A famous Nigerian politician once said (in spirited defense of the Yoruba) that “before I became a Nigerian, I was Yoruba”. And another one said: “We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes”.

The Yoruba has, in moderation, said his own. The Fulani has, in extremism, said his own. Let me now, as an Igbo, say my own, and here it is: Whoever takes the life of an IPOB member is taking the life of an Igbo and therefore will ultimately account to Ndigbo. It’s not a threat; it’s a fact.

When I read about the senseless and criminal massacre of unarmed innocents who gathered in Enugu on August 23, 2020 in peaceable exercise of their constitutional rights, I quickly began to search the news to learn more and I learnt plenty, including particularly the somewhat dismissive refrain that “those killed are just IPOB members”.

Yes, they might be IPOB members. But guess what? Everybody in the former Eastern Nigeria who disagrees with the fratricidal mess that has become Nigeria is an IPOB member, overtly or covertly.

They don’t have to carry a registration card for you to be certain that they are IPOB members. All you need to do is to talk with them to convince yourself that they are IPOB members.

An IPOB member is simply any Eastern Nigerian (especially the Igbo) who will rather have Biafra than a Nigeria that eats her children, especially her Igbo children. And they are in the millions; they are legion; some are above ground; some are in sleeper cells. And they are not ‘miscreants’; they are the Igbo gentry, the elites, the masses, the warts and all.

So, in this latest case of those mass-murdered by Nigeria’s security forces in Enugu yesterday, it is safe to assume (in terms of the locale) that they are Igbos. And yes - they were borne as Igbos when there was no IPOB.

And to be sure, they were Igbos before they became Nigerians. And even as Nigeria notoriously disdains the Igbo but still wants to keep him in Nigeria, the Igbo remains an Igbo for now and forever, alive or dead. Nobody can change that. No subliminal narrative of “just IPOB” can change that.

Therefore, while it’s correct to say that those killed are “members” of IPOB, it’s wrong to slant it in a way that seeks to detach them from the whole. That whole is mainly Ndigbo, a people that are not terrorists but are branded as such; a people that do not bear arms but are treated as such and thus extrajudicially murdered at the slightest excuse. Why?

And then once such occurs, once they unjustifiably and gleefully spill the sacred Igbo blood, every attempt is made to deride and degrade the fallen as mere IPOB and therefore as less less sacred, all in a clumsy media spin to detach them from Ndigbo.

This has been the constant narrative since 30th August, 2015 when this current spate of mass murders of Ndigbo got underway. I say to you: It doesn’t work; it never will; their blood is never less worthy than the blood of any Igbo. It’s an Igbo thing that you may not understand. It’s deep and medieval. 

So, those that are in command and control in this latest crime against humanity, against Ndigbo should know this: when time comes, it is the entire Igbo that will hold you to account.

If you are not held to account within Nigeria (which is what you are counting on), you will be held to account in the appropriate forum outside of Nigeria and there shall be no statute of limitation stopping it. And sovereign immunity will not be a shield but a sword.

Again, it’s not a threat; it’s a statement of fact. And I say it advisedly, not as the Special Counsel to the IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu (which I am), but as an Igbo who is personally wounded and bereaved any time an innocent Igbo life is taken by rulers of a Nigerian State that will rather pardon a terrorist and kill the unarmed Igbo, while foolishly thinking that there will be no consequences.

tutudesz:
The police men and DSS that killed them are also Igbo son's and Daughter's too

RuddyFusion:


I guess you know them

tutudesz:

50% of police in each state are from that particular state, meaning majority of those police are from enugu state.
Why is so hard for police to arrest all this criminals killing people in Northern Nigeria they know the criminals are there brother so they arrest and free them later. What the Igbo police officers would've done was to arrest and free them later.

tutudesz:

50% of police in each state are from that particular state, meaning majority of those police are from enugu state.
Why is so hard for police to arrest all this criminals killing people in Northern Nigeria they know the criminals are there brother so they arrest and free them later. What the Igbo police officers would've done was to arrest and free them later.

Jax1:



Is the ability to tell a lie engrained in your system?

To the news, this issue of IPOB is gradually taking a new dimension. Nobody is gonna be happy watching his own brothers gunned down by trigger happy security operatives.

The FG should thread carefully before it becomes an ethnicity motivated battle.

The signs are coming up gradually. This could be dangerous than the battle against bokoharam.

tutudesz:

The police in Enugu are from were If your brother in uniform can't protect you, who will?

RuddyFusion:


It still boils down who the leader is among them... Moreover I think our Security forces have special team in the east out to just opporess the people of the EAST nothing more

Jax1:



How do u know the majority of police officers in Enugu state are indigenes of Enugu?

tutudesz:

go to the nearest police station around you and see for yourself.

tutudesz:

Brotherly during militancy in Delta State, the commissioner will order his men to arrest youths, but the police from Delta couldn't arrest them. They couldn't support the militants openly, but they were supporting them hidden.

tutudesz:

50% of police in each state are from that particular state, meaning majority of those police are from enugu state.
Why is so hard for police to arrest all this criminals killing people in Northern Nigeria they know the criminals are there brother so they arrest and free them later. What the Igbo police officers would've done was to arrest and free them later.

Jax1:



U are a cheap liar

tutudesz:
The police and DSS operatives that killed them were also Igbo son's and Daughter's too

OreMI22:
I am quietly waiting for Nnamdi Kanu's broadcast that will hilariously hold the traditional rulers, market women, governor of Enugu state , Okada riders association responsible rather than the culprits- Nigerian army and Commissioner of Police.

I heard the guns used were Chinese made AK47. So i expect Nnamdi Kanu to list the Chinese president as responsible rather than Buhari.

Bloody coward!

goodnessme1:
You lie.


I was there,they are mostly yoruba and hausafulanis.

tutudesz:

If you say!! But remember 90% of the police in Lagos and South west state are yoruba. Have you ever seen a Igbo ADC to a South West Governor or A Yoruba ADC to South East Governor.

Jax1:


It is not about being an ADC. If u are conversant with the Nigeria police force, especially those in the East, you would know that your statement doesn't hold water.

Jax1:



How do u know the majority of police officers in Enugu state are indigenes of Enugu?

tutudesz:

Ok!! But kanu once made a statement that all Igbo in army, police, etc should leave.

OfoIgbo:


It is ultimately the fault of the IG of Police and the president of Nigeria.

They have to arrest all those "Igbo policemen" and judicially deal with them ruthlessly. Otherwise, the ultimate blame will be placed at the doorsteps of the IG and the president

Jax1:


Did i ask u about kanu?

OreMI22:
I am quietly waiting for Nnamdi Kanu's broadcast that will hilariously hold the traditional rulers, market women, governor of Enugu state , Okada riders association responsible rather than the culprits- Nigerian army and Commissioner of Police.

I heard the guns used were Chinese made AK47. So i expect Nnamdi Kanu to list the Chinese president as responsible rather than Buhari.

Bloody coward!

RuddyFusion:
The wicked will not go unpunished...

The blood of my brother's and sisters wasted endlessly by the Nigerian State will not be in vain...

pquaver:


It is already in vain. Those ones Don die Sara.. The fly that refuses to listen will follow the corpse to the grave. I am out of sympathy for people who refuse to use their number 6.