Oil was a major issue in the Nigeria -Biafra war 40 years ego.

Oil was a major issue in the 
Nigerian civil war forty years
ago. By CEBILOAN HYACINT.

" Nigeria is a country that was created artificially by British colonialism. It has a complex ethnic mixture of groups, with a division between the North, inhabited by Muslim Fulani-Hausas with a rigid feudal system, and the South where a number of different ethnic groups co-existed loosely, the largest of these groups being the Christian Igbos and Yorubas. The trick of British colonialism was the divide and rule system. They knew the nature of Nigeria; that it is a country that doesn’t have the same climate, not the same religion, not the same mentality, not the same food, not the same dress, not the same dialect, and not the same culture. They used their military might to force Nigeria to be one by the amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorates of Nigeria. They gave the Fulani emirs political prominence at the expense of the Southern population and left a time bomb with the fuse burning.
 
Prior to independence, and afterwards, many threats of a Northern secession were made by the Northern politicians because they did not want to be part of Nigeria. But in realty these Northern political kangaroos called leaders did not want to lose the benefit of Southern oil and industries. Nigeria was supposed to get its independence before the Gold Coast (now Ghana) did in 1957 but, because Northerners were not prepared to be part of the new country, Nigeria lost many years in debate and compromise until the North agreed to be part of it. It was only in 1960 that independence came.
 
But the new Nigerian constitutional framework did not resolve everything, it being clear that Nigeria was sitting on a time bomb that would explode and cause real dangerous harm to all Nigerians.
 
The constitution did not change the relative cultural backwardness of the North compared to the South. What the Northern leaders wanted was a guarantee that they would retain their dominant political position after independence. If not, they would pull out and form an “Arewa Republic” for the interest of the Fulani-Hausa. British imperialists taught that the North were fools to be used, and stole the resources from the South. But, the North got their way in political domination in Nigeria.
 
Military rule
In 1966, a group of young officers assassinated the Northern leader Bello, the federal Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and the Western leader Akintola who had become discredited in the eyes of the population. The coup leader, Major Kaduna Chukwuma Nzeogwu (now dead) broadcast the following reasons for the coup on radio:
 
“Our enemies are the political profiteers, swindlers, men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand ten percent, those that seek to keep the country permanently divided so that they can remain in office as Ministers and VIP’s of waste, the tribalists, the nepotists, those that make the country look big for nothing before international circles”.
 
In the North, jubilant masses ransacked the governor’s palace and cheered the coup leader, despite his Igbo origin.
 
The coup did not succeed. In Lagos, General Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi had restored peace and order in the name of the old government with British backing. He placed himself as the first army general at the head of the federation and declared Nigeria under military rule.
 
Despite opposition from Northern politicians, General Ironsi announced his “Unification Decree” which although it changed little but names – regions became provinces, the federation became a Republic – caused a series of the most violent massacres of Southerners yet seen in the North. “Armed thugs moved across the space between the city walls of Kano and the Sabon Garis where the Easterners lived, broke into the ghetto and started burning, raping, looting and killing as many men, women and children from the East as the could lay their hands on”. It is without doubt that these massacres were deliberately planned by Northern politicians using their own armed gangs to whip up local feelings against the Igbos and other Southerners.
 
General Ironsi then went on a tour to Ibadan, Western region, to promote the “ One Nigeria” ideal. While he was on this tour another coup was staged, by Northern army officers. General Ironsi and two of his commanding officers were stripped, beaten, tortured and then shot. With taking over command, the coup leader, led by a young British trained officer, General Gowon, issued instructions for Igbos in the army –many off them formed the majority of the technical corps – to be rounded up and imprisoned. And Gowon declared himself the supreme commander of the Nigerian armed forces. During September and October 1966, three months after Gowon’s takeover a large scale massacre of Southerners was reported again from the Northern region.
 
The British High Commission in Lagos after meeting with the coup leaders came out in their full support – including their demand for recognition of the dominance of the North in any political process. All the regions except the South Eastern region –where the former governor, colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, remained in command with his troops and refused to recognize the new dictatorship. This Ojukwu, son of a millionaire who had been knighted by the British, had been educated in Oxford Universty and Sandhurst college, saw the atrocities of Gowon and decided to lead the South-East to secession and war.
 
