NCC GIVES TELECOM OPERATORS TWO WEEKS TO BLOCK SIM CARDS WITHOUT NATIONAL IDENTITY NUMBERS
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The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has given telecommunications operators in the country two weeks to block SIM Cards that are not registered with the National Identity Numbers, NIN.
A statement released today Tuesday, December 15 by the NCC Director of Public Affairs of the NCC, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, stresed that any telecom operators that failed to comply with the directive risked outright withdrawal of its licence or heavy penalty.
”Following the earlier directive on the suspension of new SIM registration by network operators, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) convened an urgent meeting of key stakeholders in the Communications industry on Monday, December 14, 2020.
The meeting had in attendance the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and Management of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), as well as the CEOs and Management staff of all service providers in the industry. Stakeholders agreed that urgent drastic measures have now become inevitable to improve the integrity and transparency of the SIM registration process.
Following decisions were taken for immediate implementation by all Network Operators: Affirmation of the earlier directive to totally suspend registration of NEW SIMs by all operators. Operators to require ALL their subscribers to provide valid National Identification Number (NIN) to update SIM registration records.
The submission of NIN by subscribers to take place within two weeks (from today December 16, 2020 and end by 30 December, 2020). After the deadline, ALL SIMs without NINs are to be blocked from the networks. A Ministerial Task Force comprising the Minister and all the CEOs (among others) as members is to monitor compliance by all networks.
Violations of this directive will be met by stiff sanctions, including the possibility of withdrawal of operating license. The general public is hereby urged to ensure that their NINs are captured in their SIM registration data,” the statement read.
THE VALUE OF TIME IN THE POLITICS OF SENATOR ANYIM PIUS ANYIM
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According to the book of ecclesiastics: Ecclesiastes:3
“[1] There is a right time for everything”. Taking cognizance of this biblical knowledge in respect to Sen. ANYIM’S political attainments; it becomes so convincing that the word of God is without spot. Inferring from the above, the following are my observations:
1. Sen. ANYIM is a child of destiny. He is predestined to be what he has become and he is always ready to allow nature to take its course in accordance with ( Ecclesiastes:3 [1] There is a right time for everything)
2. Sen. ANYIM was a first timer in the Nigerian Senate yet destiny and TIME located him as the Senate President without struggle. How this happened was never to the glory of any man but to Almighty God who had done this to launch EBONYI STATE proper into the Nigerian mainstream politics and to the benefits of those who have been made by Anyim’s network. In fact, 80% of Ebonyians are made by Anyim in politics and in civil service.
3. Sen. ANYIM in his kindhearted nature never take glory of any service rendered to humanity, no wonder he never claimed anyone’s political godfather even though it befits him.
4. Let the wise think about this; imagine if ANYIM had not been Senate President, what could have become of EBONYI STATE in Nigerian state.
5. I remember all the attempts made so far against ANYIM just to discredit him right from the time of his Senatorship. He electrified IVO/ISHIAGU but those who thougth it would project him well in the minds of the commoners went and vandalized the electric polls and the masses in their ignorance never revolted against them. Yet the VULTURES have gathered once again in their usual practice which have become their destiny/ calling and career to discredit ANYIM.
6. Time played another important role when ANYIM became the first SGF of Igbo extraction. Again, ANYIM never struggled to become as it was destiny playing out even when no one anticipated that.
7. Those who have not taking time to think and meditate on the GRACE upon ANYIM have simply assumed that they can swallow him or even BURY his political career overnight. Notwithstanding, they have forgotten that ANYIM made them.
8. Recently, the campaign of disrespect against the person of ANYIM is not only childish but aswell laughable as the saying goes: ” ignorance is a disease”. ANYIM is not holding Any political position, he is an ordinary party member of PDP why fighting him to teeth with all you have? In this regard, this further buttress the GRACE of God on this young man. I am convinced that even when ANYIM goes the way of our fathers, he will leave many spirits for selfish men to fight. Although, he still have plenty time to live.
