ObunikeI find it deeply disturbing that the same people who celebrated the imprisonment of Adeyinka Shoyemi (Adeyinka Grandson) in the United Kingdom for his disgusting ethnic attacks against Ndi Igbo, are today preaching that Nnamdi Kanu was convicted simply because he is Igbo.
Where is our sense of consistency?
Where is our moral compass?
Adeyinka Grandson — a Yoruba supremacist — was jailed for inciting racial hatred. Nobody said he was being targeted because he is Yoruba. We condemned the crime, not the tribe.
Yet today, emotions have overtaken reason.
People who should know better, including Obi Cubana, are pushing a narrative that collapses under the slightest scrutiny.
Let me ask a simple question:
Was Simon Ekpa also imprisoned in Finland because he is Igbo?
No.
He was jailed for:
participating in terrorist activities,
inciting violence from abroad,
supplying weapons and explosives,
and running a network that fueled criminality in the South East.
Is Finland also anti-Igbo?
Is the UK anti-Igbo for jailing a Yoruba man for attacking Ndi Igbo?
Is the whole world suddenly united “against us”?
Please, let us stop deceiving ourselves.
THE TRAGIC REALITY OF THE NNAMDI KANU TRIAL
What is even more painful is that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu ignored the opportunity to open his defence.
He was given every chance to defend himself.
He had one of the strongest legal teams in Nigeria — respected Senior Advocates — but he sacked them, walked away from the available defence structure, and turned the courtroom into a theatre.
He went from legal strategy to shouting in court:
“Where is the law? Where is the law?”
How does someone who rejects his own legal defence suddenly become a martyr of “ethnic persecution”?
This is not how justice works.
This is not how the law works.
And it is truly sad, because that opportunity may never come again.
Even worse, some respected voices pretend not to see this. Why?
DOUBLE STANDARDS AMONG OUR ELITES
Just a few months ago, Cubana Chief Priest was charged in Lagos.
Did he shout “Where is the law?”
Did he claim he was being targeted because he is Igbo?
Did Obi Cubana advise him to play the ethnic card?
No.
He followed legitimate legal steps and resolved the matter responsibly.
So why is ethnicity suddenly the argument only in the case of Nnamdi Kanu?
LET US REMEMBER EKWEREMADU
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Ikeoha Ndi Igbo, played a crucial role in securing Nnamdi Kanu’s bail years ago.
And how was he repaid?
He went to Germany to honour an invitation and was publicly humiliated and attacked by extremist elements connected to the same movement.
Nnamdi Kanu himself proudly took responsibility.
Did anyone cry “ethnic persecution” for Ekweremadu then?
No. Because selective outrage has become the order of the day.
THE PAINFUL REMINDER FROM KCEE’S VISIT TO ULI
I also watched the emotional video of KCEE in Uli — returning after five years of being unable to visit his own community because of insecurity.
Five whole years.
A global superstar afraid to come home.
Some people keep making shallow comparisons to the North East as if insecurity has not devastated the South East:
People no longer visit home.
Investors stay away.
Celebrations have been suspended.
Communities are shrinking.
Fear has replaced normal life.
KCEE’s story is not entertainment — it is a symbol of loss.
A symbol of what insecurity has quietly taken from us:
our peace, our economy, our sense of safety, and even our cultural pride.
So when people make careless comparisons without understanding the trauma in our region, one wonders whether they truly know the depth of the damage.
ENOUGH OF THE HYPOCRISY
Crime does not become less of a crime because “our brother” committed it.
The law does not stop being the law because it concerns an Igbo man.
Truth does not become lies simply because emotion enters the room.
If we want Ndi Igbo to be respected, then we must embrace:
Truth Accountability Consistency Moral courage And the humility to accept when our own have gone astrayWe cannot defend in our brothers what we would condemn in others.
We cannot build a future on selective outrage.
We cannot continue to weaponise ethnicity anytime the law does not favour someone.
Let us grow up.
Let us be honest.
Let us choose truth over emotion.
Because our future depends on it.
— Obunike Ohaegbu
22/11/2025
