Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The Untold Story: Aba In The Firm Grip Of Kidnap Militia
Kidnappers in Aba today released the 15 school children they seized on Monday, but the full story of the militia responsible for the crime is far wilder and more dangerous, and has yet to be told.
While the rulers of the Nigeria and their supporters gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, to celebrate the country’s 50th anniversary of her flag independence today, Abia State, one of Nigeria’s oil producing states, continues to melt away in senseless armed violence.
The violence in the state, which prides itself as “GOD’S OWN STATE “ peaked with the abduction of the 15 pupils of Abayi International School in Aba of in the early morning hours of Monday, September 27th.
The incident took place in the market metropolis of Abia State fondly called Enyinmba City. The kidnappers, travelling in an ash-coloured Toyota Camry, intercepted the Abayi school van, and recklessly brandishing AK47 and G3 assault rifles, ordered the van to follow them, and took the kids to an unknown destination. Our correspondent reliably gathered that the kidnapping was carried out by Azubuike, popularly known as Osisikankpo, an ex- fighter of the Tom Ateke’s Icelander Confraternity.
Osisikankpo who previously lived in Port Harcourt, the capital of the Rivers State, relocated to Abia State where he continued to deploy the senseless violence he was using while undergoing his gang apprenticeship with Ateke. The gangster operates throughout the entire areas of Umuafuoka junction, near Ukwakiri in the Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, up to Oyigbo in Rivers State. He has been implicated in several cases of kidnapping and other forms of organised crime in his areas of operation.
Aba and other nearby towns and villages have of late been engulfed in absurd cases of criminality. A resident who gave his name as Mr. Okey Nnandi , a trader who fled the restive commercial city in the wake of the violence, lamented to Saharareporters on the phone, “It is sad that the Aba that we used to be proud of is gone. There is no government again. We don’t have a government.”
Since January this year, hordes of residents and others have either been killed or kidnapped by the rampaging Aba gangs:
1. On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, three British nationals and a Columbia contract staff of NetcoDietmann working at the Shell ‘s Afam VI Power plant in the Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State were kidnapped by gunmen who blocked their vehicle at Owaza junction in the Obingwa Loca Government Area of Abia State and whisked them away, shooting to death a mobile police officer who was with them. The victims were John Bennet, Kelvin Gray and Martin Phillip, all Britons, and the Columbia was Fabian Sanchez . Our correspondent was informed that the victims’ employer and the Rivers State government paid a ransom to the kidnappers before they were released, contrary to their claim that no ransom was paid. Saharareporters can also report authoritatively that Oisikankpo was responsible for that job.
2. On Monday, April 19, heavily armed gunmen kidnapped two German nationals’ they were later released. On Sunday, May 23, a kidnap gang seized 3 Chinese nationals and 9 Nigerians working for the Aba based Nigerian Steel Company (NSC) they were released after payment of some ransom money to the kidnappers. They were released on Saturday, May 29.
3. On July 10, Mrs. Victoria Ori, 48, was kidnapped by a 4-member gang, who demanded a whopping N20 million. Ori spent 16 days with her captors, and although the Abia police boss, Mr. Jonathan Johnson claimed that no ransom was paid, a security official who was involved in the negotiation confided in our reporter that “some ransom was paid but not the amount they demanded”.
4. A day after the kidnap of Mrs. Ori, journalists travelling through Aba after a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital were abducted at Umuafuoka junction near Ukwakiri in the Obingwa Local Government Area by a rampaging gang led by the notorious Osisikankpo who demanded a monstrous N250 million . Those kidnapped are Wahab Oba, chairman of the Lagos State council of the NUJ, Adolphus Okonkwo, secretary of Zone G of the NUJ and Slyvester Okereke, acting secretary, Lagos, NUJ. Others are Sola Oyeyipo, a Lagos-based journalist and their driver. Alhough, the police claimed that no ransom was paid to the gang, but a very reliable source revealed to Saharareporters in Enugu that N30 million was paid before hostages were left off the kidnappers hook.
5. On Tuesday, August 24, a gang led by a young man popularly called STONE that also specialises in kidnapping and ransom collection, and which operates mostly around the Osisioma Local Government Area of Abia State, robbed five commercial banks in the Osisioma area near Aba. They killed police officers guarding the banks and took away a whopping sum of money. Stone confirmed to our reporter that he was responsible for the operation; he said he was ready to accept amnesty and stop his criminal lifestyle. He said he does not trust the governor, Theodore Orji, a former staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who reportedly rigged election the 2003 governorship elections in favour of Orji Uzor Kalu, his predecessor and estranged godfather, who rewarded him with the governorship position.
6. On Sunday, September 7, gunmen numbering about 15 invaded the Jerusalem for All Nations Church at Umuneke community in the Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State where over 5,000 worshippers were praying. They abducted the church pastor, David Kelechi, fondly called Christ Junior by his members, and took him to an unknown destination; Chief Lambert Nmecha , a politician, was gunned down during the incident.
7. On Saturday, September 11, an Indian national working with an electronic company in Aba was stopped by a five-member kidnapper. When he refused to enter his would-be abductors’ car, they shot him dead and fled the scene.
8. On Friday, September 17, Dr. Stanley Uche, a gynaecologist and proprietor of Victory Christian Hospital in Aba, was kidnapped on his way to his younger sister’s funeral in his Imo State home town, travelling with his wife. Few days later, his wife returned from organizing a whopping N30 million ransom the criminals demanded, at a location given to her. After giving the heartless kidnappers the money in order to set her husband free, she was shockingly given a lifeless body.
9. On Saturday, September 25, two mobile policemen on patrol in their new Hilux jeep provided to them by Abia State government were killed in an ambush coordinated by Osisikankpo’s gang at Umuafor in Ukwu in the Obingwa Local Government Area. The vehicle was burnt by the gunmen. The Abia State police command lamented that in the last six months it has lost 27 of its men to attacks by the gangs, and Corporals Isaiah Eziaku and John Alumona were arrested for allegations of connivance with the criminal gangs.
