Re: Methodist Prelate reveals identities of abductors

Déja vu; almost everywhere already known or suspected that the insecurity in Nigeria, especially the East:

That either the state or actors using or enjoying state resources, patronage or protections are almost entirely behind it all.

That even if there are “Igbo boys” involved, they are largely non-Igbo fluent in Igbo, or Igbo individuals pushed by hunger, purchased with money, or blackmailed, etc to join.

We recall again and again that more than 400 “Unknown Gunmen” had previously been arrested in Imo, state, a bomber apprehended by people at Afikpo, 70 or so youths intercepted on their way to the East for “deployment”, etc, and they were all found to be substantially non-Igbo.

Till now no one has been told where those arrested or apprehended are. Melted into thin air or “repented” as usual?

A reasonable explanation is yet to be given how a 3-hour prison operation can take effect and thousands of prisoners safely evacuated from a high military-security area with none of the arms “knowing” or taking appropriate countermeasures.

On the other hand, how manage most of the victims of police station attacks and bombings by “Unknown Gunmen”, appear to be Igbo officers and men, with the non-Igbo often “fortunately” reporting late enough to work to escape harm?

All should thank our stars that the Prelate and his Bishops escaped the cutting and beheading death sentences, which is the pattern of our “owners of Nigeria” jihadists, who till today are still unable to take reputable journalists and hoi polloi to the scene of the murder of the military couples to compare the claimed “Igboland” vegetation with what was seen in the video.

As it seems, if care is not taken, what Nigerians had gone through in the last seven years may pale into insignificance compared to what appears to be in prospect in the next 12 months given the vows of those latest protected kidnappers, for, to them, it’s “now or never”. We must be prepared for more dirty tricks implicating “the Igbo”, telling the world that it is the “Igbo killing Igbo” and “our Fulani”, and mobilizing federal might to deal with the “secessionists”. Of great significance: neither the state nor federal government played any part in the release of the three great men, and meanwhile attentions have been diverted from the butchery of Deborah and the follow-up mayhems against innocent Igbo, Southerners and Middle Belters in various parts of the North and Abuja, the burning of the innocent in Lagos, etc!

– Obasi Igwe.