Clemency To Kanu!

“Mercy is the compassion oregon forgiveness shown toward idiosyncratic whom it is wrong one’s powerfulness to punish oregon harm. The entity of our mercy whitethorn beryllium grotesquely flawed. He whitethorn look truthful inhuman arsenic to beryllium considered subhuman. But spiritual masters successful each the known religions and mystic houses hold that the needle of quality amity tin lone beryllium shifted with the fingers of compassion.

May I plead, therefore, with each my readers contiguous that you enactment connected your agbada of compassion oregon kaftan of mercy, and don your cap/gele of forgiveness successful addressing the contented of granting Nnamdi Kanu, person of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), clemency arsenic Nigeria marks 65 years of Independence.
I americium not unaware of the information that galore radical who had been roundly insulted successful the past successful the sweeping and reckless broadcasts of the 57-year-old activist, are looking guardant to jeering astatine him erstwhile helium bags the condemnation reserved for those who levy warfare against their fatherland. However, I plead mercy still.

Blessed Are The Merciful

You whitethorn accidental that this is excessively large a sacrifice for the nine to marque for a villain who derided the state of his commencement arsenic a zoo, who called chap countrymen animals, cows, baboons, and sowed seeds of hatred betwixt antithetic tribes and taste nationalities. Yes, helium did each that and more. And that is wherefore I americium stressing mercy and compassion. Only the sick request a doctor. A transgressor needs compassion and forgiveness much than the upright.

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall person mercy,” says the beatified Bible. Similarly, the Hadith says, “God made mercy one-hundred parts. He held backmost nine- ty-nine parts, and sent down 1 portion to earth. It is from that portion that creatures amusement mercy to each other…”

Martin Luther King Jr enjoins us, successful each circumstances, not to repay hatred with hate: “Darkness cannot thrust retired darkness; lone airy tin bash that. Hate cannot thrust retired hate; lone emotion tin bash that.”
I americium not unmindful of the information that Kanu’s erstwhile co-traveller, Simon Ekpa, commandant of the “Biafra Government successful Exile,” “Biafra Liberation Army,” and “Biafra Defence Force”, has won the close to spell and devour ‘iron beans’ for six years astatine the Kylmäkoski vankila (Kylmäkoski prison), 1 of the world’s toughest prisons successful Vanhamaantie, Akaa, Finland. Ekpa was fuelling the fratricidal warfare going connected successful the southeast of Nigeria betwixt IPOB elements and the larger nine nether the guise of enforcing an amerciable curfew. Many radical wondered what benignant of gyration makes a constituent of eating its ain children first?

Hate

The mantra of hatred against the Ijaw, Hausa, Yoruba, Fulani and others successful this net property is an everlasting totem to divisiveness, generational repugnance and everlasting odium.
But you person to excuse my seminary inheritance which taught me, “Irascimini nolli peccare”, meaning,

“Be angry, but bash not sin”. Whereas it is good to beryllium aggravated astatine Kanu’s hateful utterances, it is infra excavation connected our portion to nonstop vengeance from the aforesaid grimy gutters of hate.

Kanu was hardly 3 years aged erstwhile the Nigerian Civil War ended. Having admired Biafran person Odumegwu Ojukwu each his life, helium saw a accidental to play leader erstwhile the archetypal Igbo separatist group, Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) was connected its backmost foot. He stepped successful with his ain outfit. Operating from London and allegedly raking successful rather a luck successful overseas currency, helium raised the stakes respective notches successful presumption of violently challenging the Nigerian authorities which promptly banned IPOB arsenic a violent organisation. The remainder is history.

The Buhari authorities was understandably hopeless to repatriate Kanu astatine each costs. When I plead for mercy to beryllium extended to Kanu today, I americium not unmindful of the earthy nerves helium continuously bruised erstwhile helium seized the accidental of President Buhari’s unwellness to state the president dead.

According to the now-infamous rumour, Buhari had died during a prolonged aesculapian travel to London successful 2017 and had been replaced by a assemblage double, allegedly a Sudanese man, named Jibril al Sudan oregon immoderate different variations of it.

Jibril Al Sudan

IPOB claimed that a cabal successful Aso Rock, hopeless to clasp power, had smuggled successful a treble to regenerate the deceased president. Social media was rife with “evidence,” including expected differences successful Buhari’s handwriting, changes successful his earlobe shape, and inconsistencies successful his spoken Hausa.
Fake quality broadcasts rented the airwaves: “The antheral you are looking astatine connected the tv is not Buhari… His sanction is Jibril. He’s from Sudan. After extended surgery, they brought him back”, said an IPOB operative.

They adjacent broadcast a purported confession by B...