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It was a tensed atmosphere at far away Nuremberg Germany. It is a day that will go down as an unforgettable one in the politics and governance of the federal republic of Nigeria.
A civil interaction between the immediate past deputy Senate president of Nigeria, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and some group of Nigerians of Igbo descents suddenly turned rowdy and eventually led to verbal and physical assault meted on the distinguished senator representing the good people of Enugu West senatorial district.

Predictably, condemnations have trailed the embarrassment cum harassment meted on on the four-time Senator and a man that has occupied the deputy Senate post for a record twelve years.
While many, from the prisms of political affiliation, sees the attack as being directed at the political party on whose template the senator operates on, others opine that it's an attack against the entire Igbo land.

However, the question that has been begging for answer is how an attack against Ekweremadu became an attack against Igbo land.
Without mincing words, I will categorically state that the incident in Nuremberg Germany is more or less a manifestation of the rots in the land and the attendant hatred burning in the hearts of the masses.
Politicians from this part of the world have, on several occasions, made it clear to the masses that the wellbeing of themselves, families, extended families, concubines etc, are primary to them on assumption of office.
They immediately send their wads abroad for studies while they frequent overseas all at the expense of tax payers money. Yet, the minimum wage of #30k has proven to be a rocket science in implementation.

Senator Ike Ekweremadu may have been the first to be assaulted but the fact that, going by the political narrative currently rocking Igbo land, more attacks are underway as the people appear to have woken from slumber.
Just recently, save for the intervention of the independent corrupt practices commission(ICPC), empowerment items given to a senator to be shared to his constituents would have either been sold or decayed at the backyard of the senator.

Our politicians both at appointive and elective political positions have continued to exploit and suppress the people with some deceptive political gimmicks and machineries.
Senator Ekweremadu, though representing the people of Enugu west, occupied the deputy Senate post for record twelve years without anything to show for it.
In fact, under his watchful eyes, billions of naira budgeted for the Akanu Ibiam airport was slashed to a meagre #500M by the senators.

Was it not an attack against the entire Igbo land for our senators to sit and watch while funds earmarked for the development of the region got slashed and mutilated?
During the reign of Good luck Jonathan, Igbos occupied the most sensitive positions in the country. How did that translate or contributed to the development of the region?

They instead chose to embezzle as much as they could. Second Niger bridge was only awarded on the pages of newspaper. Enugu-Onitsha express road wasn't considered for reconstruction. Despite having the minister of power, there was no power project anywhere in the east. They decided to buy choice properties abroad. Spent billions of naira on jewelry, yacht, cars etc.

They literally starved the people they were to represent. The youths have all taken into crime abroad. Our ladies are on their way to Oman to be used as a sex slave.
Governors are still embezzling, senators are competing with the House of reps members on the game of public funds diversion hence the dilapidated structures everywhere.

The economy of the East have gone comatose. You must make use of seaports and airports in far away Lagos state. We say we are being hated yet we hate ourselves the most. The worst is that you dare not protest against these fragrant show of incompetence. The few that dared got teargassed, beaten and dumped inside awaiting black Maria.
Buy for how long do they think they can suppress the people with brute force?

The Dutch, in the year 1617, killed and ate their prime minister to protest the hunger in the land.
It's on record that when poverty reached a breaking point, the French beheaded their entire leadership class.
Again, when 90% of Russians couldn't find bread to eat, the Russians shot the entire royal families in the land.
When Mussolini misled Italians and proved to be an incompetent bigot, they hung him upside down from a pole.

There's no difference between the above incidents and the attack on Ekweremadu in Germany. It might have occurred in a foreign land but an American electronic executive said "I want a revolution and I want it to start in Controville".
A Spanish writer and philosopher José Ortega also said " revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but a setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one".

The lesson to be learnt here is that frustration when stretched to the elastic limit, can no longer be hidden nor smouldered.
Our politicians should learn from this and turn a new life. Posterity will always be there, even when you're gone!!
The attack on Ekweremadu should be seen as an attack against the bad leadership style and misrepresentation that have been the trademark of our leaders.
It should be seen as an attack against the infrastructure decay in the Igbo land.

Odoh Ugochukwu writes from Enugu Ezike.

Ekweremadu didn't in his life expect that someday he would be beaten and made to run for his life like a college kid.

NaijaRoyalty:
Ekweremadu didn't in his life expect that someday he would be beaten and made to run for his life like a college kid.

I tell you. He wished he could run straight to Nigeria.