By Paul Onomuakpokpo
In a seeming bid to ward off the
increasing threats to the stability of the country, the government is
floundering from one absurd measure to another. From deploying its security
apparatuses to monitor the social media, it has moved on to rein in hate speech
by proposing a bill in this regard. No much alarm should be triggered if the
government luxuriates in the obliviousness of the inability of these frenzied
measures to stave off the dissolution of the people’s union if it fails to
reckon with more enduring and acceptable solutions that the citizens have
generously proposed.
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| *Nnamdi Kanu |
But we must not ignore the augury
of a looming tragedy we are now confronted with in the government’s latest move
to sustain the nation’s unity. This is the bid by the government to re-arrest
the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu might
have impudently breached some of the conditions for his freedom from
incarceration. He might have been found rhapsodising before his hundreds of
supporters and putative security personnel about his republic of unrivalled
equality and thereby violating the condition that he must not be in a crowd of
more than 10 people. He might be considered to have continued on the path of
heating up the polity by insisting on his prising a Biafra
Republic from Nigeria Biafra question remains
unresolved. But these apparent offences do not validate the government’s quest
to re-arrest him in view of the rash of grim consequences that such a move
would precipitate.
