NIGERIA'S BIGGEST HISTORICAL DECEPTION? THE UNTOLD STORY OF BIAFRA THEY FEAR YOU KNOW

Added: 2026-06-03

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[00:00:28]Oo.

[00:00:48]Oh no.

[00:01:02]This is from Bafra's God.

[00:01:05]We are letting Bafas know the reason why we should remember those who gave their lives for us. Those who died that we may live for.

[00:01:19]You died to our suffering.

[00:01:25]You died fighting for our freedom.

[00:01:30]Your blood is the seed of redemption.

[00:01:37]You are my ears with a deep love for them. Military shots on them. 67 to 70.

[00:01:43]We remember them. 2016 38 May memory still deeps in our mind till today.

[00:01:49]Wonder why they refuse to publicize the genocide. The world media turn my eyes to our flight. It's time to arise. Land of the rising sun. Let's twice one more time. Let's twice.

[00:02:01]Yo, we will never forget our hero.

[00:02:07]Those who gave their life for us.

[00:02:16]We remember you. You w Remember when you say that one day today we must fight together. No treason, no surrender. We must hold them down till the end of time. The most important thing is we want to rest in the sky with tears in my heart. My mother will never forget you as the days go by.

[00:03:11]You are always in my heart.

[00:03:15]They fought for our freedom. They died for our freedom. They fought the Nigerian soldiers in the war. For our freedom, for our life, for our own good, for our children, we love them. Our hero, we want them.

[00:03:33]>> My heart bleeds when I saw them slain.

[00:03:35]Where will I be now? If not, they will remain in the level in my heart.

[00:03:40]Forever. Forever. Forever.

[00:03:44]We serve. We serve your plantation.

[00:03:48]And the way you us get to a victory is not for danger. I never mama hero.

[00:04:13]Those who give their life a massac you will love you now.

[00:04:29]If not you you star because of our freedom and they pay the debt for our freedom black heart for those that died in the genocide for you and I spight tears in my eyes. This is for my final rest. Keep them on the patient. It's like I'm looking at myself in the mirror.

[00:05:06]I need to be on the for the Yeah.

[00:05:29]my daily hero.

[00:05:46]We remember you. All right. All right.

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[00:05:53]>> Yo, we will never forget forget our Yeah. Yeah. Put the flag in the air.

[00:06:18]Never be afraid. Be afraid. March on.

[00:06:22]Cuz we are more than conquerors.

[00:06:25]Yeah. Yeah. You know what it is.

[00:06:29]We must revenge. And we must stand.

[00:06:32]Stand to represent who we are.

[00:06:43]Fight on, brave boys. Fight on. Heroes of our fatherland. Pursue the enemy.

[00:06:49]Harass him. Destroy the invader. March on, brave boys. Now the victory is in sight. March on and hasten the disintegration of the enemy already set in motion.

[00:07:06]Fighting a war. knowing the difficulties, the odds against us, there is an element of um fatalism and people feeling well. If the world chooses to abandon us, then perhaps it is better we all perish. They don't ever consider a Bafra not free. They believe in either Bafra free or no Bafra at all. That means none of us living to see it.

[00:07:39]I need Bafra freedom. We Bafraans, we need Bafra freedom. For this I decided even to die that Bafra must have it.

[00:07:58]I want us to work systematically towards the establishment of a good, progressive and democratic society where all vestigages of privilege and social injustice will be abolished and the rich contribute more for the welfare of the poor.

[00:08:27]If civil war comes, and I do think it is imminent, you're quite right. It will for us be the price of freedom.

[00:08:42]Our people here have for a long time been prepared for this eventuality and I am confident of their readiness.

[00:08:55]I think that when it does come and the people on their side would be surprised as to what they are going to get and I'm confident that it will not last long.

[00:09:15]>> We surely come out as a nation because we're fighting a just cause. Even a little child on the street will tell you this.

[00:09:22]We shall never go back to Nigeria again.

[00:09:29]God's grace will surely my destination.

[00:09:34]And so as far as this war continues, we'll fight to the last man.

[00:09:43]>> This is what Bafra is. The end of the journey for a persecuted, massacred, pursued people. We have made all attempts at a democratic resolution of this crisis.

[00:09:59]I have offered open elections pled.

[00:10:06]I have offered just an open cut blanch suggestion. Anybody who can find a democratic way of finding out the wishes of the people, let him suggest it and we will go for it. Another savior. Holy, holy, holy, holy.

[00:10:27]Another holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, another holy, holy.

[00:10:45]If you do not believe in what we are doing, G, you better get out.

[00:10:49]We're not going to stop. God knows we can never stop until Bafra is restored.

[00:10:55]We are peace loving people.

[00:10:57]We abhor death and killing of another soul. Is in our nature. That's how we are.

[00:11:04]But because of that, they have been calling coming and killing us all these years. We've kept quiet. They've been killing and killing and killing quiet.

[00:11:12]We have a case at the ICC. We have a case at Africa Union. We have a case of um what else again in in and um pending before before the UN in New York. We've been to Geneva to turn our case before UN till today. Nothing. In fact, the more we complain to them, the more they come to abduct and rape our children, the more they come to kill us, the more they want to take over our land and our forest. And who told them that's going to be possible in our time?

