Elochukwu Ohagi : Africa Is Not Under The Control Of Africans

Africa Is Not Under The Control Of Africans

By Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi
For Family Writers Press International.

Gaddafi was killed for a reason. He tried to hand over Africa back to African people. Apart from the pre colonial days, Africans have never been in charge of Africa. Africa is seen by the imperialists as a field of raw materials for Europeans and Americans; therefore its inhabitants must be manipulated in order to continue keeping Africa down. They must not take charge over themselves.

Before you come with that gospel of blaming Europeans for Africa's problems, I want you to understand that your leaders are in this game with them. They are their puppets. It is a systematic slavery. Yes, slavery is still on. Africa is a giant slave camp. Our leaders safeguard the camp for their Western masters.

Africa needs to be in war. Africa needs to be ruled by corrupt leaders for the imperialists to continue keeping Africa down. The stunted growth of Africa  benefits the Europeans. When you are not progressing, when you are at war with yourselves and refuse to pave way for democracy, you will hand over your resources to the Europeans. Africa is blessed with abundance of natural resources, and Europeans need these natural resources. They could have wiped off Africans if it is possible, but there are still ways to use Africans to kill themselves. That is why good leaders get driven out or killed in Africa, while the corrupt ones who are ready to play the dirty game are protected by the Europeans and powerful governments around the globe.

Africa is rich in natural resources, yet inhabits the poorest of people on earth. Have you ever thought of that? Crude oil was discovered in Nigeria in the 50s, yet Nigeria is currently the poverty capital of the world, with rotten environment that is almost beyond redemption. No good road, no good hospitals, no pipe borne water, no housing. The government does absolutely nothing for the people. They rather steal from the people using taxes and banks, while looting the country's resources dry.
On the other hand, Dubai discovered same oil and used it to build a modern nation. They have super cities and best hospitals. Their leaders think about their interests and the future of their own people.

Some Africans have said religion is the problem of Africa. African people will defend their God and kill their fellow African because of their God. Limbs are cut simply because someone spoke against their God. Africans are brainwashed into believing that  it is better they enjoy wealth in heaven and live pyshically poor on earth. They are prepared to endure poverty with the hope of eternal life after. They even encourage poverty and see the failures of the government as punishment from God for their numerous sins. Don't the Europeans also commit sins? If yes, why then are they progressing? Religion is weaponized in Africa. Ignorance is bliss. Hungry Africans  rise to defend their Pastors and Priests who feed fat on them, fly private jets, neglect the poor, and live flamboyant lifestyles.

Religion is there in America, Europe and Asia. Saudi Arabia and Dubai are core Muslim countries, yet they are beautiful and progressive. Why then is Nigeria and Africa this backward? Ignorance led to the weaponization of religion in Africa.

The Americans and Europeans shout that Africa is fantastically corrupt, but they too supports African leaders who are corrupt.
Britain rigged the first election ever conducted in Nigeria in favor of the uneducated Fulani. They have maintained it in such a way that the Fulani would always be in charge of Nigeria. It is a direct access which the British government gave itself for the purpose of controlling and benefiting from  Nigeria's resources.
In Cameroon, a corrupt dictator have been in charge of the country for three decades, ably supported by France. They are at war with Ambazonia.
Sometime ago in Ivory Coast, Mr Gbagbo became a victim of a French plot. France is so powerful that they can rig out any president with the interest of their people at heart. Of course, the interest of Africans must stand against that of the Europeans.

They give Africa aides upon aides, monies looted from Africa through the corrupt African leaders. In fact, they give with the knowledge that the rogues they support in power in Africa will surely loot the entire money and stock it back in European Banks.

In 2015, Britain supported the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria president. Prior to 2015 polls, Buhari is a certificateless  old soldier, who cannot comprehend questions thrown at him using English language, not to talk of having the mental capacity to lead a country. But Britain supported him against a more educated and mentally refined Goodluck Jonathan, and succeeded in making him president. Today, Nigeria's economy that was once the fastest growing economy in Africa has crashed completely. Businesses have collapsed, and investors keep exiting the country in droves. The British interest is to control Nigeria, be in charge of the oil using the Fulani minority tribe as proxy.

Getting Nigeria working is against the interest of Britain. A little time Nigeria was left in the hands of a Biafran saw Britain losing their grip on Nigeria. Indigenous technocrats were all invited home to take the lead, but Britain fought to sack the president that made that possible.

