THE REAL ENEMY OF STATE

Whoever advised the FG to seek for the revocation of Nnamdi Kanu's bail deserves to be spanked. This is not because the pretender doesn't deserve a corner in the prison for flouting the bail conditions he willingly accepted but because putting him back in jail empowers him more than anything. He knows this, in fact, he craves for it but surprisingly, the AGF doesn't know this obvious fact.

The release of Kanu from prison somehow demystified him. This fact will be obvious over time. Not a few of his followers believed that his freedom would signal the immediate secession of Biafra. In fact, some were already itching to be recruited into some guerrilla armed struggle. So much expectation from a man with no viable or verifiable claim to any means of warfare, physical or intellectual. Even in the absence of means, you can still make people live a life time on hope and expectations, if you are smart. Kanu, in UK or in prison, fed his followers with ambrosia of hope and expectations. Kanu that came out of prison was a troubled soul because he knew he was never going to meet the high expectations of his people. He had to resort to putting up appearances here and there to sustain the struggle in the minds of his sympathizers. This includes visiting Igbo shrines to offer jewish prayers, visiting elder statemen of igbo descent, issuing empty threats against the country and individuals, creating a toothless Biafra secret service peopled by jobless fellows who should be more useful in a Biafra farm settlement, etcetera.

Time is compassionate, it has a forgiving way of eventually easing people out of their misery, even if it is self-inflicted. It is a matter of time that the truth will creep on Kanu's followers that they need to tarry.......for the messiah has not yet come. Over time, they'll become immune to his shenanigans and war mongering. They will realize that his threats are just mere words and nothing more. Has he not recanted his stance on Anambra elections?

To be sure, I am not in any way against self-determination (in fact, i believe in it) but this agitation led by Kanu is fake and self-serving. It reminds one of the sharia brouhaha. It will fizzle out over time. There are two major ways to tackle Kanu. One is to ignore him, of course, without the government and its security apparatus going into sleep. IPOB will either die or become reduced to a sociocultural organization or be frustrated (not by government but by its impending failure) to the point of bearing arms against the state. The latter is the most unlikely to happen but if it did, a decisive hand could be dealt at that point. Secondly, the government should urgently address the legitimate and rational demands of the Igbos and of course, those of the rest of the country. Make them own the country you are hellbent on keeping them in.

Right now, the only way to galvanize the Biafra agitation is to put Kanu back in detention. And whoever puts him back in the prison is the real enemy of state.

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Nice write up. I hope the FG can see the trap

Thrash everywhere.
You spoke so much about Kanu but you didn't care to utter a sentence to why Kanu is fighting for what he is fighting. What kanu is fighting for will never die as long as the statue quo is still they same.

Most of us that sat on the fence before have joined him. I was totally in for a total restructured one Nigeria where merit is taken over quoter system, where there's state policing, full resources control etc. But The FG have showed over the past few months that they are not in for that. and with the latest happening where arewa youths that threatened a whole tribe (both those in support of Biafra or not) are been treated as demi gods while Ipob members are been hunt down. That shows that Nigeria do not belong to we all.

The agitation is not all about IPOB and KANU. It is much more bigger than them. Let the FG go on and arrest Kanu or kill him. Many kanu's will still surface.

The best way to shut up Kanu through referendum. Why are the FG so afraid of that?