Culture of Bloodletting has been introduced once more into
Biafraland by agents loyal to Nnamdi Kanu, Uwazurike with regards to the murder
of Prophet Nwoko, Chukwuemeka Ugah alias Okpele and other victims of internal
assassinations.
We have made investigations with contacts within IPOB
community and concluded that Prophet Nwoko was murdered by order from above.
Six Enugu based IPOB operatives macheted him to death in orgies of murders
within Biafra land which I estimate to be beyond two hundred so far. Many of
the victims of such assassinations have nobody to help tell the story publicly.
Prophet Nwoko is a friend, colleague and fellow Igbo
activist introduced to me by The General Coordinator of General Assembly of all
Igbo Christian Organizations and Ministers (GAAICOM), Apostle Dr PCJ Macjossy
in 2011 and we met severally till 2016 when we disagreed on the modus operandi
of achieving Igbo Mandate or Biafra. I have alluded to that in my piece ‘Murder
of Prophet Nwoko by Biafran Activists; a Curse on the Struggle’ though I do not
agree with many of his prophesies, and have voiced it to him, yet I respected
his sacrifice, passion and prayers for the Biafran struggle.
In 2015, Nnamdi Kanu was arrested by Buhari’s DSS and a
public outcry followed his incarceration. The home front was effectively
managed by Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesman while activists like Okey Isiguzoro,
President of Ohanaeze Youth provided a reliable support .However, the issue of
sharing formula for money collected from high profile politicians sympathetic
to Nnamdi Kanu became problematic between IPOB and Ohanaeze . The sharing
disagreement led to death sentence being issued on the head of the Ohanaeze
Youth leader in 2016. IPOB asked their members to kill him wherever they find him.
His photograph was splashed all over the place. Okey Isiguzoro is in a better
position to tell how he escaped IPOB death sentence
Peter Ejirika, US based Biafran activist, whom I had known
through his writings since 2011, was threatened. A few times I had disagreed
with Ejirika’s far leftist views on Biafra actualization. He wants Biafra ‘now
now now’ just like Prophet Nwoko and quite unlike myself, does not believe in
plenty preparations and preliminaries. Despite differences, it is
incontrovertible that Peter Ejirika is a ‘die hard’ Biafran and I always
appreciate his writings. He disagreed with Nnamdi Kanu on mismanagement of
Biafran funds and the IPOB leader threatened to kill him whenever the later
came to Houston, USA. Peter Ejirika
would have none of that, and prepared for a gun duel with Kanu and his
supporters. Kanu reportedly came to Houston and left quietly.
Barrister Emejulu Okpalaukwu, immediate past Ohanaeze
spokesman, pioneer leader of Ohanaeze Youth and Popular Organ and most prominent
youth leader in the South East spoke on national television in Abuja in
November 2015 that failed politicians are sponsoring protests. IPOB members
declared death sentence on him, kept vigil at his house in Awka , and planned
to kill the wife, a popular woman activist known as ‘Ijele Nwanyi’ and her
children. Okpalaukwu’s wife and children were smuggled to Abuja by a group of
‘Ebube Agu‘members with huge assistance from a notable Holy Ghost Priest, Rev
Fr Desmond Arazu. The driver who brought the family out to Abuja recounted the
story of the escape to me.
Prophet Nwoko reduced links with GAAICOM and joined IPOB
fully and started prophesying for Kanu. He relocated temporarily from Enugu to
Abuja and lived in a house near Kuje Prison, to become a courier to Kanu, and
ministered to him in Prison. He threatened everyone with fire and brimstone in
defense of Kanu. After a while Nwoko realized that the struggle has become
hidden financial ATM and he raised alarm. A death sentence was passed on him,
and few weeks’ later six men murdered him because he couldn’t defend himself.
Those who macheted him to death are Enugu based IPOB members.
