You don’t have to support illegality just because it is committed against a group or set of people you don’t like. All well-meaning Nigerians and indeed the One-Nigeria chanters should speak against this madness happening in the South East. If we don’t condemn the Modus Operandi of the Nigerian Army’s Operation Python Dance, then we are fast legitimizing impunity in Nigeria and you can’t tell when it’ll be your own turn. Listen to Benjamin Franklin, “Justice would not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” It is bad to support a brazen brutal illegality committed against unarmed civilians merely because you don’t share with the sentiments of their ideology. You might praise Nigerian Army and condemn the IPOB today, but hey, remember, we live in a world of Karma. The past, present and future are all connected. For those who will say they are neutral in the face of this wanton show of force and injustice, I leave you with the words of Desmond Tutu, “If you are neutral in situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality”. There is no reason for the Army to enter into Abia State with a show of force on unarmed civilians not to talk of where there is not even any ostensible insurrection and without the approval of the National Assembly.
The Biafran ideology is a regenerative one. You can never kill it by killing, oppressing, or repressing the subscribers and followers. You can only defeat them by providing a better, genuine and practical alternative ideology, and educating them on the consequences of their choice. You won’t defeat them shoving the insincere rhetoric of One-Nigeria down their throat. What happens to the younger ones who are witnessing these illegalities, brutalities, killings and show of force? Oh! You think the agitation and the ideology will die by killing or arresting Nnamdi Kanu? I tell you, Biafra has since become an identity and even embedded in the DNA of her people and until the issues propelling the agitation are genuinely addressed, the ideology will never die. A million of Nnamdi Kanus have been born already and the separatist movement has even gone beyond Nnamdi Kanu. A lot of us might not subscribe to the early approach of Nnamdi Kanu in advancing the movement, but the circumstances that have given intensity and energy to this movement are there for all to see. Instead, we politicize everything and shy away from the truth and think the problem will solve itself. It is painful how people politicize everything in Nigeria even when human lives are at stake. Indeed, the intelligence of human race is overrated.
Can’t we see that the future of the so called One-Nigeria looks bleak as the day passes by? Yes, the ugly, needless and avoidable events of the past few days have further diminished the hope of a united One-Nigeria. You cannot wash away the blood you have shed. The memories of the brutalities, atrocities, torture and the accompanying scars can never be erased. In the face of any agitation, there has never been a longtime solution and understanding reached by any means better than dialogue. Did Niger Delta agitation end with the killing of Ken Saro Wiwa? Regrettably for the oppressors, Asari Dokubo, Ateke Tom, Tompolo, other militants and avengers rose with unmatched deadlier tactics. The last time I checked, it was mainly the military operation codenamed ”crocodile smile” that plunged Nigeria into recession as a result of the reactionary Niger Delta Avengers. Paulo Freire in his Pedagogy of the oppressed submitted that “Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people – they manipulate them, they do not liberate nor are they liberated, they oppress.” This is even more so “because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person” Magdeleine L’Engle opined. The choice of self-determination is an imperative principle of action and it is not just a mere phrase you can ignore. Hence, there is the need to genuinely address the driving force behind it rather than repressing the agitation by the so called Federal might. You may not like the IPOB rhetoric, but the fundamental message is a fundamental right recognized by African Charter of Human and Peoples Right as a law Nigeria should follow. In the history of all IPOB gathering, there is no any evidence or even allegation against them that they harmed anybody neither do they constitute any terror. They happily and peacefully gather in their thousands and go back home same way. Also, there’s no any ostensible and unambiguous breakdown of public order, security or any insurrection in South East by IPOB, which the Police cannot handle and then that would warrant deployment of the Nigerian Army to the region. The deployment of the Nigerian Army is an act of official terrorism and a calculated and premediated plan to unleash mayhem and provoke IPOB members to carry arms so that they can find reason to carry out their ongoing atrocious acts in full scale. Consequently, I urge them to remain non-violent as the world is watching.
So many people are afraid to talk, as it is the order of the day within a system which denies the existence of the basic human rights, for fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of poverty, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, but hear this submission from Aung San Suu Kyi, “ A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small daily acts of courage which help to preserve man’s self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.” As for the Federal might, I can only quote the words of Henry David Thoreau for them. “Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it”

Took my time,to read through.......nice write up
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."(Ae.)
One truth that remains sacrosanct,nobody can in his rationale mind question is:" The military had no business invading Umuahia."

