The future of any self-determination project will depend less on battlefield optics and more on whether ordinary citizens feel protected,.

If the struggle is to retain legitimacy, it must reject criminality, resist internal sabotage, and restore trust at the grassroots.

From a constitutional-law perspective, Special Status represents reform without reallocation of sovereignty. It adjusts administrative architecture but leaves the core.

Once confidence collapses, the legal conversation changes. It moves from: “How do we improve the union?” To: “Is the union.

The tragedy of Mbuyoke — pending the findings of any independent inquiry — underscores a central truth: military predominance cannot.