{"id":16099,"date":"2017-09-27T18:56:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16099"},"modified":"2017-09-27T18:56:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:56:26","slug":"banning-ipob-is-waste-of-time-ipob-is-a-group-biafra-is-a-country-barr-onwuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=16099","title":{"rendered":"BANNING IPOB IS WASTE OF TIME: IPOB IS A GROUP, BIAFRA IS A COUNTRY -Barr. Onwuka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104246\">Biafra Zionists Federation (BZF), has vowed that Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Defence Staff, and the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed will end up in prison over the recent deployment of troops to Abia State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104244\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104245\">The Army exercise code-named Operation Python Dance led to a confrontation between the military and pro-Biafra agitators, resulting to reported death of scores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\">BZF Leader, Barr. Benjamin Igwe Onwuka, who had earlier declared himself President of Biafra, said all the people who were involved in the deployment of troops to Aba and Umuahia will pay a heavy price over the deaths.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104847\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104846\">He equally scolded Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka of the Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria, who he said was sabotaging the Biafra project, warning that if he did not retrace his steps, he would be chased out of Biafra land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14567&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104845\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104844\">Onwuka, however, maintained that \u201cbanning IPOB will not affect restoration of Biafra. It is a waste of time; . You cannot ban a nation which came into being in May 1957.\u00a0 So, banning IPOB is just simple waste of their political time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104243\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104242\">\u201cI said this because Biafra has already been recognised by the international community. We all saw what happened at the just concluded UN General Assembly on September 22, where Biafrans were allowed to protest by the New York Government, but such was not the case with the Nigerian Government. Their rented protesters were denied access. So, this confirms our earlier statement that the US has since recognised Biafra, far back in 2013 by then President Barrack Obama.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104843\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104842\">On the army invasion of Abia State, the Zionists said: \u201cIt is clearly a tragedy. It is clearly a military invasion; it has nothing to do with IPOB or Nnamdi Kanu. This is the North invading the East because of Biafra. I want to deeply condemn that act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104235\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104234\">\u201cThe attack on Biafran soil is an attack on all of us. The army is not supposed to interfere in the internal security situation of the nation; they are not supposed to get involved in domestic security of the country. So, sending the army to Aba and Umuahia was with an ulterior motive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104841\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104840\">\u201cUsing Nnamdi Kanu and the IPOB was a pretext to kill young men and women in Abia and other parts of Igbo land, the North will have to pay for it. So, I condemn in totality the brutality of the army in the name of Operation Python Dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104839\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104838\">\u201cWe, therefore state clearly today that all those involved, the Chief of Defence Staff, the Chief of Army Staff and the Minister of Information will pay for these killings, They will all end up in ICC and then in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104837\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104836\">\u201cAnyone involved in this military force against un-armed agitators will never go scot-free. We are not only going to take them to the ICC but prosecute the matter to the end until they are made to pay dearly for it. This time around, they will not escape justice. They did it in 1967-1970 and went away with it but it won&#8217;t happen this time. Britain and Saudi Arabia will not even save them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104835\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104834\">\u201cFor Lai Mohammed, can you see the lopsidedness in his argument? How can someone compare IPOB with herdsmen? These herdsmen have been killing people in their hundreds unhindered and that is why I insist that some Northern leaders are behind Boko Haram and herdsmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104833\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104832\">\u201cSo, the statement from Lai Mohammed is rubbish and I am telling him today that he will face ICC over the killings in Abia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104830\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104831\">\u201cWe are as well calling on the Northern religious leaders, the Sultan of Sokoto and the Emir of Kano to call President Muhammadu Buhari and the Army Chiefs to order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104829\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104828\">\u201cThey should order them to withdraw these troops and rampaging herdsmen from Biafra land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104827\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104826\">On Fr. Mbaka, Onwuka said: \u201cIt is regrettable that our church leaders, notable ones, instead of supporting Biafra, they are busy using words that do not in any way reflect what is happening. Look at the killings in Abia, have they said anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cGo to South Africa; Desmond Tutu, an Archbishop was in the vanguard, fighting for the liberation of the people, but here in Biafra, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka and Archbishop Emmanuel Chukwuma, and several others are campaigning against the overall interest of the Biafran people.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104825\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104824\">\u201cThey cannot be supporting our opponents openly here in Biafra land. If they don\u2019t want to support Biafra, let them mind their business, let them face their duty of preaching the word of God, but involving themselves in attacking the people is very tragic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104788\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104787\">\u201cThe Zionists are warning Ejike Mbaka that he is putting his Adoration Ministry on the line. All the clerics supporting these killings will be sent away from here by the Biafra government and we will take over that his Adoration Ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104786\" class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104785\">\u201cAttacking us and calling us names is unacceptable. People are being killed every day.\u00a0 Has any of them come out to speak against it? We have marked Mbaka as enemy of Biafra.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3297522146ydpaa8b8c4dMediumGrid21\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1506028355802_104844\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KANU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15625\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KANU-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KANU-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KANU-272x182.jpg 272w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/KANU.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biafra Zionists Federation (BZF), has vowed that Nigeria\u2019s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, the Chief of Defence Staff, and the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed will end up in prison over the recent deployment of troops to Abia State. 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