(Intersociety, Onitsha Nigeria: 31st May 2017)-The leadership of Int’l Society for Civil Liberties & the
Rule of Law (Intersociety) can authoritatively and researchably confirm that Igbo Ethnic Nationality in Nigeria, which
is Nigeria’s oldest tribe or ethnic nationality, had since 1945 till date, lost
not less than 3.5million People and properties valued at over $50billion to
criminal Hausa-Fulani Muslim citizens and their allies.
These allies are drawn
from other killer public office holders and their non State actor associates
from Southwest and other non Hausa-Fulani Muslim and non Muslim counterparts in
North-central and Northeast Nigeria. The criminal
Hausa-Fulani Muslim citizens and their allies are those directly and
remotely responsible for the decades’ long deaths of over 3.5million Igbo
citizens and destruction and forceful possession of the properties of the Igbo
People since 1945, which are valued at over $50billion.
It is also extremely important to state here that out of 3.5million
Igbo citizens lost in Nigeria since 1945 or in the past 72yrs, 3million
citizens were killed during the Biafra-Nigeria Civil War, 200,000 others were
killed in decades’ long Igbo butcheries since 1945 and 300,000 others died
untimely as a result of successive and present central governments’ hash
policies against the Igbo People including massacre of their bread winners and
legal guardians.
The priceless piece of
information and quotation below is obtained exclusively by Intersociety from
the ongoing research work of Emeka Umeagbalasi, who is also the Board Chair of
our organization. His conclusive research findings are being publicly expected
in full in coming months.
According to part of Emeka
Umeagbalasi’s research work: Igbo Ethnic
Nationality in Nigeria is researchably and unarguably the oldest Ethnic
Nationality or Group in Nigeria having existed for 3,467yrs or since 1450BC and
since 1187BC and 1087BC respectively when it crowned its pioneer kings in Nri
and Eri-Aka (now Agulueri) all located in
present day Anambra State.
Igbo Nation State was originally founded by Eri, a possible
migrant from Middle East (i.e. Israel through Egypt); who later settled at the
confluence point of “Ezu and Omambala Rivers”, called “Agbanabo”. His first
place of settlement is called “Eri-Aka” (now Agulueri) located in present
Anambra East Local Government of Anambra State. The name “Anambra” or Anambra
State is a corrupt spelling for “Omambala River”.
The second oldest Ethnic Nationality in Nigeria can expressly
be traced to the doorsteps of Agbon (now called Agbor) and Bini (Benin)
dynasties in present Edo and Delta States. The Peoples of the two named
dynasties may most likely have existed for 2,917yrs or since 900BC. It is
important to inform further that the Agbon or Agbor People and their kingship
dynasty were not originally Igbo People, but Ominije People, who later in 701BC
established their “Ogele Kingship dynasties”, which reigned till 1260AD with Ogele XIV Okwakpor as its last Ogele.
The Igbo-Agbor Kingship dynasty was
established in 1270AD with Ebonka as its first Igbo Dein of Agbor. The Bini
Kingdom was much later established in 1180AD.
Hausa Ethnic Nationality is
the third oldest tribe in Nigeria and has existed
for 1,217yrs or since 800AD. Hausa Nation-State or Ethnic Nationality was
founded by a Baghdadi (Iraq) Prince, named Bayajidda around 800AD; about two
centuries before the ancient Kano was founded by one of his grandsons, named
Bagauda who later became its first king or Sarkin Kano in 999AD.
According to the Kano Chronicle, ancient Kingdom of Kano
recorded a total of 38 Sarkin Kano or Kings of Kano between 999AD and 1743AD
before the invasion of the Fulani Islamic Jihadists led by Usman dan Fodio at
the beginning of the 19th Century AD or early 1800s. Prince Bayajidda
originally founded Daura (the oldest of the seven original Hausa States which
is now in Katsina State). The seven original Hausa States are called Hausa bokwoi (original Hausa) or Hausa
bakwai (seven true Hausa States founded by Bayajidda). Others including Fulani
Ethnic Nationality, Nupe, Gwari and other settlements in Hausa Land areas or
northern Nigeria are called Hausa banza (adopted/assimilated Hausa people).
