WHY THE TWELVE STATES WERE CREATED IN 1967 . 27TH MAY

Lt Col Ojukwu  & Lt Col Gowon 

 EASTERN REGION CONSULTATIVE ASSEMBLY 27th MAY 1967.

We, the chiefs, elders, and representatives of Eastern Nigeria on this day' 27th may 1967 now wish to make the following declarations.
We hereby mandate the governor of the Eastern region Col. Emeka "Odumegwu Ojukwu" to' in no distance time' declare Eastern Nigeria an independent sovereign state with the name/title REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA.
On that same day' Col Yakubu Gowon hurriedly invoked decree( dividing the four regions into 12 states.
You would recall that initially the 12 states Gowon created had no governors' it was on the 28th of May 1967 (24hrs later) that Governors were appointed to govern the various states, making it very obvious that it was clearly a plot to divide and rule the people of the East region.

The sole aim of state creation was to dispossess the Igbo of significant territories' and cause them to be landlocked.
How did Gowon got to know that the Eastern region had finally agreed to declare secession? (BIAFRA)
The traitors from the Eastern region are the reason why the Sultan of Sokoto has 23 oil blocks today while Anyanabos from the region have none.
~~Comr Tamuno-Belema Daniels

NDIGBO; A BRAIN RESET NEEDED

Ndigbo, unu abọọla chi. Djaamalụwooo! Ihe na-eme anyị si anyị n'aka.  Ndígbo, we need a BRAIN RESET, so as to rearrange our priorities.Ndigbo, we keep majoring in minor things like a student who dwells on EXTRACURRICULARS and overlooks his studies. 

When IPOB was birthed by the following Igbo greats; Ozobu, Ikedife and Achuzia,  they had a well thought out vision with various components; immediate, short term and long term. However, Ndigbo wanted it NOW! NOW!! NOW!!! and preferred the 'Nzogbu!Nzogbu!!' message of some younger elements, who believed these iconic elderstatesmen were too slow. Using the instrumentality of the radio, these men were demonized and forced out of the way. They were harried and called terrible names and Ndigbo cheered in bloody ecstasy like Romans watching gladiators devouring each other at an amphitheatre.Just the other day, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu made a policy statement,"IPOB IS NOT AVERSE TO GENUINE RESTRUCTURING"

"THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR INSECURITY IN THE SOUTH EAST ARE THOSE WHO STOPPED THE PLANNED TRUCE BETWEEN IPOB & THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN 2017". These statements shows that Kanu wants to be released and his release is at hand.

With these statements that are factual, a Spanish phrase easily comes to mind, "Hasta la vista!'. Until the circle comes round. Ndígbo, certainly, the circle has come round 360⁰!

Instead of discussing inanities like presentation of a "special mysterious drink box" to Omekannaya, we should be bold enough to look the facts in the face by calling a strategic meeting(s) to discuss Kanu's factual assertions. 

We can't keep blaming others all the time; let's tell ourselves some home truths.

After 7 years, occasioned by so much blood shed in the South East, by both Igbos and non-Igbos, it's not too late to wake up and turn back to 2017. It's not time to apportion blames; else all parties involved have their blames, to varying extents. 

Ndigbo, as a nation, it is time to cry to the spirits of Ozobu, Ikedife and Achuzia for forgiveness for 'enjoying the sport' while they were being vilified on radio.

Ndigbo, taa bụ gboo; o si taa dị mma, ọ dịrị gawa

 *Mazi Ikechukwu Bismarck Ọjị, MNSE, COREN* 

(Ọ́VỤ̀ MỌ́Ọ́ WÈRÙ NENWE)

UNABATED FULANI HERDSMEN PROVOCATIONS & DESTRUCTIONS IN NENWE TOWN

Eleven  months ago the Nenwe community in Aninri LGA of Enugu State   was  in the limelight when they vehemently but peacefully resisted  fulani people  settling in their  farms  with hundreds of  cattles i their farmland. 

Many interpretations  were  given  to this  and the Federal government promptly  through the state government sent a delegation  of all the  service  chiefs in the  state  who went to the Igwe to 'muscle  out' (as we learnt) statements  to the press which indicated there were no problems  and that the fulanis  were living in harmony in the town. This  statements  that went on air  was later debunked  by the  youths  through the Punch newspaper two weekend after. The youths  pointed out many  reports to the police and pending court cases of  un honoured financial compensations, illegal occupation of 4 strategic points  of  the town, wanton destruction of their farm lands and harassments of women in  the farms  by fulani herdsmen. The whole world  and  the nation were told  other stories.

