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They are operating a hostage situation.Nigeria must be returned to the founding constitution or it is over already!</h5> <br> <a href="makingthegong.html"/><img src="umuafoigbo.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="150" /></a> <h4><center><a href="challenge.html"/><font color="purple">NIGERIA ON THE ROPES YET AGAIN.THE NEVER ENDING SAGA OF THE MANY VISIONLESS HORSEMEN AND ONE HORSE</font></h4></a></center> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspWe lend our voices to the call to have a nigeria that returns to true constitutional government. It means that nigeria returns to the original constitutional government by which it was founded.Someone should show the courage to end the interruption of 1966 coup.The people of Africa need that kind of courage!You are not suppose to have elections before you agree on structures.It explains why thousands are dying daily.We can't turn a blind eye as people are being murdered before us for their land and their possessions.Countries and nations are established to prevent such from happening.</p>. <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspSome people are actually sponsoring men with herds of cattle with other motives. We request them to stop sending and sponsoring foreigners with cattle into indegenous communities and populations.These people are not nigerians.Is this what they wanted to disguise as RUGA? Why would anyone leave the expansive open land in the northern nigeria to come to a congested over populated eastern or western region to look for land and a settlement? Not even that they are of the same manner and way of life? They want to own land in eastern nigeria and they will take it by force? It is not just dangerous but it is also foolish.No one single person has the monopoly to violence.The people of eastern nigeria owned cattle of the type found in Ruwanda and Uganda and other parts of eastern africa. The popular "igbo cattle" is almost extinct because adaptation made the people focus on agriculture.The choice was made because of limited available land.We are in a situation where the choice made by people spanning thousands of years for their survival and prosperity is under attack by a group of primitive nomads. It is a situation that will be unaccepatable to any people. It amounts to a declaration of war under a guise.As is already clear to everyone the people of Eastern nigeria are not averse to risks.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspToday they will be made to go back thousands of years by some kind of leadership very incapable of good perception?Such is absurdity with no bounds.It is extreme provocation and those guilty of this move shall regret it in the end.Those in government who claim they are not sponsoring this madness must prove it.If you did not sponsor this evil then show concern.We have an atittude by the authorities that indicate they intended to have the prevailing situation in nigeria today.We can watch the body language of those in government and it appears they approve the slaughter of the nigerian people.It is a scenario that defeats the very purpose of government.And they can't seem to care.Once in a while they will descend on The Indegenous People Of Biafra( IPOB ) a group of very educated young men and women from Eastern Nigeria who are protesting lack of opportunities. A situation made worse by a nepotic administration.Soceity is descending into anarchy on this watch.</p> <br> <p>We have a government that will not act against lawlessness except it is perceived in a particular section of the country. Clearly this government will tackle a perception of criminality in Eastern nigeria while ignoring anarchy and plunder going on in many areas of Northern nigeria.Military assaults are ordered on civilians in a very uneven and highhanded handling of what should be a very civil matter.The IPOB group started as a group demanding good governance. In the face of unfair treatment they started requesting a referendum. Still the strong highhand of government is pushing into violence and armed resistance.We are witnessing a repeat of the Boko Haram emergence.Only that we are determined to avoid the snare by all means.Nigeria is a federation and Eastern nigeria is an autonomous federating unit.Were this to cease to be the case so also is our participation in the nigerian experiment.We can't have those who will redefine a relationship of more than two hundred million people and they account for less than seven percent of the number. It is very immoral and will cause difficult problems as we are witnesses to presently.</p> <br> <p>This tendency is very dangerous. It was exactly what transpired in South Africa.We call it by its name exactly.It is very unacceptable to the very minds that waged the battles against the same injustice. We are required to allow foreign armed men to live in our farmland. As it suits them they rape and kill and kidnap citizens.We have government that seem to have explainations and excuses for all of that.How can people live inside the farmland of citizens with hundreds of cows? How are the people suppose to survive? Yet the government explains all of this as normal and appears to be content with that.It is the reason they often refer to the genocide as a farmer/herders clashes.If the enemies of nigeria sponsor such a situation what would a patriotic government do? Farming is the mainstay of tens of millions in nigeria.Some in africa have accepted the position and responsibiility of being the appendix of other systems.They are glad to be called "partners" or "friends" and will do anything for that kind of euphemism.It is partnership or freindship of a man and his dog. </p> <p>Nigerians who understand why the people who labored for freedom were resdy to perish must not allow their work to be thrashed by diabolism of this nature. Imagine a government explaining the clash of foreign armed bandits and its own unarmed citizens! Something is very wrong here. But the same government will slaughter youths who protest inequity.And you say you are acting within the bounds of the constitution. Any constitution that permits such is not worth the paper on which it is written. It is not what our forebearers accepted for themselves and for us.If what they negotiated changes we have no business in any arrangement of people we might never have had any thing in common with.If the government breaks the laws where is the citizens suppose to turn? Ownership of sovereignty resides with the people and so does their right to life and property.</p> <br> <p>You do not determine these things as it suits you just because you rigged or even won an election.It is not how it works.There is something called ownership.Ethnicities that ceded part of the rights to form a government can recall their sovereignty and autonomy in a federation.It is why it the choice in such situation.It is also why federation require dexterity and careful management.Something some people really do not understand.It is something leaders must explain to some they lead who come from the fringes of soceity.We will assume such leaders themselves understand this fact.We seem to have people who do not understand how communual life works much more a civil federal government.I read an article in which a politician from northern nigeria called the people being ferried to southern nigeria "economic refugees".In its self that says it all.</p> <br> <p>These were the people used to rig these men into office.Their reward is throwing them away into exile as "economic refugees". If these men were not armed thugs and bandits it will be a different type of challenge.We have a clear effort to distabilize the area and create the type of anarchy they have achieved in their own area. But it will be resisted very firmly.It will fail! If these poor men toyed around with were such as can learn this ought to be a great lesson. But that is their problem.Our communities are going to be safe. As citizens of the areas under attack the people of southern nigeria must be proactive.The middle belt falls and they are next in line. It is in their interest to prop up the area and help sustain them. It is what we must think over hard and well. The Middle-belt must become a wall of the fortress. If we must have the type of soceity we are yearning to build such must be the case.It is that simple or this recurring violence will become what our children and their own children will have to contend with only it will be far worse! We must put an end to it now. It is our present burden.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspPresently they dangle the misnormer of "igbo presidency" around. We know they are only very glad to give the presidency to the Igbos now their house is a mess and an absolute horror.What again was the crime the Igbos commited called? We wish to be reminded again.The Boko Haram and the treatment they are receiving confuses us a great deal.They get absorbed back into the nigerian army! Like the people will say, "it is mind blowing"! Anyone especially from southern nigeria who falls for such a trap of believing they can solve nigerian problem without fundamental retooling is brain dead or crazy. Nigeria needs to be returned to a path of sanity.It is already a wreckage.The blood letting is beyond belief and will not abate until these structures are in place.Those who are talking about presidency and who wins it are ludicrous even deluded to say the least.There is near anarchy. There is no guaranteed oil revenue.We know the threatening clouds will defeat all the forces assemling for the sake of the oil.Unlike in 1967 to 1970 there will be a very new order.</p> <br> <p>The owners of the resources are grown up and are very aware.If things do not go their way everything will be going up in flames and bright explosions like July 4th celebration in New York city. And such will not be a temporary problem. Also the United States found the answer and solution it always wanted to oil crises. It has more than enough reserve. Whenever they choose they can drop the price of crude oil to even zero by flooding the market. They can survide but their adversaries will sink with such an order of business.The states in nigeria are sucklings that will never grow to adulthood.The cap in hand trip to Abuja is a permanent arrangement to keep, sustain and maintain the grip of the suffocating hands feuling poverty for the population while enriching the cabal. What will the "igbo president" do? Any serious adjustment will cause a jolt including military insurrection. Such a certainty is ensured by the lopsided structure of the military.So what to do? Perhaps raid our grandmothers for their gold,silver and diamond trinklets and every of their ornaments and jewelry and donate the money to the central coffers in abuja? But it will not do.Remember it is nigeria. The massive oil wealth went into building oil refineries that import everything it is suppose to produce and still retain staff and maintain the refineries.It would be unthinkable in another soceity to be talking about importation of refined petroleum products, in nigeria. It is very normal here.In every area of infrastuctural development we have this trend. The men intrusted with the responsibility to help user in the collective dream of the people ditch that and seek their own. And they will get away with it.The reason being they will retreat into the tribal shield.Remember that? It is nigeria. Reforms are difficult. How much longer can this go? many especially the youths are sick and tired.And to ignore them is to play with a primed explosive.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp Also with the trinklet solution is many have never had the chance to replace their "flambouyant regalia" that got them in trouble with some with roving eyes! It is said the recruitment into the nigerian army during the war had their selling point as the "beautiful Igbo women". Some people think they are smart.But their read and perceptions are always misguided. We have Boko Haram wage a war of attrition against the country but the citizens of those states are not held responsible for their actions.Soldiers carried out a coup and the whole nation of people are destroyed as punishment.And that was not enough.They are held hostage for nearly sixty years.It is very absurd! What is the stigma for Boko Haram? NOTHING! Absolutely nothing.The youths who are fade up with the nigerian state have a very valid point.We warn one certain igbo minister who wants agitators to join hands with him to seek "igbo presidency" to brace himself.His hands will ache while he waits.The sooner some realize time and history is not on their side the better.It is for these kind of people that the northern politicians find no urgency in renegotiating nigeria.They have so many people who will do anything for them. In fact they are begging to play second fiddle and lackey.</p> <br> <p>If they cared for how this whole thing plays out around them , it will be another matter.But they clearly do not care.The governors from the regions have become willing captives.They play to the federal government a very primary error.The federal government is a corrupt system.Our assertion has nothing to do with the governments.It is the structure.The politician becomes the victim of it.It must seek more and more power to cover for its failures."Absolute power corrupts absolutely", according to Lord Acton of England.In playing to the federal government they will loose their ability to govern and become stooges or a pathetic bunch. It will feel like being in between the jaws of a giant nile crocodile. The federal asks for land and more resources which the people will never surrender. They know the people will kill them if they concede.The nigerians watch this unending drama. </p> <p> Every policy faces this very ruinous contradiction.It is very difficult and it is the reason a federation is preferred in a multi ethnic soceity.We see corruption that seek to wipe out the boundaries and lines.The federal government is wasteful and corrupt and therefore not a good candidate to fight corruption.The people will protect their own resources better. That much is clear.Instead of allowing this reality that benefits the people from every group, a corrupt group fight and fight very ugly. The federal government is very willing to allow the governors every scope so long as they play the stooge game. In some states it is hard to delineate between the governors personal resources and the resources of the states they govern.It is the nightmare the nigerian people face.It is impossible to have good government under these kind of circumstances.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspThe governors know they are living in a bubble and they are aware of the vagaries of such reality. When you have stolen a car and you are cruising around with it with the same plate number and everything blaring music and all it is living in the moment. You know something will happen to change all of that.Luckily for them the aberation has lasted more than they had expected.They know it very well. It is clear the people of Eastern nigeria have taken back their sovereignty.After all it was the Eastern nigeria that ceded a clear victory in an election to give life to what is now nigeria.The colonialist imposed a condition they believed was a wedge enough to scuttle the fight for independence.Thanks to Dr. Azikiwe and his undying love for the people of africa and his quick wit nigeria became independent.But today events has changed everything.The people of Eastern nigeria are tired and fade up.They are tired of making sacrifices for a thankless country or entity that only returns hurt, disdain and scorn to them.The world is watching a government in nigeria today that has jettisoned the idea of federalism in all but name only.Yet it got its mandate on the need to strenghten the federal structure.</p> <br> <p>Such dishonesty is how you break a country.The government will go out and borrow tens of billions of dollar to build infrastructure in the most unproductive areas of the economy.These are loans that will be hard to service and repay.It seems the people who come up with these plans do not think of the impact to soceity including future generations. Yet they expect those who have benefitted nothing to carry the burden of the repayment of such loans.These men have destroyed the country.There is no way to have a country in which there are no principles.Especially it is impossible to have a nation from nations of people who do not agree.This government by fueling religious bigotry and clanish and nepotic ideas have proved the section responsible for these things is not truely ready for a proper representative government.They just wish to control the others.And that is the problem.Go to Eastern nigeria and you will think it is where the Boko haram is based.The members of the military give bribes to be posted there.The same with the police.The industry of their choice exist there!They mount road blocks to extort money from citizens and the government do nothing.</p> <br> <p>It is why we think the governors presently elected in Eastern nigeria with the exception of a few are all hand picked by the fulani muslim elite from northern nigeria. And they are very beholden to these groups. Wo now are growing in number and voice and clout. They now control the electoral system and have turned our courts to a national circus.It is impossible for two hundred million people to surrender to bandits.A generation of conditioned minds want to maintain the status quo.Men like Barrister Gani Fawehinmi and Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu, Fela Anukulapo-Kuti, Isaac Adaka Boro, Ken Saro-Wiwa and the likes confronted this head on. In a very different way Chief M.K O Abiola proved to nigerians that religion is not the reason for the difference in nigeria.It is ethnicity and economical considerations that drive these choices.Who is the fool who must surrender his own life and resources? It is why the youths are fighting and they must and should.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp These are well known facts.That much is clear around the world.At the very worst all that the people who have become perpetual passengers need to do is buy time. They will cede power to the yoruba.No matter what happens they will take it.We say this for our people.Dr.Alex Ekwueme was vice president to Shehu Shagari.Anyone familiar with the man's intellect will recognize how close we come to answers and turn around in pursuit and chasing of the whirlwind.The present situation is no better. It is hard to comprehend how a soceity can be so adamant.As african people we must begin to appreciate ability. We are given men and women by God to help us.When we have priorities outside of the purpose of God we will continue to wander in darkness and disease and lack.I like to be specific and would appologise in advance to the people concerned.It is with good intent.The new space age is driven by just a person and a team he chose.The computer age is driven master-minded by a person.Individuals drive the growth in these areas.Individuals and persons will open new unforseen frontiers. We must learn the power of the human person and preciousness and worth of human life.Power for the sake of it is very worthless.No wonder we are not able to see change from those who do everything except what is right and proper for power.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspWhen it is earned it could be used to create a new order and better future. It could aslo be abused and wasted.People are willing to climb the high horse even if it cost them all their limbs. Another luck for them they can dangle religion and a few loaded "Ghana must go".But the Igbos are focused on rebuilding their soceity that was damaged by a war foisted by mostly marauders parading and masquerading as patriots.We see how much lives mean to them today as thousands are being killed.International Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) gave the number killed by herdsmen recently at about three thousand.This has happened in about seven hundred documented attacks on hitherto peaceful communities around the country. This is inspite of the full blown religious war by Boko Haram and other jihadists from outside nigeria.It is exactly why we are not willing to continue to stay in a situation where the worth and quality of life of our people is in constant decline.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspYou can see religion does not apply to these many people who are being murdered daily and the many more living sub-human lives.And we have these unthinking greedy southerners to blame for it.I know for a fact there will be many more industries, schools, hospitals, and far more opportunities for the youths were the people of eastern nigeria allowed to manage their own affairs.For the most part the same goes for the western and northern parts of nigeria.So why are we hanging on to the death trap that is slowly depopulating the country? Our military is being forced to accept the toga of defender of internal imperialism. I believe there are many within their ranks who know our politics must be better and do more for citzens.The regions will do better for the citzens and it is the answer to the present unproductive over-centralization that provides a lot of resources for the greedy to loot.It is not helpful to have so much centralization even in the face of any type of corruption.Why do we garther so much for the greedy to take away for himself only? If you were to end this looting scheme called a federation the nations will come alive again and we all know it.But they will not. Some people want to keep looting and you and I know that is true.We have "leaders" who sponsor bandits and terrorists.Our "excellencies" and "honorables" are satisfied to not only forclose the chance of living in a decent society for themselves but extend same to an unborn generation. We are saddened for nigeria.At the present time if it is difficult to make the changes necessary, perhaps it is much easier to part ways. </p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspLeadership is what has kept africa where it is.The men who fought for independence had done their best.Nigeria the country in africa with potentials to match any in the world has been beset with corruption.The law enforcement is being used to build new corrupt aristocrats.The men claim to be patriotic but have no vision and no dream for the country only for self.The police in posted in droves to protect rich politicians. It makes it imperative to become "successful" and rich as quickly as possible.It is not about service to country.Police will die to protect these rich politicians.But dispatched to shoot and kill protesters.The same people who put them in power.The military has become an instittion to maintain the nigerian colony where nigerians colonize other nigerians.The roads are not maintained.There is no electricity.The schools are not places for learning.The hospitals are not able to treat the sick.Some people are just pludering the nigerian state.We fear the unity is a farce that will end as soon as the agenda is over.If northern nigeria was required to bring resources from the gold in Zamfara to support nigeria, if northernnigeria were to support nigeria the way the south has for over a century the edifice will quickly collapse.We know this to be the truth.</p> <br> <p>Our facilities are just there in name only.There are hospitals with no doctors. All of them have left for greener pasture. The ones who are here will beg for resources to silence. Nobody listens or answers them.The sick politician and his family will travel abroad for the least of personal errands.We are not building schools and the existing ones are not being maintained.Yet we watch as politicians and other priviledged nigerians "spray" dollar while partying.Nigeria has gone from being a nation that could be great to one with no chance to exist or survive. Many do not see it.But no nation can exist with the kind of situation in nigeria.It is very impossible.The "leaders" see problems as well, "problems"! It has a nuissance effect on them.They wish they did not have to deal with the issues of running a soceity.But they run for office.Those in other institutions like the law enforcement and military do not seek how to improve the institutions.Our service industry with high government stakes have all been run into the ground.The whole place is a hotbed of blatant corruption.</p> <br> <p>There has to be a change of heart.It is the reason we see the reaction of the youths as a welcome change.The rebellion of the youths is the wakeup call.The various call for breakup of nigeria stems from the sense of frustration that nigeria is beyond redemption.It seems so because those in authority want to do nothing.In particular the people of eastern nigeria are demanding to leave the union based on the fact they can do a lot better for themselves.The same for the people from western nigeria.It should not be a call for war.Nigeria will reform or die.It is Nature! Instigation of hatred against the Igbo and the people of eastern nigeria will fail this time.It will not produce the usual effect.All nigerians can now see what the Igbos and the people of easstern nigeria have been experiencing for sixty years.So now the puppets and the puppeteers are trying the usual pranks.This is an effort to provoke a reaction from the people of these areas so they can repeat the 1966 counter coup type of scenario. Provoke a coup and mastermind a counter coup that wipes out Igbo seniority in the armed forces and carry out a genocidal massacre of innocent Igbo people and other easterners.But this is Igboland and eastern nigeria.While you are at it take their resources including newly discovered oil revenue forever!</p> <br> <p>It might be actually the reason some forces sponsored the genocide.Self determination and the freedom to manage their own lives is all the people have asked.What ought to be their right to begin with is the reason they agitate and they are called names even being killed.We call on the people in authority to listen while they still have a chance to negotiate.There is only a very narrow window as of now. The people of eastern nigeria have had enough of the excesses of the nigerian political elites.And now you have their backs against the wall.If fulanis want to live in eastern nigeria they will live in the cities like everyone else not in the forests with cows and guns.They can't take up abode in the farmlands where people derive their livelihood.It is a very dangerous game.These are people these politicians from there claim to lead.How come they are unleashed with cattle and guns to disrupt the communities that are peaceful in their own nation? We are not going to have a soceity where some have the privilege of disrupting the communual lives of peaceful citizens.Do they want a full blown crises in the south also? They do not figure or think these communities will give up their own way of life just like that.They are looking for confrontation.It is a trigger for friction.</p> <br> </center> </center> Read <a href="providence.html">our article about the nigerian challenge</a> <br> <br><br><br><br><center><h4><font color="blue">NIGERIA MUST CORRECT THE STRUCTURE COSTING INNOCENT LIVES OR...</h4></center></font> <p>How is election the most important issue on the minds of the nigerian present day elite? Some of these people do not understand the purpose of government.They do not understand the cocept of problem solving. People are being slaughtered everyday.We are treated by mass graves in so called peace time.If peace is like this what is war going to be? They have an entity handed to them whereas other people fought to free it from foreign and colonial rule. The government was ceased by a would be domestic colonial masters and some other group fought those ones too.These men many of whom were around during the military regime did not participate in the battle to get them to accept surbordination to civil authority. It is still a sore point for many of them.And they wield enormous influence and these people can't even pretend to care! It is sufficient for them to be in office.After all they need just the proceeds! It is doubtful they understand the concept of nation building and its many demands.If they claim to, it is difficult to see.In nigeria it is not strange. The military took the country through a nearly half a century detour and think it was patriotic.Even with the public pursuit of self interest and horse-trading that was so glaring.In all of these events there was not a chance anyone could claim their action was in public interest. And that is the point.It is always about the ambition of one person and his "dream". Every coup in nigeria had always one prime mover.We have over two hundred million more dreamers than one person who seeks an office.We always hear the talk about these matters in a very different reality and light.We need to hear what patriots do for their countries! It is very different than these naratives. </p> <p>The country is dying for lack of good hands. If they will just make their money and have their good life all is well.Other people can await their own turn.You hear them say that all the time.The people who are running the entity referred to as nigeria must understand what it means that a system has failed.If they continue to pretend that the entity they are operating works they are deluding themselves.Nigeria failed in 1966. The coup was a failure of leadership.It showed lack of capacity.It was a sign of lack of discipline.We can trace it to the tribalism and the lack of cohession that was well documented at the time. It is a problem that is even getting far worse. In a young country with many enemies it was a very clear invitation to what was to come.Our new leaders after independence failed to see how a cohessive and well disciplined army would have ensured their success. </p> <p>Investment in counter-indoctrination of a military that had its origin as a force to subjugate the population would have been worthwhile.There should have been the effort to get the men in uniform to learn to be subject to civil authority.Exposure to training and partnerships with well entrenched militaries in democratic governments should have been clearly a need. They were too busy to think of such matters.One can forgive them.Their focus on their own narrow personal interests and political fortunes abandoned a new military to its own devices. Every action or inaction among mortals have real cosequences.The soceity is still paying for the mistake made at the beginning.We have the atittude that precipitated the coup still with us. The presumption that the young military officers could correct what these men who stood eye ball to eye ball to the colonialists could not fix.Their mindset of superior political prowess is so uninformed and ill conceived.It was a position that cost lives in the millions and is still costing many innocent lives presently.The constitution they emplaced failed to recognize nigeria's need for nation governments as was agreed at independence.There was a clear reason for that.It was no theatrics. It was a clearly identifiable requirement for any union to have any chance.It is even unthinkable for the men who failed in their duty to defend a constitution to turn around and institute one.Who are they expecting to be faithful to their own? </p> <p>We all know coupe de etats are military events.The 1966 military coup was not an Igbo coup.How could it be? Innocent people were killed in the millions for this mistake.Many militaries will detect a coup.If it was not detected. It was a responsibility they should have owned as an institution.The men carried out a coup because they were military men. If they were trading in Onitsha market they could not carry out a coup! It was made a tribal issue and due to rampant nepotism it was turned into a fatal tribal conflict.But it should never have been about tribe. Usually a coup will need a few odd and unusual situations before it is finalized.It ought to have been detected and foiled. There are those with such responsibility in the system.But it was not. They failed.The course of events should have ensured the preservation of the constitution which ought to be sacrosanct in a mutlti-ethnic soceity like nigeria.The contrary was the case.The military should have punished the culprits of the coup to set example with them. It should have then promptly returned the country to the path of normalcy.It would have deterred would be coup makers.Their constitutional duty is to protect the country from external aggression and to defend the constitution.Their oath is to the constitution. It is what binds all the peoples of the country together.If any group will succeed in the struggle to get ahead in africa, it will be the group that etablishes a disciplined armed forces to anchor their constitution and guarantee its place as the foundation of law and order.All over africa we witness the spate of constitution making and remaking.It certainly is a mark of lack of trust. And "two can't work together except they agree".In nigeria we see how lack of trust can hamper development and waste lives. </p> <p> If the people were not mainly uninformed how could you govern them without their mandate? We are dealing instead with a situation where some in such an institution insist on an aberration and would like to force everyone else to accept same because it favors them. It is not how patriotism sounds or works.The country has incurred needless debt especially lately.It is not a thing to be wished away.There is mounting insecurity and rampant poverty.Chaos and near anarchy is the order.Some state governors are asking citizens to quote "die in the course of self defence". It causes one to wonder where the so called corporate entity has gone! These well protected citizens are asking the others to do it themselves. It is symptomic of disorder.There is an error which would have been corrected if indeed patriotism was the intent from the start. But we opine that it was not and it still is not even today.We have seen the attempt to hegemonic power grab whether it be tribal or class.And it is killing or has indeed killed the country.It is clear some feel the country is not redeemable.And they have moved on already.It is that serious. But the adamant class delude themselves and think they are able to force everyone to remain their "subjects" for as long as they wish. </p> <p>The military coup was an error that should have been corrected and the system returned to normal.It is how corporate entities function.It is how systems work and it is how you know you have established a system.You do not have a corporate entity or system if it is not able to self correct or if it is not sustainable.Nigeria fails in these two very imporatant areas of established criteria.You have a system which is altered significantly everytime there is new management.And the stakeholders are held at more than arms length.You have a system that runs by fulcrum and pivot. Both are predetermined and fixated.It is not how a system works.In the case of nigeria the system fails and remains in comatose and some people are reaping and reaping.They turn the limp body every way they chose and take what they want. They will not seek to resurcitate it. A country has people in it. They will not accept such conditions for too long.We have people who have altered the norms and negotiated positions.Not only that they did but also impose their own ideas as though they are sovereign over the people. Every time those who are hurting complain they are hammered into silence.We hear lectures about the corporate existence of nigeria.It might be because they know it is a lie. It might be the reason they maintain and sustain the unending refraim. </p> <p> We do not see it.Where are the articles of incorporation and who are the stakeholders? Where are their seals and signatures? You just can't go to some people and confiscate their resources and insist it is good for everybody's use. Yet you insist you are running a federation. Somehow these people understand that if anyone were to declare openly nigeria is no longer a federation such a person anoounced the break up of the entity without any "ifs" and "buts". So they do the funny foot work and deceive the largely illitrate population.We do not believe leadership should be dishonest.On one hand you cease some resources from some people and even drag them into a genocidal war.On the other hand some people keep their resources and use it as they choose.Whatever belongs to some people is good for everyone.But what you own is good for you to keep.There is gold in Zamfara. Oil has been discovered in northern nigeria.Some how it will not be placed on the table as is the case in southern nigeria.They can keep it.You cease the oil in southern nigeria.You proceed to allocate oil blocks to individuals on basis that defy reason. Not a single beneficiary comes from the area in which this resource occur. In a behaviour that reeks of injustice, edifies corruption and places it on a very prominent pedestal.Nigeria will continue to be the death trap it has become until some people accept their error and mend their ways.If they reject equal citizenship with those they think they conquered in battle or by their line of trade they have it all wrong. And they will have only the pieces of the entity in their hands very soon.The country has been shattered to near pieces already. Nigeria's neighbor Ghana is moving fast along taking full advantage of the vacuum the situation in nigeria presents. </p> <p>It might take decades to catch up with this close neighbor.We wish to tell the people who are running or ruining nigeria to allow a conversation about how to return nigeria to the country that was negotiated by the nations and regions. If that fails the people will return to their former status and seek new alliances.There is just so much these people can accomplish for themselves without the needless burden of a "giant" of africa! Isaac Adaka Boro is not Igbo. His burden was self determination.We all remember Ken Saro-Wiwa the human right advocate of Ogoni descent who was hanged by the Sanni Abacha.He was advocating fairness and equity.He fought and died for self determination.He is not Sunday Igboho or Nnamdi Kanu. We urge the men who would rather kill than solve problems to learn to take issues away from agitators by solving problems. Instead they resort to killing and wasting of lives.We always see such actions that do not require exacting the mind or seeking answers. It is impossible to build anything of value by such actions. It is not suprising they are failing and abysmally and with very dire consequencies for the people. When problems are solved the issues and the clouds then engender dissipate. The men from the Delta Region who lost their lives would not have died if they are from certain other parts of the country. They did not even have to fight for these issues including self determination. They just took it. We have sharia law emplaced there with appologies to none! And the beggars and appologists from the south are still to understand what has happened.It is not something this select few will continue in the "infinite wisdom" they avouch to skirt around as though they are the parents of the rest of nigeria.If they fail to listen to what they are hearing the regret will be all theirs in the not too distant future.</p> <br> <br><br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="igboattire.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="160" /></a> <br><a href="#smashingup.era">...See Our article on..Smashing Up A Country By Quickstep</a> <br> <br> <br><img src="kaunda.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/> <br><a href="challenge.html"/><img src="adaego.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="160" /></a> <br><center>WE CELEBRATE AN AFRICAN HERO: KENNETH DAVID KAUNDA </center> <p>We must celebrate an African icon the veritable agile and strong former president of Zambia Kenneth David Kaunda.The man was determined to see the liberation of his people.He was convinced he could do a better job than Harry Nkumbule and his Northern Rhodesian African National Congress.He broke away and formed the Zambia African National Congress.He bravely jettisoned the name Nothern Rhodesia and chose an indegenous name for the country he aspired to lead.He led the people of Zambia to independence in 1964.Son of an ordained minister David Kaunda was born in Lubwa in what was northern Rhodesia on 28 April 1924.He was imprisoned for organizing against government and distributing subversive literature in 1955.We know what happened thereafter as former prisoner became president in 1964.He was the president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991.Admitted to Lusaka military hospital on June 14 2021 for what was a cold. He would pass on to the beyond on June 17 2021. We remember and will miss his piercing gaze and gentle spirit.We remember the president for the role he played in showing us the act of aging with so much grace, candour and vigour.As the host of heaven welcome this gift to Africa and the world, we bow in love, thankfulness.Adieu big brother!</p> <p><font color:="blue">African Renaissance.</p></font> <br><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSStNXshMM&t=339s"/ >A Star Is Born: Zambian Nation at fifty Seven years:African Leadership On Display</a> <br> <br><img src="igbo2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><br> <br><img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><br> <br><br> <br> <br><br><center>WE HAVE SAID MANY TIMES THAT NIGERIA WILL NOT WORK ANY OTHER WAY BUT AS WAS FRAMED</center> <p>Nigeria was not conceived as one contiguous mono-cultural entity because it is not.The monarchs who resisted the foreign intruders knew what was at stake.The intruders also knew this fact.There are real consequences to the distortion of these realities.There is no entity on earth that can teach the British colonial entity this truth.They lived it everyday.The very soceity upon which the edifice they defend is founded understand the complexity of diversity and its ever present reality.Nigeria was not a mystery to colonial Great Britain. They knew what they wanted out of it.It delivered to them to the extent there was never an unmanagable uprising from 1904 when all the "bruhaha" with the local chiefdoms was settled to 1960.In nigeria there was no slaughter by the British colonial government in recorded history. </p> <p>As the union jack was lowered down colonial Britain had ruled the space from 1904 to that day in 1960! It had gone from these local peasant upheavals and skirmishes to founding of a semi-modern state of nigeria.Why would anyone in their right mind jettison this model and start tinkering with untested ideas? We might hate history.In documenting facts it is a witness.The modern states of Europe have themselves very interesting history. It is what we do with knowledge that matters.The hausa and fulani in northern nigeria have a distinct way of life. They were preferred by the colonialist for being "pliable'.The south eastern nigeria and their "uppishness" is well documented.The south west and their "flambouyance" and so on.The British colonial government worked with them as they live their "normal" life.They have clear record of the distinctness of the various groups of people in the space they called nigeria.They knew the minority tribes well and knew who was capable of doing what.It is very easy to become a burden and they understood that. </p> <p>Today what have the local colonialists done? Attempt to impose every kind of sentiment and whim they nurse upon the population.From religion which some of them use as a facade to strange foreign cultures.They impose upon them factions and enemity and hostility from outside.Some use religion others extend the issue of tribe and ethnicity distorting facts.It is the easiest way to make a place like nigeria crumble.And they have all but achieved that objective.The disrespect for the people and their way of life is what is threatening to destroy the space. You are not going to hate the Ijaw or Ogoni but love their resources.You will not despise the yoruba and love their sea ports and its earnings.You will not reject the Igbo and love the resources in his area of influence.If he has strings to pull to bring the idea home to you he will pull them. You will not cut the Igbo to pieces to suit you. Just like you, he thinks as well.It is a natural recourse.We tell the leadership in nigeria there is a different atittude when we build.It is deliberate and persistent in structuring together order.It is a different atittude when you demolish.What we are watching is not an atittude of building.It would be more prudent to maintain something that works than destroy it and have no alternative.The decrees used to to "rule" nigeria for decades would actually shred the place faster than butter melts under heat. It is a miracle the space survived miltary governments. We saw a war costing millions of lives. It must be acknowledged as one of the outcomes of this philandering with strange ideas.Today we witness needless violence because they have an atmosphere that will not respect delineations </p> <p>If nigeria will survive, the answer is to return to the order the peoples painfully negotiated freely.It is the only way the entity can be held together.It is important to make this matter abundantly clear to those who reject facts and reality.The United kingdom,the United States of America, Germany and so on are countries where the regional differences are acknowledged and turned into strengths.The anchor in all these places is the constitution.You can't go attempting to tinker with it.Nigeria must return to the founding constitution which must be given the "honor" it deserves.Also allow these people in the regions to make their constitution or resurrect the ones that were there hitherto, append to it the dreams and aspirations of their youths and forge a new soceity. We recognize it sounds difficult for the policy makers.Leadership is a tough thing.People who wish to lead must be those who understand how to deal with tough issues.If that is not the case someone is in the wrong place.Nigerians must thererfore take matters in their own hands and move the country away from the precipiece.Only they can solve their own problems.If they can't, the union is not meant to be.Like they say "wishes are no horses"! The regional governments will return nigeria to the path of prosperity and growth.It is by far the most reasonable thing to do now..today. </p> <p>We have thought about the issues of the budget of the states as the country is returned to regional governments.The answer is: phase in the budgets.This gap in time will allow the regions to take over the responsibility of managing the states.In the first year the federal government will take responsibility for supporting the regions and states to the tune of 80% of their budget short fall.In the second year it should be 60% and 40% on the third year and this will end in the fifth year. If we are talking unity the future must hold promises for the youth.If you have a country that is borrowing for every budget the youth will seek a future. And rightfully so. Men in their seventies and eighties will not continue to act as though the country is created just for their own life span.We continue to hear how the fall in petroleum prizes hindered government plans.In most instances bringing the government to its knees.We ask where the country is hiding the plan for the future.We have said times without number a hungry family can't be peaceful! Nigeria with these many people is yet to act as though it wants to remain united on the long run.The agitations are consequences of this flaw. </p> <p>Returning nigeria to the regions and creating a middle belt region will take away many of the issues on the list of the agitators.Even some of the issues raised by religious extremists is settled by this approach.People will get the listening ears of men who are trained to understand them. Abuja does not have the solution of the issues posed in Dange in Sokoto. It does not understand the nature of it.These can be resolved locally within the boundaries of influence and knowledge.It will also provide a framework for real economic development.We will see again the regional trade boards, the regional development corporations that are strong and pillars of national development.The noise about prize of crude oil will dissipate.Foreign exchange shortage will be as strange a topic as it sounds to many of us. Western regions still can produce cocoa much more efficiently today than before.Western region has also developed a good manufacturing and service base.Groundnuts, hides and skin and cotton will fund northern nigerian governments.There is a thriving incipient manufacturing base that needs encouragement.Eastern nigeria has palm oil and palm kernels, cashew nut and well trained manufacturing base. </p> <p> The states become provinces within the region.It is clear that every province in colonial nigeria was created with an eye on self sustenance. It is something the space needs today.We know there will be details here. But we have stars of men and women with eyes for such details and who are trained in such matters. They abound in every area, in law, finance, accounting, sociology etc. We can summon them and allow them to piece such together for the soceity. The country can have a five year plan to phase in the budgets.After which the regions take over the responsibility of structuring their own economies.In this way the country will have a painless transition which saves us from the almost inevitable disintegration and more bloodshed.If this step is taken the looming doomsday will disappear.In its place will be a beacon. In the place of this place that is about to become a ruin will be instead the beacon of a better future.The space will for once begin to fulfil the expectations of a people held hostage for such a long time.It can truely become the country that can deliver for africa and meet the expectations of the people of color around the globe.We have always said time is of essence. If they reject the door nature opens she reclaims it.</p> <br><img src="ada.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><br> <br><img src="adamma7.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><br> <br> <br><a href="#smashingup.era">...See Our article on..Smashing Up A Country By Quickstep</a> <br><center><img src="umuanyi3.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/><a href="providence.html"/>READ::OUR PAGES Our Thoughts On How To Retake The Nigerian Space From Spoilers </a></center><center><a href="actnowtosavenation.html"/><h3>IS IT TRUE.....THE JTF. MASS MURDER ATTEMPT? IS NIGERIA CONSIDERING SENDING EASTERN YOUTHS TO A MASS FIRING SQUAD IN THE GUISE OF FIGHTING INSECURITY? </h3></a></center> <br> <br> <p> Many nigerians will recall our advise to the people who run the affairs of the nigerian space to use reason. It appears they do not see human lives in Eastern Nigeria.All they see are barrels of crude oil.It must be clear to them now the people are making a mental note of their actions.The tendency to criminalize every action in the space for fear of loosing the prime resource is very sickening. Worse still is the resort to conquest rather than dialogue.We heard from reliable sources the nigerian government is considering recruiting civilians to fight insecurity in Eastern Nigeria. Why in Eastern Nigeria? Do we not have insecurity all over the nigerian state? Why do they have to resort to such a terrible form of answer in Eastern Nigeria? We see this as an attempt to create instability in the most peaceful part of the country to justify more massacres.It saddens them that Boko Haram is wrecking havoc in the North and the South has been at relative peace.So they invite insurgents from all around africa and plant them in southern communities.</p> <br> <p>We all know they admitted to doing this. It is the implication of all we have heard.We know the timeline for all of this.The government of nigeria has lost every moral ground and credibility to advocate for the population in Southern Nigeria. A very tragic but real situation.The moral failure is complete! The penchant of this government for dithering and excuses in the face of dire and existential threat to lives make it impossible for anyone to see who else to blame for the mess in the country.It is clear they hate solving problems and are often confounded by the least of issues. They want to have youths from Eastern Region massacred en mass. We remember the blockade and hunger and the starvation five decades ago. The wicked minds have started to work again! They want to recruit innocent jobless youths to get into the firing line between well entrenched nigerian army, bandits, police and then their own trying to keep safe? Is this the idea of a government of a country or of a band of criminals? We lost a country.