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What The Creator Of Nigeria Lord Lugard Said About His Creation by Ogbonaikenna(m): 12:21pm On May 23, 2012 |
WHAT THE CREATOR OF NIGERIA LORD LUGARD SAID ABOUT HIS CREATION "In character and temperament, the typical African of this race- type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person. LACKING IN SELF-CONTROL, DISCIPLINE, AND FORESIGHT. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewelry. HIS THOUGHTS ARE CONCENTRATED ON THE EVENTS AND FEELINGS OF THE MOMENT, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future, or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals’ placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the State he has reached. Through the ages THE AFRICAN APPEARS TO HAVE EVOLVED NO ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS CREED, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural" “HE LACKS THE POWER OF ORGANIZATION, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. HE LOVES THE DISPLAY OF POWER, but fails to realize its responsibility... he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue... In brief, the virtues and defects of this race-type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy...Perhaps the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are HIS LACK OF APPREHENSION AND HIS LACK OF ABILITY TO VISUALIZE THE FUTURE." ---Lord Frederick John Dealty Lugard, The Dual Mandate, pg.70 (1926) This is wonderful insight the creator of Nigeria Lord Luggard gave about the inhabitants of his creation. In plain language it means that anybody who subscribes to or believes in the notion of One Nigeria created by this very man has a reasoning capacity equal to or slightly superior to that of a wild animal. The creator of One Nigeria Lord Luggard is 100% right in his assessment of your average Nigerian. Nowhere in the history of mankind has a single individual and his lover created a country out of existing ancient societies and the same people grew up to accept it. Only in Nigeria are people so seduced by money- from crude oil sales and the need to acquire vacuous self importance that they are prepared to abandon every shred of reason that makes them human to perpetuate what is in effect a regressive uncultured primitive society such as Nigeria; where no aspect of human existence is practiced to any reasonable or acceptable standard. Not many One Nigerians know that modern nation states are founded not created. As Tunde Fagbenle observed, those that call themselves Nigerians should look all around them and see how much of “self- control, discipline, and foresight” they possess or exhibit, be it in their personal or public lifestyles. What “self-control, discipline and foresight” did Nigerian Heads of State, Presidents and Governors have in looting the public treasury with abandon and carrying their loot abroad to benefit foreign countries, he asks. Umaru Diko a so called God fearing Muslim and Minister for Transport under President Shehu Shagari stole well over 3billion pound sterling in January 1984 (that is nearly £5billion in today’s money) that belonged to every single Nigerian and ran to deposit the same money he stole from poor hungry families in Nigerian in European banks in already affluent and wealthy societies. Yet some commentators and students of African politics continue to blame colonialism for the intellectual backwardness of African societies when it is the same Africans who are busy diverting fund meant for development in Africa to European banks without invitation. No European government forced Umaru Diko from Zaria in Nigeria to steal money that could have gone into the provision of health care facilities, education, job creation and electricity generation from millions of Nigerians and divert that into European banks. He stole it because like all believers in One Nigeria all that matters is money regardless of how dubious the means of acquisition. Ibrahim Tahir from Bauchi State another practicing Muslim and God fearing thieving minister under the same Shehu Shagari as Communications Minister stole the entire annual telecommunications budget belonging to the ministry he was tasked with running and proceeded to burn down NITEL tower then Nigeria telecommunications headquarters to cover his tracks. He hired hoodlums to set NITEL tower in Marina Lagos Island on fire to destroy the paper trail of his criminality. Many innocent souls, most of them workers in the building lost their lives to the fire that Ibrahim Tahir started. This same murderer and thief still had the courage to come out to contests for the office of the president of Nigeria. Some segments of the Nigerian media still referred to him as a prominent Nigerian until his death. What a country. These types of brazen criminality can only happen in a primitive, backward and uncivilised African society such as Nigeria. The same thief Umaru Diko whose criminality made it possible for millions to die in poverty and ignorance came back to Nigeria a hero of the Sokoto Caliphate. In any civilised country, Umaru Diko would be tried and sentenced to death for high treason or better still lynched by a mob but not in Nigeria. Your average One Nigeria apologist is too cowardly and primarily preoccupied with complaining than