BIOGRAPHY OF EMEKA EMEKESIRI

EMEKA JOHN CHIGOZIE EMEKESIRI, ESQ, PhD

B.Sc (Hons) Est. Man (Nig), B.Th., LL.B., B.L., LL.M., PhD, ANIVS, RSV, AMNIM

Barrister & Solicitor, Estate Surveyor & Valuer, Management Consultant, Theologian, Minister of God.

INTRODUCTION AND EDUCATION:

(1) Emeka Emekesiri is from Amucha in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State. He was trained in both secular and sacred studies, namely: Estate Management, Planning & Environmental Studies, Estate Surveying & Valuation, Law and Theology. He obtained his first degree in Estate Management from the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus in 1984. He did his NYSC programme in the Estate Department of the FCDA (Federal Capital Development Authority) Abuja. After his NYSC programme in 1985, he set up his practice at Aba as an Estate Surveyor & Valuer. He later diversified into other disciplines and studied Theology and Law. He was the Pastor of Christ The Rock Community church at Aba before he left Nigeria and relocated to the United Kingdom.

(2) For his legal studies, he obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LL. B Hons) Degree from the Imo State University Owerri and proceeded to the Nigerian Law School Lagos and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2003. He relocated to the United Kingdom and requalified as a British lawyer. He was admitted to the English Bar and enrolled as Solicitor of England & Wales in 2011. He practices as Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Solicitor of England & Wales, holding double Practising licenses to practice law in both Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, he did not forsake his first profession as an Estate Surveyor & Valuer and still practises the Estate Profession.

(3) He pursued the postgraduate studies in law and obtained double master’s degree: LL.M in Commercial and Property Law from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and LL.M in Conflict Resolution from Charisma University of the British West Indies. He obtained his Doctorate Degree (PhD) in International Human Rights Law from the Charisma University, British West Indies, in January 2024.

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND ADVOCACY FOR IGBO EMANCIPATION

(1) Barrister Emekesiri entered the Biafran Struggle in 2004 when the TELL Magazine posed the Great Question, “Biafra or Presidency- What Do Igbos Want?” It was at a time when Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and his MASSOB Movement crippled the whole Nigeria for one full day by a sit-at-home order on Thursday 26 August 2004 that was observed in all parts of Nigeria. At that time, most of the Igbo people were arguing that it was their turn to produce the Nigerian President whilst Ralph Uwazuruike and his members said they wanted Biafra. There was therefore some confusion and cacophony of discordant voices among the Igbo people. It appeared that the Igbo did not know what they really wanted. The national question by TELL Magazine propelled Emeka Emekesiri to engage in the research for answers to the Great Question, “What do Igbo People Want?”.

(2) In the history of the modern struggle for self-determination after the 1967 – 1970 Biafra War, it was the Odua People’s Congress (OPC) and the Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF) that started the struggle in the 1980s and early 1990s. The OPC was led by Dr Frederick Fasehun and Ganiyu Adams of the Yoruba Nation. The NDVF was led by Alhaji Asari Dokubo of the Ijaw Nation. These two organizations took arms and declared war against Nigeria. They were violent and engaged the Nigerian Soldiers in battle for self-determination. They killed many Nigerian soldiers in their war for self-determination. While the OPC activists were fighting to create the Oduduwa Nation as an independent country, the Niger Delta militants were fighting for resource control. Ralph Uwazuruike started his agitation for Biafra many years later precisely in 1999 for the Igbo Nation using the approach of non violence and non-exodus.

(3) At that time, Barr Emeka Emekesiri had his Office at 31 Okigwe Road Aba. On 22 May 2000, Ralph Uwazuruike and his members came to Aba and hoisted the Biafran Flag on one uncompleted Building at 175 Faulks Road Aba, about five minutes’ drive from Emekesiri’s office, and declared Independence of Biafra by mere hoisting of flags. The Nigerian Authorities went after Ralph Uwazuruike and his members, arrested some and put them in detention. The heat and confrontations started. The last straw that broke the Nigerian Government’s back was the sit-at-home declared by MASSOB on Thursday 26 August 2004 that crippled the whole Nigeria. It was observed by all Igbo people in Nigeria in the East, West, North and South of Nigeria freely and willingly without any enforcement!

