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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by MondayOsunbor(m): 6:11am On Aug 08, 2021
adenigga:

https://punchng.com/Igboho-FG-plots-Akintoyes-arrest-Obasanjo-meets-Republic-of-Benin-President


stupid people we have opportunity to escape Nigeria 1967 !


what do yoruba people did ? unleash black scorpion on ibos

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by tagborume: 6:12am On Aug 08, 2021
Our security operatives no longer understand their core mandates. There is serious massacre in Kaduna and you are busy running after somebody who has never and will never handle a riffle. Confused set. What do we expect when leaders are chosen based on party affiliations and not on merit

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by FreeIgboho: 6:13am On Aug 08, 2021
FREE IGBOHO!!!!!

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by luxs(m): 6:13am On Aug 08, 2021
Benin dey HERE U GO BENIN REPUBLIC

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by gambia(m): 6:13am On Aug 08, 2021
One Nigeria is a pure scam.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by FreeIgboho: 6:16am On Aug 08, 2021
MondayOsunbor:



stupid people we have opportunity to escape Nigeria 1967 !


what do yoruba people did ? unleash black scorpion on ibos


Actually nothing we could have done being that Notherners were fully in control of Army and Lagos. Awo badly wanted to follow Ojukwu and secede but even his bodyguards were Notherners. They'd have simply shot him

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by missuzoma: 6:22am On Aug 08, 2021
DankemzI:
See how Yoruba elders and technocrats are rallying about Igboho, I wish South East elders and technocrats are more active and vocal concerning Nnamdi Kanu But it seems all South East elders are all like Joe Igbokwe cry
Why don't you face your own front? South eastern elders don't broadcast their moves, you empower your enemy by constantly talking like some people.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by michoim(m): 6:22am On Aug 08, 2021
What a very poor lie! Akintoye of his own accord decided to take vacation to Republic of Benin to join his co-evil twin Obasanjo in order to negotiate Igboho release, and they think they can deceive anybody with false information. The fact is that the FG is not bothered with idle tales of old idle men; The FG has enormous task to do in fixing Nigeria...
Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by GardenOfGod(m): 6:23am On Aug 08, 2021
tenpipsperday:


It will jeopardize his presidency chances. He is ready to watch the whole of Yoruba burn as long as he gets the support of the murderous North.
Does he think his people are unsophisticated to understand his schemes?

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by louqas: 6:27am On Aug 08, 2021
GardenOfGod:

Does he think his people are unsophisticated to understand his schemes?

What makes non yorubas think Majority of yorubas are not with Tinubu

It will shock you people

Yes theres some anti tinubu elements in the south west , mostly pdp folks and a few Apc folks but i assure you thr vast majority of yoruba people will vote for Tinubu. Yorubas will look at your antecedents and in south west politics Tinubu is a star......when the time comes you will see

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by adenigga(m): 6:27am On Aug 08, 2021
luxs:
Benin dey HERE U GO BENIN REPUBLIC

For your information.......

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo was on Saturday in Benin City, the Edo State capital.
Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by stonemasonn: 6:29am On Aug 08, 2021
michoim:
. The fact is that the FG is not bothered with idle tales of old idle men; The FG has enormous task to do in fixing Nigeria...
they've been fixing Nigeria since the days of Metuselah

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by oloshun(m): 6:32am On Aug 08, 2021
"In May 2020, Lucien Kabuga, an 86 years old Rwandan fugitive was captured in France. Kabuga had been a fugitive for 26 years. He had been sought by Interpol, FBI, the international crimes tribunal, the Rwanda government and an international union of bounty hunters. Two years earlier, the US state department had placed a 5 million dollars reward on his head.

Kabuga is being tried for crimes against humanity because of the role he played in the Rwandan genocide.

However, Kabuga might not have lifted a machete or hoe in the horror of Rwanda, but as one one of Rwanda’s richest men, Kabuga’s radio station RTLM, led the propaganda that daily fed hate to his fellow ethnic Hutus, acting as a catalyst for the Rwanda Genocide.

