NIGERIA IN THE WORLD VIEW

Sex Exports from Benin to Mali

2012-05-11T15:47:00.000+02:00

Sex Exports from Benin to Mali

In what appears like a recurrent cycle of shame, the men of Nigeria Immigration Services have foiled an attempt to export five Edo girls into slavery. The five teenagers and one boy were intercepted with a suspected human trafficker, simply identified as Stella Daniel, from Cross River State at Seme border as they were trying to enter neighbouring Republic of Benin enroute war-torn Republic of Mali.

The girls, Blessing, Abigael , Ella Ojo, Faith and Isabella and Lucky, the only boy, (other names withheld) had quietly absconded with Daniel to chase the proverbial Golden Fleece in Mali. They all claimed ignorance of the civil war in the country of their destination. For them, the attraction to work in a bar abroad was too tempting to ignore.

The promise of N30,000CFA, equivalent of N10,000 monthly, was more than enough consideration to ‘escape’ from the allure of love and care of their parents. They confessed to have sworn to on oath with their madam not to run away until they have fully refunded her through services to customers. However, the alertness of the eagle eyes men of Nigeria Immigration Service at the border post saved them from what appears like exportation into sex slavery in foreign land.

According to the Comproller of Immigration Services (CIS) at the border, Julius Ogbu, who explained the circumstances of the arrest of the girls and their madam to Crimewatch, the appearance of a woman and young girls of college age almost in the same age bracket aroused the suspicion of the officers. The suspicion of the officers was confirmed, when, upon interrogation, none of them had any traveling document while their destination also raised more curiosity.

“They said that were going to work in a restaurant for the trafficker. She said she recruited them from Nigeria. Incidentally, neither the trafficker nor any of the girls had traveling documents.“More curious was the fact that none of their parents was aware they were traveling outside the country. That was why we had to detain them and conducted further interrogation. By the time we put our facts together, we came to a conclusion that it was actually a case of human trafficking. Number one, no traveling document; number two, their parents and relatives were not aware that they were leaving the shore of this country.

“And their age is between 18 and 20. Only one of them is 22. That is the age they gave us in our records. They all claimed they were from Edo State. “By virtue of our training: you are trained to be a border patrol officer and patrol prepares you for jobs in mega routes while control officers are those you see in the main borders. You’re also trained to be very vigilant so that any movement that is suspicious, you apprehend, and interrogate and then you refer.

“At the end of the day, you come into a conclusion. So, on this night when they came out of the bus, it aroused the suspicion of our men. The driver and the bus are still being detained because we have not been able to ascertain if they are culpable or not. We want to know if they boarded the vehicle as just routing passengers or not. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP), the agency responsible for cases of human trafficking will be able to give their verdict along that line after we have handed them over to them.

“We always warn the transporters to be careful of strange movements. If you have five young girls, traveling with a woman and you could easily infer they are not her children, then you should be suspicious. Ours is to apprehend and hand the suspects to NAPTIP. By the time they conclude their investigation they will assist those girls to re-unite with their families while the trafficker will face prosecution,” he said.

While our reporter was still at the border with the officers, mother of one of the girls, Mrs Oforue Imagbosoria, came in tears all the way Edo from Benin State, in search of her daughter, who she claimed had disappeared since penultimate Sunday. She said her daughter called her on GSM and apologised for her conduct.
Her words: “My daughter just called me yesterday and informed me that she had been arrested. She just called me and said, ‘Mummy, I beg you to forgive me; they don catch me for road.’ I asked her, where you dey go my pikin? She said she dey Lagos. She said it was a woman from Cross River State that carried her to swear juju because she wanted to carry her travel abroad.

She explained that her daughter disclosed that she and her friends were at Seme border. “So, that was how I came from Benin,” she stressed. According to her, Abigael’s action was very strange because she had been well catered for by her parents.

“We made sure she does not lack anything. She said it was her friends that introduced her to the woman,” she said.
The alleged trafficker in a chat with our reporter, however, insisted that the decision to take the girls to the foreign country was motivated by compassion and pity. “Although I needed one girl and one boy to work in my restaurant and bar in Mali, I decided to take others along out of pity and from what they told me,” she said.
Madam Daniel, who claimed to have spent three and half years in Mali where she has a boyfriend, who she has a daughter for, said she planned to accommodate the girls in her apartment and that she promised to pay them N10,000 each every months as remuneration.

She confessed that she did not obtain any document to facilitate their traveling since the route is familiar to her. “I myself, I don’t have any paper because I do not know that I need to collect papers to travel,” she said.
She spoke on how she recruited the girls: “When I came for Easter, I told them where I was staying in Benin that I needed one boy and one girl to take along with me when I’m returning to Mali. My plan was that the boy would be operating the bar while the girl would take care of the restaurant.

So, they brought a girl and a boy to me.
“However, others started coming and said they must follow me. One of them said she was an orphan, two others joined us and started crying that they had nobody to support them. I told them, I didn’t have enough money but they were crying. So, I decided to help them. This one (pointing to one of the girls) came on Sunday morning, the day we wanted to leave Benin. She was crying.

She said she must follow us. I told her that I didn’t have enough money to take us to Mali but if we get to Cotonou, I could make phone call so that they would send money to us. I asked her to go and bring her parents because I could not take anybody away without the consent of her parents, who must also stand as surety. The one that said she didn’t have parents, I asked her to bring her sisters or any close relation.

“Now, in the morning we found this one (Abigael) waiting outside, crying that she must follow us. When I asked her to go and bring her parents, she said no. That was how they started crying. They said that life is tough for them because they don’t have any care from their parents.

It was the way they explained their plight to me that made me to accept them.”

http://infomister.com/2012/05/sex-exports-from-benin-to-mali/

MUSLIMS IN ROME PROTEST AGAINST THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA

2012-05-08T22:54:00.000+02:00

Nigeria: musulmani domani a Roma fiaccolata contro persecuzioni cristiani

ultimo aggiornamento: 08 maggio, ore 14:54

Roma, 8 mag. - (Adnkronos/Aki) - I giovani musulmani della Comunita' Religiosa islamica italiana (Coreis) parteciperanno domani alla fiaccolata contro le persecuzioni nei confronti dei cristiani in Nigeria che si terra' a Roma. Lo ha annunciato in una nota l'imam Yahya Pallavicini, vice presidente della Coreis. "Ringrazio il presidente della Comunita' Ebraica di Roma, Riccardo Pacifici, per l'invito alla fiaccolata di solidarieta' promossa dalla Comunita' di Sant'Egidio e dall' Ucei (Unione delle Comunita' Ebraiche d'Italia) per domani a Roma", ha affermato Pallavicini.

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Cronaca/Nigeria-musulmani-domani-a-Roma-fiaccolata-contro-persecuzioni-cristiani_313281931232.html

Accusato di stupro su minore, due anni in cella da innocente

2012-04-13T23:20:00.000+02:00

Accusato di stupro su minore, due anni in cella da innocente

Il caso

Il 33enne assolto: "Mi hanno rubato un pezzo di vita"

di Valentina Beltrame

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Modena, 12 aprile 2012 - Due anni in carcere da innocente. E’ la storia di un 33enne nigeriano, arrivato in Italia con la speranza di sfuggire alla povertà ma che qui, invece, si è scontrato con le falle del sistema giudiziario, scontando una carcerazione preventiva infinita, per poi essere assolto in primo grado dalla gravissima accusa di violenza sessuale su una minorenne.

L’uomo è stato assolto «perché il fatto non sussiste» dopo quasi 24 mesi trascorsi dietro le sbarre: era detenuto in carcere a Modena dal 7 maggio 2010 in attesa di un processo che si è concluso solo nei giorni scorsi e che gli ha ridato la libertà.

Il 33enne era accusato di aver violentato una ragazzina di 15 anni con problemi psichici: era stata lei a denunciarlo raccontando alle forze dell’ordine di essere stata palpeggiata pesantemente dal nigeriano, che l’aveva portata in un appartamento di Castelfranco. L’uomo fu subito arrestato e partì un’inchiesta chiusasi con la richiesta di rinvio a giudizio dell’immigrato, che si è sempre detto innocente.

La giustizia, si sa, ha i suoi tempi, tempi lunghissimi, e finalmente dopo due anni il nigeriano è stato assolto: nel frattempo, però, è rimasto in carcere. «Mi hanno rubato due anni di vita», ha detto al suo avvocato, Ottavia Lardizzone, l’unica persona che gli ha creduto, dopo che il giudice ha pronunciato la sentenza. Ogni volta che il legale lo andava a trovare in carcere, lui ripeteva: «Non capisco perché sono qui, non ho fatto nulla di male».

«Con questa sentenza — commenta l’avvocato Lardizzone — è emerso che il nostro sistema giudiziario ha delle falle». La ragazzina aveva incontrato l’immigrato nel parcheggio dell’ospedale di Bologna nella primavera di due anni fa: era fuggita dal reparto di psichiatria. Lui l’aveva aiutata e poi insieme avevano raggiunto Castelfranco Emilia in autobus.

«Abbiamo mangiato una pizza insieme — ha raccontato al giudice l’immigrato, che non ha mai perso un’udienza — Poi siamo andati a casa di un mio conoscente, sempre a Castelfranco, e abbiamo trascorso la giornata insieme. Ma non l’ho mai violentata».

La ragazzina, in questi due anni, ha fornito sei versioni dei fatti, tutte diverse: all’inizio aveva raccontato di aver subito molestie e di essere riuscita a scappare, poi si essere stata violentata, per poi fornire racconti sempre differenti, l’ultimo durante l’esame protetto di un mese fa . Malgrado ciò, il nigeriano non è mai stato creduto, nemmeno dopo la testimonianza ‘fumosa’ del proprietario dell’appartamento in cui la 15enne diceva di essere stata violentata.

Il pm, per lui, aveva chiesto una pena di due anni. Ma prove concrete contro non ce n’erano, nemmeno un referto medico che attestasse il presunto stupro. E alla fine, infatti, il 33nne ha avuto ragione. Innocente perché il fatto non sussiste e libero. Peccato, però, che abbia trascorso due anni della sua vita in carcere.

Valentina Beltrame

http://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/modena/cronaca/2012/04/12/695834-accusato-stupro-minore-psichiatrica-violenza-due-anni-carcere-sant-anna-nigeriano-innocente.shtml

Mourning as police name Nigerian victim in U.S. shooting

2012-04-09T00:50:00.001+02:00

Mourning as police name Nigerian victim in U.S. shooting
By Dele Fanimo and Gbenga Akinsanya with agency report

AS the Oakland shooting that resulted in the death of seven students of a Christian University in the city continued to elicit global condemnation, the Police in California, United States (U.S.), yesterday identified a Nigerian, Doris Chibuko, as one of the victims.

DorisMeanwhile, mourners began showing up at Chibuko's home as soon as the news filtered through the tight-knit Nigerian community in the U.S.

Chibuko had not been heard from since a gunman killed seven people at Oakland's Oikos University, where she had been studying, but police did not confirm the family's worst fears until late Tuesday afternoon.

As Efanye Chibuko stood inside the family home in the San Leandro hills, its walls covered with photographs of his wife and their three children, he sobbed: "She liked to spend time with her family. Right now, I'm just trying to grieve," her spouse, who is a technician at AT&Am, ruminated.

Chibuko, 40, and a mother of three, worked as a lawyer in Nigeria before joining her husband in the U.S. in 2002, who is based in the State of California.