[00:11:43]In a time in a movement that I lead, you think you can come into our land and take it over.

[00:12:27]Please have already authorities and support action against East.

[00:13:27]share of mutual cooperation and trust.

[00:13:32]We shall do this weary with the responsibility for running this time and our problems with a sense of racism objectivity and free from prejudices and sexual amitions.

[00:14:05]that I consider this if I did this possibility of more such a waste.

[00:14:31]Even now, but I am not convinced that that sort of confrontation would be the answer.

[00:14:48]>> Welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Instill in the moment of remembrance, we are trying to bring out so many video evidence of what transpired during the civil war. As Nigerian government is trying as much as they can to paint us evil.

[00:15:08]While Nigerian government is trying everything they can to change the narrative, we will continue to bring video updates, confirmed updates to show that the only people who were ready to solve the problem was the Bafan side.

[00:15:29]Our eternal lead made several moves to make sure that the war did not happen. But Gwan insisted on going to war.

[00:15:40]Even when the war began, our eternal leader made several effort to see the end of the war. But yet Gowan refused.

[00:15:54]But today because our eternal leader is not here, Gowan is writing books. The British is helping him to public videos that will support his books and we cannot be silent and watch this evil happen.

[00:16:14]One thing you have to ask yourself is why didn't Goan why didn't Goan make a statement when our internal leader was around?

[00:16:24]While eternal leader was around he made several videos he made he granted se series of interviews. Why didn't Goan confront him as he was alive and debunk the informations he was given?

[00:16:39]He did not. He waited.

[00:16:42]He wanted to be buried with the truth.

[00:16:45]But unfortunately now he felt that leader is not around.

[00:16:48]He can say whatever he want to say.

[00:16:51]releasing an empty book that only told a side of the story that favors him.

[00:16:59]Empty book.

[00:17:01]There is nothing anybody who want to learn about the history of Nigeria and the civil war will learn from the book that Goan write. That book that Goan wrote, there is nothing to learn in that book. Nothing.

[00:17:15]If you are not a Bafan or maybe you are not a Nigerian who has information there is no you can't get you can't understand anything in that book that go read it does not contain any information whatsoever.

[00:17:38]Likewise, the documentary they saw, the documentary that was meant to paint the British innocent, paint the Bapans, the aggressors, paint the Bapans and the ones who created the division in Bafra land.

[00:17:57]Even when it is a lie, they will continue to push this lies.

[00:18:03]But I thank that our eternal leader left more than enough information for us and those informations are very vital and important and I thank for that. So no matter what they do today, we have more than enough evidence to show what really happened.

[00:18:31]We have more than enough evidence to show what really happened and that is why all their plans has failed in our every plan they made failed on our library.

[00:18:48]Let us just listen briefly on this very program I'm about to play.

[00:18:55]For those who want us to forget, they are pushing us to forget. Forget what happened. We should forget and move on.

[00:19:03]How do you forget and move on? When the liars are continue to tell the lies, they never want to remain. How do we forget and move on? Just how? Tell me.

[00:19:13]>> It's not the duty of people who are not involved to deny the pain of people who are involved. It is not the duty of those who were not involved in the war to deny the pain of those who were involved.

[00:19:28]It is not the duty of those who were involved in the war who were not involved to deny those who were involved. You can't deny us the pain or tell us how to mourn our heroes. You can't deny us our pain and tell us how to mourn.

[00:19:45]It is unacceptable >> in Nigeria. this big embargo about you must never talk about you have to move on you have to forget they have to imagine >> move on forget about it but it's not a people who are not there to forget if the people who suffered want to forgive and forget it's a good thing but they can do that they will steap yeah stop going to church because he read about war Christians can do that >> these are people that took action because of what happened to Bafra for some people who did know, pay attention.

[00:20:19]Even Steve Jobs, Steve Jo stopped going to church. You know Steve Job that just died? The man that created Apple, the man that created Apple, Steve George that just died in cancer, he refused to, he stopped going to church because of the Bapan story. That if people who call themselves Christians, who brought Christianity to the same people they brought that Christianity to, they left them to die.

[00:20:49]They connive to kill them. That for that he stopped going to church. Steve Joy do that. Listen to some other people who gave up one thing or the other because of what happened to the Bans.

[00:21:01]This is how bad it was. But the British will not. That's why the British can never tell the story of the truth story.

[00:21:08]But we will continue to show the world the story. Anytime they try to bring a different version, we will bring the truth out.

[00:21:15]>> Why should I worship God? I don't agree with him but that's his view. He felt so bad about war. Um Bernard Kushna former friend foreign minister remember him in Kosovo he every last one to understand what happened in Kosovo where did he started in Bafra he was there as a red cross volunteer he resigned from the red he said we can't be impartial in such a situation he founded some frontier because of Bafra situation that's what John Lenon returned his MBA to the queen because of warh in violence and war especially Britain's involvement in Bafra which most of the British public unaware of with all the press TV and radio that's plants all the news from Bafra all the stuff I learned on Bafra from journalists off the co folks was a different story and I began to be ashamed of being British and I'm a patriotic nationalist the truth of the yog I'm always fighting about what Britain invented radar and what all be done. But every day I just to worry a bit more about it. I was going to send the MB back anyway. I could have done it privately, but the press would have found out anyway. He would have been here a week later instead. Less impact.

