Metro OPINION: The Biafran Truth and the Illegal Trial of Nnamdi Kanu by Remi Oyeyemi


“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“I’m for truth, mo matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.”— – Malcom X

With trepidation, I have been watching the subtle descent into dictatorship by the administration of Muhammadu Buhari. I have been watching with disgust President Buhari’s war against freedom of speech. I am very concerned about desperate attempts by President Buhari and his sentries to muzzle the voice of self determination. I am very upset that a government of All Progressives Congress that claimed to love freedom is engaged in deliberate subjugation of innocent citizens who happens to have different views about the state of the polity.

I am very concerned that an innocent man is being denied his freedom. I am scared that an innocent man is being subjected to illegal detention. I am not comfortable that an innocent man is being tried for desiring freedom for his people. I am very disturbed that a non-violent man is being inflicted with unwarranted and undeserved travails. I am worried that a lot of unwary observers who are not properly schooled in the elementary tenets of democracy are vilifying an innocent man.

Nnamdi Kanu is an innocent man. He has not committed any crime to make him deserve the kind of treatment being meted out to him. You do not have to like Nnamdi Kanu. You do not have to agree with him or his desires for his people. But no one has the right to deny him his fundamental human right to be free. No one has the right to deny him the right to self-determine his destiny as he sees it or wants it. No one has the right to shut him up because they do not like what he is saying or because they feel threatened by what he is saying.

Mr. Kanu’s exploits are known to all and sundry.His desire is to have a homeland for his people. His desire is to free his people from the shackles of Nigeria. His desire is to see his people get to the promised land of Biafra. His dream is to see his people in control of their own destiny. His desire is to have a say in who governs him and his people. His desire is to ensure that no oligarchy or neo-oligarchic interests within the Ndigbo homeland is able to hold his people in bondage. His desire is to be able to water the tree of liberty for his people. There is nothing criminal in or about all this.

In all this, he has only employed semantics. He has only deployed sophistry. He had only appropriated the airwaves to be able to reach his people. He has not acquired arms. He has not killed anybody. He has not declared any armed war against anyone or organization. The only war he has ever declared is against the continued subjugation, enslavement and denigration of his Igbo people. It is a war of idea. A war of and for the minds of his people to see what he is seeing, to desire what he is desiring, to dream what he is dreaming. And he is doing that peacefully. He has been able to make his case to the majority of Ndigbo and the youths of that nation who are indeed the future of Biafra.

He is mobilizing his people to engage in the struggle to be free from their enslavement by the Nigerian State. He is making a clarion call for his people to stand up for their rights and self determine their destinies, or collective destiny. He has been innovative. He has been peaceful. He has been determined. He has been methodical. He has been deliberate. He has been consistent. He has persevered. And he is making sacrifices. There is nothing criminal in or about this.

Nnamdi Kanu has a dream: a dream of Biafra. He has a dream of the land of the Rising Sun; where there is freedom and liberty; a dream of Biafra where the people are free to be in control of their own destinies. He has a dream of Biafra where the sons and daughters of Biafra can reach for the sky and penetrate the heavens. He has a dream of Biafra where there would not be a despicable federal character that denies the talented and the gifted of Ndigbo the opportunity to achieve their potential. He has a dream where Biafra would be able to take its rightful place in the comity of nations. There is nothing criminal in or about any of this.

So far, apart from those benefiting from the miseries of the Ndigbo nation; apart from the sentries of the status quo; apart from the carpetbaggers and political dealers of the Nigerian State; apart from the scallywags and scared agents of the Nigerian State, Nnamdi Kanu is beloved by the majority of his Ndigbo people and every lover of freedom across the world. If anyone is in doubt of this claim, they should call for the referendum of the people of the Igbo Nation. This would settle the case at least for a while.
Even, if Nnamdi Kanu is a minority voice, he is still entitled to his freedom of speech, freedom to desire, freedom of association, freedom to seek liberation for the people who may or may not want it. The fact that not many people really cares about “heaven” as the Christians call it, or “Aljana” as the Muslims call it has not stopped the Pastors, Evangelists, Reverends and the Imams from preaching their beliefs. Nnamdi Kanu should be allowed to preach his Biafran Gospel. The Ndigbo have the right to believe him or ignore him. They have the choice to follow him or reject him.