The attack on policemen is proof nobody is safe in the Abia carnage, even the armed. Saharareporters investigations indicate that Obingwa, Obehie and Ugwunagbo remain the breeding grounds of the gangs. But some of the gunmen operating in the state also say they would have surrendered their weapons and accepted amnesty, but that the governor has told them in secret that he will use them as election militia in 2011, and later disarm them. Orji is alleged to have embezzled state funds, some of which he has used to acquire choice landed properties in Umuahia, the state capital. In August, Governor Orji resigned from the Progressive People’s Party (PPA) that brought him to power, and joined the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA); he later dumped APGA and is now a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The weak and corrupt governor of Abia State is now a good associate of President Goodluck Jonathan.
I call him God sent librator
While many call him Ochendo I call him God sent librator Gov. T.A. Orji Ochendo is a true hero of our time for mortgaging his life and future to wrestle Abia from the hands of desperadoes.
Many will not understand because most of things happend behind the scene.
but the previlaged once took eventary of what happend and the numerous death tolls.
All Abians should do at this point in time is to rally round this God sent librator to return the state to the status of God’s own state.
Because no one knows this state more than he does based on the vast experienses he had from gthe post of the chief of staffs to the present post of the governor.
PLANTING OHAJURUKA is "DIVID AND RULE" Let someone tell THE MASTER STRATEGIAN that we already know the stratagy which he is about using against the people of Umuahia and abia in general.
ORJI UZOR KALU’S : LEAVE ABIA ALONE!
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POINT OF CORRECTION
PLEASE CHECK THE FACTS VERY WELL BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ARTICLES. FROM THE FEW ARTICLES I HAVE READ FROM YOUR REPORTS SOME OF THEM ARE VERY WRONG ESPECIALLY THE ARTICLE ON OSISIKANKWU THE CRIMINAL MILITANT.MOST OF ALL HIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES WERE COMMITED IN UKWA, WE HAVE UKWA EAST AND UKWA WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS. OBINGWA IS VERY FAR FROM THESE PLACES PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU REPORT CORRECTLY TO AVOID EMBARRASSING PEOPLE FROM OBINGWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA. AFTER ALL LOT WAS RESCUED FROM SODDOM. ALWAYS KNOW THE EXACT LOCAL GOVERNMENT A TOWN FALLS IN BEFORE PUBLISHING YOUR REPORTS.
THANK YOU.
JUNK
sahara reporters should be a bit more mature and professional in their reporting. What is the relationship between the activity of kidnappers in Aba due to the governors non-performance and the governors relationship with the President?.
Re: Ngwa man stop complaining
My dear Obianefo, you could have earned yourserlf an applause for your comment without writing or saying what you dont know. who told you an average ngwa man is lazy. From your write-up it's so clear that you are not only being sentimental but a low breed tribalist. You should have done your investigation very well before putting your insignificant 'IQ' on display. If you can think straight a little you ought to have looked inwards at least to examine the root of these kidnappings. most of the classical kidnappers involved are not ngwas. I pray you to always remove sentiments when trying to communicate across a global medium.
ORJI UZOR KALU THE MASTER STRATEGIST AND LIBERATOR OF ABIANS: S
ORJI UZOR KALU THE MASTER STRATEGIST AND LIBERATOR OF ABIANS: SPOT THE DIFFERENCES
When I heard About the Death of Ms. Chinwe Masi, On Thursday August 19, 2010 At the Potomac, United States Residence of former Governor of Abia state, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, I felt a cold chill. I simply told myself, I hope it is not what I think. This is so because from my experience, not even an autopsy would determine the real cause of the death. I say this with utmost certainty and I know why. That would be a story for another day.
Again, when news of the abduction of fifteen school children in Abia state diffused to varying audiences, something struck me. Not that I had not been privy to several other gory details filtering from the state, the merciless killing of innocent people including women and children; the reckless and shameless rapping of women victims among who were also grand mothers, the wanton destruction of property and bizarre manner in which Aba, a city of fearless entrepreneurs was fast heading to oblivion, I strongly believe that the master may be at work. Aba decimated Rwanda in terms of gruesome killing. It made Somali a non – issue in terms of unclothed aggression. The number of persons killed can compete favourably with that of Iraq the same week Saddam Hussein was guest of the hangman’s noose. Who is trying to paralyze the will of a once bold and decisive Aba populace?
It struck me that there is a man I know in Abia who in concert with his family members believe that terror is the ultimate way to paralyze a people’s will to resist and destroy their ability to plan a strategic response. The goal in a terror campaign is not battlefield victory but causing maximum chaos and provoking the other side into desperate overreaction.
It stuck me that this may be a direct attack on the recent declaration by Gov. T.A. Orji that he has facilitated the liberation of the state from the stronghold of one family. may be; Abians are paying the ultimate prize of daring to disconnect the family from unabashed looting of their collective wealth, the decision to make Abians the trustees of their resources and disengage from the barbaric and life damaging strategies of a family that had held them spell bound for over Ten years. A family whose stock in trade is killing and maiming, that specializes in provoking their enemies into desperation overreaction.
The abduction of school children in Abia is not the crux of this piece. It only took me back to memory lane. It reminded of how a crime is busted in advance countries. Most of the time, you know a criminal by his modus operandi, you can identify him by his style and most remarkable by his traces of mistakes. What happened in Abia in the last few weeks can only be handiwork of a master strategist, any person or group who has or have little regard for the sanctity of the human being; a person whose pursuit for material wealth and ephemeral niceties of life compel him to do unspeakable things, whose crave for power can only draw him to debasement of the human mind.