According to the complaints  from the community members  that spoke  to us recently the herdsmen took advantage of this apparent intimidation by the state security agencies  and Governor Ugwuanyi and have continued  to expand  and illegally occupy their farmlands. They are obviously  sure  of  immunity and impunity   therefore have been acting to the latter. Their  provocations  have been daily and the youths  have  continued  to restrain themselves  from taking unilateral actions.  They have complained  to the  community leaders  who  are  so frightened  by the  state security agencies storming of  the Igwe of one of the communities  last year in  what was said  to be  a 'mediatroty mission' . They have  complained that nobody has  come  to hear from them  and address their complaints the way  they rushed  to query why the cattle men were stopped  from settling.

Some months ago according to them, some fulani harassments  were reported  to the police  and when no actions  were taken and as usual  the news   wasn't even  reported by the press in Enugu in anyway  someone  in the community spoke  with an online social media group who highlighted  the problems. The only response was that the   community was  threatened  by the police command  of arrests  if  they discovered  the reporters  of  such news  of   harassments and destruction  by  by fulani men. Meanwhile the fulanis  claimed they lost a cow to unknown persons  and pressed that the community pays  for it. That would  be the first payment by anyone  since  history of  farm destructions  being reported. Now  it is  what the Igbos  call "beating me  and telling me not to cry"

Some  days  ago the provocations  and destructions  continued  and a woman in the farm was wounded  by these herdsmen. The people succeeded in catching one of  the herdsmen and handed him over to the police.

Now  it is  a clear fact that the fulani herdsmen have not relentened  in targeting the town and looking for confrontations  . The villagers  are abandoned  to themselves  since  they cant even report or when they report to the press they are threatened  by the security chiefs of the state, they youths  have  been very cool headed and disciplined in handling this  provocations  but would like the Governor  to intervene.

 They have made some points clear;

•  That they never leased any parcel of land  to the herdsmen.
• That Nenwe is  a 100% agrarian community in the Aninri LGA.
• That Nenwe town like other parts of the Old Awgu LGA  being an agrarian   community dosen not by culture permite OPEN GRAZING. All animals  must be in the owners  closed compound  or they are bound  to be hunted down.
• That they have hosted and tolerated cattlemen passing, even temporary brief overnight stays  (since many years) and they were relatively peaceful but cant cope anymore with these new violent and arrogant new breed of fulani herdsmen with guns.
• That  they don't see  why herdsmen should  be carrying openly AK.47 assultand battle  guns in the farms  and  community.
• That they gently ask all herdsmen to leave the farmland they are illegally occupying with threats of gun and rape of the women
• That the State government should intervene in their   removal from the lands before it results  to other problems. 
• That they continue  to praise the youths whom we are all aware of their temperaments and wort  for restraining themselves from misconducts  and for  being lawful in the face of these provocations.
• That the continue  to ask their neighbours to be vigilant and communicate movements of criminals.
• That the whole igbo people should be aware of these provocations in Nenwe that has escalated since 2019.

We hope  the state government would lend a listening ear to these cries.

Korona Vairọsụ by Ngozi Nwarunta

*Korona Vairọsụ*
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ABBA Town under siege By Chimamanda Adichie

 My hometown under siege
By Chimamanda Adichie
Guardian Newspaper, 20 September, 2019   

One night in July, the signboards disappeared. The people of Abba, my hometown in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state, woke up to see that the signboards were gone — the signboard that said ‘Welcome to Abba Town’ had vanished. The signboard mounted by the state government that said ‘Drive safely through Abba’ had vanished. Every signboard that announced Abba’s boundary had disappeared.

In a country where signboards exist to make communities visible, this was an act of erasure, a way of saying to a community: you no longer exist. An attack on a community’s autonomy. An aggression. But how could it have happened? There are laws, after all, and signboards set up by the state government cannot arbitrarily be torn down. It happened because the Nigerian police accompanied people at night to commit this illegal act. Witnesses saw them: the police vans, their flashing lights, their guns. And it happened because a Nigerian billionaire, Prince Arthur Eze, is financing a campaign of intimidation in order to win a land dispute.

Land disputes are depressingly common all over Nigeria – Awka-Amawbia, Umuleri-Aguleri, and Ife-Modakeke are some well-known examples – but perhaps what makes Abba-Ukpo different is the brazen meddling of a wealthy man. The land in question is called Agu Abba – a vast stretch of woods, farmland, and a market, Oye Abba, with roofed wooden stalls. All land cases are complex, but here is a simplified history of this case: In 1967, shortly after the Nigeria-Biafra war began, Abba sued a nearby town, Ukwulu, for trespassing on its land. A state high court ruled in Abba’s favour.

