AFENIFERE AND IPOB ARE CO-JOINED SIAMESE TWINS THAT NEEDED URGENT SURGERY!

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political System From a Godly Perspective).

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AFENIFERE AND IPOB ARE CO-JOINED SIAMESE TWINS THAT NEEDED URGENT SURGERY!

The agitation for the creation of a “Biafra State” spearheaded by late Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and its resistance by the Federal Military Government, which eventually snowballed into a full scale 30-month Nigerian civil war, had unequivocally represented the nucleus of all subsequent socio-political and even religious upheavals in the nation since 1966 to date!
Historians would not easily forget that shortly after close of the war in January 1970, and the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity few years later in Oloibiri, formerly of Eastern Region but now in Bayelsa State, armed youths of that region did not waste time to demand for “derivation rights” and commensurate compensations for exploration/exploitation which devastated their environment, creeks and farmlands!
The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MENDS), confronted consecutive military and democratic administrations with much violence that recorded untimely deaths of innocent citizens, including destruction of critical oil infrastructure/installations – through pipelines vandalism! And since the debut of MENDS, several other deadly armed groups sprang up in the six states that now represent the South-South Geo-Political Zone in Nigeria, with all of them demanding for adequate compensations from both the Federal Government and the foreign/local oil companies!
The 13% derivation fee which was inserted in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in their favour did not stop the agitations while the demands increased and persisted till date because those youths claimed that the over 90% of the nation’s economic resources was derivable from their region through the Crude Oil exportation!

THE RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALIST WAR OF BOKO HARAM WAS ANOTHER SELFISH DEMAND JUST LIKE AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL DEMAND FOR STATE CREATION!

From August 2009, till January 2020, a small religious sect addressed as Boko Haram, metamorphosed into a deadly group that had demanded to carve out a part of the North East Nigeria as an Islamic Caliphate, to be administered outside of constitutional provisions and almost succeeded until the present administration under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, in 2015, succeeded to flush them out of 17 Local Government Areas of Bornu State where they had hoisted their flags – but not without the painful loss of thousands of innocent lives which had been the trade mark of the terrorist group since their debut!

AFENIFERE - THE WESTERN REGIONAL BODY HAS ALSO ASSEMBLED A UNIFIED SECURITY FORCE CHRISTENED AMOTEKUN, TO BECOME INDEPENDENT OF THE NIGERIAN POLICE! 

Birds of the same feather flock together because they possess identical thoughts, actions, ideologies, mien, behavioural patterns, eccentricities etc.  The Igbos have been unrepentant and have never hidden their penchant for secession which incurred colossal loss on both sides, in men, material, strategic infrastructures, huge foreign exchange finances, serious health challenges of deadly epidemic proportions, which resulted from the Biafra War of 1967- 1970!
And they are still  seeking the Yorubas as accomplices to break up Nigeria into the two British Protectorates before the 1914, amalgamation, for spurious claims of concocted marginalisation/segregation in scheme of politicking at the centre – especially  in Federal ministerial/advisory appointments/positions and the presidency which, they claimed had “eluded” the Igbos since 1999!
In the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari, 2015-2019, the now officially proscribed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), openly confronted the South East States Administrations and the Federal Government through violent public/street demonstrations and had engaged security agents with dangerous weapons which resulted in casualties on both sides!
Their “charismatic” leader Nnamdi Kanu, was arrested after a prolonged cat and mouse chase, with security agents, arraigned in court, granted bail but mysteriously escaped from the country to continue underground, the vilification/condemnation of Nigeria’s ruling administration through social media propagandas!
It was also revealed that Omoyele Sowore, met with Nnamdi Kanu at an undisclosed venue outside Nigeria before he (Sowore), carried out the aborted “Revolution Now” protest of 3rd August 2019!

THE YORUBA AFENIFERE SOCIO-CULTURAL GROUP IS YIELDING GROUNDS TO IPOB PRESSURES!

It is common knowledge that security of lives and properties is the paramount duty of all governments from federal to the local government areas because it is a sure foundation to build lasting and enduring socio-economic and political structures that would stand the test of time; and failure of any government in that regard would tantamount to failure in all other agendas!
Afenifere, like IPOB took a confrontational position against the Federal Government since the unfortunate attack on Yoruba elder statesman, Chief Olu Falae by armed herdsmen in his farm and the unfortunate killing of the daughter of its Chairman, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, by accusing  the ruling APC Government in which it is a major stakeholder of security marginalization!
It is general knowledge that the escalation of insecurity was a nation-wide epidemic in great proportions and there was virtually no state of the federation that was excluded from the unfortunate mayhem that had devastated the nation since Boko Haram terrorists unleashed terror from North to South, East to West, without sparing the Federal Capital Territory which was attacked about FIVE consecutive times in 2014, with terrible fatalities!   

