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• January 19, 2025
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SIMON EKPA STILL KIDNAPPING FOR RANSOM – SOLUDO

SIMON EKPA STILL KIDNAPPING FOR RANSOM – SOLUDO Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State on Saturday disclosed that arrested Finland-based self-acclaimed Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa “has continued kidnapping for ransom”. Soludo said kidnapping is currently a business that is more lucrative than drugs and oil. The governor who spoke in Awka, the state capital, said before he became governor, eight local government areas in the state were being controlled by gunmen. Soludo also recalled how his father was kidnapped in 2009. He said: “Kidnapping is not new, my father had been kidnapped as far back as 2009. GU Okeke, Pokobros and many others have fallen victim too. “Before I assumed office, about eight local government areas were being controlled by gunmen. “They killed policemen and collected guns, attacked and burnt down police stations and went into the bush to label themselves liberators. “We came in and went to work and cleared them and we recovered the eight local government areas that were under siege. These gangs claim to be Biafra freedom fighters. IPOB has dissociated themselves from it, but one Simon Ekpa has continued kidnapping for ransom. “Kidnapping for ransom is now the most lucrative enterprise, even more lucrative than drugs and oil. For every one naira reported as payment for ransom, five to six naira was not reported. “With a culture that celebrates wealth without craft, even the kidnappers amongst us are now celebrated. Idolatry which these criminals have converted to have become the fastest growing religion in the South-East. Nothing is sacred to them anymore.”

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• January 18, 2025
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CONTINUED TRIAL OF NNAMDI KANU WITHOUT RESTORING REVOKED BAIL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL – LEGAL TEAM

CONTINUED TRIAL OF NNAMDI KANU WITHOUT RESTORING REVOKED BAIL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL – LEGAL TEAM The legal team of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has insisted that it is unconstitutional to continue Kanu’s trial without restoring his bail revoked by the Federal High Court. The legal team led by Kanu’s Special Counsel, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, recalled that Kanu’s case started over nine years ago when he was first arrested in Lagos on October 14, 2015, a few days after his arrival from his base in London, UK. The IPOB leader’s legal team also recalled that he was then charged with offenses relating to his broadcasts on Radio Biafra from its location in London. Speaking at a world press conference held in Abuja on Thursday, Ejimakor and his team said, “You can imagine what it means for someone to be on an endless trial that never really happens for almost ten years. “And being detained without conviction for 18 months from 2015 to 2017 and again for over three and half years from 2021 to the present day. This alone is a grave injustice of its unique kind.” The legal team further recalled that after Kanu was freed on bail, “The Nigeria Army levied lethal attacks at his home in September 2017. “Those attacks claimed many lives, including that of Kanu’s late parents who later succumbed to their physical and psychological injuries emanating from the military invasion. “In the course of time, a high court pronounced these attacks unconstitutional and awarded damages to Mazi Kanu.” They said, “An African continental tribunal with jurisdiction, in a Decision reached in March 2018, also condemned the military invasion and the subsequent proscription of IPOB which was prompted by the then Southeast governors before the Federal Government drove the final nail. “Later in time, the proscription was – by a high court – pronounced as discriminatory on the basis of ethnicity and thus unconstitutional. “In the same vein, an organ of the United Nations pronounced against the proscription and equally termed it an action driven by an ethnic discrimination against the Igbo. “Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was in June 2021, brazenly abducted in Kenya and extraordinarily renditioned to Nigeria in such an egregious manner that drew the condemnation of two human rights organs of the United Nations, a Federal High Court and the Supreme Court of Nigeria. “To be sure, the Federal High Court awarded damages to Mazi Kanu and declared his continued detention at the DSS in Abuja as unconstitutional. “Despite this, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is still detained to this day. That is not right and it is unconstitutional to boot.” The legal team recounted that on June 29, 2021, following his rendition to Nigeria on June 27, “Kanu was secretly produced before the Federal High Court in Abuja and the said Court, in violation Section 36(3), Section 36(4)(a) and Section 36(6)(c) of the Constitution, in that without notice to/and presence of his former counsel, conducted a hearing that led to his remand in the custody of the State Security Services that was directly and vicariously complicit in his extraordinary rendition and disappearance/torture in Kenya for eight long days. “Further, the said hearing also ran afoul of Section 169 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015.” However, in October 2022 the Court of Appeal discharged Kanu from all charges pending against him. But the legal team noted that in a strange judicial somersault, it took the same Court of Appeal of a different panel only two weeks to pedal back and undo the judgment by staying its execution, thus seemingly sitting on appeal over its own judgment. “Suffice to say that while this judgment lasted or was still extant before being stayed,…

