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BARRISTER Ifeanyi Ejiofor, one of the Counsels to the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has cried out over the state of insecurity in the Southeast.
Ejiofor wrote his lamentation on his official X (Twitter) on Friday, he said the Southeast region is bleeding. He titled his article as “ALA IGBO IS BLEEDING, AND ITS WOUNDS ARE LARGELY SELF-INFLICTED – “KIDNAP OF OKWULUORA IN FOCUS.”
Ejiofor said Mr Emmanuel Onyeka Okoh “aka” Okwuluora was not kidnapped by foreign elements but by his own people who “spoke his language, knew his background, and shared his roots.”
He said the Social Critic was abducted at Umuaka, Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State.
According to Ejiofor, the abduction was not at random but a symbolic tragedy revealing total crack in the very soul of Ala Igbo.
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“Okwuluora was not taken by strangers. He was not a victim of foreign invaders. He was kidnapped, blindfolded, tortured, and nearly executed by his own people; men who spoke his language, knew his background, and shared his roots.”
The Barrister said what was worrisome was the military and police checkpoint was a few meters away from where the incident occured.
“And perhaps the most horrifying part? His captivity occurred only a few meters away from a military and police checkpoint.”
We have spent too many years blaming external aggressors and distant enemies. But today, the most urgent enemy resides among us, and sometimes, within us.
Okwuluora’s near-death experience confirms what many have quietly suspected:
That a faction of our own kith and kin have turned Ala Igbo into a hunting ground, desecrating its sacred spaces and sacrificing our communal peace on the altar of greed, anarchy, and lawlessness.
Today, entire communities in Imo State live under siege.
Markets are silenced.
Traditional rulers are driven underground.
Young men, once the pride of their clans, now morph into nightmarish militias.
And all this unfolds under the passive gaze, or perhaps complicit nod, of those sworn to uphold security and order.
Make no mistake: Imo State is bleeding. Ala Igbo is bleeding. And the wounds are no longer from external blows.
They are self-inflicted, cut deep by betrayal, silence, fear, and complicity.
But this is not the first time our land has groaned under the weight of anguish.
In the wake of the 1966 pogroms, Ndigbo fled the North in droves, carrying nothing but their dignity and the bones of their dead.
They came home, and from the ashes, birthed Biafra: a defiant declaration of self-worth.
Though crushed by war, the Igbo spirit endured. We rebuilt. We thrived.
But now, what war failed to destroy, internal decay threatens to finish.
So we must ask: Where is that same spirit of unity and defiance?
What happened to the moral spine that refused to bow in the face of injustice?
How did we go from guardians of our homeland to architects of its ruin?
Okwuluora’s story is not isolated. It is a warning, a prophecy in real time.
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If we do not confront this rot from within. If we do not rise to cleanse our land.
Then our silence shall one day be judged as betrayal.
Let this Friday serve as a sacred pause in our weekly race; a moment to reflect, to repent, and to resolve.
For indeed, Ala Igbo is bleeding.
But where there is life, there is hope.
And where there is unity, there is healing.
As we step into this new month of August, may the God of our ancestors arise for Ala Igbo.
May He restore peace in our land.
May every agent of bloodshed and destruction be exposed, uprooted, and judged.
May our land, once soaked in the tears of the innocent, become again a fountain of prosperity, dignity, and unity.
May the coming days be filled with divine preservation, clarity of purpose, and the courage to speak truth, even when it is costly, Amen. 🙏”
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Meanwhile, a voice in the wilderness, a former Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Joe Igbokwe has reacted to the sudden but belated message from Barrister Ifeanyi Ejiofor to Ala Igbo.
Igbokwe, who was visibly angry at the time he wrote the message said, “we are beginning to get little sense,” referring to Ejiofor.
“We are beginning to get little sense. IPOB lawyer Ifeanyi Ejiofor is now lamenting.
Those who deceived young people to destroy SE in the name of agitation for Biafra are now weeping and crying.
The house of fraudsters we deliberately built has become an albatross, a fraud, a tragedy, a disaster, a shame etc.
We have brought maggot infested firewood in the South East and the rodents are here.” Igbokwe said.
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