When Mazi Nnamdi Kanu created ESN, he said emphatically that they were not the Biafra Army. He said their duty was only to confront Fulani herdsmen terrọ́rists who have kị́lled countless Southeast farmers. He did not stop there. He said they have no business in the villages, they don’t engage in village land disputes, and they are not there to attack the Nigerian military. Their only job is to confront Fulani herdsmen terr0rists kị́lling Igbo farmers in their farms.

Do you know why he said these things?

Mazi knows that if he does not specify their job, the enemies of Biafra will go and attack soldiers and claim ESN did it. They will go to the village to settle a land dispute. And had it he claimed they were his Army, he would have declared war and given the Nigerian government the moral right to kị̀ll his people. Mazi instilled discipline into them.

Some might say, has the Nigerian government not kị́lling Biafrans before? They do, but they get lots of criticism for it. But when you give them the moral rights they need, they will kị́ll you and still get support.

Mazi dealt with the Nigerian government with his wisdom. That’s why they recruited a criminal upon his arrest to keep shouting Biafra Army up and down. And the Nigerian government will say, Oh, they now have an army. Let us fight it, Army vs Army. With this, many villages in Imo State have been decimąted. He once claimed to have taken over ESN. He used that time to front criminals who started parading villages in Imo State, claiming to be ESN and committing crimes. Their crimes were seen as ESN IPOB. You see how the government used him to try to destroy everything MNK did. When MNK says we have no military. We have only a vigilant group like Amotekun; he will say we have an Army. MNK says ESN has no business in our villages; he claims he is now in charge, and his criminals go to the villages to commit crimes. He will later claim there is nothing like ESN again. The game is to claim you are now in charge. Use criminals to commit crimes in their name. Destroy their image and then say they are no more. Very simply a perfect dubị́ous game. But IPOB followed them from bomber to bomber and destroyed and exposed them.

You don’t claim Army with 30 men thereby putting your people in danger. Having a Killẹ́r squad of kidnappers doesn’t make you strong. No kidnapper is a hero. They are cowards. When they get a victim, they claim lord and master. But when they are caught you will see that they are nothing.

If you are among those whom the buffoon did not fọ́ọ́l, then you are among the wise men and women from the East who have been destined by God to free Biafra from the clutches of One Nigeria.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2024.