The continued detention and trial of Mr. Kanu by this administration is illegal. It is uncalled for in a free society. It is unwarranted in a democracy. It is unfair to any man or woman. It is illegal. It is unacceptable. We do not have to agree with Mr. Kanu before we all protect his rights. We do not all have to believe in Biafra before we protect his freedom. We do not have to be Igbo to protect his desire for self determination for himself and his people. We all must champion his freedom from illegal detention and trial.

From what has transpired so far, it all looks like an oligarchic conspiracy. Everything is pointing to signs of fear by the enslavers within the Nigerian State. It is suggestive that some neo-colonialists who control the levers of power of the Nigerian State are scared stiff of Biafra and other growing voices of freedom from the subjugation of the Nigerian State. The Hausa-Fulani neo-colonialists and their sentries in Yoruba land, Igbo land and Birom land, Nupe land, Kataf land, Mumuye land, Kanuri land among several others are jittery.

They are not only jittery, they are panicking. They are scared that the slaves are about to break free. They are afraid that the slaves are about to do away with their shackles and chains. They are nervous that the captives are about to break down the walls of subjugation.The dilating dawn of freedom is drowning their deceit and duplicity. They are brimming with tension. They are threatening violence against non-violence agitation. They are murdering freedom fighters and stigmatizing them as criminals. They are shooting and maiming freedom fighters and stigmatizing them as troublemakers. They are resorting to everything and anything to hold on to a modernized feudalism euphemized as “democracy.”

Nnamdi Kanu should not worry about his being detained if he is reading this.He should not be concerned about his trial. This is a battle between body and mind. It is a battle between injustice and justice. It is a battle between matter and spirit. In all these battles, the mind would overcome the body, justice will vanquish injustice and spirit will defeat matter. This is because Nnamdi Kanu represents an idea. It is an idea whose time has come.

Though, the Biafra idea might not be Kanu’s originally, he is, as at present, the physical representative of that idea. It is not this idea that has created the present crisis. It is the crisis of the Nigerian State that has created the Biafran idea. The Nigerian state and its odious purveyors may be able to subjugate your body, they may be able to vilify and malign your name for desiring freedom for your people, but they would not, should not and must not be able to destroy your spirit. They would not be able to defeat the idea of Biafra. The only people who would be able to defeat the Biafran idea are the Biafran people if they choose to. Otherwise, any effort on the part of the decadent Nigerian State would come to futility. It is a matter of time. Not a matter of if.

For those who believe in the truths of Biafra as a Nation, they should remember the words of Elvis Presley, the American music icon, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” The land of the Rising Sun is not going away.Nnamdi Kanu is not going away. The desire for self determination is not going away. The determination to be free from the shackles of the Nigerian State is not going away. Biafra is not going away.

You can take Nnamdi Kanu’s body out of circulation. You can imprison him. You can try him several times over. You can shoot, maim, kill and or murder his followers and those who believe in him, but what he stands for, Biafra, is not going away. Biafra was conceived as an idea. The obnoxious Nigerian State is its incorrigible catalyst. Then it became a belief. It has become a dream of all proud Ndigbo. It is a dream contextualized in reality. It is going to be achieved.

To someone like me, who believes fervently in Oodua, who prays for and preaches for the advent of an Oodua Nation, free from neo-colonialism, unbounded from the curse and shackles of the Nigerian State, Nnamdi Kanu is an inspiration. For someone like me, who believes that the emergence of an independent Oodua Nation is inevitable, Mr. Kanu is an inspiration regardless of what his detractors or enemies might say. He inspires me like Obafemi Awolowo inspires me. He inspires me like Nnamdi Azikwe inspires me.He inspires me like Mahatma Gandhi inspires me. He inspires me like Kwameh Nkrumah inspires me. He inspires me like Jomo Kenyatta inspires me. He inspires me like Kenneth Kaunda inspires me. He inspires me like Thomas Jefferson inspires me.