9. On a more serious note, ANYIM is yet to believe that he is what he has become. He doesn’t know what God have for him next neither his jealous enemies whom refused to be humble enough for God to bless them as he had done to ANYIM. Every selfish man will always declare war against ANYIM because he is a man of equal justice as far as EBONYI STATE is concerned.
10. In conclusion, as we wait for TIME and GOD to lift ANYIM higher again beyond the expectations of his jealous, wicked and selfish enemies. I make attempt to say, it’s difficult for any man to calculate the destiny of ANYIM as it’s only God can direct this. However, even if God is done with ANYIM, we appreciate Him( God) so well for giving us Ishiagu/EBONYI ANYIM. In my next world if it does exist may I be in same clan with ANYIM not this wicked and FUTURE SUCKING uncle I have in Ngwogwo community.
GOD BLESS SEN. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM! NGWOGWO SHALL BE GREAT AGAIN! WRITTEN BY OSSI OGBONNA.
ENI UDUMA CHIMA FIRES ANYIM PIUS: “IT IS BETTER TO WEAR OVERSIZE CLOTHE THAN TO WEAR OVERSIZE BODY WITHOUT BRAIN”
{….You Are Under A Spell And Perhaps Something Is Pursuing You – Anyim Fires Back}
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The council chairman of Afikpo South local government area of Ebonyi state Barr. Eni Uduma Chima at the weekend has berated the former secretary to the government of the federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim over his continued war of words with the governor of Ebonyi state, Chief David Umahi.
Uduma, is a former two time lawmaker, who represented Afikpo South West Constituency in the Ebonyi state House of Assembly made this known in a statement he signed and made available to newsmen.
He cautioned the former secretary to the government of the federation and his cohorts to turnoff their continued attacks/distraction on the governor noting that he and other national Assembly members has failed Ebonyians.
The statement reads in part: “The simple-minded speculation that it was dinner organized at the Udensi Round-about that gave Umahi his landslide victory in 2019 to the extent that he swept the polls in the Local Government of his contender can only emanate from a weak intellect like Anyim, who does not know that success comes by hardwork in God’s grace.
“So what will Anyim attribute the electoral success of Engr. David Nweze Umahi in 2015 to? Especially as there were no scenic fountains or ornamental lights and so no evening parties before the 2015 elections. For the records, Ebonyi people have always found time to appreciate the dots of splendor which are infrastructure built by Engr. David Umahi and on such occasions, our people are treated to feasts and gifts.
“The kernel of Senator Anyim’s write up is that the defection of Governor Umahi to A.P.C is not necessary and will be regretted and that Anyim and his co-travellers are needed by the Umahi Administration to fine-tune and stabilise the defection to ensure that Ebonyi State in totality join the Governor.
“Nothing can be farther from the truth. Senator Anyim who was a prominent actor in the Jonathan’s administration in which the incumbent lost a re-election, could not have become effective overnight in the art of politics. Even in the 2015 Umahi campaigns, Senator Anyim, like others of his kind was merely of political decorative value and so by removing himself from the Umahi movement, nothing serious is lost.
“Come to think of it, Anyim is not worth much politically and is not as dynamic as to provoke a second thought, he has just been lucky all through his political career. He is a small fly who made incursion into politics in 1999 when high quality politicians where sceptical about the sincerity of the then Military junta ceding power to civilians and so, did not participate in the first election of the fourth Republic thereby making it possible for mediocres like Mr. Anyim to move into the Senate from Ebonyi-South.
“Senator Anyim Pius made no significant advancement on the lot of Ebonyi people as a Senator, he could not pin-point where the Ebonyi interest lay nor was he able to show understanding of the issues then, he was often literally lost on the floor of the Senate.
“Senator Anyim is not built for sophisticated cogitation, that is the reason why the Late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo described him as “a hunk of beef and mass of protoplasm.” No wonder, Senator Anyim inspite of his exalted office of the Senate President could not get a second term as Senator and up till now has only one Certificate of Returns in his kitty.
“Today, he mentors other hunks of beef and fellow masses of protoplasm including the bleaching Senator Ama Nnachi who lost election in his Polling Unit by getting mere 35 votes while his opponent got 150 votes.
