IPOB STORMS ABAKALIKI, DARES SECURITY AGENCIES AND THREATENS TO SHUT DOWN ABAKALIKI FOR THREE DAYS!!!
I am an admirer of IPOB but I believe IPOB is going beyond the necessary; and as an elder whose first child was born 1975, I must speak out. Handlers of IPOB leader must advise him to protect and preserve Igbo youths' lives. We are and endangered lot in Nigeria.
Yes. As I have said before "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."(Thomas Jefferson).
But 290 Igbo youths so far massacred and 370 mortally wounded, with hundreds in undisclosed solitary detention by the Security Agencies, is enough for now. Our intellectuals must be allowed to elevate the agitation to national and international diplomacy, publicity and litigation. That is where the struggle is now, particularly with the National Assembly disapproving the formula of SE Governors, Ohanaeze leadership and the selected Leaders of Thought, which is based on RESTRUCTURING, rejected by NASS.
That the Security Agencies did not massacre our youths in Ebonyi on Tuesday, 25th July, 2017 is probably for two reasons:
1. The Lion of Aso Rock is humbled by illness and confined in faraway England; and the Ag. President is a Prof. Of Law and very lijely does not wish to expose himself to life imprisonment when he looses his immunity, after office, like Taylor of Liberia and Hissen Habre of Chad.
Shooting unarmed demonstrators is in national and international Law, Crime against Humanity;
2. The Chief of Army Staff, the Police IG, DSS and other 11 offenders were last week served processes of a suit in Washington DC filed by legal guardians of 9 IPOB victims of extra-judicial murder and one torture survivor, who are claiming hundreds of millions of US Dollars in a U S Court under Alien Tort Claims Act and Alien Victims Protection Act, both of USA.
The effect of 2 above might be limited, since THE LION of Aso Rock and his Security Agencies still rampaged and killed despite FG having paid 8 Billion Naira for Zaki Biam killings; N15.5 Billion for Odi slaughter and is owing N99 Billion awarded by the Federal High Court Asaba and confirmed by a London Court, for the massacre of over 3,000 at Gbaramatu, near Warri in Delta State.
Igbo's seem to lack the courage to sue the Federal Government. Igbo NGOs in USA and Nigeria seem to have broken that barrier with the Washington DC suit.
IPOB MUST THEREFORE BE ADVISED TO MINIMIZE CONFRONTATION WITH SECURITY AGENCIES AND SAVE THE LIVES OF IGBO YOUTHS..
LET ME ALSO REMIND IPOB THAT THREATENING TO SHUT DOWN EBONYI, WHERE THERE IS AN EXTANT GOVERNMENT, IS NOT PACIFIST. IF IPOB WISHES TO BE CONTINUED TO BE SEEN AS PACIFIST, IT MUST AVOID SUCH THREATS. PACIFISM ATTRACTS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SYMPATHY. AND NDIGBO NEED A LOT OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SYMPATHY TO LIBERATE THEMSELVES FROM PRESENT ENSLAVEMENT.
Okpala Eze na NRI Emeka Onyesoh.
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