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| Igbo Quit Notice: ADF urges Ohaneze and governors to call for emergency Imeobi meeting with 2 weeks |
For the last one week, we in the Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) have monitored and followed the reactions to the Quit Notice issued to Ndigbo living in Northern Nigeria by the Arewa Youth Forum backed by notable leaders of the Northern Elders Forum.
ADF has refrained from joining issues with anyone on the Quit Notice. Rather we have monitored various reactions to the Quit Notice. Above all we have place d the whole episode within a historical context.
1. Chief Nnia Nwodo
The President-General,
Ohanaeze Ndigbo
2. HE Governor Dave Umahi
Chairman, South-East
Governors Forum
3.
HRH Eze Eberechi Dick
Chairman, South-East
Traditional Rulers Council
4.
HE Governor Nyeson Wike
Governor of Rivers State
5.
HE Governor Ifeanyi Okowa
Governor of Delta State.
Copy – See list below.
Sirs,
ALAIGBO DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (ADF)
PROPOSAL FOR IGBO RESPONSE TO
THE CURRENT QUIT NOTICE ISSUED TO
NDIGBO LIVING IN NORTHERN NIGERIA BY THE AREWA YOUTHS BACKED BY THE LEADERSHIP
OF THE NORTHERN ELDERS FORUM.
For
the last one week, we in the Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) have
monitored and followed the reactions to the Quit Notice issued to Ndigbo living
in Northern Nigeria by the Arewa Youth Forum backed by notable leaders of the
Northern Elders Forum.
ADF
has refrained from joining issues with anyone on the Quit Notice. Rather we
have monitored various reactions to the Quit Notice. Above all we have place d
the whole episode within a historical context.
On May 6th 2016, ADF was constrained to issue a Distress
Call, on behalf of our people, alerting the world of the massive mobilization
by the Fulani herdsmen intent on waging a jihadist genocidal war against Ndigbo
and massacring them as was done during the Biafra war of July 6th ,
1967 to January 15, 1970.
Shortly
after the release of this Distress Call to the world, the Fulani insurgents
pounced on the helpless people of Ukpabi Nimo.
“On
Monday, 26th April 2016, 500 rampaging cattle Fulani herdsmen invaded the seven
villages of Ukpabi Nimbo in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State,
killing 48 and wounding several hundreds who have since been hospitalized and
variously discharged by now. Several residential homes and a church were burnt.
Vehicles and motorcycles were destroyed and domestic animals killed. Thousands
of the inhabitants of the seven villages of Ukpabi Nimbo, were forced to
evacuate and flee their communities and are now IDPs in homes, hospitals, town
halls, schools, offices stretching from Nsukka to Enugu. The 48 dead were
innocent victims of a failed State – Nigeria”.
The exact translation of our
DISTRESS CALL is essentially the Igbo cry
ABIAKWALA HA OZO.!
The cry Abiakwala ha ozo does not really mean that the victim is
absolutely helpless and is unable to defend themselves against acts of
aggression,. It is often an attempt to alert those who might unjustifiably side
with the aggressor as was the case in the unholy alliance that arraigned
against the Biafrans in the unholy war of 1967- 70.
Now back to the QUIT NOTICE by the
Arewa Youth.
i.
Let
no one be deceived that it is an act of youthful exuberance. NEVER!
NO, NEVER! The Arewa Youths spoke
with the mandate of the Fulani leadership in Nigeria. They spoke not only the
mind of their leaders, they spoke their intensions.
ii.
Governor
El-Rufai said they should be arrested and the Inspector-General said they
should be arrested. The Arewa Youth responded by holding the second session of
their meeting at the same venue unperturbed and undisturbed. So who is fooling
who!
iii.
By
the way there is no way the Youth could have access to the Arewa house for such
a delicate undertaking without the knowledge of the Governor of Kaduna State
and or top Arewa Elders.
iv.
To
the hearing of anyone who cares, the leadership of the Northern Elders Forum,
through Prof. Ango Abdulahi came out boldly and without equivocation endorsed
the QUIT NOTICE issued by the Arewa Youths.
WHAT ALL THIS MEANS.
The
stage is set for another wholescale massacre of the Igbos, killing them not
just in the North but in the whole of Alaigbo as they have practically
inundated the area with their trained and armed foots men who masquerade as
tailors, nail clipers, herdsmen, itinerant traders, okada ridders, et all.
It
is by now obvious that the Fulani leadership has convinced itself that such
generalised killing of Igbo can take place without any serious resistance and
all that the world would do is to shout FOUL!, FOUL! EVEN TILL JESUS COMES. And
of course by then the Igbo race would have gone into oblivion.
Remember
several test runs have been conducted by the Fulani insurgents without any
repercussions. What do you think such mindless slaughter of Igbos were meant
for? They were not the real thing planned for Igbo annihilation. we mean, if we
go into memory lane, such massacres as
i.
Jos 1945
ii.
Kano genocide 1953
iii.
1966 pogroms- over 60,000 civilians were killed
iv.
