How Pete Edochie’s Rejection of Kneeling to Propose to a lady caused a stir at Igboezuo Event, Nnewi

 

Chief Pete Edochie, celebrated Nollywood actor had never hidden his disdain for men who kneel to propose to a lady. His disdain was glaring again during the Igboezuo Cultural Event at Nnewi on new year eve of 2020 which held at Kings Palace Hotel Extension.

When he was asked to project the virtues inherent to republican Igbos, he deviated and took swipes at men who follow Western culture and kneel to propose to a lady. He described it as incorrect.

L-R Chief Pete Edochie, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Rev Lloyd Oforah, Rev Obinna Akukwe at Igboezuo Nnewi

According to Pete Edochie " kneeling down to propose to a woman is totally wrong. It is not our lifestyle. Kneeling down before a girl in Igboland means you are handing over authority to her. Marriage in Igboland is when a lady gives her husband to be wine while kneeling down. It signifies that the man has been accepted as the husband . It is the lady who kneels before the husband and not the other way round"

Ogbonnaya Onu, Ngige Storms Nnewi for late Gen Momah, Condoles Igwe Orizu as Igbo Mandate Congress Seeks Cooperation

 

…says we revived Nkalagu Cement after the civil war

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The Nigerian Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu stormed Nnewi with officials of the ministry to honour a friend and colleague, late General Samuel Momah Rtd on Saturday, October 30. Dr Onu described late General Momoh as a scientist whom he had known for close to fifty years and whom they both worked together to revive industries in the South East, including Nigercem Nkalagu, immediately after the civil war.

He disclosed this in the palace of Igwe Orizu of Nnewi on a condolence visit to the palace of the monarch. Dr Ogbonnaya Onu described the death of late General Momah as “painful because we just spoke a week before his death, and I was discussing with him on how I attended the burial of late Late Colonel Iheanacho, three of us served in Nigercem Nkalagu immediatey after the civil war and we were drafted to revive the place and we made it resourceful, productive and profitable “

Dr Ogbonnaya Onu who holds the title of ‘Akajiugo of Nnewi’ described Igwe Kenneth Orizu of Nnewi as “ninety five years younger, and asked God to continue to keep the Nnewi monarch who recently turned ninety five years. He described as divine coincidence that his friend Momah was also given the title of ‘Ugomba Nnewi’ while he was given the title of ‘Akajiugo Nnewi’ by the same monarch’

Nnewi: Army Generals Storm Momah’s Burial as Igbo Mandate Congress Lauds Solidarity

Senior Army Officers stormed Nnewi for the burial of late General Samuel Momah on Friday October 30, 2020. The military delegation was officially led by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, represented by the General Officer Commanding 82 Division, Major General L A Adegboye .

 

The Pall Bearers at the event include Major General J.S Malu (Director, Defense Standars and Evaluation), Major General JC Egbudom (Commandant Nigerian Army Engineering Schools), Major General S A Yaro( Director Nigerian Army Welfare Board), Major General H.E Ayamasowe (Fmr  Registrar, Nigeria Defense Academy)) Major General C.O Ofoche ( Director of Policy and Plans, Army Headquarters) and Major General I B Fakrougha (Commandant Women Corps ).

Youth Pulls Down, Burn Mosque in Nsukka as Igbo Mandate Congress Sues for Peace

 

Youth at Nsukka on Saturday pulled down the Central Mosque after an Hausa man stabbed a tricycle operator at Army Barracks junction on Saturday, 30th September, 2020. The irate youth first pulled down the signpost of the first Mosque before proceeding to pull down another Mosque near Army barracks junction.

 

Trouble started when there tricycle ‘keke’ operator demanded for N100 from the wife of an Hausa man but the lady refused, insisting that the fare is N50 naira. In the ensuing argument, the husband to the lady arrived the scene and stabbed the tricycle operator severally and eloped with her wife on another motorcycle.

 

The youth angered by the lifeless body of their member, descended on two mosques, one for daily congregational prayers and the other one which is the central mosque, they destroyed one and burnt down the other.

 

Igbo Mandate Congress learnt that the doctors at the Bishop Shanaham Hospital later managed to revive the man, later in the day, after a successful surgery.

