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March 27, 2006

President Obasanjo is "a Dog in a Manger" for Ndi Igbo

by Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.) (Raleigh, North Carolina) --- It is odd how President Obasanjo is using the Igbo to play on the Igbo – all for money. Are these Ndi Igbo that he uses trying to live up to the proverbial Igbo whose death is tested and confirmed only when he does not awaken to the sound of a few pieces of coins in a tin-can, shaken at his ears? Almost all of Obasanjo’s chorus boys are or have been Igbo – Ojo Maduekwe, Paul Udujie, Okey Ndibe, Frank Nweke Jr., Chris Uba, Governor Chimaraoke Nnamani, etc inspite of all the atrocities Obasanjo has committed against Ndi Igbo, and continues to commit on daily basis.

Do these people not realize ythat they are selling Ndi Igbo for a mess of pottage? Obasanjo’s latest on Ndi Igbo is his order to close Ibeto’s Cement Factory in Port Harcourt, which provides employment for hundreds of the people that he could not provide for. There is no Federal Government presence whatsoever in the South East, especially in Igbo land, except civil war memorials. And what Ndi Igbo are able to do for themselves, the President, who is supposed to cater for all the citizenry, closes down and destroys. Is this the type of Obasanjo’s wicked diplomatic finesse that Paul Udujie wants Ndi Igbo to write home about – to herald?

This is a proper case of “a dog in the manger” – who would not eat what is in the manger, but would allow the any one that would eat to come close or to eat. How much more wickedness could President Obasanjo exhibit towards Ndi Igbo to satisfy his sadism and cruelty towards them, simply because they had to defend themselves in a war that he and his colleagues unleashed on them? Are Ndi Igbo the only people that have ever been involved in a civil war? What about the US to which he turns for everything? Ndi Igbo have been made to understand, according to an interview granted to Chido Nwangwu by Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu that he, President Obasanjo, had asked Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to denounce Biafra so that they could work together. I suppose, by extension, so that he could also forgive Ndi Igbo and Biafra. I think that he would wait forever for Ikemba to renounce Biafra. Ndi Igbo would also be ready for more of Obasanjo’s antics against them; continue to work for the realignment of Nigeria; and do all they could to outlive Obasanjo and his ilk!!!

NDI IGBO WHO ARE PROMOTING OBASANJO TO BEWARE

Ndi Igbo who are promoting Obasanjo for credibility and a further term of office, like Chris Uba and Governor Chimaraoke Nnamani should as Ndi Igbo put it: “Fie isa n’anya”, which , literally, means to: “Wipe their eyes with all their fingers seven times”, Furthermore it is said that: “Onye atu gbulu nna ya ejiro mpi atu anwu mmili”, that is to say that: “One whose father was killed by a buffalo does not drink with the cup of a buffalo’s horn”. Besides, “Ejiro okwu ochu amu okwu”, and that is to say that: “One does not learn to speak by adopting murderous words or expressions”. Ndi Igbo who are supporting and promoting President Obasanjo’s further term in office should know what they are doing and where they are heading. Do yhey not know that the longer he stays in office, the longer he would be in a position to persecute Ndi Igbo? They should also take a cue from the cases of Major Hamza Al Mustapha, Lt. General Ishaya Bamaiyi, and Co. with General Sani Abacha. That direction would appear to be leading to the promise of: GOD’S CASE, NO APPEAL!!!!

Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.)

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March 26, 2006

Obasanjo's Three Administrations and the Rights of Women in Nigeria

by Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.) (Raleigh, North Carolina) --- Nigerian women have been suffering under all sorts of disabilities of the denial of their human rights under the three administrations of President Obasanjo: 1986 – 1979; 1999 – 2003; 2003 – to the present. For instance, there are the disabilities of Childhood Marriage; Female Circumcision; Illiteracy; Not Enough Political Participation; Punitive Widowhood Practices; Trafficking of the Girl-child and male child; Etc.

President Obasanjo should take a cue from Burkina Faso’s Melegue Traore, the traditional chief and former president of Burkina Faso’s National Assembly when he said, according to the Authoritative Link: "We are in no way abandoning African culture when we abandon female genital mutilation." We also hope that the conference of politicians, health and human rights NGOs, religious experts and traditional leaders in the Senegalese capital included Nigerian Christian and other religious leaders, whose stance has been to support retrogressive native cultural practices rather than Christian progressive and forward-looking reformations. We hope that Nigerians joined them in their rejection of female genital mutilation as not being against tradition.

West African religious and traditional leaders meeting with political officials the first week of December 2005 affirmed their commitment to eradicating female genital mutilation, saying that: “To abandon the practice is not to reject traditional or religious values”. Nigeria must be one of the 28 countries of Africa and the Middle East where three million girls still undergo some form of genital cutting annually, according to the UN World Health Organization, as reported by the Authoritative Link.

PUNITIVE, DEHUMANIZING WIDOWHOOD PRACTICES IN NIGERIA

The Banjul Charter also includes the right to health, the right to be free of cruel and degrading practices, the right to sexual and corporal integrity, and the right to reproduction. A right to health is also provided for in Article 16 of the Banjul Charter, which states: Every individual shall have the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical and mental health. In addition, Article 18(3) declares that the state shall ensure the elimination of every discrimination against women and also ensure the protection of the rights of the woman and the child as stipulated in international declarations and conventions. The women of Nigeria still live under punitive, demeaning and dehumanizing widowhood practices because the woman lost her husband as a man would lose his wife. Why must widows - young or old - suffer untold torture, hardship and deprivations, INCLUDING DISPOSSESSION OF LIFE AND PROPERTIES from their husband's families? Since these punitive, humiliating and dehumanizing practices obtain in all the ethnic nationalities of Nigeria, it is a matter for the Federal Government to legislate against for the whole country, and to stop such practices forthwith. What has President Obasanjo done to effectively extricate the women of Nigeria from these inhuman practices? NOTHING! Yet he is very proud of the Nigerian women he has appointed into his Cabinet who still live under these oppressive conditions described above in their respective ethnic nationalities. What diplomatic finesse are there for the women of Nigeria to herald for President Obasanjo?

THE RIGHTS OF TRIBAL GROUPS VERSUS THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN

The preference of the International Organizations to support the tribal groups right to IDENTITY AND RECOGNITION as opposed to the RIGHTS OF THE GIRL-CHILD AND WOMEN TO BE FREE FROM CERTAIN PRACTICES, SAY, CHILD MARRIAGE, is the same trend of male domination which extends from the individual, to the family, to the community, to the state and to the international organizations. Tribal identity and recognition, as it were, are only found in the practices that oppress women, never in such practices as FACIAL SCARIFICATION BY MEN (Igbu Ichi), which has been banned ages ago without any fanfare. Ultimately, patriarchy establishes interdependence and solidarity among men, which enables them to dominate women - in most cases to hoodwink women. And in Igbo parlance, they say: “Ka eme nya ife ana-eme nwanyi”. (Do to her what is normally done to women). In effect, to trick her or hoodwink her, or leave her in confusion, wondering just what is going on or what has happened, while men get on with “taking care of business as usual”. The men at higher levels can buy off those at the lower levels by offering them power over those still lower, including women. It is this interdependence and solidarity, and closing of ranks among men, which is the strength of their domination over women, and by which men in authority, who can help women, just pay lip service. What has President Obasanjo done to break this chain of injustice in favour of the girl-child and women? NOTHING!!!

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN NIGERIA

The practice of wife-battering, which is condoned by Native Laws and Customs, to tame and discipline the woman, is one of the marks of IDENTITY of tribal groups. Domestic Violence or Wife Battering is treated with levity in Nigeria. Section 252 of the Criminal Code Laws of Nigeria 1990 defines assault and section 351 penalizes assault.

The criminal code is however silent on wife-battery. In reality, wife battery is treated by the Police as FAMILY AFFAIR and is, therefore, neither investigated, nor the batterer charged to Court or even restrained from battering his wife. IRONICALLY, IF THE WOMAN IS BEATEN TO DEATH, THE HUSBAND IS CHARGED TO COURT FOR MURDER. See the case of Nafiu Rabiu Vs. The State 1980 8-11 Sc. WHY MUST THE AUTHORITIES WAIT UNTIL THE WOMAN IS KILLED BEFORE THE PERSECUTOR IS RESTRAINED OR PROSECUTED? What has President Obasanjo done for women in this regard except keep quiet and pretend that these conditions do not exist? NOTHING!!!

Nigeria is a signatory to many International Conventions and Treaties and Human Rights Laws that guarantee women’s freedoms from discriminatory practices and equal fundamental rights as men. Theses include:

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women;
Convention on Political Rights of Women;
Slavery Convention of 1926 as amended; and
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade; and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery.

It is the duty of the Federal Government, headed by President Obasanjo who goes to defend the human rights of the women of other African countries, to implement the international conventions and treaties concerning the fundamental human rights of the girl-child and women in Nigeria. These have been neglected over long periods of time, ESPECIALLY BY THE MILITARY RULERS WHO DO NOT WANT THEM TO EVEN BE MENTIONED.Yet he as well as the other MILITARY MEN WANT WOMEN TO CONTINUE VOTING FOR THEM TO CONTINUE RULING NIGERIA.
President Obasanjo should tell us which one of these United Nations Conventions he has domiciled and implemented for Nigerian women in the last nine years that he has been in the saddle, as Head of State of the Federal Government of Nigeria?

