It’s not alarmist. Crisis is looming in Igboland. The sore has been allowed to fester, for too long. Pus has accumulated. Massage and warm compresses won’t do now. A surgical knife must go in.


The government must act decisively, one way or the other. Prevarication can lead to a costly gangrene. The wound must be drained and cleaned, so that it can heal. The wound dressing must involve comprehensive political engagement of the southeast, and a restructuring of the federation.

We are on a slippery slope. Nnamdi Kanu was granted bail by a court. He is being tried for offences bordering on treason. He has flouted the bail conditions. He must have been emboldened by the enticing temerity of the Arewa youths. ShettimaYerima and his Arewa youths committed treason. They issued a quit notice to Igbos to leave the north,or face severe consequences by October 1. They did more than plagiarize Nnamdi Kanu’s hate files .They were not arrested. They were not charged.


The Federal high court judge that granted Nnamdi Kanu bail wouldn’t rightly be concerned about effect of Arewa youth’s impunity on Nnamdi Kanu’s actions as no case has been brought before him. So despite the double standards, the court may have no option but to revoke his bail. The law is an ass. The federal government has found its missing courage, it has asked the court to revoke the bail. The federal government is not permanently timid. The judge has no decision to make. Well, Nigerian Judges can be creative, sometimes
If the bail is revoked, Nnamdi Kanu will have to abandon his tour of his Biafra, and return to a ‘zoological’ prison in Kuje. That is now almost inconceivable. Almost. This is where it gets complicated. If Nnamdi Kanu’s utterances can be relied on, he would not submit himself for incarceration. Then once again, the judge will have no options. A bench warrant will be issued against him. When a Bench warrant was issued against Tompolo, the Nigerian police didn’t find him. So the federal government may let the police not find Nnamdi Kanu. Tompolo was discreet though.




He sought refuge in the creeks. He was out of view, until he came to bury his dad. Nnamdi has said he cannot go on exile. It’s beneath him to go out of circulation, into hiding. That would make him lily-liveried. He was sent by God. He has been touring Biafra. So he isn’t exactly a Tompolo, who claims no territory. Tompolo wasn’t seen. Yes he wasn’t seen destroying crude oil pipelines. Nnamdi Kanu has no pipelines to put out of use. He can’t touch the economy. He has no way of bringing the federal government to its knees, from the shadows without amputating his nose, turning Igbo land into a cauldron. IPOB is now a non violent organization. That’s their new image. So the Police may be forced to arrest an ubiquitous and garrulous Nnamdi Kanu. However, it is not compulsory, not inevitable.



This is Nigeria. The police declared Shettima Yerima and Arewa youths wanted . Shettima sauntered from place to place, huffing and puffing. The Police chose not to see him
So the police may easily fail to see Nnamdi Kanu. The government has an alternative. It may send the Minister of Interior to say something absurd that exonerates Kanu
The Judge will understand. This is Nigeria. The Minister of Interior said that the Arewa Youths claimed they were misquoted. Heavens didn’t fall. Shettima later denied the minister and his tales. Shettima is ,obviously, not a coward. He boldly stated he was withdrawing the quit notice to honour Buhari. The ijaw youth council president is sure Shettima had state dinners. The government has other options. It can send an official to waffle about heating up the polity. Then it can explain the decision to trash the court warrant and let Kanu roam as politically sensible. That’s what cowards do. In fact it can ask the attorney General to reverse himself, and say that Kanu cannot be arrested. And he would blame it on security concerns. That’s what the chief law officer said about his impotence against the Arewa Youths who committed treason in broad daylight. The government can always chicken out. So the wound can fester a little more. They have been warned. Ango Abdullahi warned them about Shettima, they capitulated. So Ohaneze has warned the federal government. Nnamdi Kanu could be set to bask in his own impunity. The Judge would understand. Nnamdi’s criminal case could be effectively over. Nnamdi may not risk going to Abuja. He is sure no policeman would come to his Biafra to arrest him
He has warned Buhari. He said his non violent IPOB would slaughter any Policeman who comes to arrest him in Biafra. That’s is his idea of civil disobedience. The Die is cast. The federal government can’t arrest Nnamdi without crossing the red line of double standards. The federal government cannot leave Nnamdi and his daringness without conceding sovereignty. Igbo elders are quiet. Igbo youths are restless. Emotions have replaced reasons. The elders have taken refuge in timidity. They now speak in muffled tones




