20/11/2025
Nnamdi Kanu has been rightly sentenced, and I believe a page of our national threat has finally been closed. At least for now.
I hope the governments in the South East will leverage this opportunity to go after the other elements terrorising the region and restore normalcy. That region has burned for far too long.
And now that the government has addressed this particular issue, I hope people can move on, rebuild their lives, and work to recover the properties wasted in the crisis.
What I genuinely do not understand is why some people are suddenly angry that Nnamdi Kanu has been sentenced, yet they mount pressure on the government to end insurgency and terrorism in the North.
The truth is, both Kanu and the terrorists you want arrested are one and the same. They are inflicting pain on innocent people, killing, maiming, and destroying livelihoods to pursue their cause. Their motives may differ, but the moment they chose human beings as collateral damage, they crossed into the same territory of evil.
There is no romantic way to paint that.
And this is not a mutually exclusive situation where someone can argue that because the sponsors of terrorism in the North have not been arrested, then the government cannot sentence Kanu in the South East.
That kind of justification is morally bankrupt. Imagine the number of lives lost because of Kanu’s erratic and violent method of agitation. He ordered people to kill service men and anyone who does not observe the Monday stay at home.
He claimed to love the Igbo people, yet unfortunately, the Igbo people have been the greatest victims of his madness. He crippled businesses and grounded the economy of the region. Many children became orphans, and many families were destroyed because of sit-at-home orders, violent enforcement, and attacks carried out in his name.
So yes, this sentence is a win for any right-thinking person who values human life above politics and ethnic bias.
However, the government must not stop here.