BIAFRA, BUHARI AND THE EASTER DAY RISING (PART 2)

Thankfully under President Goodluck Jonathan the Igbo managed to do better than at any other time in our history. As a matter of fact this was so much the case that Nigerians from other parts of the country, particularly the Yoruba and the Hausa-Fulani, often sulked about it and openly complained.







Jonathan had a soft spot for the Igbo and I have little doubt that that partiality was borne out of his innate sensitivity to their historical trials and tribulations. It may have been sub-conscious but I have no doubt that it was there.













Unlike others he viewed the Igbo as equals and regarded them as human beings: he treated them with respect and decorum and he gave them their due. Consequently it was under Jonathan that Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika the first Igbo Chief of Army Staff since the civil war was appointed.













It was also under Jonathan that Senator Pius Anyim, the first Igbo Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria since independence was appointed.











Sadly when President Muhammadu Buhari was elected into office all that changed and eastern stars stopped shining. Under him the persecution, marginalization, humiliation, detention, state-sponsored executions and assassinations and sectarian and ethnic-motivated murder of the Igbo has reached pre-civil war proportions.













To add to that the Igbo have been treated with more disdain and contempt by the Buhari administration than any other government in our entire history. Permit me to share juat one example of that here.















A few days ago hordes of AK-47-wielding Fulani herdsmen and militants attacked some farms in Enugu state. Fearing that the Agatu treatment may be meted out to them and in order to protect their lives, their families, their property, their livestock and their crops from the murderous vandals and marauders the Igbo farmers organised themselves and fought back gallantly.











Consequently there were casualties on both sides. Instead of the police to come in to apprehend the Fulani aggressors and raiders, seize their weapons and bring them to justice they arrested 76 Igbo farmers. Up until today those farmers are in police custody and their families have had no access to them.













As far as I am aware not one Fulani militant or herdsman was questioned over this incident let alone disarmed, caitioned or arrested.

As unbelievable as it may appear this patterm of behaviour by the security agencies has been the norm throughout the Middle Belt and the south since President Buhari has come to power.















They have displayed great reluctance to protect the indigenous people and farmers of those two regions from the pillaging, killing and raping that the Fulani herdsmen always subject them to.













It is also instructive to note that the political leaders of the igbo nation appear to have been so intimidated by this trend of events that none of them has spoken out against the abduction of the Enugu farmers or condemned the barbarous action of the Fulani herdsmen that raided their farms.













As a matter of fact the only two politicians in the entire country that have publicly expressed concern about the safety, whereabouts and plight of the 76 Igbo farmers are both from the south west and they are Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state and yours truly. Fayose did so in an advert in the newspapers a few days ago and I did so in my column last week titled "Of Tyrants, Martyrs and Heroes (Part 2)".













Everyone else, including the Igbo Governors. Senators, Ministers, elders and leaders of their socio-political groups has maintained a curious, submissive and stoic silence on this matter. I guess that is a sign of the times that we are living in and I cannot blame them. Given the circumstances and the obvious constraints of their political leaders and elders why would the younger generation of the Igbo not agitate and fight for the establisment of Biafra?















This is especially so given the fact that it is self- evident that under the leadership of President Buhari igbos, and indeed other southerners, are not just being subjected to violence in the north but they are also being attacked by northerners down in their own states in the south.















Southern leaders are expected to live with this, accept it as the norm and most importantly they are not expected to defend themselves, defend their people or complain about the atrocities that they are being subjected to in their own land.















This hardly kindles hope for the future of our nation and it certainly does not engender confidence in our country or enhance national unity. It is clear that the contempt with which our government views the people of the south and particularly the igbo is obvious and glaring.

















President Buhari himself, during one of his interviews with Al Jazeera and during the course of an earlier interview with Nigeria's NTA, displayed that contempt very eloquently when, in answer to a question about Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB's prolonged detention and the increasingly aggressive agitation for Biafra, he asked rather brusquely "what exactly do the Igbo want?"

















When he was told that the Igbo felt marginalised by his government he went further on to ask "who is marginalizing who?"















Again before millions of viewers from all over the world President Buhari refused to watch the footage of the extra-judicial killing of some IPOB youths by his security forces when he was asked to do so during his infamous interview with Al Jazeera.