A gunman identified as L Goh, 43, who was said to have boasted about violence, allegedly told students to "get in line and I'm going to kill you all" before he opened fire. By the time the cloud of smoke settled, seven students, including Chibuko, have been felled by the assailant's bullet.

Goh, a former nursing student in the university, was said to have earlier complained that he was disrespected by younger students and was thousands of dollars in debt.

Chibuko, one of the victims, was described by her husband of 10 years as "a very happy person, very caring, very loving."

Chibuko, who worked part time at Villa Fairmont Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre in San Leandro, was two months away from graduating with a degree in nursing before the gunman killed her and six others in Oikos University in what has been described as one of the worst school shooting incidents in California.

By nightfall Tuesday, as many as 100 people from all over California had crowded in the Chibukos' home.

Some mourners even travelled from outside the state. Friends and relatives wept as they remembered the gifted mother and friend.

"For we Nigerians, when something hurts one family, it hurts all of us," said Christian Okeke, a long time family friend from Nigeria and a law professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. "Yesterday, everyone was praying it wouldn't be true, but now it is. It's devastating, very devastating."

Doris Chibuko was born in Enugu State. She went to Law School and worked as a lawyer in Nigeria.

She met Efanye in the university, and in 2002, they were married in a big traditional wedding. That same year, the couple immigrated to the U.S., where they had three children who are now aged three, five and eight .
http://odili.net/news/source/2012/apr/5/29.html

British government deports about 120 Nigerians ......

2012-03-13T07:10:00.001+01:00

British government deports about 120 Nigerians from the United Kingdom over alleged immigration offences

Written by Newstime Africa on March 11, 2012.

UK Border

About 120 Nigerians have been deported by the Home Office from the United Kingdom over alleged immigration offences. Some of the offences include the lack of valid papers and stay permit. Those deported were said to have arrived at Nigeria’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, in Lagos on board a chartered cargo aircraft in the early hours of Friday – this was to aviod undue attention. Reliable sources intimated that the deportees were mainly young men and women who were angry for being repatriated to Nigeria unprepared. Nigeria’s Saturday Vanguard newspaper reported that most of the deportees wore woe-be-gone looks on arrival made frantic telephone calls, apparently to their friends and relatives with a view to picking them up at the airport, even as they moved their luggage packed in some Ghana Must Go bags from the cargo wing of the airport into the main gate.

According to local reports, scores of airport workers stopped by to chat with the deportees, as some of them narrated their experiences, saying they had nothing to fall back on in a country they left several years ago. One of the deportees, Mr. Wale, blamed the Nigerian government for his predicament as well as his other colleagues, stressing that if the country’s economic situation were pleasant, Nigerians would not have any business traveling abroad to humiliate themselves in a bid to survive. Wale said : “ How do I cope now that we have been sent home unprepared?” Another deportee, a young lady said, “ I am not interested in discussing why we were brought back home, but my problem now is how to get out of this international airport without drawing unusual attention. I must add that it is not a pleasant experience.” However, some car hire operators tried to make brisk business from the deportees as they lined up at the main entrance of the cargo terminal trying to ferry those willing to their respective destinations amid tight security.

http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/24596

Nigeria, attentato a una chiesa poi la rappresaglia: 16 morti

2012-03-11T21:01:00.000+01:00

TERRORISMO

Nigeria, attentato a una chiesa
poi la rappresaglia: 16 morti

L'attacco suicida a Jos, nel centro del Paese, ha provocato sei vittime. In seguito alcuni giovani cristiani hanno ucciso dieci persone in varie azioni di ritorsione

JOS (NIGERIA) - Riesplode la violenza a sfondo religioso a Jos, nel centro della Nigeria. Un'esplosione, un attacco suicida, vicino a una chiesa cattolica ha provocato almeno sei morti, tra i quali due attentatori, e numerosi feriti, alcuni dei quali versano in gravi condizioni. Almeno dieci persone sono state successivamente uccise in azioni di rappresaglia condotte da giovani cristiani.

Il presidente Goodluck Jonathan, alle prese in questi giorni anche con la vicenda degli ostaggi italiano e britannico uccisi durante un blitz ¹, ha duramente condannato l'ennesimo attacco contro la comunità cattolica del capoluogo dello stato federato di Plateau. Il capo dello Stato, il primo di religione cattolica nella storia nigeriana, in un comunicato diffuso dal portavoce Reuben Abati, condanna qualunque tipo di "violenza ai danni di inermi cittadini" e rassicura "tutti i nigeriani e i Paesi amici" che il governo "sta facendo tutto il possibile per contrastare il terrorismo e ogni forma di violenza in atto nel Paese".

L'attentato alla chiesa cattolica di St. Finbar, non ancora rivendicato, è arrivato una settimana dopo le nuove minacce del gruppo terroristico islamico Boko Haram alla comunità cristiana. Un portavoce del gruppo, in una conversazione telefonica con i giornalisti di Bikyamasr.com, aveva affermato domenica scorsa che l'organizzazione sta "pianificando una serie di attacchi per sradicare il cristianesimo dal nord della Nigeria". Per il portavoce "la guerra" contro i cristiani sarebbe "iniziata nel giro di poche settimane". Boko Haram si è già reso responsabile di sanguinose azioni terroristiche che a gennaio fecero più di 150 vittime ² a Kano, la seconda città del Paese.

Un testimone italiano ha raccontato all'Agi che subito dopo l'attentato alla chiesa "una folla inferocita di giovani ha attaccato la comunità musulmana" e "la polizia è intervenuta ricorrendo all'uso della forza". Negli scontri sono morte una decina di persone.

La Nigeria si divide equamente tra islamici e cristiani, rispettivamente in maggioranza assoluta nel Nord e nel Sud del Paese. Negli ultimi dieci anni quella di Jos è diventata una zona di alta tensione fra le due comunità. Secondo agenzie umanitarie internazionali, le violenze a sfondo etnico-religioso hanno provocato almeno 15.000 morti. L'ultimo attacco a una chiesa ³risaliva al 26 febbraio scorso. A Natale decine di persone erano rimaste uccise nella capitale Abuja ⁴, dove tra l'altro una bomba era esplosa in una chiesa durante la messa

.http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2012/03/11/news/nigeria_attentato_chiesa-31344894/

(11 marzo 2012)

'MADE IN NIGERIA ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS'

2012-03-07T07:18:00.000+01:00

ABEG DRESS BACK
... Mummy HAVE come
I'll tell my daddy FOR YOU
See as u BAFF up
Put d bread inside LYLON
I strong KAKARAKA
Pls help me SLOW that fan
Have they BROUGHT lite?
Oya come and be going
I KUKUMA dont have ur time Shebi u have BB charger:]Y
See ow her eye is entering my food
The FILM is SWEET
Have u paid ur sch fees money?
*If I hear pim, u go hear nweeen

Did u see d sound of my ringtone?
I know u haf come since bcoz I hear perfume
*Horn for the car let him move

She has put to bed
Come out let me pass
* I think U have start again?

*shift come front small

*oya, pass this side lemme pass this side

Ogbonna, azzurro dentro

2012-02-29T17:11:00.000+01:00

Ogbonna, azzurro dentro

Questa sera giocherà la sua prima partita da titolare in Nazionale contro gli Usa. E noi vi spieghiamo perchè avrà successo

Angelo Obinze Ogbonna avrà ventiquattro anni il 23 maggio, e probabilmente per quella data avrà definitivamente ringraziato se stesso per la scelta che è stato capace di fare quando, nel 2009, lo chiamò la Nazionale giovanile nigeriana e lui disse di no. Nato in Italia, a Cassino (Frosinone) da genitori nigeriani, puntava a indossare la maglia di quello che considera il suo vero Paese. In quello stesso 2009 è entrato nel giro azzurro dell'Under 21. Poi, l'11 novembre 2011, l'esordio con la nostra Nazionale massima: 17 minuti in casa della Polonia, e ora ecco anche la prima da titolare nel match Italia-Stati Uniti del 29 febbraio 2012.
Dalla B alla Nazionale in pianta stabile, che salto! Al netto degli juventini post-Calciopoli e dei milanisti post-Scommessopoli, negli ultimi trent'anni il salto triplo è riuscito soltanto a Carnasciali nel 1993 e a Maccarone nel 2002. Ha superato l'epoca smargiassa che sembra dovere far parte della crescita di ogni giovane moderno, e che rappresenta una sorta di mitridatizzazione obbligatoria, di vaccinazione contro le tentazioni dell'ambiente.

Ha pagato il suo dazio alla gioventù - niente a che vedere con Balotelli, sia chiaro - quando, rientrando all'alba del 22 dicembre 2008, un colpo di sonno lo ha fatto uscire di strada con la sua Smart, finendo nel Sangone, il quarto fiume di Torino: brutte contusioni, grosse preoccupazioni, ma il 7 gennaio 2009 era già in campo. È cresciuto mentalmente, psicologicamente e si capisce fisicamente. Bello come un Angelo, ha un lessico vasto e persino colto, non preso gaglioffamente in prestito dalle tifoserie, dal bar sport, dal giornalismo. Passato giovanissimo al Torino, si è fatto la gavetta di un anno in prestito al Crotone, serie C1, per tornare poi alla casa madre, all'ovile granata, guadagnandosi i gradi di vicecapitano.

Difensore centrale, ma anche esterno all'occorrenza, atleta di eccezione, tutti i suoi 190 centimetri al servizio della forza, della velocità. Capace di recuperi repenti e di piazzamenti meditati. È perno, propulsore, trascinatore. Un Beckenbauer coloured, quando esce in bello stile dall'area: testa alta e palla al piede. Non ama il dribbling, preferisce il calcio lineare e possente, se deve proprio esercitarsi nel dribblare lo fa con il gossip. Lui non è infatti tipo da suv, veline e privè. Tutte cose che potrebbe comunque permettersi, avendo di recente rinnovato il contratto col Torino sino al 2016, passando in un amen da 150.000 a 800.000 euro l'anno. Ha scoperto la lettura leggendo la vita di Mandela e adesso sta riempiendo la sua libreria di biografie di grandi neri che hanno fatto la storia: da Martin Luther King a Malcolm X, fino ad Obama.

Non fa falli stupidi, le ammonizioni sono rarissime. Appena due, in questa stagione: una in granata, l'altra in azzurro. Ha il rispetto pieno di tutti, compagni ed avversari. Il personaggio rischia insomma la noia, tanto è didascalico. E i tifosi granata rischiano di perderlo: si dice che il Milan abbia un'opzione, e pensare che il rossonero sia sempre meglio del bianconero della Juventus, alla quale lui ad un certo punto apparve “sacrificabile”, è conforto molto relativo.
Unica magra consolazione per i colori granata è che la sua probabile cessione genererà una gigantesca plusvalenza. Acquistato nel 2002 dal Cassino per appena 3 mila euro, l'estate scorsa Cairo ha fissato il prezzo: “Ho rifiutato una proposta del Napoli di 8 milioni più la metà di Santacroce. Per averlo servono 19 milioni, Ogbonna non vale meno di Ranocchia”. Dichiarazione che ai tempi poteva sembrare da trattamento sanitario obbligatorio mentre adesso è puro realismo di mercato.
Timothy Ormezzano

http://max.rcs.it/sport/sport-news/02-2012/02sport_ogbonna-30529590879.shtml

Indusse una 22enne a prostituirsi ma anche lei era stata vittima del racket: assolta

2012-02-11T11:51:00.000+01:00

11 feb 2012

BARI – Convince una connazionale nigeriana di 22 anni a prostituirsi ma viene assolta, perché anche lei era vittima di un’associazione criminale internazionale. Ma non solo, perché nel decidere, la Corte d’Assise di Bari ha anche riconosciuto all’imputata, dichiarata irreperibile, il diritto sancito dalla Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo di “essere informato, nel più breve tempo possibile della natura e dei motivi dell’accusa formulata a suo carico” e di “difendersi personalmente o avere l’assistenza di un difensore di sua scelta”.

