ASA-USA in crisis over Monetary gift from Gubernatorial hopeful ifeanyi Uba,Its President charged to court.

Uba’s Money Tears Anambra Union in USA Apart, President Charged to Court

Allison Anadi, President of ASA-USA

The imbroglio surrounding the shady oil mogul and Chief Executive officer of Capital Oil and Gas, Chief Ifeanyi Uba’s aspiration to mount the office of the Executive Governor of Anambra State through the upcoming gubernatorial elections of 2014 under All Progressive Grand Alliance banner appears to have grown cantankerous tentacles reaching the shores of the United States of America to unleash highly acidic mayhem.

Information available to 247ureports.com indicates the apex body binding all Anambra State based Unions in the USA, the Anambra State Association in the USA – the ASA-USA, may be dangling on its last hope – as affiliate Unions under the ASA-USA have begun moves to pull out of the Apex body – over allegations of gross financial misconduct by the President of the Apex body and some of his associates, including members of the Executive body.

The final descend down the slope into troubled waters began in June/July of 2012 as they – a selected group of volunteers of medical professionals – arrived Nigeria for their annual medical mission held in pre-selected communities of Anambra State – in collaboration with the State Government of Anambra.

Typically, the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, in show of support for the medical mission effort coordinated by ASA-USA, provides for free accommodation, security and a bus load of medical volunteers to augment the ASA USA volunteers. The State government of Anambra also provides for stipend for the local medical volunteers – along with general feeding of all persons involved in the medical mission. Other private financial contributors, mainly from the poll of Anambra indigenes in the USA also donate to the medical mission.

But the medical mission of 2012 saw a criminal twist – as the President of ASA-USA, Allison Anadi, opted to use the medical mission opportunity to raised funds from known wealthy individuals from the State. Allison Anadi approached a select number of wealthy individuals – and was successful in getting some them to donate heavily to the ‘mission’. Estimate of monies collected sum to 100,000 Dollars.

Interesting enough, the visitations to the wealthy individuals were done alone. The President had visited alone with company – none of the Executive members of ASA – USA or any member of ASA USA volunteer team accompanied him. The members of ASA USA were not in the know – of the amounts collected.

Except for the 60,000 Dollars donated by Chief Ifeanyi Ubah openly / publicly to the mission, the ASA-USA volunteer group was in dark. But the President insisted on going to the residence of Ifeanyi Uba at Nnewi, Anambra State, alone to collect the pledged amount. And he got his wish.

As he collected the money, the President, Allison Anadi, walked over to his Bank – Zenith located in Awka and deposited the entire amount – against the instructions of the Executive members who were present in Anambra for the medical mission – including the Treasurer. The Executive members and the Board of Directors had instructed that the dictates of the Constitution and Bylaws be followed concerning the donation. But the President refused.

As the medical mission rounded up, the volunteers from the USA were handed N40,000 each for their troubles. And as the President returned, he was asked to render a financial account. He resisted initially but later succumbed to pressure. The financial account was drafted and submitted about two months after the mission.

Immediately, the financial report threw turmoil into the Apex Union and all its branches. The report indicated that the nearly 100,000 Dollars were expended in Anambra during the 10day medical mission. The report also revealed that other money placed in special accounts for use towards the erection of an ASA USA office in Awka – was illegally borrowed by the President for the medical mission. The report also revealed the Allison Anadi spent ASA USA’s 12,000 Dollars on travels to Nigeria over a eight month period in 2012. (It is worthy of note that Allison Anadi has a full-time occupation in the USA)

Against this backdrop, aggrieved members of the Apex Union called on the Executive members and of the Board to seek a face saving resolution to the unfolding embarrassment for the Apex Union – less the matter will presented to the courts. But efforts to reach a face saving resolution failed – as Allison Anadi remained resolute to release the monies in his person.

The Chairman of the Board, Pius Okafor in tandem with concerned members filed a lawsuit against Allison Anadi seeking the return of the monies belonging to ASA USA – since he collected and pocketed the money belonging to ASA USA unconstitutionally. The suit was filed in December / January 2013.

Following the suit, branches of ASA USA across the USA appeared on the verge of pulling out from the parent Union. The South California ASA USA branch took a vote of no confidence on the leadership of ASA USA seeking that the litigation be allowed to reach a legal conclusion – or Allison Anadi should step down. The South California Board voted 13 to 1 in favor of the resolution. The Dallas ASA USA branch has also voted unanimously in-line with the resolutions of South California. Other ASA USA branches located in North East USA have begun discussions on issuing out similar resolution – particularly the New York ASA USA branch – which is scheduled to meet on Sunday February 24.

Reacting, Allison Anadi called on his associates within the Executive to come to his aid. In a last desperate attempt at exerting the power of a President, he called on his associates to convene a Delegates Forum. The Delegate will be tasked with seeking a peaceful approach as an alternate to the suit. The delegate forum was to meet and figure out means to reach Pius Okafor to withdraw the case from the courts. Among the members of the delegate forum were Igwe of Amichi, Josephine Aguoji, Nelson Ilodigwe and others.

So far, the Forum has held one telephone conference – of which a source close to the Forum indicates that the members were handpicked to favor Allison Anadi. No definitive resolutions were reached.

Efforts to reach to Allison Anadi turned dubious. When 247ureports.com contacted Anadi, he did not deny the allegations but asked for the publication to be halted. He went on to ask that the publisher of 247ureports.com meet with him and his partner (Tony Idigo of Aguleri) in Awka for further discussions. He suggested money in exchange for the publication being discarded. The publisher refused.

Pius Okafor was contacted but he refused commenting citing that the case was already in Court.

Meanwhile, Chief Ifeanyi Uba who had showed interest in the 2014 Anambra gubernatorial election may have jettisoned the aspiration owing to grave financial woes threatening to engulf his business empire. His hopes to contest under banner of APGA have evaporated – since his failed attempt at engineering quasi-coup against Governor Peter Obi’s standing in APGA. Chief Uba had attempted to use Chief Victor Umeh, the then Chairman of APGA, to force his gubernatorial candidacy on the party.

The 60,000 Dollars donation to ASA USA was part of Chief Uba’s attempt at politically disarming Gov Peter Obi.

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Allison Anadi has since started the development of a broad fish farm in Awka, the capital of Anambra State.

Oppression And Injustice Against Igbo Traders In Lagos State! By Okechukwu Nwanguma.

What is their Crime ?

it is a shame that these traders' shops are locked up, and they are barred from collecting goods from their shops for outside supplies and wickedly running a campaign to brand them, 'Bakkasi boys'.

I have personally and officially followed closely, the case of Ladipo market, Mushin LGA Lagos. I assert that the closing down of Ladipo market by the Lagos State Government and the arrest, detention and dehumanizing of Igbo traders in that market is a clear case of oppression and injustice by powerful, primordial forces intent on dislodging the traders, dispossessing them of their assets and taking over a market they built with their own sweat and resources.