In that same interview he went on to dismiss the legitimate aspirations of and agitation by millions of young people from the eastern part of our country for the creation of Biafra in just one sentence.













He said that if they had any complaints they should agitate for more states in the east instead of yearning for their own country.











One wonders how state creation can appease a generation of angry young Igbos who genuinely believe that their people are being systematically killed off and that they have been turned into slaves and second class citizens by Nigeria.











And this coming from a man who has refused to appoint one single Igbo into the Presidency and who believes that he has done them a favor by appointing five Igbo Ministers into his cabinet.













He forgets that the constitution of our country compels him to appoint at least one Minister per state and that whether he likes it or not he must appoint those five because the Igbos control five states in the Federation each of which must be represented in the cabinet.









It may not be fashionable to say it publicly but the truth is that the Igbo are virtually an endangered species under President Buhari's government.













They have been robbed of their dignity, their sense of self-worth, their self-esteem and their self-respect by our government and the Igbo youth particularly do not believe that they have much of a future left in Nigeria. That is why the agitation for Biafra has reached fever pitch among them.











Whatever anyone feels about Biafra the fact of the matter is as follows: as my friend and brother Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, the former Governor of Abia state, said a few days ago, "the igbo have not been fully integrated back into Nigeria 46 years after the civil war".

Thankfully not all Igbo voices have been intimidated and silenced. If virtually all the politicians from the east have not been able to find their voice on this matter then at least some members of the eastern Clergy have managed to do so.

For example the Methodist Bishop of Onitsha, Bishop B.L. Onuagha, in his address to mark the 14th annual Diocesan Synod of the Church, which was reported in the Sun Newspaper yesterday, lamented the plight of his Igbo kinsmen at the hands of the Fulani militants and herdsmen of Nigeria.

He concluded his address by advocating the break up of the country. Bishop Onuagha is a highly respected and much loved cleric. He does not speak lightly and neither does he suffer fools gladly.

He is a man that must be taken very seriously.

If people like him are advocating the break-up of our country and calling for the establishment of Biafra then there really must be a problem and those that are in power had better sit up.

The Bishop spoke his mind on the state of the Nigerian nation and noted that the amalgamation of 1914 "has not favoured the Igbo" appealing to world leaders to listen to the south-east and break up “this monster called amalgamation.”

He said that since the amalgamation was not working in the interest of the components of the federation that the best option should be to dissolve it based on the fact that "a section of the country is suffering enslavement".

The Bishop cited the activities of the Fulani cattle herdsmen who he said "had displaced communities, killed, maimed and burgled the people with impunity whilst our government remains complacent".

He said, "amalgamation has brought about the erosion of human dignity, the enslavement of a section of the people in the name of one Nigeria. This deadly monster has led to the loss of millions of lives of Igbo and no one is talking about the genocide. Yes, our culture and that of those in question are not the same. Our language is not the same, our customs, our tradition, our faith and our education are not the same. Our values are at variance. Then, why must we be forced to be in a marriage that we do not want and we see that it is not favorable?”

He concluded by saying that he was not surprised that a group was crying for separation from the ''unholy marriage forced on Nigeria by the British government in 1914''. Bishop Onuagha has said it all and spoken the hearts and minds of many throughout the country.

Another interesting contribution to the debate came from Mr. Bruce Fein, a respected American constitutional lawyer, who argued very forcefully in a brilliant, historically-factual, incisive and insightful essay titled "The Case For Biafra Is Stronger Than South Sudan and Kosovo" that the manner in which the igbo had been treated in Nigeria since the amalglamtion of 1914 and especially since the Buhari regime came to power warrants the creation and establishment of the sovereign and independent State of Biafra.

I recommend Fein's contribution as essential reading for those that wish to understand the nature and depth of the problem and the raison d'etre for Biafra.

Yet despite all these admonitions and warnings those in power do not appear to be listening and curious and strange things just keep happening. Permit me to share just one example.

The two massive fires that took place in two separate Kano markets in the space of the last two weeks in which the shops, goods and stalls of hundreds of igbo settlers and traders were targetted and burnt to the ground confirms the fact that, once again, there is something sinister brewing in the north.

Let us hope that those that kill orhers for sport and at the drop of a hat are not preparing the ground for a repeat performance of the pre-civil war pogroms of 1966 in which hundreds of thousands of igbo civilians were massacred in the space of just three months.

