GOVERNMENT BY DECEPTION -- FROM GOWON TO OBASANJO.

BY EDUCATION AND POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
EKWE NCHE ORGANIZATION
P.O.BOX 408250
CHICAGO, IL 60640
13th April, 2001

IN THE BEGINNING

It is almost one month since President Obasanjo paid his historic visit to Bayelsa State. All indications are that the government and people of Bayelsa State received him very well. Even when he visited Odi, the town he pacified (destroyed) in 1999, he had a grand welcome which confirms the wisdom of his pacification of the town. The people of the town thanked him for a job well done. 

What is astonishing is that the president was so relaxed during his visit that he let his guard down and revealed a little of the inner recesses of his mind. He told a few truths and his usual lies. Discerning minds know that what he said is only part of the core belief of the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba coalition that fought to destroy Biafra. 

WHAT PRESIDENT OBASANJO SAID:

Here is part of what the president said:"The Biafra war was more of a war for resource control. The entire nation fought a bitter 30-month civil war to ensure that the resources of the nation are kept intact. Since the whole country fought for it, it would be wrong now to allow a few people to control the resources of the country simply because it is with in their territory. This is unfair. If Nigeria had lost that man (Emeka Ojukwu) would have cancelled Rivers State, which gave rise to Bayelsa. If Ojukwu had won, I know I would have been dead by now, and so many other people would be dead." This brief segment of the president's message raises a number of very important issues. (1) Why did Nigeria prosecute a war of genocide against Biafra? (2) Why did Biafra resist Nigeria's invasion of her territory and fight back? (3) Why did Nigeria create 12 - 36 States? (4) What does fairness/ unfairness mean to the Nigerian ruling oligarchy? (5) What was Nigeria's overall conduct during the military campaign against Biafra?

WHY NIGERIA PROSECUTED A WAR OF GENOCIDE AGAINST BIAFRA

>From 1966 till today, the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba coalition that prosecuted a war of genocide against Biafra have stated unequivocally that their reason for attacking Biafra was to forcefully reunite her with Nigeria and thus guarantee the UNITY of Nigeria. That was why the slogan for the Nigerian vandals was "To Keep Nigeria One Is a Task That Must Be Done". Their second reason for attacking Biafra was to protect the so-called Minority Groups in then Eastern Region from the Igbo. All over Europe, North America, USSR, Asia, Latin America, and Africa Chief Anthony Enahoro, the Federal Commissioner for Information trumpeted these reasons. So did Okoi Arikpo who later became Nigeria's commissioner for External Affairs. Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, Usman Katsina, Akinrinade, Adekunle, Buhari, Shuwa, Danjuma, Babangida, Dogonyaro, Bali, Awolowo, Clark, Saro Wiwa, Adaka Boro, Asika, Spiff, Esuene, Nwachukwu, all told Nigerians and the world that their reason for carrying on a war of genocide against Biafra was to "KEEP NIGERIA ONE".

On the other hand the Biafran government and Information Media literally shouted itself hoarse telling Biafrans, Nigerians and the World that Nigeria's only motivation for conducting a war of genocide against Biafran was to appropriate the oil and other natural resources found in Biafra. The war had nothing to do with Keeping Nigeria One. Okon Okon Ndem while reading News talk on Radio Biafra must have said this one million times. "They (Nigeria) want your oil not your prosperity". Biafran war slogan was "To free Southern Nigeria from Northern domination is a task that must be accomplished". For thirty-three years successive leaders of Nigeria from Gowon to Obasanjo have lied to the world, the people of the Niger Delta and Nigerians. They knew the truth all along. They do not care a hoot about the people of the Niger Delta. They won't shed a tear if the Atlantic Ocean opened its mouth and swallowed all of them so long as they have access to the petroleum and gas deposits, sell same and keep the money to themselves. They know that Biafrans know this truth and have known this truth for more than 35 years. 

OBASANJO TELLS THE TRUTH.

