Nnamdi Kanu is us

[Ikhide]

Nnamdi Kanu is us. To be silent is to acquiesce to our imprisonment in a "democracy." Next time they will come for us. We must stop Buhari.

Sadly, Buhari won't be stopped anytime soon. His insolence is funded by the sweet words of many Nigerian writers and pretend public intellectuals, the chop and clean mouth brigade of the new dispensation, our Goebbels, the myrmidons of our looming darkness, those who assure us daily that this farce is not Animal Farm.

We have no voices; they have been stilled by filthy lucre. There are many quietly documenting the outrage that is today's Nigeria in their journals. In two years, they will publish a book - for profit. May termites and boll weevils read your books for free. It is time to speak up now or forever break your pen in half! I have said my own.

Nonsense.

And I leave you the measured but haunting words of Moses Ochonu on his Facebook wall:

"Regardless of where you stand on the new Biafra movement led by Nnamdi Kanu, and regardless of what you think of the detained IPOB leader, how can you defend or justify the Buhari administration's unconstitutional detention of Kanu, a man who had been granted bail more than a month ago and was then discharged on all the charges filed against him by the FG by a higher court? Is this the new norm, disregard for court rulings and verdicts? And how can you justify the killing by Nigerian security services of protesters calling for Kanu's release?

You may say that six new charges have been filed against Kanu, but why was he held for at least a week after the dismissal of the charges against him before the new charges were brought? And why was his earlier bail not respected by the SSS? Now, to the government's embarrassment, they are shopping for judges who will agree to nail Kanu because most reasonable ones will not agree to be used by a seemingly insecure government that will not obey court rulings.

I'm afraid Buhari is playing a potentially dangerous game with his handling of Kanu. Already, by taking the lunatic fringe campaigner seriously, announcing the interception of Biafra radio signals, and then arresting him as he wanted and goaded them into doing, Buhari and his security services have made Kanu and Biafra an international issue.

Buhari has handed IPOB a moral victory and Kanu a massive grassroots following that confers on him credibility and stature he never had. Why not simply quietly release this political nonentity and watch him fade away into irrelevance like MASSOB's Ralph Uwazuruike before him? Why help mainstream a marginal political movement by taking a paranoid, impulsive approach to an organization that specializes in comical guerrilla radio bluster?

I don't get the endgame of this administration with regard to Kanu/IPOB. So far, there is no logic to what they are doing; it's all very impulsive and improvisational, driven by irrational fear and paranoia more than anything else."

- Moses Ochonu

"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."

- Wole Soyinka

President Buhari, respect our courts, free Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.

[Anunoby, Ogugua]

I concur.
Problems should be what they are- problems. Their solutions should be what they should be- solutions not new and more problems which is why the prudent problem solver chooses their solution wisely not in anger, frustration, or rancor. The hope must be that the Buhari Administration has learned from its mismanagement in my view, of the Kanu and Shia challenges.
Nigeria's legal institutions and security agencies exist to protect not terrorize Nigerians even when they are breaking the law, some of which may be unjust laws if the truth be told. A responsible democratically elected government is more respectful of citizens including those of them who may disagree with it , and their constitutional rights than the Buhari Administrations seemingly has been.

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[Salimonu Kadiri]

Nnamdi Kanu is not us. Nnamdi Kanu is the proprietor and owner of illegal Radio Station called Radio Biafra. According to the Director General of Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC),  Nnamdi Kanu has been disrupting the peace of the Southeast Nigeria with obscene messages, transmitting hate messages that were designed to create disunity among Nigerians and mislead young people in a deliberate act of subversion. (www.saharareporters.com/2015/07/17/nigerian-broadcast-authorities-arrest-radio-biafra-operators.html). Kanu's Biafra is a xenophobic country that hates all non-Igbo Nigerians. His Biafra celebrates the Nazi-like supremacy of the Igbo ethnic group and scorns other human beings outside the borders of Biafra. To non-eccentric Nigerians, the word 'Biafra' connotes war, mass starvation and death of millions of Nigerians. We should remember that when Hitler in his Mein Kampf promised to purify Germany so that the Reich would contain only German blood, the rest of the world granted him freedom of expression. He exploited the democratic process to become German Chancellor and by the time Hitler had finished with his purification of the Reich, the world was saying had we known we would have stopped him already in 1926. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was not stopped in 1967 and his deputy wailed thus, "Until the end of the war on 12 January 1970, the Biafran soldier fought an impossible war under conditions that were totally inhuman and uncalled for. It was the result of one man (Ojukwu)  turning what was the people's will to fight a war of survival into a desperate and reckless attempt to achieve a personal ambition - even if it meant destroying the very people he purportedly was fighting to preserve. (page 237, Nigeria & Biafra, My Story by Lt. Colonel Philip Efiong)." It is better and wiser to prune the stem of Iroko tree when it is young because it will be difficult to handle when it is allowed to mature. 

 

Contrary to what some intellectuals are asserting, no court in Nigeria has declared the detention of Kanu unconstitutional. The charges against him at the Magistrate Court was withdrawn because the Court has no jurisdiction over treasonable Cases. The High Court which had earlier granted the DSS power to detain Kanu for 90 days did not extend the detention order before the DSS could file the proper charges in the High Court. That is the true situation. The crime of Kanu is greater than those who have been kept in Guantanamo since 2004 without trial. Let us stop being sentimental.

S. Kadiri    
 

[Abolaji Adekeye]

I have no sympathy for Nnamdi Kanu. He was caught on video soliciting
money to procure arms against the FRN. He has used a pirate radio to
disseminate hate messages and Biafra propaganda. He is a national
security risk. He is a criminal. He is not us. He is you, perhaps.



On 12/25/15, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series