A lot of arguments I have gotten here is that NK abused the Yorubas and Hausas?
So,I ask if he hasn't abused them,all will be fine?
Tanko Yakassai and Ango take it as a hobby to abuse anyone who is not from their tribe?Do you love them?Have their homes been invaded?Do they have immunity?
NK was not right in calling out and threatening the peace or coexistence of a people,but this is democracy and there are laws and norms that takes precedence.
-So,wrap him up in court
-Invite him to the DSS
Or any other means,that shows democracy at work.
When we get to a situation of civil disobedience,and the army comes with "show of force" or invasion,we should know there was a precedence,2019 is around the corner.
"The rain that gives sugarcane its sweetness,also gives bitterleaf its bitterness"

The big question is where do we go from here?
Go on as if nothing happened?
Count your losses,bury your dead and move on?
Ensure that these issues are looked into and make people feel that we live in an egalitarian and just society.

Too long

This is the most sensible and intelligent write-up I have read here since this military madness.
The question is, our we supporting injustice because we hate those at the receiving end?

Good day Sir, it's always difficult to sympathize with those who have no human sympathy in denigrating others. You're very insensitive when it comes to dealing with others. Even if you get Biafra, you'll perpetually live with hostile neighbours who'd probably invade you to put a stop to the insecurity you'll bring to the region.

eastman11:
This is the most sensible and intelligent write-up I have read here since this military madness.
The question is, our we supporting injustice because we hate those at the receiving end?

My brother, very many people from different quarters of Nigeria know too well that the show of force in an unruffled civilian environment is grossly atrocious and illegal, but because it is against the group of people they hate, they are either supporting it or keeping mum. That is the mentality of a people that think they have a better ideology than IPOB.

I no even read am. Python dance crocodile dance. I tire.

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BLSYNG:

"A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small daily acts of courage which help to preserve man’s self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state of state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”“

You don’t have to support illegality just because it is committed against a group or set of people you don’t like. All well-meaning Nigerians and indeed the One-Nigeria chanters should speak against this madness happening in the South East. If we don’t condemn the Modus Operandi of the Nigerian Army’s Operation Python Dance, then we are fast legitimizing impunity in Nigeria and you can’t tell when it’ll be your own turn. Listen to Benjamin Franklin, “Justice would not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” It is bad to support a brazen brutal illegality committed against unarmed civilians merely because you don’t share with the sentiments of their ideology.

You might praise Nigerian Army and condemn the IPOB today, but hey, remember, we live in a world of Karma. The past, present and future are all connected. For those who will say they are neutral in the face of this wanton show of force and injustice, I leave you with the words of Desmond Tutu, “If you are neutral in situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality”. There is no reason for the Army to enter into Abia State with a show of force on unarmed civilians not to talk of where there is not even any ostensible insurrection and without the approval of the National Assembly.

The Biafran ideology is a regenerative one. You can never kill it by killing, oppressing, or repressing the subscribers and followers. You can only defeat them by providing a better, genuine and practical alternative ideology, and educating them on the consequences of their choice. You won’t defeat them shoving the insincere rhetoric of One-Nigeria down their throat. What happens to the younger ones who are witnessing these illegalities, brutalities, killings and show of force?

Oh! You think the agitation and the ideology will die by killing or arresting Nnamdi Kanu?

I tell you, Biafra has since become an identity and even embedded in the DNA of her people and until the issues propelling the agitation are genuinely addressed, the ideology will never die. A million of Nnamdi Kanus have been born already and the separatist movement has even gone beyond Nnamdi Kanu. A lot of us might not subscribe to the early approach of Nnamdi Kanu in advancing the movement, but the circumstances that have given intensity and energy to this movement are there for all to see. Instead, we politicize everything and shy away from the truth and think the problem will solve itself. It is painful how people politicize everything in Nigeria even when human lives are at stake. Indeed, the intelligence of human race is overrated.