The Nigerian State has a date with its destiny which is its eventual balkanization. But Biafra and Oodua Nations have dates not just with their destinies, but also with History. It is inevitable and it is unstoppable.

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.”
– John F. Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address January 20, 1961

http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/opinion-the-biafran-truth-and-the-illegal-trial-of-nnamdi-kanu-by-remi-oyeyemi.147114/

#iambiafra

hug transformer if em dey vex u

Great write up.
This is someone with a brain.
Someone that reasons.
Not an idiot that has filled every pore with hate.

I'm a Biafran...
Nothing can change that

I don't know why yoloba keep butting their heads in biafran matter.

Mschewweww notice me by force ashawo tribe

Remi Oyeyemi thanks for standing on the side truth like some omoluabis like us. Posterity will judge you with kindness. For those Akobata fulanis( slaves of thr fulanis) within the Oodua nation, your end is near because the lugardian cage must be shattered ( Apologies to Afenifere).

Long live Oodua!

Long live Biafra!

Death to the lugardian cage!

I'm positively shocked by this masterpiece of an article by a Yoruba man.
Totally speechless.

long live NIGET DELTA REPUBLIC

common sense eludes you.

ikechu1278:
I don't know why yoloba keep butting their heads in biafran matter.

Mschewweww notice me by force ashawo tribe

lordliri:
Metro OPINION: The Biafran Truth and the Illegal Trial of Nnamdi Kanu by Remi Oyeyemi


“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“I’m for truth, mo matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.”— – Malcom X

With trepidation, I have been watching the subtle descent into dictatorship by the administration of Muhammadu Buhari. I have been watching with disgust President Buhari’s war against freedom of speech. I am very concerned about desperate attempts by President Buhari and his sentries to muzzle the voice of self determination. I am very upset that a government of All Progressives Congress that claimed to love freedom is engaged in deliberate subjugation of innocent citizens who happens to have different views about the state of the polity.

I am very concerned that an innocent man is being denied his freedom. I am scared that an innocent man is being subjected to illegal detention. I am not comfortable that an innocent man is being tried for desiring freedom for his people. I am very disturbed that a non-violent man is being inflicted with unwarranted and undeserved travails. I am worried that a lot of unwary observers who are not properly schooled in the elementary tenets of democracy are vilifying an innocent man.

Nnamdi Kanu is an innocent man. He has not committed any crime to make him deserve the kind of treatment being meted out to him. You do not have to like Nnamdi Kanu. You do not have to agree with him or his desires for his people. But no one has the right to deny him his fundamental human right to be free. No one has the right to deny him the right to self-determine his destiny as he sees it or wants it. No one has the right to shut him up because they do not like what he is saying or because they feel threatened by what he is saying.

Mr. Kanu’s exploits are known to all and sundry.His desire is to have a homeland for his people. His desire is to free his people from the shackles of Nigeria. His desire is to see his people get to the promised land of Biafra. His dream is to see his people in control of their own destiny. His desire is to have a say in who governs him and his people. His desire is to ensure that no oligarchy or neo-oligarchic interests within the Ndigbo homeland is able to hold his people in bondage. His desire is to be able to water the tree of liberty for his people. There is nothing criminal in or about all this.

In all this, he has only employed semantics. He has only deployed sophistry. He had only appropriated the airwaves to be able to reach his people. He has not acquired arms. He has not killed anybody. He has not declared any armed war against anyone or organization. The only war he has ever declared is against the continued subjugation, enslavement and denigration of his Igbo people. It is a war of idea. A war of and for the minds of his people to see what he is seeing, to desire what he is desiring, to dream what he is dreaming. And he is doing that peacefully. He has been able to make his case to the majority of Ndigbo and the youths of that nation who are indeed the future of Biafra.

He is mobilizing his people to engage in the struggle to be free from their enslavement by the Nigerian State. He is making a clarion call for his people to stand up for their rights and self determine their destinies, or collective destiny. He has been innovative. He has been peaceful. He has been determined. He has been methodical. He has been deliberate. He has been consistent. He has persevered. And he is making sacrifices. There is nothing criminal in or about this.

