July 03 2024 | State Media The right to SELF-DETERMINATION, as stipulated in ARTICLE 3 of the UN CHARTER, specifies that self-determinatio...
July 03 2024 | State Media
The right to SELF-DETERMINATION, as stipulated in ARTICLE 3 of the UN CHARTER, specifies that self-determination is not only an inalienable and fundamental human right, but equally an indispensable ingredient in the continuation of the existence of mankind.
Again, in the African Charter on HUMAN and PEOPLE'S RIGHTS, it is unambiguously stated that every government must give the maximum support to all Indigenous Peoples that want to exercise their rights to SELF-DETERMINATION. This Charter was ratified by Nigeria, meaning that it is contained in the Nigerian constitution.
However, and unfortunately, as the issue of SELF-DETERMINATION was birthed by Indigenous People of Biafra, led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the disposition of Nigerian government (under the lordship of the British government) has been to CRUSH the demand for Biafra's self-determination.
This implies ensuring that any mention of Biafra, or anything that relates to Biafra, or anybody that portrays himself or herself to be associated with Biafra, is either abducted, incarcerated, disappeared, or killed, with impunitous self-entitlement.
With this disposition and mentality, millions of #Biafrans have become victims of the Nigerian state, and have been subjected to endless traumatic psychological and physical ordeal, in the hands of Nigerian security forces.
Apart from the well-known cases of Nigerian Army or Police invading isolated non-public meeting points of Biafrans, and shooting them to death in large numbers on the allegation that they are IPOB members, shooting large number of unarmed peaceful protesters on the streets, arresting men and women on the streets for wearing apparels that have the same colour theme with the Biafran flag, or being arrested for being "suspected of looking like a Biafran", many Biafrans have been whisked from their homes in the dead of the night, by unidentifiable gun-wielding men, and taken to unknown destinations.
While some are lucky to be traced and found alive, some have not been able to be found alive, or even found dead, as their disappearances have remained unresolved up to this day.
Even those that are found alive are sometimes found in a state of total wreckage, as they may have been tortured and tormented to stupor, leaving them a mere shadow of themselves.
It is on the basis of the above backdrop that we narrate the personal and collective ordeals of our Biafran brothers and sisters, that have gone through the fire of nightmarish experiences in the Nigerian state, for the simple reason of standing firmly for Biafra's self-determination.
Some of these traumatic experiences include:
~Being whisked Away Before family members;
Because the Nigerian government went to its own court by night to obtain an ex-parte injunction, which prohibited and classified IPOB as a terrorist group, they invariably gave the Nigerian security forces the power to arbitrarily abduct any Biafran, even in the presence of their families, without any warrant, whether search or arrest.
As Nigeria is a lawless crime scene, the security agents capitalize on this to continue their secret agenda against #Biafrans (I will later tell you what that agenda is). This whisking away can eventually end up in either negotiating a ransom for release, or incarceration in a known or unknown place, or untraceable disappearance, or outright recorded death.
~ Being Abducted Along the Road Or At Meeting Venues;
Many Biafrans have been abducted along the road or at meeting venues on the flimsy excuse that they are suspected to be IPOB members.
When these victims are kidnapped, they can be blindfolded, or carried in dark-glassed vehicles over a very long unknown distances/destinations, with vital questions being asked about their health conditions, especially with regards to organ-related ailments.
If such questions lead to a confirmation of the soundness of organs, there is a very high tendency that such Biafrans will disappear permanently, for ORGAN HARVESTING, as this has recently turned out to be a very lucrative business for Nigerian government and security officials.
This is a part of, if not the major business that takes place in all of the TOLL POINTS (checkpoints) that litter Biafra land, are barely fifty meters apart from one another, in the whole of Biafra land. This predicament usually befalls the youths, who are usually the target of the terrorists in uniform at the TOLL POINTS.
~ Being Sought, Trailed, Traced, And Abducted Randomly and Arbitrarily
The terrorists empowered by Nigerian government who operate as security agents, flagrantly apply this methodology against those who are known to be hardcore Biafrans.
What they appear to have in mind is that by the time they squeeze, choke, strangle, and asphyxiate these unrepentant Biafrans, they will be deflated, discouraged, and deterred from continuing with the legitimate pursuit of Biafra, which is not just lawful, but equally constitutional.
In the process of exercising this mindset, the security agents of Nigeria, which include the Army, Police, DSS, etc, trace their target, sometimes, through telephony, abduct such ones, take them to various or several underground detention centres in the north, and in most cases, to the extreme parts of the north, without any family member or legal counsel, being aware of the persons whereabout.
In the process, they subject such Biafran victims to different kinds of horrendous and horrific extremities in terms of torture, making the survival of such victims highly improbable.
To instil maximum fear into such victims, they deny them food, deliberately subjecting them to hunger, dehumanize them by physically torturing them, inflicting remarkable wounds on them, exposing them to environmental and health hazards, raping the women while in detention, extorting money from the family of the victim, and in a number of cases, killing the victim.
When the victim is killed, one reason or the other will immediately be fabricated and adduced as the cause of the death.
Unfortunately for them, the more they tow this line of action, the more they are winning more converts for Biafranism, as the internet has helped Biafrans to be telling their stories by themselves. The above are the terrific persecutions and tribulations that Biafrans are subjected to, in Nigeria on daily basis.
The dual aim of this extreme torture, as I promised to tell you, is to totally EXTINGUISH the #Biafra_Advocacy, and at the same time, CONTINUE THE COVERT GENOCIDE AGAINST BIAFRANS, which was halted earlier in 1970, but has been resumed a long time ago, and recently heightened with the renewed demand for the restoration of Biafra.
When all these are aggregated, one can easily appreciate the resilience, vehemence, resoluteness, and indomitability of Biafrans, which has left the British and Nigerian governments in total consternation and bewilderment, in view of our consistently renewed doggedness in our uncompromising determination to restore Biafra.
Written by:
Kingsley Emeka Ani
For: Biafra State Media
Published by:
Chibuike Nebeokike
For: Biafra State Media
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