This is the culmination of a long-drawn scheme and ceaseless attempts by these self-serving and base individuals and forces to forcefully and illegally throw out the traders and take over their market, in utter violation of subsisting agreements that the traders will run the market for a specified period of time having spent their money constructing structures in the market.

The claims of 'environmental degradation','obstruction of traffic and drainage' etc are fraudulent pretext and sheer subterfuge for what is apparently a case of ethnic persecution fueled by hatred and the individual avarice of some people who have over the years nursed the ambition to take over the market- and have on several occasions- and up to December 2012, used both the police and thugs to harass, intimidate, hound and even made attempts on the lives of the leadership and members of the traders association.

A section of the media has also been employed to propagate falsehood in furtherance of the dubious agenda of the masterminds of this wicked act.
Those innocent traders branded 'Bakkasi boys' and currently detained by the police must be released. The issues leading to, and surrounding, the closure of the market should be transparently investigated and truth and justice must prevail!

Okechukwu Nwanguma.
Advocacy Coordinator
Network on Police Reform in Nigeria.

APGA in dissarray and Ultimate demise as planned and as being executed

Sani shinkafi has dumped the Peter Obi faction of the party led by embattled Maxi Okwu as Acting National Chairman, and has since returned to the faction of the party led by the embattled sacked chairman, Victor Umeh.

Less than 24 hours after what has been described as an 'illegal' appointment as acting secretary of APGA, Sani shinkafi has dumped the Peter Obi faction of the party led by embattled Maxi Okwu as Acting National Chairman, and has since returned to the faction of the party led by the embattled sacked chairman, Victor Umeh.

Shinkafi, who appeared with Umeh on a national television today distanced himself from the Okwu-led APGA faction, alleging that his membership to the faction was forged.

He stressed that he remains with the Umeh faction of the party, where he also functions as secretary.

Meanwhile, an implacable source revealed that shinkafi was present at the Obi faction's meeting held at Chelsea hotel Abuja last Saturday, where he was appointed acting secretary, a position he accepted.

It was reliably gathered that shinkafi dumped the office and the faction and return to the Umeh faction following the inability of Obi to pay him the amount of money he demanded from the governor.

Meanwhile, Umeh who is receiving the kind treatment of nemesis, has vowed not only to challenge his sack, but promise to fight it out with Maxi.

Umeh as Okwu to, within 24 hours, reject the appointment of face him.

Umeh said it is a shame to the bar, that Okwu, who holds a Master Degree in law will engage in such illegality.

As reported yesterday, the Sadeeq Masalla faction of the party, addressed the press in Abuja today, and distanced itself from the illegality of the Maxi Okwu appointed.

Both Umeh and Masalla at their separate press conferences in Abuja today, said that Maxi Okwu was expelled from APGA in 2004 on the grounds of anti-party activities and alleged stealing of party funds. They both argued that Maxi Okwu lacks the constitutional requirements to lead APGA.

It will be recalled that Okwu had in 2004, through an affidavit he deposited in court, accepted his expulsion as a member of APGA by the Umeh faction.

 

Victor Umeh a Politician of convinience finally visited by the LAW OF KARMA & Nemesis

THE DAY OF RECKONING FOR VICTOR UMEH

Victor Umeh has been known to play politics of convinience clinging to whom ever appears to be winning. He did this two sided sword politics with Chekwas Okorie, the then Deputy Governor of Anambra state Dame Etiaba , Gov Peter Obi and the list goes on and on. Now he is been given his own medicine by Peter Obi, Tim Menakaya and Peter Obi's octogenarian Uncle Nwobu Alor powered by Ndi Npiawa Azu terror group.




It was a sure bet  that a day like this would come against the embattled and estranged All Progressive Grand Alliance’s National Chairman, Victor Umeh, because the founder of the party, Chekwas Okorie, was hounded out by those he brought to the party. Okorie was crying and shouting above his voice, but the powers that felt they were in the party did not care to listen

In “Reincarnation and Karma”, Stephen Knapp educates us that Karma is one of those topics that many people know a little about, but it is often more complex than most people realize. The second law of thermodynamics is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. On the universal scale, this is the law of karma. The law of karma basically states that every action has a reaction and whatever you do to others will later return to you, either in this life or a future life. Furthermore, ignorance of the law is no excuse. We are still accountable for everything we do, regardless of whether we understand it or not. We cannot escape it, even if we do not believe it. Therefore, the best thing is to learn how it works. If everyone understood the Law of Karma, we would all be living a happier life in a brighter world.
I was too sure that a day like this would come against the embattled and estranged All Progressive Grand Alliance’s National Chairman, Victor Umeh, because the founder of the party, Chekwas Okorie, was hounded out by those he brought to the party. Okorie was crying and shouting above his voice, but the powers that felt they were in the party did not care to listen. All they cared about was ‘politics’. Nothing more! They could say that Okorie was removed as chairman by the court of law. But in ernest, was the court not induced?
I don’t know Umeh neither Okorie except as I read about them in the newspapers like some Nigerians. One person that is conspicuously in the scenario that I have met one-on-one is Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State. It was during one of the press conferences that he held at Government House Awka, and I was among the invited pressmen.
Umeh reminds me of how people in our country talk about religion so much, but hurl the word Karma around nonchalantly, as if it belongs to the Traditional Believers they regard as fetish, periscoping through the self-acclaimed Godly people’s inadequate and prejudiced lens.
There would always be karma! Umeh, who is a Knight in the Catholic Church, had in different interviews talked about how “God” has helped him to the ‘level’ he is today. He rather forgot that there are always the principles of Karmic Justice, which provides deep lessons to learn. The God of Justice (please, not Jehovah or Yahweh) but Karma, has given Umeh a wonderful gift to use as he was disgracefully chased out as the national chairman of APGA, by the same court they used against the good-natured Chekwas Okorie, whose tears of how they intimidated him has not dried from the ground the fell. How I wish that Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu is alive today! Remember? Okorie brought Ojukwu to APGA and made him the Leader of the party and latter, the founder of the party was made the feeble.
It was a long encounter between Okorie and the forces that hijacked the party he founded from him. In an appeal instituted by the former National Chairman of the party, Chief Okorie, challenging the decision of an Abuja High Court, which validated his ouster from the Party by the Umeh faction, the tussle came to an intimidating end on 13th January 2010, as a Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, delivered its judgment against Okorie.
The stubborn confrontation for the Chairmanship of the party didn’t start in 2010; it started in the year 2004. Umeh faction met and sent out Okorie from the party. They gave a good dog a bad name in order to hang her, mouthing that Okorie was shooting to sell out the party’s mandate. Governor Obi was then seeking to retrieve the state from Dr. Chris Ngige, who was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
Umeh and his splinter group gave all sorts of names to Okorie. Apart from their shamefaced claim that Okorie wanted to sell the party, when they saw that that was not saleable, they said that Okorie embezzled the party’s fund, and converted same to his private use. How true was it that Okorie was the sole signatory to the then party’s accounts? They even expelled Okorie from the party that he founded! Humiliation, upon humiliation!!
Umeh did not remember Karma or respect the “God” he has always boasted of serving. Upon that the National Working Committee of the party latter met and ratified Okorie’s expulsion before he moved towards an Abuja High Court, to challenge his eviction, Umeh and co was busy playing ‘politics’. But still Okorie has face to present today in Nigeria than Umeh. Okorie was able to file an action before the court seeking to have his expulsion quashed and sought for an order of the court dismissing this Umeh.
It is today palpable that the victory that Okorie could not get then, Umeh has finally gotten it but in the opposite and is disgraced out of the party. Even though that Okorie failed in his pursuit at the High Court and talked to the appellate court to set aside the lower court’s judgment, Umeh is straight away disgraced, not only by the court that he used against Okorie, but by the same forces that he was boasting with against Okorie, and Maxi Okwu has replaced him in acting capacity.
Umeh is today suffering in the APGA that his team suppressed Okorie in, and the latter’s matter suffered series of adjournment including applications for stay. Umeh was then thanking the judiciary for the unanimous decision reached by the court, which upheld the decision of the trial court and held that Okorie’s ouster from the party was authentically done, in line with the stipulations of the party.
While a cost of Seventy Five Thousand Naira was awarded against Okorie in favour of Umeh then, the case is different today. A national shame has been awarded against Umeh in favour of Okorie. Not even the Supreme Court can save Umeh, as he has started to talk ills of the judiciary that he was once full of praises for. How I wish that this Victor Umeh could lay hand on the work entitled “Eckankar: Ancient Wisdom for Today” by Todd Cramer, he would understand that Karma applies itself in the most exacting and clever of ways. If we deprived another human being of freedom in a previous life, we’d probably have our freedom curtailed in this life. This experience would give us time to reconsider our views and learn the Law of Love.