Now Obasanjo has finally told the truth. "The reason the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba alliance fought a war of genocide against Biafra was to seize the land and oil located in Igbo, Ibibio, Ijaw, Efik, Annang, territory. It was to exploit this natural resource, sell it and use the money to enrich their members individually and develop their own territories. If you doubt it look at the records. Abacha alone reportedly stole about $5 billion of oil money. Babangida probably doubled that amount. Then think of the rest: Obasanjo, Danjuma, Buhari, Mark, Bali, YarAdua, Mohammed, Abubakar, Gowon, Akinyemi, Useni, Bali, Umar, Shuwa, Katsina etc. Think of all those Ministers, Governors, Generals, Special Assistants, Advisers, Directors, Director-generals, Managers, Chairmen etc all of whom were members of the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba alliance. Think of all those Emirs and Obas who have been feeding fat in the trough of oil money and living like fabled Arabian Kings. Think of Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna, Sokoto, Jos, Maiduguri, Bauchi, Minna, and Kano. Think of all these places and ask yourself where the money for their development came from. Northern Nigeria has the largest number of individual multi-millionaires who count their money in dollars and pounds, not naira. Western Nigeria closely follows Northern Nigeria. Are their indigenes the greatest businessmen and entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Are they the hardest workers? The answer is a resounding NO. The best roads in Nigeria are in Northern and Western Nigeria. The best Federal Industries and sports facilities are located in Northern and Western Nigeria. Where did the money for these roads, facilities and industries come from? Who promulgated decrees that dispossessed Igbo, Ibibio? Efik, Ijaw, Annang of their land and natural resources? Was it Obasanjo, Buhari, Babangida? Has this mindset of seizing and looting other people's property changed? No. This mindset has not changed and will not change in the next one hundred years. The task facing Arikpo, Asika, Enahoro, Spiff, Clark, and other Biafran turn coats is to explain to their people why they were so naïve and how it happened that they bought a dummy from the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba coalition and joined them to destroy their own homeland and people. Many of them are still parading themselves as "Leaders" of their people. What a pity!

CREATION OF BAYELSA STATE:

Obasanjo told the people of Bayelsa that if Nigeria had lost the war Rivers State would not have been created and so Bayelsa State would not have been created too. Rivers and Bayelsa States were not created to serve the interest of the Igbo in Rivers and Ijaw in Baeylsa States. A few years ago Gowon himself confessed that the reason for creating States in Nigeria in 1967 was to cause disaffection between the Igbo and their neighboring ethnic groups in the then Eastern Region. Since then creation of states has been a political "bribe" to different ethnic groups and communities to buy their support for different military juntas. Certainly the states were not created to give the ethnic groups self-determination. For several decades only members of the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba Alliance were the governors of most of these states, not indigenes of the states. Secondly the Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba Alliance made sure that the indigenes of these areas did not have any control over their own affairs including the resources in their land. When Ken Saro Wiwa finally saw through Nigeria's thick fog of deceit and lies and started agitating for self-determination for Ogoni people "The Alliance" saw him as a threat to their continued domination and exploitation of the people of the Niger Delta and quickly killed him. Sadly enough the Biafra Saro Wiwa helped Nigeria destroy had already guaranteed his people, the Ijaw, their self-determination. Have you ever asked yourself what is the purpose of creating "kwashiorkor" States in which the people have no control over the land on which they live, security, resources, planning their future and the destiny of their children? What is the point of creating states that can not plan their own economic, educational, social, infrastructure, industrial, and other development programs? What is the purpose of creating states whose governors can not even pay themselves their monthly salaries without crawling to Abuja, groveling and cavorting before the president for handout just to pay the state civil servants. The only purpose of creating such states is to make them so weak and dependent that the governor and indigenes are reduced to the status of VASSALS or SLAVES. That is what we see in Nigeria today. Compare this with what existed in Biafra in time of war. There were twenty provinces and each province was administered by an indigene of that province [Except Aba where Lt. Col. Ben Gbulie with Emeka Oyolu as his deputy later replaced Moses Onwuma]. Mr. Emmanuel Aguma administered Port Harcourt Province. Chief Frank Opigo administered Yenagoa Province. MR. S. N. Dikibo administered Degema Province. MR. S. J. Edoho administered Eket Province. Mr. Frank Ugbut administered Ogoja Province. Chief J. Udo-Affiah administered Uyo Province. DR. S. J. Cookey administered Opobo Province. Prof. Eyo Bassey Ndem administered Calabar Province. Chief Ekukinam Bassey administered Annang Province. These administrators ran their schools, paid their teachers and civil servants, collected taxes, maintained roads, and generally administered the provinces. The judiciary (courts) administered justice, the post offices carried and distributed mail, the taps were running in the towns and cities that had pipe borne water, electricity was on in the cities, gasoline was available to motorists and other users (even if in short supply), schools and colleges were functioning (though they were bombed regularly by Nigerian vandals). The Consultative Assembly and the Council of Chiefs and Elders held meetings, discussed issues of State and advised the Head of State accordingly. The Consultative Assembly and Council of Chiefs and Elders had more members from the "Minority Areas" of Biafra than from the Igbo Area. Despite total economic blockade, Biafrans maintained a high level of normal life for a long time.