Can’t we see that the future of the so called One-Nigeria looks bleak as the day passes by? Yes, the ugly, needless and avoidable events of the past few days have further diminished the hope of a united One-Nigeria. You cannot wash away the blood you have shed. The memories of the brutalities, atrocities, torture and the accompanying scars can never be erased. In the face of any agitation, there has never been a longtime solution and understanding reached by any means better than dialogue. Did Niger Delta agitation end with the killing of Ken Saro Wiwa? Regrettably for the oppressors, Asari Dokubo, Ateke Tom, Tompolo, other militants and avengers rose with unmatched deadlier tactics. The last time I checked, it was mainly the military operation codenamed ”crocodile smile” that plunged Nigeria into recession as a result of the reactionary Niger Delta Avengers.

Paulo Freire in his Pedagogy of the oppressed submitted that “Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people – they manipulate them, they do not liberate nor are they liberated, they oppress.” This is even more so “because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person” Magdeleine L’Engle opined. The choice of self-determination is an imperative principle of action and it is not just a mere phrase you can ignore.

Hence, there is the need to genuinely address the driving force behind it rather than repressing the agitation by the so called Federal might. You may not like the IPOB rhetoric, but the fundamental message is a fundamental right recognized by African Charter of Human and Peoples Right as a law Nigeria should follow. In the history of all IPOB gathering, there is no any evidence or even allegation against them that they harmed anybody neither do they constitute any terror. They happily and peacefully gather in their thousands and go back home same way. Also, there’s no any ostensible and unambiguous breakdown of public order, security or any insurrection in South East by IPOB, which the Police cannot handle and then that would warrant deployment of the Nigerian Army to the region.

The deployment of the Nigerian Army is an act of official terrorism and a calculated and premediated plan to unleash mayhem and provoke IPOB members to carry arms so that they can find reason to carry out their ongoing atrocious acts in full scale. Consequently, I urge them to remain non-violent as the world is watching.

So many people are afraid to talk, as it is the order of the day within a system which denies the existence of the basic human rights, for fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of poverty, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, but hear this submission from Aung San Suu Kyi:

“ A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small daily acts of courage which help to preserve man’s self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state of state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”

As for the Federal might, I can only quote the words of Henry David Thoreau for them. “Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it”

MalcoImX:
Good day Sir, it's always difficult to sympathize with those who have no human sympathy in denigrating others. You're very insensitive when it comes to dealing with others. Even if you get Biafra, you'll perpetually live with hostile neighbours who'd probably invade you to put a stop to the insecurity you'll bring to the region.

Boss, whether IPOB denigrate others or not, and whether they will have to live with hostile neighbours or not, the question is what is the rationale behind deployment of Army in an unambiguous and ostensibly unruffled civilian environment to kill unarmed civilians.

paschu:
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Thank you. Since carrying arms is not an option for us, we can only carry pen and let the world and posterity judge them.

BLSYNG:
You don’t have to support illegality just because it is committed against a group or set of people you don’t like. All well-meaning Nigerians and indeed the One-Nigeria chanters should speak against this madness happening in the South East. If we don’t condemn the Modus Operandi of the Nigerian Army’s Operation Python Dance, then we are fast legitimizing impunity in Nigeria and you can’t tell when it’ll be your own turn. Listen to Benjamin Franklin, “Justice would not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”

It is bad to support a brazen brutal illegality committed against unarmed civilians merely because you don’t share with the sentiments of their ideology. You might praise Nigerian Army and condemn the IPOB today, but hey, remember, we live in a world of Karma. The past, present and future are all connected. For those who will say they are neutral in the face of this wanton show of force and injustice, I leave you with the words of Desmond Tutu, “If you are neutral in situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality”.

There is no reason for the Army to enter into Abia State with a show of force on unarmed civilians not to talk of where there is not even any ostensible insurrection and without the approval of the National Assembly. The Biafran ideology is a regenerative one. You can never kill it by killing, oppressing, or repressing the subscribers and followers. You can only defeat them by providing a better, genuine and practical alternative ideology, and educating them on the consequences of their choice.

You won’t defeat them shoving the insincere rhetoric of One-Nigeria down their throat. What happens to the younger ones who are witnessing these illegalities, brutalities, killings and show of force? Oh! You think the agitation and the ideology will die by killing or arresting Nnamdi Kanu? I tell you, Biafra has since become an identity and even embedded in the DNA of her people and until the issues propelling the agitation are genuinely addressed, the ideology will never die.