Just like Thomas Sankara was stopped, so was Biafra's sovereignty truncated in 1967/70. Biafra is a nation the European colonial powers do not want. And that has never changed. That is why they are supporting every move made by the Fulani against Biafrans. Only few foreign media coverage about the killings of Christians in Nigeria by the Fulani herdsmen.

Biafrans must fight harder to restore the sovereign nation called Biafra. A country called Biafra, will not only favor Biafrans. It will favor the entire Africa. Biafra, just like in 1967 will bring to the front line the ingenuity of the black man. Biafra will hand the control of Africa into the hands of Africans.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher And Activist.

Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba.

HOW AN IKENGA MAN NAMED CHUKWUJEKWU NWOKEKE ILLEGALLY IMPRISONED SIX IKENGA YOUTHS WITHOUT TRIAL FOR THREE YEARS

Imprisoned For Three Years Without Trial For Committing No Crime


On 17th of July 2020 I left my base to Ekwulobia for a court case involving Mr Dim Chikezie and five other accused. I arrived the court some minutes to 10 o'clock Am. The accused ought to have sited in the court waiting for the Judge to arrive, but non was around, except these two inmates on blue uniform, with their hands handcuffed to each other. The court didn't sit because the judge was absent.

The court was adjourned once again like they have been doing from the inception of this case since nearly three years ago.

I got information that Mr CHUKWUJEKWU NWOKEKE Popularly known as OKPOLE was in that same court a day to 17th, together with some of the lawyers in charge of the case. What he was there to do on a day Lawyers went to apply for bail application, no one knows. But the case was once again adjourned till September 25th.

I left the court with Mr Dim Jimeto Chinazam the brother to one of the accused and we headed to Ekwulobia Prison to see the inmates.

The prison looks dirty and unkempt. The prison wardens were in high spirit. I was told if we didn't grace their palms, we can't see the inmates. I saw them extort money from my companion. You will pay at the gate and also at the entrance to the prison. After all the ugly rituals that made Nigeria what it is, the inmates came to meet us. They appeared cheerful and in high spirits. But immediately I started talking to them, all the cheerfulness made a dash and left them.

What do you think made your case not to hold today in court? I asked them. They all said they don't know, or something that sounded like that. Don't you think something is wrong somewhere? How is it that since close to 3 years you all are held in prison, it has been adjournments upon adjournments. Is something not fishy? I probed further. Immediately, their facial outlook changed. They seemed to have taken a swift flashback and noticed same thing. It couldn't have been a coincidence that their hearing always get postponed for more than 2 and half years now. Somebody is definitely pressing some buttons.

They told me how their accuser made it to the prison the day the Judge came for prison visit. Judges do visit the prison at intervals. They use their visit to decongest the prison. Some people do get instant release. So I was told. What brought Mr CHUKWUJEKWU NWOKEKE alias OKPOLE to that prison that very day can only be imagined.

I wanted to hear from the inmates why and how they were arrested and imprisoned. It was a story of human rights abuses. A terrible story at that. Dim Chikezie, an inmate told me how he was sleeping in his father's house with his mother on 16th of February 2018 and there came this bang around 2pm in the night. They first thought they were armed robbers. When they couldn't open the door, they climbed into the roof from the ceiling, got to the room and jumped in, destroying their ceiling. That was how all of them were rounded up and arrested that night in similar fashion.

Two or three days earlier, some thieves have gone to the house of Mr CHUKWUJEKWU NWOKEKE and made away with his properties. Mr CHUKWUJEKWU is an Onitsha based business man. He also plays politics. Those that knew him very well told me he is a staunch member of PDP. He constantly brags of his connections with Arthur Eze to the villagers who sings his praises. Mr CHUKWUJEKWU is literally worshiped in his village. The kings and cabinets honours him. He didn't fail to extend his philanthropy to Ikenga people during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mr CHUKWUJEKWU needed to show example with some people. He went to the village security, who immediately brought forward names of some vulnerable boys as suspects. Ikenga vigilant went for children of widows and orphans. Three of the boys were orphans, while the remaining three are children of widows and a single mother. They needed those that can't put up a fight and these boys became appropriate. Their crime is being no bodies in Ikenga, where there are rich men like Mr CHUKWUJEKWU NWOKEKE.

Mr CHUKWUJEKWU used Ekwuloba SARS to get the unfortunate boys arrested. At first, in Ekwuloba, they were charged with Break and Enter. Statements were made and the boys denied any knowledge of the incident. But it seems their accuser is out to deal with them.

