Etcetera talks about the state of Biafra, the
recent shut down of Radio Biafra and how he
thinks the Igbos have been marginalized in
Nigeria. He also talked about the growth of
Nigeria.


[b]I have been receiving a lot of mails and
phone calls in recent weeks requesting
that I lend my voice in support of the
ongoing campaign for the sovereign state
of Biafra and to also speak up against the
recent shut down of Radio Biafra by
National Broadcasting Commission. I
have decided to make my opinion known
to those who have been bombarding me
with requests to support the Biafran
movement.
Yes, I believe that the Igbo have been
marginalised in Nigeria right from 1970
till date. I also believe that as a people,
the Igbo have every right to speak out
and seek redress. I believe that no tribe
or ethnic group in Nigeria deserves to be
marginalised or shut out by certain
quarters of government because of an
incident of the past. Just like every Igbo
man, I believe that Biafra was a good
dream born out of a necessity at that
time. It was a good dream which went
horribly wrong and became a nightmare
for us, the Igbo people and the whole of
Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, from which I
believe we have woken up.
It will be foolhardy to dream the same
dream in the same way and manner
without thoroughly accounting for why
and how it turned into a nightmare, and
factoring in the changes that have taken
place in Nigeria since the 1960s.
The thought that the actualisation of the
sovereign state of Biafra is in itself the
solution to all the problems of Ndigbo is
to display an understandable naivety
about human nature and today’s politics.
What we need as a people is a new vision
that will encompass the lessons of the
past, the changes that have taken place
since the end of the civil war, the reality
of present day Nigeria and demand for a
system founded on justice, liberty and
equality under the rule of law for Ndigbo
and non Igbo as well.
I believe this new vision is attainable.
They say charity begins at home and in
this regard, I believe it is time for every
honest and sincere Igbo man or woman,
to channel his or her energy towards
actualising good leadership and
government in Igboland by joining the
political process. It is time for every one
of us to unite against corruption in our
land.
It is time for Ndigbo to come together to
reverse this ubiquitous trend of bad
leadership ravishing Igboland and put in
place a system that would enable the best
of us to emerge as leaders. Great nations
are ruled by their best minds and not by
a band of common thieves without
respect for individual liberty and
democracy that do nothing but devise
ingenious ways to looting the treasury
and serve the vilest and most primitive of
human instincts.
Without this political and cultural change
embedded in the concept of our future,
Igboland will remain underdeveloped, and
that in itself, will constitute a gargantuan
problem for us in the future. Making this
necessary change in igboland will ensure
that if and ever or when Nigeria collapses
as a result of our collective idiocy,
irresponsibility, ignorance and
corruption, and the jumbo pay of
politicians, Ndigbo will be better placed
to build a new nation based on justice,
equality, rule of law, tolerance,
development and honesty. War has never
been the solution to any problem.
I didn’t witness the civil war but from
what I saw in my recent visit to
Maiduguri, Adamawa and Plateau state, I
have become a disciple of dialogue as a
means to resolve issues. If Biafra will
become a reality, it shouldn’t be through
the barrel of a gun. It is wrong to seek
divorce by putting a gun to your spouse’s
head. We should realise that a divorce
from Nigeria is also possible if the
Nigeria state comes to its natural end
because of years of ethnic and religious
prejudices, injustices, and vision-less
irresponsible, corrupt leadership that
failed to lay the foundation of a viable
state and make the necessary social
investment for its survival.
This might be the natural course of
events if Nigeria continues to sleep walk
into disaster and neglect honest nation
building. We shouldn’t continue to pursue
the Biafra dream in the way and manner
some people and groups are doing at the
moment without regard to the present
reality. It can only undermine the whole
essence of the struggle. As an Igbo man,
there is nothing I want for Igbo that I do
not want for other ethnic groups. There
is nothing
I wish for my fellow Christians that I do
not wish for Muslims. We are all humans
after all. We are all brothers and sisters
divided by language, skin colours and
religion. I believe that enlightenment is
recognition of this basic facts, and that
underneath our skins, flows blood of the
same colour and minds that can think
alike and able to overcome the prejudices
which our difference try to impose on
our judgment. There is nothing that can
justify the killing of a fellow man. I can
only lend my voice to a vision that
doesn’t entail the destruction of lives and
property.
I am sorry to say that the continuous
clamour for the recognition of Biafra by
America may not yield much because of
the selfish nature of America’s foreign
policy. If there is nothing in it for
America, America won’t get involved. We
are a great and industrious people.
For a start, won’t it be better to seek
economic independence and have Nigeria
and the rest of the world depend on ys
for something? Today, Africa has gone
from car assemblage to total
manufacturing.
I am proud that I am alive to witness this
history, that a Nigerian made car can
actually be better that the Toyotas and
Hondas of this world, and it is all due to
the ingenuity of an Igbo man. Ndigbo,
this can be a place to start. Igbo kwenu!![/b]











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