It is quite surprising how all of a sudden the so-called illegal Radio Biafra reportedly being operated by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, said to be resident in the United Kingdom, is increasingly becoming a source of serious concern to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, a section of Nigerian online media, and some Nigerian elements who are wont to believe that Ndigbo must always dance to their tune or do what suits their thinking and/or act in line with their personal and group expectations – so as to be qualified to be called good citizens of Nigeria or, better still, nationalists. What beautiful nonsense!


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It is quite surprising how all of a sudden the so-called illegal Radio Biafra reportedly being operated by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, said to be resident in the United Kingdom, is increasingly becoming a source of serious concern to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, a section of Nigerian online media, and some Nigerian elements who are wont to believe that Ndigbo must always dance to their tune or do what suits their thinking and/or act in line with their personal and group expectations – so as to be qualified to be called good citizens of Nigeria or, better still, nationalists. What beautiful nonsense!

Similarly surprising is the rate at which the operator of this now all-important Radio Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, is being denigrated by the officials of the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and their retinue of parasitic sycophants.

Little wonder that while some of these officials now seem be dissipating a lot of energy, time, and resources striving to outdo one another in a bid to jam the signals of Radio Biafra, the security operatives are reportedly busy loafing around all nooks and crannies of the South-East and South-South geo-political zones searching for the sponsors of this pirate station.

Furthermore, it smacks of curiosity that these operatives appear to be carrying out this task with more vigour, strength, uncommon commitment, and unprecedented diligence than they seem to have so far deployed in the perennial fight against the Boko Haram terrorists that have been wrecking havoc here and there in the Northern region.

Apparently in an effort to shore up what seemed to remain of its dwindling image – which has been adversely dealt with by the seemingly superior strategies and operations of the Boko Haram sect – and in order to create the impression of possessing the technical knowhow to control the country’s airwaves, the government, through the instrumentality of the National Broadcasting Commission, recently announced its success in jamming the signals of Radio Biafra.

According to Dr. Yemi Folashade Esan, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, “right now the signals from Radio Biafra have been jammed successfully by the NBC.”

As pleasant as this remark sounds, there is no gainsaying that only time and events will give credibility to this claim.

Now let us dwell on the crux of the matter about the things believed to be said or done wrongly by Radio Biafra. First of all, apart from the media reports about the station’s pejorative reference to President Muhammadu Buhari as terrorist-in-Chief and sundry other names, which is roundly deplorable, could it be empirically wrong for rational minds in a sane society to think that the station’s metaphoric use of the word “zoo” or “zoological republic” in describing the degrading and appalling state of human existence in Nigerian today is really misplaced? For sure, this should as a matter of fact be the fundamental question of concern to all of us, even as we continue to take a swipe at the general operations and content of the pirate radio station.

As it were, going by the abysmal, unacceptable, and in fact clearly uncontrollable spate of killings and wanton destruction of property on a daily basis by the Boko Haram beasts (existing in the form of human beings) since the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, could it not be an understatement to submit that the Radio Biafra’s characterization of Nigeria as a ‘zoo’ is a mild word in the depiction of the near animalistic state of living in the North-East geo-political zone? For goodness sake, how else do we aptly describe a situation whereby human beings are daily slaughtered like animals in Nigeria by the Boko Haram sect? Or, how else do we rationalize a state of human existence with a government ostensibly in place whereby no fewer than 625 innocent and hapless Nigerians got butchered in a day in four villages in Borno state as reported by Vanguard Newspaper on July 14, 2015?

Funny enough, not even in the US nowadays would anybody take the lives of ordinary animals in just a day and in such a large number without the government swiftly unveiling the deadliest fangs of its law enforcement in retaliation. But here we are watching our government setting 182 Boko Haram suspects free on grounds that they had been duly investigated, discharged, and acquitted. Indeed!

In fact, no matter the things that we do or say against the Radio Biafra and its operator, Nnamdi Kanu, the point is that Nigeria cannot live in self-delusion forever, more so now that the government of the day appears to be pontificating so much about change – though one hopes that this is far from being a lip-service approach aimed at taking Nigerians for a ride.

Undoubtedly, there is need for change in the style of governance in Nigeria. But then, the change the country needs or desires is not such that is currently being tilted in favour of the Hausa-Fulani and a few of their northern brethren, in collaboration with their fellow ‘Muslim brothers’ in the South-West. Of course this desired change ought not to encapsulate or envisage the emerging notion (as evidenced so far in President Buhari’s appointment) that the people of northern Nigeria know it more than their southern counterparts and as such have a duty to take over all the strategic security and other positions in the country, to the exclusion of others co-existing with them in this multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious entity called Nigeria.

