The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned in very strong terms, the cancellation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed state burial.
The group, in a press statement issued by the Media and Publicity Secretary, Comrade Emma Powerful ands made available to newsmen, wondered why such a scheduled event which ought to have been made public after thoughtful deliberations was suddenly cancelled without justifiable reason.
The statements reads in part, “The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), under the supreme command of our indomitable leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, wishes to register its utter shock, not at the recent spectacle of absurdity called a “postponed state burial,” but at the collective docility and intellectual paralysis that has afflicted the Nigerian populace—an affliction so enduring that it has rendered the masses incapable of asking even the most basic questions.
How does a country postpone a state burial? Is the burial of a former “head of state” a wedding ceremony that can be rescheduled at will?
Which serious country on Earth, where leadership is founded on truth and history is sacred, schedules a state burial and then casually announces its indefinite postponement?
What sort of country is this?
It is evident that Nigerians have been stripped of all investigative instinct. When Mazi Nnamdi Kanu declared years ago that Muhammadu Buhari had died and had been replaced by a body double, many jeered, mocked, and dismissed him—failing to apply the most elementary logic. Today, exactly two years after the so-called Buhari left office, his “death” is suddenly announced without context, without clarity, without details—and the same masses applaud and accept the narrative without blinking. Is this a nation of thinking beings or a herd conditioned never to question its shepherds?
Let us pose a few obvious questions:
Why has no significant head of state around the world issued any serious condolence message?
Why have global media powerhouses, from BBC to CNN to Al Jazeera, treated the “passing” of this supposed African giant with deafening silence?
Why has the British government, the colonial architect, undisputed owner of Nigeria and godfather of Fulani Janjaweedism, refused to issue any formal or heartfelt statement? Could it be that they already did so—years ago?
The truth is simple and bitter: you cannot issue a condolence message for the same man twice. It is appointed unto man to die once.
Yet, in a nation where rigging elections is normal, stealing from the poor is called governance, and murderers are celebrated as statesmen, it is no surprise that even death itself can be manipulated for political theatre.
This moral and intellectual stupor among Nigerians is the root of all their suffering. A people who cannot investigate, cannot interrogate, cannot rebel against deceit—such people will remain slaves in perpetuity. They will keep suffering under a parasitic elite who loot, lie, and kill with impunity, confident that the masses have been mentally defanged and spiritually castrated”.
