The Eastern Consultative
Assembly, ECA, has stated that the South-East Governors proscribed the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOP, in order to secure their second term in
office.
It also described its
classification as a terrorist group as as an attempt to kill the overwhelming
clamour for restructuring of Nigeria.
The ECA made the claims in a
statement by its secretary Evang. Elliot Ugochukwu-Uko.
The statement read:
The long expected attempt by the
Nigerian State to embark on quenching the restructuring gale currently sweeping
the land, through military might, has eventually begun. Everybody in Nigeria
was expecting this, because the government has run out of arguments and also
because it is the only strategy government knows. Nobody is surprised.
The gentle revolution to
restructure Nigeria, brilliantly piloted by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has become very
successful.
Restructuring Nigeria has become inevitable, thanks to Kanu and IPOB. The anger
of the opponents of restructuring towards Kanu is understandable.
Kanu has driven Nigeria closer to
restructuring more than anybody else, therefore, lovers and defenders of the
status quo want to eat him raw.
The well coordinated attack on
Kanu and IPOB, packaged and choreographed from Abuja, in cahoots with his own
people and complete with media support complemented by politicians who love the
status quo, was actually planned for last year, but was shelved. The
criminalization and blackmail of the IPOB began with the allegation of killing
and burying 50 people including 5 Fulanis in Aba, which was designed to justify
the intended military action of crushing the agitations through force of arms.
The deliberate decision to roll
in military equipment into the South East and provoke crisis is also designed
towards scuttling the peace process between the IPOB and the government led by
Prof Ben Nwabueze, some people are not comfortable with that, because they
believe it could lead to restructuring Nigeria which they resent intensely.
Python Dance was aimed at
scuttling the IPOB/government dialogue begun on 30th of August, 2017.
The pronouncement that the IPOB
is a terrorist organization and thereby proscribed are all designed and
choreographed to justify the discreetly agreed agenda to crush the agitation by
military might in order to sustain the 1999 military constitution and the
current unjust status quo, thereby postponing the restructuring of Nigeria for
as long as they can.
Another reason for proscribing
the IPOB and declaring them as terrorists is to reassure the South East
Political Leaders that their re-election is no longer under threat, as the IPOB
constituted a tsunami that had successfully mobilized the downtrodden masses
against the inept political class that had compromised the future of their
people through the format through which they climbed into political offices.
Because the leaders of the region
got into power through questionable allegiances and subservience to external
masters, they cannot publicly identify with the wishes of their people, who
have been reduced to second class citizens, without offending their northern
masters. They are also monitored, threatened, intimidated and seduced by the
owners of Nigeria, to keep them loyal to the failed Nigeria unitary structure
in order to keep their offices. Kanu remains popular by simply speaking the
truth the political leaders are afraid to speak.
The unjust 1999 military
constitution and unfair unitary structure it designed, is at the root of the
crisis bedeviling Nigeria. Every bullet shot at Umuahia or Aba this week, was
aimed at sustaining this status quo and resisting restructuring.
The ongoing military action is
not targeted at Kanu and IPOB but, at the restructuring breeze blowing across
Nigeria and put an end to it. They know it is impossible to proscribe a
movement that lives in the hearts and souls of millions; they also know that
the Fulani herdsmen are the real terrorists not the IPOB.
In all these, every effort has
been made by the government to avoid discussing the issues that led to the
agitation because discussing it will quickly lead to restructuring Nigeria
which they don’t want to happen. They rather chose to divert attention from the
injustices that forced millions of citizens to lose faith in Nigeria and to
desire another country, marching in their hundreds of thousands and enduring
persecutions including cold blooded slaughter.
No amount of intimidation and
accusations can restore peace in Nigeria, if the injustices and inequities that
gave rise to the loss of faith in Nigeria is not addressed through an early
restructuring of the polity in order to enthrone equity and justice. The IPOB
are not armed and they are not violent. Some people are just scared of their
huge crowd and want to stop them from gathering. Their popularity is
continuously eroding the legitimacy of Eastern leaders.
Kanu remains the Hero of all the
oppressed peoples of Nigeria in the Middle Belt, Southern Kaduna, Niger Delta,
Christian minorities of the North East and North West and the long oppressed
people of Eastern Nigeria (except the political leaders who live in opulence,
and therefore do not really feel the pains and frustrations of the lopsided and
unjust Nigerian unitary structure).
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