</p> <br> <p>It is time to survive. Anyone who doudts it is living in the land of the weirdos.If the politicians from Eastern Nigeria allow this to happen their sell-out is complete. Our youths might be jobless, but they are not suicidal.No corrupt and criminal minded pretenders will change that.We demand they stand up and ask the nigerian government to stop the attempt to send our youths to the firing squad.We need them to ask why the army, police, the airforce and navy are not enough.In resorting to moves like this the government admits it has completely failed. We tell the youths please reject the death warrant. We love you and you are the answer to the future we are fighting for. And you must believe and you must know that! Our people have gone to the United Nations to submit a petition invoking the right to self determination. It is on record.The nigerian government wishes not to seek the views and opinion of over eighty million people in Eastern Nigeria. Instead will unleash terror and hell on them every time they express the desire to chart a path that can lead to their emancipation.The nigerian government has never had an atittude of fairness towards Eastern Nigeria, a situation that has led to a massacre and pogrom and a genocidal war.Today the entire world watches as if delighted as a repeat is about to ensue.</p> <br> <p> Governor of Benue State was attacked and the terrorists group owned up to the attack.It is a real pity that the nigerian game came full cycle. We have a country of hijacked citizens. We had a group of soldiers do the same thing and took the resources of the entire country especially crude oil as ransome.But they also hijacked every other meaningful resource especially in southern nigeria.We know the ports of Lagos were hijacked.So were the other ports in the country.Rather than serve as economic hobs for the nations where they are located the survival of the hijack operation and how to extend its shelf life became the main considerations.These men killed the industries that produced wealth through the labor and occupation of citizens. Left without power and meaning to their lives the people fought back.Citizens fought and died for a democratic dispensation.It was ushered back in a hurry.Guess who is now extending the shelf life of the kidnap operation? Therein is the sad predicament of the ordinary citizen in the nigerian space.</p> <br> <p>We condemn the kidnappers.The people who fight them are a bunch of kidnappers themselves! If it were not so why would a governor be threatened openly and the culprits are walking around free as heroes? The governors who were hitherto making excuses are now creating security units on a fly. We asked them years ago how they feel so comfortable with all agencies of coercion over their heads. In Eastern Nigeria we need to ask the people to realize they have mortal enemies. Collaboration is key or they will destroy our beloved motherland and our people. Anyone elected governor must understand the nature of such power.As we watch terrorists from all around the african space pushing a religious agenda in nigeria it is no time for carelessness.When a governor is threatened and the federal government which wants to control every agency of coercion keeps mum you know evil is afoot.It is not politics going on here.It is something very sinister.</p> <br> <p> Like we said earlier a state governor was attacked and was lucky to escape. He is threatened by the terrorist group who promised to eliminate him for being against their idea of ethnic domination.The federal government of nigeria does not deploy the military to the state.But the nigerian government is appalled that the people of Eastern Nigeria founded a vigilante to protect life and property. In a federation like nigeria this should not even be a subject for any conversation.With whom did the Sharia northern states discuss before establishing HISBAH? Why should the people of Eastern Nigeria seek approval to defend themselves against an avowed group of enemies out to esterminate them? The government claims they are not nigerians. So why are they in Eastern Nigeria? How are they inside Eastern Nigeria? We all know and realize Eastern Nigeria has no land boaders with any of the countries these people claim as their countries of origin.The nigerian army and government have a lot of explaining to do.</p> <br> <p>Whose duty is it to protect nigerians from such a situation? Why have they allowed these murderers into nigeria? Why are they laying seige against the ESN instead of invaders who kill and violate the citizens? What are the people suppose to do? Are the people of Eastern Nigeria not free to defend themselves? We ask this all important question again and all over again. We wish to call the attention of all world nations as witnesses of the injustice posed by these situations.The nigerian army had once attempted to wipe this same people out of the face of the earth. History has every record of it.If the nigerian army takes sides this thing is over. If the nigerian army joins politics then Nigeria has completely crumbled! Eastern Nigeria is tired of watching her youths slaughtered with flimsy excuses by this government.We are of the view there is no chance this government can be fair with the people of Eastern Nigeria. It has never even pretended to try to be. There will never be enough justification to attack ESN.</p> <br> <p>The fact that the nepotic group in the federal government chose to label IPOB a terrorist organization does not mean they are. Self determination is allowed in the polity of every civilized country.It is recognized by the United Nations as a human right.These are some of the facts some of the the ignorant people (mis)managing the affairs of the nigerian space are unaware of.Are the peace loving people of Eastern Nigeria suppose to wait until their farmlands are turned into Sambisa forests? Why is it so difficult for the nigerian authorities to understand why the idea of fulani armed bandits in forests in southern nigeria is unacceptable to citizens? Such is not a prospect they are suppose to negotiate by any chance.The government has not been able to help and things are getting out of hand.For what reason therefore is the ESN such a problem for the nigerian government? The people of Eastern Nigeria will not receive it.The government had freely killed innocent youths protesting and marching for their civil liberties.</p> <br> <p> Yet it had allowed the people who come into communities raping and killing and burning down homes and communities to roam freely within the entire nigerian space.It is no longer a secret to many of us that the government of nigeria is very complicit. The implication of all of this is clear.The world must know the people of Eastern Nigeria are in danger of another genocide. In fact what is presently happening is in the realm of a genocide.The senseless desecration of human life in the space must end.The sanctity of human life must be respected as it is traditional for the people of Eastern Nigeria space.We do not want anyone to talk about 2023 and presidency to us.It is callous and inhuman.It lacks reason and merit.Thousands of citizens are dying daily. Where is the priority here? Hundreds of thousands of our youths are dying in the seas and land while trying to escape the hell their own so-called country has become.What is needed here is the agreement to part ways peacefully or agree on how each nation can have the peace to chart its own part to emancipation under an agreeable framework.</p> <br> <p>How is it we have a set of people who created an exclusive soceity for themselves based on their religion and culture leading the talk about unity? Exactly what kind of unity do they have in mind? Eastern region is inhabited by mainly christians.When they have a sharia nation for themselves what are the rest suppose to do? We wish to remind the people who are talking about unity to think over the contradiction they constitute.After breaking the country they still want it.What are they? Magicians? Against whom did they aim the segregation which was unilaterally imposed? Obviously not other muslims but the ones that hold a different point of view.The sharia law in the twelve states in northern nigeria was imposed without consultation with anyone. We like to know if the southern so-called leaders were secretly consulted. If so it will help matters to let the other people know.If not it must be clear to them that one day they could wake up to a religious bloodbath. We all are well aware of the implication of the sharia laws. We have a well defined delineation that is undeniable.The potentials for clash of methods and ideas are made even more likely.We are well aware how deadly this can be. It is a possibility they are all not ignorant of.</p> <br> <p>Is it a reality they would rather see? Is it the only way they will be convinced? We remind them it had already happened too many times before the conservative (we do not wish to say "extreme") elements took over the political space in Northern Nigeria. Still we hear many who due to nostalgia talk about a united country.How is that going to be achieved? Quite clearly the government of nigeria is not able to bring the extreme elements along with it. Still they talk about unity.Unity talk is not justified just because they need the resources of the south to maintain the lifestyle they are now used to. It is very dangerous.It is the danger that makes the others seek to distance themselves before something very bad happens.The United Nations charter on peoples right to freedom provides such a way out.The right is there to prevent a situation such as was described.The concerned peoples and nations have pleaded for a settled manner of co-existence for so many years. But this government does not seem to care and refuses to embrace civilized methods.The people will no longer relent in seeking the right to live in liberty using every peaceful means including agitation and resistance. </p> <br> here <<<<......<div valign="right" ><img src="igbobabes.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.<br> <br>here <<<<......<div valign="left" ><img src="umuanyi2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>. <br> <br><br><center><img src="umuanyi3.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/><a href="providence.html"/>READ::OUR PAGES Our Thoughts On How To Retake The Nigerian Space From Spoilers </a><cite><center>THE IGBO ALL AFRICA MUST KNOW: THE IGBO PEOPLE YOU MUST KNOW TO BE A TRUE AFRICAN</cite></center> <p>Western scholars want you to think that people of color have no written history.It turns out this is not a false narative. It is a subversion.The DNA evidence was sought by the scholars who wished to establish factual history. They made the following findings:using the mummies of Pharaoh Rameses the III and his son in December 2012, DNA tests were conducted on proved that they belonged to the IGBO race.The Y chromosome of the men belonged to the "E1B1A" DNA group.All IGBOs belong to this group.This group of people are the ones who speak the Niger Congo language.You find them especially their women when you see the two piece wrapper costume.Igbo people are the most populous and oldest of this group.The traditions document this fact so clearly.The IGBO is the language that actually root the so called "kwa" that European linguists tried to document.Their rich culture and religious belief is a remarkable preservation of a culture that has been traumatized and buffeted on purpose.They call the language spoken by the people in this DNA group the Niger-Congo languages.This is the language group of the entire Middle-belt of nigeria and part of present Kaduna state.This people are found in the present day Zimbabwe,Ghana,Uganda,most of Kenya,the Congos, Western Camaroons and most of if not the entire southern nigeria!</p> <p>Historical artifacts going back to the deludge and the ruin of Atlantis show an ancient city belonging to this civilization.In parts of Zimbabwe the ruins of this ancient civilization is still visible.The IGBO mytology includes this as historical fact.It is where the name "Biafra" came from.The Benin called the city Uhe in the Idu.It is the spiritual Ife in Yoruba mytology.Those who need further references might look for works of Dr. Abdul Salau, a Nigerian and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy, Delaware State University, USA. One of his work includes a paper he presented showing Igbo linguistic connections with ancient Egypt. He states cathegorically, that many ethnic groups in Northern Nigeria have Igbo origins, and that the linguistic marker the Kwa/Ka element in such place are prominent in places such as as Kaduna, Kwara, Benue, etc.The traditional dances,cultural and secret soceities and masquerades are identifiers.</p>. <p>We all might not have heard about OBATALA. It is common in the Igbo and Yoruba forlklores and mytology. Yet they have no relationship! The work by Prof. Wande Ambimbola explores this link.In prominent display is the Yoruba Center In Havana where this effort to preserve and document factual history in in play. .  I saw among the Yoruba pantheon of gods at the center, the statue of a god named Obatala whose inscription or explanation read: Father of the Igbo nation, Master of all divinities, Creator of man in various forms, Gentle Lord of the Pure White ! Continuing, Acholonu said that  this was a great puzzle to her ; that the Father of the Igbo nation was revered among the Yoruba not just as a god, but that he was seen as the master and head of all known Yoruba divinities and as The Creator of Man. Acholonu confirmed in the treatise that the Yoruba Center was set up under the guidance and approval of Prof. Wande Ambimbola, the well known Yoruba authority on Ifa. *CHI-UKWU/OLODUMARE/ELE: THE IGBO GOD WHO SANK ATLANTIS is the same.The City was owned by the god served by Eri..in Yoruba Obatala. In an old document by Dravidian Indians "Ramayana" written by one Valmiki states:Rama was a a king in Atlantis who retreated into the deep forest and built a city in the middle of the rain forest: He abdicated and withdrew from filial rivalry.Being averse to war and bloodshed he founded a city in the heart of the rain forest where annual harvests and festivals were held to honor the ancestors.We need to honor the various sources that have sought to keep the line of fact and truth. We need to help propagate the work which has facts and is indeed the truth. It is the history Africa needs. We have to promote the truth and propagate it. The men who bear the torch must be given the recognition they deserve.</p> <p> ........"According to Euba s reading of Ifa, the Almighty Olodumare was the God who fought the great cosmic war between Good and Evil, a war which Ifa calls  the Great Igbo Battle , as a result of which the word Igbo became an awe-inspiring word which strikes fear and trepidation whenever it is spoken. This God is the same entity whom Thoth claims in The Emerald Tablet was the Great God who sank Atlantis for their sins against humanity. Thoth was a servant of this God. And it was this God that commanded Thoth to leave Atlantis and go and take refuge in the land of Khem in order to escape being drowned by the Deluge. We must explain Khem is the land part of which today is known as Egypt. Ten step-pyramids found in Igbo land. Do you know that the colonialists found ten step-pyramids, each the size of a single storey building in Abaja, Nsude in Nsukka region of Igbo land, but made sure that they were not entered into any existing official records, and that they were subsequently destroyed and forgotten. The discovery of these step-pyramids adds to our pile of proofs that original Egypt was ancient Nigeria, part of which was known as  Median Biafra in ancient maps of the world, and Igbo Ukwu was its sacred capital. The ancient Igbo pyramids are located in Udi, Enugu, Nigeria but have long been forgotten and are probably in ruins A row of 10 Igbo iron-smelting pyramids at Nsude, Enugu State of Nigeria, Africa. Carbon dating information has been unattainable to date. Nsude Pyramids were ten sacred pyramid structures built by the Nri/Ndi Igbo people in Nsude and Agbaja. Each structure is a step pyramid of 5 circular. ...." It is indeed not possible that such overaching realities never featured in the brand of African history we hear and read.But such is the reality we live.We must however take responsibility for what we propagate and what we uphold.In the United States of America the memorial in the state of Georgia called Igbo Landing is of great significance.We had a group of captive africans of Igbo extraction that decided to take matters into their own hands and they did.The Igbos were taken to Cuba, Haiti to Jamaica and have kept and maintained their atittude till date where so on earth they are!</p> <p> We read about the Holy Roman Empire that straddled the European space.It held the Prussians, the Austrians and the Habsburgs that ruled the "Holy Roman Empire". Many of the Habsburgs are of Austrian origins.It was in 1740 that Prussia strengthened by a fortified and consolidated force and an enlarged territory acquired by forceful annexation started to threaten Austria and question its hegemony.This was around when the Mayflower ship went out of England and Wales.It was in 1806 the "Holy Roman Empire" was ended. The idea and the prevailing question was: What is ideal, a large Germany that dominates the space or a Germany that is the peer? These have always been issues.And they will never go away. They are facts etched in the deep recesses of the human consciousness.The many things that happened between these entities and France and Napoleon and others in the European space are recent.These were all very recent. Like both Muslim and Christian incursion in Africa these are recent events. So are the two world wars.As recent as what is now playing out in Ukraine.It is now the theatre where the sad bloody saga of the past is being played out. Many who have no idea what these matters are and their origins tackle symptoms. People have tendencies.Europe will be a bed of the type of schemes we witness.It has such history. It is with great effort you avert such spills.You juxtapose these facts with a pacifist civilization like the one in Africa that had existed for thousands of years? You are not going to promote what is not yours.Not even if towers above you! Africa will either continue to be a victim of violence or discover a new the great heritage that gave the world the most enduring and consequential civilizations.The IGBO people are a catalyst to this goal.It is the reason for the way the characterization from some quaters.It purposely highlight them in very odd ways.</p> <br> <br> <br> <img src="adaeze3.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><img src="adandigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br>%%%%%%%%%%%%&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<h4><center><Cite><font color="purple"> QUOTE OF THE DAY....QUOTE OUR CITIZENS . UPHOLDING THE OFFICE OF THE CITIZEN:.....:MATTERS ARISING AND EVENTS CALLING FOR OUR ATTENTION: QUOTE OF THE DAY::::</h4></font></cite></center><p>"Nigerians are the most rescued migrants"....European Coast Guards....That to me sums it all..Our youths killed at home by government agents and sponsored killers and drowning as they try to escape. </p> <br> <p>AND WE SAY AFRICA IS THE WORLD: Former head of State of Nigeria Himself a very young man Is seen greeting an unknown child who will become a top world leader! Gen Yakubu Gowon of nigeria greets Prime Minister Justin Trudeau <img src="justingowon.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br> <p><cite><font color="blue"><br><img src="umuanyi3.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><br>Who Will Solve These Problems Nigeria Faces?</cite></font> We are not able to reach the hearts of the political elites in nigeria.For nearly twenty five years we have drawn attention to the issue of an agreement to the living arrangement in the nigeria space. It is getting clearer the choice is to decide it by blood. Something the country had already endured. It seems the lesson was never learned.Nigeria is being governed using a constitution imposed by those who ceased power outside the provisions of law and order in a military coup.The prospect is daunting and worrying.Where did they find the moral right to such authority? The deficit of philosophical soundness,morality and equity exposed here is alarmingly palpable.<center>THE FIVE GOVERNORS SEEKING JUSTICE IN THEIR PARTY ARE A SIGN OF CONSCIENCE AND GOOD JUDGEMENT</center><p>We salute the five governors who are doing something for the history books.They are standing up to a very repugnant display of inpunity.It is very good for a young democracy like the one in which they are playing.It is a seed being sown in good season.There are two ways to play politics: one way is as a spoiler. The spoiler achieves very quick and immediate result which quite often is destructive.Hence the name "spoiler"! The second method is as a statesman standing on a position based on principles.The five governors are holding to a fact which should and ought to be sacrosanct being a covenant of trusting equals. Someone is trying to impose a lordship which these men reject and rightfully so.History will be kind to them and the young people will see their action as a glimmer of hope in a soceity where the conscience is no longer in play.It is not suprising that the culprits are unyielding. Resistance to their inpunity is a very strange event in their orbit. We wish the G-FIVE GOVERNORS(G5-GS) more wind in their sail.We pray they are just beginning in their work for the soceity and their Maker who gave them the opportunity to shine really bright as the stars they are.We ask the governors to use their platform and voices for the millions of nigerian youths in internally displaced population camps.We urge them to speak for the rest who are not in the tertiary institutions due to industrial action by unpaid staff.In a competitive time such as this nigeria is caught napping still. Some persons had better act before it turns more tragic.They should use their voices to urge common sense and reason.These languishing citizens can't speak for themselves.Go G-five.We see the emerging five regional governments and economies that will incorporate the present 36 states and do the wonders we desire.But we must invoke the reality first. We have to hold the convocation when our initiative has worked for our people. G is for gold.The G-FIVE must aim to win the gold medal and nothing less!</p><center>NAME CALLING BY THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES:ONE CANDIDATE STAYING ABOVE THE FRAY</center><p>We have every reason to be anxious and worried about the February election. The name calling and the accusation are at fever pitch.Any mistake will lead to many unkown situations. What else can we have? We have kidnappings, terrorism, murders.We know that we can't afford to have an unresolved situation.When the computer is forced to deal with such, it can misbehave including haniging and going out of action.WE know our situation.People are fadeup and tired.We do not know what will happen if the people who have taken hundreds of million of people for granted will get in the way again. Quite clearly the people have made a clear headed choice for a candidate with the temperament, capacity and the vision. The pair from the Labour Party is what the answer and the people are very certain they have the answer to their situation.It is the reason the other pairs are feeling panicked. The pair from Labour party will not descend to the name calling and the mudslinging the other parties have now resorted to. Is this also part of the structure? They call the candidate of Labour Pary a trader. They call him a Mr Stingy.We need answers about the many issues confronting the country.Mr Peter Obi and his partner have been studious in their approach.They have not condescended to name calling. And they have not ommitted answers to issues posed by the population.It is the test for leadership and we are satisfied we have found the leadership that will pioneer the new nigeria that will emerge from the deep social engineering going on in nigeria presently.There has been nothing like it. And we prayed it through and we asked of it from The Divine. We knew the population of the people will have an answer and they have shown the world their answer.We appeal to the world to help birth this choice with out a hitch.</p> <center>THE ENDORSEMENT BY NIGERIAN ELDER STATEMEN IS A NEW ORDER</center><p>Endorsement is celebrated because it is a recommendation given as an advertorial. It is a public declaration of approval of a product or a person. Someone says "I am glad to be associated with this person. I approve and will associate with same". Endorsements are very strong words of reommendation and commendation.They carry great gravitas. Artists and athletes become successful by the dint of their talent and effort.Marketers make them rich by offering them endorsements opportunities.We know how important endorsements are.No amount of tantrums will diminish that. The more distinguished the talent the more important the endorsement.When you think about living heroes in nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasonjo is perhaps one who qualifies for the title.He received the instruments of surrender in the civil war.In the wake of the battle for return to civil authority in nigeria he fought with the people out of uniform.He stood against Sani Abacha face to face.He was jailed for his effort.Pa Edwin Clerk is an example of endearing patriotism and public service.He has stood with the people who discuss a way forward for nigeria.He is a very well respected statesman.Pa Ayo Adebanjo is a man who commands respect as a statesman.He comes from an era of character and purpose.These are the kind of people you would like to recommend you.They all have endorsed Peter Obi of the Labor Party.What it means for the nigerian people is very remarkable.The alignment of the stars of the Orion will help rekindle the light of nationalism in the nigerian youths.It is very selfless for these men who have excelled in their own right to have time and energy to fight for the future of the nigerian state. The youths must look upon them with honor.They ought to be celebrated for it.It is not for those who did not receive their approval to act as though they do not have the right to approve of somebody of their own choosing.Why have these men who have been seeking the support of these distinguished statesmen now resort to abuse and insults? We thought they said they respect these elder statesmen? We thought they said they were seeking their support out of respect? So because they have not got the answer they sought they are going to resort to abuse and insults? It is a mark of the quality of character as we are watching! They say endorsement by these men does not matter? If it is so unimportant why all the noise? Why are these men and their attack dogs so upset? We thought this was like an audition and application for job. How could these men resort to this type of idea of pride and entltlement and expect the nigerian people to gloss over this very repugnant sense of prerogative? Do they consider themselves superior or above the process? If so why pretend to submit to it? In any case if they are offering just to serve why are they this touchy and personal? This behavior leaves much to be desired.For once their exploitation of poverty is about to fail.It is game they have come to trust. Now it is under very serious attack by tough warriors. They celebrate throwing hundreds of millions of people into poverty. They boast about how things remain the same. And they talk about their very slow increamental plans that would not even work at all. They convert lives and citizens to mere objects and expendables.To them it is statistics.It is empty statistics and nothing more to it.We encourage the rest to do the right thing.Speak out.By speaking out they will encourage the voiceless to find their own voices.It is how soceities are reconstructed from the bottom up again.The election offers a way out without bloodshed. Let us embrace it. Go for the gold nigerian patriots.You know what is at stake.Inspite of how daunting it appears you might win it.Can anyone imagine the alternative? If we do not change the situation in nigeria the outcome is clear.The emergence of the natural nation states will be the imperative. There is no other way to see it.Change must happen.If we neglect the change we must make Nature will foist one upon us that is necessary.This many people will not be in anguish forever.Let us make the election the bloodless revolution we desire. </p> .<center>THE NIGERIAN ARMED STICKUP THE NEGOTIATORS AND STEWARDS</center><p>The nigerian arrangement has been a tough bargain from the start.Nigeria was not created to work necessarily as everynone now anticipates.There were goals. And those goals were colonialistic.The people fought the colonialist all the way through.When the colonialist started to think about leaving he made plans.He planned an exit strategy.Nigeria could easily be a nation if that was the goal.But it was not the goal.At independence the various components consisting mainly the regional blocks and tribes had their representatives.Until this day these men are still honored as though they were alive.Dr. Michael Iheonukwuru Okpara was the choice of the people of eastern nigeria.Chief Obafemi Awolowo was the choice in western nigeria. And the Sardauna of Sokoto Alhaji Ahmadu Bello was the choice of the people of northern nigeria.These men guarded their territories like lions and are well loved and rightfully so.It is how nations are built.On the other hand look at nigeria the federation.The federal government of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa will not quit meddling with the government of Chief Awolowo in western nigeria.This restlessness caused a constitutional breach and a coup and with the coup came rogues and bandits. It has been downhill since then. One thoughtful person will build the other will wreck it and destroy everything.Nigeria assembled her assets for inventory when the economy stagnated. Many countries that turned their economies around used this method.The aim was to streamline the assets and make the productive ones more productive and restructure or sell the non-performing assets.The operators jumped on the entire nigerian assets: all the factories,industries established by the upcoming growing economy...all were sold.Industries built with billions of dollars were sold for pennies.In an effort to streamline assets a committee was set up called the National Council On Privatization.The operators of this council acted as if nigeria is a company going out of business.Patriotism will require delicate examination about what is useful to the country and what is productive and what is a drain.Instead everything was off loaded.Nigeria by this council auctioned 145 of its best assets. And got next to nothing for them.The stewards became rich and nigeria has been reeling.Nigeria was robbed blind. And the youths were denied a future.Companies that hired youths and took young people from the streets were all chopped on the auction block for cents and pennies.Delta Steel built at a cost of five billion dollars was sold for thirty million dollars.Aluminium Smelting corporation built at the cost of four billion dollars was sold for one hundred thirty million dollars.Eleme Petro-chemicals built at the cost of three billion dollars was sold at the cost of two hundred and fifteen million.I do not have the time and space to continue. But the picture is very clear what we are dealing with here.These kind of operation is what some people perform in nigeria.Every great effort will encounter these workers of damnation.It is the reason patriots and true african liberation fighters in nigeria want the regional governments to guard the peoples assets. The best guarded investments in western nigeria is still O'DUA investmens,in the north it it is Arewa.Eastern nigeria got beat up by a war! Now we have no time to humour bandits and looters anymore.Nigerians are suppose to tell some people the home truth.What gives anyone the gut to loot nigeria like Sanni Abacha did? It is merciless and without conscience.Today oil prices are on the roof but nigeria is making no money. The looters are piping the oil money into their private pockets.Borrowing s become a form of art and piling up debt for other generations a matter of little concern to those who must loot the whole space clean.Nigerians must wake up and make a choice.It is time.If the big country will not work allow the nations to build their own countries.Nigeria must not be a cover for looters and thieves.There are hundreds of millions of lives involved here! </p><br><center>DEMOCRACY IN PLAY WHEN THE CANDIDATES RESPOND AND REACT TO EVENTS </center><p>We all can see the difference between the candidates of the Labour Party: Peter Obi and his running mate Dr Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed and others.We can notice they commands very compelling presence.They are both men who have worked very hard to elevate their character and profile rather than their possession. On the other hand the competition come in with big and funny names that minimize the enormity and issue on hand. The country they wish to lead has the highest number of people living in poverty. Most of the people are youths in their most productive years. All the agitations are not for nothing and you will not murder and massacre them to an answer. They too wish rosper like you. You and your family are eating gravy and chicken and eggs and you wish them to eat gravel. And they will confront you and agitate.They can't see a future.So if you know the way you point it to them and give them hope. It is what at issue. Not military command and rhetoric of military force. The country was led for decades by the military. There is nothing new there! The youths need leadership that is attentive.And they are focused since no place in the world wants them. They were just plunged into poverty by unattentive leadership.The Buhari administration is the last easy government nigeria will see in a long time.The coming days will have to be rigourous. Right now it is difficult for the next administration to determine an easy way to face the sum of their choices.We have No way the government will come in and play some mathematical abracadabra. The situation is dire.But some of the people who will not even take and answer questions are in line to lead.If a leader will not answer the question by the people what will he do to the challenge of leadership? If questions are stressful how about the challenges of reality? You guessed it. Treat it with crass levity.We see the gentlemen who would win the heart of the youths by their first act of governace which is return decency and common sense.We urge those who are praying to be co- laborers with God and bring the most compelling candidates to the front and choose them.It will be the change the soceity is yearning for.Nigeria had time for men of timber and calibre and time for their jokes.But right now there is very serious work to be done.For the sake of two hundred and fifteen million blacks it must not be a trifling situation.</p> <center>THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE NEED TO RECLAIM THEIR SOVEREINTY AND MANDATE<center><p>We were not suprised at all by the impunity called an election.The charade was too much for even a stagnant nowhere going state like nigeria.It was pathetic to watch how the agents overturned the honest diligent effort of millions who wanted to see an outcome that refelected their collective aspirations.But it was not to be.The hegemonic force that has used mediocrity and insecurity once more prevailed. Again nigeria is an assigned contraption holding two hundred and fifteen million people most of whom are gasping for air.Nigeria an entity negotiated as a federation is controlled by forces that limit its progress on purpose.It has the central government. And it will attempt to control autonomous nations and govern them by colonial fiat. Nigeria is it is today is a colony of whoever manages to gain power and cease Aso Rock. It is not a federation. Nigeria does not have the collective understanding you have in federations. And it is dangerous.If the matter is unresolved the 1967 to 1970 conflict will be a child's play. It is true that the Igbo race hates conflicts because it detracts from progress.It is avoided by whatever method and means.Those that have forced conflict on the Igbo people since history have always regretted it.Nature sides with the natural peace makers.Who is in doubt that the Igbo people will be in a the present space race today if they were not taken down by the conflicts of the nineteen sixties. We are here talking about cows and grazing fields and land. Eastern nigeria already had Obudu Cattle Ranch. Now they foist their confussion on the Igbo people. But this is about progress. And Eastern nigeria was making real genuine progress.So they get accused and have all sorts of things foisted on them.All of it came from outside the Igbo people as a race.The conflict in the politics was between the central government and the western part of the country. The prime minister wanted to use the Yoruba to spite a Yoruba leader.You have the idea of a central government in a federation.It is a terrible contradiction. Chief Awolowo was leading a masterpiece in the western nigerian government.Why is it impossible to have that back? Eastern nigeria was adjudged the fastest growing economy in the world.Those were the reason for the attack on the people and their entity. If the Igbo people are not allowed to govern nigeria why are they not able to fight to govern themselves? It is the reason IPOB and NNamdi Kanu is a big enemy of the same people who hate every other Igbo man.Imagine inspite of all the ass licking done by the phoney Igbo political class they got nothing.They are not able to get even the most minimum of concessions.When Chief Abiola was murdered the whole space negotiated a truce and gave the yoruba the chance to govern. It is how you negotiate power. The soverieignty of the indegenous nations in the nigerian space will never be retuned to them by politicians. They will use the spoils for themselves and their families.It is time the people rise up and claim their sovereginty back. It will be taken. It will not be given.The colonial government was overtaken by the liberation movement.The same thing must happen now. If the political class prefer the carcass they call nigeria where thy are not accountable to anyone, it should be abandoned for them.The people must return to the regions and build lives. The must return to the regions and build civilizations.It is in the regions you will solve hunger, illitracy and poverty. So take back your mandate and build your people.It is the meaning of progress... ......<CENTER>NIGERIA MUST UNDERSTAND THE CLEAR CHOICES IN FEBRUARY THE 25TH : WILL BE GENUINE LEDERSHIP OR SOVIET UNION TYPE DISINTERGRATION.<center><Br><p>There is one segment of the nigerian soceity that has already given up on account of the shananigans of the present political elite.But they do not have for ever to toy with the carcass of the nigerian state as that are wont to do.Many want to move on at some point.And that point is here.If thisfails we are going back to our origins and making it what it could be! To be fore warned is to be fore armed!!!! We wish to remind the wheelers and Dealer in the nigerian enclave that they have reached the end of the road.All along they have acted as if the population of nigeria is just saw dust and not human beings.Governor El Rufai came to power and consolidated himself by using the people he now proposes to dispose.He used the stateless armed fulanis. He and his friends are always playing this dangerous game and the rest of the world is watching them.When you advocate a nationless population you are sowing anarchy.And he has now become known to stoke anarchy whenever he wishes.When Chief Olusegun Obasanjo sought people like him and Atiku he was seeking builders.But what he got are very ambitious fulanis with ethnic ambition.Nigeria needs better than that.Today the country is finally crippled.They have sold what they can sell. They have loaned and pledged what they can't as far as the eye can see and for generations to come. Nigeria is on her knees thanks to them.They are no shortages of cupious patriotic sentiments. But listen to them speak when they are upset! They have killed nigeria many times and would not allow those who wish to help.Nigeria is slowly dying.It has terror knocking on the door.It has massive number of restless youth bailing out of the country in what is called "Jakpa" like those escaping a death camp: Nigeria's elites have ruthelessly been self-centered and self-seeking.The programs they have pursued has been about themselves.Now the universe is about to prove to them that it has always been here.They recognize that are being dumped.All of them that sold out and who traded on the lives of citizens are up and under watchful eyes of the world.They are not going to wiggle out of trouble this time.The Die is cast.These men who have been stoking ethnic flames in the name of religion have ignited the entire northern nigeria.The Kano to Lagos goods train has brought nothing but northern spices. Especially peppers! There are millions of militant teenagers and armed to the teeth.It is what these elites have done.It is how they have opended the formerly orderly and well led northern nigeria.El Rufai and his group of elites have only sweet words. Only their own wards and blood need a future.The rest are expendable.WE wish to warn that the trees in in some communities are thousands of years old.These trees were the theatres and centers for the people.These communities span the entire southern nigeria.They will not be defeated by a confused band and homeless bandits.If nigeria will not work some people have a place to return to. If these men think they can be toying with the lives of these many people forever they better think again.They were given an opportunity to lead.We can see their very divisive narrow goal.They have served themselves.Now they must allow the people who are out to work to clean the mess they have made.They are not going to use armed bandits and anarchy to destroy the people who have been communities for ages.They have been trying.The people they are dealing with are more settled.<br> <center>THE THIAROYE MASSACRE:GALLANT AFRICAN SOLDIERS WERE MASSACRED FOR PROTESTING AND DEMANDING EQAUL PAY AND A BETTER STANDARD OF LIVING</center><p>Sharp shooters,snipers and very brilliant and brave men were recruited from the areas of the west of africa to fight the Nazi.Over twenty thousands of these men were involved in the fight to liberate france the homeland from the Nazi.In 1944 when the tide started to turn in favor of the fighters the goal became who will be glorified.They were not suppose to be part of the men to be honored for liberating france. The plan was how to have an all white french army in the final bid to liberate france. All along these africans had bled and died for the country that claimed to have assimilated them. Now their faces were not needed in the march to victory.It was the real reason these men lost their lives.It was an attempt to put paid and an end to the voices of the men who had fought very hard and shed their blood and died in the bid to rid france of a bitter enemy.But they were not aware their lives never mattered to the country they had been fighting to protect.These men had demanded for equal pay with their white peers.They had fought side by side.The demand was not cast upon stone.It was a request.The soldiers also asked for better conditions of service and back pay.Immediately the revisionists in the french army and the racists saw the opening they needed.They claimed these men were sponsored by the Nazi. They claimed the protest was a guise to infiltrate the french army.These men were returned to Thiaroye Senegal unceremonously.Many of them are from other countries of west africa.The goal was now how to really trash these men even liquidate them. On DEC 1 1944 the camp of these men was attacked with armoured tanks and heavy artilary and infantry suddenly. At the end of it nearly five hundred of them lay dead. Instead of being part of the honour they were massacred. Africa here yet again are thy children! Today, those who want to lead must appreciate the nature of the relationship between the african and the other people who require his resources up and including his life quite often. Those who do not understand these events and the terrain must refraim from attempting to lead africa now and today! Our people must be alert enough to determine those who know and understand the real issues!</p> <br><center>THEY SAY THAT ONLY PDP AND APC HAVE THE STRUCTURE TO WIN NIGERIAN ELECTIONS</center><BR><p>We are hearing the corrupt and crooked insisting nothing can change.We tell the youths it is not late.They can win it all.How can they loose? If the change will not occur through the ballot box it will occur through the streets.A nation or nations must emerge.It is one or the other! The false prophets who are predicting that only the two old political parties have the structure to win election are missing a point.Nigerians do not vote for parties.It false analysis.Some people think too highly of themselves.They say we contested and lost because the people only vote for parties! Since when was that? Nigerians vote for Ahmadu Bello,they vote for Joseph Tarka.They vote for Aminu Kano.They vote for Balrabe Musa. We tell the youths make friends with these men.You can't loose.The nigerian vote for Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe.They vote for Chief Obafemi Awolowo.It is how they vote.We told the nigerian youth please court the elders who have compassion for you.It is all you need.Those who worship parties will learn something new about nigeria.We need to change something and it will change.You can't have a place like nigeria stay the same even if it has two hundred plus million suicidals.But they are not suicidals.They are survivors not suicidals.And trust me nigerians are about as tough as you can find.They are bidding their time.The attack on Peter Obi and his running mate are becoming personal and vicious.Does somebody think they pose a real danger? It seems so at least.You can cut the papability with a knife.The Igbo is involved. And there are still some with the illussion they can run a state like it is a childrens' game.You do not like the Igbo.Demolish their shops in Lagos. When the air in your lungs are tight look for some Igbo to hurt.It happens like that in history until the people will begin to defend themselves and avenge those who hurt them with missing one.Lagos will not be lagos without the Igbo contribution.Most important iconic structures in Lagos are owned by the Igbo.Demolish all of them and let us build unity like that! Very laughable jerks! Can't you see how we all relish the abundance and profound peace? Why can't you feel it? It is all to deny the achievements and accomplishments of our wonderful leaders! What is there not to see? Quite honestly nigeria must act right away or the ethnic citizens who have been complaning about the amorphous perilous rogue state called nigeria will revert to where they were before the amalgamation.Our different people today can make new charters and covenants.They are that sophisticated and they had relationships before the advent of external imperialism.Free people engage in that. The only problem are those who want to "rule" the rest by force of arms! We have all the wars precipitated by their unholy desire.Somebody is enabling these fully armed men who are riding around in motorcycles killing productive meaningful residents and indegenes.One of these days the military and the police will lose the confidence of the people their respect and support and the game will be on.The people will kill and be killed and also persecuted if they wish to settle down anywhere near a free people! A fulani will not be an Igbo. So who wants to plant a fulani village in the midst of the Igbos? Or is anyone dreaming that all the Igbos will go on exile? It is a very bad calculation.The game in the free empty arid land of the sahara desert is not the same in the densely populated and peopled southern nigeria.If these insist on this sorry game it will lead to a disappointing loss for those who are trying hard to foist the impossibility.Let us show the world quality leadership is possible in africa.We can have leadership that can engage with the rest of the world.It is how we can be heard.Not by mumbling and groveling and begging everyone including those who mean to pick our pockets! We have quality that is growing in strength and number and that will include these men: President Paul Kagame, President Yoweri Museveni, President Nana Akufo-Addo,President Hakainde Hichilema, President William Ruto now in place of now former Preseident Uhuru Kenyata.Among them is also Preseident Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa. I will put the president of nigeria among them were it not for what the men around him are able to get away with.They have made his sense of loyalty to partners a very sore injury for him.I do not say he is a saint.However he has the right frame of mind to make choices that are defendable.So here nigeria you want to have an election before the ethnicities agree on how to relate and how the rest and everyone else will relate. A return to the regions and creating an overdue Middle-Belt Region to bring the regions to five gives nigeria the rebirth the people are yearning for.You might ask me how it can be done.Elections in democracies are not just for voting for candidates. It is also for enacting policies! INEC and the Senate and House of assembly would have resolved most of the issues bedeviling soceity through such initiatives.New policies are placed in the ballots and the people will vote for or against as a way for making new things happen.These initiatives are proposed by congress and voted by the people. It is how you end old policies that will entrap soceity.They are called ballot initiatives....BALLOT INITIATIVES.Let us use ideas we have learnt to improve life for our people.It is evil and demonic to buy gun and give someone as empowerment.It is terrible these men claim to be religious...Let us give a man the mandate to help us with a bloodless revolution.If the military had not been ousted they would have created more states. They enact more decrees than our law makers are able to enact laws.They are there obssessed and absorbed by themselves. They have projects they control and every thing they do is about just them.We like to give them some help to salvage even transform the system.We suggest to the Obi and Datti campaign to think over our proposal. Peter Obi campaign will promise that and guarantee it the nigerian people should vote for him. It will be the revolution that will spill no blood that will make the world respect the african mind.But it will take some more tough work still.But it can be done.It is our wish for the people and our prayer with them. You do not want unity in a country with one missing component? It is a big joke!!!</p> <br> <br> <br><br><br><center>NIGERIANS CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS PRESENT HOUSE AND THE LAST?</center> <p>The Senate and the House was lead each by the best the elected men and women find among them. And that is the way they do it in other places because the process must be thorough.Senator Olubukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara proved nigeria can play politics at its best.They made african and patriots very proud.It is what happens when a man or woman bring soundness to the position.At the end of the term the baggage struck back.We have leaders who call the president their father.You have a father in a political cage? The president is your father in a political arena.Your voters sent you to the house to look for a father? What are you? You do not know your own father? No wonder they have run nigeria into more borrowing and more poverty.The insecurity and suffering it brings has something to do with the quality of their leadership. More nigerians are in poverty today thanks to their evil leadership catering to only themselves!</p> <br><center>THE NOISE OF MASSACRE BY THE FULANI AND THE DANGER IT PORTENDS FOR NIGERIA AND AFRICA</center>!!