Meanwhile, if there is one known fact that is increasingly endearing the people of South-East and South-South to the so-called illegal Radio Biafra (to the chagrin and discomfort of Buhari’s government), it is best to be situated in the perceived witch-hunt by the present national leadership. Rightly or wrongly, its first rash decision to transfer a whole lot of high risk Boko Haram detainees/prisoners to an unworthy prison facility at Ekwuluobi in the South-Eastern state of Anambra speaks volumes about the validity of the stereotyped mindset of President Buhari’s government vis-a-vis Ndigbo. And this may help to explicate the rationale behind the fortune being made by Radio Biafra in the area of securing the attention of the public.

Though it has always been easy for those who enjoy the privilege of being in the media or having access to the media to put in the public domain fierce polemics against peoples’ projects that are apparently antithetical to the interest they represent or protect. Yet it must be noted that the role of the media, whether print, electronic or online, on this issue of Radio Biafra should go beyond attacking the station. At the very best, there is need for caution, profound reflection, and candid analysis on this issue. Like the British Broadcasting corporation (BBC) Hausa service which champions the cause of the Hausa people all over the world, it may not be out of place to say that the Radio Biafra fundamentally exists to serve and promote the cause and interest of the people of Igbo extraction both at home and in Diaspora.

To this end, it does not seem to make sense that Premium Times, an online media, in its July 10, 2015 Editorial, erroneously tried to equate the activities of Radio Biafra with Radio Television Libre des Mille (RTLMC) that allegedly aided the massacre of 500,000 Rwandans during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Truth be told, there is hardly any station that caters and propagates solely the cause of a nation that does not err from time to time in terms of providing controversial content to its listeners. As a matter of fact, we may recall that it was reportedly on the BBC Hausa Service interview segment that our current President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, allegedly issued his notorious threat about the possibility of monkey and baboon’s blood oozing out on the streets in the event the 2015 general election failed to meet his group’s and his own expectations. And here lies one of the challenges associated with the existence of a cause radio station or a global radio station that permanently runs a cause programme for a nationality co-existing with other nationalities within the same geographical entity and under a supreme authority (one government).

What is more, if indeed Radio Biafra is illegal on account of the pronouncement by Dr. Yemi Folashade Esan, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, merely because the station does not have a licence obtained from Nigerian government to be on her airwaves, then it stands to question if the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Deutsche Welle and their ilk, which freely operate on our airwaves, do so because they are issued with Nigerian government’s licences or basically because of their ownership, possession and use of superior technology/technical knowhow.

But be that as it may, it is high time the government left Radio Biafra alone and minded its business of governance, especially as it concerns its efforts in containing the unabated offensive being launched daily by the Boko Haram insurgents. Endlessly chasing shadow in the guise of fighting to jam the signals of Radio Biafra will only continue to attract more attention and listenership for the radio station. This is why it is imperative for President Muhammadu Buhari to start addressing cases of injustice, inequality, and inequity (which abound in our polity) against the people of the enclave whose cause and interest the pirate radio station claims to be pursuing. This is one major way of making the vast majority of the people concerned think and act less for and in defense of Radio Biafra.

Onyiorah Paschal Chiduluemije, a Journalist, writes from

Abuja via duluemije4justice@yahoo.com – 07012130204

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I do not need to read that long article... From skimming thru it, I have seen the author has nothing tangible to say. That radio station is just similar to people going to one of them radical Islamic countries and are brainwashed. That station is inciting violence. I understand people have been calling in to offer support to build bombs or purchase weapons and some one feels that the government should not clamp down on the radio station before the situation escalates?

Thank u very much ooo. Just so u know a country reserves the right to limit what it's citizens have access to. U think if the govt does not want us to access even Google, dey can't pull it off talk more a radio station? Dey der make pant dey wear u. Dey r well within their rights.

viruz007:
I do not need to read that long article... From skimming thru it, I have seen the author has nothing tangible to say. That radio station is just similar to people going to one of them radical Islamic countries and are brainwashed. That station is inciting violence. I understand people have been calling in to offer support to build bombs or purchase weapons and some one feels that the government should not clamp down on the radio station before the situation escalates?

Thank u very much ooo. Just so u know a country reserves the right to limit what it's citizens have access to. U think if the govt does not want us to access even Google, dey can't pull it off talk more a radio station? Dey der make pant dey wear u. Dey r well within their rights.