Price of Bread, Flour Rises as Master Bakers Elections Ends in Fiasco , Group writes Buhari

 

The attempt by Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria AMBCAN to elect new national officers ended in fiasco at the River Plate Park, Abuja, on Wednesday, as two groups emerged from the outcome. The fiasco started after the conduct of the presidential post where Alhaji Mansur Umah polled 96 votes against Alhaji Zubairu Muhammed who got 86 votes. The polling agent of Alhaji Mohammed identified over twenty-six persons who were not properly accredited and called for fresh re-accreditation of delegates which was overruled by the electoral body. The attempt to ignore the fake delegates allegedly imported by a flour mill known as Mama Gold, led to the boycott of the rest of the election.

 

The protesting group stalled the process for over four hours, demanding fresh accreditation of delegates, before they staged a walked out of the venue of the elections citing glaring irregularities, and abandoning the rest of the exercise.

 

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In a petition sent to the office of the President, Vice President, Minister of Agriculture and Director State Security Services, FCT the dissenting group claimed that “  the association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria do hereby rejects the fraudulent election held on the 7th of October at River Plate Park, Abuja  because the process was hijacked by fraudulent actors bent on hiding their monumental embezzlement of Federal Government incentives to Master Bakers aimed at making the price of bread  unaffordable’’

 

“The Stakeholders of Master Bakers of Nigeria do hereby calls upon President Muhammadu Buhari to institute a proper investigation of the embezzlement of the past seven years, and diversion of incentives, stimulus, subsidies aimed at making the price of bred affordable to Nigeria.

 

“The Stakeholders of Master Bakers of Nigeria asks the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC to help recover all the stolen incentives with the flour mills, Bank of Industry and other agencies which these executives deceived and diverted packages from”

 

 

 

The group alleged that proper accreditation of delegates was not conducted and that the owners of Mama Gold Flour Mill brought strange persons in four buses and gave them bribes ranging from N70,000-N30,000 to vote for their preferred candidate. A contestant told delegates at the venue that he was offered bribe of N10 million naira to step down for a preferred candidate.

 

Alhaji Zubairu Abubakar while calling for the cancellation of the elections promised to “consult his lawyers before further comments because he is too shocked to see such levels of criminality with supposedly civilized people”.

 

Prince Jacob Adejonrin while addressing the delegates at the venue of the botched election said that “there is no way this charade can continue. A situation whereby attempts to institute accountable leadership in the affairs of AMBCON is resisted with fraudulent elections can no more be tolerated.  This is not a personal fight, rather a battle to make the price of bread affordable to all Nigerians”

 

Mr Sunday Akam while addressing the delegates said that ‘’  we came here for the accreditation yesterday as agreed only to discover that Mama Gold Flour Mills had imported people into the venue, with four coaster buses ,against the agreements that no flour mill will sponsor any candidate. We also agreed on open –secret ballot due to the Federal Government Guidelines on Covid-19, and proper accreditations but to our surprise, those who are not bakers flooded the venue and were accredited. There is no way we can continue with the process”

 

 

 

The enraged delegates stalled the process for over four hours before walking out and relocating to Royalton Hotels, Area2 Abuja, where they elected interim management. The new officers to act as interim executives including Alhaji Zubairu Abubakar (Interim National President), Prince Jacob Adejonrin( Interim Vice President), Mr Sunday Akam ( Interim National Secretary), Chief Chukwuma Anthony Eze (Interim National Financial Secetary), Mr David Olusegun (InterimNational Treasurer)

 

After the election of Interim Executives at Royalton Hotels, the new Interim National Secretary, Mr Sunday Akam called upon “the Federal Government to conduct a fresh election devoid of fraud, manipulations, irregularities and vote buying so that reforms that will make the price of baked product affordable will be initiated. The state of affairs in the organization is making the price of flour soar from N900 in March to N18,000 in September, and it is not acceptable”

 

 

 

The Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress, IMC, Rev Obinna Akukwe had blamed the leadership crisis of the bakers association for the rising cost of flour, bread and bakery products. He condemned a situation whereby the price of a bag of flour rose astronomically from N9,000 in March to N18,000 in October because criminals running the bakers association at the national level lack the tact to engage government and the flour mills for proper intervention.

 

 

 

While receiving some delegates from the South East and South South who paid him a courtesy call, Rev Akukwe asked for “proper election into the body and urgent intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo’s Economic Stimulus Group to urgently address the crisis of Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria before an ‘Anti-Bread Hike Protest’ erupts nationwide compounding the already simmering EndSars Protest”

 

 

 

The Secretary of the Electoral Committee,Comrade Ede Egbuji, and two members of the electoral committee, Alhaji Suleiman Mohammed and Alhaji Gidado discredited  the process and refused to sign the election s register. They called for fresh polls, and have made their reports to the appropriate bodies.

