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Jakumo:
Yes, and thank you for this update thread. From the last video posted online, there was a gunshot fired by a military or police officer, and in response, our man Sowore ran fast enough to qualify as an Olympic sprinter with all rights and privileges implied.

Now, while armchair athletes might choose to analyze and critique the running form and technique displayed by Sowore as he scampered for dear life, this spectator was far more impressed to note that even while running at full speed, Sowore continued to shout slogans and wave his arms in the air.

That desperate sprint was a very impressive performance by any yardstick, and we sports fans eagerly look forward to seeing video of Sowore fighting off numerous arresting officers like a movie hero.

Sowore is a marathoner (he was in Abuja a few years ago for the Abuja marathon, where he ran)...but to be frank, mocking him for leading a protest, as is his right, is not funny.

(No, I don't want MNK out of jail, it's basically like letting boko and bandits out of jail...when they all should be in prision somewhere in the sahara...but everyone has the right to protest in a democracy, even for things i don't like)

They have paid a few bags of corn to some cyber agberos to concoct fallacious concoctions online and discredit the protest
in other to kill the morale.

Has Any Protest Ever Worked In Nigeria ?

oalandAgents2:
This thread is for live updates from the protest and live pictures.

What manner of nonsense is this? You guys are not protesting the alliviation of poverty but protesting the for the release of a terrorist who have killed Igbo women and children with his unguarded mouth. The mumuman called Sowore has cases in court that he should focus his attention on instead of distracting his equally mumufied zombies.

DeepSight:
Why are we always focused on the wrong thing? Where in the world will the police fire tear gas at such a tiny group of people. They didnt even look up to thirty people. And they were not violent in any way. Where in the world does the police do that?

Go there and ask them.

BATified2023:
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Sowore don japa when e see teargas

you are never this excited seeing bandits
always antagonistic and biased when it comes to Kanu


why my yoruba friend

They basically left him alone. SOWORE please learn to pick your fights...these people you are fighting for will still abuse you and call you names.

BTW..there is nobody that will not run in this circumstance...no one wants to choke to death!

Many sound minds are watching closely,a country where criminals are pardoned and innocent people are jail.It is just a little time everything will be open.

It’s been peaceful so far and His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) extends his solidarity with the protesters.

Lol...

Very funny.

oalandAgents2:
Sowore is very unserious, I think the police fired a couple of teargas and Sowore took off running and abandoned the protest. Maybe the sounds of the teargas being fired sounded like gunshots to him and those surrounding him.🤷🏿‍♂️

Its called tear gas for a reason.......u are not supposed to be able to stand it.....e go chook your eyes

Federal secretariat road is blocked. But no shaking, Free Nnamdi Kanu Now!!

nairalanda1:
Sowore is a marathoner (he was in Abuja a few years ago for the Abuja marathon, where he ran)...but to be frank, mocking him for leading a protest, as is his right, is not funny.

(No, I don't want MNK out of jail, it's basically like letting boko and bandits out of jail...when they all should be in prision somewhere in the sahara...but everyone has the right to protest in a democracy, even for things i don't like)

The ones given pardoned recently committed worst crimes than mnk

DeepSight:
Yes I did, and I am asking who does that? Why should the police do that? Its wrong, for a tiny non violent group of protesters.

I think it was a move by sowore to know those responsible for violence in a protest, hence the use of a tiny group

Allow them to waste their time.Court will decide

Most of the posts here making jest of the protests are emanating from the same source.

You calling God for a killer.
Am sure you're not Igbo...!

chiagozien:
God bless Mazi Nnamdi kanu

BATified2023:
latest update

Sowore don japa when e see teargas

You pipu are winkeeed o.
Una pursure Sowo with teargas.
Dem teargas am.

Fellow concerned Nigerians that aren't biased. The fact is NK issue is a controversial one that need holistic approach. There are different allegations and counter allegations. It's advised that all Southeast leaders should rally for him and see the case to a logical end. Areas where he's guilty it should be trashed out if it's plea bargain or serving the sentence. And areas where he's not guilty all should be sorted out. The only loophole is if he kpain in detention it fit cause chaos. Aside that, all these protests won't bring needed result. Sowo shouldn't be protesting if he doesn't know the deep root of the issue.


This talk now, some pipu go misunderstand it. You're free to yab but better yabis dey. Na ban you go chop taya.

Hope so.Make dem REST small

oalandAgents2:
There is a rumour that all of the protesters have been arrested.

Sowore and his endless distractions

tunde1200:
You calling God for a killer.
Am sure you're not Igbo...!

A Yoruba man telling Igbos who is killing them.





When did you Yorubas start caring for we Igbos?

obembet:
Only Sowore and farotimi, no top Easterner influencers join the protest.

