That is what I would have called the article. But I am not Rudolph Okonkwo.

My column for the week:

“…Those who intend to perpetuate genocide begin by finding ways, using laws and customs, to deny rights to the group they intend to slaughter. As it happened to the Jews, the Germans denied them full citizenship. And it appeared right to decent Germans. What often follows is a restriction on employment, political participation, and empowerment. In the Nigerian context, the issue of indigeneship versus citizenship comes to mind. And as we have seen in recent times, the matter of the right to vote and the right to be voted for. Discrimination can advance to what Prof. Alan Whitehorn called stigmatisation. A targeted group is given a stigma on which they would be hanged.

It is important for future perpetrators of genocide like Bayo Onanuga to dehumanise their victims. They need to be dehumanised so that their eventual killings would be guilty-free or guilty-lite. The Germans discriminated against and dehumanised the Jews. They fabricated stories blaming the Jews for all of Germany’s economic woes. Another tool used by perpetrators of genocide is to create an elaborate stereotype of the victims and put every targeted group member into that jacket. Good examples are: they are all thieves; they all love money; they are all dirty; they worship the wrong God etc. At this moment, the massacre of Muslims in the Central African Republic comes to mind.

In effect, part of the preparation for genocide is to induce hate for the targeted group through the vile simplification of complex human issues. For instance, if some group members are mafia leaders, the problem is a law and order problem. In this case, law enforcement will do well to treat people as individuals and hold them accountable for falling afoul of the law. It is not something that demands the generalisation of the group in question. A good example is the mafia problem in America in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Though most mafia leaders were of Italian descent, America did not tag every Italian American as a mafia. In fact, one of the people that brought the mafia in New York City to its knees was an Italian-American prosecutor named Rudy Giuliani…”

https://gazettengr.com/rudolf-okonkwo-as-bayo-onanuga-joins-the-league-of-genocide-champions-in-nigeria/

He asked Ibos not to interfere in Lagos politics, how does that translate to enabling genocide?

Stop this victim hood.
When did Bayo called for genocide against igbos.


U people go to other people land and do all kind of nasty things like drugs,fake medicine etc. Having done evil ,u turn around and brag about development of place (lagos) or brag that other countries women are addicted to u (South Africa ,Kenya etc)

The only rational for what happened in Lagos is to tell non indigenes in your red mod states not to vote during elections - What’s the drama about you guys should go and die somewhere.

You dear choose leader for us, you people with 0 moral values

One Nigeria is what we begging for, but our politicians turned us against each other.

NIGERIAJAGAJAGA:
One Nigeria is what we begging for, but our politicians turned us against each other.

One Nigeria and one Biafra
Una no fit get any of them

Well..

waynetee:


One Nigeria and one Biafra
Una no fit get any of them

one arewa nko ooooo. Or one oduduwa republic

Yamiriflathead:
He asked Ibos not to interfere in Lagos politics, how does that translate to enabling genocide?

Why did he not say Igbo people should not pay tax to Lagos state government?

Yamiriflathead:
He asked Ibos not to interfere in Lagos politics, how does that translate to enabling genocide?

Did igbos contest governorship election in Lagos state?

As one dust settles, another would rise.

At the right time, onanuga would need to defend his actions on a higher incorruptible pedestal.

waynetee:


One Nigeria and one Biafra
Una no fit get any of them

Are you better than anyone? Hiss.