I am pained to inform you all that some Nigerians in Austria can better be described as walking prisoners painfully confined within the territory of Austria as a result of leadership failure. In solidarity, I write to draw your attention to the plights of these fellow compatriots who are pitifully in sorrow and agony.

[PHOTO: Pres. Jonathan of Nigeria.]

I am astonished to see the citizens of the so-called giant of Africa in a state of mockery perhaps because of the recklessness of one individual just for the reason of what will go into his/her pocket. It saddens my heart to see most times policies that are orchestrated by parochial interests of few cabals in Nigerian governments who abuse the trust constitutionally vested on them. How else can one explain the scarcity of international passports at the Nigerian embassy in Vienna, Austria? Some Nigerians under different categories that have applied for ECOWAS international passports for the past10 months now are still miserably facing nightmares of uncertainty because the future of their applications still looks bleak.

Because of unavailability of international passports so many Nigerians that had wished to travel home for Christmas and whose passports had expired were really stranded in Vienna, Austria. Because of unavailability of international passport Nigerian business men/women whose passports pages are fully used cannot travel out of Austria to perform their legitimate duties in order to provide for their families. Because of unavailability of international passports some Nigerian asylum seekers in Austria cannot legitimatize their stay since it is only through marriage that such could be possible. This deficiency of the government seems to have destroyed the dreams and aspirations of asylum seekers in most European countries to live a normal life without being afraid of security guards and patrol attendants that are in uniform looking like police officers. Because of unavailability of international passports, what will be the fate of some Nigerians that might misplace their international passports or lose it to hoodlums while on visit in Austria?

During my chat with some of the affected people who contacted me, they all complained about the disappointment and the way the embassy had arrogantly handled the situation by not getting them updated at least through their e-mail addresses. They said even when they had tried to call the embassy for information that they had been discouraged with the manner of responses from the workers. One of the furious affected persons Mr Julius Onyedikachi lamented about his frustration and the rude conduct of the embassy workers who had severally without any iota of respect warned him to stop bothering them because he was not the only one involved and he had not paid the embassy any money. According to him, he had applied for the passport since December 2010, and for someone who applied for a passport for over a year now to get this kind of caution from his embassy is not only shocking but embarrassing and annoying. “Because the passport has got a very significant role to play in my life now” he said, “I have approached the embassy in Vienna for authorization documents that can enable me obtain the passport in any of the Nigerian embassies in Europe where they have the producing machine and again the embassy has refused unless I pay € 25.” Please, Nigerians need to be treated with respect and dignity. To know how infuriated Julius Onyedikachi is, I have provided the contact of this gentle young man for your inquiries; jully2020@yahoo.co.uk, +436509820675.

Nigeria as the natural leader of ECOWAS countries was the initiator and the giant that pushed for the use of ECOWAS passports. Does it mean that Nigeria was not ready when this decision was reached? Does it mean that other ECOWAS members outsmarted her for whatever reason in the introduction of the ECOWAS passports? Why did Nigeria phase out her Nigerian passport if she was not ready? Who took this decision on behalf of Nigeria? The officer/s that took this decision did not take the huge number of Nigerians living abroad and its implications in cognize before this step and as such is/are not capable to be in such position/s as the result has shown that the verdict was shallow. Perhaps the only interest considered in this decision as it is now could only be what should come out from the contract of producing the passports and not how best the interest of Nigerians may well be served.

So many Nigerians are equally stranded in some other European countries because of the short supply of the machines that produce the passports. According to information available, as populated as Nigeria is the ECOWAS producing machines for her citizens can only be found in 5 countries in Europe. What a shame! The story is equally an embarrassment in Australia according to a very reliable source. And it is heart aching to know that other smaller ECOWAS countries are serving their citizens in this respect satisfactorily.

Is Nigeria cursed? What is actually wrong with decision takers in Nigeria? Or is the Nigerian government not having enough money to buy the passport producing machines? But the wasteful and corrupt Nigerian politicians both state and federal level have enough billions to waste in the guise of security votes when in reality they are not securing any Nigerian except themselves, families, cronies and their loots. Consequently, they are actually looting to financially empower themselves in order to hire criminals to intimidate and kill ordinary Nigerians like me in an apparent move to suppress the wish of the people in their next elections and targets.

Those Nigerian politicians who have got no value to human lives are cowards and they should not forget what William Shakespeare said of Macbeth after he had murdered his friend Malcolm, “All the oceans of the world cannot wash blood off the hands of Macbeth.” Your conscience will continue to torture you as a killer just as your death will be a very slow and painful one.

The Nigerian immigration department knows averagely how many passports they had produced for Nigerians in diaspora in one month and how many machines that had produced that before they pushed for the implementation of the ECOWAS passports. Why did they not make it a point of duty to replace all the Nigerian old producing machines at every location with the ECOWAS machines? What a myopic and disgruntled decision! The immigration officers should explain to Nigerians whose interest they represented here.

In view of the questionable and narrow-minded decisions of most Nigerian leaders -like the implementation of ECOWAS passports when they know that they are not ready, it has become imperative that Nigerian rulers (leaders) at all levels should be made to pass through certain levels of examination before they can be cleared for any elective or political appointment.

Mr. President Sir, Nigerians all over the world are pleading with you to give this issue the urgency it deserves by sending rescue teams in the same manner the Foreign Affairs Ministry under Chief Ojo Madueke arrogantly did in 2010. For the then secret deals of the ruling cabals not to be exposed in Europe the good interests of the masses they were elected or appointed to protect were sold without conscience as sacrifice for their own protections. They did this by incredibly sending three wise men from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Vienna, Austria under the pressure command of the Austrian authority who did the works of the Nigerian Ambassador by disgracefully and shamefully signing about 2000 deportation papers of Nigerians against the wish of the man saddled with such responsibilities Ambassador Jerry Ugokwe who did not see any justification for such outrageous repatriations.

May God bless Nigeria.

Uzoma Ahamefule

A patriotic concerned citizen writes from Vienna, Austria

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REPUBLICREPORTERS….standing between civilization anarchy…

  There are many, many issues that the Boko Haram insurgency has thrown up which cannot be easily addressed; some have no solutions at all. For example, Boko Haram say their prime goal is to impose Shari’a Law throughout Northern Nigeria. In other words, they are seeking to dismantle this country as we know it and to create another in which they alone will rule. But we have also been told that they want to eradicate decadence, corruption and injustice in our body politic. And so on. 