WHEN WOMEN WILL NO LONGER COMPLAIN

If the Constitution would be properly amended and the provisions of these Charters and Conventions complied with and enforced in Nigeria, women would not be complaining at all. But the snag is the unfavorable attitudes of the dominant group in power - men - towards implementing them. Therefore, the Charters, Conventions and Treaties, of the African Union and the United Nations, become mere paper tigers, toothless bulldogs, and the epitome of: Justice Delayed Which Is Justice Denied! A law just on paper is a stillborn and moribund law and, therefore, useless, void and of no effect! What has President Obasanjo done to change the situation? NOTHING!!!

ABROGATE, AMEND, CODIFY, CUSTOMARY LAWS AND HARMONIZE THEM WITH STATUTORY LAWS INTO ONE BODY OF LAWS

It will do a world of good to the people, especially to women, to have the most obnoxious of customary laws abrogated, some amended, and then codify and harmonize them, with the statutory laws, into one body of laws for each ethnic people, as it has been done in South Africa. There is no need to continue to have two or three bodies of laws, complicated with the unwritten and un-codified customary laws, for one and the same people. After all, the governments – customary and constitutional - are all in the hands of the people now as there are no more foreigners to hide from, fight or compete with. When the Laws are harmonized, then and only then will women know what laws that govern them and which they have to live by; not the ever fluid and changing customary practices as they are now. This is an initiative that a Head of State will have to take for the modernization of the laws of the land and governance. Has President Obasanjo or any of his predecessors in-office done anything about it? THE ANSWER IS A CAPITAL NO!!! what then do we herald?

FEMALE GENDER SPECIFICITY IN THE CONSTITUTION

The Constitution of Nigeria, which President Obasanjo, the man with diplomatic finesse has sworn to protect and to defend, lacks specificity about the female gender. For instance: the lack of specificity or the unwillingness of the Government, and even the international organizations, to specifically write in the feminine gender separately, in the Constitution and in statements to include women as persons, causes confusion, ambiguity and lacks clarity. The idea that the female gender is inclusive in the male gender is a fallacy and unfair. It is the same deliberate tactics of leaving women out, and having them go on to protest and to pressurize to the ears of men, which have been tuned off and deafened, that is still going on. If women are meant to be included as persons, much time and energy and stress would be saved by simply saying or writing in: “men and women; he and she; him and her”; from the very beginning. This ambiguity of the female being included in the male is mischievous, trickery, hoodwinking, fraudulent and a manifestation of the Government running with the hares and chasing with the hounds. President Obasanjo should be pressurizing, in behalf of women, to have the Constitution amended to re-arrange references to women equitably and to accommodate the girl-child and women properly, rather than to amend it so that he can stay on in office. What has President Obasanjo done for women in this regard? NOTHING! And yet they are expected to herald his diplomatic finesse!!!

TRAFFICKING OF THE NIGERIAN GIRLS AND BOYS

The children of Nigeria – girls and boys - are still being trafficked at home and abroad, with impunity, for domestic labour and sex trade. What has President Obasanjo done to save Nigeria’s children from this shameful state of affairs, other than to look the other way, as the home and foreign mass media report? NOTHING! I have read of a case where more than 50 children were going to be shipped overseas in ocean-going crates used to carry fish across the ocean to Europe and America before the traffickers were caught. This may not be an isolated case. But suppose that this consignment was not caught? The economic conditions at home that make parents to give up their children, to be taken overseas, in the belief that they would soon be sending money home to them, must be very desperate.

NO SOCIAL WELFARE BENEFITS OF ANY KIND TO ANYBODY IN NIGERIA

Above all, with all the oil-wealth of Nigeria, which Udujie says she is awash with, there is no Social Welfare Support for anybody in Nigeria - indigent widows and orphans, the unemployed and elderly or handicapped and destitute, etc. Why? It is because the Treasury of the country is looted by the men in high offices; there is no transparency in accountability; there is widespread financial impropriety and mismanagement; there is insatiable appetite of those who loot even though they have become richer than the State and Federal Governments; and because they have no PATRIOTISM and SHAME! THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING FOR THE PEOPLE! YET THEY ARE REQUIRED TO HERALD WITH FANFARE WHAT THEIR PRESIDENT HAS BEEN DOING FOR OTHER COUNTRIES!

OBASANJO IS AN ARCH CHAUVINIST AND A MISERABLE HYPOCRITE

I read it sometime ago when he said, while addressing a democracy group in Mexico, that all the Nigerian men with him there were chauvinists, because they believed that men will always be first. You see, that is what is mainly wrong with President Obasanjo’s assessment of situations in Nigeria – he and his chorus boys discount himself as being involved. As far as I am concerned, he is the first and foremost chauvinist in Nigeria. Every Nigerian man, except a handful of them, is a chauvinistic. Of course; any man who is a polygamist is an arch-chauvinist by equating so many women to himself as wives. Above all, polygamists in public office are super-arch-chauvinists of the first order, by usually using one wife to suppress the others, and by appearing and making the people and the world believe that they are what they are not. What diplomatic finesse is there in this hypocrisy to be heralded?

THIRD TERM OR FOURTH TERM BID IS REAL

It is very good that Mr. Udujie outlined some of the things that are wrong with the PDP as well. Well placed PDP members have said it that what is wrong with their Party is President Obasanjo himself, because he would not let other people elected into offices do their jobs. He tries to do his job as well as the jobs of the other people. In other words, he meddles too much in other people’s jobs and businesses beyond what it should be. The President has also been reported as saying that he is all and all in the Party and in the Government, and that no one else in Nigeria can do the job as well as he would or better than he.

Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.)

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March 02, 2006

Population Control: Target Africa

by Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.) (Raleigh, North Carolina) --- IF AIDS IS NOT DEACTIVATED, WITHIN 66 YEARS THERE WILL BE NO BLACKS IN AFRICA

Although the "Special Virus" (SVCP) 'Flow Chart' is seemingly structured in such a manner that the world would not immediately recognize the real purpose of this officially sanctioned U.S. Federal Program, one has to ask oneself: WHY was the flow chart ever structured in the first instances??? If AIDS is not deactivated, within 66 years there will be no blacks in Africa. comments ~~~ Dr. Basil E. Wainright, Physicist & Three Time Nobel Nominee, Nairobi, Kenya November 2, 1999.

1971 HIV/AIDS Flowchart Research Logic for the Special Virus Cancer Program Click here to enlarge flowchart

Really, the pertinent questions are: Why was the flow chart ever structured in the first instance? If AIDS is not deactivated within 66 years, and there will be no blacks in Africa, does it imply that only whites or Caucasians will occupy it? Is that the real purpose for the flow chart? Is it to wipe off blacks entirely in Africa, populate it with caucasians, whites, Aryans, as well as occupy their own continents, and make the presence of blacks in Africa as their native continent a thing of the past? Has this kind of elimination and repopulation been going on down in history? As Ndi Igbo say: "Dulu mmo gbue mmadu, dulu mmadu jebe akwa ya, which says that: One goes with a masquerade to kill somebody, and goes with a person to his funeral". Is this not hypocrisy of the first order?

I have read that:

President Clinton Announces Major Step in Effort to Save the Lives of People with HIV/AIDS around the World. This afternoon at the Clinton Foundation's New York office, President Clinton announced that his foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative reached new agreements to significantly reduce prices of both HIV tests and the drug treatments that keep HIV-infected patients alive and healthy. The Clinton Foundation also annouced that almost a quarter of a million people in 50 countries are receiving drugs through Clinton Foundation Agreements.

Is the deactivation of HIV/AIDS within 66 years what President Clinton is tryng to do? Why did he change his mind about genocide on Africans after championing the removal of the UN Peace-keepers from Rwanda to allow the completion of the decimation of the Tutsi by the Hutu, which happened on his watch?

I have also read the following report:

1971 AIDS development flowchart is absolute proof: AIDS is the "best-choice" Weapon of Mass Destruction by Dr. Boyd Graves 24 mon R (2 responses) URL: /forums/m.asp?f=237&i;=518 Date: 1/8/2004 6:38:00 AM The 1971 flowchart of the U.S. Special (AIDS) Virus program is page 61 of progress report #8 of the mostly secret federal virus development program. In other words, review the 15 progress reports of a federal virus program you never knew about and voila, you will resolve not only HIV/AIDS....

GENOCIDE 0F BLACK POPULATION AND THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ALL OVER THE WORLD: BIRTHS AND POPULATION CONTROL

The truth is that population control is the process by which Global Europe (whites, Caucasians, Aryans) seeks to guarantee its perpetual domination of the rest of the human race because of its own fear of annihilation. According to Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing, it is this fear based on the fact of their numerical minority status and their low level of surface melanin, which drives them to commit the most atrocious crimes against humanity, in particular, the most feared nation of all, Global Africa (Black people).

See Global Eyes Your Weekly Window in the Mirror of the World with Spartacus R. The editor of Global Africa Pocket News and author of "Violation" and "The Maat Mystery" takes another look at the world. Population Control is GENOCIDE (This interview with Sister Aset was first published inGlobal Africa Pocket News (GAP News)Vol. 1, No. 7 Sept. 1994. It was submitted to Caribbean Times in January '96 but never published) #14.