Mr . Odimegwu Onwumere,

 

NFF stooges defend NFF Chairman following NFF shameful behaviour in South Africa

Atta, Achor and Alaiya said but for the Aminu Maigari-led NFF board, it could have been a different story at South Africa 2013

Officials of the Super Eagles – Team Coordinator, Emmanuel Atta; Secretary, Dayo Enebi Achor; and spokesman, Ben Alaiya – have come out strongly to defend the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation for its role in the Nations Cup triumph of the team in South Africa.
Atta, Achor and Alaiya said but for the Aminu Maigari-led NFF board, it could have been a different story at South Africa 2013.
Alaiya, in a statement on Monday, said insinuations that the NFF was at war with the national team during the SA 2013 tournament was far from the truth as the NFF President and most of his board members attended virtually all the training sessions of the team.
Alaiya said: “No single person can win a tournament of the magnitude of the Nations Cup, it was a collective job and Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, acknowledged that fact and has repeatedly said so.
“So we must be careful in labeling the NFF, because they provided all necessary logistics for friendly games leading to the tournament and stood by the technical crew even when majority of Nigerians wrote them off.”
On the controversial issue of flight tickets being issued for the return of the Super Eagles home ahead of the quarter-final tie against Cote d’Ivoire, Achor declared that it was a CAF regulation to prepare tickets for the two teams that were playing the quarter finals in advance, as none of them was to stay in the hotel beyond 24 hours after the game.
Even the team that qualifies was also to move to the next venue of the tournament immediately, according to CAF regulations, Achor said, adding: “So, the Ivoriens also had their departure tickets and you will recall that they left under 24 hours.
“So there should be no controversy over that.
“It was based on that proposal from CAF that I spoke to all the players on where they would like their tickets to be routed and I am sure that the Ivorien federation also did same to their team.
“So there was no issue about the NFF or the back room staff as we are now labeled wishing the team bad.”
Meanwhile, the team in its entirety has hailed the good gesture of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and his Lagos state counterpart, Babatunde Raji Fashola.
Alaiya, said the heroic welcome accorded the team in Asaba and Lagos and the rewards for officials of the team were unprecedented in the annals of football.
He said: “The two governors have shown that they are not only supporters of the game but partners of the sport and the NFF is taking note of their support.”
It will be recalled that last week Delta and Lagos States held lavish welcome parties for the Super Eagles in Asaba and Ikeja, doling out cash rewards for the team and its officials.

Peter Obi's APGA Faction set to merge with CPC

It is expected that Okwu will, anytime from now, announce a merger of the CPC with the APGA faction led by Obi

The National Chairman of Citizens Popular Party, Maxi Okwu, has dumped his party for the All Progressives Grand Alliance.
And in a curious development, Okwu has emerged the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of APGA.
The development, on Saturday, appeared to be a further deepening of the crisis in APGA, with Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State presiding over the meeting where the decision to set up a caretaker committee for the party was taken.
The National Chairman of APGA, Chief Victor Umeh, has thus effectively been sidelined by the faction led by Obi.
Also, former factional Secretary of APGA in the Umeh faction, Sani Shinkafi, has joined the Obi faction of the party.
Shinkafi is now the secretary of the Okwu-led caretaker committee of the party.
Factional Chairman of the Obi faction, Sadeeq Masalla, has reverted to his former position as the Deputy Chairman (North) of the party.
It is expected that Okwu will, anytime from now, announce a merger of the CPC with the APGA faction led by Obi.
Meanwhile, some members of the Massala faction, including Ifedi Okwenna, the former factional secretary, have vowed to resist and challenge what they termed the illegality of the Okwu-led caretaker committee.
The Masalla group said that it is illegal and criminal for Okwu to be chairman of two political parties.
Umeh has also threatened to challenge the constitution of the Okwu-led caretaker committee and judgement of the Enugu High Court that sacked him as APGA chairman.
With this development, APGA now has four factions.
These are APGA faction working with the Peoples Democratic Party as represented by Obi; APGA-All Progressives Congress, a coalition of opposition political parties; APGA-Umeh and APGA-Massalla.

Obi vows to eradicate hard drugs business in Anambra

 


By  News Express Awka  Correspondent Mazi Odera

 Sellers of hard drugs in Anambra State may have 
to relocate to outside the state as the state government has vowed 
to deal ruthlessly with them. 

Governor Peter Obi made the vow after a
meeting with the Chairman and Chief Executive of the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Alhaji Ahmadu Gaide, at the Governor’s
Lodge, Awka.

The governor declared unequivocally that his administration would
spare no efforts in ensuring that the illicit drugs trade is eradicated
across the state.

 He regretted that while his administration is pursuing a comprehensive health programme to uplift the lives of the people,
some individuals in their blind quest for material wealth are exposing
innocent citizens to health hazards.

The governor assured that his administration would embark on a
sustained onslaught against those involved in the illicit business as it is doing with other crimes. He also disclosed that the state would
embark on mass sensitisation and will make public the names of all
individuals involved in the illicit drugs business.