Predictably the Buhari government have made no arrests in connection to these two fires and the common and popular refrain is that they were both "acts of God".













The truth is that Nigeria is not working for most of the ethnic nationalities and everyone knows it. And as long as those that hold power at the center today remain there things will not get any better.





















As a matter of fact as long as they are in power things will get worse. In Buhari's Nigeria if you are not from the core north and if you are not a Muslim you do not have much hope of getting to the top or achieving your full potentials.





















That is "chanji" for you and that is Buhari's mission and vision. We said it during the Presidential campaign but regrettably few would listen. Now the same people that would not listen are regretting it bitterly and they are saying that we were right.





















In Buhari's Nigeria it is one law for the oppressed and another for the ''Born to Rule" oppressor. Whether we wish to admit it or not that is the reality and everyone knows it.





















There is also a well-orchestrated attempt to Islamise our country and suppress the practice of Christianity in some parts within our shores. Kaduna state is an example and what is going on there is nothing but a test run for the rest of the country. .





















Yet the truth is that everything has its expiry date including religious bigotry, bondage and slavery. The oppressor often forgets that the future belongs to the oppressed.





















The Irish experience and the beautiful people of Eire and the Emerald Isle have taught us that. Far away London in merry England was once their capital yet today it is their very own Dublin. If God can do it for them He can also do it for us. It is just a matter of time.





















Some will disagree with the contents of this contribution whilst others will hate me for writing it. To such troubled souls I recommend the words of Albert Einstein. He said:





















“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly".





















I need say no more.

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IF wizKID HAD SOME SENSE

Kai wizKID,

I'm not a fan of yours and I only know one of your songs, "Holla at your boy", and I basically just know not more than five lines of that whole song. I'm only excited that you are young and supposedly doing good for yourself but I have never used your story to motivate anyone because I don't particularly take notice of you or you don't readily come to mind in stuffs like that. And I believe I'm safer not to have ever used it because with this season of making young gullible baby mama's, most of my listeners would have felt a tinge of disappointment that your story was ones used to motivate them, thank goodness I didn't. Nature just knows what your next days would be.

Can you imagine the senselessness of your reply to Nigeria's Dearest Linda Ikeji who isn't a kid. Did you ever allow your drunken self to take charge of the safe person you claim to be? How come you insulted her for not having a man in her life and used it as a condition to mark her completeness? I'm very sure you would have wanted her to make babies illegitimately. She can actually but chose not to. She is a grown Diva and cannot submit to almost-men. It is a very dangerous and poisonous thing to ever think of and how much more executing.

You mentioned 'a lady's vagina without respect . the kind of outlet where you popped out your head many years ago, the inlet of your Dad's third leg where he rides through, rumbles and thimbles till he is full. Meanwhile you ride in and out of that exciting location illegally. You lure cheap ladies to your six-spring bed and dig and dig until you release your almost-sperm, then you stop and feel like you just hammered. You feel so good at exploiting the weaknesses of young chaps and even went ahead to freely give them pregnancies without doing things right via proper marriage. Take it or crush your tattooed body, you are no way better than Divacious Linda Ikeji. She married her laptop and soon, her wedding bells will ring. She is taking her time to make the choice. Marriage is a life and shouldn't be a box where people are pushed into.

Your young blood cells are misdirecting you and you found pleasure in speedy sex escapades. Sleep all you can in the secret and call an innocent Diva a hoe. She is a hoe in a different context, boy. She is the kind of hoe that'd pulls out weeds from farmlands. She is a hoe that helps rural farmers who have no access to tractors to still cultivate vegetables and tubers so that we can still make afang soup, porridge yam. I'm sure you never knew that a hoe has good purposes beyond the lies of the context of your personal opinion. You are a mad DOG. Maybe .

To further help your brain which I think is full of Cashew nuts, being single is not a bad thing. One can be single and satisfied. For now, Linda is single, sassy and satisfied. Her sassiness and secured self throws a punch on your fair face. You can't comprehend how in the world she makes money, buys shoes (I love shoes, too) and ripped pants without the consent of a male god. She is sassy and if that upsets you, you can uproot yourself from here and plant yourself in Iran where you might feel at home.

