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Customary Government under the Nigerian Legal System:

Barrister Emekesiri,

You wrote as follows and I have related questions to your writing:

1) "By the jurisprudence of Section 315 of the Nigerian Constitution which recognises the validity of the Sharia law and Customary law as existing laws in force before Nigeria and its Constitution were created, if the country should disintegrate by an act of God, there would not be any more legislative houses to make laws but only the Sharia laws and Customary laws of the people would survive. The Northerners are wiser to have elevated their Sharia Government into statutory government by passing the Sharia Bill into law in the Northern States’ Houses of Assembly." 

QUESTION: Please point me to where you are making reference to in Section-315 of the Nigerian Constitution which I have pasted below:

315. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, an existing law shall have effect with such modifications as may be necessary to bring it into conformity with the provisions of this Constitution and shall be deemed to be -

(a) an Act of the National Assembly to the extent that it is a law with respect to any matter on which the National Assembly is empowered by this Constitution to make laws; and

(b) a Law made by a House of Assembly to the extent that it is a law with respect to any matter on which a House of Assembly is empowered by this Constitution to make laws.

(2) The appropriate authority may at any time by order make such modifications in the text of any existing law as the appropriate authority considers necessary or expedient to bring that law into conformity with the provisions of this Constitution.

(3) Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed as affecting the power of a court of law or any tribunal established by law to declare invalid any provision of an existing law on the ground of inconsistency with the provision of any other law, that is to say-

(a) any other existing law;

(b) a Law of a House of Assembly;

(c) an Act of the National Assembly; or

(d) any provision of this Constitution.

(4) In this section, the following expressions have the meanings assigned to them, respectively -

(a) "appropriate authority" means -

(i) the President, in relation to the provisions of any law of the Federation,

(ii) the Governor of a State, in relation to the provisions of any existing law deemed to be a Law made by the House of Assembly of that State, or

(iii) any person appointed by any law to revise or rewrite the laws of the Federation or of a State;

(b) "existing law" means any law and includes any rule of law or any enactment or instrument whatsoever which is in force immediately before the date when this section comes into force or which having been passed or made before that date comes into force after that date; and

(c) "modification" includes addition, alteration, omission or repeal.

(5) Nothing in this Constitution shall invalidate the following enactments, that is to say -

(a) the National Youth Service Corps Decree 1993;

(b) the Public Complaints Commission Act;

(c) the National Security Agencies Act;

(d) the Land Use Act,

and the provisions of those enactments shall continue to apply and have full effect in accordance with their tenor and to the like extent as any other provisions forming part of this Constitution and shall not be altered or repealed except in accordance with the provisions of section 9 (2) of this Constitution.

(6) Without prejudice to subsection (5) of this section, the enactments mentioned in the said subsection shall hereafter continue to have effect as Federal enactments and as if they related to matters included in the Exclusive Legislative List set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Constitution.

2) "The legal implication is that the Sharia Government in the North, having been given statutory existence by the State law, has become a State organ that should be financed by the State. They have therefore established their Sharia Police and other Sharia Government organs to enforce the Sharia law in the North. This is a wonderful legislative engineering performed by the Northern politicians and I commend them for their foresight."

QUESTION: Are you aware that Nigerian Constitution recognizes State Sharia Court? Please show me where the Constitution recognized Customary Government. Please carefully read  Section-240 of Nigerian Constitution which I have posted below to see where it specifically mentioned State Sharia Court.

240. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Court of Appeal shall have jurisdiction to the exclusion of any other court of law in Nigeria, to hear and determine appeals from the Federal High Court, the High Court of the Federation Capital Territory, Abuja, High Court of a state, Sharia Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Sharia Court of Appeal of a state, Customary Court of Appeal of a state and from decisions of a court martial or other tribunals as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly.

3) "It is in preparation for the unknown that the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra has been established as a de facto government structure that can hold the people together in times of crisis."

QUESTION: Who established this Customary Government? On what date was it established. When and where did Biafrans gather to establish this Customary Government? Can you provide any declaration by a solemn assembly of Biafrans where they unanimously agreed to constitute this Customary Government and (a) mandate them to represent Biafrans, and (b) select/elect/appoint the so-called Supreme Council of Elders to the positions and authourities thereto/therefrom.

4) "Ohaneze Ndigbo is only for the Igbo Nation but the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra headed by the Supreme Council of Elders is for the entire Biafraland. The composition of the Supreme Council of Elders must therefore be representative of the entire Biafraland."

QUESTION: Again who formed this Customary Government or did they fall from heaven? When did Biafrans congregate to agree to from this Customary Government? Who elected/selected/appointed these members of your Supreme Council of Elders? Since you claim that Biafra covers the unconstitutional SE, SS and Middle Belt, who are the members of this your Supreme Council of Elders, where do they come from and on what basis were they elected/selected/appointed?