Earlier, the NDLEA Chairman, Alhaji Giade, said the visit was to
solicit the assistance of the state government in the fight against hard drugs following the discovery of a methamphetamine laboratory in a
dwelling house at Nanka, Orumba North Local Government Area. He
explained that exposure to the drug could cause cancer, deformity and
other health hazards.

Alhaji Giade restated the determination of the NDLEA to protect the
country from hard drug production or from being a transit route for
illicit drug distribution, noting that hard drug is often linked to
kidnapping, armed robbery and other violent crimes.

The NDLEA boss expressed confidence that collaboration with the state government would help create necessary awareness that would save the
people from the sad consequences of hard drugs. He said that knowing how highly Gov. Obi cherished values and the welfare of his people, he was
confident that the governor would continue to promote those things that
would be of benefit to his people.

NIGERIAN MILITARY'S 50 YEARS OF IGBO MARGINALIZATION, UNTIMELY , & QUESTIONABLE RETIREMENTS

Topic:Nigerian Army  Not Yet a National Army

Author: Joseph Aimienmwena

Full Text of Article:

'Citing several instances and names of prominent Igbo officers caught in the

web of marginalisation, the association reeled out names of such Igbo

officers that were marginalised as Cols Onyekweli, Ihenacho Nebo Oparaji,

Njoku and Nwobu, who they alleged, were all prematurely retired.

Others, according to the association, were Group Captain Ikpeazu, Brigadiers

Obi, Idegwuoha and Commodore Emeka Omeruah.

In the opinion of the association, the premature retirement of igbo

military officers was to prevent them from rising to the rank of senior

officers, thereby denying them the opportunity of holding strategic and

command appointments."

MILITARY historians agree that the Nigerian civil war brought in its wake a

number of problems for the Nigerian armed forces, which was relatively young

when the civil war broke out in 1967.

Prominent among the problems was the rapid expansion and indigenisation of

the military to ensure its combat-readiness against the background of the

exigencies at the time when the nation was drifting towards anarchy and

chaos occasioned by the political unrest in the old "wild west."

Perhaps, the greatest problem which occurred at the end of the war was the

gradual and systematic marginalisation of Igbo officers, many of whom had

fought on the side of the defunct Biafran Republic under the leadership of

Colonel Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Before the outbreak of hostilities on July 6, 1967, following the breakdown

of dialogue between the Federal Military Government led by General Yakubu

Gowon and Col. Ojukwu, statistics indicated clearly that the Igbos were

adequately represented in sensitive units within the armed forces.

For instance, when the Nigerian Army assumed a new status from the Royal

Nigerian Army following the attainment of a Republican status in 1963, the

most senior officer in the armed forces was the late Major-General Johnson

Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi. This was attested to by the eagle and a cross bar

insignia which adorned the shoulders of Aguiyi Ironsi, a veteran of the

Congo crisis.

Apart from Ironsi, other senior Igbo officers in the army included Col.

Hilary Njoku, Col. Alexander Madiebo, Col. Ude as well as Col. Emeka Ojukwu,

who was appointed military governor of Eastern Region.

There were also many other Igbo military officers of the rank of major or

its equivalent in the other arms of the armed forces. But at the end of the

war, these officers were prematurely retired, including some captains and

lieutenants. This trend of retiring Igbo officers who have not reached the

peak of their military careers has continued ever since. Even those who

enlisted into the force and were reabsorbed at the end of hostilities were

equally marked down and never got promoted.

For instance, the erstwhile Chief of General Staff, Ebitu Ukiwe, who was

enlisted into the force in 1961 was only a Commodore (equivalent of

Brigadier) in 1985, whereas the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who

was commissioned into the army in 1963 as second lieutenant was already a

Major General at the same period, when General Ibrahim Babangida seized

power from Major General Muhammadu Buhari on August 27, 1985. In what was

believed to be a reconciliatory gesture to the Igbos, General Babangida

appointed Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, a naval officer, Chief of General Staff.

But there was perhaps a serious error of omission with regard to the

appointment of Commodore Ukiwe to that exalted position. There were senior

major-generals or its equivalents in the other two arms including the then

Major General Sani Abacha, who reportedly had bluntly refused to recognise

the status of Commodore Ukiwe.

In spite of his position as Chief of General Staff, Ukiwe was perceived by

the late General Abacha as a junior and could not bring himself to submit to

someone he considered as his junior but who ironically enlisted into the

force before him, although he lost his seniority due to the war. But Abacha

in his lust for power, failed to realise the fact that appointment is

generally higher than rank. The unceremonious exit of Commodore Ukiwe

therefore, has raised more questions than answers with regard to the

marginalisation of the Igbos from the mainstream of military politicking.

Is it not astonishing that 28 years after the end of the civil war, Rear

Admiral Alison Madueke has become the only Igbo man to command an arm of the

military services, the Navy, no matter how brief it was.

Recently, a pan Igbo cultural organisation, Izu Umunna Cultural Association

of Nigeria (IUCAN), an affiliate of Ndigbo, rose from the meeting of its

delegates assembly from 19 northern states and Abuja and demanded that the

marginalisation of the Igbos in the armed forces by promotion and

appointment should be re-addressed by the present military government.

Citing several instances and names of prominent Igbo officers caught in the

web of marginalisation, the association reeled out names of such Igbo

officers that were marginalised as Cols Onyekweli, Ihenacho Nebo Oparaji,

Njoku and Nwobu, who they alleged, were all prematurely retired.

Others, according to the association, were Group Captain Ikpeazu, Brigadiers

Obi, Idegwuoha and Commodore Emeka Omeruah.

In the opinion of the association, the premature retirement of Ndigbo

military officers was to prevent them from rising to the rank of senior

officers, thereby denying them the opportunity of holding strategic and

command appointments.

The association debunked the statement from the Defence Headquarters that

there were no senior Igbo officers to occupy key positions in the military

arguing that it was a deliberate effort to hold them back.

The chief of army staff, which unarguably is the highest position in the

army has been elusive to the Igbos, whereas Major-General Ike Nwachukwu was

the only Igboman who occupied the position of General Officer Commanding

(GOC) of the Nigerian Army.

The main ground for arguing that the non-appointment of Igbo military

officers into command positions was deliberate is that many other military

officers had in the past been elevated to positions which their office

responsibilities had entailed. For example, then Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon was

catapulted to full General during the civil war; Murtala Mohammed had risen

from Brigadier to General when he staged his coup in 1975 while his

comrades-in-arm, Olusegun Obasanjo and Theophilus Danjuma, became Lt.

Generals from their previous rank of Brigadier.

Similarly, Yar'Adua was made a Brigadier from Lieutenant Colonel, while the

present Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, attained his rank from

Major General, so there is nothing wrong in promoting Igbo officers to

assume command structures in the Army, Navy or Air Force. It is unfortunate

that Major-General Sam Momah and Air Vice -Marshal Canice Umeniwaliri remain

the highest ranking Igbo military officers, even though they are holding

political appointments as ministers.

