IPOB’s Supporters Mental Gymnastics
By Chioma Amaryllis Ahaghotu
No amount of mental gymnastics or disingenuous remarks will mask the fact that many of you IPOB/ESN/Umuoma/Kanu apologists are simply obtuse!
Not because you lack the capacity to seek the facts.
Not because Orsu, Mbaitolu, Lilu, Achala, Umuaka, Mbosi, Ideato North etc don’t exist.
No. It’s because you choose not to think.
You choose to ignore the thousands of Igbo people killed by IPOB/ESN and their offshoots.
You choose to overlook the communities destr0yed, livelih0ods wiped out, and the entire South East economy crippled by homegrown terrorists who sold you snake oil packaged as “freedom.”
You choose delusion over truth because accepting reality would shatter the fantasy of a messiah you built for yourselves.
You don’t think what they did counts as terrorism.
You don’t think the man who orchestrated deaths, who intentionally made the region ungovernable, who ordered executions and beheadings live on air , you don’t think that counts as terrorism.
You think only what happens in Benue, Plateau, and the North East counts.
But the horror our people lived through?
The bloodshed on our soil?
The daily terror in Ala Igbo?
That one didn’t match your definition.
Igbo children stayed out of school every Monday for years , that didn’t count. People stayed away from their hustle every Monday. Not by choice but by force.
Dr. Chike Akunyili, sh0t de*ad in the middle of Onitsha by Small, an Umuoma Kanu boy acting under orders , that didn’t count. He was groomed since the age of 12.
The terror inflicted by ESN/Biafra Liberation commanders Onye Army, Ikonso, Gentle, Makeup, and the Umuoma boys — that didn’t count. (Most of their killings were on tape, btw!)
And let’s talk about Ikonso, since many of you pretend not to know.
Kanu went on a live broadcast and ordered that his dea*d commander Ikonso be bu*ried with 2,000 heads.
Not any random heads.
Not “enemies of the revolution.”
Igbo heads.
The heads of innocent Igbo people.
And his boys took that command seriously.
They went out and collected up to 30 heads , human beings with families , and you still say this is not terrorism?
His men beh*eaded and can*nibalized their victims.
They desecrated the bodies of those military people. Gentle cut out her vag*ina and organs! Her only crime was being a soldier. She came home as a civilian to the SE to get married to her fiancé who was also in the military and they never made it home.
Did it touch your conscience?
Did it stir your sense of “justice”?
No. Because you only see “justice” when it suits your emotional attachment.
You never asked what “crime” their so-called “sab0teurs” committed before Kanu’s boys dragged them out of their homes and exec*uted them like animals.
They went into palaces and sh0t traditional rulers , not “at,” straight-up exe*cution! They set buildings on fire and labeled it Biafran territory. They filmed it and posted it, and yet you still didn’t see or hear.
You never asked about the shall0w graves scattered across the South East where they dumped their victims.
You never asked about the police stations Kanu ordered them to burn, the officers he ordered them to disarm and behead , he said it on radio.
“You lovers of justice” didn’t hear his command that even old women who came out to hustle to feed their children should be shot on sight if they disobeyed his May 31 sit-at-home order.
Imagine the absurdity. The intellectual dishonesty of it all.
How many of you in Americe or other countries abroad would tolerate a civilian, not a state actor, coming on live radio to issue orders like this?
How many of you are forced to sit at home on Veterans Day or other holidays under threat of being shot?
If any one here commanded beheadings, executions, burning of police stations, killing of old women… do you think the US government would shrug and say “justice for him”?
Make it make sense.
And you, ndi “my heart is broken”, “my spirit is wounded”, have you ever asked how the victims feel?
Have you asked about the parents who buried their children.
The families who couldn’t retrieve the remains of their loved ones?
The communities living under constant fear?
The complete erosion of law and order?
Most of you shouting from abroad and outside of the Southeast didn’t even have the courage to send your children to those communities during this period.
Most of you couldn’t step foot in your own villages.
You were legitimately scared.
You avoided going home because of the same terr0r you now pretend did not exist.
But online, you suddenly find your voice.
You shout.
You distort.
You gaslight.
You lie.
Cars were found in their possession, stolen from their victims.
Kanu armed men and set them loose on Ala Igbo. When he said he had the command of 2 million men and weapons ready to go, what did you think he meant?
They invaded and occupied communities illegally, held them under siege and ransom.
People needed to comply or die.
Videos exist of their activities. Audios exist of their plans.
His boys would come on air to give updates on the exeecutions. He ordered them to build makeshift weapons, welders to build makeshift speed bumps to use to stop, disarm their victims, on air.
He told them how to create petrol bombs on air.
The broadcasts exist. They informed his judgment. A judgment that took over 4 hours to get through.
But you think outright denial in this age of free information will mask your willful ignorance? 99.9% of their victims were Igbo. My people. Your people. Our people.
And tell me, what did Simon Ekpa do that Kanu didn’t do 1,000 times?
What orders did Ekpa give that didn’t come directly from Kanu? Command and Control and autopilot were Kanu’s blueprint. When he said on air, “we would lure the Nigerian military to our land,” who did you think was the bait?
Tell me what punishment is worthy of the leader of a terror squad?
How many people did Kanu need to order their killing to count as terr0rism?
How many lives should his boys have wasted for you to agree he should be liable? 1, 10, 100, 1,000 how many?
All to defend a man whose own commands, broadcasts, and instructions were used to convict him , not hearsay, not propaganda, but his own words.
Over 4 hours of evidence, exhibits from his utterances were used to convict them.
If you are so touched, you should have advised him not to make them.
Because Northerners embrace their terrorists, you think you too should be allowed to embrace yours.
And you still believe your head is correct?
Iche na isi dị unu mma???