After the war, Ukwulu questioned the legitimacy of the ruling, as Biafra no longer existed. Abba then sued again in 1975. The case dragged on until 1985 when Ukpo, another nearby town, formerly a witness for Ukwulu, made a surprising volte face and joined the suit, claiming some of the land as theirs. The suits were subsequently consolidated and in 1999 a state high court ruled in Ukwulu/Ukpo’s favour. Abba got a stay of execution on the judgment. Then something strange happened: the record of proceedings in the case suddenly disappeared. The Anambra State government set up a panel of inquiry, which sat for three months and returned empty-handed to say they could not find the court records.

Abba filed an appeal but the appeal failed because the record of proceedings, which are indispensable materials for the determination of the appeal, could not be presented. Abba then appealed to the Supreme Court. In a lead judgment, Paul Adamu Galumje referred to the disappearance of the records and asked both parties to go back to the state high court and ‘sort out the mess.’

So Abba went back to file suit in state court, where the case is currently ongoing.

“Do court records just get up and walk away?” a spokesperson for Abba said. “We all know Prince Arthur Eze paid people to destroy the records. We don’t have money but we will fight him with the truth in court.”

But before the case could proceed in court, the siege of Abba began.

On June 19, 2019, Oye Abba market was full of people trading in vegetables and yams when police vans screeched in and policemen leapt out, shooting tear gas canisters, pushing and hitting traders and buyers, asking everyone to leave the market immediately. People ran. Children cried. Two weeks later, more policemen arrived at the market, destroying the wares of innocent people. And again a few days later. The terrorized traders then abandoned the market and set up on a busy intersection at the center of Abba, a less than ideal site, but the only option left to them.

While visiting my elderly parents in my hometown in August 2019, I saw the makeshift market at this intersection, some traders sitting on the bare earth, in the sun’s harsh glare. Something about that scene broke my heart – the smallness and sadness of it, villagers determined to keep on going, even though their market had been forcefully and illegally taken from them.

I began to ask questions and soon learned that it wasn’t just mass harassment of market traders, there was also a more targeted harassment of individuals who had spoken up for Abba in the land dispute.

On July 3, 2019 policemen from the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Area 10, Garki Abuja arrived early in the morning and arrested three people from Abba. A woman was about to unlock her shop on the main road in Abba when policemen jumped on her and arrested her. A man was about to leave home for his construction work site when policemen barged through his door, scaring his family, and bundled him away. They were detained first at the State CID for one week and then were moved to Abuja where they were detained for two weeks.

“On what charges?” I asked a young man, a member of the Abba Youth, who has witnessed the events from the beginning.
‘They had a long list of charges, including conspiracy and attempted murder,” he said.

“Attempted murder of whom?”

“It’s all nonsense. They fabricated charges, based on zero evidence, and took them to Abuja just to intimidate them and make them give up our land.”

The point of these illegal arrests is indeed intimidation. But many in Abba were not cowed. The Abba town union organized a peaceful protest along the Enugu-Onitsha expressway, on the spot where the signboards were torn down, to raise awareness about what was happening. They had no weapons, only their voices. Shortly after the protest began, the police arrived in large numbers. Some witnesses said there were at least 100 policemen, which in a small protest in a small town is akin to a hostile invasion by state machinery. The police fired tear gas to disperse the protest. The young man I spoke to was there, and told me how his eyes burned for days afterwards.

“There were so many tear gas canisters, up to 300, and they were brand new. We all know the police in this area don’t have that much. Who paid for the tear gas? Arthur Eze,” he said.

Abba Women also organized a protest to appeal to the governor for help. Hundreds of women gathered at the government house, all dressed in somber black, carrying signs, and singing mournful songs. Watching the video, one cannot help but be moved by these women, by their determination, their orderliness, their commitment to peaceful means of protest. They wanted the governor to step in and stop the police harassment of Abba indigenes. One of the cardboard signs they carried read: Stop police harassment of Abba. Another, to my surprise, read: Arthur Eze, emulate Alhaji Aliko Dangote. He does not use his money to intimidate people. He uses his money to invest wisely.