They were moved from Ekwuloba SARS to Awkuzu SARS. That was exactly where they saw hell. According to Chikezie, one of the accused, no one can survive that torture. Hanging they called it. Virtually all of them in the SARS net accepted they stole the property as the result of the grievous torture. Chikezie even told me how he told them the entire property was packed inside their house. When SARS took him to their house and recovered nothing, he received another round of beating right their in his late father's house.

Chikezie who works as a Mason is now being paraded as a common thief. The popular opinion in Ikanga is that Mr CHUKWUJEKWU NWOKEKE allegedly went to a certain native doctor in Nsukka who said it was these boys that stole the missing properties.

Mr Chikezie Dim showed me his shoulders, how they were broken. He showed me his wrists, they are making kron-kron sounds as he rotates them. A sign they were still broken. Right there in Awkuzu SARS, they were so tortured that they couldn't walk with their legs. Mr CHUKWUJEKWU NWOKEKE gave order that anyone that came for them should be arrested. That was how one of the mothers of the inmates, a single mother was detained in SARS for one night. To avade the human Rights personnel that do visits Awkuzu SARS at intervals to make sure no one stays there pass two weeks, SARS will always take the accused to other places, only to bring them back whenever the human rights personnel must have gone. These boys stayed in Awkuzu SARS for 6 weeks before they were reminded in prison. They were forced to sign a plain sheet each as their statement.
It means that their accuser together with the SARS wrote their statements. This I was made to understand, is not new to those that have had encounter with Awkuzu SARS.

One of them that was arrested were released in Awkuzu before they were taken to prison in 2018. They said he is innocent. How they determined his innocency and found others guilty is what I can't tell.

When Mr CHUKWUJEKWU NWOKEKE found out that the Charge of Break and Enter won't take the boys to prison, he manoeuvred his way and smuggled in Armed Robbery charge. The only court they attended till this day was the sitting that reminded them in prison. It has been adjournment upon adjournment.

The questions begging for answers are...

 How is it that these six boys have been in prison without the court hearing their case?

 Who is behind the numerous adjournment being suffered in this case?

 If indeed they have evidence against these boys, why are they evading court hearing using dubious adjournment?

 Why are the lawyers handling this case not worried about the numerous adjournment?

 Why was the charge of Break and Enter changed to Armed Robbery?

 How come these so called Armed Robbers were arrested in their different homes?

 How did they come to know it was these boys that stole the properties?

 How come they released one of them during their days in Awkuzu SARS, and held onto these six?

 How is it that the only people arrested where sons of widows, single mother and orphans? A coincidence or what?

 Are the six accused not entitled to fair hearing?

Personally, I think this is purely a case of rascal intimidation. A rich man wants to intimidate people he thinks he can put away without anyone blinking an eye.

I therefore call on Human Rights lawyers, Activists, Amnesty International, Journalists and good people of the world to rise up and help these boys not just to regain their freedom, but get adequate compensation for this illegal imprisonment.

Take action. Share and Make it go viral.

Elochukwu Ohagi is an Activist who have helped a lot of people to tell their stories of injustice done to them.

SOUTH EAST; NOT A TRUE DEFINITION OF ALA IGBO

When you say Igbo people are only in South East, know it that you are wrong. Ndi Igbo transcends South East into the North and South South. Stop making the mistake of using the regions created by Nigeria-British government to map a people.

Yoruba too are not only in South West. There are Yoruba people in the North. Both in Kogi and Kwara State.

Even Ijaw people are not only in South South. There are Ijaw in South West.

Igala people are not only in the North. There are Igala people in South East. Nigeria government guided by Britain established these confusions, for chaos and easy external governance.

When people wants to describe Ala Igbo and they go to draw a dot at the area they call South East in Nigeria map, I laugh. Ala Igbo is far beyond the dot you call South East.

Ala Igbo moves deep into South South, and a little into the North. I mean Indigenous Igbo people.
Nigeria as a country has done a lot of damages to the people trapped inside Nigeria.

This is why I keep saying it that Niger Delta is not an Identity. Those fighting for Niger Delta have not told us if they intend to divide Ala Igbo into two and sack those without oil.

The creation of South East is to make you think Ndị Igbo are small. Landlocked and not worthy to be a nation.

These are institutional lies implanted after the war to dissuade you from thinking of secession ever again.

Just as Nigeria uses One Nigeria policies to cripple you, they also created South East to divide and keep you in check. Make you think that you are like a size of a dot in Nigeria.

Elochukwu Ohagi, 2020.

Nigeria Government Instigating Identity Crisis Among Biafrans

Nigeria Government Instigating Identity Crisis Among Biafrans

By Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi
For Family Writers Press International.