It is the Caucasians, who want to rule the world indefinitly by not only controllong its economic and political resourses but also by controlling its population, wherever they are, so that their own population, even though declining, will never be swamped. Hence their population policy to reduce, if not wipe out the populations of non-Caucasians,especially in the third-world countries, and more so the blacks. This policy is especially directed towards the blacks in the USA and in Africa.

Then there was the notorious NSSM 200 (National Security Study Memorandum 200), sometimes called the "Kissinger population paper," in which it was stressed that oil and mineral-rich Nigeria could easily cope with a far larger population and would gain sufficient status to compete with the US influence over Africa. It has also been learnt that they continue to inject the disease into new-born babies whose parents do not have HIV/AIDS. How come? They want to force Nigeria which did not listen to Obasanjo's policy-ruling of three children to one woman population control in 1987?

There were other documents produced at around the same time to corroborate this intense interest in Nigeria, the country's population, and its oil wealth. The US Information Agency or USIA (which operates the Voice of America on other propaganda actions around the world) does yearly reports on the US interest in various countries.

They, too, cites the pervasive worries about Nigeria becoming the economic and demographic giant of Africa, capable of spreading an anti-American ideology all over the continent, and likewise stressing that agency goals should serve the larger objective of increasing US influence over Nigeria's politics and culture.

"The 1971 flowchart makes it perfectly clear, the design, intent and purpose of the U.S. Special Virus program. As Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS says, the HIV/AIDS virus is the result of many steps in the laboratory, it was no accident.

The 1971 flowchart provides absolute evidence of the United States' intent to kill its own citizens and others." ~~~ Dr. Boyd E. Graves September 28, 2002

(picture) Boyd E. Graves, J.D. displays the 1971 HIV Flow Chart after urging UN AIDS officials to provide oversight during the US GAO's investigation into the missing appropriations of the mostly secret virus development program, "US Special Virus". (photo courtesy: John Price)[FLOWCHART DOCUMENTS HERE] Copyright Zygote Media 1998-2006.

"Dr. Graves is obsessed with getting the word out and sees himself as a modern day David battling the formidable Goliath of the US government. "I'm involved in a modern venue of David and Goliath because there is no more bigger giant than the United States Government. The truth provides strength. I find comfort in the truth and it gives me the drive and initiative to get up each and every day to continue our efforts to expose the truth because over time the truth has always risen to the top and its going to happen here."

"Graves put the flow chart on his website www.BoydGraves.com and over 26,000 people have downloaded it. "We've got two dozen scientists and medical doctors who have reviewed this material and to a person, they all agree this federal program is at the heart of the genesis of HIV and AIDS."

"Graves has a special interest in the program for he was diagnosed HIV positive. In doing his research he came upon a patented cure for AIDS which he took and now says he is symptom free".

"The United States patented the cure for AIDS in 1997 and that patent number is 5676977 and I tell people to go to www.google.com and type in U S Patent and that number and the information will come up. I tell people to go to the main library and look into the world catalogue data base and put in 'Special Virus Cancer Program' and you will find at least three, four or five of those progress reports of the development of HIV are in the main library. Some of these reports are in the public domain."

"Graves knows of what he speaks because he took the cure himself in 2001. "Twenty-two months ago I took the US patented cure for AIDS. It is a one time injection, I call it an infusion because it takes about twenty minutes. It's a large plunger kind of thing but that is all I've had and physically I am fine and symptom free."

THE DIAGNOSTICS, DRUGS AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE TREATMENT MUST BE TOTALLY FREE TO PLACE THE RESPONSIBILITY WHERE IT BELONGS

I must say categorically that I am not impressed and that it does not make any sense that this effort is just to reduce the cost of drugs to the victims of HIV/AIDS. This is because the disease was, deliberately, callously, impassionately, albeit sadistically, inflicted on them by the Government of the United States of America. Now President Bill Clinton turns around to extend yeoman's service of finding inexpensive drugs and diagnostics for them and expect us to be grateful. Inexpensive to who? I think that we will only begin to listen and to think about it when the DIAGNOSTICS, the DRUGS and their ADMINISTRATIONS are ENTIRELY FREE to the victims, with the US Government taking the lead, in the application of the patented medicine for the cure of HIV/AIDS, Patent #5676977; not a generic make-shift paliative to keep them well and healthy. The sinister motive of wiping out the Black Population is still unfolding unabated as the contagious cancer is spreading like wildfire among black people and in Africa. The fact that the patented medicine, Patent #5676977 Tetrasil/Immusil Cure for Aids, has been available for many years before Nelson Mandela's son, among millions of others died of Aids only a few months ago, and many millions are dying on daily basis, is criminal.

UNSUSTAINABLE POPULATION - LACK OF SPACE, FOOD AND EXPENDABLE RESOURCES?

Is it true that the world is over crowded and moving towards an unsustainable population level?

"No. Absolutely not. Overcrowding can be measured by one method only, that is whether there are too many people to fit in the space available. The most densely populated continent area in the world is Europe, (see GAP News #7, Population Figures), but do Europeans think there are too many people in Europe? Of course not. But they believe there are too many African and Asian people in Europe. That is not overcrowding that is racism".

TARGET AFRICA

"What about all those starving Africans? If they can't feed themselves surely, there must be too many of them.

"No, that is not the case. Those "starving Africans", Asians and other "Third World" peoples produce most of the world's surplus food. Most of the food they produce are luxury or raw, unprocessed goods which are sold cheaply as exports and re-imported as expensive processed foods.

FOOD WASTAGE BY GLOBAL EUROPE

"The main reason though, why there appears to be not enough food to go around is not because the so-called third world cannot feed itself, it is because Global Europe, less than 25% of the world's population uses or wastes over 80% of the worlds food goods (consumables) but produces less than 15% of it. So the "third world" make up 75% of the world's population, produce 85% of the world's consumables and consume less than 20% of all that is consumed. If they consumed as much as they produced, Global Europe would be dying of starvation, not Africa.

IS AFRICAN POPULATION EXPANDING TOO RAPIDLY? THE ANSWER IS: NO!

"Lets look at the evidence: After being systematically depopulated for 400 years, Africa is now the least populated continent in the world with a density one-sixth of Europe's. Africa's death rate is more than twice that of Europe. To be level pegging, Africa's death rate should also be one-sixth of Europe's. When these dishonest people talk about population they make reference only to birth rate. They show that Africa's birth rate is nearly three times that of the European rate, but forget to mention that the infant mortality rate is 5 times higher in Africa.

"They never talk about density except in reference to Asia or to say that "Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa". They forget to say it was a quarter the density of any country in Europe. They forget also, to tell you that in order for Africa to get to the same population density as Europe (is Europe overpopulated?) the African birth-rate has to be more than 12 times that of Europe (6 times if the death rate becomes equal) for a whole generation.

"So, when they talk about "equalizing" or reducing the African birth rate, while at the same time nurturing conflict, manufacturing famine, and importing disease to increase the death rate further, you begin to get the picture. If the birth rates were made equal and everything else remained the same as they are now, each time Europe's population doubled Africa's population would be halved. The world's population may become "stabilized" as they like to say it, but the percentage ratio between the nations would continue changing to their advantage. (See GAP News #5)

"It is understandable then, why Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, a senior Vatican official cried that if the precepts of the UN Population Control Conference in Cairo were to be implemented the world would experience "the most disastrous massacre in history". He should know, it was his organization, the Roman Catholic church, which sanctified the trade in African lives, resulting in the death of over 200 million people".

The UN too? To whom and from where do the blacks obtain protection, justice, redress? No body? No where? Please God, be our refuge and helper!

"Some of the liars say that deaths in war time make very little difference to the population growth because after a war birth rates usually increase to compensate. Certainly, that is true when mostly male soldiers are killed. But when two thirds of the female population are murdered, like the Rwandan slaughter, it would take 4 or 5 generations to get back to where it was before the war. And that is the key. The women.
"Global Europe have done everything they could to destroy our people but we are still here and still strong. They are now trying, through an apparently limitless line of African and Asian female mercenaries, posing as leaders, to co-opt us. To convince us that regardless of our particular environmental conditions, contrary to our own community's social and economic needs, it would be in our individual interests to have fewer or no children at all.

"Women have the power to determine the fertility or sterility of our nation. It is imperative that we do not allow ourselves to be misled into committing generational suicide. We carry the future of our nation in our hands. We are here because those before us gave us life. Let us give life to our children. We deserve to live"

Manufacturing incurable diseases in their chemical laboratories and inflicting them on the other populations of the world, by hook or crook, is one of their methods. The monkeys in Africa theory as the original carriers of the AIDS Virus has failed. The 1971 aids FLOWCHART and manufacture of the disease viruses and implanting them in Africa via the immunization processes for the treatment of diseases, has let the cat out of the bag.

THANKS TO DR. BOYD E. GRAVES!!!!!