A million of Nnamdi Kanus have been born already and the separatist movement has even gone beyond Nnamdi Kanu. A lot of us might not subscribe to the early approach of Nnamdi Kanu in advancing the movement, but the circumstances that have given intensity and energy to this movement are there for all to see. Instead, we politicize everything and shy away from the truth and think the problem will solve itself. It is painful how people politicize everything in Nigeria even when human lives are at stake. Indeed, the intelligence of human race is overrated.

Can’t we see that the future of the so called One-Nigeria looks bleak as the day passes by? Yes, the ugly, needless and avoidable events of the past few days have further diminished the hope of a united One-Nigeria. You cannot wash away the blood you have shed. The memories of the brutalities, atrocities, torture and the accompanying scars can never be erased. In the face of any agitation, there has never been a longtime solution and understanding reached by any means better than dialogue. Did Niger Delta agitation end with the killing of Ken Saro Wiwa? Regrettably for the oppressors, Asari Dokubo, Ateke Tom, Tompolo, other militants and avengers rose with unmatched deadlier tactics.

The last time I checked, it was mainly the military operation codenamed ”crocodile smile” that plunged Nigeria into recession as a result of the reactionary Niger Delta Avengers. Paulo Freire in his Pedagogy of the oppressed submitted that “Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people – they manipulate them, they do not liberate nor are they liberated, they oppress.” This is even more so “because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person” Magdeleine L’Engle opined.

The choice of self-determination is an imperative principle of action and it is not just a mere phrase you can ignore. Hence, there is the need to genuinely address the driving force behind it rather than repressing the agitation by the so called Federal might. You may not like the IPOB rhetoric, but the fundamental message is a fundamental right recognized by African Charter of Human and Peoples Right as a law Nigeria should follow. In the history of all IPOB gathering, there is no any evidence or even allegation against them that they harmed anybody neither do they constitute any terror.

They happily and peacefully gather in their thousands and go back home same way. Also, there’s no any ostensible and unambiguous breakdown of public order, security or any insurrection in South East by IPOB, which the Police cannot handle and then that would warrant deployment of the Nigerian Army to the region. The deployment of the Nigerian Army is an act of official terrorism and a calculated and premediated plan to unleash mayhem and provoke IPOB members to carry arms so that they can find reason to carry out their ongoing atrocious acts in full scale. Consequently, I urge them to remain non-violent as the world is watching.

So many people are afraid to talk, as it is the order of the day within a system which denies the existence of the basic human rights, for fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of poverty, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, but hear this submission from Aung San Suu Kyi, “ A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small daily acts of courage which help to preserve man’s self-respect and inherent human dignity.

It is not easy for people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state of state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.” As for the Federal might, I can only quote the words of Henry David Thoreau for them. “Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it”

Biko, who is this one, nah?? Why are you people writing long epistles up and down? When Kanu was busy insulting, vilifying and condemning whole ethnic groups, and urging his IPOB supporters to kill any awusa, yorroba etc., they could find, where were you lot?

When Kanu was busy demonizing entire tribes, and pouring venom on them left, right and centre, while threatening to burn down the country in which they lived, in a way that would make Somalia look like child's play, where were you? Did you ask him to stop? Did you caution him on his utterances? Did you dissociate yourselves from him?

Many of you hailed him as your Messiah and applauded his hate speeches. When he was recruiting his own secret service personnel and hoisting his own flag on Nigerian territory, did you tell him his actions smacked of treason? No, a lot of you secretly urged him on, seeing him as some kind of Scarlet Pimpernel.

Now, the chickens have come home to roost, because Kanu's actions have bred an equal and decisive reaction from the Nigerian Army, you are asking the same people he derided and visited with scorn, venom, hate and bile, to rise up and condemn the army on Kanu's behalf. Biko, let everybody carry his own cross. Including Nnamdi Kanu!

Those who cautioned him, especially from his ethnic group were not just ridiculed, but humiliated in the most grotesque way possible, both online and offline. Their identity was questioned, their reputation besmirched and their ancestry ridiculed, without a second thought, by Kanu's acolytes using gutter language. They forgot one valid fact: the freedom to swing your arms, ends where the next man's nose begins.