Nnamdi Kanu has a dream: a dream of Biafra. He has a dream of the land of the Rising Sun; where there is freedom and liberty; a dream of Biafra where the people are free to be in control of their own destinies. He has a dream of Biafra where the sons and daughters of Biafra can reach for the sky and penetrate the heavens. He has a dream of Biafra where there would not be a despicable federal character that denies the talented and the gifted of Ndigbo the opportunity to achieve their potential. He has a dream where Biafra would be able to take its rightful place in the comity of nations. There is nothing criminal in or about any of this.

So far, apart from those benefiting from the miseries of the Ndigbo nation; apart from the sentries of the status quo; apart from the carpetbaggers and political dealers of the Nigerian State; apart from the scallywags and scared agents of the Nigerian State, Nnamdi Kanu is beloved by the majority of his Ndigbo people and every lover of freedom across the world. If anyone is in doubt of this claim, they should call for the referendum of the people of the Igbo Nation. This would settle the case at least for a while.
Even, if Nnamdi Kanu is a minority voice, he is still entitled to his freedom of speech, freedom to desire, freedom of association, freedom to seek liberation for the people who may or may not want it. The fact that not many people really cares about “heaven” as the Christians call it, or “Aljana” as the Muslims call it has not stopped the Pastors, Evangelists, Reverends and the Imams from preaching their beliefs. Nnamdi Kanu should be allowed to preach his Biafran Gospel. The Ndigbo have the right to believe him or ignore him. They have the choice to follow him or reject him.

The continued detention and trial of Mr. Kanu by this administration is illegal. It is uncalled for in a free society. It is unwarranted in a democracy. It is unfair to any man or woman. It is illegal. It is unacceptable. We do not have to agree with Mr. Kanu before we all protect his rights. We do not all have to believe in Biafra before we protect his freedom. We do not have to be Igbo to protect his desire for self determination for himself and his people. We all must champion his freedom from illegal detention and trial.

From what has transpired so far, it all looks like an oligarchic conspiracy. Everything is pointing to signs of fear by the enslavers within the Nigerian State. It is suggestive that some neo-colonialists who control the levers of power of the Nigerian State are scared stiff of Biafra and other growing voices of freedom from the subjugation of the Nigerian State. The Hausa-Fulani neo-colonialists and their sentries in Yoruba land, Igbo land and Birom land, Nupe land, Kataf land, Mumuye land, Kanuri land among several others are jittery.

They are not only jittery, they are panicking. They are scared that the slaves are about to break free. They are afraid that the slaves are about to do away with their shackles and chains. They are nervous that the captives are about to break down the walls of subjugation.The dilating dawn of freedom is drowning their deceit and duplicity. They are brimming with tension. They are threatening violence against non-violence agitation. They are murdering freedom fighters and stigmatizing them as criminals. They are shooting and maiming freedom fighters and stigmatizing them as troublemakers. They are resorting to everything and anything to hold on to a modernized feudalism euphemized as “democracy.”

Nnamdi Kanu should not worry about his being detained if he is reading this.He should not be concerned about his trial. This is a battle between body and mind. It is a battle between injustice and justice. It is a battle between matter and spirit. In all these battles, the mind would overcome the body, justice will vanquish injustice and spirit will defeat matter. This is because Nnamdi Kanu represents an idea. It is an idea whose time has come.

Though, the Biafra idea might not be Kanu’s originally, he is, as at present, the physical representative of that idea. It is not this idea that has created the present crisis. It is the crisis of the Nigerian State that has created the Biafran idea. The Nigerian state and its odious purveyors may be able to subjugate your body, they may be able to vilify and malign your name for desiring freedom for your people, but they would not, should not and must not be able to destroy your spirit. They would not be able to defeat the idea of Biafra. The only people who would be able to defeat the Biafran idea are the Biafran people if they choose to. Otherwise, any effort on the part of the decadent Nigerian State would come to futility. It is a matter of time. Not a matter of if.