The Abba town union wrote detailed letters of complaint to the DSS, the state governor and the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. An excerpt from the letter to the President reads: “It is no secret that the I. G. P. Adamu Mohammed is being used by a known moneybag in Ukpo, Prince Arthur Eze, to intimidate and silence Abba people like he did to their neighbouring Abagana community.”

As a child I was often skeptical of historical stories in which the homeland of the storyteller was always in the right. And so my natural skepticism made me ask why Prince Arthur Eze would engage in this violent campaign of intimidation, and whether perhaps he was being unfairly maligned. Where was the evidence? How could we be sure that Prince Arthur Eze was indeed responsible?

“Arthur Eze wants to build a university named after him, and Ukpo doesn’t have any land big enough and so he wants to take our land,” the young man said.

Prince Arthur Eze has a documented history of muscling his way into contested land – in the past few years he has used the police to terrorize another nearby town, Abagana, after which he annexed their land. But perhaps the clearest evidence that Prince Arthur Eze is the mastermind of the harassment in the Abba-Ukpo case comes from his own words. After the Supreme Court judgment, Prince Arthur Eze called the traditional ruler of Abba, Igwe LN Ezeh and asked for a meeting on May 21, 2019 at the Geneva Hotel in Okpuno, a town near Awka. There, Prince Eze made a proposal: if Abba agreed to abandon the court case and share the land with Ukpo, he would call off the police. Igwe LN Ezeh told him that Abba people wanted to conclude the case in court. There are witnesses to this meeting. It was after this meeting that the police harassment of Abba indigenes went into full force.

Today in Abba people live in fear. Rumours swirl every day. Somebody says there is a list of Abba people to be arrested. Another says the police are coming from Abuja to arrest the town union members. Another says the community school, partly located on the disputed land, will be completely demolished. Some fearful parents keep their children home from school. When a big car with tinted windows drives through Abba, the people worry. Some men skulk away. Who will be arrested today? Who will be harassed? Who will sleep in a cell tonight?

My 87-year-old father, a retired university professor, is bewildered. He is from a passing generation of principled Nigerians who do not understand how a single individual can buy and control the Nigerian police force. After my father heard of an Abba man abducted while driving through Ukpo, his empty car left abandoned by the roadside, he asked my brother to take a longer route to a Pharmacy rather than drive through Ukpo. He feared for my brother’s safety. I fear for my parents’ safety. I fear for my hometown now unfairly living in distress.

Most recently, on September 6, 2019, Abba people woke up to see a Caterpillar demolishing the structures of Oye Abba market, while armed policemen and mobile policemen stood guard. Abba people watched, helpless and hapless, as the economic center of their small community was destroyed. The Caterpillar also demolished the walls of the nearby community secondary school, only days before students are supposed to return to school. Now the school walls and the market stalls are
a jumble of broken wood and cement, and a symbol of a brokenness in our system. Abba-Ukpo might well be a provincial land dispute, but it speaks to larger issues in Nigeria. A wealthy individual has turned the Nigerian police into his private terror group. Those deemed protectors of the people have become their attackers. Those supposed to uphold the law are now the practitioners of a particular kind of lawlessness lubricated by crass wealth.

Not all members of the police seem to be so shamefully on sale — the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, and the Divisional Police Officers of Ukpo and Abagana refused to harass Abba because they believed it to be illegal. But the consequences for them were swift: they were unceremoniously transferred to other states.

I don’t know who has a legitimate claim to the land – it has for decades been known as Agu Abba and farmed by Abba people in the often-unwritten rules that govern customary land ownership. But that is what the courts should determine, in a process free from meddling. Court records should not disappear. No community in Nigeria should be terrorized by state machinery. No private citizen should have the power to turn the police on an entire community. Injustice is stalking Anambra state and the rights of every citizen should be protected. It is in protecting the rights of others that we protect our own rights, because we create a system of rights from which all can potentially benefit.

As I ended my conversation with the young man, he said, “Please don’t use my name. The police will come and abduct me and take me to Abuja. My family is poor. I don’t have anybody to bring me food in Abuja, not to talk of bailing me out.”

I was struck by his use of the word ‘abduct.’ Some members of the Nigerian police have soiled its name and its legitimacy. The Nigerian police has been used to cause great harm in Abba. The Nigerian police must now refuse to be used any longer. The Nigerian police must show that it is not for sale. The Nigerian police must stand up for justice and fair play. Stop the harassment of innocent Abba citizens, and let the courts decide.

“Adichie is a Nigerian author of Purple Hibiscus, The Thing Around

Your Neck, Americanah and others.