And just to let you know, I'm typing this seated on a water cistern.
I don't have any spare time to craft these paragraphs outside my toilet. You are that important. Yes. You are never worthy of emulation for any purposeful Nigerian youth. Linda is. I'm in awe of her achievements and benevolence. She is an Angel. It's not that easy for Angels to ride freely in a world where flesh and blood resides.

A concerned educator,
TG.

##ascopied## CORRUPTION & WASTAGE: Buhari And Jonathan, At A Glance. FACT IS FACT.

1] Jonathan sold Petrol at N87 while Buhari is selling at average of N300 & above, yet Buhari supporters think Jonathan was more corrupt and wasteful.

2] When Jonathan Budgeted N1bn for feeding in Aso-Rock in 2011, and N517m in 2015, APC cried wolf and now Buhari's budget for same is N1.7billion. Yet Buharists are mute and still think GEJ was more corrupt and wasteful.

3] Jonathan spent N1.4bn to service all presidential jets in one year while Buhari spends N6bn on same in 6month yet Buharists
think GEJ was more corrupt and wasteful.

4] Jonathan gave more funding to education while Buhari's 2016
budget favours Ministry of information more than education
yet Buharists think GEJ was more corrupt/wasteful.

5] Jonathan spent an average of N8million on each international
trip while Buhari spends an average of N55million on each
international trip, yet Buharists think GEJ was more corrupt and
wasteful.

6] Jonathan created Over 5.8millon jobs in 5yrs while buhari has
sacked over 2million workers in 8months. Check Federal
Bureau of Statistics.

7] Jonathan made Nigeria's economy the best in Africa and No 1 investment destination & quadrupled our GDP in 4yrs while Buhari has dragged Nigeria's economy down to 14th position in ranking in just 7months.

8] Jonathan left Naira exchange rate @ N185 to $1 but Buhari with his Adama and Eve economics has destroyed the Naira in just 8 months which now sells at N315 to $1.

9] It took Jonathan less than 2weeks to select his cabinet including foreign based technocrats while it took Buhari 6months to do same. Even with indicted people and no single economist among the 36 names.

10] Buhari claimed that subsidy was fraud (Who is subsidizing who@) but buhari has spent N1.2trillion on fuel subsidy in the last 5 months and still no fuel while all Buharists have suddenly gone dumb.

11] Buhari/APC accused Jonathan of corruption but have not been able to pin one stain on him, while Muhammadu Buhari himself followed the crowd that entered into the #DasukiGate.

12] Under Jonathan freedom and liberty of Nigerians was not determined by party affiliation, but today under Buhari his perceived enemies and political opponents are leveled with frivolous allegations of crimes and intimidated with either the EFCC or the DSS.

13] Buhari does not have an Honorary WAEC but bags an
illegal Honorary (Ph.D) from a university that have no PhD student and Not approved by NUC and yet Buharists respect his NEPA Bill more than GEJ's PhD.

14. Buhari used his secondary school principal's recommendation letter to become Military Head of State and again used Court Affidavit to become President and no one reminded him that these are the height of corruption.
He Refused to declare his assets public, suppressing the FOI and denied all his 81 election promises and stayed in the last 8 months blaming former leaders. Jonathan was in that position, he never complained or blamed anyone, but faced his work even when Buhari's disgruntled brother ensured that Nigeria will know no peace. - Hope For Nigeria.....

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calebo101:
Yes he is, by a wide margin.

He revived the railways.
He renovated the airports.
Foreign investors are trooping in and setting up manufacturing plants everyday.
Agricultural reforms are clear for everyone to see.
He frustrated the thieves out of PDP to APC.!!
He destroyed Godfatherism, Go and ask obasanjo .
Political assassination in Nigeria is extinct unlike obasanjo's era.
He is democratic, very democratic that his erstwhile ministers all lost their primaries except one!
Elections are free and fair or at least a semblance, unlike the past.

And all these and more he achieved when the North are hell bent on making his tenure ungovernable. Imagine what he would have done if the atmosphere was peaceful like obasanjo's time.Please remind me again what obasanjo did in 8 peaceful years.. And what buhari achieved with his military might as head of state (not PTF)? Let's juxtapose them.

