Believers in the struggle for Biafra independence have been called names, the worst of which is the designation of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist organization by the Buhari led government of Nigeria. This misadventure and abuse of state power by the Nigerian state was widely condemned globally.
Not a single country bought what Buhari and his co-travelers sort out to sell to the international community. Not even Chad and Niger from where Buhari`s actual terrorist friends and kinsman militias have invaded Nigerians reorganized the designation of IPOB as a terrorist organization.
Yet, Buhari continued with his already planned agenda to exterminate the Igbos on the already fractured backbone of a very faulty foundation. Designating IPOB as a terrorist organization was simply orchestrated to go after innocent, hapless and helpless Igbos in the name of fighting insecurity.
In the pursuit of this singular agenda based on nothing but hate, propaganda and frontal, but unintelligent lies, he moved to seek a cover before the international community. This informed their decision to dress the IPOB and associate on the tattered coat of terrorism.
Most unfortunately for them the world knew and still knows better. They know that IPOB is a peaceful and peace loving organization. They know that members of IPOB are simply ordinary and unarmed men and women. They know that IPOB is populated by individuals whose only motivation for joining the noble course is freedom from dehumanization and operation from successive Fulani led unitary government of Nigeria, which is currently being exacerbated under the Buhari government. The world knew and still knows that the IPOB clarion call is one not to arms, but a call for civil resistance against injustices.
Having failed to carry the world along, what then could a Buhari and his apologists do in order to further sell their evil agenda to the international community? In other words, how can IPOB and membership be sold to the world as terrorists? The answer to the above is exactly what the Buharists are peddling and hatching across the South East and the entire Biafra land as I write. The plan to convince the international community that IPOB is a terrorist organization is exactly the reason for the violence all over Biafra land today. They will try to collaborate their claim and pretense with the emergence of Eastern Security Network (ESN).
That is yet another poorly thought out strategy as we all know why the ESN was established. ESN was a child of necessity which emerged for a singular purpose. It was a direct response to the Fulani herders menace in Biafra land, who have continued unchallenged and well-motivated by the federal government to advance into our lands to kidnap, rape and kill our people, and destroy our farm lands and farmers with reckless abandon. It was the failure of government to call these marauders to order, but instead providing cover for them that led to the establishment of ESN by IPOB. ESN only came into existence for purpose of self-defense.
Violence was never a strategy which most of us have or will ever support, but self-defense is an option which presents you no credible alternative. So, in the face of a certain violence against yourself, self-defense is actually not an option but a singular obligation.
Capitalizing on this IPOB effort to provide security for her people whom the Buhari federal government deliberately and for a premediated endgame abandoned and left at the mercy of the Fulani militias masquerading as headers, the Buharists are today turning the entire Biafra land into a large grave yard for the mutilated bodies of innocent Biafran youths, women and children.
From the Middle Belt to the South East, to the South-South it is a tale of rape, arson, kidnapping and massacre by agents of the federal government under the leadership and active support of General Muhammadu Buhari. Make no mistake, there are no criminal herders who have invaded Nigeria.
Instead, there are Fulani militias who have invaded Nigerian lands at invitation and systematic cover and protection by the present Nigerian government. Invading Nigeria and invading Nigerians and their lands are two different things. These criminals are here at the behave of the principalities and powers that currently possess the souls of Aso Rock Villa.
We know of the agenda of finalization, but there is a new strategy by the leaders of these merchants of death. The recent uptick in violence serves this new strategy and the objective concomitant to their endgame. Wisdom is profitable, so let reasonable men ask themselves:
- Whose purpose does the uptick in violence serve?
- How does making Biafra land unsafe for everyone advance the course of the Biafran freedom movement?
- As the increase in violence continues to negatively affect the lives and business of the Biafran men and women, who are now unable to go about their business, how does IPOB benefit from this suffering of the Biafrans who it seeks to protect?
- As Buhari`s kinsmen go about having fun as they massacre Biafran youths, women and children on the street of Owerri, Port Harcourt and all over the Biafran land, does this garner support or hatred for IPOB?
- Are Biafran`s of Palestinian ancestral lineage who derive joy from the strategic benefit of sacrificing their women and children for propaganda against Israel?
- Who would benefit from the rise of acrimony between the Yoruba and the Igbos and why did the federal government intentionally but false misinform the world that IPOB was planning attacks in Lagos and South West?
- Who exactly would have sponsored the intended violence in Lagos and falsely attribute it to IPOB if not the Federal Government led by Buhari?
- Let`s flashback a little, was it not this same Buhari led federal government that sponsored bandits and thugs to attack peaceful Endsars protesters in Abuja and Lagos, and eventually massacred many of our youths at Lekki toll gate and effectively covered up their involvement and killings?
- So, of the two competing interest in the Biafran independence struggle, one of which is in support and the other which is against, what side actually benefits the most when IPOB is seen as violent and destructive and the reason why there is wastage, death and destruction across Biafra land?
For all the question/issues itemized above your guess is and should be as good as that of any reasonable and objective person. The violence is sponsored and strategically manipulated by Aso Rock. Buhari led federal government of Nigeria is a merchant of death. They are blood sucking demons and will stop at nothing to achieve three major objectives:
- To demonize IPOB and consolidate their proscription as a terrorist organization with the support of the international community.
- To create antagonistic relationship between IPOB and the common man on the street of Biafran land.
- To create animosity between Igbos and the Yoruba nation, whose unity is what the Fulanis fear the most in Nigeria.
The fourth objective would be the complete and forceful takeover of Nigeria as a Muslim Fulani nation, but that should be the least of our worries as the route to that destination runs from the first three objectives. If the three fails, the fourth dies a natural death.
On the other hand, if they succeed with the first three then the fourth is guaranteed. It is therefore, not optional but a duty that we must be ready for the price of freedom and realize the place of vigilance.
We must be ready to rise up in defense of the truth when we should. We must protect our freedom and our lives with every lawful weapon we can muster. In self-defense against an overreaching and determined enemy whose only objective is your extermination or to enslave you, every weapon is lawful and legitimate. Stay vigilante.
Written by Williams Ukonu Esq, Nigerian lawyer and rights advocate, with offices in Lagos, Imo State and Abuja.
