Abba Kyari and for Whom the Bell Tolls

Late Abba Kyari

No words more readily spring into our consciousness or make themselves more suitable upon the fall of a tyrant or the demise of a great man than the following immortal words with which John Donne exhorts us:

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thine own Or of thine friend's were. Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind.  Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

So let it be with Abba Kyari.

But, Mr. Donne was not a Nigerian, and he did not know Abba Kyari, not even in the way Allen Onyema and Femi Fani-Kayode say they do, as schoolmates of Kyari's at Warwick or Cambridge, or his colleagues at a law firm in Lagos.  Onyema even called him simply, "Abba,"  Habba!!

I know Abba Kyari as the man behind the Buhari regime policy to continue fighting the genocidal Nigeria-Biafra War through political, economic, cultural, extra-judicial, jihadi, and even military means.  Abba Kyari was the man who took the letter "d" out of democracy in Nigeria.  I don't want to say good riddance to bad rubbish.  But, I don't see how his fall to COVID-19 diminishes any honest Igbo person.

This bell tolls for Abba Kyari; it tolls for Buhari

It tolls for the Nigerian Cabal,

It tolls Not for Nd'Igbo.