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THE FUTILITY OF TRUMP'S WARNING AGAINST THE KILLING OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN WORSHIPERS IN NIGERIA.

 
 
Written By CK Fidelis 
For IPOBWriters.

Date :15/05/2018 



PRESIDENT D.TRUMP

I am quite disturbed that after the very strong warning that the American President Donald Trump gave to the president of the contraption called Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari against the indiscriminate killing of Christian and Jewish worshippers in Nigeria during the meeting of both leaders in White House on the 30th of April 2018, without mincing words the US president made it clear that the American government is fully aware of the killings and persecutions of christian and Jewish worshippers in Nigeria, he made it very clear that America will not let that happen again and would really do something about it very soon.

This statement by the American president obviously brought some form of succor to the millions of helpless Christian and Jewish people of Nigeria. But the question here now is, did the Nigerian president give any attention to that warning?  The answer is NO.

It is on record that on the night after the president Donald Trump's warnings, the Fulani herdsmen attacked and killed 10 persons in Benue State and since that day killings have continued unabated and even on a more pronounced pattern and scale. The most surprising is that the Nigerian Forces are now openly and directly involved in this barbaric act of persecution and oppression of all other religions aside from Islam.

Today(Sunday, 13th May 2018), the Nigerian Police brutally attacked the Jewish worshipers who were praying in the house of the abducted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra at Afaraukwu Ibeku in Umuahia in Abia State.

 A sane person would want to know what other interest the Nigerian government has in the vandalized home of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who they abducted in his house during the military invasion of September 14, 2017.

This question comes - was there any prohibition placed against people staying or assembling in that place? If the answer is NO, then what offense has the Jewish worshipers committed by going to pray for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra? Because there is no offense whatsoever except that the Nigerian government under the dictator Muhammadu Buhari has sent a direct message to America and President Trump himself that there is nothing America can do to stop the ongoing Jihad. It is indeed a very clear message that there is a very well organized plan to Islamise Nigeria. The jihadis already going on and the world should now see how the government has been aiding this Islamisation agenda, to the extent that the Nigerian Police now comes out openly to attack non-Muslims.

The brutal attack on the Jewish worshippers today(Sunday, 13th May 2018) is a very big insult to the president of America, it will remain an insult to the American nation because as a matter of courtesy, the Nigerian government is expected to observe some restraints in the use of force against unarmed civilians, it is now obvious that the Nigerian government was not mistaken when they voted against the American government's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Isreal. This act alone clearly shows that Nigeria can never be the good friend to America. The Islamic Republic of Nigeria hates Isreal and any country that supports her, so there is no reason for Donald Trump to find friendship in Nigeria, it will be the colossal error to dine with the Islamic government of Nigeria and the arch genocidist Buhari himself.

President Donald Trump should know that Buhari is not to be trusted and this latest assault on Jewish worshippers will remain a very strong evidence and proof for that.

There is now a problem because if America cannot help the Christian and Jewish worshippers in Nigeria, then it means that the last resort which is self-defense will be activated because if the Nigerian government can consider the American government unfit to give such warning against the killing of Christians then it means that the persecuted people of this country should just wait for the upcoming ethnic and religious cleansing.

Therefore, I am using this opportunity to remind the president of America that he should no more delay in helping the Christian and Jewish worshippers in Nigeria if actually he meant his words, and do it as a matter of urgency because time is seriously running out, and the plan to Islamise entire Nigeria is really becoming seriously pronounced, in fact, the whole plan is already being executed, hence, there is no point waiting for millions to be killed before America would do the needful.

Meanwhile, we the Christian and Jewish people of the South East insist on the referendum to determine our future in Nigeria. We are determined to go back to our original land which is BIAFRA and no amount of intimidation will stop our quest for Biafra, so now is the right time for the president of America to act, it should not be tomorrow because tomorrow may be too late.





 
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The Biafra Factor: Thousands Of Igbo-Biafrans Travel To Washington To Protest Against Dictator Buhari Of Nigeria Meeting With President Trump

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Date: 01/05/2018

 
BIAFRANS AND AMERICA                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Thousands of Igbo, an ethnic group in Southeastern Nigeria, have begun arriving Washington DC for a major protest against 75-year old Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari.



Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) would storm the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC on April 30 when Mr. Buhari would be meeting with President Donald Trump.



