Managing the Biafran agitators
www- world news --how to Manage the Biafran agitators 'ADEYEMI Ayowale, my friend from Yoruba tribe asked me, “I know you as an Igbo man, what is your take on the agitation for Biafra by a group called, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB)?” My interaction with him, gave birth to this piece.
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Now, the advocacy of a doctrine of Igbo superiority over other tribes in Nigeria is, according to the dictates of rationality and the United Nations declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust. Any advancement the Igbo man has made is due to his personal self-development and other tribes also have great things to boast of.
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“Someone said he is fighting a cause, and when I asked him why, he replied that I have no right to ask him, why. He said the country is enslaving him because he is a minority group but he insults his fellows that are not in agreement with him. He said a ‘Zoo country’ is killing harmless protesters but he would break the head of his potential follower’s for not understanding or agreeing with him.” Those that witnessed the Biafran war would never agree to anything that would resort to violence.
We can only get a different result by trying a new way. Those fueling crises should understand that no investor would come into a city filled with crises. Therefore, wherever you are, saying, ‘let them (the protesters) move on’, you should know that they are endangering the Southeastern zone, which could scare away investors from the area. I hope they understand the massive unemployment it is going to create. Those calling on South-East and South-South citizens to leave their jobs and businesses scattered in other parts of the country and return home, I hope they understand the massive unemployment it would generate. Any further action that would lead to unrest in the South-East and South- South would take them backward and destroy the infrastructures they struggled to build.
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It is pertinent to note that between the years 1999 to 2015, the five South-East states received a total of over N15 trillion from federal allocation. That’s enough to develop some countries. No matter how you choose to look at it, the real enemies of Igbo land are our political class. Blaming everyone else but ourselves is convenient, but doesn’t change the truth. Former and present governors, National Assembly members failed deplorably in discharging their mandates. Of course, the government and people of Nigeria have marginalized Igbos. But greater apportion of blames should go to us (the Igbos) who marginalize ourselves to the point of not wanting to help our brothers.
Some Igbos in positions of authority would never want to help their people. Yet they would gather and confer on such a person award “Ome Nke Ahuru Anya” meaning; “He does visible things”. The one that may want to help her sister would request to sleep with her, which is not even a guarantee that she would get the job.
The bitter truth is that President Buhari is not the cause of poor roads, unemployment and decay in infrastructures in the South-East. Southeast leaders should be held responsible. The contracts for most of the roads had been awarded but the roads were abandoned.
We fail to read history. “Those who do not know their history are bound to repeat it.” This was the same attitude that most nations had prior to their independence especially Ghana and Nigeria. At the end, most leaders of the new nations only foisted the same aristocratic behaviours of their colonial masters, which gave birth to massive corruption, collapse of public institutions and a bitter civil war, things we are yet to fully recover from.
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Now, if we have Biafra, will the common man be allowed to rule? Will the enlightened man who is politically naive, be allowed to rule? Is it not still going to be those same politicians with clout and money that will still rule us? Are we going to love ourselves better than we do now?
I am not also insinuating that Igbos don’t have their better side that unite them. After all, only in Igbo would you see a man who would singlehandedly train and establish in business more than 50 young men. It is only an Igbo man who would train a child that is not his in schools up to the university level. Igbo men know how to take care of their wives. Igbo people have this attitude of no matter what and where they maybe, they would always have home at heart and they don’t forsake the gathering of their people nzuko umunna..
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The South-East and the South-South should concentrate on building regional strength and integration. They should make the region an industrial hub such that would attract investors from other countries, making it an envy of all before thinking of breaking away.
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They should develop their tourism sectors. By this, the region will be very strong politically and economically. The zone is blessed with successful businessmen, scholars, etc but personal aggrandizement have not allowed them to achieve a common goal. Ohanaeze Ndigbo must standout and unite the Igbos. By this, they would be able to speak and achieve a common ground.
