Igboho And Kanu: A Reminiscence Of The Deadly Fate Of Most Freedom Fighters In The Hands Of Their So Called Kinsmen, By David Adenekan.

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Historically, the travail and trial that the likes of Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu are going through cannot be separated from the deadly fate of most freedom fighters in the past. The ignorant of the oppressed will make them see their freedom fighters as a threat to the crumb they are getting from their master's table. A slaveholder knows the button to press to maintain the status quo.

Metaphorically, stop the food you are giving your slaves and tell your slaves that a free slave who cannot provide for their needs is fighting you to stop giving them food.

Yes, the slaveholder has just pull the trigger that will unleash mayhem that may terminate the life of the freedom fighter.

When the Bolivian military managed to find Che Guevara out of hiding with the information off a shepherd, they asked the shepherd : "Why denouncing a man who sacrificed himself yet for your freedom and well-being?"
The shepherd replied: "I denounced him because the crackling of arms scares my animals in pasture".

Also. when Mohamed Karim, the Egyptian who undertook to resist the assault of Alexandria launched by Napoleon, was arrested by the army and sentenced to death, Napoleon appealed to him and said: "I have the trouble to execute a man who has valiantly defended his country, I do not wish history to retain the image of a person who stifles the impetus of the patriots that defend the integrity of their homeland, so, I promise you freedom if you pay ten thousand gold coins as financial compensation to my soldiers that the resistance killed ", smiling, Mohamed Karim replied:" I do not have the full amount requested on me, but I am indebted more than 100 thousand pieces of gold by the merchants of Alexandria, they will pay for sure, this fine, so that I have my life saved! "
Chained, Mohamed Karim was driven to the Alexandria market for a tour of the market in search of the sum on which his freedom will depend. But, to his great surprise, no merchant was on his fate, worse, the natives accused him of being a troublemaker, destroyer of property, and undermining the economic vitality of the port city of Alexandria! "
Napoleon, in view of the resignation of his family towards him, declared: "I will concede that the sentence of capital punishment be executed not because you killed my soldiers, but for having fought for cowardly people, who care more about their business than about their integrity! "

Mohamed Rachid Rida, Syrian Arab reformator said:

*"To revolt on behalf of an ignorant people, is like to set yourself on fire in order to light the way for a blind man!"

Hmmmm, truth be told, your worst enemies may be your closest kinsmen that you consciently fight and defend their human values. They will be the one to hand you over to the hangman. It may be difficult to comprehend this scenario but it is the bitter truth.

Thomas Sankara was a Burkinabe military officer, marxist revolutionary, an Pan African President of Burkinafaso in west Africa. He is commonly referred to as "African Che Guevera". However, on October 15, 1987, Sankara was killed by an armed group with twelve other officials in a coup d'etat organized and masterminded by his former colleagues, Blaise Compaore' (he was a top associate of President Thomas Sankara).

When Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Awolowo was fighting for the value and dignity of Yoruba race, the pace of development in the western region became an obvious threat to the Northern Oligarchy and in a jiffy they came up with a frivolous treason and felony charges against him and at the law court, it was a Yoruba man, Mr. Justice George Sodeinde Sowemimo that sentenced him to ten years in prison.

Did MKO Abiola on June 11th, 1994 in a quest to reclaim his mandate and declared himself as the president-elect at Epetedo in Lagos not get arrested on June 23rd, 1994 by a deputy commissioner of police from Yoruba descent?

Did former President Olusegun Mathew Okanlawon Obasanjo (a kinsman) not declare to the whole world that Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola was not the messiah?

Did many of his kinsmen that throw their weight behind him including Chief Olu Onagoruwa (a legal luminary) not dumped him in the middle of the ocean and joined forces with the Abacha military junta to scuttle the popular mandate of the people?

Did all of these shenanigans and complicities not lead to Mashood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola's mysterious death inside the prison?

Also, is it not a common knowledge that a painful death is the ultimate reward for most freedom fighters? This is regardless of whether you are a firm believer of non violent revolution.

History don't lie!

Martin Luther King once queried Malcolm X violent ways of fighting for justice and fairness in United States. The response of Malcolm X is as follows:

"Our approach may be different but we both have one thing in common, death" (we are both going to be kiiled).

Yes, the insurrection or mayhem that led to the killing of Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr was triggered off by their own black men.

Yes, they were both assassinated. Hmmm.

"Meditate so as to fully understand the ingratitude of a society that is ready to shamelessly deny its commitments, its convictions and its values".

Lastly, will my pen ever be spared from scrutiny and viciousness of my kinsmen?

Food for thought!


David Adenekan writes from Chicago, Illinois.


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