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| Kanu, under persecution by Buhari |
By Tim
Tochukwu
For
Biafra Choice Writers
“The
most shameful aspect of what is going on in Nigeria today is not just that
Buhari, an illiterate and school dropout, is the one interpreting the law for
the whole country and the judiciary; but that highly educated, civilised and
informed people are keeping mute over it and have refused to speak up.”
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian President, has used every
opportunity to accuse Nnamdi Kanu of committing an offence of treasonable
felony. Kanu is the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and Director
of Radio Biafra, who has been campaigning for the restoration of the sovereign and
independent state of Biafra, which is a legitimate aspiration under
international law.
On late December 2015, Buhari went on national
television to find Nnamdi Kanu guilty of the offence of treason. According to
Buhari, Nnamdi Kanu committed the offence because he had to passports – British
and Nigerian. He said it was an offence because Kanu came into the country
without any of the passports. In addition, he said the IPOB leader entered the
country with sophisticated equipment. “Do you know he has two passports, one
Nigerian, one British, and he came to this country without using any passport?
… “Do you know he brought in
sophisticated equipment and was broadcasting for Radio Biafra? There is a
treasonable felony against him, and I hope the courts will listen to the case”
Buhari told a panel of Nigerian journalists interviewing him.
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| Buhari, the habitual liar |
The Nigerian President is a habitual liar, and it
shows, even in his interviews. For instance, it is a known fact that Nigerian
law accepts dual citizenship for its citizens. How then does having two
passports amount to an offence, even an offence of treason. In addition, how
could someone enter the country without using any of the passports, and he was
cleared at the airport – both at the London, British end; and Lagos, Nigerian
end. Buhari even claimed also that it was treasonable to import sophisticated
equipment. But up till today, Buhari has not mentioned what the equipment is.
The most shameful aspect of what is going on in
Nigeria today is not just that Buhari, an illiterate and school dropout, is the
one interpreting the law for the whole country and the judiciary; but that highly
educated, civilised and informed people are keeping mute over it and have
refused to speak up against it.
Viewed from all ramifications, one begins to see the
shame and unjustness that is in Nigeria. For Buhari to be the one accusing Kanu
is the height of hypocrisy and injustice. It shows the wickedness and evil that
has so brazenly become inherent in the contraption called Nigeria. Under normal
circumstances and in a real country of worth, this trial going on now against
Kanu should be the other way round; Buhari should be the one standing trial for
all manner of offences. This is because Buhari has committed many criminal acts
all his life. He is not only a petty
thief; a kidnapper; a pedophile, and a liar; he is also a treasonable felon; et
al.
In 1968, he took soldiers to a church in Owerri (now
Imo State capital) to massacre innocent women, children and the aged who ran to
the church to take refuge from his rampaging troops. He promised he was going
to do worse to Biafrans as President in the current dispensation, and he is
doing just that.
It is on record that immediately Buhari shot himself
into power as military head of state in 1984 (a treasonable offence), he set
about persecuting his perceived enemies. Many of them who were politicians, he
gave them outrageous jail terms, up to 100 to 240 years. One of the first
things he did was to commence the printing of new currencies (with new colours)
for the country. The intention was to render illegally acquired funds in the
hands of the people useless. To make the programme effective, borders were
closed to persons and goods and it was to make sure nobody smuggled in the old
currencies into the country. However, as dubious and hypocritical as Buhari has
ever been, he allowed the smuggling of 53 suit-cases into the country, which
many people believed contained the old currencies. Talk about a leader
undermining the good of his country.
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| Umaru Dikko, kidnapped by Buhari |
Buhari is a kidnapper, for he arranged the kidnap of
Umaru Dikko from his home in London in 1984. The kidnapping was done by putting
Dikko in a crate as Nigeria’s diplomatic cargo. It took the brilliance of the
British Police to thwart the kidnap arranged by Buhari as head of state. Now, even
before Buhari became Nigeria’s military head of state, he had already been
suffused in the controversy of a missing N2.8 Billion under his watch as
minister of petroleum.
Buhari is a master at using fronts to commit
atrocious frauds as well. He has done it with his wife, his aides and even his
family members. On his first official visit to the USA, he was given the list
of perpetrators of the Halliburton bribery scandal. Those who gave it to him
expected that he would use it to launch anti-corruption programme, which he had
so noisily campaigned with. But he has not because the name of his wife, Aisha,
is on the list. This is a case in which high-ranking British and USA citizens
have been jailed.
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| Aisha Buhari, recipient of Halliburton bribe |
In 1995, General Sani Abacha, the military head of
state increased the pump price of petrol from N3. 25 to N11. According to
Abacha, the extra fund from the increase would be used to distribute for social
and infrastructural projects. Abacha said he was looking for an honest Nigerian
to administer the fund under a body he set up – Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF). Unfortunately,
Buhari at the time was still able to veil his dubious nature and people
accepted Abacha’s choice of Buhari. By the time the story of PTF ended in 1999,
Buhari had stolen from it to the tune of billions through his many fronts.
Then there was the case of the former National
Security Adviser who was being hounded by his government for the way he shared
the security vote of former President Goodluck Jonathan. It is record that no
government has even been questioned as to how they used their security vote,
but Buhari chose to open that of Jonathan just to embarrass him and give the
impression he was fighting corruption. Incidentally, it was discovered that he
also received from the money shared through his Personal Assistant, Sabi’u
Yusuf, to the tune of N850 million. This was reportedly domiciled in Yusuf’s
Access Bank account with Account number: 0045586381. Yusuf is also Buhari’s nephew.
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| Kanu and wife |
This is the man who is accusing a clean and decent family man like Nnamdi Kanu of committing treasonable felony. Kanu is a graduate of
Metropolitan University, London, having studied Political Economy there. He
practiced as an Economic Consultant before delving fully into Biafra activism.
What he had done was to float a radio station that is registered legitimately
in Britain (the most civilised and law-driven country in the world); and the
signal is received worldwide. Kanu preaches self-determination for his Biafran
people, which is a legitimate aspiration under the United Nations Charter on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of 2006. How does that become treason?
The time has come when people of goodwill all over
the world should step in and stop this persecution of Nnamdi Kanu going on in
Nigeria under Buhari.
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