“I want to say that it is better to wear oversized clothe than to wear oversized body with undersized brain, one can be removed but the other cannot. Senator Anyim Pius is the only Secretary to the Government of the Federation whose Principal ever lost re-election in the annals of Nigerian political history.
“This was possible because he was always sleeping when he should be thinking and working. I make bold to say that Anyim is a sleeper and not a thinker and so does not pose any danger to anybody but himself.
“It was the laughter from the audience which woke the burly SGF. It is a known fact that even as a Senator, Anyim often fell asleep on the floor of the Red Chamber.
“We strongly advise him to retrace his steps and enjoy his political retirement in quietude. This is one fight he cannot win, for Engr. Umahi is not Dr. Egwu, that is, assuming that he even won Dr. Egwu” he stated.
In a swift reaction, the former secretary to the government of the federation, senator Pius Anyim said it is a baseless allegations meted to destroy his image and reputation.
“I would not have taken his present spew of baseless allegations seriously, but because I suspect he is under a spell and perhaps something is pursuing him. He may have been told that he will need to kill before he would achieve his present enterprise and so to build up a scenario for him to kill, he will need to spew allegations of killings even when they make no sense.
“I have no doubt that Governor Umahi may have been told that he needed blood to accomplish his present enterprise, otherwise how can a man in his 6th year as Governor of a State suddenly realise that a former President of the Senate, a former Governor of the State and two-time serving Senator Dr. Sam Egwu, Senator Obinna Ogba, two time serving Senator, are now cultists and IPOB members. Something is wrong somewhere” he replied.
UMAHI REVEALS A PLOT TO RECALL STATE AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS WHO REFUSED TO DECAMP WITH HIM TO APC
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The Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Dave Umahi has revealed an underground plot to recall some National Assembly members and State House of Assembly members from Ebonyi State who have vowed not to join him to the All Progressives Congress (APC), since he left the PDP.
The eight National Assembly members elected on the platform of the PDP from the state had within 24-hours after Umahi made his defection to APC public, held a press conference in Abuja and disowned the governor for joining the APC; just as about eight out of the 24 state Assembly members had openly vowed to remain in the PDP.
Umahi gave the hint on the plot to recall the lawmakers on Monday while addressing both elected and appointed officials of the 13 local government areas of the state who paid him a solidarity visit at the Governor’s Lodge.
The governor said, “There is information they leaked to me that the grass roots are very angry with some National Assembly members, and some state Assembly members, and they want to use this opportunity to gather signatures at the polling units to recall them.
“I don’t want you to do that. Please, don’t do that. Allow them to still exist. I am the father of them all; whether they like it or not. Allow them to be in peace, except any pikin wey say eh Papa no go sleep. But until then, let there be peace.”
Umahi further assured them that if he could conquer in 2015, when he had very few persons with him, the current political battle ahead of 2023 would be a walk-over.
Umahi said, “In 2014 we don’t have up to the per cent of the people we have now. So, if five per cent could do it, how much more this number we have now.”
I WILL GIVE CULTISTS A BAD CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION IN EBONYI- UMAHI
{…How Can A Warrior Like Me Bribe Cultists, For What?, Asks Umahi}
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Ebonyi State Governor, Engr. Dave Umahi on Monday said he did not give N3 million to placate notorious cult groups allegedly terrorising residents of the state. Umahi said this when the 13 Local Government Area Chairmen, Coordinators of Development Centres, with their Management Committee members, among other political appointees, paid him a solidarity visit at the Government House, Abakiliki.
The governor dismissed the report in the social media that he gave the money to the groups through his security aide. He said that contrary to the report, he had ordered a manhunt for members of the groups. “How can a warrior such as me bribe cultists, to do what with the money? “The duty of political leaders and the citizens is to give me the names of the cultists because I will give them a bad Christmas celebration. “I am searching for them whether they are in government or not because the matter is that of terrorism and would be handled at Abuja,” the governor said.