<p> The fulani are suppose to be the other ethnic group in the north other than the hausa.Among the many other ethnic groups happens to be the one that seeks to control the means to power.The hausa has been pushed to the corner and have reluctantly accepted the place of the fulani as the head. What that had done is embolden the fulani to attempt this gambit with everyone else.It must be made clear that whereas the fulani claims defeat and the conquest of the hausa ethnic group before the arrival of the British, the arrival of the new partners made the "conquest" more real.It must be made clear that without the British the hausa fulani relationship today will be at a different place.The reaction of the different parts of northern nigeria indicates to what the possibilities would have been.The fulani has been eager to further his gain in northern nigeria.It does seem that this goal has collided with the reality of the present. The idea of a militant fulani who is armed to the teeth and comes from anywhere to nigeria to conquer will fall far short.The approach earlier was much more subtle.Where will this fulani find a docile people who want to be overran and lorded over? Mallan Umar Altini was the mayor of Enugu during the defunct regional government. Umar Altini is full blooded fulani. He was a well respected politician in Igboland and a member of the NCNC.It is easy to see why the approach like the present wind of killing and massacre and its noise will not prosper the fulani in nigeria. The nigerian army and police will understand that indegenous and ethnics appreciate defence like any army if not more. If they will not defend the people of estern nigeria the people will defend themselves.Where were they when these armed bandits entered the space? They were on the watch? So why are they blaming those who are out protect their own lives? How can the nigerian army justify the killing of a group of youths whose goal is to pretect a their community? Is it impossible for the nigerian military to assess risks and goals? In what way are these youths danger to nigerian security to warrant this intensity and kinetics? How are they more comfortable with terrorists and bandits who kill, rape tax and levy, kidnap nigerians for ransome? Politics is not always really clean cuts. Why is agitation more a problem to the nigerian armed forces than terror? Agitation is part of politics but terror is not! What are they fighting really? It does seem they have a different goal than the stated ones and the people are not fools! We will find out who the nigerian army really supports: the community or the invaders from without.Nigeria will not work as a two tier state where one is higher than the other.The present controversy will expose everything!</p> <center>THE FALSE PARADIGM MUST GIVE WAY IN NIGERIA</center> </p> We all know what happened in 1966 January the 15 was a revolution which was ill-hatched.The young men in military uniform mostly under forty years of age were fed up with events in the country.They figured they had the means to effect change and they did.Then came the hard part: ordering the change they desired.They were confused and could not chart the way forward.General Aguiyi Ironsi was not a coup maker.He did not have any idea what to do with the enormous burden he inherited.Neither did his co-riders.It just felt good to be coasting in the Lagos breeze.Something they all thoroughly enjoyed.Little did they know it had a stiff cost.Since that day nigeria has listened to one false promise after another.In fact what the regions were doing at the time was prime time management! They had the answers.Only the center was unstable and distabilizing even today.Buhari the candidate promised true federalism,restructuring and a soceity free from terror and insecurity.He promised economic prosperity and jobs.Today at the eve of his administration the country is federal only in name.The country is nose deep in debt and poverty is wrecking havoc. Dealing with insecurity which was the most prominent promise of his campaign is the best managed excuse today.Nigeria will change or die.It is impossible to remain in comma for this long.It is time the people make up their minds to pursue purpose or let go.The regions consist people who have been surviving for milleniums.The Igbo the Yoruba and the Hausa have places in the world for surviving as peoples.They existed in the nigerian space for centuries.Now they must agree to work together and seek a union of common goals or each go their seperate way.Nigeria is presently an example of how a sum can be less than the components.If Yorubas are populating nigeria it will not be in debt.It will not be the poorest country in the world.If hausas populating nigeria it will not be in debt.Nigeria populated by people from the Middle-belt will not be in perenial debt.If the Igbo people populated the entire nigeria it will be a prosperous entity.So why is the nigeria encompassing these people on its knees?It is the big question that the indegenous nigerians must ask themselves. We have people who are not asking what they should do and what they can do to help. They wish to lead even if they are not prepared and ill-equipped! Nigeria has defied the laws of mathematics and Nature.You add three to three and get two as result! We watch how England and Wales and Scotland and Ireland have managed to run the world and their communities for scores of years.We can emulate something.It is that easy! Being different is not a problem. It is managing the difference.It calls for intellect, maturity, experience and determination.I strongly belive the youths will prevail in nigeria. They are determined and they have the time and energy which are the most important resources on earth! In 1966 major Nzeogwu was a wide eyed youth who was tired of the noise and rambuctious politics of the era.He struck and changed the direction.Unfortunately no lessons have been learned.It is still the same food and belly politics.It is time to grow up and seek to make a contribution in the world.It is time to seek to lift the people around us.It is time to seek to make our environment better and pursue purpose and general good.It is time for men and women with hearts and souls to rise up and be counted. When Chief M.K.O Abiola threw his hat in the ring among the alligators and crocodiles like Sanni Abacha he was ready. And he won.Today we must ride that train that took Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe through to independence.The train that took MKO through to a free and fair election that saw him elected by the nigeria people is here again.Now we have a plan and goal and we shall take the train to that place Africa and her children are pointing.If nigeria will not heal the components that have found brotherhood and friendship rather than suspicion will forge along! Come with us! <br> <br><br><center>WHY MUST SOUTHERN NIGERIA EXHAUST HER RESOURCES IN A SCHEME OF CORRUPTION AND WASTE?</center> </p>We have the ports in lagos and the maritime resources in Lagos being virtually controlled by those who have their own resources fully tucked away.You wish to waste the resources belonging to someone else as though there is no tomorrow.Imagine the Universities are on strike.They do not have resources to function minimally to standard.The nigerian government has spent over two billion dollars constructing roads, railway and building infrastructure in Niger Republic.We understand the president says he has relatives in Niger Republic but he will not use Value Added Tax (VAT), Crude oil from Eleme and Ikorodu to pay for the comfort of his relatives in Niger republic.What type of injustice is this? What type of banana or plantain republic is nigeria? And it has too large houses loaded with elected men and women! Loaded you mean with those who call the president "our father". You wonder how they have such intimate relations in the house.They sit there and their voters are striped of resources and they do nothing.Their voters are killed and they offer sham minutes of silence. It were best the people use their resources as they deem suitable.It belongs to them.! We know the entity referred to as nigeria has no goals, but nobody must allow his own resources to be used to fund the madness. The crude oil can remain in the ground like the crude in the fields that have been discovered in northern nigeria.Inspite of the glaring injustice nigerians endure there is a piling on. The nigerian governement borrowed a million dollars to give to the Afghanistan regime.The purchase of luxury vehicles for officials of Niger Republic when our youths are out of school due to lack of funds assures the country no future at all.</p> <br> <br> <br><center>WHERE ARE THE MANIFESTO OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES?</center></p> <p>We are not able to see the magic anyone can do about nigeria before returning it to constitutional framework as a country to begin with.Right now you have entities in which the stakeholders can lay no claim.The state governments are mini oligarchies.If in doubt watch Imo state! But they are not autonomous and they are not atomic or organic.They are therefore not systems and can't self-sustain? What will a politician do? If we give the nigerian politician the benefit of the doubt but let them propose solutions.So far they are just playing the usual game that has resulted in the present catastrophy! The manifesto is a quick knowledge based succint summary outlining solution to the political issue of the moment.Where is any in the ungoing event? <br> <br> </p> <p>We show those who lead the world these images.We show those who lead Africa these images.Africa continues to bleed. They just want to have a space where they can survive.The Ones who fell! African youths and the existential issue, survival!</p> <br><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAAukoYakH4"/>Watch ....Again Africans Brutalized, Murdered as they attempt an exit.</a></p> <br> <br> <br><center>FOR NIGERIA THE END BECKONS. THIS TIME IT MIGHT BE THE REAL ONE!</center> <p>When suddenly twelve states in northern nigeria were declared sharia states a nation was born. Quite clearly that was the statement.The country called nigeria which at this time is only a paper name was further dismembered.Nigeria which is an economic tent made by a colonial interest seem to care very little.They talk about unity. You are not going to have a unit or system of unliked components.The connection has always been an assumption and an imposition.It aims to appease a certain other force. This force had always been there and it tends to diverge and scatter or even explode.It is the force the colonial power panders to.The rest in the arrangement are forced passengers.For some reason they do not wish to be free.Every alert and alarm that would prompt a reaction will lull them to an even deeper slumber!</p> <p>It appears and it seem the final knell is here! The people of Eastern Region whose resources is the reason for all the pranks and brinkmanship must respond. If the resources were theirs what kind of unity would have existed in so called nigeria today? How much of the resources from this massive expanse is in play in the development of the country? Quite clearly the people from Southern Nigeria have been the fools in this arrangement. We have a country where you become the enemy of the state if you criticize impunity.We are witnesses how the government tried to criminalize the peaceful agitation by citizens who have a right to freedom of association.And they are using the army to subvert the very constitution it swears to defend.And we have been in this mess since 1966. And the longer it stays as it it the deadlier it will become.They will finally hear the clear ring and make it a clarion call or their future is worse than the past.</p> <p>You were all witnesses when we begged the governors in the South East to start vigilante group. We urged them to be a little bold and courageous and reach out to the brothers and people of the so called South-south and Middle-belt .Why do we not have North-north? People must protect their own interests regardless! Two governors only understood what we were saying and they is not from the South East.They are the governors of Rivers state and Benue.We wish them well.They are unlike the ones who want now to impress us by killing our youths! Giving them uniforms and guns to become objects of target practice.It is inhuman and evil.These governors will not act with just a little courage.You watched their feckless news conferences! Now they are lunching security groups everyday endangering the lives of our young whom they care nothing whatsoever about! All they think about is themselves and their careers. They finish two terms governors and enter eternity terms in the Senate where they do ahem nothing! The idea of trying so hard to become action governor in the last couple of months is pure mischief making.If you arm people in order to feel safe you just look at Northern nigeria from where you wish to borrow a leaf.ESN is a result of well thought out Igbo way of life.It will outlive the greedy self centered men that have taken advantage of the trust we reposed on them.But whatever betide the Igbo race will survive and prosper inspite of their low esteem and self hate!</p> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><center>NIGERIA AND THE FOREIGN HANDS THAT AIDED HER INGRATITUDE TO ATTACK THE EASTERN REGION AND JUSTIFY THE IGBO MASSACRE CALLED CIVIL WAR!</center> <p> <p>If there are africans who truely understand the economy of scale it is the IGBO people.You can't preach that to them! If they are not interested in the present nigeria there is a good reason why! If the hate visited on the then Eastern Nigeria was meant for only the IGBO why were the first people who were massacred non-igbos? The first casuality in Lagos was on Carter Bridge. The victim was from the Effik tribe. But you only have excuses being adduced to justify the violence that had been predetermined.The haters had no intent to discriminate in in their hate.They had excuses taught them by the colonizers.Now as the new masters they had to learn the lie.Crude oil was discovered in Eastern nigeria. Eastern Region the fastest growing region. You had no constitutional way to stop the breakout. Already there was violence against the people of the region for their prosperityNow you add new wealth....Now that is trouble. .So you use violence! In a million years this truth will stare the people who pretend in the eye!!! They are wondering why the eastern Security Network is non-negotiable? They are asking why IPOB is strong like dye.The anger is legitimnate.You will not find a village in Igboland that does not have a de facto government.The one foisted on them is very often the source of retrogression.Be it a local or foreign colonialism the Igbo is opposed to working without result. The IGBO knows the meaning of profit and is therefore averse to exploitation.The government constituted by culture is godly and egalitarian.Nigeria fought a war against the Eastern Nigeria and tried very much to divide a portion of Africa that knew what it was doing! Eastern Nigeria was hot and making real progress! The people are the same and the culture clearly says that! The economic indicies were comparable with those in the western world at the time.The agents of this harm knew little or nothing about what was at stake.They were jealous of the progress the people were making.On top of that Crude Oil was discovered in Eastern Nigeria.But for God's sake what was that? Did the IGBO need crude oil? Answer is not really. But they were blessed by God with it! Sir Louis Ojukwu was the founding president of Nigerian Stock Exchange.A former tyre salesman for John Holt he was the founding chairman of Nigerian Shipping line.Ojukwu Stores competed with foreign stores when nigerians were still in deep slumber. So did his Ojukwu Textiles.So did his Ojukwu Transport Ltd! You know where he went to school? For his elementary school in Asaba.For his high school in Calabar in Hope Waddel Institute.Eastern Region was a real home for our people.Nature tried to orchestrate what was already working.Sir Louis, nigeria owes you a deep heartfelt appology. As for your son who was tagged a "rebel"? For a son of such priviledge to choose to serve his motherland. Willing to pay the supreme price was overlooked! The youths have that one well covered! They oppose a country with no basis and no constitution. And they are right...Here comes the present madness that will not end.Until those who are clamouring understand that the idea of a country is not having resources to embezzle, the problem remains. Until they understand the idea of service, work and good fate there will be no basis for any unity.Some people have learnt the hard way after loosing four million of their own.Lip service is just not enough! Making noise about unity while contributing ahem "zero" input is not enough.What if they make noise about unity and sponsor terrorists and bandits to intimidate others? How can have unity without a common goal? What does a typical yoruba want from the Sharia system emplace in a total of twelve states in northern nigerai? What does any Igbo want with such a reality? What kind of unity do the people who emplace such reality want? Are they looking to force unity on the others? It is how you end up with wars and disintegration.</p><br><center>INDEGENOUS GROUPS IN NIGERIA MUST RECLAIM THEIR RIGHTS TO SELF-DETERMINATION.</center><p>Nigeria will not be healed until the nation states reconsitute themselves as before. There were viable communities and common-wealth based on filial unions which were viciously destroyed to have access to oil in Ogoniland. The Igbo had to be the monster and the problem. We know how those who ruined nigeria got their idea and the motive. It was the interest of a select few who placed their greed above the lives of millions.It cost millions of lives and still doing at the present time.We wish to warn the so-called nigerian politician that there is a difference between one man and another.We are not all the same and as a group our choices differ.Nature approves that by having ethnicities.It is not a bad thing. Some people accept themselves and approve it but will never attempt to understand others.In nigeria there is a reason why some places are economically lagging the others.If you are successful and everyone around you is a beggar you create a poor environment.Feudalism approves the later. It helps control.The poverty is used as a weapon of control.It is the problem in nigeria.Many people who find themselves around power in nigeria were planted by feudalistic hands and cant't stand the egalitarian approach that sustains democracy. On the other hand the IGBO people live and propagate egalitarianism and true democracy.It is the actual reason for the hatred against the IGBO people. The people will make whereever they are light up and shine. They do it holding each others hand.We want to say that the nigeria that had the hausa in control of his space and the yoruba and igbo in control of theirs is the configuaration of the soceity that can be together since we want one africa.This present configuaration of the fulani taking all the oil in ogoniland and enriching himself alone will cause more trouble than the one by MR. Nnamdi Kanu. Those who accept and approve of self-determination understand Mr Nnamdi Kanu.The feudal overlord and prospect can't..Feudalism will never approve self-determination anymore than a slave master will approve emancipation declaration.Mr Nnamdi Kanu is hated by the northerners because of their way of life.Poverty angers them and they are armed to the teeth and they approve of the very basis of the life. They hate being made poor by the system but they love the system.Kidnapping and banditory are elements of feudal control.It is the way for the upward mobile proapect.No other way! Since unfortunately nigeria now has twelve states that are controlled by sharia law it is a new reality. The sharia law is said to be feudal in that it accepts class of people in a setting. The equality egalitarianism demands is not acceptable and is ridiculed as a waste of time and unattainable.It is the reason democratic governments are not a fit in these places where the law is in place.It can become clear why Gen Sani Abacha killed Ken Saro Wiwa and if you let this government have its way Mr. Nnamdi Kanu will loose his life.It must be opposed to the hilt.Nobody has such power in a democracy.It is the reality the people claiming to be enforcing the law must understand.But the nigeria people must recognize the difficult position the muslims in nigeria are having in the practice of democracy. It is not their natural fit.It is the reason we are saying that the present arrangement will remain a nightmare for nigerians.Why would a government put so much into poverty? Oil prices are on top of the roof but nigeria an oil producing country is making no money. The individual powerful oligarchs are making the money.The indegenous people must reclaim their liberty to the extent they control their own resources. The drums were rolled out recently about oil being found in the northern nigeria.The fact is when will it be part of the income poutline in the economy? Such a reality will never come.Such realty will never materialize. The oil wells will be allocated to powerful individuals and nothing will be left for the petty-cash book.But actually the present news of oil in the north is to make the present administration look good. We know the president is also the oil minister and all the hanky panky is going on.So do not wait for the oil revenue from northerern oil wells.Nigerians should and must ask for those fighting for self determination to be released by the government.Tell the governmenition agitation is political not criminal.It is a difference in thinking and is not purnishable by use of the legal system.What the people must try to do is balance the feudalistic worldview of their culture and religion with the world view of the others who practice egalitarinism and democracy. It is the source of the present conflict.</p><br> <Center>NIGERIANS HAVE A LAST CHANCE TO VOTE TO REMAIN ONE</center><p>Where will the nigerian people find the time to seek to correct the mistake of the last four years? In these four years nigeria has been emersed in debt for more than one It is strange that some people seek office with no goals in mind.We are witnesses to how our people respond to such a reality? It is the reason for all the demand for self government.Something that should be very clear and obvious is why some people are being killed.need no soothsayer to proclaim that nigeria will never function as it is presently structured. Nigeria presently has a center steeped in corruption. It is very clear and without any doubt.And the country will not heal with this corupt structure in place. In the end we will anticipate a magic wand and be disappointed. The regional governments is the antidote.And the dismantling of the overly powerful and corrupt center must be part of the goal as the struggle to rebuild nigeria gains steam. A very good government at the center will help but the corrupt nature will weaken its efforts.Nigerians must be thinking of their future.Self determination is not a bad word.It is the future of nigeria.Without it nigeria will still be a colony today. As long as the shadow of bondage and oppression hangs over the people self determination must be and remain in focus.It is how the people determine their own future!</p> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><center>WHERE IS THE SENSE OF PRIORITY HERE?</center> <P>Recently a prominent northern nigeria elite of Fulani extraction said he was speaking for the people of northern nigeria.He said there was a time when northern nigeria would do anything to keep the unity of nigeria.He said that time is in the past.I hope others are listening.So who is hell bent on on forcing nigeria eastern region of mainly christains and others to be part of a muslim country now called nigeria? Nigeria belongs to the organization of Islamic countries.In a place when the sensitivities of others is a consideration no one will bring such an issue up.You will not make the country islamic when there are those who will never accept such a situation.Today the people who are keeping the entity to feed them fat will not allow a referendum to determine who wants to be in nigeria.They do not want the people to determine how they wish to relate.Instead they are foisting unity of blood and bloodshed on everybody.We shall see how far they can get with it!</p> <br> <br> <br> <br><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNDHmuokHU"/>Unbelievable! Youths in their prime from Africa Wasted! Why?</a></p> <p> <p>We find the use of religious platitudes to try to becloud the injustice and immorality rather curious.Why would their religion not lead to a better soceity? Why must it lead to death and strife and bloodshed? What is the goal here? Every of the various faith have those who just use them for a facade.Quite clearly these people are not godly people from their actions.They are not even religious.Religious people worry about their reputation.These ones are ready to kill their way out of every situation.It is opportunism at play.While the conserveative religious enclaves are trying very hard to modernize and expand opportunities we see a different move.The men who are just in it for themselves are going for the old ways and rule where might is right.for the sake of equity these people continue to lead. </p> <p>How can the nigerian economy grow jobs for the people when the vision of the nigerian space is grabbing, sharing limited resources? Who is going to create new opportunities and nurse ideas and vision? Who will incubate modernity and prosperity? How can such a space have a future? The strife will only get worse.We predicted that if the regional arrangements are not restored nigeria will go straight back into debt.It is no rocket science.At a time there was a clean slate we advocated moving quickly to emplace a self sustaining mechanism.We see other people solve problems in such ways.But not nigeria.It is now clear to those who do not anticipate matters.The country is back neck deep in debt and it can only get worse.The population keeps rise with youth restiveness turning morbid.Still the ruling class hold courts in splendour. </p> <p> The few who have no idea how to help anyone but themselves hold courts in perpetual splendour.They lack understanding of the potentials of the power of the human mind. Our youths are dying in the oceans trying to escape their leadership.Those who survive enter foreign lands to peer into a very empty even bad future.In nigeria the focus on an election they claim will be held in 2023 is the most heart wrenching of these things.The country is bleeding to the death and we have such priority.We have our fellow citizens living as refugees in their own country which claims to be at peace.All they do is find a name for their plight (internally displaced persons). They are "persons" not citizens.The issues that precipitate these conflicts are ignored totally. </p> <p>Everyday that passes several hunreds are killed in avoidable conflicts. Already nigeria has sacrificed more then three million lives of people of eastern nigerian descent in this experiment. Yet more lives are being wasted daily. How necessary is this reality? Are we to accept this as a new normal? Between 1954 to 1960 when self government was established in the nigerian polity the affected areas witnessed real growth.It is very easy to prove this fact.We have begged and appealed to the powerful to return the country to where our people are able to prosper again. It ought to be the priority.Nigeria's burden of inequity will cause even more problems if not consciously redressed.The slogan for the political parties of northern and western nigeria before and after independence called for indegenous governments which owned all resources in the regions.It is how nigeria was negotiated. But only until oil was found in eastern nigeria.It led to genocide and war.And the problem and lingering injustice is now angering a new generation.If in addition to the rebellion of the youths in northern nigeria by the way of Boko Haram nigeria allows inequity to cause this threatening fissure in the south, God help us all.Our people are crying, many are dying but who is listening? The game is to keep the wheel spinning for those who reap. </p> <br><center><BR><br><br><cite><font color="blue">CRY CHANGE AND CAUSE IT</cite></font></center><br> <p>Where are all the men?</p> <p>Who stood against the red line</p> <p>Marked by flowing blood</p> <p>Leaning and pushing against it to their hurt</p> <p>Where are the ones with gut and heart?</p> <p>Where have they all gone?</p> <p>Those with courage who opposed </p> <p>Who were maligned bullied incacerated</p> <p>In many instances we recall murdered</p> <p>Men who resisted evil standing <p> <p>Against turbulent winds </P> <p>Who fell in honor fighting</P> <p>Prying open doors shut by hands </p> <p>Bearing weapons and heart without pity</P> <p>Have order to shoot and kill</p> <p> Any that dare to stand sill</p> <p>To question the insanity</p> <p>And depravity that had overtaken a people</p> <p>Destroying millions and millions of souls</p> <p>By minds contaminated and foul</p> <p>Spirits poluted and depraved </P <p>That reek wrath of innocent blood</p> <p>Confounded by the uncertainty</p> <p>Their very actions have crafted</p> <p>Now they grope and stumble</p> <p>In the least of challenges</p> <p>Anarchy confussion their fable</p> <p>Steeped in corruption and graft</p> <p>They stumble on, with neither empathy</P> <p>Nor compassion just corrupt</p> <p>Who by same minds drafted</p> <p>To perpetuate a regime of torment</p> <p>Upon the ones they claim to love<p> <p>Such love! Indeed such love</p> <p>We ask the wounded youth to shove</p> <p>Out of the way and out</p> <p>Of the space for time has come</p> <p>Finally when for the ransome</p> <p>Shall no longer be the innocent</p> <P>But the strong and righteous put to rout</p> <p> A class full of grime greese and rut</p> <p>For the change destined by fate</p> Signed June 12 2022 <br> <br> <br><BR><br><br><cite><font color="blue">LEADING IN THE DEARTH OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE</cite></font><br> <p>Nigeria was cobbled together by a series of intrigues not unlike what is the story of human existence.The one who cobbles something must have an idea and motive.We know the story well.Soceities are dynamic and various actors attempt to impact events according to their own needs and perception.We are aware of the usual turbulence when it is done wrong.In the case of nigeria the error will not yield to correction and the manipulators have no instinct for observation.Just action! Watch what those who use some observation do! The British Empire conducted an election in 1922 in the so called southern protectorate where it loaded a legislative house with colonial representatives and only gave three seats to the elected, in a forty six member house.It was just an attempt to gauge the heart beat of the people.</p> <p>Lagos with projected population of about hundred thousand had four thousand only registered to vote in this election.Lagos was becoming a very prosperous commercial entity.You want to put your arm around the whole event so it does not veer off in the wrong direction.Our friends who have destroyed Northern nigeria with relentless actions are not paying attention here! They are imbibing ideas and tastes but are doing little of anything else! The Empire also took aim at Calabar, another sea port! Calabar was the next center.It had a little above four hundred voters.It sound odd. But we see how God begins very difficult tasks! I wish to make the point that Eastern Nigeria is not going to be divided by people without understanding.The Colonial leaders tried their best! We have the same people who have shared in every area of life.In the history are enduring common values.They could not deny this truth.To their credit they solved it as their problem.</p> <p>They tell you the people have nothing in common.So why do they invest so much creating division? How do you fight something that does not exist? Why has it been so difficult? You see Calabar was given a single seat.You imagine the reaction of the rest of Eastern Nigeria? Silence and stoic resistance was their reaction.The people are aware the new order will be fought and resisted or endured and accepted.It was not a position to be negotiated.And they never forgot this fact. It was their position up until independence. We see the people now cavoting as nigerians and causing only trouble adding absolutely no value. How in the world is such a relationship sustainable? If they do not climb down their high horses the ruins of the stable is what they will have in their hands very soon! As usual they have no sense of the decay they are standing upon! Every clash the colonialist had in Eastern nigeria or the Southern eastern protectorate was organized resistance. And their response was reasoned.Today we have people with no other idea but violence.If you make anyone aware and convinced you bring nothing but death to them why would they endure you? Why would they not confront you with same vehemence? </p> <P> Up until the Aba women riot none of the local agents had a clue of the undercurrent they were up against.They were always as shocked as their masters.It explains the reality the colonialist chose other confidants. It has been the history.If we need a better soceity we will create it ourselves.And the people of eastern nigeria are well in a position to create a modern soceity. They had all but succeeded. It was the actual reason for the nigerian massacre and so called civil war. The people who were used had no clue what was at stake.The colonialist will not give you your dream nation.The colonialist was not here to do such a job.He had his own mandate.We remember the Ekumeku movement and the Royal Niger Company...harbinger to the nigerian state. We recall the Zikist Movement.Our people are not foolish.Eastern nigeria has a people united by their common origin and history.You look at the culture, the food, dressing and assembly and you can't dispute this fact. The colonialist are not ignorant of this fact. It is their challenge.Even if they pretended not to see it they found ways around these challenges.</p> <p>We have a patch of a continent that is the most peaceful. All you want to do is distabilize and unravel it. All for the sake of having control over their resources.It is not how a country ought to operate.You negotiate.These so called leaders have shredded northern nigeria. Now they want to do the same thing in the south.Eastern nigeria had attained almost the same social and economic indicies as most places in the Europe in 1967.It was alarming to those who would not accept the african deserved a voice.How much of these facts did the "nigerian leaders" at the time know? In fact they are very happy to be taken or accepted as lackeys.Some of the people who wanted to lead will do anything they are told to do without question! It is why they will divide the regions into tiny states ignoring the natural alignments.They partition an entity no reasonable person will interfer with unless they are looking for anarchy.You can see their many efforts to destroy the people.You can see their effort to show us good neighborliness.They loot and burn and kill their neighbours. We are now suppose to immitate this retrogressive tendencies.One person wants to own the entire soceity.We have a cofiguration of very rich people and then very poor subjects.And they clain it is the will of God! It is not the idea. Kings are not absolutes.God ordains order.They are custodians of traditions and culture of a people. They know they rule by their goodwill.These people are absolutes and obey no rules and they respect neither the courts nor the laws.They just use them.</P> <p>We have no shortage of those who set their sight on the ports and the custom charges and duties, on oil and gas on every resource the land boasts of. It is the stuff people fight for. Hello? The last thing on their minds are the people.The people of eastern nigeria knew that and had an answer. They resisted.Eastern nigeria has always had a resistance movement.Eastern Security Network is not an IPOB creation.The IPOB leader was used of nature as a facilitator. It is the revival and resuscitation of the resistance of the people of Eastern nigeria to impunity and foreign dominion.On their best day they always will win! Nigerian independence is testament to this truth.</p> <br> <br><p>We must react when things like this happen.After all we are all involved in the same "human family?" <br><br><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUAVlDkhULY"/>Watch ....Again Africans Brutalized, Murdered as they attempt an exit.</a></p> <br> <br><center><BR><br><br><cite><font color="blue"> THE COURT IS UNABLE TO UPHOLD ITS OWN JUDGEMENT</cite></font></center><br> <p>Some of us who have tried without success to remind the politicians that a structure is important for politics have accepted they own the stage! It is not our "turn" yet.Nothing more to say to that.When the nigeria people are ready again they will summon the same courage that saw the military rethink their musical chair game with the nigerian people.If any one remembers one of the many coup makers. This one was a young officer by the name of "Gideon". Let us cast our minds back to April 22 1990 Nigeria:Let us pay some attention to this argument.Gideon Orkah, "We wish to emphasize that this is not just another coup but a well-conceived,­­ planned and executed revolution for the marginalized, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of this country.Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south". I say ha! ha! We hear the same argument.</p> <p>This is not Nnamdi Kanu the IPOB leader.It is not Yoruba nation agitators ranting.Here was a senior officer of the armed forces of nigeria. It was a prophecy of the present explosion in the soceity.You tell me it is in the past and it was a failed coup.Problems are what leadership is suppose to resolve. If you eleiminate the people what about the facts? The issues raised by this coup and those who plotted it have not been addressed. Today we have unfettered insecurity and kidnapping, massacres and the politician tuck in their heads like their compatriots before them and keep the game going.We are not able to talk about corruption. Accoriding to the lawyers the 1999 constitution offers the politician blancket immunity. Nnamdi Kanu became enemy of nigeria for stating the obvious. He opined that country operating on the indicies in the nigerian soceity has lost its standing as a country.He merely expressed a political position in a supposed democracy.If it is untrue you challenge the position with facts.In fact they are talking about self-determination a position that is universally sound. If not for the position why is nigeria not still a colony? But instead the people who understand only violence pounced on him and the youths who support him.</p> <p>The blood of these youths have not ceased to flow since the last five years! They have been killed for any flimsy reason adduced by those who are busy stealing everything in sight. And we have some leaders in the space who would not think as they ought to. The Igbo has invested in the nigerian project more then all the others put together. If they take your crude oil and make Ijaw( Izon) a different race from the Igbo? How about make Opobo and Okirika are different from the Igbo just for the sake of crude oil. Their homesteads are still visible in the main land.The story of their migration is ever present with us.Yes the Igbo and Eastern nigeria has been milked and ravaged to build nigeria! And it is not an exergeration. What else are you going to sacrifice? Your very life? They are leaders in a democracy that would not entertain the idea of self-determination.</p> <p>Such is the grave contradiction trapping nearly two hundred million people.There will be an answer.There must be an answer!If a yoruba man will beg for self determination in nigeria. He can revert to being Yoruba. He will beg no one for that. If an Igbo will beg for self determination in nigeria he can revert to being Igbo.As Igbo or Yoruba binding agreements for frienship and good neighborliness can then be reached with laughter and handshake. The idea of a relationship of death and bloodshed is neausating and very foreign in this part of the world! Very soon it will be resisted very seriously.It is easy to say that those who are fighting ESN or Amotekun will confront the resistance of the people of these areas and it can be very difficult.Do not talk about so called civil war.The igbo and eastern nigeria was ensnared by those desperate for crude oil.The lesson has been learned.</p> <p>The people of eastern nigeria who are still in doubt of what will befall nigeria must look to northern nigeria.If they think the the slaughter going on will end by some magic wand thy ought to think again.What we have is that some politicians swallowed the bait of the religious plutocrats.having ensnared themselves they are looking to enlarge the sphere to mitigate the severeness of the heat they have created.In our part of the world we wish them luck.Igboland indeed Eastern Nigeria has always had a wall of defence.The colonial government can attest to that.The igbo and eastern nigeria do not have a king.God is the King.The people have leaders and paramount leaders.The people assess them and hold them accountable and will remove them when they fail too badly.It is what makes the part of nigeria very different.We have a nation of people who are able to hold their own.In the course of on-going events the people are proving themselves.</p> <p> The government of nigeria has accused the IPOB leader of jumping bell. How do you take a man to court and then invade his home with armoured tanks? The world knows the truth. Thanks to young gallant men who were armed with cell phones against armoured tanks.You ask: why are they so afraid of someone who is just stating facts that all can see? He is not alone.Recently they said they arrested him "where" and brought him to court. After he appeard in this court with the same clothing many times the judge ruled he must be allowed to change his clothing.The world watches as the nigerian system makes its case!</p> <p> The same people who would not approach his apprehension using legal methods will not abide by the ruling of the court.He continues to be brought to the same court before the same judge who ruled in the same clothing! The judge was quoted as saying he must not appear in the court again with the clothing! Over and over this tavesty has been repeated and demonstrated.The lawyers go off after each session in their legal jingoism.The press conference never address this matter. But they explain everything that has not yet happened but this insult stares them in their faces.It diminishes the system and all within it.It is nigeria and we know that!</p> <p> You can see the parade or charade to have elections? Lekki toll gates and the massacre there was a statement of total control. In this scheme some are taken captive due to their own ambition.The communual goal of survival and general good takes the back seat. Once the person who wishes to exploit those you represent have you compromised and in this desperation they have their man or woman. The apple will not fall far from the tree.The game plan of those who will fake election to maintain their dominance is always going to be to use their old trick. They will chose the person they know they can use.If they use the idea of Northern nigeria the answer can't be Southwest, South-south and South-East.</p> <p>If you want to counter North it has to be South.It is where you wait for them and dislodge them and end the cycle. If that will not happen it means each group must go their seperate way.You will not allow someone with the intention to hurt you create shadows and darkness around you. You will be destroyed and that "without remedy". You want to claim someone is subjugating you. And you disapprove. If that is the case then you must fight every manifestation of the evil you are against.If a court is unable to enforce at least its own orders where is the sense of what it is about? I just wanted to leave it there!</p> <br> <br> ..<br><p><center>...WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN HOW KASHIM SHETIMA ENTERED THE POLITICAL ARENA......</center><p> I was listening to a political broacast from nigeria when they showed the vice presidential candidate of the APC and Tinubus right hand man talking down on Peter Obi and calling his performance as governor mediocre.The problem is that this man has nothing to show for the same term but a destroyed Northern nigeria. He is responsible for weaponizing the agitation of the youths in the area to be part of the political conversation. He is the one that made the conversation go violent. With targeted mindless and brutal assassinations to pure terror on hire he is linked to all.This man rise to power and his stay points and fingers many powerful people in nigeria as sympathisers if not abaters of terror.They have been protecting their man! But we the people and victims have not forgotten that. We know people like him thrive on the forgetfulness of the african people. He is out of luck! Many of young patriotic nigerians will never forgive him for giving guns to youths when all they wanted was to be part of a dialogue for leadership. He wanted to have a decisive outcome.He had no patience to work for it. He had no idea how to achieve the outcome.He chose the easy route. VIOLENCE! But he destroyed Northern nigeria and the entire space with the cankerworm he created. Now he wants to be a patriot and nationalist? What is he thinking? Peter Obi left landmarks of leadership and roadmaps that have led to prosperity and progress. Shettima left a roadmap for disruption and death, and bloodspilling! We like to say the foundations of the Boko Haram movement was crystalized under his watch! He has done that much harm to a soceity anow wishes to rule over the same?.Without the IGBO people in nigeria he might have. But they are the african elite watchmen. He is out of luck!! He can hold sway in AREWA where they have institutionalized mahem. They see the YORUBALAND AS A HARVEST LAND. The Middlebelt has fought them to a standstill even without arms! He can seat like a pot and rubbish great efforts! We know he is incapable of any.Only in nigeria can he engage an audience and talk about Peter Obi the way he did. He wants to claim religion.But nothing shows he is religious.Even religion demands some positive and tangible result. He has none to show. Talk is cheap and it is easy to spread confussion and and lack of knowledge. We want him to know we are not complacent.He is under the watch of the African patriots.We are mourning the harm they have done to us.Least we can now do is defend ourselves!! </p><br><center>....WEST AFRICA IS NOW TRAILING.EAST AFRICA.THANKS TO MILITARY COUPS AND RELIGIOUS RASCALS AND SOCIAL VANDALS</center><p> Loook back to the Mau-Mau struggle when Zik and his brothers sents lawyers to East Africa to defend the freedeom fighters.They had established a political and idealogical bridge-head.Dr Azikiwe had influenced Nkrumah counselling him to prepare himself for a a knowledge based struggle.Few coups and governments of personalities and look where nigeria is! Men with shadowy past and no proven leadership skills and transparacy.Opaque characters with raw ambition. Imagine a man like Gen.Sani Abacha after looting billions of dollars had the nerve to kill a human right activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. He made a show of hanging the man.Still nigerians endured him.All the man did was protest the glaring injustice wasting his own homeland in a so called republic.Today monumental corruption including spending billions without budget appropriation is the practice and nigerians are never provoked! When Jomo Kenyatta and his partners were busy with constitutional governmennt nigeria was busy with coups.Julius Nyerere was not a comet.He was an abiding african star with a draw and followership.His work must endure and outlive upstarts! The foundation laid by Dr Azikiwe as leader for ideology and reason was toppled by force of arms and guns.Nigeria is still sick with armed groups with very little knowledge and education and a lot of guns and bullets and confussion.And they are such a nuissance in the space.And you are not able to build a civilization with such a nuissance.If the deliberate choice is not made to stop this group they will destroy the entire africa.They have a large and strategic starting location in nigeria.Nigeria has the population of two hundred million plus and a lot of natural resources!You must allow reason to prevail here or the entire africa is toast.Right now as we speak Boko Haram and bandits have nigerians under tariff and heavy taxation. Areas in Bornu and Adamawa are under the colonization of the bandits and terrorrists. It is no secret. In Zamfara a well known bandit was turbaned by the emir. How does the military navigate such local matters if not left for locals to deal with when they can.In some places normal rules do not apply.All we see is brute force when it is hardly needed. When the nigerian army fights local vigilante and seurity networks like ESN is it just to protect a political stooge? What is their plan for those massacred by bandits? What can they do? Does it wish them the fate of these nigerians who are now left at the mercy of terrorists? Where is the guarantee that they are able to defend nigerians under these circumstances?. Yet some misinformeded and misguided politicians especially one that has no shame invite soldiers to kill the youngmen who are defending their communities.It is a clear sign they are hired stooges of other interests especially this one and the people must keep that in mind. In case they get fade up they must take such matters into their own hands to be free.True liberty comes from God. It has never been given to anyone. It is taken and assumed. Moreover it is not a coincidence that the nigerian government does not obey the rulings of the courts.Injustice is at the base of all they do.And we must remember what is said about when injustice is the law."When injustice is the law resistance is a duty".Yes they will put up a fight to defend their source of sustenance but nigerian and indegenous people must organize themselves and plan to defend themselves.The men in authority in nigeria opened the border and invited the fulani in from everywhere in the world. They forget the yoruba can do the same and the Igbo can also do the same. When that happens you will have no citizenship and no country.It is the nature of all their actions.It defeats purpose. They imposed sharia law in a large chunk of the country and they want a nation out of the rest? The other chunk are non-muslims.Is that how you create unity? What kind of calculation is that? It reeks of corruption and deceiit.We must first defend ourselves and our resources. And we warn our people especially those residing outside nigeria to make sure to keep these entities properly maintained or they are slaves within nigeria.Amotekun and ESN and the likes are very necessary.Any interest group can do whatever it likes.You can't have a country built from the top. The people build their own nations.The people who are fighting for self-determination are the reasonable ones.You can't build peace upon violence and blood.You must have a space dependent upon order and fair-play.Nigerians must return to where the reality of equity and justice and is the rule.Some want power.But they know nothing about service.They want to sit on two hundred vehicle convoy.They want a batallion of security. But they do not serve the people in any way.They want the people to look up to them.We must understand this was the structure the freedom fighters fought to gain independence.If we have a new type it must also be fought.No matter how difficult it seems. Every idea to colonize the space must be disrupted and defeated.It is the real ultimate goal! .</p><br>...<center>NIGERIA THE FEDERATION WITH NO FEDERATING UNIITS: WHO ARE THE STAKEHOLDERS OF THE PRESENT ENTITY KNOWN AS NIGERIA? ..