Soludo solution
Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra State, had about had enough of bogey IPOB ghosting his people and playing costly Ludo with Onitsha traders, Anambra commerce and the general economy, with
Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra State, had about had enough of bogey IPOB ghosting his people and playing costly Ludo with Onitsha traders, Anambra commerce and the general economy, with Monday-Monday shutdowns. So, he read the riot act aka the Soludo Solution (SS).
SS was shock therapy, if ever there was one: if the Onitsha traders could enjoy Monday-Monday shutdowns, four years running, with their purses not flinching, they could as well endure one week – their beloved gluttony for trade losses every Monday (IPOB be praised!), plus another six days, just to put an icing on the misery cake! If after one week the market folks were still in a sit-at-home mood, then another one-month nirvana, in commerce-less bliss, loomed!
That brought out the beast in IPOB and closest supporters. Pronto, the traders and media confederates roared back with protests decrying the shutdown, with all sort of placards. Why, the crudest even bawled: Soludo, show us the law – a parody of the tragic Nnamdi Kanu screaming at the Justice about to hand him a life jail: Omotoso, show me the law!
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IPOB – at its very best when the question is trade and allied general anomie – declared a “Biafra”-wide strike that very Monday that the government-ordered shutout would have lapsed. Why? To push Onitsha market traders’ right to trade – the same right IPOB had triumphantly crushed for four years – and counting!
But all the frenzy, oozing from the IPOB front, revealed was a further bogey: IPOB’S very own Jubril of Sudan! Remember him – or it? It was Nnamdi Kanu’s ultimate propaganda monster, at the zenith of his glorious anarchy, when he claimed the Muhammadu Buhari (God bless his soul!) that returned as President from his London sick bay, was a Sudanese ghost – sorry, clone – from Sudan!
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Still, thank God for merciful ghosts! Kanu had earlier bragged that he would raid Abuja and bring back, to Biafra, the head of a sitting president, just to underscore the IPOB indisputable Peace Manifesto! Lawdvemesi!
Well, that’s ancient history. Breaking news was that Emma Powerful, the verbose, bombastic and omnipresent IPOB voice, was a ghost that never existed!
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He was already doing his trademark bombast when one of Kanu’s lawyers pulled the rug: Emma Powerful was yet another of IPOB’s crazy stunts! Beyond his insane boasts, that scarecrow never existed! Yet, its threat had consigned hundreds of Igbo, after their daily bread, to early grave – and their relations were not even supposed to mourn!
The dam has broken. Kanu himself now eats crow, from his Sokoto executive suites: no more sit-at-home! Yet, it’s not without jeremiads from “analysts” mourning the collapse of IPOB’s netherworld philosophy of hideous suffering for secular racketeering!
Give it to Governor Soludo: his shock therapy has shocked and awed. Now is the time for the government – the legal authority – to stamp its command, and push out the rogue romantics of anarchy. It’s time the law-abiding Igbo, not the least the vulnerable traders, got their lives back.