"The 1971 flowchart was first located in February 1999, (on President Bill Clinton's watch) it has withstood all stupidity to date. It is absolute evidence, my govt has sought to kill me (and others). Quickly note PHASE -IV-A ("IMMUNOLOGICAL CONTROL"). These are the secret program's vaccines and cures. Our call for "full disclosure" of the U.S. Special (AIDS) Virus program continues to garner support from every sector of the globe. It is odd we have no teeth here on the internet when it comes to saving Black people. Boyd Ed Graves, in propria persona, NINTH CIrucit, CASE NO. : 03-56812 Graves v. U.S.A. www.boydgraves.com 216-382-9252

FOR EXPERT COLLEAGUE REVIEW: www.boydgraves.com/comments/

"The Smoking Gun of AIDS: a 1971 Flowchart by Boyd E. Graves, J.D. December 6, 2000
"In 1977, a secret federal virus program produced 15,000 gallons of AIDS. The record reveals the United States was represented by Dr. Robert Gallo and the USSR was represented by Dr. Novakhatsky of the diabolical Ivanosky Institute. On August 21, 1999, the world first saw the flowchart of the plot to thin the Black Population.

"The 1971 AIDS flowchart coordinates over 20,000 scientific papers and fifteen years of progress reports of a secret federal virus development program. The epidemiology of AIDS is an identical match to the "research logic" identified in the five section foldout. The flowchart is page 61 of Progress Report #8 (1971) of the Special Virus program of the United States of America. We today, challenge world scientists to discussion of this document find.

"We believe there is a daily, growing number of world experts who are all coming to the same conclusion regarding the significance of the flowchart. Dr. Garth Nicolson has examined the flowchart as well as other top experts from around the world. It is time for Dr. Michael Morrissey of Germany to examine the flowchart and report to the world. In addition, we have now examined the 1978 report. It is heresy to continue to further argue the program ended in 1977.

"The 1978 report of the development of AIDS leaves no doubt as to the ("narrow result") candidate virus sought by the United States. The flowchart conclusively proves a secret federal plot to develop a "contagious cancer" that "selectively kills."

"Following the presentation of the flowchart in Canada, the same information was presented to the United States in the rotunda of the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland. Shortly thereafter a major African newspaper called and for four days in a row, this issue was the feature story in an uncensored press. The people of Africa already know about the U.S. virus development program. It is time for the rest of us to know.

"In January, the U.S. had no response to my two page abstract submitted to the African American AIDS 2000 conference. In February, the U.S. Congress had no response to the 3000 Americans who signed signature petitions calling for immediate review of the flowchart and progress reports of the secret virus development program. We firmly believe once the dust settles from the current election marathon, reviewing the special virus program will be the single most important pursuit of the 21st Century.

"More scientists and doctors must join with Dr. Nicolson, Dr. Strecker, Dr. Cantwell, Dr. Horowitz, Dr. Lee, Dr. Wainwright, Dr. Halstead and Professor Boyle. In any public debate on this issue, we will continue to present the flowchart of the secret virus development program, as the "irrefutable missing link" in the true laboratory origin of AIDS.

"We have successfully navigated a federal maze and matrix and found a curtain surrounding the issue of AIDS. The 1999 discovery and presentation of the AIDS flowchart is a "smoke detector" wake up call. Society has an obligation to do more than don masks".

Non-inclusive random endnotes:

U.S. Special Virus program, Progress Report #8 (1971), pg. 61 (the flowchart)

National Security Defense Memorandum (NSDM) #314, Brent Scowcroft (1975).

"Special Message to the U.S. Congress on Problems of Population Growth", Richard M. Nixon, July 18, 1969

Public Law 91-213, "To Stabilize World Populations", John D. Rockefeller, III, Chairman, March 16, 1970

National Security Council Memorandum (NSCM) #46, "Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement", Zbigniew
Brezinski, March 17, 1978

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This afternoon at the Clinton Foundation's New York office, President Clinton announced that his foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative reached new agreements to significantly reduce prices of both HIV tests and the drug treatments that keep HIV-infected patients alive and healthy. The Clinton Foundation also annouced that almost a quarter of a million people in 50 countries are receiving drugs through Clinton Foundation agreements.

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Update, January 13, 2004: "A Cure for AIDS/HIV, mysteriously withheld."

To whom it concerns:

It is apparent, to me, that Compassion Response Network ( www.compassion-response.net/ ) is engaged, quite likely unknowingly, in a cover delaying diversionary tactic (for some inexcusable reason) in regards to making the known non-toxic, one injection Tetrasil/Immusil cure for HIV/AIDS accessible on a massive global scale, with all deliberate speed. I hope I am correct about the "unknowingly" part.

The pertinent facts in brief, as I know them, are: [1] There are no logical reasons for anyone anywhere to be doing any additional, very limited "trials" with "six single injections" of Tetrasil/Imusil, given the facts that [2] the October 17, 1997 patent application filed with the US Patent Office states "...further testing revealed complete 100% destruction of the AIDS virus in vitro at 20 PPM, and the fact that said devices were harmless when ingested and inhaled, being non-toxic..."

Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.)

References
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1) Population Control is GENOCIDE, by Spartacus R.
2) HIV/AIDS is Manufactured in US Labs (Zygote Media)
3) The Smoking Gun of AIDS: a 1971 Flowchart
4) Just as you, I Believe that HIV-1 was a Laboratory Creation, Prof. Garth Nicolson, Institute for Molecular Medicine February 12, 2001
5) 1971 AIDS development flowchart is absolute proof: AIDS is the "best-choice" Weapon of Mass Destruction
6) 1971 AIDS Development Flowchart too Much for national Press Club
7) The Smoking Gun of AIDS: a 1971 Flowchart (at BNW Reference Librarian)
8) Boyd Graves AIDS Activist Takes on The US Government
9) Cure for AIDS/HIV

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March 01, 2006

President Clinton and the Movie “Hotel Rwanda”: Why the Change of Mind after Supporting Genocide in Rwanda 1993-94?

by Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.) (Raleigh, North Carolina) --- After reading former President Bill Clinton's: ANNOUNCEMENT OF MAJOR STEPS IN HIS EFFORTS TO SAVE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS AROUND THE WORLD, including Africa, I wondered why he changed his mind about supporting GENOCIDE in Africa? I felt just the way I felt after watching the Movie "Hotel Rwanda".

On President Bill Clinton's watch, in 1993 - 1994, a most senseless war erupted in Rwanda between its two prominent ethnic groups - the Tutsi and the Hutu. "On April 6, 1994, Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana's personal plane, a gift from French President Francois Mitterand, was shot down as it returned to Rwanda, killing Habyarimana, Burundian President Cyprien Ntarymira, and members of their entourages. The two Presidents were returning from Tanzania, where they'd met with regional leaders concerning events in Burundi. Habyarimana himself was pressed to implement the power-sharing Arusha Accord his government had concluded with the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in August 1993, which capped three years of war, cease-fires and negotiations. To do so, however, would mean the effective end of his 20-year, one-party rule over Rwandan politics and society. Extremists in the military and government bitterly opposed the accord; they are the likely culprits in his assassination.

"Within an hour of the plane crash, the Presidential Guard, elements of the Rwandan armed forces (FAR) and extremist militia (Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi) set up roadblocks and barricades and began the organized slaughter, starting in the capital Kigali, of nearly one million Rwandans in 100 days time. Their first targets were those most likely to resist the plan of genocide: the opposition Prime Minister, the president of the constitutional court, priests, leaders of the Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party, the Information Minister, and tellingly, the negotiator of the Arusha Accord. Those who hesitated to join the campaign, such as the governor of a southern province, were quickly removed from positions of influence or killed. As a US intelligence analyst noted in late April, 1994.

'The plan appears to have been to wipe out any RPF ally or potential ally, and thus raise the costs and limit the possibility of an RPF/Tutsi takeover… No end to the unprecedented bloodshed is yet in sight." (US Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Intelligence Assessment, "Roots of the Violence in Rwanda", April 29, 1994)

"As the killing intensified, the international community deserted Rwanda. Western nations landed troops in Rwanda or Burundi in the first week to evacuate their citizens, did so, and left. The UN mission (UNAMIR), created in October 1993 to keep the peace and assist the governmental transition in Rwanda, sought to intervene between the killers and civilians. It also tried to mediate between the RPF and the Rwandan army after the RPF struck from Rwanda to protect Tutsi and rescue their battalion encamped in Kigali as part of the Accord. On April 21, 1994, the United Nations Security Council, at the behest of the United States — which had no troops in Rwanda — Belgium, and others, voted to withdraw all but a remnant of UNAMIR. The Security Council took this vote and others concerning Rwanda even as the representative of the genocidal regime sat amongst them as a non-permanent member.

"After human rights, media, and diplomatic reports of the carnage mounted, the UN met and debated and finally arrived at a compromise response on May 16. UNAMIR II, as it was to be known, would be a more robust force of 5,500 troops. Again, however, the world failed to deliver, as the full complement of troops and materiel would not arrive in Rwanda until months after the genocide ended. Faced with the UN's delay, but also concerned about its image as a former patron and arms supplier of the Habyarimana regime, France announced on June 15 that it would intervene to stop the killing. In a June 22 vote, the UN Security Council gave its blessing to this intervention; that same day, French troops entered Rwanda from Zaire. "While intending a wider intervention, confronted with the RPF's rapid advance across Rwanda, the French set up a 'humanitarian zone" in the southwest corner of Rwanda. Their intervention succeeded in saving tens of thousands of Tutsi lives; it also facilitated the safe exit of many of the genocide's plotters, who were allies of the French.