On a final note, that last quote from Henry David Thoreau which says: “Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it”, applies vividly to Nnamdi Kanu. He should pay the penalty for his actions and his campaign of hate. Like my friend Graphiti would say: "Make everybody hol' im mama brezz!" He who sows the wind, shall end up reaping the whirlwind. All the long epistles in the world, would not change that fact. Now, lemme go and sleep!

Thank you Sir!

BLSYNG:

Thank you. Since carrying arms is not an option for us, we can only carry pen and let the world and posterity judge them.

MalcoImX:
Good day Sir, it's always difficult to sympathize with those who have no human sympathy in denigrating others. You're very insensitive when it comes to dealing with others. Even if you get Biafra, you'll perpetually live with hostile neighbours who'd probably invade you to put a stop to the insecurity you'll bring to the region.

Correct!! Now they expect those they derided and denigrated to come to their rescue, ba? Very interesting!

BLSYNG:
Boss, whether IPOB denigrate others or not, and whether they will have to live with hostile neighbours or not, the question is what is the rationale behind deployment of Army in an unambiguous and ostensibly unruffled civilian environment to kill unarmed civilians.

Did you ask Kanu what was his rationale for deploying his campaign of hate against other ethnic groups?! In doing so, he has alienated everyone who would have come to his rescue and screamed out on his behalf. Who wants to support a hatemonger like him?

BLSYNG:

Boss, whether IPOB denigrate others or not, and whether they will have to live with hostile neighbours or not, the question is what is the rationale behind deployment of Army [s]in an unambiguous and ostensibly unruffled civilian environment to kill unarmed civilians.[/s]

Do you honestly believe what I struck there?
.
As regard your question, my answer to you is simple: There's a limit to what Nigeria can take from you and your ilks. Let me assure you that it won't be in Buhari's time that Nigeria is broken.
.
In fact, you don't need any answer if you've taken the speech by the President any serious upon his return from medical leave:
.
"Nigeria’s unity is settled and not negotiable. We shall not allow irresponsible elements to start trouble and when things get bad they run away and saddle others with the responsibility of bringing back order, if necessary with their blood."
.
"Terrorists and criminals must be fought and destroyed relentlessly so that the majority of us can live in
peace and safety."
.
"We shall tackle them all."

laudate:

Correct!! Now they expect those they derided to come to their rescue, ba? Very interesting!

Who's calling you to come to their rescue? The point is that you're excited about an act of illegality being committed against unarmed civilians just because of hatred. The self-determination movement of the IPOB are well within the limits of the law. You deride them because of what they believe in, they deride you too and even more. What matters most is that the laws of the land are not broken and there's no need for the deployment of Army in a region that has been peaceful. The least you can do for the sake of your one-Nigeria is to condemn the atrocious illegality because the future of a united one-Nigeria looks bleak as the day passes by.

BLSYNG:

Who's calling you to come to their rescue? The point is that you're excited about an act of illegality being committed against unarmed civilians just because of hatred. The self-determination movement of the IPOB are well within the limits of the law. You deride them because of what they believe in, they deride you too and even more. What matters most is that the laws of the land are not broken and there's no need for the deployment of Army in a region that has been peaceful. The least you can do for the sake of your one-Nigeria is to condemn the atrocious illegality because the future of a united one-Nigeria looks bleak as the day passes by.

What of the act of illegality committed by ipob and Kanu against all Nigerians? You're happy with that.


To set the record straight army only came to pass and exercise but not to kill. But what happen, u think it your papa land and Biafra nation. You stone the zoo army

BLSYNG:

Who's calling you to come to their rescue? The point is that you're excited about an act of illegality being committed against unarmed civilians just because of hatred. The self-determination movement of the IPOB are well within the limits of the law. You deride them because of what they believe in, they deride you too and even more. What matters most is that the laws of the land are not broken and there's no need for the deployment of Army in a region that has been peaceful. The least you can do for the sake of your one-Nigeria is to condemn the atrocious illegality because the future of a united one-Nigeria looks bleak as the day passes by.

You are a rather pathetic clown!! That long epistle you initially wrote up there was for what exactly?? Advertisement? Tell us, o! You people never learn. You continue to deploy derogatory expletives against others, yet you expect them to support your cause after you have unleashed your uncouth language upon them? You are waiting for some of us to condemn the illegality, after the clueless remarks you put up here? Chai!!

