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| Femi Falana: One of Nigeria's shameless peacemakers |
Charles Ogbu
If there is a certain group of people I dislike with
every fiber of my being, it is those who perpetrate injustice against the weak
and the vulnerable but there is another group I hate even more and that is
those who hide under some phoney liberalism or neutrality to support injustice
while pretending to be the peacemakers
You see this second group of people........ fear
them. Do not dine with them even with a long spoon. Infact, if the dangerous
reptile known as the black Mamba were to visit you in company of these
'Nigerian peacemakers', do not hesitate to club them to death while you go
clubbing with your black mamba friend.
Tell the Nigerian peacemaker about the Biafran war
and the attendant tragedies and he will be like:
"But Ojukwu shouldn't have tried to break the
country nah! The Igbos should have remained with their fellow Nigerians. Don't
you realise we are better off as one united country"
This fake peacemaker will never talk about the
unprovoked slaughtering of Igbo sons and daughters in the North which started
as far back as 1945 in Jos and followed by another major pogrom in Kano in 1953
years before Nigerians even got her independence.
This morally bankrupt recession-brained Nigerian
peacemaker will never blame those who killed and still kill Ojukwu's people
which was what forced Ojukwu into declaring Biafra after all his effort at
peace were rebuffed by the then president, Yakubu Gowon.
Hearing these 'Nigerian peacemaker' talk about the
Biafran war, you'd be forgiven to think Ojukwu just woke up from a terrible
dream and simply declared Biafra.
Igbos in the North were killed by northerners with
state-sponsored impunity. There are recorded instances where those killing were
supervised by Nigerian soldiers. And this was long before the 1966 coup even
happened. There were several attempts by Ojukwu to get Gowon to take actions to
protect the Igbos in the North. There were signed agreements like the one in
Aburi where they all laughed, hugged and drank champagne together only for the
Nigerian side to come back and jettison the agreement. They could have told
Ojukwu that they needed some amendments done on the agreement if they felt they
could no longer implement it but they unilaterally dumped the agreement. And
the Igbo pogrom continued unabated.
The Nigerian peacemaker would pretend he doesn't
know these.
When Igbos made efforts to run from the North, they
were chased down to the motor park and slaughtered by northern mob and
soldiers. Pregnant women had their womb cut open and their babies removed
violently after being killed. These are all verifiable facts.
Those hate-induced state-sponsored killings were
exactly what forced the first Nigerian Oxford product to join the Nigerian
army, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to declare Biafra in a bid to stop his
people from going into extinction.
The Nigerian peacemaker would pretend to be unaware
of this fact.
Today, almost 50 years after, the same wave of
state-sponsored killing and institutionalised marginalization of Igbos which
led to the Biafran war are still rife in Nigeria and have even gone worse under
President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Igbo man is being treated like "The
Deplorables", demonic economic policies have been introduced specifically
to ensure his business is destroyed completely. While the army is killing the
unarmed IPOB members and bathing survivors with acid, the same army is busy
protecting terrorist fulani herdsmen with a 1000 man military taskforce and
gifting boko haram with Amnesty.
While every known rule and law has been broken in a
bid to jail an Igbo son, Nnamdi Kanu, who has never killed a fly, a very
powerful terrorist group (fulani herdsmen) ranked the 4th deadliest in the
world is being protected by the govt and even paid a very large amount of money
to stop killing innocent people and boko haram fighters jailed by the last
administration are being released back into the society.
What manner of injustice is this?????????????
What manner of people would endure this kind of
grave injustices????????????
If Nnamdi Kanu were to be a Northerner, would he
still be in jail?? Would he even have been arrested in the first place??
In all of these, the Nigerian peacemaker will never
blame the perpetrators of this moral tragedies, he will rather hide under some
phony liberalism to support the oppressors and perpetrators of these immoral
acts by blaming the Igbos for asking for Biafra.
My father, the late Ogbu-Nwachima once told me that
any man who would make no effort to address your grievances before asking you
to make up and embrace your opponent, is more dark hearted than the one he is
trying to reconcile you with.
Those so called intellectuals who said nothing when
Buhari publicly flouted Justice Adeniyi Ademola's order to release Nnamdi kanu,
said nothing when soldiers killed hundreds of IPOB members and bathed some with
acid, said nothing when an Igbo woman was gruesomely murdered in Kano and her
killers set free by the government, said nothing in the face of numerous
state-sponsored murderous activities of the fulani criminals, said nothing when
soldiers killed IPOB members inside Ngwa high school, Aba on Feb. 9 2016 etc
but are always writing long epistles on why the Igbos should forget Biafra,
those people are evil! They are more devilish than the devil himself!
I have more respect for 'Muna', my neighbour's pig
than you dishonest morally bankrupt enablers of injustice!
Shame on you all!!
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