The two major items on the hands of the Interahamwe, the Hutu killer militia, was always a small transistor radio and a machete. While the radios guided the killer gangs around the country , identifying Tutsis, over 500,000 machetes imported into the country by Kabuga and a few Hutu elites, chopped down ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus like a bunch of trees.

Visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial is such an introspecting experience which I think every African statesman, politician or aspiring leader should have.

The Kigali genocide memorial, is actually the burial site of 250,000 people. It was built to honour the dead, preserve the history of the genocide against the tutsis and is seen as a symbol of ‘NEVER AGAIN’.

If you want to imagine 250,000 dead bodies , just imagine seeing 10 corpses lying dead. Then imagine 50,100, then 1000, then 250,000. If you lie them down side by side on a football pitch to fill every space on a pitch, you will need the space of 60 football pitches to lay the dead.

This burial site is just one of the various burial sites in Rwanda that served as permanent resting places for the remains of the victims of the genocide.

When I experienced the Kigali Genocide memorial with a group of friends in 2016, one thing we noticed was that, we couldn’t talk for almost 10 minutes when we walked out of the memorial through the exit. The experience actually leaves you speechless.

The children’s memorial had intimate details and life size photographs of the deceased children, their names , favourite toys , their schools, the manner in which they were killed, then some of their dead small skulls lying beside a few of their belongings.

As you walk through the labyrinth of history with the informative audio and virtual reality gadgets, you will hear the stories , the recorded cries of victims begging not to be killed, tales from survivors, while the entire maze is filled with relics of the genocide, from one foot shoes of running victims to their cracked skulls at times with the killer weapons still embedded right through the skull .

I’m sure many people do not know that the Hutus and Tutsi are the same people. Same culture, same language and same ethnic group. The only thing that separated them was that the Hutus were farmers while the Tutsis were cattle herders. This was the major basis which the Belgians used in differentiating them and issuing them with identify cards.

How come hatred grew so much that they managed to break world record for the fastest and most effective killing in human history?

Of all the deaths that occurred during America’s wars from 1990( Operation Desert storm) to 2018( War against ISIS), including all the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and over 70 countries where the USA fought their war on terror, with the most effective military hardware, over a 28 year period. Military historians put the total deaths, including civilian and military casualties to about 500,000.

The Atomic bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki recorded about 200,000 deaths which the entire world still considers as most horrendous. But ethnic Hutus managed to effectively kill one million of their Tutsi brothers and moderate Hutus in less than 100 days.

The kill rate must have been like 10,000 per day.

Not with any weapons of mass destruction, no tanks , no air crafts or sub machine hellfire guns, but with machetes, hoes, stone’s and any make shift that can be turned into a killing instrument. This is how powerful hate can be.

For hundred days, the Hutu propaganda radios kept shouting that the graves are not full enough, urging on the killings of the Tutsis whom they referred to as Cockroaches.

Ironically the Hutus make up about 85% of the country, they had the Presidency and other key offices then, but somehow, they kept believing and spreading stories that these cow herders were going to conquer them.
The fear was so morbid that every Tutsi, including a woman or child was seen as an enemy and potential conquerer.

You might have read several literature about the Rwanda 1990 genocide, but a visit to the Kigali memorial will knock you off your feet and teach you that long time hatred and propaganda can turn humans into little bits of satan the devil. It will immediately bring you out of any ethnicity and usher you into the race of humanity.

The beauty of the Rwandan story is that the civil war victors, Tutsi rebels that ended the war, did not gloat or carry out reprisal killings , but they had a visionary leadership who stepped in to unify the country despite the fact that they suffered the genocide.

Asked if she was Hutu or Tutsi, a Rwandese friends eyes popped open with shock and her voice became low as if afraid . “We are all Rwandans, we don’t have Hutu or Tutsi. We don’t talk about it and we don’t know it” she said making sure that nobody else heard her.

Rising out of that ashes of death and hate, Rwanda today is the pride of Africa .

Crime rate is almost zero and the city is the cleanest in africa. While other african countries are still varying files in government offices, Rwanda is using drones to deliver medicine to rural areas.