</center> <br><p> Nigeria was negotiated between the stakeholders and the colonialists in Lancaster House.The nigeria was an entity that belonged to three regional blocks as stakeholders.The ethnicities are Igbo, Yoruba and hausa.We have a minority group that always like to piggyback the hausa tribe. They are called the fulani.Today they have taken over the place of the hausa as the majority tribe and runs the lives of the hausa in northern nigeria. Using that as a springboard they are attempting the rout of the entire country of over two hundred million people.We know the hausa was used by the colonialist in conquering the so called protectorates.Unfortunately the hausa is a victim as a tribe of people.And the fulanis is used to make their large population docile and silent. The fulani has ridden this colonial sponsorship to a point it has become an african problem. Today they would sabotage the continental dream of liberty and prosperity for tokens from the colonialists. We know why the military has been ceased by the fulani. We all understand they cant control the igbo or yoruba or hausa without the military.It is the same reason why they mass up ethnic militia in the cloak of religion.This game was played in other african countries but backfired to great detriment to the actors.In nigeria for nearly sixty years they have pulled this stunt while the other people are snoozing.Suddenly they wake up to demand Yoruba nation and Arewa and Biafra. The igbo people had seen this problem and been the victim. It cost them four million lives.In other to control the oil dicovered in eastern nigeria war was declared upon them when they were defenceless.Today in nigeria blood is flowing non-stop. The colonialist is now very ashamed to be linked with the evil.If religion was the issue why is the hausa in trouble in northern nigeria? Why are they being slaughtered? They are muslims too.But fulanis are imported to surplant then here in nigeria.The nigerian federation was based on the igbo, the yoruba and the hausa.The three ethnicities have all other groups forming unions around these based on filial bond. The fulani poisons this bond.They picket the bond in eastern nigeria. We have the APC and its magic governor Imo state. The fulani will never respect the right of the other citizens to organise in their own right. They chose Akintola to spite chief Awolowo the leader chosen by the yoruba tribe.They picket the bond in western nigeria.They are mouthing unity but we can see the level of instability they are creating in the polity. This was what killed the nigeria negotiated in Lancaster House.The picketing of yorubaland by the prime minister was stoutly resisted.The hubris is nigeria cankerworm.Those who want a country must fight for it and free it first.Rebuilding nigeria will begin from rebuilding the units and respecting the entities.Every tribe will not be a country but each stands for something and must be respected as such.Nigeria is dead. There is a carcass that is still feeding the vultures.Some people are just feeding off the carceass and the are satisfied to continue as long as they can get away with the mischief. </p> <br> ...<CENTER>... NIGERIA HAS BEEN MADE A LAUGHING STOCK BY THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT</p></center>The nigerian government was wrong criminalizing the agitation for self determination.But they would never do a soul searching. It is not the type of thing people like them do. They went with armoured tanks and guns and bullets to the home of a man with a case in court.They killed nearly one hundred people there. All that with a case pending in court! We recall that was an action by this government that claim to be operating a democracy. Now they would like the world to watch their revolt against the judgement of the courts.And they are in a season of electioneering!! We watch as the arm of government is making a mess of the whole soceity once again.Why is it hard for these people to accept they do not have the right to run the lives of two hundredd million people.Nobody gave them such a right! We urge them to respect themselves before it is too late.We hope they are watching Tehran and the Iranians. Nigeria will explode in the hands of these people if they are not very careful.They have built railways in Niger Republic,they have built and constructed roads, bought fancy vehicles and built refineries.Just look at poor Nigeria the colony of NIger!! Those traped in the soceity have endured every provocation. They have watched their resources wasted and stolen.Now they are loosing it. If the courts are not obeyed we have no soceity.If the court are not obeyed we have a bedlan and a madhouse. The courts have asked you to release Mr. Nnamdi Kanu immediately.If you pretend to be government and not a terror entity, then release him now!</p></center><br><center>...THE DEHUMANIZATION OF CITIZENS WHO ARE NOT SO CALLED INDEGENES OR NON APC SUPPORTERS IN LAGOS MUST END IMMEDIATELY.</center><br><p> It has been reported that some people are being dehumanized and their businesses destroyed because they dare to support a party other than APC. Of course that will be the non yoruba speaking citizens and non muslims.We like to warn those who use terror that they are playing with fire this time.If that is why they chose their candidates as they did others are not napping. Violence they must recognize is not their birthright. Just like they would think of it the other would think to retaliate. We know it is how they have destroyed northern nigeria. Now it is the turn of YORUBALAND.They planted a governor in Imo state and have been attempting to use him to opend the space.But they chose a very servile candidate as governor who is not necessarily smart. He is spending the whole time as governor in Aso Rock Abuja.Now the IGBO will respond to anyone in nigeria in kind. We all know government has gone to the tail wagging ones.If they think they will play the game and have other people suffer it like before they are mistaken. The people of Eastern Nigeria have been directed to report every issue of abuse and dehumanization to designated places. The response will be chosen in line with the action and its goal.Before APC turns Lagos into South-West front of Boko Haram those in authority must be reasonable and think in like and line with reality.If it is time to kill the moribund entity the Boko Haram controllers might get some help from fade up liberators and real africans and nationalists.!</p><br> <center> SELF-DETERMINATION IS POLITICS:OBEY THE COURT ORDER AND RELEASE MR. NNAMDI KANU</center><p>The agitation for self-determination is a lot of noise to the people in power.The political elite is the new colonialist.When the coloniaalist came here and foisted dominion over the people, their desire for their liberty and freedom became a sin.No ordinary yoruba man will misunderstand the agitation for a yoruba nation.The reality that the nation truely already exists.A nation of Igbo people exists and so does the nation of the hausa people.The colonialist understood these facts.As one in need of authority the colonialist treated these facts as normal everyday reality.Why does the nigerian elite lack the same understanding? Why does the demand for the sovereignty of the people whose authority is subsumed a suprise to the nigeria political elite and their enforcers? Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is a vilain to the person who wishes to wipe away the understanding that there is sovereignty highjacked by those who are wasting resources of millions whiles they languish in lack and abject poverty.How do you assign oil blocks to people when the owners of the land live in abject lack? What kind of callous gamble is that? In some cultures you are suppose to accept that you are entitled to only the goodthings your social class endows you.The elite using whatever method he find tries to maintain the hold.The negotiation is called politics.Some play it with understanding others fight it rather than play it. It is why Nnamdi Kanu almost got killed in his fathers compound.It is the reason he is treated like a common criminal. The truth is he will stand face to face with anyone else if he can match their forces of coercion.It is for the same reason the many harpless youths are armed to the teeth kidnapping and abducting other citizens.The so called nigerian goverment will be a theory in so far as the ethnic entities are stripped of the power to negotiate the right of the citizen.What good is citizenship without authority and rights? But that is what nigeria now confers and bestows to citizens since the military coup of January 1966.There is a country in which some individuals hold the power and authority while the citizens are now toys.How can you run a country without the law? Even the judgements of the very courts are ignored by the so called government.It is the definition of anarchy and facism.We appeal to the government to release Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. If anything should happen to him nigeria has ensured that there is a dispute and not a negotiation and that the nature is neccessarily violent.The appeal of well meaning people for the release of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu is to have dialogue and maintain it. But some il-informed actors push their native views in a conferderacy.If their religion makes them entitled to another persons property have they asked the person what he thinks about it? We have here a source of needless friction.We are unable to see a pathway to very many meaningful things that are possibilities in the face of this needless conflict. The sooner the relationship is properly sorted out and rules ascertained the better for everyone.In a way it is what those who seek a referendum are saying. They are making an important point.They do not deserve to be targeted for elimination by ignorant men with native ideas as method.A sitdown and some clarification is needed at this point. Relationships require at least understanding before seeking any furthering when trust is needed.It is the truth that keeps staring all the actors in the face in this unfolding drama.Some of us have appealed for decades for the needed dialogue to no avail.We hurry to the table and the food fight begins all over again. <center><br><cite><font color="blue">YOU NEED A CAR THAT MOVES, THEN YOU NEED A "GOOD" DRIVER</cite></font></center><br> <p>What is needed in the nigerian situation is a structure that will allow the various nations in the country to co-exist harmonously.Today there is no such structure. Nigeria is existing by pure gamble.Quite often we berate the British colonialist for interfering with our lives.But the fact is the interference has been a matter and subject of serious controversy.The British were once colonized by France.It was colonized by Rome.England colonized India and even tried colonizing the newly founded United States.We can see that these issues are best resolved by reason.We want to solve our own problem.What we mean is solve the problem that presents.An example is the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union. It was not something that the people wanted to keep talking about. It needed an answer quickly and leadership asked them to make their choice in a referendum.Nigeria has been attempting to have first republic, second republic and third republic and so on.Each time a new constitution is made and the national anthem was changed at a point.The old anthem was beautifully worded and captured the anticipation of those who labored to have a country where they have the right to self government.But we changed it to one we claimed is more patriotic. Oh well then! </p> <p>It is not pessimism to remind the nigerian people that after eight years of the first democratic government after the coup harvest era it seemed nigeria had been put back on the right track.There was no foreign debt burden.The economy had been returned to a sound footing. The GDP had posted increasing gains yearly for more than seven years.But it was handed back to the same people who had ruined it before. And down it went again.Are you hearing them talking about privatizing NNPC? How in the world will anyone suggest such to the nigerian people? It is like telling them we are about to pocket the last asset! Look what happened with the privatization of NITEL? Communications has ceased to be an asset the nigeria can count on in the quest for economic growth.We are not able to find responsible managers so we hand national assets to individuals. We have overnight billionaires who prosper on the transactions that created jobs for a community of citizens! We are being told there are no responsible nigerians that can help manage the resourses of the commomwealth.We know there are but those will not be given the responsibility. It is a very sad commentary for those who want to build a country.</p> <p> And they want an indivisible entity? At whose expense? What kind of union is that? Look at all the former parastatals that earned income for the nigeria state. Look what they did to NEPA! It used to be a reliable source of employment and revenue.Inept and corrupt management has destroyed these entities.It is an idea that will cause trouble.Do not tell me about the Central Bank and Customs! In France in the fifteenth century the people took matters in their hands against those they considered oppressors.It was very ugly.Nigeria needs the regional governments to mitigate the present system that enthrones waste and greed from the center.As we speak states are overwhelmed by insecurity. If safety and right to life is the reason for states to exist we have many irrelevant entities.We are not even able to make these issues look or sound nice.They are very clear and glaring failures.In many states we have parallel authorities that derive from terror.How is the best politician going to deal with these structural issues? It is too much to expect.The best leader you will elect now will hand over to perhaps a mediocre and even a flop.Then what?</p> <p>Today we have a situation of violent oppression where the strong takes all.It is not how a country is suppose to work.The armed resistance in nigeria today resulting in the violent massacres and kidnaps are not events that should suprise anyone. Those who are now armed have sensed no compassion from the people running the soceity.It was expected to happen.Nigeria abandoned the constitution at independence with a segment declaring the country their inheritance.It is such a tall and even misguided line of thought.How can you inherit people who have existed perhaps longer than your own ethnicity? It was a very low road and poor approach in a new relationship. It has been such an abysmal failure. The mischief of taking the rest for granted was to begin to rear its ugly head early.We had the interferences in the government in Western region by the center.The constitution was clear about where the regions will collaborate with the center.But the boundaries were ignored and anarchy was enthroned by design.The constitution had no problem.The men who were suppose to lead abandoned reason.</p> <p>If your car has bad tires and the engine misfires and has no traction, you have very clear issues that must be resolved.You will fix these problems.You will not go looking for the best driver in town.It will be a misfit of a solution. The right solution will be to get the engine issue resolved. Find the tires and fix the problems. When all that is done a good driver ensures that all the solutions come together to give the expected result.What we see is the reluctance to face the criminal ceasure of the resources of the people. A reality created in the space by a force which seem to confuse the people by its transformability.Each time it pretends to care only to disppoint in the end. It is situations like this that caused the great revolutions we read and study around the world. People are the same and thrive and suffer depending on choices made by those who lead. In the history of our world the people were made slaves, burden bearerers, peasants, servants and everything that marked them as worthless.They took it until they could no longer! Nigeria is almost at such a point today.</p> <br> <br> <img src="oldtwin.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br> <img src="adaeze3.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="right"> <br> <br><BR><br><br><cite><font color="blue">RETURN FROM THE SOUND OF COMPLETE SILENCE</cite></font><br> <p>We were silenced by the powerful of the material world. Our operations is from the Spiritual.Our enemies know nothing about that.God will use anyone to fulfil His goal.We do not have fear for men. We honor men and we fear God and only Him. Today the rave about Peter Obi will not escape my attention. Never have nigerian youths fought so hard. The Zikist movement is the rave to which this attempting to rival. We must therefore take notice if we care.It is among people I love.It among people who know we love them.If this rave will not be empty we must anchor it.The political system has a way. It is trodded and walked by men. Seek those men. Seek after those men and bring them in. Please cultivate their friendship. Work for it. I know it is hard. I do not wish to trivialize such effort. We wanted to be part of this work physically. But we are realistic and understand life's many vissicitudes. God will work with anyone who fears Him.Let me make my point from both Scripture and the and history.After the conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC God was in search of how to rebuild His people.He found a man called Nehemiah son of Azbuk.He found a Persian king by the name of Artaxerxes. The job was accomplished resoundingly well.Again God found a man in 1535 to rebuild the ruins of Jerusalem.At this time Jerusalenm was under conquest by the Ottoman Empire.God stirred up a man Sultan Suleiman who ordered the ruins of Jerusalem to be rebuilt.Along with the city walls the restoration work took fourty eight months! Arithmetic is not the goal here. It is to imagine that such a task took four years.In perspective it is nothing short of a miracle. But we know it was Divine intervention. So it was a miracle!!<p><center>THE ELECTION HAS COME AS A SAD JOKE AND A FARCE LIKE WE HAD WARNED</center><p>Nigeria has a captive population.The world has scattered this population and dispersed it on purpose. The population collectively called Nigeria has the people capable of constituting a nation that will be among the top nations of the world.This population is in the place with the wrong crowd and a mixed multitude. Soon as they are freed they are very capable of building the newest industrialized country of the world.We are talking about the reluctance to make an end to something that has to end.Nigeria must be renegotiated or allowed to end. We see no need to continue wandering around when we know the way.We had an election controlled by an organ centralized in Abuja chosen by Abuja to control other nations of indegenous and sovereign peoples.What kind of federation is that? Nigeria the federation died to give rise to nigeria the corporate central entity hijacking resources, ceasing land and ports and states.How can you have an "Independent National Election Commission" that is appointed by a partisan? How does it become independent? Like nigeria is a centralized federation paying states from one single joint account? How federal is that? It is time to move on. The call for is return to the founding structure where the nations submitted their sovereignty to build a limited soverieign federation.Violent people have hijacked the country and wish to emplace a regime of brigandage, greed,corruption and violence.They want a country worse than what the youths are fighting to leave behind.In nigeria the people of Eastern nigeria have done this before.They lost four million souls. It is a very expensive price to pay. Yet they are not free to live in a soceity that can guarantee them their lives.The world wants us to try and we have done everything we can to avoid violence and bloodshed.We have tried.It must not be the thing we are always served! Now we have a situation where we accept to be governed by the very people who are killing and kidnapping our kit and kin.The Igbo people have suffered enough. The people of Eastern nigeria are able to build a peaceful prosperous soceity for themselves.Why can't they build one with those who will elect to do so? Why remain in a death trap where nothing positive can occur? Where else on earth are you going to have the choices like there was in the February 25th Presidential Election? Where else on earth will there be a confussion about what the choice must be for progress to happen? We said it before.Election is what you do when you have established conditions for peace.Nigeria has a religious and ethnic war still raging.The attempts to cover the truth are not able to stand.Let us allow the truth to come out and deal with it once and for all before it blows up in a full conflict once again... </p> ..................<center><br><p>NIGERIA HAS BEEN MADE A LAUGHING STOCK BY THE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT</p></center>The nigerian government was wrong criminalizing the agitation for self determination.But they would never do a soul searching. It is not the type of thing people like them do. They went with armoured tanks and guns and bullets to the home of a man with a case in court.They killed nearly one hundred people there. All that with a case pending in court! We recall that was an action by this government that claim to be operating a democracy. Now they would like the world to watch their revolt against the judgement of the courts.And they are in a season of electioneering!! We watch as the arm of government is making a mess of the whole soceity once again.Why is it hard for these people to accept they do not have the right to run the lives of two hundredd million people.Nobody gave them such a right! We urge them to respect themselves before it is too late.We hope they are watching Tehran and the Iranians. Nigeria will explode in the hands of these people if they are not very careful.They have built railways in Niger Republic,they have built and constructed roads, bought fancy vehicles and built refineries.Those traped in the soceity have endured every provocation. They have watched their resources wasted and stolen.Now they are loosing it. If the courts are not obeyed we have no soceity.If the court are not obeyed we have a bedlan and a madhouse. The courts have asked you to release Mr. Nnamdi Kanu immediately.If you pretend to be government and not a terror entity, then release him now!</p></center> <p>If there is anyone who needs ministering today this is historical and factual! (Isaiah 44:28. Moving along We know we are the "Repairers of the broken wall", "Restorers of the streets.."(Isaiah 58:12.We know our own place and time. And it is here! God picks from where ever He wishes! We must not forget the idea of sovereignty actually resides with GOD.The unity of the people of Southern Nigeria is an idea whose time is here.The Middle-belt was always interested in this relationship. We see the place for Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State in this movement. We also see a place for the able governor of the Rivers State.It is time for the political event that has been brewing and fermenting to be finally served.It will not be about the AK47 totting disgruntled men who were used and deceived by their own.We must ignore the conmen who have enlarged their estates by vanity accumulating so much wealth for themselves.Does the muslim religion approve such corruption? Let me ask again how do they use religion to justify such corruption? Peter Obi must understand Nigeria is broken and the basis does not exist.In 1966 Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi and his friends toyed with the idea of throwing out the constitution.They were told if they did they would have no country to "rule".</p> <p> So they "suspended" the constitution instead.At what point and who decided to throw out the article and memorandum that founded nigeria, replacing stakeholders with fakes and hooded hoolums? Who did and did they take notoriety of recreating a country? Must we now seek them for the ruin they have made of the space? It is not normal to have a country with no working instiution! Every instituion in nigeria has failed.Today they are tinkering with the army..recruiting "repentant Boko Haram". Recruiting founders of Boko Haram. Is the nigeria army about to be the first to rehabilitate such men? How did they vouch? The present crop politicians from Northern nigeria know Boko Haram and have nurtured them.History is replete with such diabolic amorphous relationships.We take the support of Afenifere for Peter Obi as symbolic.We know winning nigeria Presidency takes more than ethnic loyalty.Afenifere never "supported" Chief Olusegun Aremu Obasonjo as a presidential candidate. However the support for Peter Obi is a very significant event that must create the needed brotherhood. Gov. Nyesom Nwike must be cultivated and made the liason for this effort. His energy is agreeable with the push by the youths. Governor Nyesom Nwike will look any nigerian in the eye.The youths need such courage as a fulcrum for what is ahead.If we remember the political days of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe he had fearless men.One of them he called "my brother"..Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. NCNC was the most powerful agregation of political minded men ever put together.They challenged a world power and the best and won. Chief Okotie-Eboh was a major component of that engine.With him as the holder of NCNC piggy-bank they were able to prosecute all their many objectives. Even after wars it turns again to the issues of politics.</p> <p>Some of us have a view of the nigerian situation which assures answer without bloodshed. In view of such a fact we want to ask our people to give Peter Obi all the support he needs. But nigeria is fighting clear colonialism not just waste. We agree with the arguement on waste.After all this country wasted four million lives just because oil was discovered around them. It is sobering to reflect. Mr Peter Obi talks about waste in nigerian politics.It is very true. However to find the underlying reason for such rampant waste in the midst of so much poverty and suffering the structure must be interrogated and if need be have it redone.Quite clearly we are watching the killings and the stealing by even the Chief Accountant of the federation! Nigerian military that is seasoned and experienced has been weakened by nepotic and religious factors.And we are dealing with the very fragile portion of the body politics, the underbelly of the soceity.Such must affects security of the environment. And when there is insecurity looters abound in the their numbers! Ownership here is important. Clearly the people of Western nigerian identified with the progress in Western nigeria under Chief Awolowo.It was a matter of pride but it was tangible. The same for Northern nigeria.In Eastern nigeria it was a task.The people knew the rewards. If nigeria will not do the right thing it is already broken into pieces! If one takes a wrong turn in an intersection it requires returning to the same intersection if there is no alternate route.The versatile driver might know an alternative route.We must not allow this to be like Lekki Toll Gate massacre.This effort must afford the youths the help they have demanded and required of a righteous and merciful GOD. </p> <p>But first we expect that it yield visible fruit and seed. It must be able to propagate its own self. It must yield fellowship needed to build the entire space.For us there is now contiguos faith and brotherhood.The religion of the people toples foreign religions any day. Igbos have a religion. It honors unique deity of God Almighty. I know same of the Yoruba religion.If we are needled by anyone we have a safe tent! This puzzle piece will necessarily force all others. I call it the imperative piece.It is why some people are spoiling for a fight.They see no other means to maintain their one sided bare faced cheat and underhand called unity. Nigeria is a federation that shares money from one account at the center. Somebody is getting a lion share who contributes nothing. It is the reason force and violence becomes needful for those who are now spoiling as invaders.One minute they talk unity the next they hood up and kill a few unfortunate persons! The leadership from our people who are fronting religion in nigeria has exploited those who trusted them.Rather than enable and empower them they are pushing these clueless men off a cliff. It is not what you call leadership.It is heartless cold evil.We need reason. And we will employ reason. So Peter Obi and his men must do the due diligence. Reach all the men God will point to be reached.They could be of any faith.Nothing short of a revolution will cure nigeria. If it fails everyone goes home! In Siri Lanka there were no guns.The military was there. They are citizens first before anything else.It is how you solve problems that seem intractable. Nigeria will heal of be broken.We recall Psalm 127:1 "unless the LORD builds the house...". The blood letting will not be for ever.As they say a word is enough for the wise.</p> <br> <br> <BR><br><br><cite><font color="blue">WHEN VANITY OVERTAKES WISDOM</cite></font><br> <p>We are concerned for the person of former President of Nigeria Dr. Ebele Goodluck Jonathan.We have tried to ignore the rumours making rounds that he is being wooed to join the APC. Some of us would like to believe that a man whose first instinct was to have a free and fair election as president in a place like nigeria is a wise man.It is hard to imagine that a person who could have easily spurned corruption to remain in office will now allow himself to be sucked into it.He will be participant in the unprincipled rampant idea of cross-carpeting.On its own this paints a politician as unprincipled even corrupt.We plead with him to remember what he has done for his name and posterity by his brave, godly and patriotic decision.He is actually in a position of envy and many wish to be in such a place in life.Unlike many other leaders from this part of the world his action was full of class and principle.He must not allow some to turn him to a dog that goes back to its own vomit! Where are the guarantees for his safety in the tinder box Abuja has become? He knows nigeria has moved notches in religious intolerance since he was in power.The militants can spin a suprise attack on any location in Abuja.</p> <p>We all know it is true.You will repel them. But there will be victims! If he is thinking four years the proponent might be thinking way less than that. In any case where is he going to find a genuine friend among such personalities? What will be the level of their grudge against him? It is an ideas that betrays a person and paints them as very selfish. It is a very bad idea.It is not an fact lost to the proponents. It is said that all is fair in battle.It is not something hard to imagine he might join and be denied.The move would have ruined everything for him. In any case is he one of those who forget important items at the presidential villa? And they like to be back again and again! He must heed the warning and stay ahead of predators and spoilers.It is not our inclination to accept that a man of his moral standing will fall for such a prank. However we are all human and once in while vanity can be an issue we must deal with.We know his motherly wife will be vehement in her rejection of the idea. He must pay heed. We are told that a word is enough for the wise!!! </p> <br> <br><p>African Leaders : watch the future of your domain! The waste is unsustainable. <br><br><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtNDHmuokHU"/>Unbelievable! Youths in their prime from Africa Wasted! Why?</a></p> <p> <br> <br><center><cite><font color="blue">THE AFRICAN FREE TRADE</center></cite></font> <br><br><cite><font color="blue">African Free Trade And The Unfolding Reality</cite></font><br> <p>The West African Sub-Region must understand it got a very good pass mark in the implementation of the ECOMOG regiment.It was very clearly a masterful political play. So why are they not able to sustain it? ECOWAS must equp ECOMOG and sustain its capacity and capabilities.Indeed ECOMOG should by this time have become a veritable tool for maintaining order and sustaining democracy.It is how other people do it.Human beings will take risks even very foolish ones. It is better to emplace deterrents.ECOWAS ordering and placing five hundred to one thousand troops anywhere in the territory is not outside of the abilities of these soceities.In such a position it will serve as a deterrent. Sanction are too reactionary and without severe enough potency.We will hear something about the promises of the international community.We have said to our political leaders that they must find the answers to the problems that plague their own soceities.</p> <p>Nobody will be in a better position to do so.If they wanted to help, that is! The question is really who actually wants to help africa? Who is the eager country without an ulterior motive who wants to spend precious resources to help africa? It is the people who lead or wish to lead who must profer solutions for difficulties that plague their own soceity.The benefits of the planned free trade area on the lives of the population are very many.We need to see leadership invest in such a future.We can't have a harvest without planting seeds first.On the other hand is the anarchy and disorder threatened by the present unravelling of the whole entire sahel region.We all know the effect will doudtless be felt in Europe.And it will have very dare consequences.But it will make victims in the southward flow into west africa. We know here poverty is rife and defencelessness is the order of the day.The sooner something is done the better for all! <br> <br> <p>We have communities of African states that have come together for many years in realization of the power and strength of numbers. In a very competitive world it is the right thing to do.It is not enough to make the decision and speak often about it.There is work to do.It needs work.The infrastructure must be emplaced. We have heard policy statements and plans for the East African economic communities and the one in West Africa popularly called "ECOWAS".But to tansverse these countries is more dificult than undertaking a trip outside the continent. We need to start with roads! These two communities ought to be connected by road networks. But there are none.The African Union must do what like organizations in other parts of the world do. It must build.The trade between countries will not occur in a vacuum or by magic.It must be through interractions.</p> <p>Roads are needed. Roads and indeed railways must be in the immediate plan.It is not a stretch to demand such action.During the fight for African independence the Organization For African Unity had a committee to oversee the liberation movements.Today in the effort to gain a foothold and bridgehead in the economic liberation of the continent such steps are very necessary.Africa has the resources it needs to develop the necessary infrastructure to prosper a young generation. It is a shame to allow able bodies and sometimes well trained africans leave home to seek work abroad. We all know it is our labour that will create the type of environment we need.We encourage the leadership of the African Union to create a committee on Road, Rail and Sea infrastructure.The establishment of such a body will facilitate the free flow of communication between the people in a way that will help create the rennaissance we are hoping for. </p> <p>It is the type of ideas the African Union must be involved with now rather than anything else.The young population if engaged will remain in the continent and build it.The countries will adopt a standard for road networks they expect to last generations and go for it.Finally the continent can have the all important infrastructure necessary for sustained growth. The Afican Union will have to establish a commission for the implementation of this very important goal.And we know this is a very labor intense project and will create job for the youths.And these will not be temporary jobs.Each country shall build its own part of the chain and link with the next.It must be made the plan for the immediate future. We have to do these things to put our people especially our youths in the position to benefit from the God given resources in the their own motherland!</p> <br> <br> <br> <br><center><cite><font color="blue">Reminding The Nigerian People About Our Alarm And Alert:"Unparented Kids Of Nigeria"</cite></font></center> <p>In the year 2002 in and article and essay of a website called "betternigeria.com" I had shed my thoughts on this epidemic. At the time as usual it was one of those things seen as the intellectual excercise of the uncreative.It was the noise of those who "liked to stay on the sidelines and wish".Here are the facts we enunciated at the time: Nigeria has children who are orphaned not by war or famine but by choice.They are abandoned by their own parents.Young male children are abandoned to the elements and their own fate. Quite often many cite religious belief. We know the comfortable and learned in such religions do not practice such extreme behaviours.These children come from homes dealing with extreme lack.It therefore means this is not a religoius but social decision for families.Each family decides as it pleases.Many of them are picked up by the "religious sects". Quite often out of a feeling of responsibility and duty these religious entities take on this task among the many difficult other tasks they already have. We know many of these entities are not gold pots. Neither are they exactly goldmines.In these childrens' mind many of these sects find a very blank slate upon which to place their imprimatur.In many riots and unheavals in environments where these youths exist we know their contribution. Quite often the signals of their feelings about soceity is sent out very early.The young women are not much better off. They are married off as soon as they can barely walk.It might sound like an exaggeration.But we do not believe a child between eight and twelve years of age has actually learned the act getting around well enough! </p> <p>We have problems that require urgent focus and structured and persistent attention. Such social problems will be made more rampant be increasing poverty. We are not going to wish these things away by the pursuit of very narrow interests.They are members of community that will not quite often have the means to seek escapes.Poverty always reinforces its own cycle until there is help. These were the issues that led to bloody catastrophies in Europe and around the known world in the three centuries between the early 16th to the 19th century.It is a story of blood and terror and great horror.Let me say that a child who find himself in the position of being a pupil in these places will long for the love of parents.He will eventually come to notice that some children indeed have this love which they can only wish for. But their reality is hostility and threat of death and a future of deprivation and blankness.In this blankness is non-existance. What kind of mindset is being created here? Religion is a reality but so also is hunger, desires such as love and dignity. In the lives of these soon to be men choices must be made.The choices are as follows become a cleric of the faith, a bandit using the faith as excuse or an extremist of the faith.We do not exclude exceptions.And in comes weapons and ability to forge coercion.We know what is easier in these circumstances. </p> <p>It is difficult for many to become clerics.It therefore follows they will become either extremists or bandits.We said in our essay that only a government which will focus on the emancipation of this population as a matter of deliberate policy will rid soceity of this scourge.We were at the time explaining ourselves as to why we were advocating a return to the original constitution of nigeria.We had been accused of trying to elongate a persons time in office.We began on time to make this plea.But those who wanted their "turn" will not look at the problems.We were accused of trying to make someone overstay in office.It is hard to see the logic of such arguments.We were acccused of trying to ingratiate ourselves.Today we are asking our detractors if they are still arguing? </p> <p>It is now very clear the present arrangement does not have the capacity to address these issues.People are slaughtered and they are hosting carnivals in their fortrsses.The unparented children are charging soceity as an army on revenge mission! In the years from 1954 to 1966 the progress in mitigating the effect of this problem was measurable and very impressive.So the people chose a system that was best fit. If nigeria will be a country it must return to the regions.It is immoral to allow a problem such as this to fester and engulf the entire country.You do not have a soceity for such reasons.Each group must see what works for them and give it their best effort.Nigeria will return to its foundations or it has no path to a future as one unit. </p> <br> <br> <p><cite><font color="blue">Where Is Leadership Here?</cite></font>Our so called leaders must begin to behave as those entrusted with the future of the soceity. When these sad events occur they must show concern.We see a disconnect .They seem not to be concerned they have drowning and perishing citizens.They watch masses trouping to embassies of every country with total apathy.We see this as a reaction that says every place else outside nigeria is better. Why does it not worry them? How are they suppose to determine the effect and perception of their leadership? How do they wish to measure the impact of their stewardship? Many of the victims are youths who need guidance and protection.It is a strange kind of leadership! </p> <p>Our experience make us understand why a country is not a nation.But a nation can be a country.We can see that it is easier for a nation to become a country than for a country to become a nation.It is hard to have a different collection of people unite around common basic values.And make those values the reason why they are an entity.Naturally they must be values that bind the group and ensure the well being of the whole rather than a part. Africa needs a hard look at this matter since the countries are partitions created for ease of manipulation and exploitation.</p> <br> <br> <br> <br><font color="blue"><center><cite>If You Ask Me: Time To Abandon failed Paradigms</cite></center></font> <p>We have to state quite clearly that with all due respect the nigerian house is on very shaky foundations right now.It has been a very unsafe space since 1966.For certain people it has been no better than a trap of death.Some people have perfected their plan for a dominant hegemony but it appears it has run into clear problems. Just like the nigerian state it is unravelling and quick.It is the idea of tribal dominance that derailed the nigerian state.The ones who had morbid unfounded fears of Igbo domination have now ceased every apparatus of state and every arm of state force and coercion.And they would like everyone to just accept such a reality.If they reacted in such violent ways as we recall why are the others suppose to accept the developemnt as normal? Had the nigerian government in 1963 determined to run the soceity based on the equity and rule of law the crises in Western nigeria would never have been precipitated.Earlier on the NCNC won an election in western nigeria but was denied by mass defections and as democrats they licked their wounds and moved on.NCNC conceded the position of prime minister after winning a national election to allow for unity. </p> <p>Some people do not respond in such ways. They feel entitled.In democracies you make a mental note of the fact that Chief Obafemi Awolowo is the preferece of the people and you honor their choice.Dr. Azikiwe knew the futility of fighting with Action Group to the death in western nigeria.It is very strange that some who insist they wish to have a country called nigeria continue in the same line of pursuit.How are they going to make the other nations in the country not to see their schemes? What are they going to do? Make it impossible for them to think? Nigeria will have a population census this year 2022 by the month of May.As usual no side will accept the result with the exception of the ones who have everything in place to pad the numbers by exponential margins.So the endless strife and bickering will continue. It is the very predictable outcome. </p> <p>We request that these people who claim they love nigeria do what love demands.They claim to have fought a "civil war" to restore the nigerian state. We disagree.What they did was to create another country in which the resources and rights of all other stakeholders was ceased by the most dominant group in the reconfiguration that emerged.Nigeria is a country of four regions.If they want nigeria it must be in that order.What they had at the end of the so called "civil war" or genocide were twelve unequal states "under" a very powerful central government. This center was controlled be a "Supreme military council". The nigerian central government today is a feudal or semi- monarchy.The problem is it lacks the refinemet time and experience affords other monarchies.We all know that "absolute power corrupts". We must understand why the system is synonymous with corruption.If you control somebody they are not able to enforce oversight authority on you. In nigeria Abuja pays everyone and controls all the states.You can't call such an arrangement a federation by any stretch of imagination. </p> <p>Quite clearly that is not nigeria! By the way the foreign press reports that during the period of the crises, the genocide or civil war soldiers who were court martialled were always of southern nigeria origin. These little details point to a serious element of the general malaise in the soceity. The priviledged northerners killed, raped and maimed by choice and could not be worried about anything. Even the so called tough military top brass from southern nigeria knew not to mess with a northern combatant. If he did he risked a mutiny or being killed. There were no consequences to their excesses and that is not suprising to many of us.Something our research appears to sustain.The government of nigeria is yet to declare Boko Haram a terror organization.It was dragged screaming and shouting before bandits who are making a daily slaughter of innocent citizens are declared terrorists.Many believe it was to justify the label of IPOB.We see how easy it was to label the IPOB. It is the group the government is willing to tackle in any event. </p> <p>In nigeria history teaches us the talk of Igbo domination has been the baseless lie of those who are determined to keep the country on its knees.We see in history the opposite of this.The disposition of the Igbo has been to seek to build nigeria.But the disinformation continues.The beneficiaries of a comatose nigeria fuel a very false narative. And it has worked for them. We know the people have been the pillar that has held the country together for the most part.Now the youths adjudge the burden unfair and want none of it. I find it difficult to blame them and no reasonable person can.You will not found a country based on the sacrifice of only a segment.From the concessions made by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe to the resources the people have sacrificed for nearly seventy years, to the war of genocide for the same said resources we follow the trail. It has been a tale of injustice and abuse of trust.These are the details that point to a very unequal relationship. If these people are serious they must release the men who question the false paradigm and commence a process of returning nigeria to the country they ceased by force of arms.If they will not there will be a very determined even armed struggle they are not going to be able to avoid.It will be the only recourse they have left for those who must be free! History not their feelings should inform their choices. </p> <br> <br><center><cite>Why The Chief Justice Of Nigeria Actively Intervened In An Election</cite></center> <p>On this website we have articles that warned the political gladiators in Imo State that they were being set up.When they started scuffles over statues and monuments we pleaded with them to stop. We told them to allow an atmosphere of peaceful continuity.None of them paid attention. The advice was promptly ignored and the bickering continued and provided the opening for the evil in the soceity now.We know they are very "successful" people. Why would they pay attention to a "poor" man who has not "succeeded" like they have? I will only say that some of these men have had no real and proper trajectory to their "success".If the truth is important some of us would prefer not to be in their situation really.It must be very evident to many that success in the way of these evil mechanisms is to some of us despicable.But we are not here for any philisophical polemics. We just wish to tell the people of Eastern Nigeria from Abakpa or Calabar to Igwe-Ocha or Port harcourt, from Afo to Itolu ,from Idoma to Igbanke, from Igede to Ugwashi-Ukwu.We wish to tell all the people who share the culture that honor Nature and Almighty God to understand they are not in bondage if they resist it. </p> <p> If they reject it, Nature will not ignore their desire.Had they resisted the man who imposed an anomaly on them none of this will be happening.The people of Imo state were faced with a simple single test of gut and will. Some people who claim to be leaders took bribes and chose to sear their own conscience.By that they have accepted guilt for the bloodshed in the land.We know some people have determined to impose their way of life upon us.They were warned and alerted.We told them some of them have sold out. They have found some very unreasonable people to use for this goal.The massacre going on today in Imo State was predictable.Articles on this website detail these kinds of scorched earth tactics as possibilities when the people are not vigilant.Somebody was given limitless resources to uppend his own soceity.He was elated and excited about such a prospect. They can assure a person like this that IPOB an organization that is in over one hundred and seventy countries is a terrorist organization.They meet regularly in open places and organize events publicly.Again in nigeria we see the choice for the easy approach. </p> <p>We view the choice of some hand picked politicians in a star state in eastern nigeria as evil of the scale of the war of genocide foisted on the people because of crude oil.The cluelessness of this person about the substansive issues of equity and dignity is a weeping shame.His wide grin and his "little boy in the toy shop exuberance" is such a sad sight.He had been well groomed as always. The men who took bribes rather than defend the population from this evil are guilty of the blood of these innocent people being massacred. They have forgotten that the prize of liberty is constant vigilance.They accepted bribes now their homes are under seige.The communities they claim to represent are being destroyed and innocent blood is being shed. The land of their birth is being desecrated. They must know they took the side of those who are guilty of the blood of four million lives from among us.Violence is never an answer. After every violence must come negotiation and agreements.We think it is best if agreements and negotiation are first given a very honest and tenacious effort. Often those with authority impose their positions.We know what happened where is an imposition. </p> <p> Someone was chosen for this job because he has been seen as a person with no gravitas.Now the state has been devastated by violence and the people watch as their communities are destroyed one after another. They have been thrown out of their homes by freak conflicts and murders. They watch their youth slaughtered as though they are worthless.We know those who have done this will like to use this method and approach again.If the people who have caused so much loss of lives are not held accountable by the people it will become a trend. It is the responsibility of the community to cleanse its self.Every organic community is a system.It is self sustaining and self cleansing.In a democracy the chance for change always presents every now and again.We like to tell them that the attempt to make the agitation for self determination a treasonable offence in nigeria would not mean anything if the people reject it.The right to self determination is a God given right.No country can take it away.It is not a right any country can bestow.Not even nigeria.All over the world the right to self govern has been responsible for many situations.In the end the ones who insist to govern themselves triumph.It is not served.It is taken.We like all the people who fight for their right to human dignity to understand this truth.If they will not stand up they will be the loosers and the underlings in this space.</p> <br> <br> <br><center>The Nigerian Space And The Igbo Of Eastern Nigeria</center> <p>We are watching disintergration of nigeria in slow motion.We knew the people who have been busy pitching positions that are inimical to peace will succeed.They have no challenge.The challenge is for the victims. And they finally have.But are they happy? It is hard to understand their angst.They must now congratulate themselves.For so many years one was wondering when they will recognize that unity is not a theory. Unity is a condition that is attained through agreements.The fruits of unity are peace and prosperity.We must not pretend that we are not aware that peace can't be achieved in a vacuum. We all remember the indegenization decree of 1972. Rewind a little more.The people of Eastern nigeria had just returned from a so called war. But it was actually genocide and a massacre which happened as the whole world looked the other way.