Yet, whatever it is that Boko Haram want to achieve or create, one thing they seem to be doing rather well now is setting the various groups in Nigeria one against the other. One day, Boko Haram say they are killing christians because Christians are killing Muslims; another day, they say they will drive southerners out of the North because southerners are sending Northerners out of the South; yet another day, Boko Haram would say they are fighting the government because government leaders and agents are  corrupt and unjust, etc.  After that, they will stand aside and watch with glee as the different groups engage each other in mutual blame and recrimination. 

Despite all this, what is clear and what we all see is that Boko Haram remains on the offensive and their bombs do not discriminate between friends and foe; notwithstanding their propaganda. And in the face of the generalized climate of fear, apprehensions and mistrust, people respond in ways that are neither calm nor measured, precisely the type of reaction that pleases Boko Haram. This has to change. People of goodwill everywhere must beware of the  Boko Haram.

[PHOTO: Col. Umar]

Religious leaders, leaders of ethnic or regional groups and politicians at all levels should step back and ponder the role they wittingly or unwittingly have played in the successes Boko Haram has recorded in it’s bloody campaign to destabilize Nigeria. One particularly unhelpful reaction came from certain Igbo leaders who advised their kinsmen in the wake of the onslaught by Boko Haram to move out of Northern Nigeria and to return to their ancestral homes in the east. Clearly, such advice, apart from playing into the hands of the insurgents, is a wanton infringement of the civic and legal rights of the people. An Igbo, Urhobo, Efamai, Ekwere etc. living in Damaturu,  Minna, Zonkwa or Yola are bonafide citizens of these cities as are  Kanuri, Tiv, Nupe or Hausafulani living in Port  Harcourt, Umuahia, Onitsha or Shagamu. This is a right our Constitution has prescribed; a right no one, not even temporary difficulties, should take away. Besides, certain situations make such ideas utterly anachronistic if not entirely illogical. Over 200 people were reportedly killed and over a thousand others injured with many more displaced when two long feuding communities in Ezillo council area of Ebonyi state clashed towards the end of last year. Where were the survivors advised to re-locate to? Nowhere else.

Truth is, Nigeria is currently in the grip of unprecedented crisis of insecurity – Boko Haram, kidnappings, armed robberies, militancy, communal conflicts etc – and there is no shortage of purveyors of doomsday reports, feeding a vicious cycle of suspicions, conspiracies and more insecurity. As the authorities grapple with ways to address these challenges, Nigerians must remain unflinching in their support and cooperation so that together we will keep these troubles on the front banner until they are addressed.

Now, whether we need to address our national problems through a sovereign national conference as some are suggesting or through the constitutional instrument of the legislature must take account of certain facts of contemporary history. Despite the imperfections of a federal set up, it provides a security umbrella to all its federating units. People are quick to cite the success stories of countries that were created as a result of division – Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Sudan, etc.  Often, they would rather not discuss the greater success stories of countries that preserved their unity, including Indonesia, Canada, Germany, nor the problems with which the splinter republics grapple with. This is true not only of Pakistan or South Sudan but even more ominously so with the former Soviet Republics.             
 

Unarguably, Nigeria is grappling with an unwieldy administrative structure, a problem brought about in part by agitations for self determination that led to the creation of many unviable states and local governments. It is our duty and responsibility to nurture our country and steer it out of any temporary difficulties until it attains the perfection we admire in others. Any one preaching or advocating anything to the contrary should know of the implications not to talk of the grave consequences on the lives of so many people across the country.

We will say this openly and frankly and without fear of contradiction that given the spread and depth of our integration as a people, it is futile to expect Igbos, Hausa, Yoruba or any ethnic group to relocate easily or peacefully to their ancestral lands even if Nigeria were broken up. It is not time alone; many things in nature are not reversible. And we should never forget, it is decisions taken in moments such as this that shape our destiny.

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REPUBLICREPORTERS…standing between civilization and anarchy….

Sheik Sani Haliru quoting Qu’ran said: “In the Qur’an Allah commanded thus “(Remember) when your Lord revealed to the angels, Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved, so strike them over the necks, and smite over all their fingers and toes.” (See the Qur’an of Surah Al-Anfal 8:12)

He response: “In addition to the several passages and mentioned earlier, please take a look at Surah An-Nisa 4:101 and I quote “For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies.”

When asked: “What is the solution to this problem of the Boko Haram menace? He said: ”The problem is not Boko Haram. The problem is the Spirit of Islam which must be crushed by the prayer of the Saints. Was it not through prayer that people like Rev. Paul Ado Bayero, Bishop K. K. Degaya, Apostle Johnson Suleman and hundreds of others got saved? Was it not through prayer that I got saved on my way to assassinate both Rev. Samuel Dasuki and Evangelist Blessed Usman when they were in their training camp in a crusade/ministration to their converts? I tell you from my experience this past few months as a Christian, many Christians are not united. In the north Christians are more united and sincere, but in the south & west, Christians are in comfort zones and if they don’t wake up, they will be surprised of what Muslims will do to them….”, he WARNED.

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Q: General Buhari told a group of pressmen in April 2011 that there is no compulsion in Islam and it is a religion of peace. He quoted Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:225. What can you say to that?

A: What I can say to that is General Buhari, like all other true Muslims, is a hypocrite who is shying away from the fact.

Question: Who are you and where are you from?

Answer: My name is Sheik Sani Haliru. I am from Niger Republic, but my mother is from Bornu State of Nigeria and I grew up in Wulari, Maiduguri, (Northern Nigeria) where I was trained.

Q: Trained as what and under whose tutelage?

A: I was trained as an Almajiri, after four years, at the age of 14, I was sent to Kano City, Kano State where I was trained in the Sheik Abubakar Gummi School of Arabic studies.

Q: So you know Sheik Abubakar Gummi?

A: Yes, and I also know his children and obeyed all the teachings he laid down before he died.

Q: So who tutored you and who is your mentor?

A: Sheik Abubakar Gummi tutored me. My mentor was Osama bin Laden, and until my conversion from Islam to the Christian faith, my dreams and aspirations in life was to do more than Osama bin Laden did before he died on Sunday, May 1, 2011.

Q: You said that your mentor was Osama bin Laden. Is he still your mentor?

A: I am now a changed person. The Sheik Sani Haliru is now a new creature, old things have passed away because I now have Jesus Christ that I hated and persecuted for 44 years.

Q: Tell me about your past and how many countries of the World you have been to?

A: I cannot tell all about my past because it will take several days to tell my story and about my conversion experience to Christianity. I have been to eight countries.

Q: Can you please name them?