NIGERIANS BACK ON AIR PEACE

I Wept When Nigerians Sang The National Anthem On Their Return From South Africa  - CEO Air Peace, Allen Onyema,

“I put together over N280 million in other to bring these people back, Air Peace decided to bring them free of charge, nobody paid us a dime, we decided to do it free of charge for our country and for our people.”

“When I stepped inside the aircraft to welcome them, they mobbed me and started singing the Nigerian national anthem, there was nobody there singing about separation, they felt proud to be Nigerian, they rose in unison, that drew tears from me.”

Mr. Allen Onyema is the Owner of Air Peace.

He's  an Igbo man
He’s not a politician
He’s not a pastor 
He’s not a celebrity musician/actor
He sent in his plane ✈️ to evacuate Nigerians from South Africa 🇿🇦 to escape being killed in the xenophobic attacks.

NOTE: Nigeria government did not help her citizens rather an individual from Igbo extraction volunteerd to help evacuate all Nigerians risk being killed in South Africa.

No tribe can render such help apart from Igbos yet they fed you that Igbos hate themselves and you foolishly believed them.

Mazi Onyema is not the richest man in Africa, he is just an Igbo man with a beautiful heart.

THE WALK TO BIAFRA

We, the future and current stakeholders of the Igbo nation, need to read every word and punctuation mark in this article. 🤷🏼‍♂
It is utterly enlightening.
👇🏼👇🏼
Until we have achieved that state of being, the desired geopolitical region remains at risk. So we must pursue both tasks together.

And the State of Being is as follows:
We have to do as the Catalonians do in Spain.
When they realized that the Castelianos (Madrid) will never voluntarily or easily give them Independencia, the Catalonians (Barcelona) decided to turn inwards and develop their region Technologically, Economically and Infrastructurally - and now they are the economic powerhouse of Spain.

The same thing is with Bayern in Germany. When Germany was declaring itself as a nation, Bayern (Bavaria) had the choice to stay out and be a country on its own (like Austria did) . Instead it opted to stay within a greater Germany and become it's best part. Today Bavaria is the most technologically and economically powerful region in Germany - and it has the whole of Germany now as its primary and biggest market.

The same thing is with California in the USA.
It's not only the biggest economy WITHIN the US, it's also the 6th largest economy in the World!
However, this is only because it is within the US and can leverage on all the synergies that come with that, that it can be so powerful.
If it were suddenly to try to break away overnight to stand alone,  as a competitor against the rest of the US, things would not be so easy.

Nigeria does not fear IPOB as it is. *In fact, they WANT IPOB to challenge them, so they can militarily wage war on the Igbos.*
 IPOB at present is not the Biafra that Nigeria fears.
They fear the Biafra that becomes like Catalonia, like Bavaria, like California.
That's the Biafra they fear.
*So they NEED this militant IPOB to give them an excuse to come and reduce Ala-Igbo to a wasteland again and turn back the hands of our clock once more to Zero, like they did in the last Civil War.*
*Even if we don't want and don't start any hostilities, they will use the slightest excuse or provocation or accident to send in their troops. Britain will support them and in the end USA will establish a military base in Igbo Land, to keep the peace. And that is how we will become occupied territory.*

*We have to be smart, and shift the battle to the field where we can win.*

What I am saying is this: *yes we will continue to ask for Referendum, like Catalonia does in Spain, like Scotland does in Great Britain.*
*But it is not Referendum that will give us the Biafra we need. And of course It is not guns that will give us Biafra, that we know.*
*As Igbos, we have to conquer our chronic INDIVIDUALISM - and we have to pool our wealth, intelligence and efforts together to turn Ala-Igbo into a First World region, right here and now. But this is the most difficult thing for us because we are individualists! It is easier to protest.*

The second point is: Our Governors. As much as we don't like them, we have to work on them and with them.

*If IPOB mobilises the people against the Governors, the same way it is mobilising them against the Federal Govt, you will see how fast things will change.*
What will the governors do? Start shooting their own people? If any governor does that, where will that governor run to hide from the people's revenge? They have nowhere to hide. Your State is your home - so they MUST listen to the people. *If the people are united, (and IPOB can unite the people because IPOB is very powerful), they MUST start DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY from EVERY elected official in the South East.*

Demand that they invest in INFRASTRUCTURES. Roads and transportation. Potable water. Drainage systems. Housing. Health. Education. Tax breaks for small businesses. Regional economic integration. *Constitute expert groups accross every field from within and the diaspora to develop and advice on the framework for regional development.*