The events caused me to have a quick review of my memoirs (they are no longer secret) those nine years I worked as an undercover reporter, following the Uzor – Kalu family and getting the minutest details of their activities and definition of power. Let me confess that I was fascinated by their show of solidarity amongst each other, especially the fraternity that existed between mother and son and the bizarre manner in which they unleashed terror on friends and foes alike.
Then, when it was announced on the 1st of October that the school children had been rescued, I heaved a long sign of relief. I experienced an indescribable joy that God may have started the long, tortuous but assured journey of liberating Abians finally from their captors. Their captors are not kidnappers who were in the bushes. Their captors are not the criminals who despoiled their wives and daughters. Those young men were only arrows in the bow of the real gods. They would still face the same fate that befell others before them. The people that recruited them know how to dangle enticing bait. But, their grips are firm. Isincerely wished that Abians would cash in on this temporary victory to consolidate on the bravery of their Governor, T.A. Orji who shocked book makers by sacking the devil, the monster and the cabal that had held Abians captive for over ten years.
Before I left Abia state, I had stood by the tower along Enugu- PH express way. The tower is so strategically located that East of it, is gateway for all those going to south East and south West Nigeria. You can access our south- south brother from the West and North of it. All northerners find their way to the state from the south of it. The implication is that from whichever part of Nigeria you are coming from, you would access the tower. It was at that point that I swore perpetual restlessness and shameful death for any person or group in the state who had strategized to kill people, cause mayhem and strip individuals of their future and direction in life.
Before you join me in going through the events of the mind boggling years of my stay with the self-style most powerful family in Abia (at least until the bubble bust in 2010) may we ask God to grant eternal rest to the souls of HRH Eze Sampson Ukaegabu, Agustine Agbarakwe; Chinelo Esinulo, Udogu, Victoria Momah, Ugochukwu Ekwu, sir Law Maduka, C.C. Ubani, Anya Oruada and a host of others who lost their lives to the desperation of the Uzor – kalu family. May we also ask God to strengthen the lives of those who stood like the rock of Gibraltar against their evil machination, men and women who God spared their lives to enable them corroborate stories like this and all those who went, saw and conquered largely for God’s graciousness and mostly for the fact that light must prevail against darkness. May we hail the invincibility of people like chief Allen Nwachukwu, Chief John Okam; Mercy Ukaegbu and even Stephen Amanze (though critically ill) and a whole lot of others who have fought and conquered death as master-minded by the master strategist.
Who is a master- strategist? Robert Greene gave us an insight into who could best fit into his idea of a master- strategist. The Uzor – Kalu must be good student of Robert Greene because their method of operation varied but gave the same result, which is; aggression in its most unclothed manner. They knew from the unset that, in a world where political consideration is paramount, the most effective form of aggression is the best hidden one: aggression behind a compliant, even loving exterior. To follow the passive aggression strategy you must seem to go along with people, offering no resistance. But, actually you dominate the situation. Just make sure you have disguised your aggression enough that you can deny it exists’’.
History is replete with stories of men who use potent strategies to positively advance the cause of their people. These men did not kill at the slightest provocation. They did not destabilize their various societies by inflicting untold hardship on their people. They did no crush opposition or apply fetish practices to wrestle power from others. They did not use others to cover their evil and make scapegoats of unsuspecting loyalist. The strategist known in history of mankind where those who defied inclement weather and strangulating superior power and forces to bring succour to their people. They were good losers and not do – or die politicians.
Mahatma Ghandi applied his own strategies to ensure that India secured independence from Britain. Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia shall be free fame; applied his tactics in promoting sound moral and ethical values. Today, we remember him not by the number of people he killed or suppressed but for changing the developmental face of a free Zambia. When Martin Luther King (Jnr.) pursued the campaign of a free liberated and equality driven American, he chose the path of non- violence. Today, he is a revered martyr and not despised by the later generation. Nelson Mandela was subjected to the most excruciating and dehumanizing condition. Even with presidential powers, he still promoted a free and united South African. He was not known to have emasculated opposition or eliminated perceived or imaginary enemies. We could go on and on to make a stretched list of men whose power and manipulative skills inspired their countrymen to seek beyond the sky. Men who did not have to secure assurance of loyalty by causing their aides and acolytes to go through harrowing oath - sessions. They did not have to make the use of cyanide a routine and quick to announce to the world that the victim died of a deadly ailment. Welcome to the world of Uzor- Kalu.
At the eve of Orji Uzor Kalu’s rise to stardom, I remember the amiable corporal Douglas who was his aide de camp (ADC) even as a private powerful VIP. I had seen OUK then as a firebrand Youngman who was consumed by the passion of making a statement that his generation has arrived. I valued his sense of industry. But, I did not particularly like his desperation and unbridled quest for political power. Douglas was soon recruited into his army of executioners. In twists and rapid turn events believed to have been tied to the same desperation to become Governor; the land of Igbere, OUK’s home soil was desecrated. The land witnessed the gruesome murder of her traditional ruler, HRH Eze Sampson Ukaegbu. It is obvious that neither the master strategist nor his accomplice aides envisaged the magnitude of chain reaction that would greet the death of the royal father. I watched a community disintegrated by the tactics of her own son. For years, Igbere became a slaughter ground with unspeakable record genocide. Brothers were pitched against their quiet of a once peaceful community. There is nobody of Igbere descent who would say in all honesty that Igbere has survived the domino effect of that singular incident almost twelve years after. A lot of families that were sacked still remain in exile. Even as Governor, OUK could not bring the machinery of the state to arrest the mayhem. He would not have because though he started the fire, he was seriously unable to put it out.
