Don’t seek re-election G7 Govs, Baraje tell GEJ
Mr. nPDP Chairman speaks and exposes ignorance
Woman! what is the problem, why are you threatening to destroy this big city; a concerned citizen asked a woman in her late 40s raising hell while threatening to destroyed a great beautiful city, yonder. And in so much rage and gasping for air the woman said this city must be destroyed unless he marries me as he promised. Hearing the flimsy reason a great city would be destroyed and the good citizen rightly believing that this woman is either insane or evil or both reports the threat against the city to the city guardians. Being a great city the city guardians were versed in the laws of the land so they organized and quickly apprehended the woman before she could destroy the great city.
The revered, wise and all-knowing chairman of nPDP has spoken and thank God he did because we’re now proven right that it is not Bamanga Tukur's leadership but rather Jonathan’s 2015 reelection against Hausa/Fulani hegemonic mindset and interest that is the force behind the rebellious 5 president wannabe Governors. But mostly interestingly is that by his statement Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has shown that he not only lack the political sagacity and logical prowess to lead a big Party like PDP but that he is a dullard and a No-Nigerian, by threatening disintegration just because an eligible politician renegades in a prior promise to not contest for political position. How could Baraje and co- travelers today argue on mere promise if they claim as they have told Nigerians many times in the past that Jonathan had an agreement with the North to serve only one term? If this claim is true why would they argue on mere promise today? So today, with Baraje's promise argument Nigerians must take one truth home and that is there was no one term agreement between Jonathan and any political interest group. What they called promised today is what they called agreement yesterday. Besides, if Jonathan's 2nd term ambition is unconstitutional as Baraje and co say why would they enter into agreement to stop Jonathan's 2nd ambition if the ambition is already unconstitutional?
Mr. Baraje you’re neither a politician, smart nor a Nigerian if the reason you’re threatening the disintegration of Country you call home is for political promised not kept. One could not help to wonder how you become the chairman of PDP in the past. Well, this is Nigeria the land of mediocrity of quota. The only reason Baraje could have been PDP party chairman in the past was through the use quota system otherwise called federal character. But here we are and watch as Baraje rabidly oppose Jonathan who not only is taking advantage of his own quota like Baraje did but was actually positioned to receive his own quota through the act of God.
If a military dictator IBB would abrogate the constitution for 9 good years and took Nigeria through 9 years of one man rule or dictatorship and Nigerians see fit to remain Nigerians then it is alter ignorance, stupidity, empty ego, arrogance and childishness to make empty threats against any leader elected by popular vote in 2015. Mr. Baraje, if 2015 presidency is your god given right then you must trust and believe your god and therefore not afraid and then come 2015, stand for election under any party.
You said “God has been merciful to you, Mr. President, lifting you from being a university teacher to President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in so short a time is something you should be grateful and be contented with.” So Mr. Baraje, why not wait for the same God to dethrone him. Or do you not believe that the same God that lifted him will in due time lower him? why do you now want to do God's work? Do not believe that God is capable to lower Jonathan when God chooses? If you truly believe that God lifted him has God sought for your help to lower him?
And which ought to be easier, from military service to presidency like IBB, Abacha, etc, or from civil service to presidency? Last time I checked must American presidents were all civilians. Obama was a law professor, a legislator and then the president, in very short time period. And what does this argument or line thought of yours actually mean, Mr. nPDP Chairman? Are you suggesting that a collage professor would ordinarily be unfit for presidential post?
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Atiku, David Mark, Orji Kalu, Daily Times’ men of honor.
David Mark, Atiku, Orji Kalu are Daily Times’ news makers and men of honor. They say, tell me the company you keep I will tell you the kind of person you are. Now, the Daily Times news maker are the trio of Atiku, David Mark and Orji Kalu. Now, let us see whom these Daily Times' men of honor are truly are. Let us see the men Daily Times glorifies in its daily news.
Atiku;
His American partner in crime Congressman Jefferson is still serving his long prison term in America prison for receiving $100,000 bribe from American oil firm that he arranged to bribe Atiku with $3M for oil deal in Nigeria. One of the Atiku's concubines then living in U.S. and connected to this crime of bribery abandoned her U.S money- laundry -mansion when FBI closed on her. Today this woman is still a fugitive in U.S. Atiku himself a prime suspect have a case to answer in U.S but in Nigeria today his is a king maker. Only in Nigeria do crooks and criminals roam the street freely and making kings. Since Nigeria journalist are either unprofessional or cowards here some of the questions they ought to have asked Atiku;
Mr. Vice President, do you know one Mr. Jefferson? How and when did you meet Mr. Jefferson for the 1st time? Was Mr. Jefferson a friend of yours and or a business acquaintance? Is Mr. Jefferson still you friend? When was the last time you spoke to him? Do you know that his is serving a prison term? Since he was or is your friend have you spoken to Jefferson while in prison? Do know why he went to prison? Are you aware that his sentencing has something to do you, something involving you Mr. Vice president? Since Jefferson went to prison have you visited U.S.? Why have you not? Is a female friend of yours or wife or concubine that once lived in U.S a fugitive in U.S. today? Why is she a fugitive?
Those are few of the million questions responsible press ought to ask a once Vice President of a country wanted for a crime in a foreign land. By not asking the right questions Nigeria press is not only failing in its responsibility but grossly disappointing Nigerians on whose investigative journalism, the citizenry should depend on for accountability, check and balances in the society.
David Mark: Mark Bloody University?
Only in Nigeria do murderers lead a premier law making body. Mr. Mark advocates harsher punishment for vandals but Daily Times failed to ask him the punishment for the looting of public coffer; the punishment for official corruption, impunity and abuse of power, authority, office, position; the punishment for the killing of villagers asking for compensations from Mark for his usurpation of the farm land for his ego driven University; their little pieces of land from which they sustain their mere existence. Mr. Mark how and where did you get money for a 4sq mile university campus, the Mark Bloody University? Everyone give applause for Mark. I say shame on you oga Mark. Only in Nigeria do mass murderers lead a premier law making body. No wonder you're above the law. From now this Mark University will be called Mark Bloody University.
Orji Kalu; Robin Hood in reverse
Con Kalu, a Robin Hood in reverse that robs for his own pocket and acts as if the internal deportation of the poor is worse than stealing from them. In as much as I condemn in the strongest terms Fashola's internal deportation of Nigerians, I support his sealing of the Lagos house purportedly owned by Con Orji Uzo Kalu. The Lagos state Government and Abia state government should seize the house pending the outcome of investigation on when this house was built, on how Con Kalu got the fund he used to build this house. In as much as I applaud Con Kalu for defending human, constitutional and universal rights of Nigerians, Indi-Igbo against Lagos State Government’s subversive act that is capable of causing national disintegration I still completely distaste Con Kalu for looting Abia state to the verge of death. Had Con Kalu overcame his greedy, primitive self-centeredness not for 8 years appropriated Abia’s wealth to himself, had he instead of looting Abia wealth used those public wealth for infrastructure and industrial development of Abia State, he would have saved some of these Igbo deportees the shame or indignity of being deported even in their own country.
As Governor of Abia State Con Kalu should have led by example and should now show Abia people and Nigerians the houses he built in the cities in Abia State prior and after being the governor of Abia State if he built this much house in Lagos State. He would do himself a great favor if he would explain when and how he got the money he used to build these houses including the ones In U.S. Con Kalu should know that his baloney cook and bullshit oil and fish business narrative is not selling given the multi- billion Naira asset, business, and investment he controls around the world and particularly in Africa. The reason Con Kalu invested heavily in other Africa countries and not in the West, his Abia loot, the loot responsible; for high infant mortality, high children illiteracy, high maternal deaths, high unemployment, dead infrastructure and all manner of abjectness in Abia state and by extension in Igbo land was to avert the rigorous campaign against money laundry in the West.
Now the mouth piece of shit for the Ndi-Igbo, Kalu, claims that he was rich before he hacked his way to the governorship. He claimed he made his wealth by taking palm oil to north and fish from north to the south. The question then becomes, how many trailer loads or what quantity of fish and oil was this crook transporting that enabled him own an airline business and multi billion naira business and assets across Africa and in the US? How long did he do this fishy oily business? What was or is his fish and oil business transport system called? People that made this level of fortune from buying and selling always accomplish such feat by using fleets of personalized goods transport systems. Where were Orji Uzor Kalu’s fish and oil transports limited? He couldn’t have raised billions of naira from fish and oil sales using public, or rented or pay per use transport system.
I wish I am wrong to say that this Con Kalu’s epiphany to speak and defend ind-Igbo and the poor is but another attempt to game Igbos for support for his presidential ambition now that he has more than enough stolen Igbo money to buy Igbos for his ego and greed driven presidential ambition.
Obasanjo knew that this man was a crook but he could not prosecute him effectively because he himself Obasanjo was compromised, a crook in his own ranks And because of political correctness and his dislike of the Igbos, Obasanjo took Con Ka aru's criminality as Igbo problem.
Folk, behold the grievance against PDP by the 5 renegade crooks led by Rabid Kwasoka as reported by Tribune. 9/3/13
I said it Gernor Rabid Kwasoko is a green snake in a green grass.
The Meeting, please read, pay attention to the bold, underlined and italised
"Stalemate as PDP govs disagree at parleyThere was a sharp division among governors of PDP at the peace meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday night.
The meeting, which lasted till early hours of Monday, however, resolved to continue today.
A source, however, said much of the submissions by the G7 governors bothered on flimsy excuses, adding that if the president should follow that path, he would have nothing to show Nigerians in 2015.
“It appears the aggrieved governors want the president to fail, so they can easily take his job in 2015,” a source said.
Sources close to the meeting, however, told the Nigerian Tribune that a sharp division ensued among governors at the meeting, following the declaration by the Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwakwanso, who spoke on behalf of the G7 governors that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had become a thorn in the flesh of state governors, calling on the president to order the commission to stop probing of governors.
Besides Kwakwanso, Kwara State governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, also asked the president to put a stop to activities of the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
Kwakwanso, the first to speak among the aggrieved governors who, on Saturday, teamed up with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to form the New PDP, said they were angry over four issues.
He said they were being stalked by the EFCC, while the commission was also harassing the son of the governor of Jigawa State, also one of the G7 governors.
He said as PDP governors, they should be protected from EFCC harassment, adding that members of the ruling party should not be so exposed to EFCC probe.
Kwara State governor also told the meeting that he had been facing EFCC probe since he served in the cabinet of Senator Bukola Saraki, adding that there was an atmosphere of fear in the state over activities of the anti-graft agency.
He said as a PDP governor, the government should not only protect him, but also protect his predecessor, who was being investigated by the EFCC.
The claims by the two governors, however, elicited reactions from Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Gabriel Suswam of Benue.
The trio opposed the request that President Jonathan should put a stop to EFCC activities.
Jang was said to have insisted that EFCC should continue with its job, adding that he was also a victim of the probe by the commission for the first three years of his first term.
He said the fact that the commission was a federal agency did not mean the president should take control of its activities.
Suswam also told the meeting that his government had been severally investigated and that he never attributed the situation to the president.
Akpabio, according to a source, said that the governors should strive to keep clean books, since nobody would be in office for life.
Sources said Kwakwanso, who presented a four-point grouse, also mentioned the issue of Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) election, the Adamawa PDP crisis and the Rivers situation as some of the grouse of the aggrieved governors.
He was also quoted as saying that the president should find solution to the crisis rocking Adamawa PDP, as delegates loyal to the governor were stopped from attending the mini convention on Saturday.
Kwankwaso also stressed the need for PDP to discuss party structures, with the president ensuring inclusive government.
According to him, the list of those who were appointed into positions and boards of parastatal agencies in his state, for example, did not emanate from him, adding that those people had been giving him a lot of problems.
“We don’t want to leave PDP, but we want to ensure the right things are done. We need a united NGF and we want the president to intervene and help sort out the crisis,” he was quoted to have said.
The governors, however, insisted that besides the listed grievances, they did not intend to leave the party, adding that their action on Saturday [8/31/13] was aimed at driving home their grievances.
A governor at the meeting further confirmed that Jang was angry at the mention of the NGF crisis and that when he was given the floor, he accused his colleague governors of playing a deceitful game.
He told the president that he was drafted into the NGF election by his colleagues who adopted him as a consensus candidate, adding that he was shocked to discover that the same people who drafted him later said they were deceiving him.
He also said the action of the breakaway governors on Saturday was premeditated, adding that they had planned to hold a parallel convention long ago.
According to him, the governors could not just wake up and get the venue decorated within few minutes of their leaving Eagle Square.
He insisted that political leaders must do away with politics of deceit if the PDP must get to the roots of the problem.
A source said President Jonathan, who rounded off the discussions, said the problems enumerated were all human problems, promising that all of the issues would be resolved.
According to a reliable source, the president declared that those within his powers would be resolved by him, while he would readily refer issues of the party to the party leadership for appropriate action."
Mark Bloody University, Only in Nigeria do murderers lead a premier law making body.
"Mark Advocates Stiff Punishment for Vandals" Daily Time, 9/3/13
Mark Bloody University, Only in Nigeria do murderers lead a premier law making body.And Mr. Mark what is the punishment for the looting of public coffer. What is the punishment for official corruption, impunity and abuse of power, authority, office, position? What is the punishment for the killing of villagers asking for compensations before you usurp for your ego driven University, their little pieces of land from which they sustain their mere existence. Mr. Mark how and where did you get money for a 4sq mile university campus, the Mark Bloody University? Everyone give applause for Mark. I say shame on you oga Mark. Only in Nigeria do mass murderers lead a premier law making body. No wonder you're above the law.