</p> <p>As the people emerge from their caves and hell holes they were welcomed with very wonderful words.But those were for photo opportunities.All they got was twenty pounds a piece. The central government had promised "Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation". It never materialized.All of that was paid for by the twenty pounds! Even if you had twenty million pounds in the bank before the war you got back twenty pounds. Many Igbo people died of heartbreak.So many had sabotaged the effort of the "Biafran authorities" in the war in the hope to have access to their money. It was not to be.Two years later in 1972 nigeria promulgated the indegenization decree.The decree required companies to have nigerians as majority owners.In effect the nigerian government took businesses including the ones in which the Igbo people had interests and handed them to other nigerians.</p> <p>Clearly it was aimed to exclude them because they could not afford the funds to buy out the foreign owners.If you tell me this was not a well planned move to ensure Igbo penury I will disagree with you.Now look where we are.We are begging the foreign investors back.One section of nigeria is under strict islamic laws.The danger of sectarian violence is a thought every investor must weigh properly. If you are of a different faith you are in more than one mess.It is not a theory. It is the truth and the reality.The people who desired this end and made it happen want unity with others who do not share their point of view.Who will pay for such a unity? Of course we know the implications of such a relationship and reality.</p> <p>Today the nigerian currency is less valuable than the paper it is printed on.Effectively nigerians have been enslaved at home. It was not a problem the Igbos do not understand.When you go to borrow and you are desperate all sort of things happen.The igbo find themselves struggling in a situation they have clean answers for. Every business is a model of a nation. Igbos manage their businesses resoundingly successfully.Nigeria has been very unfair to the Igbo.The Igbo gave the rest of nigeria independence. They were the ones that got arrested and went to jail in the fight for independence.They were the ones who lost lives for the same reason. Look what and where nigeria and nigerian has kept them! If the youths decide they have no stomach for the nauseating relationship no reasonable person must blame them.It is not a healthy relationship to which one would want to commit their future.If nigeria can't at least accept the founding agreement and basis of the union it makes no sense to continue to wish peace and unity and do wickedness even evil to some people.</p> <br> <br><center><font color="blue">Nigeria Must Move Away From Borrowing:It Is Not The Future.Return Soceity To What Works! Services And Production</font></center> <p>We are not blaming the present government for all the ills of nigeria.It is not innocent either. It has contributed to it.It is by no means responsible for everything that ails the nigerian soceity.But it has done some harm nevertheless.WE wish to say that leadership is about solving problems that exist.It is not suppose to solve imaginary problems.We said that the present government does not help when it insists on the status quo.The status quo has failed on all counts.Sustaining and maintaining it is very sad, unfortunate and unproductive.Nigeria wants the people of eastern nigeria who have paid the most extreme prizes for the unity of nigeria to continue to bear the burden while the others coast along.It is sad that because they have some few men whose massive ego and very thin coat of reason will not allow to reason they think all is well.Within the communities of the whole region are youths who are angry. Nigeria like to ignore everything until it explodes.It is impossible to make the structure they call nigeria to work.It is very inorganic.The people in Gombe, in Kafanchan or Kano are going to work for their wealth and their prosperity.If the people in Abuja will not allow this so will the spate of insecurity dog them until Abuja become unsafe for them.</p> <p>The criminal behaviour that caused the abandonement of the constitutional framework that produced globally recognized economies in eastern and western regions of nigeria in the fifties and sixties keeps on raking havoc.The external hands keep their manipulation unabated.Nigeria rather than choose men who understand the nature of this battle are busy apportioning leadership like rounds of ration.The others are not playing though. Using local hands they have oiled very well they distort reality and diminish truth and facts.They sponsor conflicts all over africa.All the agression and violence that has occured in nigeria stems from the tendency to go off script.For what reason are the yoruba,Igbo, fulani, hausa,Ogoni, Ibibio, Annang,Ijaw,Igbira,Nupe etc wish to have one country? We have actually no ideals for the conflict prone association.The constitution that at least provided a basis is tossed away. Today we have an entity without purpose and origin. Why are a disparate group, actually very different nations called a country? Is it for the purpose of having a big country with large population? What is the idea? Nigeria now has a debt service to revenue at 98%. The number represents trouble in every way.Nations capable of providing for themselves, who have indeed done so for ions are now owing other countries? Why? What kind of leadership is this? </p> <p>Between December 31 2020 and June 30 2021 nigerian debt grew from 32.916 trillion naira to 35.465 trillion naira.It represents a growth of about 8%.For a single year the number is sickening. Nobody runs a soceity like that.Yet we just learnt the nigerian legislators approved a further $16 billion dollars and #1 billion Euro for the nigerian government. These people have sold the next generation along with the present.It is frightening to say the least.We can't see how the country gets out of this trap in one piece.Countries that have borrowed from some sources are in a deep mess and regret today.And nigeria with a population of over two hundred million of mostly youth jumps right into the alligator pond! We thank our rubber stamp legislative houses for the due diligence!</p> <br> <br><a href="#wasting.nigeria">Click Here to see the article: How A Prospering Country Was Killed</a> <br> <br> <br><center><font color="brown">The Nigerian Government Teases The Idea Of Blaming IPOB For The Problems In The South East</font></center> <p>We know the people who peddle hate do not realize that many in their audience do not share their burden.When such speak on their feelings as though they are facts they are not able to convince everyone.We had invited the world to watch the events in Eastern Nigeria as unbiased observers.And thank God they are.We lost four million lives and we are not stupid. IPOB has been in the forefront of the defence of the entire Eastern Region brotherhood from the invasion of foreign interests that has prevented the prosperity of the peoples of the area. We heard the former Chief of Army Staff complain that the reason Boko Haram can't be defeated is because "the people have a religious attachement to them"! The rest in the country must hear this truth coming from a source no reasonable person can ignore.</p> <p> The agents of these forces are reactionary feudal minds who care very little about those around them. When they targeted Igboland by seeking to plant a phoney IPOB understood their move. They recognized the move to install a man as governor by fiat in a democracy as a hostile move. They warned that this was only a beginning.They warned there was more to it. IPOB was the only group that understood the danger this move posed in Igboland.We had expected the people to see it for what it is.But they had other ideas.We just showed why the IPOB is the target of the feudal overlords and their agents in uniform.</p> <p> The elected members in the state and legislators saw this unfortunate event as their own opportunity for self enrichment.To their shame they now regret everything.They were made to sell their liberty and lives of their youth for pittance.How ever much they were paid is nothing compared with what they have lost and cost the soceity.How much did the men elected to the Imo house to represent the interest of the people get for their evil? We wonder what can clease them of blood and a conscience of guilt.Today the people who are sponsoring the mayhem in Eastern nigeria are trying to blame Nnamdi Kanu for the very issues he was up against. Nnamdi kanu has been speaking to the issues of dehumanization of the people of Eastern Region.How is it possible for him to sponsor same? The accusation will not wash.We urge the people bent on breaking nigeria up to thread softly. They have almost accomplished that goal.In every part of nigeria the reactionary forces and agents of imperialism has ceased the sources and means of production.The people have been reduced to pawns.It is what the present battle is about.It might turn nasty and very regreatable for all involved.These youngmen and women feel as though they have little to loose.</p> <p> It makes no sense for it to be more painful than it needs to be. Accusing the IPOB will not lead to a good place. It is hard to make some people believe that a keg of gunpowder and fire will create an explosion. They just want to find out.We remind them of "wetie" in Western nigeria.It should be obvious to these people they are seeking a "wetie 2.0". We like to tell them that Nnamdi Kanu is no Ken Saro-Wiwa.The group will cause more trouble than Boko haram multplied by ten. IPOB did not kill Dr.Chike Akunyuli.It is very impossible to make any Igbo person accept such a very foolish theory.Anyone who suggests that is not an Igbo and does not understand the reasoning of the Igbo people.Why would any Igbo man kill such a man? The family has done nothing but make the Igbo proud.Is that a reason for IPOB to seek to murder their own? We have a government filled with wannabe religious zealots.Their personal agenda has thrashed the government over and over.As far as we know the rest of nigeria is still secular.The portion that has gone fundamentalist must hold their fire until the seperation they desire is complete or they will unleash total mayhem.We know how terror arrived in Eastern nigeria and the timeline.The whole world also knows.We asked them to watch with us! If they think they will blame IPOB and Nnamdi Kanu for the mayhem they have sponsored in the region they will be shocked.The world has the evidence.At the right time the truth will come out.</p> <br> <br><br><center><cite><font color="purple">What The Nigerian Space Requires Today</font></cite></center> <p>It might already be too late but we can try and there is only a single option. It is a return to the regions and regional governance.We suggest that the peoples of the space will be very satisfied with the conditions under the leadership of the various men who led the regions before the 1966 coup.The only problem then was the upsetting dissonance from the center.Without the nuissance of the center nigeria will be a world power today.Chief Awolowo was not running an environment second to any.</p> <p>Neither was his compatriot in the eastern flank. They were running superlative economies.And the man in northern nigeria had no option. He had to join the competition. Nigeria was making real progress.Can nigeria find a leader who will have an ego that will permit the regions to develop character and independence without becoming jealous? Is there someone who will be a team member with the men who will emerge to lead the regions? Can nigeria find a person who will not be harassed by foreign interests and opinions? Can there be a person with enough tact to deal with these issues? Are there people among us who have the empathey and compassion to want to deal with these issues? If we have such men and women we can solve the problems.Politics is a series of human events. With reason you can make it achieve the intended purpose.It can also be hijacked.</p> <p>Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was in a serious predicament.He was an astute politician in his own right. He was very aware he had no domain.The premier was in control of the political space in Northern nigeria.The emir owned the civic space.So the man came south and turned westward.He could not go east.The Igbos are not his type and they will reject him outright.He was honest to himself and never worried to woo them.Besides Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was not a man you like to play politics with as an opponent.He left his opponents mesmerized quite often. So he veers westward inevitably.But here he also clashed with indomitable Chief Obafemi Awolowo! It is the brutal truth and summary of the tragedy that befell a young country.This main problem exposed every weak link.And it crashed the country.</p> <p> Can we find leaders who are clear about the difference between illusion and reality? Religious peity and pictures painted by some of its positions are illusions. We need godly men and women.We need God fearing women and men. We need people with moral decency.If we can find men and women who can lead regions that will develop economies strong enough to rebuid our soceities, our communities will become small self reliant nations. Nations that can feed themselves. The communities will become nations where people have occupations and feel safe.If that is done we might have a country.We must add that this must not be a rhetorical issue.</p> <p>If we are not able to do so in the present configuration we have to find one that lends us that possibility. It is the way to rebuild the african soceity. We must remember the present structure and foundation was not for building enduring civilizations.The structures were feeding other interests. It has to be consciously reworked! Africa will be that continent we all yearn for.Can we find men and women who will commit to build roads and provide every infrastructure without borrowing the future of another generation?</p> <p>What we are witnessing presently is insane.It is impossible to have a carcass for long without scavengers. And they are showing up in the nigerian space.We all know the present structure can't be sustained.The more we delay the more the place is ruined further and further.If this step will not be taken the alternative must be clear to the components and stakeholders.Nostalgia is not enough reason to watch the ungoing waste and loss of lives.We are dealing with a tragedy and horror.It can no longer be ignored.</p> <br> <br><img src="meirinafrica.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/> <br> <center><font color="Blue">The News About Obi Cubana's Arrest By EFCC</font></center> <p>The news headline coming at the heels of the humiliation to the honorable Justice Mary Odili is rather troubling.We said it that the young man picked by the government of nigeria to head EFCC is typical General Buhari military type action and style.As a person we know he always will push the envelope.He chose a perfect toy.The reason is becoming very apparent. The man is not good enough to be a principal of any of the government colleges in nigeria.He is not capable. We did not jump to this conclusion. We have waited for his approach and decisions to create a trend. We have seen a very dangerous one.Nigeria is a difficult place for an inexperienced person to head a federal office successfully.It will task him to a mental breakdown. This man is not yet ready for prime time.Yet some people will not understand this complexity.It is not enough he is fulani.Nigerians are not all fulanis! I know what I am talking about.Professor Sanya Onabamiro was the provost of the Federal School of Art And Science in Ogoja at some point. This choice seemed like an overkill.But it showed good judgement.</p> <p>The institution was restive when Chief Olusegun Obasonjo was General Obasonjo and military head of state. He did not take the matter lightly and reason that this was a small institution. He recognized the political weight and implication of such a place.The children of many elites at the time from different parts of nigeria attended the institution.In a way student behaviour in such a place reflected positions that mirrored soceity. Recognizing this dynamics he chose an experienced person to head the institution.And the honorable amiable professor made lightwork of the situation giving the youth who came under his care a memorable and very entertaining series of events.We have a democracy yet we have a government that will attempt to solve problems with levity.We can't see the rigour and gravity that many issues demand reflected in the approach to solutions.It is killing the country and its citizens! </p> <p>Today nigeria has been turned into a cage where people are treated as commodity.What is this mans pedigree? How could he be put in such a place to learn the nigerian political terrain? What a very dangerous move again by this government! I do not want to be rude. His rather boyish appearance should not undermine his qualifications. Somebody can be young and boyish and appear peevish but is eminently qualified.It is a matter of being ready.But EFCC is a rough place and tough territory.The person to run such a place must be able to stand up to even the president.He must be seen to be able to defend the office as a non political entity.Quite clearly this person is not capable of looking into the eyes of the president of nigeria or any of his men. How are the nigerian people suppose to accept the logic that once more ignores rampant phenomenon to fight a happenstance?</p> <p> People like Obi Cubana are few.We have politicians who feed fat out of the resources of the country abounding in the thousands and more.How come the EFCC reached for a self made man like Obi Cubana? What makes the agency unable to see the corruption the rest of the soceity can see among its own class of people? We have images of the parties they host in exotic places around the world and the spraying of foreign currency? All of them are money that was stolen quite clearly! We have always known the nigerian ports authority is a corruption cesspool.How about the young man see what he could do over that? Okay it is being run by his fulani cohorts.We have heard about the poor receipt of monies belonging to the central government from agencies.Even the legislators complained the agencies simply refuse to make payment of monies received on behalf of government.So why does he have time to investigate a man who has no connection at all with government financies? Is this for lack of anything else to do? I think he looks around and all the government agencies are headed by his own people.Quite clearly we only can conclude this arrest again is egregious and reeks again of malice. It is like the logic of herders and bandits versus the Igbo motor spareparts dealers spurned by his compatriot in the ministry of justice.He spins the logic to the amusement of the rest of the world.It is exactly what we see here! We see an effort "to treat this people in the language they will understand". Someone wants to prove his loyalty much like a gang initiation. </p> <p>Please, please I never said henchmen!! And no time did I say hachetmen or "cabal"! I never used any such words here.Quite clearly he can't say "no" to any of them.We need to know what he has done before to prepare him for such a very sensitive position.EFCC is not a place for picnic for an acolyte you wish to reward.It is also not a place to prepare someone for the future.You must come here prepared.And that is the problem. It is a place to determine the future of some top people in soceity.Nigeria is the only country in the world with a population this large that gamble with leadership.It must not continue.Those who want better must continue to seek change. And this statement is a truth! We heard all the bruhaha about the funeral the man Obi Cubana hosted for his beloved mother. He honored a princess and praise worthy Igbo woman who by the way happens to be his "mama". And was very pivotal to the success he has attained.He made many people successful along the way and they remembered. And they know he loved his mother.It is how life works.It is another Igbo success story that comes to light so beautifully. So now they have got to smear it. It is a task that "must to be done".We have people who invest in violent approaches and they will never understand the good side of our common humanity!</p> <p>The other day we saw a supreme court justice treated to total trashing and disrespect by this same entity.It makes us think about what happened to Professor Akunyili and her husband a well known physician Dr. Akunyili.Imo state today and the massacre going on in what was the most peaceful state reminds us of why Justice Water Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen was disgraced out of office as Chief Justice.His departure made room for the man who has turned Imo state into a grave yard of our youths. We are making mental note.As usual we ask the world to remember.All this because of the tribe of the individual.We frown at these moves and warn the entity to stop or be totally trashed its self by citizens.If it will be used as a political weapon then it can't stand as an entity for law enforcement.It must choose which it stands for. The choice must become evident fast.We want to tell Obi Cubana not to join the APC. Political parties in nigeria use the Igbo to bankroll them.Go and ask close associates of Dr Alex Ekwueme.It happened before us all. We know it is the ploy! Usually after too many pestering otherwise reasonable people will join a party that has become a fulani club! We can always find something around a business person in the public space for as long as Obi Cubana has been. His people understand that. He will not be a fulani offering of atonement.Incidentally the Igbo are asking them to explain why they have wasted the lives and shed the blood of so many Igbo people. The EFCC will clear the cloud that it has become the "enforcer" of the "cabal". It will not also be the enforcer of the laws of nigeria. Which is it? The nigerians will like to know.</p> <p>The people can't wait to know how to respond to stop the impending calamity they are about to create.We will not have an entity that will be used to kill certain individuals.It is evident that people who become their captives come out different as far as health goes. And that is if they are very lucky.We see their hatred for the Igbo people rearing up its very ugly head."Nyamiri yaa mutu yaa kari". The Igbo is dead. The igbo is finished. It was the fulani chant for the genocide that claimed four million Igbo lives. Not again. Not again! It could be recalled that the mayor of Enugu in 1952 Mallam Umar Altini was a full blooded fulani man. He identified with the Igbo struggle,was a member of the Zikist movement and was accepted as a citizen and a member of Igbo soceity and easterner.He was a muslim.Chief M.KO Abiola in the heat of the problem after the election he won resoundingly ran to Igboland.He trusted them and was protected by them. Nobody dared betray him! Nigerians remember those who convinced him to give himself up. It was not the Igbos.He was advised by them to wait for some clearity.They have learned never to trust the nigerian style of law enforcement and justice.Sometimes it defies commonsense.The people who would ruin him convinced Chief Abiola there could be no clearity and direction without him.The people are still angling for power even today.He followed them and never returned to his family.We wish to warn the people fanning the new embers, throwing up these old hate lines that it is now an open secret.One day nigeria and nigerians will wish they responded differently to the people they love to hate! And the world is about to respond to it for good! </p> <img src="Umaraltine.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="right"><font color="blue"> On the right ------->Umar Altine Elected Mayor of Capital City Enugu in 1952 was till 1958</font><br><br><br><center><cite><font color="purple">The Government Of Nigeria Has A Self Imposed Nightmare</font></cite></center> <p>The cleric known as a Sheik has threatened the government of nigeria not to dare to declare the bandits as terrorists.He accepts their actions are indeed terrorism but opines it will be unleashing hell to declare them as such.He explains it will invite their kins from around the sahel to march into nigeria.Something that we know has already happened.This man has a partner another very outspoken "sheik" in the present government.He heads the ministry of communication.We have to say it is not the first time the government of nigeria has been ordered to shut up! And it complied quietly.Everytime these men sneeze our government takes the knee.We are all watching.And we like to ask the governors and politicians from Southern nigeria to take note. This scenario has played out quite very often. It is not possible to run a modern soceity in such a manner.You are not able to maintain the rule of law under these kind of circumstances.When you hear the offended youths from Eastern nigeria sing and shout the word "zoo" it is their reason. The governement sent the army to peaceful youths carrying cellphones and flags in Eastern nigeria to slaughter them like wild animals.Protest is free speech.</p> <p> It is constitutional. In the United States people have flags for everything under the sun.For some the state of Texas is a nation. For others Carlifornia is a nation. They have their flags.Some have their mock currencies! We all know America has among if not best law enforcement in the world.We are told the IPOB carry flags.The nigerian government murders people because of flags? We have reports these people are slaughtered in their hundreds.Sometimes with military war planes.We think some ignorant people are excercising power they ought not to have! They must give an answer for their behaviour.We ask why the group that had been peaceful is being framed by the government and their leader apprehended.We watch the various efforts and attempts to incriminate him.We ask why they are being hunted like some game in the wild by the government of nigeria? Eastern nigeria has lost four million people before in the hands of these people.Pregnant women were ripped open.Children were slowly starved to death.Men who went to work were killed and cut to pieces. Our men in uniform were killed in the officers mess.We are tired and fade up! We are in agreement with Mark Twain " buy land because they are not making it anymore".We are in our own land and we are not selling it or giving it up!</p> <p> We have a menacing armed well organized group reconfiguring nigeria with governments tacit conivance and approval. We wish to let Mr. president know he has people with a very dark agenda in his government.The nigeria government will never bring any case against the IPOB that will meet the taste and test of equity and fairness.It is tribalistic and ethnic to have one set who will never go wrong.They can go to yorubaland,Idomaland, Igbiraland and cut off peoples right hands,kill and rape in broad day light and you refuse to see them. But you will accuse another group of crimes they have not commited.We heard the absurd accusation IPOB hijacked the ENDSARs protest in nigeria. But we saw the brutalization of an Uber driver in lagos on the memorial for those who were lost in the protest.Once his "ethnicity" was identified.By ethnicity I mean religion.</p> <p>We watched a nigerian being killed slowly in front of the camera by the law enforcement.The gallant man battled the evil which is a sign in its own right.Clement Adedotun is a christian from southern nigeria. Once he was identified to be a christian we saw him being slowly murdered on camera. Somebody has to hijack such a matter to make it resonate as evil? We must then say it is a possitive hijack in that case.It reminded us of the slaughter that occured in Abeokuta of Lieutnant Col. Gabriel Okonweze,the garrison commander, John Obienu commander of the second Reece Squadron, Lieutnant E.B Orok member and officer of the same Reece Squadron.It reminds us that General J T Aguiyi-Ironsi was not attacked in northern nigeria.He was killed in Ibadan while being hosted by a man he considered a brother.Notice that the executioner was not a fulani.He was a man from the among the people called the "vassals". Someboby we all know well today,called Theophilus Danjuma. He is not a fulani and he is not a muslim.The man who was to retire from the nigerian military as a General reminds us of how people have been used. It reminds us also of the effort and continuing harm awaiting the people who are still slubering through this slow smoothering.</p> <p>Lieutnant Col. Gabriel Okonweze,the garrison commander, John Obienu commander of the second Reece Squadron, Lieutnant E.B Orok member and officer of the same Reece Squadron were all gallant patriotic members of the nigerian military.But they were in a web by those with other motives and ideals. This event took place on July 29 1966 in Abeokuta, in present day Ogun State.Five decades after we are still dealing with the same issues.It was called a revenge coup.When a crime is committed in soceity the people responsible are punished. What happened here was an entire race of people were framed as purposed by the authors of this evil.In these chain of events Major General Johnson Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi the military head of state was killed. He is a christian and an Igbo.With him hundreds of thousands of people of eastern nigerian descent.It led to a so called war.These were all facade.The real reason for all of these things was to subdue the people and to gain access to the resources in Eastern nigeria.Nigeria has not changed at all since then.The faultlines have only been made worse.</p> <p>The introduction of extreme religious principles has unraveled northern nigeria irrepairably.They can't find consensus around anything except hatred for people of other belief system and values.The southward march of these forces is what groups like IPOB are resisting.We are shocked the nigerian government responds as if it is the sponsor of the unsettling set of events.We can't have a counter coup again.We have been in no place to make a coup. The Igbo people have been excluded from power in a country they freed from colonialism for over six decades.And they will not endure any other atrocity in nigeria under any guise.God forbid! It is not worth it.</p> <p> We needed to share such images with the rest of the world.It is not what anyone in government should be doing.We are being treated to how a soceity is destroyed and we have said so many times.If the nigerian government can't declare the people who are killing, looting, raping and burning entire towns as terrorist we have a real problem.We wish to warn the governors in Eastern nigeria to get a clue.They are not suppose to be clueless. Even if they are they must be made aware by events around them.We have a mole. And that too is being addressed by our brilliant minds.It is a chess move and it will have superior and better counter move.The man will represent to owners of the land as ordained by God or face Nature in her power and wrath.He is not going to be the foothold of evil in the land of the people who's cover is the name of God!</p> <br> <br> <p>Some Journalists Covering ENDSARS saw red and stars in police hands in Eko.Please treat your own citizens like humans!!!<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDfRbYjQarw" align="right"/>Our Lady Journalists are not spared. Start Video from The Beginning Just Watch!</p> <br> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBWx4c_faFc"/>man brutalized in lagos nigeria</a></p> <br><br><center><Cite><font color="blue">What The Former Head of State And Now President Need To Do</font></cite></center> <p>At this age the former tough man must be sobering down at least inwardly.We are going to ignore the fact his amiable wife has cried out severally on his behalf.Our suggestion to the former military head of state is to quickly empanel some men and women to look into returning to the nigerian constitution.While at it they must also look into creating the Middle-belt region.We are going to assume that the sponteneity with which the sharia declaration happened is a sign of its popularity.We must not reason the people were taken unawares.No, we can't do that.In which case we must allow the sharia states to become a region.But let all of this be brought back into the framework of the existing founding constitution.</p> <p>It is the only true help the man that contested for presidency more than any other nigerian can offer the country he "rules".No, I mean to say govern. It will make him a leader.We want him to have a legacy.His many attempts to help nigeria are at least acts of genuine concern.We remember "War Against Indiscipline(WAI) of his former incarnation.We like to help him with a framework and structure.It is what his efforts have lacked. And assure him the world will stand with him all the way as he tries to heal what is a mortal wound in soceity.If he is unable to take this step it must be in fear of the people who eliminated Alhaji Shehu Musa Yar'Adua for not "using the military". If they prevail then nigeria dies. Emotions and force of arms and whatnots will not prevent this.The sheer force of the desire of millions of youths to have the life they now see in color in social media will confront everything before it. As we know Nature wins very often! There is no question about that.We do hope he can prevail if he pursues this brotherly agenda.</p> <br> <p>He can then grant amnesty to everyone including Boko Haram.You heard me right.We can't enter the rabbit hole and pursue and chase something that has no value. The people who are willing to kill themselves make it hard for you to have laws.Laws are premised on the sanctity of life.The suicide bombers are not in anyway worried about themselves.Why would they worry about anyone else? We must prevent our citizens from getting to the place where they make such determinations about themselves.Very often I find myself wondering why we allowed ourself ignore the feelings of others until they descend to such lows.We can at least attempt to remedy the course of these type of events.We know education and exposure to reasoning always accomplishes such goals. These are very angry young people. They are just fade up with their own soceity. The step proposed will bring healing.It brings decision making home.</p> <p>The regions will absorb their own and begin the healing process.The sooner this is done the sooner the politicians can breathe easy.In the present situation they should be worried.The type of unsettled situation is how violent revolutions happen.If that occurs they are prime targets and they all know it.We urge them to go to work.It is in their real interest to do so.It is not as difficult to destroy anything as it is to build. We have watched nigeria being destroyed by some who lack the empathy and compassion for their fellow citizens.They deny them their humanity and are quite suprised they are acting in very unusual ways.In places where people show patriotism there is a reason why.Give our people what to believe in.We urge civil soceity to see how this can be brought about quickly.We are tired of hearing about africa and nigeria's potentials.She was on the verge of actuating these potentials before being stopped by the same people who can't stop the songs about her many potentials! <br> <br><center><Cite><font color="purple"> The Need To Frame Issues Properly</font></cite></center> <p>The so called trial of the IPOB leader is a very sad event for so many people. We have a nationalist being tried.He raises many pertinent issues.He does them in his own authentic style.And the group he leads had been peaceful.The other groups envy the cohession, poise and focus of this group.And it is all thanks to the intellect and charisma of their leader.The terrorists and murderers are receiving millions in ransome payment by this same government.I do not like the fact he is in the hands of the forces of nigeria.I have never seen a more confussed entity.The present dispensation has not hidden its disdain for the people of Eastern nigeria especially the Igbo.The IPOB is not different from associations like the NAACP in the United States.There are people in the group who nurse seperatist ideas.Who cares? Human beings can nurse whatever makes them feel good.You can't try to frame them based on that. The law must see everyone as sacred irrespective of their views. It is evil to try to incriminate a person based on their views.In the United States of America there are militias by the number.It is one of the rights of the citizen.It is not the job of government to curtail these rights.The nigerian government which has not found a way to engage any segment of soceity continues in its march of impunity.I have heard the man Mr.Nnamdi Kanu say he is not interested in political power.I have heard him repeat very often that all he wishes to see is the people of the region "exist free:"for them "to live and die in dignity".We do not know why he is an enemy of the nigeria state.He seeks a referendum to determine if the concensus to live together still exists.It happened in Britain recently.What is wrong with this demand?.The people who imposed sharia law without even seeking the views of those affected do not care to know how the rest in soceity view the development.</p> <p>If the people who wish to kill him are so sure there is "unity" why are they afraid to have the question answered by the people themselves? Why do they answer for people who are present? We are telling them we know the terror in Eastern nigeria is sponsored. We hold them responsible for it.We know their agents in the evil including the beneficiaries of their political chicanery in the space.The army goes to a home of a man with a case in court to kill him instead of wait for the court date. The members of IPOB have been slaughtered with reckless abandon.They have forgotten the people have suffered irrepairable losses in this same system before.The wounds are still very present.We reject their spurious claims and accusations against Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.We know how minds like their own work.They wish to see how the people will respond. All these theory of treason can be seen in such devious light.However many of us are not impressed with their many efforts.If it comes to surrounding a people who have lost four million of their own before with killers it is a step too far! If it comes to threatening them to make them abandon their resources it will be rejected.We demand the case be handled properly or it will mark a watershed on the issues he raises.People of Eastern nigerian are tired of the games with their lives and existence.And they are not very impressed with the effort to reduce them to upstarts.Nigeria, indeed Africa will not be a free entity without their relentlessness.We remind the federal government to call its agencies to order and demand they act with decorum.We state in the presence of the rest of the world that enough is enough!</p> <p>We know there are many people with extreme views in the government.It is pertinent to remind such that their views neither constitute nor represent the laws of the land.Mr Kanu is not a terrorist.He is a man born into a family of people from eastern nigeria.He is an offspring of a very rich culture.He has his rights and nobody will abiridge those rights on account of any other factors.He is not going to be treated like a common criminal.We saw a man who won a democratic election treated like a common criminal and killed by this same people.Chief Moshood Abiola was an eloquent nigerians who made a case for true unity in nigeria and prevailed.He was killed by this people who want unity that has no definition.Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa was killed when he asked why the lands of Ogoni was being poluted for their own resources from which they receive nothing.We are very determined this will never be such a case.By GOD it better not be! We ask why people like Dr.Beko Ransome-Kuti are not here with us? How about Chief Gani Fawehenmi? We demand to know what killed former governor Chief Sam Mbakwe. We recall the man who answered the call of their type of unity Dr Chuba Okadigbo. Where is he? With all due respect we are told that Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu's health deteriorated after his trip "in search for common ground".It seems to some of us they have only one solution to anyone from Southern nigeria who appears determined to seek a change in status quo.They have all been rewarded with this same fatal gift.There are just a very few exception to this rule.We know those people and why they survived.</p> <p>Mr Nnamdi Kanu is a patriotic man who loves his people.We have seen him making his case around the world.The places where he has been with the case stand as witnesses.He is not a man of suspect logic and mindset.We see terrorists posing with governors taking selfies with their guns.It happens all the time across Northern nigeria. We have not seen these men who wish to portray him as a bad person do the same in the face of the horror the country has faced for over twelve years.When they sponsored non nigerians who enter the eastern region raping and killing and destroying farmlands it goes beyond antics and politics.It is a campaign to wipe a people out.It is not unusual for any human with any awareness to act in his own defence when threatened. To make attempts to impute sin and crime under such circumstances flies in the face of reality and equity.If the people who are attempting to run a country with no agreement think Mr. Nnamdi Kanu's incarceration will confer legitimacy on them they are wrong.It will instead mark the beginning of a different kind of struggle in nigeria.It will be the beginning of the actual struggle to disband the franchise.Sovereign people are free to reconfigure however they choose.We do not see the benefit of an entity that is unable to answer or resolve even the least of issues amicably.</p> <img src="umuibe.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <img src="umuaka.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><img src="umuigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <center><a href="#igboworship.explained">Igbo Worship Is Not Pegan...click to see article</a></center> <br><br><br><center><font color="purple"><cite>How The South East Was Unraveled By The Nigerian State</cite></font></center> <p>On March 9 2019 the newly minted Chief Justice of nigeria declared the fourth runner up in a gubernatorial election the winner in Imo state.The candidate had actually been made a null entry by a court judgement which made an opponent the candidate for the political party the APC.We all remember how Justice Onoghen was disgraced out of office and nearly imprisoned to make room for the man who will precipitate this reality.How could you have told Justice Onoghen to declare a fourth runner up the winner? In this case the man knew what to do. The agenda is no secret to the elites from northern nigeria.Imagine how they were burst dialecting with the poor southern elites in a so called National Conference when they already had a date for declaring the sharia law in every single northern state.Before the election and the nebulous agenda it was part of, the space and eastern nigeria was at peace.</p> <p> At this time the state and space is picture of peace and calm. Many articles on this site are still up documenting the progression to the present hell.It has been a precipitous slide into avoidable disaster. We saw all of this coming and warned the people. But they thought we are alarmists.We said the same of the present Anambra election. They tried four years ago and failed.Fast forward to today in October 2021. The space is in a state of war.Homes and neighborhood are being burnt.Cars are tourched as if they cost no money.The unkwown gunmen, the police, the nigerian military and the now hardened agitators trade accusations.Disarray and disorder and mayhem rules the day.There is chaos and near anarchy in the entire South eastern nigeria.Many say it is the case in the entire eastern nigeria all things considered.The federal government is now contemplating declaring a state of emergency in Anambra state. Imagine Anambra state of all places. This place was a haven of peace.It is hard to think a government brought about such reality in soceity!</p> <p>All through the murderous mayhem of Boko Haram nobody raised such a spectre.But the political elites in Eastern nigeria see no danger yet.They think if they join APC everything will be all right.But they also understand that by joining APC their state and space become the home of foreign armed and well equipped bandits whose motive and source are unknown.In a nigeria where twelve states declared Sharia law overnight to the shock of the rest we think it is time to take matters a little less lakadaisically.Perhaps it is time to begin to think of safety and security in the true sense.It flies in the face of reason to call the army that is the bedrock of this arrangement to protect its victims.The sooner we all begin to seek answers the better.We know the nigerian authorities are well aware that declaring a state of emergency anywhere in nigeria is playing into the tigers den.The nigerian military are perhaps bidding their time and waiting really patiently for a perfect excuse.No. I am just kidding! When that happens we know it is good bye n-ig-ge-ria!</p> <br><center><cite><font color="blue">What Nigerians Want To See Is Dialogue Not Soldiers And Armoured Tanks</font></cite></center> <p>The pranksters who have hijacked nigeria must not assume they are that good.Right now they can be called before they pull any of their stunts.For any magician the fun in what he does is in the suprise with which his viewers respond to them.When the tricks are all well known the magician must relocate or his means of livlihood is in danger.The nigerian magicians have run out of tricks.Military coups are out of the question.They exhausted the priviledge completely. And now the same actors are not even able to divert the attention of the suffering masses.The Goodluck Jonathan government used the National conference.The government before was by far involved in efforts to resolve the issues.It was a trend we lost almost immediately.</p> <br> <p>The present government and its leader are not able to abandon his inclination to the use of violent approaches and methods.They just can't seem to be able to do so. When there is a disagrement the opponent must capitulate or perish. It is a very dangerous inclination in a democracy or in any government. Purpose of government is to harness disagreements. No two people can exits concurrently.It is impossible for any two people to be exact and have no differences at all.Disagreements happen.They are natural. Recently the government fell out with nigerian resident medical practitioners and could not find a good place for an olive branch until all the doctors were recruited by mostly european countries! As though such was the goal.It is not the first time an exodus have occured under this man's leadership. Most nigerians remember the story and advert clip referred to as "Andrew: I' m checking out"! His first coming witnessed the exodus of the cream of the nigerian intelligentia.The man was the crystal ball of the nigerian military for many years.We have a former coup maker who knew something about all the coups in nigeria and who benefitted from almost all but one.</p> <br> <p>It is true we have a man who thinks he understands the nigerian people.The man seen as crafty is now the iconic desert fox.And nigerians also know him well.He has no idea it goes both ways! We know who created and who is creating insecurity in eastern nigeria.We have no doubt at all what is going on in eastern nigeria.The only place governors and leaders could not do anything to protect citizens.Citizens around the world reacted to do so after crying into silence, fear and cowardice and the governors wake up from their sweet slumber. Today those who sponsored the insecurity want to secure the area by eliminating the entire youths population and future of the area. And this to the glee of the gullible men they have handpicked as leaders in the space.The politicians who are unable to read the handwriting do not impress us at all.The politicians who have been out foxed are not going to ever win our respect.Their radar is well below the mark of the ailment in the land.They are not the answer. It ought to be made clear to them.</p> <br> <p>It is time for the man to do something different for the sake of posterity.We urge him to dig deeper.There must be something more within.There got to be.There must be something better. At least so we expect.Relying on soldiers to resolve every problems and issue in a democratic government is so very odd.What new ideas does he bring? What brings him back to the state house and to Aso Rock? For what did he contest for the presidency three times? Certainly not the use of the military as panacea for every issue in the land.We said this was what put the young republic in trouble in 1964.The soldiers were called out over and over until they asked why they should not do the job anyway! The answer is dialogue.There is no magic wand.If this trend continues the soldiers will draw the ire of frustrated citizens.And this dispensation and the blame must not be their own.</p> <br> <p>The politicians were no helpful when soldiers were moonlighting as politicians.Why do they expect soldiers now to solve all their own problems? Matters of power do not work that way.It does not help one was an ex-soldier.The old and the new will always have differences.We know as one group age they begin to seek and question the real reason and purpose for existence.In some people this questions arise earlier than others.We urge the elites to rethink for a change. The space need to be returned to the arrangement the people agreed to in the first place.It is the solution.Nothing else will work.All the ammunition in the world will fail! Every armour and every soldier will fail and so shall every politician who ignores truth!</p> <br> <br> <br><br><center><img src="drownings.jpg" width="180" height="120" align="right" /><font color="purple"><cite>Still Africa's Children Are Being Wasted And Their Resources Stolen</cite></font><img src="drownings.jpg" width="180" height="120" align="left" /></center> <p>We started this work to make a certain point. The african people can do a lot better. Sure we understand so much has gone wrong and much more still are wrong.But we have made some progress. It is suppose to encourage us. It is suppose to make us know we can succeed if we try hard enough.All the places we admire today went through the very rough patch we are on now.If one looks at the history of Europe it has been a very difficult struggle.If we are unsure we still remember the two world wars.They are very recent.Yes Europe had challenges and still has some even today.What about the United States? I do not need to start anything about the USA! We have a place that seem to beg for challenges.It does seem they are at their very best when challenged.</p> <p>Imagine if the spirit at the push for independence was sustained in Africa! It sometimes does not seem as though these man were indeed our forebearers. Some of us remember them with so much thankfulness.We had leaders and men who were very happy to own one or two cars and a home. Men who were easily contented and satisfied.The rich ones among them earned their wealth by dint of hard work.They had clear occupation and pathways to their wealth. Not so today.We have a new situation since the emergency military leadership of the seventies and eighties.The men who fought for independence were replaced by a group many of whom were in office because they could.There was no clear reason or vision.Having attained power under such murky circumstances they chose to amass even more power and opulence as the way to attain relevance in soceity.</p> <p>It is now hurting our communities and our people.It does seem it was all they really wanted.With the few exception of Jerry Rawlings of Ghana and Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso the rest have very suspect legacies.Worst of all they left a trail of visionless leadership. Their brand of leadership has been marked by capital flight, brain drain, political drift and increased conflicts.We must therefore find the values that led to the liberty we all lay claim to.We must again find the values that led to the access we now have.We have resources we use or misuse.We remember the self denial of the young men who fought for independence. They were leaders in their day. They deferred the pleasure of their youth to fight for the future.Our leaders after independence followed in the profile of service in our communities.Today the leaders want everything their eyes can see.Everything outside of themselves is not important.The only entity of imporatance is themselves.Their children are abroad getting quality education.Their homes have electricity and running water and everything life requires.The other people are not even entitled to very fundamental and basic things. And must not complain!