ONE MILLION PHONE CALLS CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF THIS MORNING, 1ST FEBRUARY, 2016

Sequel to our One Million Phone call by Biafrans and members of IPOB worldwide to World governments and Leaders, we hereby urge all Biafrans to pick up their Phones and do the needful. Let the world know our plight and the atrocities Buhari and his agents are  committing against Biafrans. Here is what to do.

CALL ALLERT!

Biafrans, Friends, and Well Wishers

Starting Monday February 1 through Friday February 5, 2016, we intend to, and shall awake the Government of the United States of America to the plight of Biafrans.

Please endeavor to make phone calls  starting this Monday, from (3pm to 11pm Biafra time), 9am to 5pm (US EST) , to Barack Obama, President of USA and United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon

When you call, you don't need to say much—just politely deliver the main points of the petition or just use the example below.

“Hello, my name is (------) I’m calling to appeal to the President to:

1. Condemn the ongoing crimes against the humanity of Biafrans by the current President of Nigeria;

2. Free the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra and other Biafrans arbitrarily incarcerated for peacefully demonstrating;

3. Support freedom and independence of Biafra. Thank you!”

Then, help me keep track of how many calls have been made by clicking here: http://petitions.moveon.org/tools/call.html

The UN &US Gov’t Phone Numbers are as follows

1.    President Barack Obama, White House	+1 202 456 1111
2.    US Congress/Capitol      US Congress Direct Number	+1 202-224-3121 +1 202-225-4361
3.       United Nations Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon	+1 212 963 1234
4.       Speaker of House of Representatives: Paul Ryan	+1 202 225-0600
5.       Republican Majority Leader: Kevin McCarthy	+1 202-225-4000
6.       Democratic Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi	+1 202 225-0100
7.    USA Senate President: Orrin Hatch	+1(202) 224-5251
8.    Republican Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell	+1 (202) 224 2541
9.    Democratic Minority Leader: Harry Reid Phone	+1 202-224-3542
10.  US Senate Foreign Relations Committee : Chairman, Senator Bob Corker; Senator James E Risch; Senator Marco Rubio; Senator Ben Cardin; Senator Barbara Boxer	+1 202 224 4651
11.  US House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Chairman, Ed Royce; Ranking Member: Eliot L. Engel	+1 (202) 225-5021
12.  Secretary of State: John Kerry: From USA, call     From overseas	888 407 4747 +1 202 501 4444

WAKE THE SLEEPING,DEAF AND DUMB, UNITED NATIONS, AND THE EUROPEAN UNION AND WORLD LEADERS TO RISE UP TO OUR SITUATION.

BIAFRANS, ITS NOW OR NEVER

BY BIAFRA WRITTERS

Number to call: IPOB ONE MILLION PHONE CALLS CAMPAIGN TO UN, USA Gov’t

CALL ALLERT!

Biafrans, Friends, and Well Wishers

Starting Monday February 1 through Friday February 5, 2016, we intend to, and shall awake the Government of the United States of America to the plight of Biafrans.

Please endeavor to make phone calls  starting this Monday, from (3pm to 11pm Biafra time), 9am to 5pm (US EST) , to Barack Obama, President of USA and United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon

When you call, you don't need to say much—just politely deliver the main points of the petition or just use the example below.

“Hello, my name is (------) I’m calling to appeal to the President to:

1. Condemn the ongoing crimes against the humanity of Biafrans by the current President of Nigeria;

2. Free the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra and other Biafrans arbitrarily incarcerated for peacefully demonstrating;

3. Support freedom and independence of Biafra. Thank you!”

Then, help me keep track of how many calls have been made by clicking here: http://petitions.moveon.org/tools/call.html