In a statement to Today News Africa in Washington DC, the organizers of the protest said Mr. Buhari, a retired Nigerian Army General, is responsible for the death of thousands of Igbo activists who have been demanding independence from the oil-rich but dilapidated West African country.



The leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, disappeared in strange circumstances, fueling speculations that he was abducted by Nigerian security forces following an attack on his residence.



Our team of reporters in Washington DC would bring you live developments inside and outside the White House on April 30.



The protesters would also accuse Mr. Buhari government of committing grave human rights violations across the country, and for not prosecuting those who perpetrated them. The accusations would also include the atrocities perpetrated by Fulani herdsmen throughout Nigeria.



Igbo activists have argued that Nigeria has not treated the Igbo fairly following the civil war of 1967-1970 that left at least two million of their people dead as they tried to break up.



The protests would be coming days after the United States government on Friday released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying grave violations continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were almost never prosecuted by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.



Why it matters: President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, and both men would likely discuss further U.S. military assistance to Nigeria against the backdrop of serious human rights violations by security forces who use the same weapons to kill civilians.



The U.S. annual report on global human rights violations, released in Washington D.C. on Friday afternoon, said the administration of President Buhari “took steps to investigate alleged abuses, but fewer steps to prosecute officials who committed violations, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government”.



“Impunity remained widespread at all levels of government. The government did not adequately investigate or prosecute most of the major outstanding allegations of human rights violations by the security forces or the majority of cases of police or military extortion or other abuse of power,” the report said.



It said the most significant human rights issues included extrajudicial and arbitrary killings; disappearances and arbitrary detentions; torture, particularly in detention facilities, including sexual exploitation and abuse; use of children by some security elements, looting, and destruction of property.



There were also civilian detentions in military facilities, often based on flimsy evidence; denial of fair public trial; executive influence on the judiciary; infringement on citizens’ privacy rights; restrictions on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and movement



This was in addition to official corruption; lack of accountability in cases involving violence against women and children, including female genital mutilation/cutting and sexual exploitation of children; trafficking in persons; early and forced marriages; criminalization of status and same-sex sexual conduct based on sexual orientation and gender identity; and forced and bonded labor.



The report recognized that Boko Haram terror group also committed a myriad of human rights violations, killing and torturing and imprisoning women and children and bombing entire villages.



“The groups conducted numerous attacks on government and civilian targets that resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated 205,000 Nigerian refugees to neighboring countries, principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,” the report said.



Boko Haram’s numerous attacks often targeted civilians. The group, which recruited and forcefully conscripted child soldiers, carried out scores of suicide bombings–many by young women and girls forced into doing so–and other attacks on population centers in the Northeast and in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.



“Abductions by Boko Haram continued. The group subjected many abducted women and girls to sexual and gender-based violence, including forced marriages and rape. The government investigated attacks by Boko Haram and ISIS-WA and took some steps to prosecute their members, although the majority of suspected insurgent group supporters were held in military custody without charge,



“In its response to Boko Haram and ISIS-WA attacks, and at times in response to crime and insecurity in general, security service personnel perpetrated extrajudicial killings and engaged in torture, sexual exploitation, and abuse, arbitrary detention, mistreatment of detainees, use of children by some security elements, looting, and destruction of property. The country also suffered from ethnic, regional, and religious violence,” the report added.
 

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            IPOB PRESS RELEASE 


Written By COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL 
MEDIA AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

Date:01/05/2018 

AMERICAN PRESIDENT
 

We would like to seize this opportunity of a meeting between President Trump and 'Buhari' to draw the attention of the American people to the plight of Biafrans in detention across Nigeria especially the four that are still in detention in a maximum security prison simply because they came out to celebrate with millions of other people around the world the day Trump was sworn into office. It is also important that we remind the US presidency since it appears the US embassy in Nigeria failed to do so, the enormity of the brutality and cold-blooded massacre of innocent citizens merely exercising their right to freedom of assembly on that fateful day of January 20, 2017.

There is something morally repugnant about 'Buhari' visiting Washington to discuss democracy when his administration is anything but. The failure of United States government to hold this regime to account is what may have emboldened and encouraged them to embark on the wholesale ethnic cleansing of parts of Benue State. IPOB would like to know if President Trump, by virtue of this invitation to Buhari, is justifying the cold-blooded massacre and illegal detention of tens of innocent Biafrans that rallied in Igweocha (Port Harcourt) on that fateful day of January 20, 2017, during his inauguration. 

