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From: Baldwin Ihemelu <bihemelu@gmail.com>
Date: 7 January 2012 01:00
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Re: NigerianID | Igbo Massacre in Mubi: 20 Sprayed dead
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From: Baldwin Ihemelu <bihemelu@gmail.com>
Date: 7 January 2012 01:00
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] Re: NigerianID | Igbo Massacre in Mubi: 20 Sprayed dead
My people,
I see most of the solutions proffered as panacea to the Boko Haram killing of the southerners especially the Igbo as very simplistic namely arming themselves to fight back and to the southerners evacuating the north enmasse as a result of the ultimatum from the Muslim fundamentalist terrorist organization. In fact, what I found very strange and unrealistic was the directives from Mr. Adams, the leader of OPC that the Yoruba indigenes living in the north should return home and wait for the situation to quieten down before returning to the North. This is very funny and stupid to say the least. I also see the MASSOB threat of avenging the killing of ndi-Igbo probably on the innocent and peace loving ndi-ugwu living in the East as no solution to this primitive, barbaric and cowardly ethnic cleansing that started even before it climaxed to a civil war from 1966 to 1970. However, it must be mentioned that this round of killing by Boko Haram did not exempt or spare the members of the other southern ethnic groups.
As far as I am concerned this is the most opportune time for the Nation to be serious in re-evaluating and agreeing on the type of union we want to forge that would benefit and accommodate all the ethnic nationality in the Federation. And, where we found no common grounds to tolerate each other we resolve peacefully to break that marriage of convenience that was put together to serve the interest of the imperialist Britain in 1914.
Having said this, I would use this opportunity to ask those who still see light at the end of the tunnel for a better and united Nigeria to tell us how long they wish to see a particular ethnic group to be refugees in a Nation that belongs to all of us? In fact, what I had expected from MASSOB, Ohaneze, OPC, MEND, the Arewa group, other minority ethnic groups, the traditional and political leadership in both the South and North is a unified stand to demand that GEJ administration should summon a national conference to discuss this all important issue that threatens the fabric and survival of Nigeria as a nation.
What all and sundry should realize is that Boko Haram had made up their mind to see the North as a seperate political entity or else there wouldn't have been any reason for them to demand the mass exodus of the southerners from their own part of the nation. Again, it is pertinent also to remind those who think it would be easy to round up these terrorist to give up such dream since their method of operation and the fact that they operate in a friendly terrain gives them the added advantage to plan and execute their plans at will. Honestly, we would very successfully combat this group through clandestine penetration into their cells and also with relentless and maximum cooperation of the natives of that region. But, with what we observe presently, it will be an impossible task to accomplish except where the President orders the Military to eliminate every thing that moves and breaths any where Boko Haram's threat is felt.
My question, therefore is whether we are prepared to do this? Even the initial success wouldn't guarantee a lasting peace in the country. Therefore, the most plausible line of action to resolving this Boko Haram stupidity is a National conference for all the nationals to agree on what would be our best bet under the circumstance we found ourselves. Ndewonu.
Mazi Izuchukwu B. Ihemelu
Emenyio ya anya ma Chukwu kwe
na Aguluezechukwu.
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Emenike C. <igbonize@yahoo.com> wrote:
Anybody who is asking Ndigbo to fight back is an idiot. Haven't Ndigbo a homeland too? Hausas are leaving the South. Why are Ndigbo still staying back in the North? MASSOB has issued the promise to avenge every drop of Igbo blood. This must be implemented in the next 24 hours or else MASSOB is history. Boko Haram has just challenged MASSOB's ability to respond.Ama Awusa in OwerriHausa quarters in AnambraRevenge the killing right now!
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Of course the Christians in the south will continue to pray to Jesus for deliverance; while Boko Haram are on the march to deliver themselves from those they perceived as oppressors. The way things are going, they are winning and winning big.
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Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] RE: ||NaijaObserver|| Re: Igbo Massacre in Mubi: 20 Sprayed dead
Date: Friday, January 6, 2012, 11:22 AM
They need to fight back, fight back as hard as they could else they'll continue to get stampeded steadily. These Bokos seemed to be wining the battle. I'm quite shocked to see that the Igbos, and to some extent, the Yorubas are taking all these beating by the Hausas in disguise as Boko Harams. Could this be the case of all noise but no action. There are bunch of Hausas in the South, plenty of them, so what stops anyone from making them pay for the deeds of their brethren up North. Whether one likes it or not, this situation is pretty much out of control hence it has to be taken as such.
Best Regards,
Ebenezer
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From: odidere2001@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:11:01 -0500
Subject: ||NaijaObserver|| Re: Igbo Massacre in Mubi: 20 Sprayed dead
Hmmmmmm..........Nigerians don't listen to Afis.
I truly feel for the people killed.
No one should have to be killed because of they are from different tribe or worshipping different God. And in their own country?
I know most Igbos won't believe this, I sincerely and from the bottom of my heart, feel for my Igbo brothers and sisters.
This is tribal "CLEANSING".
I am truly sad, and saddened by this latest attack and all others on SOUTHERNERS.