It is not your fault. Na di person wey dash you free MB, na im I blame. No matter how many times you repeat your mantra that the future of Nigeria looks bleak, it will never motivate me to liaise with hate-filled creatures like you and your master Kanu!! I deride IPOB because of their venom, bile and filthy expletives they unleash on those who do not share their perspectives. So if you do not like it, tough!

FriendNG:
What of the act of illegality committed by ipob and Kanu against all Nigerians? You're happy with that.

To set the record straight army only came to pass and exercise but not to kill. But what happen, u think it your papa land and Biafra nation. You stone the zoo army

Biko, help me tell them, o! Kanu is a saint to them, while the rest of us are the sinners. Imagine their logic!

BLSYNG:

Who's calling you to come to their rescue? The point is that you're excited about an act of illegality being committed against unarmed civilians just because of hatred. The self-determination movement of the IPOB are well within the limits of the law. You deride them because of what they believe in, they deride you too and even more. What matters most is that the laws of the land are not broken and there's no need for the deployment of Army in a region that has been peaceful. The least you can do for the sake of your one-Nigeria is to condemn the atrocious illegality because the future of a united one-Nigeria looks bleak as the day passes by.

To be honest with you nobody cares about Kanu or what happens to him. Tell me, who it was that he hadn't ridiculed and abused, all because nobody can caution him.
.
The future of Nigeria lays in God's hand and not any Kanu and all those who share his genocidal ideologies. None of us choose to be Nigerians. We are by many factors of economics, history, geography, etc. We weren't here when Lord Lugard thought about it. I didn't land on Nigeria. It landed on me just as it landed on you and Nnamdi, and I won't do anything to break it. Just as I had no so much say when it came, I won't be able to do anything when it naturally is no more.

MalcoImX:
Do you honestly believe what I struck there?
.
As regard your question, my answer to you is simple: There's a limit to what Nigeria can take from you and your ilks. Let me assure you that it won't be in Buhari's time that Nigeria is broken.
.
In fact, you don't need any answer if you've taken the speech by the President any serious upon his return from medical leave:
.
"Nigeria’s unity is settled and not negotiable. We shall not allow irresponsible elements to start trouble and when things get bad they run away and saddle others with the responsibility of bringing back order, if necessary with their blood."
.
"Terrorists and criminals must be fought and destroyed relentlessly so that the majority of us can live in
peace and safety."
.
"We shall tackle them all."

These people can never learn!! They keep repeating the same illogical actions, yet have the guts to expect a different result. How is that possible?? See the kind of answer that girl gave after my comment. They would rather burn bridges, instead of seeking allies, and they feel they can insult people into supporting their cause. Nansense! Let them wake up and smell the coffee!

MalcoImX:
Good day Sir, it's always difficult to sympathize with those who have no human sympathy in denigrating others. You're very insensitive when it comes to dealing with others. Even if you get Biafra, you'll perpetually live with hostile neighbours who'd probably invade you to put a stop to the insecurity you'll bring to the region.

Nnamdi Kanu and Igbos r being attacked for demanding for REFERENDUM to self determination.They have no weapon and attacked no one.The military has killed thousands, raped women,killed pregnant women and children because the Igbos r agitating for self determination through REFERENDUM.Is REFERENDUM no more a democratic norm o principle of democracy?Why invade a man's house and start killing armless innocent Igbos at will.Where has the socalled Civil Liberty Organisations gone to?Where v the Civil Right Groups gone to?Why v they suddenly gone mute?Why killing the Igbos for asking for Self determination?In all the recorded movements in South East not a single fly was killed or attacked but the military came in shooting innocent Igbo people.If the government believes in democracy let her go for referendum.Catalonia in Spain had referendum, the Quebec in Canada had referendum too.Why cant the government allow referendum instead of killing innocent igbos.The Nigerian govt and the Nigerian Army should know that Nnamdi Kanu is not the struggle but Biafra.

MalcoImX:
Good day Sir, it's always difficult to sympathize with those who have no human sympathy in denigrating others. You're very insensitive when it comes to dealing with others. Even if you get Biafra, you'll perpetually live with hostile neighbours who'd probably invade you to put a stop to the insecurity you'll bring to the region.