The UN & US Gov’t Phone Numbers are as follows

1.    President Barack Obama, White House	+1 202 456 1111
2.    US Congress/Capitol	+1 202-224-3121
3.       United Nations Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon	+1 212 963 1234
4.       Speaker of House of Representatives: Paul Ryan	+1 202 225-0600
5.       Republican Majority Leader: Kevin McCarthy	+1 202-225-4000
6.       Democratic Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi	+1 202 225-0100
7.     USA Senate President: Orrin Hatch	+1 (202) 224-5251
8.    Republican Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell	+1 (202) 224 2541
9.    Democratic Minority Leader: Harry Reid Phone	+1 202-224-3542
10. US Senate Foreign Relations Committee : Chairman, Senator Bob Corker; Senator James E Risch; Senator Marco Rubio; Senator Ben Cardin; Senator Barbara Boxer	+1 202 224 4651
11.  US House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Chairman, Ed Royce; Ranking Member: Eliot L. Engel	+1 (202) 225-5021
12. Secretary of State: John Kerry: From USA, call     From overseas	888 407 4747 +1 202 501 4444

Thank you for remaining steadfast

Ndubuisi Anukwuem

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)

Niger Delta Militants Threaten To Blow Up Hijacked Ship With Foreign Crew

A group of ex-militants has hijacked a ship off the Bakassi Peninsula coast line and threatened to blow it up with its foreign crew if detained Director of Radio Biafra and Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu is not released.

The group, which said it was in support of the agitation for the creation of a Biafran state, gave the Federal Government a 31-day ultimatum to release Kanu or it would be forced to carry through its threat.

Also, the group, in a Saturday statement in Port Harcourt through its spokesman who identified himself as General Ben, said it might not wait for the expiration of the 31-day ultimatum to carry out its threat.

He said: “We cannot wait till the end of the 31 days to tell the Federal Government that we are serious. The vessel and the crew are under custody.
“And any noise, any delay from government, we will blow up everything. We will blow the vessel and everybody in the vessel will go down. “We are not interested in the country that owns the vessel. What we know is that the vessel was coming to Nigeria to lift oil. We are not interested;; once it is blown up, let the country and Nigeria resolve the matter.

“We are in touch with everything happening around the IPOB leader.

“Now, court has denied him bail, saying because of his dual citizenship, he might jump bail. We also heard that the judge said he would rather give the matter an accelerated hearing.

“This is provocative; hence we did not waste time to go into action. We are in support of the Biafra struggle.

“We will not retreat or surrender. The federal government might have taken our ultimatum as an empty threat. But, we will surprise them,” the statement read.

Source 

IPOB ONE MILLION PHONE CALLS CAMPAIGN... HAPPENING 1ST FEBRUARY, 2016

IPOB ONE MILLION PHONE CALLS CAMPAIGN...  HAPPENING 1ST FEBRUARY, 2016

Biafrans, Friends of Biafra and lovers of Freedom, You can all see that the whole world has gone BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB over the atrocities being meted to Biafrans. The United Nations has gone blind, deaf and dumb. The United states of America and her Congress have gone blind, deaf and dumb. The Bitish government and and its Parliament have also gone blind, deaf, dumb and lame. None of them wants to see, hear or talk about the evil the British edifice of the Devil called Nigeria is perpetrating against Biafra and Biafrans. Now the Biafrans are going to drum it into the ears of the governments of the whole world. To this end, The Directorate of State of the Indigenous People of Biafra have directed all Biafrans all over the world to RECHARGE THEIR PHONES FOR A ONE MILLION PHONE CALL CAMPAIGN COME 1ST OF FEBRUARY 2016.
From February 1st 2016, IPOB members world wide, Biafrans at large, and friends of Biafra will be calling the government of the world to let them know what Buhari and his murderous agents are doing to Biafrans. This is to make it known that we have towed the path of peace to achieve our goal which is restoration of the sovereign state of Biafra. Biafrans should not be held responsible in any act of violence that may erupt in the course of our self defence.

CALL ALLERT!

Biafrans, Friends, and Well Wishers

Starting Monday February 1 through Friday February 5, 2016, we intend to, and shall awake the United Nations, Government of the United States of America to the plight of Biafrans.

