Biafrans take protests to another level, check out their leader's next move

    Biafrans plan to open embassies in other countries

  – New embassies, another form of protest by separatists

– Russia, Sweden, Canada, targeted locations for new embassies
 

               Some of the pro-Biafra protesters during recent demonstration.

 The Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) may have taken their protests to the next level following recent revelations my members of the group.

 Dawntodusk reprots that ahead of Nnamdi Kanu’s trial coming up on Friday over charges of treasonable felony, the group is planning to establish more embassies in several other countries.

 Kanu’s case attracts a maximum life sentence, and he has been in detention since October 2015 following threats made by his media outlet Radio Biafra.

 Their agitation majorly, is the call for the independence for Biafra, a region in southeast Nigeria that existed as an independent republic between 1967 and 1970.

 In a message by a representative of Kanu’s family to Newsweek, embattled Biafra leader Kanu says IPOB will establish more embassies in 2016.

 Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque country in northern Spain, presently houses IPOB’s embassy which was established in February 2015 while the group’s head of directorate of state, Uchenna Asiegbu, heads the Biafran embassy in Spain.


 He told Newsweek that Sweden, Russia, Canada, the US and Australia are some of the on the shortlist as potential destinations for the next embassies.

 “We are looking to two or three countries but we have not made up our minds. In some months to come, we will be making that decision,” Asiegbu informed.



Meanwhile, fresh revelations emerged yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari fired the director generals of the federal government-owned media for being unable to match the superiority of Radio Biafra.

 Vanguard reports that the directorate of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) made this disclosure on Tuesday, noting that they Nigerian media could not rival the technological superiority of the radio station.

Crisis at agencies as sacked DGs disobey Buhari's directive

Crisis at agencies as sacked DGs disobey Buhari's directive. 

   

– Some of the 26 sacked DGs from government agencies have acted in defiance of President Buhari’s directive

– Buhari had directed the sacked DGs to vacate office and handover to the most senior officers

– Some have refused to handover while some others handed over to those who were not the most senior officers.  

 
Five of the 26 heads of government agencies sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari  on Monday have failed to obey the president’s directive.

 Those who were sacked were asked to immediately vacate office and handover to the most senior officers in their establishments pending the appointment of substantive chief executives.

But Daily Trust investigations revealed that five sacked chief executives have failed to va cate office 48 hours since the directive was issued, while those who left did so in a controversial manner, handing over to officers other than the most senior ones.

A crisis was said to have ensued in some of the agencies to the extent that riot police were called to restore normalcy.

 Findings from sources showed that, at the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), the sacked executive secretary, Asabe Asmau Ahmed, showed up for a meeting the following day after the sack during which she announced Alhaji Ahmed Bobboi as the acting ES instead of Hajiya Aisha Usman, who, sources said, is the most senior officer.

At the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), sources said Ahmed Farouk has not handed over ‘for now’.

There was a drama at the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), as the former director-general, Onyeka Onwenu sought to hand over to Sadiq Umar, the director, Planning, Research and Statistics instead of Abdulmalik Dauda, the director, Human Resource Management, who is said to be the most senior.

The acting director general, Dauda said: “This handover was quite challenging because there was a lot of tension, and the minister had to intervene because the staff wanted to do some nasty things.”

At the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), the former DG, Juliet Chukka-Onaeko, is yet to hand over. As at 1pm yesterday, she said she had no idea of who to hand over to, and when and where, adding that members of the management had not told her what to do.

At the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), the general manager, Nigerian Content, Jacklyn  Guyil, has been acting as the executive secretary, though she is yet to receive handover notes from Femi Ajayi.

The feud over who should succeed Emeka Ezeh at the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) seems to have been settled.

 Reports had it that senior directors were not happy with his decision to handover to the Bureau’s Director of Energy Infrastructure Babatunde Kuye.

The Bureau’s head of media, Thomas Odemwingie, said: “There was no tussle. It was just that someone needed clarification on the criteria, which was validly given by the former DG. It was amicably settled.”

Meanwhile, at the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), the former executive secretary, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, endorsed the letter from the federal government and briefed the Director in executive secretary’s office, Malam Aliyu Na’iya, to oversee the affairs of the office from Tuesday.

In the latest massive shake-off by Buhari’s administration, 26 director-general and heads of agencies were relieved of their duties and most of the affected officials were appointees of former president, Goodluck Jonathan.
According to Chief John Oyegun, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), those who were sacked have been compromised and were sabotaging Buhari’s government.