[00:22:33]>> Jesus was playing concerts to raise money for the children in raising money to feed people like me. I would have died if those flights hadn't come in.

[00:22:40]3,170 flights in three years that came in with all the no and of course part of the warship was to stop and kill everybody they had all the CB MB everything right all of that in Africa there wasn't piece also by written forcrada former province.

[00:23:45]And there was a particular arrived at children.

[00:24:20]See, they thought there was What if I love that?

[00:24:48]and Alex.

[00:25:21]These were all the activities that were done to mark the atrocity of the British and Nigeria against the Bapans.

[00:25:30]But they tried to cover it up.

[00:25:34]They tried to manipulate it.

[00:25:36]But no matter how they try, for us we never forget.

[00:25:41]We continue to remember and we continue to say things the way they are.

[00:25:49]But the most painful thing is that up to this day they are still telling lies.

[00:25:55]They are still telling lies about the Bafra woman. It is painful painful and unacceptable.

[00:26:06]They have not apologized. They have not taken accepted responsibility.

[00:26:11]But what the British and Nigeria is doing every day is to simplify our suffering to make the suffering of millions of children, the death of millions of children mean nothing to them.

[00:26:26]They make it look simple.

[00:26:29]They simplify our suffering. Look at children begging for food. We don't beg. We are not beggars. We are not alageries.

[00:26:38]But that was what they turned us to be during this time of civil war. We see our children.

[00:26:44]See our children begging for food. An abomination for the children of beg.

[00:26:54]Look at the grave of our heroes.

[00:26:57]And they want us to forget. They don't want us to talk about it. We will never forget. No matter what happens, no matter what they say, we will never ever forget our heroes.

[00:27:11]And no matter how they try to change the narrative, we will not allow them to change it. Let them continue.

[00:27:18]Let them continue doing everything they can to change the narrative. We would never ever allow them.

[00:27:26]For every suffering we pass through, they are going to go through it 10 times.

[00:27:32][ __ ] who prayed for that and it is happening today for the loss of life that happened in Bafra land. They are going to pay.

[00:27:41]They will pay for every life we lost in Bafra land. They will definitely pay.

[00:27:48]They will pay for the tears of our children, the suffering of our children.

[00:27:55]They turned us to beggars.

[00:27:58]They will definitely beg And it will happen in our lifetime. We shall see.

[00:28:06]What they do in their media is to continue to deny the truth.

[00:28:12]They are fighting so hard to change the narrative.

[00:28:17]They are fighting so hard to change the history.

[00:28:20]But as they are trying is at the same time punishing them, giving them the punishment that they deserve.

[00:28:30]as they are trying to change the narrative is also giving them the punishment, the right punishment that they deserve.

[00:28:40]Old people, old men and women lying every time they come to national TV, they lie about a fact. I want you to watch another lie. These are old men who are nearing their grave. Welcome to Sunrise.

[00:28:56]>> Can you give us you know what you're thinking? What your what's your earliest memories of the war was and where you were at that time?

[00:29:06]>> When the war or event lead to the war?

[00:29:10]>> H well both.

[00:29:12]>> Okay. You know how the problem started?

[00:29:19]The beginning was the assassination of leading political figures and ministry figures in Nigeria 1966.

[00:29:30]>> This is the place that is always comfortable for them to lie. Every one of them come they start from 1966.

[00:29:38]The BBC start their story they start from 1966 and they will never tell the true story.

[00:29:44]Even when the 1966 is not has nothing to do with EOS, the 1966 has nothing to do with EOS.

[00:29:51]What you are supposed to be doing in this generation is apologizing for the evil that you did. But you never apologize. The British never apologized.

[00:29:59]All they are trying to solidify that first story that they told that lie.

[00:30:04]They are still trying to solidify that story that the EOS killed the northerners the northern leaders. That was why the war came. But that wasn't the reason. The hatred has been there even before 1960s and the young officers that went for the that was a revolution.

[00:30:21]It was not for it was even they were fighting for man for the war was for to become the president but they tagged us gave us a bad name and tag us whatever they like. And up to look at an old man still telling story he doesn't want to even when he's nearing his grave he doesn't want to tell the truth >> and then the emergence of as the head of state as a result of which governors were appointed and posted was posted to the east because it's part of the events leading into the occurrence of the war and uh >> do you hear him? So Ojuko being posted to the southeast as the southeastern governor is part of the event that made you to go for war. A senior trend officer, where do you want him to be posted? where this is how whenever they come up they try to change the narrative and paint our evil bunch of old evil men.

[00:31:50]for the result was that you see that's something in my opinion has some serious bearing on the events that led to this.

[00:32:09]You know when Gum was appointed head of state, there was something like a complaint on the part of that should not have been appointed by because he was senior to govern >> and the question is was he a senior to govern or not?

[00:32:38]Was Ojuku senior to go on or not?

[00:32:43]So that Ojuku asked for his right since you people pretend not to know that he's senior to go on. He asked for his right and he want him to walk under his j what Ou was asking was this right or wrong.

