tungamaje:



I love your write up. The problem is that easterners demanded their governors to set up a security outfit and they were afraid to do so, should the people just sit down and do nothing? You see that 's the problem with Nigerians. We don't react, we are too docile. We don't challenge the system. Even some aren't happy the Endsars youths challenged the old order. Things will change for the better if challenge our so called leaders

Labeled Nigeria:


If a unit or sect of people do things illegally, does that justify you do same.
I want ESN, its the best. All sections of the country should protect themselves in a failed state like ours, BUT DO IT LEGALLY.

It will only create more unrest for you without following due approval procedures & lost its purpose.
(Note: I still pray u dont learn to do things right, so u can learn the hard way) ...

DamZik:
I am Yoruba from South West but I surpport the emancipation of Biafra Republic. One Nigeria is a curse, a failed state. For there to be peace in Nigeria, there must be balance of terror between fulanis and other tribes. Fulanis are our problem...

muykem:
Unpatriotic statement from Charly boy. Who are the brain behind Amotekun? Why Gani Adams or Sunday Igboho didn't form Amotekun. South east needs Security unit like Amotekun but it must come from governors not Nnamdi Kaun a terrorist.

Abaman001:



Terrorist!.... Just focus on ur landlocked five eastern states and leave South South alone, we are not brainwashed i-diots like you guys, we can't support a terrorist speaking for us....frustrated and confused donkeys

wirinet:


That's the only legal authority you have to work with. Any other unrecognised body would be termed terrorist.

OPC as a security outfit was banned by OBJ. Civilian JTF was formed by the FG. A collaboration between the army and local militia.

junglelion:
I think something is very wrong with us the Igbos, are their no things we can do by the books? How can a boy called Nnamdi Kalu dictate what happens in Igbo lands and my brothers Charly Boy and others are buying it, hook line and sinker. Is a big shame.

Sometimes I wonder what brains we have as Igbos. Nothing is achieved with a wrong mindset....we should channel our energy towards good thinking and not this myopic thinking. Am a core Igbo man....but it saddens my heart that a miscreants called Nnamdi Kalu will brain wash our people to the point most of us now think violence is the only way out....

The west got theirs by the book via their governors, are there no governors in the East?

gidgiddy:


Dont steal other people's land in the name of South/South. There is no tribe called South/South. The constitution of Nigeria does not recognise anything called South/South or South East. Igbos are indigenous to at least 12 states in Nigeria, so anyone talking about 5 states is talking nonsense..

ada9ja:


this alone shows u dont understand me at all.....u re just defending IPOB blindly

favor914:
The Government of Nigeria is the terrorist, & ipob is the Government? The sooner you leave Nigeria like kanu the better for you, you have no future in Nigeria, & have no plans of trying to develop yourself., [/b]you want to use so called Ipob emancipation to hide your failures?

[b]Cowards the Nigerian Army will wipe out your family & ipob in 6 hrs, they wouldn’t find your remains to bury.

wirinet:


That's according to IPOB and it's supporters, but according to Nigerian law, IPOB is a terrorist organization. It has been gazetted. So unless the government removes it from our laws and the official gazette, IPOB remains a terrorist organization in Nigeria. It just like the Gulen Movement in Turkey. It is a terrorist organization in Turkey but it's not in the US.

You guys need to learn to separate your emotions from reality if you want to make any progress.

kabillionaire:
and what if, whose approval you need to make it legal is the very person terrorising you?
in that case, you will wait to be slaughtered light a sallah ram abi?
do you know how many lives that are lost in the hands of these bloodthirsty fulani herdsmen?
do you have any idea how much damage they've caused?
I believe you're not yet affected.
and you think after mowe it you'll not reach Lagos?
na waoh for you ooo

Pimine:

Aswearugaaad

Glad you Mentioned this. Ask yourself why anyone has to defend IPOB if not because they've been wrongly and unjustly classified.

I get your point of view, but I'm only saying that if those whom we've tasked to protect our lives and property have sworn not to do it, should we remain defenseless?

Your answer to the above will help you see where I'm coming from. I'm not a blind supporter, infact, I have issues with some of Nnamdi Kanu's utterances and believe he should adopt a new approach, but on this particular issue, ESN is a goal.

Abaman001:



Stop dreaming bcus ur hope for ur online country has been completely shattered.... Igbo are at least indigenous people in 12states, oh really?...land grabbing terrorists..... Of course u have no hope in Rivers state and those in Delta state has for a long time rejected you guys... So deal with the reality looking at u...maybe u want to start claiming Bayelsans, Akwa-Iboms, Cross Rivers, Edolites and of course the rest of meddle beltans.....notorious landlocked online country running by force attachees.....

ensamy:
Atleast East has ESN that the marauding Fulani herdsmen are scared of. Even if it's illegal as haters say. Whenever they remember ipob ,they will retreat.