On the other hand, the Yoruba Nation State or Ethnic
Nationality is the forth oldest Ethnic Nationality in Nigeria and has existed
for 917yrs or since 1100AD having been founded by Oduduwa; a migrant who was
said to have migrated from Middle East. He later sent his last son, Oranmiyan
to Benin in about 1170AD as the first interim Oba of Benin and was later succeeded
by Oba Eweka 1 in 1180AD as the first substantive Oba or King of Benin Empire.
Fulani Ethnic Nationality is the newest and most violent
Ethnic Nationality in Nigeria. It has only existed in Nigeria for 213yrs,
having been founded by Usman dan Fodio; an Islamic
scholar and urbanized Fulani Jihadist in 1804 during which it imposed till date
Islamic Emperors in all its conquered communities including Ilorin and Bida
Emirates with the exeption of the Borno Emirate, ruled till date by descendants
of the rulers of Bornu Empire (1380AD-1893AD).
In all, there are 386 tribes in Nigeria and among them, Igbo
Ethnic Nationality is the oldest, dating back to 1450BC when Eri was migrated
and settled in Nigeria across the River Niger or 3,467yrs today. Source: Emeka
Umeagbalasi: 2017.
By Direct or Physical Violence, it is act of armed hostile actions
against unarmed or defenseless persons or group of persons of asymmetric
background; perpetrated by public office holders including security commanders
and civilians in authority or those non State actors sponsored or recruited by
killer public office holders. It is direct
or physical violence because it is targeted at citizens with its
perpetrators clearly known. Direct violence often emerges from the depth of
structural violence.
By Structural Violence, it is a kind of violence that is built in
societal structure or age long inequalities in societal structures. It also
develops as a result of sustained policy of asymmetry or power imbalances
including political exclusion and segregation; gross lopsidedness in allocation
of national human and material resources as well as demographic injustice,
ethno-religious cleansing and gross lopsided spread in public offices
appointments, etc.
By Cultural Violence, this is act of promoting and sustaining violent
campaigns and heightened intolerance by the State and its coercive agents and
hired others against ideological, religious and linguistic beliefs and their symbols; of asymmetric or minority
ethnic and religious groups. It also involves use of genocidal and murderous jargons
and other derogatory languages against minority or asymmetric populations by
government and its agents or hired others. The description of Tutsis in Rwanda
by Hutu extremists as “cockroaches” during the Rwandan genocide; the labeling
of Igbo People as “Nyamiri” and Christians in Nigeria as “Infidels” by
Hausa-Fulani Muslims; leading to countless hate killing of Igbo People and
other Christian populations in Nigeria are all clear cases in point.
It is therefore authoritatively and researchably safe to say that Igbo
Ethnic Nationality, which is the oldest Ethnic Group or first to settle in
Nigeria, had since 1945 lost not less than 3.5 million People and properties
valued at over $50billion to criminal Hausa-Fulani Muslim citizens and their referenced allies. This is in spite of a
litany of agonies that the same Igbo Ethnic Group went through in the hands of British
led Atlantic slavery and colonialism; whereby, for instance, out of 20,000
slaves shipped outside the country from Bonny Slave Depot as at 1790AD; 16,000
were Igbo People. Igbo People also lost a lot in the British pioneered western culture war, in which its value system
and good ways of life got brutally relegated and corrupted.
As if these were not enough, the
Igbo Ethnic Nationality had further been made to undergo countless butcheries
and ethnic cleansings in Nigeria since 1945. While it is researchable to
conduct research on Igbo killings or anti
Igbo pogroms in Nigeria, it is highly un-researchable
to conduct same research in the opposite direction or killing of other
Nigerians by Igbo People.