While neighboring Congo and Burundi are still ruled by who owns more AK47s, Rwandese are coming out monthly alongside their President, legislatures and all government officials to do Umuganda, a community works exercise where everyone is entitled to physically work for their environment.

While African giants like Nigeria is still struggling with generators , Rwanda is extracting Methane Gas under water from Lake Kivu and turning it into Electricity.

While we are still carrying dusty files in our civil service and bribing public servants , Rwanda has implemented full technology where you can go online and do every public service needed, leading the Smart Africa alliance and of course this has led them to the top, in ease of doing business in Africa.

But ironically, we have a similar history with Rwanda, with the result looking like the opposite.

In the early hours of 15th January 1966, a young Kaduna born Major of Igbo parenthood, led some officers to kill over 20 people which included the then Prime Minister of Nigeria in an attempted coup.

The events of this action led to a vicious pogrom against many innocent Igbos whose crime was that they were from the same ethnicity as the parents of the coup leader.

The pogroms and resultant rebellion by south east leaders led to a vicious 30 month unnecessary and vicious civil war which killed millions of Nigeria and destroyed lots of properties.

Looking back now, one can just imagine how irresponsible and immature the leaders of that era were, not to have prevented that war. They were like little kids with expensive toys. That was how leadership was to them.

But in both scenarios , profiling played a dangerous role, and it’s unfortunate that while Rwanda has risen from the ashes of that stupidity to say never again ,Nigeria is still dancing around the precipice of an ethnic instigated insurrection.

Nigerians are still pigeon holed according to their ethnicity or the god they worship. We are still hearing irresponsible infantile statements like ‘all igbo should leave the north and all Fulani should leave the west’.

Ethnic and Religious profiling is still on the rise, and it’s unfortunate to hear leading religious leaders like Sheik Gumi come out to class Muslim soldiers as non-criminals while the non muslims are responsible for what he calls ‘criminality ‘ against bandits. (I still don’t understand how a soldier commits a crime against a bandit)

Nigeria is not only in dire need of the leadership to provide critical infrastructure, but a leadership that will belong to everyone and belong to no one. A leadership whose body language and actions will be free of nepotism and division. A leadership that will diffuse the gunpowder which the country is sitting upon"

*** Article by Ken Agala.
Ken Agala

Beautiful piece.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by GardenOfGod(m): 6:33am On Aug 08, 2021
louqas:


What makes non yorubas think Majority of yorubas are not with Tinubu

It will shock you people

Yes theres some anti tinubu elements in the south west , mostly pdp folks and a few Apc folks but i assure you thr vast majority of yoruba people will vote for Tinubu. Yorubas will look at your antecedents and in south west politics Tinubu is a star......when the time comes you will see
Even Buhari is always in "shock" over comments like this.
What is the difference between sacrificing your wife or mother for money ritual and sacrificing your people for selfish political ambition?

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by kingthreat(m): 6:37am On Aug 08, 2021
The old Akintoye man needs to keep quiet.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by AfonjaConehead: 6:41am On Aug 08, 2021
DankemzI:
See how Yoruba elders and technocrats are rallying about Igboho, I wish South East elders and technocrats are more active and vocal concerning Nnamdi Kanu But it seems all South East elders are all like Joe Igbokwe cry
You better shut up if you don't want judgement to befall you seriously.

When the said south east and south south were warning you myopic people 2014 against these people,shebi you all were laughing??!
When the same Nnamdi Kanu was warning everyone,did you amala not threaten him?!

Keep pointing your fingers at the Igbos all your life o,pele o.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by AfonjaConehead: 6:43am On Aug 08, 2021
michoim:
What a very poor lie! Akintoye of his own accord decided to take vacation to Republic of Benin to join his co-evil twin Obasanjo in order to negotiate Igboho release, and they think they can deceive anybody with false information. The fact is that the FG is not bothered with idle tales of old idle men; The FG has enormous task to do in fixing Nigeria...

Keep on deceiving yourself

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by JoeEeL(m): 6:57am On Aug 08, 2021
InaNla:


I don’t even understand whatever you put up there.

What I know is that Buari will not go unpunished!

Lol. Buhari is an idyot. No doubt. I no fight you bro.

