170 Dead in Kwara, Prophet Locked Up: Nigeria Rewards Silence, Punishes Truth

In Nigeria’s moral maze, words have become deadlier than bullets, and warnings more punishable than mass murder. A man spoke—he warned, unsettled, provoked—and was thrown into prison for life. Meanwhile, in Kwara State, over 170 people were slaughtered in villages like Woro and Nuku, and the nation barely blinked.

Residents were executed for refusing to submit to extremist ideologies, homes and shops razed, families shattered. President Tinubu deployed troops only after the blood had soaked the soil. The killers remain free; the warnings ignored.

Contrast this with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, who for years predicted the spread of jihadist violence into southern territories. His crime? Words. Speaking truth, questioning authority, reminding the nation of what was coming. Justice James Omotosho handed him concurrent life sentences in November 2025, sending him to Sokoto Correctional Centre—the symbolic heart of the caliphate itself. Not for killing, but for disturbing the status quo.

The contradiction is brutal: those who wield rifles evade accountability, while those who wield microphones rot in jail. Communities decimated by violence are muted, media coverage selective, outrage conditional. Silence is institutionalized; truth is criminalized.

Even those harmed by the state internalize this moral inversion. They defend the jailing of truth-tellers while rationalizing mass slaughter. They preach unity where justice is absent, process where conscience should roar.

The maze is simple yet terrifying: the state values stability over life, compliance over conscience. Preventing uncomfortable ideas matters more than preventing funerals. Amplifying selective narratives masks the truth rather than confronting it.

This is the Nigeria we live in today—a nation that punishes prophets and tolerates killers, obsesses over speech while normalizing graves. And those who built this maze? They are trapped within it, incapable of facing what they know deep down is true.

SOURCE : Rev. Tony Uzor