THE PRACTICE OF DEMOCRACY:

 Numerous international writers and observers have described Biafra as: "The Best War time Democracy" seen in a long time. Here is part of a report from an American Congressional Delegation that visited both Biafra and Nigeria. "The Minorities in Biafra participate fully in the Biafran Government and in Biafran Society. They are represented in the Biafran Consultative Assembly and its administration. Philip Effiong (who is an Efik) is head of the Biafran Armed Forces. Other Minority members are prominent in the Biafran Government"……"There has emerged in Biafra a nationalism, which transcends tribalism. The Ibos (Igbo), Ijaws, Efiks etc. in Biafra are Biafrans; national identity comes first"..…. "All Biafran tribes (ethnic groups) were represented in the assembly including a number whose lands have been captured by Nigerian troops" [Goodell Report, Congressional Records, Feb.1969]. "When the Minorities Rivers area of Biafra was being threatened by Nigerian troops, Col. Ojukwu asked the tribal (Ethnic) chiefs of the two southern provinces Yenagoa and Degema to come and see him. He told them the nature of the terrain they lived in was unsuitable for defense, that he could not offer great hopes of the Biafran Army being able to prevent the Nigerians from overrunning them. Therefore he offered the Chiefs the chance that if they wished to opt for Nigeria, and save themselves from eventual reprisals, he would draw up his defensive line north of the two provinces and cede the remainder to Nigeria. The chiefs wished to reply at once, but Ojukwu told them to go back home and talk it over in council. The next day, a messenger arrived with the Rivers people's answer. They wanted to stay with Biafra. They hoped for every defense possible and would help all they could. They realized this would bring reprisals and were ready for them" [Fredrick Forsyth, The Biafra Story]. "If Nigeria believes that she is really defending the true wishes of the minorities, she should accept our proposal for a PLEBISCITE in the disputed areas of Nigeria and Biafra" [General Ojukwu, Speech delivered at the OAU Consultative Committee Meeting at Addis Ababa, Monday August 5, 1968]. Compare these with what happens in your Nigeria thirty years after the war, Mr. President and tell us which one is a better country. You and members of your Alliance are even opposed to a Conference where different ethnic groups will discuss the nature of association they wish to maintain with one another. Mr. President, will you accept the PLEBISCITE challenge that was issued 33 years ago? You can see that the principle of self-determination, which you and your Alliance have so callously refused to grant the people of Bayelsa was already in force thirty-five years ago in Biafra. If Biafra had won, not only would the Ijaw be running their lives and be in charge of their destiny and that of their children, but they would have been in control of the resources in their land too.

IF BIAFRA HAD WON.

