Nnamdi Kanu is certainly capable of doing more damage to the Nigeri­an system than the MASSOB, OPC, and such other groups, and should he push things fur­ther, he could ignite a crisis worse than Boko Haram. My gut feeling is that some people in certain places are beginning to realize this and that is why Nnamdi Kanu out of deten­tion appears untouchable; it is the reason he is able to dare the state, and ridicule his bail con­ditions. The lesson here is obvi­ously enough, the brazen use of force and intimidation to deal with certain situations could create really bad unintended consequences.

Nnamdi Kanu who probably barely struggled to survive as a black man in Europe, has been turned by the Nigerian Gov­ernment into a credible apos­tle of a resurgent Biafran rev­olution. The other day when he held a meeting in Umuahia, over 5,000 persons trooped to his compound. Kanu is a mas­ter of symbolism. He is exploit­ing the Jewish symbol: to signal to the world that Igbos are be­ing persecuted. He visits sym­bolic sites of the civil war to prick the injured part of the Igbo consciousness and mo­bilize the people. His pre-em­inence is a comment on the quality of the state and its stra­tegic intelligence system. If he succeeds with his threats, we should know those to blame. A few days ago, someone on social media further compared him to Jesus Christ and described him as the true saviour. Every revo­lutionary in history graduates from ordinariness to being messianic, propelled by opti­mized endorsement.

Whoever ordered Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest and prosecution did this country a bad turn. Fif­ty years after the outbreak of the civil war, we now have a man called Nnamdi Kanu. He may well end up as Nigeria’s neme­sis. He is the most frightening product of our many years and acts of denial and he may well throw the country into a night­mare worse than Boko Haram, if care is not taken. He start­ed out as the leader of a group called the Indigenous People of Biafra and as director of Ra­dio Biafra. He and those who bought into his rhetoric of se­cession and the renewal of the Biafra dream organized pro­tests across the world, and they looked, from afar, like a group of disgruntled Nigeri­ans in diaspora. In the foreign lands where most of the mem­bers lived, they looked like per­sons over-enjoying the freedom of speech from a safe distance. They didn’t appear to have the force of MASSOB, which is lo­cally based and seemingly more malleable. The renewed strug­gle for Biafra that Kanu and his crowd talked about could have been nothing more than an in­ternet and television revolution. But everything went wrong the moment Nnamdi Kanu chose to visit home and he was arrest­ed, detained and taken through a court trial.

Whoever ordered Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest and prosecution did this country a bad turn. Kanu is a character that could have been better ignored. His trial and travails have turned him into a hero and a living martyr among Igbos. And the young man so far, understands the game. Since he was released on bail, he has been taunting the Nigerian state and govern­ment. Daily, he dares those who granted him bail and he laughs at the conditions they gave him arrest him now and see chaos. He associates with more than 10 persons. He moves about Igboland freely, like a spirit. He addresses rallies and grants in­terviews. He has been busy is­suing statements. On May 30, he ordered a shut-down of the entire South Eastern region and that order was obeyed not only in the South East but also in some parts of the South-South.

A lot of Nigerians simply dont want to accept that the rise of Nnamdi Kanu and the followership he commands that enabled him to shut down the entire South East and part of the South South is because Nigeria is a nation on paper only.

"One Nigeria" is just another way of saying "imprisonment"

My only wish is for my great Igbo nation to be a free from the colonial contraption they were forced into in 1914.

true talk

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biafra cant be achieved
and your leader Nnamdi Kanu is just playing around

God bless Nnamdi Kanu.

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biafra cant be achieved
and your leader Nnamdi Kanu is just playing around

Thats what your fore-fathers said about Lugard and his Nigeria, but you are a Nigerian today

can't touch this