Il processo, uno stralcio di un’ampia inchiesta, riguarda J.A., 26enne nigeriana, difesa dall’avvocato internazionalista Natasha Shehu, che con l’arringa difensiva ha ridimensionato gli esiti del processo facendo assolvere la sua assista, per la quale erano stati chiesti 5 anni di carcere. Nei confronti della donna sono ipotizzati i reati di concorso in tratta di esseri umani e violazione del testo unico in materia di immigrazione.

Agli atti dell’indagine c’è la storia di Favour 22 anni, vittima di un’associazione criminale per la tratta di donne poi ridotte in schiavitù e obbligate a prostituirsi. Nelle sue parole alla squadra mobile di Catania, si legge il dramma della povertà e dell’esigenza di abbandonare la propria casa per cercare lavoro in altri stati. Un lavoro onesto, che permetta di inviare anche soldi ai propri familiari. Ma nella maggior parte dei casi, questo non avviene.

La storia di Favour: l’universitaria giunta in Italia

con la promessa di fare la parrucchiera

“Una mia amica che vive attualmente in Nigeria, l’anno scorso, mi ha chiesto se volevo venire in Italia per lavorare e guadagnare bene, facendo la parrucchiera, cosa che io sapevo fare già. Io frequentavo il secondo anno di università, ma la mia famiglia è molto povera e, costretta dalla necessità mi sono fidata di lei. La predetta, quindi, mi ha fatto conoscere telefonicamente una donna, anch’essa nigeriana, di nome J.A. che vive in Italia. La donna mi ha promesso aiuto e lavoro, dicendomi che avrebbe pensato lei a tutte le spese per i documenti e il viaggio che avrei dovuto affrontare, facendomi promettere che qualora avessi trovato lavoro in Italia, le avrei dovuto restituire 35mila euro. Io non sapevo completamente quanto fosse grande questa somma, in Nigeria non avevo mai sentito parlare di euro, pensavo fosse simile alla Naira (moneta nigeriana, ndr), la nostra moneta e pertanto ho accettato”.

Il rito woodoo per la restituzione dei 35mila euro

“Oltre a ciò – continua – mi ha fatto un rito woodoo, consistente in un giuramento e nella restituzione di 35mila euro. Per il rito hanno voluto un mio indumento intimo, dicendomi che adesso avevano una cosa che mi apparteneva ed attraverso questa mi avrebbero raggiunto dovunque, per causarmi soprattutto del male fisico. La cosa mi ha messo dentro una paura che ancora non mi riesco a togliere. Dopo poco tempo la donna mi ha incaricato un uomo di nome Osagie che all’epoca si trovava in Nigeria di accompagnarmi in Italia”.

Il viaggio della speranza

“Siamo partiti con un bus ed eravamo circa trenta fra uomini e donne. Era il mese di marzo 2008. Abbiamo fatto delle soste di qualche giorno in Niger, dove ci hanno fatto dormire in una casa, ci spostavamo da un posto all’altro stipati e nascosti, una volta ci siamo trasferiti con un camion fino a raggiungere la Libia, dove siamo rimasti 2 mesi. In seguito ci hanno condotti in una casa vicino al mare e dopo qualche giorno siamo partiti con un gommone Zodiac; eravamo circa 70, stavamo strettissimi, siamo partiti di notte. Dopo un giorno di mare il motore si è guastato, siamo rimasti fermi 4 giorni, il mare era agitato e l’acqua cominciava ad entrare dentro il gommone. Noi tentavamo di buttare l’acqua fuori ma il mare era troppo forte. Ricordo che ci ha avvistato un elicottero quando era notte, ed è arrivata una nave che ci lanciato dei salvagenti e si è allontanata, nella confusione il gommone cominciava ad affondare e siamo finiti in acqua, molta gente è morta. Gridavamo aiuto in continuazione, solo verso l’alba abbiamo visto dietro di noi 2 o 3 navi. Una si è avvicinata e ci ha tirati su. Io ero rimasta in acqua per sette ore, credevo che ormai per me non c’era più niente da fare. La nave ci ha condotti a Lampedusa, dove ci hanno dato il necessario per riprendere le forze”.

Dopo essere passata dai centri di Agrigento e poi alla Croce rossa di Roma, è riuscita a scappare su suggerimento di J.A., prendendo un treno per Bari. “A Bari ho trovato alla stazione la mia madam (J.A., ndr), che mi ha portato in una casa. Lì mi ha detto di prostituirmi per strada e restituire i soldi che le avevo promesso”.

La difesa di J.A., nell’arringa difensiva dell’avvocato Natasha Shehu

Secondo il legale, pur essendo valida la ricostruzione di Favour, J.A. non può essere accusata in quanto anche lei era vittima della stessa organizzazione criminale, e dunque non c’era dolo nelle presunte pressioni che avrebbe avuto Favour. Inoltre, J.A. è irreperibile (così come la vittima) e dunque si deve applicare l’articolo 6 della Convenzione europea dei diritti dell’uomo, che impone agli stati membri di non processare coloro i quali risultano irreperibili, in quanto non sono neanche a conoscenza delle imputazioni a loro carico. L’impianto difensivo è stato riconosciuto valido dalla Corte, che ha assolto la donna.

Ivan Cimmarust

http://www.barisera.net/site/indusse-una-22enne-a-prostituirsi-ma-anche-lei-era-stata-vittima-del-racket-assolta-37316.html

BOKO HARAM & IBB

2012-02-05T13:38:00.001+01:00

Ex BoKo Haram Leader, Now Converted to the Christian Confess IBB and others as their Leader

By admin

Posted on 04 Feb 2012 at 3:06pm

SQuestion: 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.

Q: Where were the security officers when you were destroying all these church buildings and killing Christians?

A: Since 1985 when General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) started using us to persecute Christians, the Nigerian Army has been an extension or shall I say an arm of the Muslims agenda to Islamize Nigeria. Wherever they go to attack Christians, the Muslims in the top military positions give the cover by providing the logistics. Since the day of Babangida (1985) Christians suffer violence. This is the time that we must attack them and take what belongs to us by force.

Q: You don’t seem to like IBB and you talk so much of his evil deeds. Are you the only one he used or is there more revelation we can investigate or ascertain further?

A: Babangida is the most wicked and heartless man I have ever seen or worked with. He used many Muslim fanatics (Most of who are now Christians) to commit a lot of atrocities. For example, he used Alhaji Sannusi Dasuki (now Solomon Dasuki), Alhaji Ahmed Ado Bayero (now Rev. Paul Ado Bayero), Alhaji Mohammed Usman (now Evangelist Blessed Usman), Alhaji Sani Jegga (now Isaac Jegga) to attack the following men of God: Late Papa Idahosa, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, Rev. Uma Ukpai, Rev. O. Ezekiel and other men of God. He used some of the people whose names mentioned above to burn down several million copies of the Holy Bible. Along with the late MKO Abiola, they both sponsored the sinking of three million copies of the Holy Bible into the high sea.

Q: With all these revelations, can’t IBB be arrested and charged to court

A: Who will arrest him? Is it Goodluck or who? Even when we provided the proofs to them that IBB killed Dele Giwa and that he sponsored the burning and looting of the Jos main market (Terminus) and also planted the seed of the present crises in Plateau State in 1991, they refused to arrest him because he is very cunning in his evil ways. He leaves no trace of his evil deeds, but nemesis will soon catch up with him because the sardonic spirit in him will soon expire.

Q: In a simple language, how can you describe IBB?

A: Ibrahim Babangida is a wicked and heartless man. As a military officer he was very brutal and as a politician he is very selfish and tricky. He better repent and confess his numerous sins and wickedness before it will be too late.

Q: Can you prove to the readers that fighting and killing in the name of Allah is justified in the Holy Qur’an?

A: I can site more than 28 passages from the Holy Qur’an where fighting and killing is justified as approved in the cause and for the sake of Allah. Please turn to the Qur’an (it goes from the back to the front) and see the book Surah At-Taubah Chapter 9:29 “Fight against those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (Muhammad), and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e Islam) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” In this passage, every true Muslim(s) is specifically instructed to fight against four (4) groups of people especially the Jews and Christians.

Q: So what is the meaning of Jizyah and how was the name coined?

A: From the footnote as you can see in the Qur’an, Jizyah is a tax levied against the people of the scriptures (i.e. the Christians) who are under the Islamic government. Jizyah was coined out after the Jaiz bank that the Muslims are wanting to use to take over the financial world via Islamic Banking.

Q: Are you saying indirectly that Islam is not a religion of peace as most Muslims will want us to believe?

A: I am saying it directly not indirectly that Islam is a religion of violence It is a religion of force. More than 95% of Nigerian journalists and people of the world are ignorant of what the Qur’an teaches and/or says about Islam and violence.

Q: How do you mean?

A: Open the Qur’an to Surah Muhammad Chapter 47:4. In this very passage, Muslims are commanded by Allah to kill and smite the neck of anyone who does not accept the teaching of Islam, and according to the satanic verses they (Muslims) would be helping Allah by so doing.

I quote exactly as it is written in the Muslims Holy Qur’an: “So, when you meet (in fight-Jihad in Allah’s Cause) those who disbelieve, smite (their) necks till when you have killed and wounded many of them, then bind a bond firmly (on them, i.e. take them as captives). Thereafter (is the time) either for generosity (i.e. free from them without ransom), or ransom (according to what benefits Islam), until the war lays down its burden.

Thus [you are ordered by Allah to continue in carrying out Jihad against the disbelievers till they embrace Islam and are saved from the punishment in the Hell-fire or at least come under your protection], but if it had been Allah’s Will, He Himself could certainly have punished them (without you). But (He lets you fight) in order to test some of you with others. But those who are killed in the Way of Allah, He will never let their deeds be lost.”

Q: So is that why all Muslims are indirectly supporting Boko Haram?

A: Yes, Boko Haram is just a name coined by satan to Islamize the world. That is why every true Muslim is directly and indirectly supporting Boko Haram.

Q: Can you explain further?

A: In Surah Al-Baqarah 2:195, the wealthy Muslims and all those in high position of authority such as IBB, Buhari, Atiku, Isa Yaguda, etc. are told to use their wealth and any position they find themselves in to promote Islam and the cause of jihad of all kinds or else they will face destruction from Allah.

Q: Is that how the suicide bombers come into the picture?

A: Yes,

Q: My readers will like to know from the Qur’an if Islam is the zenith of wickedness as you earlier said.

A: 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)

Q: So you did accordingly?

A: Yes! Satan used Buhari and Tunde Bakare, the false prophet, to smite the necks and chop off the fingers and toes of several Christians in Zaira, Maiduguri, Bauchi and several other places.

Q: Which passages say that the Christians are enemies of the Muslims? Some ignorant Christian leaders and pressmen are of the opinion that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

A: Christians and journalists (about 95%) are very ignorant. Let them search the original Qur’an (The Noble Qur’an). The more the Muslim leaders try to block the original Qur’an from circulation, the more the lie spreads that we’re serving the same God. That is why the Lord says “I will build my church; and the gates of (hades) hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18

Q: Mention another satanic verse that makes every true Muslim(s) to hate Christians.