He urged the political leaders to discontinue with their plan to recall some members of the state House of Assembly and National Assembly, who stayed back in Peoples Democratic Party after his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC). “We would allow the people who did not defect to the APC with us to exist in peace and you should not victimise them. “You should not close the door behind them because they will come back but ensure that you enjoy your palliative in their presence to make them salivate,” Umahi said.
He thanked them for their solidarity and sharing his political ideology, saying that the dividends of the defection had yet to be felt. “When we started this struggle in 2014, we were not up to five per cent of the mammoth crowd we are witnessing presently. “You then imagine what will happen presently that we have the grassroots, structures at the state and national levels.
“Several personalities higher than myself have defected without noise, so one wonders why this particular defection is generating so much noise,” Umahi said. He directed that each civil servant and political office holder in the state be given two bags of five-kilogramme of rice and N10,000 for the Christmas celebration. He ordered the council chairmen to source funds to carry out the directive.
SEN. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM: AN ASTUTE LEADER OF OUR CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
Otu Obiahu, AJM NEWS
At a time our Nation is embattled with economic recession and our state bedeviled in an unimaginable political upheaval occasioned by overzealous and illogical quest for power by the Governor of Ebonyi State which culminated to the unjust sack and dismissal of men who laboured for the victory of the Governor in the toughest game of 2015 general election which was almost a war and 2019 general election only to be rewarded with starvation and humiliation.
In the light of this, His Excellency Sen. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM in his usual way of empowering the downtrodden and believing in building human capacities that will continually be self sustaining.
Development as a social science concept is a multi faceted phenomena, therefore it transcend from infrastructural, socio-economic and human development.
SEN. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM since his venture into politics in 1997 has been on the vanguard of empowering and building human capacities which is the Hallmark of development in our contemporary society.
Today as the present Government of Ebonyi State look forward to see her disengaged appointees die of hunger, HIS EXCELLENCY SEN. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM has come to alleviate and cussion the effect of the political turnaround in the state as he has promised and kickoff the payment of all the disengaged appointees above what was initially payed to them by the state government.
Politics according to David Easton is ” Authoritative allocation of values”. His Excellency SEN. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM has chosen to allocate his hard earned wealth to the betterment of all that came across him.
Little wonder in October 2019, His Excellency SEN. ANYIM PIUS ANYIM in his mentorship program exposed over 500 youths to the way of making wealth through training by highly respected individuals with international repute and today over half of them are currently doing well in their field of endeavor.
To this end therefore, I call on other politicians to come and learn from this great political institution.
Information reaching us says the newly inaugurated security outfit formed by the Director of Radio Biafra and Leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to protect the Eastern Region from the menace of Fulani Herdsmen and other bad elements have started operations.
It was gathered that the security guards are now patrolling the bushes and some highways in the east in search of criminal elements.
According to eye witness reports and photos/videos which have gone viral on the internet, the team of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) were seen in Hilux Vans patrolling some areas in Anambra State with AK47, while other groups were sighted patrolling some bush paths, forests and farm lands in different towns in the east, to make sure that the ugly stories of attacks, raping and killings by marauding Fulani Herdsmen and other criminals would become a thing of the past.
However, the story is different in Ebonyi as another report reaching AJM NEWS revealed that some combined team of Nigerian Joint Security Forces comprising the Nigerian Army, Police and Civil Defense Corps allegedly trooped into Ezza North communities in the mid day hours of Tuesday 15th December, 2020 harassing people in the communities, as they seriously searched for the training ground of the Eastern Security Network, based on information given to them that the newly formed Security Outfit have one of their training camps in Ezza North LGA of the state.
Meanwhile, the IPOB Leader, Nnamdi Kanu has given a strong warning to hoodlums, kidnappers and other criminal elements terrorising the east to peacefully vacate the zone or be ready to face their Waterloo, as he also dropped some Hotlines to reach the Security Guards in emergency situations.
Below Are The Photos And Video Clip Of The Eastern Security Network In Operation
PDP CHIEFTAIN CONDEMNS KANKARA SCHOOL ABDUCTION BY GUNMEN, CALLS FOR THE SACK OF SERVICE CHIEFS
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Following the high level of insecurity across Nigeria with the kidnapping of over 300 students of Government Science College, Kankara the recent of them all, more reactions have continued to trail the abduction of the students from the Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State.
