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Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by desgiezd(m): 3:52pm On Jul 30, 2010
http://nationaldailyngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2686:honour-for-heros-past-ziks-resting-place-in-a-mess&catid=99:current-cover&Itemid=489


Honour for hero's past! Zik's resting place in a mess Pelu Awofeso (Just back from Onitsha)   
A weather-beaten signpost in the compound
, Abandoned, overgrown with weeds
AS Nigeria's preparations for the celebration of  its 50 Independence Anniversary gathers momentum, National Daily has stumbled on  a mess that tends to suggest that labour of  one of its foremost  heroes may have  been in vain.  The first indigenous President and one of the country's most-celebrated founding fathers, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996) gave much  to  the country, but in death appears to have got too little for all the sacrifices.


In most overseas countries, the monuments of their past leaders are  prime tourist attractions and the state even earn revenue from revellers that troop there. But that cannot be said of   the famed “Zik of Africa” as the Mausoleum being constructed over his burial site at his Onitsha home (Anambra State) remains  uncompleted and abandoned 14 years after his death. Worse  still , the exact location where his remains  were interred is over grown with  weeds.

“As a son of this town and a title holder, I feel very sad about the situation,” said  Kpajie Nnamdi Ibegbu (SAN) on Awka Road, along which Azikiwe's residence is located. “People should put pressure on the Federal Government to come and complete it.”

In another eye sore, Zik's compound is dotted by a couple of one-storey buildings, all weather-beaten and vandalised, by a group of MASSSOB youths during a protest gone awry few years ago. Locals say that the late politician's family may have chosen not to effect the necessary repairs since the property has been taken over by the federal government.

“If the government wants to complete the structure in one month it can,” Ibegbu adds, “ After doing that It should then go ahead to renovate the whole compound and let it be a tourist attraction so that people can visit during the 50th independence anniversary and afterwards.”

The federal government has approved the sum of N6.6 billion for the different aspects of the celebration lA lone  tractor by the uncompleted Mausoleum
eading up to October 1, 2010, the date 50  years ago when Nigeria was freed from British rule. Millions of Naira has been allocated to activities like Callisthenics, military parade, state banquette and a long list of other items; but there is no indication that the Zik's Mausoleum has been taken into account.
Ziks statue (right) inan overgrown garden
“The Minister of Works was here to inspect the project just two weeks ago,” an insider told National Daily, just metres from a tractor and concrete mixer left behind by the project handlers. “What we hear is they would mobilise the contractors to come and finish the job.”

The burial spots of both Chief Obafemi Awolowo (late Premier of the Western Region) and Alhaji Tafawa Balewa (Nigeria's first Prime Minister), the two other founding fathers of independent Nigeria, are interred in more ceremonial settings in Ogun and Bauchi States respectively, even if modestly so.

Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by desgiezd(m): 4:08pm On Jul 30, 2010
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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by desgiezd(m): 4:14pm On Jul 30, 2010
Zik of Africa, The Owelle of Onitsha does not deserve this sort of treatment. We are to spend almost #7 billion for our 50th Independence Anniversary yet those who fought for this Independence have been forgotten. If they had behaved like the leaders of today who only know and care for their pockets, there wouldnt have been any independence for us to celerate.

Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by sjeezy8: 4:17pm On Jul 30, 2010
so what is this picture from his zikism website

Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Eziachi: 7:54pm On Jul 30, 2010
That is what happened when you are called a Nigerian hero. But the good thing is that, as a dead man, Zik could hadly noticed what is happening. It shows there is no such thing as after life. When you die, you just return to dust where we all comes from. period.

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by babapupa: 8:28pm On Jul 30, 2010
Very typical. No sense of history, no sense of worth and belonging, just loud mouth and money money money by any means necessary,
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by MetalGong2(m): 8:54pm On Jul 30, 2010
babapupa:

Very typical. No sense of history, no sense of worth and belonging, just loud mouth and money money money by any means necessary,

Senile Yoruba man!! Do your stock have an iota of history, talkless of having any worth. Babamonkey! sad sad
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by seanet02: 9:21pm On Jul 30, 2010
We the YORUBAS will never allow that to happen to AWOLOWOS resting place, he meant a lot to us that we even turn his resting place to a small museum. Shame on easterners. Gbam!!!!
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by blacksta(m): 9:23pm On Jul 30, 2010
What happened to all the Igbo billionaires. - for sake of God cant they come together and fix the place.  I am sure one of them can fix the place
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by babapupa: 9:30pm On Jul 30, 2010
MetalGong2:

Senile Yoruba man!! Do your stock have an iota of history, talkless of having any worth. Babamonkey! sad sad


Ode lost generation of Abakaliki, I wont be surprised if una don kidnap the man's remains for ransom or some money making juju. Just look at the, den place, den don comot roof and window go sell.