But he's not alone. It's a well-designed network. They are well-represented in both APC and PDP.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by adenigga(m): 6:58am On Aug 08, 2021
AfonjaConehead:


Keep on deceiving yourself

You are a correct person......

Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by Ayo8(m): 6:58am On Aug 08, 2021
tenpipsperday:


It will jeopardize his presidency chances. He is ready to watch the whole of Yoruba burn as long as he gets the support of the murderous North.

...and for this reason, he can never be president! Not even in his dreams...

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by Ashley001(f): 7:00am On Aug 08, 2021
Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by lakesider(m): 7:03am On Aug 08, 2021
Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by Safyqueen: 7:05am On Aug 08, 2021
InaNla:
Terrorist regime!

We warned Nigerians in 2015 not to vote a professional coup leader, a jihadist and a confirmed ethnic bigot like mohomodu buari.

Most were brainwashed that he is a born again democrat, and that he will turned Nigeria to Mecca or Dubai in 12 months.

Now we are here with many death, economic hardship and gloomy future for Nigeria.

He refused to proscribed his fellow kinsmen (Fulani herdsmen terrorist organization) despite the heavy damage, killings and destruction brought upon Nigeria and Nigerians.

I pray God help Nigeria within the remaining period of this bloody regime.

Posterity will never be kind to buari, his regime and those still supporting the rogues.

Please look at your post from the other side and see if you are not a terrorist.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by MYHUBBY: 7:08am On Aug 08, 2021
if gumi is still walking free and Bauchi and other terrorist Governors from North are publicly supporting herdsmen atrocities of carrying illegal firearms are still walking free then it would be so stupid for Fulani people to think Nnamdi KANU and Sunday is their primarily problem



anyway KANU and Sunday is their problem because they want to put an end to monkey dey work, bamboo dey chop


they still our resources and still use it to enrich themselves all in course of fighting terrorists



bunch of scallywags
Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by bolajinoni1(m): 7:08am On Aug 08, 2021
RIGHTEOUS BADMUS

There is nothing call Nigeria government is fulani government. the government are supporting the fulani to take our land and make other tribe as slave, sit-down there and keep on saying is not possible. That why their make there tribe to head of all positions in Nigeria and u are still saying one Nigeria. One Nigeria kill u there, Fulani plan is to kill or send u away out of the country to reduce our population so that their can conquer the rest. Are u waiting for our tribe politicians or Kings to talk? there can't do nothing there are slave to fulanis government. for example since our people have b killing, rape and kidnapped by fulani the u ear vice president or tinubu and others to say anything? have you ever see where slave correct their master The answer is no. Yoruba, Igbo and hausa stand up let fight together and save our land from this evil. I will advise you to not betray your tribe I Righteous I will never betray yoruba for any amount what about you? Yoruba nation no going back

COMRADE RIGHTEOUS BADMUS

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by Ghostrye: 7:09am On Aug 08, 2021
GardenOfGod:
But why is Jagaban of Yorubaland not airing his views on the issues affecting his people?
A local man enquires because he's tired. cheesy
After all the money to print flyer and billboards and campaign you think he will support the breakup of Nigeria?. Baba @ 67 is just fighting for his position jeje

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by Tinubuadvocate: 7:10am On Aug 08, 2021
Fake news Sunday don't speak to punch Akintoye or his aide don't say anything DSS don't say anything to punch news I'm wondering where they get the news from.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by onuman: 7:11am On Aug 08, 2021
Arresting leaders of secessionist groups is like smoothening the roads to secession in Nigeria.

It’s like the Fulani government in Nigeria has lost its advisers on one Nigeria.

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by Vinnie2000(m): 7:13am On Aug 08, 2021
The Northern Cabal simply want WAR in Nigeria!!
Or@least a COUP DE TAT, Where a Northern Army will take over n rule..
because
They have seen that dier Backward region is 100 years behind the south!!
Dier plans will fail Ijn!

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Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by Seniorwriter(m): 7:13am On Aug 08, 2021
oloshun:
"In May 2020, Lucien Kabuga, an 86 years old Rwandan fugitive was captured in France. Kabuga had been a fugitive for 26 years. He had been sought by Interpol, FBI, the international crimes tribunal, the Rwanda government and an international union of bounty hunters. Two years earlier, the US state department had placed a 5 million dollars reward on his head.