Please endeavor to make phone calls  starting this Monday, from (3pm to 11pm Biafra time), 9am to 5pm (US EST), to Barack Obama, President of USA and United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon

When you call, you don't need to say much—just politely deliver the main points of the petition or just use the example below.

“Hello, my name is (------) I’m calling to appeal to the President to:

1. Condemn the ongoing crimes against the humanity of Biafrans by the current President of Nigeria;

2. Free the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra and other Biafrans arbitrarily incarcerated for peacefully demonstrating;

3. Support freedom and independence of Biafra. Thank you!”

Then, help me keep track of how many calls have been made by clicking here: http://petitions.moveon.org/tools/call.html

The UN & US Gov’t Phone Numbers are as follows

1.    President Barack Obama, White House	+1 202 456 1111
2.    US Congress/Capitol	+1 202-224-3121
3.       United Nations Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon	+1 212 963 1234
4.       Speaker of House of Representatives: Paul Ryan	+1 202 225-0600
5.       Republican Majority Leader: Kevin McCarthy	+1 202-225-4000
6.       Democratic Minority Leader: Nancy Pelosi	+1 202 225-0100
7.     USA Senate President: Orrin Hatch	+1 (202) 224-5251
8.    Republican Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell	+1 (202) 224 2541
9.    Democratic Minority Leader: Harry Reid Phone	+1 202-224-3542
10. US Senate Foreign Relations Committee : Chairman, Senator Bob Corker; Senator James E Risch; Senator Marco Rubio; Senator Ben Cardin; Senator Barbara Boxer	+1 202 224 4651
11.  US House Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations: Chairman, Ed Royce; Ranking Member: Eliot L. Engel	+1 (202) 225-5021
12. Secretary of State: John Kerry: From USA, call     From overseas	888 407 4747 +1 202 501 4444

Indigenous People of Biafra: Dutch Lawyers File Complaint Against Buhari at The Hague

The pro-Biafran activist group led by the imprisoned Nnamdi Kanu has filed a complaint against Muhammadu Buhari in The Hague, accusing the Nigerian president of war crimes.
Thousands of people in southeast Nigeria have demonstrated in recent months, demanding independence for Biafra. Kanu, the leader of one of the most prominent activist groups—the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—was arrested by Nigerian security forces in October 2015 on charges of ethnic incitement and sedition. He remains in detention and was refused bail by a federal high court in the capital Abuja on Friday.

Goran Sluiter, a lawyer at Dutch human rights legal firm Prakken d’Oliveira, filed the complaint with the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Friday. Sluiter tells Newsweek that there has been “an intensification of violence and crimes committed against Biafrans since Mr Buhari became the Nigerian president.”

There have been numerous reports of pro-Biafran protesters being killed in clashes with Nigerian security forces during demonstrations. More than 20 protesters and two police officers have been killed since October 2015, AP reported, with about 200 people detained across the country. Inspector General Solomon Arase, Nigeria’s chief of police, warned protesters in December to stop their activities or face “the full weight of the law.”

“Nigeria is already a long time on the agenda of the [ICC] prosecutor and Nigerian courts are not dealing at all with these crimes. The time really has come for the ICC to act,” says Sluiter.
The complaint was filed on behalf of 17 unnamed victims and alleges to set out evidence of crimes against humanity—including torture and murder—committed by Nigerian security forces against pro-Biafran protesters.

Ndubuisi Osuala, the coordinator of IPOB’s branch in the Netherlands—which he says numbers around 200 official members—says the group wishes to see Kanu released and Buhari prosecuted for overseeing crimes against Biafrans. “What every IPOB member, every Biafran citizen wants is the release of our great leader, Nnamdi Kanu, who is a freedom fighter,” says Osuala. “Secondly, we need the International Criminal Court to bring justice and equity to our case…[President Buhari] has to be prosecuted and face the justice for what he did.”