May 29th 1967- over 200,000 soldiers and civilians
of Igbo origin were killed.
v.
1967-70 – over 3,100,000 killed during the bloody
civil war (including the Asaba Genocide).
vi.
Kano 1980
vii.
Maiduguri 1982
viii.
Jimeta 1984
ix.
Gombe 1985
x.
Zaria 1987
xi.
Kaduna & Kafanchan 1991
xii.
Bauchi & Katsina 1991
xiii.
Kano 1991
xiv.
Zangon-Kataf 1992
xv.
Funtua 1993
xvi.
Kano 1994
xvii.
Kaduna 2000
xviii.
Kaduna 2001
xix.
Maiduguri 2001
xx.
Jos Maiden Crisis-September 2001
xxi.
Kaduna 2002
xxii.
Jos-November 2008
xxiii.
Beheading of Gideon Akaluka in December of 1996 in
a POLICE STATION in Kano
xxiv.
Post-April 2011 Presidential Election: 10
youth-corps men & women and numerous citizens murdered because a Christian
Southerner was elected.
xxv.
Jos Christmas Eve 2010
xxvi.
Madalla Christmas day 2011
xxvii. Mubi
January 6 2012
xxviii. The many
Igbo deaths caused by boko haram(which of course has the full backing of the
northern elites).
We may also include the more recent cases of
xxix.
Nimbo Massacre
xxx.
Awgu massacre
xxxi.
Abia massacre
xxxii. Beheading
of Bridget Agbahume. The killers of Bridget were released on the orders of the
Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, who was recently awarded
Zik’s Prize for leadership, an act which ADF clearly condemned sa discretion of
all that Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe lived for.
xxxiii. The
killing of the Apo 6; a case whose disposal and handling revealed much about
the federal security agents and their hate or non-value for the Igbo
xxxiv. In
late January, 2013, more than 50 dead bodies were seen floating on Ezu River in
Anambra State. These bodies were later identified as remains of some missing
MASSOB members who were taken away from a meeting venue in Anambra State.
xxxv. In
2016 a university graduate farmer, Ndubuisi Uzoma, was beheaded in his farm at
Iddo community along the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Road, Abuja by
Fulani herdsmen. His headless corpse was found in the pool of his blood on a
Sunday by his relations, who went in search of him when he failed to return
from the farm.
Sir,
you can see that when it has been tested again and again that life of people of
a particular nationality does not count and that they can easily be sacrificed
for political reasons, then it becomes a ritual habit for the butchers. It is
our duty to stop this. No one else the world over can do it for us.
Can
anyone take the life of a Jewish man, an Englishman, a Frenchman, an American
or even a Fulani man and nothing happens.
That is not the Main Issue at this
historic juncture.
The
main issue is that the life of the entire Igbo race is primed for annihilation,
to make it easy for the enthusiastic Arewa Youths to inherit the massive, and
may we add mindless Igbo investment in different parts of the North. Should we
simply fold our hands and allow ourselves to be so humiliated, then
annihilated? God forbid!
1966 is not the same as 2017.
It
is not likely that the Oduduwa nation will join in the repeat of 1966-70. It is
equally unlikely that the Tiv and the Idoma of Benue State will
enthusiastically join the Arewa to massacre the Igbos this time around. So is
it equally most unlikely that the Southern Kaduna, the Kogi, the Kwara, Plateau
and many other non-Fulani elements will join in the planned war to annihilate
the Igbos. They know that they too face the same jihadist plot of total
humiliation, annihilation and takeover of their ancestral homes.
The
wider world is not likely to be deceived a second time to join in any unholy
war against the Ndigbo in Nigeria. There is no doubt that we need to advance
our case in the manner current international law and diplomacy can readily
absorb.
Igbo
Investment in Northern Nigeria.
For
our brothers and sisters who may not know and are justifiably worried about
fate of their their investments in the emergent Arewa Republic, they should be
told that PROPERTY OR INVESTMENT is an
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSON. So nobody can seize and inherit Igbo
investments in the Arewa Republic just like that. If Nigeria eventually
dissolves the way they are setting the stage now, these investments shall be
the subject of international arbitration in resolving the terms of the
dissolution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is, however, our duty to
articulate this as fast and clearly as possible so .that our people can
overcome the spectre of loss of their property, a fear the enemy keeps drumming
into their rears and minds.
Moreover,
not everybody has the cultural and intellectual background on how to manage or
grow investment. So even if Ndigbo are forced to abandon their massive
investment in the Arewa Republic, for the Arewa Youths and their sponsors
before a decade is over the whole area shall become like what our forefathers
call OKPULO.
What is really the objective of this
new upsurge of insurgency and aggression against the non-Fulani elements and
areas of Nigeria?0
The
answer is simply the ISLAMIZATION OF THE ENTIRE TERRITORY OF THE FEDERAL
REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. This is the main objective of the ethnic and religious
cleansing that have taken on a heightened wave in the last two decades. Boko
Haram and Fulani herdsmen are two sides of the same tragic coin.
Surreptitious and Arrogant Efforts in
Pursue of this Campaign.
i.