Kabuga is being tried for crimes against humanity because of the role he played in the Rwandan genocide.

However, Kabuga might not have lifted a machete or hoe in the horror of Rwanda, but as one one of Rwanda’s richest men, Kabuga’s radio station RTLM, led the propaganda that daily fed hate to his fellow ethnic Hutus, acting as a catalyst for the Rwanda Genocide.

The two major items on the hands of the Interahamwe, the Hutu killer militia, was always a small transistor radio and a machete. While the radios guided the killer gangs around the country , identifying Tutsis, over 500,000 machetes imported into the country by Kabuga and a few Hutu elites, chopped down ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus like a bunch of trees.

Visiting the Kigali Genocide Memorial is such an introspecting experience which I think every African statesman, politician or aspiring leader should have.

The Kigali genocide memorial, is actually the burial site of 250,000 people. It was built to honour the dead, preserve the history of the genocide against the tutsis and is seen as a symbol of ‘NEVER AGAIN’.

If you want to imagine 250,000 dead bodies , just imagine seeing 10 corpses lying dead. Then imagine 50,100, then 1000, then 250,000. If you lie them down side by side on a football pitch to fill every space on a pitch, you will need the space of 60 football pitches to lay the dead.

This burial site is just one of the various burial sites in Rwanda that served as permanent resting places for the remains of the victims of the genocide.

When I experienced the Kigali Genocide memorial with a group of friends in 2016, one thing we noticed was that, we couldn’t talk for almost 10 minutes when we walked out of the memorial through the exit. The experience actually leaves you speechless.

The children’s memorial had intimate details and life size photographs of the deceased children, their names , favourite toys , their schools, the manner in which they were killed, then some of their dead small skulls lying beside a few of their belongings.

As you walk through the labyrinth of history with the informative audio and virtual reality gadgets, you will hear the stories , the recorded cries of victims begging not to be killed, tales from survivors, while the entire maze is filled with relics of the genocide, from one foot shoes of running victims to their cracked skulls at times with the killer weapons still embedded right through the skull .

I’m sure many people do not know that the Hutus and Tutsi are the same people. Same culture, same language and same ethnic group. The only thing that separated them was that the Hutus were farmers while the Tutsis were cattle herders. This was the major basis which the Belgians used in differentiating them and issuing them with identify cards.

How come hatred grew so much that they managed to break world record for the fastest and most effective killing in human history?

Of all the deaths that occurred during America’s wars from 1990( Operation Desert storm) to 2018( War against ISIS), including all the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and over 70 countries where the USA fought their war on terror, with the most effective military hardware, over a 28 year period. Military historians put the total deaths, including civilian and military casualties to about 500,000.

The Atomic bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki recorded about 200,000 deaths which the entire world still considers as most horrendous. But ethnic Hutus managed to effectively kill one million of their Tutsi brothers and moderate Hutus in less than 100 days.

The kill rate must have been like 10,000 per day.

Not with any weapons of mass destruction, no tanks , no air crafts or sub machine hellfire guns, but with machetes, hoes, stone’s and any make shift that can be turned into a killing instrument. This is how powerful hate can be.

For hundred days, the Hutu propaganda radios kept shouting that the graves are not full enough, urging on the killings of the Tutsis whom they referred to as Cockroaches.

Ironically the Hutus make up about 85% of the country, they had the Presidency and other key offices then, but somehow, they kept believing and spreading stories that these cow herders were going to conquer them.
The fear was so morbid that every Tutsi, including a woman or child was seen as an enemy and potential conquerer.

You might have read several literature about the Rwanda 1990 genocide, but a visit to the Kigali memorial will knock you off your feet and teach you that long time hatred and propaganda can turn humans into little bits of satan the devil. It will immediately bring you out of any ethnicity and usher you into the race of humanity.

The beauty of the Rwandan story is that the civil war victors, Tutsi rebels that ended the war, did not gloat or carry out reprisal killings , but they had a visionary leadership who stepped in to unify the country despite the fact that they suffered the genocide.

