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By Flourish osmor ray
ARREST OF NNAMDI KALU:
TRAVAILS OF NDIGBO IN THE HANDS OF THE
DESPOTO-CRATIC BUHARI
On Saturday, the 17th of October, 2015 the Muhammadu Buhari led
despoto-cracy, has yet committed another grave blunder by arresting and
detaining the Director of radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kalu, who flew in from the
United Kingdom to his home country, Nigeria. Upon presentation of his documents
for clearance at the airport, he was immediately pounced upon and whisked away
to undisclosed location by the overzealous and poverty stricken men from the
DSS. Till now, there has been no words from the monstrous DSS, neither has the
government told the entire Nigeria nation and the larger world, why and what
led to the arrest of an innocent citizen who is merely exercising his
inalienable right by agitating for the Sovereign State of Biafra.
All over the world, it is the constitutional right of the people, groups,
regions, tribes, states, kingdoms, provinces, etc., to advocate for self-rule
where there are imbalances and blatant marginalization of the agitators-just
like the Ndigbo, who has been treated as second rate or classless citizens in
the same nation where some parts of the country claimed, "they are born to
rule." Ndigbo no doubt, has been brow-beaten, subterfuge, trampled upon
and marginalized by successive governments in Nigeria, and there is no reprieve
in sight¬ as the Northern cabal and their co-conspirators the Yoruba traitors
continue to unleash mayhem on the Igbo race while serving them bitter pills as
a recipe.
Since independent till date, no Igbo man has ruled the nation called
Nigeria. People will mention the Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. He was a mere
ceremonial Head of state while Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was in charge of
governance. So, does it mean that for the past fifty five years, no Igbo man is
capable or found worthy to rule the Nigeria nation? Mr. Nnamdi Kalu, is an
armless and harmless agitator, and therefore poses no threat to Buhari´s
administration. Nnamdi Kalu like any other Nigerian has the sovereign right to
ask for self-determination of his people-which in this instance, falls on the
Igbo race. It is on record and a very well-known fact before every Nigerian-even
those yet unborn, that the Igbos in Nigeria has been and are still marginalized
by the rest of the country for reasons bothering on their defeat during the
civil war of 1967-70.
What Muhammadu Buhari and his cabal ought to ask is why the agitations? Why
the scramble for the Sovereign State of Biafra 45 years after the civil war
ended? Is this agitations germane to our unity as a nation and what does it
connote afterwards? Sincerely, if the Buhari administration decides to vent his
frustrations on Ndigbo simply because they did not vote for him, that will
surely spell doom and ultimately be his waterloo. Think of it and tell any
right thinking Igbo man why would Ndigbo not agitate for self-rule-when in the
present despoto-cracy, no Igbo son or daughter is found worthy to hold any top
post in the Buhari led government. I am compelled to ask Buhari how many
Boko Haram has he arrested and detained incommunicado? How has he faired since
assumption of office as the Preesident in quelling the callous and merciless
brutal killings of innocent Nigerians by members of Boko Haram-his pet project?
In attempt to fool Nigerians, he, upon assumption of office, moved the army
headquarters to Borno by fiat without consulting the national assembly-all in
the name of tackling the Boko Haram merciless and senseless massacre of
innocent souls. Till date, the army is neither here nor there. They are still
wallowing in the Sambissa forest without success. All they know is how to court
martial soldiers who refused to face Boko Haram due to obsolete weapons
provided by the army of which Buhari was a General. Shamefully, it is the same
Buhari that has come out to openly declare that he will not resign if he fails
to defeat the insurgents. With this unambiguous statement coming from a
President who was an army General, we are left with no choice to come to the
inevitable conclusion that Buhari is not willing to wipe out Boko Haram as he
promised during his electioneering campaign.
It should be noted that...“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of
those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known
better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has
made it possible for evil to triumph.”(Imperial Majesty Haile Makonem Ras Tafari
Selassie I of Ethiopia). Also, it shows as we know earlier, that, Buhari
is one of Boko Haram´s grand patron. Before he became the President, he has at
different fora asked why is the Goodluck Jonathan´s administration killing
members of Boko Haram? Yes, he did not mince words in asking that provocative
question.