The family’s 28 Nweke street Aba residence was a military cantonment. The spirit of camaraderie prevailed. Everybody was strategically placed in a platoon. There were platoon commanders and quarter master. There was also a general officer commanding, a rank the master shared concurrently with his powerful mother. Take it or leave it, I knew that no major decision in the state could be taken without the consent of the mother- general. I like the regimentation that existed, everybody had common gaols, which were to do the bidding of the master, whip people to fall in line and apply the strategy of terror on real and imaginary enemies. I saw Augustine Agbarakwe, their Nweke security man as a quarter guard. He is no longer alive to tell his history. Austine was one of the foot soldiers who masterminded the killing of the traditional ruler. The family thought he knew too much and was fast becoming a security risk. Austine was tried and returned guilty. They sentenced him to death in a trial where no witnesses are allowed, where the accused cannot even apply conscience to epitomize the defence of his character. The poor security man died in mysterious circumstances. He was the hunter who was hunted.
Where is Chinelo Esinulo, the staff of National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) attached as a detail to Mother Excellency? I wept as the poor girl was accused of concealing with the intent of Stealing, the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Naira (N500,000) in a freezer. This was just a case of calling a dog a bad name in order to hang it. Chinelo’s undoing was being privileged to have been told by Agbarakwe the gory and eye popping details of how the Traditional Ruler was killed. Unknown to them, mama was around and eavesdropped every detail of their discussions. There were many Chenelos who became victims of desperate circumstances. One thing I believe about life and it is true is that the wicked will never go unpunished. No matter how hard one tries to conceal the truth, it must surface one day.
What reason (s) would one give for not attending the burial of his close domestic servant or ADC? The answer to that question is found in the reckless manner in which dubious gods instruct their agents not to see corpses in order to remain powerful. I have also wondered if the day it pleases God to take away life of any member of that family whether they would still see the person corpse as neither Orji nor the mother sees corpse. At least, they did not see that of any of their close aids or associates who were believed to have been killed by them.
All the politicians who were weak enough to accept their oath sessions as directed by the Okija Chief Priest were either struck by strange ailments or died in mysterious circumstances. I recollect the dramatic manner in which one House of Representative hopeful, simply called Maja intelligently disembarked from a vehicle that was Okija Bound. The vehicle was packed full of mothers, fathers and youths who wanted to have a shot at one political office or the other. The trip to Okija shrine was to get assurance of their unalloyed support. Maja pretended to have gone to urinate but fled from there. This is just one out of the very many embarrassing stories associated with the Uzor – Kalus. A personality like Chief Allen Nwachukwu became a frequent story after one of those their trips. Allen took the oath but used excreta as an antidote. He was said to have destroyed the potency of the oath by touching human excreta on his tongue. Unknown to the beneficiaries of those oaths, the concoctions they took were mixed with cyanide that kills slowly. This accounts for the very many dangerous and indefinable ailments that strike most of these politicians. When they eventually die, they are either branded AIDS victims or such other killer diseases. The same oath brought stroke, paralysis and later death to C.C Ubani, former Council Chairman and latter Commissioner in the state. I expect Mercy Ukeagbu, their sister and associate to sincerely tell the story of the genesis of her ailment today. These are ailments that defy medical solutions and strange to scientific diagnosis.
A whole lot of others were not as knowledgeable as Allen. Ubani I. Ubani and Emma Omokwe were major proponents of the fetish practices. I stand to be corrected by the duo if the primary motive of the whole exercise was not to destroy the psyche of the recipients and cause them to die slowly on the long run. Ubani I. Ubani’s sudden exile to overseas was a response to the desperation of the family. Eleke Chukwu, a fine gentle man was Chairman of Aba North, crossed his bounds in romancing with Uzor – Kalus. If you ask questions about his death, you will be given very unsatisfactory reasons as the cause of his death, Truth is, Eleke did not die a natural death. They took advantage of his desire to get to the top to undo him. Steve Amanze is yet to recover from the after effect of the visit to the shrine. Steve serves in different military administrations before the advent of Uzor – Kalu. Today he has been reduced to a working corpse and at a pitiable state of not being married at a ripe age of about sixty. Just what is the need?
I was in the family residence the day security operatives allegedly came to arrest mama. The bulk of the so called resistance came from their private police. They have police and uniforms all in a bid to engage in extreme measures to deal with friends and foes. I have repeatedly said friends and foes because they attack their friends to destabilize their will to ever want to dump them. They attack their enemies as a statement that they are superior. Anya Oruada was killed by their own police and for goodness sake not by any member of the Nigerian Police Force as alleged.
If they do not attack their friends, then why did they kill Sir Law Maduka? Maduka was their friend and naturally was romancing with their estranged friend Gov. T.A Orji the same fate befell Ugochukwu Ekwu who was sent to his early grave for daring to dump Orji’s Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA). The question now is how many would die before they are reminded that the party is over for their family? Who would remind them that the tune of the Abia music has changed?
Of all those years, what interested me the most was the activities of the ageless mama especially her sexual escapades with young men and unsuspecting contractors in the state. What would an over 65 year old woman be doing with a thirty year old? It is so bad that any one of these young patrons who deviate from her bidding pays dearly. She either runs things with you or she runs it for you. Christian Kamalu and Dr. G.C Duru were at different times believed to be beneficiaries of these lustful tendencies. Everybody knows the story of G.C Duru and how they vowed to make him a beggar, falling from grace to grass for daring the dynasty. Again, the rest is now history. I recollect how the Father of Chukwu Udogu, mama’s domestic servant was taught a bitter lesson for daring to interfere in mama’s bid to direct the cause of his son’s life. Mama insisted on choosing a wife for Chukwu. Chukwu was sacked. Mr Udogu did not know that nobody challenges the earth goddess and goes scot free. The rest is now history. Mama’s method of operation is again different but still tied to the same unbridled desire to always be at the helm of all affairs including people’s private life. This was why she successfully masterminded the looting of Aba North (One Local Government that had long been converted to the family’s many estates) by her late boyfriend’s son and a father of her son Mascot Uzor – Kalu. As Council Chairman, Ifeanyi Ikwechegh carried on as if noting mattered. By the time he left, unpaid salaries of workers had jumped to a record nine months, the highest in the history of Local Government Administration in Nigeria. Nobody touches mama’s personal candidates as she pampers them to the envy of friends and foes. She was the state personified. When her woman leader Victoria Momah queried her ill treatment to the very many women who abandoned their families and households to show their obeisance to her, she was the law.