Atiku; only in Nigeria
Atiku; only in Nigeria
Only in Nigeria would a crook like Atiku be walking freely in the street. His American partner in crime Congressman Jefferson is still serving his long prison term in America prison for receiving $100,000 bribe from American oil firm that he arranged to bribe Atiku with $3M for oil deal in Nigeria. One of the Atiku's concubines then living in U.S. and connected to this crime of bribery abandoned her U.S money- laundry -mansion when FBI closed on her. Today this woman is still a fugitive in U.S. Atiku himself a prime suspect have a case to answer in U.S but in Nigeria today his is a king maker. Only Nigeria do crooks and criminals roam the street freely and making kings. Since Nigeria journalist are either unprofessional or cowards here some of the questions they ought to have asked Atiku;
Mr. Vice President, do you know one Mr. Jefferson? How and when did you meet Mr. Jefferson for the 1st time? Was Mr. Jefferson a friend of yours and or a business acquaintance? Is Mr. Jefferson still you friend? When was the last time you spoke to him? Do you know that his is serving a prison term? Since he was or is your friend have you spoken to Jefferson while in prison? Do know why he went to prison? Are you aware that his sentencing has something to do you, something involving you Mr. Vice president? Since Jefferson went to prison have you visited U.S.? Why have you not? Is a female friend of yours or wife or concubine that once lived in U.S a fugitive in U.S. today? Why is she a fugitive?
Those are few of the million questions responsible press ought to ask a once Vice President of a country wanted for a crime in a foreign land. By not asking the right questions Nigeria press is not only failing in its responsibility but grossly disappointing Nigerians on whose investigative journalism, the citizenry should depend on for accountability, check and balances in the society.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Boko Haram is but Institutional Failures exemplified by Rabi'u Kwankwaso 2 .
Boko Haram is but Institutional Failures exemplified by Rabi'u Kwankwaso 2 .
In honesty, the threat of BOko Haram to Nigerian is greater than that posed either by Al-Qaeda or by any other terrorist organizations to any other Nation. And this threat to Nigeria is neither because of the sophistication of this terror group nor because of their uncanny abilities to cause mayhem and or destructions. These ragtag terrorist primitive bastards are successful in their scourge because of institutional failures, corruption, mediocrity and gross incompetence in the Nigerian society exemplified by Rabi'u Kwankwaso .
For example, how can a nation fight terrorism or terrorist when it does not have even an inaccurate head counter and identities of its citizenry. In Nigeria there is neither birth, death, national, local registry of the citizenry. The result of this one out of many institutional failures is that anybody is and is not Nigerian depending on the immediate circumstances and desires of the individual.
Just by mere common sense, it is impossible to stop Boko Haram if its members like many Nigerians can assume any identity at any time and place of their choosing. Boko Haram will grow and increase in straight and assume any name and coloration as long as Nigeria remains one of the few countries in the world that cannot identify its own citizens.
A terrorist who appears Middle Eastern laden with explosives and AK 47s can walk freely across the porous Nigerian borders and within the Nigerian states parading self as citizen. And I ask, can we found somebody we know not of his or her existence, identity, name, height, complexion, familial? The answers is no; but when we do, it is by sheer luck and the security of a nation and of a people cannot be entrusted to luck and randomness. So credible head count back with biometrics is an Imperative and Odimegwu should have been encouraged and supported and Kwankwaso and his likes can go to hell.
The ongoning National Conference must recommend National Identity Card sheme backed with biometrics and an 8 to 10 year period national head count.
In honesty, the threat of BOko Haram to Nigerian is greater than that posed either by Al-Qaeda or by any other terrorist organizations to any other Nation. And this threat to Nigeria is neither because of the sophistication of this terror group nor because of their uncanny abilities to cause mayhem and or destructions. These ragtag terrorist primitive bastards are successful in their scourge because of institutional failures, corruption, mediocrity and gross incompetence in the Nigerian society exemplified by Rabi'u Kwankwaso .
For example, how can a nation fight terrorism or terrorist when it does not have even an inaccurate head counter and identities of its citizenry. In Nigeria there is neither birth, death, national, local registry of the citizenry. The result of this one out of many institutional failures is that anybody is and is not Nigerian depending on the immediate circumstances and desires of the individual.
Just by mere common sense, it is impossible to stop Boko Haram if its members like many Nigerians can assume any identity at any time and place of their choosing. Boko Haram will grow and increase in straight and assume any name and coloration as long as Nigeria remains one of the few countries in the world that cannot identify its own citizens.
A terrorist who appears Middle Eastern laden with explosives and AK 47s can walk freely across the porous Nigerian borders and within the Nigerian states parading self as citizen. And I ask, can we found somebody we know not of his or her existence, identity, name, height, complexion, familial? The answers is no; but when we do, it is by sheer luck and the security of a nation and of a people cannot be entrusted to luck and randomness. So credible head count back with biometrics is an Imperative and Odimegwu should have been encouraged and supported and Kwankwaso and his likes can go to hell.
The ongoning National Conference must recommend National Identity Card sheme backed with biometrics and an 8 to 10 year period national head count.
Presidency, call Kwankwaso to Order or to a Conference
The entire crisis in PDP was manufactured and given breath of life by the five governors among them are those that believe that certain section of the country was born to rule. The most dangerous but evilly quite among these five governors is Kwankwaso. This man is a tribal xenophobe in the ranks of Ahmadu Bello. Kwankwaso dislike southerners, Christians especially Igbos in the manner and level Sardauna did. Kwankwaso was the reason the national assembly jettisoned new state creation especially in the South East when he cried wolf, accused, and charged Iheodioha and Ekweremadu of leading Igbo conspiracy for more Igbo states, a similar conspiracy charge of Igbos penchant for domination that preceded the 1966 Igbo massacre or pogrom in the North and South West. Kwankwaso government few months ago accused the Minister of Aviation Ms Oduah of abandoning Aminu Kano International Kano for the new commissioned Akanu Ibiam International airport in Enugu even as evidence showed the Ministry had invested more and commissioned more renovation work at Kano airport than in any other airport in Nigeria. The Governor even shamelessly accused the Minster as being responsible for the very low patronage of the Kano Airport even when he knows that bombing and terrorism are the reason businesses and travelers are avoiding his death trap state.
Just last week this tribal ignoramus religious zealot called for the sack of Odimegwu, an Igbo, and the chairman of National Population Commission. He called Odimegwu a drunkard and unfit to lead NPC. Thank God Kwankwaso did not say that Odimegwu is an Islamic fundamentalist blood sucking vampire like himself. He called for Odimegwu’s sack just because Odimegwe rightly berated the highly manipulated 2006 census and promised credible head count backed with biometric. Sources had it that Kwankwaso demanded the sack of Odimegwe as condition to reconcile and back Jonathan for 2015. And Jonathan by sending query to Odimegwu is succumbing to Kwankwaso’s mischief, antics, evil mechanization and political manipulation at his own political peril. Jonathan should be reminded that even before Odimegwu made the statement in which he rightly criticized the past censuses, Rabi’u Kwankwaso had already mortally opposed his Presidency and 2015 ambition. He was already going all over Nigeria campaigning against Jonathan’s 2015 ambition and romancing the president’s perceived political enemies. It is on record that the Muslim North have consistently opposed credible head count in Nigeria because the status quo benefits them. The attacked Odimewgwu today is only but a smoke screen to mask North's long opposition to accurate head count and attempt to kill Odimegwu's lofty goal of credible head count backed with Biometrics.
Jonathan must not be naïve and must learn from recent history when during the civil war north incited the south eastern minorities against the Igbo. To cause disaffection and disunity in the south east during the civil war north evilly manipulated the south east minorities, indoctrinating them that they would be better off in Nigeria than in Biafra. They told them falsely that the Niger Delta oil wealth would be best protected for the Niger Deltans in Nigeria than in Biafra. Lacking simple knowledge of arithmetic the South East minorities bought the North’s poisonous pill, rebelled and abandoned their natural and cultural brothers, the Igbos. What followed immediately after the civil war was the absolute takeover of the Niger Delta oil wealth by the North; the construction of South South-Kaduna oil pipe line, (the first of its kind even in moderate economic powers of the world); the north’s complete ownerships of Niger Delta oil rings, the Yoruba complete control and administration of the production of Niger Delta oil. Not until recently, what did the Niger Delta get from the civil war deal against Igbos, environmental damage and degradation and meager 5% of oil derivative.
I am not a champion of Biafra State but knowledge of simple arithmetic and not rocket science would have been enough to intimate South East minorities that, one divided by many is far less than one divided by few; that is, Niger Delta oil wealth shared by the old south easterners Igbo included would have given more dividend per capita than as it is being shared by the whole Nigeria today. In fact if Niger delta oil wealth was shared only among Biafrans, the dividend would have satisfied everyone’s greed no matter the degree of greed of the people. Not only did Niger Delta Mortgaged its oil wealth to the North it also since the civil war pitched its political tent with the north and have supported the north politically. Since that civil war anti-Igbo deal, it has been politically a one way street from the South South to northern leadership of the country. But for providence, a Niger Deltan, by God’s will was positioned to occupy the high office in the land for the first time and perhaps the only time and may be the only time in the foreseeable future it would ever again happen. Now for their long support of Northern hegemony, for mortgaging their oil wealth to the north, for selling their brothers and next door neighbor to a faraway friend one would be compelled to ask, what has Niger Delta gotten in return from the north since 2011, when out of providence (and not out of North’s reciprocity) a Niger Deltan was position to occupy the exalted office of the presidency. Since 2011 to present the strongest and even deadly opposition to Niger Deltan, Goddluck Jonathan’s presidency is from the north, the same North that promised the Niger Deltans comfort and equality in a united Nigeria. The North has threatened to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan and lo and behold they delivered on the threat. They threatened to make his second term ambition a pipe dream and they are currently delivering on this by splitting and weakening the PDP platform upon which Jonathan would contest for his second term. The biggest irony yet is that Jonathan since 2011 to present enjoys his biggest unalloyed support from the Igbos, the same people his fathers and people were told to be afraid of, to not trust. The same Igbo brothers Niger Delta abandoned in time of great need, the same Igbo it conspired against with a distance northern fair weather friend are the ones hedging Jonathan’s North’s abandonment. Yet Igbos being people with bad fate in Nigeria but love by their creator would still be despised by their Niger Delta brothers tomorrow because hate is irrational. Yet, I would still ask Igbos to continue to show leadership, maturity, big brotherliness and one Nigerianess because to err is human, to forgive is divine. Because hate only destroys the hater while the hated innocence goes home hearty and unscathed
Among the 5 governor rampaging against Jonathan’s presidency and 2015 ambition, Kwankwaso though less boisterous, not laud like the other four is the tribal northern hegemonic brain behind the rebellious 5, he is not persuadable. Lamido is only being a politician with presidential ambition and north hegemonic, given a good deal his is persuadable. Nyako with rebellious nature wants a northern presidency not necessarily for himself or for hegemonic control but as the North’s turn to produce the president, difficult but his is persuadable to support Jonathan, he need an assurance. Alieu Babagida have presidential ambition that is fueled by his age and his belief that the north must produce the presidency in 2015, not for hegemonic control but as north’s turn to produced the president. If not for his age he could be persuadable. He believes that 2015 is his last chance to aboard in Aso Rock. Like Kwankwaso Wamako has no strong presidential ambition. He strongly believes that it is north’s turn to produce the president. It is difficult to read if he nurses northern hegemonic feelings like kwankwaso hence it is not yet known if he is persuadable. For a 2nd term Jonathan must find a way around these 5 Governors. He may have to cut a deal with them. Or he must have to find a way around them and then divide, conquer and reduce their influence in their states. As for Atiku, only in Nigeria would a crook like him be walking freely on the street. His American partner in crime Congressman Jefferson is still serving his long prison term in America prison for receiving $100,000 bribe from American oil firm that he arranged to bribed Atiku with $3M for oil deal in Nigeria.
Any decent Nigerian Knows why Kwankwaso and Islamic far North is against and will fight to finish against credible head count in Nigeria. The past manipulated censuses gave the semi-arid desert Islamic far north underserved manipulated overstated population demographic that gave them 13 states and over blown local government councils. It’s only in Nigeria that desert means tropics, where deserters are more populous than Riverain and tropical dwellers. The past censuses under represented the Northern minority and Christians as the past military juntas led by the far Muslim north instead of carving out minority and Christian dominant states, shredded the northern minorities and Christians into dominant Muslim states thereby reducing northern minority, politically relevancy and influence. The most credible yet not so accurate census of 1959 put Hausa/Fulani, (North West and North East), Igbo, Yoruba, Northern Minority and Southern Minority at same population demographic tally. Yet Hausa/Fulani occupies the 13 states of NW and NE with ruminants scattered in the 5 other north central states. I am not a proponent of more states but for fairness since the national cake is shared on state bases and Hausa/Fulani have 13 states, Igbo, Yoruba, Northern and Southern Minorities ought to have received 13 states, each.
In the last months this Kwankwaso used the Kano police establishment to constantly harass the Kano Igbo leader in the state just because this Igbo leader gave accurate number of victims of the last Islamic terrorist bomb attack in Kano. The Igbo leader’s figure was in variance to the reduce number of the victims reported by the Kano state government. It have long been reported that kwankwaso has throughout his leadership of Kano embarked in anti-Igbo policies and harassment. I think it is time that Oha-na- Eze and the presidency call this xenophobe, Kwankwaso to order to desist from harassing or targeting any Nigeria living in Kano.