Senator Ali Ndume from Borno state where Boko Haram was founded, was
arrested when it became obvious that he is one of the mentors and sponsors of
the dreaded Boko Haram insurgents. In fact, Ali Sauda Umar Konduga (a.k.a Usman
al-Zawahiri) one of the most dreaded commanders of the Boko Haram confessed
that he is one of their sponsors and when his house was raided, some members of
the Islamic sect were found feeding fat in his home while preparing to launch
another senseless attack on innocent southerners, especially the Igbos who are
mainly Christians. Before we could shout Boko, he was charged to court and
subsequently released to continue his sponsorship of the Islamic Jihad against
Christians. His release is as a result of pressure from men like Buhari and his
czarism acolytes.
Since the beginning of the struggle for the actualization of the Sovereign
State of Biafra, no uniform personnel or law abiding civilian has been killed
by the agitators. But, the Nigeria Police and the army have been killing,
maiming, jailing, detaining incommunicado Ndigbo that came out for peaceful
rally in support of the agitation for the Sovereign State of Biafra.
If Ndigbo goes up in arms struggle like Boko Haram, it will be dubbed civil
war, while Boko Haram that has for over seven years gone up in arms butchering
innocent Nigerians and dissecting pregnant women estimated at thousands-most
whom are mainly Ndigbo, are dubbed religious insurgents. What Muhammadu Buhari
and his barbaric administration ought to eschew acting timidly and primitively
in the 21st century.
He should know is that¬ "you cannot beat a child and ask him not to
cry."
Ndigbo are crying now, no one cares to know about their plights, but when
the sound of gun booms, then the Hausa/Fulani´s parasites and their Yoruba
predators will rise up in their so called defense of the sovereignty of Nigeria
as an indivisible entity. Let them not bask in the euphoria of their success
during the civil war-realizing that the world has gone nuclear and with the aid
of technology which the Ndigbos are blessed with, they will not find any arms
confrontation as easy they are imagining.
“We must become bigger (the Ndigbo) than we have been: more courageous,
greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race,
overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to
our fellow men within the human community.”
(Imperial Majesty, Haile Makonem Ras Tafari Selassie I of Ethiopia.)
Every reasonable Nigerian should tell the man in Aso Rock Villa, that he
should braze up for the challenges ahead of him, rather than search for people
and issues to be used as excuses. Six months after the inauguration of his
government, he is yet to know where he is going, where to start from and what
to do, despite being Head of state as a military junta and now as a civil
president. I said it during the campaign for the presidential election
that Muhammadu Buhari is a despot who don´t know anything more than brutality.
Today, he is replicating my postulations. Of course, how can you allow an
autocrat and man who is not well versed to be in charge of multi-cultural,
multi-religious, multi-tribal, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-talented,
multi-intelligent individuals, groups and her people? It is a misnomer and we
will all pay the inescapable price.
Buhari has no iota of democratic knowledge needless to ask of democratic
norms. He does not know that democracy accommodates all shades of human
agitations. He has never undergo any tutorials about democracy and what it
stands for. He is still livid, always wanting to go when he has not been
commanded to do so. He forget to know that he is no longer in khaki uniform. He
enjoys arresting and detaining southerners, especially the Igbos whenever he is
in charge of government.
All he understands is....."ranka-dede, kill and go....yo wa....in-sha-Allah.Kuoo!!"
While he was the head of the despotic military junta, he killed Bartholomew
Owoh, Lawal Ojuolape and Bernard Ogedengbe for being in possession of pinches
of cocaine, an offence committed before Buhari over threw Shagari. That was how
he snuffed out the lives of three promising young men in cold blood by firing
squad. Another national tragedy and a hallmark of his despotic rule.Today,
Mahammadu Buhari has refused to kill members of Boko Haram who are wreaking incomprehensible
havocs everywhere. Whenever opportunities beckons on him, he always try
to spread czarism against the wish of the masses, hence he has always been a
failure. Detaining Nnamdi Kalu has no meaning and it is shameful for an
administration to be afraid of only a broadcaster broadcasting from outside the
shores of Nigeria. It is sheer cowardice on the part of the government. Until
the marginalization of Ndigbo stops, there will be no peace in the nation
called Nigeria.
I am using this medium to ask all right thinking people to rise up to the
challenges and dangers posed by Buhari´s "milito-cratic"
administration, by asking him to release an innocent Nnamdi Kalu, forth-with-unconditionally.
What he may deem innocuous may boomerang against him!
He should know that Nigeria is on the brink of precipice, and he, Buhari,
is swatting on a keg of gun powder that may blow him out of office sooner than
he bargained. A stitch in time will ultimately save nine!
Flourish Friday Arohia.
(Avatar
and minister in the temple of justice)
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