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By Denrele Animasaun
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit -Noël Coward.
Leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
As the dust settled on the current communiqué from the proscribed self-styled IPOB generalissimo, Nnamdi Kanu, the insults and disagreements once again are resurfacing, like the mischievous Loki, Kanu has once again opened up the divisive scab. Agreed, he is not fully responsible (the fault line has always been there) but his rhetoric is a dog whistle for the impressionable and mischief makers.
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Kanu sure knows how to make an appearance after a muted hiatus.
The trouble with Kanu is that, he cannot help it, he wants to feel relevant. He made all the noise and then head tail it at the first sight of trouble. He sold so many a dreams but did not whole heartedly subscribe to it.
When it came down to it, he bailed; he left town and the casualties of his incitement laid scattered (including his dog, Jack). Of course, conspiracy theories of his disappearance were rife that: that he was kidnapped, killed and so on.
The fact that there were no evidence to any of the conspiracy theories, but did not stop those wanting to make capital of the unrest and continue to fan the embers. Over the months however the voices of dissent grew quieter and people went back to their daily lives.
Crucially, there were no further skirmishes or reprisals of note once Kanu disappeared.
Until now when Kanu decided to broadcast his presence via his radio station that he is abroad. Like the master of hype that he is, he appeared by the Wailing Wall in Israel, festoon in all Israeli prayer: wearing kalir hat and wrapped up in a tallit (fringed four-cornered prayer shawl), you could be forgiven to think he has had undergone some religious conversion.
No, it is all an act to look and appear righteous; pious and holding a book while appear praying and holding on to the Wall. He ensured that he played to the full effect to the camera. This man is not modest; he was milking it for all its worth as he was addressed as the supreme leader of the Biafra.
He did not address the burning question of how and why he escaped or why he broke his bail conditions and the sureties of those who put up the bail money or those that died or incarcerated, protecting his ideals and rhetoric.
Why has he chosen to address his followers now and not before. Why the long silence and why had he not ease the worries of his wife, family and followers much earlier or was it right to let people think the worse while he made good his escape? Some cynic may think that he feared that he will be usurped as Atiku Abubakar named his running mate, Peter Obi, for the coming election? He may have feared he will no longer be relevant.
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So Kanu wants us all to know: “I’m in Israel,” and “I have returned full-time and I am coming home and I will bring hell with me,” and he went on that his group is not interested in anything else other than for the government to set a date for a referendum: “We will not relent till referendum is conducted. We stand for the truth. It’s referendum or nothing else,” he noted.
“The zoo called Nigeria cannot jail me. I will fight till the last day. Binta Nyanko court failed to ask the Nigerian Army why they invaded my home. Nigerian court is a Kangaroo court. I did not jump bail, I left because the court failed to protect?
“I am coming back to Biafra land soon and I will bring hell with me, the way it has never been seen before,” funny that, one minute poverty and next he’ll (?) and brimstone. Kanu is like that – a one man army wrecking crew!
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