The politicians can be forgiven. Politics entails opportunism. Nnamdi Kanu,increasingly, looks like a king or a king maker. The churches have a strong influence on Igbo politics. Igbo politicians go to churches to declare their candidacy and to lobby the clergy and their congregations. The churches play politics of denominations godlessly. But the church claims to be the light of the world. Igbo church leaders are quiet. In northeast the clerics kept low profile. The core north didn’t like President Jonathan. People refused to speak up. Boko haram was troubling Jonathan, and making the place ungovernable. That was exciting. Powerful figures maintained a conspiratorial silence. Yusuf and Shekau preached, told the people what they wanted to hear. They talked about poor governance and corruption. They told them that democracy was sinful, ‘zoological’. That it was designed to keep the ordinary people in perpetual servitude. Their followership grew. Boko haram metastasized. They have tapped into a rich vein of frustration and political insensitivity. The economic circumstances have yielded many idle hands. It’s a perfect combustible mix. The murderous forays of herdsmen fueled already inflamed tempers. A crisis looms in the east. So no one cares to interrogate the minds peddling this secessionist idea. No one questions their methods vehemently . It’s enough that they mouth marginalization of Igbos and paint a colorful Biafra. It’s enough that Buhari is cast as a symbol of oppressive, anti-Igbo, Islamist, Hausa Fulani hegemony. Igbos are truly marginalized.



The Bishops ought to be discerning. They claim spiritual insight. They can’t be as impressionable as the rabble. They can’t be as excitable as youths who didn’t experience the civil war. They cant afford to be enthralled by mere charm. Some of them actually now find Kanu

Some Igbo Bishops are frolicking openly with Nnamdi Kanu. Some others are relishing the prospects of a loathed President Buhari being taught some lessons. Biafra is always seductive. Igbos are emotional about it. It is sweet nostalgia of what nearly was. The promised land. Anyone who comes in the name of Biafra is welcome. The Buhari government didn’t help matters. The sense of alienation has never been greater. Politicians who lost in 2015 took their grief personal

intimidating. Kanu says Jesus is not God. The Bishops don’t care. He mocks Mary. The catholic priests are unperturbed. If they are perturbed ,then they are filled with the spirit of fear. God gave them the spirit of power
.Kanu says New Testament is junk
The priests don’t treat that as heretical. The priests must announce their allegiance to Christ. It wouldn’t matter if Kanu were a self respecting atheist who didn’t defame and ridicule other peoples religious beliefs. Kanu can’t get away with duplicity. He says the worship of Jesus is Idolatry. It is good we don’t mix politics and religion. It is good we keep the state away from religion
But Kanu has not stopped announcing that God sent him. He said that God has decreed that there would be no election in Anambra state. We have spirit filled priests who claim they hear from God. Why can’t they confirm or condemn Kanu’s spiritual pronouncements? The IPOB spokesman claims Kanu is a Christian. Kanu denies that he is a Christian. Why is it difficult to know whom Kanu is? If you ask hard questions , you will be told its not about Kanu. But who decided there will be no elections in Igboland? Kanu hears from God, so he says
He may actually hear from God. Since he drops the name of God, Igbos must be told what God he worships. The role of a priest is not just to collect tithes and offerings. A priest owes the people and the society a duty to expose religious charlatanism and sorcery. When a man goes to Agwushi and collects prayers, and jumps over to adoration ground of father Ebube Muonso and collects more prayers, that’s syncretism.




It could mean nothing. But it could be a window into a mind filled with confusion. Priests can’t sit astride and watch the people dance on the brink for lack of knowledge. Why is the church silent? Who is an anti Christ? Truth and reason have been battered on Aba highway

Igbo priests are passing by like the Rabbi who snubbed the man beaten by highway robbers. Where are the good Samaritans? Where are they? The church perhaps isn’t ready to dabble into politics . Igbo churches dabble into it only when telling members to vote a Catholic and against an Anglican or vice versa. Who really is an antichrist? A murderous Fulani Herdsman who kills some Christian farmers? Or a man who peddles damaging falsehoods about Jesus Christ and the Bible? If the church cannot speak for moral reasons, why can’t the church speak for prudential reasons? Why can’t it defend Christian theology against an onslaught from a charlatan? Nigeria, they say, is a zoo. Our leaders act with impunity. Then the messiah comes for the Igbos and no one is ready to hold him to account for his speeches and positions. Only a few are interested in interrogating his mind. What sort of freedom do Igbos dream of? A freedom that would excommunicate dissent and plurality of views? A freedom where every critic is a marked traitor? Ohaneze is timid. It may have actually become redundant. It sees the crowd that follows Kanu around and it is ready to embrace a little demagoguery, once in a while. Kanu has labeled Ohaneze leaders corrupt old men willing to sell their consciences and birthrights, for crumbs. Ohaneze excuses IPOB’s waywardness as understandable youthful exuberance. Ohaneze has no balls. So Ohaneze fudges and fudges. Ohaneze knows Igbos are marginalized.





