Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nnamdi Kanu is us

I have no sympathy for Nnamdi Kanu. He was caught on video soliciting
money to procure arms against the FRN. He has used a pirate radio to
disseminate hate messages and Biafra propaganda. He is a national
security risk. He is a criminal. He is not us. He is you, perhaps.



On 12/25/15, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series
<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Nnamdi Kanu is us. To be silent is to acquiesce to our imprisonment in a
> "democracy." Next time they will come for us. We must stop Buhari.
>
> Sadly, Buhari won't be stopped anytime soon. His insolence is funded by the
> sweet words of many Nigerian writers and pretend public intellectuals, the
> chop and clean mouth brigade of the new dispensation, our Goebbels, the
> myrmidons of our looming darkness, those who assure us daily that this farce
> is not Animal Farm.
>
> We have no voices; they have been stilled by filthy lucre. There are many
> quietly documenting the outrage that is today's Nigeria in their journals.
> In two years, they will publish a book - for profit. May termites and boll
> weevils read your books for free. It is time to speak up now or forever
> break your pen in half! I have said my own.
>
> Nonsense.
>
> And I leave you the measured but haunting words of Moses Ochonu on his
> Facebook wall:
>
> "Regardless of where you stand on the new Biafra movement led by Nnamdi
> Kanu, and regardless of what you think of the detained IPOB leader, how can
> you defend or justify the Buhari administration's unconstitutional detention
> of Kanu, a man who had been granted bail more than a month ago and was then
> discharged on all the charges filed against him by the FG by a higher court?
> Is this the new norm, disregard for court rulings and verdicts? And how can
> you justify the killing by Nigerian security services of protesters calling
> for Kanu's release?
>
> You may say that six new charges have been filed against Kanu, but why was
> he held for at least a week after the dismissal of the charges against him
> before the new charges were brought? And why was his earlier bail not
> respected by the SSS? Now, to the government's embarrassment, they are
> shopping for judges who will agree to nail Kanu because most reasonable ones
> will not agree to be used by a seemingly insecure government that will not
> obey court rulings.
>
> I'm afraid Buhari is playing a potentially dangerous game with his handling
> of Kanu. Already, by taking the lunatic fringe campaigner seriously,
> announcing the interception of Biafra radio signals, and then arresting him
> as he wanted and goaded them into doing, Buhari and his security services
> have made Kanu and Biafra an international issue.
>
> Buhari has handed IPOB a moral victory and Kanu a massive grassroots
> following that confers on him credibility and stature he never had. Why not
> simply quietly release this political nonentity and watch him fade away into
> irrelevance like MASSOB's Ralph Uwazuruike before him? Why help mainstream a
> marginal political movement by taking a paranoid, impulsive approach to an
> organization that specializes in comical guerrilla radio bluster?
>
> I don't get the endgame of this administration with regard to Kanu/IPOB. So
> far, there is no logic to what they are doing; it's all very impulsive and
> improvisational, driven by irrational fear and paranoia more than anything
> else."
>
> - Moses Ochonu
>
> "The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."
>
> - Wole Soyinka
>
> President Buhari, respect our courts, free Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
>
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