Still on Kanu: A parody

Dear Mohammed Adamu, Please find below my reply to your article titled, Kanu: A Parody. Specifically, it captures the opinion of many northerners on the subject, and I will appreciate, for the sake of balance, that you give my answer, which captures the opinion of many in the East, the "equal" prominence.-Emeka Ukpabi, National Coordinator, President Goodluck Jonathan, Initiative of Political Philosophy and Ideology. Still in 'Kanu: A parody A thousand horrible prodigies predicted it. Samuel Johnson This is my response to the columnist, Mohammed Adamu's opinion about the furious polemic over Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the IPOB clash with army troops in Operation Python dance II, in eastern Nigeria. In this brilliant essay titled "Kanu: A Parody," published on Thursday, September 21, 2017, I found a subjective article worthy of a reply. The prose was florid and extravagant, but all his poetry could not hide the defects in its basic premise. The comparison of Nnamdi Kanu with Adolf Hitler was a mistake, which called for questioning the veritas of the whole thesis. Hitler was a genocidal maniac who secretly conspired with war and world domination as he sat down to settle treaties and non-aggression pacts with the powers of Europe. He clandestinely rearm and expanded his army, while pretending to abide by the "Versailles Treaty", which sought to stop the German armed forces after the First World War.

 
                                                      NNAMDI KANU 

Nnamdi Kanu

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Nnamdi Kanu

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Political leadership By contrast, Kanu has carried his intention in his sleeves, updating a sovereign state of Biafra. He has not sought pacifist agreements with the cultural or political leadership of the Southeast, nor has he received any opening to the Nigerian space. His struggle has been devoid of any subterfuge as to his true design, though such deception may have served him better. In this, it has shown less Hitlerian tendency than the Nigerian Armed Forces, that since 1966 has been adept at the positions disguised to cover up the murderous and genocidal intention. One only has to study General Buratai's announcement of "Operation Python dance II" to see this stratagem in all its devious glory: house searches, raids, checkpoints, blockades, cord and search operations, etc. . combat even the most violent of criminals, but are tools to reign in a terrorist insurgency that is embedded within a civilian population, as seen in the Fallujah of Iraq. This is the creed of mad dictators and generals throughout history, which paved the way to such notorious sites as Stalin's Katin Forest, where thousands of Polish intellectuals and military officers were taken to the massacre, believing that they had were gathered for details of work and Hitler Auschwitz where millions of Jews were exterminated in death camps disguised as labor camps. Like the dance of Operation Python II, the surviving structures at Auschwitz still carry the infamous misleading legend, "work will set you free." And did they compare Nnamdi Kanu to Adolf Hitler? A paraphrase of a quotation that is often used to describe such an aberration is: "they became beasts because they could not bear the burden of being men." The burden of humanity essentially includes moderation in the face of provocation, patience in the face of turmoil, peace in the face of war, and so on. But in the language of the beast provocation requires ferocity, agitation requires force and war requires genocide. The same reason why Mohammed Adamu equates Kanu's "verbal violence" with the "seductive snake" carnage and his "catapult" and "pebble" with bullets and bombs of the "dancing python". But this is not surprising for a "man" who professes the "Hobbesian philosophy" of "As equality is not the hallmark of nature, so is" equity "not always judged by the equality of shared resources. things can not always be "equals" before they can be "fair." But they can be "unequal" and remain "equitable." In fact, life has become "unpleasant, brutish and short" in the land of men, guided by beasts.Not surprising that lions kings snarl, hyenas and jackals cavort, dance pythons, crocodiles and smile and cry at the same time.To confirm this "call of nature", Mohammed Adamu adds to the cynical mixture , "panther, tiger, leopard, cough, puma, jaguar, anaconda and Boa", to the cynical mixture, praising its virtues to include "ambush and suffocation", "seducer and camouflage." But men have led Nigeria before! President Obasanjo ignored the sharia trap established for him , after 1999; President Yar'Adua made peace in the Niger Delta, despite his kitchen cabinet urging the war, and President Jonathan tolerated the mirenegade lodgers subscribed to the amnesty program (the MEND Orkar faction) and this same Nnamdi Kanu (Biafra radio), although he constantly mocked his government. These were men of valor, unlike him "who escaped the pain of being a man, by himself a beast." "Truthfully," those who forcibly evaded the judicial process trying to arrest (or abduct) Nnamdi Kanu, a few days before his court date, are real cowards. And they called Kanu the coward? It seems that the loss of mankind also lends itself to arrogance, as Mohammed Adamu writes; "Equality or equality? Is not this the small" territory "suitable for