Sophia Michaels
Reno Omokri
Former presidential aide and author, Reno Omokri, has reacted to the sit-at-home in the South Eastern region of the country.
Simon Ekpa, the Biafran agitator, had last week issued one week sit-at-home order, forcing Igbo’s in the zone to stay indoors.
Yesterday, Ekpa also issued another two-week sit-at-home, arguing that it would make the federal government to release Mazi Nnamdi Kano, the IPOB leader.
Undoubtedly, this directive (sit-at-home) is gradually crippling the economy in the zone. People are complaining over hardship following the removal of fuel subsidy, then this.
In view of the above, Omokri in a statement on Twitter, faulted the sit-at-home, advising the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to jettison further sit-at-home.
He equally countered a false narrative that Nigerians hated Igbos, noting that if the narrative was true, people from the geological zone wouldn’t be the most dispersed people in Nigeria.
Omokri also suggested the conversion of IPOB into a political party which will take control of the SouthEast region.
He Wrote:
”Nigeria loves the Southeast. And that is the reason why people from that geological zone are the most dispersed people in Nigeria. That will not happen if Nigerians hate Igbos. But if you believe you are hated, you will misinterpret every little thing and create misunderstandings that make your belief a self-fulfilling prophecy.
For instance, if a Federal or State Government says everybody must pay taxes, and it gets to your turn, that victim complex will make you see such a routine practice as hate. That is what happened with Mmesoma. A government agency fulfilling its lawful duty seemed like hatred, because some of our brethren expected hostility.
How can you say Yorubas hate Igbos, and an Igbo man defeated a Yoruba strongman in Lagos? Alaba Market, in Lagos, generates $4 billion annually for Ndi’Igbo. Where else on Earth do Igbo people see that type of revenue? Not even in Onitsha, or Aba. Focus on the facts and not what Radio Biafra is telling you. Radio Biafra is not a nicki swift station. It is a propaganda vehicle.
When Ojukwu married Bianca, it was a Yoruba Shina Peters he invited to perform at the wedding. Dim Ojukwu knew that Yoruba were not his enemies!
If Ojukwu, who led Biafra in a war with Nigeria that resulted in 1-2 million deaths, can be pardoned by a Fulani President, Shehu Shagari, how can you say the Fulani hate Ndi’Igbo?
Was it, not General Babangida, a Northerner, who returned all Ojukwu’s properties seized by a previous government to him?
Play your cards right, and Nnamdi Kanu will be freed. Renounce violence, like the Irish Republican Army did, and convert IPOB into a political party, the way the IRA became Sinn Féin, and democratically seize control of the Southeast, then turn it into a paradise, and other Nigerians will even vote for IPOB party Senators, Governors, and President. Who no like better thing?
There is more evidence of love for Ndi’Igbo than any signs of hatred. Yet, you are allowing people who are shooting, beating and molesting you, as they enforce a sit-at-home order, to convince you that other Nigerians, who buy from you, employ you, are employed by you, and rent properties to you, hate you”.