Illegality is illegality notwithstanding ur perception of whoever is on the receiving end.

laudate:

Did you ask Kanu what was his rationale for deploying his campaign of hate against other ethnic groups?! In doing so, he has alienated everyone who would have come to his rescue and screamed out on his behalf. Who wants to support a hatemonger like him?

Just like u keep supporting ur Oba of Lagos over his genocidal speech?

laudate:

Biko, who is this one, nah?? Why are you people writing long epistles up and down? When Kanu was busy insulting, vilifying and condemning whole ethnic groups, and urging his IPOB supporters to kill any awusa, yorroba etc., they could find, where were you lot?

When Kanu was busy demonizing entire tribes, and pouring venom on them left, right and centre, while threatening to burn down the country in which they lived, in a way that would make Somalia look like child's play, where were you? Did you ask him to stop? Did you caution him on his utterances? Did you dissociate yourselves from him?

Many of you hailed him as your Messiah and applauded his hate speeches. When he was recruiting his own secret service personnel and hoisting his own flag on Nigerian territory, did you tell him his actions smacked of treason? No, a lot of you secretly urged him on, seeing him as some kind of Scarlet Pimpernel.

Now, the chickens have come home to roost, because Kanu's actions have bred an equal and decisive reaction from the Nigerian Army, you are asking the same people he derided and visited with scorn, venom, hate and bile, to rise up and condemn the army on Kanu's behalf. Biko, let everybody carry his own cross. Including Nnamdi Kanu!

Those who cautioned him, especially from his ethnic group were not just ridiculed, but humiliated in the most grotesque way possible, both online and offline. Their identity was questioned, their reputation besmirched and their ancestry ridiculed, without a second thought, by Kanu's acolytes using gutter language. They forgot one valid fact: the freedom to swing your arms, ends where the next man's nose begins.

On a final note, that last quote from Henry David Thoreau which says: “Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it”, applies vividly to Nnamdi Kanu. He should pay the penalty for his actions and his campaign of hate. Like my friend Graphiti would say: "Make everybody hol' im mama brezz!" He who sows the wind, shall end up reaping the whirlwind. All the long epistles in the world, would not change that. Now, lemme go and sleep!

this is below your standard, u did not even address the OP's write up but rather chose to breath hatred into ur reasoninig

Apt one.The Biafran ideology is a regenerative one. You can never kill it by oppressing, repressing and killing the subscribers. A government that always constitutes terror and opposition to itself showcases unschooled leadership. Where has using military might to suppress genuine agitations worked? It's just a matter of time when this dance of shame will tell on Nigeria.
For those gleefully enjoying this moment of wickedness and illegalities just because it's directed at IPOB, it is a dangerous pleasure that will turn sour one day and hunt you. He who pelts another with pebbles asks for rock in return.

laudate:

These people can never learn!! They keep repeating the same illogical actions, yet have the guts to expect a different result. How is that possible?? See the kind of answer that girl gave after my comment. They would rather burn bridges, instead of seeking allies, and they feel they can insult people into supporting their cause. Nansense! Let them wake up and smell the coffee!

What is support?why r u so soaked with this childish mentality of support?Where r saying that the military invaded a region and started killing ppl u r business with ur old attitude of support.With all NK hate speech has anyone been attacked or maimed?Do u see IPOB members with weapons?What is wrong for NK to call for self determination through referendum?Is it that referendum does not sound democratic to you?If u believe in democracy call for a referendum the way the Catalonia and Quebec people were given such opportunity and stop supporting the killings of innocent civilians who r without arms.