A: 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.”

Q: What is the solution to this problem of the Boko Haram menace?

A: 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.

Q: What can Muslims do in Warri, Port Harcourt and other southern and western zones?

A: Look let me tell you one top secret. Before I repented, an average of 2,500 Muslim fanatics came to Delta State every month, 2,000 to the Eastern states and 2,000 to Cross River State and 2,500 to other zones. All of these Muslim fanatics were sent in preparation of the holy war (Jihad).

Q: Where are they camped?

A: In various Mosques and Islamic training schools which they use as training camps at odd hours (—for security reasons, the author/interviewer have decided not to publish the other details of this answer in print).

Q: What advice do you have for Christians in the comfort zones?

A: Pray for our Christian brethren in the north. Secondly, stop giving your ladies to Muslims. Thirdly, do no sell your land to a Muslim any longer. Fourth, do not employ them as security men. Fifth, beware of what they do with your finger nails and hair. Finally, watch them carefully and be very prayerful because Nigeria is sitting on an Islamic barbaric bomb (IBB) and the Muslims are prepared to fight you in your backyard.

Q: Any advice for the president?

A: They are desperate to get him/his family by kidnap/killing them, not only by Spiritual means, but through some well trained security men who he think can never disappoint him. About six suicide bombers are in the presidency and one of them is a student from NDA-Nigerian Defence Academy (other details I am keeping for security reasons).

Q: Do you know anything about bombing?

A: In answer to this question, I shall give you a top secret document which is supposed to be for only committed Muslims which I smuggled out and gave to some Christian leaders in the south.

Q: But tell me a little of how they got the knowledge to manufacture a bomb? Who sponsored your people to do these wicked acts?

A: We were sponsored by the man they call IBB and some top Muslims within and outside the country. We also worked hand in hand with Al Qaeda. As far back as 12th of June, 2011 when I got converted to Christianity, I gave several documents to Police and SSS. They arrested and detained me. But the Holy Spirit released me the same day that they wanted to kill me secretly by poisoning.

Q: What secrets did you give them?

A: I told them that the Muslims are using trailer and vehicles in military colour and are escorted by northern soldiers to smuggle weapons to various mosques and Islamic training schools in Aba, Onitsha, Port Harcourt, Owerri, Calabar, Sapele, Warri, Ebonyi and Enugu States, etc.

Q: What about the bomb manufacturers?

A: I told them that the Traditional Rulers in the northern part of Nigeria and many state governors in the far north are sponsoring Boko Haram. I told them that I was paid a deposit of 5 million Naira to go and bomb NDA in the month of August 2011 when they will be planning the graduation that just took place where I would have driven straight to the Commander’s Office with a covering letter from a Garrison Officer commander whose name I gave to the police and who is a close relative to IBB.

Q: Did you give the name of the bomb location where the training is going on?

A: Yes, I gave them and told them where they were training 65 new Islamic Youths in two bomb factories in Bauchi, Bornu and Niger states and also the bomb factory at Hanyan Nassarawa Iku, Niger State.

Q: Any more revelation?

A: Yes, I gave them many bomb factories even in the southern and eastern states and seven in Kaduna State, Plateau State and Abuja. It was in the Niger State bomb factory that we manufactured the improvised explosive devices that was used to operate in Abuja on October 1, 2010.

Q: Did the police take immediate action?

A: The news leaked to IBB immediately and he immediately instructed his ground soldiers to relocate the bombs. The Police and SSS were afraid to search some of the mosques because the presidency must be aware that by so doing, the country Will explode into a religious war between Christians and Muslims. That is why I said Nigeria is sitting on Islamic time bomb or shall I say Islamic Barbaric Bomb (I

—This interview comes from the book Unveiling Islam/Boko Haram by Blessed Usman, JP.

Dont negotiate with Boko Haram, Army Chief Gen Ihejirika warns

2012-01-29T08:52:00.000+01:00

Dont negotiate with Boko Haram, Army Chief Gen Ihejirika warns

Jan 25

Posted by SaferNigeria

Lt Gen A. O. IHEJIRIKA, Chief of Ar

my Staff

On 24

January, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubike Ihejirika, warned against entering into any negotiation with the militant Islamist sect widely known as Boko Haram, stressing that d

ialogue had never been an effective response to terrorism.

The Army chief gave the warning in the federal capital, Abuja, in his brief remarks at the opening ceremony of a seminar on National Security, organized by the Alumni Association of the National Defence College (AANDEC) in collaboration with the National Defence College (NDC), Abuja.

jecting to any dialogue with the sect which has killed hundreds of Nigerians, the Army chief said: “No matter and whatever the measures you put in place, we would not get the best result and fast enough, unless the society as a whole rejects terrorism without any justification”.

Gen Ihejirika stressed that: “Those who try to justify acts of terrorism inadvertently support terrorists. And some do so only to discover later that terrorism is not a matter to be negotiated and won”.

He added that: “The Army is not resting on its oars, as it is transforming on the training of its personnel”. In this regard, he disclosed that the last batch of a special quick response squad had just passed out from training and had been deployed to curtail the movements of the terrorists.

Boko Haram rejects talks, threatens fresh attacks

2012-01-29T08:27:00.002+01:00

Boko Haram rejects talks, threatens fresh attacks

By Aminu Abubakar

A spokesman for the Boko Haram Islamist group on Saturday rejected a call by Nigeria's president for talks and threatened fresh attacks if captured members of its group were not freed.

Goodluck Jonathan's call for talks was "not sincere", said Boko Haram spokesman Abul Qaqa, and if captured members of the group were not released, the group would launch attacks like those in Kano.

A series of coordinated bomb attacks and shootings there on January 20 killed at least 185 people.

This latest threat from Boko Haram came hours after the army said troops had killed 11 members of the Islamist group in a shootout Saturday in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a stronghold of the group.

Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, spokesman for Joint Task Force (JTF), a special squad set up to crack down on Boko Haram, broke the news of the clash earlier Saturday.

"Today, in an exchange of fire during a cordon-and-search operation conducted by the JTF, 11 Boko Haram members were killed," he said.

Qaqa confirmed the killings, but disputed the army's account.

"It is true soldiers killed 11 of our members today in Maiduguri," Qaqa said in a conference call with journalists in Maiduguri.

"They were individually picked in their homes in Shehuri neighbourhood in raids by JTF and shot dead. They were unarmed," he added.

Qaqa dismissed as "not sincere" comments by the president in a media interview this week in which he urged Boko Haram to state its demands and begin dialogue.

"They are making double-speak," he said.

"The same day Goodluck Jonathan came out and said we should come out for dialogue security agents in (the northern state of) Sokoto arrested a large number of our members in raids on their homes."

If the group's members were not released, he continued, Boko Haram "will launch attacks in Sokoto similar to the big Kano attacks."

Saturday's clash came as part of a crackdown on the group, which already this year has been blamed for more than 200 deaths in a string of bombings and shootings that has tipped Nigeria into a security crisis.

Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, has been hit hard by the Boko Haram insurgency, and on December 31 President Goodluck Jonathan placed the city under a state of emergency.

The Islamists have in recent days struck further west, notably in the devastating attack on Nigeria's second city of Kano.

Security forces in Africa's most populous nation and top oil producer have struggled to contain the threat from the group. The insurgents seem to be able to strike at will in a country divided between a mainly Muslim north and mainly Christian south.

The president has faced intense criticism for his failure to stem the violence.

In a recording posted recently on the Internet, the purported head of Boko Haram, Abubakar Muhammad Shekau, said he had ordered the Kano attacks, the sect's deadliest ever, because the army was torturing the group's members.

"I ordered it and I will give that order again and again," he said in the recording.

The assault on Kano involved coordinated gun raids and suicide blasts in Nigeria's second city and highlighted Boko Haram's renewed strength.

But as the group grows increasingly violent, its specific aims and character remain largely unclear.

It has previously said that it wants to create an Islamic state in Nigeria's deeply impoverished mainly Muslim north, and has charged the government with harassing Muslims and raiding Islamic schools.

The group was also blamed for coordinated attacks on Christmas Day, the most deadly at a Catholic Church near the capital Abuja, where at least 44 people were killed. But the group's victims have also included scores of Muslims.

Top Nigerian politicians have denied that the Boko Haram insurgency is being fuelled by religious tensions, linking the group to like-minded external Islamist groups such as Al-Qaeda.

Many analysts however doubt the strength of those links and say Boko Haram remains focused on a domestic agenda and is boosting its strength by exploiting religious tension within Nigeria.

The group launched an uprising in 2009 that was put down by a brutal military assault.

It fell dormant for about a year before re-emerging in 2010 and now believed to have a number of different factions, including a hardcore Islamist cell.

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“Why We Did Not Kill Obasanjo” – Boko Haram Leader