Mr. President insinuated: "If Biafra had won I know I would have been dead by now and so many other people would be dead." There have been several attempts by Nigerian Rulers, Intellectuals and Journalists to rewrite the history of the Biafra-Nigeria war. This statement by President Obasanjo ranks as one of the craziest by the revisionists. For the avoidance of doubt, Biafra did not declare war on Nigeria; Nigeria declared war on Biafra. Biafra did not want or attempt to expand her territory into Nigeria. Nigeria wanted to absorb Biafra. Even when for tactical reasons Biafran forces moved into Mid Western Nigeria, she urged the Mid West to declare its own republic -- The Republic of Benin. As Nigerian vandals perpetrated their holocaust on Biafrans, their marching song was 
                        "Mu je Mu Kerkeshe Su,
                        Tu Tatara Kayan Su,
                        Mu Ber Su Suna Kukan Banza"    (Hausa)

English Translation
                        "We go, we slaughter them, 
                        We ravish their precious wares, 
                        We abandon them crying useless tears."   (English)
Mr. President you were singing this very song with your troops as you marched into Biafran territory. This was the battle song of Nigerian vandals as they marched into and attacked Biafrans. The song speaks for itself. Now you are shamelessly lying and trying to rewrite history. We challenge you to produce any Biafran war song that spoke of moving into Nigeria, slaughtering the people, looting their wares and leaving them crying useless tears. We challenge you to do so. The main Biafran war song was: 

                             "We are Biafrans, fighting for our freedom, 
                               In the name of Jesus, We shall conquer." 

To show that you and other Nigerian troops were really true to your song see what you did in different theaters of the war. In Lagos, Ibadan and several other towns in Western Nigeria, Ndiigbo were shooed out of their houses and apartments, arrested in the streets, marched to prisons from where they were abducted and murdered. At Benin, Sapele and Warri thousands of unarmed Igbo men, women and children were rounded up in their houses and market places and slaughtered. At Asaba, Murtala Mohammed and his troops lined up thousands of unarmed Igbo men and women and shot them in cold blood. To fully appreciate the callousness and satanic nature of the Nigerian vandals, they first asked the inhabitants of Asaba and surrounding communities to welcome the troops in their traditional hospitality of music and dancing. The men and women complied, dressed in their traditional white woven cloth, rolled out their drums and as they were entertaining the Nigerian vandals with music and dancing, the troops opened fire on these helpless, unarmed men and women and just mowed them down like grass. In Onitsha three hundred unarmed members of a Church who were worshiping inside their church when the vandals entered the town were marched out of the church with their hands tied behind their backs and slaughtered like chicken. Only the devil incarnate can be so callous and flout all international laws and conventions. 

