Simon Ekpa Is A Criminal Sponsored By Finland, Must Be Stopped - Akin Aluta
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Good afternoon Mr. Akin Okunowo. For those who may not know who you
are, kindly give us a bit intro of your person.
My name is Akin Okunowo, popularly known as Aluta. I am an activist and
fight against all manner of terrorist acts. I led the founding of what is
called Anti-Cult in Nigeria tertiary institutions in 1997 at Olabisi
Onabanjo University in Ago-Iwoye. I have represented students and various
levels of leadership across the country when I was in university.
I am a poet and playwright. I am the author of a book on the menace of
campus cultism in Nigeria, titled "Beware of Cultism (The Gathering of
Demons). The book was awarded The Most Outstanding Publication on the
Menace of Campus Cultism in Nigeria.
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You have recently been in front of a campaign to abolish the sit-at-home
order by the IPOB. The sit-at-home campaign in the Southeast seemed to
have finally been abolished, what is your take on this?
I want to note that criminals were making a lot of money through the
enforcement of the sit-at-home order. The IPOB recuited armed criminals
into its militant arms, that is, ESN, BLA, and Unknown Gunmen. They
committed all.manner of criminal atrocities without check. For example,
they killed to infuse fear into the mind of the public; robbed market and
business people to compel them not to go to market on Mondays; kidnapped
for ransome; they assasinated people who have contrary opinions; and
committed all manner of abominable acts like beheading human beings and
eating the flesh of their victims.
So, for a very long time, they have generated a lot of money and found
save haven for them to escape being caught and prosecuted by the Nigeria
government.
And we must note as well that, during this particular point in history,
the Nigeria government leadership was very dull and myopic. So, Nnamdi
Kanu was able to capitalize on the weaknesses of the Buhari government to
run narratives that were mere propaganda.
Unfortunately, the people of the region were too silent for too long, not
countering many of these false narratives. Nnamdi Kanu ended up picturing
IPOB as if it were an organisation comprising of the entire people of the
Southeast. Meanwhile, IPOB is not an organisation validated by the people
of the South-East. It was just a group created by Nnamdi Kanu but explored
the name BIAFRA to make it look like it was the entire Biafrans.
Before people realized the implication of this, the IPOB group had
forcefully imposed itself on the people of the region. Any Ndigbo who goes
against the view of IPOB is quickly tagged the enemy of the liberation of
Biafra. Consequently, it makes people become more silent out of fear of
being tagged a bad name and exposed to attack.
So, these criminals have enriched themselves and become so popular to the
extent that they are being celebrated like heroes, both home and abroad.
So, they are desperately looking for another avenue of making money.
Their recent agenda before we rose against the sit-at-home was to attack
the Nigeria oil exploration facilities to sabotage the economy and make
more money than what they were making from sit-at-home.
These criminals are hell-bent on destroying the East to enrich themselves,
except they are made to face the crimes they committed. Sparing them as if
sit-at-home has ended is another error some people are making.
Simon Ekpa and other IPOB members are silent over the abolishment of
their Sit-At-Home Order, following a report that the IPOB leader, Nnamdi
Kanu called for the abolishment of the sit-at-home order. In your opinion,
do you think this is the last we will hear of IPOB Sit-At-Home Order, or
we should be expecting more?
Like I said. Simon Ekpa and his criminal gang members are not silent, and
this will not be the end of their terrorist acts. Besides, they already
have means of raising funds to buy weapons, and they have countries
selling those weapons for them.
Where do you expect them to keep all the weapons that Kanu and Simon Ekpa
have acquired for the criminals carrying out the sit-at-home orders. Do
you know the agreement between those suppliers of weapons and these
criminals calling themselves Biafra agitators?
See, the weapons business is a serious international business. So, a
lot of external interest is at stake here. For example, Finland. How can a
country be openly encouraging terrorism in Nigeria. How can a country that
is part of UN give her citizen to a member of a proscribed organisation in
a member state of the UN? An organisation that was proscribed by Nigeria
for terrorism. And they allowed such member to be doing what even an
Indigenous citizen of Finland can not dare to do.
They encouraged Simon Ekpa to use their country as excuse that he cannot
be arrested by Nigeria. He organises fundraising inside Finland for buying
weapons of war. From Finland, he smuggled the weapons to Nigeria for the
IPOB militia arm to operate. And Finland thinks people are fool. You
cannot call yourself my friend and take in my enemy into your house and
allow my enemy to be using your house to attack me. No. Finland is not a
friend of Nigeria. Finland is a coward. If you want to fight Nigeria, come
straight and face us. Stop using Nigerians to kill Nigerians.