Let me tell you something. Many people don't actually know exactly what Nigeria did to us during and after the war. I have a document where a missionary narrated his experience in Calabar. How the Nigeria Federal Government invaded Calabar and massacred people.

He would have been a victim, if not for a Middle belt commander of the Nigeria military who is a Catholic. It was so terrible. Today, the atrocities of these Nigeria forces is blamed on the Igbos. Some even said Ndị Igbo carried it out themselves. Imagine Ndị Igbo using the limited weapons to fight their own people? By the way, is Igbo the only soldiers in Biafra?

Like I said, many things happened, forcing people to deny their identity.

Older Onitsha men and women till this very day still don't regard themselves as Igbo. They detest Igbo and always call you 'nwa Onye Igbo'(son of an Igbo man/woman). They push you out with this sad look that spits racism. 'Bịa nwa onye Igboa' always said in a derogatory manner. Those that lived in Onitsha after the war can bear witness to this.
Imagine if Onitsha were to be included in today's South South like the military government of IBB wanted to do. We will have many 'detribalized intellectuals' from there writing how they don't have any Igbo ancestry. Their non inclusion in South South tamed the futuristic madness that would have enveloped them.

So you can imagine what is going on in the mind of an average Asaba man or Anioma in general. I mean those of them with acute identity crisis. One told my brother he is not Igbo. And he said that using Igbo Language. The war and the policies Nigeria embarked on after the war was just to destroy Igbo people through divide and rule. They used lots of prominent Ndị Igbo from Anioma, Ikwere, Etche etc to perfect this. That is why today, a brother to Kaduna Nzeogwu will shamelessly come out to say he is not Igbo.

The creation of South South is a blunder, and the name Niger Delta is a slave name. I still don't understand how someone located in Imo state should be answering South East, while someone in the extreme East in Calabar will be answering South South. How can Rivers and Akwaibom be answering South South, while Imo and Abia lying next to them are called South East. These things are completely abnormal. But it is good for the agents of division, who for more than 50yrs profited in the division of Eastern people.

When people say 'Niger Delta people', I laugh and want to roll on the floor. What is Niger Delta People? Who are these people? People who live in the bank of the river or those that have oil? Is it the Efik or the Ijaw? The Edo or the Igbo? Is it in places we have people with oil deposit? Will Sokoto join  if crude oil is discovered in the state? Do oil contribute to the identity of a people?

The issue is that people like Elechi Amadi who was contracted to deceive his people and sow the seeds of identity crisis among youths never got time to confess their dealings with the Nigeria Federal government, who took it upon themselves to dismember and destroy the Igbo heritage. Reading through the novel 'Concubine' will tell you that there is no difference between Elechi Amadi and an average Egbema man.

It pains me to see Igbo man deny his identity, but I have resolved that I will always work on my emotions when I encounter one. If Onitsha of all people can fall a victim of this identity crisis, who wouldn't?

When I see Igbo people who detest their brothers because of the state Nigeria carved them into, I pity them. Nigeria has done worse than any deadlier terrorists group out there can ever boast of. Nothing destroys a people more than stealing their identity from them. This is exactly what Nigeria did by removing history from our educational curriculum. Today, people in their 30s and 40s have lived based on lies the Nigeria government planted in them through their dubious media. The result is that we now have a people who embrace their killers and rapists that defiled their mothers during the genocidal war of 1967/70. Before the Biafra genocide, there was a pogrom that took the lives of more than 30,000 Easterners. Why didn't their fathers tell them that it was the Igbo in the present South East  that killed their people in that pogrom? Or don't they know that Efik, Ijaw, Ikwere, Onitsha, and Anioma people were also massacred in that pogrom of 1966.

We that are aware of these lies have a lot of work to do. The educational system in Nigeria has destroyed lots of brains. Pushing these people away won't help, even though they appear very much ignorant and annoying.

That some of them claim they were forced to be Igbo is the very height of it. But we must continue and not relent.

That the five South East states can make a nation is very undoubtable, but that is not whom we are. We are a people even before they started dividing us.

We are all Biafrans; and that we shall remain.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist.

Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba
For Family Writers Press International.

International Conspiracy And The Reason Nigeria Must Be Peacefully Divided

International Conspiracy And The Reason Nigeria Must Be Peacefully Divided

By Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi
For Family Writers Press International.

This piece doesn't aim to give credence to politics or politicians in Nigeria, but we must say this for us to understand what is going on. Africa is not cursed, rather Africa is under attack by colonial power-brokers in Europe, Asia and even America.