Osuala also says that his group wants independence for Biafra but is seeking it by peaceful means. “We need to get freedom by peace and that is why we are protesting,” he says. “We are not terrorists, we are not killing people.”

Buhari has previously refused calls for Kanu to be released, describing the activist—who is based in the U.K. and runs the underground media outlet Radio Biafra— as a flight risk.
Femi Adesina, a media advisor to Buhari, declined to comment on the ICC case and told Newsweek that while Kanu’s case was ongoing, the Nigerian presidency would rather not comment on the matter.

The ICC was not immediately available to confirm that the complaint had been filed. Once a complaint is filed at the ICC, the prosecutor can decide to open an investigation if there is a reasonable basis for believing that crimes against humanity have been committed. Nigeria is a signatory to the Rome Statute, upon which the ICC’s jurisdiction in based.

Source 

Tyrant Buhari lied against the leader of IPOB Nnamdi Kanu

Contrary to claims by President Muhammadu Buhari that the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu travelled to Nigeria from the United Kingdom without any international passport, a coalition of Human Rights Organizations has  launched an  in-depth investigation into the accusation made by the president and findings have indeed shown that President Muhammadu Buhari lied.
The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafran leader, Nnamdi Kanu has dual citizenship and could not have got on board any aircraft to Africa or the country of his nativity without a valid international passport.


(ONITSHA, NIGERIA, JANUARY 26, 2016)-It is the authoritative information of the Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs); comprising International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), Anambra State Branch of the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Center for Human Rights & Peace Advocacy (CHRPA), Human Rights Club (a project of LRRDC)(HRC), Forum for Justice, Equity & Defense of Human Rights (FJEDHR), Society Advocacy Watch Project (SPAW), Anambra Human Rights Forum (AHRF), Southeast Good Governance Forum (SGGF), International Solidarity for Peace & Human Rights Initiative (ITERSOLIDARITY), Street Law Africa (LawAfrica) and Igbo Ekunie Initiative (pan Igbo rights advocacy group) that detained Citizen Nnamdi Kanu had never returned to Nigeria or traveled to other parts of the world including his second home-State of the United Kingdom without following and applying legitimate diplomatic processes and procedures.

Specifically, he did not return to Nigeria via Lagos, Southwest Nigeria in October 2015 without international passport of Nigerian origin. By convention or treatise (international law), which is applicable in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is a member of international, Nigerian and UK citizenship. Also by the provisions of Chapter Three of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is a citizen of Nigeria by birth or parenthood and by the provisions of the relevant laws of the UK; he is also a UK citizen by birth or naturalization. Generally, in the eyes of international law, he is a dual national of UK and Nigeria.

Further, by relevant treaties of the European Union and the ECOWAS, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu can enter, leave, stay or live in any member-State of EU or ECOWAS; provided he has UK (EU) or ECOWAS (Nigerian) passport. Citizen Nnamdi Kanu as an international citizen of UK and Nigeria backgrounds is entitled to and has two international passports of UK and Nigerian citizenship and they are fully and steadily used when he is traveling out of Nigeria to UK or coming to Nigeria from UK. Traditionally and specifically in Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s case; visa is not required of him when he is leaving UK to Nigeria with Nigerian Passport or when he is traveling to UK from Nigeria with UK Passport. By law, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is mandated to show his Nigerian Passport to UK immigration officials at any UK international airport enroute Nigeria and to Nigerian immigration officials on arrival at any Nigerian international airport; likewise using and showing his UK Passport to immigration officials when traveling to UK from Nigeria.

