Oh, this cruel world in which we live. In normal circumstances after the extended event known as the Holocaust , you would have thought that all of post-war Europe should find this hard to believe, but circumstances are no longer normal and with the rise of neo-Nazism in Europe once again, it's a fact that today, this holy Sabbath Day, the Nazis were granted the legal right to demonstrate in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, and this they did, the neo-Nazis marched in Stockholm, Sweden, today .
This is happening just two weeks before the general elections in Sweden : Sweden's militant neo-Nazis marching through the heart of the city – but although this time it was expected that they would turn out in large numbers, to show their faces – about 2,000 to 3,000 of them, such was their fear of the counter-demonstrations , that they mostly chickened out and only 200 to 300 of them dared to appear.
Nigeria. Chidi, my sympathies. If only you were a bulldozer type like Ariel Sharon ( that was his nick name - Arik - "the bulldozer"). It's unfortunate that the peaceful, non-violent, law-abiding IPOB has been gazetted and proscribed by the Nigerian government as "a terror group" - perhaps to prevent them from committing any terrorist acts and also to pre-empt any of their members seeking or aspiring to political office, via the democratic process , whereas, apparently the same authorities do not feel that the "Armed Fulani Herdsmen" who actively constitute a threat to the peace and security of the remaining fellow Nigerian citizens still living within the confines of the Federation – have not designated their fellow herdsmen citizens as a terrorist group – the assumption being that Fulani gunfire is incidental, only retaliatory and in self-defence but is not politically motivated , they could and should be entitled their own grazing / state-subsidized Fulani cattle colonies and ranches in the greener pastures of the Federation - with the blessings and willing co-operation of Nigerian tax payers/ but since they are not agitating to break away from Nigeria or to create their own separate special state or to go to war against constituted authority, unlike Boko Haram, the terrorist label does not apply to them . Or to the armed robbers, and certainly not to the lootocracy or the looters of the national treasury which is every Nigerian's patrimony and inheritance : looting is not a capital offence.
As the gazetting of IPOB as a terror group continues, un-abrogated a mere five months to the Presidential elections, this effectively guarantees that no IPOB member or sympathiser is going to vote for Brer Buhari, although there could be one or two who could be foolish enough to do so. Ditto the Niger Delta Avengers even if up till now, unlike their Igbo Brethren, they have not been gazetted as "a terror organisation"
However, who the Fulani herdsmen and the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria are going to vote for in the forthcoming Presidential elections, is anybody's guess.
On Saturday, 25 August 2018 16:55:50 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM wrote:
Irrespective of how we feel about IPOB, the fact is that the Nigerian government gazetted it as a terror group. That means that within the geopolitical entity known as Nigeria, IPOB is legally a terror group.CAO.
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