The entire crisis in PDP was manufactured and given breath of life by the five governors among them are those that believe that certain section of the country was born to rule. The most dangerous but evilly quite among these five governors is Kwankwaso. This man is a tribal xenophobe in the ranks of Ahmadu Bello. Kwankwaso dislike southerners, Christians especially Igbos in the manner and level Sardauna did. Kwankwaso was the reason the national assembly jettisoned new state creation especially in the South East when he cried wolf, accused, and charged Iheodioha and Ekweremadu of leading Igbo conspiracy for more Igbo states, a similar conspiracy charge of Igbos penchant for domination that preceded the 1966 Igbo massacre or pogrom in the North and South West. Kwankwaso government few months ago accused the Minister of Aviation Ms Oduah of abandoning Aminu Kano International Kano for the new commissioned Akanu Ibiam International airport in Enugu even as evidence showed the Ministry had invested more and commissioned more renovation work at Kano airport than in any other airport in Nigeria. The Governor even shamelessly accused the Minster as being responsible for the very low patronage of the Kano Airport even when he knows that bombing and terrorism are the reason businesses and travelers are avoiding his death trap state.
Just last week this tribal ignoramus religious zealot called for the sack of Odimegwu, an Igbo, and the chairman of National Population Commission. He called Odimegwu a drunkard and unfit to lead NPC. Thank God Kwankwaso did not say that Odimegwu is an Islamic fundamentalist blood sucking vampire like himself. He called for Odimegwu’s sack just because Odimegwe rightly berated the highly manipulated 2006 census and promised credible head count backed with biometric. Sources had it that Kwankwaso demanded the sack of Odimegwe as condition to reconcile and back Jonathan for 2015. And Jonathan by sending query to Odimegwu is succumbing to Kwankwaso’s mischief, antics, evil mechanization and political manipulation at his own political peril. Jonathan should be reminded that even before Odimegwu made the statement in which he rightly criticized the past censuses, Rabi’u Kwankwaso had already mortally opposed his Presidency and 2015 ambition. He was already going all over Nigeria campaigning against Jonathan’s 2015 ambition and romancing the president’s perceived political enemies. It is on record that the Muslim North have consistently opposed credible head count in Nigeria because the status quo benefits them. The attacked Odimewgwu today is only but a smoke screen to mask North's long opposition to accurate head count and attempt to kill Odimegwu's lofty goal of credible head count backed with Biometrics.
Jonathan must not be naïve and must learn from recent history when during the civil war north incited the south eastern minorities against the Igbo. To cause disaffection and disunity in the south east during the civil war north evilly manipulated the south east minorities, indoctrinating them that they would be better off in Nigeria than in Biafra. They told them falsely that the Niger Delta oil wealth would be best protected for the Niger Deltans in Nigeria than in Biafra. Lacking simple knowledge of arithmetic the South East minorities bought the North’s poisonous pill, rebelled and abandoned their natural and cultural brothers, the Igbos. What followed immediately after the civil war was the absolute takeover of the Niger Delta oil wealth by the North; the construction of South South-Kaduna oil pipe line, (the first of its kind even in moderate economic powers of the world); the north’s complete ownerships of Niger Delta oil rings, the Yoruba complete control and administration of the production of Niger Delta oil. Not until recently, what did the Niger Delta get from the civil war deal against Igbos, environmental damage and degradation and meager 5% of oil derivative.
I am not a champion of Biafra State but knowledge of simple arithmetic and not rocket science would have been enough to intimate South East minorities that, one divided by many is far less than one divided by few; that is, Niger Delta oil wealth shared by the old south easterners Igbo included would have given more dividend per capita than as it is being shared by the whole Nigeria today. In fact if Niger delta oil wealth was shared only among Biafrans, the dividend would have satisfied everyone’s greed no matter the degree of greed of the people. Not only did Niger Delta Mortgaged its oil wealth to the North it also since the civil war pitched its political tent with the north and have supported the north politically. Since that civil war anti-Igbo deal, it has been politically a one way street from the South South to northern leadership of the country. But for providence, a Niger Deltan, by God’s will was positioned to occupy the high office in the land for the first time and perhaps the only time and may be the only time in the foreseeable future it would ever again happen. Now for their long support of Northern hegemony, for mortgaging their oil wealth to the north, for selling their brothers and next door neighbor to a faraway friend one would be compelled to ask, what has Niger Delta gotten in return from the north since 2011, when out of providence (and not out of North’s reciprocity) a Niger Deltan was position to occupy the exalted office of the presidency. Since 2011 to present the strongest and even deadly opposition to Niger Deltan, Goddluck Jonathan’s presidency is from the north, the same North that promised the Niger Deltans comfort and equality in a united Nigeria. The North has threatened to make the country ungovernable for Jonathan and lo and behold they delivered on the threat. They threatened to make his second term ambition a pipe dream and they are currently delivering on this by splitting and weakening the PDP platform upon which Jonathan would contest for his second term. The biggest irony yet is that Jonathan since 2011 to present enjoys his biggest unalloyed support from the Igbos, the same people his fathers and people were told to be afraid of, to not trust. The same Igbo brothers Niger Delta abandoned in time of great need, the same Igbo it conspired against with a distance northern fair weather friend are the ones hedging Jonathan’s North’s abandonment. Yet Igbos being people with bad fate in Nigeria but love by their creator would still be despised by their Niger Delta brothers tomorrow because hate is irrational. Yet, I would still ask Igbos to continue to show leadership, maturity, big brotherliness and one Nigerianess because to err is human, to forgive is divine. Because hate only destroys the hater while the hated innocence goes home hearty and unscathed
Among the 5 governor rampaging against Jonathan’s presidency and 2015 ambition, Kwankwaso though less boisterous, not laud like the other four is the tribal northern hegemonic brain behind the rebellious 5, he is not persuadable. Lamido is only being a politician with presidential ambition and north hegemonic, given a good deal his is persuadable. Nyako with rebellious nature wants a northern presidency not necessarily for himself or for hegemonic control but as the North’s turn to produce the president, difficult but his is persuadable to support Jonathan, he need an assurance. Alieu Babagida have presidential ambition that is fueled by his age and his belief that the north must produce the presidency in 2015, not for hegemonic control but as north’s turn to produced the president. If not for his age he could be persuadable. He believes that 2015 is his last chance to aboard in Aso Rock. Like Kwankwaso Wamako has no strong presidential ambition. He strongly believes that it is north’s turn to produce the president. It is difficult to read if he nurses northern hegemonic feelings like kwankwaso hence it is not yet known if he is persuadable. For a 2nd term Jonathan must find a way around these 5 Governors. He may have to cut a deal with them. Or he must have to find a way around them and then divide, conquer and reduce their influence in their states. As for Atiku, only in Nigeria would a crook like him be walking freely on the street. His American partner in crime Congressman Jefferson is still serving his long prison term in America prison for receiving $100,000 bribe from American oil firm that he arranged to bribed Atiku with $3M for oil deal in Nigeria.
Any decent Nigerian Knows why Kwankwaso and Islamic far North is against and will fight to finish against credible head count in Nigeria. The past manipulated censuses gave the semi-arid desert Islamic far north underserved manipulated overstated population demographic that gave them 13 states and over blown local government councils. It’s only in Nigeria that desert means tropics, where deserters are more populous than Riverain and tropical dwellers. The past censuses under represented the Northern minority and Christians as the past military juntas led by the far Muslim north instead of carving out minority and Christian dominant states, shredded the northern minorities and Christians into dominant Muslim states thereby reducing northern minority, politically relevancy and influence. The most credible yet not so accurate census of 1959 put Hausa/Fulani, (North West and North East), Igbo, Yoruba, Northern Minority and Southern Minority at same population demographic tally. Yet Hausa/Fulani occupies the 13 states of NW and NE with ruminants scattered in the 5 other north central states. I am not a proponent of more states but for fairness since the national cake is shared on state bases and Hausa/Fulani have 13 states, Igbo, Yoruba, Northern and Southern Minorities ought to have received 13 states, each.
In the last months this Kwankwaso used the Kano police establishment to constantly harass the Kano Igbo leader in the state just because this Igbo leader gave accurate number of victims of the last Islamic terrorist bomb attack in Kano. The Igbo leader’s figure was in variance to the reduce number of the victims reported by the Kano state government. It have long been reported that kwankwaso has throughout his leadership of Kano embarked in anti-Igbo policies and harassment. I think it is time that Oha-na- Eze and the presidency call this xenophobe, Kwankwaso to order to desist from harassing or targeting any Nigeria living in Kano.
Friday, August 30, 2013
It behooves us all to fight Orjior Kalu’s corruption
Responding to Mgbdamgasa on article "2015: Kalu wants handshake across the Niger" by Orjoir
Kalu on Sun Newspaper 8/27/13
Mgbemgasa August 29, 2013 at 12:18 pm - @borne, l will not refer to you as a terrorist and irresponsible, but l must not fail to inform you that your use of words against Dr. orji Uzo Kalu is bad and does not present you as a progressive.The judgement is not yours, do your best to move your community, state and country forward and civilised and allow nature to take care of what you can not change.What we actually want is the peaceful, love and co-existing of all tribes in Nigerians. God bless anyone who preaches unity whether for personal gains or our collective gains.
Mgbdmgasa, it behooves us all to fight Orjior Kalu’s corruption
@Mgbdmgasa, I agree we should all welcome peace regardless of the sources but I disagree that we should ignore evil or remain mute on evil of corruption or on any form of evil for the sake of peace. The illegal internal deportation of Nigerians which premised this debate is intrinsically link to public corruption for which Nigeria Governors and Orjior Kalu in particular are responsible and guilty of. I vehemently disagree that I and or we the people cannot change the dooming trajectory of our people, our youths, and of course, of our nation caused for the force of official corruption. Martin Luther King Jr. said, the reason evil persist is not because of the acts of the evil men but because of the silence of the good people. My Brother, I can tell you and take it to the bank; it is far much easier to assure a corrupt free society than a peaceful one where due to public corruption, youth unemployment , mass illiteracy, child un-education , under or un- medication, high infant mortality, high maternal death, mass starvation and malnutrition, insecurity to life and property, kidnapping, armed robbery, terrorism, complete institutional ( school, university, banking, policing, military) failures and all manners of vices and abjectness are the orders of the day. Mgbdmgasa, Kalu has billions of stolen public funds to buy private airplane and avoid death trap of public roads in Abia state and across Nigeria. He has enough stolen public wealth to hire thugs (as governor he had killer thugs) hire vigilantes, police, army to protect him from the rampaging armed robbers and kidnappers all over Abia, South East and in Nigeria as a whole. Mr. Mgbdmgasa, ask yourself, who protects you from the road death traps, from the good citizens, graduates turned armed robbers and kidnapers by the corrupt actions of the public officials.
My Brother Mgbdmgasa all the societal ills and vices listed above and many more not listed have direct bearing, a direct relationship to the crime and evil of public corruption. Think about it, Kalu stole billions of Naira of Abia public wealth and can now buoyed by his stolen wealth fly himself or any of his family members, wife, son , daughter, to any country in the world and to any medical facility in the world and regardless of the cost receives the best and even unnecessary cosmetic medical services and procedures for self or for his family members, while the hospices in Abia State are but death traps for the residents, death trap for the mothers , fathers, the elderly, and children of Abia state. Regardless of the cost, Kalu swimming in self-appropriated public wealth can now send family members to the best school and universities anywhere in the world while Abia children are denied even basic elementary education and sent to Ariria Market to hawk away their future and Human dignity. Kalu now in illegal possession of Abia State wealth have Mansion all over the world including the one in Maryland where one of his Mistresses mysterious died; and mansions in cities in Nigeria except in the South East, while Abia children are not assured the basic necessities of food, cloth and shelter.
My brother like Con Orjior Kalu, like almost all the Nigeria criminally corrupt public office holders I have been around the world and know what civil, organized and healthy societies expect of its public servants, the position Con Orjior Kalu once occupied. My Brother do you know that the reason black man is disrespected and humiliated around the world is directly linked to the corruption, mediocrity, ignorance, and parochial, visionless, primitivism and greediness of the leaderships in black societies. In the West, Americas and Europe, governors in particular build institutions and develop their states. While in Nigeria Governors destroy the state and the public institutions. Orjior Kalu more than any Governor in Nigeria history selfishly loot-destroyed the state he took an oath to develop.
Mgbemgasa, I am not Abia Indigene but I cannot in good conscience remain silent in the face of evil of corruption because in a society, corruption anywhere is corruption everywhere. I mean Orjior Kalu’s and all public corruption affects me in innumerable ways. Boko Haram is a product of public corruption and the inability of the government to stop Boko Haram’s unwanton destruction of lives and property is failure of institutions of the security apparatus which links directly to public corruption. Many of the Igbos being killed in the north by Boko Haram and by other Igbo haters in the North, refused to relocate to the South East because south east governors instead of developing the states stole the states to extinction. Mgbemgasa, you said Judgment is not my and that I should allow nature to take care of what I cannot change. Again I completely disagree with your childish philosophical religious manipulative antics and yet defeatist and cowardly dispositions. It is my and our judgment to call these criminals to order, otherwise except the citizenry whose responsibility is it to stop these crooks? Nature God’s? First I am and we are part of nature and therefore I, we are nature. As for Nature God, she is dead because her handwork is complete, enduring and perfect and no longer requires her presence. The rest work is left for men, me and you.
Mgbemgasa I guarantee, no more than 30 years from now Orjior Kalu facing his own death and wishing to make end of life statement would want to talk to his critics than to his sycophants and favor seekers like you. Even with his billions of stolen public wealth Orjior Kalu is not a happier man, at least not as happy as he used to be before he stole money meant for Abia children’s education and medical services and this is why he goes around on motivational speeches hoping to atone his crime and sin without returning to the owners that which condemns him in his conscience and inner being. Salvation, whether religious, moral or cultural cannot be attained without repentance and there cannot be repentance if the sinner holds to self that which condemneth him. If Kalu believes in a god I take my case against before his God. If it is devil he believes in I take the case against before the devil. And have witnesses, Abia children, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers dead or alive who are in one way or another, victims of his looting of the State’s wealth.