In your usual style, I don't expect you to answer these questions but its just to tell you that you cannot continue to deceive Biafrans. Your time is up.

Stay blessed and hail Biafra.

Dr. Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya

 In my previous statement entitled “Customary Government is Lawful in Nigeria”, I cited the provisions of the Nigerian Laws that authorise the use of customary law and sharia law to govern the people within Nigeria. The claimants in the Federal High Court Owerri known as Indigenous People of Biafra are governed under Customary Law by their Elders called the Supreme Council of Elders. They have established their Customary Government with their Secretariat at Enugu. The only limitation is that the people governed under customary law and sharia law are not sovereign but remain under the sovereignty of Nigeria. But they have the right to govern themselves as a people within Nigeria. After the war, the Biafrans were scattered like sheep without a shepherd. Their republican and individualistic nature made it more difficult to gather them together. Their political enemies made matters worse by sowing discord among them, creating enmity among them, planting political stooges among them, and empowering traitors to rule over them. The Biafrans became hopeless and helpless in the midst of enemies within and without. Even among the pro-Biafra agitators, they started calling themselves bad names such as traitors and betrayers as nobody could trust anybody again. This was the situation before the lawyers and the elders joined the Biafran national liberation struggle.

The first action taken by the lawyers was to anchor the Biafran independence movement upon the rule of law and diplomacy. As Biafra is not yet a sovereign nation, it can only sue or be sued in a representative capacity. This was why the Indigenous People of Biafra sued Nigeria by the human rights organization known as Bilie Human Rights Initiative. This human rights organization is registered both under the Nigerian Law and in the United Nations as a legal entity. It has been granted the ECOSOC status in the United Nations with three seats in the UN Headquarters in New York, Geneva and Vienna. This is the organization that champions the Biafran liberation struggle by the rule of law and diplomacy. The human rights organization is different from the people it represents just as an attorney or agent is different from his principal. It is different from the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra and cannot take over the government of the people otherwise its acts would be ultra vires.

  Respect of and Obedience to the Nigerian Law:

 As Nigerians, we are bound to obey the Nigerian law. It is expedient to emphasise on the reasons for the establishment of the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra which is the de facto government of the Biafrans until they gain their independence. The Rule of Law abhors anarchy, breach of peace, breach of public order and propensity to lawlessness. For this reason and in obedience to the Nigerian Customary Law the Elders of Biafraland rose up to gather their children together and guide them in their struggle for independence to avoid anarchy, lawlessness and bloodshed. By our Customary Law, it is the duty of the Elders of the land to gather their children together and guide them appropriately. The Biafrans are no longer like sheep without a shepherd. If Nigeria breaks up today as predicted by the American experts, it is the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra headed by the Supreme Council of Elders that will gather the people together.

By the jurisprudence of Section 315 of the Nigerian Constitution which recognises the validity of the Sharia law and Customary law as existing laws in force before Nigeria and its Constitution were created, if the country should disintegrate by an act of God, there would not be any more legislative houses to make laws but only the Sharia laws and Customary laws of the people would survive. The Northerners are wiser to have elevated their Sharia Government into statutory government by passing the Sharia Bill into law in the Northern States’ Houses of Assembly. The legal implication is that the Sharia Government in the North, having been given statutory existence by the State law, has become a State organ that should be financed by the State. They have therefore established their Sharia Police and other Sharia Government organs to enforce the Sharia law in the North. This is a wonderful legislative engineering performed by the Northern politicians and I commend them for their foresight.

The Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra is not fortunate to have intelligent politicians to pass their Bills into law in their States’ Houses of Assembly. It appears that their politicians are afraid to talk about their indigenous identity as Biafrans. At the moment therefore, the Indigenous People of Biafra under the Supreme Council of Elders are pursuing their organizational goals by self-help efforts. We advise all the Indigenous People of Biafra to support and obey the Supreme Council of Elders. It is unfortunate that Nnamdi Kanu, who was in charge of their Radio Station called Radio Biafra, instead of promoting the Supreme Council of Elders, suddenly became stubborn, disrespectful, incorrigible, recalcitrant and abusive to the Elders and Dignitaries of the land for which reasons the Elders ostracised him after several efforts to correct him had failed. The Elders rightly invoked their powers under Customary Law and disciplined their erring child to instil discipline in him.

 The Structure to hold the Biafrans Together in times of Crisis- The Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra.

