It takes a wrong move to turn people, even your own people against you. And once such is done, you are gone. Your quest is gone. You will even be lucky to be alive. You will see your people haunt you and the enemy military at the side waiting to eat you raw.
Just one bad move and it is over. Hamas has made that wrong move and they lost the moral support they have been getting.
Who will see you kị́ll children, răpe underaged & keep old people hostage for months and still support you? That wrong move is what Israel is using today to fight and whip out everything posing as an enemy to them.
This was the same method the Nigerian government wanted to use against IPOB & failed. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu understood that without discipline and truth, it is easy to lure people into making this wrong move, so he instituted discipline powered by command and control. With this Nigerian government found it difficult to attack them. The world will talk if you attack a people so cool & demanding for a referendum. If you attack them they gain more foreign support. There must be a way to justify an attack on IPOB. There must be a way to make them lose the support of the people and the outside world.
How can Nigeria do that? With Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Nigeria can't get that justification. Then it became necessary that MNK should be taken out. A plan was made & some dubious people joined the struggle. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been marked red in Kenya, but they failed in their plot to kị̀ll him. He was extraordinarily renditioned from Kenya to Nigeria.
This move allowed Nigeria to try to enthrone their agent as IPOB leader. Nigeria's conventional media started announcing a non-IPOB member as an IPOB leader. All news outlets, Sahara Reporters, Vanguard News, etc, started pushing fake news. They were desperately trying to force him on IPOB.
The young man living in Finland has started speaking tough, using some criminal groups made available for him by the government to commit crimes in South East, especially in Imo State. These crimes were reported as being committed by IPOB. The road towards criminalizing IPOB has started. They wanted the people to hăte IPOB & the struggle for Biafra freedom. They wanted to make their soldiers of Igbo origin look at the evils happening in Imo & decide to fight IPOB head-on. Like the wrong move of Hamas was used against them by Israel, the government wanted to use the actions of the man they created to bring hell upon Igbo land.
But IPOB was smart. Even though some individuals were fooled by the government games, some men and women refused to be fooled.
The greatest weapon they used against the Igbo man was his love for Biafra. They started selling fake news that carried hope for Biafra. They made them think Biafra is easy to get. They even made some people count 150 days, hoping that on the 150th day, Biafra would come. Two years after the counting of these 150 days, the same scammers came to promise them that they would declare Biafra on 2nd December. Even though I know that it was all a scam, I am certain that after that day the scammer will look for another scam to tell them.
The game played by the Nigerian government against IPOB with their agent failed because IPOB has its foundation erected on a solid rock. They have the truth; they have discipline, they have determination, consistency and above all, Chukwu Okike.
Every life taken in Imo State by the Nigerian government was taken for nothing. These lives include innocent Nigerian soldiers and policemen who were sacrificed for this project.
Every IPOB member must not forget that discipline & truth are the key. They must understand that they came to give their people freedom and not to kị̀ll them. They should know that MNK has been in jail for four years now because of this same thing. An IPOB member has no business with crime of any sort.
We must continue.
Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2024.