For those who believe in the truths of Biafra as a Nation, they should remember the words of Elvis Presley, the American music icon, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” The land of the Rising Sun is not going away.Nnamdi Kanu is not going away. The desire for self determination is not going away. The determination to be free from the shackles of the Nigerian State is not going away. Biafra is not going away.

You can take Nnamdi Kanu’s body out of circulation. You can imprison him. You can try him several times over. You can shoot, maim, kill and or murder his followers and those who believe in him, but what he stands for, Biafra, is not going away. Biafra was conceived as an idea. The obnoxious Nigerian State is its incorrigible catalyst. Then it became a belief. It has become a dream of all proud Ndigbo. It is a dream contextualized in reality. It is going to be achieved.

To someone like me, who believes fervently in Oodua, who prays for and preaches for the advent of an Oodua Nation, free from neo-colonialism, unbounded from the curse and shackles of the Nigerian State, Nnamdi Kanu is an inspiration. For someone like me, who believes that the emergence of an independent Oodua Nation is inevitable, Mr. Kanu is an inspiration regardless of what his detractors or enemies might say. He inspires me like Obafemi Awolowo inspires me. He inspires me like Nnamdi Azikwe inspires me.He inspires me like Mahatma Gandhi inspires me. He inspires me like Kwameh Nkrumah inspires me. He inspires me like Jomo Kenyatta inspires me. He inspires me like Kenneth Kaunda inspires me. He inspires me like Thomas Jefferson inspires me.

The Nigerian State has a date with its destiny which is its eventual balkanization. But Biafra and Oodua Nations have dates not just with their destinies, but also with History. It is inevitable and it is unstoppable.

“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.”
– John F. Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address January 20, 1961

http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/opinion-the-biafran-truth-and-the-illegal-trial-of-nnamdi-kanu-by-remi-oyeyemi.147114/

So we still have reasonable Yoruba

I WILL DESTROY NIGERIA ,THAT IS BUILT ON LIES, WITH THE TRUTH FROM MY MOUTH - NNAMDI KANU

Wow. Is this article written by a Yoruba blood ?




I am Biafran, a proud one. God bless Biafra.

tonychristopher:



So we still have reasonable Yoruba

U did not have to quote everything. Just drop your comment

First it was Femi Aribisala who recognized that Ndigbo were badly treated in Nigeria and he tried in his personal capacity to reach out to us with apologies. We accept your apologies but shelving our dreams is something else. I hope you will read this. Clearly Ndigbo will not be reintegrated into Nigeria again. The hatred has been institutionalized. Its a pity that many of us who have transversed the vast lands in Nigeria will have to miss all the beauties therein and pleasures they offer but we have no option because the first law of nature is that of self preservation. No group in Nigeria can boast of being true Nigerians(if there's any word like that) than the Igbos. We have brought a lot of good fortune and names to Nigeria. We have invested more in Nigeria than other groups and have contributed to the development of other regions than any other groups but what do we get in return? More hatred and ill will. We always hear 'go back to your lands' and all manner of threats. No one needs to tell us we are an endangered people. Therefore it behooves on us to self preserve and this is what we are going for more earnestly now. It is our right and we shall flex it. All the social activists have remained silent as Kanu remains incarcerated. They will not talk because he's Igbo. At present the movement still remains peaceful but for how long. A similar scenario played out with the north eastern part of Nigeria and today more than twenty thousand innocent civilians lay dead with a huge amount of security personnels slain too. Nigerians don't seem to learn.
Now another twist to the hatred against Ndigbo. Few months ago, a certain Chima Okoro predicted a boko haram attack and went ahead to pray against it. Eventually the attack happened and what followed after? A group of mischievous Yorubas began to spin the whole thing out of control. Firstly they started to accuse the handle of being a boko member and subsequently identified him as an Igbo even before meeting him. The manner with which they were attacking Ndigbo on the social media was something else. They were a few words shot of calling for a massacre of Ndigbo as though Abubakar Shekau and his leutenants were all Igbos. One could hardly believe what one read. They've never called for the killing of the northerners who clearly are behind boko haram. This shows you the level of hypocrisy in Nigeria.
@Op, may God bless you for saying the truth. Biafra shall come to the dismay of them evil people.

