By: Ukachuchwu Okorie
It is still hard to believe that the Kenya International Airport has become an abduction centre. It is very unfortunate for Africa. What happened recently at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is a stab on the back of Pan-Africanism and the quest for freedom in our continent.
The kidnap of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu confirms the shameful situation in Africa. Indeed, the situation is horrifying for children of Africa. AfricaWorld News learnt that €657,000 (320M naira) were paid by the Muhammadu Buhari presidency to the parties, including Kenyan officials, in the abduction. And to say the least, this action is detrimental to the Pan-African course. This calls for a full inquiry by the Kenyan authorities if they are not part of this gestapo act.
We call on the President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta to look into the abduction and set up an inquest, because the world need to know what happened. Kenyan authorities must redeem the battered image of the country over this horrific saga.
Lawyer to the abducted IPOB leader said his client was mercilessly beaten by the Kenyan special forces for eight days before handing him over to Buhari’s goons. It is important that Africans look at this issue deeply, then ask pertinent questions to both Nigerian and Kenyan authorities on International norms and practices on extradition as we have seen cases happen around the world.
With this singular act, the world can see how criminal minded the Buhari government is. The Nigerian government currently is a rogue one. How do you rate a government that finance terrorism, pays killers and flourish in nepotism?
However, it is important for a clarion call to be made on the need for investigations against these rogues that masquerade as leaders. President Uhuru Kenyatta must rise above this evil plot of the Fulani and their British backers in Nigeria. We will not rest until justice is done. We will continue to mobilise against the chief actors in this abduction saga, because it is anti Africa. This evil act is against our aims and objectives in AfricaWorld News as a pan-African organisation. It is detrimental to the African brotherhood and total freedom we preach. We cannot keep talking about the spirit of African Unity. We cannot be talking about bettering the lots of Africans on the continent. We cannot be talking about an Africa for Africans with such Abductions and inhuman treatments on true freedom fighters in the land.
Uhuru Kenyatta must do the needful in addressing this abduction saga. Perpetrators must be brought to book.
Ukachuchwu Okorie is Editor-in-Chief at AfricaWorld Reports