</p> <p>Other children are in camps as " internally displaced citizens".Even the colonialists were not this outrageously vain.Their children were here with them for the most part.Many of their children received their formative education here in nigeria.They received treatment here mostly when sick.They did not own rolls royce cars in different colors! What we see today is insane and totally vile.And must be altered at all cost.It is these behaviours that make service delivery to the people second or even third tier need.It is why in the face of attenuation in resources the leadership abandons these things which are low in the scale of priorities.In other to keep the people from uniting to find answers they spurn religious differences. If that fails they use ethnicity. It is the resort of visionless leadership and the mark of a dispensation that has run out of ideas.In the face of so much that needs to be done why spin ethnicity? Experience has shown that in the face of boundless corruption the way to divert attention is the use of these evil methods.</p> <p> There are no roads.People can't access clean water for even drinking.There is no electricity.We have no schools to educate the next generation.What is evil is that most of these men went to good schools and they got their education for free.There are no hospitals.Before the petroleum boom there were not only hospitals there were health centers and dispensaries in remote areas. These afforded rural population access to health care.We have leaders who see no reason to emplace health facilities.It is the reason they will run abroad when they sense a forceful sneeze. There is no level of healthcare they can trust in their own environment. In every way it speaks of a shameful type of leadership.There are no industries.it has become too far fetched to think or even speak of such matters.We have able potential good hands being wasted by trigger happy uniformed and armed bandits. Our youths are now begging to be safe! Leadership has come that low.They are unable to guarantee safety. Our youths are doing everything to escape their own so called country.Our communities that were becoming very beautiful places are being destroyed by poor leadership.</p> <p>Our goal for the space called nigeria is to call attention to the fact there are so many people trapped in the present arraangement.It is very dangerous to maintain this drift and expect it is going to become acceptable at some point.It is wishful thinking.The space has so many brilliant minds.If we are not planning to have a disaster we must respect the work of the men who were diligent.Nigeria is a negotiated space.For that we must thank the British colonialists.If there was one thing they got right it was this one.And it is very important.It was very diligent of them to persuade the nations to agree on how they will relate.If the space called nigeria will ignore a very diligent agreement that actually considered everything happening today, where will the answers come from? We can state with every certainty the work they trifle with can't be replicated.Actually their effort of 1999 amuses many of us.It glossed or outright ignores the most pertinent issues. In a document attempting to bring together different nations the issue of relationship was the least discussed.It is strange how they expect such matters to be left to the imagination.</p> <p>It glossed over this huge issue and rambles through with all other matters.The people who resort to violence as the first option must show us how they intend to repair the damage they will cause.When you hurt people beyond their patience and tolerance how will they share one space with you? What about the lives being wasted? How do you repalace such sacred entities? We warn the people who will not consider these matters that they are making armed conflict a certainty. When they have no other option in an agenda of forced unity they might be tempted to use the only one possible. And that will leave no choice to the victims.Therefore we must not be killing those who complain and agitate. It is their right.It is what it means to be free. Unless we are being recolonized. If it turns out such is the new order it will not go without being challenged very strongly.What we see now are just the preamble.We call the present agitations in nigeria only habingers of what is to come if nigeria is allowed to fail completely.And with the present level of borrowing it is almost a certainty.When the real storm begins it will shake everything very hard.The people who are feeling comfortable now will understand why we ask them to act with dispatch and with circumspection.</p> <p>Leadership is seeking anwers to challenges.Travelling and speeches are one thing but making the lives of the led better is the real challenge.Quite clearly we lay the blame of the african condition at the doorsteps of the soldiers who led coups.The men who chose to unpatriotically overthrow democratic governments starting a wave of constitution making.Constitution making became a mere trifle.These men have instituted the idea of leadership with no vision and no purpose.There was a cycle of men who come to power and never wished to leave.But these served nothing but expensive comic relief for mocking outside world and another spell of tyrany for citizens.Men like Idi Amin of Uganda fall into this cathegory.The excercise of power with no accountability has left africa on the present crossroads.Africa had almost two decades when resources were wasted including human capital in various ways.It was a time of leadership with neither value nor vision or purpose.It was almost without exception.</p> <p>Only with little patches of exceptions of light it was an eclipse.We must put the blame where it belongs. It is how we can find our way out.And we must tell the present day politicians why their learning was a gross error and must be undone.Nigeria must either return to the negotiated soceity or accept the administrative space is an error.In which case the units may choose how best to reconfigure.Businesses fail.The nihilist mantra that nigerian unity is not negotiable is a sad statement of face saving deceit. Where is the unity? We are not able to see the unity at all.The space was set up as a business venture.If anything it has been made a bad business environment.Following even along the pattern and template provided by the colonialist affords us a working business space.Now it is not the business space neither a soceity as to be called a country nor will it ever attain nationhood.The people who fought for it put their heart into building it.They were put out.The ones who inherited it are in pursuit of an order based on presumptions and conceit. And we see their ideas as mostly unworkable. </p> <p>The skirmishes for which the coup of 1966 was excused is not unusual for a young country less than one decade old.For three decades the military were stuck with the least of these same issues.They would not wait for even half a decade. What was the value of the freedom the people in the space celebrated in 1960? If they could not disagree what is the meaning of liberty? Why must their own fellow citizens be slaughtering them, burning their home for demanding a better soceity? It is time to see where this is leading. It is not peace and unity quite clearly.And it is not a good place at all.But without peace no soceity can provide for its own. No price is too high to reach an agreement acceptable to everyone in a soceity if unity and peace are the desired goals.It is how you attain peace.We are calling the nigerian politicians to stand up and act or they have made themselves all loosers. Many of the people who won democracy for nigeria from the military were martyred.The appologists will go right back and choose many of the people responsible for the situation.These men are no different now.Only difference is one group had uniforms on and the other have none.</p> <p>Some people had a vision and a goal to seek change and most of them paid the supreme price.In fact they have all been eliminated.We are asking the youths to examine the truth we are revealing to them here today.It is now their cause.Today we have those who stir up religion or ethnicity in control of the soceity.We see no vision or purpose in their policy thrusts.When it suits them they will divide the people. The next time they want unity.It is all in what they want for themselves.We will remember the brave men of NADECO.One day some of us will stand up and salute their bravery and courage.Right now we have men and women who like to cash in and "cease opportunity".Like those who also "cease power" we have the same results.Otherwise how can election be the priority in nigeria today? No day passes that scores are not killed and their home burnt and their villages sacked. Who will vote in these elections? Is it not inhuman and outright wicked even evil to go to a camp to ask people to vote in their own country? Who will answer the querries as to why they are in camps in their own country? These leaders make the idea of seeking alternatives very plausible even inevitable.</p> <p>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</p> <img src="umuaka.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><img src="umuanyi6.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><center><font color="purple">Politicians From Southern Nigeria Are The Problem Of The Nigerian Politics</font></center> <p>The bravery of the nigerian youths at Lekki gate where many of them paid the supreme sacrifice is not suppose to be an event we just throw away.And then return to business as usual.Any soceity with such atittude will go no where.Politicians are the biggest problem the IPOB have in Eastern nigeria. In their type of politics you must beg for acceptance.As though they lost the right to be in the space at any time.One is in his own space.We are not able to understand why they like to beg.And only the IPOB has this mindset. It is very sprising to the ones who have become to riding everyone in the space. So the begging politicians are frightened out of their wits.But in northern nigeria terrorist are called bandits and bandits are called herders.Politicians from southern nigeria are dying to be loved by the people of northern nigeria.But it is not going to happen. It is not a dating game. It is politics. When the people who purport to lead are unsure of what they want the soceity is going to be stagnant.Right now it is the case with nigeria.We can see what is going on.Soldiers come in and they become a political fraternity exclusive to themselves.We are seing the same thing now with the present politicians.</p> <p>The politicians who ushered in independence had vision and purpose.Perhaps because they were battle fit.Today all we see from some people who have hijacked the apparatus of coercion of state in nigeria is a streak of foreign influence in which they lack coherence.They are neither Africans, nor Europeans nor are they Arabs.You might disagree with Col.Moummar Gadaffi. But the man projected his africanness over religion and over arabism. Proudly wearing his "dashiki" on every stage in the world he projected profound confidence.We know that also made him few enemies.Some people are not expected to project some type of image.We know a man like Nelson Mandela was tolerated to project confidence.After all more than half his life was already taken from him! Not that we condone violence in any way or form.However we know how it factors in the way the world operates.When we watch these people who claim to lead nigeria we see nothing reassuring.Tell me what you see! If it is just me let me know.They are so inauthentic they even disappoint themselves.When they purport religion they lack both empathy and compassion.And they therefore fail the test.They want to be europeans they lack the ability of the european to press for the result he desires.In their effort to be africans they lack authority, genuiness and the sense of brotherhood the hallmark of african community.</p> <p>We urge nigerians to rise as one man and demand to be returned to the constitution that gave them a country.It is their right.Anyone opposed to it must do what the British people did in Brexit.If they fear the army and their guns they must remember they won the so called democracy from them inspite of all of that.In demanding to have a country that guarantees everyone a future they are fighting for the soldiers who have become private security guards.We urge the nigerians to get up and claim their country back.It is not nigeria when the constitution that created nigeria is abandoned.It is not nigeria when the federating units are all mere housekeepers to Abuja.Yorubaland still grows cocoa and the world still needs it.Hausaland,Tivland,Nupeland,kafanchan,kagoro, kajuru,Kabba,keffi... still grows groundnuts it is still a staple around the globe. This land produces cotton in abundance. Why are they selling poverty and death to us? Igboland and the Ijaw and Ogoni and effik.ibibio, and annang still grow palm oil and palm kernel.It is still a valued product around the world.How can we be talking about foreign exchange shortage? It is a gimmick of suppression and oppression.Our people must reconstitute their various marketing boards in the various regions.These can take in their revenues from the sales of their produce.The proceeds they can use to refurbish industries and rebuild communities.</p> <p>We are going to find a way to point prosperity to our youths and give them an expectation. It is the reason they fight. If any one called government resists these things so must the people ignore such until it is made completely irrelevant and a non-factor.What these impostors have opposed are the use and reason for government.Eastern nigeria where new industries and workports were springing up like mushrooms is now full of morgues.It is now the booming business.So far the "federal" government has not found it necessary to stiffle this new Igbo business! You show young people the fact of their own mortality and so they flee nigeria.Those who can't dig in to fight.It makes sense to me. Who would not? The politics in nigeria has been so much misogyny.We recall the loot of the military president Sanni Abacha.We call it "loot". It is too much to be referred to as misappropriation.The devil will deny some things we have experienced. The devil will say "please do not accuse me of such evil.You people always accuse me, and I know I can be bad sometimes. But I can't do anything like this one!" It is the reason for the problems in soceity.It is very poor value system.It produces its own type of leadership!</p> <p>Among the present crop of politicians in both the house and the senate only Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe understands that the country must have equal and powerful federating units to be called a federation.It must have leadership that is sound in reasoning to be called a republic.We want them to be the judge if they have these.Only the consitution negotiated by our brave forebearers gurantee them such.And they throw it away. We watch as they beat the air.We yawn at the vanity of the useless and baseless arguments.Where are the real issues? How can autonomous entities living on the land with resources be begging for just mere sustenance? From where will prosperty come? Are they going to conjure it with magical powers? In that constitution there is a framework for their safety and prosperity.There is a reason they are being made offers like the 1999 constitution. It is because it is inferior.The people who want the upperhand love it because it offers them that upperhand. For what reason is it accetable to them? But in declaring a sharia order without negotiating with the rest they break the spirit of the very order they themselves wish to propagate. They can't be different and propagate unity at the same time. It is called a falacy.If they wish unity the only basis is a return to the 1963 consitution.</p> <p>Nigerians find themselves in a country where they mirror the south african people they helped liberate. It is now the popular saying "physician heal thyself: what we saw you do in Capernaum also do here". I wish to render the passage accurately from the Scripture...( Luke 4:23). There, Jesus is quoted as saying, "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, "Physician, heal thyself': whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country". They fought a world power to help liberate south africa.Our present politicians can't look fulanis who only constitute less than five percent of nigeria population in the eye to demand their rights. We do not hate them, but they must be equal citizens for nigeria to claim to be a country.If the issue fails the entity is a pariah state like the old South Africa. You can never find anywhere the population of the fulanis is documented by its self.It is always the hausa/fulani.Why? The hausa are a distinct people and culture.And so are the fulani.Tell us the people who have conered the oil discovered in northern nigeria. We use the term fulani due to lack of any other way to capture the ethnic nature of these events. But it is just a few people taking what belong to the community. It is how poverty and suffering and death has been multiplied in nigeria. We have those who try to put the face of religion on these issues. Surely no religion will propergate these kind of heartlessness.Tell us who own the gold found in Zamfara.Whereas they maintain iron grip on the oil resources in southern nigeria their own is an exclusive issue.The ports in Lagos are not controlled by yorubas. I do not imagine a situation a yoruba will take control of the Kano airport.</p> <p> No matter how united you make nigeria such is no possibility.If a yoruba is in a position of authority he will feel so vulnerable he can't function. He knows he is being merely tolerated.When you go to Apapa or Tin-can Island you will see the difference.We are a country are we not? So give us the intelligence report of the ones minning the gold in Zamfara and all the other places in northen nigeria exclusively. We know who sits over the oil now being taken from Anambra state for which they wish to take over the state at all cost.The governor of Anambra stet is begging to have the state classified as an oil producing state.In the south they are forced to submit their precious assets to an absurd and skewed commonweath. We also know who have hijacked NNPC which is located in the heart of eastern nigeria.</p> <p> We really urge the politicians from southern nigeria to study the behaviours of the southerners who won independence from Britain. They are not people like them. They are not even able to confront much more fight the fulani.Give us the population of the hausa and that of the fulani as distinct ethnicities.Our politicians must begin to understand they are not on a jamboree.What they are sent to do is the alternative of fighting wars.Democracy is an alternative to warfare.Do they want us to explain why some of the fulani resorts to arms? Not all the fulanis benefit from the nihilism some of them propagate in nigera.When they bring in armed bandits and thugs claiming to be fulanis how helpful is it to the nigerian born fulanis? Are they intimidated? Are they unable to do the same? Who enslaved them in their own land? All the posturing have purpose and intended to intimidate. And now we have a bunch of little frightened sisies, and very timid and intimidated politicians. Only with a very few exceptions, of course!. It does seem they lack the perception. </p> <p>What kind of representatives are they? Nelson Mandela and the others stood up to the powers of the world and won.So again we ask what kind of representatives are these who accept a country they are running by name alone? It is not a federation.The components are corporate beggars. It is not a republic when the learders reject reason.Forget the bogus lies of "we agreed to be together".Agreements have boundaries and limits. We find it hard to put our heads around a soceity that tends to head backwards with speed.If we were attempting to be one people then we can be called a country.The people at the helm of affairs are bust creating lethal wedges. Some are very busy looking for ways to seperate themselves as a super class. But will not hear when the people they loathe and trample want to keep their distance.You do not get a soceity that can unite in such a way.Without a common reason and cause where can anyone find unity? Some have for many years used religion as their sure wedge to empower themselves.The faultlines they have created have become chasms.Those who wish to create a soceity or country unite around a common value.So nigeria is not one soceity.And definitely and certainly not a country. The operators throw away the founding constitution like burglers who damage the door to gain access. And we can't seem to find an acceptable agreement much more unanimous consent! </p> <br> <br><a href="#new.pilot">Arresting And Trying The Wrong Ones</a> <br> <br><br><center><font color="blue"><cite>The Reason For The Assault On Eastern Nigeria And Igbolnd </cite></font></center> <p>The people who precipitated the war in nigeria had a goal.The goal was the extermination of the Igbo people.They chose to use a proxy.The process might have used a combination of religious and ethnic facades but we know everything come down to the economics.It would have been odd for them to come into africa to fight a war.The proxy was not aware of this and why they were a convinient front and facade.The proxy was satisfied with inflicting a mortal harm.And needed help.The other party knew it will not do.But it was all they could get at this point.Experience has thought them that the people who are determined to be free will always find a way.There was always the next time, for better or for worse.The reason was the tear away speed at which Eastern nigeria was being transformed.The region was dotted with top of the line hospitals.These hospitals were well equipped and manned by very good professionals.In Abriba, the Akahaba Hospital, The St Marys in Urua Akpan,The Queen Elizabeth, Umuahia,Uyo, Ikot Ekpene,Ogoja, Enugu,Aba, Port Harcourt, Calabar in Abakaliki..You had hospitals that will compete with any in the world.They were ran very professionally and maintained in a state that reflected universal best practices.And we are talking about in the 1950s and 1960.Now look where we are!</p> <p> The things that are being attempted in nigeria now, Eastern nigeria had done and successfully completed.Eastern nigeria had a Steel rolling mill called Niger Steel.It was the source of the metal for fabrication of mechanical equpment to aid agro-based production.Eastern nigeria had gone very far in producing devices and equipments that aided rural agrculture locally and even exported what was then popularly called "Igbo made".Nigerian attempt at these things have all been collosal failures.The nigerian goverment spent tens of billions on each of Katsina,in Aladja, in Ajaokuta. They are all standing still.But no steel.On the other hand the miracle of Niger steel in Eastern nigeria was replicated in the case for small scale industries.Road consruction was going on at a phenomenal speed.The rural industrialization program of Eastern nigeria was a model.Eastern nigeria was spending close to half of its earned revenue on education.The people were building almost everything they used.They fed themselves.Eastern nigeria was on a march to the future.</p> <p> We are going to keep an eye on the facts here.We want to show the world why there is an effort to obstruct and hinder the people of this area.It is what you do if you find you are unable to compete.But who wants to be in such a situation in perpetuity? The people go everywhere and succeed why must they fail in their own community?It is time for the world to do the clear and obvious.We had assumed there was enough goodwill to accomodate the differences. Clearly there is none.Rather than witness yet another annihilation the world might now quickly address what is a clear travesty and injustice.It will be helpful to allow a people to use their own resources to solve their problems.There are chances they might become part of the solution than be part of the problem.In the sixties Indonesia and such countries came to Eastern nigeria to seek advice and help.The country borrowed palm seedlings from Eastern nigeria. Presently nigeria imports vegetable oil and even palm oil from Indonesia!</p> <br> I encourage both the curious and honest observer to consider the following facts: <br> The gap between the Eastern Region and other parts of Nigeria was too much. It led to resentment and envy <br> <p>i. Between 1954 & 1964, Eastern Nigeria was described as the fastest growing economy in the world by Harvard reviews. Faster than China, Singapore and the "Asian Tigers". <p>ii. The Eastern govt was the only government in the world that invested 45% of its revenues in Education. <p>iii. The Eastern Region had the biggest Electricity Supply. Best Hospitals And The Igbos made up 60% Of Nigerian Civil Service and had the highest middle income class in proportion by far of all the regions in nigeria. <p>iv. The Eastern Nigeria had the highest Number of Registered Cars in Nigeria as at 1963 by a large margin. <p>v. The Number of Registered Business in Nigeria as at 1963 was as follows: <p>Eastern Region~ 68,220 <p>Western Region ~ 5776 <p>Northern Region~ 2407. <p>vi. All the progress the Eastern Nigeria made was destroyed during the Civil War that lasted only three years and they haven't recovered ever since.Many of us strongly believe the war was fought to create the present condition primarily. Many thought a war just broke out.In some quaters this was premeditated and well thought out. Today a big fraction fraction of those who participated in it against the Biafran position and argument now know differently.The policy thrust has been to deny good footing to anything that would cause meaningful growth.The very successful cement company in Nkalagu the Nigercem a brand with repute is dead.The Modern Ceramics in Umuahia produced beautiful ceramics which adorned family tables in the entire Eastern nigeria.The industry was systematically reduced to non existence.We can go on and on.But it is no use. The same has been used to kill off existing industries.The nigerian government maintains a tight grip on foreign exchange and currency to control importation of tools and materials that will aid resurgence in the region's economy.</p> <p>The numbers speak a volume of truth. We use data that is concise and provable.The records are available.It is in these numbers we find the reason the people of Eastern nigeria are always at cross purposes with some in nigeria. The northern nigerian elite thrives in undermining the population to rule and control.Everytime they attempt it on these people the sparks start to fly.We give the references in case anyone is interested in the facts and the truth.Some people are not happy to see the region emerge again from the dust and the ruins.It frightens them. We urge our people to focus on what they have began.The world hopefully is paying attention this time.If not we are going to take another chance. This time determine truely protect what God has given us at all cost and by every means possible.We do so with the hope he will give us friends and genuine well wishers.For those who think they can placate their enemies we say this: to try to appease your hater is to cease to exist all together.Even that will not surfice. The enemy will desecrate the history and your own legacy.It is our job to defend our present, our future and our legacy.</p> <p>Crédit: Modernisation And Politics : Nigeria And The Igbo By Paul Anber</p> <p>With all due credits: </p> <img src="igboglam.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><img src="adamma2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font><br> <br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><center><font color="blue">WHY HAS THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT CHOSEN WAR OVER PEACE?</font></center></a> <br><center><h4>Another Call On The Nigerian Government To Return The Country To Its Founding Constitution</h4></center> <p>Why is nigeria still operating a constitution that ignores the hard work that went into nigotiating a country from many nations? And why is it the present group of elected politicians accept such falacy? We had thought having a mandate will spur them to act in line with the desires of the people. Instead we have something like a coup. It is not difficult now to see what some of us have been saying for over two decades.We had found in the first president in this dispensation a man who had the capacity to return nigeria to the founding constitution.But we were called names. I was sickened by the whole event.The country was free from debt and we saw a unique opportunity to make the lives of our people much better.Turning the states over to the regions would have meant we would not be in the present mess.Some self-centered people will not allow that. If our present call is again ignored as usual the country will break up.Even as we speak it will take skill to persuade those who have moved on to rethink.</p> <br> <p>Right now they are focused on the benefits the concise entities will bring. And it is very difficult to ignore such realities.Nigeria has been a nightmare as far as planning goes.We call for an immediate return to the regions.Right today even now it is the only viable option.Who will conduct a referendum in nigeria now? Yet you can't lead people against their wish.If niegrian leaders do not wish to return to the 1963 constitution they are in very big mess.If the resources were even there what about the logistics? Many parts are unreachable on account of war. If the Union will ever live again it is by returning to the 1963 constitution. Acting along such lines is the only solution now.It is a very simple but yet the only affordable cure to the nigerian problem.The constitution was well tested and still is the most popular position without question.The alternative is a violent or peaceful break up. But there is no other way to sustain the space as a country. There is danger ahead.And it is very inevitable without our proposal.It is not being pessimistic. It is being analytical and factual.Many of the youths who are on war path see that as the only option.There is nothing to offer them presently and they will not be wiped out.But must we think along such lines? Must we react like them? They have a point. That much is true.</p> <br> <p>If however there is no willingness to return to the founding constitution the stage is set for disintegration.It will mean there is a hidden agenda by the ones who already have a sharia nation.And it is a choice they made without consulting with other members of the so called one country. It is absurd how they are also the custodians of unity in a country they themselves have divided. How can a country with bi-polar behaviour expect citizens to feel reassured? And the youths are suppose to submit and surrender their future to such an entity? We understand what feeds their anger and they are absolutely right. If they did not fight they are foolish.Their reaction we all already know is no suprise to the rest of the world.The CIA and other such entities around the globe have predicted that.They predicted the present violence quite accurately. The accuracy of their predictions in other parts of the world ought to push our politicians to move in the direction of most benefit to the country and its people.Why the reluctance on their part? Knowing what our proposal will do for africa and the nigerian people it is bewildering the men whose job it is to serve the nigerians will not. It is as if the nigerian people suffered and died to install a democratic government to serve the purpose of indebting themselves and their offsprings for generations to come.Are we saying that some people are happy watching the disaster that is going on and unfolding? It is why we plead with everyone with the future of the space in mind to move with dispatch rather than plan for elections that will be a waste of resources.Return nigeria to the founding constitution or forget it. Your elections will be a waste of time.Elections if they occur at all will be a time bomb because who ever wins has a weight of digusted and agitated youths and apathy of the adults. It is recipe for another "wetie" type event.But why must the nigerian political elite be content pushing this empty barrel down the incline? It is all noise and agravation! It is action unbecoming of adults!</p> <br> <p> Let me explain what I mean.If the present group of elites are not able to comprehend the challenge of their day they are noise makers.The challenge is this that the youths have an argument that says: "We do not have a country". And it does not seem too far from the truth to so many adults too! "If we have one nobody has told us what it stands for and who are her citizens. We most certainly have no recollection of how such a country was founded. Our country does not allow us to learn our own history. And most obviously it has done nothing to ingratiate herself to us"! Our answer to them is that we do know the history.And we have the courage to share same with them.Fearless and galant men fought for a country and got one. With a little help they negotiated as many nations a constitution that accepts their differences. The constitution was shutdown by some who do not know what they were doing. Our answer to them is to let them know about a promising country wickedly attacked not by the hands that made a coups but minds that precipitated it. We had a very promising country that was mercilessly brought down by our enemies using our own misguided minds in 1966. It is the work we have done.Our political elites must show us their own work.We want the so called political elites to respond or allow nature to do the rest.We warn them however that when Nature works they will not be offered the handle. If they reject the arrangement that brings people with so much profound differences together, they are not suppose to also argue in favor of their remaining together.Such a position is a falacy.We know they have made a choice but so must the rest or else it is a dominion.</p> <br> <p>If we do the kind of thing we saw happen in Europe during Brexit it will mean we are learning to take charge of our own future.Why must others come to africa again to show us what to do? We know what should happen. Unless some people are hell bent on conflict.We require even demand better reasoning.There is a small window of opportunity to act now.But we must have a time frame.Without one it becomes one of those delay tactics the architects of underdevelopment in africa cherish.So we say this suggestion is only good for the next six months.After which it is no longer the solution.If the Middle-Belt is created and we have five regions our people are again in business.Nigeria will become the place to be once more.The people will go to work and create a future for themselves. We demand that type of outcome.It is sad leadership lack the initiative to help their own people. We all saw the amount of work that went into negotiating Brexit.Rather than do such work we always resort to war and destruction. All these people we have made bandits and criminals can use a little help.The leadership that will use them and turn them loose to become a menace is such a disgrace. And they are fighting back.Just that they are fighting the wrong enemy due to misdirection by the self-seeking elitist class.But one of these days with a little help they will get it right.Why would a fulani man go to Anambra state to fight the indegenes? The last time I checked Anambra state alone can fund an army for the entire African continent! This fact is true of most places in Southern nigeria.Why would anyone make the ordinary fulani man confront such hopeless reality? Such is not leadership.It is plain evil.</p> <br> <p>We urge the government of nigeria to do a little introspection and desist from murdering the youths who are disgruntled.What have they placed on the table as negotiation? We remind them they are dealing with the population that brought independence to africa.To pick a fight with them is to side with error and failure. The Zikist movement was an organization of mainly young people who foreswore not to marry until nigeria was independednt. And they prevailed. Those today in authority might have done the same or far worse.Unless they are reprobates. We clearly can see many are! Patriotism is much more than self enrichment! We recommend negotiation. It is why the people from Eastern Nigeria are feeling very alienated.But mostly disappointed. They spearheaded the fight to liberate nigeria.And for the most part provided the spark for african liberation. For them everything calls for dialogue and negotiation. After a long stretch of reluctance enforced by delay tactics the colonialist knew the end had come. The present colonialist are not even focused enough to forsee danger.They could not careless about lives of citizens. But the end is very near.</p> <br> <p>At least the colonial government worried about loss of lives.In that respect their government was more benevolent.If the more benevolent regime was resisted how much more this blood guilty and blood-letting crime and terror cuddling arrangement! The present nigeria has become too dangerous for the Igbo and the people of eastern nigeria.In fact even futile.It is the reason we tell those at the helm to do something now or forget nigeria.If there is no real effort and process to return the country to the agreement at its foundation, it is over already. If they reject our call it will be taken to mean the country has lost its raison d'etre. It is not a threat. We are suppose to work with reason.It stands against reason to destroy the word and spirit of an agreement and still expect the same to hold.It is not enough to amass military hardware and brute force.What builds nations are agreements.If some people work hard to force themselves upon others they will break the resolve to remain united.It is reality.</p> <br> <br><br> <br><br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br> <br><br><center><font color="blue"><cite>Ban On IPOB Is Base Politics</cite></font></center> <p>We appeal to the nigerian military to seek the opinion of the men in their midst who understand law and order.In the end it is what must prevail except we have determined to be in the hijack situation perpetually.We must understand the sense of humour in the nigerian situation. But it is not funny for us.To those who had created this amorphous entity knowing the skill levels of those involved it is a great source of amusement unfortunately.Life can be that way sometimes.Children overturn a wayfaring tortise and they are amused by it.For the unfortunate animal it is a life and death issue. In 1966 by proxy the colonialist make someone they call "Jack" head of state of nigeria.</p> <br> <p>If you do not understand what I am saying look what they are doing to his people.Do you think they have ever cared about them? I think not! It is all about concept.It is a northern nigeria where some are more north than others! Eventually they implement sharia which delineates the space.In this the fulani clearly abandons the advise of their mentors.It has been rough ever since.It rends the patch work irrepairably.Now they have declared their brand.It was what they wanted to do in 1966 but were cajoled to accept the leadership of "Jack".Look how it served them.But now they are of age.And it is not looking good for them.</p> <br> <p>It is a fact without their leadership the Fulani would never allow him to lead the country at this point. They desparately wanted to be there in control.However an ally they have come to trust advised them it was poison for them.And they heeded the counsel.And a hijack operation ensues.The population is taken and it has been a trauma ever since. Nigeria is not really a country much more a nation. They know this.It is clear to them what is needed. They have a pluralistic soceity and know how draining it can be. They know they did not create a country.What they created was an administrative space.It is not likely to become one.It is not impossible. But the men who can bring these about are not ever going to be allowed to come near.</p> <br> <p>The goal is to allow this entity to grope as it looses its resources to the kleptomaniacs and their looming masters.IPOB are a group of patriotic mostly young africans from eastern region of nigeria.Many of them are well educated.They understand their rights and know the meaning of a democracy.The present administration had pledged to be democratic.However some very feudalistic people who do not understand the difference between what they feel and reality are in the ranks.And they have affected the leader and have often made things less clear for him.The IPOB is calling for a referendum.How can it be accused of treason? Is there anyone in the administration who lack knowledge of what constitutes treason?</p> <br> <p> They send terrorists into the communities and the people try to defend themselves suddenly they are all treasonable felons! Since when did agitation for self determination become a treasonable offence? Are these men saying the United Nations which declared the charter for the rights of citizens to self determination is wrong? If so what is their understanding of the rights of the human person? So where is their alternative? It is all about what they feel? It is cheap thinking. We need to bring these people down to the land from space where they appear to reside.Who runs a country based on such rather crude line of reasoning? But it is what they have insisted upon to the dismay of everyone.</p> <br> <p>So rather than focus on having a dialogue they are pushing an agenda of rebellion.Yet they have a full rebellion and have no clue what to do with it. And here they are trying hard to precipitate some more! Suppose they get their wish? Who in his right mind will be pushing people to the edge thinking they will not react? These people have resources in northern nigeria that they have conered exclusively.And they circumscribe it with a religious boundary.And they come south to take whatever they can find.It is pertinent to tell them this quite clearly is the definition of colonialism.No matter how long and how much they pretend it will fail.The whole thing has been unmasked.Boko haram is not about education.Some youths want some action around the resources in the region.And they staked their claim and it has been more than a decade and they appear to have held their own.We all know in the end they will not be defeated in the battlefield. The soldiers know that and have given up. Neither will they defeat the other nigerians.</p> <br> <p>We alert the nigerians in four geopolitical non sharia zones that the fulani quest for the military conquest of nigeria is in full swing.Presently the nigerian military again is dispatched to four geopolitical zones in the country.It is very curious they are not sent to the two geopolitical zones that have the highest casualities from terrorism, baditry and kidnapping! The north east and the north west are not included in the military excercise.These are the sharia states.And they are the ones in turmoil and boiling hot.Boko haram and bandits have become entrenched fully in these two regions. And the country is spending billions of dollars fighting these plagues.So what do we see going on in nigeria? </p> <br> <p>We see the military being used again in such a way to cause anarchy.It happened in western region and the effects are with us.With these many coups all around west africa we want to warn that nigerians will resist any coup to the very hilt.It will fail. It will not work.And we like to alert the government of nigeria that it is bringing its self to the precipiece.The nigerian people are tired of this two countries one army notion.The game might be taken too far.We urge them to come to their senses and stop.They are not fooling anyone but themselves.So far they are the ones who have rejected the country called nigeria.They have created Arewa nation which is fully controlled by the youths and religious ideologues.</p> <br> <p>They have their laws and law enforcement paraphenelia. Where is the one country they are touting? What do they want from other people in the space? Their resources are out of reach to them. So what do they really want? When they reject the call to have a structure that can sustain a country how do they intend to manage the huge population? Is it by wasting every resource available? Is it by handing them over to other people? What is this unity they talk about? What is it? For example they do not understand restructuring when you have a federation doling out hand out to federating units? So what is the unity they talk about when they already have another nation?</p> <br> <p>If they refuse conversation about their operation there is going to be help that will end it and institute clear order in the space.Unfortunately they might be outside looking in after all is done! It is what the people have been fighting for since 1946 when the Zikist movement was formed.In the end it will be the situation in the land among the people with this same goal. They can choose to belong or not. It is up to them. The rest know what they are looking for. And they have it well in sight!</p> <br> <br><img src="ekpe.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br><img src="adanyi.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br> <br><br><center><font color="blue"><cite>Why Are The Igbo People Expected To Be United To Produce A Head Of State For Nigeria?</cite></font></center> <p>We are drawn to the commentary these days that the Igbo people are not prepared to lead nigeria because they are not united.We find the idea very strange.I would have ignored these people and their penchant for selective recall of events.The O'Dua Peoples Congress would have done what people like Sunday Igboho are attempting to do today.Events then made it a very dare situation.The man who won a free and fair election had just been reduced to a common criminal and killed.The Yoruba was tired of nigeria and wanted out.OPC was the organization spearheading the move.Inspite of them the people produced a leader for nigeria.Northern nigeria produced the current leader inspite of Boko Haram.Now we hear the argument the Igbo people must all hold hands and sing "All Hail Nigeria" one million times together every day until 2023 to see if they are given the chance to lead. We find this new idea rather strange and puzzling. We do not see the worth of politics that ignores that nigeria can't survive as it is.</p> <br> <p>We told the politicians from the area.We warned them to focus on extricating themselves from a sticky situation.Nigeria can't be made to work in any meaningful way with federating units that are dependent on the center.Nigeria is not a federation in that case and every other matter is mute! The other day I read that the Kano state government has the exact same position on religious matters as the Boko Haram sect! And I was frightened by the news.And these people are talking about unity and are justling for a so called election. On reading the news I realized we are not doing enough to keep our people safe.If these men do not wake up and smell the coffee it will be too late.We are not suprised some of the nigerian people are not prepared to accept the Igbo people still.If they also ignore correcting the structure of political power in nigeria it is only a matter of time before the thing goes"kabum!" It is so clear no one needs to be preaching about it.</p> <br> <br><center><font color="purple"><cite>We Must Not Allow Another Imo State In Eastern Nigeria</cite></font></center> <p>Modesty demands that I desist from telling the people of Imo State I told you so! When they were throwing money around in the state urging you to sell your conscience for pile of naira that is actually worth very little we warned you to desist.Now look what they are doing to you because of it. Who would make anyone a governor if you insist against it? But they paid you as your own undertakers! We watch the development with so much sadness.It has become very necessary to warn those who can't forsee danger! It is the responsibility of a soceity and community to preserve and protect its self.It is for the same reason soceities demand self determination.Nigeria is not practicing democracy. We have gangsterism going on. In fact it is a type of hijack situation one that has lasted for decades.The gang just takes turns at reaping the harvest.If anyone is in doubt they can go and find out how many people have been murdered in Imo State.They can take a count how many lives have been lost in Eastern Nigeria since the foothold was given to those with a different way of life.</p> <br> <p>Until the people in the space determine how they wish to relate it will be very foolish for anyone to assume their safety will depend on government.It really seems there is none.It is for this reason we tell the people who are jumping from one party to another to be more careful.It is so easy to become guilty of blood and many are today! And they know it.How could those who protest the brigandage in nigeria be guilty? Are those who punish them saying the country is functioning properly? If it is not why is it a crime to say so? We have armed foreigners in the farmlands in our communities. Do they wish to starve everyone out? The government comes to citizens to weep and lament their helplessness! In some cities the so called herders burst into the city center with thousands of marauding cattle just to terrorize the population.You call that order and process? Government are in place to prevent such situations.In the whole length and breadth of eastern Nigeria this is an idea that is dead on arrival.The people are eager to build modern soceities.Cows are not part of the community and configuration.Those who will not fit might have to remain where they fit.</p> <br> <p>Youths in northern nigeria are now largely illitrates.Yet the Sadauna of Sokoto had left an imprint to develop the youth of the region without hampering anyone else. All we see now are armed, suicidal and radicalized youths. The elites there have their own children jetting around the globe.Thanks to the sterling leadership of the elites there! You know that is an irony. We cheer their wonderful work! The idea of haveing an ultra ruling class is why Europe was in turmoil for most of two centuries.And we do not envy these revisionists.We do not see these things as sustainable by any stretch. All thanks to the pretenders and the religious gurus who do not know how to nurture anyone else.Apparently they know more about heaven than about the earth where they dwell! And they push down south with their deadly ideas.How can northern nigeria not be better with a regional government? </p> <br> <p> Would it not ensure that the communities are more cohessive? Would it not ensure the resources are better and more evenly and equitably distributed? We say the people who masterminded this death trap and so called constitution are guilty of the blood of those perishing because of it.These people who are called bandits are their products.But for their evil constitution these people would have a different life today.The founders of the nigeria state had a much more sound and godly arrangement.The problem in its implementation is and was the greed so very much on display even today.We ask the players to be careful not to precipitate even more drastic reactions from their victims. They have seen bandits and terrorists. What more are they willing to see before they are willing and humble enough to reverse themselves? And they will not hear about self determination! Many of them are already guilty of blood like we said before.</p> <br> <p>No matter how tough they pretend to be the spectre hangs over them.It is regretable that the people who have taken a seperate soceity for themselves will determine for the rest how to respond.It is a very unfortunate turn of events! If you tell me that is not already a statement of class differentiation I would refuse to agree with you.It is all we wish to say about that! It is true that we live in the soceity we make.The politicians from other parts of nigeria have themselves to blame.Since they refuse to fight they deserve what they are getting! They do not see the challenge ahead.And are certainly content with their new profile.But it is all castle of sand. The type children and some adults build with sand on the beach! If these men are satisfied to be given bribes from their own heritage we would like to see some way around them. It might take some time but it will happen.Today all that is needed is leadership that will create a Middle-Belt region. It is a very present reality and much more overdue one.If this is added to the former four regions the space can move forward again.Why is there a search for a solution that stares us all in the face? Why is it so difficult to redress injustice and still there is so much clamour and noise about peace and unity? Where are these to be found?