A: I have been to Sudan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and of course to my own country Niger Republic.

Q: Where did you receive your training and as what?

A: I received my training in Libya and Pakistan as an Attack Strategist. I was trained along side with some highly placed Nigerians and other foreign Nationals who were marked (he showed me the proof of his mark with a sign) in the form of a sword in the hand to fight and kill for Allah.

Q: Can you give me some of the names of your colleagues with whom you received training in Libya and Pakistan?

A: They are scattered all over the country and we were not too many then.

Q: Just mention but a few names.

A: Ali Baba Nur, Asari Dokubo, Jasper Akinbo, Mohammed Yusuf, Salisu Maigari, Danlami Abubakar, Cletus Okar, Ali Qaqa, Maigari Haliru and Asabe Dantala to mention but a few.

Q: Which of the Asari’s do you mean?

A: The Niger Delta war king. He was a year ahead of me in Benghazi training camp in Libya.

Q: Who financed your training in Libya and Pakistan?

A: You will not believe me and only God will judge the Chief sponsor of terrorism in Nigeria whose name I will not mention because he is so powerful and even the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, is so much afraid of the man.

Q: If you really know the Christ in you, why are you afraid to tell me the name of the man who sponsored you and the date or approximate period he sponsored you.

A: I am not afraid because he knows me and he cannot deny it if he sees me face to face.

Q: Then tell me, who is this powerful man?

A: The man is no other person than the man they call IBB now as I am talking to you, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has more than 600 men and women Jihadists who are under his pay role. They are scattered all over the Country and he (IBB) can use them to destroy Nigeria.

Q: Did you say six hundred?

A: Yes 600 + IBB’s agents of destruction are in the Nigeria Army (NA), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Navy, Air Force, Oil and Gas sectors, even in the finance home such as in top level positions of CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) and other banks. You find them in politics, in the Senate, National Assembly, in the media both print and electronic and even in Aso Rock, Abuja (Nigeria’s capital).

Q: How do you mean by this statement “and even in the finance…”?

A: Yes, I mean every word I say; even the Islamic bank champion was planted by IBB to help in Islamizing Nigeria.

Q: So how can you describe IBB?

A: IBB is a “green snake” in green grass. He is the main problem of Nigeria along with members of the Cabal.

Q: Have you forwarded any of these evidence(s) to Aso Rock or to SSS (State Security Services)?

A: I attempted to do so a few weeks ago and I was arrested and detained for two days because IBB’S men are so many in SSS (State Security Services) as well. After I was released by the grace of God, they (the Police) warned me never to blow up the polity or provoke violence and I should keep my so-called-born-again with me or else I will go to jail.

Q: So you were a key member and a registered jihadist hardliner.

A: Yes, I was.

Q: Under what group?

A: I was a Boko Haramist. But Boko Haram is just a cover name to give it a name. I have my identity as a founding member of the dreaded jama’aful Ahlul sunna wal Liddawati wal Jihad, aka Boko Haram.

Q: Apart from IBB, who are the other top sponsors of terrorism in this country?

A: They are many, but IBB is the major financier. He introduced the suicide bombing that started when he killed Dele Giwa. I have the names of six traditional rulers and seven present & ex-Governors as well as several top military and security officers who are co-sponsoring the so called Boko Haram. That apart, I have documented evidences to prove that General Mohammadu Buhari, Alhaji Abubaka Atiku and other top politicians and traditional rulers are some of the people behind Boko Haram. Very soon, nemesis will catch up with them.

Q: What if I use my influence to guarantee you safety, can you brief the press to expose IBB (General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida) with all these documents that I am seeing with you right now.

A: Only God can guarantee my safety. He did so on that fateful day when the SSS and police wanted to secretly kill me because of what I unveiled. I would have been a dead man by now if not for a man of God who came as an “Angel” to quietly free me. Right now, I am wanted dead or alive by IBB and his agents of destruction in high places. The SSS are busy hunting for me up & down and arresting and torturing innocent people because of me.

Q: What if I connect you to a man of God by the name of Brother Mike Ejiofor, who is a lawyer, a professional negotiator and a mediator who was the Director of SSS until October 2010?

A: I only wish to be connected to God.

Q: So how can you describe this country?

A: Nigeria is sifting under an Islamic barbaric bomb (IBB). Only God can rescue this nation because 75% of Christians are prayer less. Why? Because they are in their own comfort zone. They do not know what the Christians in Northern Nigeria are passing through and they ignorantly are thinking that the Allah of the Muslims is the same as the God of Christians in the Holy Bible who says: “Thou shalt not kill”.

Q: What does the Qur’an say about Islam being referred to as a religion of peace by numerous Muslim scholars?

A: Let me tell you in a very clear language that Islam is not a religion of peace, but it is of violence, of killers and fighters as already stated in their so called “Holy” Qur’an which I ignorantly followed all these years when I was spiritually blinded as a Muslim.

Q: Can you prove these statements from the Qur’an?

A: [Sani Haliru, who is now known as Solomon Haliru (Paul Haliru’s brother)] brought out two copies of the original Qur’an in the Arabic & English translation. He gave me one, and told me to open the book to Surah Al- baqarah chapter 2 vs 216. It says, “Holy fighting is ordained (prescribed) for all muslims, whether they like it or not, as far as it is good and approved by Allah through his prophet Mohammed.”

Q: Where is it in the Qur’an that killing is also permitted by Allah?

A: Look at Surah Al-baqarah chapter 2 vs 191 “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. An Al-Fitnah is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-Al-Haram (the sanctuary at Makkah), unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.” Muslims are told to kill and fight in the cause of Allah.

Q: Does it mean that IBB and all these Muslim traditional rulers and Governors that are sponsoring Boko Haram to kill Christians and burn our churches in the North are not aware of the passage in the Qur’an that says there must not be compulsion in Islam as Mohammadu Buhari asserted in a widely publicized interview on Saturday, the 21st of April, 2011?

A: I have worked so closely with Mohammadu Buahri for five years, and I can prove it that General Buhari is the most notable outspoken jihadist hardliner in Nigeria who is also strategically sponsoring Boko Haram.

Q: General Buhari told a group of pressmen in April 2011 that there is no compulsion in Islam and it is a religion of peace. He quoted Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:225. What can you say to that?

A: What I can say to that is General Buhari, like all other true Muslims, is a hypocrite who is shying away from the fact.

Q: How do you mean by saying that most Muslim millionaires and highly placed Muslims are “pretenders and shying away from the fact”?