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• January 15, 2025
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LIEUTENANT COLONEL PATRICK CHUKWUMA ‘KADUNA’ NZEOGWU

LIEUTENANT COLONEL PATRICK CHUKWUMA ‘KADUNA’ NZEOGWU Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuma ‘Kladuna’ Nzeogwu was killed on July 29, 1967 near Nsukka, in Enugu state. He was trapped in an ambush near Nsukka while conducting a night reconnaissance operation against federal troops of the 21st battalion led by Capt. Mohammed Inuwa Wushishi. Nzeogwu who was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel by the Biafran Army was killed in action and his corpse was subsequently identified. However, his elder sister insisted that Chukwuma killed himself to avoid being humiliated by the rampaging federal troops. In Nzeogwu’s sister words, “Chukwuma told me few days back that I will rather kill myself than subjecting to the humiliating hands of federal troops.” The troop led by Capt. Mohammed Wushishi of the 21st Battalion opened fire at the armoured car and almost when Nzeogwu and his men were at the verge of escaping, the federal troop made use of the fearsome 106mm recoilless rifle which eventually pierced through the armoured car they were using for the operation. Nzeogwu’s corpse was identified by Lieutenant Abdullahi Shellen who ordered for the corpse to be properly stored in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. However, Lieutenant Abdullahi arrived the university Campus to realise that the two eyes of Nzeogwu had been plucked out in what appears to have been a ritual mutilation. Lieutenant Abdullahi also recounted that the soldier who shot Nzeogwu, was his former bat man in the Army. Nzeogwu died at age 30 and his corpse was flown to Military Cemetery in Kaduna and buried with full millitary honours. According to Domkat Bali; “Even in death, Nzeogwu was still respected by the federal and Northern troops.” Bali, also tagged Nzeogwu as one of the best and gallant Nigerian Soldiers ever. Nzeogwu who led the January 15 1966 uprising in Kaduna, was a devout Catholic, a teetotaler, a non-smoker, and who despite being a bachelor, did not spend much time chasing women. He spoke Igbo and Hausa languages fluently. His grave is still in Kaduna till date with his name wrongly spelt on his grave stone written as Major K C ‘Chukuma Nzegwu’. He hailed from Okpanam, near Asaba, in the present Delta State

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• January 7, 2025
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RELEASE NNAMDI KANU, I’LL STAND AS GUARANTOR – ABARIBE

RELEASE NNAMDI KANU, I’LL STAND AS GUARANTOR – ABARIBE Abia South Senator, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has expressed his willingness to stand as a guarantor for Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Abaribe made the remark while addressing journalists after his visit to Governor Alex Otti of Abia State. He also urged President Bola Tinubu to listen to the Attorney General of the Federation, Lateef Fagbemi and other stakeholders over their calls to release Kanu. Abaribe informed Tinubu that releasing Kanu would put a stop to the issue of criminalities in the Southeast. He said: “I expect that the President will listen to both his Attorney General and every one of us who have been agitating that the issues in the Southeast; first of all the insurgency, the sit-at-home on Mondays and every other thing we have noticed in the Southeast, what we now know in the Southeast is that criminals and all other people who advocate violence have taken over and using the name Nnamdi Kanu to perpetuate all these their despicable acts. “We know that the President, being a listening President, will also look at all the issues involved which we have presented to him from various mediums and that he will do the needful and release Nnamdi Kanu so that it will put a stop to all these things that are happening in the Southeast and bring back the Southeast as the hub of production in Nigeria. “So he needs Nnamdi Kanu out so that all those things that are holding us down in the Southeast, that have made us not produce as much as we ought to produce, will not be there. “So, we continue to call on President Tinubu to release Nnamdi Kanu and we are ready and willing to be guarantors for him to be released so that we can have life coming back into the Southeast and take it away from the criminals, kidnappers, the cultists and dangerous elements that are floating around us who have made it a point that they would perpetrate violence, do criminal activities and use Nnamdi Kanu’s name as their reason.” Kanu remains incarcerated since June 2021 when he was rearrested and subjected to extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria. Upon his return to Nigeria, the Appeal Court in Abuja ordered his release but the Nigerian government refused to let him off the hook.