Asked if she was Hutu or Tutsi, a Rwandese friends eyes popped open with shock and her voice became low as if afraid . “We are all Rwandans, we don’t have Hutu or Tutsi. We don’t talk about it and we don’t know it” she said making sure that nobody else heard her.

Rising out of that ashes of death and hate, Rwanda today is the pride of Africa .

Crime rate is almost zero and the city is the cleanest in africa. While other african countries are still varying files in government offices, Rwanda is using drones to deliver medicine to rural areas.

While neighboring Congo and Burundi are still ruled by who owns more AK47s, Rwandese are coming out monthly alongside their President, legislatures and all government officials to do Umuganda, a community works exercise where everyone is entitled to physically work for their environment.

While African giants like Nigeria is still struggling with generators , Rwanda is extracting Methane Gas under water from Lake Kivu and turning it into Electricity.

While we are still carrying dusty files in our civil service and bribing public servants , Rwanda has implemented full technology where you can go online and do every public service needed, leading the Smart Africa alliance and of course this has led them to the top, in ease of doing business in Africa.

But ironically, we have a similar history with Rwanda, with the result looking like the opposite.

In the early hours of 15th January 1966, a young Kaduna born Major of Igbo parenthood, led some officers to kill over 20 people which included the then Prime Minister of Nigeria in an attempted coup.

The events of this action led to a vicious pogrom against many innocent Igbos whose crime was that they were from the same ethnicity as the parents of the coup leader.

The pogroms and resultant rebellion by south east leaders led to a vicious 30 month unnecessary and vicious civil war which killed millions of Nigeria and destroyed lots of properties.

Looking back now, one can just imagine how irresponsible and immature the leaders of that era were, not to have prevented that war. They were like little kids with expensive toys. That was how leadership was to them.

But in both scenarios , profiling played a dangerous role, and it’s unfortunate that while Rwanda has risen from the ashes of that stupidity to say never again ,Nigeria is still dancing around the precipice of an ethnic instigated insurrection.

Nigerians are still pigeon holed according to their ethnicity or the god they worship. We are still hearing irresponsible infantile statements like ‘all igbo should leave the north and all Fulani should leave the west’.

Ethnic and Religious profiling is still on the rise, and it’s unfortunate to hear leading religious leaders like Sheik Gumi come out to class Muslim soldiers as non-criminals while the non muslims are responsible for what he calls ‘criminality ‘ against bandits. (I still don’t understand how a soldier commits a crime against a bandit)

Nigeria is not only in dire need of the leadership to provide critical infrastructure, but a leadership that will belong to everyone and belong to no one. A leadership whose body language and actions will be free of nepotism and division. A leadership that will diffuse the gunpowder which the country is sitting upon"

*** Article by Ken Agala.
Ken Agala

Beautiful piece.

WE NEED A YOUNG VISIONARY LEADER.
joefelin2345:
Oga Seiorwriter forget that. Who or where shall that come from? Was Nzeoqwu & his colleagues that carried the first coup in 1966 not young by then? Was Ojukwu & Gowon not young in 1967 when the civil war began? Today don't we have young people as Ministers. Governors, commissioners etc. I begii, go rest joor.
Your post lacks credence because you are only considering the young characteristics but forgetting the VISIONARY part and we have them in abundance reason they are in other country's cabinet like Canada and USA.
Howbeit the process is on going.

@SENIORWRITER
Re: Igboho: FG plots Akintoye’s Arrest, Obasanjo meets Republic Of Benin President by stanluiz(m): 7:15am On Aug 08, 2021
DankemzI:
See how Yoruba elders and technocrats are rallying about Igboho, I wish South East elders and technocrats are more active and vocal concerning Nnamdi Kanu But it seems all South East elders are all like Joe Igbokwe cry
The same ones Nnamdi kanu insulted and abused 247 Everyday. I thought Nnamdi Kanu declare himself supereme leader. That he decides who lives and who dies. Let Nnamdi kanu free himself from DSS cage where he is chained like a monkey and stop disturbing our peace.

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