OBASANJO'S PRETENSE TO LOVE THE IJAW, IBIBIO, ANNANG, EFIK 

President Obasanjo and other Nigerian feudal leaders have been pretending that they love the Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, and Annang. They have claimed that they fought the war to protect the "Minorities" from the Igbo. We know that this revision of history is aimed at the youth of these areas. These young people have no way of knowing the atrocities Obasanjo and other Nigerian vandals perpetrated on their people during the Biafra-Nigeria war. For the benefit of these young people and others who may have forgotten we have decided to give you a glimpse of the activities of these your so-called "friends". 
Mr. President, it is on record that in the sector of the war you commanded there is incontrovertible evidence that your troops massacred thousands of innocent Ibibio, Efik, Ijaw, and Annang. Here are a few reports from international journalists during the war.
1.      "It is relevant, however, that not only the Ibos (Igbo), but all Easterners - including the Minority peoples, Ibibio, Efik, Ijaw etc - were victims of the Northern massacres and expulsions. The only non-northerners generally spared in those events were those who wore the dress and bore the distinctive face markings of the Yoruba tribe of the West" [Connor Cruise O'Brien, New York Review of Books, Dec. 21, 1967.]
2.      "Nigerian soldiers have massacred more than 500 civilians in the town of Urua Inyang on the southern war front. Most of the townspeople are members of a Minority tribe, Annang….  Most of the refugees were Annang, Ibibio, Efik, Ogoni" [Charles Taylor, Toronto Globe and Mail, October 10, 1968.]
3.      Tens of thousands of these minority tribesmen have chosen to flee behind Biafran lines when the Federal troops attacked. They had learned that when the Feds. move in, they loot and burn and kill all the Ibos (Igbo), and everyone else showing the slightest recalcitrance." [Lloyd Garrison, New York Times Magazine, September 8, 1968.]
4.       "The Nigerian Air Force has bombed extensively in non-Ibo (Igbo) areas of Biafra and some of the worst starvation has been in the minority areas of Biafra occupied by Federal Forces" [Fredrick Forsyth, former Reuters and BBC correspondent]
5.      "The Biafran forces have firmly recaptured Ikot Ekpene. Yesterday three Biafran soldiers broke open the prison there. Almost 1,000 Annang civilians emerged who had been imprisoned for four months since the Nigerians took Ikot Ekpene last April. Most of the released prisoners were women and children. In the last two days they have slowly moved away on the roads towards the Biafran towns of Aba and Umuahia. Children can be seen walking with canes, and many thin women with swollen legs are sitting or lying on the roads. In the Ikot Ekpene prison today, almost every cell has one dead body. A few women and children remain, begging for food and too weak to move away. " [The Financial Times, August 15, 1968.] 
6.      After the massacre of Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Ijaw, and Ogoja all over Northern and Western Nigeria during the pogrom of 1966, Yoruba Obas undertook a "Thank You" tour of Northern Nigeria to thank the Northern Emirs for not killing Yorubas. [Ekwe Ekwe, 1990]. They did not ask the Emirs why they also planned and sanctioned the killing of Ibibio, Efik, Annang, and Ijaw. 
7.      "We came to a cluster of huts made of rudely braided palm fronds. Out front was a little boy, bewildered and scared of us. "He is one of the abandoned ones," Major Iwuagwu said. "Parents took off when the Federals moved in, leaving the kids behind. When we attacked, the Hausa shoved the youngsters into the houses and nailed the doors shut." The boy about six blinked in the sunlight. He could not bring himself to speak; yet for some reason trusted Major Iwuagwu at once and clung to his uniform. A soldier moved to disengage the child but the commander stopped him with a glance. "God knows there's not much to eat at home," he said, scooping the boy up in his arms, "but my wife can certainly put another bowl on the table." [Michael Mok, Time Life Books, 1969.]
8.      "Civil war swelled the Federal force to 80,000 considered ready for frontline service after three weeks of rough-and-ready training. Inevitably, many of them turned out to be more interested in loot than combat: they became notorious as "sweepers" who followed the assault troops into captured villages --- pillaging, raping and often indulging in casual slaughter. They nailed Ibos (Igbo) to the doors of their houses and set fire to them. …… On the Biafran side, sloth has not been accompanied by a reputation for bloodthirstiness." [Michael Mok, Time Life Books, 1969.]
9.      In an interviews with Benjamin Adekunle, field commander of the third marine division, he stated: "In the sector which is under my command - and that covers the entire southern front, from Lagos to the frontier of Cameroon - I want to see no Red Cross, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no Missionary, and no U.N Delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo (Igbo) having one piece of food to eat." 

STARVATION IS A LEGITIMATE INSTRUMENT OF WAR:

Mr. President if you loved the Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio, Ogoja, Annang, so much why did you starve hundreds of thousands of them to death during the Biafra-Nigeria war? All the leaders of the Nigerian junta acquiesced to and carried out the barbaric policy of starving ALL BIAFRANS to death. Mr. President, you participated in the starving to death of millions of Biafrans and your government justified it. Here is a sample of the statements made by "Nigerian Leaders" about starving innocent children, pregnant women and old men to death for no other reason than they are Biafrans:
1.      Major H.T. Alexander {British}, Managing Director of London and Thames Haven Oil Wharves which was deriving 75% of its profits from Shell-BP was made leader of a sham International Observer team that was to investigate the charge of genocide brought against Nigeria by Biafra. The team never visited Biafra, never interviewed people who visited Biafra and never investigated the issue of mass-starvation in Biafra. After being wined and dined in Lagos, Major Alexander, whose oil interests in Nigerian captured Biafran territory was well known stated: "Humanitarian efforts of bringing in essential food and medical supplies into Biafra is an act of war. … in that it increases the will of the people to resist." [Spectator, London, 12/27/1968.]
2.      "All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight us harder" [Financial Times London, 6/26/1969; Daily Telegraph, 6/27/69]. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Vice Chairman of the Federal Military Executive Council made this statement.
3.      "There are various ways of fighting a war. You might starve your enemy into submission, or you might kill him on the battlefield" [Daily Mirror, London, 6/13/1968]. Chief Anthony Enahoro, Commissioner of Information in Gowon's government made this statement.
4.      "It is entirely legitimate to starve (Biafran) troops at the front to try to stop the fighting. Nigeria's blockade of Biafra is a justifiable weapon to end the secession and civil war" [International Herald Tribune, July 9, 1968]. Chief Anthony Enahoro made this statement. 
5.      "Food is the means to resistance: It is ammunition in this sense and the mercy flights into rebel territory are looked upon as tantamount to gun running" [The Spectator, December 27, 1968]. Yakubu Gowon, Head of State of Nigeria made this statement in his interview with Tom Burns of the Tablet on Dec. 7 1968. 
6.      "Personally I would not feed somebody I am fighting" [London Times, June 28, 1969]. Brigadier Hassan Usman Katsina, Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army, made this statement.
7.      "Oxfam", the relief organization airlifting food into Biafra "is a hostile body". [Sun, London, July 8, 1968] Yakubu Gowon made this statement. 
8.      And so it was that Nigeria's leaders committed all kinds of atrocities against all Biafrans without exception just to win the war. Correspondent in Biafra, "Provides cogent evidence that foodstuffs reaching Biafra from Nigeria have in the past been treated with arsenic, cyanide, and other poisons" [Daily Telegraph, July 8, 1968].
9.      Even when the Federal Government had the opportunity to feed the people in the areas they captured from Biafra they did not do so as this statement demonstrates. "Substantial Oxfam relief supplies are lying idle at the Lagos docks. No effort was made during these vital 12 weeks of Nigerian occupation of Ikot Ekpene to feed the refugees in that area". "Rather, in Ikot Ekpene, Nigerian troops littered their trenches with empty cans of baby food they had eaten" - food meant to save babies who were dying of starvation at the hands of the Nigerian government. 
10.     This is why the Papal delegates; Mgr. George Rochcau and Mgr. Dominic Conway who visited both Biafra and Nigeria described the action of Nigeria against Biafra as "genocide". Le Monde, April 5, 1968.
"The food shortage resulted in malnutrition and cases of "kwashiorkor" disease. This situation has caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. The main victims are old men and women, nursing mothers and children. This terrible situation coupled with the wanton destruction of farmlands and crops in areas overrun by federal troops has led to mass starvation and death. Despite the tremendous efforts being made by world-wide Relief Agencies in sending tons of food to the starving people of Biafra, authoritative opinions held that one million or more Biafrans will have died by January 1969 as a result of starvation. Such opinions have been expressed by relief workers in and out of Biafra." For instance, on page 24 of the Daily Telegraph (London) of 1st August 1968, a German doctor, shocked by the appalling famine situation in Annang Province said, "I estimate that 30 to 40 per cent of the children in Annang Province will die from disease caused by malnutrition. Other doctors, with more experience of Africa than I, put the figure as high as 80 per cent". "Actually, according to the report of a Roman Catholic priest working in the area, the death toll per day in one of the camps at Ikot Ekpene rose to 50. The story is the same all over Biafra". It is significant to note also that this report came from one of Gowon's so-called minority areas. The relief that comes from international organizations is insufficient. The "International Herald Tribune" (Paris) of 12th July 1968 carried this story On Page 5: "The supplies for Biafra are only a fraction of those stored in Lagos awaiting distribution to needy persons on the Federal side of the 
battle fronts ... " And Nigeria has no serious food problem. 
In October 1967 the invading Nigerian Army shelled Calabar General Hospital for many hours. Several patients were killed in the process according to the eye witness accounts by Miss A. E. Akpan and Mr. L. E. Udofia, both of the hospital staff 