Buhari and Cameron in 2015 

Prior to 2015, Europe and America had already seen the tremendous progress achieved by the administration of the then Nigeria president, Goodluck Jonathan, who assembled professionals and technocrats that  brought Nigeria on a moving track politically and economically. What did Britain led by David Cameron and America under Barack Obama do? They unleashed series of defamatory and sabotaging attacks on Jonathan. He must be dethroned. Why should he bring out Nigeria to become a country that won't be needing constant aides and loans? It shouldn't happen. America and Europe needs a poor Africa that will depend on aides; not an Africa that will be politically strong and economically independent. Obama, Cameron and Archbishop of Canterbury all branded Jonathan corrupt and declared a former military dictator, Muhammadu Buhari as an incorruptible messiah that will lift Nigeria to eldorado. They certainly know that they are lying. They just brought up a man that will destroy whatever progress Jonathan made.

Today, it is happening. Nigeria that had its economy growing tremendously under Jonathan has been brought to her knees by the British and American governments choice of a Fulani man.

Why Did They Succeed?

Bringing together people with different culture, political and religious system made it possible for America and Britain to succeed in foisting a monumental disaster upon Nigerians. In Nigeria, an Hausa or Fulani man will always be happy to make Igbo or other Easterners to suffer. That is why the killing of over 3.5million Biafrans remains nothing to them. In fact, they still brag how they will repeat same genocide on Biafrans today. The Yoruba is ready to always play accomplice provided Ndị Igbo are at the receiving end. Britain and other world powers understand this, hence they use it to keep the people trapped in Nigeria and Africa under a poor and unprogressive state. To bring Jonathan down and destroy his legacy, they brought a stark illiterate Fulani and media lying Yoruba people and they sacked Jonathan. Today, corruption has been elevated, Fulani Herdsmen terrorists and Boko-Haram are aided to kill Biafrans. Economy heartlessly destroyed.

Which Way Out?

The only way out is the cancellation of the amalgamation of 1914. The different people forcefully brought together to form Nigeria by Britain must be allowed to go and build their own nation, where they can unilaterally agree on one thing and pursue it without rancor. It has been a 60 years of internal war in Nigeria after independence; reason Nigeria has sold oil for decades without developing an inch.

I then advice Nigerians to embrace Referendum and allow Biafrans to go their separate way.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist.

Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba
For Family Writers Press International.

Nigeria; A Country Created By Britain To Destroy Itself

Nigeria; A Country Created By Britain To Destroy Itself

By Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi
For Family Writers Press International.

Nigeria didn't just start spoiling under APC.
It started spoiling from the first day Nigeria was created. That is because Nigeria was never meant to progress. Nigeria was created for the interest of the British government alone. The more Nigeria continues to exist, the more the country self-destruct for the benefit of Britain. That is why Britain brought together people with completely different world view. People who instead of channeling a part to random progress, they keep experiencing persistent chaos. Britain studied the Nigeria people so well, hence they handed the contraption over to the North during the period of independence transition. The northerners had earlier declared that they are not ready for independence three years prior to independence; so tell me how such people could have effectively managed the affairs of the newly independent country.

You must understand that in the 50s and 60s, literacy level in the North was nothing to write home about, yet the British jumped Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo who were highly intelligent and know what it takes to lead a mordern society and handed Nigeria over to Abubarka Tafawa Balewa. They wanted the new nation to fail and most importantly depend on them. Britain understands the diverse ideological, cultural and religious rivalry between the North, East and West, so they utilized it perfectly to their advantage. No nation with such bitter rivalry will succeed without breaking into different fragments.

From the inception of Nigeria's independence, the mission of Northern political fundamentalists is to supress the Igbo and not to grow the nation. So the North who know they can't do it alone sees an accomplice in the Yoruba who have settled for the office of the 'most beloved slave' from the hated South.
In this, Britain retains control of their colony through the back door, the North gets the lion-share in a resources they contribute nothing to, while the Yoruba settles for the rest. The East, from where the entire resources comes from remain cheated, marginalized and impoverished. Go to the Eastern riverine areas and you will shed tears over the horrible suffering of the poverty-raged inhabitants. The oil pollution is something that can't be completely cleaned in the next 50 years.

It pains me when I hear people today lament that APC destroyed Nigeria, and it even pains more when PDP members especially the main players in the 16 years of absurd administration and embezzlement start trumpeting against the misrule of their APC twin brother. Who is fooling who? Was it not how APC members prior to 2015 election, kept shouting how PDP destroyed Nigeria.