A: What I mean is that they (Muslims-both rich and poor) are told to use their position of wealth (or otherwise) to promote Islam or else they will face destruction from Allah.

Q: Where can you find this in the Qu’ran?

A: Open Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:195, it is written here that you must use your wealth to champion Jihad of all kinds or else destruction is waiting for such a person on the last day.

“And spend in the Cause of Allah (i.e. Jihad of all kinds) and do not throw yourselves into destruction (by not spending your wealth in the Cause of Allah), and do good. Truly, Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good-doers).”

Q: Have you ever been detained or arrested?

A: Nobody could arrest me until the year 2009 soon after my immediate boss Mohammed Yusuf was killed. About 23 of us were arrested in one of our hideouts in Bauchi. But when Governor Isa Yagiuda heard about it, he immediately arranged for me to be free. Even before his official broadcast in 2010 that he was using his position as the executive Governor of Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) to free 28 prisoners from Bauchi Central Prison, I was already a free man along with several of my colleagues.

Q: Now can you tell me some of the horrible crimes that you committed and how you got born again and became converted.

A: Old things have passed away and I don’t want to talk about the past, because like Apostle Paul said, we need to press forward in Christ Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

Q: Just mention a few to assist some of us who are making efforts to unravel the mystery of the menace called Boko Haram which you have renounced.

A: I took part in the Kaduna riot of 1992 and in several northern states of Nigeria, but the state I operated more from was Bornu (northern Nigeria) where I was the State Commander/Chief Strategist.

Q: So as Chief Attack Strategist, what crimes have or did you commit before you renounced the deadly sect?

A: In the early months of May 1986, I was among the 36 Jihadist hardliners, who went on a rampage to attack Christian students of the University of Sokoto (Sokoto State in northern Nigeria). In that same week, the Federal Government of Nigeria under the brutal leadership of IBB mobilized us and provided some military vans and Army uniforms which our men used and started killing innocent and defenseless Christians all over the Northern states. I and the son of the Emir of Kano, who is now a Christian by name Rev. Paul Ado Bayero, were among the Muslim fanatics who razed down the sculpture of Jesus at the University of Ibadan (Oyo State in western Nigeria).

The following year, March 5, 1987 to be very precise, the “Evil Genius” General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida secretly armed us through one of his close aids by the name of Captain Hassan Abubakar (now a Pastor with a fast growing church in Lagos). We went to go and kill some targeted Christians including Rev. Nuhu Kure (Throne room founder) after the destruction we committed at the College of Education in Kafanchan, Kaduna State (North Central Nigeria). And of recent, I was the leader of the team of soldiers of Allah that destroyed Church buildings and properties in Bornu State (northern Nigeria).

Q: Can you name some of the buildings and Churches you and your Boko Haramists destroyed?

A: There are many, but our main targets which we succeeded in destroying included: Goodnews & ECWA Church, Damboa Road, Maiduguri E.Y.N.L.C.C. Wulari, National Evangelical Mission Inc. Divisional Headquarters Wulari, Elijah Apostolic Christ Church, Oke Ayo Celestial Church of Christ, Deeper Life Bible Church, the Lord’s Chosen and six others in Railway Area and all over Wulari in Maiduguri, Borno State. Other church buildings we destroyed and looted include the Aposotic Church, COCIN Church, Evangelical Church/Mission Headquarters, Anglican Church, Baptist Church/Mission, Redeemed Christian Church of God, El-Shaddai Parish, Watchman Charismatic and several others.

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In all that God has ever done, one thing has always remained clear and pointed: the revelation of the perfect products of true love. Everywhere His love touches, there springs up perfection: in the dark, light comes, a sinner becomes a saint; the dead rises, from the dungeon the lowly and dejected gains the throne, and satan is promptly judged in justice. Love drives perfection and justice. True love is love: the Agape love which keeps us connected to our source, and Phileo which makes us love our neighbors as ourselves. Jesus, in response to the Pharisees who, in their belief of always being accurate in the things of the law, asked Him what the greatest of the commandments was, said: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (NIV) Perfect love has fruits, excellence, and justice; it destroys fear – either of losing or of giving too much. This is what is lacking in America: America needs perfect love and it’s only God who can plant it and water it in us. Therefore, America needs God more than ever. 

America is rightly called “God’s own country,” not because they came to be through perfection, but because there was a mission for America. And with that mission came great grace and ability from God. but Americans – the leaders and the led alike- having seen much of God’s perfect love steering everything in their anticipated direction, entered into the error of Balaam – believing that their perfection comes from them and, as such, must enjoy perfect pleasure as “reward of labor.” They also erroneously concluded that, if God has blessed them thus, He has given them every sign they needed to be “free.” With the founding fathers came democracy. But as time flies, democracy becomes corrupted – both by those who want to conceal injustice and by those who can never take too much of pleasures in anything they lust after. Man has been blessed with revelations to create things which follow the perfect pattern of God’s design in creation; yet, all that man has ever made is enshrouded in imperfection and uncertainty in destiny. So is every man who is not certain in God’s love. Today, selfish do-or-die quest for pleasure in the name of democracy and human rights, and solely personal aggrandizements, graduated from human slavery to deep and hidden injustices, from women seeking their rights to women hijacking the world, from human rights activism to total madness. The consequences are all around us; we don’t have to look far. 

The mistake of America is that it took the grace of God for granted and interpreted God’s seeming silence into a concession to seek pleasure wherever it may be found. When we use the grace of God without reciprocating in love, it becomes so corrupted that the blessing we are given of God becomes a curse to us and to those over whom we have great influence. In America’s mad-pursuit of insatiable and uncontrollable pleasures, everyone has forgotten the other; we all want to outdo our neighbor. And so, love died. Today, what America is left with in love is Hollywood – a place where love stinks and where their very definition of love is everything but true. A man and a woman claims willingness to die for each other today because of their love, but the next day, they tear themselves apart and even “share” the children. Man has shunned the perfect love of God for the imperfect gains of pleasure. Lack of love has made the man not to show unreserved love to his wife as fitting, and the very absence of true love has made the women of today question, not only what right man has to be “the head” but they have equally nullified the God of the Bible as they outdo themselves in choosing to follow the voice of the serpent than that of the God of love, care, provision, and wisdom. Today, you have the people of America (God’s own country?) cry out and demand, like the Israel of the old demanded of God for a king, for everything their foundation was built against. The foundation of America detested slavery and, therefore, brought freedom to us. America renounced the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah and, therefore, made it “one man-one wife.” America believed the word of God as the infallible truth and, therefore, brought the gospel to us in Africa – destroying our cultures, traditions and inheritance in the process. America believes that, even though everyone does not believe in Christ, there are rules and norms that every society should foster. America believed in this and, therefore, got committed to carrying democracy to every place. 