By law, Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is under no legal or moral obligation whatsoever to show or surrender all or either of his two international passports to anybody including the DSS operatives in his hotel room. His right to privacy and protection of his property including his two international passports is sacrosanct and unquestionable. Production of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s international passport (s) can only be ordered by a court of competent records. Neither President Muhammadu Buhari nor his DSS operatives has any legal or moral power or authority to coerce Citizen Nnamdi Kanu into showing or surrendering his international passport(s) under the guise of arrest or investigation; except by personal volition of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu. This is more so when Citizen Kanu’s violent arrest was carried out hours, if not days after he had returned to Nigeria and checked into a hotel.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s assertion on 30th December 2015 that “are you aware that that man called Kanu holds two UK and Nigerian citizenship and entered into Nigeria without a passport”, is nothing but a clear case of “presidential ignorance and falsehood derived from unprofessional and falsified intelligence reports”. The falsehood is today compounded further and transformed into “investigative perjury”to the extent that the Federal Ministry of Justice had adopted it as its main ground of counter affidavit and opposition to the application filed by Citizen Nnamdi Kanu’s defense lawyers before an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. The Federal Government’s claim that “Kanu had admitted (to them) that he is a British citizen and that he sneaked into the country”, and that “there is the possibility of him sneaking out if admitted to bail”; is fallacious, vexatious, unfounded, spurious, intimidating, insulting, coercing, magisterial and totally untrue.

Why Citizen Kanu Should Be Granted Humanitarian Bail: Today marks 102 days since Citizen Nnamdi Kanu was arrested and detained by DSS on 14th October 2015 without conditional or unconditional release. In the history of democracy in Nigeria, no citizen except Citizen Nnamdi Kanu had been arrested and detained for 90 days without trial or release on pretrial bail. There is a difference between a suspect-citizen detained on orders of a court of competent records while undergoing trial and a merely accused citizen detained in long pretrial captivity without pretrial bail release or trial. That is to say that Citizen Nnamdi Kanu is the first and only citizen arrested and detained for over 90 days without trial or pretrial bail or unconditional release under the present 1999 Constitution or since the 1999 Constitution came into force in 1999. Citizen Kanu is also the first citizen to be detained under the same Constitution in gross breach of its Section 35 (4) (a) (b) by being detained for over 60 days without trial or released on bail. Four consequential court orders associated with his right to personal liberty including bail and unconditional releases were flouted by DSS and President Buhari with reckless abandon.

This is also the first time in the history of criminal justice administration under Nigeria’s democratic pluralism whereby pretrial case files of accused citizens are recklessly duplicated and leaked to media before judicial arraignment and trial of the accused citizens. The stark case in point is the case file of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu & ors, which has been made hazardous and recklessly polluted by DSS and its hired hostile media outfits. Information contained in the case file including the accused citizens’ confessional statements are also strongly believed to have been tempered with and doctored or manipulated. To the extent that the case file of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu & ors, who are merely accused persons yet to be put on trial or convicted; is duplicated by DSS investigators and handed over to hostile media elements for purpose of spreading falsehood and propaganda; requires urgent judicial attention, notice and intervention.

It is on these grounds that we call on Hon Justice James Tsoho of Court Three Division of the Federal High Court in Abuja, to courageously grant Citizen Nnamdi Kanu and ors humanitarian bail on Friday January 29, 2016 during his much awaited ruling on their bail application. Though by virtue of Sections 158 and 162 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act of 2015, accusations of treasonable felony and unlawful possession of firearms leveled against them are bailable; but it is our considered opinion that Citizen Nnamdi Kanu in particular has brazenly been denied the Constitutional protection, rights and remedies; having being held in manner and circumstances frowned at by the Constitution. By humanitarian judicial bail; we mean a bail condition accorded to a prisoner of conscience facing State persecution for expressing his political thoughts without use or advocating of violence. 

Such humanitarian bail condition(s) include self recognition, liberty inviolate undertaking from UK High Commission or judicial deposition of his UK and Nigerian Passports. We also call for the speedy and fair trial and of Citizen Nnamdi Kanu and ors.

Signed:
For: Southeast Based Coalition of Human Rights Organizations (SBCHROs)

Emeka Umeagbalasi
Board Chairman, International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law &Coordinating Head, SBCHROs