Gowon taught that British imperialism liked him and that was why they would support him to fight a war against Ojukwu. But he failed to understand that Britain and America were only interested in stealing Nigerian oil.
The Biafra War
On 30 May 1967, Colonel Ojukwu proclaimed the independent Republic of Biafra. Biafra fought a war against Britain, the United States of America, the Nigerian federal army and the River State militia. The actual fighting lasted for 24 months and took the form of an initial conquest of towns and a whole region to the west of Biafra by the Biafran Army and then the slow re-conquest of this region and Biafra itself, town by town, with the Nigerian Federal Army with its imperialist backers pushing the Biafran troops further back.
 
What the Nigeria and Biafra civil war did achieve was hatred, tribalism, nepotism, marginalization, ethnic inquisition, killings of 2 million innocent Nigerians who did not know anything about politics nor the oil in their region by Gowon and his capitalists backers, i.e. Britain and US. It also resulted in the reinforcement of the Gowon regime as the military dictatorship was to remain in power for a further six years before being kicked out of power by another brutal military dictator Major General Murtala Mohammed in 1976.
 
Rivalries for Oil
The BBC journalist Frederick Forsyth, who reported from Biafra during the war, later highlighted a major factor precipitating the war:
 
“It has been postulated that if the Biafrans had had their way as a republic of semi-desert and was allowed to separate from Nigeria, there would have cries of ‘Good Riddance’ in their ears. One foreign businessman said that ‘it’s an oil war’ and felt obliged to say no more.”
 
Biafra was not a semi-desert, beneath it lies an ocean oil. Approximately one tenth of this field lies in neighbouring Cameroon, three tenths in Nigeria. The remaining six tenths lies under Biafra.
 
Gowon and his ruling bandits and Ojukwu’s Eastern interest group had attempted to make an agreement over the terms of their relationship with the British and US oil companies in New York in June 1967. Ojukwu claimed the right to the royalties paid in Lagos by Shell/BP. Up until June 1967, £7 million due to Nigeria in oil royalties had not yet been paid. It was discussed that Biafra should receive 57.7 percent of the royalties and the rest be put aside until there was a political settlement. Gowon vehemently refused to pay and threatened to extend the anti-Biafra blockade to the Bonny Island oil terminal. Without respecting the agreement, Gowon’s troops launched their attack and captured the terminal at Port Bonny.
 
As soon as the Nigerian army took the oil terminal, the British and US oil companies arrived behind them building new oil installations as fast as they could while war was still raging a few kilometres away.
 
The Gowon regime represented by proxy the interests of Britain, the US and Muslim countries including Egypt whose pilots flew the Ilyushin jets provided by the USSR. The important imperialist interests at work were those of the oil companies owned by the British, Americans and French and backed by their respective governments in the way they lined up for and against Biafra.
 
Shell/BP was the biggest exploiter of Nigerian oil. This Anglo-Dutch consortium held the major concessions for oil in both the Biafran and Niger delta region where oil had more recently begun to be pumped. When Biafra was blockaded all oil ceased to flow – because the oil from outside of Biafra, from the Niger Delta’ was conveyed to Port Harcourt, now in Biafra, via a large pipeline. The US companies were also exploiting Nigerian oil but their interests were mainly in the Niger Delta region.
 
As to France, since all oil concessions in the Biafran region were not yet taken by super imperialists, they had been planning to expand their own concession already operating in Biafra in the name of the state-owned company ELF. Because of that they were in direct rivalry with Shell/BP and hope to gain something at their expense.
 
The President of France, General Charles De Gaulle kept his options open. Though he never formally recognized Biafra, he did support Biafra’s “right to self-determination”and gave aid through France’s colonized states like Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Gabon. Biafra also got support from South Africa, and Israel.
 
In 1970, after the genocide, a series of peace talks were held and a settlement was reached and Gowon made his famous speech that there were no victors, no vanquished in this war. Of course, this was true. Both sides had suffered severe losses and part of the country had been devastated. But there was one victor not only in Biafraland but, also in the whole world. Imperialism had established a number of new oil terminals and ensured the stability of its oil profits thanks to Gowon.
 
The “unity” of Nigeria in reality disappeared because of the mistrust built up during the war and the atrocities perpetrated against Biafrans by Gowon and his imperialist backers.
 