But crosschecking our score-cards as “Americans,” the reverse is mostly what we have today. In the days of Abraham Lincoln, and those before, true freedom was protected and supported, but these days, presidents seek for votes by accepting everything that is repugnant before the very God to whom they were dedicated. Like the man, Aaron, they rush to do the will of the people – even against the very foundation of life. This is what the world calls democracy and freedom, yet there is no freedom and injustice prevail in different corners of the world by those who claim to practice democracy; how much worse can it be for those in countries of the religious but/and wicked? And so, we have leaders strongly supporting and signing into law the practice of sodomy (spreading diseases and yet donating for treatment), arbitrary divorce (making children stone-hearted from childhood), and the rights of every child to destroy itself and bear the consequences without having first been trained as a child by the parents; and threatening those who say “no” to such shame. The great America that came to Africa with the gospel is now the very people laughing at God after they have carted away the many gods of Africa into their secret places. They are now writing for the world a new message and a new gospel: SELF IS GOD.  This has become the voice which keeps resonating throughout the West. When God said that all things were created by Him and for His pleasure, and that no man shall glory (that is, share in Him with self-pride), man says: “No! I have the right to do as I please and follow any way I like, and there is no God to judge me ether way. So, these days, man willingly and joyfully volunteers his entirety to stand in opposition to God.  America desired to take true democracy to other places but was cut in the power of the apple of Eden: they couldn’t leave for Caesar what belonged to him, and for God, what belonged to Him. They go into countries with democracy but allow it to be corrupted through their insatiable spirit of covetousness grown at home by the spirit of “rights to every pleasure.” The cost of maintaining the destruction of unaccountability at home became high as the one who promised more freedom and pleasure becomes the favored candidate for leadership. Each president that comes willingly leads American farther away from God through the drifting spirit of pleasure, rights and freedom wrongly placed. As it is, men become “man and wife,” likewise women. Time will come when two biological sisters would seek for their “rights and freedom” to marry each other; mothers will marry their sons while fathers will call their daughters: “my lover!” and very soon, their women’s love for pets could lead to freedom to choose them as marriage partners. Who wonders? That’s where the spirit of the Garden of Eden has led us to: “No, you will not die for God knows that, the day you eat of it, your eyes shall open and you shall be as gods – knowing good and evil.” I sincerely pray that the president who signed homosexuality into law will not, one day, be saddled with explaining to his children why incest is a crime and gay is not. The danger in all these is that, if it affects America, it affects the world. The worse part is that, those who brought Christianity to us are now using every method to compel us to accept abominations in our lands when the one done against us from 1914 has not been undone. Oh Lord! Arise! 

America will see the light and rise again. It has to be so because of its mission for the world. America will rise again because the land was dedicated to God. But, this time, the president who must lead must be a man like David who never forgets from where God called him out. The candidate who promised Americans the freedom to even look upwards and disown God – such man will fail utterly. That man who will return America to its former glory is the man for the job because cries and cries have come out of America to join others in different places of the world where corrupted democracy laid a foundation of corruption, death and decay. America will rise and shine again as it recognizes that every land is blessed and that each land is blessed for a reason. America will not be destroyed because it is not for the antichrist to determine when Jesus will come nor to cause a forced-birth. Until the number is brought in fully, God’s anger will not destroy a city where many cry to Him always. But those who cry should not neglect the direction of God in the manner of Lot whose selfishness claimed wisdom over God. He ended up committing worse crime than that of the place he and his two female children ran from. Even though he did that in ignorance, the result kept everyone awake in the middle of the night. 

In getting prepared for the Lord, the country called Nigeria must be divided this period because that is the justice which true democracy should bring – not an unjust democracy and a lying partnership. America is a nation of firmly United States; Nigeria is a forced amalgam of different, ever-diverging nations. The marriage where divorce is permitted is that of sham or unfaithfulness. And no marriage is allowed with people of eternally opposing views. Therefore, Nigeria is carrying the burden of living together as in marriage, whereas there was no marriage. This burden tells on this democracy generation. America must see that true justice is done in Africa– at least, once. Presently, there are two things which accuse America from Africa: the carting away of African gods and calling it paganism, and America’s rejection of the gospel they almost forced on Africa. The fingers are pointing at a contradiction which unmasks a conspiracy. The people in the dark have seen a great light, and from Africa shall great illumination and truth issue forth to the rest of the world. If decency comes to Hollywood, it will touch the world. If it comes from American embassies, it will affect many states throughout the world, and if America stands for God today – bringing Him what is due Him, No nation in the world will demand a right of pleasure in wickedness, war, injustice, or compulsion. And no nation shall tower over other any more; those who live in God’s love shall experience the change. And it does not matter how man feigns ignorance or resists the truth, Jesus Christ is forever established above the heavens as the eternal savoir, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. May God provide for His people in America with a leader who has the passion of David and the anointing which Goliath can never stand up to. God bless America! May your light shine again. And may there be peace in Jerusalem and prosperity to those who love God’s foundation of truth. Amen.

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The Security Council vote today came on one of the bloodiest days of the popular uprising in Syria, as President Bashar al Assad’s security forces launched a withering artillery assault on the city of Homs that has reportedly left 200 to 400 dead.

[PHOTO: Protesters in Syria burn Russia flag... in Syria]

Though they were the only negative votes in a 13 to 2 vote, Russia and China’s  veto power as permanent members of the Security Council killed the resolution drafted by Arab and European countries.

The vetoes came after a week of intense negotiations to gain Russian support for a resolution it had opposed from the start.   The resolution supported an Arab League plan that called for an immediate end to the violence in Syria and a political solution to the crisis.  Russia was opposed to the resolution because of concerns that it could leave an opening for a foreign intervention against one of its loyal client states.

The vetoes drew harsh criticism from Security Council members that supported the resolution and who had amended it several times to ease those concerns, rewording language about the transition of power and watering down the possibility of future sanctions against the Assad regime.

“The United States is disgusted that  a couple of members of this Council continue to prevent  us from fulfilling our sole purpose,” U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said. “For months this Council has been held hostage by a couple of members,” she said, referring to Russia and China, who she said had been “delaying and stripping bare any text to force Assad to stop his actions.”

Without referring to Russia by name, she said the vetoes were “even more shameful” given that Russia has continued to sell weapons to to Syria.  She called the vetoes “unforgivable” and said “any further blood that flows will be on their hands.”

