Human rights activist, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has accused the
federal government of chasing shadow with the arrest of the Yoruba Nation
agitator, Sunday Igboho.
Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria asked the government
to pursue substance instead of shadow so as to rescue the
nation from the claws of kidnappers, bandits and terrorists.
The senior lawyer made the appeal on Tuesday in a statement
issued in reaction to the arrest of Igboho in Benin Republic
The statement reads in part “The FG appears supersonically
effective and efficacious when it comes to arresting and repatriating
dissenters and challengers of its morbid nepotic and sectionalisitc government.
“The same government paradoxically appears abysmally weak
and hopelessly helpless when it comes to fighting AK-47 wielding armed bandits,
Boko Haram and other deadly insurgents, including ransom-taking kidnappers who
are almost kidnapping the very heart and soul of Nigeria on a daily basis.
“The Nigerian Nation appears captured by non-state actors.
“To me, this lopsided template demonstrates acute
intolerance and ambivalence. It shows self contradiction. It shows an
inclination towards enforcing laws against certain people, against certain
classes of people, while at the same time turning away the other eye in
enforcing laws against the other preferred and pampered set of people.
“Such does not make a nation grow. Such does not make
democracy work. Such does not build confidence and inclusiveness, the very
reasons for the Igbohos and Nnmdi Kanus of this world. Such does not enjoin
patriotism and building of nationhood.
“The same government that is suddenly effective in the case
of Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho have never been able to capture kidnappers,
armed bandits and boko haram that are daily ravaging us, turning Nigeria into
sprawling field of human carnage.
“They take ransom. Innocent school children are paid for.
Where is the same government when kidnappers are demanding that the parents of
kidnapped children should now be feeding them in their kidnap dens?
“But, it suddenly becomes effective and audacious when it
comes to arresting and even ambushing and attacking in their very homes, self
determination activists and crusaders. I am not impressed with this at all.
“The government may thump its chest for temporary gains.
But, does this solve the problem? see this as merely pursuing butterflies while
the house is on fire. Recall history: Major Kaduna Nzeogwu Chukwuma. Isaac
Adaka Boro, Ken Saro-Wiwa. The Ogoni 5. Are we out of the woods? I do not think
so. Or, do you?”
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