NOTE: For important BACKGROUND AND CAVEATS – with the distinction between the Two types of Nigeria that confuses people; and the distinction between the Biafra Republic of blessed memory and the Biafra scams of various named persons, please go to the section with that title below.

As Unitary Nigeria continues to run around in circles with ‘Biafra Agitators’ within and outside Nigeria, and as what would have been a straightforward Arrest, Prosecution, Trial, Conviction and Sentencing of Nnamdi Kanu for infractions against the Law, turned into an unending global circus from Abuja Courtroom to the streets of America, Onitsha, Aba, with a Brief Stop in Kenya and non-stop commotion on the Internet, it has become necessary to explain the situation to those who might be wondering what the complications and highly charged emotions on all sides are all about.

At the core of the matter is the question of the Unfinished Business of Nigeria with its Igbo-East since the end of the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-1970, particularly the pernicious Unitary Constitutional Arrangements, imposed by the Victorious Alliance of the Rest of Nigeria in that War, as Victory Charter, to Expropriate, Isolate, Exclude, Impede and Permanently Subjugate the Igbo-East in the Nigerian Union.

Here is the link to an article titled, “Nigeria’s Unfinished Business With The Igbo-East, The Mystery Of 1967 Biafra And The Fraud Of Biafra Restoration”

https://ninasmovementnews.substack.com/p/nigerias-unfinished-business-with

Decades of Vigorous and Scorching Implementation of Several Wicked Post-War Punitive Policies against the Igbo, forced the emergence of a resistance movement in the late 1990s by a younger generation of the Igbo who may not have fought in the 1967-1970 War but who were survivors of the child-starvation war-policy of Nigeria which killed over two million of their fellow Biafran Children by way of the fatal extreme malnutrition disease known as Kwashiorkor; and who grew up in the midst of the devastations and deprivations inflicted by Nigeria on the Igbo-East, compounded by policies like Quota System which hindered their progress even as pupils and students.

The pioneer platform for that resistance was named the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) by its founder, Ralph Uwazuruike, who tapped massively into the inexhaustible pool of goodwill and positive emotions flowing from the sacred Biafra of 1967 to set up what was essentially a grand deception to dupe the gullible Igbo, globally. 

10-15 years later, splinter groups began to break off from MASSOB to set up their own Biafra Franchise brand and that was how Nnamdi Kanu splintered off to form IPOB with a few others in 2013; just another Biafra Franchise brand in the business of duping, extorting and deceiving the embarrassingly gullible Igbo with a false promise of restoring the Defunct Sovereign State of Biafra for them. 

The Tragedy of the Igbo situation in Nigeria is that with the aid of propaganda, blackmail and violence and with the technology that enabled the internet-based Radio Biafra London, Nnamdi Kanu hoodwinked millions of ill-informed Igbo at home and abroad into thinking phantom Biafra he was advertising was the only escape for Igbo from the bondage of Nigeria. 

As Nigeria got worse on all fronts for the Igbo, and as the Murderous Fulani Invasion (masquerading as Herdsmen) continued, Nnamdi Kanu floated his Eastern Security Network (ESN) which soon morphed into Unknown Gunmen, violently enforcing IPOB’s Sit-At-Home Orders which Nnamdi Kanu initiated, expressly, stipulating Death as penalty for any violations including for poor rural women who may venture out to sell their perishable goods like vegetables to fund food for themselves and families for the day.  

The brutal Violence of Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB was such that when Ikonso whom he had made commander of his ESN was killed by Security Forces, he ordered that Ikonso must be buried with 2,000 human heads. 

This was the setting in which Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB/ESN Bloodletting Conglomerate violently imposed compliance on the Igbo Populace, turning Igboland into killing-fields over which he presided as an unquestionable “Supreme Leader” of the fiercely republican Igbo.

Just as Hamas did in Gaza with the Palestinians, Nnamdi Kanu, by terror, created the impression that his Biafra Restoration scam was an Igbo Project since he made any form of dissent dangerous and punishable by death, but the reality is that Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Restoration is not an Igbo Project in the manner that IPOB and those from the rest of Nigeria who seek Igbo annihilation portray it. 

Unfortunately, the Nigerian Government in its handling of the IPOB menace in Igboland left a lot of discerning Igbo including this writer with the impression that IPOB was a convenient license to resume the 1967-1970 War physically in the Igbo East, and sadly, Igbo Political Merchants across various political parties were more interested in using the IPOB mayhem as leverage for seeking political accommodation for themselves by way of appointments or their turn at Elective Office, especially the Presidency of Nigeria. 

It is the suspicion of many in Igboland that those Igbo Political Merchants are sponsors of the Biafra Franchise Merchants and are therefore complicit in the terror ravaging Igboland. 

Same goes for the Igbo Diaspora, particularly in the United States who openly fund the Terror being unleashed in Igboland by the Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB, ESN and their Unknown Enforcers and Executioners.  

Beyond going after IPOB/ESN Camps and Footsoldiers, there are a number of things that Governors in the Igbo-East could have done to halt these Igbo US Diaspora Sponsors of Terror in Igboland including requesting the extradition of identified IPOB/ESN/UGM Sponsors, or tracing the flow of money from those sponsors to the terror-footsoldiers in Igboland, but the Exclusive List on Nigeria’s Unitary Constitution put the two subject matters (ie Extradition and Banking Regulations) in the hands of the Federal Government of Nigeria. It is expected that the Governors of the Igbo-East must now publicly demand the initiation of Extradition Processes against identifiable sponsors of the Rogue Biafra Franchise for Sponsoring Terror in Igboland from the safety and comfort of their Transatlantic abodes.