[00:33:01]I'm not a misre I don't know how it worked out but he argued that he has been short something like that >> that is what it was >> the beginning of bad blood not only that there have been many things that have happened but it has uh uh come to a stage at that time that uh was seen as the representation of the ego.

[00:33:42]Well, thank you >> after the assassination of Agiri and they put on Gwan. Ojuku was senior to Goa. But now this man is trying to pay like it was because of the anger that Ojuku declared Bafra. It was not.

[00:34:02]The Bafra war has nothing to do with even Gwan has already resumed power and became the president and Ojuku went with Gwan to Abi to go and discuss this idiot forgot. And in the discussion, Ouku himself on a video said it that he suggested that Gwan should be the head of state even when he is the senior even when he senior. He said once the regional government start that he personally we appoint goan as the head of state of Nigeria.

[00:34:30]So what is this man talking about?

[00:34:34]These are bunch of idiots who have been hiding all this while now that our internal leader is no longer around.

[00:34:39]They come to paint picture. Now he's trying to paint a picture to show that it was Ojuku that caused the war. But that was a lie.

[00:34:49]The issue of seniority is it a lie? It is true. Ojuku is senior to Goan. But even when he reminded them of that and they refused and you know that wasn't his problem. The problem came from the counter cool and these people never mention that kaku in all their thought.

[00:35:08]They will never mention that counter cool. They never ever mentioned it.

[00:35:14]In fact, what caused the war? Not even it wasn't the first school. It was the second cool that caused the war. The catacle was what caused war because it was the counter that brought the pilgrim.

[00:35:24]It was that made brought the pilgrim that made to begin to cry for Gwan and Gwan refused to save the France and Ojuku going to for that discussion. Even after agree still appointed gawan promised to appoint gawan as the head of state but this idiot look at how he start his story just look at how he's saying >> his own complaint was passed but later became you know travel because of the event that took place before in any case >> just imagine >> this happened they went to uh Ghana They agreed on program.

[00:36:11]>> What program?

[00:36:13]>> What program?

[00:36:14]>> Was more prepared. I not condemning Gohan.

[00:36:19]>> You should be ashamed of yourself. This is the language they used. Ojuk was more prepared than Go. That is more reason why you should know that Gohan is not smart enough to be the president. Ojuk was a senior to him. So that Gohan was not prepared to go and represent you.

[00:36:34]Whose problem is that?

[00:36:37]Whose problem is it? That Gwan was not prepared to go to Abburi that made him to come back and move back from the agreement. Whose problem was that?

[00:36:48]>> But in my opinion, the best of that and what was it? Was it not a matter of reconciliation they went for?

[00:37:06]The restriction that was agreed was not for for for settlement to agree to divide Nigeria.

[00:37:17]God will not forgive you.

[00:37:19]>> He went but he didn't take the large business but that you could do. So when they went they agreed in a but eventually when they agreed to turn out not to be accepted to the majority of Nigerian imag that what they agreed was unable to many Nigerians is a lie.

[00:38:01]Who are those who are not who did not accept what was agreed in that a president went and sign an accord? Who are those who did not don't say many Nigerians who were those mention them?

[00:38:15]This is how they push their evil. Who are the part people? People people who disagree with that very agreement where they was started to complain gradually it went to a stage where you see good settlement was reached in Ghana but it was abandoned by government federal government. So started to think I think at that stage or maybe before that of the session.

[00:38:55]Imagine that started thinking at that stage or maybe before that stage he was already thinking these are ganja weed bunch of ginger in we can't there is no way we can remember with these people god forbid >> because the perception >> before that was that the cool was uh they launch stage by Ebo officers in the army with the intention of at that time there was interethnic concern over domination and so on. So it was seen as an attempt to uh uh to to install domination over the rest of the country.

[00:39:52]So when came with this complaint at the end of the mind of Ojuku theni I don't know who advised him to do that decided to abrogate the federal arrangement that was impressed in the country before he came and uh to create unification In the unification decree uh it was said that uh officials and uh maybe public figures would be trans from one place to another.

[00:40:45]>> Okay. So it now I I usually know that when it comes to coming to a history about what led to the civil war, >> you will find many accounts and you will find many uh reasons being admitted.

[00:41:01]Uh but you know all of those activities eventually led to a very brutal civil war.

[00:41:09]>> I I want to ask you first and this is a very pointed question. Do you think from what you remember do you think the war could have been averted? Do you think that it's something we could have avoided as a country?

[00:41:20]>> That's right. Well, um I told you about the unification.

[00:41:25]>> Yes.

[00:41:26]>> Wrote about in the country some kind of not but open m open.

[00:41:41]So um that led to the consumption that there was an attempt to uh not over the country but over the country the position of heightened that fear. Yeah.

[00:41:59]But I mean you you already spoke to Aburi and the fact that you know go on and um um then went to Ghana to sign that accord uh but you know did not implement it. A lot of people say it was because they were hot blooded young men and you know egos were in the way as well. Do you think that you know the war could have been averted with benefit of hindsight?

[00:42:23]Could it? You could have aborted probably each if uh the east and the rest of the country are led by a different person or different people because I as I told you the fal conflict this thing has nothing to do with a personal conflict. This idiot, this idiot, idiotic old man. There is nothing that has to do with personal conflict in this war.

[00:42:54]This is how they paint evil narrative.