SELF SERVING CRY OF MARGINALISATION BY THE ELITES: By Jaye Gaskia

Under the OBJ presidency a section of the Yorubal elites occupied those positions, what siginificant difference did it make to the ordinary Yorubas and other citizens who lived in the southwest?............Jaye Gaskiya

My take on this cry of marginalisation, is that for all intents and purposes, it is a cry that is even among the Yorubas, quite a sectional, and perhaps self serving one!
A section of the Yoruba elite who have lost out at home are now trying to whip up sentiments in order to win consessions at the center. I do not think that those who are gained ascendancy at home consider the Yoruba to be marginalised! What real significant difference would occupying any of those position by the political elite making the the claim, make in or to the lives of ordinary Yorubas? When under the OBJ presidency a section of the Yorubal elites occupied those positions, what siginificant difference did it make to the ordinary Yorubas and other citizens who lived in the south west?
In reality, has this so-called marginalisation led to the undermining in any way, much less fundamentally, the business interests of the Yoruba elites for example?
Is the south west being at this moment governed by non Yorubas? Has it at any time in its history been governed by non Yorubas? I can even make bold to stir the hornet's nest and make what may be considered, a controversial assertion: 'The Yorubas, within the context of the politics of Nigeria, have made progress whenever they have been autonous of the center because of being governed by parties who are in the opposition at the federal level; than when they have been governed by same party as that at the center or by parties in alliance with the governing party at the center!
This claim of marginalisation as in most of the cases of marginalisation pushed and politicised by the political elites, is at its heart very self serving. And in this particular instance of the Yoruba, at this moment in time, even more self serving than most!
We heard a lot from the political elite of the Niger Delta before GEJ's ascendancy about the marginalisation of the Niger Delta [which is true in reality; but by which the elite meant their exclusion from access to the spoils of the federal center]. So is it that the fundamentals of the Niger Delta has been radically altered since GEJ? Is that why the Niger Delta is 'No longer marginalised'? Will the marginalisation return the moment the Niger Delta elite lose their current first class access to the spoils of office at the federal center?
In reality, the real marginalisation is of the under-privileged non elites, whose slum dwellings are routinely demolished; who are routinely evicted from urban centers; whose livelihoods sources are routinely criminalised; and whose living conditions have been permanently made helish and unbearable. Or take the youth, among whom unemployment and unemployability has reached pandemic proportions! These are the real marginalised; and it is this truly marginalised citizens across the country who need to come together and organise themselves politically and autonomously of this light fingered thieving ruling class; in order to take the necessary political Action to Take Back Nigeria; and achieve our National Liberation and Social Emancipation.

STEPHEN OKECHUKWU KESHI WINS AFCON CUP FOR NIGERIA: PROOF FEDERAL CHARACTER IS PRIMITIVE & DOES NOT WIN THINGS !!!

Nigeria wins third Afcon title

Nigeria wins third AFCON CUP.

 

              

Sunday Mba scored a magnificent winner as Nigeria won the Africa Cup of Nations for the third time.
The dominant Super Eagles made the breakthrough just before half-time when Mba clipped the ball over Mohamed Koffi and then volleyed into the far corner.
Burkina Faso almost equalised when Wilfried Sanou forced a fingertip save from goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.

Ahmed Musa slipped as he looked set to score and Victor Moses almost poked home as Nigeria eased to victory.
It was a win that was fully deserved as Nigeria comfortably beat a tired-looking Burkina Faso, who struggled to make an impact in their maiden final appearance.
And perhaps it was one game too many for the Burkinabe, who had failed to win a single game on foreign soil in the Nations Cup before this tournament but shocked by going so far this time.
However, credit must go to Nigeria and their coach Stephen Keshi, who captained the Super Eagles when they last won the title in 1994 and becomes only the second man to lift the trophy as a player and as a coach.
It is also the first time for 21 years that a black African coach has won the cup - Ivory Coast's Yeo Martial was the last to do so in 1992.
After Nigeria and Burkina Faso played out a 1-1 draw in their group match early on in the competition, the Super Eagles had grown in stature and went into the game as favourites.
Burkina Faso, though, were buoyed by being able to name an unchanged line-up after Jonathan Pitroipa’s redncard in the semi-final was rescinded. while Nigeria brought in Ikechukwu Uche for the injured Emmanuel Emenike.
The Super Eagles, playing in their first final since losing to Cameroon on penalties in 2000, made the brighter start and Moses made a couple of bursts down the flanks that eased concerns over a hamstring injury that had made him a doubt for the game.
He was involved in the first good chances of the game, dinking in a free-kick which Efe Ambrose headed over and then winning the corner from which Brown Ideye shot high and wide after keeper Daouda Diakite had spilled the ball at the midfielder's feet.
Nerves were on show from first-time finalists Burkina Faso and they looked even more unsettled by the pace and directness of Chelsea winger Moses.

Enugu High Court SACKS Chief Victor Umeh as APGA Chairman.....as Merger builds up.

 The leadership of the crisis ridden All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA including the party’s national chairman, Victor Umeh was today sacked by an Enugu High Court presided over by the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Innocent Umezuluike who declared the February 10th, 2011 election that gave Umeh and other members of the National Executive Council a second term tenure illegal, stressing that their re-election did not comply with article 18 of the party’s constitution.
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> The judgement followed an action filed by an APGA member, Okuli Jude Ejike who contested that the 2011 re-election of Umeh and his National Working Committee at the party’s national convention in Awka Anambra State was unconstitutional and should be declared null and void.
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> Umeh has however described the ruling as a pre-determined judgement from a confused judge. In his words: “this conclusion he reached today is one he actually reached before he commenced trial in this matter. Going by the orders he made it is very clear that he is confused in his judgment. He voided the convention of APGA that held on February 10, 2011 and sacked the entire executive elected with me because the election was declared a nullity.
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>“And he turned around to make an order that the NEC of APGA is bound to meet to elect national officers of the party; it shows that he did not read the constitution of APGA. First of all of you remove the entire NEC; he has practically left the party without any leadership; so who is going to convene that meeting will elect officers of the party.
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>“There was a prayer in the originating summons which he avoided and went into rhetorics; the plaintiff asked for an order that congresses shall commence from the wards, local governments, state and to national convention to elect officers of the party; he did not make any pronouncements on that prayer knowing that there is no way he can validly make such order.
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>“Also, the national convention which he voided elected 29 national committee members of APGA; the plaintiff sued only me, who was elected national chairman; if he was challenging my election through that convention he was bound to join all those elected by the convention but he didn’t do so; that is why we have said that the suit before him was incompetent; necessary parties were not joined.
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>“So the orders he made cannot be sustained on appeal; it clearly shows that he is desperately on a manhunt for the national chairman of APGA without thinking of the damage his pronouncements against me will do to the party. We have no confidence in the judgment and we are not moved; we knew that was what he was going to say; in-fact for two weeks now, exactly all he read out were the orders the people at Government House Awka were telling people he was going to make.
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>“We are very happy to be out of his court; he has finished his business on this matter and the consolation is that there are two higher courts, the Appeal and the Supreme Court; until these courts adjudicate on this matter there is nobody who will step in as chairman of APGA. So nothing has been lost.
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>“At a point when he started mishandling this matter I petitioned to the National Judicial Council (NJC) who in turn queried him; he replied to the query on November 7, 2012; the CJN sent to me his reply and asked me to make further reaction; and I will tell you that we have comprehensively reviewed his reply; he completely evaded all the allegations against him.
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>“Remember that we even asked him to re-assign the case and also filed a motion for him to disqualify himself from the matter based on bias; he refused to say things about his actions in the judgment today; why he did not disqualify himself or re-assign the matter. So I don’t see how the matter has closed; the important thing to me is that we are out of Umezuluike’s court.
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>“So I will go on appeal; put a stay on the execution of this judgment until the court of appeal reviews it; I also have right of further appeal to the Supreme Court. So the sponsors of this have nothing to celebrate. I urge my members to remain calm.”
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>“By sacking the National Working Committee of APGA that was elected at the National Convention of 10th February 2011 which the court declared null and void, Justice Umezulike has completely decapitated APGA and left it without a leadership. This is like removing the head of a trailer and the body of the trailer can no longer move.
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>“By this his judgement, there is no organ of the party left to execute the orders he made, therefore the orders are in vain. Nobody including Governor Peter Obi, the sponsor of this suit can derive any benefit from the judgment until the matter is determined at the two levels of appeal available; Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
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>“Umezulike’s mishandling of this case is still being handled by the National Judicial Council which forwarded to me Umezulike’s reply to my petition last month for my further reaction which I submitted to the Chairman of NJC on February 5, 2011.”
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40 Unkown Floating Dead Bodies May Be MASSOB Members, Group Cries Out