“BIAFRA AGITATION” 50 YEARS AFTER! [1967-2020].

On 15th January 2020, all Nigerians, irrespective of tribe, tongue, clan or religion moaned over the bitter, painful and gruesome memories of irreparable loss of the precious lives of over two million civilians/soldiers, as they commemorated 50 YEARS of the avoidable 30-month Civil War which took place from 6th July, 1967 to 15th January 1970, in the belief that, never again would the nation degenerate to such abyss of confrontation instead of dialogue!
But in the few years leading to the commencement of this new decade, a cacophony of agitations for RESTRUCTURING OF NIGERIA rented the political space from east to west and north to south, without any exception to the extent that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Administration had to set up a Committee, chaired by Governor Nasir el Rufai, which came out with very sound recommendations on TRUE FEDERALISM ranging from establishment of State Police, to Merger of some States to ensure viability, Independent candidacy at elections, Introduction of Referendum in burning national issues, Amendment of the Petroleum Act to ensure Derivation Principles,  Amendment of the 1999 Constitution to allocate more Revenue to the States and reduce Federal Government’s share in a move to ensure Devolution of Power to federating units!

CREATION OF 12 STATES BY THE MILITARY TO CHECKMATE OJUKWU’S “BIAFRA”!

In his own wisdom, retired General Yakubu Gowon, now an elder statesman, created 12 States out of the existing three major regions on 5th May 1967, in a move to check the influence of Ojukwu’s government in the East before the war thereby erasing REGIONALISM and entrenching ethnic bonding which should create a better platform for unity among the over 250 tribes and 500 languages of the diverse people of Nigeria, but in 50 years some renegades have decided to make a U-TURN and take Nigeria back to square one!

ARE THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS PRESSURE OR FORCEFUL GROUPS?

In the North, the Arewa Youths Forum/Council, the South East flaunts Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), and their ilk, South-South boasts of MENDS, etc while the South West registered the socio-cultural group called Afenifere, all promoting regional agenda at every opportunity to destabilize and heat up the polity.
Insecurity had gained momentum through the debut of Boko Haram insurgency in 2009, long before the present administration of the APC and had escalated through multifarious crimes of kidnapping, gunmen attacks, the incessant pastoral/farmers bloody clashes, cattle rustling, etc.!

And since the opposition parties were very disappointed at the second term tenure of President Buhari, they have decided to make the country ungovernable by criticizing and condemning every agenda of government especially in respect of the fight against corruption, in other to cover up their tracks, instead of co-operating with security agencies to combat and defeat the common albatross of crimes and criminalities, through information/intelligence-gathering and supply of logistics through State governments under their control, they made a habit of CRYING WOLF to foreign countries and seeking for sanctions through negative index classifications in all of the nations socio-economic contract with the citizens!

IS THE SOUTH WEST TRULY MARGINALIZED IN ANY FORM?

The Afenifere and Odu’a Groups complained that the South West Zone was under much attacks by armed herdsmen and decided to protect citizens of their jurisdiction through the introduction of a para-military  outfit code-named OPERATION AMOTEKUN, because there existed in other ZONES/REGIONS, HISBAH POLICE (KANO),  BAKASSI BOYS  (Anambra), etc.

SIX SOUTH WEST GOVERNORS VERSUS ABUBAKAR MALAMI. Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

Shortly after the launch of “Operation Amotekun”, 9th January, 2020, by a combined team of all the South West Governors, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, was reported to have declared the para-military body “illegal” because it did not have the blessing of the Federal Government! However, he had since denied the statement and encouraged the governors to give the outfit the necessary legal backing through their various State Assemblies.
APC Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s reaction though was rather belated, he called for dialogue and between the “TWO parties”; but according to political watchers he was sitting on the fence because of a 2023   presidential (minini), ........ ambition?
Hear him. “Amotekun is not against Nigeria”! He neither supported Malami nor the governors but succeeded in contradicting himself!

WHY IS MIYETTI ALLAH AFRAID OF OPERATION AMOTEKUN?

They claimed that the Odu’a Peoples Congress (OPC), and the “Agbekoya”, hunters of the South West which were notorious for heinous atrocities and had been recruited as the bulk of the operatives, would target their members whose pastoral activities always took them through bushes and forests ; but their fear was allayed as the governors  vehemently claimed that “AMOTEKUN”, and similar vigilante groups functioning as Regional para-military bodies, would enhance the security architecture of their various communities in conjunction with the Nigerian Police authorities, across the nation.
NIGERIA’S UNITY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE! THE SIAMESE TWINS BE SEVERED NOW! 

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