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An association of Igbo clergymen, Concerned Igbo Ministers’ Commission, has reacted to the recent killings in Kwara State, saying leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, was jailed for warning against ‘Jihadist incursion’ into Nigeria’s southern territories.

Over a hundred deaths have been recorded in the attacks on communities in Kwara, believed to have been carried out by Islamist extremists.

In a statement on Friday, President of the Concerned Igbo Ministers’ Commission, Rev. Tony Uzor, expressed regrets that Kanu’s warning about the spread of extremism in the country, particularly into the South, was ignored.

Uzor expressed disappointment that rather than act on Kanu’s warning, Nigerian authorities threw him into jail.

The clergyman faulted the government for going after Kanu, who he said was only armed with microphone, while pampering insurgents and bandits responsible for killing thousands of Nigerians.

According to Uzor, for the Nigerian government, “words are treated as deadlier than weapons, and warnings are punished more harshly than mass murder”.

The Concerned Igbo Ministers’ Commission added that Kanu was arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned because his broadcasts unsettled the status quo that favours the caliphate.

Faulting Kanu’s conviction, the cleric added, “A man who spoke — who warned, provoked, irritated, unsettled — was caged as though he had spilled blood. Meanwhile, blood was actually spilled elsewhere, in industrial quantities, and the nation barely blinked.

“Justice James Omotosho, presiding over the Federal High Court in Abuja, sentenced Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment in November 2025 for terrorism charges — inciting violence through his broadcasts and calls for Biafran independence. Kanu, the very man who had long warned of this exact impending doom in Yorubaland: the spread of religious extremism, the unchecked jihadist incursions into Southern territories, the failure to protect communities from the reach of these terrorists. He was convicted not for wielding weapons, but for wielding words that unsettled the status quo.

“Justice Omotosho handed down concurrent life terms, ensuring Kanu rots in isolation at Sokoto Correctional Centre of all places, the seat of the caliphate itself. All while the real killers in Kwara — and countless other places — evade the same zealous pursuit.

“It is apparently safer to wield an AK-47 assault rifle than a microphone — provided the AK-47 aligns with the unspoken hierarchies of power.”

The Igbo clergymen further expressed concern that hundreds can be killed in rural Nigeria by armed groups whose methods and ideology are well known, without any serious response from the government.

The clerics said the Nigerian government has not displayed the same zeal it deployed in going after Kanu and IPOB in efforts to stop killings by Jihadists and Islamic extremists.

The statement added, “The dead are absorbed into statistics and forgotten.
Take Kwara State, where just this week, Islamic terrorists slaughtered at least 170 people in the villages of Woro and Nuku just as Nnamdi Kanu predicted many years back. Gunmen stormed in, executing residents at close range — many bound and shot, others burned alive — for refusing to submit to extremist Sharia rule. Homes razed, shops looted, families shattered. The attackers, linked to genuine terrorist groups from Northern Nigeria and not proscribed, left a trail of mass graves and missing loved ones.

“President Tinubu deployed troops after the fact, blaming jihadists, but where was the same preemptive fury that accompanied Monday sit-at-home civil disobedience?

“But let one man (Nnamdi Kanu) speak inconvenient truths, invoke history, or challenge the emotional comfort of the state, and the system awakens with ferocity tagging him terrorist when he has not killed anyone. Those who kill are managed. Those who speak are crushed.”

The Concerned Igbo Ministers’ Commission accused the Nigerian government of jailing the country’s “prophets” while protecting killers.

According to the group, the government has shown that it is determined to ensure that Nigeria remains one at all cost.

“The stability of the murderous state matters more than the sanctity of life. Preventing uncomfortable ideas is more urgent than preventing funerals.
Silence in the face of killings is preferable to noise in the face of injustice.

“Because a society confident in its moral foundations does not jail prophets and tolerate killers. It does not obsess over speech while normalising graves,” the statement added.





https://dailypost.ng/2026/02/06/kwara-killings-nnamdi-kanu-jailed-for-warning-against-jihadist-incursion-into-southern-nigeria-igbo-clerics/

God bless Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

Several soldiers feared dead today after brutal attacks from boko haram, if they apprehend any terrorist he would be freed and reintegrated into the society as repentant

Fighting these insurgency in Nigeria with guns won't work, it won't end insecurity in our land, I ask Tinubu and his fellows who are still alive to go back to that very table they agreed and brought in these killer machines into our country ahead of 2015 election, and do whatever possible to cancel that agreement and pay them off in anyway possible, now that the chief architect BUHARI is dead, let Tinubu who is of cuz no2 in the then APC gandups call others (Amaechi, Elrufai, Oshiomole, Oyegun, Ribadu and co), they should go back and settle those killer machines and let them quietly leave our land, if this is not done and these remaining men die finish, we may be forced to live with insecurity forever in this country...#myopinion

Nnamdi Kanu. The man a judge said was a terrorist and sentenced to life imprisonment because "he said that", "he said this"