You have nothing to say because you are a yoruba slave

But be that as it may, it is high time the government left Radio Biafra alone and minded its business of governance, especially as it concerns its efforts in containing the unabated offensive being launched daily by the Boko Haram insurgents. Endlessly chasing shadow in the guise of fighting to jam the signals of Radio Biafra will only continue to attract more attention and listenership for the radio station. This is why it is imperative for President Muhammadu Buhari to start addressing cases of injustice, inequality, and inequity (which abound in our polity) against the people of the enclave whose cause and interest the pirate radio station claims to be pursuing. This is one major way of making the vast majority of the people concerned think and act less for and in defense of Radio Biafra.

The radio speaks for MILLIONS of Eastern Nigerians. If it were not doing what it is doing, Buhari would have inflicted more evil on the region by now. He is not hiding his hatred of the East. The radio will put this Fulani cattle rearer to task on EACH AND EVERY of his evil schemes against the East.
Thank God for radio Biafra. Thank God for Kanu!

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You have nothing to say because you are a yoruba slave

So everybody on Nairaland who opposed you is a Yoruba person?

Oh well... What do I know after all na adult education I dey do..

The 'pirate radio' does nothing but emit the truth via their studios... Eziokwu CHINEKE... If you can't handle the truth, go chop grass...

Useless write up from a bigoted writer.he sees nothing wrong in namudu kanu saying he will destrory the zoo(nigeria)and all the animals in the zoo(nigerians).he sees nothing wrong in all the hate speech against yorubas and hausas.he sees nothing wrong in the ibo callers to the the radio station about how they are willing to kill the yorubas and hausas when commanded from nnamudu kanu.So the writer of this write up thinks that boko haram started by blowing there self up or by killing humans enmass.Boko haram started by it leader indoctrinating and inculcating hate speech into its followers.the same way nnamadu kanu is doing today.I am a yoruba man i dont have anything against biafra actualisation infact,i want this biafra to be actualise quickly.but my main concern in this radio biafra episode is the hate speech against my tribe every now and then.Which U well in ur biafra strugle

omoelesa:
Useless write up from a bigoted writer.he sees nothing wrong in namudu kanu saying he will destrory the zoo(nigeria)and all the animals in the zoo(nigerians).he sees nothing wrong in all the hate speech against yorubas and hausas.he sees nothing wrong in the ibo callers to the the radio station about how they are willing to kill the yorubas and hausas when commanded from nnamudu kanu.So the writer of this write up thinks that boko haram started by blowing there self up or by killing humans enmass.Boko haram started by it leader indoctrinating and inculcating hate speech to it followers.the same way nnamadu kanu is doing today.I am a yoruba man i dont have anything against biafra actualisation infact,i want this biafra to be actualise quickly.but my main concern in this radio biafra episode is the hate speech against my tribe every now and then.Which U well in ur biafra strugle

What do you have to say about oba akilu and Dr ariyo hate speech? Is it only Nnamdi kanu that at fault?

yes. We ain't slaves

omoelesa:
Useless write up from a bigoted writer.he sees nothing wrong in namudu kanu saying he will destrory the zoo(nigeria)and all the animals in the zoo(nigerians).he sees nothing wrong in all the hate speech against yorubas and hausas.he sees nothing wrong in the ibo callers to the the radio station about how they are willing to kill the yorubas and hausas when commanded from nnamudu kanu.So the writer of this write up thinks that boko haram started by blowing there self up or by killing humans enmass.Boko haram started by it leader indoctrinating and inculcating hate speech to it followers.the same way nnamadu kanu is doing today.I am a yoruba man i dont have anything against biafra actualisation infact,i want this biafra to be actualise quickly.but my main concern in this radio biafra episode is the hate speech against my tribe every now and then.Which U well in ur biafra strugle

No tribe smiles when taken for a fool. Yorubas didnt hide there frustration during Jonathan's administration and hurl lots of insults against him and his office.
APC promised creating a parallel government, if... Unquote. You don't take our Oil and deny us of appointments.

What do you have to say about oba akilu and Dr ariyo hate speech?

I have to agree that the language of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu should concern any non-Biafran and a few undesirable Biafran's (an eastern governor readily comes to mind).

However I am in full support of his position to completely destroy the zoo (Nigeria) in its present format simply because it's not working for a majority of it's citizens and things seem set to get worse.

Now the ball is in the Zoo's court, engage the Biafran question in a progressive way or we will have to take our destiny into our own hands.