What the Trump administration appears to be doing is inadvertently giving the green light to brutal anti-democratic regimes in Africa of which the 'Buhari' APC is one, to murder and detain at will. There is nothing democratic about 'Buhari'  to justify his invitation to the White House. Whoever it is at the United States embassy in Abuja, responsible for compiling and transmitting reports of regime atrocities back to the State Department in Washington, failed woefully in his or her duty, because this current 'Buhari' regime is the worst government in the history of Nigeria. Both in terms of brutality, wickedness and total disregard for democratic norms and rule of law. There is nothing about this 'Buhari' regime that qualifies it to be given the honor of visiting the office of the leader of the free world.

Welcoming Buhari to the White House means welcoming tyranny into the bowel of democracy. It sends out the message that the United States of America is standing shoulder to shoulder with a mass murderer and tyrant, contrary to its stated objectives. What those who are behind this visit of 'Buhari' to the White House may have succeeded in doing is give the official Trump administration endorsement to 'Buhari' to go on killing and locking people up at will, including those that came out on the streets to celebrate President Trump's victory.

It makes a mockery of the ideals, values and founding principles of the United States of America that the man responsible for the illegal detention and brutal murder of those celebrating the election of a US president is being welcomed to White House as if nothing happened. Does it mean President Trump is not aware of the 20th of January 2017 massacre at Igweocha (Port Harcourt) or the US mission to Nigeria, especially the US ambassador, failed to inform the president?

Mr. Ikenna Igwe Mazi, Mr. Uchenna Innocent, Mr. Bright Sunday Okoro and Mr. Chidinma Godwin Nwafor are today still languishing in prison for no other reason than the fact they were celebrating Trump victory. They were detained on a trumped up charge of the treasonable felony for celebrating the inauguration of a US president that is today winning and dining with the same man that threw them in jail. There is something morally repugnant about this. The very least President Trump can do is to demand that 'Buhari' immediately release all IPOB activists and other political detainees across Nigeria. 
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Prophet Nnamdi Kanu Had Predicted That Buhari Would Usher In Biafra – IPOB


 IPOBWriters

Date:25/04/2018

 

NNAMDI KANU

 

The Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) have stated that they plan to protest President Buhari’s trip to the USA in a few days, on the 30th of April.

They also said that their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who they referred to as the great prophet of our time, had predicted that Buhari would usher in Biafra and that their time was almost here.

This was contained in a statement by IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful who also noted that the group’s advocacy trip, Operation Cow Dance, in the United Kingdom, last week, showed just how strong they were as a group.


      
The statement read in part; “In this regard, we have decided to launch Operation Cow Dance 2, to coincide with the planned arrival of the president in Washington, USA, on April 30. Our leader, Nnamdi Kanu, the prophet of our time had predicted that Buhari will usher in Biafra.
“What happened in London will be a child’s play, compared to what will happen in Washington. IPOB USA is ready and waiting,”
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IPOB Writers 

Date: 23/04/2018

AMENSTY INTERNATIONAL




The United States government on Friday released a damning human rights report on Nigeria, saying grave violations continued to increase in 2017 while officials who perpetrated them were almost never prosecuted by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Why it matters: President Buhari is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, and both men would likely discuss further U.S. military assistance to Nigeria against the backdrop of serious human rights violations by security forces who use the same weapons to kill civilians.

The U.S. annual report on global human rights violations, released in Washington D.C. on Friday afternoon, said the administration of President Buhari “took steps to investigate alleged abuses, but fewer steps to prosecute officials who committed violations, whether in the security forces or elsewhere in the government”.

“Impunity remained widespread at all levels of government. The government did not adequately investigate or prosecute most of the major outstanding allegations of human rights violations by the security forces or the majority of cases of police or military extortion or other abuse of power,” the report said.

You can read the executive summary of the report here. Human Rights Report on Nigeria Today News Africa

It said the most significant human rights issues included extrajudicial and arbitrary killings; disappearances and arbitrary detentions; torture, particularly in detention facilities, including sexual exploitation and abuse; use of children by some security elements, looting, and destruction of property.