 There is palpable fear that anything may happen at any time to cause the disintegration of Nigeria without the fault of anybody. In such a situation, we call it an act of God. The prediction by the American experts that Nigeria would disintegrate within 15 years from 2005 has not yet failed. Many people thought that the Americans gave the year 2015 in their prediction but that is a wrong interpretation. In their Report in 2005 they predicted the fall of Nigeria in 15 years’ time. As an expert in the science of estimation, I know that there is always an acceptable margin of error in forecasting. Sometimes, it can be plus or minus 5%; or plus or minus 10%; the lower the margin of error the higher the accuracy of the estimation and closer to the line of best fit if measured by the use of standard deviation. In effect, the American experts’ prediction of the fall of Nigeria has not yet failed.

 It is our duty to prepare the people for anything that may happen in the future. I have said it in my previous statements that our mission is to set the Biafrans free from Nigeria but not to destroy Nigeria. I gave examples of many nations that gained independence in the past without destroying their host countries. From Biblical history, Israel came out from Egypt without destroying Egypt. In modern times, Eritrea came out from Ethiopia without destroying Ethiopia. Bangladesh and Pakistan came out from India without destroying India. South Sudan came out from Sudan in 2011 without destroying Sudan. Why do people think that Nigeria would not survive if the Biafrans should go and establish their own country?

 I want to allay the fears of the owners of Nigeria that their country would survive if they let us go and build our own country as the Egyptians allowed the Israelites to go. The foreigners who have invested in Biafraland will remain the owners of their investments. We shall remain friendly neighbours as the Israelis and the Egyptians are today, as the Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Indians are today. The Nigerians will not need visas to come to Biafra and the Biafrans will not need visas to go to Nigeria because both nations are under the ECOWAS Treaty. Moreover, any Nigerian who wants to maintain dual citizenship is free to apply to become a Biafran citizen if he meets the requirements under the Immigration Law. Also any Biafran who wants to maintain dual citizenship can retain his Nigerian citizenship just as many Nigerians today are British and American citizens. Why are the people afraid? They are afraid because they lack knowledge of the law. The Bible says that the people perish for lack of knowledge, Hosea 4:6. 8.4 It is in preparation for the unknown that the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra has been established as a de facto government structure that can hold the people together in times of crisis. It is not Ohaneze Ndigbo. Its jurisdiction covers all the Indigenous People of Biafra living in the three contiguous regions of the South East, parts of the South-South and parts of the Middle Belt of Nigeria. Ohaneze Ndigbo is only for the Igbo Nation but the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra headed by the Supreme Council of Elders is for the entire Biafraland. The composition of the Supreme Council of Elders must therefore be representative of the entire Biafraland. It is not an Igbo affair. All the officers of the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra are hereby advised to commence effective mobilization and communication to gather the people together under the Supreme Council of Elders. It is the duty of the elders of the land to put their house in order. Let us do it now before it is too late. I hereby authorise the Media Department of the Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra to publish this message in booklets and distribute it to the whole world where the Biafrans are found.

Signed: Emeka Emekesri, Esq. Solicitor for Indigenous People of Biafra

CAVEAT EMPTOR: CUSTOMARY GOVERNMENT OF BIAFRA IS A RUSE

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) hereby notifies the International Community and Biafrans in particular that there is no such thing as Customary Government of Biafra. At this stage, we (IPOB) are simply freedom fighters and the leader of IPOB is Nnamdi Kanu who was given the mantle of leadership of IPOB by the High Command of the Biafran Army on the 30th of May 2014 at Enugu. The ceremony bestowing leadership of IPOB on Nnamdi Kanu was documented and can be viewed on YouTube using the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muRIgNynCwQ&feature=youtu.be

Sadly, we have discovered that Dr. Dozie Ikedife and his APC cohorts are parading themselves as Customary Government of Biafra even when our sovereignty, which was robbed us by Nigeria and Britain, has not been restored.  Worse still, these fraudsters are ordering genuine Biafra freedom fighters to come under their illegal and unrecognized Customary Government. These usurpers have never come out for demonstration or supported the release of our leader. They are busy conniving with Rochas Okorocha and some Igbo politicians who over the decades have sold their conscience to the devil called Nigeria. These shameless men have been busy using our name to advance their APC agenda in the Igbo-speaking parts of Biafraland. 

IPOB under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu is registered and recognized at the United Nations’ ECOSOC as “Indigenous People of Biafra” without any second or third-party representation but simply and directly as “Indigenous People of Biafra—IPOB.” We are also registered and recognized in over 100 countries and territories around the world. When we came out all over the world to demonstrate and to remember our fallen heroes, where were these APC political harlots claiming to be Customary Government or part of IPOB? They never came out but here they are today with the help of Rochas Okorocha, who is a certified Northerner, trying to confuse the public with their nonsense about Customary Government.

We challenge them to name one protest march they have organized. They supported Buhari and his murderous killer squads to execute our people in cold blood. For these traitors to now claim that they are IPOB, it is an insult to the memory of the dead. If they do not refrain from this Buhari-sponsored dance of shame, the consequences will be severe on them.