Lat us digress a little and talk about the women who keep vigil in her house to sing and dance for her. These women are in hundreds and had abandoned their routine family chores to genuflect for the earth goddess. They are either seeking for appointments or interceding for their spouses and most of time for their concubines.
They live, reflect and dream mama who they believe would be the author and finisher of their fate. Many of them left their husbands and families to continually pay homage to a mother who has everything but the milk of human kindness. They were being held captive as their lives and daily activities were apparently regimented by the earth goodness herself.
The same mama ensured that contractors in the state give a chunk of their take in projects executed. She ensured that the few young ones among them were victims of her sexual escapades. The reason she does that possibly mixed, first is to water her financial empire and most importantly to service the potency of her charms and voodoo practices.
The process of liberating Abians started with that phenomenal thunderstorm that uprooted fetish and occult devices that held T.A. Orji to ransom sometime in June 2007. It took another three years for Ochendo to finally denounce the family that had long despoiled Abians of their collective wealth. Abians have only one option left and that is wholeheartedly join forces with Gov. T.A. Orji who has almost mortgaged his life and future to wrestle Abia from this array of desperadoes. Ochendo should recall what experiences he had as Chief of Staff and take some precautionary measures. First he should commerce an unreserved destruction of the cage round about the tree in his government house. The cage houses a hybrid shrine OUK imported from Bini, and ought to be destroyed to fast track the process of liberation.
Abians should hold unto God and pray fervently that the conviction which propelled Ochendo to denounce them is sustained. The fight will not be for the weak as the people I know would pool all their resources together to turn back the table.
What Ochendo needs is to display sincerity of purpose and keep Abians on the alert. Having survived their first major onslaught after his historic abandonment of the Uzor – Kalus, Ochendo has garnered for himself the personality of a true hero of our time, breaking a chain that ripped Abians off and made them strangers to their God – given resources. He should not relent. He needs an orchestrated consolidation of the liberation process.
Whereas I am not holding brief for Ochendo’s information officers, I used the sequence of reminiscences narrated above to draw a line between being a master strategist and a liberator. At any rate, liberation is the only option to take Abia back to its pride of place, return her people to the glorious days when nobody could destroy their will and most importantly return the state to the status of God’s own state.
Ajuluchukwu A. Agu.
Former Undercover Journalist for OUK.
Re: The Untold Story!
"On Saturday, September 11, an Indian national working with an electronic company in Aba was stopped by a five-member kidnapper. When he refused to enter his would-be abductors’ car, they shot him dead and fled the scene."
That Indian national was my colleague. Besides, the correct date of the unfortunate incident was Wednesday 8th September, not 11th Sept as reported by Sahara Reporters. They accosted him at about 8:05pm as he came out of a mini supermarket and subsequently shot him pointblank in the head for refusing to follow them!
BREAKING NEWS ON ABIA STATE
This is breaking news;
A notorious criminal/kidnapper in Abia known as ESCAPEE, who is equally a Special Assistant to Governor T.A Orji of Abia State, was today arrested in Aba, by the Joint Military operations, with N12 million cash (mint). We hear the Governor is doing everything possible to effect his release. Details later
The governor knows Azubike
The governor knows Azubike personally. It is an open secret in Abia State. He is the ring leader of these kidnappings to cover his gross incompetence
Dis piece is so true! There
Dis piece is so true! There are more gory stories that were not told...stories of rape of innocent women, writing of threat letters to people to produce a 'ransom' else they are kidnapped or killed (the threats were carried out in many cases)...but whoever gave SR these incidences did tell the truth...they are all verifiable...well done SR! Please lets keep talking about this issue of kidnapping in Aba and other parts of d country where it obtains until our government wakes up to its responsibility of protecting lives and property.
Mr. Obaniefo watch it!
Mr. Obaniefo or whatever you call yourself do get your facts rights before you start making unguarded statements. For your information, most lands in the Ikwerre region today were forcefully acquired by successive governments to develop PH city. The Army barracks, Ariforce base along Aba road, the RSUST, GRA phase 1 and 2, University of Port Harcourt, PH international airports etc are but very few examples. We have been used and marginalised in the past without due consultations from successive governments. PH as we have it today wouldn't have been if not for the benevolence and accomodating spirit of the Ikwerre people which the Igbos do not possess. So pls. watch it!
Disgrace of a state
Abia is today the most disgrace of a state where assholes govern,control and dictates affairs...very unfortunate.
hmmm i dont think some people
hmmm
i dont think some people know what is happening in Abia state, or they would ve atleast read the article b4 saying anything.
so, it is still the northerners that did all these evil in the state.
ooohhhh! things can never be better until we start taking responsibilities, and stop shifting blames
hmmm i dont think u know what
hmmm
i dont think u know what is happening in Abia state, or u would ve atleast read the article b4 saying anything.
so, it is still the northerners that did all these evil in the state.
ooohhhh! things can never be better until we start taking responsibilities, and stop shifting blames
NGWA MAN STOP COMPLAINING
JAJA WACHUKU FIRST FOREIGN WAS AN NGWA MAN.UZOIGWE DEPUTY TO MBAKWE IN OLD IMO WAS NGWA. OGWUMA EX CBN GOV, WABARA EX SENATE PRESIDENT, ETC WERE ALL NGWAS. IF YOU SOLD YOUR LAND LIKE ONITSHA PEOPLE AND IKWERES DID. WHY THE COMPLAIN. NON INDIGENES DEVELOPED ABA, PHC, ONITSHA, LAGOS ETC. THE AVERAGE NGWA MAN IS LAZY ALWAYS SUFFERING PERSECUTION MANIA. WAKE UP AND DO GOOD. DURING THE WAR, OJUKWU HAD TO APPOINT AN ADMINISTRATOR FOR ABA PROVINCE, WHY? INSTEAD OF WALLOWING IN SELF PITY, LET THE UKWA/ NGWA RISE UP AND EXPUNGE KILLINGS AND KIDNAPPING FOR WHICH THEY ARE NOW KNOWN AND EMBRACE THE WAYS OF CIVILIZED PEOPLE. YOU CANNOT BE AN ISLAND UNTO YOURSELVES.