Mgbemgasa I guarantee, no more than 30 years from now Orjior Kalu facing his own death and wishing to make end of life statement would want to talk to his critics than to his sycophants and favor seekers like you. Even with his billions of stolen public wealth Orjior Kalu is not a happier man, at least not as happy as he used to be before he stole money meant for Abia children’s education and medical services and this is why he goes around on motivational speeches hoping to atone his crime and sin without returning to the owners that which condemns him in his conscience and inner being. Salvation, whether religious, moral or cultural cannot be attained without repentance and there cannot be repentance if the sinner holds to self that which condemneth him. If Kalu believes in a god I take my case against before his God. If it is devil he believes in I take the case against before the devil. And have witnesses, Abia children, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters and brothers dead or alive who are in one way or another, victims of his looting of the State’s wealth.
If Con Kalu is my blood brother I will speak to him in private and ask him to return the people’s money to the people and ask the people for forgiveness. I would speak to him in public if he heard me not in private. I am in this crusade against public corruption and misrule not only because it is the right thing to do but as a responsible citizen it behooves me not only to fight this fight but to fight like my very existence, my very being depends on it and it does depend on it. And I can tell you, for this fight I was bred, born, fed, reared, groomed, and destined for. I have the means and capability to take advantage of the comfort and convenience obtainable anywhere in the world but then what profit is it to man that he would own the world but lose his soul and conscience. I fight this fight because I know why I am here, I know why, the purpose the Nature God put us here on earth for; and that is, to overcome obstacles, conquer evil and death and lives forever thereafter. It is the lack of knowledge of this God’s purpose that many like Orjior Kalu are selfishly and primordially disposed and pursue not, causes greater than self. I fight not as a religious person but as a moral being.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Funny Kayode, the bitter truth and the Jan 1966 "Igbo coup", Kaduna Nzeogwu, Obasanjo, ethnicity, Nigeria, Igbo; the enigmas? 2
The Jan. 1966 "Igbo coup", Kaduna Nzeogwu, Obasanjo, ethnicity, Nigeria, Igbo; the Nigeria enigmas?
Bravery, courageousness, valor, gut, fearlessness, boldness, gallantry describes the character trait of a hero or heroism. Without a doubt Nzeogwu was a brave man and anyone with a contrary view is either a liar and has no truth and therefore as corrupt as the corrupt politicians that Nzeogwu wisely rebelled against in 1966; just as we also need Nzeogwu’s courage to eliminate the present corrupt Nigerian politicians and public officials. It is utterly stupid, cowardly and irresponsible to suggest that the citizenry should in the name of patience or even democracy allow the evil of public corruption, Mediocrity, subjugation, nepotism, cronyism, tribalism depravity, impunity, child labor and illiteracy, high maternal death, etc to persist. Nigerians have already waited and witnessed for life a span, a 53 year of internal fascism melted on the citizenry by halfbaked and ignorant political class.
Nzeogwu is a hero because he was brave, it is impossible to be called hero if one is not brave but timid, cowardly, and hedonistic like Nigerian politicians and past military dictatorships. No act of bravery is far removed from heroism. Some blame Nzeogwu and 1966 insurrection for the today’s sorry state of the Nigerian state. I vehemently disagree. The reason Nigeria is the way it is today is not because of too much Nzeogwu rather because there are not enough of Nzeogwu; not enough brave men with courage, enough integrity, alive in Nigeria. Every successful, developed country anywhere in the world today, at one time in its history had enough of its Nzeogwu. Nigeria killed its Nzeogwu and will never see progress until it calls back into being the Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwus. The American revolutionary leaders otherwise called its founding fathers, the Abraham Lincolns were the American Nzeogwus. American had enough of its share of Nzeogwus hence its powerfulness. The only reason Nzeogwu is villain to some is because his noble cause was short changed by the status quo, by cowards, by men of mediocrity and hedonists like his so-called friend, Obasanjo who did nothing then to help and later given leadership, he wasted, stole public wealth entrusted in his care; and by Ironsi and Ojukwu who opposed Nzeogwu not on the logics of his mission but were by themselves driven by their self centeredness. Obasanjo cannot claim to be Nzeogwu’s friend as he himself flunked the test and proved to be the symbol of the evil of corruption, impunity, the 10 per-center, the tribalist when for 10 years as president he bungled the opportunity to champion the noble cause Nzeogwu died for. Is either Nzeogwu was wrong and Obasanjo was right or vice versa. Nzeogwu and Obasanjo see the same things in different lights and therefore could not have being mutually trusting friends. Their friendship if any may have been for convenience.
With all their stolen public wealth and presidencies, Obasanjo and his likes are none-personas when compared to likes of Nzeogwus. History has vindicated Nzeogwu; that these profiteers, these ten per-centers, these tribalists, these crooks, and cabals are only after their own pockets and never had anything good to offer neither to the citizenry nor to the country. Fact; time will show that as Nzeogwu’s immortality becomes increasingly apparent that of those of the criminal cabals called Nigerian leaders will increasingly fade away.
It is being 47 years since a courageous attempt was made to rid Nigeria of its evil pervasions; the evil pervasions that demanded a decisive action, an action that could only come from courage. By any measure Nigeria’s political, social, and economic and even religious evils have risen by over 30 fold from where they were in 1966. Yet Nigerians are doing nothing about it but instead blame a man that single handedly without regard to his own life and safety tried his utmost best to do some about these evils. Some suggest that the January 1966 rebels should have exercised patience, that Nigerians should be patience and wait on Time, wait on the Corrupt themselves or on a God to bring, fairness, justice, equity, public accountability, into the polity. Sorry my fellow citizens, Time does nothing but passreth with the timid who fears to alter it. Sorry my fellow citizens, power is never conceded by the Corrupt Powerful but can only be wrestled from them and returned to the people by a measure of force. Sorry my fellow citizens, the God is dead because he had finished His work and His handwork was infinitely enduring, and perfect and no longer requires His presence. My fellow citizens 53 year later has anything changed? Are today's politicians better than the ones the 5 majors rebelled against? Contrary to what the child Megalomaniac, Funny Kayode may think, the unfortunate January 1966 coup was a necessary evil, the only problem is that Nigerian politicians in their looting jamboree has not leant any lesson from that experience.
Some mischief makers and polarizing tribal hawks, the Kayodes, have described the January 1966 coup an Igbo coup, a misnomer. Or worst, they say that the coup was an attempt by Igbos to dominate other ethnic nationalities, these descriptions are without doubt illogical, senseless and are but the product of confused ill-informed minds. This charge of Igbo domineering and hegemonic tendencies are clichés already formulated by many and by the Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello in an interview with a British journalist long before the January 1966 coup and were grounded on fears of healthy competition from the Igbos and grounded on Sardunna being product and custodian of islamic fuedual theocracy of Master and Serf class society. Akintola and Awolowo too expressed their fear of Igbo domination. Igbo needed not the January 1966 coup to lead Nigeria then because they had more than their fair share of national representation. Igbo lost out more than any group as a result of the January coup.
First, Igbo officers foiled the January coup. Second, an Igbo officer General Ironsi took over command as the Commander in chief. So if the so-called Nzeogwu coup was attempt by Igbos to dominate others in Nigeria, Ironsi being Igbo was in a position to deliver it. Rather Ironsi acting like a typical Igbo man in Nigeria, never considered ethnicity when he appointed Hausa/Fulani/Middle Belt Officers (Gowon, Chief of Army Staff) to more important and strategic positions. These unbiased liberal appointments eventually led to Ironsi’s demise. The Murtala Mohammed/ Theophanous Danjuma coup or the July 29 1966 revenge coup was an open secret whose main ideology and methodology was revenge killings. Some Igbo officers were even within the vicinity of the planning venues and in the know as Murtala and Danjuma planned their revenge coup. Ironsi was aware of the pending doom but he did nothing to ensure the so-call Igbo hegemonic conspiracy.
One could not help but ask; what mix of ethnicity would have made the January 1966 coup a-no-Igbo coup; 3, 5, 10 Yorubas, Hausa/Fulani, Igbos mix, respectively or vice versa? If one is to go on a dangerous mission like subversion and must go with the most trusted accompanies how would he chose accomplices? He would naturally be expected to chose from among his trusted family members, friends, peers, kith and kin, clan members, his village people, his town people, people from his region, state, country; in this order or mixture or rearrangement of this order in one form or another? In a dangerous mission like subversion of a constituted authority one does not chose team members for equity in representation but on trust, ability, confidentiality and cohesion. And unfortunately but naturally people believe that this kind of accomplice is readily and best obtained from within the family or within a psychological group. As analogous, one who hires one’s son over an outsider that is more qualified, in one’s own company does not make self a discriminator, a ‘tribalist’, a bigot, or a homophobe. This employer’s decision would be natural and normal and anything otherwise would have been a deviation from normal. So, that the January 1966 rebels trusted their kith and kin more, in the then Nigeria military could not have meant that they were bigots rather they exercised typical normal human behavior in a quest for success and for self preservation. Anything more or less would have meant that the rebels were suicidal, deviants from the law of self preservation.
Yet some argue that because officers of Igbo extraction overwhelmingly dominated in the number of officers that planned the coup and that Igbo Officers and Politicians were not killed it therefore was an Igbo coup. Again this line of thinking lacks common sense, bigoted and ignorant of the enormous danger and consequences inherently associated with act of subversion. Yes, this assertion that more Igbo officers in the January 1966 coup made the coup Igbo affair is bigoted because Murtala Mohammed coup is not so described as Hausa/Fulani coup, The Dimka Coup is not described as northern minority coup d'état for a hegemonic domination. The IBB, the Mamman Vasta, the Orkar, the Diya coup d'états are not given the same tribal, ethnic epithet wrongly labeled on the January 1966 coup. This equation of more Igbo Officers in the January 1966 coup equals Igbo coup lacks common sense because it tends to foolishly describe a rebellion in terms of the constituent participants instead of on a more reasonable terms of ideology, grievance and goals of the rebellion. Besides, is Asaba man an Igbo? I would argues yes and no and still be right because it all depends on the Asaba man in question. The argument that the coup plotters killed Northern and Western military officers and politicians and spared Igbos of same cadre, therefore it was Igbo coup is an argument that is based on naïveté and ignorance. Yes this line of thought is informed by naiveté and ignorance because it failed to take cognizance of the first law of nature, the law self preservation. The fact that the January 15 1966 coup plotters differentiated between military officer/politician whose elimination guaranteed the success of their mission and the self preservation of the rebels and those whose existence or death made no difference, neither in the mortality of the mission and or mortality of rebels, meant that these rebels where neither suicidal nor blood thirsty. They were only out to change the government with the minimum number of assassinations and minimum number of targeted killing that guarantees the success of the mission and self preservation. The rebels may have been wrong in their calculation but wrong calculation is not an evil or hegemonic calculation. It would be everybody’s desire and wish that none gets killed in any subversion but the reality is that subversion in most cases means the demise of people in either or both side of the divide and to think and believe otherwise is pure naiveté and ignorance.
On why the rebels of January 1966 were overwhelming officers of Igbo(?) extraction and why Igbo officers and politicians were not killed, only requires a simple deduction that premises on same statements above. First, as already stated, unlike the July revenge rebels, the January 1966 rebels were not out to kill people but rather to change government with minimum number of assassination that guaranteed the success of the mission and the preservation of their lives, successful or not in their mission. Analogically, what could be said of a person who leads or participates in a subversion of government that his or her parents are in principal or head positions if while he kills others, of the government’s officials, spares his parents’ lives, because in his heart he believes that his parent would not kill him even if his attempt fails to the overthrow the parent’s government? For sparing his parents lives while he kills others, should this rebel be called a ‘tribalist’, a racist, a homophobe? Or to prove fairness in killing or that his orshe is not a tribalist, should this rebel kill his parent even when he believes this parent poses no danger to him or to his group or to the rebels’ mission? In name of fairness, would it have been okay for the January 1966 rebels to kill Igbo politicians (Zik, for example) and military officers if the rebels believe in their hearts that these Igbos do not and would not pose danger to their mission or to the preservation of their lives, success or failure in their mission? Perhaps ethnic identity instinct may have influenced rebels decision here, but the decision was not just to spare only Igbo politicians and military officers but to spare any politician, military officer of any ethnicity that poses no danger to both mission and rebels' self preservation. The key word here or perhaps the culprit here is perception. We all have one time or another succumbed to the enslavement of wrong perceptions rooted in fears.
Besides, an Igbo Lieutenant colonel, a Qarter Master was killed. Or should the rebels ought to have killed Igbo politicians and military officers whether or not they pose danger to rebels, merely to prove fairness in the killings, the hallmark of the July 29 1966 revenge Murtala/Danjuma coup? Is there anything like fairness in killing of people? Was the Danjuma Murtala July revenge coup moral? Would it be wise to kill people to just to prove that one is or is not a tribal hawk if such killing is avoidable and make no difference in the outcome of the mission? I do not know, do you know? The January rebels may have miscalculated as they believed that Ojukwu would like Hassan kastina not be a stumbling blocks to their mission hence they did neither mark Ojukwu for elimination nor did Nzogwu kill Hassan having met him just after he had finished operation in Sardauna’s residence. But again miscalculation does not mean bigoted evil. Ironsi was marked for elimination and may have been tipped off on the pending rebellion by one of the rebels perhaps an Igbo who may have felt that Ironsi did not represent a mortal threat, at least not to the lives of the rebels. He may have counted on Ironsi’s Igbo ethnicity. The (hypothetical) rebel who may have tipped off Ironsi may have been wrong in believing that Ironsi would not mortally oppose their rebellion which Ironsi did. But he may have been right also because even though Ironsi quelled the rebellion he did not court marshal the rebels. Now, conspiracy theorists, mischief makers may say, there we go, that I have said it, that all was truly a grand plan or Igbo conspiracy. But a critical, logical look into the unfolding and folding of the rebellion will see no grand conspiracy. But I am not going to go into all the innuendos associated with January 1966 coup except to say that the rebels where humans, young, exuberant, naïve but meant no evil to Nigeria. And as for the assassinations though intrinsically associative with subversions the rebels were wrong yet they were not bigoted evil doers as some would want people to believe.