Every war fought in the world is at the advantage of capitalism. The Nigerian-Biafran war, Rwandan genocide, Liberia war, Sierra Leone war, Democratic Republic of Congo war, Ivory Coast war, Uganda war, Eritrea-Ethiopia war, Darfur conflict, Angola war, Iraqi war, Palestinian-Israeli war, Afghanistan war, India-Pakistan war, Somali war, Zimbabwe conflict, Senegal-Cassamace war, Guinea Bissau war, Chechnya-Russia war. All wars to the advantage of capitalism. Beware and be warned.
 
Do not say that you did not know or hear about socialism and what we do. The choice is yours. Enough is enough - we must work together and join hands and cast capitalism and imperialism to burn in the abyss of everlasting fire." My question is; Now that the west have made billions of dollars from oil, can we go now?

IPOB run to Russia and China, British are planning a second Igbo massacre.

Boko Haram: More British troops coming – UK 1
BY OUR REPORTER ON DECEMBER 22, 2015 COVER, NATIONAL By Emma Emeozor sun newspapers

" Nigeria’s effort to rout Boko Haram received a boost yesterday when the United Kingdom announced it would increase its military backing to combat the insurgents". my question here is are the idea of more British troops coming to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram or are they coming to help the Nigeria government to massacre The igbos again? Because I have not heard or seen when the British government or any other country(s) that condemned the killing of unarmed IPOB members in Onitsha but the world and the British government stood up and condemned the Zaria massacre by the Nigeria troops which the two groups committed the same crime by blocking the road.

"Already, Britain has 130 troops on ground. But during a visit to the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Britain will increase the number of its troops to 300 next year, explaining that London “stand united with Nigeria in its effort to defeat the militants.

“For this year, for example, we have about 130 military personnel here. Next year, more than 300 are coming to offer training and particularly improve the Army’s resilience to Improvised Explosive Devices,” he said.

Fallon had met with President Muhammadu Buhari and Defence Minister Dan Ali to discuss Nigeria’s security challenges and the status of the bilateral UK-Nigeria defence relationship.

In a statement issued after the meeting, the spokesperson of the British High Commission, Abuja, Mr Joe Abugu, said, “the deployment of the new teams and expanding the package of UK assistance builds on the programme of Short Term Training Teams (STTT), many from the 2nd Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment, providing assistance to our Nigerian partners throughout 2015.”

Abugu said: “The training uplift announced by Fallon supports work already carried out by the UK’s resident British Military Advisory and Training Team (BMATT).

BMATT has also grown in size since the government announced last year that the UK would increase its training and capacity building in Nigeria, the statement said. Almost 1,000 Nigerian soldiers benefited from the training to prepare them for counter-insurgency operations in Boko Haram held areas.

These have included, training in infantry skills, civil-military affairs, media operations, command and leadership, IED-awareness, and support to Nigerian military training schools and establishments.

“Together with our continued support to a Nigerian intelligence and analysis cell focused on the North-East and based in Abuja, almost 30 UK military personnel are now deployed in Nigeria on an enduring basis in training and advisory roles,” the statement added".

In conclusion, I will say it is better the IPOB send their delegates to Russia, China and Israel And any other country(s) that are interest in the oil. Offer them that oil that the British want for free, they can have the oil as long as they want and help us to defeat the British-Nigeria government because for the past 45years, we do not know the benefit of having oil. We have survived without oil and the British -Nigeria government will still have it and continue with their atrocity as long as we remain their slave. why not give out that oil to these people and be free at least before another 45years with China, Russia, and any other country that indicted their interest Dominating and exploiting us, things will change for good. And even if nothing changed, at least we are free and the name of Biafra country will be on the world map as an independent country. Those of you that love money, it is better to be a poor man but a free poor man than to be a rich man but under slavery because that money can be destroyed through your masters evil policy as Buhari is targeting the business men which he believes that the igbos dominated it. While a free poor man will struggle and survive for good. Happy ending is better than good beginning but sorrowful ending.

Nigeria's Number one looters but saints under APC.

"PIB Debate: North Controls 83% of Oil Blocks"
by Henry Umoru and Joseph Erunke
"Abuja - Chairman Senate Committe on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to revoke and re-allocate oil blocks, saying that the northerners control 83 percent of the Oil blocks in the country. He also revealed that eminent Nigerians benefit from the distribution of the Oil blocks" To me this is the reason why the Northern cabal ganged against Jonathan to remove him from power.

