- Pix above (R-L): PBAT and MNK
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Aloy Ejimakor, IPOB leader’s Special Counsel, has reminded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the deadly implication of continued detention of the genuine Biafran struggle, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, saying it amounts to virtually detaining and humiliating 70m Igbos as both are inseparable.
–L-R: Bar Ejimakor and MNK
Describing Nnamdi Kanu and Igbo race as Siamese twins joined together forever, Ejimakor asked Tinubu to think again, if his mindset was to separate the two.
He said: “If you think you can separate Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from Ndigbo, think again because it’s impossible. The two are like Siamese twins – joined together forever.
“So, detaining #MNK amounts to virtually detaining and humiliating 70 million Igbos,” noting that “that’s impolitic and dicey to boot.”
This is not the first time the Constitutional lawyer will be harping on the issue of releasing Nnamdi Kanu to allow peace reign in the Southeast.
Sometime in April 2022, he revealed real reasons for persisting insecurity and massacres in Southeast , saying, “Before post-colonial Nigeria lapsed into its current unitary state, while still passing off as a federation, regional security was largely within the purview of the respective regions, not the federal government. And it worked pretty well.
“This basic arrangement was not by chance but by well-considered design. Despite their many failings, Nigeria’s indigenous founding fathers and the departing British colonists knew too well that you cannot secure a people within their region without their participation. Even the mighty British Empire knew that it couldn’t secure colonial Nigeria without the participation of Nigerians in vast numbers.
“In a diverse federation of equals (or even near-equals or unequals), Northern Nigerians shouldn’t be the ones exclusively or dominantly securing Western or Eastern Nigeria, and vice versa. When you do that, it becomes counter-intuitive to security and begins to look like belligerent occupation or conquest. It also destroys the neutrality of the security personnel, engenders ethnic profiling and extrajudicial killings.
“Truth be told, massacres won’t happen if there’s no premeditation, driven by sectarian impulses and lack of compatriot empathy customarily exhibited by some security personnel when it comes to law enforcement outside their regions, even when the targets of such law enforcement are unarmed and amenable to arrest.
“The inherent dangers of an imbalanced security leadership and formations is the main reason the framers of the 1999 Constitution enacted Section 217(3) of the Constitution, which roughly states that ‘the composition of the officer corps and other ranks of the Armed Forces of the Federation shall reflect the federal character of Nigeria’.
“In plain terms, it means that no region or tribe shall be markedly excluded from securing Nigeria or any part thereof, especially its own part,” he lectured./SHARE THIS
Tags: Bar Aloy Ejimakor, PBAT, MNK
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