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Kanu Now Knows That Buhari Is Not A Hand-Wringing Joker, Failure Of Dikko Kidnapping Not Withstanding



The Oasis Reporters


July 9, 2021



Irredentist movements world wide now understand that Kenya’s sunshine spots can be so excruciatingly scorching as well as being dream killers.

The country with a modest laid back economy, no bigger than the economy of a Nigerian state of Lagos, may not exactly be safe. They are good runners on the hilly topography of the East African nation, but it is best to run away from there, rather than run in there.



The country run by Uhuru Kenyatta whose father was also the country’s founding president, has been wracked by Islamist insurgents who have bombed hotels, university hostels, class rooms and embassies, suffer from electoral violence under the sounds of rigging allegations.

Kenya has once handed Turkish dissidents to the draconian regime in that country.

Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta.



Here’s what Reno Omokri had to say in the aftermath of Kenya’s capture of Nnamdi Kanu and his handover to Nigeria’s intelligence agency, the DSS:


Giant Size Without Giant Intellect is a Giant Liability!!


The biggest news in Nigeria today is that Nnamdi Kanu was arrested.

The biggest news in Ghana today is that Toyota has opened a plant there to build cars and sell in Nigeria.

Ghana is arresting poverty, while Nigeria is arresting people demanding for self determination! Why won’t Ghana progress?

Nigeria banned Twitter, and Ghana welcomed Twitter. Nigeria banned Cryptocurrencies, while Ghana is banking on its own cryptocurrency.

You can now see that it is not size that makes a country the Giant of Africa. The elephant is the giant of the jungle, but it is the lion that is the king of the jungle. Never be intimidated by a person’s size. If giant size is not accompanied by giant intellect, it will end up as a giant liability!

On the flipside, Farooq Kperogi, a professor of new media and government critic writes that he sheds:


No Tears for Nnamdi Kanu



I’ve known since the beginning of the month that Nnamdi Kanu would be arrested and extradited to Nigeria, but my informant swore me to secrecy, so I kept the information to myself. Today he has been arrested and extradited to Nigeria.

While the mass resentment against Buhari in the Southeast is a justified response to his systematic exclusion of and open rhetorical and actual hostility to the region, Nnamdi Kanu is NOT a symptom of the Southeast’s legitimate angst. He is a different but related problem.

Kanu is a violent, vulgar, venomous-tongued thug that should never have been allowed to exploit the valid angst of the Southeast to rise to prominence. The intolerant, unthinking IPOB cult he has built has become a problem not just for Nigeria, but for the vast majority of Igbo people everywhere.


When Kanu was burst forth to the forefront of national and international visibility in July 2015 through the Buhari regime’s thoughtless handling of Radio Biafra, I took the time to listen to him on Radio Biafra. I found a man gibbering vulgar, violent, incoherent, hate-filled but comical rants. He called Nigeria a “zoo”— or the “zoological republic”— and Nigerian citizens “monkeys” or “ill-educated vagabonds.”


He labeled Igbos who didn’t share in his idiocy as “Hausa-born children in Igboland.” His rants were also filled with racially self-hating, negrophobic rhetoric, such as his claims that black people were inherently intellectually inferior and incapable of deep thought. He said he was a “Jew.” He hasn’t changed since then.


He makes no effort to be persuasive. He simply revels in tasteless abuse, intentional prevarications, infantile temper tantrums, and a melodramatic display of rank, comical illiteracy. In my July 2015 column, I said the only people who would take him seriously and be affected by his message were people who already shared his twisted, hateful ideals, which made shutting down his station pointless. “I can bet that it does not speak for nor reach the majority of Igbo people, and that most Igbo people would snigger when they listen to it,” I wrote.



But the Buhari regime made Kanu more popular than he is worth. He was spewing his rib-tickling inanities on the fringes of the Internet and on a barely known radio station. Then, suddenly, when he started attacking President Buhari, Nigerian authorities moved in swiftly to contain him. They announced that they had successfully jammed his radio station but came back a few days later to refute an alleged libelous falsehood the station made against Buhari!



Of course, news of the “jamming” of the radio and the press release refuting what the station reportedly said against Buhari (after it was supposed to have been jammed!) caused the station—and the ideology it espouses—to make national and international headlines. And there was an enormous spike in the number of searches for “Radio Biafra” and “Nnamdi Kanu” on Google and other search engines.


This, combined with Buhari’s unambiguous antipathy toward the southeast, has sparked a resurgence of Biafran and neo-Biafran movements and periodic sanguinary communal upheavals.



This was completely avoidable. If the government had ignored (or quietly diluted) Kanu and his Radio Biafra and demonstrated even token large-heartedness toward the southeast (and the deep south) in the immediate aftermath of Buhari’s epochal electoral triumph in spite of opposition from the region, we wouldn’t have known of Kanu and IPOB. But Nigerian authorities couldn’t stomach an insult at Buhari.


Whatever it is, I have no tears for Kanu. No reasonable person should. But I think the man needs more sorrow than anger because he is obviously mentally unhinged.

In conclusion, read The Bill Gates Address That Has Caused A Stir About Nigeria’s Economic Plan that we published in 2018, here:

The Bill Gates Address That Has Caused A Stir About Nigeria’s Economic Plan

 

 

Greg Abolo

Blogger at The Oasis Reporters.

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