He named late President Umaru Yar'Adua; former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; the Emir of Kano, Ado Bayero; former Minister of Petroleum Dr. rilwanu Likman; former Minister of Defense (1999 - 2003) and Chief of Army Staff (1975 - 1979), General Theophilus Danjuma. Others are Alhaji Aminu Dantata; Col, Sani Bello; Alhaji Mai Deribe from Borno State; Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; Alhaji Saleh Gambo; Mike Adenuga; Yinka Folawiyo (Folorunsho Alakija worth $2.5 billion and Femi Otedola etc).
------ Vanguard News Thursday March 7, 2013
"PIB Debate:

North Controls 83% of Oil Blocks"
by Henry Umoru and Joseph Erunke.
----- Vanguard News Thursday March 7, 2013
"I Made $500m From Oil Block, but didn't know how to Spend it - Danjuma."
----- Punch News Thursday February 18, 2010.
"Halliburton Scandal: Report says Abdulsalami, Etiebet, Bayero got $50m"
----- Daily Independent Newspapers Wednesday April 21, 2010.
"N27 bn Halliburton Scam IBB, Abdulsalami, Diya, 77 Others Indicted"
---- Daily Independent Newspapers Thursday April 15, 2010.
"Abdulsalami's Firm named in Failed Power contract of N19 bn"
------ Vanguard Newspapers Friday March 14, 2008.
"Nigerian Leaders Stole $380 bn"
----- BBC News Friday 20 October 2006.


Refineries in Warri and Portharcourt were fixed by Diezani under Jonathan administration. Buhari could not have done a thing in just 2 months. Stop the lies.
"Who is going to fight corruption? The APC people or Obasanjo? They only pay lip service to fighting corruption. Buhari himself is not clean. What is corruption? Malpractices, parading questionable certificates, swearing to false affidavit, they are all part of corruption. And in the 1970s when Buhari was federal commissioner for Petroleum, about $2.8 billion Oil money went missing.

It was later discovered that this amount was paid into a British Bank where it yielded about $400 million interest. Nobody knows where that money is. Buhari said he did n't know about it. He was appointed by Abacha as chairman of PTF, my own brother Prof. J.P. Clark was a member. In fact only prof. J.P. Clark and Buhari are still living members of PTF. Buhari brought his brother-in-law as a consultant and later handed over the entire administration of PTF to him and others.

They had the authority to execute all projects. At the end of it all, they left and Obasanjo dissolved the board and removed all of them. Then Obasanjo set up a Commission of Enquiry to probe the PTF and the report, which had just been published by some newspapers, shows that N25 billion could not be accounted for by Buhari and those who administered the place. Yet Obasanjo came out to say the only thing he found against him was that instead of building roads and houses, he was busy buying mosquito nets with PTF money."
------ Edwin Kiagbodo Clark Vanguard News Sunday February 22, 2015.
"'Some $30 billion dollars was reportedly earned from Oil during the Babangida years (1985 - 1993).

There was in particular the 12 billion dollars Oil windfall earned from 1991 Gulf War. Where did all these huge sums of money go? The most visible answers are some of the multi-billion-dollar white elephant projects around the country. According to Okigbo the handling of the special projects accounts by the Babangida regime was a "gross abuse of public trust."'
--- This Day Newspapers Saturday September 16, 2000.


"Since 1969 (Under Yakubu Gowon/ Obafemi Awolowo war regime), military governments centralized control of oil industry under the presidency. Obasanjo is, however, the first head of state to also serve as oil minister, further limiting public scrutiny of the country's oil sector."
---- David Philips, executive director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. --- Guardian Newspapers Monday January 1, 2007.
"...even as Nigeria's oil revenues have soared: in the course of Obasanjo's eight-year tenure, Nigeria earned $223 billion, two and a half times the amount earned over the previous eight years.

But thanks to kleptocracy and rampant graft, much of the money has not gone where it should have....Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) estimates that the country has wasted $400 billion since 1960."
----- Jean Herskovits, Former CIA Officer on African Affairs in "Foreign Policy", a United States Journal, August 2007.
"Has the former President (Obasanjo) forgotten that he wasted $16.5 billion dollars on power during his tenure and that $16.5 billion dollars was never accounted for?"
------ Rowland Owie, Former Senate Chief Whip, 1979 - 1983 --- Vanguard News Thursday November 6, 2014.

