A Call For Abike Dabiri's Assassination?

What else can one conclude but the above when you read the following statement by one Ebi Anthony, who wrote thus;

"I think the Igbo nation should have volunteers 'MOSAD' (you know what I mean), to down person's like her where ever they may be."

The above quoted statement was made in direct and unambiguous reference to the Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who was the sole subject of a post by well known veteran journalist and former editor of major newspapers in Nigeria like The Guardian, Thisday, Newage as well as MD/CEO of Imo Newspapers Limited, Steve Osuji.

Steve Osuji, whose post centred mainly on calling for Abike's apology to the Igbo nation, or alternatively to resign from her post, berated her for liking a post by an X user who allegedly used derogatory words on the Igbo ethnic nation.

"He who comes to equity must come with clean hands"

One would have  expected that a Steve Osuji who wrote such a long epistle in his post to castigate and chastise Abike Dabiri-Erewa, (spitting fire and brimstone in the process), would be the last person to commit the same offence he is accusing her of, to wit, supporting and encouraging an uncouth individual to fan embers of hate and bigotry in public.

In fact, he took his own offense several despicable notches higher. Not only did Steve Osuji fail to reprimand the culprit, Ebi Anthony who, in commenting under his post, was surreptitiously and publicly calling for Abike Dabiri-Erewa's assassination/elimination, he did not delete the offending post, something any responsible administrator of a platform would have done immediately.

Rather, Steve Osuji chose to approve of that incitement to murder by giving a "thumbs up/like" emoji sign!!!

Now, how does that make him better than Abike Dabiri-Erewa whom he accused and passed a verdict of "guilty" upon? On what higher moral pedestal can he claim to stand in judgement over her?

Our law enforcement agencies must rise to the occasion and perform their duties. We cannot have citizens publicly soliciting others, whether individuals or groups, to engage in assassinations/murder of fellow citizens under whatever reasons or justifications and the law is not immediately activated to bring such culprits to book.

This man, Ebi Anthony must be immediately fished out, and prosecuted under the law. Steve Osuji, under whose post he made such a hateful and incendiary incitement must also have to explain his apparent tacit approval for the man's incitement to murder.

The Igbo nation, whose name the man attempted to drag into infamy through his call to them to have a standby so-called 'Mosad' to eliminate enemies of the Igbo, must vociferously dissociate itself from this odious call and engage her sons  and daughters to distance themselves from such individuals who will only succeed, if given free rein and unchecked, to further widen the gap between them and their fellow compatriots in this nation.

The unity of this country among the different ethnic nationalities at the present moment, is very fragile and being daily put to the test through unguarded statements, particularly through the social media.

We must not allow this situation to degenerate further by allowing extremists who brazenly and publicly solicit and call for the elimination of their fellow citizens. Allowing that to happen is calling for total anarchy.

It is time for our leaders, irrespective of party politics, religion, and ethnicity, to summon the courage and call for dialogue to end this seemingly unending tribal baiting of one another, an unprofitable past time that can lead nowhere but the road to conflagration!