By Kalu Nwokoro Idika
If rapture should happen today, Lai Mohammed, the minister of information in Nigeria will be found worthy to enter the kingdom of God. This bold assertion might shock a lot of people but is the bitter truth. Though, the minister who is known to be a serial liar knows when to retreat as soon as his lies have been busted by the general public. Sometimes, when Lai Mohammed vomits any injurious lie which could possibly lacerate the image of the kleptomaniac government he is serving, automatically, he will retract it by saying that his statement was quoted out of context. But however, the same thing cannot be said about the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu who is presently in exile as a fugitive.
The arrogant leader of IPOB with his uncouth lips is a gigantic picture of Lai Mohammed. The minister of information in Nigeria is nothing but a junior apprentice to Nnamdi Kanu when it comes to trivial lies. Perhaps, many of his followers definitely will conceive my position very ridiculous but does it really matter? It doesn’t. I must write the truth so that posterity won’t blame me for absconding to draw the ears of our people when danger was lurking. We have been promised on several occasions by Nnamdi Kanu and his goons that under their fraudulent watch Biafra will be restored but unfortunately the whole rhetoric turned out to be a fiasco.
There are numerous unforgivable lies Nnamdi Kanu and his cohorts have told Umu Igbo. Parochial lies that should have made Nnamdi Kanu to repent and re-strategize for better. Kanu lied about referendum, 40 million ballot papers, hitech farming, signed and sealed deal and returning to Nigeria with hell. His lies are too much to mention. Kanu sees nothing bad in lying. Lying is the food he eats and the air he breathes. Without lies, his IPOB business will collapse. So, to keep the business glowing, he must lie and lie and lie till infinity. Lies ensures the sustainability of his malicious radio.
Moreover, another lie Nnamdi Kanu told his followers has been busted by the 2020 report of United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. We can recall that on the 8th of June, the Nigerian government accused the Indigenous People of Biafra of using a false allegation of persecution of Christians to drive a wedge between the country and the United States, United Kingdom and European allies. This revelation was contained in a press statement issued by Garba Shehu, the senior spokesman of president Muhammadu Buhari. When this revelation was made by the presidency in Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu and his followers went berserk, jumping like crickets and setting the entire social media agog. According to Kanu, their diplomatic offensive against Nigeria was yielding results. Remember, Kanu who was under pressure to account for the defense fund he squandered immediately seized the opportunity to lie to his followers that their defense fund is been used to prosecute diplomatic war against Nigeria. Perhaps, his gullible followers swallowed the lie hook line and sinker.
Surprisingly, Kanu who has been so critical about Christianity suddenly became someone who is now fighting for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria and not Biafra again. What an irony. The 2020 report of United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has unmasked his sinful lie. If indeed IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu is spending over $85,000 in fighting for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria, why will their name be on the same page with Bokoharam as groups attacking Christians in Nigeria? What is the sense in it? You are spending a huge amount of money fighting for persecuted Christians while your name is outrightly on the list of groups attacking the same Christians. This is to prove to Kanu and his co travellers that lies can’t run faster than the truth. He has been shamefully busted for our people to know how unreliable he is.
Needless to say that Kanu has used his janjaweed and malicious radio to tell injurious lies. Umu Igbo must disassociate themselves from Nnamdi Kanu. His lies have caused us enough damage. The path to Kanu’s utopia Biafra leads to destruction. It is full of darkness, vindictiveness, bitterness and death.
Kalu Nwokoro Idika is a political analyst, investigative and freelance journalist
Kalunwokoroidika@yahoo.com