If it sadly comes to armed conflict (Nigeria's precedence in dealing with dissent does not exclude this option), the least we, as Biafran's, can do is to be mentally prepared for such an eventuality, hence Nnamdi's invaluable contribution to our struggle for Biafra.

OfBiafra

kernel504:

No tribe smiles when taken for a fool. Yorubas didnt hide there frustration during Jonathan's administration and hurl lots of insults against him and his office.
APC promised creating a parallel government, if... Unquote. You don't take our Oil and deny us of appointments.

Did yorubas created a radio station chuning out hate speech every now and then?Did the yorubas promise to destroy anybody? Did the yorubas plan to unleash violent on nigerians.The writer of this article is a typical hypocriticaly iboman that sees everything wrong with boko haram but sees nothing wrong with radio biafra even thou the two are terorist organisation.nonsense

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kernel504:

No tribe smiles when taken for a fool. Yorubas didnt hide there frustration during Jonathan's administration and hurl lots of insults against him and his office.
APC promised creating a parallel government, if... Unquote. You don't take our Oil and deny us of appointments.

What do you have to say about oba akilu and Dr ariyo hate speech?

Oba Akiolu speech was condemed by a whole lot of the yorubas as for Ariyo or what ever he is just an ordnary man on the street in wish words should'nt be taken seriously.

omoelesa:
Oba Akiolu speech was condemed by a whole lot of the yorubas as for Ariyo or what ever he is just an ordnary man on the street in wish words should'nt be taken seriously.

Lots of people condemed him, while others celebrated him.
Tell me of a truth if 80% of the entire wealth that runs Nigeria is gotten from your state, and after 10 appointment you've not gotten one, you will smiling, right?
Imagine Yorubas calling Saraki "traitor" even with the post of VP alotted to them. The house is in tumor just because Femi was told that the rest of the region deserve same post.

kernel504:

Lots of people condemed him, while others celebrated him.
Tell me of a truth if 80% of the entire wealth that runs Nigeria is gotten from your state, and after 10 appointment you've not gotten one, you will smiling, right?
Imagine Yorubas calling Saraki "traitor" even with the post of VP alotted to them. The house is in tumor just because Femi was told that the rest of the region deserve same post.

Tribalism as alway been our bane in this country,what if those appointment were the best for our country at this period of time.As for the brouala in the house i am never a fans of those thieves that called theirself senator or rep.They are all greedy men trying to outwit one and other.

omoelesa:
Did yorubas created a radio station chuning out hate speech every now and then?Did the yorubas promise to destroy anybody? Did the yorubas plan to unleash violent on nigerians.The writer of this article is a typical hypocriticaly iboman that sees everything wrong with boko haram but sees nothing wrong with radio biafra even thou the two are terorist organisation.nonsense

What do you have to say about Oba Akiolu...
To recap, on Sunday the 5th of April 2015, a group of Igbo leaders paid Oba Akiolu a courtesy visit. During the visit, the king advised the Igbo community to vote for his candidate Akinwunmi Ambode in the forthcoming gubernatorial election. He warned the Igbos that if they did not vote for his candidate, they would perish in the river within seven days. He said that the Igbos would prosper in the state if they heeded to his instructions. He pointed out that when the Igbos came to Lagos, they did not have houses but now they have properties.

Oba Akiolu also made reference to God and the ancestors of Lagos and swore in the name of Allah that the Igbos will die if they disobeyed him.

How many have died out of Radio Biafra news, yet at least 30 people die daily from Boko Haram menance and you say Sai Baba, please visit the nearest hospital.

omoelesa:
Tribalism as alway been our bane in this country,what if those appointment were the best for our country at this period of time.As for the brouala in the house i am never a fans of those thieves that called theirself senator or rep.They are all greedy men trying to outwit one and other.

What's best for our country, appointing a section of the country over others. From your comment, it means all the best brains hail from the North, so what are we doing with them when we are fools?

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You have nothing to say because you are a yoruba slave

Can you not pick holes in his post without calling him names. I think Mr Kanu should channel his aggression on Igbo leaders and politicians. They are the ones managing state finances. Much of what people expect to work in the Biafra should also work under the present Union. The Nigerian federal govt doesn't stop them from accomplishing their projects.

That radio station should be used to encourage or criticise policies. It should be used to make incumbent govts to sit up and work, encourage and motivate people the more. He should bring in resource individuals to teach new skills, hunt for talents and child geniuses scattered all over and offer scholarships or guide them to achieve their dreams and make the society better. He should rally people to do the right things and equally inform citizens to know their right and fight for it. Expose corrupt people in offices especially those police men sent to places like Onitsha, Owerri, Aba and umuahia who see those places as places to make retirement loots.