understanding that what the country needs is a root and branch overhaul of a decaying system either through a peaceful revolution or civil disobedience. According to Lord Lugard, an average Nigerian has his or her thoughts “concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment” and “lack of ability to visualize the future”. This is true of those who say they are reasonable but yet vote for or allow certified criminals to be elected into office when everyone knows that the outcome will be more stealing of public money and impoverishment of the masses. Instead of mass revolutions and revolt, the public have instead been fooled into thinking that the cursed edifice called One Nigeria is unbreakable. If the great Soviet Union can crumble, Yugoslavia, Kosovo from Serbia, East Timor from Indonesia, Eritrea from Ethiopia, Czech and Slovenia from Czechoslovakia, South Sudan from Sudan and perhaps very shortly Scotland from United Kingdom, what is Nigeria that it should not be allowed to return to how it was before Lord Lugard the God of One Nigerians created them. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello and the rest of those that fought for their relevance whilst masquerading as nationalists exhibited the same limited understanding and grasp of the fundamentals of state creation as does your average Nigerian today. They too “concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment” and lacked the ability to visualize the future. The ability to anticipate future political trends is known as value judgment. If at all these men were educated as we were led to believe they were, why on earth did they buy into the One Nigeria project knowing full well that Igbo and Hausa/Fulani societies are ideologically, philosophically and culturally irreconcilable which led to the massacre of Igbos in Northern Nigeria in 1945 and 1958? Every viable nation has an over arching value system and not a mishmash or aggregation of various systems that amount to chaos such as the world is witnessing in Nigeria today. Had these men been acquainted with contemporary history or demonstrated a willingness to learn from history, the Indian sub-continent should have presented them a template on how to disengage from an earthly creator. Pakistani leaders realised and acted upon the need to separate Islamic Pakistan from predominantly Hindu India at independence in 1958 because these leaders were educated enough to realise that you cannot compel two diametrically opposed value systems to coexist in a single country. Although Pandit Nehru, Abdul Kalam Azad and Mohammed Ali Jinnah all campaigned to free Indian sub- continent from colonial rule as Nigerian nationalists claim they did in Nigeria, they nonetheless realised that Hindus and Muslims cannot live in peace in one country and proceeded to go their separate ways. The same Great Britain that created Nigeria is a member of the European Union that has steadfastly refused to grant Islamic Turkey entry into the European family of nations for no other reason than the fact that both Turkey and Western Europe societies have divergent or different value systems. If an open, tolerant and democratic Islamic country like Turkey is not good for the EU why should Feudal Islamic Hausa/Fulani’s be forced into the same country with Christian Igbos of Southern Nigerian? Again the answer can be found in what Lord Lugard the creator of Nigeria said about Nigerians, “HE LOVES THE DISPLAY OF POWER, but fails to realize its responsibility...” This characterises the so-called nationalist leaders of Nigeria who sought and acquired power but did not realise the responsibility that came with it. As far back as 1926, Lord Lugard predicted the Nigeria of Azikiwe, Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello which everyone is suffering today apart from the criminal few that continue to steal, kill and pillage with impunity. If not for One Nigeria there will no Boko Haram. Political repression in Nigeria gave rise to Boko Haram. One Nigerians should allow the emergence of an Islamic Arewa nation in Hausa/Fulani lands in Northern Nigeria to govern themselves according to Islamic law should they wish to do so. The continued senseless slaughter of Igbos and other Christian minorities in Northern Nigeria will stop if ordinary Nigerians can have the courage to demand a restructuring of the country. Every victim of Boko Haram, kidnapping, state sponsored killings by Nigerian security agencies, unemployment, road accident victims, terminally ill and diseased patients, no electricity, no education, lack of good roads; lack of decent schools, lack of hospitals, hunger and crippling poverty all owe their misfortune to One Nigeria. Who knows one day One Nigerians will start the formal worshipping of Lord Lugard as a deity and that too won’t be a surprise in a land of educated but unintelligent people. The basis of One Nigeria you have today is crude oil. Remove crude oil from the equation and every nationality will retreat to their domain. |
Re: What The Creator Of Nigeria Lord Lugard Said About His Creation by Ogbonaikenna(m): 2:02pm On May 23, 2012 |
Alh harem, gbawe and the other pro nigerians should know that their so called country was created not founded |
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