Reacting to the development, Chief Dr. Emeka Kalu, a chieftain of the opposition People’s Democratic Party(PDP) and National Coordinator of People’s Democratic Party Coalition (PDPCOALITION) have condemned the attack saying, the action of the bandits against innocent school children was unacceptable.
Kalu in a statement signed by him, called on security agencies to immediately swing into action with a view not only to rescuing the missing students but also apprehend the perpetrators and make them face the consequences of their action.
The former Abia guber aspirant also described the development as an unfortunate reminder of the terrorists’ attacks, with the slaughtering of over 70 rice fields farmers near the village of Zabarmari, Borno State still fresh in the memory of Nigerians.
He described the attack on innocent school children as not only cowardly but also callous and a crime against humanity, prohibited under the international humanitarian law.
Kalu noted with regret that the action of the bandits totally affects Nigeria’s effort towards enhancement of child education and development.
While commiserating with parents of the children and victims of the incessant killings in the North in particular and the country in general, the PDP leader called on the bandits to lay down their arms and release those in their custody.
According to the PDP leader, the attack on the school was a further confirmation that the security situation in the country was not getting better, hence the need to immediately rejig the nation’s security architecture beginning with the sack of service chiefs.
He slammed President Muhammadu Buhari for his very slow commitment to addressing security challenges in the country.
He tasked the president to immediately rejig the security architecture of the country beginning with the sack of service chiefs who it noted,had become exhausted to face the increasingly worsening security situation.
“The news of the kidnapped students of Government Science College, Kankara is regrettable and embarrassing. There’s the need to bring perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice. Those responsible for these terrorist attacks should be held accountable.”
“Let me express my profound condolences to the families and friends of those kidnapped by “these heinous acts of banditry and terrorism. The President must act urgently to rescue these innocent students.” part of the statement stated.
THE UMAHI- BUHARI LOVE AFFAIR, AND UMAHI’S TRICKS: DIFFERENTIATING FACT FROM FICTION
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When first I came across the report of the love jamboree between the president of Nigeria, Muhammad Buhari and the estranged governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi on the media space, I was smeared in the dew of guffaw. Why was I laughing? I was laughing because, the two men who claimed to be entangled by common love are actually not known to be two lovebirds, neither do they have respect for friendship. Though one could vouch for president Buhari in this regard, having brought close to the corridors of power his few friends, but such cannot be said of the “Defector-General” of Ebonyi State, Engr David Umahi.
I am writing as someone who knows the governor and a very critical student of his public lifestyle. I can be said to have graduated from this voyage of characteristical scholarship of him. Engr David Umahi doesn’t have a known friend in his entire life and doesn’t keep friendship for that matter. He goes contractual about everything that he does. Whenever he’s in dire need of your services or assistance, he calls you in, either pays you or would trick you into seeing him as a genuine friend and when the result is achieved, he discards you and later denies having known you for the very first time in his life. Evidences abound.
In the buildup to the 2015 general elections, then, Engr David Umahi was deputy governor. His principal, the then Gov. Martin Elechi denied him an endorsement to succeed him as governor after telling him that he learnt he’s not a good with power, pointing out that he’s mercantile with power and obviously amorphous to opposition. Something later happened. Umahi befriended all the political actors in Ebonyi State and beyond. It was a superficial show of affection, or what could at best be described as political love affair. The then president Goodluck Jonathan was one of such friends he made at the time. Others were: Patience Jonathan, Arthur Eze, Cletus Ibeto, Anyim Pius Anyim, Sam Egwu, Franklin Ogbuewu, Lawrence Nwuruku, Obinna Ogba, Fred Udeogu, Sylvanus Ngiji Ngele, Fidelis Nwankwo, Sonni Ogbuorji, Emmanuel Agboti, Emmanuel Onwe, etc. These men are the top-notch political actors in Ebonyi State whom he befriended around 2014-15 when he justled for the guber ticket of the PDP in the state.