(4) The International Commentators observed that the Igbo People had got a de facto government in international law and could qualify to apply to the United Nations for recognition as an Independent Nation. The Nigerian Government under President Olusegun Obasanjo could not take the risk of allowing MASSOB to succeed. Surely, MASSOB would have succeeded if they had applied the rule of law and political diplomacy. The Nigerian Government decided to destroy MASSOB. However, considering that OPC and Niger Delta militants had already started with violence before Ralph Uwazuruike started with non-violence, the Government decided to arrest all the arrowheads of ethnic agitations to avoid suspicion of discrimination against the Igbo Nation. Firstly, they arrested and detained the OPC leaders. Secondly, they arrested and detained Asari Dokubo; and finally, they arrested and detained Ralph Uwazuruike who was their main target.

(5) Many years rolled by as the whole country waited to see what would happen to the arrowheads of self-determination. President Obasanjo released the OPC leaders of the Yoruba nation and left office and handed over to President Umaru Yar’ Adua. On his own part, President Yar’ Adua released Asari Dokubo of the Ijaw Nation to have access to the oil in the Niger Delta Region but left Ralph Uwazuruike in prison. Surprisingly, all the Igbo leaders kept mute, hid their faces in the sand, and did nothing to challenge the Nigerian Government for the discrimination.

(6) Ralph Uwazuruike was kept in detention from 2004 up to 2007. This was when Barrister Emeka Emekesiri was the spokesman of Igbo Lawyers Forum with his Chambers in Aba and Port Harcourt. He became very angry with the Federal Government of Nigeria for the discrimination against the Igbo Nation. He argued that those arrowheads of self-determination were ethnic symbols for the nations they represented. Therefore, he understood and concluded that the continued detention of Ralph Uwazuruike who was non-violent whilst the other agitators who were violent and committed treasonable felony by waging war against the Nigerian Government had been released was discriminatory and a slap on the face of the Igbo Nation!

(7) In his capacity as the spokesman of Igbo Lawyers Forum, Emeka Emekesiri moved a Motion dated 27 June 2007 on the floor of Igbo Lawyers Assembly calling upon the Igbo Lawyers, Igbo Intelligentsia, and Igbo Elder Statesmen to take over the case and rise in defence of Ralph Uwazuruike and all his MASSOB members in detention. The Motion was debated and passed as a Policy Instrument of Igbo Lawyers and served personally on President Yar’Adua in Aso Rock, thus bringing Igbo Lawyers Forum into the battle with the Federal Government of Nigeria against all forms of injustice done to the Igbo Nation.

(8) Pursuant to this Motion, the Igbo Lawyers Forum briefed the late Chief (Dr) Chimezie Ikeazor, S.A.N., (Oboli Obosi II) to lead in the case, and sent Emeka Emekesiri to Abuja and Keffi Prison to solicit for the release of the MASSOB leader and his members from detention. Barr Emekesiri bore all the expenses of the journey for the 8 days he stayed in Abuja. When Ralph Uwazuruike saw him, Ralph embraced him and made a comment that this was the first time that Igbo People had come as a group to show their solidarity and support for him. Ralph said that only two Igbo men, Uche Onyeagucha and Ziggy, his personal friends, had shown any sympathy for him before the Igbo Lawyers came as a group.

(9) It all sounded good, but Barr Emekesiri did not know that the Igbo Lawyers would be disappointed. It was in the Keffi Prison, Nasarawa State, that he had a meeting with Ralph Uwazuruike and the other MASSOB leaders for about 45 minutes regarding their hearts’ desire and intention in the struggle to actualize the Sovereign State of Biafra. He appeared with the late Chief Chimezie Ikeazor, SAN, and other Igbo lawyers who joined their legal team in the Federal High Court Abuja on Monday 16th July 2007, before Honourable Justice Binta Nyako, to solicit for Uwazuruike’s release.