 

 

(Photo Insert: Mr Sunday Akam, Interim National Secretary, Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria addressing BOT members at the venue)

#Endsars Attack on Northerners -Igbo Mandate Congress Absolves Ndigbo

Igbo Mandate Congress wishes to dissociate Ndigbo from activities of some from IPOB who hijacked the commendable #endsars protests, with intent on killing, looting, burning and sacking northerners from the South East zone. The plot includes cattle rustling, shooting of armed forces and criminal activities all aimed at deliberately attracting reprisals, increasing tension and unleashing mayhem on Igbos in the north.

 

Igbo Mandate Congress alerts that the few mob involved in these acts of criminality does not represent the majority of Igbo Youth. Igbo Mandate Congress discloses that the mob also attempted to burn markets in Enugu, Onitsha, Aba and blame it on strangers in order for the mayhem to be complete.  They attempted to rape students of Queens College, Enugu while searching for hoarded Covid-19 palliatives, before the military saved the students from another Chibok case.

IMC wants the aggrieved northerners to know that Igbo traders and establishment also shared the brunt of the IPOB endsars protesters and the arsonists are not representing Ndigbo in their looting and maiming spree.

 IMC wonders what IPOB profit will if they burn down markets in the South East in the name of #Endsars protests, and asks those behind the heinous plot to desist or risk exposure.

 

 

 

Igbo Mandate Congress commends soldiers of the Nigerian Army who secured markets in Abakaliki, Enugu, Awka, Aba, Umuahia from the mob and enjoins them to continue their acts of patriotic duty.

 

Igbo Mandate Congress in an internal communication on Sunday 25^th October, asked Igbo leaders, Igbo Development Associations and Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the 19 Northern States to initiate dialogue with their hosts, especially in Kano, Kaduna and Bauchi where aggrieved northerners were planning reprisals.  Igbo Mandate Congress is glad to hear that a successful containment is ongoing in potential trouble spots.

 

 Igbo Mandate Congress had earlier through internal communications of Friday 23^rd October, called upon IPOB not to have anything to do with the stolen staff of office of a Yoruba king, to avoid unnecessary victimization and blackmail of Ndigbo. IMC commends the reasonable response of IPOBians in Lagos concerning the stolen staff and asks them to steer clear of Lagos cultural politics since it has no bearing on Igbo success.

 

IMC commends the original #endsars protesters and have readied their memorandum on how SARS and the Army under Obasanjo, Jonathan, Peter Obi and Achike Udenwa  ordered the murder of over 5000 innocent Igbo travellers and traders who have no business with MASSOB, branding them MASSOB members, including the murder and harvesting of the parts OF Chukwuemeka Ugah, ex-CSO to Raph Uwazurike,and leader of Association of Igbo Youth AIYO by SARS Awkuzu in 2014.

 

 IMC is committed to its motto of ‘Igbos Hebrews of Nigeria, Divinely Destined to Transform the World through Faith, Commerce, Industry, and Technology. Igbo Mandate Congress, Commissioned to Shepherd the Process’ and asks northern youth not to fall into IPOB trap.

 

IMC is dialogue with sister organizations within the north and south west to normalize tension and ensure that the violent views of few secessionists does not destroy the relationship with host communities in the North and South West.

 

Rev Obinna Akukwe

 

Director General, Igbo Mandate Congress IMC

 

igbomandate@yahoo.com, @igbomandatecongress

Plot to Kill Northerners in the South East-Igbo Mandate Congress Dissociates Ndigbo

Igbo Mandate Congress wishes to dissociate Ndigbo from the plot by some hoodlums from IPOB who hijacked the commendable #endsars protests, with intent on killing, looting, burning and sacking northerners from the South East zone. The plot includes cattle rustling, shooting of armed forces and criminal activities all aimed at deliberately attracting reprisals, increasing tension and unleashing mayhem on Igbos in the north.

Igbo Mandate Congress alerts that the few mob involved in these acts of criminality does not represent the majority of Igbo Youth. Igbo Mandate Congress discloses that the mob also attempted to burn markets in Enugu, Onitsha, Aba and blame it on strangers in order for the mayhem to be complete. IMC wonders what IPOB will profit if they burn down markets in the South East in the name of Endsars protests, and asks those behind the heinous plot to desist or risk exposure.