"On July 4, the RPF took the capital, Kigali; two weeks later, it announced a new government comprised of RPF leaders and ministers previously selected for the transition government called for in the Arusha Accord. With the RPF's takeover, and with the encouragement of extremist radio, Rwandans implicated in the slaughter, their relatives and those who feared the arrival of the RPF, fled to neighboring countries. In the end, the extremists killed nearly one million Rwandans, approximately one-tenth of the population. Were it not for the RPF's military prowess, the genocide would have continued.

"Despite overwhelming evidence of genocide and knowledge as to its perpetrators, United States officials decided against taking a leading role in confronting the slaughter in Rwanda. Rather, US officials confined themselves to public statements, diplomatic despatches, initiatives for a ceasefire, and attempts to contact both the interim government perpetrating the killing and the RPF. The US did use its influence, however, at the United Nations, but did so to discourage a robust UN response (Document 4 and Document 13). In late July, however, with the evidence of genocide littering the ground in Rwanda, the US did launch substantial operations—again, in a supporting role—to assist humanitarian relief efforts for those displaced by the genocide".

Document 4

US Department of State, cable number 099440, to US Mission to the United Nations, New York, 'Talking Points for UNAMIR Withdrawal", April 15, 1994. Confidential.

Source: Freedom of Information Act release by Department of State.

"This telegram forwards Department of State guidance to the US Mission to the UN in New York instructing US diplomats there that 'the international community must give highest priority to full, orderly withdrawal of all UNAMIR personnel as soon as possible." Advising that this withdrawal does not require a UN Security Council resolution—which would have likely focused international criticism—the Department instructs the mission 'that we will oppose any effort at this time to preserve a UNAMIR presence in Rwanda." April 15 was the first of two days of UN Security Council debate on next steps in Rwanda—for which the Rwandan ambassador was present and about which he reported back to the interim government in Rwanda. Over that same weekend, aware the UN Security Council was in retreat, the interim Council of Ministers, the genocide's architects, met in Kigali and decided to take the program of extermination to the rest of the country".

The US President Clinton, who had no troops in Rwanda, insisted that the troops of the other foreign Peace-keeping Forces in Rwanda, the UNAMIR, should be withdrawn leaving the Tutsi minority open to unabated massacre by the Hutu majority. After a few months, the peace-keepers came back, evicently, to see to the orderly withdrawal of the remaining UN Forces, when the purpose of the massacre and genocide of the Tutsi had been accomplished".

Is it not the same genocidal war of extinction that has been going on in Nigeria against Ndi Igbo and Biafra, since 1966 to the present, with the support of these same Governments that supported the genocide in the Tutsi in Rwanda?

Document 13

US Department of State, cable number 127262, to US Mission to the United Nations, New York, 'Rwanda: Security Council Discussions", May 13, 1994. Confidential.

Source: Freedom of Information Act release by the Department of State

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Peter Tarnoff and senior officials, including the Director of the Joint Staff, drafted and approved this cable delivering instructions to the US Mission in New York for Security Council debate over replenishing UNAMIR. With much of the killing completed and most of the remaining armed forces fleeing the RPF's countrywide advance, US officials argue against a UN plan for a robust effort launched into Kigali to protect surviving Rwandans, rescue others, and deliver assistance. Such a plan, 'in current circumstances, would require a Chapter VII mandate", and the US 'is not prepared at this point to lift heavy equipment and troops into Kigali". It is however, willing to consider its own plan, 'outside-in", by which protective zones would be established on Rwanda's borders. Even this plan, however, is likely to be 'an active protection operation requiring the use of lethal force." As for the several thousand Rwandans in Kigali under deteriorating UN protection, 'we recommend that these ad hoc protective efforts should continue until a suitable alternative arrangement can be ensured." Even when a plan for 5,500 troops with a protection mandate is finally approved on May 17, the troops would not all be in place until September, two months after the RPF captures the country and one month after Gen. Dallaire completed his service in Rwanda".

AFTER THE TUTSI GENOCIDE 1993-94 AND THE MOVIE "HOTEL RWANDA"

After viewing the Movie "Hotel Rwanda", I wrote to President Bill Clinton as follows:

Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:36:32 -0800 (PST)
From: "Oyibo Odinamadu"
Subject: My misgivings about your good intentions for Africa after watching the Movie - "Hotel Rwanda".
To: [email protected]

Dear President Clinton, I received your Newsletter - Experience my trip to Africa - and I sent you a reply, acclaiming you a 'citizen of the world'. At one time when you were in Nigeria, the Nigerian Mass Media extolled you as "the First Black American President". All that was before the Movie, "Hotel Rwanda".

"Since watching the Movie, annotated variously as: "When a country descended into madness; And the world closed its eyes; He (Paul Rusesabagina, the 5-Star Hotel Mille Collines Manager) opened his arms; He created a place where hope could thrive; He saved over 1000 lives of refugee-guests in the hotel", I have been disillusioned about you and wondered about the genuineness of the current good deeds you are extending to Africa. This is because you made yourself and your Administration part of the "world that closed its eyes to Rwanda".
"This disillusionment stems from the fact that it was on your watch and insistence, as the President and Chief Executive of the Government of the United States of America, that the nations that contributed troops to the United Nations Peace-keeping Force withdrew them from Rwanda. That was at the height of the genocidal massacre of the Tutsi minority by the Hutu majority, whom the Hutu called the "Cockroaches".

"A few months later, the U.N. Troops went back but only to assign the leaders of the Tutsi to different countries for asylum. The Hutu Manager of the Hotel Mille Collines, who saved more than 1200 Tutsi lives in the Hotel, by shielding them and managed to find food and whatnot to keep them was assigned to Brussels, Belgium where he now lives with his family. "During the period of the UN withdrawal, the Hutu Army commanders bragged about the departure of the UN Peace-Keepers. The genocide escalated, to the extent that thousands of the bodies of slain Tutsi were discovered by Paul, laid up like bricks, for miles, on a road. That was the road the unsuspecting Hotel Manager was told by the General-Commander of the Hutu to take as being safe and secure, in a chauffeured vehicle he provided for him. It was a road on which he could not detour; and if he did, would be killed. To his chagrin, he had to be driven on the bodies and he forced the chauffwur to turn back on those bodies, damning the consequences.

"After assigning the Hutu leaders away, the solution the world, including you and your administration, could find was to allow the Tutsi minority to leave their country, enmasse, to South Africa, and Burundi, Tanzania, and whereeverelse they could. "After watching the Movie, I have had serious misgivings about the sincerity of your intentions towards Africa and Africans. And I have wondered whether your activities to save lives now in Africa is an act of remorse; apology; damage-control; restitution or of medicine-after-death?"

In conclusion, I have a few questions for you:

i) Do you think that you can ever make up for the part you played in withdrawing the Peace-keepers from Rwanda and facilitating the massacre of the Tutsi by the Hutu?

ii) Do you think that you can ever live down the guilt of your contribution to the Tutsi being pushed out of their own country, all of which happened during your watch?

iii)Can you ever forget that it all happened when you, as the leader of the Free-World, while the rest of the Free-World, looked the other way, withdrew your support for the weak and down-trodden, at the time they needed it most?

iv)Do you think that the country, and the lives of the Tutsi of Rwanda can ever be reconstructed?

v) How come you now find it necessary and easy to raise billions of dollars for relief-aid and reconstruction for the victims of disasters all over the world, and trudge around, even in your ill-health, now that you are being sent as an errand-boy by your successor-in-office, but not when you were substantively in that office with full powers and sway?

vi) Do you think you can get your colleagues in power in the USA and elsewhere to react to disastrous situations and sufferings of the third world and of the defenseless poor and lowly of the world, including the USA, compassionately, preventively, and promptly, before it is too late?.

vii) Do you think you can get your your colleagues in power to realize that Africa is the 'Continent of the Future', and to stop the lip-service, cosmetic programmes of assistance and development they now extend to her, and to be more serious and dedicated in a more meanibgful way?

Nothing has been said about Somalia and the massacre and genocide there of the same period; and about Daffur in the Republic of Niger of the present day. I still like you, but the images of the Movie - "Hotel Rwanda" - leaves a very bad taste in the mouth about the genuineness of your compassion now towards Africa. Believe me, it greatly distracts from the aura you normally exuded in those activities.

While I wish you well in your efforts around the world "to create hope and bring succour", I cannot stop looking at it as an after-thought and a damage-control to cover up the untold damage that had been done by your unconcern in the past! I DID NOT RECEIVE A REPLY.

Yours in a quandary,
Oyibo E. Odinamadu {Mrs.}"

"Dear President Clinton,

Greetings! I am disappointed that I did not receive a reply from you concerning my letter to you after viewibg the Movie: "Hotel Rwanda". Now, having read about all the efforts you are making to provide less costly drugs for the victims of AIDS/HIV in Africa and elsewhere in the world, I am just wondering what has brought about your change of mind about genocide on Africans, after the very prominent role you played in fostering the genocide on the Tutsi using the Hutu in Rwanda, by your role in having the UN Peace-keepers withdrawn, and the inaction of your US Government, to help, on your watch?