In other words, Igbo People are
inherently tolerant, peaceful and loving Ethnic Nationality in Nigeria or any
part thereof, despite decades of sustained violent campaigns to wipe them out. Igbo People and their Ethnic Group have
remained peaceful and refrained from reprisal
radicalism or militancy till date not
minding the fact the 3.5million lives and properties valued at $50billion
belonging to them have been lost, destroyed or forcefully possessed since 1945.
Statistically, in the first Igbo pogrom in
Nigeria which took place on June 22nd 1945 in Jos, perpetrated by
Hausa-Fulani Muslims, as much as 200 Igbo citizens were massacred; with the
then British colonial authorities doing nothing. The second Igbo massacre took
place in Kano in 1953, in which hundreds of Igbo lives were lost. Between May
and October 1966, intensive and extensive anti Igbo pogroms were carried out in
various parts of the North, leading to death of over 30,000 Igbo citizens. From
October 1966 to May 1967, the butcheries intensified; with more thousands of
deaths recorded; forcing then Col Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu to militarily opt for
secession from Nigeria, which resulted to Biafra-Nigeria bloody civil war of
1967-70.
There was also Asaba Igbo massacre of early October 1967,
perpetrated by Hausa-Fulani Muslim led Nigerian troops in which more than 700
men and boys were killed, some as young as 12 years old, in addition to many
more killed in the preceding days. Other
Igbo killings or pogroms that had taken place in Nigeria or any part thereof
are those of Kano 1980, Maiduguri 1982, Jimeta 1984, Gombe 1985, Zaria 1987,
Kaduna and Kafanchan 1991, Bauchi and Katsina 1991, Kano 1991, Zango-Kataf
1992, Funtua 1993, Kano 1994, Kaduna 2000, Kaduna 2001, Maiduguri 2001.
The rest are those of Jos September 2001, Kaduna 2002, Kaduna’s Miss
World Riot of November 2002 and Prophet Mohammed Cartoons Riot of February 2006
(Maiduguri), the Apo-Abuja Six killing by the Nigeria Police Force of (six
young Igbo traders: Ekene Isaac Mgbe, Ifeanyi Ozor, Chinedu Meniru, Paulinus
Ogbonna and Anthony and Augustina Arebu) of June 2005, the November 2008 Jos
LGA Poll Riot/killings, the Jos 2010 Christmas Eve bombings, the Madalla Igbo
Catholic Church bombings of 2011, the 2011 post general elections’
riots/killings that led to killing of 10 Igbo NYSC members and several other
Igbo People in the North, the Mubi Igbo killings of 2012 and Nyanya Bombing of
April 2014. Over 4000 other defenseless Igbo people residing in the North were
also butchered by northern Muslims’ backed Islamic Boko Haram terrorists
between 2009 and 2014. \
As if these not enough, the government security forces including the
Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force under the present Buhari’s central government
in Nigeria shot and killed over 270 defenseless and unarmed Igbo People who
nonviolently agitate for regional autonomy and assertion of their regionally
and internationally recognized rights to self determination. The killings took
place between July/August 2015 and January 2017 in Southeast and South-south of
Nigeria. Since June 2015, the terrorist Fulani herdsmen have slaughtered over
70 rural Igbo citizens.
Over 370 young Igbo citizens agitating or supporting the nonviolent
Pro Biafra campaigns were also shot and terminally wounded; with several of
them crippled for life. There have also been several cases of secret arrests,
torture, disappearances or secret killings carried out by Nigeria Police SARS,
soldiers and SSS targeted at key figures in the nonviolent pro Biafra
campaigns.
Above all, out of 3.5million Igbo lives lost in Nigeria since 1945
or in the past 72yrs, 3million citizens were killed during the Biafra-Nigeria
Civil War, with over half of them killed by famine, hunger and starvation
deliberately imposed as a war policy by
Hausa-Fulani led Nigerian troops. Not less than 200,000 other Igbo lives were
in decades’ long Igbo butcheries which started in 1945 while 300,000 others
died untimely as a result of successive and present central governments’ hash
policies against the Igbo People including massacre of their bread winners and
legal guardians.
