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Celebrating Eddie Madunagu: International revolutionary at 75
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By Owei Lakemfa
Many in my generation first encountered the name Eddie Madunagu when we started actively reading newspapers. He was a passionate Nigerian the Gowon regime threw into jail from January to May 1975 for fighting to end military rule and injustice and enthroning a Nigeria free of exploitation, poverty and want. In fact, I was to learn in later years that a major left political organisation he established with some other radicals at this period was called the Anti-Poverty Movement of Nigeria, APMON. This organisation carried out vigorous mobilisation amongst farmers and the urban poor and was active in the trade unions.
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There is palpable tension and fear in South-East and South-South states following plans by the Federal Government to deploy more military assets, including troops, intelligence personnel and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the areas.
Already, a clampdown is ongoing, targeted at pro-Biafra groups there including newspaper distributors and vendors selling published materials on Biafra.
The two regions, had, in recent weeks, come under attack by armed groups, who killed policemen as well as burnt police stations and correctional facilities in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Imo, Enugu, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States.
Imo has been the worst hit, as security forces have been combing the communities in search of members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and its vigilante outfit, Eastern Security Network (ESN). ESN commander, Kanayo Nwokike (Ikonso) was recently ‘neutralized’ by security forces in his community, Awomamma in Oru East, Imo State, while
Aremu made the observation during a programme organised by the Kwara State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in honour of his late wife, Hamdalat.
He said it was worrisome that some of the governors calling for restructuring did not even implement local government, judiciary, or state assembly autonomy in their states and described it as hypocritical.
“Many conferences had interpreted Nigeria’s problems; the additional summit is one too many, wasteful and diversionary. It’s time to walk all the talks.
“Governors should collaborate across regions and parties, not divisive regional platform and initiate Marshall Plan of economic renaissance to lift 100 million out of poverty as envisaged by President Buhari to get youths off crimes,” he said.
By Onimisi Alao, Yola The News Editor with Adamawa Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Mrs Amrah Ahmed, who was kidnapped last week, has regained her freedom. Mrs. Ahmed, a nursing mother who was separated from her 6-month-old baby by the kidnappers, was allowed to return home in the early hours of Wednesday. The female journalist was abducted from her home in Mbamba, a suburb of Yola Town in Yola South local government area, in the night of May 4..