</p> <br> <p>Where will peace come from amidst so much injustice? Nigeria does not see the proceeds from the minerals from other parts of nigeria. The ports in southern nigeria are under a hijack operation.They are either closed or the owners are not aware of what happens in them! Certainly are not in control of these places. Southern farmlands are degraded and the air is polluted to provide for the lifestyle of those who keep their own resources well outside the reach of those who gladly submit theirs. They budget on barrels of oil and tariffs from the ports whose owners are kept in abeyance.It is the type of unity they want to preside over in perpetuity? It just would never work! They are not the first to try. Our past reminds us all. We all remember the events around africa prior to independence. We just have the reincarnation in nigeria. Now it is made clearer to the people.Talk about double standards! We watched as some of these men worked to stop their own person seeking a better soceity. Today he is held by their enemies.According to them he does not know how to present the case of the dehumanization of the people of Eastern Nigeria.Yet all you hear from them are appologies.And they are the victims.Now they silence him to have an election to legitimize their own bondage.It is hard to imagine such priority.And these are your leaders! </p> <br> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br><center>The call To Withdraw From The Streets</center> <p>Those who have come out to criticize the call for our people to stay out of the line of fire had no alternative method to get the attention of the world. Our youth and our people were being massacred. We watched as our people were being slaughtered mercilessly.And one of the governors was seen on television boasting.. " I will bomb Atta...!" Little did we know a governor drops bombs! How can we know? Now we want to appeal to our youths to know their voices have been heard around the earth. And it was loud and clear! The point is made.Our people deserve to go out and find food. Anyone who stands in the way for them to do so will be the one the rest of the world will call to question.Our communities were not founded for cows.Humans live in them.Anyone with a different priority is certainly in the wrong place.Now the youths have added one more weapon to their armoury filled with cellphones.We told them that fighter jets, bombers and armoured tanks do not win every battle.Sometimes Nature answers to just causes! They are heroes for rising to the call of their own day and prevail.We urge them to stand together especially now and eschew violence for its own sake. God forbids it. And Igboland forbids it too! If they aspire to defend and protect their community their aspiration is noble.</p> <br> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br><center><font color="purple">NIGERIA APPEARS NOT WILLING TO DO THE NEEDFUL TO JUSTIFY OWN EXISTENCE</font></center> <p>It is the leadership we usually will call out in matter of this nature and rightfully so.After all they are the ones who parade all over the place selling solutions. Usually this process is voluntary. We blame the nigeria elite for the untold suffering they are inflicting on the nigerian people.We blame them and the people who handed them over this live snake in the name of a constitution. We blame them for for the spilling of innocent blood going on now in nigeria.It seems there is an attempt to make nigerians miss what they rejected. The present level of insecurity has never been known in the space. It is not difficult to determine the reason for it.It is not religious. It is not even political. It is sponsored mischief.But we know better. And we are going to do better! We won independence from a world power! Somebody in government was quoted as calling those agitating for self-determination "terrorists". These people are asking to take responsibility for their own affairs, for their own lives. Does that make them dangerous? Why are some people opposed to such demands? The present level of mismanagement makes it absolutely necessary. If there were no such demands then we do not have a human soceity.We hear every now and again of these people going to Dubai to celebrate birthdays and funerals.Ordinarily it should not be a problem. In the present situation in the country does that give hint of sound judgement? What shall we call them? When you add that the government is borrowing to stay afloat then what are they suppose to be called? The nigerian government is borrowing to finance even recurrent expenditure.</p> <br> <p>You see why the person who refers to agitators as terrorists is missing the point? We know he hates anyone to disturb his fun. However there is work to be done.We hear of how difficult their job is.We ask which aspect of it are they refering to? Self-determination is the ability of a people to control their own destiny. The people can build roads and schools and hospitals and industries. All the things the present arrangement will prevent them to do? Why are people who demand such a reality called terrorists? What do the name callers offer? Youths perishing in the oceans around the world, youth killed by armed bandits, youths killed by government agents... The list goes on.And if we might add, these bandits other armed gangs and killers are mismanaged youths! We know a lot of them are not from within the nigerian boaders.But that is not the issue I like to discuss here. You do not call these things the reason for governnment! If you allow your competition to trick you into error but it is still your responsibility. No one entity has the desire for power.So we excercise it with a sense of duty and responsibility.The people wish to take care of their own.It is what our people fought for when they dislodged colonialism.Today we have a worse type of government in nigeria.If nigeria is not quickly returned to the former regions it will break up and pretty quickly too!</p> <br> <p>We need a new region in the middle-belt. And the other four regions need to regain full autonomy to function as economies and even civilizations that are self driven. New premiers will be techocrats who will drive a new generation to the future of their dreams. What responsible leadership should do is steer the country towards achieving true independence and harmony.In nigeria the answer is in returning the authority to the people in the places where they live. They know their own needs.Why did even a clolonial government allow the individual nations to function as they are? They were even using native authority templates without much change. We have people who will not think about answers. We just see flowing gowns and regalia of opulence. But leadership is really hardwork.The results justify the work and they are measurable. Political parties are not for having fun. They are suppose to be incubators for new ideas on the direction of soceity. Calling those who seek change names will not do.We know these people have no idea how to deal with an emergency besides calling in the military. Do they understand military people are humans? Without institutions that are very strong it is risky to be testing anyone with power. In nigeria that option was exhausted and we are thankful for that! Do your job and stop calling the military to help you! We think that is very sad.It is the reason they can proceed on vacation when the country they claim to be leading is heading down a precipiece.Nigerians fought the coup makers and won.And they are now in fighting mood once more! We are watching the politicians defecting to the ruling party shamelessly.They do not want to be in the opposition and develop an alternative even better approach and point of view.No. If the ruling party is so wonderful what are the people complaining about? Why is the soceity in so much terrible shape? They do not want to miss the fun. That is all! Shamelessly they jump around as if they have no other reason for participating than just their frivolous thirst and quest for opulence and power.</p> <br> <p>If they have a one party state with a presidency or head of state with more power than a king why not opt for a monarchy? They have failed the nigerian people. The present bout of stunts are not enough. We regret the loss of lives. They will not kill their way out of the present situation. It will not work.Such issues are settled by humans by having conversations with one another.The people who are feeling stifled are tired of it and will move to change the situation whatever it takes.We know they do not like it.But such is life.Living entities fight for their own well-being! Nigeria will never work as it is today.And those who are enjoying the carcass will not accept to take it out of the way for a new order.It is for the same reason we had a military government for nearly forty years.Soldiers who could only wait for four years for a young republic to steady its own standing were caught in their own web.After nearly forty years they could not achieve the basis they would not even allow a decade.Today the men and women nigerians suffered to place in authority have gone their own way.Perhaps because the space is remotely controlled by the same people who have caused the problems to begin with! The people they claim to lead feel abandoned. There is nothing to show for the long hold unto power. We hear the claim to have kept the country united! We ask them what is the value of their brand of unity? We are not able to see the worth and value of it.Nigeria is now nearly thorn apart by religious intolerance imposed by nihilists who do not understand the purpose of government.Nigeria is now in debt beyond words inspite of her abundant natural resources.It is so shameful the youths have lost faith in their own leaders.</p> <br> <p>There is a full rebellion in every part of nigeria. Forget that they target IPOB.It is only because IPOB is in Eastern nigeria the location of their bread-basket.Let us ignore Boko Haram which quite clearly is a youth revolt in northern nigeria.Substantially we have full rebellion manifesting in Arewa in northern nigeria, Oduduwa in western nigeria and Biafra in eastern nigeria.These groups clearly repudiate the politics and the leadership of the elites in these various parts of the country.Now this is not an argument. It is a fact! I want to be told it is not true! Yet the politicians go on vacation for nearly three months and talk about 2023 elections on emerging from their cocoon. It means they are actually not concerned about the carnage and blood letting all around the country. They would like for citizens to assume such a new normal.We encourage our youths to fight. It is their future after all.But these days fighting require the mind more than anything else.So by that I mean engage those who are ruining their present and future too. If the aim is to gain more power rather than use what is given them to work for the people then the table need to be overturned. Democracy permits that and it happens very frequently in soceities where democratic values are emplaced.</p> <br> <p> In our case we must force the issue.We need better priority and better focus.We do not see it in the group presently at the helm.They create strife to mask their indolence and incompetence.It is not true that a typical northerner is hostile to other people.The present hostility is instigated for political convinience.And it is a big shame. Neither are those in the south hostile to other nigerians.But what we have is that some people have used religion as excuse and a wedge.Even now it manifests as a kind of class distinction for lack of anything better to do.Who cares if the muslim wants sharia in his space? Nigeria has nations and everyone has their own spere and space.Every group can have what works for them.It was the idea when people came together to discuss the mode of association for the entity called nigeria.It is not nigeria and therefore not a country if that basis is not there. At the very minimum we need to return the country to where the impostors found it or we return to status quo ante. We need to be who we are for our own survival!</p> <br> <br><br><p>WE SAID</p> <br><p>We said it is owned</p> <p>Is what we said</p> <p>That what we came upon was made</p> <p>For that they ordered us stoned</p> <p>And wished us wasted and dead</p> <p>Look what we came upon they said</p> <P>Our earth this home we found</p> <p>We came upon a twirling spinning sphere </p> <p>Floating among trillion others</p> <p>Same elements uniting the geometric wonder</p> <p>We by the elements joined as same <p> <p>All looking spurned out by an order </P> <p>From the same one "Creator" </P> <p>Stunning majesty beyond words above <p>And here beauty made in love</p> <p>The slow rolling hills and meadows</p> <p>Given us on earth our home </p> <p>For which we paid nothing</p> <p>And we owe not a penny</P> <p>So hard to think or believe</p> <p>How it all came together</p> <p>But then here we are</p> <p>Family of men able to make</p> <p>Like the Creator able also to fabricate</p> <p>Spurning ideas to make things come together</p> <p>As we choose to function</p> <p>In our purpose and notion </P> <p>Like the unfathomable Source </p> <p>Which spurned the human race</p> <p>And wisdom that framed it all</p> <p>Or else why the earth?</p> <p>Among all else we know unique overall <p>Made cozy as a distinct gift</p> <p>Some precious thing to bequeath</p> <p>Source that esteems and hold us precious</p> <p>Not unlike little things we craft</p> <p>Or like all else we know </p> <p>Our work or the crops we sow</p> <p>We said it is made</p> <p>Is all we said</p> <p>That gratitude is what we owe</p> <P>Not graft greed and strife</p> <p>Endless violence hampering life</p> <p>Men who fuss and gripe</p> <p>Make it even impossible for many to behold</p> <p>Our gift and precious inheritance</p> <p>As they claim there is a chance</p> <p>We are without purpose <p>So then fight and fuss </p> <p>By many gullible fable old</p> <p>Attack them of a different mold</p> <p>Their suicidal theory propose</p> <p>The old big farce</p> <p>Signed today June 17 2022 <br> <br> <br><center><font color="brown"> MASS TRANSIT BUSES CONVEYING CHRISTIANS BURNT IN JOS PLATEAU STATE NIGERIA KILLING HUNDREDS</font></CENTER> <p>We were horrified by the images. But we are going to do more than speak we demand action by the world. The killing of christains by Islamists in nigeria has become a genocide.We are looking at something that has crossed the line. We are not looking at a random behaviour. It is a trend that has been getting worse and must be addressed.It is very difficult to assure the people of other faith of their safety in these type of events.We know what is being attempted here. But it will bring unintended consequences.It will not intimidate. It will embolden the people in a quest to free themselves from murderers.</p> <br> <br> <br><br><center><font color="blue"><cite>THE FAULTLINES IN THE NIGERIAN STATE ARE ABOUT TO BECOME A DAUNTING CHALLENGE</cite></font></CENTER> <p>We have watched the drift in nigeria that is almost synonymous with the very name nigeria.We have a drifting country that has been sustained by chance for the most part.The musicain Fela Anukulapo Kuti summed it in his "overtake don overtake overtake". Now the arrangement is about to collide with a very difficult reality.Today we have a youth that is aggrieved and incensed and hurting. They go to the university for a four year course and in eight years they are yet to graduate.Not because they are failing.But their government can't agree on wages with their teachers. It is as it they are not worth the investment in their education. After they have spent one century to earn a certificate the job does not even exist.We have youths that do not think the country cares about them. And this is the case in all the regions of nigeria today. The disenchantment is very palpable. But the drift and lack of purpose continues on the part of leadership.Be it the one in "Khaki" or "agbada". Since 1999 some people abandoned the pursuit to build a free soceity based on social justice and economic prosperity and veered into the realm of fundamentalism. Worst even religious fundamentalism. The harm they have done is very clear.We have change of guard with no change in the lives of people. If the truth must be said there has been serious retrogression.</p> <br> <p>Like we used to say in those days, same same. It was our response to martial music sigifying a coup and change of government in those days in nigeria.It is the game of grab while it hot and steaming.We all know that Dr Alex Ekwueme accepted to serve under Alhaji Shehu Shagari because he felt it was due diligence.He thought it will ingratiate him to a people who know he is not a vice president material at all.Instead of that what it earned him was a berth to the prisons. It was a disgrace and shame he lamented to his death.Nigeria had a very diligent man in Dr Alex Ekwueme. But he was also a very prgmatic and intelligent man who wanted the best for nigeria.Youths from that part of the country saw the shabby treatment he got.Chief M.K.O Abiola on his part delivered the result of uniting people outside of ethnic origin and religion. He was disgraced and murdered. Do not worry about the useless late remorse. It means nothing at all.Just facade. Mere "prend ca". Like the french would say.It is the "deceit" game in full gear and force.</p> <br> <p>We ask the people who go to eastern nigeria just to look for resources they need to shore themselves up what they think! Do they think the people are all morons? Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen was removed in a way reminiscent of what some of us experience as expertriates and immigrants. He was replaced with someone with qualifications that have no comparism by any known standards.We ask the people from eastern region preaching understanding and submission what else they wish to give.We are watching them in their effort to give away their ancestral land.Perhaps they do not remember places like Lebanon.We had a prosperous semi-western culture with christain values, a turist destination that tried to reach out to other people.Now the indegenous people are exiles around the world.They were stung by the recipients of their kind gesture. Oouch!!! We are watching the men who call themselves leaders in eastern nigeria.We are not impressed by their intellectual capacity and perception. The gravitas is very much under par.The situation is far too complicated to leave it to them.</p> <br> <p>In all their effort to try to belong they have not earned a berth to any office of meaningful significance in nigeria since the end of the civil war.It will not happen in this generation with the criminals who precipitated the crises that claimed four million lives.They know the magnitude of the problem they have caused.You earn such right by challenge and confrontation.It is very clear to them that anything can bring the images right back.We said they will do everthing to keep the lid down as long as they live.The answer is for the people concerned to chart a different part.We have said this without success to the so called leaders of the region. It is the reason the people have abandoned them to their own devices.Who wants to submit and commit his resources to sustain a so- called commonweath in which he is not even a second class? Nigeria has no place for the people of eastern nigeria. The sooner they get to thinking of their own future the better for them. In what part of the sharia north will a man from Akwa Ibom be a managing Director and chief executive of a government entity? Where will that happen? Where will a man from Izon or Calabar lead a government entity in sharia land? The answer is clear.If somebody does to you what you can't do to them, he has conquered you! I just wanted to give this analogy to clear up the minds of those who think they are smart.I think they are the problem.</p> <br> <p>What we advocate is a very strong move to keep the resources of the entity for the citizens' welfare. It belongs to them. The world at least can't approve of robbery before them all.And to use same to leaverage the safety and wellbeing of the said entity and its people. If you accept the situation as it is what are they suppose to do? Whatever is against this interest is a foe! Whoever is against it is also a foe.If anyone likes to have a conversation about the resources it must be mutual. If not the person should return when they are ready.It is what the entity will pursue or it will cease to exist.The forces that intend to have a strangle hold around the breathing channels will stiffle and choke the breath out of the whole space and destroy the people in it. It must never be allowed to happen as has been already schemed.We alerted the authorities of a large army of foot soldiers in the area "staged" as refugees.They are all around Cross River and Akwa Ibom. You ask me why a refugee from Zamfara will be moved all the way to Calabar! Every where there is a large military base you have these "refugees". And they all come from the area attempting to capture the entire nigerian space.We are watching the development and we do not see this as a move for unity.It is annexation.The same exact thing is going on in the western flank and yorubaland, albeit very subtle.Religion provides a very conducive smokescreen. Sadly the move is much more advanced in the attempt to capture the reins of authority.In the near future the people wearing the turban in yorubaland will be indistinguishable from the Obas,Baales and the Olus. and their voices, authority and lines and delineation just as murky.It is almost out of question that there a far more christains and animists in yorubaland than muslims.Some people are shouting themselves to power and authority as well.</p> <br> <p>Right now we know who calls the shots and we know from where the influence comes.We watch the development with a sense of rue. The yoruba people are very clever and cuturally aware people. But religion will ruin everything. If you ask the north africans Amazigh people they will tell you. We have a population of tens of millions of Amazigh people who are invissible in their own land.It is as if they are arabic but they are not! They are Amazigh and they are an ancient resourceful people.The set back is that when this happens the people loose their right to even exist also.If these had not been very resourceful and resilient people we might just be learning of them as some other extinct group today.Like some people in eastern nigeria or even southern nigeria they are a well organised and structured soceity.They needed nothing when a foreign religion slowly inebrieted them and overtook them.So we are telling the people of southern nigeria that if they swallow the bait of pursuing elections and such distractions when they have no country they are helping to cement their own doom.When their resources are fully in the hands of other people who pretend to be related to them it is a death sentence. The people have a belief system which empowers and encourages them to deceive.When they expect the power of conscience and matters of right and wrong it can't hold.In this situation it has not been cultivated and does not therfore exist.If the people who are controlling all the forces of coercion in nigeria refuses to negotiate a country where the rights and dignity of everyone is not in doubt then it is the time to exit the arrangement. Any one with any idea of the enormity of the work to return a place like nigeria to its feet will see the reason for the despondency in the population.It is how the present leadership is driving everyone into the embrace of the agitators. The threat of war is absurd. Our forebearers were not taken into nigeria. They are indegenous autonomous free people.</p> <br> <p> It is wrong for some people to claim that nigerians agree to be one a united country without conditions.Who enters into such an agreement that has no conditions? Such an absurdity is even a disgrace and a very indicting insult.If one is saying he has an unconditional agreement with another person it means they have such under lock and key. Any free person must require their dignity and liberty to be guaranteed without questions in any agreement.We quite clearly have a case of domination and an attempt to even colonize the south. And it is being minimized by those who receive stipends.The rest especially the youths must demand their own resources and control same.It is the only way they gurantee a good future for themselves and the people they truely love and who loves them back! Love does not exist which goes in one direction only.It is called fear! Right now in Apapa wharf and Tincan Island, in Onne, in Warri, Calabar and all around southern nigeria the youths must stake their claim to the resourses they own and determine to defend what is theirs. The communities must make it clear they are not willing to submit their right to resources to this unsettled state. The people must take the dispute of their citizenship within nigeria serious and demand urgency in the resolution.The extent they are taken serious is the extent of their influence to negotiate with those who need the resources.If they appeal and beg the people who require the resources will bypass them and go to the ones who exerts the influence and power over the resources.It must be very clear to them why a people who have no interest in their lives want to be in their communities and even control them and their resources.The sooner they remove such a spectre from around their necks the sooner they guarantee their future and that of their loved ones and offsprings.</p> <br> <br><br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br> <br> <br><center><cite><bold>One Other Targeted Attack On Those Who Seek Change For The Better</bold></cite></center> <p>We said it that the bandits even terrorists are working for some in power.We are not in a position to make a distinction in nigeria right now between the killers in nigeria.It is difficult today to delineate between the terrorists, armed killer herdsmen, bandits and rogue law enforcement agents.The space has been turned into a bad place. For those who oppose the attempts to turn the entire space to hell's next door neighbor it has become a hell.Some people described as bandits killed the younger brother of the journalist, human right and political activist Mr Omoyele Sowore.His run in with the law enforcement makes it hard to call this one a random bandit attack. We received the news of the death of young Felix Olajide Sowore with great shock and anger.It will not go away as one other bandit attack.This one has many ramifications that are very unacceptable.It is a kind of behaviour that will not be part of the type of community we seek.</p> <br> <p>The attempts to push the soceity back to the thirteenth century will be resisted.This one is a call to action. Those who are wishing things will change must know it will not without their action.Those who want to force on others will not usually stop when you concede.They want to go a little further all the time. Today some people in nigeria think that whatever they do must be the burden of other people.They want to force their idea of religion and manner of life on others.They want to wander around with animals in modern cities.And soceity must accomodate cattle and sheep and goats rather than think about how to make a city safe for people.They see it as a declaration of war when the larger soceity rejects these positions.WE want to tell governors and politicians in Eastern nigeria to recognize we owe our communities because communities raise citizens in Eastern nigeria.Our citizens expect it. And they question authority in such regards.</p> <br> <p>In what way is that similar to the culture of those who kill people for questioning authority? Boko Haram and insurgents are revolts.It is clear to many around the world!The leadership in these places must deal with it and not redirect It.In sending insurgents down to southern nigeria while mouthing pius religious goals these conmen are playing games.They are not being even religious. At least we know being religious is different from living a righteous life.They are being very deceitful.The leaders in Southern nigeria are mostly dilligently doing what they are suppose to with the pittance they receive from Abuja. The challenges are many for those who are mindful of these things.Politicians who do not understand mischief are in a wrong trade.Those who have wasted resources they hijacked for sixty years must blame themselves.</p> <br> <p>They must account to ones who actually carried out the hijack with their help. It is the reason for the conflict in Northern nigeria.Ordinary people have started to question some of the event and practices.Our people must be ready to stand their ground and ask the marauders to now move on. What happened in the past is called history.It is a new day! They wish to declare another war for another round of hijack.If they dare this time they might be the victim.Nature can be that odd sometimes.Invading communities is not a peaceful move.And it must be rejected and resisted no matter who is materminding or sponsoring it.It must be the message to the people who seek authority or power with no sublime vision! <br> <p>In their ignorance they insist on unsustainable positions.It is a declaration of war to reject or repudiate these positions. They create unsustainable states and declare every of their hamlet a local government.But these have no meaning.Entities are self sustaining.And these are not. Not even remotely. They want to wander around modern cities with cattle. Some people are redirecting them to move attention away from themselves.We know who is declaring this war on all others in soceity.If you advise them to try to live with other people in the community they attack you as an enemy.It is a line of reasoning that has ruined a country that had potentials for greatness. You cant run blindfolded.The people who did this must know they are responsible for what the environment will become for them. No soceity will accept or tolerate murderers in their midst.</p> <br> <p>Other people in the space have a right to respond to their choice and use of violent methods.What Mr. Omoyele Sowore and many of us have been advocating is a soceity that protects its own citizens and provides the environment for them to thrive.The lack of movement in the direction of reason is why the call for a return to regional autonomy has carried the day.At least each group can account for their own choices to themselves.Using other people to excuse lack of compassion is an old evil.Some people are so confused it is sad! We keep saying that those who are behind these extreme actions really are working against nigerian interests.They are working to destroy nigeria.But the government focuses on deepening the hurt of the victims. It begs the question whether those who mouth unity are sincere. As they attack sources of light darkness will overtake them first.</p> <br> <br> <br><br><font color="blue">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br><a name="pilot.africa"></a> <br><center>We Heard Today That IPOB Members Were Arrested In Ghana!</center> <br> <p>I wanted to wait for a confirmation that IPOB members were arrested in Ghana.I like however to understand the circumstances.IPOB operates everywhere in the world.The motive of the nigerian government is something we all know about them. The nigerian government hates this entity and has tried everything and every method to drag them into the swamp.In nigeria rogue law enforcement agents are like crocs and these might become meals.Thiese members of the law enforcement are morelikely to kill a citizen than a foreign terrorist or bandit.Terrorist stand a better chance with the nigerian government than those who advocate for self government.Even the British Colonialists were not that harsh with those who fought for the independence of either Ghana or Nigeria.But here we are!</p> <br> <p> We have a federal government that has confiscated the assets of all the regions. And now own every asset of the federation. A very odd prospect which these people love to death! To sustain the reality they sponsor terrorism. It is the reality presently in nigeria.In fact the government has not actually branded these entities as terrorists. We find no documents in nigeria that has done so. We do not have any such evidence. Members of the government and agents of government continue to criticize the military for fighting these entities.The government sees the IPOB members as criminals.However the same government will not fight terrorists who are killing christains and taking over their homelands.The government has allowed armed herdsmen to act as foot soldiers to marauders and bandits as they ravege the entire nigerian space.Entire villages are sacked and burnt down.</p> <br> <p>Women are raped and killed with their children.Many of these people are christains. The IPOB is the only true opposition to this wave of injustice. The government of nigeria brands them terrorists.It has never referenced those who have killed in the millions as such. The nigerian government has not as of yet declared Boko haram terrorist. Neither has it the herdsmen or bandits. But the whole world have their own view of these entities. In the world today these entities occupy the top lines of the terror index.What the african people are fighting for is not this kind of nepotic overflow.It is a motive deriving from lack of understanding of democratic tenets and need for free atmosphere for ideas. The present nigerian government has a problem with understanding the way law and order works.They tend to think their word and desire is the law.We know these people threw away the founding constitution of nigeria.It is the document they vowed to uphold as soldiers.Without this their patriotism is not just suspect it is false.For more then thirty years they reject the order of the agreement that creates the nigerian state.They hijack the state and run it as they please and choose. And they produce their own document on exit.It has been a nightmare for the country. </p> <br> <p>Having thrown some light to the shadows, we would like to know the reason anyone in Ghana will arrest members of the IPOB. We must detache sentiments of the nigerian government from reality. Some of us have appealed to the group to no avail.They tend to act without considering effect and consequences.It is the suprise and jolt with which they attack reactions to their unreasoned actions that makes clear these were never considered. We all hurt.We are all made of flesh and blood.Some people have been killing fellow citizens for over twelve years without relenting.We recognize that many people are not very coversant with history.If they were a lot of mistakes they make will never arise.Ghana is presently led by a man we repose implicit confidence in his sense of history. And we recognize his understanding of the emerging cultural shift in africa and our region of West Africa.He understands the rise of extreme religious fundamentalism in nigeria and how anti-social and anti development such is.We know he sympathises with the victims as fellow africans and as neighbors.Nigeria is neighbors with Ghana but so are the individual component entities making up nigeria. If and when the head is sick the components take on new responsibility.Without question the introduction of sharia in part of northern nigeria has become yet another national nightmare.</p> <br> <p>On the part of the victims there is a decision to challenge the evil now.In the event that appeals have failed there is no other recourse. We must check the menace now or else the african free trade and other measure to enrich the lives of our people is already derailed before it begins.The members of IPOB are discplined and mostly hardworking and law abiding people of Eastern Nigeria origin! Eastern nigeria is the home of the movement that freed africa from colonization.We want to remember the wonderful collaboration between the father of modern Ghana Dr. Kwame Nkurumah and his brother, friend and mentor Dr Azikiwe. In an interview Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe details how he advised his friend and brother to attend the same college he had graduated from in the United States.The land of Ghana and Dr Nkurumah shelterd the african philosopher and nationalist in turn. It is how mutual relationships bless and enrich. For great minds a very keen sense of times and the future is very important.We commend IPOB to the authorities in Ghana and plead with them to see to it that the people are no longer molested.Good neighborliness does not include careless actions and acquissance.We know some people have reach but so have we too! The many years we have appealed to those at the helm to act on some of the most over-aching issues has convinced us that the will to co-exist as equal partners is not there. They can't even be coralled to this reality. It simply does not exist in their mindset.Eastern region of nigeria is a nation of peoples and a civilization known to the world.It will not be subsumed in a setting where it has no say.It is impossible!</p> <br> <p>I would love to appeal to the leadership of the ever resourceful people of Ghana to put on their inner man. It is not difficult to see the present mode of attack against the collective yearnings of our people through an old frontier called religion. In this frontier neither compassion nor reason is necessary.And without these there is no progress.In the frontier you account to only yourself when you are presumed to be a god. All you do is blame the other side.We must take responsibility for our actions and be ready to account for them. We must take responsibility for our own present and future.The British people did not wish to continue in the European Union.And they did not wait.They took action.The British government is a complex arrangement which marries a modern monarchy and a democratic arrangement that works well for the people.It is an evolution for which the soceity has paid its dues.So the people refused experiments that tampers with that which works for them.Boris Johnson and Nigel farage ride their understanding of this sentiment to power and popularity.They demand referendum and get it.Boris Johnson becomes a prime minister and Nigel Farage goes from obscurity to a notable political personality.</p> <br> <p>In africa and nigeria the people who ask for referendum are killed.On 30 May 2016 in Nkpor in Anambra State one thousand three hundred youths were shot dead in a stream of blood letting lasting days. These were the members of the largely youth movement in Eastern nigeria, the IPOB.This is repeated and is still on going.The leader of IPOB is in Jail. One of the charges against him is treason! He is asking for a referendum! Just one year after General Buharis government came to power a massacre happens in Igboland! For some reason Buhari has been present every where Igbo people have suffered severe hurt.Something is wrong.He either hates the Igbos very much or there is some terrible form of coincidence that leads to this reality.Three consecutive events are no longer coincidences. It entails some mastermind.It is the reason some of us look at the Igbos who surround him and give him credibility as his enablers. They are as culpable.Nigeria is not in the best place under their leadership. That much is clear.Killing and massacre of citizens will not make it better.Leadership includes how we negotiate difficult situations.Choosing violence and totalitarian approaches in a democracy is a great aberation.It will never commend them to decent minds. Some of us have tried to help this government to avoid these pitfalls.However the affinity for the religious facades and old stunts appear to be the preference. And it often leads to the same bad place the government now finds itself.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria is now one of the poorest countries in the world. It is also seen as a terrorist haven! Who would have imagined that? It is what bad leadership can do. The least other people can do is raise and lift a standard and bulwark to defend and protect their own interests.IPOB is a group we commend under the circumstances in nigeria.We ask they are allowed to live in our own dear neighboring Ghana free of any further molestations. The writer has been to Ghana. It was a matter of inspiration in the days when the Ghananians were rebuilding with grim determination in 1994.In those days neighborhoods were armed as a matter of deliberate policy and principle.The government made this policy when it became clear some people wanted to exploit the fragile atmosphere to suit their own evil motives. Good leadership must be tough enough to make the difficult choices. In the case of your great nation the tough choice was not just made but was embraced! We rejoice with the people as the soceity they imagined is blosooming today.Our people have been and will always be great friends and partners of the wonderful and ever industrous people of Ghana.We thank the government and the people in appreciation of their anticipated kindness. <br> <a href="cryforhlp.html"/>Our people Are Hurting<img src="adaeze.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="160" /></a> <br> <br><a href="actnowtosavenation.html"/><center><font color="blue">WHY HAS THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT CHOSEN WAR OVER PEACE?</font></center></a> <p>We are being treated to the secret military consolidation and buildup going on in Eastern Nigeria.The nigerian government under president Buhari has chosen war and conquest over dialogue.Even if the other presidents had used the promise of dialogue to buy time it shows it is the only way to a real solution.The present administration has chosen kinetics. It has proved very unhelpful and it has destroyed the country and they do not have the good sense to change course.We see the military build up in Eastern nigeria while terrorists are on the march to Abuja.We see the build up in an area that is peaceful. Northern nigeria is a killing field and the government has either no answer or is an accomplice.We demand to know why the nigerian so-called leaders think everyone wants to belong to a country with the type of reputation they have now given to nigeria.Do they think that a typical Igbo who goes to the end of the earth to do business and learn will like to be called a person from a terrorist country? How helpful is that? </p> <br> <p>We like to make matters clear.Some people act as though their actions bear no consequences.They chose to join the organization of Islamic countries (OIC)against sound judgement and advice. On its own it would be all right.But the country is constitutionally and structurally secular.We watched as they sidelined every reason and caution.Nigerians are on the balance too peaceful and that could be a bad thing when some people like to play spoilers.Britain left the European Union because it wanted to retain the values that matter to the people.But they first tried the union. Elements in Northern nigeria would have liked to head the European union rather than opt to leave. These people declared sharia in twelve states without even a conversation with the rest of the country. Next thing they cease every organ of government including all arms of the military and para-military.And they preach unity!</p> <br> <p>They chose to introduce sharia law in their space. If their youths take a cue from them and kick it up one notch or two, why must other people be part of victims of the fall out? Were the other stakeholders ever consulted in all of this? The country woke up one day and a large part had become totally islamized! If they feel threatened is it unjustified? Now every place is burning and people are getting killed for sport and they are to accept such a life style? We show you why their claim of unity rings empty and very hollow indeed to many of us. They are very empty posturing with no value and no meaning. They need the resources of the other people.It is all they are thinking about.They have their dream Islamic nation! It is the reason they want to use force.It is what is known as colonialism.The other people must examine all their options. It needs no soothsayer to make anyone see this truth.It is a pity they are fooled by the distraction about amnesty and surrender by a few people who claim to be Boko Haram. We are not fooled nor are we comforted by it.We know the hard core members of the sect are very unrepentant. We saw them celebrating Afaganistan Taliban victory vowing to repeat the success in africa.Did the nigerian government see it? Why is the government more concerned with oil? We know it is the reason why the focus is on Eastern nigeria. We want to remind them of Zimbabwe, South africa, Mozambique, Angola etc.</p> <br> <p> When the people reject an order a strong army is never enough.Never has been.Never will be. Nigerian army as of yet is not strong enough to compare with the army of the Imperial Great Britain. When Britain left nigeria it was in the interest of the British people. We know among the people who peddle unrefined feudalism in nigeria the destiny and destination is the unheaval in Europe in the past few centuries. Our people have moved past all those things in terms of culture.What they are peddling is medieval feudalism. It is crude. It was always rejected.In many situations with very violent revolutions. Our soceity is strictly democratic and republican. No reasonable person can see unity here that is not negotiated at all.It is very impossible! If they back away from the one negotiated with the help of Great Britain chances are the new generation will not want any at all. As can be seen they want nothing to do with the endless mayhem and chaos.It is the reason we advise the people giving them ammunition to think about the future.</p> <br> <p>All over the world we have people who have ideas that they think are new, but actually are weather beaten. Just that they are unaware.Nature has answer for injustice and it has timeline and an expiry date.The nigerian government might be best advised that it will not survive in Eastern nigeria if the people reject the nigerian project.It is reality and life.It is not possible for them to use force to maintain a country that is so very different from the culture of the people.It is impossible.This many years of illusions will already convince a good mind. The nigerian government is either tone deaf to believe Boko Haram surrender or it is in denial.Nigeria has a structural problem. If the collapse occurs it can't be said to be sudden. Why is the nigerian government preparing to fight another war in nigeria? We hear they wish to conduct election in 2023.Are they preparing for war or an election? It is somewhat confusing! If they want to know what will happen in nigeria let them take a look at Ethiopia.</p> <br> <p>Politicians are focused on angling for office while their homelands are being taken over.The nigerian army will never be able to dislodge the Eastern Security Network in Eastern Nigeria. It is the homeland of the Igbo people worldwide. And they are over one hundred million people today from around the globe who lay claim to Igbo heriatage. They can't give their land up to a people who do not even need it.All the guise to plant anarchy among a peaceful people will be rejected and repelled.Eastern region can't donate land for cattle when citizens can't afford land! It is a priority from hell and foolish as it sounds.It is impossible.If they force a battle today in time it will be very devastating for those who are now the aggressors.It will have no end.But they have no idea yet! It is a pity they do not know what they are meddling with.ESN is a creation of the people of Eastern Nigeria and their kit and kins from around the world. And it is the only legitimate organization the people of Eastern nigerian have instituted as an entity to secure the community.</p> <p>It is not Mr Nnamdi Kanu's army.Like some mischief makers claim. As a sovereign peopole who have come under threat the people have a right to self defence. Even the faulty constitution empowers citizens to defend themselves and others.So does the United Nations charter on personal freedoms and rights.It is a reality that will become clearer to those who now think they are invincible.The political elites whom they seem to have in their pockets know this truth.Otherwise they will be terrified by the notion of the risk engulfing them. Aiming to choke them suddenly.Eastern security Network is not an entity the present nigerian government will be fighting now if they were sincere. There are terrorisst all over nigeria.They are killing and maiming. Why is the nigerian government unperturbed about that? Their complicity in the ungoing situation is why the people of Eastern nigeria will ensure the ESN survives at least past this administration.</p> <br> <p>It will boast volunteers in the millions if need be! ESN will boast more volunteers than the nigerian army today if the call is made! However there is only one reason there is now ESN. The reason is that a people who have been massacred before are again under threat and at the cusp of yet an impending slaughter.Reasonable people are not suppose to just watch such occur.The people have a right to protect their commonwealth. It is a sovereign estate of the people of the region. Why is HISBAH not a problem? Can the nigerian government ask the yoruba to disband AMOTEKUN? We have heard of the many armoured tanks being sent to Imo State.Eastern Security Network will survive and flourish by the grace of God.And those who wish to protect the community must use this channel.It has legiticacy anchored on the sovereignty of the peoples of Eastern nigeria.We do not wish to have disorder like our friends from up there. What is the alternative for our people? We have a reality of the nigerian military aiding bandits and terrorists and murderers. We watched the man installed by the grand Khadi whose first order of business in Imo State was to install an imam in Owerri.Who actually believes that is a reality the people of the area can live with? If any of the military governors in Eastern nigeria tried that even immediately after the war the entire world will rebuke such action. Our advice to those who lead agitations like the IPOB while the leader is incacerated is to be strong. In his absence many problems will arise.</p> <br> <p> The Igbo people have a saying that "the countenance of the warrior blunts a sharp sword". Now they can find out who is a real disciple of the cause. It is part of a learning experience. The cause they are part of is the vehicle that will liberate the people as God has purposed.We know Mr. Nnamdi Kanu will walk away from captivity a free man. He has done nothing wrong.The attempt to frame him does not make him guilty.It is only in a kangaroo court that he will be convicted of a crime.And the world will not permit such a court to try him.They know it will turn the whole space into an arena and they are not ready for that.After all we are aware they are all dancing to pipers and are not their own.The people who manage nigeria today are men with price tags.They know those who desire to be free are legitimate.The Igbo people are very independent people and that Is not going to change.Their sense of liberty is tied to their faith in the GOD of creation.The ONE who owns all creation.It is how they live. </p> <br> <p>If Ukpabi Asika (an Administrator in East central state at the end of the nigerian civil war) tried such a thing he would have been resisted by the people.He understood that fact being smarter than the acolyte in the present Imo state saga.Actually Ukpabi Asika prided himself as an intellectual and a proud Igbo man. He just reasoned differently.When he collided with Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe immediately after the war it made clear the saying of the Swahili parlance that "man pass man".It is another matter when someone's position defies reason.We have an acolyte in the government house in Owerri and that is the problem.Today a man who claims to represent the people is happy to impose a very rude aberration. He calls the military over and over.And he knows what they will do on arrival! We had warned the people to fight when it was easier for them to shake off this death knell.Sadly money and promise of money got them all messed up! Now their children are being massacred and they just sing and cry. Someone they know does not represent their interest is "ruling" them. It is how they sold their rights to democratic dividend like peace and progress.However, it is still their fight.If they refuse to fight they will die in the manner their enemies have chosen and adopted.The nigerian army will invade Igboland and Eastern nigeria from Owerri and claim instability and unleash another massacre and genocide.The triggerman is in the government house in Owerri.