AUTHOR;
Al- sahin Abdullahi
A lot of questions have been been raised about the recent "Biafra" protests in the south-east and the south-south. There's been a lot of agitation on the Biafra issue but the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu triggered the release clause of some well meaning Biafrans, protesting for the actualization of the sovereign state.
What is even more interesting, is the way the Nigerian government has chosen to remain mute on the matter, ignoring protesters and as well, their wide spread protests and criticisms.
Its evident that those who are protesting are miscreants, misguided fools, urchins, and the likes, heralding the strength of their well fed belly (if it was actually well fed.) It baffles me how some people bought this foolishness to actualise a dream long dead. Steve Nwosu captured the foolishness among the demonstrators.
Here is a quote from a Steve Nwosu article entitled: Nigeria Or Biafra- Where Do I Belong?
"A day earlier (on Friday), two of my colleagues who were coming for the same burial, were caught up around the Niger Bridge in Asaba for nearly four hours. Their offence as leveled by the IPOB- Indigenous People Of Biafra protesters was that they were coming into the Biafran territory from Nigeria (a totally different country!), without necessary papers (visas and international passports.)
None of the protesters cared to know that the two 'detainees' were both from Ebonyi.
Infact, one was a Nwosu and the other, an Umahi, it was a harrowing experience."
No Igbo leader, i reiterate, none of the Igbo leaders, seem to be openly in support of this "noise making." Why, what are they doing? The so-called Igbo leaders are playing the waiting game, nosing around for the outcome, with the dictates of the government. I think it's a good thing that they've been kept in the dark and their fates unknown, with the government's silence. Silence they say, is golden.
None of the Igbo leaders want to be associated with the movement of course, avoiding the ugly effects of been termed sponsors of Disunity or sponsors of Biafra agitations as earlier suggested by Senator Shehu Sani, that easterners who were not in support of the Buhari administration are behind the fuelling of this agenda. How ludicrous!
Historically, no ethnic group in Nigeria is content with the authoritative allocation of the nation's national wealth or power structure. Only those ethnic groups controlling the power at each term/administration, at the national level, seem to console "themselves with the "at least, our brother is at the top" syndrome.
We all cry of marginalisation, and series of threat of leaving the British baptised union named Nigeria, has also been witnessed, but several years gone by, we are still one and growing, going strong from strength to strength, regardless of the challenges.
Our democracy, learning how to walk after several years of been cripple. We should not let political interest, ethnic sentiments, bigotry, the want for selfish aggrandizement, etc, fordo our dreams as ONE NIGERIA.
It's my humble opinion that Nnamdi Kanu be allowed to go home and sin no more, as this will go a long way to quell the regional cum political unrest we are experiencing in our beloved nation.
If in the future, its discovered he didn't or doesn't repent, if he returns with his gimmicks and gospel of disunity, then, let him pay the price.
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