2012-01-23T19:30:00.001+01:00

“Why We Did Not Kill Obasanjo” – Boko Haram Leader

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo

Information recently made available to 247ureports.com through a high ranking contact within the organizational structure of the terrorist Islamic group, Boko Haram reveals unnerving revelations regarding the recent attacks on Kano, Bauchi State – and the aborted attack of September 15, 2011 visit by former President of the federal republic of Nigeria, General Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo to the home of the in-law of the slain leader of the Boko Haram, Babakura Fuggu in Borno State.
It was gathered that the leader of Boko Haram, Imam Abubakar Shekau who is currently hiding away in Qoundere, Cameroun following the recent and ongoing attacks on Kano and Bauchi State – had deliberated seriously on the assassination of the former president of Nigeria, General Obasanjo on September 15, 2011 while on a visit to Borno State to the home of the in-law to the slain leader of Boko Haram [Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf].
According to the Boko Haram source, former President Obasanjo had made first contact with Yusuf’s in-lawal, Babakura Fuggu [eldest son of Yusuf's in-law] in early September 2012 concerning opening a channel of dialogue with the terrorist group. The leadership of the group took it uneasy with the choice of Babakura – [since the line of leadership did not automatically follow family lineage as in traditional settings. As a 'religious' group they did not see Babakura as the rightful person to take over from Yusuf.] - For this reason, the leadership of the group ‘silently’ objected to the meeting between Babakura and Obasanjo.
As Obasanjo concluded his secret meeting the previous day at the Green House with three other religious group [Jamatu Nasir Islam, JNI and CAN] in Jos, the capital of Plateau State on the Wednesday of September 14, 2011, and took off the following day to Borno State, the terrorist group, according to the source, marked the former President within their ‘firing range’ from the moment he landed in Borno State at minutes after 11am till he departed the State in the late afternoon of the same day. According to the source, “we were not sure of him”.
“He was going to be a big catch” said the source who explained that the leadership halted the operation as Obasanjo went inside the residence of Babakura.
“Obasanjo was good to us. We had no problem with Obasanjo. We had him. We could have taken him out”, as he recalled that the sharia movement took off during the period when Obasanjo was president. “The problem started during the late President Yar’Adua regime. Goodluck only inherited the problem. We have no problem with Goodluck. But his Ijaw people around him are deceiving him”.
Interestingly, the Boko Haram source who spoke in fluent English with a slight American accent explained the decision to ‘finish’ Babakura Fuggu came due to what transpired between Obasanjo and Babakura. “We learnt he asked for money”. Babakura requested on behalf of Boko Haram monies to enable the group defray litigation costs and other minor financial requests which the leadership of Boko Haram considered menial and demeaning. The wife, Yakolo, was said to have received money from the former president to the tuned of N500,000. Babakura Fuggu was gundown on September 17, 2012 as he existed his home by his younger brother in the company of other young men dressed in reddish-orange babarigas each armed with AK47s – just barely forty eight [48] hours following the visit of former President Obasanjo.
Meanwhile, information available to 247ureports.com reveals the reason Kano and Bauchi State were attacked a few days ago as having to do with failed promises by the State governors of the two states. The entire northern governors, according to the Boko Haram source, have ongoing relationships with the group. ”Most of them pay us monthly to leave their states alone”.
In Kano State, the former state governor, Malam Shekarau reached an agreement with the terrorist group in late 2004 for an initial monthly disbursement of N5million which was later bumped up to N10million in 2009. The agreement, according to the source, included provision of institutional infrastructural support through the Hisbah [Islam police] project which received yearly budgetary allocation of N1.01billion. The gubernatorial election of April 2011 which introduced Rabiu Kwankwaso as the new governor changed the agreement. The Kwankwaso administration was quick to dismantle the Hisbah set up – and the said agreement to disburse N10million monthly. The governor proceeded to make arrests of known Boko Haram members. Boko Haram leadership who had found comfort in Kano did not appreciate the Kwankwaso administration’s policy on Boko Haram. According to the source, “we warned the Governor of the consequences”.
“We concluded on Kano in December 2011″. The abrupt end to the oil subsidy strike and protests served an opportunity for the group to strike. The preparatory work for the attack and the selection of targets had already been completed. According to the source, an estimated number of casualties was calculated to net 300 minimum. “The go ahead order” was given on Wednesday [January 18, 2012] evening before the leader of the group left the country to Cameroon on the early morning of Thursday, the following day.
In Bauchi State, the Governor, Malam Yuguda reached similar agreement with the leadership of the group. A monthly disbursement of N10million was agreed upon along with provision of training grounds on the many mountain scattered in Bauchi State. The governor also promised to give them security against arrests by the federal government. The agreement was reached in June 2008 but mid 2011, the governor stopped the disbursement of the N1omillion regularly. Boko Haram were not happy but remained loyal to the agreement because of the unfettered access to the mountains of Bauchi as training camps.
However the arrest and detention of their number 3 man by the State Security Services [SSS] fractured the relationship between the governor and the terrorist group. According to the source, the State was attacked to free the number 3 leader of Boko Haram and to “teach them a lesson”. The detained leader schooled at the prestigious Lincoln University located in the State of Connecticut, USA and owns a block industry in Bauchi State near the home of the former governor of Bauchi State – an area densely populated by Boko Haram operatives.
According to the source, “the northern governors are overwhelmed”. They are aware of the capabilities of the Boko Haram operatives operating in their respective states. Some of the State government officials visit the terrorist groups in their training camps to watch the training exercises. “We train harder than the Nigerian military and they see it” said the source while ‘lamenting’ that the governor continue to tell the President that the menace of Boko Haram is under control.
The Boko Haram source made it emphatic that “we [they] have the weapons and are in control. We are not asking for Islamic Nigeria. We want our men free”.
http://247ureports.com/2012/01/why-we-did-not-kill-obasanjo-boko-haram/

A Spirano la Lega si affida a Iwobi Primo assessore nigeriano-padano

2012-01-23T00:07:00.000+01:00

A Spirano la Lega si affida a Iwobi
Primo assessore nigeriano-padano

24 gennaio 2012

Cronaca

TONY IWOBI (Foto by TIZIANO MANZONI)

La medaglia se l'è guadagnata sul campo. Tony Iwobi, nigeriano d'origine, a Spirano da 35 anni e da quasi venti leghista, è il nuovo assessore ai Servizi sociali della Giunta targata Carroccio. Il sindaco Giovanni Malanchini se lo coccola a parole: «L'altra sera ha organizzato un corso di computer per gli anziani in municipio e ha fatto il pienone. Diciamo che Tony ha sempre fatto un certo tipo di lavoro in paese, al di là della nomina che arriva ora ad assessore e che si merita tutta...». Complimenti che fanno piacere al neoassessore: «Sono stato davvero molto contento l'altra sera. Avevamo 32 iscritti, è stato bellissimo. Ora questo assessorato, sarà per me una grossa responsabilità». Tony è un lumbard dalla pelle nera. Forse il primo assessore africano nelle fila della Lega in Lombardia. Ci milita dal 1993 e da tre mandati siede nel Consiglio comunale di Spirano. Alle elezioni ha sempre fatto il pieno di voti e preferenze. «Tony è sempre stato il nostro volano – spiega Malanchini –. Nero e leghista? Ricordo a tutti che è stato lui ad accogliermi nella Lega. Tony è leghista da molto prima di me».

«Mi piaceva la Lega federalista» Ed eccolo Tony, 57 anni, il sorriso sulle labbra, il tono pacato, i modi gentili. Ci accoglie durante una pausa lavoro all'ospedale di Treviglio, dove dal 2010 gestisce con la sua ditta i sistemi informativi dell'azienda ospedaliera. «La Lega? Ho abbracciato il suo progetto nel 1993 quando predicava il federalismo. Io arrivavo dalla Nigeria, una nazione federalista e mi piaceva quell'idea. Quello con la Lega non è solo un rapporto politico, ma anche umano. Qui dentro ho trovato molti amici con cui condividere le stesse idee», racconta mentre si aggira tra i computer. Tony è laureato in informatica, ma prima di arrivare fin qui ha fatto di tutto. «Sono arrivato a Spirano nel 1976», racconta. Dice Spirano e non Italia perché la sua Italia è stata fin da subito questo paese della Bassa di poco più di cinquemila anime. «Colpa del mio amico Charli che era già arrivato qua, io sono stato il secondo nigeriano arrivato a Spirano». Come Charli ha iniziato lavorando al maneggio Beretta, famoso per i tre i cavalli protagonisti della pubblicità del bagnoschiuma Vidal. «Lavoravamo duro, davvero tanto, e non sai quanti calci ho preso dai cavalli», ricorda.

«Qui ben accolto» Non erano certamente tempi facili e la gente li guardava come se arrivassero da Marte. Chi scrive, era una bambina di 5, 6 anni e ricorda ancora quando vedeva Charli, un ragazzotto dalla pelle scura scura, ogni tanto arrivare alla casa della sua balia. Charli avrebbe poi sposato Olimpia (figlia della balia), come Tony Lucia. Due bergamasche. Non erano tempi facili e le unioni miste si contavano davvero sulle dita di una mano in paese. Tony lo sa, muove le mani come a dire mamma mia, ma i ricordi sono dolci come il miele: «Ho sposato Spirano fin dall'inizio. Questo paese mi ha comunque accolto a braccia aperte e gli spiranesi mi vogliono bene. Qui mi sono sposato e sono nati i miei figli. Ora sono anche nonno». Ecco perché certi discorsi, che dice demagogici, sugli extracomunitari proprio non li vuol sentire, anche se ha un'idea chiara di quello che non va: «Quando sono arrivato qui più di trent'anni fa, ero supercontrollato. I poliziotti venivano a casa mia due volte alla settimana, oggi che fine hanno fatto questi controlli? Chiaro che poi non è giusto neppure arrivare in Italia così, questa è un'altra faccia dello schiavismo. E lo dice uno che è arrivato da straniero qui e si è integrato».

«Bergamasco nel mondo»
E se a Spirano Tony è a casa, l'Africa non la dimentica: «Ci sono appena tornato – spiega –, stiamo portando avanti un bel progetto sanitario con il Ghana». Anche se poi glissa se si senta più africano, bergamasco o tutti e due: «Io mi sento cittadino del mondo, ovunque vada mi sento a casa mia». Certo poi ci sono i cavalli di battaglia lumbard, la lingua, le tradizioni, le origini, la propria storia... Tony ha guidato finora la commissione Cultura che ha fatto della riscoperta del dialetto uno dei progetti di punta: «Segreteria telefonica, carta intestata e cartelli in bergamasco possono apparire come folclore, ma io dico "tu bergamasco non devi avere paura di parlare la tua lingua madre, di riscoprire le tue origini"». Ecco perché Tony il dialetto lo capisce e lo parla: «Alura, com'el... Ho sposato una bergamasca, 35 anni fa, mi sono dovuto adeguare, per forza». E per amore.

Vanessa Santinelli

http://www.ecodibergamo.it/stories/Cronaca/262842_a_spirano_la_lega_si_affida_a_iwobi_primo_assessore_nigeriano-padano/

Ezillo Attack: Death Toll Rises to 66

2012-01-02T08:23:00.000+01:00

Ezillo Attack: Death Toll Rises to 66

02 Jan 2012

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By Christopher Isiguzo

About 14 fresh bodies were recovered yesterday in Ezillo community in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, raising the death toll from last Saturday’s invasion of the community by gunmen to 66.

Also, Governor Martin Elechi, has said the unfortunate development marked a bad omen for the state, given the number of lives lost in the attack.

Initially, the number of deaths was 52; it later rose to 60 before it rose to 66, according to the youths of the area who had been combing bushes in the area in search of bodies of slain relatives and friends.

The youths who spoke to journalists, who accompanied the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 6 Calabar, Mr. Saidu Daya, to assess the level of carnage in the area, stated that the dead bodies were recovered when a search team constituted by the villagers combed nearby bushes and environs.

The victims comprising children between the ages of three to 10 years, men, adults and the elderly had different parts of their bodies severed while others had mortal gunshot wounds.

The police AIG confirmed that a team of mobile policemen from neighbouring Cross River, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states have already arrived the State and deployed to the crisis area to beef-up security and restore normalcy.

He said detectives from force headquarters Abuja will equally be drafted to Ebonyi State to carry out investigation with a view to fishing out those behind the attack.
Daya appealed to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafis Ringim, to authorise the establishment of mobile police unit at Ezillo.

The AIG who was accompanied by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adeola Adeniji, also used the opportunity to console the people of the area including the traditional ruler, Eze Chima Oyiba, who lost one of his sons, four vehicles and property worth millions of naira, after he narrowly escaped.

At the end of the visit, the AIG paid a condolence visit to Elechi at Government House Abakaliki, where he commiserated with him and assured that the police would do all that was necessary to bring solution and also bring the perpetrators of the dastardly act to book. He said he was sent on the visit by the IGP, Ringim, who he said expressed his sympathies over the tragic incident.

In a state-wide broadcast yesterday tagged: “That Evil May Not Endure”, Elechi expressed dismay over the resurgence of the communal crisis which was thought to have been resolved, said the latest development was a phase in the cycle of destruction and bloodletting which have been the lot of the people of the area since May 10, 2008 when the crisis initially broke out.

“The shock waves sent by the latest incident are not only because of the wantonness of the destruction, but also because it came at a time when Ebonyi people and other Nigerians thought that peace had returned to Ezillo.

“As Ezillo burns and Ebonyi people mourn, I want to assure our people and all Nigerians that the State government will stop at nothing to fish out the perpetrators of this dastardly act neither shall we shirk our responsibility to protect lives and property everywhere in the state. We all feel the pains of the bereaved families and we all share their grief,” the governor noted.

The governor further noted in his broadcast that “enemies of peace invaded Ezillo in the early hours of yesterday (December 31, 2011) and proceeded to murder men, women and children who had no inkling about the tragedy that befell them. That was not all. The Ezillo market was burnt down, shops were razed, vehicles burnt and other properties destroyed.”

He however assured people of the state that the security agencies have been given directives to clear the Abakaliki-Enugu Federal Highway which cuts across the warring community of any kind of blockade in order to ensure free-flow of traffic.
Already, the governor has asked the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) to undertake an urgent assessment of the conditions at the crisis area for immediate state intervention.