This is how we honor our heroes and document our history for our future generations to see and explore.

Obafemi Awolowo museum. Epe, Lagos.


http://happylagosian..com/2009/07/obafemi-awolowo-museum-epe-lagos.html

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by seanet02: 9:56pm On Jul 30, 2010
@babapupa, you are right my bro. YORUBA have more competent and intelligent plus trustworth people than ibos who can sell their right for any amount.

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by MetalGong2(m): 9:57pm On Jul 30, 2010
babapupa:


Ode lost generation of Abakaliki, I wont be surprised if una don kidnap the man's remains for ransom or some money making juju. Just look at the, den place, den don comot roof and window go sell.

Jobless Senile Yoruba fool . . . . . Your are acting as Fashola's nairaland spin doctor with the hope that he would offer you an agbero job.

Every body knows that you Yorubas were the ones that invented the worst aspect of kidnapping in Nigeria. I mean: GBOMOGBOMO. It is a legacy passed down to you eediots by your forefathers who kidnapped, maimed and raped women of all ages.

No thanks to Yoruba people for inventing GBOMOGBOMO, money ritual,  juju ijebu ode, burying their fake Obas (deji of Akure) with 1 dozen human skulls,  etc.
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Eziachi: 10:01pm On Jul 30, 2010
seanet02:

We the YORUBAS will never allow that to happen to AWOLOWOS resting place, he meant a lot to us that we even turn his resting place to a small museum. Shame on easterners. Gbam!!!!

Probably you're damn right that that can't happen to Awolowo, the reason being that AWOLOWO is Yoruba icon,idol, leader and hero, and Azikiwe? he is a Nigerian hero and that is how a Nigerian hero is treated either dead or alive by Nigeria.
Wait till the day the real Igbo leader will die, you will notice the difference.

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by dayokanu(m): 10:03pm On Jul 30, 2010
Eziachi:

Probably you're damn right that that can't happen to Awolowo, the reason being that AWOLOWO is Yoruba icon,idol, leader and hero, and Azikiwe? he is a Nigerian hero and that is how a Nigerian hero is treated either dead or alive by Nigeria.
Wait till the day the real Igbo leader will die, you will notice the difference.

A sensible post. Nice way to take the attention from the tribal warriors

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by chyz(m): 10:05pm On Jul 30, 2010
Eziachi:

Probably you're damn right that that can't happen to Awolowo, the reason being that AWOLOWO is Yoruba icon,idol, leader and hero, and Azikiwe? he is a Nigerian hero and that is how a Nigerian hero is treated either dead or alive by Nigeria.
Wait till the day the real Igbo leader will die, you will notice the difference.

GBAM!!!

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Eziachi: 10:07pm On Jul 30, 2010
babapupa:


Ode lost generation of Abakaliki, I wont be surprised if una don kidnap the man's remains for ransom or some money making juju. Just look at the, den place, den don comot roof and window go sell.

This is how we honor our heroes and document our history for our future generations to see and explore.

Obafemi Awolowo museum. Epe, Lagos.


http://happylagosian..com/2009/07/obafemi-awolowo-museum-epe-lagos.html

You may be right too, but it is better to take the roof off and sale than maybe assassinating someone for the same reason.
Now that you have pointed the arrow toward Awolowo’s museum, can you now point us toward Akintola or Fajuyi museums.

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Nobody: 10:09pm On Jul 30, 2010
seanet02:

@babapupa, you are right my bro. YORUBA have more competent and intelligent plus trustworth people than ibos who can sell their right for any amount.
some would rather die for ojukwu than zik. . .what an eyesore,
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by seanet02: 10:10pm On Jul 30, 2010
@ezeachi, so AWOLOWO is not a Nigerian hero? Then whose party moved the motion for independence? Who was the leader of the party at the time? Who created the largest industrial estate in the whole of sub sahara africa? Who develop the most literate region of Nigeria? Who initiated the free education that turns the southwest to a region where the federal government can not do without its educational inputs? Dear friend (and if you want enemy) dont compare the paper weight zik to AWOLOWO again, they are miles apart, its like comparing a dummy to a guru
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by MetalGong2(m): 10:22pm On Jul 30, 2010
seanet02:

@ezeachi, so AWOLOWO is not a Nigerian hero? Then whose party moved the motion for independence? Who was the leader of the party at the time? Who created the largest industrial estate in the whole of sub sahara africa? Who develop the most literate region of Nigeria? Who initiated the free education that turns the southwest to a region where the federal government can not do without its educational inputs? Dear friend (and if you want enemy) dont compare the paper weight zik to AWOLOWO again, they are miles apart, its like comparing a dummy to a guru

You muslim terrorist should not even compare Awolowo the Beast to Zik of Africa .