[00:42:57]Narrative of the demon. That is what this man is painting.

[00:43:01]Because our eternal leader himself left a message where he spoke that he himself after the agreement they were all happy and he volunteered and said go one he personally will nominate go one as the head of state of the country. So this has nothing to do with ego or whatever it has nothing to do with any personal ego. It's not anything personal but this is how they come. They distort history. They push one agenda on the other. God have mercy on your people.

[00:43:33]God have mercy on people. That's all I can say.

[00:43:36]>> Let God be ahead of you. Was brewing at that time.

[00:43:40]>> So there were personal differences there. Uh but the the war did happen. It wasn't invented. Yeah. But I mean a lot of people al say that the Bafan side would seem suffered a great deal more than the Nigerian side especially in terms of civilian casualty. And there's two huge questions being asked today about the weapon uh of war which was eventually which a lot of people say could have led to the end of the civil war which is the issue of the question of starvation. uh Nigeria maintained that starvation was a legitimate weapon of war and you know according to uh international norms and you know I don't think starvation is accepted as a country moving on from that war have we been able to address the demons of that war the fear >> how can how can they address it when they are not >> there was a fear of ego domination would you say that we have been able to ask indeed whether there was any such uh will Can I say any such attempt to dominate the country or have we asked the question as to you know it is addressing the mistrust >> who are the ones dominating today >> the suspicions >> for more than 50 years now 50 something years who are the ones dominating >> of domination by any ethnic group over >> who are the ones dominating now for 50 something years that somebody like would be made governor in northern Nigeria. Somebody will be taken to this.

[00:45:20]The fear at that time was not of the head of state who was an evil man issued.

[00:45:46]I I look at the mentality of these people.

[00:45:48]>> Appreciate the apprehension of the part of people who perceived the whole saga as an attempt by the people to lod it over the rest of the country. Why are people why is there a fear of that falls before there was this already not of one as it then the coup took place and it was the officers who executed him. It was not only the Hebrew officers stop talking nonsense on and after.

[00:46:34]>> This is the lie they continue to push.

[00:46:38]It is a pity and we will continue to debunk all this their nonsense. We will never forget your Nigeria is dead and gone.

[00:46:48]You can continue to sing and rant and talk all your lies for all I care. But the truth is your that that your evil evil entity called Nigeria is gone and gone for good and nothing will save it.

[00:47:02]Nothing on the planet will save it.

[00:47:08]Set it up for destruction and it will it will definitely definitely be destroyed.

[00:47:14]Nigeria will be destroyed.

[00:47:17]Every one of you old men and women who are lying against the innocent who have refused to speak the truth even when you are nearing your grave.

[00:47:28]You will face the consequence of your actions and disgrace will follow you to your graves as that is what you chose.

[00:47:37]You do not want to tell the truth.

[00:47:40]You prefer to continue to dwell in lies.

[00:47:45]That lie will consume you.

[00:47:48]Continue your lie.

[00:47:50]Continue.

[00:47:53]Let us listen to this and see what they have in their local.

[00:48:16]>> Oh, good evening.

[00:48:19]Thank you for your voice of the people.

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[01:12:25]Anybody knowed Welcome back.

[01:12:56]Welcome back.

[01:13:13]We are going to go to another section of their news. You have seen their discussion here. I'm not going to say much about that because I don't care about their whatever nonsense they doing because Sudo we know Soludo is a sabu.

[01:13:29]Soludo is a fan man. Soludo is a fan man. Anybody thinking that Soludu is an ebo man's wasting his time that is why he's always supporting the fani agenda today is the front he is the frontline man of the fan and they are using him against our people every given opport every slightest opportunity Soludo is always ready and available to be used against the EO people. So the story of Soludo is not something that anybody will waste him or her time to pay attention to. It's not just necessary because Soludu that we all know is a betrayal.

[01:14:15]He's a betrayer. It's a question of time. His cup will be full. Question of time. His cup will fall and uh there will be no place to hide. So let us go to another section of this very discussion on their media. Let's see what they have over here. Exposing the insecurity the zoo.

[01:14:35]We continue to expose them all the lies and propagandas.

[01:14:42]>> Are demanding the urgent release of kidnapped teachers and students in Oo state and other parts of the country.

[01:14:50]Now the union made this known at a solidarity rally in the federal capital territory. The NUT national president Aldu Ambassad says any attacks on teachers is an attack on education. He's urging the federal and state governments to make the school safe and secure.

[01:15:07]Well, for an update on the security situation in O state, our senior correspondent Oba Ado joins us now from Moso. It's good to have you. Thanks for joining us on News Day. Please, can you give us an update on the situation?

[01:15:25]Yes, schools have remained shut throughout your state and particularly here in the more. You know, it's not too far from where the incident happened.

[01:15:34]I'm standing in front of one of the public schools here in the city and that's Aden Memorial Grammar School. If you see the gates behind me, you will see it under lock and key as short. There's nobody inside the school privacies, but you can still see um some poop bills on uniform. I don't know if my cameraman can see you can see two of them. Two of them going across the road there. They are poops of private schools here in the Bulma.