(10) It was an opportunity the Igbo learned men had been waiting for to join issues with the Nigerian Government and re-open all other cases of injustice and discrimination against the Igbo people. The continued detention of Uwazuruike whose agitation was non-violent while the unrepentant violent activists from the Yoruba and Ijaw nations had been released was sufficient evidence of discrimination and insult against the Igbo Nation for which the Igbo Lawyers arose to defend and protect the honour and dignity of the Igbo Nation.

(11) The Judge granted an adjournment and directed Igbo Lawyers to file the necessary papers since they had just entered the matter. However, as they were preparing to file the necessary documents, Ralph Uwazuruike and his co-accused MASSOB members wrote a letter dated 17 July 2007 and forwarded a copy to the court asking Emeka Emekesiri and Igbo Lawyers not to appear in court again to represent them! The Lead Counsel, Chief (Dr) Chimezie Ikeazor (SAN), and Barrister Emekesiri, were embarrassed. They could not understand why Ralph Uwazuruike should dump them and shun Igbo Lawyers at the time the Judge was expecting them in court.

(12) Ralph Uwazuruike’s attitude turned off all the Igbo Lawyers who had come out for the Biafran Struggle in 2007. At that time, Chief Ikeazor (SAN) had already drafted a letter to Dr Dozie Ikedife, the then President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, captioned “Matters of Urgent National Importance to Ndigbo”, dated 16 July 2007, which Emeka Emekesiri would take to the East, by which Dr Dozie Ikedife was to assemble all the Igbo Intelligentsia and Igbo Elder Statesmen for the Biafra Struggle. Having been rejected and embarrassed by Ralph Uwazuruike, Emeka Emekesiri and the Elders decided to re-strategize and leave Uwazuruike and his MASSOB organization alone.

(13) Barrister Emeka Emekesiri continued with the research work he had commenced in 2004 to answer the Great Question posed by TELL Magazine: “BIAFRA OR PRESIDENCY- What do the Igbo want?” Two months later, precisely on Thursday 13 September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Resolution A/RES/61/295 and enacted the international law known as The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The International Law was supported by 143 countries which voted in favour of it; 11 countries (including Nigeria) abstained from voting, while 4 countries including Australia, USA, Canada, and New Zealand, voted against it. The majority of 143 countries prevailed and the UNDRIP became international law binding upon the whole world.

(14) Emekesiri got a copy of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and studied it carefully as he was writing his book. He understood that the remnants of the people of the lands who were not consumed by war and not assimilated by other tribes in the modern nation-states are defined as Indigenous Peoples of the lands if they remain on their ancestral homelands just as the Biafrans have remained on their ancestral land.

In his book where he described the Biafrans as the Remnants of Biafra, he changed the nomenclature to Indigenous People of Biafra. That is how he coined the name, Indigenous People of Biafra. At Page 161 of his book, Biafra or Nigerian Presidency, What the Ibos Want, he made the following statements and prophecy:

“Many commentators have blamed Biafran leaders for the fall of the old Biafra Republic, but the truth is that the Biafran leaders did not cause the fall of Biafra. The Nigerian Government and her allied powers applied a simple spiritual principle that brought down the Republic of Biafra. The principle was stated by the LORD Jesus Christ in Matt. 12: 25, that “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against itself will not stand”.

The Biafran Republic comprised all the tribes in the East, but the Nigerian Government and her allied powers planted the seeds of discord among them with powerful propaganda alleging that the Ibos had some hidden agenda of dominating and enslaving the rest of the people of the East and take their oil. It was a Divide-and-Rule strategy. The tribes of the present South-South swallowed the lies and turned against their Igbo brethren and abandoned the Biafran Republic believing that Ibos were fighting for oil. They totally forgot the massacre and pogrom in the North that caused the war. They forgot that the core Igboland has sufficient oil. They forgot that the first oil well in Nigeria was in Owerri where there is still Shell Camp today from where Shell relocated to Umuomasi in Port Harcourt (renamed as Rumumasi after the war) which became part of Rivers State in 1968.