Note that the excuse that Simon Ekpa and his criminal gang members were
using before was that they were fighting for the unconditional release of
Nnamdi Kanu. Now that Kanu himself has declared, they should stop the
sit-at-home and probably find other legal way of fighting for his freedom,
Simon Ekpa will not agree. He will find other excuses. Except you don't
understand that he was never fighting for Kanu from the outset, that is
why you will think that his silence is an end to his terrorist acts. In
fact, last week, he organised another fundraising for buying more weapons.
So, will you tell me that kind of criminal has desist from his criminal
act?
Take note of what will happen soon. He will soon label Nnamdi Kanu himself
as a traitor or enemy of Biafra freedom. He will tell all the Ndigbos that
listen to him to stop listening to Kanu. In fact, he will blackmail and
discredit Kanu to usurp the leadership of IPOB totally from him.
He will soon counter all this so-called handwritten note and order to end
sit-at-home. He will not accept any order from Kanu because he has planned
tgat from the beginning and perfected it by self claiming to be the Prime
Minister of Biafra as a country.
He needs to continue using the name of Nnamdi Kanu as excuse to commit all
sort of atrocities. Kanu dissociating his name from Simon Ekpa's act will
bring division between the two of them. Mark my word.
Throught last week, he was raising funds to buy weapons for the ESN.
And he has scheduled more fundraising exercise for this week. This shows
that, they guy has more backing from Finland and others to destroy the
South East.
But the truth is that, we are not relenting until he is repatriated back
to Nigeria to face his crime
The MJTF days ago announced that many Boko Haram members are voluntarily
surrendering themselves to the military, this is coming just days after a
video surfaced on various social media platforms in which some suspected
terrorists believed to be Boko Haram members were seen jubilating in Hausa
language over their shooting down of a military aircraft conveying some
military officers, killing all those onboard the aircraft. What is your
take on this?
See, Nigeria is at war against the BH already. A lot of things happen here
and there around the areas where this problem is much. Military kill
terrorists and terrorists too kill military. Forming assumptions without
facts can lead to a wrong understanding of what actually happened.
Unfortunately, some people are making a wrong narrative from the
development. Instead of understanding that these and many more are part of
the supreme price some Nigerians have paid to defend their fatherland,
some people are making unfounded propaganda out of it.
What I see is that there is a need for the Nigeria government to step up
its game. We can't be losing our soldiers just like that. They should stop
rehabilitating these criminals when they are caught. They should be
treated as criminals.
When Mutalab was caught on the plane them with suicide bomb, was he
rehabilitated and released by America? So, who are the enemies of Nigeria
advising the government to be doing such? Unfortunately, som3 of these
people become more daring knowing that at worst when they are caught they
will pretend as if they have surrendered and be rehabilitated and funded
with Nigeria money to live a life better than the Nigeria soldiers and
those living in places they hav3 terrorised. This is madness.
We should know that presently, Nigeria is leading ECOWAS military
intervention in Niger. So, why should we allow ourselves to be cajoled
that some people are surrendering. We should treat them as captured
terrorists.
Otherwise, it will confirm the suspicion of the people criticising the
government. They believe that since the military junta has declared
breaking all ties with France, the BH could no longer find Niger conducive
as safe heaven under the protection of France to terrorize Nigeria and
Niger.
Niger accused France of aiding BH. And now, Nigeria is fighting the
interest of France. Taking in these fake people surrendering because they
will be caught in the war if they remain where they are doing their BH
thing.
So, people are not fools. The government needs to be sensitive to ensure
it stops making more errors because the lives of our soldiers are
involved.
Nigeria government should wipe out BH, not welcoming them. Whether they
surrender or not.
Aside being an activist, you are also an entertainer. Recently you
released a studio track. What is the title of the song and what prompted
the release?
Yes, I'm a poet and playwright. Many of my poems are lyrical like
normal songs.
Yes, I just came up with a new one titled "Peace Anthem."
What prompted the song is a need to inspire Nigerians to unite against all
manner of problems we are facing as a nation. Stop allowing ourselves to
be divided through ethnic and religious lines. We should start seeing
ourselves as brothers and join hands together to rebuild Nigeria. Let's go
on with one Nigeria.
What word of advice do you have for the youths, as a youth who champions
many causes channeled towards youths' development?
This is our tomorrow. Stop expecting that one messiah is going to come from
nowhere to save you and rebuild Nigeria. We are the ones who will rebuild
Nigeria.
Let's stand up for our lives and unite together as brothers to rebuild
this nation. Stop allowing yourselves to be used by politicians. You can
do better than these politicians.
We must take our destiny in our own hands. Stop allowing yourself to be
used against your own people. Let's start making things work.
Follow Aluta:
Twitter @OurVoiceCountNG.
Instagram @OurNationNigeria.
Facebook @Akin Okunowo
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