Igbo Mandate Congress commends soldiers of the Nigerian Army who secured markets in Abakaliki, Enugu, Awka, Aba, Umuahia from the mob and enjoins them to continue their acts of patriotic duty.

IMC commends the original #endsars protesters and have readied their memorandum on how SARS and the Army under Obasanjo and Jonathan ordered the murder of innocent Igbo travellers and traders who have no business with MASSOB, while claiming to be fighting secession, including the murder and harvesting of the parts OF Chukwuemeka Ugah, ex-CSO to Raph Uwazurike,and leader of Association of Igbo Youth AIYO by SARS Awkuzu in 2014.

 IMC is committed to its motto of ‘Igbos Hebrews of Nigeria, Divinely Destined to Transform the World through Faith, Commerce, Industry, and Technology. Igbo Mandate Congress, Commissioned to Shepherd the Process’ and asks northern youth not to fall into IPOB trap .

IMC is dialogue with sister organizations within the north and south west to normalize tension.

Rev Obinna Akukwee

Director General, Igbo Mandate Congress IMC

igbomandate@yahoo.com, @igbomandatecongress

‘IPOB Endsars Violence,Looting, Prepare for Attacks’ -Igbo Mandate Congress tell Igbos in the North

 Igbo Mandate Congress warns Igbos in the North, excluding Kogi and Kwara States, to be prepared for attacks on them by some northerners whose properties were destroyed in parts oF Obigbo, Onitsha, Aba , Abakaliki, Owerri, Okigwe and Enugu, including some lives lost when IPOB protesters took the Endsars protest to another level, with looting, killings, burning of police stations, public places and attempted burning of markets,.

 

The purpose of all these premeditated arson, lootings and provocations, is for the aggrieved northerners to start a reprisal attacks in the north, then anarchy will be let loose in all parts of Biafraland, including Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross River and Akwa-Ibom States.

Igbo Mandate Congress is in possession of very credible intelligence of how the mayhem will be unleashed so that the proposed Biafra Republic will be actualized before the end of October and First Week of November. The plot is to provoke northerners living in the South East with looting and sundry killings until northern youth react with large scale bloodshed in the north, running into thousands, and the entire Biafra land and Nigeria will be put on fire.

Igbo Mandate Congress have initiated talks with unit commanders of IPOB to dissuade them from further involvement in any form of protests, and recording some successes, however, the worst is still not yet over.

Igbo Mandate Congress mandates its members within Igbo Development Association, IDA  and Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the 19 Northern States to initiate dialogue with the host communities, military, and relevant state governments to ensure that the activities of miscreants in the South East is not viewed as the collective will of Igbos to harass northerners in the region.

Igbo Mandate Congress reminds its members of the events prior to the 2015 Presidential elections, where it instructed its members and advised Ohanaeze in 19 northern states to Ignore Igariwey led Ohanaeze Ndigbo National Executive’s call for Igbos in the north to vote Goodluck Jonathan, advising them to vote their conscience in accordance with the stance of Mbazulike Amechi led Ohanaeze Ndigbo Elders Council, and Raph Obioha led Ohanaeze Ndigbo Caretaker Committee and how the stance secured safety for Igbo residents in the far north.

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Igbo Mandate Congress therefore, asks Igbos in the north to make contingency plans to defend their markets, and communities because government agencies can be very myopic, uncoordinated and clueless in the face of crisis.

IMC wishes to put it on record that it warned relevant agencies of government before October 1st, to dialogue with different sections of the Nigerian populace to avoid the levels of uprising witnessed recently, but the agencies were too timid, corrupt and shortsighted to have averted crisis whose warning signals started from July

Igbo Mandate Congress is committed to its motto ‘Igbos Hebrews of Nigeria, Divinely Destined to Transform the World through Faith, Commerce, Industry, and Technology. Igbo Mandate Congress, Commissioned to Shepherd the Process’ and does not support instigating artificial crisis, bloodshed , arson, looting and criminality, in the name of Biafra actualization and calls upon misguided elements to sue the path of reason.

 

Igbo Mandate Congress welcomes commission of enquiry into the SARS Awkuzu atrocities, which led to the death and harvesting of organs of thousands of Igbo and MASSOB youth, and the arrest of all politicians who purchased the said parts.