In brief remarks to the Council, Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Russia actively supports an end to the violence in Syria, but that the resolution did not “accurately reflect the real state of affairs” in Syria and “sent an unbalanced signal to the parties.”  Churkin was speaking about armed opposition groups that have also been conducting violent attacks against the Assad regime in Syria.

He once again cited Russian concerns about “regime change” by “influential members of the international community who have been undermining the possibility of a settlement in Syria.”

French Ambassador Gerard Araud said the vetoes were a “sad day for the UN Security Council … a sad day for democracy and a sad day for Syrians. … Hundreds of Syrians are dying and it is no longer possible to wait. ”

Peter Wittig, the German ambassador to the United Nations criticized the vetoes particularly for having come on “one of bloodiest days of the Arab spring” and the 30^th anniversary of the massacre in Hama, Syria ordered by Assad’s father that resulted in 20,000 dead.

“This is the real scandal,” Wittig said. “Afraid this will spur further violence and make it difficult to reach a political solution.”

British Ambassador to the U.N. Mark Lyall Grant said Russia and China should “ask themselves how many more deaths they are prepared to tolerate.”

He said the negotiations had “removed every possible excuse” for voting against the resolution. He also said that the United Kingdom and other countries would continue their efforts to stop the violence in Syria.

Li Baodong, China’s Ambassador to the UN told Council members that China voted against the resolution because it would “further complicate the situation” in Syria.

He also said that China supported the Russian delegation’s last minute calls for a delay on the vote as well as amendments proposed by Russia that  were not taken up by the Council.

Culled to RepublicReporters by Associcated Press (AP)

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A source claimed CPC Party Agents were chased away by Nigerian security agents in the state.

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Impeccable yet unvarified reports added that, “PDP Agents distributing money at polling units to influence voters against INEC rules; while, CPC-agents were being intimidated to wear PDP Tags.

RepublicReporters was yet to authentically varify the veracity of the claim in Adamawa State govenorship election.

Another source said, “6 Ballot boxes sneaked into PDP Chieftain’s house in Ganye.  Some plots by one of the political parties contesting the Adamawa governorship elections to rig in connivance with INEC officials and security agencies have began to unfold as CPC Party agents in some wards are being chased out from performing their accreditation in some polling units while voting materials were yet to reach many polling units considered CPC strongholds as at 11am yesterday. Monitoring teams from CPC and some election observers spoken to disclosed that such wards like Kofar Jauro Baggare-ward 002, Malkohi Primary school-ward 009, Kofar Jauro Runde kila-ward 007 and Wuro Dadi primary school-ward 0015 all in Yola South Local Government area had not ballot boxes sent to them by 11 am. At Fangeri polling unit and Lantari wards also in Yola South LGA, security agents including the Police reported chased out all agents (CPC, PDP, ANPP, ACN, ADC) from the polling units as voters commenced voting raising suspicion of plots to rig in favour of a particular party”, it said.

In other reports, CPC-leadership, IBB and CBN-officials have been accused of financiers of Boko Haram bombings in Northern Nigeria. In an interview published by RepublicReporters yesterday, it stated how: “RepublicReporters is in possession of an exclusive interview by Sheik Sani Haliru (ex-Boko Haram member, now a born again Christian) told reporters that he has close relationship with Buhari and Mohammadu Yusuf. Sheik Sani Haliru said: “I have worked so closely with Mohammadu Buahri for five years, and I can prove it that General Buhari is the most notable outspoken jihadist hardliner in Nigeria who is also strategically sponsoring Boko Haram.

In question and answer, the bombshell interview revealed that Buhari, Sanusi Lamido-Sanusi and Babangida are fundamentalist  jihadists and financiers of Boko Haram.

Read: Q: General Buhari told a group of pressmen in April 2011 that there is no compulsion in Islam and it is a religion of peace. He quoted Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:225. What can you say to that?

A: What I can say to that is General Buhari, like all other true Muslims, is a hypocrite who is shying away from the fact.

Question: Who are you and where are you from?

Answer: My name is Sheik Sani Haliru. I am from Niger Republic, but my mother is from Bornu State of Nigeria and I grew up in Wulari, Maiduguri, (Northern Nigeria) where I was trained.

Q: Trained as what and under whose tutelage?

A: I was trained as an Almajiri, after four years, at the age of 14, I was sent to Kano City, Kano State where I was trained in the Sheik Abubakar Gummi School of Arabic studies.

Q: So you know Sheik Abubakar Gummi?

A: Yes, and I also know his children and obeyed all the teachings he laid down before he died.

Q: So who tutored you and who is your mentor?

A: Sheik Abubakar Gummi tutored me. My mentor was Osama bin Laden, and until my conversion from Islam to the Christian faith, my dreams and aspirations in life was to do more than Osama bin Laden did before he died on Sunday, May 1, 2011.

Q: You said that your mentor was Osama bin Laden. Is he still your mentor?

A: I am now a changed person. The Sheik Sani Haliru is now a new creature, old things have passed away because I now have Jesus Christ that I hated and persecuted for 44 years.

Q: Tell me about your past and how many countries of the World you have been to?

A: I cannot tell all about my past because it will take several days to tell my story and about my conversion experience to Christianity. I have been to eight countries.

Q: Can you please name them?

A: I have been to Sudan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and of course to my own country Niger Republic.

Q: Where did you receive your training and as what?

A: I received my training in Libya and Pakistan as an Attack Strategist. I was trained along side with some highly placed Nigerians and other foreign Nationals who were marked (he showed me the proof of his mark with a sign) in the form of a sword in the hand to fight and kill for Allah.

Q: Can you give me some of the names of your colleagues with whom you received training in Libya and Pakistan?

A: They are scattered all over the country and we were not too many then.

Q: Just mention but a few names.

A: Ali Baba Nur, Asari Dokubo, Jasper Akinbo, Mohammed Yusuf, Salisu Maigari, Danlami Abubakar, Cletus Okar, Ali Qaqa, Maigari Haliru and Asabe Dantala to mention but a few.

Q: Which of the Asari’s do you mean?

A: The Niger Delta war king. He was a year ahead of me in Benghazi training camp in Libya.

Q: Who financed your training in Libya and Pakistan?

A: You will not believe me and only God will judge the Chief sponsor of terrorism in Nigeria whose name I will not mention because he is so powerful and even the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, is so much afraid of the man.

Q: If you really know the Christ in you, why are you afraid to tell me the name of the man who sponsored you and the date or approximate period he sponsored you.