Frankyboy1:
The shit is about to hit the fan but I do not blame kanu at all,neither do not blame the jobless and uninformed youths! I blame you, I blame me of igbo descent, with some level of formal education, I blame the elites and leaders of opinions and tots who were too scared to speak so as not to be labeled traitors or loose their political base. When kanu started out,just one hour listening to radio biafra he lost me,because I knew how this all was going to end, you cannot fight oppression with hate,you can not sew hatred and expect to reap honey, but yet elders whispered in secret and no one spoke out and loud! I hear people here saying NK did nothing, 're you for real, the greatest tragedies is the world has come from eloquent and inspiring speeches coated with hate by supreme leaders, and lives and properties will be lost in massive proportions, the hitlers of this world, the guyana tragedy, NK falls in those circle,and some of you wicked igbos in the east says igbos who 've lived and invested all their lives in the North Will be the collateral damage for ur illusive freedom, May evil visit you all, if they return will you harbor them or give a dime of ur money to start up. NK has a cult like fellowship, why not use it to ur advantage by pushing for restructuring geared towards the N.A. Senate and all igbo elected leaders,until we 're heard, an unrest void of tribal or religious bashing of other tribes, an unrest for the youths of Nigerians, who bear the brunt of bad leadership,we have our tribal differences , which interference can be minimized tru restructuring, ur problem is not the Hausa man struggling to irk a living, it's not d yoruba youth who does not know where d next meal might come from, it's not d igbo youth who fights tooth and nail to achieve a brighter future, it's d political class the elites our leaders who cut across all tribes and religion,

Eziokwu!! You have spoken well. May you live long!!

reality1010:

What is support?why r u so soaked with this childish mentality of support?Where r saying that the military invaded a region and started killing ppl u r business with ur old attitude of support.With all NK hate speech has anyone been attacked or maimed?Do u see IPOB members with weapons?What is wrong for NK to call for self determination through referendum?Is it that referendum does not sound democratic to you?If u believe in democracy call for a referendum the way the Catalonia and Quebec people were given such opportunity and stop supporting the killings of innocent civilians who r without arms.

You still don't get it do you? It is wrong for Kanu to seek for self-determination, using hate speeches, vitriolic language and venomous rhetoric against other ethnic groups, and the state. Ask Rwanda how the war between the Tutsis and Hutus started. How many times must someone repeat this for you to get it?

Secondly, by throwing stones and missiles at the army, your people unwittingly turned themselves into combatants, and the army has enough backing under the law, to arrest them for such acts!

And Kanu started by calling for secession initially, before changing his tune to referendum. Referendum does NOT exist in the constitution as of now. The only way it can get there is if your political reps play their part in drafting a bill, to insert that clause into our legal lexicon. And there are steps that need to be taken before a referendum can be obtained. It is done through political means, which your House of Reps members & Senators must raise on the floor of the chamber, and lobby enough votes to get an assent to it.

Finally, if you feel the word 'support' is childish, why then are you and your crew asking the rest of us to condemn the army's invasion of Kanu's home? It is only those who support your view, that can agree to what you say.

Episteme2:
Apt one.The Biafran ideology is a regenerative one. You can never kill it by oppressing, repressing and killing the subscribers. A government that always constitutes terror and opposition to itself showcases unschooled leadership. Where has using military might to suppress genuine agitations worked? It's just a matter of time when this dance of shame will tell on Nigeria.
For those gleefully enjoying this moment of wickedness and illegalities just because it's directed at IPOB, it is a dangerous pleasure that will turn sour one day and hunt you. He who pelts another with pebbles asks for rock in return.

Honestly i wonder why some people r senseless and little in thinking like the small rocks in plateau state.Biafra is beyond NNamdi Kanu.Why he was in prison the agitation was there and more in foreign countries.The agitation is deep inside the people.What is the Army going to achieve by killing innocent people whereas what they believe is in their minds.Families from Father, mother to children believe in Biafra.Old men and women dance when they hear about it in the East.Many r ready to forego their investment for Biafra to come.Many outside r ready to give their best for it to come.They r saying that they need referendum not war but the military is taking war to them and some of u r supporting them.You can kill the man but not the struggle.Ask South Africans about the struggle against aparthied.This Biafran struggle will create more nationalism among the Igbos and give them courage to persevere against any odd.In better society the government provides opportunity for referendum.The govt works towards it to convince people against voting for secession and at the end the aim of those calling for it will be defeated.Government should summon courage and do the right things and stop kiling innocent civilians.

freeze001:


Illegality is illegality notwithstanding ur perception of whoever is on the receiving end.

What you're asking for is for some to be above the law or the law itself. On what authority are you calling what the state is doing illegal? Kanu has been challenging everybody, even the security forces and all you do is to still abuse the state and hail him. The state has been patient with him, but he cannot be allowed to constitute an alternative government. This guy says he is a British citizen; he should go and challenge the UK government by calling for a referendum and independence of Northern Ireland.