ONWUASOANYA FCC JONES
I would have continued to restrain myself from intervening on issues concerning Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB, because I understand the real danger that it poses to my personal safety and security. However, there is a real danger that the relatively improved security in the southeast might degenerate rapidly following the IPOB leader’s recent outbursts in court. It might be his major objective to Stoke fresh crisis in the East with his cacophony of illogicalities and lies. I choose therefore to contribute my words in exposing his lies and potentially arresting a deterioration of security in my fatherland. I will die happily, knowing that I did not keep from the people, the truth they deserve to know.
I will have to start this intervention by stating in clear terms that I do not have the permission or instruction of my principal, His Excellency Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, CON, or the government of Imo State to write this or any other thing I might write concerning Nnamdi Kanu. Like I have always done, I shall continue, until God calls me home, to do my best to put things in proper perspective, as my own little way of serving my fatherland and saving Igbo land from the unfortunate bloodbath brought upon her by the activities and utterances of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his band of reckless IPOBians. I am aware that His Excellency Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, CON, is working hard alongside other Southeast governors and political leaders to secure the release of Nnamdi Kanu. I will report some of his strategic moves in that regard, when it is necessary and as part of my official duties. I do not agree with that.
I had, as Deputy Leader and Acting Leader of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths, advocated and even agitated for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, much in deference to my official position than personal conviction, but I could still be disposed to, on personal conviction, advocating for his release, if I am convinced that he has shown adequate remorse for the losses of lives and properties and the depreciation in political capital that his previous actions caused Ndigbo. If he still insists that everything he did was right, then, I will only wish him good luck in the Nigerian court.
The most dangerous weapons that have been deployed by Nnamdi Kanu and his group in unleashing unprecedented destruction on Igbo land are lies, misinformation, hate speeches, miseducation of our population and other dishonest tactics. Nnamdi Kanu lied his way to notoriety and brainwashed millions of Igbos into abhorrent st^pidity. It is his lies that have taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of our people, cost us trillions of Naira in commerce, relegated us to the backside in the politics of Nigeria and destroyed multi billion dollars worth of private and public infrastructure across Igbo land. I may not be able to recover the minds of millions of our people poisoned by lies and deceit, but I will not stop trying.
Nnamdi Kanu deceived millions of my people at different stages of his profit-seeking and self-serving secession venture that he would had gotten UN recognition for Biafran nation, he gave definite dates, many different times for the final actualisation of his Biafra, and he told us many lies, including that former President Buhari had died and was being impersonated by a South-Sudanese body double. He knows how to seize the attention and win the sympathy of gullible people through lies and histrionics. His recent outing in court is in continuation of this gimmick.
Barrister Aloy Ejimakor and other members of the Nnamdi Kanu legal team might have their reasons, but the truth is that they are directly to be blamed for the delay or slow pace of proceedings against Nnamdi Kanu. I used to hold the opinion that the Nigerian government hasn’t been expeditious enough in handling MNK’s trial, but with more information at my disposal, it is obvious that it is either Nnamdi Kanu’s legal team are overwhelmed by the evidence at the disposal of the prosecution, hence, their reluctance to subject their client to trial or they are keeping a cash tap running for themselves by delaying the trial and keeping their client in detention for this perpetually.
Contrary to the new wave of misinformation being disseminated by the IPOB and their subsidiaries, Nnamdi Kanu has not been acquitted of the charges brought against him by the Nigerian government. The Supreme Court of Nigeria in its ruling made sometime last year, requested specifically for the IPOB leader’s trial to resume at the Court of first instance. This was the reason that Justice Binta Nyarko started sitting on the case again after a long lull.
I am not particularly pleased with the Chief Judge’s decision to return Justice Binta Nyarko to the case after she had recused herself. This action gives vent to the unproven allegations of bias being peddled against the judiciary by the Nnamdi Kanu team. I feel that if the prosecution had done enough in preparing for this case, they shouldn’t struggle with evidence to convict the IPOB leader, even before ‘Justice’ Emmanuel Kanu, his younger brother, as long as he is unbiased. What, with the numerous evidence littered on the internet and elsewhere where the Afara man openly gave command for the destruction of Igbo land.
I gave Nnamdi Kanu the sobriquet “Ultimate Destroyer of Igbo Land” because of his atrocious statements and activities which gave rise to the bloodbath we experience in the Southeast. We can forgive him, if he apologises, or at least shows some regrets over these utterances. It would be most unfair to the memories of the hundreds of thousands of Igbos who lost their lives as a result of Nnamdi Kanu’s orders for Ala Igbo to be set ablaze, if we continue to champion that he shouldn’t face trial. The law of natural justice requires that he faces trial. If his legal team is able to find the right strategies to wriggle him out of a guilty verdict, then, congratulations to him, then, I will be satisfied that we did not fail these innocent Igbos, many of whom were breadwinners of their families and many others, including the young female Army cadet who was said to have come top of her class in NDA, but was violated and wasted by men claiming to be Nnamdi Kanu’s fighters, when the young girl went home to show her grandmother that she had finally become an Army officer.
I will appeal to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to ensure a speedy disposal of this matter by assigning a new Judge to hear Nnamdi Kanu’s case, so that the IPOB and their subsidiaries will have one less thing to lie with about the atrocities of their leader.
May God Heal Ala Igbo!