Nzeogwu could not have been a tribal hawk or a bigot because he was larger than life, he was intellectually advanced, and his horizon extends beyond any tribal boundaries. He said ‘if Nigeria disintegrates he will pack his things and leave.’ He couldn't have hated Northerners if he was reared, grew, 'lingualled' and named like a northern. Even his Igboness is doubt. In the interview with Ejindu, Nzeogwu said that Ojikwu was jealous of him because he was more popular than Ojikwu among Ojikwu’s own people. By Ojikwu’s own people, Nzeogwu could have meant Igbo people as Ojikwu’s own people. Nzeogwu could not have surrounded himself by Nigeria soldiers of all ethnicity following the unraveling of the rebellion he had just led against a northern led government if he hated Northerners. Perhaps he was crazy for perfection in the most imperfect, cursed environment and people.
Nzeogwu was very much aware of the consequences of his action but he knew that inaction was not an option. He died for a cause he believed in and what about you. You, is there anything you believe in? What would you die for? Would you believe in a thing so much that you would be willing to risk anything, everything and at any cost to achieve such thing? I agree a life not having anything to die for does not worth living. Even God seemed fit to die for something. Life is not about how long, how rich, how many wives and children, how much money one has, these things passreth. But rather life is about one’s impact to lives. This world is shaped by those who took bold unpopular action to change Things or Nothings to the ideal, even in the face of impending harm. But yet these courageous men and women go on to live forever. To me, Kaduna died a brave man which makes him a hero. Yes, some view Nzeogwu as villain but I see him as hero who lived among the corrupt and the unintelligent. Like him I prefer to die no matter how but to be remembered and live forever thereafter, than to die like I never lived; and what about you?
Some have suggested that the discrimination and marginalization Igbos suffer in Nigeria today is the making of the January 1966 coup that led to the civil war which the Igbos lost. I beg to differ. First, there was no victor no vanquished in the civil war and this was the official war end proclamation by then Nigeria Head of State General Yakubu Gowon. The reason Igbos are marginalized in Nigeria is not because they were vanquished but because, after the civil war Igbos inculcated defeatist attitude and chickened out; instead of putting forth more Nzeogwu like personas. Instead of sending the Nzeogwus to the center to demand their fair share of national cake Igbos have consistently sent compromisers and ten per-centers, the greedy, the weaklings, the unintelligent, the self centered, the illogical, the profiteers and the crooks, the likes of Ojior Uzor Kalu, the Nzeribes, etc. To make matter worse Igbos living in the central Igbo land has been abandoned by their brothers in the west and in the south who since the end of the civil has denied being Igbo. Yet the civil was premised on a coup led or championed by an Asaba man who was as Igbo as he was not. So Igbo Marginalization is self inflicted and the product of poor or no Igbo leadership. If Igbos actually want an escaped goat, somebody to blame for the Igbo plight in Nigeria and if such punch bag would ginger up courage and gives a measure of comfort then they should blame the accidental Head of State, Major General Thomas Umunakwe Agu-Ironsi. Ironsi though a good soldier, was neither intellectually nor tactically prepared to lead a complex disjointed society like Nigeria. Yes, Ironsi was a good man, a good soldier than he was Igbo. He was his father’s son.
Gowon rightly understood that a no victor and no vanquished end of the war proclamation was the only way to effectively bring the war to final and comprehensive end otherwise the guerrilla warfare that would have issued would either be raging till today or Nigeria would have for long disappeared or the entire Igbo race would have been by now exterminated. Because no true born, not myself would live, accept, sit and do nothing in a society where one is rated, treated like second class defeated person. I for one would lay full claim to my rights and defend my birth and citizenship rights if neither my father nor my grand fathers nor my ancestries were strangers to the land I live in.
The so-called Igbo marginalization is Igbo making and is the result of the lack of visionary selfless Igbo leadership. Until such time visionary, courageous leaders, the likes of Nzeogwu emerges in Igbo land, Igbos would continue to relegate themselves as second class and continue to clamor for a none viable Biafran State becuase Biafra and Nigeria are mutually exclusive that is Biafra can only be only if Nigeria demises. Igbos and indeed any Nigerian ethnic nationality must be prepared to deploy all its arsenal, political, legal and civil disobedience for perceived injustice. However, groups must show unity of purpose, consistency, determination and not selfishly fractional.
Bravery, courageousness, valor, gut, fearlessness, boldness, gallantry describes the character trait of a hero or heroism. Without a doubt Nzeogwu was a brave man and anyone with a contrary view is either a liar and has no truth and therefore as corrupt as the corrupt politicians that Nzeogwu wisely rebelled against in 1966; just as we also need Nzeogwu’s courage to eliminate the present corrupt Nigerian politicians and public officials. It is utterly stupid, cowardly and irresponsible to suggest that the citizenry should in the name of patience or even democracy allow the evil of public corruption, Mediocrity, subjugation, nepotism, cronyism, tribalism depravity, impunity, child labor and illiteracy, high maternal death, etc to persist. Nigerians have already waited and witnessed for life a span, a 53 year of internal fascism melted on the citizenry by halfbaked and ignorant political class.
Nzeogwu is a hero because he was brave, it is impossible to be called hero if one is not brave but timid, cowardly, and hedonistic like Nigerian politicians and past military dictatorships. No act of bravery is far removed from heroism. Some blame Nzeogwu and 1966 insurrection for the today’s sorry state of the Nigerian state. I vehemently disagree. The reason Nigeria is the way it is today is not because of too much Nzeogwu rather because there are not enough of Nzeogwu; not enough brave men with courage, enough integrity, alive in Nigeria. Every successful, developed country anywhere in the world today, at one time in its history had enough of its Nzeogwu. Nigeria killed its Nzeogwu and will never see progress until it calls back into being the Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwus. The American revolutionary leaders otherwise called its founding fathers, the Abraham Lincolns were the American Nzeogwus. American had enough of its share of Nzeogwus hence its powerfulness. The only reason Nzeogwu is villain to some is because his noble cause was short changed by the status quo, by cowards, by men of mediocrity and hedonists like his so-called friend, Obasanjo who did nothing then to help and later given leadership, he wasted, stole public wealth entrusted in his care; and by Ironsi and Ojukwu who opposed Nzeogwu not on the logics of his mission but were by themselves driven by their self centeredness. Obasanjo cannot claim to be Nzeogwu’s friend as he himself flunked the test and proved to be the symbol of the evil of corruption, impunity, the 10 per-center, the tribalist when for 10 years as president he bungled the opportunity to champion the noble cause Nzeogwu died for. Is either Nzeogwu was wrong and Obasanjo was right or vice versa. Nzeogwu and Obasanjo see the same things in different lights and therefore could not have being mutually trusting friends. Their friendship if any may have been for convenience.
With all their stolen public wealth and presidencies, Obasanjo and his likes are none-personas when compared to likes of Nzeogwus. History has vindicated Nzeogwu; that these profiteers, these ten per-centers, these tribalists, these crooks, and cabals are only after their own pockets and never had anything good to offer neither to the citizenry nor to the country. Fact; time will show that as Nzeogwu’s immortality becomes increasingly apparent that of those of the criminal cabals called Nigerian leaders will increasingly fade away.
It is being 47 years since a courageous attempt was made to rid Nigeria of its evil pervasions; the evil pervasions that demanded a decisive action, an action that could only come from courage. By any measure Nigeria’s political, social, and economic and even religious evils have risen by over 30 fold from where they were in 1966. Yet Nigerians are doing nothing about it but instead blame a man that single handedly without regard to his own life and safety tried his utmost best to do some about these evils. Some suggest that the January 1966 rebels should have exercised patience, that Nigerians should be patience and wait on Time, wait on the Corrupt themselves or on a God to bring, fairness, justice, equity, public accountability, into the polity. Sorry my fellow citizens, Time does nothing but passreth with the timid who fears to alter it. Sorry my fellow citizens, power is never conceded by the Corrupt Powerful but can only be wrestled from them and returned to the people by a measure of force. Sorry my fellow citizens, the God is dead because he had finished His work and His handwork was infinitely enduring, and perfect and no longer requires His presence. My fellow citizens 53 year later has anything changed? Are today's politicians better than the ones the 5 majors rebelled against? Contrary to what the child Megalomaniac, Funny Kayode may think, the unfortunate January 1966 coup was a necessary evil, the only problem is that Nigerian politicians in their looting jamboree has not leant any lesson from that experience.
Some mischief makers and polarizing tribal hawks, the Kayodes, have described the January 1966 coup an Igbo coup, a misnomer. Or worst, they say that the coup was an attempt by Igbos to dominate other ethnic nationalities, these descriptions are without doubt illogical, senseless and are but the product of confused ill-informed minds. This charge of Igbo domineering and hegemonic tendencies are clichés already formulated by many and by the Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello in an interview with a British journalist long before the January 1966 coup and were grounded on fears of healthy competition from the Igbos and grounded on Sardunna being product and custodian of islamic fuedual theocracy of Master and Serf class society. Akintola and Awolowo too expressed their fear of Igbo domination. Igbo needed not the January 1966 coup to lead Nigeria then because they had more than their fair share of national representation. Igbo lost out more than any group as a result of the January coup.
First, Igbo officers foiled the January coup. Second, an Igbo officer General Ironsi took over command as the Commander in chief. So if the so-called Nzeogwu coup was attempt by Igbos to dominate others in Nigeria, Ironsi being Igbo was in a position to deliver it. Rather Ironsi acting like a typical Igbo man in Nigeria, never considered ethnicity when he appointed Hausa/Fulani/Middle Belt Officers (Gowon, Chief of Army Staff) to more important and strategic positions. These unbiased liberal appointments eventually led to Ironsi’s demise. The Murtala Mohammed/ Theophanous Danjuma coup or the July 29 1966 revenge coup was an open secret whose main ideology and methodology was revenge killings. Some Igbo officers were even within the vicinity of the planning venues and in the know as Murtala and Danjuma planned their revenge coup. Ironsi was aware of the pending doom but he did nothing to ensure the so-call Igbo hegemonic conspiracy.
One could not help but ask; what mix of ethnicity would have made the January 1966 coup a-no-Igbo coup; 3, 5, 10 Yorubas, Hausa/Fulani, Igbos mix, respectively or vice versa? If one is to go on a dangerous mission like subversion and must go with the most trusted accompanies how would he chose accomplices? He would naturally be expected to chose from among his trusted family members, friends, peers, kith and kin, clan members, his village people, his town people, people from his region, state, country; in this order or mixture or rearrangement of this order in one form or another? In a dangerous mission like subversion of a constituted authority one does not chose team members for equity in representation but on trust, ability, confidentiality and cohesion. And unfortunately but naturally people believe that this kind of accomplice is readily and best obtained from within the family or within a psychological group. As analogous, one who hires one’s son over an outsider that is more qualified, in one’s own company does not make self a discriminator, a ‘tribalist’, a bigot, or a homophobe. This employer’s decision would be natural and normal and anything otherwise would have been a deviation from normal. So, that the January 1966 rebels trusted their kith and kin more, in the then Nigeria military could not have meant that they were bigots rather they exercised typical normal human behavior in a quest for success and for self preservation. Anything more or less would have meant that the rebels were suicidal, deviants from the law of self preservation.
Yet some argue that because officers of Igbo extraction overwhelmingly dominated in the number of officers that planned the coup and that Igbo Officers and Politicians were not killed it therefore was an Igbo coup. Again this line of thinking lacks common sense, bigoted and ignorant of the enormous danger and consequences inherently associated with act of subversion. Yes, this assertion that more Igbo officers in the January 1966 coup made the coup Igbo affair is bigoted because Murtala Mohammed coup is not so described as Hausa/Fulani coup, The Dimka Coup is not described as northern minority coup d'état for a hegemonic domination. The IBB, the Mamman Vasta, the Orkar, the Diya coup d'états are not given the same tribal, ethnic epithet wrongly labeled on the January 1966 coup. This equation of more Igbo Officers in the January 1966 coup equals Igbo coup lacks common sense because it tends to foolishly describe a rebellion in terms of the constituent participants instead of on a more reasonable terms of ideology, grievance and goals of the rebellion. Besides, is Asaba man an Igbo? I would argues yes and no and still be right because it all depends on the Asaba man in question. The argument that the coup plotters killed Northern and Western military officers and politicians and spared Igbos of same cadre, therefore it was Igbo coup is an argument that is based on naïveté and ignorance. Yes this line of thought is informed by naiveté and ignorance because it failed to take cognizance of the first law of nature, the law self preservation. The fact that the January 15 1966 coup plotters differentiated between military officer/politician whose elimination guaranteed the success of their mission and the self preservation of the rebels and those whose existence or death made no difference, neither in the mortality of the mission and or mortality of rebels, meant that these rebels where neither suicidal nor blood thirsty. They were only out to change the government with the minimum number of assassinations and minimum number of targeted killing that guarantees the success of the mission and self preservation. The rebels may have been wrong in their calculation but wrong calculation is not an evil or hegemonic calculation. It would be everybody’s desire and wish that none gets killed in any subversion but the reality is that subversion in most cases means the demise of people in either or both side of the divide and to think and believe otherwise is pure naiveté and ignorance.