After winning the election, the friendship took a mysterious flight. I want to ask you who are reading this article, ‘have you ever heard that former president Jonathan Goodluck or his wife was in Ebonyi State since 2015 for an official function? Have you ever read Umahi eulogize the former president or his wife who was particularly hellbent on installing Umahi against the wishes of Ebonyi PDP and the then outgoing governor? His friendship with them was momentary. Once he achieved the purpose for which the friendship was established, he turned them political foes. He instead wangled his way into the APC as a PDP governor. He abruptly forsook all of the men that made him who he is today politically. He forsook Cletus Ibeto and Arthur Eze. He forsook Anyim Pius Anyim and Sam Egwu. He forsook Obinna Ogba and Franklin Ogbuewu. He forsook Sylvanus Ngiji Ngele and Fidelis Nwankwo. He forsook Lawrence Nwuruku and Emmanuel Agboti, etc. That’s the kind of friendship Engr David Umahi keeps.
Now, he has come up with another theatrical parlance: “President Buhari loves me and I love him, too”. This was exactly how he started it in 2014. But the difference is clear now: acquisition of presidential ticket is not as easy as that of gubernatorial ticket. People are now wiser. Those he used and dumped, but who are still very much relevant in the political space have got a lot of tales to tell about Umahi’s love stage show. Many people are not going to fall victim of this decrepit or outdated political smokescreen. He has disappointed many who are still apparent in the business of politics in Ebonyi and at the national level. Maybe you are yet to hear that Osborne Umahi, his 22 year old first son has refused continuing marriage rites with the last child of president Buhari. His father has superimposed the mandate on him – success of which he thinks could lubricate the viability of his aspiration to get the APC’s presidential nomination come 2023. The young boy is averse to such a mercantile connubial escapade. He’s presently enmeshed in a domestic battle of interest with his superlatively desperate father. And this is one of the driving forces of the fictive love that the governor has said to have with president Buhari.
And in the event that Gov. Umahi later loses the APC presidential ticket come 2023, would he still be in love with his soulmate, president Muhammad Buhari owing to his history of contractual and theatrical political love affair with the political class?
•Nwoba Chika Nwoba wrote in from Amangwuru Village, Ekpelu, Ikwo LGA of Ebonyi State.
IPOB LEADER, NNAMDI KANU LAUNCHES EASTERN SECURITY NETWORK (ESN) TO PROTECT THE ZONE FROM HERDSMEN ATTACKS
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The Director Of Radio Biafra And Leader Of The Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Has Launched A Security Outfit Known As Eastern Security Network (ESN).
According to Kanu who made the revelation in a broadcast on Saturday, the Eastern Security Network which would swing into action in a few days from now, was formed to protect the people living in the Eastern part of the country from the ugly activities of the Fulani Herdsmen, just like Amoketun in the West.
The IPOB leader noted that the whole Easterners had waited patiently for the governors to put up a befitting security outfit to curb the excesses of the herdsmen in the zone, but all to no avail, which now led to the formation of the Eastern Security Network, adding that he cannot continue to watch his people being raped, killed and their farmlands destroyed by Fulani Herdsmen.
Kanu however made it clear that the Eastern Security Network is not a military group and was never formed to fight for secession of Biafra from Nigeria, but for the protection of “our people and the land of Biafra from the unwarranted attacks, killings, destruction of farmlands and other nefarious activities by the herders who are imported into Nigeria from different parts of Africa”.
He said: “The Eastern Security Network is not coming to fight any war for the secession of Biafra, we shall achieve that through referendum.
“The security outfit is not Biafran Army, we shall unveil the Biafran Military and announce it to the world when the time comes”.
The IPOB leader also maintained that the security outfit in addition to checkmating the activities of Fulani Herdsmen, the group would equally quash any form of kidnapping, or sponsored killings in the zone, the type witnessed at Obigbo, Afaraukwu Umuahia, Aba, and Emene, either by politicians or security agents, noting that such cannot be witnessed again in the whole land of Biafra.
Kanu therefore called on all South East and South South to give the security group the needed support to ensure that people of the zone and their lands are protected.
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