Ajegunle stars storm Lekki for pre-Val pool party

All roads lead to Royal London Hotels and Suites, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos tomorrow, as the hospitality spot plays host to top Ajegunle-based artistes in a pre-Valentine pool party.

Tagged: ‘Royal Splash Pool Party Season 3’, the hotel’s CEO, Chris Nnokwere said the event is organized to honour and appreciate the ghetto soldiers for their performance over the years.

Our lives no longer safe in Nigeria, says Mbama, IPOB member

FIFTY-SIX years old Kevin Mbama who hails from Orlu in Imo State says life has been bad for him ever since he was arrested for belonging to the Independent people of Biafra (IPOB), a group calling for a referendum to become independent from Nigeria. 

Mbama who spoke with  the media shortly after he was released alongside IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu said life as an Igbo man in Nigeria has become nasty, brutish and short. 

“I make shoes for a living and the name of my company is Capbek Shoes (Nig) Enterprises with an office at E23 Capital Line, Ariaria International Market. 

It was a thriving business which I use to take care of my wife and kids. I commute between the shop at Aba and go and see my family in Umuahia at weekends. The continuous harassment by the Nigerian Military, under the directive of the federal government brought a lot of frustration to so many Igbos. Having witnessed the murder of two of my uncles, Mbama Ogbeakwu and Mbama Nnodim, 19 and 23 years respectively, during the Nigerian Civil war, I opted to join IPOB to seek for a referendum to become independent. If we truly believe in what we say we practice, which is democracy, why should a particular group of people be silenced through killings and abductions? As we speak today, we are yet to know the whereabout of our leader, Nnamdi Kanu. After the raid on his family home, we don’t know if he is alive of dead,” he said. 

Mbama said over a period of five years, IPOB have continuously staged peaceful protests. “The group got seriously bruised when Muhammadu Buhari became president in 2016. Ever since, it has been one form of attack and killing on the Igbo people. This is a  president of the Fulani stock; a people with an agenda to conquer the entire country and turn us into slaves. It was soldiers of that ethnic stock that led the onslaught witnessed during the war against my people. With his coming to power on May 29 , 2015, evidence of such clannish desires started coming to the fore. Under the guise of looking for feedstock for their cattle, terrorists masquerading as Fulani herdsmen started attacking communities in our villages. One of such attacks occurred on November 11, 2015 at Olokoro in Abia State with another happening on of January 3, the following year, in Ozuitem in Bende. During these attacks, farmlands and crops were destroyed and lives lost. The non-responsive nature of the military and the police to the reports of attacks made us become more resolute in our agitations for a referendum for a sovereign state of Biafra as members of IPOB,” he said.