Do you not think that the whole process of the diagnostics, drugs and administration of the CURE FOR AIDS on the unfortunate victims should be ENTIRELY FREE to them by the US Government, helped by you, because the contagious cancer was deliberately manufactured and patented for Africans and people of African descent, and was spread and administered to them deliberately, callously, maliciously and sadistically, without any kind of Christian compassion, so as to clear their population, completely, out of the continent of Africa, within 66 years, for your kind, the Caucasians, to occupy? What is your explanation for this genocide on the Africans? You are looking for and obtaining cheaper alternative drugs for the victims, which will take about six doses, while you and President G.W. Bush are sitting on the patented AIDS CURE - TETRASIL/IMMUSIL PATENT 5676977 - ONE DOSE CURE. Why the holding back of the patented Cure? Is it the cost? Is that drug costlier than the lives that the contagious cancer is taking in Africa and around the world? Nothing else will do but the provision and administration of the PATENT 5676977 IMMEDIATELY NOW FOR EVERY AIDS/HIV VICTIM SO AS TO DEACTIVATE IT, COMPLETELY, WITHOUT A TRACE, LONG BEFORE THE 66 YEARS.

Thank you for being the Agent!

Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.)"

References:
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1) Haunted by a History of Genocide, Rwanda and Burundi have danced a Tortured Tango of Terror since Emerging from Colonial Rule over three Decades Ago by J. R. Bullington, in the the Virginian-Pilot
2) The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Evidence of Inaction, by William Ferroggiaro, Editor

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February 23, 2006

There is Not Much to Give Credit for: A Rejoinder to Paul Adujie, Re: President Obasanjo’s Diplomatic Finesse: Unheralded in Nigeria!

by Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.) (Raleigh, North Carolina) --- There is not much diplomatic finesse to herald at home, but a lot to unherald in Obasanjo’s Administrations of Nigeria, with reference to Paul I. Udujie’s write-up entitled "President Obasanjo’s Diplomatic Finesse Unheralded In Nigeria." It is very regrettable that through some persons in Nigeria, for what can be clearly seen as pecuniary reasons, according to Femi Fani-Kayode, President Obasanjo has chosen the path of destruction, rather than of rectitude and survival. The path he has chosen to thread, through some misguided emissaries, has degenerated from the ridiculous to the sublime.

IN NIGERIA, IT’S POWER FETCHED BY MONEY THAT CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY!

Yes indeed! Generals Babangida, Abacha and Abdulsalami institutionalized corruption in high places, not because they were Four or Five Star Generals in the Nigerian Army, but because of the money they acquired by corruption while in office. But it was Obasanjo who saddled the horse of corruption, equipped it with the reins, mounted and galloped away. Otherwise, how dare nincompoops like Femi Fani-Kayode, Paul Adujie, Okey Ndibe, and others like them, ignore all that is sacred and respectable in Igbo and Yoruba culture, and have the audacity to insult elders and the cream of intellectual excellence in the world, like Professor Chinua Achebe and Professor Wole Soyinka, simply because they happen to be Nigerians; and because they have the strength of character to speak out the truth against President Olusegun Obasanjo - a man who has ruined Nigeria and become a despot in office.

OBASANJO’S BRAND OF DIPLOMATIC OR MENTALITY FINESSE

Obasanjo’s brand of diplomatic or is it mentality finesse abroad is the type that makes him cringe for the Bushes and Tony Blair and to address them as “Master”. But one of the brands at home is the one by which he prostrates to Chief Adedibu several times, in behalf of Governor Ladoja, the elected Governor of Oyo State, and dragging Nigeria with him in that prostration. Another brand that he practices at home, not abroad, is the diplomatic or mentality finesse that pursues and promotes the “Demoncrazy” of exclusion rather than of inclusion. His brand of Democratic Finesse at home is the one where there should be no opposition and no dissenting voice. It is a Finesse which allows no dissenting voice and where, if any, the dissenter is hounded and put away. It is a diplomatic finesse and demoncrazy where the Head of State takes the lead in thuggery and the State security outfit becomes the strike-squad for the Head of State. It is a One-Man-Demoncrazy with the finesse where one man is the people, the party, the government and operates totally contrary to the Constitution he swore to protect and to uphold. It is an exclusive Demoncrazy where the people he claims to have voted him into office cannot call him to order? It is a Demoncrazy with the diplomatic finesse where might is right and the person who claims to have the people’s mandate has become totalitarian and a monster.

His brand is Demoncrazy that operates where the Head of State has become tyrannical and a robot. His is Demoncrazy with the diplomatic finesse where the Head of State has become so power-drunk that everybody else is declared an enemy of the State and charged with “treasonable felony”, unless one sings his praises and kisses his behind? His brand of diplomatic finesse at home is Demoncrazy where the Head of State has become: “Eze onye agwanam”, that is: “A king of ‘thou shall not tell me’.” It is a Demoncrazy where the Head of State claims to be the State and where sovereignty belongs to the Head of State and no longer to the people. A Democracy that operates with the finesse where there is no longer any freedom of speech and association as guaranteed by the Constitution. Obasanjo’s brand of diplomatic finesse at home is a Demoncrazy where citizens can no longer live and set up their businesses in the country where they like. It is a Demoncrazy where the Head of State has the power to order, at will, single-handedly, the closure of a citizen’s businesses, and his goods dumped into the ocean. The kind of diplomatic finesse that Nigerians get at home from President Obasanjo, the Head of State, is a Demoncrazy where the Head of State has his finger in every pie!!!

WHAT IS THERE TO HERALD?

It is very far fetched to see what President Obasanjo has accomplished by jumping all over the globe, leaving the people at home to complain, without redress, about him relishing globe-trotting rather than attending to the problems of governance at home. Is part of what he accomplished in the Conference of the African Union in Egypt – the connivance of the AU Heads of State to deviate from the provision of their Constitution and to keep the President of Sudan from assuming the post of the President of the AU after hosting the Conference, and giving it to the President of the Congo? What qualifies President Obasanjo, the out-going president and the one they elected, better than the President of the Sudan? Are they less guilty of the violation of human rights or of the elimination of people? What did he achieve in his peace-keeping in Daffur when the CNN is reporting this morning (Saturday, 3rd February 2006) of the escalating carnage that is still going on there – senseless killing, arson, raping of women, even elderly women, in the presence of their children, hunger and thirst, disease, no shelter – unabated? Is he claiming the success of Lady Sirleaf in the Liberian presidential elections as one of his so called diplomatic finesse when his own PDP here could not even let a woman win the nomination for local council chairmanship or governorship?

DEBT FORGIVENESS FOR THE POOREST AFRICAN NATIONS AND NIGERIA

It is a crying out shame that President Obasanjo, who presides over the sixth largest oil producer in the world, should go cap in-hand, begging for debt forgiveness, among the poorest and most destitute countries of Africa, and counting it as an accomplishment. Does he also count it as an accomplishment to be presiding over the poorest population of the world in the midst of such oil wealth? What about the Poverty Alleviation Programme? How have Nigerians been lifted up from poverty, in fact abject poverty and destitution, which the President does not see, has said does not exists, but which the whole world sees and talks about? What finesse is there to herald that he is: “Ogalanya n’ezi, ubiam n’uno”, that is: “Rich abroad and poor at home”? What about the Universal Basic Education Programme? How much has it succeeded, while he is establishing a university which will draw its student body from traders, daily paid jobbers at “Ogbo Manu”, Agboro from motor-parks, and he like? What percentage of children of school age are registered and in school, all over the country to warrant the appellation of the name “universal”? Why are some advantaged and others disadvantaged? How well are school fees paid and school supplies provided, in order to be heralded as a laudable programme?

OBASANJO IS AN ARCH CHAUVINIST AND A MISERABLE HYPOCRITE

THE BANJUL CHARTER OF 1981 AND OBASANJO’S PRESIDENCY OF AU

How could it be said that President Obasanjo achieved any diplomatic finesse, as the President of the AU for the last two years, to be heralded when the Banjul Charter of the OAU, which was adopted since 1981, that is twenty-six years ago, has still not been adopted and domiciled by the State Governments, let alone implemented; and there is no hope in sight of it being adopted, domiciled and implemented? Is this to be heralded?

In 1981 the Organization of African Unity adopted the Banjul Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. Certain provisions of the document may also be interpreted to create a state duty to protect women from female circumcision. The Law for the prohibition of female genital cutting and mutilation (FGM) has been passed for Nigeria, but female genital circumcision is still going strong in Nigeria as if no law has been passed. That shows that it is not the wild claims of success that matter, but how far a law or measure is being implemented and enforced? What has President Obasanjo done for the women of Nigeria in this regard, or what is keeping him from wiping out the practice in Nigeria totally? Yet Paul Udujie will expect the girl-child and women of Nigeria to herald Obasanjo’s diplomatic finesse all over the world.
President Obasanjo should take a cue from Burkina Faso’s Melegue Traore, the traditional chief and former president of Burkina Faso’s National Assembly when he said, according to the Authoritative Link: "We are in no way abandoning African culture when we abandon female genital mutilation." We also hope that the conference of politicians, health and human rights NGOs, religious experts and traditional leaders in the Senegalese capital included Nigerian Christian and other religious leaders, whose stance has been to support retrogressive native cultural practices rather than Christian progressive and forward-looking reformations. We hope that Nigerians joined them in their rejection of female genital mutilation as not being against tradition. West African religious and traditional leaders meeting with political officials the first week of December 2005 affirmed their commitment to eradicating female genital mutilation, saying that: “To abandon the practice is not to reject traditional or religious values”. Nigeria must be one of the 28 countries of Africa and the Middle East where three million girls still undergo some form of genital cutting annually, according to the UN World Health Organization, as reported by the Authoritative Link.