But Ohaneze knows that Kanu’s exuberance puts Igbo lives and property at great peril. Ohaneze knows that the overall interest of Igbos is best served by an equitable Nigeria and not secession. Ohaneze knows the time has come. But Ohaneze is cowardly, or impotent. Without a bold church, without foresighted courageous politicians, without a fearless Ohaneze, who can save Igbos

Political intolerance has been sown in Igbo land. There is this new song . A very rhythmic and danceable song by one Don Prince, aka Sampe. The sort of thing you hear in Pyongyang. It says Kanu is the leader, and there will be no elections henceforth in Igbo land. It says anyone who votes in Igboland would be sent to the north. The song has gone viral. The youths have become automatons. Anyone who raises a voice against Kanu and his IPOB is branded a traitor. In one of his glib talks on Radio Biafra he boasted that the names of traitors were being compiled. IPOB is that non violent group that once threatened to murder Obasanjo.



A few days ago it openly threatened to kill any policeman who dared to re arrest Kanu. The elders wallow in denial. They dismiss the dissemination of hate and brigandage as youthful exuberance. They think Kanu would get Igbos an autonomous region, and then disappear. So they would take over and restore order. That’s the strategy. So the madness is a ploy. They whisper it, they nod their heads, smile knowing smiles, and wink. They are deluded. Some would say it has gone beyond Kanu. That’s true.
The problem of Igbo marginalization was never about him. But no one should deny this frightening development. Nuisance can be fruitful. But nuisance can outlive its usefulness. It’s good that the governors of South East states have met with Kanu. The government has a political problem to solve.



It has attended to it with arrogance , and sometimes with half-hearted condescension. Hesitancy and prevarication are no good options. The Federal Government has to be decisive. Military high handedness would be counter -productive. Constructive political engagement that enthrones law and order in the immediate term and equity, fairness and sense of belonging on the long term, must be commenced now. Any person who breaks the law and or threatens security of our country must face the law.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/biafra-crisis-looms-igbo-land/

That Kaduna " Igbo Quit Notice" declaration was an own goal to the crusaders of One Nigeria.

Let it loom harder ... na ur crisis?

We must get what we deserve or everybody feels it

I really want to know who penned this article and coated it with word paintings, idiomatic arts cum proverbial palm oil..

Such a masterpiece!!

DickDastardLION:
Let it loom harder ... na ur crisis?

We must get what we deserve or everybody feels it

We will remember you then

dunkem21:
I really want to know who penned this article and coated it with word paintings, idiomatic arts cum proverbial palm oil..

Such a masterpiece!!

Nothing like master anything here

Its absolute thrash

Nwodosis:
That Kaduna " Igbo Quit Notice" declaration was an own goal to the crusaders of One Nigeria.

they failed to draw the line between a call for self determination and a call for genocide. another own goal was the 97% Vs 5% speech by buhari. that's the biggest hate speech in modern Nigeria.

summary:

Most frequent words in the corpus: kanu (32); nnamdi (17); government (14); igbo (14); ohaneze (12); igbos (11); god (10); can’t (9); federal (9); biafra (8,): youths (8,):church (7); that’s (7); arewa (6); bail (6); didn’t (6); it’s (6); police (6); priests (6); says (6); shettima (6); arrest (5); buhari (5); court (5); good (5); ipob (5); judge (5); kanu’s (5); law (5); people (5); political (5); politics (5); said (5); christian (4); churches (4)

Nnamdi and Christianity

sarrki:


Nothing like master anything here

Its absolute thrash

Of course, I know you didn't read it..

The writer wasn't praising Kanu or IPOB neither was he dissing your hero. He was unbiased and brought out the undiluted facts with literal superiority.

Kindly reread it when the ileya hangover booze comot for ya eye

abouzaid:
they failed to draw the line between a call for self determination and a call for genocide. another own goal was the 97% Vs 5% speech by buhari. that's the biggest hate speech in modern Nigeria.

He even meant 3%, the 5% and 97% can't add up. I pardoned him for that based on the believed WAEC certificate he presented with F9 in Mathematics.

dunkem21:


Of course, I know you didn't read it..

The writer wasn't praising Kanu or IPOB neither was he dissing your hero. He was unbiased and brought out the undiluted facts with literal superiority.

