The British government have denied and disassociated themselves from the abduction, claiming that they neither arrested Mazi Nnamdi Kanu nor handed him over to the Nigerian government. The Kenyan government have also come out to deny their involvement in the abduction and subsequent handover to Nigerian government. However, the lawyer of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have visited him in detention and has now confirmed that he was abducted from Kenya in collaboration with the Kenyan government, whose security operatives abducted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu from an airport in Nairobi as he was transiting back to the United Kingdom.
According to his narrative, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was apprehended, detained and tortured for eight days in Kenya before he was transferred to Nigerian authorities who then airlifted him back to Nigeria. It is possible too that the Kenya government was paid a huge amount of money by the Nigerian government for facilitating his abduction. But since the Kenyan government denied their involvement in his abduction and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu implicated them as the mastermind, it now behoves the Nigeria government to make the needed clarification and exonerate the Kenya government and absolve them from any complicity, by telling the world how they abducted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and from which country andl condemn Mazi Nnamdi Kanu as lying and being out of his mind.
Their merely saying that he was "intercepted" is not enough because they did not intercept him in a void, but from some tangible space, either in an airplane or an airport or some other place suitable for human presence and/or habitation. The clarification is also necessary to either impute liability on the Kenya government and hold them out as a lying piece of manure or debunk the account given by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. But why would Mazi Nnamdi Kanu lie about where he was when he was abducted since he has nothing to gain by implicating a country which was not involved in his kidnap. Even torturing him and injecting him with muscle relaxing tranquilizer to enable his airlift back to Nigeria is additional violation and criminal trespass of his person.
ICHEOKU says understands the hesitance of the Nigerian government in disclosing the location and country of his abduction, because that will expose such a furtive country to some backlash from incensed Nigerians, particularly Biafrans. But carrying a heist on the body of person leaves them with no much choice because what they did is criminal and illegal, necessitating full disclosure of all the involved parties. What they did amounts to international piracy which is punishable and condemnable as it has the potential of impeding free air travels and transits through airports worldwide including those in Kenya.
How is what happened to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu any different from the Belarus forced plane landing of RyanAir jet and forcible arrest of journalist Roman Protasevich by the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko? Such acts of brigandage and forcible seizure of a human beings cannot and should not be tolerated as it will only encourage tyrants everywhere abducting people they consider threatening in unsafe manners, whenever their dirty hands can reach or they can bribe their way to securing such an outcome from greedy third party countries. President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has proved himself vulnerable to such external influence as the story goes that he was paid $50 million by the Nigerian government for the seizure and delivery of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. It smacks of human trafficking and government gangsterism between Aso Rock and whatever its equivalent in Nairobi Kenya is.
It is an open secret that most countries in Africa are financially supported from the coffers of Nigeria, hence Nigeria holds such a great influence in many African countries' presidential houses. Kenya is not an exception and possibly President Uhuru Kenyatta was blackmailed to sell his conscience with many zeros of Green backs.It is also possible that he did what he did in solidarity with Nigeria in the spirit of African Union, desiring to help a fellow African country solve a problem of separatist movement presently bugging it down. But whether it was purely altruistic or he was compromised, it is irrelevant; as a person legally passing through a Kenya international airport in Nairobi should not have been abducted by the Kenyan government in the first place, talk-pless of selling the person over to a third party country outside the traveler's itinerary for a handsome bargain.
The United Nations and the IATA must intervene in this matter as travelers cannot just be kidnapped and sold off to another country by a country through which they were merely transiting just like that. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu arrived in Kenya on a valid British passport with duly issued Kenya's entry visa as required. He finished whatever business that brought him to Kenya, which understandably had to do with his IPOB struggle for an independent Biafran homeland, and was on his way back to London when Kenyan security officials forcibly took him into custody at the airport.
They tortured him for eight long days for no reason other than on behalf of Nigerian government before handing him off to Nigerian government, which sources claimed paid a whopping $50 million in bargain. He did not break any known Kenyan law and his entry to Kenya was validly made; yet they kidnapped and tortured him and handed him off to Nigeria in return for a bargained amount certain.
This was the story of how Mazi Nnamdi Kanu ended up back in Nigeria's custodial detention after he had escaped the several attempts made by the Nigerian government's security operatives to assassinate him previously. The account came from the proverbial horses' mouth, as despite the mind altering and muscle relaxing drugs which were pumped into his vein during the whole nightmarish abduction, he still had the presence of mind to remember where he traveled to and was taken into custody from. His British passport was stamped in Nairobi with entry approval by the Kenyan Immigration Service; and so were his purchased plane tickets from London to and from Nairobi.