As we had earlier unraveled in our penultimate publication, this mystery is turning out to be extra judicial killings by the Government which explains why not one community has cried out about missing persons because these folks have been earlier detained and their next of kins may not be aware of their whereabouts as of today 

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Leaders of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) have been urged to take a headcount of their members in the South East geo-political zone, especially the ones detained in various police formations, to determine whether it was not “their members that were criminally murdered and thrown into the Ezu River in Anambra State.”

In the same vein, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 9 has been called upon to investigate the origin of the corpses brought out of the river with a view to ascertaining the cause of death and the area where the act was committed.

A Non-Governmental Organisation, Total Peace in Nigeria, made the call on Tuesday.

It believes there was no way a huge number of people could be killed in any community and the community would not come out to speak, adding that it strongly suspects that the corpses belong to the MASSOB.

President of the NGO, Chukwuemeka Omenka, who spoke to newsmen in Umuahia lamented that the slow pace of investigation into the matter was making Nigerians apprehensive that a cover up was in the making.

“So many issues have cropped up in the country, especially those concerning innocent Nigerians and after a while the matter is totally forgotten and life goes on.

“The discovery of the over 40 corpses from the Ezu River should be a matter of concern for every Nigerian because no one knows what has happened.

“As an organisation, we are not unaware of the many members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra that have been detained over the years and are currently languishing in various prisons in the country simply because they came out to defend their God-given constitutional rights,” Omenka said.

Omenka reminded Nigerians that the number of corpses recovered from the river was so alarming that organisations whose members are in detention should not just sit back and watch, adding that the matter should not be allowed to be swept under the carpet as was done to other matters.

“We are concerned. We are worried, not because people have not spoken out, but because it is likely going to amount to nothing.

“We call on MASSOB to cross check with the police and also call on the police AIG to do the same on the number of inmates in police formations in the zone.

“We are aware of the no-love-lost between the police and MASSOB. This is why we are making this call today.”

Efforts to reach spokesman of the MASSOB proved abortive, as he did not pick his calls, but a member of the organisation who pleaded anonymity said they had been asked to do a thorough investigation into the matter and report to the headquarters.

It would be recalled that late last month, the community of Amansea in Anambra State woke up to the rude shock of several bodies floating on the Ezu River, their only source of drinking water, and then raised an alarm.

Already, Anambra State Government had carried out an autopsy on the corpses but nothing was revealed.

The National Assembly through a motion brought by Senator Andy Uba has asked its committee on police and other security agencies to wade into the matter and report back, just as Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Bala Nassarawa, said the command was also investigating the incident.

Meanwhile, Anambra State Commissioner of Health, Lawrence Ikeako, has confirmedthat autopsy on 19 corpses has been completed.

Four of the corpses that were buried by the side of the river and later exhumed havenow been properly buried, Ikeako added.

In an interview in his office on Wednesday, Ikeako also refuted reports that the autopsy was conducted at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi. According to him, the autopsy was conducted at the Anambra State University Teaching Hospital, Awka.

However, according to him, final report of the autopsy will be released after the police pathologist had finished his own examination.

When reminded that a section of the human rights community would not trust police pathologist’s report, Ikeako said it is not common in medicine to falsify result of such exercise.

Also, global human rights watch, Amnesty International (AI), has alleged that hundreds of fatal police shootings and other organised killings in Nigeria are poorly investigated by relevant security agencies thereby making justice for victims and their families bastardised.

The AI in a report released on Tuesday added that such shoddy or deliberately perverted ways of handling crime often leave victims’ families anguished.

“This is because the bereaved are not being investigated effectively because of a failure of the Nigerian justice system.

“In Nigeria, ‘No Justice for the Dead’ illustrates the gaps in the investigation of deaths following police action in Rivers State where basic techniques of crime scene protection and investigation are not applied and autopsies and inquests are either not carried out, or are inadequate,” the report said.

It added that relatives are often left with no answers about the fate of their family members and rarely receive justice.

AI believes that Rivers State is representative of other Nigerian states where violent deaths at the hands of the police are not investigated adequately.

The traditional ruler of Amansea said the community had never witnessed such a gory sight before, while the Commissioner of Police in the state said the dead bodies remained a mystery as there had been no communal clash in Enugu or Anambra where many people were killed. He said investigations are ongoing...

The State Governor Peter Obi has cut short his trip abroad and is expected back today.

Residents of Amansea in Awka, Anambra State woke up yesterday morning Saturday January 19th to a horrifying sight; 40 dead bodies floating in a River in their community. People from the community and some neighbouring ones besieged the Ezu river yesterday to catch a glimpse of the dead bodies. The river is at the boundary between Enugu and Anambra states and the dead bodies were found at the old Enugu-Onitsha road axis of the river.

The corpses whose identities were unknown, were suspected to have been dumped in the river Friday night by unknown persons. 

GHANA OVER TAKES NIGERIA IN FRAUD WORLDWIDE

Ohaneze members throw punches over G.E.J N5 Billion "Carrot " to LOOK away in 2015 Presidency.