Shikena,
Afis
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Subject: Igbo Massacre in Mubi: 20 Sprayed deadIgbo Massacred in Mubi: 20 Sprayed dead
Police say gunmen from a radical Muslim sect have attacked a town hall in rural northeast Nigeria, shooting at least 20 people dead.The attack happened around noon Friday in Mubi in Adamawa state, a town near Nigeria's border with Cameroon.Local police commissioner Ade T. Shinaba said the attack targeted the hall when a group of Nigeria's Igbo people of the southeast were meeting.Shinaba blamed a radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram for the killing.The sect, which wants to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, killed at least 510 people last year alone, according to an Associated Press count.Residents in Mubi told the BBC those killed were from the Igbo community from the south of the country.They had been meeting to organise how to transport the body of an Igbo man shot dead by gunmen on motorbikes on Thursday evening.Mubi is in Adamawa state which borders Borno state, where radical Islamist militants began an insurgency in 2010.Last month, the president declared a state of emergency in Yobe and Borno states in the north-east, Plateau state in central Nigeria and Niger state in the west following a surge in ethnic and sectarian violence.The police blame much of the violence on the Islamist Boko Haram group, which wants to impose strict Sharia law across Nigeria.GOMBE, Nigeria (AP) _ Gunmen attacked a church in northeast Nigeria during a prayer service, spraying the congregation with gunfire and killing at least six people including the pastor's wife.The assault late Thursday comes just weeks after a radical Muslim sect claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings at churches in northern Nigeria.Gombe state police spokesman Ahmed Muhammad confirmed Friday that six people died following the shootings at the Deeper Life Church in Gombe, and that eight others were wounded.The oil-rich nation's president recently put regions of the country under a state of emergency due to the threat, but that did not include Gombe.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell on the radical Muslim sect known as Boko Haram. The sect has carried out increasingly sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people.Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the local Hausa language, is responsible for more than 500 killings this year alone, according to an Associated Press count. The group claimed responsibility for an attack that killed at least 42 people in a Christmas Day bombing of a Catholic church near Abuja, as well as a suicide car bombing targeting the U.N. headquarters in the capital that killed 25 people and wounded more than 100.Nigeria's weak central government has been slow to respond to the sect.On Dec. 31, President Goodluck Jonathan declared regions of Borno, Niger, Plateau and Yobe states to be under a state of emergency meaning authorities can make arrests without proof and conduct searches without warrants. He also ordered international borders near Borno and Yobe state to be closed.However, it remains unclear what effect that will have on a sect that has adopted hit-and-run attacks and suicide bombings to target the country's military and police, as well as civilians."Nigerian Crisis Worsens as the Igbo issue Ultimatum to All Muslims to Quit the South-East"Thisday newspaper with other reportsThe Igbo group, Ogbunigwe Ndigbo, has handed down a two-week ultimatum to all Muslims to leave the south east or face mass killings.
In a statement by "General Devil" Nwokolo in his capacity as the Commander of the Peoples Army and tagged "Enough is Enough", said "Ogbunigwe Ndigbo, a counter-terrorist group has sworn to the protection of Ndigbo and to avenge any drop of blood of our brothers shed anywhere in Nigeria. We will use extreme violence to protect ourselves where necessary. We have watched the killing of our people all over Northern Nigeria by Boko Haram terrorist group and we are declaring war on this group and any other group that sheds the blood of our people".The Leader of the O'odua Peoples Congress, OPC, in the South-West, Mr. Ganiyu Adams has meantime issued a public statement asking all Yoruba indigenes in the North to return home in Yorubaland. The OPC leader, who stated this yesterday in an interview with airport correspondents at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, said that based on the past experiences, it was necessary for the indigenes to leave the northern states. He noted that some northern groups had made deadly threat in the past, which they eventually carried out by massacring the Yoruba indigenes living in their territory.He expressed concern that the Federal Government has been overwhelmed by the deadly activities of the Boko Haram sect, a situation, which could not make anybody ignore Boko Haram's latest ultimatum.Adams cited the Maitatsine riot in Kano and the Zangon-Kataf riot in Kaduna states where he said many Yoruba indigenes and southerners were massacred. He said: "My advice is that they (southerners) should come home until the situation normalises. We cannot continue to lose our people. We have lost so many people. Our people should come back home. We have lost over 100,000 southerners to various northern riots. There is need for the southerners to come home and not ignore the ultimatum since it is on record that anytime these people issue a threat, they often execute it."Adam's reaction came following the threat issued by the Boko Haram sect to clamp down on all Christians living in the northern parts of the country at the expiration of a three-day ultimatum expiring tomorrow. Boko Haram, which spoke through its spokesperson, Abul Qaqa, has also threatened to confront the troops deployed in some local governments when President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in those areas last week."We find it pertinent to state that soldiers will only kill innocent Muslims in the local government areas where the state of emergency was declared. We would confront them squarely to protect our brothers. We also wish to call on our fellow Muslims to come back to the North because we have evidence that they would be attacked. We are also giving a three-day ultimatum to the southerners living in the northern part of Nigeria to move away," the Boko Haram spokesman had said.Niger State Government has meanwhile queried the Emir of Suleja, Malam Awal Ibrahim, for failing to sympathise with the victims of Christmas Day blast which took place in his domain.Ibrahim, a former governor of the state, was queried on New Year Day by the government for not showing sympathy for the victims of the bomb blast which claimed 42 lives.The government action was announced by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Abdullahi Bawa Wuse, at a press briefing yesterday.He said the state government felt the action of the monarch was unbecoming "of a person of high standing in the society".Ibrahim was asked to explain within 24 hours why disciplinary action should not be taken against him for his behaviour.The commissioner however said that the traditional ruler replied the query within the stipulated period and "the government is looking into it".The emir failed to visit St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Madalla where the blast wreaked havoc, neither did he visit families of the victims."The government found out that despite the retinue of people that visited the victims and the bomb blast sites from across the country to show empathy with them the traditional ruler neither sent words to them nor visited the area," Wuse said.Apart from the deaths, 80 persons were injured, 36 houses and four churches burnt and seven vehicles were destroyed.The fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for the bombing and later asked Christians and Southerners to leave the North ahead of its planned further attacks.
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