[01:16:06]Remember that proposals of private have said that they are not going to be part of this demonstration. Earlier this morning I was at the palace of the Shu that's the paramount ruler of this area including in their numbers uh you know chanting all sort of songs and requesting that they so they told me that they are going to stay off the classroom for as long as this um the victims remain with a bandit in the forest. So as we speak right now the parents make sure children because the Nigerian Union of Teachers that's the umbrella body association of the teachers in O state you know has decided that children All right. Oh, by the way, thank you so much, you know, for giving us an update on what's happening there. And hopefully, we hope there will be a resolution and the teachers and the students will be released from captivity.

[01:17:34]So, we go to the next one.

[01:17:38]We are seeing it. The the students are still in captivity. They are still being held and there is no no news yet if they're going to be out or not.

[01:17:49]So that is the zoological republic for you. Just when you think it's all over, you will see what is >> the traditional ruler of that president is working.

[01:18:11]What do you think of that?

[01:18:24]This is what he was all over the place.

[01:18:38]at New York State and then you're sending people family members and everybody is going as an so for me it's not about the this show of um I am there you So when things are handled, we're Nigerians, we Africans to seem to have lost humanity, the way we do things these days, nobody understand, everybody's focusing on your state, but we know that I think nobody's talking about Niger, nobody's talking about it. So what is going on in this country and how come that Nigerian children Nigerian child has become an endanger?

[01:19:42]That is where breaks my heart.

[01:19:46]I mean when you at the end of somebody will come and tell me oh people who who have taken killing hand of others.

[01:20:03]kidnap them.

[01:20:04]>> I feel like Nigerians are leaving camps and nobody's talking about it and I keep asking what has happened to where this came out from before moving into camps.

[01:20:17]Why is government not doing anything to take them back to their homes? Who are those who said that people were too many just yesterday the president did announced that he has across about 1,000 foreign cars and there were lots of controversies and arguments around that.

[01:20:47]Do you think this is coming a bit too late or do you think this will be just a long >> Well, when I heard that I have a question to ask. Are you just going to employ them or have you been employed at train?

[01:21:02]If you're just employing them, what kind of training have you given to them? If the Nigerian army that is supposed to be you know well equipped and all of that cannot help the mess of this people they think it is going to be forest because of it.

[01:21:27]Now I say govern people ask me governance I'm just so I will ensure that I take the actual now he saying Please do that.

[01:22:06]Well, like father they say like son that's what I used to start when the incident happened of March.

[01:22:29]Nigerians.

[01:22:33]Then they hurriedly arranged after so much delay and crime now arranged condescend.

[01:23:04]at the airport condent visit was now turned to like thanksgiving visit a cond that's why registers are open for you to sign but the case was that we saw this killing and his abduction inside it. The governor was declaring what a lot of people are actually confused about right now is that these bandits have been releasing videos of the some of their videos have been coming out again almost every two days they have and in fact the last one I did see the woman whose husband is professor I think the princ school.

[01:24:07]>> She categorically said stated in the video that please tell the military army not to come.

[01:24:13]>> Yes.

[01:24:14]>> I don't know if you the bandits >> Yeah. the attempted attack.

[01:24:19]>> Yes.

[01:24:20]>> You know, increase their suffering.

[01:24:21]>> Yeah. So in my head and I'm also thinking like an average Nigerian, are we saying that the army seems to be at a loss as to how to tactically um get these people out or is it that the the rescue operations the tactics is outdated? What exactly?

[01:24:40]>> Yeah, I think I think I would say that Nigeria army mil has not had that kind of sophisticated piece of you know and find America.

[01:25:06]Whether we are able to whether India has been able to afford it or not just hear about it that's another discussion for another because I know as rich as this nation would have been able to you know afford some of this backed so if it's Nigeria those things don't have it so if Nigeria army don't have it over this year or whatever emphasis by now is the government making an okay let us begin to we have had this you know over the years now that we are now faced with this insecurity you know as it is now let's begin to put structure over five years now we see that defense budget is always but we don't know how this defense budget is spent suggested that even the young men at the trenches are even complaining on their welfare as the last time their feeding become an issue.

[01:26:07]That's to tell you that whatever is released does not really the people actually need it. That's why you see sophisticated weapon for us to be able to actually do so and posting it on social media that we've not got. It's a shame. We have had this security for 13 years if not more.

[01:26:30]Yes. We've not been able to put one thing in place that at every time former minister said our efforts you know and so all this number of years that we have been faced with this inse but let's be careful All right.

[01:27:01]>> Talking about how long has lasted 12 years ago >> the president now the box and I mean only 200 now So the prince if you were to admit just to adise the person I'll still be calling who participate participation who can confict All those where I am today.

[01:28:01]This is why they so the same medicine that was given to Jonah should be given to this this current president too because he has failed.

[01:28:11]This security has failed the people.

[01:28:13]Nobody sec this nobody secure.

[01:28:17]>> Unfortunately all of those people have gone silent. I'll take that as a concluding call. 30 seconds.

[01:28:23]>> I thought the way we're talking about that simple And I I remember I said this for the people at the top and that is why we are where we are today to build a nation and call one Nigeria we must look at one person's name.

[01:29:08]All right.

[01:29:15]>> Yes. party because even as we're talking about we're still talking about our children in the hands of party the president yesterday was celebrating the Nigerian navy at Lagos who is supposed to be first children out talking about the usual university.