Now I understand why Charly boy call westerners coward

This should be a concern to those advocating...
Why are they not there to support Sowo?

oalandAgents2:
Sowore is very unserious, I think the police fired a couple of teargas and Sowore took off running and abandoned the protest. Maybe the sounds of the teargas being fired sounded like gunshots to him and those surrounding him.🤷🏿‍♂️

What some of you think heroism is foolishly standing at a place to be hurt by your enemies. When this happens , you still come with your Cho Cho Cho Cho energy to say that he killed himself.

When last I checked, in the Military days of NEDCO, even Tinubu scampered for safety. He ran away from Nigeria. But NO . Whoever runs away from harm is a coward or less the person is an APC

yarimo:
Immediately sowore saw police men he ran away

I just posted it somewhere, you didn't attend but you are laughing at someone who did?

Those who mock when peaceful protest for justice is staged in this country, shall one day face injustice in live, at work, business, within their families and communities. They will cry for help but it shall never come to them.

It's not the same, the people negotiating with bandits in the North are not Northern governors, but local communities trying to secure peace and end of bandit attacks on their communities.
So there is no comparison with the those in SE advocating for Kanu's freedom.

oluwaseyi0:
I'm with you all
Kanu fate should be decided by Eastern governors just as northern governors are deciding on negotiating with bandits

The tragedy of Biafra is not just what was lost during the war , it’s how generations after still haven’t learned from it.

The 20 pounds story is a perfect example of how misinformation and selective memory have kept us trapped in emotional cycles instead of critical reflection.

During the 1967–1970 Biafran War, Nigeria was still using the British pound sterling as its legal tender.

Most Igbo people had their life savings in that currency.

But when Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra in the Eastern region in 1967, he introduced the Biafran pound as the new currency.

That single move meant that to survive under Biafra, people had to exchange their pounds sterling for the new currency.

Markets, trade, everything in the Eastern Region started to run on Biafran pounds , so people complied, believing in the promise of a new nation.

But here’s where it became a trap.

When the war ended and Biafra surrendered, the Nigerian government rejected the Biafran pound completely.

It was declared worthless.

Those who still had Nigerian pounds in their accounts before the war were given a flat compensation of 20 pounds, no matter how much they had originally saved , ₤100, ₤1,000, ₤100,000 , millions, it didn’t matter. Everyone got ₤20.

That policy wiped out entire generations of wealth.

Families that had built legacies through trade and education were left with nothing.

That’s why, to this day, some homes still keep those old Biafran notes , not because they’re worth anything, but as reminders of betrayal, loss, and what blind nationalism cost us.

But instead of learning from that, we’ve allowed history to repeat itself in new disguises.

During Ralph Uwazurike’s MASSOB era, the dream was revived with the same emotional pull , and the same pattern of untruths.

He introduced Biafran passports, Biafran ID cards, Biafran driver’s licenses , license plates none of which were valid anywhere, not even in the Southeast.

People bought into it emotionally and financially.

It was supposed to be a step toward sovereignty, but it turned out to be just another way to collect money from desperate people.

Then came Nnamdi Kanu.

Charismatic, persuasive, emotional and eratic, he knew exactly which wounds to touch.

He built his movement around Biafra pride and collective pain, but in the end, the pattern didn’t change.

Money for “Biafran cenotaphs,” money to “secure Igbo borders,” money to “build radio stations” , all raised with urgency, all swallowed by personal interests.

Nothing tangible came out of it.

Then came Simon Ekpa with his own version , and now others are sprouting, each claiming to be the true heir to Biafra’s liberation. It’s the same script, recycled with new faces.

And that’s the deeper problem: Biafra, as an emotional idea, has weakened us mentally. Made us too sentimental that we suspend reason and common sense.

It has kept us in a perpetual state of grievance without progress constantly looking backward instead of forward.

Instead of studying strategy, governance, and economics, we keep chasing sentiment, conspiracy, and nostalgia.

We’ve built a culture where victimhood feels more comfortable than accountability, and where anyone who challenges the myth is branded a traitor.

But think about it , after all these years, what has changed?

The Southeast is still underdeveloped beneath its potential not because of some curse, but because our leaders , political, religious, and activists have learned how to weap0nize emotion in everything.

They know how to keep people angry, agitated and loyal.

Every time one scam fails, another appears wearing the same flag.

It’s time to wake up. Biafra is no longer a political project; it has become an emotional business.

The same story keeps repeating , Uwazurike cashed out. Kanu cashed out. Ekpa too. And many more in between them. The next person will too.

The only people who keep losing lives, livelihood are ordinary Igbos who genuinely believe that shouting “Biafra now!” online or sending money from abroad will somehow restore their dignity.

True liberation won’t come from flags or slogans.

It will come when we start admitting that we have been bamboozled and start converting economic might into political leverage, when we invest in education, industry, and unity within the Southeast.

When we start producing leaders who think, not just shout.

The first Biafra was built on idealism; this new one is built on manipulation.

And until we learn the difference, history will keep repeating itself only this time, there won’t be any pounds left to lose. We will lose ourselves and everything.

By Chioma Amaryllis Ahaghotu

Tinubu is a dictator. He doesn't understand so called democracy he lyingly fought for