There were also civilian detentions in military facilities, often based on flimsy evidence; denial of fair public trial; executive influence on the judiciary; infringement on citizens’ privacy rights; restrictions on freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and movement

This was in addition to official corruption; lack of accountability in cases involving violence against women and children, including female genital mutilation/cutting and sexual exploitation of children; trafficking in persons; early and forced marriages; criminalization of status and same-sex sexual conduct based on sexual orientation and gender identity; and forced and bonded labor.

The report recognized that Boko Haram terror group also committed a myriad of human rights violations, killing and torturing and imprisoning women and children and bombing entire villages.

“The groups conducted numerous attacks on government and civilian targets that resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, widespread destruction, the internal displacement of approximately 1.8 million persons, and external displacement of an estimated 205,000 Nigerian refugees to neighboring countries, principally Cameroon, Chad, and Niger,” the report said.

Boko Haram’s numerous attacks often targeted civilians. The group, which recruited and forcefully conscripted child soldiers, carried out scores of suicide bombings–many by young women and girls forced into doing so–and other attacks on population centers in the Northeast and in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

“Abductions by Boko Haram continued. The group subjected many abducted women and girls to sexual and gender-based violence, including forced marriages and rape. The government investigated attacks by Boko Haram and ISIS-WA and took some steps to prosecute their members, although the majority of suspected insurgent group supporters were held in military custody without charge,

“In its response to Boko Haram and ISIS-WA attacks, and at times in response to crime and insecurity in general, security service personnel perpetrated extrajudicial killings and engaged in torture, sexual exploitation and abuse, arbitrary detention, mistreatment of detainees, use of children by some security elements, looting, and destruction of property. The country also suffered from ethnic, regional, and religious violence,” the report added

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| Friday, 19 January 2018 |  21:39  GMT

"we are not part of it"  , Christians in Nigeria rejects UN vote against Israel,



 


Written by CAN Nigeria


TRUMP’S DECLARATION ON JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISREAL IS IN ORDER
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is compelled once again, to draw the attention of the Buhari Administration to the non-aligned status of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in international conflicts. We have had cause to express great apprehension when in December 2015, President Buhari, without giving consideration to Section 10 of the Constitution, as well as to the sensitivity of Christians that constitute over 50% of the Nigerian population, led Nigeria to join the Saudi Arabia initiated Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC). 
Since then, there have been other disturbing actions of the President internally, that borders on adoption of Islam as state religion in a Secular State. These include the promotion of Sharia Compliant Finance, using State resources, violation of Federal Character Principle in the Constitution by appointing mostly Muslims to head Security Units in the nation, and the inability of the Government to arrest and prosecute rampaging Islamic militias, amongst others.
Recently, Mr. President once again dragged Nigeria to interfere in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by voting against the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the United Nations. The non-aligned status of Nigeria demanded that Nigeria should have abstained from voting, either for or against, when the issue came up at the UN.
We wish to place on record, once again, the dangerous and un-statesmanship religious discrimination and partiality that have characterized the President Buhari-led administration. Nigeria is a Secular State and the issue of religion is supposed to be an individual conviction. While the choice of a nation’s capital is a political decision, the objection of the Palestinians to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in this case, has a lot of religious undertones.
Nigeria should have been more circumspect before it dabbles into an issue that has been entangled over the years so that it would not compromise its non-aligned status. Mr. President, Nigeria has a lot of security challenges internally that demand immediate attention and leave no room for the nation to meddle in issues that demand our neutrality.
The Christian Association of Nigeria is placing on record that the negative vote of Nigeria over Jerusalem is not the consensus of the citizens of this country and therefore, it should not be regarded as representing the choice of Nigeria. It is a sectional and unilateral imposition of the President Buhari Administration. Again and again, Muslim leaders from the northern part of the country have demonstrated inability to respect the secularity of the Nigerian State and leave religion as an individual conviction according to Section 38 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution.
We demand of the President holistic response to curb the horrendous menace of the Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram, who to all intent and purpose have launched Jihad in Nigeria. These are the issues our President should focus on rather than seek to compromise our non-aligned status that serves our national interest very well.
Thank you and God bless Nigeria.

