An author and activist, Reno Omokri, has called out the Igbo leaders over the growing insecurity in the south eastern Nigeria as the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, continues to enforce sit-at-home and unleash terror in the region.
The PM of Biafra Republic Government in Exile (BRGIE), Mazi Simon Ekpa, declared a two week sit-at-home in the region to hurt the Nigerian economy and also force the federal government to release IPOB’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
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Kanu had been in the custody of the Department of State Security (DSS) in spite of the ruling by the court to release the IPOB leader. In connection with his support of the secessionist movement, he was first detained on October 14, 2015.
He was granted bail in April 2017 but was shortly thereafter confined to jail pending his trial for alleged terrorism at the Federal High Court of Abuja in 2021.
Recall that the leaders in the south east met yesterday in Abuja to discuss the way forward and find means to resolving the restiveness.
To Omokri, it is defeatist to hold a meeting outside the troubled region and hypocritical of vociferous voices from the region who have now gone mute over the issue.
“How come all the prominent celebrities and politicians who were so focused on Lagos during the last gubernatorial elections are now so quiet over the growing insecurity in the Southeast and the forced sit-at-homes paralysing economic and social activities in the region? Where are the loud voices that defended the fraudulent act of Mmesoma Ejikeme? How come those who spoke up during the #NigerianElections2023 remain quiet as different non-state actors punish schoolchildren for going to school and deal with market women for going about their lawful businesses?
“If these sit-at-homes are popular in the region, why would they need to be enforced? We had sit-at-homes called by the late Dr Beko Kuti’s Campaign for Democracy in Lagos during the Abacha regime, and nobody enforced them. Lagosians willingly stayed at home because they supported that act of civil disobedience against a brutal dictator.
“Where are IPOBy Ezekwesili and others who led the chant against Lagosians? Were they this taciturn when Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour declared himself the incoming governor of Lagos? Or when Lagos wanted to demolish structurally deficient buildings at Alaba? Or when the Lagos State House of Assembly mooted the idea of laws protecting indigenous Lagosians?
“Where have your voices gone? Or do you endorse what is currently happening in the Southeast?
“It is so bad that Southeast leaders are meeting in Abuja ti discuss insecurity in their region. They could not meet in the Southeast. Have you ever heard that Southwest leaders met in Abuja over conditions in the Southwest?” he wrote.
Ojelabi, the publisher of Freelanews, is an award winning and professionally trained mass communicator and a recipient of the D9112 Superstar Icon Award, who writes ruthlessly about pop culture, religion, politics and entertainment.