Mr Kanu will get wider support from every single Igbo and even from the rest of the country if he stops hate speeches.

viruz007:


So everybody on Nairaland who opposed you is a Yoruba person?

Oh well... What do I know after all na adult education I dey do..

You are a Yoruba man or you have the same spirit of cowardice and hypocrisy

gbosaa:


Can you not pick holes in his post without calling him names. I think Mr Kanu should channel his aggression on Igbo leaders and politicians. They are the ones managing state finances. Much of what people expect to work in the Biafra should also work under the present Union. The Nigerian federal govt doesn't stop them from accomplishing their projects.

That radio station should be used to encourage or criticise policies. It should be used to make incumbent govts to sit up and work, encourage and motivate people the more. He should bring in resource individuals to teach new skills, hunt for talents and child geniuses scattered all over and offer scholarships or guide them to achieve their dreams and make the society better. He should rally people to do the right things and equally inform citizens to know their right and fight for it. Expose corrupt people in offices especially those police men sent to places like Onitsha, Owerri, Aba and umuahia who see those places as places to make retirement loots.



Mr Kanu will get wider support from every single Igbo and even from the rest of the country if he stops hate speeches.

Because Yorubas are slaves and do not deserve to be spoken to.

kernel504:


What do you have to say about Oba Akiolu...
To recap, on Sunday the 5th of April 2015, a group of Igbo leaders paid Oba Akiolu a courtesy visit. During the visit, the king advised the Igbo community to vote for his candidate Akinwunmi Ambode in the forthcoming gubernatorial election. He warned the Igbos that if they did not vote for his candidate, they would perish in the river within seven days. He said that the Igbos would prosper in the state if they heeded to his instructions. He pointed out that when the Igbos came to Lagos, they did not have houses but now they have properties.

Oba Akiolu also made reference to God and the ancestors of Lagos and swore in the name of Allah that the Igbos will die if they disobeyed him.

How many have died out of Radio Biafra news, yet at least 30 people die daily from Boko Haram menance and you say Sai Baba, please visit the nearest hospital.

Do not mind the Yorubas. No matter how much school they attend, they still behave in their primitive way. Slimy snakes.

kernel504:

Lots of people condemed him, while others celebrated him.
Tell me of a truth if 80% of the entire wealth that runs Nigeria is gotten from your state, and after 10 appointment you've not gotten one, you will smiling, right?
Imagine Yorubas calling Saraki "traitor" even with the post of VP alotted to them. The house is in tumor just because Femi was told that the rest of the region deserve same post.

Rubbish analysis. Yorubas also want a Yoruba to be the senate president. They do not like Saraki because they do not see him as hardcore APC and he does not bow to Tinubu. How many Yorubas can criticise Tinubu, despite the fact that he is a criminal? None.

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Rubbish analysis. Yorubas also want a Yoruba to be the senate president. They do not like Saraki because they do not see him as hardcore APC and he does not bow to Tinubu. How many Yorubas can criticise Tinubu, despite the fact that he is a criminal? None.

Bia nwanne, l guess you didn't read my post well, anyi noo together.

omoelesa:
Oba Akiolu speech was condemed by a whole lot of the yorubas as for Ariyo or what ever he is just an ordnary man on the street in wish words should'nt be taken seriously.

Absolute nonsense. Yorubas all over the world supported him. A Yoruba guy called Radio Biafra and even supported the Oba. He showerd no remorse. Don't come here saying rubbish. Comments from Yorubas on The Punch, Sahara Reporters, YouTube, Facebook all supported the Oba. Why are you Yorubas so dishonest? You are coming here to say his speech was condemned by a lot of Yorubas. You are only deceiving yourself because not everyone is as dumb as you

Yorubas think people are stupid. You insulted Biafrans, insulted GEJ and his family. Be prepared for fire and brimstone. You have not seen anything and we have not started with you. Too bad there will be some contaminated Biafrans who do not reason.

You guys will see what will happen over the next 6 months. Have you heard of nemesis or Karma?

You will see it live. Quote me. Yorubas, quote me.

JuicyTesticles:


You are a Yoruba man or you have the same spirit of cowardice and hypocrisy

I have seen you the man with courage. Where were u during #OccupyNigeria? Lemme guess u would say it's the Zoo's problem back den and u were sitting in ur house or according to ur moniker, having fun with a babe forming keyboard champion.

Anyways think what u want to think about me. Does not change the fact that common sense is not common.