Kindly reread it when the ileya hangover booze comot for ya eye

Who tell you say hangover dey ?

sarrki:


Nothing like master anything here

Its absolute thrash

The writer did a good job here if you ask me.

Following.....

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Biafra reloading...

sarrki:


Who tell you say hangover dey ?

we understand say e no dey cos we know say na rat u slaughter for sallah
buhari sef..

I stopped reading exactly at this point

But Ohaneze knows that Kanu’s exuberance puts Igbo lives and property at great peril. Ohaneze knows that the overall interest of Igbos is best served by an equitable Nigeria and not secession. Ohaneze knows the time has come. But Ohaneze is cowardly, or impotent. Without a bold church, without foresighted courageous politicians, without a fearless Ohaneze, who can save Igbos

Can the buffoon that wrote this tell us exactly what benefits igbo would get from being part of one niggeria. What benefits have we gain thus far? What fucking benefits after 100 years of being in that country? Name one benefit?

We've lost more than we gained. Like fucking duh?

That shithole despise igbos even before colonization ended. Pick up a fucking Goddamn history book and read. Educate yourself!!!! Heck even if you're too lazy to read your history what's currently going on in terms of that government dealing with ipob compared to fulani herdsmen likewise Nnamdi Kanu compared to Arewa youths, that you even wrote about, should screech to you fucking loudly how that useless country sees you yet we still have some ignorant ass, dumb igbos supporting that sh1thole. My God what sort of disease is wrong with "one niggeria" igbo. It's the same fucking disease zik had that put us in this shithole is what ask you one niggerian igbos have. Like who bewitched una?

Please, who wrote this article? It is filled with quarter truths. The writer doesn't want to talk about the real issues that led to all this agitations. He/she was just beating around the bush so as to make many points that will prompt the prosecution and chastising of Kanu by the FG and the supporters. Again, they keep trying everything possible to confine the Biafra struggle to an only Igbo thing even when they know otherwise. Just because you somehow control the media right? Ok! Keep on deceiving yourselves until the D-day comes you all will be shocked by the result because it will sweep you all out like a hurricane or tsunami! Your grounds will shake like an earthquake that has never happened on this earth.
Danfulani coming to pay homage and telling the world that Southern Kaduna will be a part of Biafra and other southern Kaduna people who on youtube say they will be a part of Biafra should tell you that this is far beyond an Igbo struggle. Every reasonable person who love freedom wants to breakaway. Keep wallowing in your delusions until wen the fruit ripes.
Again, at a time I felt like stopping to read the whole text but just wanted to get to the bottom to see if he made full sense but I was highly disappointed that he was just trying to defend his FG and "One Nigeriaist" personality and crucify people who want their way out. After all the epistle, he never gave the Biafrans any reason to remain in Nigeria Not even one. But he tried using his "Pull-Him/Them-Down Syndrome to convey his very weak point!
Such a pity! Give Biafrans reasons to stay with you on your One Nigeria! Just like Mazi Kanu said, defeat him with a superior and reasonable debate and argument and not with maiming words and bullets because that can never work. This is 21st century and not only that, it is 2017! So those old ways like tyranny, Subjugation, forceful killings, etc doesn't work any more!
To even read your writing trying to blackmail priests by saying that catholic priests tell catholics to vote a fellow catholic as against an Anglican is very demeaning. That's the lowest you can get. Let me not say you were paid to put down this one sided text. Because it is very obvious because more than 99% of your writing is biased and painted to destroy what freedom should be.
The only thing that I read in your article that I am still investigating is the part you said Kanu talked about Jesus but I have watched a video where he said otherwise. So going by the video I watched, I will say you are just wasting your time trying to keep a wife who is fed up of the marriage because of your constant beatings and maiming.
You talked about priests saying nothing, so you expect them to talk even when they see all the atrocious acts against their people? Mind you many priests have be speaking up the only thing is that just like the One Nigeria handlers who become blind in the face of mistreatment, they are also blind to see the priests that speak up against injustice in the land!
Once again, give the Biafrans very good reasons to stay in "One Nigeria" or you will definitely call it "Over!" with them!
Peace Unto you!

Hello

The crisis is rather looming much over a goddamned country called Nigeria.

sarrki:



We will remember you then

Welcome then!

Nwodosis:
That Kaduna " Igbo Quit Notice" declaration was an own goal to the crusaders of One Nigeria.

even omenkalives know

Nwodosis:

He even meant 3%, the 5% and 97% can't add up. I pardoned him for that based on the believed WAEC certificate he presented with F9 in Mathematics.

