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BNW Editorial
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State-sponsored
Harassment of
General C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu:
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A BNW Editorial
by
BNW
Editorial Board
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Information
reaching BNW has confirmed the news that members of the Nigerian State Security Service (SSS) visited and summoned
the Ikemba Nnewi Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu to Abuja for interrogation over undisclosed matters. When the
Ikemba asked why he was being summoned to Abuja, the SSS agents failed to provide an answer.
It is speculated that this latest harassment of General Ojukwu by the regime in Abuja is related to a recent Magazine
interview of Ojukwu over the successful stay-at-home peaceful protest ordered by MASSOB on August 26, 2004. Based
on published reports in the Champion Newspaper of September 11 2004, in the interview, General Ojukwu allegedly
indicated that
he "supported MASSOB "very much," explaining
that MASSOB members seeing that the reason for the civil war was still there, believed that Biafra might be a better
alternative.
Without prejudice to the accuracy of the report, BNW notes that those views are shared by most Igbo persons as
the successful MASSOB protest has shown. We note that through Obasanjo regime's numerous violations of court order
and the failure to enforce summons issued to Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba indigenes, the Obasanjo regime has established
the precedent that persons summoned by the State are under no duty to honor the summons.
Specifically, we note that 1) the Obasanjo regime has to date failed to enforce a court order to restore Police
protection to the Anambra governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, 2) the regime failed to enforce the summons to the country's
former dictator, Ibrahim B. Babangida to appear before the Justice Oputa Panel, 3) the regime acquiesced in and funded
the constructive secession of states in the north of the country under Sharia and the overthrow of federal legal
influence in the north, 4) the regime has failed to properly account for the murder of the former Senate President
and ANPP candidate for Vice President, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo after he was subjected to massive doses of gas by agents
of the federal government, and 5) the Obasanjo regime failed to enforce the laws of the country when hordes of
Muslims sponsored by eminent northerners went on murderous rampages across the north killing thousands of Christians
and Igbo persons.
The harassment of General Ojukwu clearly exposes the double standards of the regime in Abuja and raises grave concerns
about the motives of a regime that has created sacred cows in the North and the West while deploying SSS agents
to harass persons from the East. BNW notes that whereas thousands of innocent persons have perished during well
planned anti-Igbo and anti-Christian massacres sponsored by
violent groups such as the underground Hausa-Fulani Arewa People's Congress (APC)
and the retired and current Nigerian military officers that lead it, or the Yoruba (O'dua People's Congress (OPC)
and their supporters, not a single human life was lost in the peaceful stay-at-home MASSOB protest of August 26
2004. We note especially that Mr. Obasanjo regularly whips up ethnic resentment and hatred over the Biafra issue.
In words and deeds Obasanjo has continued to fight the Nigeria-Biafra War that was supposed to have ended in 1970
with the purported surrender by General Effiong.
Therefore, it is the opinion of BNW that the Ikemba is under no duty to deliver himself into the deadly hands of
the SSS in Abuja. The regime in Abuja has failed to explain why its questions could not be submitted to the Ikemba
in Enugu. We urge all Igbo persons and well-meaning citizens of the country to resist this selective enforcement
of the laws and the effort of the fraudulently selected regime in Abuja to intimidate General Ojukwu.
Coming from a president who frequently moans and groans about events that he claims would "overheat the polity,"
the act of harassing Dim. Ojukwu amounts to extreme recklessness. Obasanjo's fear for an over-heated polity was
the reason adduced for blocking protest activities scheduled after the fraudulent 2003 polls that returned Mr.
Obasanjo to power.
BNW has learned from the United States offices of the Biafra Liberation Movement (BLM) and the Biafra Justice Commission
(BJC) that there will be dire consequences for Mr. Obasanjo personally and for Nigeria if the Ikemba should come
to any harm. Those consequences will clearly include mobilization against Nigeria's interests abroad, including
calls for sanctions against the rogue state, Nigeria.
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State-sponsored Harassment of General C.
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A BNW Editorial
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