WANTON KILLINGS BY NIGERIAN TROOPS: 

"The Nigerian vandals having shelled Uyo particularly the villages of Ifiayang, Nwaniba, Ikot Offiong, Itu, Mbak Ndiya, Etinam and Itam for three consecutive days claimed hundreds of civilian lives. Then they embarked on a systematic elimination of leaders of thought and their families. 400 are reported so far killed. These people were lined up and shot, supervised by Col. Garuba, a Northern Nigerian soldier of Genocide. Prominent among those killed are: 
1. Mr. E. A. Obot - retired Administrative Officer. 
2. Mr. A. A. Obot - Principal Lutheran High School, member Eastern Nigeria Legislature, member Provincial Executive Committee, member Consultative Assembly. 
3. Mrs. A. A. Obot - a housewife. 
4. All of Mr. and Mrs. Obot's five children - innocent kids. 
5. Mr. Obot's two brothers-in-law. 
6. The entire Obot family. 
7. H.U. Akpabio - Former Eastern Nigeria Minister of State; Proprietor Iman Secondary School, First Commissioner for Uyo Province. 
8. Chief J. B. Umana - Information Officer in the Biafran Ministry of Information, Former Information Attaché to the Agent General in U.K. 
9. Prince D. J. Umonclak - Proprietor, Nsit People's Grammar School, Printer, Former 
Member Nigerian Parliament. 
10. Chief Elijah A. Okon - General Manager of AMEZ Schools in Biafra; member Consultative Assembly and Provincial Executive Member. "

Without any prick of conscience the vandals bomb hospitals as military targets. Here are a few examples: Eket, December 28th 1967 Nigerian jets bombed the Lutheran Mission Hospital Itu, January 23rd 1968 Mary Slessor Hospital, Itu was razed to the ground by combined bomb, rocket and bullets from Nigerian jet fighters and bombers. On 3rd March 1968 Matthew Rosa, correspondent of the "Observer", writing under the caption 
"School and hospitals bombed" said: "As I write, Nigerian planes have just carried out their 48th raid on Biafra, - Oruku in the south-east ... I have examined after the bombing, the nine destroyed hospitals which are BORROMIO Catholic Hospital at Onitsha, the General Hospital at Arochukwu, the Methodist Hospital at Onitsha, the General (Leper) Colony and Mary Slessor Hospital at Itu, the Lutheran Mission Hospital at Eket, Obioma Chelsea Home for Handicapped Children and the Infectious Disease Hospital at Port Harcourt and the Eja Joint Hospital Itigidi." Schools. Continuing, he says "Nigerian Planes have also destroyed the Girls' Secondary School at Owerri, Christ the King Elementary School at Aba, the Anglican Girls' Secondary School at Enugu, Christ the King College and Dennis Memorial Grammar School at Onitsha, Holy Ghost Teachers' Training College at Umuahia, Union Girls' Secondary School at Ibiaku, and the Lutheran High School at Uyo." 

Mr. President, there is corroborated information that at the end of the war you and your troops rounded up expatriate missionaries and relief workers at Umuahia, Aba, Owerri, Port Harcourt, Ikot Ekpene and environs and carted them to Port Harcourt. There you forced them to lie in the sun for two days in an open field with little water and no food. Then you and your troops "liberated" their personal belongings and then deported them. Most of them were Irish, American and Europeans. Many of them are alive today and will testify. Are you a war criminal? 

At the end of the war, and as late as January 30, 1970, you and your troops continued to murder unarmed young Biafran men and rape Biafran women who were returning to their villages around Aba, Umuahia, P.H., Azumini, etc. Many of them had to hide in the bush for another month before going to their homes. Tell us about your morality and ethics, Mr. President. You see Biafrans choose to let the sleeping dogs lie, but you just won't let them. 