The apex organization of South East Igbos in Nigeria, the Ohaneze Ndigbo appears stuck in neutral over squabbles emanating from monies collected by the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo from the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan as gifts for the apex organization. This is as executive members and stakeholders of the Apex organization have charged that the monies collected on their behalf was collected without their knowledge – and that the monies were collected in exchange and/or in return for the endorsement of the organization.
For this reason, the internal administrative wheels of the Igbo Apex organization fell into a cantankerous quagmire.
Information available to 247ureports.com reveals the numerous visits by the President General, Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, to the Presidential villa in Abuja to meet with the President of Nigeria during the hay days of the 2011 presidential elections.
As gathered, the election of Ambassador Ralph Uwechue into the seat of President General saw the weighty influence of the then substantive President of the federal republic of the Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan into the affairs of the apex organization – into electing an Igbo person of Niger Delta extraction. [Ambassador Ralph Uwechue is from Delta State.] With President Jonathan’s weighted influence, Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, who not a frontrunner, emerged the President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo.
Uwechue’s ascension immediately brought the expected desires of the presidency to the forefront. The President General began with frequent visits to the Aso Villa quarters for behind closed door meetings with the President. One of the President men who were present at one of the ‘behind the closed door’ meetings – revealed to the executive members of Ohaneze that during one of the visit to the villa – the Ohaneze Ndigbo was given N250million on behalf of the apex organization – in return for a blanket endorsement of President Jonathan – during the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] presidential primaries – a move that was considered awkward because the endorsement carried no significant towards the PDP primaries.
The competent source within the presidency pointed to the meeting held at the palace of Asagba in Asaba in Delta State on November 22, 2008 – where the Anioma delegation were instructed to hoist the person of Uwechue to the seat of President General. The source stated that the choice of Uwechue was met with stiff resistance by the stakeholders within the Ohaneze because Uwechue was reported to have never attended or showed interest in Ohaneze activities. Nonetheless, he was elected on November 29, 2008 unopposed after the two other candidates [Chief Dan Okenyi and Dr. Joshua Enueme] withdrew their candidacy on the eve of the Election Day.
“Between November 29 2008 and November 2012, Uwechue had audience with President Jonathan 20 times” said the source while confirming that during the visits large sums of money were handed to the President General that sums to a little over N5billion. He added that the President General approached the Presidency about the formation of Ohaneze Foundation – which he made the presidency believe was a venture under the auspices of Ohaneze Ndigbo – and so – was given significant financial support towards the startup of the foundation. With the formation of the foundation, the President General launched a transportation business – and purchased a slew of mini buses to ply the routes of Lagos to South East and from Abuja to South East – and other routes. However cursory investigation revealed that the foundation was setup as a private foundation belonging solely to Ambassador Ralph Uwechue – and not Ohaneze.
The proceeds of the transportation business – called Aka Ikenga Transport – are reported to go directly into the private coffers of the Ohaneze top boss under the said foundation. Ohaneze, the apex organization, according to the information gathered, does not have knowledge of the funds generated through the transport outfit.
Other business endeavors engaged by the Ohaneze top boss under the guise of representing Ohaneze extended to real estate investments – of which the Union of Ohaneze were not aware of – nor were they knowledgeable of the funds generated from the business outfits.
The recent election held in Enugu where a new President General was elected exposed the long hidden administrative maladies plaguing the apex organization. It was learnt that Ohaneze finances were in the red [empty] to the extent – Ohaneze as a body was not financially able to conduct the said election. It took the intervention of the Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore A. Orji who released the sum of N2million to the organization.
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Meanwhile, the revelation financial mischief on the part of the former top boss has since tossed the apex organization into turmoil – threatening to further sedation of the already sedated union. Its executive members have taken the matter to the courts for redress – while some within the stakeholder have called for the criminal prosecution of the former top boss.
Efforts to reach the former Ohaneze boss through his MTN line – failed – as he refused to respond to our inquires.

Culled from UReport


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PRESS RELEASE

IGBO WORLD ASSEMBLY (IWA)

LAW SUIT AGAINST NEWLY ELECTED

OHANaEZE NDIIGBO LEADERSHIP IS AN ACT OF SABOTAGE

http://www.igboworldassembly.org/

02-01-13

Igbo World Assembly (IWA) has resolved that the law suits instituted by certain individuals against the newly elected leadership of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo is an act of sabotage to Ndiigbo. The election that was praised as being free and fair as well as attended by Ndiigbo from the South East and South South (Igbo speaking States) Zones and the Diaspora country groups representationed by IWA ; and yet some individuals who were not present during the election are trying to stop the newly elected National Executives of Ohanaeze.

It is now very clear on whose interest these QUESTIONABLE individuals are working for –certainly not in the interest of Ndiigbo. There have been Igbo saboteurs in the past and IWA is saying not anymore.

Ndi Igbo are united and have on 12th January 2013 spoken through a democratic process and enemies of Ndiigbo and their agents are making themselves known and they will not succeed.

IWA noted with disgust how THESE QUESTIONABLE individuals who neither contested nor participated in the election have gone to court, while no Ohanaeze Chapter from any State went to court challenging the Ohanaeze’s 12th January election; however THESE individuals have gone to court. The world knows and so will future generation know that these individuals are on a mission – against Igbo interest.

If all groups including the Governors from South East are seeking for peace, unity but THESE individuals are taking Ohanaeze to court; one should start asking in whose interest they are fighting for. We need to know who they are representing, who is paying for these law suits. If they represent any Ward, LGA or State Chapter of Ohanaeze why not sue through such body.

IWA had on its communique of 21 November 2012 re-“IWA Condemns Law Suits Against Ohanaeze Ndiigbo”; appealed to aggrieved individuals to withdraw their court cases against Ohanaeze Ndiigbo and follow the due process of handling such issues within Ohanaeze Ndiigbo traditions and mechanism. IWA’s call has been supported by several Igbo groups both home and abroad, we re-affirm our call and continue to advice that there is no issue that the Ndiigbo cannot handle within themselves. Ndi Igbo survived the civil war and several challenges thereafter and yet we have come out resolute and strong. IWA appeals for all to be a PART OF THE SOLUTION.

IWA is proud of Ndiigbo and thanks all Ndiigbo both individuals /groups that put Igbo interest first. IWA does not tolerate inefficiency, ineffectiveness, corruption or any action against the common interest of Ndiigbo. IWA once againadvices aggrieved individuals to withdraw their cases from the Nigerian Courts and pursue their cases first of all through our Igbo traditional judicial system. IWA would like to reaffirm that Ohanaeze is for OHA NDIIGBO AND NOT FOR FEW INDIVIDUALS OR CABALS.

