and Port-Harcourt Divisions.
6. The above facts, embedded in the Willink Commission Report, put the final seal on the facts that the peoples of prewar Ahoada and Port-Harcourt Divisions are Igbo peoples and nothing else.
7. It is clear that the British, judging from their hatred and anti-Igbo policies since and the career of Kay Williamson, never gave up on their policy of De-Igbonization, and Ijawization, of Riverein Igbo at the expense of the Igbo Nation and British profit. It is also, clear, from their heroic treatment of Kay Williamson that the Ijaw are complicit, as default beneficiaries, of the genocidal British machinations against the Igbo.
8. "Phil, our gamble about identity has failed!" was a statement made before his friend, Phillip Nkwocha of Emeabiam, and myself by Senator Obi Wali in 1991. Shortly after that he died for agitating for Igweọcha/Port-Harcourt State. There are, apparently, some self-serving Riverein Igbo still gambling about their identity...and who will, ultimately, fail as Obi Wali lamented.
9. All the current campaign against the possible emergence of an Igbo of true Rivers State origin is part of the British planned De-Igbonization of Riverein Igbo for Petroleum's sake. The tragedy is that Igbo "Harlots-of-Jericho" have been recruited to be the money-chomping face of the evil campaign against the Great Igbo Spirit and Nation. History Will Laugh at Them!!!
10. It is noteworthy that some Ikwerre Igbo elite bought into the ruse for gain. They switched code from distinguishing themselves from being Ikwerre-Igbo (which the British themselves had grouped as part of the Oratta-Ikwerri sub-tribe of the Igbo) in constrast to the Isuama Igbo (a core Imo Basin Igbo from Isuawa in Enugu State to Isuowu in Etche, and including; Isu-ochi, Isu-ikwuato, Isu-Ngele, Isu-Njaba, Isu-Otuakwu, Isu-Obiangwu and from Isu-Ohazara to Ihiala) to contrasting themselves with Igbo. Regretting the error of playing the enemies game a prominent Ikwerre leader, Senator Obi Wali, said to his friend, Mazi Phillip Nkwocha, before me: "Phil, our gamble about identity has failed!" Today, based on what his father taught him, his son, Ihunwo Obiwali, is an Ikwerre-reintegrationist-into-Igbo-fold activist. But, many of those his father's generation took to the Whiteman's Communion have not recognised that the Church service is over. Gambling about identity is a serious affair. Go ask the African slave-time Diaspora.
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