On why the rebels of January 1966 were overwhelming officers of Igbo(?) extraction and why Igbo officers and politicians were not killed, only requires a simple deduction that premises on same statements above. First, as already stated, unlike the July revenge rebels, the January 1966 rebels were not out to kill people but rather to change government with minimum number of assassination that guaranteed the success of the mission and the preservation of their lives, successful or not in their mission. Analogically, what could be said of a person who leads or participates in a subversion of government that his or her parents are in principal or head positions if while he kills others, of the government’s officials, spares his parents’ lives, because in his heart he believes that his parent would not kill him even if his attempt fails to the overthrow the parent’s government? For sparing his parents lives while he kills others, should this rebel be called a ‘tribalist’, a racist, a homophobe? Or to prove fairness in killing or that his orshe is not a tribalist, should this rebel kill his parent even when he believes this parent poses no danger to him or to his group or to the rebels’ mission? In name of fairness, would it have been okay for the January 1966 rebels to kill Igbo politicians (Zik, for example) and military officers if the rebels believe in their hearts that these Igbos do not and would not pose danger to their mission or to the preservation of their lives, success or failure in their mission? Perhaps ethnic identity instinct may have influenced rebels decision here, but the decision was not just to spare only Igbo politicians and military officers but to spare any politician, military officer of any ethnicity that poses no danger to both mission and rebels' self preservation. The key word here or perhaps the culprit here is perception. We all have one time or another succumbed to the enslavement of wrong perceptions rooted in fears.
Besides, an Igbo Lieutenant colonel, a Qarter Master was killed. Or should the rebels ought to have killed Igbo politicians and military officers whether or not they pose danger to rebels, merely to prove fairness in the killings, the hallmark of the July 29 1966 revenge Murtala/Danjuma coup? Is there anything like fairness in killing of people? Was the Danjuma Murtala July revenge coup moral? Would it be wise to kill people to just to prove that one is or is not a tribal hawk if such killing is avoidable and make no difference in the outcome of the mission? I do not know, do you know? The January rebels may have miscalculated as they believed that Ojukwu would like Hassan kastina not be a stumbling blocks to their mission hence they did neither mark Ojukwu for elimination nor did Nzogwu kill Hassan having met him just after he had finished operation in Sardauna’s residence. But again miscalculation does not mean bigoted evil. Ironsi was marked for elimination and may have been tipped off on the pending rebellion by one of the rebels perhaps an Igbo who may have felt that Ironsi did not represent a mortal threat, at least not to the lives of the rebels. He may have counted on Ironsi’s Igbo ethnicity. The (hypothetical) rebel who may have tipped off Ironsi may have been wrong in believing that Ironsi would not mortally oppose their rebellion which Ironsi did. But he may have been right also because even though Ironsi quelled the rebellion he did not court marshal the rebels. Now, conspiracy theorists, mischief makers may say, there we go, that I have said it, that all was truly a grand plan or Igbo conspiracy. But a critical, logical look into the unfolding and folding of the rebellion will see no grand conspiracy. But I am not going to go into all the innuendos associated with January 1966 coup except to say that the rebels where humans, young, exuberant, naïve but meant no evil to Nigeria. And as for the assassinations though intrinsically associative with subversions the rebels were wrong yet they were not bigoted evil doers as some would want people to believe.
Nzeogwu could not have been a tribal hawk or a bigot because he was larger than life, he was intellectually advanced, and his horizon extends beyond any tribal boundaries. He said ‘if Nigeria disintegrates he will pack his things and leave.’ He couldn't have hated Northerners if he was reared, grew, 'lingualled' and named like a northern. Even his Igboness is doubt. In the interview with Ejindu, Nzeogwu said that Ojikwu was jealous of him because he was more popular than Ojikwu among Ojikwu’s own people. By Ojikwu’s own people, Nzeogwu could have meant Igbo people as Ojikwu’s own people. Nzeogwu could not have surrounded himself by Nigeria soldiers of all ethnicity following the unraveling of the rebellion he had just led against a northern led government if he hated Northerners. Perhaps he was crazy for perfection in the most imperfect, cursed environment and people.
Nzeogwu was very much aware of the consequences of his action but he knew that inaction was not an option. He died for a cause he believed in and what about you. You, is there anything you believe in? What would you die for? Would you believe in a thing so much that you would be willing to risk anything, everything and at any cost to achieve such thing? I agree a life not having anything to die for does not worth living. Even God seemed fit to die for something. Life is not about how long, how rich, how many wives and children, how much money one has, these things passreth. But rather life is about one’s impact to lives. This world is shaped by those who took bold unpopular action to change Things or Nothings to the ideal, even in the face of impending harm. But yet these courageous men and women go on to live forever. To me, Kaduna died a brave man which makes him a hero. Yes, some view Nzeogwu as villain but I see him as hero who lived among the corrupt and the unintelligent. Like him I prefer to die no matter how but to be remembered and live forever thereafter, than to die like I never lived; and what about you?
Some have suggested that the discrimination and marginalization Igbos suffer in Nigeria today is the making of the January 1966 coup that led to the civil war which the Igbos lost. I beg to differ. First, there was no victor no vanquished in the civil war and this was the official war end proclamation by then Nigeria Head of State General Yakubu Gowon. The reason Igbos are marginalized in Nigeria is not because they were vanquished but because, after the civil war Igbos inculcated defeatist attitude and chickened out; instead of putting forth more Nzeogwu like personas. Instead of sending the Nzeogwus to the center to demand their fair share of national cake Igbos have consistently sent compromisers and ten per-centers, the greedy, the weaklings, the unintelligent, the self centered, the illogical, the profiteers and the crooks, the likes of Ojior Uzor Kalu, the Nzeribes, etc. To make matter worse Igbos living in the central Igbo land has been abandoned by their brothers in the west and in the south who since the end of the civil has denied being Igbo. Yet the civil was premised on a coup led or championed by an Asaba man who was as Igbo as he was not. So Igbo Marginalization is self inflicted and the product of poor or no Igbo leadership. If Igbos actually want an escaped goat, somebody to blame for the Igbo plight in Nigeria and if such punch bag would ginger up courage and gives a measure of comfort then they should blame the accidental Head of State, Major General Thomas Umunakwe Agu-Ironsi. Ironsi though a good soldier, was neither intellectually nor tactically prepared to lead a complex disjointed society like Nigeria. Yes, Ironsi was a good man, a good soldier than he was Igbo. He was his father’s son.
Gowon rightly understood that a no victor and no vanquished end of the war proclamation was the only way to effectively bring the war to final and comprehensive end otherwise the guerrilla warfare that would have issued would either be raging till today or Nigeria would have for long disappeared or the entire Igbo race would have been by now exterminated. Because no true born, not myself would live, accept, sit and do nothing in a society where one is rated, treated like second class defeated person. I for one would lay full claim to my rights and defend my birth and citizenship rights if neither my father nor my grand fathers nor my ancestries were strangers to the land I live in.
The so-called Igbo marginalization is Igbo making and is the result of the lack of visionary selfless Igbo leadership. Until such time visionary, courageous leaders, the likes of Nzeogwu emerges in Igbo land, Igbos would continue to relegate themselves as second class and continue to clamor for a none viable Biafran State becuase Biafra and Nigeria are mutually exclusive that is Biafra can only be only if Nigeria demises. Igbos and indeed any Nigerian ethnic nationality must be prepared to deploy all its arsenal, political, legal and civil disobedience for perceived injustice. However, groups must show unity of purpose, consistency, determination and not selfishly fractional.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Igbo bashing, what were Ahmadu Bello, Samuel Akintola and Awolowo opinions
Igbo bashing, what were Ahmadu Bello, Samuel Akintola and Awolowo opinions
Never knew what exactly it meant to say or call somebody an ‘ Adult in child’s body until I read Fun- Kayode’s rumbling chatter or schizophrenic gibberish. I swear Kayode like my nine old son (when he is frustrated) does not own enough intellectual development to either hate anybody or mean any evil against Igbos as he rebelliously test his vocabulary war-chest and debate abilities. And like most nine 9 year old, Kayode is seeking attention by displaying what in his mind, is his great oratory abilities.
As we all know, when one in self-deceit and self-doubt exaggerates one’s own abilities he then challenges him or they he perceives as equals or better than he or she thinks of self. Great men or warriors do not challenge the lowly or the ordinary person. So when the child megalomaniac, Great Funny- kayode calls Igbos name and challenges them for a duel he either undoubtedly takes Igbos as his equal or greater than his self exaggerated worth and believes that he will get a good run for his bet and challenge. But the only problem here is that there won’t be any show or spectacular to watch because kayode is that 9 year old boy test-taunting a vicious, ruthless yet benevolent warrior that he is dreadfully aware of. Kayode’s gibberish op-ed or whatever it may be called was childishly boastful that it reminded me of my elementary and junior high days when we boasted of the superiority and great accomplishment of our towns, people, and groups. Like students of junior highs, Kayode’s rants are but self-serving comments that can only be made by a tribal xenophobic airhead that his is;
kayode is that nine old Yoruba boy trying to escape from, to overcome , to immune against, his Igbo fear by taunting them; trying to know how far he could get or trying to see if he could get away with it. But gripped by fear as he realized that he has gone overboard in his taunting of Igbos, he then begun to coalesce futilely all Nigerians against Igbo. He has begun to narrate Igbo crimes against all other Nigeria ethnic nationalities. But being a 9 year old he neither witnessed the civil war nor was he aware of the resilience of hated but blessed Igbo people. Kayode is too childish, not old enough to know that no amount of gang up against Igbo would rival the one that preceded, led to and prevailed during the civil war. Being only 9 years old, Kayode is too superficial to notice that Igbos are in full cognizance of their true nature in Nigeria, their bad fate but blessed nature. One could not resist asking how this 9 old inarticulate buffoon with empty ego become a minister in Nigeria. Well this puzzle is not a rocket science because this is Nigeria for you, the land of mediocrity.
Every important personality, learned, every reputable legal scholar of Yoruba descent has said that Fashola’s internal deportation of Nigerian citizens is immoral, illegal, unconstitutional and therefore condemnable. So Igbos should take comfort in the unbiased nature of Yoruba's important personalities. Nonetheless, Igbos must not make the mistake of be naïve or complacent because the ordinary, unaccomplished, common Yoruba man like any unaccomplished man anywhere in the world dwell self with envy, jealous hate and dislike of the accomplished men living in his midst especially if the accomplished man is seen as a foreigner, an outlier. The poverty of the unachieved but hateful person or persons is like vicious circle that reinforces itself because these haters instead of pursuing their goal and destiny they spend greater percent of their time, and human energy unproductively, extorting, hating and envying thereby keeping selves perpertually in the same predicaments of envy, jealous, poverty and ignorance .
Yes, Igbo should neither be complacent nor underestimate the dangers pose by these scumbags because they seem to be in majority in every society. Yes, poverty is not a crime but when one’s poverty and idleness constitute deliberate danger to the successful, to the hardworking, to the self-made individual then poverty becomes a crime that must be checked by any means necessary. It is legal, ideal and even a responsibility to confront the government that through bad polices or no policy, or through corruption makes the citizenry poor. But it is a misplaced anger, stupidity for the poor to confront another citizen just because this citizen is successfully in-spite government bad policies and corruptions.
Igbos' success in Nigeria is neither magical nor criminal but rather the product of good business strategy, planning, vision and of course shrewdness. But vision is the single most important factor responsible for Igbo business success. This vision is the reason Igbos are fixated in real property acquisitions whether in the North, West or South South because an Igbo man thinks more for the future, for the economic wellbeing and welfare of his offspring more than he thinks of himself and his immediate need. This is why other Nigerians especially Yorubas poke fun on Igbo man about going on rags and hungry why he has fortune lying somewhere. Different People, persons and cultures have different priorities; some live in the immediate and worry less about tomorrow, some live for others and while some don't even want to live at all. And the point being, we should not envy others for what they have or have not because we do not know the culture, the mind set or what scarifies or lack thereof that gives them happiness and sense of fulfillment. Wealth accumulation for future generations give the Igbo a sense of fullfilment while a Yoruba believes in the immediate pleasure or hedonism and a typical Hausa/Fulani derives joy in fuedal theocracy irrespective of his own status in such feudal monarchism.
Now the question that had always begged to be asked is why the Igbo hate in Nigeria? To answer this question one must go back to the other one million unanimous answers that one million Nigerians gave as the reason they hate or put mildly the reason they dislike Igbos. And that resounding and unianymous response is that, Igbos are Greedy and exhibit domineering tendency. If one million other Nigerian gave this same answers about Igbos there must be some elements of tangible truth or perceived truth to it. Now let as do justice to these unanimous feelings about Igbos by many other Nigerians. First greedy is universal human-animal natural instinct that is inseparable from the fundamental law of self-preservation. There is not wrong, illegal, sinful, evil and dirty about greed except one allows his greed to push him or her into hurting, maiming, others. But if greed is bad what would one say about Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba government officials that have for over 50 years controlled and used their high positions in the government and Looted, stole and ran Nigeria to near extinction? Greedy is drive and will that gives meaning to life, the self preservation. He who is not greedy lacks the will to self-preserve, the will the live. Lack of greed or the will to live leads to either laziness or hopesless or both, and these two are dangerous dispositions. If greed was such a bad thing the Lord would not have possessed it in aboundanc, remember, He want 100% of all beings to be for Him.
Igbo domineering tendencies; in the early 60s Sarduana of Sokoto Ahmadu Bello in a not accusatory manner yet in bad light accused Igbos of domineering tendencies. He said ‘employ an ebo as a laborer today within a yeaa he will emerge as head man' Did you notice that Sarduan did not say Igbos are criminals.’ Fellow Nigeria, what is wrong with this Igbo picture as depicted by Sarduana?. In my opinion, that one strived and rose from ashes to glory should be encouraged, praised, and replicated because this is what living should be about. But again Meritocracy in ‘mediocre society is crime punishable by hate, anger, envy and scorn. Fears of Igbo domination were Samuel Akintola’s night, morning, afternoon songs of worry. Sir Awolowo was also dreadful of Igbo domination. Neither Akitola nor Awolowo said, thought or feared that Igbos were predisposed to crime or social vices. As a matter of fact in the 60s when Yoruba land was in political turmoil, burning, engulfed with political assassinations and thuggery, South East was in perfect peace. The reasoning behind Sardunna's Igbo characterization is very understandable and pardonable because he was a product and custodian of Islamic feudalistic theocracy. But for Awolowo and Akintola the disparaging of Igbo was political, tribal and fear of formidable competitor, the Igbo.