THE BEND CONNECTION
My brother this piece is the truth. Whether they like to hear or not. God bless the Ngwa Nation
u make me laugh, so the
u make me laugh, so the kidnaps are carried out by the 'northeners' right? u are so pea-brained. and we have a serious problem in Nigeria, with people like u in it. may God help our dear country
WHEN CRIMINALS ASCEND THE
WHEN CRIMINALS ASCEND THE THRONE OF LEADERSHIP, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? IS IS TOO MUCH TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN A FAILED STATE, IF I MAY ASK, OR WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?
No please dont u see it. Its
No please dont u see it. Its the handiwork of the wicked Northerners who want to sap the strength of Ndigbo. They are jealous of our progress and industry. We are God fearing (We have Nigeria's would-be-saint), humble, honest and trustworthy. Lets unite: Otokoto, Cults, corrupt politicians, Kidnappers, Armed Robbers, counterfeiters etc and raise the flag of Biafra again. Igbo Kwenu!
Jonathan should set up
Jonathan should set up military tribunal to try and kill by open firing squard Jomo Gbomo and at least 30 Mend members. As for Aba kidnappers should recieve the same treatment...trials should last longer than 2-weeks. This are enemy combatant and should be trated as enemies of the Nigerian state. JONATHAN ACT NOW OR........
Theodore Orji and the LIZARD Mentality
A popular saying in my own part of Abia State (Old Bende), goes this way: A lizard who is unable to deliver freely like her mates, blames her predicament on her rivals(NDI NWUNYEDIYA.
This is the most fitting description of the person of the little-minded/petty/dimunitive man, foisted on Abia State, by the Uzo Kalu's of Igbere. Here was a man who never contested any election, never campaigned, never voted, nor was voted for, as a result of long incaceration, (February 03, 2007 - May 25, 2007), for directly pilfring over N3 billion from Abia coffers, via direct across the counter withdrawals, as Chief of Staff to the other Orji. Here is a man who should eternally remain grateful to his former Deputy, komas, who campaigned vigorous for the tag team in his absence, who won victory, and struggled to release him fro incaceration, not minding the pressures from all quaters to take-over and be sworn in. Immediately he came out, he took immediate steps to humiliate his Deputy, which efforts culminated in his reignation on July 31, 2010, and his controversial but meaningless "impeqchment" by the '24 errand boys' in Abia House of Assembly. here is a professional INGRATE, BLACKMAIL, and a CRASS FAILURE of a Governor, accusing people of the same offence he commits, to wit: EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIPOFf KIDNAPPING .
Between 2008 and today, he has accused several people of being behind Kidnapping in Abia State. First it was ONYEMA UGOCHUKWU & PDP, later it moved to the ENTIRE NGWA RACE, then it was narrowed down to ABARIBE & EZIUCHE UBANI, then to N.C.OKOLI (MACRO),whom he fraudulently and wickedly caused to be DETAINED by collaborating Leadership of Abia Police Command, just for asking to be sworn in as Aba South Elected Chairman, as ordered by the Tribunals. Later when his original Party PPA queried him on his obvious non performance, he sneaked back to 'Kidnapper Macro', begged him and used to to penetrate the Leadership of APGA, before he crossed over to APGA. He subsequently appointed him Caretaker Committee Chairman, for Aba South, the major reason why he was called a Kidnapper in the first instance. The difference between the elected and appointed position is so glaringly clear to us, especially on the issue of CONTROL OF LOCAL GOVT. FUNDS.
When the no nonsense APGA Leadership made it so clear to him THAT HE MUST EITHER PERFORM AS A CONDITION FOR GETTING A SECOND TERM TICKET, or SHIP OUT, the vain little mn sought the help and hands of "SENIOR KIDNAPPERS, (Onyema Ugochukwu, Ike Nwachukwu, Ojo Maduekwe, Vin Ogbulafor, Enyi Abaribe, nkech Nwaogu Eziuche Ubani, Nkiru Onyejiocha,Patience Jonathan and overnight billionaire Olisa Metu). He compromised them with a total of N850million & $2million, to look the other way, while he KIDNAPPED the PDP Structure in Abia. In an unprecedented show of shame and diplay of political harlotry, dim wit Theodore crossed over to PDP, embraced all these "kidnappers, and declared them saints.
Now it is the turn of his former Deputy. Less than 30 minutes after he declared for Abia Governorship, this failed governor who brooks no opposition, and who thinks that Abia Government Seat is for him and his family only, enticed the corrupt Abia Police Commission to frame-up and invite Akomas, on trumped-up charges of Kidnapping. If not for the outcries of Facebook users and well meaning Abia and indeed Nigerians, Akomas would have been detained and injected with a slow killing lethal substance (akin to the type administerd on Shehu Musa Yaradua. less than 24 hours after Akomas was freed, Theodore the KIDNAPPER IN CHIEF of Abia State, has shifted the accusation to his enstraged godfather and godmother. How com every person TA quarrels with, including the entire UKWA/NGWA race who are demanding as a matter of right, the Abia Governor Seat, is a Kidnapper?
Yet TA hobnobbs with and even appoints to prominent positions, notorious criminals and armed robbers in Abia. Few examples will suffice, ESCAPEE, a terrible criminal is his Special assistant/Confidant. The new Caretaker Chairman of Ukwa West LGA, is a member of gang of the notorious Kiddnapper, called Azubike (aka OSISIKANKPO). SO WHO IS FOOLING WHO?