"The resultant effect of this shoddy approach to National Development was an unmitigated disaster and a colossal los of a whopping sum of nearly 16 billion dollars" .
---- Ameh Ebute Senate President 1993 --- Vanguard News Tuesday October 21, 2014.
"Abacha Served Nigeria Well, say Buhari, Abdulsalami. He did not loot treasury, Babangida declares."
From Adamu Abuh (Kano) and Kodilinye Obiagwu (Lagos)
---- Guardian Newspapers Monday June 9, 2008.
"Abacha Loot: Switzerland has returned $700 m to Nigeria"
---- Vanguard Newspapers Wednesday December 5, 2012.
"US Freezes $458 m Stolen by Nigeria Dictator Abacha"
---- Vanguard News Wednesday March 5, 2014
"State of Jersey to Return 315m Pounds Abacha Loot to Nigeria."
---- Vanguard News Wednesday December 3, 2014."

In conclusion , Jonathan wasn't the only corrupt leader but he was not smart to see the hand writing on the wall. He was carried away with power that he did not struggled to get. And he is a caword of the highest order who was looking for a favor to those that should have seek for favor from him. The Northaners and the Yoruba stole the countries wealth and accuse he Jonathan with the help of the foriegn powers And the media that never meant well for us to destroy the country. Now dollar is 280 naira per a 1 dollars, where is the Buhari 1 dollar to one niara. If Buhari is serious about this his fighting corruption noise, let him extend it to all the past leaders.

Misdemeanor in Pentecostalism, "Matters Arising".

Christianity has become an avenue where many pastors hides to exploits people, to the extent that it is very difficult to know who is a real pastor Called by God and who is a business pastor that called him or herself. In fact many native Doctors have converted to be a pastor with a lot of miracles, signs and wonders.

Many people have been deceived, duped even those in some ministry are not even aware of what is happening inside the church. I feel bad about all these and all these have made me to feel like to question the bible sometimes. But that is not a good idea because the bible says that blessed are those who believe without seeing than those who see before they believe. So let me believe that everything the bible had said is correct without contradiction, but what I don't understand is why there is a lot of atrocity in the church?.

Pastors hide in the church to exploit people in the name of worshipping God? Why pastors of today are pursuing material things instead of spreading the word of God? Which the apostles did in the bible. Is these a sign of the end time? But this has been going on before the BC. In every 50 meters in Nigeria comes a church with different names even some funny names, yet people are suffering. Thousand of miracle and healing are happening everyday and yet thousands of destitute and disabled are on the street of Lagos and other cities in Nigeria and none of the healed person are known to anybody. Miracles always happened to some strange faces.

Let's take a look at some big Pentecostal churches in Nigeria and to look inside the church activities and I leave it to you all to judge what they are doing there if it is wright or wrong. But the bible says thou shall not judge for you not to be judged but it did not say thou shall not condemn evil. Libration Ministry Ikeja, owned by one handsome man Pastor Chris Okafar. Though I enjoyed his preaching because that man can preach but what I don't understand the snake on his alter. Though they said the snake was used to clear Ebola in Nigeria. On December 2014, I had a problem with my container because I met a fraud star clearing agent. I was desperate to get this container as soon as possible because my customers were disturbing me.

Somebody directed me to Libration ministry, when I got to the church. I was told to go for their prayer line in order to seek Gods intervention on the container, so that the container will be released. Which I did but I was charge 10,000 naira ( 40 euro) for deliverance because I live in abroad, and those that lives in Nigeria were charged 6,000 (24 euro) It sounds funny right? Well when you are in trouble, you will try everything possible to get out of your problem and that is when you will become a victim.

Did I get miracle after all the prayer and fasting? well the container later came out with the help of the police because in life, there is time for prayer and there is time for action. In my own case at that moment, all I needed was to step on the lions and on the snakes which is action not prayer because God says in the book of psalm 91 verse 13, that he has given us authority to step on the lions and snakes with our feet. So all I needed to do was to use force to get out of my trouble, which I later did because I arrested the agent on the 23 of December and on the 24 of December police recovered the container after 3 months of accumulating Demurrage and the container was with the agent, I end up spending (4,120,000) which is (17,913 euros) just to bring the container out from the port. I'm not saying that prayer doesn't work, all I'm saying is that when it is time for prayer do it and God will answer your prayer but when it is time for action, you do not need prayer to come out of the situation. All you need is to pray to God for his protection when you are about to take action.

