I just watched a video of “Nnamdi
Kanu in Israel”. And truly, it was him.
In the video, he stands before the Wailing Wall, “wailing”; a voice in the
background spits platitudes as the “supreme leader” prays. He then terminates
his ritual and turns to the camera to affirm his “invincibility”.
Choreographic marvel!
But many young Igbo lives were
lost because of Kanu. When he was incarcerated in Nigeria, young,
impressionable men and women staked out relentless protests across the
south-east for his sake. Some of them died in the struggle.
When Kanu effectuated an
insurrection in Abia state after his release from prison, many young men paid
with their lives – all for his “ego agitation”. Operation Python Dance was
launched in the south-east because of him. No doubt, the operation led to the
loss of some innocent lives and property.
But where was Kanu in all of
these? He was in a safe place; totally unscathed.
Obviously, there is an umbilicus
of cowardice connecting the late Emeka Ojukwu with Kanu.
Ojukwu started a war unprepared.
Besides other genuine reasons for his action, ego took the better part of his
thinking. More than a million Igbo sons and daughters died in the war; most of
them of starvation. But Ojukwu and his family were not hungry. He fled the
country with his family afterwards to Ivory Coast, far away from the death and
destruction in the land he gambled to “liberate” from Nigeria.
I doubt if Ojukwu suffered any
loss in the war.
Kanu has taken the same path.
After many deaths resulting from his agitation, he flees to Israel. He is safe. And home and dry.
“Aspiring” revolutionaries or
liberators must be sincere to their struggle. They must be ready to go the
whole hog. Che Guevara died in the struggle to free Bolivia from
anti-progressive forces. He had teamed up with Fidel Castro to oust the corrupt
government of Fulgencio Batista before the Bolivian quest. But even after breasting victory in Cuba, he
was not sated. He dreamt of liberating all of South-America from capitalist
vultures. However, he died in the pursuit of that “glory”.
There is just something revolting
about people who lead other people to battle only to flee to safety in the heat
of it.
And by the way, why is Kanu
revealing himself now, a few months to the general election?
I do not know though. But I am
suspicious of that bolt out of the blue.
Fredrick is a media personality.
He can be reached on Facebook:
Fredrick Nwabufo; Twitter: @FredrickNwabufo
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