In 2014, I was introduced to Mr Chukwuemeka Ugah. the
erstwhile Chief Security Officer to MASSOB leader ,Raph Uwazurike. He needed my
assistance concerning his travails with MASSOB. This man from Igbariam in
Anambra State opted out of MASSOB, accusing Uwazurike of abandoning them to
penury while living in opulence. He formed the Association of Igbo Youth (AIYO)
with lots of MASSOB loyalists and all hell was let lose. By the time he was
reporting to me, about fifty of his members have been murdered by MASSOB
allegedly under the order of Uwazurike.
In a petition signed
by their National Coordinator, Comrade Chukwuemeka James Ugah and Anambra State
Coordinator, Mr Odinikpo Ananwude and addressed to the Assistant Inspector
General of Police (AIG) Zone 9, Umuahia, submitted on the 1st of November, 2013
they alleged that on the 14th of July alone, Uwazurike’s men murdered 18 of
their followers at Onitsha.
It got so bad that Ohanaeze and GAAICOM waded into the
matter and Barrister Okpalaukwu was asked to follow up while the church leaders
while prominent Igbo clerics asked me to
follow up and get back to them. The matter was reported to the AIG Zone 9 .The
AIG invited them for settlement and some MASSOB activists laid ambush on AIYO
activists and the journey was aborted by security tip off, I prevailed upon
Okpele and his boys to shelve the trip to avoid further bloodshed.
Few months later, Okpele, former CSO to Uwazurike was invited
to SARS Awkuzu and by the next day he was murdered in detention. Okpele had alerted a week earlier that
Uwazurike threatened to use his friendly links with the Jonathan Government and
police to kill him and his alert was ignored until he was killed. I cannot
recount the moves that myself and others church and Ohanaeze leaders made to
prevent his followers from orgies of bloody revenge.
Chief Daniel Okafor alias ‘Odogwu Anam’ imprisoned in Asaba
by Nigerian Government for kidnapping claimed that it was MASSOB leadership
that alerted the security of his movements and circumstances that led to his
arrest by the police in 2013. A friend of Chief Okafor contacted us in 2015 and
solicited assistance for his release, claiming that Uwazurike masterminded his trumped
up arrest due to disagreements. We recommended his release, alongside Nnamdi
Kanu and Ben Onwuka to the Federal Government Security Delegation in 2015.
Ben Onwuka of Biafran Zionist Movement has repeatedly
claimed that it is fellow activists that betrayed him to security agents and
given them tips on how to deal with him and his followers.
Nnamdi Kanu escaped death during his traditional wedding
when Uwazurike allegedly took some activists and invaded the celebration venue.
Uwazurike fell out with Kanu over the sharing of Biafran money which Kanu
accused him of cornering to himself alone.. Death sentence was declared on Kanu
for questioning spurious spending and thugs from MASSOB invaded the venue of
his traditional marriage and beat him up.
Dr Macjossy travelled to Aba with group of clerics in 2016
and was sharing with the crowd of activists on why God commanded a three day
prayer with certain protocols if Igbos will find their feet in Nigeria. Some
Biafran activists of IPOB genre led by an elderly man threatened to kill him
there if he mentions prayer again instead of outright declaration of war on
Nigeria. Of course Apostle Macjossy is not one you threaten anyhow and the man
and his armed gang were made to behave themselves.
The history of murder of fellow Biafran activists by
Biafrans started with Gen Ojukwu when he ordered the murder of Col Ifeajuna and
Col Banjo and top Biafra commanders on charges of treason. He was also alleged
to have set up Major Kaduna Nzeogwu to be killed at Nsukka front in order to
have a free reign over Biafra.
That free reign resulted in free fall, failure, and
surrender and absconding after 30 months of bloodshed. Once you turn against
your own people in the same struggle under the slightest misunderstanding, you
introduce failure to the entire process.
There is murder in Biafra house and the God of Abraham is
not a murderer. Those who want to anchor the struggle on murder will destroy
the struggle.
For the loudmouthed and senseless mob of lynchers, by the
next ten years or more, we will still be talking the same thing, blaming every
other person except ourselves, if we fail to excise bloodletting from within.
(Rev Obinna Akukwe a church leader and rights activist is
the Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress,IMC)
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