Overwhelming pro-Islamic
provisions in the present Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
ii.
Islamic inspired reforms in
the Legal and Educational System
iii.
Forceful marriage and
conversion of young Christian girls.
iv.
Destruction of Christian
churches in the core Islamic areas of the north.
v.
Killing and maiming of
Christian preachers.
vi.
Laws limiting Christian
religious worship in the North.
vii.
Flooding of the South-East
with Boko Haram and Fulani insurgents who occupy strategic geographic places in
the South.
viii.
Flooding the South-east with
able-bodied trained young-men who masquerade as tailors, artisans, okada
ridders, shoe-shiners, nail clippers , herdsmen, armed robbers who go through
every nook and cranny of our cities and villages identifying the ways and paths
in the various communities.
ix.
The armed seizure of the
lands of the poor peasants from the Middle Belt to Oduduwa land, to Edo, Ijaw,
Ichekiri, Ibibio, Efik, Alaigbo, etc.
In the Light of the above, we, in the
Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF) propose the following : -
1.
An Emergency meeting of
IME-OBI OHANAEZE NDIGBO to be summoned immediately.
2.
At that meeting the Alaigbo
Development Foundation (ADF) and some other pan-Igbo organizations shall move
for AN EMERGENCY IGBO NATIONAL CONFERENCE on the current situation facing
Ndigbo and their neighbors in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The purpose of these two fora is to
assure our people that their leadership, which includes elected people (past
and present), traditional and religious leaders, intellectuals, business
leaders, cultural leaders, leaders of civil society organizations, women and
youth are fully aware of the dangers which they face. The two occasions will
provide opportunity for sharing the widest and deepest understanding of the
dangers we face. And that they are not just after the comfort of themselves and
their families while the entire Igbo race is in danger.
Above all, they will also help to
generate the espirit de corps or national consciousness needed to face the
current challenges.
3.
At the end of the National
Conference, the Igbo Nation shall set up a body of about a dozen or so people
to propose WHAT IS TO BE DONE and how to do it.
Sirs,
we wish to emphasize that we are in an EMERGENCY, and also suggest very
strongly that the proposed meetings be summoned soonest within the next two
weeks. We need to fill the dangerous leadership vacuum that currently exists.
Finally,
ADF volunteers to help provide the intellectual infrastructure to help
articulate the Agenda of each step in the course of this response to a state of
national emergency in Alaigbo.
Signed
ON BEHALF OF
ALAIGBO DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (ADF)
PROF.
T. UZODINMA NWALA PROF.
NATH ANIEKWU
ADF PRESIDENT ADF SECRETARY
COPY
–
i.
HE Chief Alex Ekwueme, former
Vice-President of Nigeria.
ii.
HE Cmdr Ebitu Ukiwe, former
Chief of General Staff.
iii.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu,
Deputy Senate President Council.
iv.
All Serving Governors of the
South-East.
v.
His Grace Prof. David
Eberechukwu Chairman of SE CAN
vi.
His Grace Maxwell Anikwenwa
vii.
His Grace Dr J. V. Obinna
viii.
His Grace Vallery Okeke
ix.
His Grace Archbishop Bar Chris Edeh
x.
His Grace Archbishop Emmanuel
Chukwuma
xi.
HM Amb, Igwe L. O. C. Agubuzu
xii.
HM Eze Obidiegwu O. Onyesoh
M1FR, JP, Nri Enwelana II, Eze Nri
xiii.
HM Mazi Ogbonnaya Okoro
Eze Aro of Arochukwu Kingdom
xiv.
HM Obi of Onitsha, Igwe
Nnaemeka Achebe.
xv.
Igwe Ralph Ekpe, Igwe of
Enugwu Ukwu
xvi.
HM Eze Cletus Ilomuanya
xvii.
HM Eze Desmond Ogugua
xviii.
HM Eze Emenyeonwu Osuji
Njemanze
xix.
Obi Igwe Martha Dunkwu, The
Omu of Anioma
xx.
HE Mr Peter Obi
HE
Chief Ikedi Ohakim
xxi.
HE Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo
xxii.
HE Dr Ezeife
xxiii.
Capt Emmanuel Iheanacho
xxiv.
Prof. Barth Nnaji
xxv.
All former Presidents-General
of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.
xxvi.
Amb Austin Okwu, Igboezue
Connecticut, USA.
xxvii.
All Former Governor
xxviii.
All former Ministers
xxix.
All former Generals
xxx.
Chief Sonny Odogwu Ide Ahaba
xxxi.
All former and present Vice
Chancellors
xxxii.
President Alaigbo Development
Foundation (ADF)
xxxiii.
President Ndigbo Lagos
xxxiv.
President Ndigbo Lagos
xxxv.
President World Igbo congress
xxxvi.
President Igbo World Assembly
xxxvii.
All SANs
xxxviii.Mr
Nnamdi Kanu (IPOB)
xxxix.
Bar Ralph Uwazuruike (MASSOB)
xl.
Mr Madu (MASSOB)
xli.
Etc, etc.
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