However, sources at the community told THISDAY that more corpses were recovered late Saturday from the bush within the village, while the number of those who sustained bullet injuries is also on the increase.

Unknown gunmen had last Saturday invaded the Ezillo community killing scores of indigenes of the community including the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) in charge of the police station in the area. Those killed include; children between the ages of three to five, aged men and women and youths, as well as over 100 Donkey.

Ezillo people had been fighting a communal war with Ezza-Ezillo people, which claimed more than 150 lives before the intervention of law enforcement agents in 2010 that sacked everybody from the disputed land. Since then, relative peace had pervaded the community.

Meanwhile, the South-east zone of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has condemned the mass killing of the innocent indigenes of Ezillo by unknown gunmen describing the development as act of terrorism.

In a statement by the Zonal Director, Olu Omotayo, the organisation called on the federal government to immediately find ways of ending such acts of barbarism and terrorism, noting that if left unchecked, there are still strong indications that the situation could go out of hand.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ezillo-attack-death-toll-rises-to-66/106267/

Nella battaglia al terrorismo islamista Nigeria, Usa e Ue stanno a guardare

2012-01-01T08:44:00.001+01:00

Nella battaglia al terrorismo islamista Nigeria, Usa e Ue stanno a guardare di Alessandra Boga
31 Dicembre 2011

Credente cristiano in Nigeria

La Nigeria ha vissuto ancora un Natale di sangue. Tre chiese nel Nord del Paese sono state oggetto di attentati che hanno causato almeno 40 vittime. La maggior parte ha trovato la morte sui gradini di una chiesa cattolica a Madalla vicino alla capitale Abuja, dopo aver partecipato alla messa di Natale. Corpi carbonizzati e arti smembrati da un bomba erano sparsi attorno alla chiesa distrutta. Quello del 2011 è stato descritto come “il Natale più nero che la Nigeria abbia mai avuto”.
Responsabile degli attacchi terroristici il famigerato gruppo islamico Boko Haram (“L’educazione occidentale è peccato”). Il mondo, come al solito, ha offerto le sue indecise, esitanti condanne. Tutti, dalla Casa Bianca al Vaticano, hanno definito “senza senso” i sanguinosi attentati che hanno colpito le chiese nigeriane. Eppure è da oltre un decennio che Boko Haram dichiara apertamente i propri obiettivi: applicare la sharia, la legge islamica, e assoggettare, se non eliminare i cristiani dalla Nigeria.
Il gruppo islamico continua a terrorizzare i cristiani. Ne ha uccisi migliaia e piazzato bombe o bruciato centinaia di chiese. Nel Natale dello scorso anno l’organizzazione terroristica ha fatto saltare in aria parecchie chiese, uccidendo quasi 40 fedeli cristiani. Boko Haram, il cui nome per intero in arabo è “Gente della Sunna per la Da’wa (islamizzazione) e il Jihad (la “guerra santa”)”, rappresenta un fronte religioso islamico ostile a tutto ciò che non è musulmano, cristiani in testa. “Per loro la religione cristiana è qualcosa che proviene dall’Occidente, e che quindi non è consentita”, ha spiegato a Ilsussidiario.net mons. Ignatius Kaigama, arcivescovo di Jos, una delle città teatro degli attacchi contro le chiese che hanno insanguinato il Natale in Nigeria. “Il gruppo islamista considera la stessa Costituzione nigeriana come un prodotto della civilizzazione occidentale, e preferisce sostituirla con la Sharia. Boko Haram insomma è caratterizzato dal fanatismo più radicale. Gli stessi musulmani normali disapprovano profondamente le sue azioni, anche perché gli attentati non colpiscono solo le chiese, ma anche la polizia, le caserme e la stessa sede delle Nazioni unite ad Abuja”, ha proseguito l’arcivescovo.
Egli ha anche affermato che non si sa chi ci sia dietro Boko Haram (se gruppi politici o potenze straniere), nè chi fornisca loro fondi ed armi. “A Jos domenica sono stati arrestati quattro membri di Boko Haram, ma prima ancora che la notizia si sapesse erano già stati rilasciati. Mentre il 22 novembre scorso il senatore Ali Ndume era stato incarcerato per avere pianificato un attentato, e il 19 dicembre è stato rilasciato su cauzione. E’ questo il motivo per cui ritengo che non sia messa in atto un’attività d’intelligence sufficientemente incisiva, e la conseguenza è che gli attentati contro le chiese si ripetono in continuazione”.

Solo negli ultimi due mesi, il gruppo islamico ha effettuato attacchi contro decine di luoghi di culto cristiani, piazzando bombe in alcuni e dandone alle fiamme altri. Ha aperto il fuoco su una congregazione costituita soprattutto di donne e bambini, ha ucciso i due figli di un ex terrorista che si era convertito al cristianesimo, ucciso a sangue freddo dei sacerdoti e dei suoi membri si sono recati in alcuni negozi di proprietà di cristiani, ordinando loro di recitare versi del Corano. Coloro che non li conoscevano sono stati uccisi.
Il mese scorso, centinaia di musulmani di Boko Haram, armati, hanno invaso villaggi cristiani, uccidendo, saccheggiando e distruggendo tutto ciò che vedevano, in quattro lunghe ore di terrore. 130 cristiani sono stati uccisi e altri 45 sterminati in un altro villaggio, al grido di “Allahu Akbar !”. Centinaia di cristiani mancano ancora all’appello e migliaia sono fuggiti dalla regione.

“Le autorità federali della Nigeria, i servizi segreti e i leader musulmani non fanno nulla per difendere i cristiani e non osano neppure condannare gli attentati. I terroristi di Boko Haram non guardano in faccia a nessuno e sono pronti a colpire chiunque provi a contrastarli. E così gli stessi giudici, quando per caso mettono le mani su un terrorista, lo liberano subito dopo perché hanno paura”, ha denunciato mons. Ignatius Kaigama. “nessuno osa fare un solo passo avanti per condannare pubblicamente gli attentati di Boko Haram, figuriamoci arrestarne gli esponenti e punirli come prescrive la legge”.

Europa e Stati Uniti non hanno potuto far nulla finora per aiutare la Nigeria (benché gli USA abbiano offerto la loro disponibilità per scovare gli attentatori di Natale). Come ha spiegato lo stesso arcivescovo, “il nostro governo non ha mai richiesto il loro aiuto”. E’ grande l’indignazione dell’alto prelato: “Se le autorità federali non sono in grado di gestire la situazione nel Paese è loro dovere chiedere il supporto internazionale, e francamente non mi riesco a capacitare del motivo per cui non lo abbiano ancora fatto” ed egli ha affermato che “la Nigeria non ha bisogno di militari stranieri, ma di essere aiutata nel coordinamento delle forze di sicurezza federali. Il nostro governo dovrebbe rendersi conto che quanto sta avvenendo è ogni giorno più imbarazzante, oltre che estremamente doloroso per la nostra gente. Il problema non è solo dei cristiani, la gente non può più andare a scuola, nei mercati, in moschea, senza avere il timore di attentati terroristici”.
La mancanza di un appoggio efficace del governo non ha fatto tardare rappresaglie agli attentati di Natale. Alcuni uomini hanno lanciato una bomba all’interno di una scuola coranica nel sud del Paese a maggioranza cristiana, ferendo sei bambini e un adulto.

L’episodio ha avuto luogo nella regione petrolifera del Delta del Niger, mentre nella città di Damaturu nel nord musulmano della Nigeria sono circa 90 mila gli sfollati dopo gli scontri tra Boko Haram e il governo. Ad aggravare la frattura fra cristiani e musulmani c'e' anche la situazione politica. Proprio oggi la Corte Suprema nigeriana ha confermato la vittoria alle presidenziali di aprile di Goodluck Jonathan, cristiano del Sud, respingendo il ricorso del Cpc (Congress for Progressive Change) che aveva denunciato brogli e il cui candidato, Muhammadu Buhari, musulmano del Nord, ex dittatore della Nigeria a meta' degli anni ottanta, e' arrivato secondo. Quest’ultimo ha parlato di un risultato “motivato politicamente”. Dopo le elezioni, le violenze fra le opposte fazioni avevano causato almeno 800 morti nel Paese.
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Nigeria...........Una strage di cristiani

2011-12-26T10:51:00.000+01:00

Nigeria, Natale di sangue: bombe in tre chiese Una strage di cristiani

Tre attentati contro i cattolici. Secondo le prime stime le vittime sarebbero più di venti. La denuncia della Santa Sede: "Un odio cieco e assurdo che non ha alcun rispetto per la vita umana". Rivendicazione della setta islamica Boko Haram

di Libero Pennucci - 25 dicembre 2011, 17:13

Natale di sangue in Nigeria. Tre bombe sono esplose, mentre si stava celebrando la messa del 25 dicembre, in tre diverse chiese della Nigeria. Una bomba è scoppiata nella chiesa di Santa Teresa nella capitale Abuja.

Ingrandisci immagine

Altre due esplosioni vicino Jos, in una zona centrale del Paese, e in una chiesa a Gadaka, nel Nord. Un massacro di cristiani. Secondo i primi soccorritori l'ordigno avrebbe provocato una strage: i morti e i feriti sarebbero alcune decine; aolmeno diciannove soltanto nella prima delle tre basiliche colpite dalle esplosioni, ma il bilancio è destinato a crescere. Il primo attentato sarebbe avvenuto nella chiesa di Santa Teresa, nel quartiere di Madala.

Il governo nigeriano conferma l'accaduto attraverso Yushau Shuaib, portavoce dell'agenzia nigeriana dei servizi di sicurezza, ma non fornisce dati precisi sull'entità della tragedia lanciando tuttavia un'allarme che rende l'idea dell'emergenza: non ci sarebbero abbastanza ambulanze in tutta la città per evacuare le vittime e i feriti. Nel corso della giornata i sospetti degli inquirenti sono stati confermati: dietro ad almeno una delle esplosioni ci sarebbe la mano di un gruppo islamico. La cellula Boko Haram ha rivendicato l'attentato di oggi contro una chiesa cristiana a Madalla, nei pressi di Abuja. Immediata la denuncia della Santa Sede che ha parlato attraverso il portavoce Franco Lombardi: "è purtroppo la manifestazione ancora una volta della crudeltà di un odio cieco e assurdo che non ha alcun rispetto per la vita umana e cerca di suscitare e alimentare altro odio e confusione". Sulla stessa linea anche il ministro degli Esteri Giulio Terzi: "L'Italia, da sempre in prima linea nella difesa della libertà di fede e nella promozione del dialogo e della tolleranza interreligiosi, continuerà ad assicurare il proprio massimo impegno, anche nel quadro dell'azione dell'Unione europea , affinchè in Nigeria come altrove i principi della convivenza interreligiosa e del rispetto della libertà di culto vengano rispettati e difesi attivamente".