What does buhari want if not to come in and reverse the policies of government which is bearing fruit. He would first of all cancel the railways, ports and agricultural revival as he did 30 years ago all in the name of saving money. Then he would go on a political witch hunt like he did during his tenure with selective fight against corruption, Afterall, he said Abacha was not corrupt .......After which he would stabilise world oil prices, stabilise our currency and finally turn Nigeria to Zimbabwe!!

My candid advice to him since he wants to 'change' Nigeria is to attend one of the Almajiri schools Jonathan built so he can pass WAEC and change himself first. I heard it's free!

........... Best post I hav read dis afternoon on NL.... Funny but factual

Dats a real fact oh..... D train is wrkin and I will join it to Enugu nxt week.. Bac to sch.... 300naira 4rm Kom kom sub station... We will join dose dat cam in 4rm ph... Dis is 1st of its kind in as many yrs.... Change neva happens spiriodically.. Its a gradual process..... I hop amechi can see dis and xplain to us why his monorail of just less dan 10km dat has walloped 50bn hasn't seen d light of day 4 ova 6yrs.... #teamGEJ

[color=#006600][/color]. AFAM RD IN OYIGBO LGA OF RIVERS STATE, I NJOY 20HRS OF LIGHT A DAY 4 D PAST 3MONTHS.... 4 dose sayin dat we r rejoicein, I ask u 1 question which is Y should we nt rejoice? Somtin dat was nt hapenein b4... I can testify abt enugu because I sch there... I dnt tink there is a state dat enjoys light lyk Enugu state... Prove me rng if ur state does

But seriously, power is improveing.... Lyk in ma area in Oyigbo, u can get 18/24 hrs of light while in enugu, I don njoy light 4 lyk 22/24hrs a day 4 lyk 1 week.... Xo de aint doin xo bad...
Blame nepa abi na wetin b their new name... De somtyms intentionally play all dis pranks of no lite...

It Is Either The Koran Or The
Sword – ALIYU GWARZO.


”When I say that the Presidency
must come to the north next year
I am referring to the Hausa-Fulani
core north and not any northern
christian or muslim minority
tribe.
The Christians in the north such
as the Berom, the Tiv, the Kataf,
the Jaba, the Zuru, the Sayyawa,
the Bachama, the Jukun, the
Idoma and all the others are
nothing and the muslim
minorities in the north, including
the Kanuri, the Nupe, the Igbira,
the Babur, the Shuwa Arabs, the
Marghur and all the others know
that when we are talking about
leadership in the north and in
Nigeria, Allah has given it to us,
the Hausa-Fulani.
They can grumble, moan and
groan as much as they want but
each time they go into their
bedrooms to meet their wives
and each time they get on their
prayer mats to begin their
prayers, it is we the Fulani that
they think of, that they fear, that
they bow to and that they pray
for.
Some of them are even ready to
give us their wives and daughters
for one nights sport and pleasure.
They owe us everything. This is
because we gave them Islam
through the great Jihad waged by
Sheik Usman Dan Fodio.
We also captured Ilorin, killed
their local King and installed our
Fulani Emir. We took that ancient
town away from the barbarian
yoruba and their filthy pagan
gods. We liberated all these
places and all these people by
imposing islam on them by force.
It was either the Koran or the
sword and most of them chose
the Koran. In return for the good
works of our forefathers Allah,
through the British, gave us
Nigeria to rule and to do with as
we please. Since 1960 we have
been doing that and we intend to
continue.
No Goodluck or anyone else will
stop us from taking back our
power next year. We will kill,
maim, destroy and turn this
country into Africa’s biggest war
zone and refugee camp if they try
it.
Many say we are behind Boko
Haram. My answer is what do you
expect? We do not have economic
power or intellectual power. All
we have is political power and
they want to take even that from
us.
We must fight and we will fight
back in order to keep it. They
have brought in the infidels from
America and the pigs from Israel
to help them but they will fail. The
war has just begun, the
Mujahadeen are more than ready
and by Allah we shall win.
If they don’t want an ISIS in
Nigeria then they must give us
back the Presidency and our
political power. Their soldiers are
killing our warriors and our
people every day but mark this:
even if it takes one hundred years
we will have our revenge.
Every Fulani man that they kill is a
debt that will be repaid even if it
takes 100 years. The Fulani have
very long memories.”-
ALIYU
GWARZO