MASSOB orders Ndigbo to stay at home August 28

[denker]

Tension as MASSOB sit-at-home order begins

INNOCENT NWOBODO, Deputy Editor, and ALPHONSUS NWEZE, Onitsha


ANAMBRA State, especially Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of the state, yesterday, was enveloped in a pall of tension as the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) sit-at-home protest in the entire South-East begins tomorrow.

The tension was heightened by optimism expressed by the leadership of the pro-Biafra movement that everything had been put in place to ensure that the exercise turns out a huge success.

MASSOB had last month in consistent newspaper publications asked that no person in the South-East should engage in any economic activity throughout the South-East today. It also directed a massive shut all cell phones in the entire geopolitical zone to protest "the continued marginalization of Ndigbo by the Nigerian federation."

The Awka Regional administrator of the Movement, Comrade Edeson Samuel, told Daily Champion yesterday on telephone that every arrangement had been put in place to ensure the success of the exercise.

He said that all the market leaders, industrialists, transporters, Okada riders, bank managers and the clergy had been briefed on the need to comply with tomorrow’s stay-at-home directive.

Comrade Samuel gave the assurance that these professional groups would definitely comply and this would reaffirm the fact to the federal government and the international community that 95 percent of Ndigbo are behind MASSOB.

The administrator said that the occasion would afford Ndigbo the opportunity to protest the killing of an Igbo man in the North some weeks ago as well as the persecution of Ndigbo by the successive federal governments of Nigeria.

"This will show the pessimists that we are in effective control of the Biafran land, which the Nigerian government calls the South-East," said the administrator.
The declaration of Biafra in 1967, an attempt by the former Eastern Region to form a separate republic, turned 41 this year.

Meanwhile, the pro-Biafra group has unveiled a manifest of 2,016 dead and or missing members, said to be victims of extra-judicial killings during the eight-year rule of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. MASSOB in a cover letter to the ‘official’ casualty list entitled "Continued Massacre/Detention of MASSOB Members" also said a lot more killings had gone unreported or under-reported in those years.

"More than 1,000 MASSOB members are languishing in various prisons in Nigeria," the pressure group said in the letter which was mailed to Champion House, Lagos. According to the MASSOB statement, 263 of its members perished in a massacre of March 29, 2003, at Okigwe, Imo State; 1,044 at Onitsha, Anambra State, between 2006 and 2007; 448 at Aba, Abia State, and Owerri, Imo State, and 198 at Enugu, Enugu State, and Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.

Also on the casualty list are other deaths recorded in the same period as follows: Ohafia Area 1, 13; Arochukwu Area 2, six; Nkporo Area 3, 10; Bende Area 4, five; Abiriba Area 8, 22; Okamu Area 7, two; and Abam Area 6, five – all in the Abia north region.

Tracing the history of such killings, the letter signed by MASSOB’s Deputy Director of Information, Mr. Chris Mocha, recalled that state-sponsored mass killing of Ndigbo - the majority ethnic group in the defunct Biafra - began in 1953 in Kano, northern Nigeria, during the nationalist agitation for independence.

"The massacre continued in January and July 1966 in most parts of the North and indeed western Nigeria," the letter further recalled, and added that the 1966 massacre led to the declaration of Biafra and the 30-month civil war that ended in 1970.

Mr. Mocha contended that even after the cessation of hostilities, "There has been no end to the genocide against the Igbo ethnic group." These killings, he said, were done in the guise of religious crisis, especially in northern Nigeria.

He said MASSOB was floated in 1999 "as (safety of) lives and property of Ndigbo could not be guaranteed in Nigeria." The objective, he continued, was to pursue through non-violence the cause of self-determination for the people of eastern Nigeria. Notwithstanding MASSOB’s "non-violent approach," lamented the spokesman, "the Nigerian state continued its genocide against our people." He claimed the 2,016 on the list perished between May 22, 2000, and April 22, 2008.

While affirming the inalienable right of MASSOB "to agitate for our freedom through non-violent means," Mr. Mocha called on the international community and all men and women of goodwill to dissuade the Nigerian authorities from further genocide and "release our members detained in Nigeria."

Recently while celebrating the declaration of Biafra which clocked 41 last May 30, MASSOB issued a statement calling on the United Nations to drag erstwhile President Obasanjo to the International Criminal Court for genocide involving more than 3,000 MASSOB members said to have perished in the hands of his government forces.

