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Biafra Is Never Igbo's Problem by samuelson06(m): 7:49pm On Jun 26, 2017
Biafra or secession is never an Igbo man's problem. Nnamdi Kanu should go and bury his head in shame for inciting Igbo youths for a wrong course. We all know our common enemy and we should rise to face it head up. The common problem of the SE is the problem of the SS, it is the same problem of the SW, NC, NW and NE. If the problem of the SE is producing a President then SS ain't supposed to have a problem but here we are still in deep sh!t after producing a President from the region. Same for SW and even a more bigger problem engulfs the people of the North. Our major problem is disunity, religion and corruption.

I don't have all the time so I'll try to keep this short and straight to the point so that we all as a people know where to direct our actions at. By the design of the so-called democratic system; we have at the grassroots level, village heads, paramount rulers, councilors, and council chairpersons. At the state level, we have representatives of different senatorial zones and the Governor. At the federal level, we have the ministers, house of Representative and Senate members claiming to represent the people in their state senatorial zones, then we have the Executive President as the overall head. Not forgetting, we also have religious leaders. Now tell me, in the past 5 years, what has been the contribution of these guys in the political class to the development of your community, local government, state and the country as a whole? We are usually quick to point fingers at wrong direction but within are the root of the real problem.

What has your village head been able to achieve for your village if not asking for goats from the people every day? What has your councilor been able to help the people achieve at his level? Can you point a finger to one thing your ward councilor has been able to do for your ward? How about the chairpersons, what more do they offer the local government if not managing cultists/touts, markets and taxation on local businesses struggling to survive? What happens in the state house of assembly more than colluding with the governor to share the state's allocation, form cliques and strategize on next election? What has been their contribution over the years to the development of your state? Can you point to things they have been able to achieve? I almost forgot Commissioners, those ones are a total waste. The Governor only have a duty to appoint, share the money with them and sack them at will. Poor Commissioners! Then we have our major problem, the Governors. What exactly do they do on daily basis? Can we say their achievements at the end of their tenures are commiserate with the allocations the state receive from the federal government over the period of their watch? A thousand times no! Those that have tried to do something leaves the state with huge debts at their tenure's expiration. They are only good in making huge promises, raising thugs to use and abandon after election. They are also good in making lots of noise just to make you feel they are in charge; engaging in travels to the West where angels made to be what they have turned permanent home to family members.

How about those of the house of Representatives and Senate? Who are they representing over there? Are they representing us or their immediate family members? What laws are the Senate making and who are they making the laws for? Laws that don't bind them? Laws they make for the common man alone? How do these guys represent us? What indicator can we use to measure the effectiveness of their representation of the people? Sometimes, I even forget that we also have ministers. Who are they and what role do they play in government? How satisfied has the people with the present and past Presidents of this country since independence? No thanks to religious leaders. Only Prophet TB Joshua of SCOAN has been able to stand out from all Nigerian religious leaders.

In the SE region of Nigeria, we all have these people representing the masses at one level or another. Their states receives federal government allocations just like other states and just like other political reps in other regions, these allocations are squandered. In Imo, the people are tired of the Governor; Ebonyi have lived for long like they never have a government. Same for Abia with little exception for Anambra and Enugu. Would the youths pushing for Biafra already in talks with God to send an angel to come lead them when Biafra is born? Or would they be leaving behind their present crop of leaders in Nigeria to raise new ones? Who exactly can they present to lead them if they should have Biafra today? Is it still Nnamdi Kanu? Even within the Igbo, there are first and second class Igbos. There's so much disunity everywhere in Nigeria. I implore you all to put away the idea of Biafra. It can never be the solution that we seek.

The only thing our leaders are known for is corruption. The more loots EFCC recovers from them, the more they embezzle more and more. They don't give a damn about what the masses go through on daily basis in a country that the people supposed to not have business with poverty. All they think of is how to heap up wealth for their children unborn. All they think of is how to crush their seemeth enemies. They don't have the people at heart - from the lowest as a ward councilor up to the President in Nigeria and Africa as a whole, we lack good leaders. To my Igbo brothers, Biafra would never give you good leaders. We have succeeded to divide ourselves along religious lines with so much hate for each other and even within the same religion, we still lack love and unity: within Muslims, no love; within Christians, no love. The minority traditionalists only know how to relate with demons to design evils.

There's so much hate for one another in Nigeria. The organized forces care less about what happen to lives and properties under their watch. They don't care if you kill the President, once you can pay the bail fees, you are good to go. The judiciary quickens the law to take its course for the poor while the same law lingers forever and cannot bite the rich in Nigeria.

Everyday, I keep asking myself if Nigeria has a future at all. Everything seems gloomy; everything seems hopeless. Nothing seems to work. No job! The little are not even advertised but filled by children of the ruling class. You try to do business, the state and local task forces frustrate you. What exactly are we doing in Nigeria? Unless God intervenes, Nigeria is doomed forever.

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