A: I am not afraid because he knows me and he cannot deny it if he sees me face to face.

Q: Then tell me, who is this powerful man?

A: The man is no other person than the man they call IBB now as I am talking to you, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has more than 600 men and women Jihadists who are under his pay role. They are scattered all over the Country and he (IBB) can use them to destroy Nigeria.

Q: Did you say six hundred?

A: Yes 600 + IBB’s agents of destruction are in the Nigeria Army (NA), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Navy, Air Force, Oil and Gas sectors, even in the finance home such as in top level positions of CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) and other banks. You find them in politics, in the Senate, National Assembly, in the media both print and electronic and even in Aso Rock, Abuja (Nigeria’s capital).

Q: How do you mean by this statement “and even in the finance…”?

A: Yes, I mean every word I say; even the Islamic bank champion was planted by IBB to help in Islamizing Nigeria.

Q: So how can you describe IBB?

A: IBB is a “green snake” in green grass. He is the main problem of Nigeria along with members of the Cabal.

Q: Have you forwarded any of these evidence(s) to Aso Rock or to SSS (State Security Services)?

A: I attempted to do so a few weeks ago and I was arrested and detained for two days because IBB’S men are so many in SSS (State Security Services) as well. After I was released by the grace of God, they (the Police) warned me never to blow up the polity or provoke violence and I should keep my so-called-born-again with me or else I will go to jail.

Q: So you were a key member and a registered jihadist hardliner.

A: Yes, I was.

Q: Under what group?

A: I was a Boko Haramist. But Boko Haram is just a cover name to give it a name. I have my identity as a founding member of the dreaded jama’aful Ahlul sunna wal Liddawati wal Jihad, aka Boko Haram.

Q: Apart from IBB, who are the other top sponsors of terrorism in this country?

A: They are many, but IBB is the major financier. He introduced the suicide bombing that started when he killed Dele Giwa. I have the names of six traditional rulers and seven present & ex-Governors as well as several top military and security officers who are co-sponsoring the so called Boko Haram. That apart, I have documented evidences to prove that General Mohammadu Buhari, Alhaji Abubaka Atiku and other top politicians and traditional rulers are some of the people behind Boko Haram. Very soon, nemesis will catch up with them.

Q: What if I use my influence to guarantee you safety, can you brief the press to expose IBB (General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida) with all these documents that I am seeing with you right now.

A: Only God can guarantee my safety. He did so on that fateful day when the SSS and police wanted to secretly kill me because of what I unveiled. I would have been a dead man by now if not for a man of God who came as an “Angel” to quietly free me. Right now, I am wanted dead or alive by IBB and his agents of destruction in high places. The SSS are busy hunting for me up & down and arresting and torturing innocent people because of me.

Q: What if I connect you to a man of God by the name of Brother Mike Ejiofor, who is a lawyer, a professional negotiator and a mediator who was the Director of SSS until October 2010?

A: I only wish to be connected to God.

Q: So how can you describe this country?

A: Nigeria is sifting under an Islamic barbaric bomb (IBB). Only God can rescue this nation because 75% of Christians are prayer less. Why? Because they are in their own comfort zone. They do not know what the Christians in Northern Nigeria are passing through and they ignorantly are thinking that the Allah of the Muslims is the same as the God of Christians in the Holy Bible who says: “Thou shalt not kill”.

Q: What does the Qur’an say about Islam being referred to as a religion of peace by numerous Muslim scholars?

A: Let me tell you in a very clear language that Islam is not a religion of peace, but it is of violence, of killers and fighters as already stated in their so called “Holy” Qur’an which I ignorantly followed all these years when I was spiritually blinded as a Muslim.

Q: Can you prove these statements from the Qur’an?

A: [Sani Haliru, who is now known as Solomon Haliru (Paul Haliru’s brother)] brought out two copies of the original Qur’an in the Arabic & English translation. He gave me one, and told me to open the book to Surah Al- baqarah chapter 2 vs 216. It says, “Holy fighting is ordained (prescribed) for all muslims, whether they like it or not, as far as it is good and approved by Allah through his prophet Mohammed.”

Q: Where is it in the Qur’an that killing is also permitted by Allah?

A: Look at Surah Al-baqarah chapter 2 vs 191 “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. An Al-Fitnah is worse than killing. And fight not with them at Al-Masjid-Al-Haram (the sanctuary at Makkah), unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.” Muslims are told to kill and fight in the cause of Allah.

Q: Does it mean that IBB and all these Muslim traditional rulers and Governors that are sponsoring Boko Haram to kill Christians and burn our churches in the North are not aware of the passage in the Qur’an that says there must not be compulsion in Islam as Mohammadu Buhari asserted in a widely publicized interview on Saturday, the 21st of April, 2011?

A: I have worked so closely with Mohammadu Buahri for five years, and I can prove it that General Buhari is the most notable outspoken jihadist hardliner in Nigeria who is also strategically sponsoring Boko Haram.

Q: General Buhari told a group of pressmen in April 2011 that there is no compulsion in Islam and it is a religion of peace. He quoted Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:225. What can you say to that?

A: What I can say to that is General Buhari, like all other true Muslims, is a hypocrite who is shying away from the fact.

Q: How do you mean by saying that most Muslim millionaires and highly placed Muslims are “pretenders and shying away from the fact”?

A: What I mean is that they (Muslims-both rich and poor) are told to use their position of wealth (or otherwise) to promote Islam or else they will face destruction from Allah.

Q: Where can you find this in the Qu’ran?

A: Open Surah Al-Baqarah Chapter 2:195, it is written here that you must use your wealth to champion Jihad of all kinds or else destruction is waiting for such a person on the last day.

“And spend in the Cause of Allah (i.e. Jihad of all kinds) and do not throw yourselves into destruction (by not spending your wealth in the Cause of Allah), and do good. Truly, Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good-doers).”

Q: Have you ever been detained or arrested?

A: Nobody could arrest me until the year 2009 soon after my immediate boss Mohammed Yusuf was killed. About 23 of us were arrested in one of our hideouts in Bauchi. But when Governor Isa Yagiuda heard about it, he immediately arranged for me to be free. Even before his official broadcast in 2010 that he was using his position as the executive Governor of Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) to free 28 prisoners from Bauchi Central Prison, I was already a free man along with several of my colleagues.

Q: Now can you tell me some of the horrible crimes that you committed and how you got born again and became converted.

A: Old things have passed away and I don’t want to talk about the past, because like Apostle Paul said, we need to press forward in Christ Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

Q: Just mention a few to assist some of us who are making efforts to unravel the mystery of the menace called Boko Haram which you have renounced.