THAT MAN (EMEKA OJUKWU).

One can not but feel sorry for you when you derogatorily referred to Gen. C. Odumegwu Ojukwu as "that man". It shows how deeply you are steeped in the morass of your own inferiority complex. After being a military dictator and civilian president of Nigeria, you still don't qualify to untie the laces of "that man's" shoes. Go to any good library and read the comparative assessment of the two armies, two nations, two Heads of State during the Biafra-Nigeria war. Read what independent military experts said about the army you lead and the one C. Odumegwu Ojukwu led and see their conclusion for yourself. Are you surprised that a Nigerian army that performed spectacularly well in the Congo, in 1960 under the command of General Aguiyi-Ironsi, became a laughing stock, a basket of stinking manure in Somalia, Liberia and Sierra Leone in 1990's where their only achievement was raping women, shooting civilians and looting people's property? Are you surprised by the comment of the president of a West African country to the effect that since the Igbo were pushed out of the Nigerian Army, that army has become a pile of trash? Are you surprised that Nigeria is now in tatters?

FAIRNESS: 

It is refreshing to hear you Mr. President moaning about fairness. You are saying that it will be unfair to allow the Ijaw, Igbo, Ibibio, Annang, Efik, Ogoja to exploit the natural resources in their land, sell it, pay the required taxes to government and keep the rest of the money to themselves for the development of their communities. Mr. President, you are saying that the Igbo, Ibibio, Ijaw, Annang, Efik, Ogoja do not have the intelligence, competence, administrative skill to manage their resources themselves. What is really fair in your mind, Mr. President is that Abacha, Babangida, Obasanjo, Abubakar, Shonekon, Shagari, Atiku, Diya, Danjuma, etc should come from more than one thousand miles away and seize the land and resources belonging to these communities. Then they should exploit the resources in these lands, sell the resources, steal the money, and put it in foreign bank accounts and businesses. They should use the money to maintain lavish, expensive and luxurious lifestyle for themselves and their families while the families of the people from whose land the funds were realized remain wretched, hungry, sick, desolate, without shelter, and basic amenities for the barest comfortable living. In the process of doing that, they should devastate the rivers, streams and farmland belonging to these communities. And if any of these communities should dare complain or demand their right to control their resources and determine their future and destiny, Mr. President should simply send "kill and go" army and mobile policemen to mow them down like grass as you did in Odi. Mr. President, your two faces of justice can only exist in a twisted and tortured mind. 

SUMMARY:

Mr. President, most Nigerians of below average intelligence know how your mind works. Never mind the clowning trumpeters like "Professor" Gana and others. These Nigerians you think little of can predict what you are likely to do in most circumstances. Nigerians can feel your pain at being the head of state of Nigeria twice with nothing tangible to show as your achievement. Your international friends and collaborators who placed so much hope in your ability to salvage a tattered and failed State, have become so disillusioned and disappointed that they hear your name only with loathing and scorn. Nigerian national puppeteers who have been pulling the strings under your behind are getting frustrated because you seem to have spun out of control. At the same time your conscience is killing you. The atrocities you, your troops and collaborators committed during the Biafra-Nigeria war are about to drive you insane. But rest assured that no amount of claim of spiritual rebirth (born again) would save you from your conscience. The gimmick of "blaming the victim" as a way of assuaging your guilt conscience will not work. You tried during the short campaign in 1999, at the PDP. presidential nomination convention in Jos, and again at Odi to blame Biafrans for the horrible torture you are being subjected to by your conscience. The truth is that you will have to live with the pangs of your conscience and neither the waters of the Niger nor the crude oil of the Niger Delta will wash off the blood of Biafrans that has drenched you from head to toe. You will continue to hear their screaming voices, smell their smell of death, notice their cold, crawling sensations all over your body, and taste their salty sweat of death until you finally go to stand before them and God to explain why you murdered so many innocent people. There will never be peace or relief for you.

EKWE NCHE ORGANIZATION.