According to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (2017),
the (civil) war cost the Igbo (People) a
great deal in terms of lives, money and infrastructure. It has been estimated
that up to three million people may have died due to the conflict, most from
hunger and disease caused by Nigerian forces. More than two million people
died from the famine imposed deliberately through blockade throughout the war.
Lack of medicine also contributed. Thousands of people (were) starved to death
every day as the war progressed. The International Committee of the Red Cross
in September 1968 estimated 8,000–10,000 deaths from starvation each day. The
leader of a Nigerian peace conference delegation said in 1968 that
"starvation is a legitimate weapon of war and we have every intention of
using it against the rebels". This stance is generally considered to
reflect the policy of the Nigerian government.
The federal Nigerian army is accused of further atrocities including
deliberate bombing of civilians, mass slaughter with machine guns, and rape.
It saddens our heart that till date, the Federal Government of
Nigeria, on behalf of successive federal governments in Nigeria, particularly
those controlled by top Hausa-Fulani
military officers and their civilian counterparts; have remained defiant and
unapologetic to age long injustices against the Igbo Race. Professor Yemi Osibanjo
(Vice President) has also joined them in remaining defiant and unapologetic.
The hard and unapologetic stance of the present Buhari Administration, which
has worsened the age long Igbo hatred and hardened anti Nigeria territorial
oneness activism and activists; is only making Nigerian balkanization project and its protagonists inevitable and
unyielding.
The massive heeding and participation by the Igbo People in
yesterday’s voluntary appeal by the leaderships of IPOB and reformed MASSOB for
sit-at-home in honour of fallen Biafra
heroes and heroines is a clear case in point. Despite battalions of soldiers,
police personnel and other security operatives with truck-loads of arms and
ammunition moved to the Southeast and parts of South-south; the Igbo People
defied them and exercised their inalienable right to freedom of assemble and
expression in a grand style.
Through apt wisdom, tactics and strategies applied by the organizers
of the voluntary sit-at-home protest, the blood suckers in uniforms who sucked
over 140 innocent bloods during the 2016 anniversary of the epochal event; and
their guns were forced into silence and irreparable humiliation. Despite
Governor Wiilie Obiano’s stern order that government offices and parastatals
must be opened and Markets and streets vigilantes to forcefully open all
markets and streets’ security gates; traders and other people of the State
mocked him, defied his counterproductive orders and stayed away. Banks, street
markets, teachers, pupils, parents and guardians, motor park managers and
commercial vehicular operators also courageously joined in observing the
voluntary sit-at-home protest in honour of their slain heroes and heroines.
While we boldly commend and congratulate the People of Igbo Nation
for massively heeding the sit-at-home voluntary appeal, it is saddening and
shocking that Governor Willie Madubuchi Obiano, whose Eri-Aka (Agulueri)
Community is the first ancestral birth place of the Igbo People with himself as a descendant
of Agulu-Nwa-Eri, now called Agulueri
; could descend so low and barbarously
too by joining forces with Hausa-Fulani led Nigerian Army and other security
forces to massacre not less than 140 innocent, defenseless and unarmed pro
Biafra campaigners of Igbo stock on 29th and 30th May
2016 who gathered to honour the Igbo or
Biafra fallen heroes and heroines; during which as many as 110 Igbo citizens
were massacred at Nkpor and Onitsha and over 30 massacred or killed in Asaba.
More than 130 others were terminally maimed, with some, if not many of them
crippled for life.
Signed:
For:
International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety)
·
Emeka Umeagbalasi (Criminologist & Graduate of Security Studies)
Board Chairman
Mobile Line: +2348174090052
Email: info@intersociety-ng.org
Website: www.intersociety-ng.org
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