Rev. Musa Asake, PhD.
Christian Association of Nigeria
National General Secretary
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US Lawyer Calls For Buhari’s Sanction For Gross Human Rights Violation


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Date:14/01/2018
AMERICA


On Dec. 21, President Trump sanctioned 52 human rights archvillains under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (GMHRAA). It empowers the president to deny visas and freeze the assets of foreign officials complicit in extrajudicial killings, torture or other gross violations of internationally recognized human rights to retaliate against persons for seeking to expose government lawlessness or to exercise internationally recognized freedoms, including freedoms of religion, expression, association, and assembly and the rights to a fair trial and democratic elections.
Mr. Trump erred in refraining from sanctioning the archvillain of human rights archvillains: Nigeria’s President and former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari.
Among other things, he has turned Nigeria into a Gethsemane or Golgotha for 50 million Biafran Christians. They are more endangered in Mr. Buhari’s Nigeria than in any other country in the world.
Mr. Trump affirmed earlier to Christian Broadcasting Network anchor David Brody that helping Christians abroad was a “priority.” Last May 11, speaking at the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians, Vice President Mike Pence singled out Nigeria as a nation where Christians “confront intimidation, forced conversion, abuse, assault, and worse” for practicing their religion.
Mr. Buhari has welcomed sharia law in twelve northern Nigerian states. According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, “Christian leaders in the northern states continued to report to USCIRF that state governments discriminate against Christians by denying applications to build or repair places of worship, access to education, representation in government bodies, and employment. They also reported that Christian girls are abducted by Muslim men to be brides.”
The USIRF recommended that Nigeria be listed as a Country of Particular Concern; and, that President Trump invoke the GMHRAA to sanction Nigerian officials complicit in violations of religious freedom.
Mr. Buhari balked at the request of the Christian Association of Nigeria to withdraw Nigeria from the Organization of Islamic Countries, which makes Christians second-class citizens.
In addition to persecuting Christians, Mr. Buhari is complicit in extrajudicial killings, torture, and gross violations of the right of peaceful assembly and protest. Biafrans have been Mr. Buhari’s prime victims, especially members and supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). It employs Mahatma Gandhi-like peaceful methods in support of restructuring Nigeria to remedy the longstanding persecution of Biafrans because of their religion and ethnicity from the Muslim Hausa-Fulani controlled central government. (In 1960, Great Britain handed the reigns of power in Nigeria to its toadies and denied Biafrans a self-determination vote required by decolonization mandates of the United Nations.)
According to the State Department’s Human Rights Report, since January 2016, in response to peaceful restructuring agitation by pro-Biafra campaigners, Nigerian security forces arbitrarily arrested and killed at least 100 members and supporters of IPOB. Some arrestees were subjected to enforced disappearance.
On Feb. 9, soldiers and police officers shot at about 200 IPOB members who had gathered for a prayer meeting at the National High School in Aba, in Abia state. Video footage showed soldiers shooting at peaceful and unarmed IPOB members; at least 17 people were killed and scores injured.
On May 29 and 30, at least 60 people were killed in a joint security operation carried out by the army, police, Department of State Security (DSS) and navy. Pro-Biafra campaigners had gathered to celebrate Biafra Remembrance Day in Onitsha. No investigation into these killings had been initiated by the end of the year.
Without due process, Mr. Buhari ordered the dissolution and punishment of IPOB as a terrorist organization, a ludicrous characterization disputed by the United States. Mr. Buhari disappeared IPOB’s de facto leader Namdi Kanu after the Nigerian Army attacked his home with live bullets and lethal weapons. In sum, Mr. Buhari is blocking all avenues of peaceful redress for Biafrans.
The Trump administration has vocally condemned gross human rights violations in Burma, North Korea, and Iran. Under the GMHRAA, it has listed Maung Maung Soe of the Burmese Army’s Western Command under the for military operations in Rakhine State responsible for widespread human rights abuse against Rohinga civilians; and, former President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia for employing a terror and assassination squad to cow or kill his political opponents. Mr. Buhari’s human rights crimes against Christians, Biafrans and Namdi Kanu are indistinguishable.
But instead of listing Mr. Buhari for sanctions, President Trump has sold him $600 million in high-technology attack planes and equipment ostensibly to use against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in West Africa and Boko Haram. Depend upon it. Those weapons will be diverted in whole or in part to terrorize Biafran Christians and IPOB.
  • Aloy Ejimakor is counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra.


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