THE COMFORTABLE SLAVES

By Onumajuru Onyekachi MacSantos (Abia Writers)

Edited By Chidi Aloysius Nwosu

Only greed and sabotage against your people are the only reasons that can make you go for second fiddle or settle for leftover posts like deputies. After the Nigerian/Biafran war, the Igbo have become politically irrelevant and slaves to Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba. All thanks to Igbo traditional rulers and politicians like Emmanuel Iwuanyawu and Orji Uzo Kalu as they have systemically tampered and destroyed the unity of Igbo, Biafrans just because they want to be politically correct by pleasing their Hausa –Fulani masters. 

These brainless individuals both former governor Orji Uzor Kalu and Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyawu have stampeded on people’s common interest either by defrauding the citizens with their positions or inflicted people with infinite poverty. When they are in excellent positions to assist the youths, by building industries and companies here in Biafra land to create job opportunities they were busy filling their pockets. They only remember the people when an election is around the corner when they will adopt starvation formula to subjugate and renew their four years certificate of slavery by giving old women two cups of rice and the youths become bloody political campaigners and thugs. Those two dishonourable men have never represented the common interests of the people; instead, they prefer to please and serve their northern political masters.

Any Igbo man that was given any traditional title in both Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba land are demonically initiated, designed, configured, and also given official sabotage certificate. Previously, those perfect slaves of Igbo extraction have key and life-changing political positions that would have helped the masses and attracted unforgettable development, but they prefer to invest in Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani lands. The pending and looming revolution will force them to declare their respective stands either you are with your people, or you are against your people. These men are public, national and ethnic embarrassment by begging for ordinary deputy. Their political footprints of chronic sabotage will be publicly unmasked and unveiled.

During the regime of Orji Uzo Kalu as governor of Abia state, he single-handedly liquidated Abia state, defrauded Aba house owners in the name of contributory money for road projects, popularly called infrastructure levy. He has pending corrupt charges that will amount to capital punishment, he used Abia state vigilante as a political tool to kill and intimidate his political foes. Many youths in Aba died during his tenure and he had pronounced himself Islamic hardcore when Daura Emirate bestowed on him an Hausa-Fulani traditional title known as Dan-Baiwan Hausa (gifted son of Hausa-Fulani kingdom) The Emir of Daura Alahaji Kumar Farouk Kumar who bestowed the title on Orji Uzo Kalu claimed that the traditional title is one of the highest titles in Hausa-Fulani land. 

The former governor categorically and boastfully said on his interview after the election that he vowed to fight with all his might to make Nigeria one, and he further claimed that they have a chain of investments in the Northern and Western parts of Nigeria which means he is number one enemy of the people and Biafra restoration

Another humble and permanent slave, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyawu who was trying to use Biafra as a negotiating power or as collateral by saying "either you give Igbo Biafra or Senate President". He has publicly insulted Biafra by equating hallowed Biafra to mere Senate President. The man has a chain of companies and industries, which Biafrans never benefited from, including the construction company known as Hardel and Enic, which he acquired from foreign operators where he worked. 

He used his constructions companies to frustrate road projects awarded to his company because he always abandoned roads awarded to his constructions companies and leave the site as death traps. An example of such road abandoned is Orodo- ogwa going towards Alaenyi-Ikeduru. He previously served as chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, as planning and strategy committee, and chairman Ohanaeze Ndigbo political committee which he never used to positively impact the lives of the masses. Finally, he is the Balogun Babagwa of Ibadan, a title also crowned by Oba Olubadan of Ibadan land.

They have made themselves the object of caricature and political beggars; they have demonstrated that they are classless politicians through their utterances and their posts on social media. They have nothing to offer to themselves and Ndigbo as a whole. They didn't make a positive impact when they have opportunities to do so, let alone now they are political orphans and beggars. Now people are watchful based on their political deceits, and they have caused Ndigbo more harm than good.

In Biafra, we stand