The false propaganda of the Federal Government of Nigeria divided the East and caused the fall of the Biafra Republic. There is a new Biafra now, but it is not sovereign. The new Biafra consists of the remnants of the ancestors of Biafraland who I have described as Indigenous People of Biafra not consumed by the war and not assimilated by other tribes. As already quoted, in the words of the Northern Senator Isaiah Balat, arguing for Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, “Let us not forget that if the South–South had aligned with the Biafran cause, there would not have been Nigeria today, it would have been a separate region. They stood with us and that was where the federal troops went through to cut off Biafra supplies”. A house divided against itself cannot stand. This is a spiritual law that governs the physical realm of existence. This was why the old Biafra Republic fell. This is also why Nigeria will fall because it is a house divided against itself”.

(15) With this name, Indigenous People of Biafra, Barrister Emeka Emekesiri started the new Movement for self-determination of the rights of the Biafrans by legal methodology consisting of judicial processes, political processes, and diplomatic processes under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He gathered the Elders together and constituted them into a governing body under Customary Law known as the Council of Elders of Indigenous People of Biafra of which His Lordship, His Royal Majesty, the Honourable Justice Eze Ozobu OFR, was the Leader; Dr Dozie Ikedife OON (Ikenga Nnewi) was the Deputy Leader; Col Joe Achuzia was the Secretary General; and others. He searched the Nigerian Laws and found that the right to self-determination is also provided under Article 20 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap 10, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 where the Nigerian Law states as follows:

Article 20:

1. All peoples shall have the right to existence. They shall have the unquestionable and inalienable right to self-determination. They shall freely determine their political status and shall pursue their economic and social development according to the policy they have freely chosen.

2. Colonized or oppressed peoples shall have the right to free themselves from the bonds of domination by resorting to any means recognized by the international community.

(16) This formed the legal basis of the Biafran struggle for self-determination by the rule of law using the judicial, political, and diplomatic strategies. Being a Solicitor of England & Wales in the UK, Emeka Emekesiri was able to obtain all the necessary information and documents pertaining to Nigeria and Biafra from the British Library and Archives which enabled him to file and commence the case between Biafra and Nigeria in the Suit No FHC/OW/CS/102/2012 in the Federal High Court Owerri, later reconstituted as Suit No FHC/OW/CS/192/2013, as authorized by the Council of Elders.

(17) The case that was commenced at the Federal High Court Owerri was sabotaged by some Biafran activists that Emeka Emekesiri had put in positions of authority to manage the movement. He did not know that they were dishonest jobless people seeking for money by pretending to be Biafran activists. However, since he is the vision bearer, he started afresh and refiled the case in the Federal High Court Enugu as Suit No FHC/EN/CS/103/2019 which is now in the Court of Appeal as Case No CA/E/96/2020.

(18) While the case was going on, Emeka Emekesiri led his Team Members to discuss with the British Government under the Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP, in 2018, regarding what could be done to solve the conundrum between Biafra and Nigeria and bring a permanent solution to the problem. He was convinced that based on the rules of international politics and diplomacy, they would not be able to achieve any progress without first discussing with the British Government which had invested heavily in the Nigerian Project. The British Government listened to them and requested a Proposal from them. Consequently, they consulted with the Elders of Biafraland and provided a Proposal captioned “PERMANENT SOLUTION TO THE NIGERIA-BIAFRA CONUNDRUM BASED ON THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT POLICY OF 1969: Memorandum presented to the British Government by Indigenous People of Biafra who are the claimants in Suit No FHC/OW/CS/192/2013 in the Federal High Court of Nigeria, Owerri Judicial Division”.

(19) The Memorandum worked a miracle. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP accepted the proposal contained in the document. The highlight of the Proposal is that Emeka Emekesiri and his Team with the consent and approval of the Council of Elders had proposed that Nigeria should adopt the British political model of having many autonomous nations in One Country. As they have Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales (four nations in one country called Britain), Nigeria should also be restructured to regional autonomy in line with the existing six geopolitical regions of the South-East, South-South, South-West, North East, North West and North Central (six nations in one country called Nigeria) so that every region would govern itself and develop at its own pace. Any Region that wants outright independence in the future will pass the Bill in its parliament and vote in a referendum just like Scotland is doing now. Happily, the British Government accepted and supported this Proposal and advised that the restructuring to regional autonomy should be done democratically through the National Assembly.