*Instead of going to Abuja, the Governors should come together, put money together from their budget and start building a second Niger Bridge. Start dredging the River Niger at Onitsha. Start developing the dry port at Abia. Start NOW and make it mandatory that EVERY South East governor prioritize regional integration. Taxes and tarrifs for business MUST come down to encourage investors.*

*Computer Village in Lagos is full of Igbos.
*The governors and leadership should put their moneys together and build TECHNOLOGY TOWN in Aba. Follow up on Geometrics power project in Aba by Prof Barth Nnaji, with a view to completely electrifying Ala-Igbo.*

*Put their money together and elevate Enugu Airport to a level HIGHER than Lagos or Abuja airport.*
Things like that. *Developing the Owerri Airport to a full international cargo airport and take advantage of the central location of Owerri in the South East.* Quality educational institutions are lacking in the East even though we constantly produce the highest number of applicants to universities. *Let us build more by collaboration with our foreign diaspora. They're the best in many parts of the world. Lets harness this advantage.*
*We need a world class Stock Exchange in Ala-Igbo. We can achieve that without the Federal government, because we own trading. Encourage our diaspora to work with government to establish and run QUALITY WORLD CLASS HEALTH CARE institutions in Ala-Igbo.*

*IPOB has already come up with a blueprint for an Igbo-wide democratic customary government, the people's government, very republican in nature, and this is good. THIS IS POWER.* Ironically, it might even be according to the Nigerian constitution. *If peacefully achieved, this can be the leverage with which to control the elected executive and legislative levels, if Nigeria stays together. And if Nigeria falls apart, then automatically we already have a framework state in operation.*

 However, IPOB must win Igbo people over by championing their welfare with their own governors and  officials. Threaten them with no re-election and criminal prosecution if they fail to serve their people. They must also encourage the training, standardization, integration and sharing of information by the different state security groups to stamp out crimes like robbery, kidnapping, human trafficking, etc. We are Igbo. We are in the communities and we know those who are into crime. People MUST start explaining their sources of wealth. *IPOB can utilize its huge following to ensure crime is wiped out and good governance is entrenched in the South East.* Then *IPOB* and possibly Nnamdi Kanu, would ever be remembered kindly by history.

*If we are doing things like all these, Arewa will not need to issue quit notice - NDIGBO will come back in droves to build up Ala-Igbo.*

*Is it beyond the Igbo to venture into modern and very lucrative cattle rearing and be the leaders in all of Africa?  Are we not known to come late into any venture and excel beyond those in it for centuries?                                                                                                                                    *** *The governors in Ala-Igbo should AS A MATTER OF URGENCY introduce RANCHING across Ala-Igbo for prospective and enterprising *IGBO CATTLE FARMERS, after which they will enact, implement and execute ANTI OPEN-GRAZING LAWS in their States, then call on all indigenes and States security groups to participate in monitoring its implementation.*
*This will empower all Igbos and we will rid ourselves of these Fulani Herdsmen in no time.*
* *This is priority. Every passing day is too much.*

*Ekiti State did it.*
*Benue State has done it.*
*It's not impossible.*
*Why cannot the States of the South-East ALL do it as ONE?*
*Anti Grazing Law.*
*This will shake the Nigerian Govt more than asking for referendum.*

*IPOB has power. If they use it wisely they can bring about tremendous change in Ala-Igbo without a single blood shed. They are uniquely positioned by God at this period in time to use their massive following and break the individualistic Igbo trait to bring about change that will positively shape Igbo history for generations.* _If they misuse it by going the route of war, that didnt work decades ago, then it would be a great loss indeed._

If Nigeria stays together, Ala-Igbo can become the most advanced region of Nigeria if we START NOW.
If Nigeria breaks up, we have to be ready to survive on our own. *And at this moment, we are not yet ready. This is where we need to put our eyes into. Because the ball is already rolling.*

*What we want is for people to come and start investing in Ala-Igbo, from all over the world. They will do this massively if they see the political will and infrastructures being laid down in Ala-Igbo.*
_If that happens, everybody will protect Igbo land._ *Biafra will grow from within.* Let Nnamdi Kanu, all Igbo leaders and thinkers read this and run with it.

***I'm sending this to you so you can spread it to Ndigbo who are amongst your contacts so that this consciousness can spread and be built on. *Lets develop Ala-Igbo from within.*
Ka Chi Ukwu no n'Igwe n'edu anyi n'Uwa gozie okwu a ka o wee mee. *Yameenu.*

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