A MASSOB statement marking the anniversary said that the ex-president deserved the fate of Charles Taylor of Liberia who is facing criminal charges at The Hague. MASSOB also called on President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to release over 1,000 of its arrested members in the course of its scheduled protest march earlier this year.


http://www.champion-newspapers.com/n...le4_270808.htm

[Ranter]

How does all these help the ordinary poor man on the streets?

I hope they will let anyone that chose to ignore the protest go about his/her business unmolested.

[ALORAINIDDEVIL]

Originally Posted by Ranter

How does all these help the ordinary poor man on the streets?

I hope they will let anyone that chose to ignore the protest go about his/her business unmolested.

make we catch you outside make u talk wetin you dey do .. All Biafrans and friends of Biafrans in home and in Diaspora and even in N village square must stay at home today! Today is like the Passover day when Baba God gave his children the blood sign before the angel of death strucked to wipe out the Egyptians. Every Biafran must respect this stay at home order! Let us cripple the Nigerian Economy for a day! Let us make Lagos trafic-less for a day so that FASHOLA them will know we are more in numbers! let us Unite in our course for a Day!

ON AHIARA DECLARATION WE STAND. LONG LIVE EVERY SON AND DAUGHTER OF BIAFRA ! LONG LIVE REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA!

[RAYNOSA]

Re: MASSOB orders Ndigbo to stay at home August 28


Lets see the true Ndigbo's that will observe this call........


Today is the 28th of August 2008

[bobokite]

Originally Posted by RAYNOSA

Re: MASSOB orders Ndigbo to stay at home August 28


Lets see the true Ndigbo's that will observe this call........


Today is the 28th of August 2008

I am calling Lagos now to find out if ASPAMDA, BALOGUN and ALABA open today.... i go give you feedback on the sucess

[UncleTisha]

Originally Posted by bobokite

I am calling Lagos now to find out if ASPAMDA, BALOGUN and ALABA open today.... i go give you feedback on the sucess

Thanks!

Cheers.

[WaleAkin]

Originally Posted by bobokite

I am calling Lagos now to find out if ASPAMDA, BALOGUN and ALABA open today.... i go give you feedback on the sucess

Pls kindly include Ladipo Auto spare parts, Idi-Oro Non tested electronics, Idumota's Ebinpejo Lane Nollywood and 21 Iweka Rd shops!!

Thanks

[VOR]

Originally Posted by WaleAkin

Pls kindly include Ladipo Auto spare parts, Idi-Oro Non tested electronics, Idumota's Ebinpejo Lane Nollywood and 21 Iweka Rd shops!!

Thanks

I eagerly await the report. There are some Ndi'Igbo still wandering around the square today sha, let Denker catch them

[RAYNOSA]

Originally Posted by bobokite

I am calling Lagos now to find out if ASPAMDA, BALOGUN and ALABA open today.... i go give you feedback on the sucess

Please
Include all Luxury Bus terminus..........IDDO,OJOTA,MILE 2 and YABA
Thanks

[Chief Kalu]

Originally Posted by RAYNOSA

Please
Include all Luxury Bus terminus..........IDDO,OJOTA,MILE 2 and YABA
Thanks

I was supposed to be at a crucial meeting this morning at Aba. The meeting has been postponed till next week. Reason: Massob sit at home matter.

[RAYNOSA]

Originally Posted by Chief Kalu

I was supposed to be at a crucial meeting this morning at Aba. The meeting has been postponed till next week. Reason: Massob sit at home matter.

Mazi Chief Kalu
I beg tell us your departure point..........certainly not Lagos.Because i just call somebody for computer village for Lagos em talk say how person wey dey Anambra go dey tell who dey Lagos dey hustle to siddon for house.
Also my friend for Abuja say uncountable Luxurious busses dey enter town all filled up.

[bobokite]

info I gathered on the SIT AT HOME ORDER..

LAGOS: ALABA is on, Idumota is on, ASPAMDA and BALOGUN are on, Ladikpo is as busy as ever. BERGER YARD (those places they sell cars) is on. My Verdict: 100% failure in Lagos.

Enugu: I don’t even need to say much because the first person I called asked me if I was crazy. [I]…”Which kind MASSOB u dey talk about Bob? So if you dey Naija you go listen to those people? Abeg talk better gist jare, wetin dey happen for your end......” that was his answer. The MASSOB thing to him was not even a Topic.

