Biafra II: The Igbo’s are being killed again.

by Eze Eluchie,

Well over 45 years after the Biafra genocide was supposed to have ended, sequel to military agreements ending the Nigeria – Biafra Civil War in January 1970, military and security personnel under the command of Nigeria’s self acclaimed ‘devout Muslim’ ruler of Fulani origin, Muhammadu Buhari, have embarked upon a systematic brutal annihilation of demonstrators desirous of resuscitating efforts at ensuring the emergence of Biafra.

With the continued killing of peaceful protesters agitating for the restructuring and renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption, the Nigeria military and security forces murdering innocent people of Igbo ethnic nationality in Aba, (Abia State, south eastern Nigeria) and its environs, are fast losing any claims to the rank of a people’s army and merely constituting themselves into a brutal army of occupation that must be resisted.

The Right to self determination is an enshrined fundamental right which often times intensifies in the face of efforts to suppress the right by using such vile instruments as violent repression and murder.

The Nigerian Government, under the headship of Mr. Buhari is hereby enjoined to stop the murder of peaceful protesters and ensure that the basic rights of persons living in Nigeria are respected and protected.  It is hoped that descent into full scale violence is avoided.

The likelihood of the Nigerian State surviving a new vista of violence alongside the ongoing terrorist insurgency in the Northern region championed by Boko Haram, the perennial systematic ethnic cleansing being perpetuated by Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt region and the restiveness of youths in the oil-rich Niger Delta region is quite remote.  

Restructure and Renegotiate the Nigeria contraption whilst there is yet a time for such a venture to be undertaken in peace.

Picture: President Muhammadu Buhari and picture of some of the several dozens of Igbo youths thus far killed by Nigeria security operatives in the course of several pro-Biafra protests across southern Nigeria. 

The Nigerian Aberration Continues: Mortgaging a Secular State to Islamic Financial Institutions.

by Eze Eluchie,

The fact that the Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari-led regime, in constitutionally secular Nigeria, intends to raise Sukuk (Islamic) Bonds from the Islamic Development Bank to finance the huge deficit in its 2016 Budget, and that some Muslim Governors of some of the component States of the Nigerian federation will be embarking on a mission to source for financial assistance and monetary facilities from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, further brings to the fore the problems the continuing non-Restructuring and non-Renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption will pose to not only the peoples of Nigeria, but also the international community, in the very near future.

Will the Nigerian Federation and other States in Nigeria, particularly those with majority Christian and or non-Muslim populations, be in any way held responsible for the farce being perpetuated by the efforts of the Federal Government (currently led by a Muslim of recorded extremist positions) and some Muslim Governors to borrow money from the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia and other strictly Islamic institutions?

Considering that some part of the aggregated revenue of the Federation which all States (including the States whose Governors are now sourcing for Shari’a complaints loans preside over) derive some of their incomes, is comprised of Value Added Tax (VAT) receipts collected from the manufacture and sales of alcoholic brew, pork products and other ventures considered forbidden (haram) under Islam, and that it will be distasteful to some non-adherents of the Islamic faith to in a sense be contributing to the financial fortunes of the IDB, how do we intend to ever extricate ourselves and our finances from the confusion of recourse to Islamic, or any religious, institutions funds?

As the delegation of Muslims led by the Governor of Bornu  State, Kashim Shettima, and comprised of the following Governors, Nasiru El-Rufai (Kaduna), Tanko Almakura (Nassarawa) and Mohammed Abubakar (Jigawa) and several other Muslims, who have just traveled out to negotiate financial facilities based on the Shari’s principles begin to discuss terms of loans with Islamic financial experts in Saudi Arabia, would it be right to require other Nigerians who neither subscribe to the Shari’a code and who probably engage in ventures which are at cross-purposes with Islamic doctrines, to be part of servicing such financial obligation whensoever they arise?.

Going by the extent of fraud, stealing and misappropriation which have befallen other loans (external and internal) sourced by these State Governors, one can state without equivocation, that whatsoever these characters are doing in Saudi Arabia, is clearly personal and probably religious, and that their States or the populations of those States cannot be held liable for such misdeeds.

The need for a restructuring and renegotiation of the Nigerian contraption is now transcending political and becoming a socio-economic imperative. The earlier we do this the better not only for our peoples, but also for foreign entities who may be tempted to continue to engage in long-term financial commitments with Nigeria.

Picture: Various denominations of the Nigerian currency (the Naira) and the Islamic Development Bank's logo.

Nigeria: Descending Down The Abyss?

by Eze Eluchie

In view of the horrific, systematic and continuing carnage against the civil society and protesters/demonstrators by elements of the Nigerian military under its watch (particularly the murder of several Shiite {Shi’a} sect members in Zaria and the killings of several supporters of restructuring and renegotiation of the Nigerian polity under the aegis of the Biafra movement), whatever pretense the Buhari-junta is making towards ‘investigating’ human rights abuses by the Nigeria military during the tenure of the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, can be outrightly dismissed as mere cosmetic witch-hunt after-thoughts aimed at creating a semblance of propriety for a regime steeped in the blood of its own citizens which it has wasted.

In less than 8 months of the existence of this junta, more Nigerians exercising a constitutionally guaranteed right to protest and assemble, have been killed and maimed by a military funded by Nigerian tax-payers funds, than were killed in over 40 years since the end of the Nigeria Civil War.

Most ironically, within the same period, whilst extremist Islamist insurgency and terrorism perpetuated by Boko Haram has continued with deadly consequences for the polity, the junta has deemed it fit to release hundreds of Boko Haram detainees under a most suspect ‘adherence to human rights’ program.

Are we witnessing a gradual descent into an abyss?

Link on more reports on security agents killing demonstrators in Nigeria: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/biafra-8-ipob-members-killed-30-wounded-26-arrested/

Pictures: A pro-Biafra demonstrator felled by bullets from security personnel in Aba (18^th January 2016) and Soldiers take position before attacks on the Shiites in Zaria which left dozens dead (22^nd December 2015)