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• January 6, 2025
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IT’S A SHAME THAT 57 YEARS AFTER ABURI ACCORD NIGERIA STILL TALKS OF RESTRUCTURING – OMIRHOBO

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• January 3, 2025
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HOW TINUBU REFUSED TO HONOUR AGREEMENT ON NNAMDI KANU AFTER SENDING HIS SON, SEYI, TO US BEFORE 2023 POLLS -KANU’S FAMILY

HOW TINUBU REFUSED TO HONOUR AGREEMENT ON NNAMDI KANU AFTER SENDING HIS SON, SEYI, TO US BEFORE 2023 POLLS – KANU’S FAMILY The family of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has expressed deep disappointment with President Bola Tinubu for allegedly failing to honour an agreement purportedly made between Tinubu’s son, Seyi, and the Kanu family before the 2023 general elections. In a statement, Kanu’s younger brother, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, claimed that Seyi, with the approval of his father, personally met him in Abuja before the election. During the meeting, an agreement was allegedly reached that IPOB would not call for an election boycott in exchange for Kanu’s release if Tinubu became president. Prince Emmanuel expressed frustration that nearly two years into Tinubu’s presidency, Kanu remains in detention. He noted that Justice Binta Nyako, who had been presiding over Kanu’s case, recused herself months ago, yet no new judge has been assigned. He stated, “Before the last election, I received a message from a former governor that Seyi, the son of President Tinubu, wanted to meet with me. “I agreed on the condition that the priority of our discussion would be the release of my brother. The meeting took place in Abuja with another individual present as a witness. “Seyi assured me that the meeting was sanctioned by his father and that any agreement reached would be binding. In good faith, we agreed that IPOB would not interfere with the election process. “I relayed this understanding to my brother, and he reaffirmed IPOB’s commitment to not call for an election boycott or civil disobedience. “When Tinubu visited Owerri during his campaign, he publicly reaffirmed his commitment to facilitating my brother’s release if elected. “IPOB kept its part of the agreement, ensuring there was no call for election boycott, despite having the capacity to do so. “However, it defies logic that nearly two years after President Tinubu assumed office, my brother remains in detention without any formal charges. “The Appeal Court discharged him and ordered his release, a decision the Buhari administration ignored. “The Supreme Court also determined that his bail should not have been revoked, yet this has been disregarded. “Nigerian courts are unwilling to resolve his case on merit, relying instead on technicalities to stall proceedings. His detention lacks any legal basis, either in Nigeria or elsewhere in the world. “It is deeply disappointing that those who claim to be honorable cannot keep their word,” the statement concluded. ‎

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• December 18, 2024
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WHY NNAMDI KANU’S RELEASE MAY NOT END INSECURITY IN SOUTH EAST – SOLUDO