(20) Knowing how difficult the Nigerian political terrain was, Emeka Emekesiri and his Team requested the British Government to put some diplomatic pressure on the Muhammadu Buhari Government to accept Restructuring of Nigeria by devolution of power to the Regions. Much pressure was put on the Buhari Administration to restructure Nigeria by devolution of power to the Regions in accordance with the Proposal.

(21) In 2021, the diplomatic pressure worked. The Senate Committee invited the public to submit memoranda for the amendment of the Nigerian Constitution. The Number 2 item on the list was Restructuring and Devolution of Power. Consequently, Emeka Emekesiri and his Team using MOBIN as their platform under the Customary Government, submitted their Memorandum to the National Assembly to restructure Nigeria by devolution of power to the Regions.

(22) On 26th and 27th May 2021, the National Assembly held a Public Hearing in all the six geopolitical regions of Nigeria to consider the Memorandum submitted for the amendment of the Nigerian Constitution. The memorandum submitted by MOBIN was presented to the Senate Committee of the National Assembly in all the six geopolitical Regions. Unfortunately, the Buhari Government did not implement the Proposals contained in the memorandum.

(23) Emeka Emekesiri and his Team Members continued their persuasive advocacy for restructuring of Nigeria by devolution of power to the regions. They continued to put pressure on all the relevant authorities to get Nigeria restructured by devolution of power to the Regions. Their advocacy and pressure yielded some fruits in the first quarter of 2024 when the Deputy Speaker and Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review, Rt Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu, signed a Public Notice published in the Daily Trust Newspaper of Monday, 11 March 2024, calling for Memoranda for the amendment of the Nigerian Constitution. The matters for the amendment were increased. This time, Item No 1 was Restructuring and Devolution ofPower while Item 11 was Residency & Indigeneship.

(24) Under the Platform of MOBIN as their Civil Society Organization, Emeka Emekesiri and his Team Members submitted a fresh Memorandum to the National Assembly on 5th April 2024 on the issues of Restructuring and Devolution of Power to the Regions on the one hand; and on Residency and Indigeneship on the other hand. Their argument is that Regional Autonomy is the best political structure for Nigeria in the present circumstances so that every region would govern itself and develop at its own pace just as it is practised in the United Kingdom of the Great Brittain where they have Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales, four nations in one country, with each nation governing itself with its own laws and developing at its own pace. They argued that if this political model could help Britain to become Great Britain with 4 nations in one country, it would also help Nigeria to become Great Nigeria with 6 nations in one country. The debate on Regional Autonomy has gathered momentum in Nigeria now. This is what MOBIN is doing under the able and sagacious leadership of Barr Dr Emeka Emekesiri, a man who is described as an all-rounder, a lawyer and a scientist, highly skilled and gifted in both the arts and science of creative thinking and endowed with the rare skills in strategies and political diplomacy.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Emeka Emekesiri is a member of the following professional organizations and institutions:

MNBA:

MEMBER, NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION

Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria

SRA:

MEMBER OF THE LAW SOCIETY OF ENGLAND & WALES

REGULATED BY THE SOLICITORS REGUALTION AUTHORITY (SRA)

Solicitor of England & Wales

ANIVS:

Corporate Member, Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors & Valuers (NIESV)

CASLE:

Member of Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy,

CASLE, United Kingdom.

AMNIN:

Associate Member of Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM)

RSV:

Registered Surveyor & Valuer, Estate Surveyors & Valuers Registration Board

of Nigeria (ESVARBON)

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

• Public Relations Officer, Igbo Lawyers Forum (Okaiwu): 2005 – 2008

• Apostle & General Overseer of Christ The Rock Community

• Founder and Chairman of Bilie Human Rights Initiative with UN ECOSOC Status.

• Founder and Chairman of MOBIN (Managing Opportunities By Intelligent Networking)

• Head of Customary Arbitration Tribunal of Okwara Unegbu Village Amucha holding the Royal Traditional Title as Nzeobi II of Okwara Unegbu Amucha, Imo State.