Less than 2 weeks ago, the spouse of a top Security detail was kidnapped in Abia. Abuja put a call to TA, and less than 5 minutes after, TA used his phone number 07082800000 to call the kidnappers to release the Lady in question, oblivous of the fact that he was being monitored. The Lady was promptly released and guided into safety
POSERS
Who alerted OSISIKANKPO less than 24 hours that the joint military onslaught against hin is imminent? CHINEDU ORJI (aka IKUKU, d de-facto Governor of Abia state and son to TA)
Who is behinding KIDNAPPING IN ABIA STATE?
TA and Son. QED
Quote: “Let us not blame the
Quote:
“Let us not blame the gods for our failures as a nation now. The fault lies in us the electorates and not the politicians who bribe us with proceeds from their Otokoto blood stained outfits” –Deri
@Deri:
So it has finally dawned on you that Nigeria is indeed a failed state? If you have now come around to acknowledge what we have been saying all along, how then could you shamelessly posit that it’s all the making of the ‘electorates’ and not of the corrupt Nigerian politicians? If may ask, where did the politicians you exonerated of blame come from? Were/are they not part and parcel of the lager failed project called Nigeria?
Though you tried to sound national (or wish to be so viewed) in your warped analysis, those of us who have dossier on you culled from your often Igbo phobic correspondents know perfectly well where you are coming from, so when next you write, don’t pretend to be what you are not.
Coming back to the issue on debate, my position has been and still remains that until those in Abuja and their godsons and daughters in the federating units(States, LGAs, Wards, villages, etc) put in place a comprehensive social security network that will cater for the BASIC needs of these youths, give EVERY Nigerian child the opportunity to be educated at the government expense as is the practice in other countries as rich as Nigeria, upgrade our schools to meet the standard so it produces employable school leavers and graduates, and create a sustainable industrial base from which industries and factories can sprang to absorb the employable amongst our idling youths, I’m afraid we will continue to witness these sort of madness.
For you cannot have a situation where from the day a child is born to the day he dies, there isn’t anything the child has to show as benefit from the government as a citizen. This is more so if you happen to come from the South-East where there seems to be a grand design by past and present occupiers of power at the centre and in the states to deny the citizens of the area what is rightly theirs. So in as much as I agree that there are criminal-minded people taking advantage of the void created by the governments at all levels to wreck havoc on the citizenry, the lager truth we seem to avoid like a plaque is that we cannot expect to or have peace when the majority are being emasculated by the FEW who were/are opportuned to be at the corridors of power.
The solution is simple: THOSE AT THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS WHO HAVE CONSPIRED TO HOLD THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE HOSTAGE BY WAY OF CORRUPTION AND STEALING OF PUBLIC FUNDS SHOULD LET GO OF THEIR CAPTIVES BY INVESTING THOSE MONEY IN THE PEOPLE AND BUILD INFRASTRUCTURES THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE THE DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THEIR VICTIMS IN A PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS NIGERIA.
BLAMING THE VICTIMS WHILE EXONORATING THE VICTIMIZERS (Jonathan and co)IS SELF-DEFEATIST AT BEST AND DELUSIONARY AT WORST.
Blame The Victimizers Not The Victims.
Quote:
“Let us not blame the gods for our failures as a nation now. The fault lies in us the electorates and not the politicians who bribe us with proceeds from their Otokoto blood stained outfits” –Deri
@Deri:
So it has finally dawned on you that Nigeria is indeed a failed state? If you have now come around to acknowledge what we have been saying all along, how then could you shamelessly posit that it’s all the making of the ‘electorates’ and not of the corrupt Nigerian politicians? If may ask, where did the politicians you exonerated of blame come from? Were/are they not part and parcel of the lager failed project called Nigeria?
Though you tried to sound national (or wish to be so viewed) in your warped analysis, those of us who have dossier on you culled from your often Igbo phobic correspondents know perfectly well where you are coming from, so when next you write, don’t pretend to be what you are not.
Coming back to the issue at debate, my position has been and still remains that until those in Abuja and their godsons and daughters in the federating units(States, LGAs, Wards, villages, etc) put in place a comprehensive social security network that will cater for the BASIC needs of these these youths, give EVERY Nigerian child the opportuniting to be educated at the government expense as is the practice in other countries as rich as Nigeria, ungrade our schools to meet the standard so it produces employable school leavers and graduates, and create a sustainable industrial base from which industries and factories can sprang to absorb the employable amongst our idling youths, I’m afraid we will continue to witness these sort of madness.
For you cannot have a situation where from the day a child is born to the day he dies, there isn’t anything the child has to show as benefit from the government as a citizen. This is more so if you happen to come from the South-East where there seems to be a grand design by past and present occupiers of power at the centre and in the states to deny the citizens of the area what is rightly theirs.
So in as much as I agree that there are criminal-minded people taking advantage of the void created by the governments at all levels to wreck havoc on the citizenry, the lager truth we seem to avaid like a plaque is that we cannot expect to or have peace when the majority are being emasculated by the FEW who were/are opportuned to be at the corridors of power.
The solution is simple: THOSE AT THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS WHO HAVE CONSPIRED TO HOLD THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE HOSTAGE BY WAY OF CORRUPTION AND STEALING OF PUBLIC FUNDS SHOULD LET GO OF THEIR CAPTIVES BY INVESTING THOSE MONEY IN THE PEOPLE AND BUILD INFRASTRUCTURES THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE THE DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THEIR VICTIMS IN A PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS NIGERIA.
BLAMING THE VICTIMS WHILE EXONORATING THE VICTIMIZERS (Jonathan and co)IS SELF-DEFEATIST AT BEST AND DELUSIONARY AT WORST.
@Dr aaji, we all know the answer!
@Dr aaji, we all know the answer as you have so clearly spelt out.