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There is fire on the mountain and Nigeria must run fast to avoid being consumed. I am not saying that all have been well. I am aware of the palpable mistreatment of the people, which has revived the hibernating Biafra agitations, and now, protest marches have become daily occurrences across the South/East and South/South geopolitical zones of the country.
www- world news --how to Manage the Biafran agitators 'ADEYEMI Ayowale, my friend from Yoruba tribe asked me, “I know you as an Igbo man, what is your take on the agitation for Biafra by a group called, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB)?” My interaction with him, gave birth to this piece.
www- world news
Now, the advocacy of a doctrine of Igbo superiority over other tribes in Nigeria is, according to the dictates of rationality and the United Nations declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust. Any advancement the Igbo man has made is due to his personal self-development and other tribes also have great things to boast of.
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“Someone said he is fighting a cause, and when I asked him why, he replied that I have no right to ask him, why. He said the country is enslaving him because he is a minority group but he insults his fellows that are not in agreement with him. He said a ‘Zoo country’ is killing harmless protesters but he would break the head of his potential follower’s for not understanding or agreeing with him.” Those that witnessed the Biafran war would never agree to anything that would resort to violence.
We can only get a different result by trying a new way. Those fueling crises should understand that no investor would come into a city filled with crises. Therefore, wherever you are, saying, ‘let them (the protesters) move on’, you should know that they are endangering the Southeastern zone, which could scare away investors from the area. I hope they understand the massive unemployment it is going to create. Those calling on South-East and South-South citizens to leave their jobs and businesses scattered in other parts of the country and return home, I hope they understand the massive unemployment it would generate. Any further action that would lead to unrest in the South-East and South- South would take them backward and destroy the infrastructures they struggled to build.
www- world news
It is pertinent to note that between the years 1999 to 2015, the five South-East states received a total of over N15 trillion from federal allocation. That’s enough to develop some countries. No matter how you choose to look at it, the real enemies of Igbo land are our political class. Blaming everyone else but ourselves is convenient, but doesn’t change the truth. Former and present governors, National Assembly members failed deplorably in discharging their mandates. Of course, the government and people of Nigeria have marginalized Igbos. But greater apportion of blames should go to us (the Igbos) who marginalize ourselves to the point of not wanting to help our brothers.
Some Igbos in positions of authority would never want to help their people. Yet they would gather and confer on such a person award “Ome Nke Ahuru Anya” meaning; “He does visible things”. The one that may want to help her sister would request to sleep with her, which is not even a guarantee that she would get the job.
The bitter truth is that President Buhari is not the cause of poor roads, unemployment and decay in infrastructures in the South-East. Southeast leaders should be held responsible. The contracts for most of the roads had been awarded but the roads were abandoned.
We fail to read history. “Those who do not know their history are bound to repeat it.” This was the same attitude that most nations had prior to their independence especially Ghana and Nigeria. At the end, most leaders of the new nations only foisted the same aristocratic behaviours of their colonial masters, which gave birth to massive corruption, collapse of public institutions and a bitter civil war, things we are yet to fully recover from.
www- world news
Now, if we have Biafra, will the common man be allowed to rule? Will the enlightened man who is politically naive, be allowed to rule? Is it not still going to be those same politicians with clout and money that will still rule us? Are we going to love ourselves better than we do now?
I am not also insinuating that Igbos don’t have their better side that unite them. After all, only in Igbo would you see a man who would singlehandedly train and establish in business more than 50 young men. It is only an Igbo man who would train a child that is not his in schools up to the university level. Igbo men know how to take care of their wives. Igbo people have this attitude of no matter what and where they maybe, they would always have home at heart and they don’t forsake the gathering of their people nzuko umunna..
www- world news
The South-East and the South-South should concentrate on building regional strength and integration. They should make the region an industrial hub such that would attract investors from other countries, making it an envy of all before thinking of breaking away.
www- world news
They should develop their tourism sectors. By this, the region will be very strong politically and economically. The zone is blessed with successful businessmen, scholars, etc but personal aggrandizement have not allowed them to achieve a common goal. Ohanaeze Ndigbo must standout and unite the Igbos. By this, they would be able to speak and achieve a common ground.
www- world news
There is fire on the mountain and Nigeria must run fast to avoid being consumed. I am not saying that all have been well. I am aware of the palpable mistreatment of the people, which has revived the hibernating Biafra agitations, and now, protest marches have become daily occurrences across the South/East and South/South geopolitical zones of the country.
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