The Lords Chosen charismatic Renewal by pastor Lazurus Mouka. I was told by one of his member that if you buy his " APRON " , that as long as you are wearing the cloth that it will protect you from any attack including armed rubbers, are you kidding me? Why is the pastor moving with a lot of security men including bodyguards? He should have been going alone without any security men. I was also told that if you want to get him on phone, all you need to do is to buy his number to call him.

Don't blame the victims because it can only happened in a third world country where government are not helping or protecting its citizens. People are desperate to come out of their problems, so whatever you told them to do to be able to get out of their problems, they will do it. In fact the worst is the sin of indulgence committed by Rev father Ojenammu, I don't know his real name. I went to his programs in Festac at the first avenue Catholic Church branch, and he told us to pay some money for our sins to be forgiven by God and people were paying in fact he told us not to put small money but big money. Ooh my God.

This is exactly what happened during the reformation when Martin Luther placed 95 theses on the door of All Saint church in Wittenberg protesting the evil being committed in the church then by the Catholic Church. "The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences were written by Martin Luther in and are widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially nepotism, simony, usury, pluralism, and the sale of indulgences. It is generally believed that, according to university custom, on 31 October 1517, Luther posted the ninety-five theses, which he had composed in Latin, on the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg". The same thing is happening in many churches today. When you attend European church and African church , one will understand that, in Europe, they are worshiping God because the manner they conduct themselves during the church services is totally different from African church because in Africa church, the pastors are exploiting people and making tithes and offering their priority.

In fact they will start with the book of Malachi : chapter; 3 verse 8-12 but they will never ask you to read (Deuteronomy 14:22-28). Imagine in a single service, you will be asked to give offering more than 2-3 times. And after that is testimony offering, seed offering, tithes offering, this and that offering in a single service. While in Europe, pastors have a permanent job that sustain themselves while they embark on their evangelism. Every pastor in Nigeria want to own a private jet and a luxurious houses and cars. Some pastor, when you step into their churches for prayer. They have concluded that things is not going well with you. If they are not for material gain, why many churches with different names? The worst is that the head pastors or the owners are not treating their assistant pastors well because of their greediness. And these led many pastors to decamp and open their own church. The assistant pastors suffers while the head pastors enjoy.

Pastors of today exploit you by promising you heaven and earth, even made you to believe that the only way to prosper is by tithing and sowing seed and offerings. Without knowing that there is nothing you can offer God because all those things is made by God so if God want any of them, he will get it. That is why when the satan took Jesus Christ to the mountain, he showed him the earth and material thing . He even offered him bread because he knows that Jesus Christ was hungry during the fasting but Jesus Christ told him that man cannot live by the bread alone but by the words of God.

I went to a program in one church in Lagos, the woman pastor said during the offering that if you give small, God will bless you small but if you give big, God will bless you big and I told her that what she just said was not good. Do you remember in the bible where the rich cast his offerings with gold and silver, and the poor widow gave a coins and Jesus Christ said to his apostles, that upon all those that cast their offering that this poor widow gave God the highest offering with her coins. What does this mean was that God only cares about the heart that giveth not the amount of gold and silver that you often give which is not from your heart.

You know in so many churches today, most people give offering as a sign of displaying their wealth, that is why you will often see some people raising their money up for people to see how much offering they are giving. But bible says that your left hand should not see what offering your right hand is holding. Most pastors are pursuing your pocket as soon as you step into their churches in the name of preaching the gospel. The most lucrative business in Africa as of today are; evangelism, politic, clearing and forwarding and the least is visa services because those who are frustrated or fraud stats have hijacked it whereby making it difficult to know who is genuine and who is not. I pray that God will help us in Jesus Christ name Amen. If you believe comment Amen.

The views expressed in this article are the authors own opinion and it might differ with your own views or opinion.

Written by

P. Oscar Iwuama,

Studied international Relations and diplomacy

At Anglo-American University Prague Czech Republic.

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How to Escape from the Nigeria and the USA Police Traps.

It might sounds so funny but what you are about to read is the truth. our elders says" voom Kamma karicha edemede na Obi ndi uweojii" meaning " Escape is better than statement". Our elders said that " obey is better than sacrifice ". It has been in record about the oppression of the Nigeria police towards a particular race in Nigeria, the most hated race the "igbos". And sometimes I asked myself the reason for this but I found it very hard to get any explanation. Same treatment are meted on the African America in the united state of America.