WHY NNAMDI KANU’S RELEASE MAY NOT END INSECURITY IN SOUTH EAST – SOLUDO The Governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, on Tuesday, said he doubted if the release of the detained leader of the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, would end the pervasive insecurity in the South-East, News360 Nigeria reports. Soludo argued that criminals had hijacked the Biafran struggle and were now exploiting the Biafran struggle and Kanu’s name to perpetrate organised crime and fuel insecurity in the South-East region. Soludo noted that under the guise of agitation, these individuals had turned to “lucrative criminality,” engaging in armed robbery, kidnapping, cultism, and idolatry. He insisted that their activities have nothing to do with the genuine liberation struggle, stating that such crimes are purely driven by greed and lawlessness. Speaking during a press briefing at the Governor’s Lodge in Amawbia on Tuesday, Soludo revealed that over 99 per cent of criminals arrested in Anambra in the past two years were Igbo, with more than 70 per cent being non-indigenes of the state. “The so-called agitators have transformed into organised criminal gangs,” Soludo said. “They hide in forests, kidnapping innocent citizens for ransom, and they justify their atrocities under the pretext of Biafra. Let us be clear—this has nothing to do with any liberation movement. Criminality has taken on a life of its own. These people have tasted blood, and now, money is their motivation.” The governor expressed doubt that the release of the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, would end the crisis, as the criminals appear to have severed ties with the original agitation. “Kanu and IPOB have repeatedly dissociated themselves from these criminals,” Soludo explained. “Even if Nnamdi Kanu is released today, I’m not sure they would listen to him because what they now pursue is wealth, not liberation. They have become enemies of the people they claim to protect. Who are they fighting for when they kidnap and kill their own people?” Soludo further decried the complicity of some communities in shielding these criminals, adding that insecurity in the region was sustained because some locals viewed security agencies as adversaries and the criminals as liberators. “Our people know these criminals. They are our brothers, cousins, and neighbors,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that in some communities, people contribute food to sustain these criminals hiding in the forests. How do you fight insecurity when people see criminals as heroes and the police as the enemy?” The governor announced the plan to launch ‘Operation Udo Ga Chi’ (Operation Peace Shall Reign), a state-wide security initiative scheduled to commence after January 25. The operation, Soludo said, would deploy 163 branded vehicles for stop-and-search activities and integrate advanced surveillance technology to track criminals and secure forests. “We are intensifying our security measures with both kinetic and non-kinetic approaches. We have trained forest guards to work with vigilantes and LG authorities to reclaim our forests. I call on these criminals to embrace our amnesty window, which remains open until the end of February,” Soludo added. Calling for collective action, Soludo urged religious leaders, traditional rulers, and residents to take ownership of their communities and cooperate with security agencies. “Insecurity is a monster that must be confronted collectively,” the governor emphasized. “If you see something, say something. Anambra will no longer be a haven for criminals masquerading as freedom fighters.” He expressed gratitude to the Federal Government and security agencies for their support, reiterating his administration’s resolve to rid the state of criminal elements and ensure lasting peace and security.

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• December 18, 2024
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NO SUFFICIENT REASON FOR CONTINUED DETENTION OF NNAMDI KANU – OHANAEZE

NO SUFFICIENT REASON FOR CONTINUED DETENTION OF NNAMDI KANU – OHANAEZE The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Nze Ozichukwu Fidelis Chukwu, has stated that the Nigerian government has no sufficient reason to continue detaining Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. In a statement issued by Ohanaeze’s spokesman, Alex Ogbonnia, the organisation’s President General emphasised that “the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is a moral burden on the federal government,” adding that “there is no sufficient reason for the prolonged detention of Kanu by the security agency of the state.” Chukwu assured the National Executive Committee, NEC, that a blueprint will be developed to ensure Ohanaeze not only complements the goodwill of the state but is also positioned to discharge its diverse functions and overcome challenges as they arise. He further stated that although his days in office are numbered, he is determined to leave behind an impressive legacy.

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• December 14, 2024
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FINLAND FREEZES SIMON EKPA’S ASSETS, PLACES HIM IN TOUGHEST PRISON

FINLAND FREEZES SIMON EKPA’S ASSETS, PLACES HIM iN TOUGHEST PRISON Finnish authorities have frozen the assets of Simon Ekpa, the self-proclaimed Biafran agitator. Ekpa, who is facing allegations of terrorism-related activities, has been detained for several weeks. Finnish government has also frozen the assets of companies associated with Ekpa and four of his accomplices, who are also in remand. According to the report, a local newspaper, Yle, confirmed the development, further stating that Ekpa is being held in Kylmäkoski Vankila (Kylmäkoski Prison), which is reputed to be one of the world’s toughest prisons. Kylmäkoski Prison, a high-security facility, is located in Vanhamaantie, Akaa, Finland. It is likely that Ekpa may spend the Christmas and New Year holidays in detention, given the stance taken by Finnish authorities.