[01:29:50]This is even the southwest people and the children are in the bush. Some have been beheaded.

[01:30:01]Unfortunately, what that reminds me is the words of running Germany, Poland, Austria, Russia and all of that.

[01:30:14]Well, someone say when they came for when they came for unfortunately where they came from there was no one that is exactly >> a great gentlemen who are here and Mr. Elvis another behalf of my colleague here I am the super comes your way at exactly right Thank you.

[01:31:18]Now, let's go back to the world news.

[01:31:23]Let's see what the news is on Iran and the United States. I think there's a briefing on that.

[01:31:32]Let us get into the United States Iran issue and see the updates that some of the media houses are presenting on that.

[01:31:44]So let's see what it's like.

[01:31:51]These are updates that we have seen. We just try to bring all of them along so that we can be able to round it up with this is the last one.

[01:32:06]Let's just have this and round up so that we can take our rest. It's already late over here.

[01:32:18]We continue to give the update as much as we can.

[01:32:22]on the line from Paris by special correspondent James. Good to see you again, James. Really good to have you back. Before we turn to Lebanon, let's talk about Iran. Do we have any sense yet about the impact of these latest American strikes on Iran?

[01:32:44]>> Yeah, Charles, it's really great to be back with you. Uh, one of the things that we can certainly say as a result of these strikes, uh, Iran just a few hours ago announced that they were ending talks through mediators with the United States. This is a very important moment, Charles, because what they're saying is they're willing to talk, they're willing to make a deal, but they're unwilling to do this through intermediaries. They're basically saying to the US, "We want to talk to you directly." And I think one of the reasons that they're trying to do this, Charles, is that President Trump has characterized and has described what Iran is going to do, what Iran has said since what he hopes Iran will do, and he wants to sort of take that confusion off the table. And so I think this is an attempt by Iran to try to grab the upper hand and use it to kind of turn the negotiations back into >> Well, that's a very interesting development and I'm going to return to those talks that you highlighted just well certainly the request for those talks that you highlighted a minute ago, but just um staying with those attacks, the event that say that The reason they struck the targets that they did over the weekend was because an American reaper drone in international waters was shot down by Iran. Does this suggest to you that it is Iran that wants this conflict to continue, especially given that Iran has also launched missiles and drones at the past few hours as well?

[01:34:30]Yeah, Charles, you know, it really makes you wonder what is the cease of this ceasefire because there's almost some type of daily interaction and daily um conflation between these two adversaries. And so I think one of the things that is very clear, Iran knows it can play the long game. Iran has effectively seized control of the hormones uh the hormones and they know they can do whatever they want moving forward to grab it again. And so the US is sort of caught a bit flatfooted because despite basically begging Iran to come to the table and to settle, they still haven't been able to get along to do any of that. So these strikes are sort of baby steps sort of going back to war.

[01:35:28]The reality is and you see this picture of a US um helicopter mounted uh machine gun. The reality is that the US is running out of weapons. They're running out of uh ammunition. They're running out of equipment to repair. And so the US can't afford to go back into full combat because that is going to really further deplete the stock piles which are already low. So to ask your question, Iran wants the ability to maintain some type of nuclear enrichment. They want all the monies that have been sort of piled away uh as a result of sanctions and a result of their misdeeds. and they want the ability to seize control and spread the world again by retaking the hormones the streets and that's sort of where we are.

[01:36:25]And it's interesting, James, that the BBC is saying that it's analyzed satellite images and videos that show Iran has damaged 20 US military sites across eight Middle Eastern countries since the war began at the end of February. The BBC says it suggests that the attacks have been more extensive than publicly acknowledged. They're causing billions of dollars worth of damage to American state-of-the-art air defense systems and radar. I mean, what's your assessment of that?

[01:37:03]Well, Charles, this is one of the reasons why the US does not want to go back to war because its allies in the Gulf region where there are many US bases where there are US uh military uh personnel station, they don't want to become further targets of Iran. And so they're getting a lot of pressure from the UAE, from Kuwait, and Bahrain to not restart, even Oman now to not restart a full-on war. And so I think those two tensions, the fact that the Middle East colleagues do not want the war to be restarted and the fact that there's really no sort of outline of any kind of political game that is to be gotten by further war.

[01:37:56]That means a ceasefire is absolutely the way forward. Iran knows this and they're trying to deny this to the Americans as long as possible.

[01:38:06]>> And um let's just turn to Lebanon now James where Israel is pushing further into the south of the country amid criticism from the UK, France and Germany. Israel says is creating a wide security buffer and weakening Hezbollah.

[01:38:26]What's your assessment of Israel's strategy here?

[01:38:30]Well, I think what Israel is recognizing is that there is going to be a moment where things can stop and have to stop.

[01:38:37]And so what they're trying to do is to put into place before that happens the conditions on the ground that they are comfortable with having on the ground before things come to a complete stop.

[01:38:50]Charles, as you reported that uh Israel is now occupying a level in uh southern Lebanon that they haven't occupied for nearly over 20 years. And this is just an indicator of how aggressive Israel is in wanting to disrupt Hezbollah and to try to give themselves some sense of buffer. At the same time, this is happening at the real irritation of the of the uh Iranians and they at the moment don't really have a means of fighting back. And so this is a real tension that could upset the entire uh peace process. However, I think both the Americans and the Iranians know that they want it badly enough that they will try to keep going forward despite the fact of Israel's incursion into southern Lebanon and the circumstance.