So, every honest Nigerian sees and knows that Igbo Nigeria problem is envy, and jealousness by the many who naturally are enemies of progress and success not just in Nigeria but the world over. So the hate and dislike of Ibo by any other ethnic nationality has nothing to do with the evil or wrongs the Ibos did. But instead Ibo hate and disdain are envious in nature; Ibo hate are due to Ibo’s unmatched competitiveness, carrier successes private and public by the majority of the Igbo populance which unlike in the West and north where fews bougiers control 99% of the wealth and 98% of the masses go hungry. The Igbo crime in Nigeria is the fear of Ibo domination as voiced by Sardauna of Sokoto Ahmadu Bello, Akintola, Awowolo and others as earlier as the time of Nigeria independence. My concern is that these hate and envy toward Igbo has reached a disturbing crescendo even after 50 years Igbo was shutout of the management of the affairs of this country; relegated to second classism and asked to eat under the table. The Igbo hate has uped geomtrically just because, in-spite all odds and stumbling blocks and marginalization of the Igbo by the ruling class Igbos have managed to remain afloat and relevant, and those hunting for Igbo heads are increasingly more aggressive to serve Igbo heads in their soups.
Fate wise, Igbos are like German Jews who during the reign of Nazi fascism were apolitical yet fate could not save them from the impending holocaust. It was Long period of unfounded envy, jealousness, hate towards German Jews that led to the Holocaust. The envy, anger, jealousness, hate towards Igbo of eastern Nigeria have reached that feverish and holocaust proportion. This is not crying wolf it is facts on the making and when it completely unfolds I will be called a prophet but I am no prophet and nothing close but I know and studies human inklings.
We ought and must love peace and one another but I am also of the view that South East policy makers must see the wisdom in maintaining within the confines of the law a regulated vigilante and militia force for minor internal security challenges within SE and for initial response to unwarranted provocations from without. Today South West has OPC and recently large quantity of explosive Ordnance was intercepted in one of the South West states. South South has MEND and other insurgent groups, North Central have Ombatse, North West and North East zones are undoubtedly the most insurgent infested zones. Sometimes ago a North West governor was illegally importing arms into the country.
I believe that a measure of force is required to maintain mutual fear and respect. As long as some envious, jealous, lazy, groups out there, sees Igbo’s self-defense vulnerability, see no threat of harm from the Igbo, sees Igbo as a punching bag without consequences they will not stop poking their lazy leprous fossilized hand-mind in the Igbo eyes. Is not a question of if but when will attack on Igbo happen. As it has always happpend, in no distance time these Igbo haters will attack Igbos living among them mainly to take over and or destroy Igbo wealth and properties in their area of influence. These people are cowards and will attack with vengeance and furiousness the weak uses to attack perceived uberman, the Igbos. Truly, Igbos are not coward if they were they would not put their lives and wealth on their haters reach but I am not sure Igbos have emergency plan to respond to sudden unprovoked attacks from their detractors.
Nonetheless, as long as we say one Nigeria I do not fault any Igbo man for building business or structure in any part of the so-called one Nigeria. But the Igbo, who make that choice of building outside Igbo land undoubtedly knows that there may be the need for him or her to defend, protect or abandon such structure. I know businesses; buildings are hard earned possessions but material things come second to man’s dignity, and life. So as long as there exists a one Nigeria mantra either in truth or in deceit Igbos who built outside South East should know to prepare to lawfully and forcefully defend what is theirs and as a last resort abandon such properties or structures.
In a federating republic like Nigeria, sovereignty or power belongs to the people, the citizenry of which indigenous people are part of. In Nigeria constitution, indigenous people of which almost every Nigerian is one some place, are neither superior nor entitled more rights than any other citizen because again sovereignty belongs to the citizenry. A citizen of a country or state is anyone who is either natural free born, or a naturalized citizen who resides in the state, pays taxes and fulfills his or her civic duties. Yes, Yorubas may be the indigenous people in the Lagos State territory but their indigene-ship neither negates the right of other citizens nor the citizenship status of other Lagosians who are not of Yoruba descent or whose ancestry are not indigenous Lagosians. A city, state, nation without the poor is perverted and one that ill-treats its poor is cursed and only waits for its own demise.
When people call Lagos a-no-man’s land they do not mean that there are or there were no indigenous people of Lagos territory they simple mean to say that there is no ethnic nationality one would not found in Lagos. Many of my Yoruba friends and acquaintances especially the none-lagosians do describe Lagos as a-no-man’s land. Lagos as a-no-man’s land is short way of saying that every group, ethnicity can be found in Lagos and must people do not say it with malice. But this is beside the point, Lagos being called no-man’s land or not is but red herring, a distraction from the issue at hand; which is the legality and constitutionality of internal deportation of Nigerian citizens. Before now I never heard of indigenous Lagosians complaining about people calling Lagos, a-no-man's land.
There are so many generations of Yorubas who are British citizens and they will take offense if English people belittle, make mockery or denounce their citizenship just because they are not native or indigenous English. If a Yoruba would enjoy British citizenship, except for enviousness, jealousness, hatefulness and ignorance I do not see why an Igbo with business, real property, pays taxes, performs civic duty and lives in Lagos would be denied Lagos citizenship just because his is Igbo. It is a pity, petty, shameful, primitive and troubling that any Yoruba in today Nigeria would on bases of ethnicity or indigene-ship challenges the right of an Igbo Lagos property owner to Lagos citizenship. The indigenous Lagosians were not indigene of Lagos from the eternity, were they?
In Americas, in Australia, in South Africa, the white Europeans settlers enjoy full citizenship but an Igbo in Lagos is being treated like an alien from another planate. This is why progress has eluded Nigeria and black race as a whole. Because black people in their primitive mentality only occupy themselves with envy, hate and witch hunt of the successful.
Never knew what exactly it meant to say or call somebody an ‘ Adult in child’s body until I read Fun- Kayode’s rumbling chatter or schizophrenic gibberish. I swear Kayode like my nine old son (when he is frustrated) does not own enough intellectual development to either hate anybody or mean any evil against Igbos as he rebelliously test his vocabulary war-chest and debate abilities. And like most nine 9 year old, Kayode is seeking attention by displaying what in his mind, is his great oratory abilities.
As we all know, when one in self-deceit and self-doubt exaggerates one’s own abilities he then challenges him or they he perceives as equals or better than he or she thinks of self. Great men or warriors do not challenge the lowly or the ordinary person. So when the child megalomaniac, Great Funny- kayode calls Igbos name and challenges them for a duel he either undoubtedly takes Igbos as his equal or greater than his self exaggerated worth and believes that he will get a good run for his bet and challenge. But the only problem here is that there won’t be any show or spectacular to watch because kayode is that 9 year old boy test-taunting a vicious, ruthless yet benevolent warrior that he is dreadfully aware of. Kayode’s gibberish op-ed or whatever it may be called was childishly boastful that it reminded me of my elementary and junior high days when we boasted of the superiority and great accomplishment of our towns, people, and groups. Like students of junior highs, Kayode’s rants are but self-serving comments that can only be made by a tribal xenophobic airhead that his is;
kayode is that nine old Yoruba boy trying to escape from, to overcome , to immune against, his Igbo fear by taunting them; trying to know how far he could get or trying to see if he could get away with it. But gripped by fear as he realized that he has gone overboard in his taunting of Igbos, he then begun to coalesce futilely all Nigerians against Igbo. He has begun to narrate Igbo crimes against all other Nigeria ethnic nationalities. But being a 9 year old he neither witnessed the civil war nor was he aware of the resilience of hated but blessed Igbo people. Kayode is too childish, not old enough to know that no amount of gang up against Igbo would rival the one that preceded, led to and prevailed during the civil war. Being only 9 years old, Kayode is too superficial to notice that Igbos are in full cognizance of their true nature in Nigeria, their bad fate but blessed nature. One could not resist asking how this 9 old inarticulate buffoon with empty ego become a minister in Nigeria. Well this puzzle is not a rocket science because this is Nigeria for you, the land of mediocrity.
Every important personality, learned, every reputable legal scholar of Yoruba descent has said that Fashola’s internal deportation of Nigerian citizens is immoral, illegal, unconstitutional and therefore condemnable. So Igbos should take comfort in the unbiased nature of Yoruba's important personalities. Nonetheless, Igbos must not make the mistake of be naïve or complacent because the ordinary, unaccomplished, common Yoruba man like any unaccomplished man anywhere in the world dwell self with envy, jealous hate and dislike of the accomplished men living in his midst especially if the accomplished man is seen as a foreigner, an outlier. The poverty of the unachieved but hateful person or persons is like vicious circle that reinforces itself because these haters instead of pursuing their goal and destiny they spend greater percent of their time, and human energy unproductively, extorting, hating and envying thereby keeping selves perpertually in the same predicaments of envy, jealous, poverty and ignorance .
Yes, Igbo should neither be complacent nor underestimate the dangers pose by these scumbags because they seem to be in majority in every society. Yes, poverty is not a crime but when one’s poverty and idleness constitute deliberate danger to the successful, to the hardworking, to the self-made individual then poverty becomes a crime that must be checked by any means necessary. It is legal, ideal and even a responsibility to confront the government that through bad polices or no policy, or through corruption makes the citizenry poor. But it is a misplaced anger, stupidity for the poor to confront another citizen just because this citizen is successfully in-spite government bad policies and corruptions.
Igbos' success in Nigeria is neither magical nor criminal but rather the product of good business strategy, planning, vision and of course shrewdness. But vision is the single most important factor responsible for Igbo business success. This vision is the reason Igbos are fixated in real property acquisitions whether in the North, West or South South because an Igbo man thinks more for the future, for the economic wellbeing and welfare of his offspring more than he thinks of himself and his immediate need. This is why other Nigerians especially Yorubas poke fun on Igbo man about going on rags and hungry why he has fortune lying somewhere. Different People, persons and cultures have different priorities; some live in the immediate and worry less about tomorrow, some live for others and while some don't even want to live at all. And the point being, we should not envy others for what they have or have not because we do not know the culture, the mind set or what scarifies or lack thereof that gives them happiness and sense of fulfillment. Wealth accumulation for future generations give the Igbo a sense of fullfilment while a Yoruba believes in the immediate pleasure or hedonism and a typical Hausa/Fulani derives joy in fuedal theocracy irrespective of his own status in such feudal monarchism.
Now the question that had always begged to be asked is why the Igbo hate in Nigeria? To answer this question one must go back to the other one million unanimous answers that one million Nigerians gave as the reason they hate or put mildly the reason they dislike Igbos. And that resounding and unianymous response is that, Igbos are Greedy and exhibit domineering tendency. If one million other Nigerian gave this same answers about Igbos there must be some elements of tangible truth or perceived truth to it. Now let as do justice to these unanimous feelings about Igbos by many other Nigerians. First greedy is universal human-animal natural instinct that is inseparable from the fundamental law of self-preservation. There is not wrong, illegal, sinful, evil and dirty about greed except one allows his greed to push him or her into hurting, maiming, others. But if greed is bad what would one say about Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba government officials that have for over 50 years controlled and used their high positions in the government and Looted, stole and ran Nigeria to near extinction? Greedy is drive and will that gives meaning to life, the self preservation. He who is not greedy lacks the will to self-preserve, the will the live. Lack of greed or the will to live leads to either laziness or hopesless or both, and these two are dangerous dispositions. If greed was such a bad thing the Lord would not have possessed it in aboundanc, remember, He want 100% of all beings to be for Him.
Igbo domineering tendencies; in the early 60s Sarduana of Sokoto Ahmadu Bello in a not accusatory manner yet in bad light accused Igbos of domineering tendencies. He said ‘employ an ebo as a laborer today within a yeaa he will emerge as head man' Did you notice that Sarduan did not say Igbos are criminals.’ Fellow Nigeria, what is wrong with this Igbo picture as depicted by Sarduana?. In my opinion, that one strived and rose from ashes to glory should be encouraged, praised, and replicated because this is what living should be about. But again Meritocracy in ‘mediocre society is crime punishable by hate, anger, envy and scorn. Fears of Igbo domination were Samuel Akintola’s night, morning, afternoon songs of worry. Sir Awolowo was also dreadful of Igbo domination. Neither Akitola nor Awolowo said, thought or feared that Igbos were predisposed to crime or social vices. As a matter of fact in the 60s when Yoruba land was in political turmoil, burning, engulfed with political assassinations and thuggery, South East was in perfect peace. The reasoning behind Sardunna's Igbo characterization is very understandable and pardonable because he was a product and custodian of Islamic feudalistic theocracy. But for Awolowo and Akintola the disparaging of Igbo was political, tribal and fear of formidable competitor, the Igbo.
So, every honest Nigerian sees and knows that Igbo Nigeria problem is envy, and jealousness by the many who naturally are enemies of progress and success not just in Nigeria but the world over. So the hate and dislike of Ibo by any other ethnic nationality has nothing to do with the evil or wrongs the Ibos did. But instead Ibo hate and disdain are envious in nature; Ibo hate are due to Ibo’s unmatched competitiveness, carrier successes private and public by the majority of the Igbo populance which unlike in the West and north where fews bougiers control 99% of the wealth and 98% of the masses go hungry. The Igbo crime in Nigeria is the fear of Ibo domination as voiced by Sardauna of Sokoto Ahmadu Bello, Akintola, Awowolo and others as earlier as the time of Nigeria independence. My concern is that these hate and envy toward Igbo has reached a disturbing crescendo even after 50 years Igbo was shutout of the management of the affairs of this country; relegated to second classism and asked to eat under the table. The Igbo hate has uped geomtrically just because, in-spite all odds and stumbling blocks and marginalization of the Igbo by the ruling class Igbos have managed to remain afloat and relevant, and those hunting for Igbo heads are increasingly more aggressive to serve Igbo heads in their soups.