When Zik was doing his graduate studies in USA, Awolowo was still in the evill forest of Ikenne playing with monkeys.

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by seanet02: 10:23pm On Jul 30, 2010
@ezeachi, the resting place of the two YORUBA sons are well kept and cared for. Akintolas one is at his hometown ogbomosho well cared for, Fajuyis resting place is also well kept for at ekiti state. Its being kept by the state government. Any more question?
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Nobody: 10:28pm On Jul 30, 2010
MetalGong2:

You muslim terrorist should not even compare Awolowo the Beast to Zik of Africa .

When Zik was doing his graduate studies in USA, Awolowo was still in the evill forest of Ikenne playing with monkeys.
lwkmd. . . . .if the ibo truly recognise zik as a hero,why is his place of burial in a COMATOSE state yet the ibo war veteran in person of ojukwu is not doing anything about it
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Eziachi: 10:29pm On Jul 30, 2010
seanet02:

@ezeachi, so AWOLOWO is not a Nigerian hero? Then whose party moved the motion for independence? Who was the leader of the party at the time? Who created the largest industrial estate in the whole of sub sahara africa? Who develop the most literate region of Nigeria? Who initiated the free education that turns the southwest to a region where the federal government can not do without its educational inputs? Dear friend (and if you want enemy) dont compare the paper weight zik to AWOLOWO again, they are miles apart, its like comparing a dummy to a guru

Before you post something try to read what you are arguing against first before posting, because not only that your last posting supports y argument but put manure into it.

Yes Awo did all those wonderful things you listed but where did him sight them, built them or effect them? All in Yoruba land and for Yoruba people. He made many Yorubas like Abiola, Christopher Kolade, Eleganza, Oshopey over night millionaires during his brief period as Gowon’s finance minister by his crafty and well thought out indigenization policy of foreign companies.

And can you say the sae for Azikiwe? Not at all. Like you have said both men are miles apart in everything. So stop arguing against your own point.

So he is a Yoruba hero, even a god. The last thing anyone can accuse Awolowo is that he is a Nigerian hero. Every Yoruba who is what today owes him a great gratitude. Forget about your story of who moves the motion for independent, even an ant then can do it at the time.

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by debosky(m): 10:30pm On Jul 30, 2010
MetalGong2:

You muslim terrorist should not even compare Awolowo the Beast to Zik of Africa .

When Zik was doing his graduate studies in USA, A[b]wolowo was still in the evill forest of Ikenne playing with monkeys.[/b]

Now that cracked me up.  grin

You cant beat nl tribalists.  cheesy

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Eziachi: 10:36pm On Jul 30, 2010
seanet02:

@ezeachi, the resting place of the two YORUBA sons are well kept and cared for. Akintolas one is at his hometown ogbomosho well cared for, Fajuyis resting place is also well kept for at ekiti state. Its being kept by the state government. Any more question?

Are we talking about resting place or a museum? As every person, even a dead mad person has a resting place. People like you argue with tribal made up might and caannot recognise even when someone is agreeing with you. Awolowo is Yoruba icon, while Akintola/Fajuyi are both Nigeria heroes. So you can't tell the different, irrespective of the colour white washed graves?

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by dayokanu(m): 10:41pm On Jul 30, 2010
Eziachi:

Before you post something try to read what you are arguing against first before posting, because not only that your last posting supports y argument but put manure into it.
Yes Awo did all those wonderful things you listed but where did him sight them, built them or effect them? All in Yoruba land and for Yoruba people. He made many Yorubas like Abiola, Christopher Kolade, Eleganza, Oshopey over night millionaires during his brief period as Gowon’s finance minister by his crafty and well thought out indigenization policy of foreign companies.
And can you say the sae for Azikiwe? Not at all. Like you have said both men are miles apart in everything. So stop arguing against your own point.
So he is a Yoruba hero, even a god. The last thing anyone can accuse Awolowo is that he is a Nigerian hero. Every Yoruba who is what today owes him a great gratitude. Forget about your story of who moves the motion for independent, even an ant then can do it at the time.