This is wisdom. Remi Oyeyemi, you have inspired me. From the look of things, Biafrans have no issues with Oodua so also Oodua. Only few Biafrans just as there are few Ooduas mostly those benefitting from Nigeria. Let's have that in mind as we forge ahead.


I don't think there's any big deal if Nigeria should disintegrate. We will still engage just like we engage with other nations USA, CHINA, INDIA, FRANCE, etc what I feel is that the Hausas who are so lazy won't want this to happen because they are so lazy and myopic.

You claim to be the best in Nigerian affair, stay on your own and employ your best to your betterment let me as a Biafra stay and employ mine you call it threat to the integrity of Nigeria even when you introduce ideas that are allien to us we should endure it. Is Nigeria a country and the senators can't discusse on issues of birth control? Is Nigeria a country and section of it is practising a law greater than what is in the constitution? Nnamdi KANU is innocent and his rights are protected in Nigerian constitution and that of the United nation.


Justice to Nnamdi KANU will not end in Nigeria. We will engage the international community on this. I assure every Biafrans to remain resolute and within the rule of engagement. We will not entertain any insensible judgement.

God bless all Biafrans.
Ooduos
Nigerian who abhor injustice.

What a beautiful piece of work

Perfect article! whether Buhari, the hausa/fulani, their stupid supporters down south want it or not, Biafra Has Come To Stay, you cant stop an idea whose time has come. Cursed is any Igbo Man or Easterner that still supports Nigeria!! We have been harrassed, oppressed, subjugated, massacred, villified, hated etc. over 30,000 killed in 1966, 3 million killed between 1967-70. Tens of Thousands more have been killed for spurious & mundane reasons like election, a cartoon in Denmark, hosting of miss world pageant, crises in middle east etc yet you still champion one Nigeria. You can score 150 yet be denied admission into unity school while born to rule will score 2 & be admitted! They Manipulate census figures & use it to determine who gets what in Nigeria be it election or allocation. How can we continue in such suffering?? We are hard working & enterprising, we have the resources yet the lazy ones up north will determine our fate/destiny & pace of development!! Dont sit on the fence, speak out now!!!

Dear moderators (MYND44, lalasticlala, Ishilove, etc)
Please kind sirs, this discourse belongs on the front page)

Thank you

Every truth lover should share the OP

I meant the post, not mine
Thanks

I love this man already, another Fayose.... Nothing but the truth and unfortunately You will not see our Yoruba brothers like ILEKEHD in this kind of thread , the real image of what is on ground but if they dont amend their ways it may be too late for them when the Fulanis might have taken over their lands

lalasticlala front page.

kaycid77:
I love this man already, another Fayose.... Nothing but the truth and unfortunately You will not see our Yoruba brothers like ILEKEHD in this kind of thread , the real image of what is on ground but if they dont amend their ways it may be too late for them when the Fulanis might have taken over their lands

lalasticlala front page.

This thread won't pass page 1 without mentioning a Yoruba nler eh? Not interested, even if na devil write am.

IlekeHD:


This thread won't pass page 1 without mentioning a Yoruba nler eh? Not interested, even if na devil write am.

Stop shying away from the Truth, it will haunt you one day

kaycid77:


Stop shying away from the Truth, it will haunt you one day

Whatever, my last reply.... desperation for Yoruba posters on a dead topic.

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." Ray Goforth

I read in awe how a yoruba man told bare faced truth on biafra issues. This is unbelievable. Kudos oyeyemi. May truth neva depart from you forever and ever.

Nigeria has a date with the Truth

The lugardian cage must be shattered!

Goodboiyy:
Nigeria has a date with the Truth

so you too know?

A country where somebody Like Buhari is the president....smh!

woe to me after reading this post without a comment.
Remi Oyeyemi you made my day with this truth & may the truth locate you with favour

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” Epic


Long live to all the lovers of truth!!!
Peace to all the men of Goodwill!!!

Cc. Ngeneukwenu

All these Igbo blogs that use fake Yoruba names in their write ups

Chuku Okiks Alabama is watching u all