While we are not against any person or group of people answering their name or belonging to any organization of their choice, one thing is certain and that is; there is only one IPOB and in IPOB we do not have any Customary Government. Anybody referring to himself as Customary Government of Biafra is nothing but a petty thief and a criminal working for Nigeria.

In essence, anyone asking people to support any Customary Government is putting the lives of our people at risk because they are essentially informants to Nigeria’s secret police called Department of  State Services (DSS). Therefore Biafrans and friends of Biafra must be eternally vigilant as well as disregard anyone or group of people claiming to be members of Customary Government of Biafra because there is no such thing in existence. When Biafra is restored, we shall develop and practice real democracy as is obtainable in developed countries such as Israel and the United States of America. We cannot afford to put the cart before the horse. It is freedom from Nigeria and Britain first before formation of government. The current singular objective of every genuine Biafran is the restoration of the nation of Biafra and not the formation of a Customary Government when our sovereignty is yet to be restored.

Again, CAVEAT EMPTOR on this ruse called Customary Government of Biafra!!! 

Signed

Emma Powerful 

IPOB Media and Publicity Officer

I, Anthony Aniebue, the Administrator of the Customary Government of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB, wish to thank all Biafrans and friends of Biafra all over the world for the wonderful work and support we, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra have been receiving since the renewed action to restore our sovereignty which was stolen and destroyed more than 100 years ago. 

Let it be place on record that no action of yours, individually or collectively will be lost or disregarded at the time of reckoning. Notice is being taken mentally or in document of all you have been doing to aid our peoples' movement to our freedom. It is the intention of this office to assure you that we are watching.

Let it also be placed on record that we are aware of the continued incarceration of thousands of Biafrans by Nigerian authority for the only reason of daring to demand for their freedom. In picking up the demand for freedom by our people, we make neither peace nor war with Nigerian state, rather we make bold to present to the whole global conscience our inalienable right to self-determination. Its our natural right. Its our right to life. 

It was the former Libyan Leader, Moummar Ghadafi that once said, "There was nothing wrong with Biafra, except the militarization of the Biafran demand by Ojukwu". Today, we in the Customary Government have been struggling to rather democratize and demilitarize our present quest for our sovereignty. We do that not because we have no capacity to make war, but because we have rather accepted the New World Order of converting all bows and arrows into hoes and machetes to plough the land and feed the people. Wars and violence are of old World Order. They are no more envogue. 

Therefore, we, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra do hereby extend our hands of comradeship to all men of goodwill all over the world to join hands with Biafran people to make peace a platform of the new evolving world. 

In making this offer, we wish to remind the world that our own part of the bargain cannot be fulfilled if we remain in dungeon and bondage in Nigeria. We therefore make this pledge to the world that all our self-apportioned responsibilities, we, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra must strive at all times to fulfill them once we assume our peaceful independence. These responsibilities include amongst others, aligning our nation Biafra with all peace-seeking nations and will never present Biafra as a beligrant state against world peace. 

We solicit for the support of all peace-loving people of the world to join hands with this de facto Government of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra for an immediate realisation of our quest for freedom.

To my countrymen, we wish to congratulate you, from the north of Biafra to the Gulf of Guinea (Bight of Biafra), and from the West of Biafra, by the great ancient people of Bini Kingdom to the East, by the good people of Obubra/Ogoja axis, for all your efforts in seeing that we free ourselves from this absolutely objectionable man's-inhumanity-to-man scenario the Biafran people find ourselves in Nigeria due to no faults of ours except that we are Biafrans. God in His infinite wisdom and mercy has already started to grant us our prayers.

The Customary Government of IPOB is of the view that we gain so much offering Nigerian authority a legal and peaceful platform like this for initiation of dialogue and negotiation. We don't want a situation where Nigerian authority will refuse to dialogue or negotiate with us because it refuses to recognize or accept the legitimacy of anybody or group speaking on our behalf. We therefore have no suitable option for Biafra than for all of us to coalesce under this umbrella. Coalition does not mean collapsing your group. It means having your group recognize and be represented in the Government, with all your obligations, responsibilities and dues accorded their rightful places in the union. Once we have done this, and with all the support of everybody, this Government will then, not only demand for but put machinery in motion to see that all Biafran prisoners of conscience are released through the help of local and international bodies and agencies. And therefrom go further to peacefully and nonviolently restore Biafra through referendum.

Its a challenge to anybody to profer a better option than this.

The New Biafran leadership must be crafted on service and humility. We cannot achieve much going round and round, claiming and counter claiming what we are and what they are not. What we all need is Biafra. Let us join hands to see it done.

This is the opinion reflecting the view of the Customary Government of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB.

Sign: Engr. Aniebue Anthony

The Administrator, Customary Government IPOB. (+2348035002394)