There are more than enough challenges facing Ndiigbo and we should encourage the newly elected National Executives of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo to start tackling these issues. Our challenges consist of (but not limited to):

· Having Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in 2015 (after President Jonathan Ebele Goodluck)

· Getting two additional States for South East (were stalled by the current Constitution, we should get developmental/money allocation for TWO STATES and ASSOCIATED LGS)

· Getting Anioma State from the South South

· Building 2nd Niger Bridge before 2015,

· Completing Enugu International Airport in 2013

· Economic infrastructure establishments in Igbo States,

· Tackling Kidnap and improve security

· Youth Unemployment,

· Promote good governance

· Assisting to re-establish our people that returned from the Northern part of Nigeria due to security issues.

Distracting the newly elected National Executives of Ohanaeze, and or using Nigerian Court process to create gap/crisis within Ohanaeze Leadership WILL NEVER BE IN THE INTEREST OF NDIIGBO AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED

IWA is of the view that monies to be spent for these court cases could better be used for example to provide scholarship to some of the kid-returnees from the North while the case goes through the traditional judicial process .

IWA appeals for resolution of all issues peacefully. We need to help and support the newly elected Ohaneze National Executives to start tackling the challenges listed above.

IGBO WORLD ASSEMBLY therefore:

In the pursuit of IGBO UNITY and in our resolve to tackle the challenges confronting Ndiigbo as well as the context of continuing law suit, Igbo World Assembly unequivocally:

1 Stand by its position in condemning Prince Chukwuemeka Ifeanacho Onyesoh and Chief Oyibo Chukwu for not withdrawing their Law suit against former Ohanaeze President General Amb Ralph Uwachue/ Ohanaeze Ndiigbo as advised by all, but rather went further to Court and filed a motion in an Enugu High Court seeking for an Order to quash the 12th January election of Ohanaeze National Executives.

For clarifications and notice to all - Prince Chukwuemeka Ifeanacho Onyesoh (Alias Okpalaeze Nri – a distance Cousin of Eze Nri); has On Saturday, 01 December 2012 at 09:57 stated that “The co-called proposed election by Ambassador Raph Uwechue has been found to be a mere ruse. It has been found that Chief Uwechue has no plans to exit office as President-General of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo in the foreseeable future” please see the link (http://mail.elombah.com/index.php/write-for-us/13537-purported-ohanaeze-election-a-farce-chukwuemeka-onyesoh). The whole world is asking Chukwuemeka Ifeanacho Onyesoh and his cohorts to explain why they went to court stopping the new National Executives that replaced Amb Ralp Uwechue. If destruction is not in Chukwuemeka Ifeanacho Onyesoh’s agenda what else is the his motive?.

2 Stand by its position in condemning Chukwuemeka Onyesoh & Oyibo Chukwu for giving face to a faceless“alliance of Igbo patriots”. If there is any Igbo group represented by these two individuals they should come out and make their objectives known to all. Even Boko Haram is recently having face.

For clarity Chukwuemeka Onyesoh on 01 December 2012 09:57 stated that “For Ndigbo in Igbo World Assembly (IWA) under the leadership of Dr. Nwachukwu Anikwenze who seem to be uninformed on Ohanaeze, they should be told that there is nothing personal in the suit which is initiated by a coalition of Igbo patriots who wish to rescue Ohanaeze from a autocracy which is alien to Igbo Culture. Emeka Onyesoh & Oyibo Chukwu are merely giving face to that alliance of Igbo patriots”

· Who are these Igbo Patrots?

· Are they another Cabal or Boko Haram in SE?

· Why is Emeka Onyesoh & Oyibo Chukwu merely giving face to these faceless“alliance of Igbo patriots”

· Why is it that Emeka Onyesoh & Oyibo Chukwu cannot go through the Ohanaeze Chapters in their Wards?.

3 Condems the injunction order by Chief Richard Ozobu from Ebonyi High Court ordering Igariwey, Nwaorgu and those elected on 12th Jan not to present, act or parade themselves in any manner as Ohanaeze officials.

IWA is aware thatthe secretary of the Ohanaeze Electoral Committee, Chief Richard Ozobu, disagreed with the Chairman of the committee, Chief Chris Asoluka and other 14 members of the committee over the decision to conduct the election on 12th January 2013 when necessary arrangements (e.g. lack of funds) had not been made for the exercise.

Since the election went well, we therefore appeal to Chief Richard Ozobu for the sake of Igbo unity. He need to learn and know that one member out of a committee of fifteen membership cannot veto the process “ a tree does not make a forest”.

4 IWA views those distracting every Ohanaeze Administration from doing its duties for Ndi igbo as well as preventing them from reaching out to other Nigerian nationalities ahead of 2015 in support of Nigerian President of SE extraction risk being labeled as saboteurs who have auctioned the actualization of Igbo agenda because of self-interest.

5 Finally, Igbo World Assembly (IWA), supports all moves/actions from all groups towards making Ohanaeze Ndiigbo stronger including the outcome of the meeting of the South East Governors and the highly placed Igbo Statesmen and Elders in setting up a High Powered Committee led by Senator Ben Obi (Ojelu Igbo Awka) to look into the aggrieved matters within Ohanaeze. Igbo World Assembly (IWA), TRUST that all genuine actions will proffer A NEW ORDER for Ndiigbo that will free the newly elected Ohanaeze National Executives to execute their mandate for Ndiigbo and Igbo Agenda.

Igbo World Assembly (IWA) is the Apex Global Umbrella Organization that represents the Apex National Igbo Organizations (outside Nigeria) in the various countries of the world such as USA, UK, France, Spain, Finland, Netherland, Ireland, India, Ghana, Dubai, Pakistan, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Denmark, Japan, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden ,Mali, Austria, Belgium and Canada. The Igbo World Assembly (IWA) works very closely and recognizes Ohaneze Ndi-Igbo as the mouthpiece of Ndi-Igbo World Wide.

The Igbo World Assembly (IWA), is the only bona fide, inter-continental, Igbo Advocacy group of its kind founded on May 19, 2008, and represents a committed attempt to truly perfect a Global Igbo Union. IWA is founded on the twin principles of Njikoka and Igba Izu (synergy and collaboration) and we are committed to working with, collaborating with, partnering with all genuine Igbo political, economic and social expression vehicles. By presenting a platform to leverage Igbo Diaspora as a strategic partner on Igbo issues, we aim to advance the Igbo agenda as never before done in our post-war history.

Our goal is clear, Ndi-Igbo must speak with one voice and one accord; we must seek to do and be done equitably, by all means expedient or warranted; we must wage struggles as necessary; we must conclude peace as always necessary; we must establish and prosper our economies; we must promote our welfare; we must tell our stories; and we must celebrate our culture and history.

This is IWA’s commitment to Igbo leaders and friend of Ndiigbo who share our vision to attain and perfect that elusive global Igbo Union. It is in that light that IWA wishes to use our platform, to seek program partners, to assemble committed Igbo leaders, and to reflect on how to leverage Igbo’s Diaspora presence as a new instrument in the struggle against Igbo adversaries.

 

God Bless you

Long live IWA

Long live Ndigbo

Long Live Nigeria

Thank you

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