Mansa Ndiritu
Mansa Ndiritu | |
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 Ndiritu in Bakhriya with his Tatsuya R5A3 rifle | |
| Nickname(s) | "Invisible Judgment", "Left Hand of Liberation", "The Camera Man", "The Desert Vulture" |
| Born | 9 October, 1995 (age 24) Bangana, State of Bakhriya |
| Allegiance | Bantu Liberation Front |
| Years of service | 2019-2020 |
| Battles/wars | Various battles in the Bakhriyan Civil War |
| Awards | Star of Excellent Service (Bangana) (1) |
| Spouse(s) | Hasana Ndiritu |
Mansa Ndiritu is a Bantu Liberation Front sniper and social media personality/public figure. He served under the Bantu Liberation Front during their insurrection against the State of Bakhriya during the Bakhriyan Civil War, and was awarded the Star of Excellent Service from the newly created State of Bangana after the war ended.
Ndiritu left the Bantu Liberation Front in 2020, and respectfully denied to continue his period of service with the newly created Banganan Army. During his time with the Front, he accumulated a high amount of international fame and attention, after netizens noticed that he was posting videos of himself inflicting casualties on Bakhriyan and Maracaiban forces throughout the war, and used the clips to forward his own political agenda. He has accumulated a total of over 250,000 followers across various social media networks.
He currently lives in Nakazara, Dayashina under political asylum with his wife, Hasana Ndiritu. Allegedly, his spotter and video editor, of an unknown identity, also lives somewhere in Dayashina.
Early life and education
Mansa Ndiritu was born in Bangana under the State of Bakhriya in 1995, the youngest of three sons born to his parents. Ndiritu grew up in abject poverty, and worked from the age of 7 to provide a source of income for his family. He was introduced to shooting by his brothers at the age of 12, and competed with them to see who was the more accurate shooter, a hobby for them throughout their lives. Ndiritu attended his local school but quit at the age of 13, conducting independent studies on the Anglian and Dayashinese language, with aspirations to escape his homeland. In 2019, with the buildup of tensions eventually leading to the Bakhriyan Civil War, the Bantu Liberation Front went door-to-door in Bangana recruiting military age males. Ndiritu joined at the age of 22.
Combat career
Ndiritu was recruited into the BLF in 2019, and was immediately given the role of sharpshooter after recruiters noticed that his shooting accuracy was far above most of the other recruits in his batch. He was issued an SVD assigned to the BLF's 1st Division. Although Ndiritu has not confirmed anything in this regard, it is likely that he established contact with Dayashinese Special Air Service members at some point during his training, due to the fact that all of his published videos and images show him operating a Tatsuya R5A3 sniper rifle, a Dayashinese-made rifle once in service with the Republic of Dayashina Armed Forces before the adoption of the Tatsuya R17.
Over the course of the Bakhriyan Civil War, Ndiritu accumulated over 121 confirmed kills (confirmed by the Shijukunese Bureau of Military Intelligence), though Ndiritu claims that his count exceeds 156. Ndiritu is indisputably the deadliest sniper in the entire Bantu Liberation Front and one of the deadliest individual combatants in global history, with his number of confirmed kills exactly on par with those tallied by Kentaro Endo, an Imperial Dayashinese Army sniper during the Pan-Septentrion War. On his first day of combat, in August of 2019, he recorded 11 separate individual kills on Bakhriyan soldiers in the city of Bangana. Ndiritu was famed on the western front of the Bakhriyan War for his psychological warfare against Bakhriyan and Maracaiban combatants, support and overwatch for Shijukunese operations, and daring public threats towards enemy units on social media.
Social media presence
Mansa Ndiritu maintains a social media presence and is considered a public personality for his postings during the Bakhriyan Civil War. He is famed for recording over 80 separate sniper kills on Bakhriyan and Maracaiban forces and posting them social media with political messages, under the handle @banganafree420. In a video taken in September of 2019, Ndiritu claimed that he would "take a life for every time the Maracaiban media lied about the Bantu Liberation Front movement." His most commonly used tactic was to post videos first including statements from GSRN newscasters or war correspondents that he believed to be erroneous, after which he would edit in a clip of himself shooting one or multiple Maracaiban or Bakhriyan operatives. In his most famous video, Ndiritu makes a compilation of every time a GSRN newscasters calls the BLF insurrection "illegal," with a kill clip edited in for every time the word "illegal" is used as a descriptor.
He garnered millions of views and a widespread international audience, from Dayashina to Macchia and elsewhere abroad, and was a frequent trending topic in military and ELINT social media circles. His clips were discussed by international news networks, politicians, and regular citizens alike, and he became something of a phenomenon and meme among netizens. Despite his fame, negative attention was the source of most of it, his clips being lambasted and condemned as barbaric across the world, with thousands of people advocating his death or arrest. Supporters of his content, though, were equally as loud, and often sparked vicious social media debates with the those who disagreed with it. His supporters were known to refer to him as the "living vibe check."
Followers and viewers were constantly trying to provoke Ndiritu into interacting with them, though he was only known to have responded to a comment on any of his accounts on one occasion. A Dayashinese user by the username of @ikumi2 tweeted, "@banganafree420 dayashina stand with bantu people !", to which Ndiritu replied with a "100" emoji.
Maracaiban rebuke
The Maracaiban government categorically denounced Ndiritu's postings, and demanded that he be extradited to Maracaibo weeks after the war had ended. Furthermore, it is alleged that the Maracaiban government filed copyright strike violation reports on his content in an attempt to have it removed from various social media sites.
Post-service life
After his time with the Bantu Liberation Front, Mansa Ndiritu allegedly applied immediately for political asylum in Dayashina, as did his wife, and his spotter/video editor. He currently lives with his wife in Nakazara, and is pursuing the fulfillment of requirements needed to study at the Okada Institute of Economics and Business. As an international public figure and internationally wanted figure, he travels around the world (excluding states with extradition agreements with Maracaibo) gives speeches and provides insight on his content. At all times, he is protected by a security detail provided by the Dayashinese government. He is rumoured to be working an autobiography and a website with extended context to his currently posted content.
Quotes
"I am but a peaceful man who has been driven to violence. I will kill and destroy my oppressors until they are all dead, I am dead, or we have won."
"Your hatred will not bring their lives back, your copyright strike abuse will never censor my content. Our people will never again be silenced."
"If the world wants to see a true barbarian, then they can research the oppressors Van Kroezen and Barnes."
"Who among you (social media audience) would not revolt against those who have taken everything from you for no other reason than the colour of your skin, and the culture you hail from? Who among you would not seek to destroy those who have hurt you so badly that the only thing you feel is sadness?"
"The Maracaiban government is ripe with hypocrisy. They are delusional."
"To the families of those who's lives I have taken - where were your tears when the Bakhriyan government took ours? Your son or daughter was a servant of an oppressor - I will not lose sleep over their non-existence."
"I have never committed a crime in my life. To insinuate otherwise is defamation, and I will be suing you."