Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu, has said it would amount to hate speech to call him or members of
the pro-Biafran group Nigerians.
Speaking against the backdrop of the Hate Speech bill before the
senate, during his regular weekly broadcasts, Kanu said it was sheer
madness for anyone to propose death penalty on people convicted for hate
speech, adding that it was a clear proof that Nigeria is governed with a
clandestine agenda.
Making mockery of the proposed bill, Kanu said the fact he and
members of his group were still being called Nigerians, a name he said
was forced on them, was a hate speech against him and millions of his
followers.
“This Hate Speech bill is exactly the same thing with Decree No 4 of
1984. What’s happening in Nigerian courts is enough to set any country
ablaze. Calling me a Nigerian is hate speech.”
He said it was out of place for the ninth Senate to have even allowed
such a bill to be introduced in a country where he said people were
angry and must have to speak out or perish.
He lambasted the senate saying instead of legislating on jobs
creation and infrastructural development, for people of the country to
have basic necessities to live decent life, they went into frivolities.
“They’ve not hanged Fulani herdsmen, they’ve not hanged the bandits
in the North, they’ve not hanged their fellow corrupt politicians,
they’ll not hang governors that have not paid salaries and are causing
untimely deaths to millions of homes. But what they’ll do very gladly is
to say that they’ll hang people for free speech…People are busy talking
about 2023 when danger is right before them,” he said.
While urging people to oppose the bill, the IPOB leader said: “Each
time you remind them of their kleptomaniac psyche, it’s hate speech.
Each time you remind them that Ruga will not work in our land, it’s hate
speech. If you say there will be no movement of Fulani cattle in our
farmland, it’s hate speech. When we say we’re being killed and
slaughtered for no reason, it’s hate speech.
“But when it’s coming from the Fulani, nobody will say anything
because it’s love speech. That’s the level of hypocrisy in Nigeria.
People don’t reason very well anymore. If people do, the excesses of
these current cabals would have been curtailed.”
The IPOB leader said the only solution to all the unpleasant things
happening in the country presently was for each section of Nigeria to go
its own way as IPOB is pushing for Biafra which he said would soon be a
reality.
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