I am constrained to align with those who opine that Nnamdi Kanu took Ala Igbo twenty years backward.
Unfortunately, it appears many Ndi Igbo do not share this view. Rather, they see Nnamdi Kanu more like a hero, a saviour and a prophet to Ndi Igbo.
It is instructive to note that the Christian theology which many modern Ndi Igbo subscribe to submitted, a prophet has no honour in his homeland.
The reason for this rejection by the people towards their own prophet is clear. A prophet tells his people uncomfortable truth difficult to swallow. It is the stinging nature of this uncomfortable truth that the pushes the people to dislike and dishonour the prophet.
Please make no mistakes, the present well deserved incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu should not by any stretch of sensible imagination be translated as a prophet being dishonored. Rather, it is a popular criminal getting his due justice.
Again, I defer to the Christian Bible. In the Christian Bible, we saw how Jesus was hated not just by the Pharisees and Sadducees who were the religious cum political elites of his day.
Jesus was recorded to have been disliked by the ordinary everyday people whom he freely fed to the extent they demanded a criminal should be released while Jesus who was telling them their errors be hanged instead.
If I am permitted to use this Jewish historical scenario to apply to the present day Igbos, I will liken Nnamdi Kanu who is already in jail to the criminal the Jewish people pleaded to be released for them.
The job of criminal is to take up arms and the job of a prophet/teacher is to chastise with words. The tool of prophecy is simply words and the tool of criminality is arms.
It is on irrefutable record Mr. Nnamdi went soliciting for dangerous arms. This very act forecloses him as a teacher or prophet.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is imperative I now state in clear terms how Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, criminal and unprophetic venture took Igbos twenty years backward;
1. Since his agitation began there have been massive capital and industrial flight from Ala Igbo.
2. Many Igbo communities have been sacked with public buildings, schools, health centers, private building aggressively destroyed.
3. A lot of unnecessary bloodshed of innocent Igbo people who were labeled saboteurs have been shed.
4. A lot ordinary and not so ordinary Igbos are afraid to speak their true minds in respect to the activities of the Mr. Kanu led terrorist groups known as IPOB/ESN.
5. Many clowns have suddenly assumed liberators because Mr. Kanu directly or indirectly made instrument of coercion available to them.
6. There have been an unprecedented rise in criminal activities in Ala Igbo to the extent many Igbo areas are no go areas.
7. The activities of policemen who are legally tasked with the public maintenance of law and order have been greatly curtailed as they are easy victims of IPOB terrorism.
8. Igbos have been put in a state of neither here nor there. We are not really in Nigeria and we are not in our own independent nation. We are practically a beast of no nation!
9. An average Onye Igbo hurl and throw insult at the slightest of disagreement. We have lost our sense of politeness or decorum since Mr. Kanu appeared with his uncouth demagoguery.
For a character like Mr. Nnamdi Kanu who came to steal, to kill and to destroy, to command groundswell loyalty in Ala Igbo, shows how low we sunk.
I am inclined to believe it will take we the Igbos many years to realize we disgraced our race and ancestors by deifying an unhinged mind.
How we Ndi Igbo moved from Nnamdi Azikiwe to Nnamdi Kanu is one great historical evidence that we Ndi Igbo are in Uga Azi. A historical period were matured adults think, talk and behave like children.
I pray and honestly look forward to us coming out from this Uga Azi and move into Uga Anwu.
©Nze Tobe Osigwe
Silly talk. One who cannot sit beside MNK and effectively speak on forensic fact based history and predictive political futurism. MNK rather took all Nigerian ethnic nationalities, except the Fulanis, a generation forward, not only Ala Igbo. Zik didn't fight the cause of Ndigbo but a united Nigerian nation built on egalitarian principles but, he was betrayed by those who felt Nigeria belonged to them. MNK fought for the subjugated and marginalized Ala Igbo, not a united Nigeria which he,and now all of us,have come to realize is a fake union. Zik and MNK fought different battles at different times.
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