WE NEED AN ADMINISTRATOR NOT A PRESIDENT

One of the successes of the previous
government is"ADMINISTRATION" and this is
the oil which is lacking in the machinery of the
present government. We have a good President
with vision I must confess but we lack a good
administrator I must attest.

Power of Biafra

DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF
BIAFRANS---FANI KAYODE TELLS
BUHARI
I am not a Biafran and neither am I
igbo. I do however believe that it is the
inalienable right of any human being or
ethnic nationality to aspire to be free
and to be able to determine their own
destiny.
The right of self-determination is
enshrined in international law and it is
guaranteed by every moral stricture
known to man. It is a right that has been
exercised successfully over and over
again in world history and it has led to
the creation of new nations which were
carved out of older ones.
The denial of that right and the
suppression and persecution of those
who attempt to exercise it leads to
nothing but defiance, dissent and
resistance and, if not properly managed,
it eventually spills over into war and
carnage.
This has been the primary cause of most
of history’s most brutal civil wars,
including the American, Russian, French,
English, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese,
Nigerian, Angolan, Congolese,
Zimbabwean, Yugoslavian, Ukrainian,
Nicaraguan, Cuban, Irish, Syrian,
Libyan, Indonesian, Korean, Vietnamese,
Spanish, Iraqi, Italian ones and countless
others.
I do not believe in violent change and
neither do I believe in war, revolution,
terror or the use of arms in the
pursuance of even the most noble causes.
I do however believe in the power of
ideas and the right of any man, woman
or people to yearn to be free from
bondage and to peacefully and freely
express that yearning.
It is in this context that I situate my
belief in and support for those that view
the Nigerian Federation as an oppressive
entity which has effectively enslaved its
people in an attempt to create what is
essentially an artificial and unworkable
state.
Those that believe in Nigeria have every
right to continue to do so and to voice
their resolve to keep Nigeria one. What
they do not have the right to do is to
refuse to offer the same degree of
freedom of expression to those that do
not believe in a united Nigeria and who
instead believe in the peaceful
dissolution of our nation to speak their
minds and voice their views.
What is good for the goose is surely good
for the gander. You cannot grant one
side of the divide freedom of expression
whilst you deny it to the other.
This is all the more so because freedom
of expression is the lifeblood of any
democracy. It must be accorded in equal
measure to those that believe in Nigeria
and to those that do not.
It is in this light that we must consider
the plight of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the
director of Radio Biafra and the man
that has been described by the Igbo
World Assembly as ”Buhari’s first
political prisoner”.
We may not like his style, we may not
like his radio station, we may not share
his views or approve of his methods but
one thing that we cannot take from Mr.
Kanu is his right to hold such views and
to express them in a peaceful and lawful
manner no matter how distasteful those
views may be to some.
To deny him this most basic human right
is not only an act of intellectual
terrorism but it is also the most grave
and barbaric manifestation of what is
essentially an evolving police state where
different or contrary views cannot be
accommodated by those in power.
When Mr. Alex Salmon and his Scottish
Nationalist Party began the agitation for
the dissolution of the United Kingdom
and for the establishment of Scottish
independence many years ago they were
not charged to court, locked up
indefinitely or murdered by the British
authorities but instead they were
eventually given the opportunity to
participate in a referendum and test
their ideas.
The same thing happened in the Catalan
region of Spain where the agitation for
the establishment of a new nation is
compelling and very popular. Sadly
President Buhari who, like most in his
generation, are still stuck in the mindset
of a civil war general, has refused to
learn from this.
The biggest mistake and miscalculation
of his administration so far is not the
ruthless implementation of its patently
and monstrously unapologetic northern
agenda but rather its absurd resolve to
lock up Mr. Kanu indefinitely and to
effectively throw the key away simply
because he dared to call for the
establishment of Biafra.
As far as I am aware Mr. Kanu has not
used or advocated the use of violence
whilst expressing himself and neither
have any of his supporters. One
therefore wonders what has panicked
the Federal Government to such a point
that they not only have to lock him up
but that they also have to violate the law
of the land by not allowing him to see his
lawyer and by not presenting him before
a court of law and charging him within
the constitutionally-prescribed three
days.
State-sponsored violence and
intimidation, the violation of human
rights, illegal incarceration, the murder
of innocents and the vicious suppression
of legitimate ideas leads to nothing but
hardened hearts, greater defiance and
the spread of anger and dissent.
The principle is simple and clear: the
more you fan the flame of tyranny and
repression the more the passion and fire
for liberty spreads.
It follows that the biggest favor that
President Buhari’s security agencies
could have done for the Biafran cause
was to lock up Mr. Kanu and thereby
transform him from being a little-known
secessionist into the living symbol of the
Biafran struggle, a respected freedom
fighter, a champion of the Igbo people
and an internationally-acclaimed
political prisoner.
It is no wonder that leading politicians
from all over the world, including the
former Home Secretary and former
Leader of the Labor Party in the United
Kingdom, Mrs. Harriet Harman, have
called for his release. President Putin of
Russia and Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu of Israel have done the same.
Their call was the right and proper thing
to do and I add my voice to that call. I
have never met or spoken to Mr. Kanu
but I am moved by his passion and
courage.
I am also persuaded by the logic and
force of his public assertions. He has
made a compelling case for the
establishment of Biafra and millions of
young Igbos from all over the world have
bought into it.
It is left for those that do not agree with
him to make a better case and to stem
the Biafran tide. That is the monumental
challenge that those that do not agree
with Mr. Kanu’s views or his methods
have.
I have not always been on the same page
with our Igbo brothers yet despite that
one thing is clear: only the callous would
deny the fact that they have suffered
immeasurably in the Nigerian
Federation over the last 50 years.
Only the uninformed would deny the
fact that they have been butchered,
murdered, persecuted, broken,
humiliated, insulted, cheated and treated
with contempt and disdain more than
any other ethnic group in the country
since July 1966.
What the Nigerian state is confronted
with in the new generation of igbos who
refuse to be cowed is a time-bomb.
Unlike their fathers they cannot be
appeased or intimidated.
They are not fearful of the prospect of a
second civil war. They are not prepared
to settle for crumbs and neither do they
fear death, conflict, defeat,
incarceration, butchery or persecution.
They are imbued with a spirit that
cannot be suppressed and the more they
cry ”Biafra” the more the spirits of the
millions that were slaughtered on the
Biafran side during the civil war are
invoked.
The more they cry ”Biafra” the more the
souls of the hundreds of thousands of
their people that were butchered during
the barbaric pogroms in the north in the
mid-60’s are remembered. The worst
thing that the Nigerian authorities can
do is to treat them with levity or
contempt.
They are angry, they are fed up, they
refuse to be enslaved, they want a
brighter future and they have come to
realise that they have nothing to lose.
The most inappropriate thing that
President Buhari can do is to continue to
underestimate the power of their resolve
or the clarity of their intent. The worst
thing that they can do is to begin to jail
them, to shed their blood and to take
their lives.
The more you lock up the Biafrans, the
more they will rise up. The more you
mock them, the more they will shout. The
more you kill them, the more their anger
will be kindled.
The more you deny them, the more they
will wax stronger. The more you treat
them with disdain, the more they will
defy you. You cannot resist an idea
whose time has come.
This is a fact that we must all accept and
it is with this in mind that I urge
President Buhari and the Federal
Government to not only release Mr.
Nnamdi Kanu but also to tread with the
utmost restraint and caution when
dealing with those that are agitating for
Biafra.

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