DOCUMENT YOUR CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCE IN A MEMOIR

Amobi Nzelu, in his recent interview with Daily Sun, explained the medium used by president Buhari to extend his message as most unsuitable, advising him to document his civil war experience in a historical account.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari on his speech, September 13th, when addressing over 100 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members serving in Daura Local Government Area of the Katsina state and where he currently spent his  Eid-el-Kabir holiday, criticize the peaceful match of Biafra agitators in the South East and South South part of the country to remember the 17th anniversary of peaceful agitation actualisation of the state of Biafra .

Counsel to the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), Amobi Nzelu further appealed to the president to release IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, because his continued incarceration will not end the agitation.

He said,

They should engage in a meaningful dialogue. Ideology cannot be destroyed by might or force but by what I call constructive and Pentecostal persuasion. You cannot destroy an ideology. Even if you kill the person, it is an ideology, it’s not a movement. Anything that is settled politically, the wound heals faster.  

It was the most inappropriate forum to have said that. Let me restate it in unmistaken term that the issue of Biafra is not what you can settle with a wave of hand. To celebrate what he did over 40 years ago before those young corps members was uncalled for. He should better put his war experience in a book form.  

Buhari has done well in fighting corruption, but he is mishandling the issue of Biafra and other ethnic agitations. He should do the needful. Nnamdi Kanu has been in detention for over 18 months now. Let the president release him. When Mohammed Yusuf started Boko Haram, he was arrested and he died in their hands. If the issue was properly handled, we would not have had the ruin we have in the North East today.