A: I took part in the Kaduna riot of 1992 and in several northern states of Nigeria, but the state I operated more from was Bornu (northern Nigeria) where I was the State Commander/Chief Strategist.

Q: So as Chief Attack Strategist, what crimes have or did you commit before you renounced the deadly sect?

A: In the early months of May 1986, I was among the 36 Jihadist hardliners, who went on a rampage to attack Christian students of the University of Sokoto (Sokoto State in northern Nigeria). In that same week, the Federal Government of Nigeria under the brutal leadership of IBB mobilized us and provided some military vans and Army uniforms which our men used and started killing innocent and defenseless Christians all over the Northern states. I and the son of the Emir of Kano, who is now a Christian by name Rev. Paul Ado Bayero, were among the Muslim fanatics who razed down the sculpture of Jesus at the University of Ibadan (Oyo State in western Nigeria).

The following year, March 5, 1987 to be very precise, the “Evil Genius” General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida secretly armed us through one of his close aids by the name of Captain Hassan Abubakar (now a Pastor with a fast growing church in Lagos). We went to go and kill some targeted Christians including Rev. Nuhu Kure (Throne room founder) after the destruction we committed at the College of Education in Kafanchan, Kaduna State (North Central Nigeria). And of recent, I was the leader of the team of soldiers of Allah that destroyed Church buildings and properties in Bornu State (northern Nigeria).

Q: Can you name some of the buildings and Churches you and your Boko Haramists destroyed?

A: There are many, but our main targets which we succeeded in destroying included: Goodnews & ECWA Church, Damboa Road, Maiduguri E.Y.N.L.C.C. Wulari, National Evangelical Mission Inc. Divisional Headquarters Wulari, Elijah Apostolic Christ Church, Oke Ayo Celestial Church of Christ, Deeper Life Bible Church, the Lord’s Chosen and six others in Railway Area and all over Wulari in Maiduguri, Borno State. Other church buildings we destroyed and looted include the Aposotic Church, COCIN Church, Evangelical Church/Mission Headquarters, Anglican Church, Baptist Church/Mission, Redeemed Christian Church of God, El-Shaddai Parish, Watchman Charismatic and several others.

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At Yola North LGA, Jambutu ward with three polling units, election observers disclosed that security agents and other persons from a political party, intimidated CPC agents into pulling their accreditation tags and wearing PDP tags with some of them promised heavy incentives if they cooperate. At Fufore LGA, Paria ward for instance, hundreds of CPC voter’s turned up for accreditation only to see security agents turning back agents of CPC. At Yadim ward also in Fufore, observers reported there was deliberate absence of security agents, harassments of voters while PDP agents were seen publicly distributing money to voters to influence the choice of candidate. From Ganye 2 ward in Ganye LGA, election monitors reported that 6 empty ballot boxes were seen being carried into the home of former PDP House of Representatives member representing Fufore/Ganye Constituency, Mr. Martins Babale, ostensibly for ballot stuffing.

Culled to RepublicReporters by eye-witness Reporter & Ctiizen Reporter in Adamawa State…

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[PHOTO: Igbo leaving North in greater numbers...]
A source from Ohanaeze secretariat in Kano told P.M.NEWS that already, two buses are on ground to convey Igbos back to their homes.
According to the source, Chief Uwazurike who was recently crowned Eze Igbo Gburugburu to succeed the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, sent buses to parts of the North to convey Igbos back home.
According to the Ohanaeze source, “the leader of MASSOB has sent two buses for Kano and people are coming forward to register for the movement. Our people are determined to leave,” said the source.
However, security has further been boosted in the ancient city as helicopters hover around.
Two helicopters belonging to the immigration and the police are in 24 hours surveillance.
Joint security forces are deployed to all borders, monitoring movements, just as soldiers and mobile police men patrol flash points, including Sabon Gari predominantly dominated by non-natives.
Commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Achaba in the northern commercial city are forced off the ignition walk past with their passengers, while all vehicles are thoroughly searched.
According to a police source, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar is standing all officers on their feet, even though he is still mourning his late wife, Maryam.
He is ready to tackle the Boko Haram insurgence and other security challenges, a senior police officer at Kano’s Bompai police headquarters told P.M.NEWS.
“I must tell you that the police are currently undergoing severe reform. Despite the death of his wife, Oga is resolute to face security challenges. He has been moving round, he works 24 hours to ensure that the image of the Force is redeemed,” the officer said.
Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the state governor, is also working hard to bring Kano out from the brinks, “a series of security meetings have been going on. The governor is consulting with all stakeholders, including elders, traditional rulers and religious leaders,” a Government House source said.

Culled to RepublicReporters by PM News Lagos
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[PHOTO: Chris Ngige]

Ngige, who spoke to newsmen in Awka shortly after the burial of the Adazi-Nnukwu 12 killed in Mubi, Adamawa State by Boko Haram, expressed regret that the enormous contributions of Igbo in the country were yet to be appreciated by some elements in the polity, who rather use every little opportunity to visit violence and murder on them.

Ngige lamented that the situation was more painful when the subject of their actions has nothing to do with the Igbo.
He said: “Since 1966 till date, Ndigbo have been a target at every slightest social unrest. Even if it is communal, religious or political dispute in any part of the country, our brothers and sisters are the worse victims. Most of these crises have nothing to do with Ndigbo but they have always been sacrificed as victims and spoils of war.

“We cannot continue to sacrifice our blood and our lives always. Several homes in Igbo land still nurse the wounds of hostility, arson and other forms of brigandage just because they are Igbo. We have shed enough blood.”
Ngige, who commiserated with the Adazi-Nnukwu community and the immediate families of the victims, however, called on the Federal Government to be more proactive, security wise, to ensure the security of life and property of all Nigerians.
He also urged governors in the North to always see non-natives in their respective states as their subjects that should be accorded all respect and protection just as the natives of the state.

Nwankwo, who could not hold back tears, said: “This is the height of man’s inhumanity to man. I do not subscribe to the belief in some quarters that religion supports the killing of innocent people. Those of our brothers and sisters, who lost their lives in the North should be seen as martyrs, who died for their faith and belief in the unity of Nigeria.”
He announced that his foundation has packaged a project that would be executed to cushion the effects of the losses incurred by the families of the deceased, adding that when he gets to the National Assembly, he would sponsor bills that would handle the fate of victims of terrorism in Nigeria.

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REPUBLICREPORTERS….standing between civilization and anarchy…..