Igbo Mandate Congress wishes to use this internal memo to get feedback of proactive response from its patriots  in the North, through the usual channels, in the next 24 hours, ending 18.00, 27, 2020.

Rev Obinna Akukwee

Director General, Igbo Mandate Congress IMC

igbomandate@yahoo.com, @igbomandatecongress

Don’t Send Oba of Lagos Staff of Office to Nnamdi Kanu’-Igbo Mandate Congress Warns IPOB

Don’t Send Oba of Lagos Staff of Office to Nnamdi Kanu’-Igbo Mandate Congress Warns IPOB

Information at the disposal of Igbo Mandate Congress suggests that the stolen staff of Office of the Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu, has been sent from Lagos Island, around Silverbird Hotel, where the Endsars Protesters initially took it to, to the house of an IPOB chieftain living around the area.

The staff of office was taken by some Yoruba youth, but due to constant harassment by evil spirits, strange voices at night, the protesters who connived to take it, and coronate a new,young Oba of Lagos, has bowed to pressure from spirits  but  decided to hand it over to IPOB instead of returning it to Oba of Lagos Palace.

Igbo Mandate Congress begs the said IPOB chieftain, excited at receiving the sacred staff, to please remove the hand of the Igbo from the ancestral politics of Lagos State and the Yoruba people.

The #endsars protest is not about seizing the Staff of Oba of Lagos, it’s about exposing the age long wickedness of the Nigerian Police and the notorious SARS, of which Awkuzu in Anambra State is the worst in Nigeria, with evidences by us of people’s organ being harvested and sold under the very eyes of our politicians in APGA, PDP AND APC.

Igbo Mandate Congress have exposes SARS in the past, and insists that between 2006-2014, more than 5000 persons were killed under the guise of looking for MASSOB and Biafra Zionist Movement by PDP and APGA governors in Anambra and Imo States. Let us cleanse our own house of putrefying odors before we look outside Igboland

Igbo Mandate Congress advises IPOB in Lagos not to negotiate, receive in custody, transmit or encourage the seizure of the staff of office of a Yoruba King, let alone negotiate a ransom of N2 million naira to buy and send to Nnamdi Kanu in London. Let us not dabble into what doesn’t concern us before agents of bloodshed takeover Lagos.

 

 Rev Obinna Akukwee

Director General, Igbo Mandate Congress IMC

igbomandate@yahoo.com, @igbomandatecongress

#Endsars Protest not about Buhari, Fulani, Hausa, it's Igbo, Yoruba Police Wickedness to Fellow Tribesmen

 

By Obinna Akukwe

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The Endsars Protests is not all about Buhari. Atrocities were committed from the Obasanjo time to Jonathan time, using SARS to kill Igbo Youth. Those turning it into ethnic affairs are stupid.

James Nwafor who killed my friend and former Chief Security Officer to Uwazurike by name Chukwuemeka Ugah, is not from Borno or Katsina. He is from Ebonyi State. The rest killer commanders I have encountered over time, and rescued from their hands are all Igbos, Yorubas, Urhobos, Bini, Itsekiri. Lets remove tribal propaganda from this #endsars protest so that Nigeria can move forward.

Lets not turn the Endsars protest into Hausa-Fulani vs Igbo Affair as IPOB wants to do. More Igbos were killed during Peter Obi time by SARS Awkuzu than any other time, under the Supervision of Obasanjo, Jonathan, Peter Obi and Achike Udenwa , more than 5000 Igbos were killed by combined efforts of the Army and SARS Awkuzu during the shoot at sight order of Peter Obi. Afterward James Nwafor and SARS were used to kill and collect ransom.

I have written about how SARS Awkuzu murdered many people in the past, and have reported their atrocities to Ohanaeze Ndigbo, CAN,PFN,GAAICOM etc

I wrote a piece titled 'Murder of Prophet Nwoko, Chukwuemeka Ugah, others' last year June and I mentioned in paragraph eight, nine, ten, thus:

"In 2014, I was introduced to Comrade Chukwuemeka Ugah, 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".

let us not tribalize this SARS protest as IPOB wants us to do. SARS is Igbo police Wickedness to Ndigbo, Yoruba Police Wickedness to Yoruba, and Urhobo Police Wickedness to Fellow Urhobo's.

Those looting, burning, killing fellow compatriots in the name of Endsars are worse than SARS'