[quote author=JusticeSeeker post=82309614]To be frank in Okorocha's expression, ' no one knows exactly what IPOB and Nnamdi kanu wants' [/quotTheh



They want their county ... u ppl keep insulting and calling them names yet u won't let them go.

If then are of no use, why still keep them? Hypocrites

Idokojimmy:
A lot has already been said and written about the xenophobic attack currently going on in South Africa. One that resonated with me is the view that this is specifically Afrophobia rather than outright xenophobia. In a post by popular South African comedian and TV host, Trevor Noah, he declared that other Africans in the rainbow country control less than two percent of its businesses and resources. The bulk of it, is squarely in the hands of white Europeans. Thus, if the locals are looking for someone to lynch, they should face the direction of the rightful enemy.
But by attacking Nigerians, Tanzanians and other blacks, the South Africans has displayed ignorance of their history.

History is like a map, it guides us going forward. Like a lighthouse, history provides a bearing of our present position relative to where we want to go. It also alerts us when we edge closer to the shore or dangerously lying reefs.
Perhaps, it is very prophetic in this regard that at the height of the attacks in Mandela's own country, the trending song across Africa is one by a Master KG, a South African artist. The song titled, "skeleton", talks about remembering the road that would lead you home, no matter where you go.
This brings me back home. In the last decades Nigeria has battled with the challenges of national identity. When it is politically convenient for us, we call ourselves Arewa, Biafrans and Oduduwa. We describe ourselves as everything else but Nigerians. While this had come to be seen as part of our national phenomenon, the emergence of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, definitely took it to a dangerous dimension with his Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) movement.

At the height of his charade in the name of secession, Kanu roared and puff at the authorities, threatening to rain down fire and brimstone on the country which he deliriously described as a zoo. His followers both home and abroad, joined this misguided misadventure. Some withdrew their allegiance to the country while others went as far as tearing their Nigerian passport.

Alas, xenophobia arose and everyone remembered the road that leads home. And for the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba man and women in South Africa, there was only one home; Nigeria.
In the peak of the uproar that greeted the attack, I patiently awaited the voice of Kanu, to either deploy his much touted Biafran army to lead the rescue of Biafrans in South or comdenm the attacks. Till this moment, not a word has come from Mazi Nnamdi Kanu neither has he offered any way out for his stranded members. Neither KANU nor any of his spokesmen such as Emma POWERFUL could muster the courage to atleast condemn the atrocities committed on the Igbos .

But Nigeria, the same place they labeled a zoo, has risen up to the rescue for everyone.
And that's the lesson from this whole tragedy. Every country has it own challenges. Even America is not without people and group calling for independence and self governance. Yet, they recognize that they are first and above all, Americans.
We can claim to be whoever we want, but we must realize that when the chips are down, there's only one Nigeria to protect us. Whether Hausa, Igbo Yoruba or any other group. Las las, we're all Nigerians.

When it mattered most Mazi Nnamdi Kanu simply kept mute!!!!! Perhaps he is scared of being declared a Persona-non-grata by the government of South Africa. May be MAZI is still in bed with his wife, planning to share fresh nude pictures to appease hundreds of Igbos butchered by the South Africans.


Mariam Ibrahim


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Hundreds of Igbo butchered by South African indeed!

Wonder when idiots such as the writer is going to tell us what they are doing about the daily butchering going on in the North by Northerners. They'll rather spend their time fantasing about imagery Igbo massacre, when the reality is a daily occurence among them.

Talk about misplaced priority!