PUNITIVE, DEHUMANIZING WIDOWHOOD PRACTICES IN NIGERIA

THE RIGHTS OF TRIBAL GROUPS VERSUS THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN NIGERIA

WHEN WOMEN WILL NO LONGER COMPLAIN

ABROGATE, AMEND, CODIFY, CUSTOMARY LAWS AND HARMONIZE THEM WITH STATUTORY LAWS INTO ONE BODY OF LAWS
It will do a world of good to the people, especially to women, to have the most obnoxious of customary laws abrogated, some amended, and then codify and harmonize them, with the statutory laws, into one body of laws for each ethnic people, as it has been done in South Africa. There is no need to continue to have two or three bodies of laws, complicated with the unwritten and un-codified customary laws, for one and the same people. After all, the governments – customary and constitutional - are all in the hands of the people now as there are no more foreigners to hide from, fight or compete with. When the Laws are harmonized, then and only then will women know what laws that govern them and which they have to live by; not the ever fluid and changing customary practices as they are now. This is an initiative that a Head of State will have to take for the modernization of the laws of the land and governance. Has President Obasanjo or any of his predecessors in-office done anything about it? THE ANSWER IS A CAPITAL NO!!! what then do we herald?

FEMALE GENDER SPECIFICITY IN THE CONSTITUTION

TRAFFICKING OF THE NIGERIAN GIRLS AND BOYS

NO SOCIAL WELFARE BENEFITS OF ANY KIND TO ANYBODY IN NIGERIA

THIRD TERM OR FOURTH TERM BID IS REAL

PRESIDENT OBASANJO’S HALLUCINATIONS OF GRANDEUR

President Obasanjo should know that he has lost the confidence of Nigerians, except those of the ones he pays to keep on singing his praises and to go on telling him what he wants to hear. He is even too cowardly and arrogant to talk to Nigerians directly himself. He keeps mute but prods other people with back-hand to go on saying one thing or the other or yes or no; in his behalf. But General Gowon has let the cat out of the bag by revealing part of the letter written to him by Obasanjo’s third-term promoters, prompting him to support his third-term bid, so as to enable him carry on with his programmes until he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. When will that be? When he chooses?

This is hallucinations of grandeur; the conceitedness of a man who has lost his head. Can the people supporting Obasanjo not see that this man has become too drunk with power; has become a robot; has no intelligible limits and, therefore, has to be stopped? If he cannot be made to understand that he should leave now that there will still be some ovation left for him, at least by his henchmen, he has to be dragged out of office, and be booed out in ignominy. It is said that: "Ijiji na enwero ezigbo ndumodu ka aneni nya na ozu”, meaning that: A fly that does not have good advice is buried with the corpse”. IF HE IS LEFT TO ACT BY HIMSELF, FOR 2007, OBASANJO WILL RIG THE ELECTIONS AND DECLARE HIMSELF WINNER, WITH THE HEEP OF HIS MENTORS, AS USUAL!!!

Is this not self delusion? The reason he wants to stay on in office is the very reason for which he should get out. Does he not know that Nigerians believe that he has exhausted his tricks and wits about governance and about staying in power? He does not even have to wait to exhaust his tricks and wits before leaving. He has exhausted his terms of office. Period! His problem is that he cannot get himself to leave the glow of the aura and trappings of the office – the limelight! This is the mindset that makes him see himself above the law and so cannot operate by the rule of law. In a way, it is the effect of faulty home up-bringing. If he had obeyed his parents as he should have, he would know that this stubbornness to hold on to the office is very counter-productive.

But leave he must. Governments are supposed to be progressive, successive and continuous, one person handing over to the other. Any Government that is worth its salt has a series of programmes on hand: some starting; some in progress; and others finishing, at any given time. For a Head of State to want to stay to see all of his programmes materialize means that he would be there till the end of his life, succeeding himself. Does he know that by that bid to stay, he is giving the impression that he has skeletons in the cupboard that he would not want anybody else to see? But the skeletons in his cupboard must be seen. His programmes must also be seen, assessed, evaluated, and some discontinued or continued, according to how relevant they are to the people’s needs and aspirations. Eleven years are enough for him to prove his mettle in the governance of Nigeria. It is time for him to throw in the towel!

OBASANJO IS “A DOG IN THE MANGER” WITH NDI IGBO

It is odd how President Obasanjo is using the Igbo to play on the Igbo – all for money. Are these Ndi Igbo trying to live up to the proverbial Igbo whose death is tested and confirmed when he does not awaken to the sound of a few pieces of coins in a tin-can, shaken at his ears? Almost all of his chorus boys are or have been Igbo – Ojo Maduekwe, Paul Udujie, Okey Ndibe, Frank Nweke Jr., Chris Uba, Governor Chimaraoke Nnamani, etc inspite of all the atrocities Obasanjo has committed against Ndi Igbo, and continues to commit on daily basis. Obasanjo’s latest on Ndi Igbo is his order to close Ibeto’s Cement Factory in Port Harcourt, which provides employment for hundreds of people that he could not. There is no Federal Government presence whatsoever in the South East, especially in Igbo land, except civil war memorials. And what Ndi Igbo are able to do for themselves, Obasanjo closes down and destroys. Is this the type of Obasanjo’s wicked diplomatic finesse that Ndi Igbo should herald?

This is a proper case of “a dog in the manger” – who would not eat what is in the manger, but would allow the any one that would eat to come close or to eat. How much more wickedness could President Obasanjo exhibit towards Ndi Igbo to satisfy his sadism and cruelty, simply because they had to defend themselves in a war that he and his colleagues unleashed on them? Are Ndi Igbo the only people that have ever been involved in a civil war? Ndi Igbo have been made to understand, according to an interview granted to Chido Nwangwu by Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu that he, President Obasanjo, has asked Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to denounce Biafra so that they could work together. I suppose, by extension, so that he could also forgive Ndi Igbo. I think that he would wait forever for Ikemba to renounce Biafra. Ndi Igbo would also be ready for more of Obasanjo’s antics; continue to work for the realignment of Nigeria; and to outlive Obasanjo and his ilk!!!

NDI IGBO WHO ARE PROMOTING OBASANJO TO BEWARE

Ndi Igbo who are promoting Obasanjo for credibility and a further term of office, like Chris Uba, should: “Fie isa n’anya”, which , literally, means to: “Wipe their eyes with all their fingers seven times”, as Ndi Igbo say it. Furthermore: “Onye atu gbulu nna ya ejiro mpi atu anwu mmili”, that is to say that: “One whose father was killed by a buffalo does not drink with the cup of a buffalo’s horn”. Besides, “Ejiro okwu ochu amu okwu”, and that is to say that: “One does not learn to speak by adopting murderous words or terms”. Ndi Igbo who are supporting and promoting Obasanjo should know what they are doing and where they are heading. They should take a cue from the cases of Major Hamza Al Mustapha, Lt. General Ishaya Bamaiyi, and Co. with General Sani Abacha. THAT DIRECTION WOULD APPEAR TO BE LEADING TO THE PROMISE OF: GOD’S CASE, NO APPEAL!!!!

Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.)

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January 23, 2006

Obasanjo's Historic Visit to Amichi

by Oyibo E. Odinamadu (Mrs.) (Raleigh, North Carolina) --- Must Ndi Igbo be sycophantic towards those in positions of power, no matter how much they have contributed towards the genocidal activities against Ndi Igbo? Must Ndi Igbo be sycophantic towards the people who have, by their continued negative and oppressive stance in their performances while in the office, have underscored those attitudes directly against Ndi Igbo? These people towards whom Ndi Igbo cower, may actually be inwardly scared stiff and trembling at the mere mention or sight of Ndi Igbo.

What has President Olusegun Obasanjo actually done for Ndi Igbo to warrant or merit the kind of reception and adulation he received at Amichi at the celebration of the 70th birthday of Chief Simon Okeke? Is it because Obasanjo's Minister for Internal Affairs appointed Chief Simon Okeke the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC)? What did he appoint him there to do? Is it to manage the Nigeria Police, which is corrupt from head to toe, and in which people have lost confidence for the security of their lives and property?

I bet you that the Governor of Anambra State rushed around to pave and clear the roads for Mr. President to ride on to Amichi; and that the people of Amichi also rushed around to clean and clear up the internal roads of the town. This is what Ndi Igbo usually do, whenever such a person is coming to town. They do this so as to present a deceptive face-lift and facade of the town, and to give a smiling-face to their woes and misery. They cover up for the very person to whom they should show the full nakedness of the town in its lack of the basic infrastructure and how they live. Of course, no sooner than the "august" visitor leaves do they sink back and deeper into their multifarious miseries and woes.