Awo probably took note of the saying that Charity begins at home. Awo was premier of Western region while Zik was a President

Most Yoruba politicians of old who took care of their people the Yorubas are always remembered fondly.

OBJ is probably similar to Zik who cared more about Nigeria than his Backyard.

In OBJ's Local Govt, I doubt he can win any credible election while Awolowos name still pull crowds almost 25yrs after the sage died
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by seanet02: 10:42pm On Jul 30, 2010
@metalgong, Then why did ziks own version of free education failed within 2yrs at least his party was in control of the east? Why did you ibos fail to maintain acb bank that was own by the east? Remember their is still WEMA bank, where is all the companies established by your satanic leader? Why is the east lagging behind in all ramifications or you have more industries in the east (all added together) than half of what is in LAGOS? The reason we were able to maintain this heritage is because AWOLOWO studied law and utilize his reasoning to educate his people on how to manage their economy while your foolish lord studied political follow follow with a minor in stupidity and refuse to educate you that taking to kidnapping and fake production of goods and services wont take you to developed manner. Me a militant? Calculate the number of kidnappers and militants in the east and west and divide each region with its population you will see that majority of you people are either kidnappers or oil militants. Sorry for the advice our hero have in the civil war that ruin you fools.
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by MaziUche0(m): 10:43pm On Jul 30, 2010
Eziachi:

Probably you're damn right that that can't happen to Awolowo, the reason being that AWOLOWO is Yoruba icon,idol, leader and hero, and Azikiwe? he is a Nigerian hero and that is how a Nigerian hero is treated either dead or alive by Nigeria.
Wait till the day the real Igbo leader will die, you will notice the difference.

Gbam!

Zik is not an Eastern hero.

We only have two Eastern heroes and that is Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu & Dr. Michael Okpara.

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by dayokanu(m): 10:47pm On Jul 30, 2010
seanet02:

@metalgong, Then why did ziks own version of free education failed within 2yrs at least his party was in control of the east? Why did you ibos fail to maintain acb bank that was own by the east? Remember their is still WEMA bank, where is all the companies established by your satanic leader? Why is the east lagging behind in all ramifications or you have more industries in the east (all added together) than half of what is in LAGOS? The reason we were able to maintain this heritage is because AWOLOWO studied law and utilize his reasoning to educate his people on how to manage their economy while your foolish lord studied political follow follow with a minor in stupidity and refuse to educate you that taking to kidnapping and fake production of goods and services wont take you to developed manner. Me a militant? Calculate the number of kidnappers and militants in the east and west and divide each region with its population you will see that majority of you people are either kidnappers or oil militants. Sorry for the advice our hero have in the civil war that ruin you fools.

What happened to National bank?
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by MaziUche0(m): 10:50pm On Jul 30, 2010
seanet02,

Your post reeks of tribal bull crap. Yorubas are not superior to Igbos you foolish goat.
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Katsumoto: 10:50pm On Jul 30, 2010
Eziachi:

Are we talking about resting place or a museum? As every person, even a dead mad person has  a resting place. People like you argue with tribal made up might and caannot recognise even when someone is agreeing with you. Awolowo is Yoruba icon, while Akintola/Fajuyi are both Nigeria heroes. So you can't tell the different, irrespective of the colour white washed graves?

How is Akintola a Nigerian Hero?
Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Eziachi: 10:56pm On Jul 30, 2010
~Bluetooth:

lwkmd. . . . .if the ibo truly recognise zik as a hero,why is his place of burial in a COMATOSE state yet the ibo war veteran in person of ojukwu is not doing anything about it
Have you been actually reading previous postings before you posted this? Who was it that was calling Azikiwe a hero of Ndigbo that you are quoting? And why would Ojukwu be doing something about a museum Nigeria claimed to be building for their hero?

And th last I checked, Ojukwu is neither the first son nor the last son of Azikiwe.  This thread is about a mesuem the Nigerian state supposed to be building for the man that got them independent from Britain. It is not an abandoned Igbo initiated project, and if it was, you are entitled to dance to the market with it.

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Re: Zik's Final Resting Place In Ruins by Nobody: 10:58pm On Jul 30, 2010
MaziUche0:

Gbam!

Zik is not an Eastern hero.

We only have two Eastern heroes and that is Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu & Dr. Michael Okpara.
blood suckerz

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