Hence Goodluck is a Presidential Candidate, so he is part of this Aba problem. All Goodluck and Patience are focused on at this point is gaining votes to become the President. So they will do anything or overlook everything as long as it is congruent with their agenda.
So my dear AAJI, EXPECTING the right answer from Goodluck is like drawing water from a stone.
Mr Goodluck, an African Proverb says 'Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.'
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Tokyo of Nija
That is the garbage the Abia state governor called the Tokyo of Nigeria, this is laughable--- a not too distance ago other of the buffoon the also called O governor "orji-kalu called this same piece of garbage the London of Africa, my fellow Nigerian, please lough with me at this stupidity, then the Abians must ask the question; what is the monthly allocation used for?
Declare State of Emergency in Abia State Now
From every poniter, the only solution to this senseless armed violence is to declare a state of emergency in Abia State, and the right time is now.
If we havea responsive government in this country, these culprits must have been apprehended and prosecuted with everyone involved executed, for what amnesty is there for the bastards who derive joy from wasting other people's lives. But like every other crime committed against humanity in this part of the world, these beasts called kidnappers, would at the end get mere window dressing treatment with possible 'presidential pardon' and 'political appointments' as long as they remain loyal and serve the interest of the government of the day who might actually be the godfather and 'most senior pastor' in their bloody, occultic fraternity where human blood and parts are used for rituals.
Theodore Orji and the LIZARD Mentality
In our part of Abia State, the Old Bende area, there is a popular saying that the Lizard always blames his rival housewives for its inability to deliver, each time she get pregnant. Such is the pathethic story of Theodore Orji. Between 2008 and 2009, he was blaming Onyema Ugochukwu and his PDP. Later in 2009 and up till July, it was Senator Abaribe and Hon. Eziuche Ubani. Later when he started his political harlotry-like movement, and knew he needed these men's consent to once more sneak into PDP, from APGA, having left hi s first and original party PPA, he shifted the blame to Dr.N.C.Okoli (Macro), whom he fraudulently got detained for demanding that he should be sworn in, as ordered by the Tribunals. This was just after he was bluntly told by APGA "to either perform or ship out". Later he went and beggged Macro, and compensated him with Caretaker Chaieman of Aba South. Immediately after, Macro, Onyema Ugochukwu, Abaribe, and all "erstwhile kidnappers" became Saints, and it became the turn of Chris Akomas, to be so accused. But for the outcry of Abians, via facebook and telephone calls to the criminally-minded Abia Commissioner of Police Johnson early this week, Akomas would have been injected with lethal injection, as ordered and paid for by Gov. Orji. While the outcry was on-going, he switched his accusation to Orji Kalu and his mother.
But questions this little man and mind called Theodore Orji has failed to answer are
(1)WHO IS OSISIKANKPO, AND WHAT IS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM?
(2) WHY DID HE DROP CHIEF EBERE WHOM HE HAD ALREADY ANNOUNCED THE UKWA WEST CARETAKER COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, FOR THE INCUMBENT ANNOINTED AND RECOMMENDED BY OSISIKANKPO
(3)WHY DID HE TIP OFF OSISIKANKPO 48 HRS TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE MILITARY FORCES, SO THAT HE WILL MOVE FROM HIS LOCATION, TO A SAFE LOCATION, BUT TO RELEASE THOSE KIDNAPPED KIDS
(4)CAN HE SWEAR THAT THOSE KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE ASSAULT ARE NOT INNOCENT CITIZENS OF ABIA STATE, WHO BECAME VICTIMS OF THE TREACHERY OF TA?
(5) WHO IS CORDINATING KIDNAPPING IN ABIA STATE? IS CHINEDU ORJI aka IKUKU (HIS FIRST SON AND ABIA DE-FACTO GOVERNOR), WHO IS A MEMBER OF THE DREADED VIKING CONFRANTERNITY, NOT THE ACTUAL PERSON BEHIND POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC KIDNAPPING IN ABIA?
Theodore should just confess and apologise instead of apportioning blames, in manner akinto the Proverbial Lizard.
HE SHOULD SIMPLY ADMIT THAT HE IS RUNNING A FAILED GOVERNMENT, AND THAT ABIA IS A FAILED STATE
Ernest
Shame Unto the President of the so called doomed country Nigeria
Goodluck Jonathan, this is a test for you if the stupid Nigerians are going to vote for you come this election. How can it be that you have forgotten that you came from Port Harcourt close to Aba and you are allowing this things we are hearing here in abroad to happen to you. Shame unto the Igbos. The Yorubas are United and it is only in Igboland that things like this happens. Jonathan (Obasanjo`s Son) if you refused to remove this bastards from their positions, then yuou`re a criminal yourself. We cannot visit our Country from abroad again due to some hooligans ruling nigeria and Igboland. Goodluck, remember, the world is watching you because the first time you visited United States you remembered what you promised to the world and your stupid wife visited Aba recently without mentioning anything about the kidnapping. Shame unto all of you as all of you troubling the poor citizens of Nigeria will burn in Hell one day when you die and all your children will never see good in their lives. Goodluck, your mad wife who dressed as a stripper came to United Nations meeting and thank God that Michelle Obama neglected her with her stupid red hair like lady GAGA, she cannot speakout or act to stop this nonsense in ABA only to lavish Nigerian money on her stupid prostitute way of dressing. Tell her she should show an example of a good housewife not a mad woman on the street.
JONATHAN BADLUCK, the world is watching how you will stop this nonsense hooligans tormenting the life of the poor masses and good citizens of Abia State. As of orji Uzo Kalu and TA Orji all of you will born in hell and all your family will mourn you people very soon as the cry of innocent citizens has reached the ears of the Lord in Heaven. As of Ikedi, you will die together with them. If you people have decided to turn Igboland into Mexico, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Very soon, these criminals working for you people will end up killing you people also because the innocent bloods are in your hands. Goddluck, Act Now!!.