What he meant in that interview was that he got 97% of vote in one constituency and 5% vote in the other constituency.

The issue I have with that his statement is that a sitting president can only have ONE constituency called Nigeria.

Thrash

This is how Yugoslavia ended under Slobodan the useless Serbian


Buhari's decision to re arrest Kanu will end Nigeria as I foresee the international community opposing Nigeria.


UN instruction to Buhari to arrest the Arewa youths is no joke and will be the basis to listening to the cries of IPOB for Referendum

still reading...

No single crisis joh! Former military generals, defense chiefs, governors, billionaire business men, etc, have been arrested at one time or the other in Nigeria, and life continued. Can anyone tell me if Kanu comes near to being PA of any of these people? Why are IPOB guys giving their lord the position he doesn't come close to?

petsam11:
Please, who wrote this article? It is filled with quarter truths. The writer doesn't want to talk about the real issues that led to all this agitations. He/she was just beating around the bush so as to make many points that will prompt the prosecution and chastising of Kanu by the FG and the supporters. Again, they keep trying everything possible to confine the Biafra struggle to an only Igbo thing even when they know otherwise. Just because you somehow control the media right? Ok! Keep on deceiving yourselves until the D-day comes you all will be shocked by the result because it will sweep you all out like a hurricane or tsunami! Your grounds will shake like an earthquake that has never happened on this earth.
Danfulani coming to pay homage and telling the world that Southern Kaduna will be a part of Biafra and other southern Kaduna people who on youtube say they will be a part of Biafra should tell you that this is far beyond an Igbo struggle. Every reasonable person who love freedom wants to breakaway. Keep wallowing in your delusions until wen the fruit ripes.
Again, at a time I felt like stopping to read the whole text but just wanted to get to the bottom to see if he made full sense but I was highly disappointed that he was just trying to defend his FG and "One Nigeriaist" personality and crucify people who want their way out. After all the epistle, he never gave the Biafrans any reason to remain in Nigeria Not even one. But he tried using his "Pull-Him/Them-Down Syndrome to convey his very weak point!
Such a pity! Give Biafrans reasons to stay with you on your One Nigeria! Just like Mazi Kanu said, defeat him with a superior and reasonable debate and argument and not with maiming words and bullets because that can never work. This is 21st century and not only that, it is 2017! So those old ways like tyranny, Subjugation, forceful killings, etc doesn't work any more!
To even read your writing trying to blackmail priests by saying that catholic priests tell catholics to vote a fellow catholic as against an Anglican is very demeaning. That's the lowest you can get. Let me not say you were paid to put down this one sided text. Because it is very obvious because more than 99% of your writing is biased and painted to destroy what freedom should be.
The only thing that I read in your article that I am still investigating is the part you said Kanu talked about Jesus but I have watched a video where he said otherwise. So going by the video I watched, I will say you are just wasting your time trying to keep a wife who is fed up of the marriage because of your constant beatings and maiming.
You talked about priests saying nothing, so you expect them to talk even when they see all the atrocious acts against their people? Mind you many priests have be speaking up the only thing is that just like the One Nigeria handlers who become blind in the face of mistreatment, they are also blind to see the priests that speak up against injustice in the land!
Once again, give the Biafrans very good reasons to stay in "One Nigeria" or you will definitely call it "Over!" with them!
Peace Unto you!

who dey read vanguard paper? i never chop belleful na vanguard i go dey read.. leave dat man. if e like make e write e mind. kanu is not d only igbo to worship his own religion. there are many religions in biafra. its not our bizness. bye

What have your so called Christians done for Igboland until now? It is quite interesting that Nnamdi Kanu a Jew is following the teachings of Christ of fighting for the oppressed meanwhile the so called Christians are not doing much.

ibadam media

and in the end Biafra will come

by the way Biafra has already come to NL

what crisis

let them continue to write anything they wish

Igbos must not be marginalized.

The North had their own boko haram that was initially supported and eventually turned to a terrorist group that attempted to seize government in the North. In the long run, IDPs have resulted and a waste land in the NorthEast region with a jungle called Sambisa forest.

Let the East also have their own IPOB that is being supported now. It will turn to a terrorist group that will attempt to seize power illegally in the East. It will eventually attack more Igbo non-conformists like boko haram did with Muslims and Northerners. In the long run, IDPs will spring all over the East while most will attempt to run to the "parasitic" North and "cowardly" West for safety. The jungle of Aba will flourish in hostilities under the grip of IPOB terrorism.

All I need is my cable subscription to monitor events on CNN.