''This morning I am angry, deeply angry. And I need to say what is on my mind clearly. Yesterday Nnamdi Kanu was sentenced to life imprisonment and some of you are online shouting that the judgment is harsh. I honestly cannot understand how anyone with a functioning brain can say that. Do people not know what this man has done to families in the Southeast. Do they not know the level of destruction that happened because of the violence his movement unleashed.
My family is a victim. I am a victim. IPOB boys have been robbing, killing, and destroying lives all over the Southeast.
My younger brother was murdered in 2022 in Abatete. His last moments were videoed and shared online for us to see. That is how brutal and dehumanizing the situation was. My mother developed high blood pressure because of the trauma of losing her son in that manner, and was in the hospital for almost one year, and she died the following year.
So when people are shouting that the judgment is harsh, I am looking at them and wondering if they have lost their senses. This is just my family’s story. There are countless families who have tasted this same pain. So many people in Anambra have lost brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers because of the madness IPOB boys carried out in the name of a cause that only destroyed the very people they claimed to be fighting for.
Let us even talk about the innocent people who were forced to close their shops on Mondays. People who depend on daily sales to survive. People who opened their shops because they needed money to feed their children, only to be beaten, attacked, or killed for trying to live their lives. And all this was happening while Nnamdi Kanu’s own family lived comfortably abroad. He gave orders from abroad while people here were dying, suffering, losing their livelihoods, losing their children, losing their sanity. How does any sane human being justify that.
My own son was in boarding school in Anambra and every Monday they could not go to class. Imagine being in boarding school and still missing school because of fear of attacks. I had to pull him out because he and the other children were falling behind the rest of the country. Do people realize how many destinies were tampered with because of one man’s reckless ideas.
I cannot understand the noise people are making online. I cannot understand the fake outrage. If you think the judgment is harsh, please stay far away from me. It simply means you have never felt the pain that people like us have lived with. It means you do not understand what violence does to a family. It means you do not understand trauma or grief or loss. It means something is not connecting inside you.
This is not politics for me. This is not argument. This is lived experience. This is blood. This is pain. This is loss. This is what happens when someone’s reckless words turn into bullets and machetes in the hands of people ready to kill.
So no, life imprisonment is not harsh. In fact, it is soft compared to what many families have gone through because of his actions. People have died. Economies have collapsed. Children have suffered. Families have been shattered. And anyone who looks at all of this and still has the audacity to say life imprisonment is too much needs to ask themselves what kind of heart they carry.
Listen, look around you and see those who are balancing this MNK sentencing, avoid them if you can because they're wicked, and circumstances is giving you the opportunity to see them for who they are. And you, if you think that this judgement is "harsh", may you and your loved ones live the experiences of loss and heartache that many families in the South East have lived and living because of IPOB boys. Maybe then you'd understand this judgement.
#UkwaQueen
Her comment section came under attack from IPOB Loyalists after this post and she has since made several posts telling them she is not scared after she was threatened severally...
I feel her pain and prays that she and those left behind to carry the pain of their losses heal...
So when people are shouting that the judgment is harsh, I am looking at them and wondering if they have lost their senses. This is just my family’s story. There are countless families who have tasted this same pain. So many people in Anambra have lost brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers because of the madness IPOB boys carried out in the name of a cause that only destroyed the very people they claimed to be fighting for.
Let us even talk about the innocent people who were forced to close their shops on Mondays. People who depend on daily sales to survive. People who opened their shops because they needed money to feed their children, only to be beaten, attacked, or killed for trying to live their lives. And all this was happening while Nnamdi Kanu’s own family lived comfortably abroad. He gave orders from abroad while people here were dying, suffering, losing their livelihoods, losing their children, losing their sanity. How does any sane human being justify that.
My own son was in boarding school in Anambra and every Monday they could not go to class. Imagine being in boarding school and still missing school because of fear of attacks. I had to pull him out because he and the other children were falling behind the rest of the country. Do people realize how many destinies were tampered with because of one man’s reckless ideas.
I cannot understand the noise people are making online. I cannot understand the fake outrage. If you think the judgment is harsh, please stay far away from me. It simply means you have never felt the pain that people like us have lived with. It means you do not understand what violence does to a family. It means you do not understand trauma or grief or loss. It means something is not connecting inside you.
This is not politics for me. This is not argument. This is lived experience. This is blood. This is pain. This is loss. This is what happens when someone’s reckless words turn into bullets and machetes in the hands of people ready to kill.
So no, life imprisonment is not harsh. In fact, it is soft compared to what many families have gone through because of his actions. People have died. Economies have collapsed. Children have suffered. Families have been shattered. And anyone who looks at all of this and still has the audacity to say life imprisonment is too much needs to ask themselves what kind of heart they carry.
Listen, look around you and see those who are balancing this MNK sentencing, avoid them if you can because they're wicked, and circumstances is giving you the opportunity to see them for who they are. And you, if you think that this judgement is "harsh", may you and your loved ones live the experiences of loss and heartache that many families in the South East have lived and living because of IPOB boys. Maybe then you'd understand this judgement.
#UkwaQueen
I feel her pain and prays that she and those left behind to carry the pain of their losses heal...
I will continue to say this, may those sympathizers (Kanu) grief through violence before this year runs out! (Ise) Kanu is in green uniform, that's what matters now!
ReplyDeleteIt's just so sad. Na who e no affect go dey talk. May God not let evil befall us or our loved ones.
ReplyDeleteThis was how my fiance may his soul rest got killed at owerri. He went there for peace keeping and his identity was bursted. As the commander of the squad, he was their target. The kidnapped him and he was shoot on site.
ReplyDeleteIt was a gruesome site, my friend who saw the picture said, she can never allow me see such thing because, it will traumatise me. Someone I visited 2 months died after. 2years ago but still feels like yesterday.