It is very shameful and disgraceful that some of our Igbo leaders — governors, senators, elders, and traditional rulers — are silent or are behind the curtains opposing the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Yet these folks do not speak out when northern leaders openly negotiate with terrorists and bandits.
If you can support dialogue with people who take lives and destroy communities, but cannot call for freedom for a man whose only “crime” is speaking up for his people, then something is deeply wrong with your sense of justice.
Let’s tell ourselves the truth: Nnamdi Kanu is not a terrorist. He is a freedom fighter — a man who spoke out because he could no longer watch his people suffer in silence. You may not agree with all his methods, but you cannot deny that his message came from a place of love and concern for Ndigbo and Nigeria as a whole.
How can a country talk of peace and unity while treating one group with such open bias? Terrorists who have taken hundreds of lives are often “rehabilitated” or “forgiven.” Some are even integrated into society again. Yet, a man whose major weapon was his voice remains behind bars. That is hypocrisy in its raw form.
When you silence the truth-teller and protect those who destroy, you invite chaos. The Nigerian government cannot claim to be fighting insecurity while encouraging double standards. Peace can never grow in the soil of injustice.
It is time for every Igbo leader — whether in politics, business, or traditional institutions — to speak up with courage.
If you keep quiet today, thinking the issue does not concern you, remember that injustice spreads like wildfire. The same silence that keeps one man in detention today could silence your own people tomorrow.
Our people say, onye kwe, chi ya ekwe — when a person agrees, his spirit agrees with him. If we, the Igbo, agree to remain silent while one of our own suffers for daring to demand fairness, then we have accepted slavery with our own hands.
The world is watching.
The longer he is kept behind bars, the more Nigeria’s image as a democratic nation fades. You cannot build a just nation on selective justice.
To every Igbo leader who still has a voice, use it.
To every youth who still has hope, protect it.
And to those in power — remember, history never forgets those who stood silent when justice was crying out loud.
Free Mazi Nnamdi Kanu now.
Not tomorrow. Not someday. But now — because justice delayed is justice denied.