Terrorism in Nigeria is all about what you say

No wonder they regularly release Boko haram and bandits, those ones are not terrorists, they are just killing people

nero2face:
Fighting these insurgency in Nigeria with guns won't work, it won't end insecurity in our land, I ask Tinubu and his fellows who are still alive to go back to that very table they agreed and brought in these killer machines into our country ahead of 2015 election, and do whatever possible to cancel that agreement and pay them off in anyway possible, now that the chief architect BUHARI is dead, let Tinubu who is of cuz no2 in the then APC gandups call others (Amaechi, Elrufai, Oshiomole, Oyegun, Ribadu and co), they should go back and settle those killer machines and let them quietly leave our land, if this is not done and these remaining men die finish, we may be forced to live with insecurity forever in this country...#myopinion

Community police and state Police would end this within 3 months

But fear of having thousands of igbos having AK47 that the federal government can't control is what's holding state and community police

gidgiddy:
Nnamdi Kanu. The man a judge said was a terrorist and sentenced to life imprisonment because "he said that", "he saud this"

Terrorism in Nigeria is all about what you say

No wonder they regularly release Boko haram and bandits, those ones are not terrorists, they are just killing people

And you were clapping for a criminal the z00 government sponsored to take actions that will justify what they accused Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of saying?

Which is what they used to justified and jailed innocent Man.


In few years time the criminal will be out to enjoy his pay, their target Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have been given life sentence.



But God will disappoint the criminal and his z00 masters.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be victorious and accomplish his mission.

chiagozien:
And you were clapping for a criminal the z00 government sponsored to take actions that will justify what they accused Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of saying?

Which is what they used to justified and jailed innocent Man.


In few years time the criminal will be out to enjoy his pay, their target Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have been given life sentence.



But God will disappoint the criminal and his z00 masters.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be victorious and accomplish his mission.

Why else do you think its called a zoo?

gidgiddy:
Why else do you think it’s called a zoo?

Then in all honesty there must be sincere pity for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, just imagine being a prisoner in a Zoo?

Chai, open society is a zoo, just imagine being caged? unimaginable.

chiagozien:
And you were clapping for a criminal the z00 government sponsored to take actions that will justify what they accused Mazi Nnamdi Kanu of saying?

Which is what they used to justified and jailed innocent Man.


In few years time the criminal will be out to enjoy his pay, their target Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have been given life sentence.



But God will disappoint the criminal and his z00 masters.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be victorious and accomplish his mission.

Yes, he must complete his mission, I have forgotten, how long is his prison sentence again?

Burob:
Yes, he must complete his mission, I have forgotten, how long is his prison sentence again?

170 of your brothers killed two days ago asked the same thing.

gidgiddy:
Why else do you think its called a zoo?

Why were you supporting a criminal the same z00 was using to fight against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, ipob, ESN and Igboand indirectly?

There is never a time these people say anything sensible

Their thinking is always opposite

Burob:
Then in all honesty there must be sincere pity for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, just imagine being a prisoner in a Zoo?

Chai, open society is a zoo, just imagine being caged? unimaginable.

At least Nnamdi Nnamdi went to court and is still fighting his case on appeal.

Your zoo released five thousand terrorist this time last year without any of them seeing a court room



https://m.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/1/5000-repentant-boko-haram-fighters-reunited-with-families-fg.html

chiagozien:
Why were you supporting a criminal the same z00 was using to fight against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, ipob, ESN and Igboand indirectly?

At least Nnamdi Nnamdi went to court and is still fighting his case on appeal.

Your zoo released five thousand terrorist this time last year without any of them seeing a court room



https://m.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/1/5000-repentant-boko-haram-fighters-reunited-with-families-fg.html

gidgiddy:
At least Nnamdi Nnamdi went to court and is still fighting his case on appeal.

Your zoo released five thousand terrorist this time last year without any of them seeing a court room



https://m.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/1/5000-repentant-boko-haram-fighters-reunited-with-families-fg.html

The question is why did you supported the Z00 ekperima agent in Finland that z00 used to fight against Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and to justify their terrorist tag on ipob and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu?


Anyone that supports the Z00 agent of provocateur in Finland is number one enemy of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Biafra agitation.



Z00 couldn't jail Kanu because of merely what he said, they sponsored your leader Simon ekperima to commit crimes and pin it on Ipob.

gidgiddy:
At least Nnamdi Nnamdi went to court and is still fighting his case on appeal.

Your zoo released five thousand terrorist this time last year without any of them seeing a court room



https://m.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/1/5000-repentant-boko-haram-fighters-reunited-with-families-fg.html

That is why I am sorry for him, just imagine being subject & prisoner of a zoo people?

chiagozien:
170 of your brothers killed two days ago asked the same thing.

They are not your brothers also, because you are from Cameroon abi?

Burob:
They are not your brothers also, because you are from Cameroon abi?

lolz 😂😂😂 170 of your brother down and you are mocking one man because he's Igbo fighting for good of his people..


Among the 170 of your brothers many asked the same thing you asked, today one Nigeria have send them beyond, but Mazi Nnamdi Kanu still dey.


Pray you don't be among the next, because no peace for the wicked (Nigeria)