Eastern Security Network: A Costly Legacy Bequeathed to Biafrans by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

 Eastern Security Network: A Costly Legacy Bequeathed to Biafrans by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu Six years after independence, the Fulani began impleme...

 Eastern Security Network: A Costly Legacy Bequeathed to Biafrans by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu

Six years after independence, the Fulani began implementing their conquest mandate through the total Islamization of Nigeria. Nigeria was the only British colony where the British remained in charge on the eve of this quasi-independence. Christian persecution was a strategic plot orchestrated by the British to consolidate access to minerals while the Fulani pursued their forefathers' ambition of dipping the Koran into the Atlantic. There was nothing mistaken about this incomplete decolonization; it was intentional, handing Nigeria to the Fulani as British proxies.

The British knew their plan would succeed only if Nigeria's Christian backbone was fractured or destroyed. By the end of 1970, the first phase had confidently guaranteed a walkover. This era packaged disadvantages for Christian Biafrans through political design, turning them into second-class citizens.

Whether in infrastructure, security, or meritocracy, Christian Biafrans suffered. It was beyond shocking that a region with the highest number of travelers and importers lacked a functional airport or seaport. An exclusive list enabled the recruitment of political misfits imposed as new sheriffs.

Despite the hijacking of their political future, the resilience of Christian Biafrans shocked even the British. Fast-forward to 1999: Alex Ekwueme emerged as a political colossus, but Olusegun Obasanjo was anointed president in the nascent democratic era. A Christian president's rise slighted the Fulani-controlled Islamic kingmakers.

The real shock wave came in 2000 with the formation of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) by Ralph Uwazuruike. Both developments; a Christian-led Nigeria or a breakaway Biafra were legitimate and legal but, threatened the Islamic agenda.

By 2002, Zamfara State Governor Ahmad Sani Yerima introduced an illegitimate, illegal, and unconstitutional Shari’a system and Hisbah militia. In 2007, Boko Haram was born, activating widespread Christian persecution. Christian genocide became official as jihadists sought to conquer territories and enforce Islam.

Buhari's 2015 inauguration marked an unprecedented peak in Islamic jihadism. Fulani jihad gained political cover and state protection, targeting Christians and non-Fulani Muslims.

Outcries erupted across Christian areas in the Northeast, Northwest, and Middle Belt—especially Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Kogi, Kwara, and Plateau states. From 2015 to 2020, Fulani jihadists launched killing sprees in the Southeast: Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Abia, and Anambra.

On December 12, 2020—after appeals to politically correct Eastern governors met deafening silence, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu founded the Eastern Security Network (ESN).

ESN was a costly decision driven by love for the motherland, self-preservation, and homeland defense. Despite Buhari's illegal proscription of IPOB in 2017, Kanu filled a critical vacuum, knowing Nigerian puppets and otellectuals(Igbo intellectuals) would enable further attacks.

This pivotal gap-filling insulated the Southeast and all Old Eastern Nigeria (Biafra land) in general, from Islamization.

On this fifth anniversary of ESN's formation, Nigerians and Biafrans owe Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB a profound thank you. The best thanks? Support IPOB and ESN. View ESN as the last line of defense for Biafrans and Nigerian Christians—without it, we are doomed. Support it as if your life depends on it, because it does.

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