So, with this aspect of the story, that it was Kenyan government that seized him and handed him over to Nigeria, now no longer in doubt, what remains for adjudication is the illegality of what the Kenya government did and why they should be punished for committing such an act of international piracy, engaging in human trafficking and profiteering from an abduction of a traveler who was merely passing through their airport. It was a rude shock to millions of Nigerians as well as millions of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's followers and supporters worldwide that the Kenyan government of President Uhuru Kenyatta could do what he did, abduct a freedom fighter in his country's airport and hand him over to a tyrannical Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, who has been threatening to mercilessly deal with him.
The blood-shot eyed President Uhuru Kenyatta cannot say that he is not aware of the repeated attempts at the life of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by the Nigerian government; nor will he feign ignorance of the repressions of the Nigerian government and ongoing agitations in Nigeria which was triggered by wanton kidnappings and killings of innocent Nigerians by the ethnic Fulani murderous vampiric herdsmen. A blood thirsty group of fiends who are being encouraged and protected by their kinsman President Muhammadu Buhari; and whose criminalities are not being punished. So, on which side is President Uhuru Kenyatta anyway or does he support the genocide going on in Nigeria against Christians and other ethnic groups, one of which groups Mazi Nnamdi Kanu currently champions their cause.
If the Nigerian authorities have been on the trail of Mazi (Mr) Nnamdi Kanu for over two years and he has been traveling and visiting other countries, why then must it be President Uhuru Kenyatta who should sanction his abduction from Kenya and handover to Nigeria? Even the words of the Nigerian authority used in describing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, shows their contempt for him. So what if he lived a five star lifestyle? So what if he flew private? So what if he lived in luxury? So what if he is dapper and always in designer clothes and shoes? And so what if he was decked up in Fendi ensemble when they nabbed him?
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu represents something very great and very important and he has to look the part. He has never worked for the government of Nigeria and therefore cannot be accused of stealing Nigeria's money or looting Nigeria's treasury. So what is the Aso Rock's headache about his five star lifestyle? IPOB is the largest mass movement in the world and they sponsor the lifestyle of their leader however they see fit, so deal with it Nigerian government.
Unfortunately, the United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union as well as the African Union are all playing deaf and are indifferent to the presently smoldering crisis in Nigeria. They will not intervene now to help solve the problem now that it is still manageable and can be easily resolved without the need for a large scale wastage of human lives and wanton destruction of properties. When eventually, things get out of control with its attendant calamitous human displacements, all of them will start to pretend that they care about Nigerians with their pretended frantic efforts to find a resolution of the conflict and cater to the displaced.
ICHEOKU says whether they are deliberately waiting to first sell their weapons and see Nigeria's population reduced in an ensuing conflagration, nobody knows. But whatever may be their ulterior motive or reason for their reluctance for not stepping in now to help resolve the burning issues of agitations in Nigeria, the problem on the other side, should a total outbreak of conflict ensue, will be one heck of a load for the world to bear. Wisdom demands that it will be less costly for the world and Nigeria's human capital, for them to step in now and do the needful to reduce and possibly resolve the tension building up in Nigeria.
If it is not possible, then to peacefully divide Nigeria as was done in South Sudan, Kosovo and other places where the construct of colonialism and capitalism forced irreconcilable ethnic groups to be lumped together into one unworkable political entity. If Luxembourg with less than 650,000 people can be a country, ditto so many other European countries of less than 5 million in population, why then can't Nigeria with over 200 million people be divided into as many countries as the people desire in order for peace to reign. But as with so many reasonable people, ICHEOKU says would rather Nigeria fixed its problems of fairness and equity among its various inhabitants, than to have it balkanized.
But if dividing Nigeria becomes the only option that will avert a very destructive inevitable war in Nigeria's future date definite, for Christ's sake, hell yes, divide Nigeria into even six countries, if that is what it will take to avert such a fate befalling the world. Whatever needs to be done to avoid an implosion of the largest concentration of black people on earth and Africa's most populous country which is home to more than 20% of African population should be done and done now. The ICC should also take notice that the governments of President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and President Muahammadu Buhari of Nigeria are gangster governments and they engage in international piracy of kidnapping and human trafficking.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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