Even
without meaning to, by words, actions and inactions, President Muhammadu
Buhari has greatly aided the cause of Biafra much more than a thousand
Nnamdi Kanu could ever have done within such a very short space of time.
What is happening with regards to Buhari
and the Biafran issue vis-a-vis the arrest and detention of the IPOB
leader as well as the continued killing of IPOB activists across the
country is beginning to seem as though some unseen hand is using the
poorly lettered highly vindictive Daura-born quota system ex-soldier
called Muhammadu Buhari to speed up the Biafran agitation even without
the knowledge of Buhari himself.
So far, if anything has proven that this government is bankrupt in a way that defies reason, it is the
way it has handled the Biafran issue. After years of running his Radio
Biafra from abroad and exposing the many grave injustices of the
Nigerian state, the Abia state born Prince Kanu publicly announced he
was coming to Nigeria and even gave date of his arrival. If this govt
and her not-so-intelligent Intelligence Outfit, the DSS weren’t
holidaying in Mars the day this thing called ‘common sense’ was created,
they would have known that Mazi Kanu actually wanted them to arrest him
in order to help bring international recognition to his struggle. But
like I implied, common-sense is the rarest commodity when it comes to
this Shiites and IPOB-killing govt.
The DSS didn’t just arrest Kanu, they
behaved like the quota system security agency that they are by keeping
Kanu with them for so long without taking him to court. When they
finally took him to a magistrate court, they charged him with belonging
to a secret and illegal organisation even when IPOB was duly registered
with the CAC. When the Magistrate court granted bail to Kanu, instead of
allowing him enjoy his bail, the DSS defied the court ruling and took
Kanu before another Magistrate court where they charged him with
sponsoring terrorism even when they ought to have known that the
magistrate court had no jurisdiction to entertain such a matter. When
the magistrate court expectedly threw out the case for lack of
jurisdiction, the same DSS while still in violation of the first
judgment of the magistrate court to release Kanu on bail, still took the
IPOB leader to ABUJA high court presided over by Justice Adeniyi
Ademola. On December 17, 2015, Justice Ademola ordered the DSS to
release Nnamdi Kanu “unconditionally” since he had previously been
granted bail by another court. Again, this court order was defied by the
Lawal Daura headed DSS. To further prove that this country is a jungle,
not a zoo, President Buhari came on national Television to swear that
he would never release Kanu.
It is settled in law that even if a
judge delivers a ruling while visibly high on alcohol or drug, that
ruling must either be obeyed or appealed at a higher court. Sadly, this
simple legal fact was lost on the DSS. Nnamdi Kanu called Nigeria a zoo.
He later came to the same Nigeria and defeated her government right
there in her own court and even forced the president to treat the
judgment of his own court with disdain. Now, do pray tell, between
President Buhari and Nnamdi Kanu, who actually proved that Nigeria is
far worse than a zoo?
Quite frankly, if I was a man of means,
I’d sue anyone who dares to insult the beautiful animal place called zoo
by mentioning it in the same sentence as Nigeria with a view to
comparing the two. This country is not even a jungle because in a
jungle, the head of the jungle does not use the instrumentalities of the
jungle to aide one specie of animal in killing off species as Buhari is
doing with the murderous Fulani monsters.
Kanu’s arrest gifted the Biafran
agitation with global attention. The continued breaking of Nigerian law
and flouting of court judgments by the Buhari government in a desperate
bid to keep the IPOB leader in detention has only won more sympathizers
to the cause of Biafra. Whether we believe it or not, Nnamdi Kanu is now
the most influential Igbo Biafran man alive! The IPOB leader is more
like a god among millions of Igbo Biafran youth today. For him, millions
of people staged protest in different countries calling for his
release.
For Nnamdi Kanu, thousands of Igbo
Biafra youths marched on the streets of Nigeria demanding his release.
Even when the uninformed thugs masquerading as the Nigerian army used
live bullets on the Youths and killed many of them, they still continued
their protest. Even when a joint team of the police and army massacred
hundreds of them while praying inside Ngwa high school, Aba on February
9, they yet continued.
No Igbo man nor any other Nigerian alive
today can draw up to a thousand youths to the street without paying
them! But Kanu did this and much more. Today, Nnamdi Kanu is a hero and
Biafra is now on the lips of millions of people both here in Nigeria and
beyond. Even some foreign media houses that never talked about Biafra
are now discussing Biafra. All thanks to Buhari and his criminally inept
DSS. Now, the court has finally cancelled secret trial for the IPOB
leader.
I don’t need to look into my crystal
ball to know that however this Kanu’s court case ends, it is a win-win
for him and the Biafra struggle. If the government keep holding him, the
Biafra agitation will keep rising like the wild fire. If the government
releases him, he will walk triumphantly to a thunderous and an
earthquake welcome from his followers who are swelling in their numbers
and continue his agitation with more ‘street credibility’.
Even in the unlikely event that he is
killed in detention, it will still gift the Biafra struggle with more
sympathizers and paint the Buhari government as more devilish than the
devil and even give his followers the moral right to resort to violence
which it would seem is the only language Nigeria understands. And most
importantly, this govt has already created a million and one Nnamdi
Kanus out there.
Indeed, it is such a crying shame that
president Buhari allowed his quest for vendetta against a people who
have done him no wrong to cloud his sense of judgment. Even Jack my
two-day old puppy knows that it is foolish to try to use force to
silence a people who only ask to be treated like every other people or
be allowed to go.
Biafra is an ideology. And this ideology
is getting its nutrients from the injustices of the Nigerian state. If
you want Biafra to die a natural death, don’t bother fighting Nnamdi
Kanu. Fight those devilish policies of the Nigerian state, stop the
clandestine war which Nigeria is still carrying out against the Igbo
Biafrans, give justice to millions of Igbo Biafran children and
civilians starved to death by the Nigerian state during the Biafran war.
Targeting civilians during conflict and starving them of food and
medicine as Nigeria did to Biafra, then, is nothing short of war crime.
We remember! This government has boxed itself into a corner.
Whatever happens, it is a win-win for Nnamdi Kanu and Biafra!
Charles Ogbu is a social media activist. Connect with him on Facebook.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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