Fate wise, Igbos are like German Jews who during the reign of Nazi fascism were apolitical yet fate could not save them from the impending holocaust. It was Long period of unfounded envy, jealousness, hate towards German Jews that led to the Holocaust. The envy, anger, jealousness, hate towards Igbo of eastern Nigeria have reached that feverish and holocaust proportion. This is not crying wolf it is facts on the making and when it completely unfolds I will be called a prophet but I am no prophet and nothing close but I know and studies human inklings.
We ought and must love peace and one another but I am also of the view that South East policy makers must see the wisdom in maintaining within the confines of the law a regulated vigilante and militia force for minor internal security challenges within SE and for initial response to unwarranted provocations from without. Today South West has OPC and recently large quantity of explosive Ordnance was intercepted in one of the South West states. South South has MEND and other insurgent groups, North Central have Ombatse, North West and North East zones are undoubtedly the most insurgent infested zones. Sometimes ago a North West governor was illegally importing arms into the country.
I believe that a measure of force is required to maintain mutual fear and respect. As long as some envious, jealous, lazy, groups out there, sees Igbo’s self-defense vulnerability, see no threat of harm from the Igbo, sees Igbo as a punching bag without consequences they will not stop poking their lazy leprous fossilized hand-mind in the Igbo eyes. Is not a question of if but when will attack on Igbo happen. As it has always happpend, in no distance time these Igbo haters will attack Igbos living among them mainly to take over and or destroy Igbo wealth and properties in their area of influence. These people are cowards and will attack with vengeance and furiousness the weak uses to attack perceived uberman, the Igbos. Truly, Igbos are not coward if they were they would not put their lives and wealth on their haters reach but I am not sure Igbos have emergency plan to respond to sudden unprovoked attacks from their detractors.
Nonetheless, as long as we say one Nigeria I do not fault any Igbo man for building business or structure in any part of the so-called one Nigeria. But the Igbo, who make that choice of building outside Igbo land undoubtedly knows that there may be the need for him or her to defend, protect or abandon such structure. I know businesses; buildings are hard earned possessions but material things come second to man’s dignity, and life. So as long as there exists a one Nigeria mantra either in truth or in deceit Igbos who built outside South East should know to prepare to lawfully and forcefully defend what is theirs and as a last resort abandon such properties or structures.
In a federating republic like Nigeria, sovereignty or power belongs to the people, the citizenry of which indigenous people are part of. In Nigeria constitution, indigenous people of which almost every Nigerian is one some place, are neither superior nor entitled more rights than any other citizen because again sovereignty belongs to the citizenry. A citizen of a country or state is anyone who is either natural free born, or a naturalized citizen who resides in the state, pays taxes and fulfills his or her civic duties. Yes, Yorubas may be the indigenous people in the Lagos State territory but their indigene-ship neither negates the right of other citizens nor the citizenship status of other Lagosians who are not of Yoruba descent or whose ancestry are not indigenous Lagosians. A city, state, nation without the poor is perverted and one that ill-treats its poor is cursed and only waits for its own demise.
When people call Lagos a-no-man’s land they do not mean that there are or there were no indigenous people of Lagos territory they simple mean to say that there is no ethnic nationality one would not found in Lagos. Many of my Yoruba friends and acquaintances especially the none-lagosians do describe Lagos as a-no-man’s land. Lagos as a-no-man’s land is short way of saying that every group, ethnicity can be found in Lagos and must people do not say it with malice. But this is beside the point, Lagos being called no-man’s land or not is but red herring, a distraction from the issue at hand; which is the legality and constitutionality of internal deportation of Nigerian citizens. Before now I never heard of indigenous Lagosians complaining about people calling Lagos, a-no-man's land.
There are so many generations of Yorubas who are British citizens and they will take offense if English people belittle, make mockery or denounce their citizenship just because they are not native or indigenous English. If a Yoruba would enjoy British citizenship, except for enviousness, jealousness, hatefulness and ignorance I do not see why an Igbo with business, real property, pays taxes, performs civic duty and lives in Lagos would be denied Lagos citizenship just because his is Igbo. It is a pity, petty, shameful, primitive and troubling that any Yoruba in today Nigeria would on bases of ethnicity or indigene-ship challenges the right of an Igbo Lagos property owner to Lagos citizenship. The indigenous Lagosians were not indigene of Lagos from the eternity, were they?
In Americas, in Australia, in South Africa, the white Europeans settlers enjoy full citizenship but an Igbo in Lagos is being treated like an alien from another planate. This is why progress has eluded Nigeria and black race as a whole. Because black people in their primitive mentality only occupy themselves with envy, hate and witch hunt of the successful.
Friday, August 16, 2013
Generations of Yorubas with British citizenship!! 2
The controversy over the internal deportation of Nigerians from Lagos State has change from the question of legality and constitutionality of such act to the indigene-ship and ownership of Lagos. Some paranoid schizophrenia, the likes of Fani Kayode failed in defending this despicable act but in his incoherent gibberish red-herring rumbling, he ranted his long head, deep seated anger, envy, jealous and hate against Igbo race.
Kayode’s gibberish op-ed or whatever it may be called was childishly boastful that it reminded me of my elementary and junior high days when we boasted of the superiority and great accomplishment of our towns, people, and groups. Like students of junior highs, Kayode’s rant are but self serving comments that can only be made by a tribal xenophobic airhead that his is; and here is why. In a federating republic like Nigeria, sovereignty or power belongs to the people, the citizenry of which indigenous people are part of. In Nigeria constitution, indigenous people of which almost every Nigerian is one somewhere are neither superior nor entitled more rights than any other citizen because again sovereignty belongs to the citizenry. A citizen of a country or state is anyone who is either a free born, or a naturalized citizen who resides in the state, pays taxes and fulfills his or her civic duties. Yes, Yorubas may be the indigenous people in the Lagos State territory but their indigene-ship neither negates the right of other citizenships nor the citizenship status of other Lagosians who are not of Yoruba descent or whose ancestry are not indigenous Lagosians. A city, state, nation without the poor is perverted and one that ill-treats its poor is cursed and only devising for its own demise.
There are so many generations of Yorubas who are British citizens and they will take offense if English people belittle, make mockery or denounce their citizenship just because they are not native or indigenous English. If a Yoruba would enjoy British citizenship, except for enviousness, jealousness, hatefulness and ignorance I do not see why an Igbo with business, real property, pays taxes, performs civic duty and lives in Lagos would be denied Lagos citizenship just because his is Igbo. It is a shame that any Yoruba in today Nigeria would on bases of ethnicity or indigene-ship challenges the right of an Igbo to Lagos citizenship.
The reason Igbos are fixated in real property acquisitions is because Igbo man think more for the economic wellbeing and welfare of his offspring more then he thinks of himself and his immediate need. This is why other Nigerians especially Yorubas poke fun on Igbo man going on rags and hungry why he has fortune lying somewhere. Different People, persons and cultures have different priorities; some live in the immediate and worry less about tomorrow, some live for others and while some don't even want to live at all. And the point being, we should not envy others for what they have or have not because we do not know the culture, the mind set or what scarifies or lack thereof that gives them happiness and sense of fulfillment.
In Americas, in Australia, in South Africa the white Europeans who are none indigenes settlers enjoy full citizenship but an Igbo in Lagos is being treated like an alien from another planate. This is why progress has eluded Nigeria and black race as a whole. Because black people in their primitive mentality only occupy themselves with envy, hate,
The controversy over the internal deportation of Nigerians from Lagos State has change from the question of legality and constitutionality of such act to the indigene-ship and ownership of Lagos. Some paranoid schizophrenia, the likes of Fani Kayode failed in defending this despicable act but in his incoherent gibberish red-herring rumbling, he ranted his long head, deep seated anger, envy, jealous and hate against Igbo race.
Kayode’s gibberish op-ed or whatever it may be called was childishly boastful that it reminded me of my elementary and junior high days when we boasted of the superiority and great accomplishment of our towns, people, and groups. Like students of junior highs, Kayode’s rant are but self serving comments that can only be made by a tribal xenophobic airhead that his is; and here is why. In a federating republic like Nigeria, sovereignty or power belongs to the people, the citizenry of which indigenous people are part of. In Nigeria constitution, indigenous people of which almost every Nigerian is one somewhere are neither superior nor entitled more rights than any other citizen because again sovereignty belongs to the citizenry. A citizen of a country or state is anyone who is either a free born, or a naturalized citizen who resides in the state, pays taxes and fulfills his or her civic duties. Yes, Yorubas may be the indigenous people in the Lagos State territory but their indigene-ship neither negates the right of other citizenships nor the citizenship status of other Lagosians who are not of Yoruba descent or whose ancestry are not indigenous Lagosians. A city, state, nation without the poor is perverted and one that ill-treats its poor is cursed and only devising for its own demise.
There are so many generations of Yorubas who are British citizens and they will take offense if English people belittle, make mockery or denounce their citizenship just because they are not native or indigenous English. If a Yoruba would enjoy British citizenship, except for enviousness, jealousness, hatefulness and ignorance I do not see why an Igbo with business, real property, pays taxes, performs civic duty and lives in Lagos would be denied Lagos citizenship just because his is Igbo. It is a shame that any Yoruba in today Nigeria would on bases of ethnicity or indigene-ship challenges the right of an Igbo to Lagos citizenship.
The reason Igbos are fixated in real property acquisitions is because Igbo man think more for the economic wellbeing and welfare of his offspring more then he thinks of himself and his immediate need. This is why other Nigerians especially Yorubas poke fun on Igbo man going on rags and hungry why he has fortune lying somewhere. Different People, persons and cultures have different priorities; some live in the immediate and worry less about tomorrow, some live for others and while some don't even want to live at all. And the point being, we should not envy others for what they have or have not because we do not know the culture, the mind set or what scarifies or lack thereof that gives them happiness and sense of fulfillment.
In Americas, in Australia, in South Africa the white Europeans who are none indigenes settlers enjoy full citizenship but an Igbo in Lagos is being treated like an alien from another planate. This is why progress has eluded Nigeria and black race as a whole. Because black people in their primitive mentality only occupy themselves with envy, hate,
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Con Kalu, is Robin Hood in reverse
"Fashola seals off Kalu’s house" Sun newspaper, 8/14/13
Con Kalu, is Robin Hood in reverse that robs for his own pocket and acts as if the internal deportation of the poor is worse than stealing from them.
There is no doubt that the sealing of this house is in connection with Con Kalu’s criticism of Fashola's rape of the Nigeria constitution when he acting like a rabies infected dog rabidly, illegally, and callously internally deported Nigerian citizens, in manner reminiscent of Nazi’s Auschwitz deportation of German Jews, now the infamous, Onitsha-Auschwitz Deportation head- bridge Camp .
However not only do I support the sealing of this Lagos house purportedly owned by Con Orji Uzo Kalu I think the Lagos state Government and Abia state government should seize the house pending the outcome of investigation on when this house was built, on how Con Kalu got the fund he used to build this house. In as much as I applaud Con Kalu for defending, human, constitutional and universal rights of Nigerians, Indi-Igbo against Lagos State Government’s subversive act that is capable of causing national disintegration I still completely distaste Con Kalu for looting Abia state to the verge of death. Had Con Kalu overcame his greedy, primitive self-centeredness and not for 8 years appropriated Abia’s wealth to himself, had he instead of looting Abia wealth used those public wealth for infrastructure and industrial development of Abia State, he would have saved some of these Igbo deportees the shame or indignity of being deported even in their own country.
As Governor of Abia State Con Kalu should lead by example and should show Abia people and Nigerians the houses he built in the cities in Abia State prior and after being the governor of Abia State if he built this much house in Lagos State. He would do himself a great favor if he would explain when and how he got the money he used to build these houses including the ones In U.S. Con Kalu should know that his baloney cock and bullshit oil and fish business narrative is not selling given the multi- billion Naira asset, business, and investment he controls around the world and particularly in Africa. The reason Con Kalu invested heavily in other Africa countries and not in the West, his Abia loot, the loot responsible; for high infant mortality, high children illiteracy, high maternal deaths, high unemployment, dead infrastructure and all manner of abjectness in Abia state and by extension in Igbo land was to avert the rigorous campaign against money laundry in the West.
Now the mouth piece of shit for the Ndi-Igbo, Kalu, claims that he was rich before he hacked his way to the governorship. He claimed he made his wealth by taking palm oil to north and fish from north to the south. The question then becomes, how many trailer loads or what quantity of fish and oil was this crook transporting that enabled him own an airline business and multi billion naira business and assets across Africa and in the US? How long did he do this fishy oily business? What was or is his fish and oil business transport system called? People that made this level of fortune from buying and selling always accomplish such feat by using fleets of personalized goods transport systems. Where were Orji Uzor Kalu’s fish and oil transports limited? He couldn’t have raised billions of naira from fish and oil sales using public, or rented or pay per use transport system.
I wish I am wrong to say that this Con Kalu’s epiphany to speak and defend ind-Igbo and the poor is but another attempt to game Igbos for support for his presidential ambition now that he has more than enough stolen Igbo money to buy Igbos for his ego and greed driven presidential ambition.
Obasanjo knew that this man was a crook but he could not prosecute him effectively because he himself Obasanjo was compromised, a cook in his own ranks And because of political correctness and his dislike of the Igbos, Obasanjo took Con Ka aru's criminality as Igbo problem.
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