The igbos and the African America are being oppressed by their host country. Protest has been staged all over the united state of America to see if the USA cops will act professional in dealing with African American but nothing has changed likewise the way Nigeria police are treating the igbos, in fact not only the Nigeria police, even other ethnic groups in Nigeria hates the igbos with passion. But the funny thing about the Nigeria police is that they are more interest in collecting 20 naira at every check point than protecting the life's of her citizens.

As long as you obey them and give them that 20 niara, your life is safe but if you act otherwise, your life will be in danger. So how will you escape from this trap of giving them 20 naira or being oppressed by them everyday is very simple but it varies. First, if you are a private car owner wether it is your car or not as long as you are on the wheel, the car belongs to you at that moment. So what you need to do when you see a Nigeria police or military men on a check point on the road when they stop you? It is just a simple act and you will get out of their troubles. just use this word " office una still day" na wao, this sun too much for una" meaning " office are you people still her on this hash sun" at this point you have soften their high spirit because they believe you are sympathizing with them on the hash sun they are facing.

The moment they hear this from you, what he will be contemplating in his mind was, has he met you before? Or have you passed this road? He will be confused at this particular time so what he will say to you is any thing for the boys in a polite manner. So if you have anything you can say officer take this small thing for drinks or if you don't have anything to offer them, all you need to say is officer I'm coming back. He will happily let you go immediately without disturbing you or checking your documents.

But if you prove stubborn or insult them, in fact your name will be sorry because they will beat you and nothing will happen. But if you are a keke or bus driver, the best thing for you to do is to give them that 20 naira in a polite way and go your way because if you prove stubborn, they will beat you even kill you and tagged you as a criminal who want to escape from them or they will kill you and tagged it accidental discharge. That is the end of the case. I was coming back yesterday 29/11/2015, when I got at the Festac police station, one officer stopped me and the next thing I heard was pack well. I did and he said I should wait let him check who I am.

Surprisingly to me a Nigeria police brought out his phone and check my car plate number and called my full name without me telling him my name, waooo it seems Nigeria police force are upgrading. Later he asked for my drivers license and unfortunately I forgot it at home. Looking at the man, one will know that he was drunk because of how he talk and walk. He said that I have committed an offense and I said yes sir you are right but I'm sorry I forgot it at home in a polite manners. He said that I should give him 5,000 naira which is like ( 20euro) I said office please I don't have any money with me here because I'm just coming back from a friends wedding that I have spent all that I have.

He took my car keys and left to his office, I did not follow him. I called my house to get my drivers license, after like 10 minutes. My younger one brought my drivers license and I went to the station and when he saw me, he said I'm booking you for the offense that you committed. He asked me, do you know how to write a statement? I said yes sir. He said I should seat here to write a statement why I forget my drivers license and I said ok sir. I sat down while I was waiting for him to get me a pen and paper for me to write a statement , when he got back. He said I should give him 2,000 naira before he will give me back my car keys. In a polite way, I said to him office I don't have any money with me and he said well because you are saying the truth that I should find him something. I then gave him 500 naira and he gave me my car keys back and asked me to go. So you can see that being polite to an officer saves you a lot.

But for the United state of America's police, their own is a racial killing or sometimes out of anger. If a white cops stops you, kindly obey and do what he or she had asked you to do. Don't insult them or abuse them because when a white cops sees a black person, he or she has pronounced him or her guilty without any doubt. So in this situation, all you need to do is to be polite and obey whatever they asked you to do. Because life has no duplicate. Although African America are over proud and stubborn but their stubbornness can be linked to their genes.

You know during the slaves trade, only the stubborn and the criminals were sold out. So sometimes you do not need to blame them on their character couple with the violate environment they were brought up in the USA. Before the 9/11, American citizens normally place their passport in a way that you will see that they are from America but now they hide their identity because the terrorist are targeting them. When I moved to Europe newly, I met one black America on the street. I wanted to ask him for a direction and they guy was angry and started shouting on me with their slang. " men who the fuck are you I'm from LA men and you motherfucker where are you from" in reply I said I'm from " LA too" is Lagos not LA" his friends came and calmed me down because I was angry and wanted to fight with him. The USA cops are killing them often than the white American because of their rude behavior.