Some of you are just funny. Very funny.
Whenever I read your rhetoric about Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, I cannot help but laugh.
I have watched people who have put absolutely nothing on the line parade themselves as hardcore defenders of structure, guardians of IPOB, and lovers of Biafra. These men do not look over their shoulders. They do not fear sudden arrests. They wake up every morning beside their wives, listen to their children call them “daddy,” and leave home with confidence—only to return safely in the evening to the same comfort.
Yet these same men come to social media to lecture us. They tell us, with straight faces, that they have shifted the struggle away from Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in order to “protect IPOB.” Imagine that. They are now protecting the struggle from the very man who embodied it with his life.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, for the sake of this struggle, announced his return to Nigeria. He left London, landed in Lagos, and was arrested. He knew radio could awaken his people, but radio alone would never carry the message into the consciousness of other tribes, other nations, and Africa at large. He understood that serious leadership demands sacrifice. He exchanged his freedom for the freedom of his people. He knew the struggle needed that headline—that the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra had been arrested in Lagos.
He knew the pain would be his. He knew he was leaving behind a wife in London. He knew he was leaving his son at home to bear that pain with him. He did not even inform them, because he knew they would never allow him to go.
And you want me to believe that you love Biafra, IPOB, and its structure more than this man?
You are not funny. You are insane.
Again, he travelled to Kenya. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu knew Kenya’s history with extraordinary rendition—particularly between 2003 and 2007—when suspects were transferred to foreign custody without due process. He knew about cases that drew condemnation from international human rights organisations. He is a historian. He knew these things, yet he travelled to Kenya.
He made that journey without informing many people, including members of the DOS. And you think he was stupid? You think he was reckless? If he had told you, would you have allowed him to travel?
To my understanding, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu knew that the only way he could re-enter Nigeria and become a permanent thorn in the throat of the Nigerian state was through extraordinary rendition—and he executed it deliberately. He understood that the struggle could not be won by radio alone. He knew he had to pay more as a leader.
Yet today, some members of the DOS imagine themselves to be greater lovers and protectors of the struggle than the very man who sacrificed everything for it.
You wake up after bedding your wife, then make calls from your safe zones to insult a man in detention. You say when he is released he should “go and rest.” Are you for real? Because you are a media warrior, you now write nonsense urging him to cut deals with the Nigerian government—treacherously hoping he would be destroyed. You insult him recklessly. You call for his removal.
What is his crime? Suffering for Biafrans and refusing to betray them.
The extraordinary rendition of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu may have elevated some of you to positions you never imagined, but it will never make you greater than your leader. Lies, broadcasts, and coordinated propaganda will not change what we already know.
Those of you being used as media warriors to twist the truth—enjoy it while it lasts. Those of you coordinators who bought into this agenda simply because of position should also remember that every jamboree has an expiry date.
Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be free. And when that happens, many of you will finally understand everything I have been saying.
Elochukwu Ohagi
Philosopher, Teacher, and Activist
2026.
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