Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s Eastern Security Network – A Strategy or Propaganda?

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu (MNK), from his comfort zone in London, makes unilateral decisions that imperil the same people he is supposedly trying to liberate.

The setting up of his eastern security network (ESN) is the utmost propaganda to fool the Nigerian govt. while attracting more financial support from Ndigbo worldwide.

Obviously, the video released by MNK showing several ESN members and other ESN volunteers was overstated. The ESN video is an example of Digital Crowd Multiplication using Adobe Premiere software.

In this era of deep-fake videos and Artificial Intelligence (AI), all it takes to create a video of a thousand crowd is just a few people. And that was what MNK did with his ESN video.

However, Nigerians, especially the Fulani-controlled northern Nigeria, are always very apprehensive of Igbo ingenuities. 

Thus, the number of young men shown in the ESN video ought to panic any government into offensive.

That is why the Nigerian Air Force is bombing computer-generated members of ESN in Orlu forest, believing that they are bombing real people. 

Who would blame Buhari and his bandits for swinging into action in Orlu forest? After all, “prevention is better than cure”.

All the same, Buhari's presidency is the most ignorant executive in the history of Nigeria. With a little investigation, they would have realized that ESN is just a group of about 10 men that Kanu multiplied into thousands, using technology.

ESN members are just those masked men we saw in another video running around in the bush with their AK-47s.

If Buhari and his men knew about digital crowd multiplication technology, they would have saved their bullets for more tedious tasks at Sambisa forest than chasing shadows at Orlu forest.

Now that the bombings have started, some Ndigbo are questioning why Ohaneze is not speaking against the bombing of Ndigbo. Perhaps, Ohaneze knows that there is no ESN in the Orlu forest.

Obviously, the supreme court governor of Imo state who invited the military to bomb Orlu forest is equally naïve. 

As the chief security officer of Imo state, does Hope Uzodinma believe that MNK can gather those men in the video, anywhere in the southeast, without detection?

If the Imo state governor and the Fulani govt of Nigeria believed that MNK was able to gather the men we saw in the ESN video somewhere in the southeast without detection, they have acknowledged that Nigeria is unsecured.

Most astonishingly, the majority of Ndigbo and other Nigerians believe that the crowd they saw in the ESN video is practically stationed somewhere in Orlu forest. If it was so, by now we should be counting dead bodies.

And let me ask, is MNK using ESN as a strategy for the actualization of Biafra, or a tool of propaganda for more donations from Ndigbo worldwide?

Well, Grete de Francesco answered it as follows: “The charlatan achieves his great power by simply opening a possibility for men to believe what they already want to believe...

The credulous cannot keep at a distance; they crowd around the wonder worker, entering his personal aura, surrendering themselves to illusion with a heavy solemnity, like cattle.”

The gullible should wake up – ESN is an MNK propaganda tool for more donations from Ndigbo worldwide.

~liberate your mind.