Part of the problem is that members of the Igbo underclass that support IPOB do not care if the Igbo economy is destroyed.
It's a net-zero situation for them. They don't care if IPOB damages an economy in which they already feel marginalized.
It's a net-zero situation for them. They don't care if IPOB damages an economy in which they already feel marginalized.
The IPOB insurgency was supposed to be a protest against Igbo marginalization in Nigeria. But a radicalized Igbo underclass is using it to protest their marginalization within Igbo land, against the ascendant classes of Igbo society.
It is now as much about Igbo self-determination as it is about lower-class rehabilitation.
This is why IPOB's ambivalent claim that it has suspended the sit-at-home is of little effect so far.
This is why IPOB's ambivalent claim that it has suspended the sit-at-home is of little effect so far.
As we've seen in history, other nihilistic forces in Igbo land are hijacking the revolutionary protest from IPOB.
If we miss this class dimension, then we don't truly understand the dynamic of the current situation.
© Chudi Okoye PhD
If we miss this class dimension, then we don't truly understand the dynamic of the current situation.
© Chudi Okoye PhD
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