a" state "that" equity "has allowed to pass through an" area "? Or are these not the five "local councils" that are allowed to remain as "glorified states?" They already have "equity." "In their rage and their fury; in their anger and madness, it is the elders of the East who have allowed Kanu's little fires to grow in a conflagration. "" The East is in dire need of leadership - culturally and politically. However, I remember that while Boko Haram's attacks were limited to Christian churches and military and police formations, many "elders of the north" rationalized the lack of "equity" and "justice" for their violent campaign. One of them even went so far as to say that "an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north." Those few elders who saw Boko Haram so they were actually urged to end the madness, but the new leadership of Boko Haram "would not hear" any of that. Instead, these few insights were added to the front-line objectives of the group. By the time the dissident elders realized that Boko Haram had become a rapacious monster who preferred a diet of his "kith and kin" and children, it was too late. However, they pressured Western powers not to include Boko Haram on their list of terrorist organizations, thinking not to give Islamists reasons to cross the 'Rubicon'. But the genius was already out of the bottle. One hundred dead later, no other word of justification was heard from them, except from their preeminent elder who during a media talk, to commemorate his first anniversary, blamed the brutal abusive management of the army for an offense of transit by members of the then 'Yusufiyya' sect, for the emergence of Boko Haram. However, orchestrates the same heavy treatment for IPOB members. And they called the elders of the East "wise." Although it is said: "Of all the pains that beset desolation, surely the most bitter is a contemptuous mockery", that Mohammed Adamu does not think that his writings cause anguish to anyone, leave only to set the tone for " 'as Boko Haram before, he will come to regret his' praised praise 'of the Nigerian Army, when' voracious appetite for 'themselves is soon' exploited. "Despite the earlier prediction for East and Nigeria, "It is still tomorrow on the day of creation." While it is not true that if you scratch all Biafran you will find an IPOB man, it may be true that if you scratch every Igbo man you will find a Biafran. emotional and psychological is not exaggerated.As the "Treaty of Versailles" did not reconcile Germany, after World War I, and conditions of peace made rehabilitation and reconstruction extremely difficult, the three R of Nigeria has failed the nation Igbo Unfortunately for Europe, it caused the rise of Adolf Hitler and another war, in 20 years. This need not be our comparative history. While Mohamed Adamu is right that the East lacks "political leadership," his "cultural leadership" has done quite well. They have only asked the questions - which will surely ask if the papers were reversed - that their youth is now wondering horribly: how a coup d'etat that had a core of Igbo in their leadership rank and was frustrated by Igbo the officials become in an "igbo stroke"; How was the murder of more than 100 Igbo officers the same sacrifice for the death of a handful of northern officers or the mass murder of more than 30,000 innocent civilians for the death of a handful of political leaders or the death and starvation of a million more just to keep Nigeria one; How is it that its region has five states, while others have six and seven, how do you put a "sidewalk" in its rise to political or military authority, or that its infrastructure is neglected, or that economic policy is biased to its disadvantage; How is it that they are treated with such impunity, although it took almost four years for Boko Haram to be declared a group
terrorist, but a whole week to legislate on IPOB, how come there has never been a military operation against the world identified the terrorist Fulani pastors, while against IPOB is in its second edition, or that the Igbo are attacked by the most minimum (or no) reason in northern Nigeria, etc? Considerable drafting There is an urgent need for reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Igbo nation, following the convening of a "National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation", where these questions would be answered to the satisfaction of all Nigerians. With all the immunity of the accusation, all the actors, past and present, their heirs or assignees, can come and tell their own side of history, accepting responsibility for their actions or inactions and seeking forgiveness. This has worked well in many countries of the world and is ideal to begin the process to preserve the unity of Nigeria; not sweeping everything under the rug and pretending it never happened, or stopping the study of history in schools, and definitely not by the brutal repression of the agitators. This is where Mohamed Adamu's considerable writing and opinion skills are needed. The same goes for those of his predecessor in the newspaper Vanguard (now on NBC), and his namesake in the Nation newspaper (now INEC), whose careers I have followed and admired so ardently for his passion. Now is the time to put this passion in the service of our entire country, because as the African proverb says, if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go further, go together.