[01:39:55]It it's been reported, James, that the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has spoken to both the Israeli prime minister and the Lebanese president to try to push a new ceasefire initiative.

[01:40:09]Do you think that with the Americans intervening, a stronger ceasefire might be achieved?

[01:40:17]Well, uh, Charles, you remember that there was talks in Washington that Secretary Rubio hosted between Israelis and Israel's ambassador to Washington, Lebanon's ambassador to Washington. And through that, after a few days, there was some type of ceasefire. And so I think the hope the hope is that that can be replicated. Whether it actually will be, we don't know. And I think the fact that Israel has been more aggressive going into deeper into southern Lebanon makes that really questionable. I think what President Trump, what Secretary Rubio, what Secretary Clint are trying to do are to move the Americans in a position that they can leave this war, leave this region for now. And in order to do that, they have to get Israel sort of sorted and they have to make sure Israel is willing to put it on. And at the moment, they have not been able to do that. And that is another reason that the Iran war continues because the Americans have not been able to put Israel onto the side.

[01:41:33]Lebanon, as you said, is of course bearing the brunt of this conflict. And some Lebanese have suggested that the best way to end this war is for Hezbollah to go back to being Lebanese and not Iranian and not to fight the fight of Iran on Lebanese territory. I mean, what are your thoughts on that?

[01:41:57]Guys, I think that's very difficult because for so long um Isabella in recent years uh and even court has been supported by the um the Republican Guard and the Iranian regime. And so trying to educate Iran from I think is impossible.

[01:42:17]Having said that, I know that in many places where you have an insurgency, it evolves and it becomes a political system and a political uh outlook. You have the ANC in South Africa. You have uh the PLO in um Israel and uh Gaza and the West Bank. And so I think there is the hope that something similar might happen in this conflict. But to the to so far the idea of trying to de Iranianize his I think would fall on deaf ears. Um, I don't think the forces of Venezuela see the partnership with Iran as a negative because again that's the source of their weapons in training and all of the intelligence that they use in their fight against Israel. I don't think that that is a solution.

[01:43:19]>> And just briefly, um, James, because we're we're out of time, um, the UN Security Council is also meeting today to discuss what's happening in Lebanon.

[01:43:30]Do you think it can do anything?

[01:43:35]I think because of Israel's contempt and refusal to acknowledge the United security unit United Nations Security Council uh and its efforts. I think that is an exercise that will have little if any impact on the facts on the ground. I think there will be lots of press releases. The UN condemns this. The UN urges that. But in terms of actual change, I don't think the UN will be able to touch this.

[01:44:04]>> James, thank you very much indeed. James Blue is our eyes special correspondent who's talking to you on the line there from Paris.

[01:44:26]This is from Bafra's God.

[01:44:29]We are letting know the reason why we should remember those who gave their lives their life for us. For us, those who died that we may live for.

[01:44:43]You died to end my suffering.

[01:44:48]You died fighting for our freedom.

[01:44:54]Your blood is the s of redemption.

[01:45:01]You are my history with the deep love for them. Military shots on them. 67 to 70. We remember them. 2016 38th May.

[01:45:10]Memory still lives in our mind till today. Wonder why they refuse to publicize the genocide. The world media turn my eyes to our flight. It's time to arise. Land of the rising sun. Let's twice one more time or twice.

[01:45:25]We will never forget her.

[01:45:31]Those who gave their life for us.

[01:45:36]It was a massac.

[01:45:39]We remember you. You w Remember when you say I remember that one day today we must fight together. No retreat, no surrender. We must hold them down till the end of time. The most important thing is we will look up the sky with tears in my heart.

[01:46:30]My mother will never go by. You are always in my heart.

[01:46:39]They fought for our freedom. They died for our freedom. They fought the Nigerian soldiers in the war front.

[01:46:48]Without food, without God, for our freedom, for our life, for our own good, for our children, we love them. Our hero, we wonder.

[01:46:59]>> My heart bleeds when I saw them slain.

[01:47:02]Where will I be now? If not, they will remain in the level in my heart.

[01:47:07]Forever, forever, forever.

[01:47:11]We serve, we serve your plantation.

[01:47:15]And the way you user We remember you.

[01:47:53]>> Yeah. Now if not you die to death because of our freedom and they pay the debt for our freedom is not high for those that died in the genocide waiting for you and I there is pain in the heart bleeding inside tears in the eyes. This is my final dearest. Keep them on the patient. It's like I'm looking at myself in the mirror.

[01:48:32]I need to be on if we didn't die. Yeah.

[01:48:37]They made the ultimate for the day.

[01:48:59]We will never forget forget our hero.

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[01:49:34]We remember you. All right. All right.

[01:49:37]All right.

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[01:49:44]Never be afraid. Be afraid. March on.

[01:49:48]Cuz we are more than conquerors.

[01:49:52]Yeah. Yeah. You know what it is.

[01:49:55]We must revenge. Revenge. And we must stand. Stand to represent who we are. We are.