“Stop using bullets to silence justice, ‘Kanu’s lawyer told the Nigerian government

IFEI Ejiofor, the main advisor detained by the leader of the native Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has warned the Nigerian government not to use military forces to suppress justice or use bullets as a substitute for dialogue in dealing with agitation throughout the country.

The lawyer who issued a warning in a statement on Saturday, said that no country in the world had shut down crying for justice through the barrel of weapons and did not see that happened in Nigeria no matter how hard the government tried.

In a statement shared in his X -grip titled, ‘Boko Haram: A name created and historical lessons that are not understood’, Ejiofor asks the government to return to the path of involvement, empathy, and reconciliation if it is truly looking for lasting peace.

Ejiofor, who reacts to recent comments by former President of Goodluck Jonathan, where he claims that during his term, Boko Rebels Haram nominated the late former President of Muhammadu Buhari to represent them in peace talks, regretting the Federal government failed between 2015 and 2017 when peaceful agitation emerged from Nigeria in South 2015 in South 2015.

Ejiofor expressed his disappointment that while the government at various levels seeks to involve terrorists and bandits in a peaceful dialogue, they have not replicated the same agitator as the Kanu who has even been clamped into detention since 2021 while IPOB has been prescribed.

“The prohibition marks the beginning of the endless cycle of distrust, violence, and alienation,” Ejiofor said.

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“Instead of overcoming the underlying complaints, the government chose the emphasis of blankets that accidentally legitimized the use of power where empathy was needed

“Between 2015 and 2017, the parallel that haunted emerged. During that period, the Nigerian state was confronted not by armed rebels, but by thousands of young men and women from southeast, calling attention to the old regions in the circular countries.

“History will remember that the prohibition of the Global Peace Movement of the Biafra Indigenous People (IPOB) in 2017, carried out under the midnight urgency clouds, marking the beginning of the cycle of distrust, violence, and unseiled alienation. The uses needed by the complaints needed.

“The result, tragic, is the emergence of new and dangerous elements; heretical elements that have changed them into criminal opportunism. These actors do not share the ideals or moral compass of the previous movement; they are a side product of the emptiness created by the absence of structured involvement.

“The truth remains that no nation has ever silenced crying for justice through the barrel of weapons. Sustainable peace is only achieved through honest dialogue, empathy, and intentional efforts to separate legitimate complaints from opportunism.

“It’s never too late to return to the dialogue table. The federal government must call the courage to be involved again, to filter out wheat from the husk, to distinguish the original aspirations of crime, and to restore the trust where disappointment is now governing.

“In the final analysis, a country that refuses to talk to his children one day will be forced to negotiate with their ghosts,” he added.