Christian Genocide: Nnamdi Kanu's Custody in Sokoto Underscores Ongoing Christian Genocide, Indicting Nigerian Government, Sokoto Cali...
Christian Genocide: Nnamdi Kanu's Custody in Sokoto Underscores Ongoing Christian Genocide, Indicting Nigerian Government, Sokoto Caliphate, and Fulani Oligarchs
The unconstitutional sentencing and consequent transfer of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), from Abuja to prison facility in Sokoto State, northwest Nigeria has ignited fresh concerns to the already viral discussions about the systematic targeting of Christians in Nigeria by the jihadist Nigerian government and exposed the deep fissures in the country's federal structure.
This development, not just symbolically represents a jurisdictional question, but it clearly encapsulates the existential fears bedeviling Christian communities across Nigeria's Middle Belt and Southern regions who have endured decades of jihadist violence, marginalization, and what many international observers increasingly characterize as genocidal attacks against Nigeria Christian population.
The Symbolism of Sokoto
One may ask, why send Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to Sokoto prison and not Abuja the seat of power; where his security can be guaranteed?
Well, Sokoto is not merely another Nigerian state; it represents the historical and contemporary seat of Islamic authority in northern Nigeria. As the headquarters of the Sokoto Caliphate, established in the early 19th century through Usman dan Fodio's jihad against indigenous tribes across northern Nigeria, the city, though fraught with terrorist activities, carries profound religious and political significance to all Muslims in Nigeria and even to the jihadist terrorist groups like Boko Haram carrying out attacks on Christian communities in the last decade.
Again, the custodial choice and management of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Sokoto prison has far reaching implications that extend beyond his individual safety and security. His imprisonment in a region that is already fraught with ethnic and ongoing religious strife underscores the deliberate collusion with jihadist terrorists by the Nigerian government to alienate, persecute and silence not just Mazi Nnamdi Kanu but every Judeo-Christian voice and population in Nigeria, further indicting the Nigerian government's complicity and efforts at emboldening the jihadists in carrying out more Christian genocide across Nigeria.
Consequently, for many Christians and southern Nigerians, the Nigerian government's decision to hold Kanu—a Judeo-Christian separatist leader—in Sokoto sends an unmistakable message about how the Islamic Sokoto Caliphate's influence extends to shape federal policy in ways that disadvantage Christian and non-Muslim communities in Nigeria.
The violence against Christian communities in Nigeria has followed a disturbing pattern over the past two decades. Native Farmers in Plateau, Benue, Kogi, Niger, Enugwu, Taraba, and Southern Kaduna states have faced relentless attacks from armed Fulani herders, jihadist terrorists of various names resulting in thousands of deaths and the displacement of entire villages. Churches have been burned, communities razed, and survivors left with neither justice nor restitution from the Nigerian government. Instead, the Nigerian state through the Nigerian military negotiates peace deals with these jihadist terrorists, further proving state collusion and involvement in the genocide against Nigerian Christians.
The message is clear: challenging the Nigerian state's legitimacy is a crime worthy of indefinite detention and life imprisonment, but slaughtering Nigerian Christians en masse is not.
The Sokoto Caliphate, created an Islamic structure that subjected non-Muslims to dhimmi status—second-class citizenship under Islamic Shari'ah law across the 19 Northern States in Nigeria. While colonialism and independence formally ended the caliphate's political authority, its religious and cultural influence persists led by Usman Dan Fodio tribesmen; Fulani Oligarchs.
For Christians in Nigeria, the Kanu situation in Sokoto symbolizes their worst fears: that they are increasingly powerless in a country where religious and ethnic identity determines whether the state protects you or targets you.
Kanu's transfer to Sokoto prison exemplifies this pattern of deep-seated religious persecution, selective justice In Nigeria and indicts the Nigerian state, Sokoto Caliphate and Fulani Oligarchs as masterminds of these jihadist terrorist groups perpetuating Christian genocide in Nigeria. While the IPOB leader remains imprisoned at the heart of Islam in Nigeria; Sokoto State for demanding a referendum for the extrication of Christian Eastern Nigeria from the jihadist infested Nigerian state, those Islamic terrorists responsible for massacring thousands of Christians and non-Muslims in their homes and churches across Nigeria walk free and are negotiated with.
The international community must hold Nigerian government accountable for the ongoing persecution of Christian voices, and communities in Nigeria, especially strongly call for the unconditional release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, a Judeo-Christian imprisoned for asking for Biafra Referendum in the Islamic regime of Nigeria.
Family Writers Press International
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