Riti «voodoo» come passaporto per controllare i «nuovi schiavi»

2011-12-19T23:17:00.000+01:00

Gdf di La Spezia smantella organizzazione traffico esseri umani, 8 arresti

ultimo aggiornamento: 19 dicembre, ore 15:53

Genova - (Adnkronos) - L'organizzazione, che ha il vertice in Nigeria e ramificazioni in diversi stati africani ed europei, determinava periodicamente delle vere e proprie quote di persone da inviare in Europa. Per ottenere la fedeltà delle donne da avviare alla prostituzione in Italia, venivano praticati riti ''voodoo'', con l'effetto di creare una forma di sudditanza psicologica, integrata anche da minacce di morte nei confronti loro e dei familiari (Video)

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Regioni/Liguria/Gdf-di-La-Spezia-smantella-organizzazione-traffico-esseri-umani-8-arresti_312765084936.html

Un intervento chirurgico l'ha salvata da una grave cardiopatia

2011-12-10T10:19:00.000+01:00

Sigeoma, dalla Nigeria a Palermo per ritrovare la vita

Palermo (TMNews) - Ha occhi tristi ma riconoscenti, un sorriso appena accennato, le mani giunte, l'espressione di leggero imbarazzo. Sigeoma ha 19 anni, è nigeriana ed è nata con una grave malformazione cardiaca. Ora sta bene, la sua vita non è più in pericolo grazie a un gruppo di volontari dell'Associazione Solaria di Palermo, che l'ha fatta venire in Italia a proprie spese affinché potesse essere sottoposta a un delicato intervento chirurgico all'Ismett, centro sanitario all'avanguardia, come spiega Giacomo Vernengo, pediatra dell'associazione. Il caso di Sigeoma è il quarto a essere risolto grazie al programma di medicina umanitaria dell'associazione siciliana. La mancanza di fondi ha fatto tramontare l'ipotesi di creare una struttura sanitaria nei Paesi interessati, rendendo necessaria una diversa forma di assistenza. Sigeoma ha ripreso a camminare e a mangiare normalmente anche se il cibo italiano non le piace tanto. Presto tornerà in Nigeria dove per un po' sarà tenuta sotto controllo da un'equipe medica locale.

http://www.tmnews.it/web/sezioni/videonews/20111208_video_17153241.shtml

Ondo Socialite Ade Fayeun aka Ade Basket Wanted ...

2011-11-29T06:43:00.000+01:00

Ondo Socialite Ade Fayeun aka Ade Basket Wanted ...

Nov 11, 2011 – Ondo Socialite Ade Fayeun aka Ade Basket Declared Wanted For Sex Assault

Do you remember the story of a man called Ade Fayeun popularly known as Ade Basket who brutally battered 2 girls in Ondo state after sexual encounter with them stating they stole his money.

He has been declared wanted for sex assault and theft over N9,000.

The street character with political influence had on Friday October 21 2011 ordered his followers to strip four girls to their skin and made them parade naked around a couple of streets in the state capital, Akure.

According to a source ‘the victims pictures were severally taken by passers by and participants with camera phones in the course of this abuse’

Some of the pictures have phone their way onto the internet courtesy of Ade’s aides- while others have become one of the most passed around on phones in that part of the world.

The girls were alleged to have stolen N9000 from him when he slept with them over night in an hotel room.

He meted out the treatment to the four girls when he claimed he couldn’t find the money where he kept it- and pain staking search of the girl couldn’t unearth the missing sum.

After the treatment that resulted in the girls also suffering a couple of slaps and kicks- one of the victims, Miss Dayo Richards wrote a petition tagged ‘Complaint of assault, inhuman and degrading treatment done to me by one Mr. Ade Fayeun (aka Ade Basket)’ to the commissioner of police, Ondo State.

Informants claimed that the police ‘arrested’ Ade Basket on the strength of this petition but just like he allegedly boasted when ‘dealing with the girls, he used his influence to get himself out of the hook’

Ade Basket became popular in the state as a political muscle for sacked governor Olusegun Agagu. He is believed to be close to the government of incumbent Gov, Olusegun Mimiko.

His political links and ‘easy release’ by the police have kick started a furore over the development.

Human rights canvassers have started a campaign for Ade to be arrested and prosecuted for ‘his acts against womanhood’. The opposition party Action Congress of Nigeria are stridently calling for his prosecution as well. And to worsen his case, same for the Ondo state Government.

Pictures of the assault victims

The government through the commissioner for information, Kayode Akinmade and Women Affairs, Olayinka Alabi maintains ‘all those responsible will not go unpunished’

The pressure these public furore have brought to bear on the case is said to have forced the police to begin a fresh move to arrest Ade Basket. He is said to be trying to tap into his wealth of influence to dodge arrest and prosecution at press time. (Society Now)

Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu is Dead

2011-11-26T18:16:00.000+01:00

Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu is Dead

26 Nov 2011

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Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

Former biafran leader and leader of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu is dead.
Thisday can confirm that he died late last night. He had been sick for a while and was receiving treatment at a united Kingdom (UK) hospital.More to follow . . .

Ojukwu was born in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria in 1933. His father, Sir Louis Phillipe Odumegwu Ojukwu was a wealthy businessman who made money from the transport industry. Ojukwu was sent to the UK at the age of 13 to study, first at Epsom College and later at Lincoln College, Oxford University where he earned a Masters degree in History.
Upon his return in 1956, he joined the civil service in then Eastern Nigeria. He would later leave the service to join the military, where he was one of the few university graduates.
Ojukwu was appointed Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria by Military Head of State, General Aguiyi Ironsi on January 17, 1966. By May of the same year, Nigeria was facing a serious crisis. A planned pogrom in Northern Nigeria targeting and killing South-easterners presented a problem. He made several assurances to the South-easterners about their safety but the crisis continued. In May 1967, he declared Eastern Nigeria a Sovereign State named Biafra.
In July, 1967, then Head of State Yakubu Gowon declared war on Biafra. A civil war ensued. The war raged on for another 30 months. An attempt at peace during a meeting at Aburi, Ghana did not stop the war. In 1970, Ojukwu handed over power to his deputy Major-General Phillip Effiong and left the country to avoid assassination. He was granted political asylum in Cote D'Ivoire by President Felix Houphöet-Biogny.
The civilian President of Shehu Shagari granted him an official pardon and he returned in 1982 after 13 years in exile. Ojukwu would later go into politics, forming the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). He was an active member until his death
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dim-odimegwu-ojukwu-is-dead/103680/

Politici corrotti istigano all’odio religioso

2011-11-12T11:47:00.000+01:00

Politici corrotti istigano all’odio religioso e sfruttano i Boko Haram

Un comunicato di ACS-Aiuto alla Chiesa che Soffre sulle recenti violenze nel Nord della Nigeria. Il testo contiene dichiarazioni del vescovo di Maiduguri, monsignor Oliver Dashe Doeme, e del nunzio apostolico monsignor Augustine Kasujja.

«I veri responsabili delle violenze e degli spargimenti di sangue nel Nord della Nigeria sono alcuni politici corrotti che istigano all’odio religioso». A dichiararlo ad Aiuto alla Chiesa che Soffre è monsignor Oliver Dashe Doeme, vescovo di Maiduguri, capitale dello Stato nigeriano del Borno, che punta il dito anche contro le forze dell’ordine, «incapaci di difendere i cittadini». In una conversazione telefonica con ACS, il presule ha accusato le autorità locali di sfruttare le divisioni religiose interne per destabilizzare il clima e spodestare il governo. «L’amministrazione locale ha fortemente deluso la popolazione – racconta – consentendo gravi violazioni e minando la sicurezza stessa dei cittadini».

Nell’ultimo fine settimana, la serie di attentati del gruppo islamista «Boko Haram» ha provocato più di 100 morti. Epicentro delle violenze sono state la città di Damaturu e il vicino villaggio di Patiskum, in cui gli estremisti si sono scontrati con la polizia e hanno fatto esplodere numerosi ordigni in diverse moschee e chiese. Tra queste, quella di S. Mary a Damaturu, che venerdì è stata colpita da una bomba e ridotta in macerie. Il parroco e il vice-parroco, don James John e don Allan, hanno raccontato a monsignor Doeme di essersi messi in salvo appena prima dell’esplosione. «Era una delle chiese più grandi della nostra diocesi – ha detto il presule - capace di contenere migliaia di persone. Ed ora è rimasta solo la cenere». Domenica scorsa la comunità si è dovuta riunire per la Messa in una sala parrocchiale.

Quella di S. Mary è il quinto edificio religioso colpito in soli otto mesi. Ad aprile è stata attaccata la cattedrale di Maiduguri e tre mesi dopo alcuni uffici della curia e l’alloggio dei sacerdoti. Il quarto episodio tre settimane quando una chiesa è stata incendiata da alcuni giovani.

«I giovani della regione sono reclutati con facilità dai gruppi estremisti – spiega il vescovo ad ACS - a causa della grave condizione di povertà e di disoccupazione e del basso livello d’istruzione».

Molti estremisti riescono ad infiltrarsi anche nei corpi di polizia, aggravando la criticità della situazione. «Se le forze dell’ordine fossero intervenute prima, molte persone avrebbero potuto salvarsi – afferma monsignor Dome – ma molti degli attentatori erano proprio membri della sicurezza». Il presule chiama in causa la responsabilità di alcuni politici – «di cui non posso fare i nomi» – che si servono dei Boko Haram per perseguire i propri interessi. «Le autorità permettono ai fondamentalisti islamici di comprare le armi e fomentano l’odio interconfessionale. La religione – conclude – è un argomento molto delicato in Nigeria ed è molto facile scatenare nuove tensioni». Secondo il presule, il fine ultimo è quello di cacciare i cristiani dal Paese – oppure convertirli con la forza – per riuscire a imporre la legge coranica.

Dopo gli scontri dei giorni scorsi e le minacce di nuovi attentati da parte dei Boko Haram, la Chiesa chiede al Governo maggiore sicurezza. E il nunzio apostolico, monsignor Augustine Kasujja, in una recente intervista ha espresso ad ACS-Italia estrema preoccupazione per le violazioni alla libertà religiosa che si verificano frequentemente in Nigeria, specie nel Nord del Paese. «La comunità internazionale – ha detto il rappresentante pontificio – deve incoraggiare il governo nigeriano ad accogliere nell’ordinamento interno le norme e le convenzioni internazionali, facendole aderire alla Costituzione».
http://www.laperfettaletizia.com/2011/11/politici-corrotti-istigano-allodio.html

Ambassador Saidu Pindar dies in car crash in Kaduna State

2011-10-27T17:38:00.001+02:00

August 31, 2011

Amb SAIDU PINDAR

On 31 August, Alhaji Saidu Shettima Pindar, Nigeria’s pioneer Ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe, died a car accident. The accident occurred on the Kaduna-Zaria road in Kaduna State.
Details of the accident are yet to be confirmed, but sources said he was traveling to Kano at the time he died. One source said the accident was caused by the bad condition of some spots on the road, but this too, had not been verified.
Ambassador Pindar was born in Biu, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State, on 19 August 1954. He obtained an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Kaduna Polytechnic in 1976, Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Degree from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1980, and subsequently a Master’s Degree in Communication Engineering from the University of Manchester’s Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in United Kingdom.
He started his working life with the Borno State Civil Service, rising to become the Director of Engineering/Chief Engineer at the Borno Radio and Television (BRTV) before transferring to the Federal Civil Service in 1987.

In October 1998, he was posted to the Embassy of Nigeria, Rome, Italy, as Minister-Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary. While on that post, he received commendations from the Italian Ministry of Interior, the Italian Immigration and Frontier Service and a Christian NGO for his commitment towards combating human trafficking and for his compassionate treatment of trafficked Nigerians.

In 2000, he was appointed Nigeria’s pioneer Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome & Principe. At that post, he was credited with contributing immensely to the ratification of the Treaty establishing the Nigeria-Sao Tome & Principe Joint Development Zone (JDZ). He voluntarily retired from the Federal Civil Service after 32 years of public service. In 2004, he was conferred with a National Honour, Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).

