Orlu Military Raid: Reason For Kanu's Disdain For Igbo Leaders.

 Orlu Military Raid: Reason For Kanu's Disdain For Igbo Leaders.

There have been series of attacks by the Nigerian Military on Biafrans recently, beginning from Obigbo in Rivers State to Orlu in Imo State, all at the watch of the supposed Igbo leaders. Yet, to some haters, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is the cause of Igbo's problems. For them, he is the person destroying Igboland with his stubbornness and disregard for elders and leaders. 

They call him a small boy that is so full of himself. In their words, "He did not witness the war, that is the reason he is incessantly beating the drums of war" without consulting with Igbo elders, leaders of thought and politicians before talking about Biafra. These rootless junks is what they feed some gullible youths with as reasons why they should not join Mazi Nnamdi Kanu led IPOB. But thank God for many youths who have ignored these fallacious claims and fully pledged to defend their fatherland, even with their own blood.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is never the problem of the Igbos. Nigeria was originally structured to make life problematic to them particularly, and by extension, the entire Biafran people. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu only awakened the consciousness of the people to this fact. He, in his years of consistent efforts to make Biafrans to fully understand this, he never destroyed anything in Biafraland even while he commanded millions of his followers to protest on several occasions. But instead, he has successfully made the whole world to understand the truth behind the plights of the Biafran nation and as well, equally made Biafrans to understand whom they really are.

How could anyone get up in his delusional mindset to call him names while leaving the Nigerian government that is busy sponsoring terrorist attacks on Biafrans?

Kanu is simply fanatical about ending the troubles and problems that Biafrans are being subjugated with in Nigeria. And the best way to achieve this is to completely obliterate the name "Nigeria" and all it stands for from the historical consciousness of humanity. This is because the Nigerian contraption that Biafrans are trapped in currently, represents terrorism, death, sorrow and all manner of evil.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is not disrespectful to the elders. He only abhors seeing an elder sit back, watch and do nothing while abominations are being committed against his own people. Kanu detests politicians who connive with the enemies of their people. He disregards those leaders who care-less about what is important,  but go all out to treasure things that are not important. 

He has refused to dine with those who want to sell out the collective will of their people for selfish political positions. Who can give any sensible reason why a man of Nnamdi Kanu's standing will ever dine with a Supreme Court imposed governor like Hope Uzodimma of Imo State? This so-called governor willingly invited the army to unleash terror on the people he is supposed to be protecting. 

The Fulani terror herdsmen have successfully killed, raped and destroyed our women/people and farmlands, yet Hope Uzodimma never invited the same military to stop the menace of the Fulani terrorists. He did not hesitate to invite the army against the people of Orlu who were beginning to enjoy peace with the emergence of the operatives of Eastern Security Network (ESN), who have fought the terror herdsmen off Biafra forests and farmlands.

Imagine if Kanu were dining with such blood suckers or keeping quiet like other Igbo elders and politicians in the midst of this hard times. Just consider if Mazi Nnamdi Kanu were to be going to Abuja like Igbo politicians to romance with the Abuja Fulani oligarchs for political appointments and allocations.

What would have been the story of Biafra by now?

The next time you want to speak against Nnamdi Kanu for disregarding Igbo politicians, ask yourself of what use it is to respect leaders who invite the army to kill their own people, an elder who watch his people gruesomely being killed and keeps quiet in other not to lose his political position or a leader who romances with Fulani terrorists and bandits at the expense of his own people's lives and properties?

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu did not fight the war in 1967 to 1970. Yes, but the war has never ended as we are still in it. It is still the same war going on now in Orlu and other parts of Biafraland. It is the same war he (Kanu) is engaging the enemies at all fronts. The elders and leaders who boast that they saw the war are being deceived into believing that the war has ended. So, they are quiet at the continued massacre of their own people and find ways to blame Nnamdi Kanu for seeing what they have either deliberately refused to see or are being deceived into not seeing. Kanu is, and will always be right in disregarding these class of Igbo elders and leaders.

Written by Obulose Chidiebere

Edited by Ogah C.S. Maduabuchi

For Family Writers Press International