I called my mum who is a civil servant and surprisingly she was at her place of work. I asked why she is not obeying the MASSOB order, she replied “Which MASSOB And which Order?” I told her we are hearing news that MASSOB ordered every Igbo to stay at home today and that Enugu is obeying the order. She was surprised and said "anyway....if it is true then it means no body is obeying the order because even Ogbete Market opened as early as 5am and civil servants also came to work…"
My verdict: 105% failure in Enugu

ABA: Yes the person I called confirmed ABA is obeying the ORDER but not everybody. However in his own account, ABA town today is like a public holiday.. verdict: 70% success

Please people that have friends in Onitsha, Owerri and Abuja should call and get information for us so we can see if todays Order by MASSOB was Obeyed or not… NDEWO!

[RAYNOSA]

Can someone give the situation report on the NVS

Thanks

[Big-K]

I just forwarded this order to my boss on why I'm refusing to work today....

[VOR]

Originally Posted by Big-K

I just forwarded this order to my boss on why I'm refusing to work today....

Which time you become Igbo Big K? Woo, na sack letter go wait you when you decide to return to work...

[Big-K]

Originally Posted by VOR

Which time you become Igbo Big K? Woo, na sack letter go wait you when you decide to return to work...

VOR,

I'm Igbo today and MASSOB has my back. Denker, no be so?

Check this:

An aircraft was losing height due to overload. The pilot then announced ''WE WILL THROW OUT PASSENGERS'' in alphabetical order, Any AFRICANS on board? No one moved. Any BLACK person? No ANS. Any CARRIBEAN. There was silence . Then a BLACK boy asked his DAD, what are we ? He said 'Son today we are ZULUS.

[RAYNOSA]

Originally Posted by Big-K

VOR,

I'm Igbo today and MASSOB has my back. Denker, no be so?

Check this:

Big-K........................IGWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH

[Abraxas]

Originally Posted by VOR

Which time you become Igbo Big K? Woo, na sack letter go wait you when you decide to return to work...

Hi, Erelu VOR!

So, yoo no know sey His Excellency, Oga Big-K 'inhm baptizmal name na Igbochukwu Kayode Omobasanjo O'Koro? (OBJ born pikin, no be small.)

Even though,{enhen?}, 'e dey carry Irish passport, Big-K na pure Igboman. .... I'm telling you! Opari!

By de way, sef, me too I dey si'do'n for my shade, dey wait for customers for Ikokwu spare parts ghetto, for Pitakwa, Garden City. Bizness dey boom, well-well.

Make I go, come small, {yoo hear?}

Obrigado!

Don Juan-Carlos ABRAXAS (III)

[Auspicious]

LOOOOOOOOOL!

I don't know which is funnier:

The responses from friends and relatives to Bobokite's inquires about the MASSOB's sit-at-home order, OR, Big-K's sudden discovery of his Igbo identity - along with his Joke and about the Zulu dad and his Kpikin on the "Aeromplane".

NVS sha! You get your laughs, your annoyance and everything else in various measures.

Thanks for the Humor!

L.H. Auspy.

PS: I ain't 'thanking' Bobokite until a MASSOB member does!
PPS: Denker should please note.

[VOR]

Ehhhh hennnnnn? So Big K na Gbenga and Iyabo broda? Shuoooooo

Big K, please everything I have said about baba Iyabo here was said under duress o, some villagers put a gun to my head! You know baba is a very kind and generous man, Nigerians just don't understand him.... ehhhn now..........he came before his time, infact, he shouldn't have come at all after all he did for Nigerians, and they don't appreciate him..... bloody Nigerians (wey my own oil block na?)

As e be Igbo now, e relate to Odili too kwo? ehh henn.....make that 2........ Ahhhh..VOR container gi a land yala

Originally Posted by Abraxas

Hi, Erelu VOR!

So, yoo no know sey His Excellency, Oga Big-K 'inhm baptizmal name na Igbochukwu Kayode Omobasanjo O'Koro? (OBJ born pikin, no be small.)

Even though,{enhen?}, 'e dey carry Irish passport, Big-K na pure Igboman. .... I'm telling you! Opari!

By de way, sef, me too I dey si'do'n for my shade, dey wait for customers for Ikokwu spare parts ghetto, for Pitakwa, Garden City. Bizness dey boom, well-well.

Make I go, come small, {yoo hear?}

Obrigado!

Don Juan-Carlos ABRAXAS (III)