For the avoidance of doubt, let it be known that more than any other factor, what Nigeria is dealing with in the Trial, Conviction and Sentencing of Nnamdi Kanu is cumulative effect of decades of Nigeria’s deficit of honour in its dealings with the Igbo-East, capitalized upon by the convict and his dishonest lawyers with the support of a hoodwinked largely ignorant but fanatic multitude, to forcefully thrust forward Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra-Or-Death Bloodsoaked scam as an Igbo Project.

It is not.

It is rather a sacrilegious attempt to fraudulently appropriate the humongous goodwill flowing from the Biafra of 1967 with which Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Restoration gambit has no nexus whatsoever.

The volatile crises erupting on all sides from this one Trial should persuade all stakeholders including Government, that the time has arrived for honestly engaging the intricately tied trinity of the Igbo Question In Nigeria, the Biafra Question and the Nigeria Question which landed Nigeria in the bind of a Death-Dispensing Unitary Constitutional-Order which must now be resolved by halting preparations for 2027 National Elections in order to commence a time-bound Transitioning for Constitutional Reconstruction, as South Africa did in 1990, to ease itself out the bind of Apartheid.

This Constitutional Reconstruction of Nigeria, particularly as Proposed by the NINAS Constitutional Force Majeure of December 16, 2020, is the most viable mechanism for ending the War that Nigeria launched against itself in its Eastern Region since the 6th of July in 1967 as it will reset the unworkable Union and stabilize this West African space.

Let it also be stated that anyone who is genuinely concerned about the Igbo plight in Nigeria (as was dramatized by the Trial of Nnamdi Kanu) must get involved in the push to ease out the Master-Servant Unitary Constitution of Nigeria, imposed as Victory Charter from the War of 1967-1970 and by which the Igbo and the Igbo-East (Dot-In-Circle) have been Politically Subjugated, Economically Strangulated, Comprehensively Expropriated and Permanently Excluded from the management of Nigeria particularly in the Security and Economic spheres.

Such persons, if they are members of the political class, and any Politician who are gearing up to contest must now join the Campaign to shelve further National Elections in 2027 under the 1999 Constitution and for the initiation of an immediate Transitioning Process to undertake the Constitutional Reconstruction of the Distressed Federation.

BACKGROUND AND CAVEATS:

1. There is a distinction BETWEEN the Federation of Nigeria which collapsed since 1966 AND the Unitary Union Nigeria defined by the 1999 Constitution. The Nigeria that must be put to Death now to save Nigerians is the Unitary Nigeria operating as Monster that feeds off the Blood of the Constituent Peoples of Nigeria.
2. There is also a distinction and complete demarcation BETWEEN the Defunct Republic of Biafra of 1967-1970 AND the post-1999 Phantom “Biafra Actualization/Restoration” Franchise scams of Uwazuruike’s MASSOB, of the IPOB of Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa, Ngozi Orabueze, Oge Nkere, Chika Edoziem, Chinasa Nwosu and the rest, which have nothing whatsoever to do with the Sacred Biafra of 1967. It is the post-1999 Phantom Biafra Restoration Franchise that must be put to Death to Liberate the Igbo from the Torment, Destruction and Bloodletting accompanying it.
3. There is a false impression deliberately created by the Rogue Biafra Franchise about NINAS and Tony Nnadi being opposed to Igbo Liberation since not supporting the “Biafra Restoration” scam of Nnamdi Kanu which they promote means being for One-Nigeria (ie Unitary Nigeria).

   Quite to the Contrary, the NINAS Decisive onslaught against the Unitary Constitution of Nigeria (1999) is the guaranteed pathway for Liberating the Sovereignty of the Igbo and other Constituent Peoples of the Failed Lugardian Experiment of 1914 called “Nigeria”, currently conscripted and held by force in the Nigerian Union by the fiat of that Constitution which was wrought via Decree No.24 of 1999.

4. The Trial, Conviction and Sentencing of Nnamdi Kanu by Nigeria for the heinous crimes he committed in the name of “Biafra Restoration”, do not absolve Nnamdi Kanu of responsibility for the Bloodletting and Destruction he and his IPOB/ESN/UGM Terror Conglomerate unleashed on Igboland in furtherance of the scam he tagged “Biafra Restoration”, but NEITHER is Nigeria absolved of its Decades of Unending Genocide and other Economic and Political crimes against the Igbo-East since 1966. It is for these reasons that NINAS and Tony Nnadi are vigorously pursuing the termination of both the untenable Unitary Nigeria and the Abominable Phantom Biafra to free the Igbo Sandwiched between the two evils.
5. Anyone who was in doubt about what the Union Reconfiguration Propositions and Campaign of NINAS was all about all these years should take a close look at current US Policy Actions on Nigeria which were distilled from the 2019 Seven-Month extensive engagements between a NINAS Team led by Tony Nnadi, and the Policy Beltways of Washington DC, resulting in the March 2020 CPC Designation of Nigeria, the June 2020 Executive Order by President Donald Trump authorizing consequential US Military Action, the 2025 Reinstatement of the CPC Designation and Planned US Military Action in Nigeria, and the Recommendation to Break-Up Nigeria if no rapid Solution is found, which simply means the Fundamental Constitutional Reconstruction of Nigeria which is what the NINAS Five-Point Proposition provides a Strategy Framework and Process for accomplishing, as the Grand Resolution of the Nigerian Union Dispute that has been outstanding since Aburi of January 1967, resulting in the War of 1967-1970 and the imposition of the so-called “1979 Constitution” that was carried forward in 1999.
6. Let it be noted that neither IPOB nor any of the Biafra Groups hopping all over Washington and the internet was involved in the NINAS engagements with the US Government which officially reckons the Biafra Groups as Violent Gangs like Boko Haram as contained in the Annual Report of the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). – Fig 1 below.