This face-lifting is happening in Igbo land because they have forgotten that the icons of Igbo land rode on those dilapidated, broken-down roads, and were jolted in those deep gullies, pot-holes and detours all the way to their homes, in life and death. What about the Economics luminary like Dr. Pius Okigbo who was tossed up and down on those roads back and forth to Ojoto? What about the Honourable Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the singular one of Africa? In what state of repairs was the Federal Nsukka- Enugu-Onitsha Expressway the day his body was driven from Nsukka to Enugu to Awka to Onitsha? Isn't it for the same devilishness that they fixed Honourable Nnamdi Azikiwe's funeral on the same date as his birthday - 16th November? Oh! one will say, but that was on Sani Abacha's watch! Shouldn't such disrespect to the first President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, be enough for Ndi Igbo?

Is there any difference from one Military Head of State and Administration to the other in their treatment of Ndi Igbo? Need I mention the state of repairs of the roads from Enugu to Abakaliki to Afikpo to Unwana, on which His Excellency, Dr. Sir Akanu Ibiam, used to drive to his home in Unwana; and on which his body was driven to his final resting place? Was that not on Olusegun Obasanjo's watch? Yes, it was indeed! But it was alright for the people assembled at Amichi because anything goes for Ndi Igbo!

Was President Obasanjo not the one who told the former Nigerian Military Oficers who served in the Biafran Army to articulate and submit their losses during the pogrom and the Nigeria-Biafra War? That was during his term of office, 1999 to 2003, which people mistakenly call his first term, when it was actually his second term. The officers submitted all he asked for, thinking that, at last, he was going to implement the much vaunted: NO VICTOR! NO VANQUISHED! slogan and THE THREE R'S policy of the PEACE CONFERENCE at the end of the War, which are: RECONCILIATION; REHABILITATION; and RECONSTRUCTION.

But nothing came of it. It turned out to be THE THREE SSS, which are: STARVATION; STRANGULATION and SARCASM - a hoax; another wild-goose chase, on which the leaders of the Nigerian Federal Government choose to take Ndi Igbo and Biafrans from time to time; a pass-time of Mr. President Obasanjo fiddling while Nigeria burned like Emperor Nero of Ancient Rome; a session to have a good laugh for himself while the people languished in false hopes that relief was on the way. He only made that mock proposal of: LET'S BURY CIVIL WAR BITTERNESS at Amichi as a way of reminding Ndi Igbo that: THERE WAS A VICTOR and A VANQUISHED in case they were forgetting it. He did it to drive his sword deeper into the open wounds of the people while rubbing salt into it and cajoling them. What a saddist!

He is going to set up another WAR MEMORIAL in Igbo land to compliment the one set up by Gowon at Umuahia. I bet he will set up his statue receiving the papers from Major-General Philip Effiong. Not to worry! What has happened to the statues of President Saddam Hussien all over Iraq?

This is the callousness of a man who claims to be a Born-Again Christian, and who has set up a Chapel in his Aso Rock Residence. Of course, the practice of religion of all kinds - Christian, Moslem, and what-have-you - has become a facade with which these people in authority in Nigeria, sadistically, cover up "their manifold sins and wickednesses".
Since President Obasanjo made the people dig up and renew their annoyances and griefs over their losses, they have been dying one after the other, UNRECONCILED and UNREHABILITATED. He did not even acknowledge the receipt of their submissions. Therefore, his request for the people to: "LET'S BURY CIVIL WAR BITTERNESS" AFTER THIRTY-SIX YEARS is the greatest joke of the century. It is another one of his callous ways of telling it to the Marines and to the Winds.

But by that very pretentious appeal, he bought his way into the open arms and hearts of the gullible Igbo people who assembled at Amichi, who poured enconmiums and adulations on him. This is because, for the ilk of Ndi Igbo who assembled there, anything goes, especially with those who are chronically sick with colonial and civil-service mentally among them.

How could any Igbo person, in his right senses, say that Obasanjo is the FIGURE OF RECONCILIATION? What has he reconciled amomg Ndi Igbo and in Igbo land? Is this not the man who has removed Igbo language from being one of the three major Nigerian languages for use in the National Assembly? Is this not the man who is going to take the Census of Nigeria without Ndi Igbo because he does not want it to be known how many Ndi Igbo there are in Nigeria wherever they are, or how many Christians there are in Nigeria?

The news said that that birthday celebration visit was his second in 36 years, the first of course, was when he received the instruments of surrender from Major-General Philip EfFiong. But why was the instrument of surrender received by him at Amichi? Was it because the Rt. Honourable Nwafor Orizu, the former President of Senate, who handed over power to General T.Y.Aguiyi-Ironsi, lived at Amichi?

I need not emphasize it too much that one should read the whole submission of Oha Na Eze Ndi Igbo, entitled: VIOLATIONS OF THE HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF NDI IGBO IN THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA 1966 - 1999. This is within a space of thirty-three years, out of which President Olusegun Obasanjo was in the saddle for nine years - more than one-quarter of the time. Please also read the Speech by Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, entitled: NDI IGBO - THE WAY FORWARD, also attached. President Obasanjo set up the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Commission of Enquiry to let Nigerian's know who his sacred cows are; and also to show up to teach the people how to embrace, kiss and shed away their grievances and crimes against humanity in tears. The Report of the Commission of Enquiry has not been published by him till date.

But I have news for Mr. President Obasanjo, and that is that: DO WHAT HE MAY, HE CANNOT EXTERMINATE NDI IGBO OR DAUNT THEIR SPIRIT; RATHER THEY WILL CONTINUE TO WAX STRONGER AND MORE RESILIENT; THAT NDI IGBO WILL EVENTUALLY TAKE THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS! AMEN!

But just let me highlight some paragraphs of the Violations of the Human and Civil Rights of Ndi Igbi in the Federation of Nigeria 1966 - 1999 here, the events in which President Olusegun Obasanjo was stated, specifically, as being responsible:

"5.3.6 Excision of Igbo Mineral-Rich Areas from Igboland and Neglect of Mineral Finds in Igbo Areas. Through boundary adjustment, some mineral - rich areas of Igbo land were transferred to Rivers and former Cross Rivers State (now Akwa Ibom area). As the TSM (October 4, 1993) reported, the Obasanjo regime in its boundary adjustment exercise in 1976, pushed the Ndoni/Egbema area and parts of Ndoki South of the Imo River, which harbour the highest petroleum deposits in Nigeria, into Rivers State.

"Besides this, the Federal Government ignored, as a non-issue, mineral finds within Igboland (probably because the sites could not be merged with non-Igbo areas). Oil find in Nsukka area by SAFRAP (a Federal Oil Company) was sealed up with the expulsion of the Company during the war, and to date the Federal Government has not ordered resumption of activities. Natural Gas find in Ugwuoba, the largest deposit in Nigeria, has been sealed up as strategic reserve.

"5.4 Political Strangulation 5.4.1 Exclusion from Political Apex With the exception of the Administrator of East Central State, Mr. Ukpabi Asika (1967-1975) Ndi Igbo had no representation in all the political and security organs which constituted the apex of political authority - Supreme Military Council and Security Council. Igbo ¡§citizens¡¨ were to be seen, not heard.

"6.2.3 New Heights in Marginalisation (Obasanjo regime): If the history of skewed appointments since independence leaves any one in doubt about the emergence of a pattern, the Obasanjo regime has cleared such doubts. No regime has betrayed so much disdain for the rights of Ndi Igbo in its appointments as the Obasanjo regime. We review the appointment so far:

i National Security Council: - South West (Yoruba) 4 (including the President) North Central 3 North East 2 (including Vice-President) North West 2 South South 1 South East (Igbo)

"The absence of any person from the South-East zone contravenes section 14(3) of the 1999 constitution, especially as paragraph (1) of section 25 of part 1.1 3rl schedule of the 1999 constitution dealing with the composition of the National Security Council provides that two additional members may be appointed to the National Security Council at the President¡¦s discretion.

"ii. Armed Forces: The South East does not presently have any Major-General or the ranks above it in the Nigerian Army, or the equivalent rank in the Nigerian Air Force and the Nigerian Navy and therefore, cannot produce any of the Service Chiefs. Moreover, the number of officers of South-east zone is far short of the one sixth of the total as required by Section 14(3) of the 1999 constitution.

"iii. Nigeria Police: Out of 16 top Police officers, viz, IG, DIGS & AIGS, there is only one AIG of South-East origin, contrary to the Constitutional requirements in Section 14(3). Also, the South-East Zone under the present structure of the Nigeria Police Force, would appear to be a colonised territory because: ♦ƒnAnambra State Command reports to the AIG based in Benin (South-south zone). ♦ƒnEnugu State Command reports to the AIG based in Makurdi (North- central zone). Ebonyi and Imo States Commands report to the AIG in Calabar (South-south zone).

There is need for the zonal structure of the Nigeria Police Force to be changed so that the Police State Commands in the South East Zone constitute its own zone with its zonal office based in the South-East zone, to which all the state commands of the 5 South Eastern States will report, as is the arrangement in other geopolitical zones".

References:
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1. The Violations of Human and Civil rights of Ndi Igbo in the Federation of Nigeria (1966 - 1999): A Call for Reparations and Appropriate Restitution, A Petition to the Human Rights Violations Investigating Committee, by Oha-na-Eze (The Apex Organization of the Entire Igbo People of Nigeria) for and on Behalf of the Entire Ndi Igbo, October 1999.

2. Ndigbo: The Way Forward, by Justice Chukwudifu Oputa, Vanguard Newspaper, Friday, December 26, 2003.

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