Even in retirement, he remained active in private business as well as in political and public life. He was the founder and promoter of Maitama Amusement Park, a leisure and entertainment centre situated in the high brow Maitama district of Abuja. He was also the Executive Chairman of Subotech Engineering Ltd, a company supplying and installing broadcast equipment nationwide.

Politically, he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In October 2009, he was appointed by then President Umaru Yar’Adua, into the board of the Nigeria-Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Authority (NSTP-JDA). He was later the deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Borno State in the April 2011 general elections, but his party did not win.

Ambassador Pindar was a member of several professional bodies, including the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) and the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).
He was a founding member of the Biu Emirate Development Association (BEDA) and also the Biu Forum. In recognition of his contributions to the development of Biu Emirate, HRH Alhaji Umar Mustapha Aliyu, the Emir of Biu elevated him from the position of Jarma of Biu to Waziri of Biu in January 2005.

A philanthropist, he sponsored hundreds of students in various schools in Borno, Yobe and Bauchi State under the Shettima Pindar Foundation.
He was happily married and blessed with children.
In a condolence message to the late ambassador’s family, Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima expressed shock over the unfortunate incident. He described the late Pindar as a visionary, humble and de-tribalized man, who dedicated his life to the cause of transforming not only Borno State, but the Nigerian nation.

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NIGERIAN SENDS AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS PRESIDENT

2011-10-15T06:35:00.001+02:00

A reader of Africanews.it has sent us an email with this open letter to the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan. We publish it here below. These are his own views and we have no responibility in it.

MY LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. HIS EXCELLENCY GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Dear Mr President,
after a period of hesitation, I decide to write you for an important issue that disturbs every responsible Nigerian.
I am sorry if you would have wanted it to be a private letter but I think that since it represents the preoccupation of many Nigerians, I should make it known to all. I must commence by saying that the situation of my dear country Nigeria does not surprise me.
For instance, already during the electoral campaign that brought you to power, I foresaw the impasse in which we were heading to and I started expressing my doubt on your capacity of running this complicated country. Mr President, from all indication, you could be a good candidate for a country, but I am afraid, it is not for a country like Nigeria.
It might sound hard to hear but your two great errors are hunting you and your regime.
Firstly, you had always counted on your good luck forgetting you do not run a county by luck. Though your good luck helped you to have a weak opposition and indecisive electorates who out of frustration and poverty went for any laudable candidate who you were it does not also permit to be more realistic and quick in action taking.
Your second and most important error is that you counted on the help of the party under which you ran your election but unfortunately the party has neither reputation nor scope.
My dear President, your downfall started just when you accepted to run for such a vital post under a political party without a determined manifesto and plan of action. When you accepted to run for such a post under a party that for more than a decade has ran Nigeria under a day to day planning, I knew the tenure was to be a moon dance like tenure.
Mr President, when you won this honourable post, I was among those who wanted to sit back and see where you will leading this country to, but seeing the pandemonium that is reigning in my beloved country; seeing that the labour of our heroes pas are trying to be in vain, I decided to write you as a loyal and humble citizen of one Republic of Nigeria.
I know that you might be more preoccupied than every other citizen of this country but I am thinking you are yet to understand well the situation of things in the nation. And what pains me most is that your Excellency has very few members of your crew who really are ready to help out matters in the present circumstance. However, I must state that you are not the cause of the Nigerian problem, but the right heir of a disorganized system.
His Excellency, I will not only blame you for your errors but I will also propose what could make your tenure a successful one. As you rightly know that the major problem of Nigeria is security, I must then say that there are situations that only when they are resolved the nation will know peace. However, I would not want to advice you on the matters of policy keeping and employment creation for you are surely aware they are necessities that every nation must redress.
Permit me to say that the techniques applied till now on the matters of crime fighting in Nigeria have not yielded enough fruit for reasons that are very simple.
In one of our last article, “Why neither FBI nor CIA might be able to help Nigeria resolve her security problem” We were trying to show why the differences in the duration of time necessary for the discovery of an author of a terrorist attack from one country to the other.
His Excellence, it occurs to me very often to ask myself why we spend huge amount of money buying helicopters and arms to fight those we do not know their identity? Do your security advisers ask themselves why proves of robbery and other crimes serve less in the identification of their perpetrators? How can one prove that a man whose birth was not registered and who has no electoral card exist? What does a finger print left on a dead body serve to the police who have no digital record of the citizens? How do you determine that a man declared death is dead in a country where there is no death registration? How can you know a citizen in a country where there is till now no National Identification Card? Does it occur to His Excellency that these are the secrets behind crime fighting? How many telephone numbers has an average Nigerian? How could the police trace a caller in a country where millions of telephone numbers are not registered and are changed as clothes?
Mr President, should I continue to mention the irregularities that mar the work of security agencies in Nigeria, it will never be exhausted.
All these and other related problems are the reasons that permit all sorts of evil in Nigeria, ranging from robbery, kidnapping, bombing and so on. And as long as there is no new redress of the system, there will be no progress in crime fighting.
Though I know it will take much to change the mentality of the people; though it might need many years of sensitization, I think it is a sin non qua non to crime fighting. Mr President, you might not be understood as you start this crusade but I think the nation need to be identified.
We need to register all new born babies obligatorily, we need to declare every death that occur in the nation, we need to have citizens that move about with their identity cards; citizens that identify themselves to the police at necessary checking points.
We need a country where the security agencies have dignity, a place where they know their duties and rights.
Finally, I would advise you, as a loyal and humble citizen of Nigeria, to be man enough to assume your office as the President elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
You should forget some of your friend who are not helping out matters in the building of the nation; you should abandon some outdated individuals who continue hunting your tenure. Call it your duty to make a history or tarnish the image of the nation by remaining inactive and insensible to the national plight.
Thanks Mr President as you make the best decision of your tenure in listening or not listening to this plea.

Yours faithful and humble citizen,
ALI Nnaemeka Cornelius.
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Nigerian Immigration Service And Beneficiaries Of Harvested Human Spare Parts

2011-10-13T16:19:00.000+02:00

By EKAIWE IGINUA OSEMWEKHA Last updated: 10/13/2011

ON the 22 September, 2011, the New Comptroller of Immigration, Edo State Command paid a courtesy visit to the Benin Monarch.

He intimated the monarch of the new wild dimension in human trafficking to include the harvesting of human kidney of illegal immigrants in a bid to making a living in Europe and other developed countries of the world.

For the Europeans who have been undergoing diaralaces without a donor of kidney, it is the best development that can happen in their demand of stay alive.

The Boko Haram syndicates affiliated to Al’Quada are systematically gathering steam of acceptability by some traditional rulers who gave land to them without suspecting their sinister motives. This Islamic extremist could eventually constitute themselves into an army of suicide attacks on the humdingers in the society.

The borders of Nigeria with Chad Republic, Niger and Camerouns are very porous, thus creating an easy passage way for some Al’Queda militants who are anti American and the United Nations.

These people have been brain washed to believe that for any successful attack made on western civilization and education, create an Ode to heavenly acceptability

The immigration also frown at the trafficking on children and women. A palace chief who will like to remain anonymous said; “Many children those days have been forced into unwanted labour due to poverty while some people are now bluffing with unmerited wealth stolen from state allocations. So, this type of restrained inequality is the driving force for under age labour.

Some European countries and America are enjoying prosperity, while hundreds of millions of Africans live in abject indigent.

God had created a universal world of great prosperity. The United Nation records states that some countries cannot consume all their products and it was estimated that in 2004, the aggregate total value of goods and services input in that year alone exceeds $65 trillion. If we are to spread this by aggregate world income per capital, it will amount to approximately $9,000 for every individual now living in this planet earth.

This so-called universal prosperity is a clog in the wheel of progress for mankind. With reference to the recent article by the United Nations, the money in the hands of just three persons is more than the aggregate gross domestic product of the forty eight most impoverished countries. It stated that many poor individuals eke a living by surviving on just $2 daily. Millions of those people have no access to portable drinking water and cannot afford one square meal a day.

The hazards posed by migrant Fulani cattle rearers who might have links with Boko Haram and Al’Queda cannot be under-estimated. In a bid to exploring areas for grazing their animals they move from the nook and crannies across the state. And in the course of this endless migration, the animals defecate in all their foot path.
Researchers have proved that animals waste contain similar bacterial as human waste. So, indiscriminate dump of cattle waste by the river bank could fast track bacterial mobility – to water consumers in the rustic environment.
About 80% of population today is without safe dependable water and the consequences are enormous. No fewer than a thousand people are killed annually through water related diseases, such as Bihazzia which afflict so many people, Filariases the world biggest causes of blindness affecting so many people in the northern parts of the country. Dysentery, cholera and typoid continues to destroy human lives. Contaminated water is usually responsible for the menance of those disastrous bacterials.

It had been confirmed by experts in their survey of many delvoeping countries that about 95% of all infant mortality could be avoided through safe water utility and refuse disposal by keeping our cattles in approved cattle ranches across the country.
Retrospectively,the Benin female youths and adults were becoming notorious by jumping Italian Immigraiton regulations. Their major concen was to join the band wagon of the successful Roman prostitutes. They were oblivious of the health hazards of such venture and many of them became afflicted with diverse sexual infections. So, many did not live to enjoy the so-called money they had acquired.

However, it should be abundantly clear that the Benin man is a very proud man and do not encourage their women to live such lives which is antitetical with our cultural valure.

In our youthful days, it was a taboo for a stranger to cross the leg of a married women seating down on a mat nor can a none member of the royal family touch the wrapper of the king.
So, when a Benin woman weds according to our native law and custom, it is a congregational prayer that God and our ancestors should join husband and wife as partners, that will become a shinning example to others who are yet to go into this life long institution and not to become a Roman prostitute.

When the senate president, Senator David mark, paid a courtesy visit to the Benin Moanrch on the 23rd September, 2011, he made a postivie remarks about the pragmatic actions taken by the Nigeiran Ambassador to Italy, Crown Prince eheneden Eradiauwa towards changing the negativ image of the Ngierian girls in Italy.

We are quite optimistic that before his tenure elapses there would be positive changes about the life style of our girls in italy.

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*Did u see d sound of my ringtone?*I know u haf come since bcoz I hear perfume*Horn for the car let him move

*She has put to bed*Come out let me pass* I think U have start again?

*shift come front small

*oya, pass this side lemme pass this side

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Nigeria, Natale di sangue: bombe in tre chiese Una strage di cristiani

Tre attentati contro i cattolici. Secondo le prime stime le vittime sarebbero più di venti. La denuncia della Santa Sede: "Un odio cieco e assurdo che non ha alcun rispetto per la vita umana". Rivendicazione della setta islamica Boko Haram

Riti «voodoo» come passaporto per controllare i «nuovi schiavi»

Un intervento chirurgico l'ha salvata da una grave cardiopatia

Ondo Socialite Ade Fayeun aka Ade Basket Wanted ...

Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu is Dead

Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu is Dead

Politici corrotti istigano all’odio religioso

Ambassador Saidu Pindar dies in car crash in Kaduna State

NIGERIAN SENDS AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS PRESIDENT

Nigerian Immigration Service And Beneficiaries Of Harvested Human Spare Parts

Nigeria, attentato a una chiesa
poi la rappresaglia: 16 morti

Did u see d sound of my ringtone?
I know u haf come since bcoz I hear perfume
*Horn for the car let him move

She has put to bed
Come out let me pass
* I think U have start again?

A Spirano la Lega si affida a Iwobi
Primo assessore nigeriano-padano