Point One

 Ethnic warriors have never been far off the Nigerian political space, plying causes that typically locate them at odds with the law but simultaneously in warm embrace of whatever kindred group they are championing its interest. Thus, the kinsman-warrior poses a constant dilemma: under strict legal framework and from the prism of the establishment, he is an outlaw who should be harshly repressed or altogether taken out of circulation; but to those whose cause he champions, he is a hero and rallying point of group emancipation. It is typically like walking a tightrope seeking to contain the ethnic warrior without upsetting the fragile tolerance of his kindred group for the challenged status quo.  Some ethnic warriors commit mission suicide by overreaching themselves in aggression and alienating moderates in the group they hold the banner for; and where those moderates are in the majority, the mission gets effectively disavowed and the warrior isolated. That, for instance, is th...

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