• Mayor of Amucha Community Christian Development Association (ACCDA): Drafted the Appropriation Bill passed by the Imo State House of Assembly in 2007 and facilitated the construction of Amucha Road by Imo State Government under the government of Governor Ikedi Ohakim in 2007.

• Founder of the original IPOB before it was hijacked and destroyed by thieves of his intellectual property.

• Founder and Chairman of MOBIN: Presented the Memorandum to the Nigerian National Assembly for the Restructuring of Nigeria by Devolution of Power to the Regions.

• Founder and CEO of Mobin Media News and Mobin Nolly TV.

• Founder and CEO of Obey God’s Voice Magazine of Christ The Rock Community

• Managing Director of Everglow Charity Foundation.

• Consultant and adviser on Pro Bono basis to some Past Presidents-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

• Partnership with Ohanaeze Ndigbo: Given the mandate by Chief Dr Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu (the immediate past President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo) on 18 May 2024 to do everything necessary to restore the peace and dignity of the Igbo Nation and bring the rebellious children back to the Elders of Igboland using MOBIN as a platform to partner with Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

• Initiated the Project under Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu to Restore the Peace and Dignity of Igbo Nation of which the Letter has been sent to all Igbo leaders and organisations.

4. CREATIVITIES, INVENTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS:

1. The Roadmap to Peace and Development in the Niger Delta: Published the work and held the International Conference on “The Roadmap to Peace and Development in the Niger Delta” in 2006 by which he created the formula that formed the basis of the Petroleum Industry Bill in Nigeria now passed into law as the Petroleum Industry Act to restore peace in the Niger Delta region.

2. The first black man in the world to invent mathematical formulae in Valuation Science. Published the work, “Mekadolf Formulae for the Control and Regulation of Real Estate Practice: The Valuation Approach” approved by the National Council of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors & Valuers as inventions and scientific breakthroughs for use in the study and practice of Estate Surveying & Valuation:

a{(1 + i )n – r n }

Formula 3: DV = CV – – IC

(1 + i – r)(1 + i )n

Formula 4: FC = Ro (1 + i)n q

Formula 5: LPV = en + c – t

3. Published the work, “Biafra or Nigerian Presidency: What the Ibos Want” by which he proffered the perfect solution to the Nigeria – Biafra conundrum.

4. Published the work, “Regional Autonomy: The Perfect Solution to Nigerian Problems” being memorandum for devolution of power submitted to the National Assembly for the Restructuring of Nigeria by devolution of power to the six geopolitical Regions so that every region would become autonomous and govern itself and develop at its own pace.

5. Published the work, “Deed Poll of Customary Governance” and “Bill for Customary Governance” to be passed into law by the Houses of Assembly in the East to create a Customary Government for Igbo people just as the Sharia Government Bill was passed into law to create the Sharia Government in the North for the Northerners considering that both Sharia Law and Customary Law are recognized by the Nigerian Constitution.

He advocates for an alternative governance structure for the Igbo Nation as a people in Nigeria based on Customary Law as recognized by the Nigerian Constitution akin to the Sharia Government in the North. He has often posed the question: “Nobody knows tomorrow but if Nigeria disintegrates this night by an act of God, what alternative governance structure does the Igbo Nation have under which they could be gathered as a people? Without a governance structure on the ground, would Igboland not be turned into a theatre of war by rival cults and gangsters claiming to fight for the freedom of Igboland?” Chief Iwuanyanwu agreed with him that the major problem in Igboland now is the rebellion by the youths who have been radicalized and made to rebel against constituted authorities as the youths no longer obey their elders. The rebellion of the youths gave rise to criminality by unknown gun men that destroyed the peace of Igboland.

He commenced the Project with Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu in partnership with Ohanaeze Ndigbo to restore the peace and dignity of Igboland and bring the rebellious children back to the Elders of Igboland before Chief Iwuanyanwu died. He is a man who has the interest of the Igbo Nation at heart and sacrifices his time, talents and resources to fight for the Igbo cause using the rule of law and political diplomacy.

ATTITUDE:

• Calm, thoughtful, creative, sagacious, honest, hardworking, careful, friendly and amiable.