After the series of destruction of the country by many different military coup including that of Gen Muhammadu Buhari, it was PDP that the country was handed over to. This PDP instead of writing a new people's constitution, accepted the one which the outgoing military government handed over to them. It was actually a military manual through which the military who were majorly led by northern military personnel will use to rule from the background. And indeed they succeeded. It isn't a surprise that since Nigeria returned to democracy, four men have ruled Nigeria and  two were ex-military Generals. In a culmination of 21 years of Nigeria's democracy, the military have 13 years.

For 16years, PDP know that Nigeria's constitution isn't working, yet they protected and defended it. They even wiped out Odi and Zarki Ibiam in the protection of the same 1999 constitution. Non of these PDP players remembered that Nigeria should be restructured and the constitution changed until they were sacked by same PDP members who went rogue and formed what they called APC.

It is always good for us to know where actually the rain started beating us. When APC unleashed all their terror on Nigerians, destroying the little that PDP left behind, PDP came back promising the people heaven on earth as to be voted back into power. They even had to employ the service of a former APC member, to become their party Presidential candidate. Atiku Abubarka who never mentioned RESTRUCTURING during his eight years as Vice President of Nigeria now promised Nigerians restructuring if voted into power.

But APC who has mastered how to use the useless 1999 constitution fortified themselves with it. They first removed the Chief Justice and replaced him with ordinary sharia court judge. They rigged the election, and those they couldn't rig, they removed using supreme court. All was constitutional.

It is not surprising that since 1960 till date, Nigeria has not recorded any progress, yet Britain keeps drilling oil, together with other multinational companies. The politicians keep looting and dumping it in foreign banks.

In everything, the people remain the losers. They are fooled every four years. Come 2022/2023, some APC members will return back to PDP and start fooling the people once again, telling them how they want to remedy the country destroyed by APC. They might succeed in fooling the people and take over power, but it will be the same tales of a failed state.

The British government who amalgamated Nigeria know that as far as Nigeria remains one, they will continue harvesting failure all to their gain.

Sadly, same thing is happening almost all over Africa. European countries are sponsoring bad leaders in Africa. Leaders who will open up Africa for them to loot and destroy.

Have you wondered why Africa is extremely rich, yet inhabits the poorest people in the entire world? It is due to the manipulative nature of the European colonial powers on African countries. study the few good African leaders and see how they were murdered.

Britain knows that dividing Nigeria and allowing Biafra to become an independent nation will not only help the people trapped inside the unworkable contraption, it will also help entire Africa to grow. That is because Biafrans will export their ingenuity across Africa and beyond; thereby stopping Africa from surviving through European and American aides.

Before you start singing APC and PDP come 2023, kindly remember that those politicians in these parties will keep destroying you unless you end Nigeria. Stop the endless vicious cycle and embrace freedom.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher Teacher and Activist.

Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba
For Family Writers Press International.

Lebanon Arrests Suspect For Putting Yoruba Nigerian Worker Up 'For Sale'

Lebanon Arrests Suspect For Putting Yoruba Nigerian Worker Up 'For Sale'

Beirut, Lebanon - Lebanese security forces have arrested a man suspected of putting a Yoruba Nigerian domestic worker up "for sale" on a popular Facebook page used to trade everyday items such as furniture, food and shoes.

"Domestic worker of African citizenship (Nigerian) for sale with a new residency and full legal papers," an account under the name Wael Jerro posted on the page, named Buy and Sell in Lebanon. The exact date of the post remains unclear.

The suspect was arrested on Thursday by Lebanon's General Security agency, the country's leading intelligence agency, which also controls entry and exit from the small Mediterranean nation. General Security said an investigation was under way in the case, and warned that advertising people online violated the country's human trafficking laws, subjecting perpetrators to prosecution.

The arrest came after Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najem on Wednesday ordered the judiciary to follow up on the case, citing Lebanon's anti-human trafficking law. Lebanon's Ministry of Labour also released a statement saying anyone who advertises domestic workers online would be prosecuted.

Najem said in a statement that the case represented a "blatant violation of human dignity".

The case has sparked fury in Nigeria, where officials requested the Lebanese authorities to investigate the incident.

"The government is very angry," said Julie Okah-Donli, director-general of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). "The Lebanese government should prosecute him and rescue other girls that have been sold or [are] about to be sold into slavery."

Many Nigerians also took to social media to express their outrage.

Source: Aljazeera