Pimine:

Aswearugaaad

Brother thank you for your input.

Now it is criminal and quite malicious to tell people not to feel aggrieved when you have given them a name they do not bear, meanwhile the Fulani herdsmen who have even outdone the dreaded Boko Haram are being treated as kings.

Now on the issue of making progress, what do you think would have been the right approach?Please don't mention the Eastern governors - those guys are soulless. We have been clamoring for our own security outfit for a long a while now, but it's quite obvious that the security of their people is of no importance to them.

Most people just criticize without a better alternative.
So what would you have done better? I'm hoping to hear your view on this.

gidgiddy:


Dont steal other people's land in the name of South/South. There is no tribe called South/South. The constitution of Nigeria does not recognise anything called South/South or South East. Igbos are indigenous to at least 12 states in Nigeria, so anyone talking about 5 states is talking nonsense..

wirinet:

You are welcome. We are all in this mess together.


There is no problem with feeling aggrieved, the problem is how you act on the aggrievement.
A rightfully aggrieved wife might murder her husband, that does not exonerate her from the death penalty. There are legal or strategic means of showing her aggrievements.

It's no news that the government have failed either by ommission or commission with the Fulani herdsmen issue, even the US and other international bodies have acknowledged that. The next step is to now strategically tackle the issue. You see the York Yorubas have taken strategic steps to confront the Fulani menace by instituting Amotekun. The governors and political leaders coalesced to form the security outfit. The Fulani biased government first challenged the legality of the regional outfit. This forced the Governors to change it to states outfit backed by laws from the state assemblies. You see the issue is akin to a chess game.



Even though the Governors are soulless, they are the best option you have. They are the one with the legal and political mandate to secure the states, and they have the necessary resources to fund the organisations.
So my suggestion is to take the "@endsars#" route or "@bring back our girls#" route. Even though lots of youths lost their lives, they got what whey were asking for. SARS was disbanded, panels were constituted in each state to look into human rights abuse by SARS, police salaries were increased, etc. When last did you see police harass youths in flashy cars or with dreadlocks? The Buhari government has actually lost legitimacy in the international community and if not for the coronavirus virus pandemic that has distracted most western country, the buhari government would have been under serious sanctions by now.


I advice you guys to employ civil disobedience, peaceful protests and social media campaigns to get the Governors to secure the lives of easterners.

LabuleofNigeria:


Your head is obviously paining you.

Amotekun is passed into law with legal backings by 5 state governors and recognised by the FG, NPF, etc.
Hisbah was launched by the Kano state govt and dully approved.

Anyone carrying arms illegally is a terrorist or a Thief. (especially with a wanted Terorist as leader).


I want ESN, but right protocols should be followed.

Ojiofor:


You and I knows that [b]IPOB [/b]can't even freely operate a church in Nigeria as a proscribed group talkless of a vigilante group.
If they are not illegal why are they not in the streets with operational base like Amotekun?
No difference between bss and esn.

Dedetwo:


How do you draw silly conclusion on subject matter you know nothing about except the craps you read from newspapers and junks from Internet? What is the symbol IPOB as an organization? The map of Biafra is not IPOB symbol and it amount to idiocy if one tries lump them together. Please how does IPOB equates to ESN? Please do not tell me what you heard about Nnamdi Kanu said. There is nothing in Nigeria with a legal tender. Nigeria is proscribed in a manner you think IPOB is proscribed too.

Dedetwo:


Only dumbass goons shout law and order or even constitutionality when there is none. Where are the laws which forbid soldiers from killing unarmed Nigerian civilians? There is no constitutional mandate which allows Nigerian armed forces to march into a Nigerian village and raze it to the ground.

AustineJohn908:
Shutup Abot, you don't speak for the SS, we Southerners support ESN wholeheartedly.
Remember our governors haven't Constituted a security outfit to protect us? if Nmandi can do it then we are all behind him.
You all don't understand that we in Akwa ibom loves the Igbos. we want them to prosper. we might not love to share the same country with them but given a choice between BIAFRA and Nigeria, we rather go with BIAFRA then stay in a country filled up with fulani terrorists.

SaintBishop:
Who made you lord over the south south people? And who are this We u keep talking about? my friend keep your bullshit to your akwa ibom people abi na akwacross people, stop dragging others into your nonsense.

AustineJohn908:
We have shall told you our own

ada9ja:
I solely support any security outfit from the east but not from a proscribe group because as a country we all should know is dead on arrival, so why support something good that can't hold ground for long? Assuming the eastern governor can bring out such, fine but through IPOB is going to be a waste.

Wartsnigeria:


The difference is who set them up, Amotekum was set up by governors while ESN was setup by a wanted criminal without consulting any governor from the east . It is dead on arrival.

Wartsnigeria:


So a single person can form a security network for the south east without consulting any governor. You make me laugh, I am from south east and I know it is dead on arrival.