</p> <br> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <p><font color:="blue">African Renaissance.</p></font> <center>Who Is To Blame For The Present Error In The African Community?</center> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp The african people have been victims but it is not the reason for the level of underdevelopment.Life is a challenge and very often does not seem to have a measure for weighing fairness.What that means is that as we face our own challenge that we confront it as without seeking excuses.The african continent will do a lot better if there are no outside hands interfering.However nobody can afford us such guarantees.There will be interferences.But good leaders will find the best approach that delivers result inspite of these problems.Quite clearly a good leader might not achieve all he set but he will achieve reasonable success.Usually it is all the people need.We lack minds have set some goals and have such as reasons to seek power other than the priviledges. We do not have such in the african political space.When they happen it is accidental.Many are not in it to serve anyone but themselves.In africa we have a people who have been and are being vandalized by outsiders now being raped by their own leaders! In nigeria the leaders are neither interested in agreements nor consensus building. What we have is the description and definition of feudalism or monarchy. It leaves no room for accountability. It is one of the reasons corruption is rampant.It is not how democracy works.Many of us are worried democracy might be on very unsure footing in the space if these facts do not change quickly.</p> <br> <p>The ground is being made suitable for planting dictatorship rather than sustaining a democracy.The unfolding events should alarm any careful observer. And some of the worst culprits are parading as leaders and peace makers! We worry these are signs of both atrophy and dystrophy. If the cause of an ailment is what is on the menu it is not good. Look at nigeria going to pieces before our very eyes! Tell them to return the country they hijacked.Nigeria was working well for a very young democracy.The coup was instigated by the enemies of the young country.We have an idea those who feared the competition of such a seemingly efficient well endowed country.They abound even among those posing as well wishers and patrons. The world must tell those in leadership in nigeria to think nigeria first.It seems they have their eyes on their many benefactors instead.Nigeria must return to what was agreed or disintegrate. It is the minimum that brings the voices of dissent to the table.Only then can we speak of peace. There are too many problems that are not being addressed by the present structure.Such is not an accident.It has no capacity to address such problems.These are the issues raising the many voices of agitation.Killing and arresting personanities will not solve the problem.The problems require solution unless the goal is to kill everyone! The countries that supply weapons to the nigerian state know and understand they have aided the senseless massacre of citizens. On our part in Eastern Nigeria there is no intention of repeating 1966- 1970. Violence is not our choice.The relationship is not a creation of GOD.The organic nations still exist and have recourse.We have a right of natural choice.It puts us on the moral high ground. The world has grown and so have we!! We call the attention of fair minded people from around the world to arbitrate and settle this never ending injustice that has already claimed nearly five miilion lives! The ever unfolding tragedy made worse now by religious bigotry, rapacious nepotism and ethnicism is called NIGERIA!</p> <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcGgUNuJxE"/>Abuja Nigeria And cattle Crossing:The Struggle Continues</a> <br><a href="createthis.html"/><img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="160" /></a> <br> <br><center>The Flap Over Grazing Routes</center> <p>We hear the word "presidency" used very often by the group running the affairs of nigeria.The word has come to represent competing ideas and feuding idealogues.The first lady of nigeria shouted herself hoarse and has since resigned herself to the situation.The men who are no more than squatters in Aso Rock are responsible for the lack of motion in the affairs of the country.It is very true many of them are just acolytes having not held any responsible positions before. Suddenly they are running a country of two hundred million people.It is not a very healthy jump.And the nigerian people are paying for it.If nigeria is to survive these people must be shoved to the side.They cover for their incompetence by pretending religious zealotry. We all remember Dr. General and Chief Idi Amin. He was a religious zealot too! We must now help give voice to what the nigerian first lady has been saying for so many years. She has been more than vindicated.In the end only one person will be held accountable. And we know who it is.</p> <br> <p>They are like horses pulling in different directions.It is not strange they come out with positions that ridicule the office of the president.In their tussle they make the lives of the people unlivable.In doing so they forget they impugn themselves as well.Many times they allow matters from the so called presidency that are very pedestrian. How could the president be said to be asking for the review of the law concerning grazing routes? For many who might not understand the grazing route issue was a contention that was worked out during colonial times.It allowed those who reared cattle to use certain marked routes in grazing their cattle around the country.How would anyone be seeking such as a template to solve the problem today.First and foremost is that animal husbandry is a personal enterprise. Nigerian leaders will not be able to undertake such lavish attention on one area of endaveour. What will happen to the very many others? Many nigerians are doing various things in the area of supporting themselves.Cattle breeders are no different!</p> <br> <p>If we might consider facts here in a diversion a little bit.Cattle heads and count has increased exponentially.Also more importantly the population of nigeria at the time was less than forty million.Today nigeria is a country of more than two hundred million people.The land size is still the same.If anything it is less.Bakassi peninsula was ceded away recently. There is desert encroachment which has further reduced the land size.We have those in authority going back to seek answers. Clearly it portrays inability to solve problems. It is called lack of capacity. Again this makes clear what we have been saying. They are not able to imagine a state where everyone is under the law.It is clear the people in government have problems with the law.They hate being subject to it.It is therefore troubling that in a country in which power over land is vested in the state governments the federal government wishes to appear to seek to cause a breach.In seeking to interfere in such a manner the federal government is hinting on nepotism and importantly disrespect for the rule of law. So how are they going to be the enforcer if they do not obey the law themselves?</p> <br> <p> What is the meaning of their frequent talk about unity? Do they mean to say they are a masterclass and others their subjects? We see how they try to demonize IPOB and other groups who demand equity.If they hate those who come out in the open, the ones in the shadows will blind-side them. If you sponsor murderers in communities to intimidate them and take over their resources it will result in agitations.And that is the notion fueling the prevailing atmosphere in nigeria.If Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho are quiet others will take their place quickly.How can a government be more worried about a handful of cattle herders than millions of nigerians who require land for other very productive activities in the state? It is the governments' responsibility and the governor must see that resources are deployed in such a way to benefit more people. It is his charge and responsibility in a democratic government. The people who went to the president to canvass this position are his enemies in real terms.It is what his wife has been saying. They might seem to love him but they do not.If this were to be a military government these are going to be the coup leaders! Now all they can do is make him look bad from time to time.We know some do not have a sound mind.And it is just putting the matter mildly.</p> <br> <a href="#pilot.africa">Reimagining Africa:The Work Begins</a> <br> <br> <br><br><a href="nowistime.html"/><img src="umuafoigbo.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180" /></a> <br><br><img src="umuigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="180" /></a> <br><a name="new.pilot"></a> <br> Read...<a href="makingthegong.html"/> our article about the nigerian challenge</a> <br><center>WE JUST WATCHED A HOODED FIGURE BEING PARADED IN A COURT IN ABUJA NIGERIA: WE HEAR IT IS THE IPOB LEADER!</center> <p>We would like to appeal to the government of Nigeria to realize it has a very different problem today than three years ago.If they mistreat the man in their custody there will be a very big problem.It is serious statement of facts. The man has followers and his words animate them.In the last twenty five years some of us have advocated for nigeria to return to the founding constitution to no avail.On my part I have done so with all zeal and using every method I can possibly find. We were accused of trying to prolong the tenure of a government at some point.Today we watch the country slide further and further into poverty, and now anarchy.Rather than seek solutions to the problem of unity the actions of the people in authority only tend or even aim to accentuate the differences.If it were not so why were the politicians from Northern nigeria eager to emplace sharia law in a secular state? Even if they claim it is their right the question is do they find it expedient under present circumstances?</p> <br> <p> Would it not have been better for them to agree with the rest? If the answer is yes then the next question would be: Are they prepared to allow other segments of soceity to pursue what they consider important to them? Until they resolve these issues within them there is not a country yet. We are all in one big refugee camp! The Indegenous People of Biafra (IPOB) had come out asking for autonomy for the region and self government.The style of their leader might not be appealing to most. However he is beloved among the group without a question. Besides the man is out on a protest.He is not on a picnic.He is looking for results.He is a man with a sense of the limitations of time. Many of us worry that there is a love for subservience and it makes every assertive kind of voice one of dissent and a rebellion.We like with all due respect to cite the muslim cleric Alhaji El Zakzaky and his group. With all due respect this group has the most educated and accomplished men among the entire muslim groups in Northern nigeria.The youngmen and women in the group are literate and erudite. Within government circles they are maligned and are seen as a scourge.We are not able to understand the value system or method of assesment in play with the leadership in nigeria. I know some people hate to hear the word Biafra.However the name "Oduduwa" has been the uniting name for the people of Western nigeria. Same as Arewa is for those from Northern nigeria. We have "ODUA" investment corporations. It is an entity worth billions of dollars. The same goes for AREWA Group. These are all sources by which the people could prosecute any project of common interest. Eastern region has no such entity.</p> <br> <p>Biafra is a way to advocate for the unity of Eastern nigeria. We believe it is a welcome idea. The name Arewa lights up the countenance of the average man from Northern nigeria.Oduduwa does same for the man from Western nigeria. How come Eastern nigeria is the only place that must be shredded to pieces? Why does it seem that the Ijebu and Egba can unite but the Ibibio and Ibo cannot? The kanuri and Nupe are the same people but the Effik and Ibo, the Ibo and Ogoni are enemies? The IPOB group raise serious and necessary issues.It is a demand to return nigeria to it founding principles or allow everyone to pursue their own interest.Who are the ones who are trying to hold unto some people against their own self interest? We therefore want nigerians to take a very good look at the position the group in IPOB holds.It is a demand based on reason.I would consider that is what we had been advocating for decades without success.Are they saying we have been under the clouds of treasonable crimes? Where do they derive such laws from? We find no laws in the world that can support their position.It would not seem as if that was the agreement that founded nigeria. But it is.Nigeria was founded as a federation. It means it is founded on the assumption there are fundamental differences in manner of life and even culture. The assumtion is that these differences are significant enough to be acknowledged and respected. And such are the under-pinning values upon which the federation of nigeria were founded.Patriotism is to allow the spirit of these facts to control our actions.So upon what is this their patriotism and love for nigeria based? And they display a penchant for disdain for other people and their values? Who do they want to be in this kingdom they have founded in their own heads? </p> <br> <p>The core north where sharia has been established is feudalistic.Yorubaland is monarchical.It is the land of the Oba.Igboland and Eastern nigeria is republican and operates a pure democracy with a ceremonial leader.How can anyone want to have a soceity here with no agreements? Quite clearly these are very different people. Whose values will be overridden? Who will allow his own value to be subsumed in another among these people? Incidently in southern nigeria are very old tribes and civilizations.When some boast about their patriotism, are they talking about nepotism, tribalism or ethnicism? Patriotism assumes a national value system acceptable to all in the country.We have no such in nigeria today. The ones who claim patriotism will not allow for any such to be emplaced.It begins with an acceptable agreement to be one united country. They declare sharia and say peace and unity is not negotiable. Look how it rings so hollow! So what is this their patriotic zeal? Are they talking about muslim fundmentalism? If not them what is it? Is it a patriotism based on falacy and fiction? How is it a crime to ask for a situation that represents an agreement? Now some people have to beg for what should be their right while the others enjoy the right without hindrance.</p> <br> <p>IPOB came out demanding or actually requesting a referendum.Eastern region has millions of graduates with no job.The opportunities are just not there. It is now the reality that youths on Eastern nigeria must migrate in search of a better life.Yet they create their own future everywhere they go. They mostly create the jobs for themselves.Industries in the region are dying out due to lack of foreign exchange to refurbish machinery.Most industries in Eastern Region set up at the same time with most that are major earners in other regions are all dead. They were not mismanaged.They were simply destroyed using very unfriendly policy initiatives.The same reason the government hold down the economy by the stranglehold of a constitution that protects every resource for the rich.Nigeria a supposed federations gathers every resource at the center where it is stolen and pillaged by expert thieves who have become highly practiced in the act.In other to cover their act they breed thugs who metemorphose to bandits and terrorists.At a very personal level it is hard to accept the narative of hatred from the political class.It is a position that helps their agenda of exploitation as much as the divide and rule principle helps some corporate administrators with primodial instincts. We know how the problem grew worse from these unpatriotic vices. IPOB and their leader had only protested and argued for a more equitable nigeria. But they argue that leaving nigeria was an option if the forces are determined to keep it in in the present ruinious stranglehold.It is a natural and very organic position.</p> <br> <p>Before IPOB and other agitations we had begged the people with the reins of power to allow an atmosphere that will promote productivity and growth.We have spoken into the silence of organized criminality.When the IPOB and others came along we knew it was a sign of angst and dispondency.It is what causes protests. We have youths who do not have jobs.Their parents who work are owed in some cases up to eight months of wages and salaries.Some state governments owe the pensioneers arears of their monthly stipends in some cases in excess of six months. Imagine such callousness! It is worth protesting against such an inhumane administrative regiment.They were peaceful and determined to remain peaceful.But some people determined it was needful to shed their blood.And many of them were slaughtered. Nobody should pretend the world does not know the truth.Every intelligence agency in the world has videographic,photographic and every evidence necessary to prove a case.The nigerian government is not going to convince anyone by lying that it never killed these kids.The world has a very clear evidence of what happened.Their leader shows up and they arrest him and throw him into jail and clamp jarring charges against him.</p> <br> <p>His followers were killed but he get charged for every manner of crime. All of that for demanding to return nigeria to its founding constitution and structure.We want to express to the government to understand they have an opportunity to save nigeria if they want a country.However it must be on the foundations that was strong and able to sustain the many nations within it.If not it will be a waste of time to continue a witch hunt and a nepotic cleansing.The people in question are more than a hundred million tucked away in every remote part of the world.And they remain loyal to their own origins.It is hard to wipe them out. God ensured that reality.They will not take their own nation and kidnap the rest and hold them hostage. It will lead to a bad place.They might have Nnamdi Kanu under arrest but there are millions of nigerians who feel exactly like him.To such he is a necessary voice. Should they determine to silence him what might replace him could be far less friendly.If they mishandle the situation they would have facilitated what they seem to dread so much.</p> <br> <p>But again it might be their wish and they prefer the horror theatre that leads to an eventuality they actually desire.I dare not claim to know why Mazi Nnamdi Kalu allowed this to be the case.My observation of him shows me a very instinctive and godly man.I would not try to guess why he would want to be tried by those who attemted to murder him so recently. I would however say I would have done exactly the same thing he has done under the present set of circumstances.Now it is up to the nigerians to show solidarity with the cause he embodies and represent.If not accept their perpetual servitude and shut up.There is no adult who would not understand why armed men are being positioned close to where they live and find their food. There is a plan afoot to destroy them as a people.Some of us students of nigerian contemporary history can see the attempt to position some people as alternate leaders and guardians.An act that is the last step before a system is fully overtaken.</p> <br> <p>After all for what reason were they ferrying all these armed bandits to the area? Was it to participate in a disco party? We say this because the insecurity in Eastern Nigeria appear to have the hand of those in authority.The citizens of the region created the Eastern Security Network when the governors could not help. We saw homes being burnt and villages being sacked. We were not to allow a region known for the peace within it turned into death zone.As we watch the agencies of government murder our youths we bleed with them. And we all hurt. We hear the accusation the IPOB leader created the ESN. Perhaps somebody does not understand the people of this area. It is impossible for Nnamdi Kanu to create ESN by himself. The people find him credible. The authoriries might not like him.But the people think he is sincere about his goals.The ESN is a volunteer group of citizens who want to keep their region safe.In the face of the present circumstances they remain very relevant.It is not possible that they would be the ones distabilizing the space they were suppose to keep safe.It is hard to believe. It is even absurd.We refer to the claim in Vanguard newspaper of January 23 2021 in which the herdsmen threatened "we will kill all the police men in Edo state ....". We know they do not joke.</p> <br> <p>When they make threats they go through with it.Edo state witnessed the mass influx shown even on international media during the election there.Now all those people are in the state. The central government uses staggered state elections to detabilize nigeria. It pick off one at a time.Next on their rader now is Anambra state. So ESN is not responsible for the violence and are not the unknown gunmen.The nigerian government must have the explaination.We heard the governors accuse other political actors.We take that to be a more accurate narative.The people of the space resident around the face of the earth will not allow their way of life to be influenced. Not especially by a culture that is very On the whole disimilar.We ask for reasonable cause of action.I know it is a very high thing to seek reason these days.However without it everything will be ruined and shall be in ruins.In a world where predators abound by the bunch any mistake is the doom of millions of people in the space. We know that destruction in africa is more than a delight in some places.And we are talking about a major catastrophic event.It is what happens when humans abandon reason.Heavens forbid! </p> <br> <br><a href="makingthegong.html">our article about the nigerian challenge</a> <br> <br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="igbo2.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br><img src="adaeze2.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="160" /> <br><font color="blue">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% <a href="nationweneed.html/><img src="adaigbo2.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="170" /></a> %</center></font> <br><center><a href="wiseupeast.html"/>SOMEBODY WARN THE NIGERIAN MILITARY:HUMILIATING AND KILLING EASTERN YOUTHS IN NIGERIA WILL NOT EARN ANY KUDOS! IT IS INVITATION OF HELL.</a></center> <p>We watch the shameless misguided action of the nigerian military officers who are vandalizing and killing in Eastern nigeria. Who declared a war in the nigerian state? But the nigeria military is out in combat gear killing citizens with no authorization by any law. What is the military somebodys bodyguard or personal security outfit? Displaying the capture of Igbo youths in Igboland where there are now foreign terrorists and bandits roaming free is disingenius.It is the most pointed sign of the imminent demise of nigeria.Very soon they are going to provoke the people to the extent even their barracks will no longer be safe. We have said these men do not wish for nigeria to survive. We have yet another evidence.It is very unprofessional behaviour we have on display.In what other country in the world will such a misguided undertaking be approved by a military hierachy? What are the youths asking for? Our understanding of their position is a return to the nigeria that was agreed to by the founders.So what are the nigerian military willing to die for? Are they laying down their life for a nigeria founded by Gen Sanni Abacha? What are they in the nigerian military to accomplish? We have reached a point where each person will search his own soul.As men with privilage pillage nigeria and turn it into a killing field we must rethink.The display of the slaughter of the youths who should be in school and are not, who should have jobs but have only displair,we must rethink.Who really needs a country that benefits a handful of people? It is time to ask some serious questions.Oil was discovered in Bodeja, Birnin Gwari, Gombe and Lake Chad basin.Today these places are terrorist strongholds.Gold was found in Taraba and terrorists have taken over the place.You use violence to prevent your own resource from being used to benefit the pool of the commonwealth. But you send terrorists of various kinds to secure and ensure the use of resources of the other members of the commonwealth. It is the definition of colonization.It will not stand in nigeria.People in the space are not going to accept the gambit.The people with this idea might ask the British empire.</p> <br> <p>How can a country survive these kind of intrigues? It is impossible to have a country where every resource becomes contested.Those whose resources are being used will wise up to the new approach sooner or later.When they do the country is doomed. We have a country where the miltary is focused on ethnic politics. No country can become a nation under such realities.Any country that will never grow into a nation will break up. It is only a matter of time.But the nigerian army focuses on youths from Eastern nigeria asking for nigeria to return to a place where healing can begin. And they are being massacred.Nigeria will not survive their very unpatriotic choices. The nigerian army has sold its image that for over twenty years many have worked hard to salvage.Again down the drain it goes once more in less than eight years.We have the proof that nigeria has no military presently but a band of unprofessional men in uniform.Some of us had hoped that the nigerian miltary could be rescued from the dibilitating bouts of dishonor inflicted upon it. We have the same people who ruined the force resume from where they had stopped.A bunch of people who neither understand patriotism nor democracy are working really hard to remove every iota of credibility that might accrue to the force.We see ethnic begots entrench to ruin a force that could not only be a source of strength to the country but to the african people and the people of color.We are all diminished by these bunch of people who have ruined the continent and a country with such great potentials as nigeria. Nigeria is completely savaged by these bunch and they keep at it, and have kept it up with gusto! Today we watch even the opposition political party work for election in 2023 when the country is in shambles.They well know they will have no chance at winning under the present set of events. Instead of working with the rest of the country to seek to create a sustainable structure they are bust planning strategy.Well the supreme court is there. They must be reminded.How does it appear to them these people who want to capture the entire nigeria territory before 2023 are planning to have a free and fair election?</p> <br> <p>We see the disdain they exude when they are dealing with these youths whose only sin is being born in the space called nigeria.These are youngmen who have done everything they are suppose to do.Many of them are university graduates and skilled people who are not employed because of the inequity in the polity. And they clearly understand this, very clearly. Some are out of university for years.Nothing offends like when a person who dishonored your family begins to threaten you as well.The country will protect foreign bandits and kill its own youths.We have said it time and time again the soldiers who kill in Eastern nigeria will not escape the long arms of the law of retribution of the God of the people of this area. It will get them however long it takes. It could find them in uniform or out of it. But by and by it will find them. They will and they are going to pay for violating a people in their own mother and fatherland.Nigeria has a democracy.Nigeria is operating a democratic dispensation.Why are a different set of rules being applied to the people of Eastern nigeria? So the area just exists for nigeria to go and harvest resources to run the rest of the space? How in the world did the nigerian government convert a civil protest by youths to a war? We watched as the government invite armed people into the country. We watched as they were being ferrried into the communities in many areas of Southern nigeria.We invited the entire world to watch these events with us.During a lockdown these people were being ferried to communities in southern nigeria.The same government that imposed a lockdown allowed these murderers to be ferried around the entire southern nigeria.</p> <br> <p>These people began attacking hitherto peaceful communities and we watched and traced it all to the enabling arms of the government. So now the nigerian military go in to target citizens who are protecting themselves from marauding foreign bandits.It will not be enough to appologise for the "loss of lives". We have made our case to the world. We are very tired and fade up with the repeating violence from the people who hate us so much.It appears they are not able to help themselves.What are the people suppose to do? Wait for the bandits to wipe them out? Already we have people who have been displaced by this same band of deadly urchins.Thanks to them nigerians are "internally displaced". The many tens of thousands murdered by them are on record.Villages are burnt and looted and the government finds excuses. The government coins the phrase "internally displaced". It is a fancy word formulated by a government given to the art of explaining extremes. The people of Eastern nigeria will not be internally displaced. Millions are already all over the world.So many thanks to this very same mechanism.Instead of being "displaced" in nigeria we are demanding our space as ordained by God! We invoke our right to our own sovereignty as an indegenous nation.We have no need for any war. Nigeria is neither an entity founded by conquest nor did God make nigeria.It is and has been a free space. It was colonized but the independence from the colonizers was negotiated. There was an agreement reached for the people to continue to remain an entity. If these men have outgrown the agreement and have abandoned it the rest can't be bound by it.If any other thing or rule tickles their fancy it is their own illusion.In the face of threatening and clear danger the people of Eastern nigeria will revert to the status quo ante.Every other matter is mute when there is harm enveloping them as is the case at this very moment.We reject the killing and humiliation of our citizens.We also wish to distance ourselves from the causative factors. </p> <br> <p>We say a big No! We say a big NO to the massacre in nigeria. Capturing, shaming and displaying our youths whose only offence is to defend their motherland in this manner will destroy nigeria with a swift deadly slide! In over a decade they are unable to overcome a bunch of illitrate barefoot religious bandits turned terrorists.How will they withstand a very well educated group with sympathisers across the globe? It is a very suicidal idea. It might not seem so now.As they start another unreasoned set of events they gleefully open the gates of hell. If these men had any idea at all they would never engage in such a foolish prank.How many Boko haram terrorists did they capture or humiliate in this manner? How many ISWAP members have they captured? How many marauding bandits have they captured? How many killer herdsmen have they captured? We are asking these "brave" men in nigerian military unifrom. How many we ask them? Boko haram has withstood them for more than a decade. The citizens who have to deal with these many sources of danger is now the target of their military prowess? Nigerian military what has gotten over you? It is a very big shame indeed!</p> <br> <p> The world watched the action of this government as its sharia chief justice overturn a legitimate election.By which action they showed disdain for democracy and actual rule of law.There was an election in which ballots were cast and counted and approved by the appropraite authority.But they took the person who came fourth in the number of votes cast and found an absurd technicality to impose him on the people. It was an event that removed a governor sworn in by the officers of the state after being confirmed by the institution vested with the authority.Since then the state the most peaceful in the country hitherto has been thrown into turmoil.Governments are founded to create peace and order not to disturb it. It is not how countries work.It is exactly how they are destroyed and these men are hard at work to dismantle nigeria! The nigerian military join in gleefully.If only these men understood their mandate the last place anyone will send them today is Eastern nigeria.Asking for referendum is no act of insurrection as some given to ignorance insinuate. Neither is self defence. What is a problem is a double standard in the application of justice.</p> <br> <p>It is the foudation of anarchy. Now it is playing out.It is the sharia law that is being enforced in Imo state. It is not the laws of the federation to which the people of Eastern nigeria willingly subscribed to.Therein is the root of the present conflict. It is constitutional and political.It is not a matter of guns and bullets.It is a matter for the roundtable.The community sense arrant impunity and corruption in the system. We have told the people of Eastern Nigeria to get ready to defend themselves and their resources. We have told them that nigeria has more gold than Ghana and South Africa put together.Nigeria has gold in more that fifteen locations in Northern nigeria. Gold deposit occur in Abuja/Nasarawa area,Maru,Malele,Anke,Tsohon,Gwari,Bin Yauri,Zamfara etc. It is all being mined privately.Nigeria has gold in more than four sites in Osun/Oyo in Western nigeria.The sites are all in private hands.Every hydro carbon deposit in Eastern nigeria is ceased by the federal government.The time has come to resist the injustice.The people have every right to resist it. What is going on in nigeria is not about cows. The armed men are no herders. We like to tell ordinary nigerians what the sponors of the terror are after.It is your resources they want.You do not matter in any way at all.You yourselves know this to be true.The insecurity you experience is intended to force you into canine loyalty.You will either fight or die.</p> <br> <p>We reject the position of the abuja government.It is not the law of the federation to which our forebearers undersigned. We reject what the Abuja government is doing in Eastern Nigeria.We reject it and we demand they recall their armed men.All of them. We are being provoked. We will no longer be intimidated to the point of surrender.We subscribed to a country not a bedlam. Our forebearers willingly accented to a federation of equal partners.It will be a very different matter if these people are not quickly recalled.We are not going to watch our youths massacred by a band of jihadists and plunderers in military uniform.We ar going to ask for help to repel these bandit uniform or not. And we are very sure help will come.At that time the nigerian government will have no way to negotiate or control the situation.We ask them to show enough sense and recall their men immediately.The world is not impressed with their show of shame.Many times they have denied killing in this area.Now they can't. We warn because we care! The ones who refuse to listen will bear and carry the blame for the threatening hell to come.</p> <br> <br><br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br><img src="umuanyi9.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /> <br><img src="africana.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="160" /> <p><font color:="blue">African Renaissance.</p></font> <br><center><a href="newagitations.html"/>WHO GAVE THESE NORTHERN ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS GROUPS THE RIGHT TO AUTHORITY IN NIGERIA?</a></center> <p>We have watched as the nigerian government slides into muslim fundamentalism and many still are slumbering away. Not one single day passes without them issuing one draconian order or another.Muslims refer to these as "fatwa". And so goes the space we used to call nigeria. Twelve states have been taken hostage without as much as a whimper from the elites in Northern nigeria who were pretending all along to be patriotic nigerians.How patriotic is that? And still their "fatwa" keep on rolling.Even the so called federal government of nigeria is not spared.These people order them around and they shamefully comply to the consternation of citizens.The prospect is very nerve jarring.We know nigeria is a country that now operates and exists without a basis.It is a country operated without a constitution.Some people who are called politicians and leaders have been purchased.They can't even worry about such things. They have no idea they are just items on the menu. We must all remember that nigeria as was founded consists of autonomous indegenous ethnicities.It is a very big mistake to take this for granted. These groups have survived for centuries and have thrived for a reason.They can fight! Life has never been a walk in the park anywhere at any time. It was alway a struggle of serious proportions.</p> <br> <p>If an Igbo and a Yoruba or Ijaw will not be first Igbo Yoruba or Ijaw something is wrong.These politicians pretend to be nigerians. Their opponents are busy taking everything they have including their dignity.The nigeria they claim has been killed by their opponents who keep a straight face. Nigeria does not exist by law or by even agreement of any type by the participants.Some have hijacked the space and are buying off every willing person.The motive is to have pliable people who will not oppose the ungoing "fulanization" project.If the people that make up nigeria will not agree to have a raison d'etat there is no need to continue to deceive the world any further.If the present government fills nigeria with armed Malians or Mauritainians or Chadians or others from Niger Republic it will not take the place of a constitution.If the founding constitution is no longer acceptable to the Northern muslim elite where then do we find a country? If the nigerian northern religious elite hand the reins of power to these aliens and allow them to compile the details of nigerians for political hit job it is not funny. We just want to tell them we are paying attention.Presently nigeria is on life support.But it will not for much longer. Thanks to them.</p> <br> <p>The decree issued by the government during the period of military rule can't be replaced by the constant resort to "fatwa" by the Islamist northern ruling class. The rest are sick and tired already.It is time the whole of them who are thinking this is some kind of a bad joke wake up.They must recognize they are up against what a colonial power like Britain was unable to handle.It is shocking for a group with no patience or eye for details to pretend to understand these issues. They absolutely do not.In going to a place like Egypt to announce and invite people into nigeria this government displayed a thorough lack of understanding of social issues. It is like giving an order for a sick person to be kicked around very hard. You do not want them to live.With millions of unemployed people and youths with no education and utter feeling of worthlessness how could this be a solution? It is our opinion these people do not want nigeria. From the very beginning they never wanted it as it is. Now they are remaking it to suit them.It is clear to them they have no skill for the burden to manage such a massive responsibility.What they need is a place they can plunder. It requires no skill to do that. All you need is terror.We know the president was a coup maker who once thought he could solve nigerian problems with a string of orders and military declarations. Naturally he failed. We believe the counter coup must have been even a relief to him. His friends saw him choking and removed him from a self inflicted pain and suffering! Paddyman Gen Sanni Abacha was a thoroughbred coup maker. So he provided his services for a friend in need.Nigerians are too patient but it has now worn very thin.The man who is president today is an emodiment of the people who have created present nigeria that is suffocating its citizens.</p> <br> <p> When the counter coup came it was expected.History is again repeating itself.Once again the man has choked himself.But this time he is surrounded by a bunch of self seeking acolytes.The man is left to his own devices and he has much.During his military days he will threaten and threaten again.It was all a litany of "this will not be tolerated and that will not be tolerated". He wanted people to queue at bus stops.There was no planning.Buses were not provided.The ricketty buses that ply the roads could only carry a few people out of the many that were waiting! People come to the bus stop to get transportation.It is not to queue or not.It is to get transportation they come.Without bathrooms in public places it was made a crime to seek to ease ones self in public. In many places like Lagos there were millions of people at any given point in time.In Osodi market and bus stop for instance the drama of this policy played out on daily basis.Nobody had put all of that into considerations. It is little wonder that the typical lagosian and the "african ninja" reacted with "i don care damn" atittude. It was a cat and mouse game with the unfortunate men asked to enforce the law. Seeing how hopeless the situation was they made the best of it. It became a windfall. When they catch you there is a solution.You just have to do the " the right thing". It became a type of taxation but the money went to well connected people. The Oshodi market area on a typical day is a hub for a few million people with no public conviniencies.Providing such will be a monumental challenge.No less a challenge also will be maintaining such a facility and keeping it in sanitary condition.</p> <br> <p>Government normally will punt the ball in such situations.It is normal to defer to the future when better answers are available. Unless the government sees itself as that future. We had a government which thought it was the future but had no answers.It was a nightmare. We recall the "Ghana must go" episode? We remember how millions of Ghanaians residing in nigeria were asked to leave. An order that was issued "with immediate effect". We are talking about a population of very hardworking people from a neighboring country.At the time a series of misfortunes had crippled the nation leaving citizens in a lurch.This population was industrious and productive.We are talking about a population that consisted of the most learned people in the african continent.Someone woke up one day and asked all of them to leave "with immediate effect". Naturally the economy of the country took a great tumble.Again we see a lack of proper perception here.I give these as classic examples of the mindset of this leader and his like.It is not suprising they have resorted to the use of religion as a ploy. It is a ploy.They are not religious people.The only man among them who exuded religious trait was Gen Muritala Mohammed.</p> <br> <p>These ones are plunderers.Anyone give us the list of what the general owned before he was brutally murdered by the ones who wanted to plunder nigeria.Today they have messed the nigerian polity up! Somethings are very serious.When you threaten people and their means of existence they will resist you.The size of your army not withstanding they are going to withstand you.In life the uprising from the indignation of abuse of power never has failed.We want these loquacious free loaders from "all over tha place" who have held and focused the highlight on themselves to understand what harm they are doing.Our people are being killed.We realize life means nothing to them.We also recognize they have no understanding of family and heritage as we do.They created a Sharia country of twelve states out of nigeria.Who did they ask? How did they determine it was the choice of the majority? Of course in their presumptive egotistic manner this was imposed on everyone else. Now they want to pretend they love nigeria more than the rest who have tried to mantain the country as agreed. On our last check they already left nigeria! We want them to know they are not fooling anyone but themselves.One day the people will recognize that and defend their own lives and resources from theives and plunderers. <br> <br><a href="makingthegong.html"/><img src="umuibe.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <br><center><a href="createthis.html"/>WAKE UP GOVERNORS OF EASTERN NIGERIA: YOUR CITIZENS ARE BEING WIPED OUT BY TERRORISTS IN UNIFORM AND OUT OF UNIFORM</a></center> <p>The governors in Eastern nigerian are all busy day dreaming about becoming president of nigeria.It is not clear to them nigeria is changing in demography and identity.It is lost on them.The people at the helm have an agenda and they are not pretending.Somehow only these day dreamers are not able to know the difference. People are trooping in displacing indegenous population and they think it is business as usual.They think that a man is being sincere when he acts or rather pretends that herding of cattle in nigeria is normal today.Herding was done when nigeria was a country of fifty five million people and perhaps a million heads of cattle.It is still a solution when the country now has over two hundred million people. Who thinks like that? We have a mindset which totally rejects challenge and problems.Somebody is talking about cattle routes in 2021. We have malls being built all around southern nigeria.We are not able to assume that some people think that these have to be suspended to make way for cattle routes? Is that the kind of leadership these people are capable of? They knows it is provocation.They do not think the people have any choice.Helpless governors are calling on the population to defend themselves. There is absoulutely no means allowed them to leaverage their authority.The central government assumes and presumes all authority in a federation.It sets the purpose for having such a government on its head! When a governor asked people to defend themselves we have anarchy. But they see no other way. The states have no capacity to defend citizens or enforce the law independently. In Benue, Zamfara, Bornu, Kebbi,Niger states indegenous people are being driven away and massacred mercilessly by migrants and their local allies.But the nigerian government issues shoot at sight order to the military.Some of us predicted it was aimed at no other than those who are demanding to be truely free.</p> <br> <p>Governors have called on the central government to no avail. But the government of nigeria focuses on killing the people of Eastern nigeria.Goverrnment and those in power just can't stand them. The resourcefulness of the people and the natural endowments in the area has made them the target of plunderers. And they are talking about unity. But there is no country.Nigeria is under full invasion by foreign migrants who are all fully armed! The world is watching the making of a genocide 2.0.The nigeria army is on a killing spree fully rampaging Eastern nigeria. After instigating avoidable conflict using foreign migrant herders they move in for the kill. We had begged the government of nigeria pleading with the president to treat the agitations as civil and constitutional issues which they truely are.We had requested that when felonies occur that such must be seen as breaches which must pass through the normal legal channels. Instead the government and its law enforcement has chosen and relied on the worst methods.The men have relied on primodal methods and have turned normal disagreements in a democracy into warfare.They are killing defenceless people in a supposed country. By it they have set fire on very peaceful communities causing unprecedented human problems and suffering. We have mass graves all over nigeria under this government that make ISIS a joke. The country is collapsing in the worst possible way.It will not be long before Europe will begin to feel the effect of the threatening disaster!</p> <br> <p> Sad enough the governors in Eastern nigeria are not aware of what is happening.In the insuing confussion they are not sure where to place their loyalty. They respond like ones in a trance! We have a man planted in the heartland of Eastern nigeria to destroy a people.The man voted in by the supreme court is inviting a military he knows its antecedent into the communities to destroy lives. We see him with the glee of the folly and the enthusiasm of a sadist masquerading as leader.The space is on fire under him and that does not worry him at all. He came to serve the people.He came to serve them their death warrants.The nigerian army now populated by Boko Haram repentants is busy killing our youth at the invitation of this man. And this right inside the bowels of Igboland.According to civil right lawyers the morgues in nigeria especially in Imo state are filled with suspected ESN and IPOB. Every able bodied youth in Eastern nigeria is suspected ESN and suspected IPOB. As we all are well aware IPOB is an organization asking for referendum for the mainly christain Eastern nigeria. The Islamists running the nigerian government have issued a death sentence and muslim "fatwa" in a democracy instead of relying on national and international laws. Suddenly the nigerian government finds an excuse for extra judicial massacre of Igbos and people of Eastern nigeria. It will be challenged if it does not stop immediately. It will be challenged and since they do not wish to adhere to rules neither will rules be necessary in challenging this abuse of authority.The people are indegenous and autonomous.Their survival is more prieminent than any so called country and its interests.If any reality does not subsume this fact it will be rejected totally. The world is bound to react.We know that. But this is the time for it. Not after millions have already been killed. The people being accused by the nigerian government live and work around the world. The government of nigeria somehow ignores this glaring fact and reality. Somehow armed bandits and terorrists are protected by the nigerian army while law abiding citizens who want to have a safe community are attacked and massacred by law enforcement agents.</p> <br> <p>IPOB is not a load of miscreants.They are the men and women remitting billions of dollars back to a very ungreatful, wasteful bunch of gamblers calling themselves leaders. They are providing the resources for the government to order fighter jets, amoured tanks and weapons to protect killer herdsmen, marauding bandits and terrorists.The governments acknowledges that these are not even nigerian people.But they are allowed to kill and maim citizens as they please.In the past we appealed to the government to arrest and prosecute people found in breach of the law.But they chose to kill rather than prosecute those they disagree with.We repeatedly appealed to them to maintain a less adversarial approach. But they are set in their own ways.With the choice they have made comes the inevitable reality they have created. The truth is clear.These people being killed are no criminals. They have reacted in self defence.In other places where international best practices of law enforcement are relied on they protest without incidents. We are requesting that people of conscience intervene. The people fighting us have a lot of help. And they have a set goal and mission.Someone must prevail upon a government focused on killing defenceless citizens. Meanwhile bandits and terrorist are trooping into nigeria unchecked. A fact no less than the president of nigeria accepts. It is the time to stop the fatalism. It has gone too far.The killing by bandits and terrorist are far too many already.It is unthinkable government is attacking the people who are out to defend themselves.It is clear the goal is not unity but domination and extermination.Somebody sees the chance to wipe out the Igbos and the people he despises in Eastern nigeria. Calling them "a "dot" in a circle". The language used to describe the people of the area is very troubling and worrisome. He has no good intentions.Every time he opens his mouth it is made clear.The idea must be stopped before this escalates into another human tragedy.</p> <br> <br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="nwadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <br><center><a href="thenewideas.html"/>WE ALL KNOW NATURE ACCEPTS AND APPROVE CORRECTIONS: SOUTHERNERS MUST FORCE THE NEEDED CORRECTION IN NIGERIA OR IT IS OVER!</a></center> <p>I have never felt the need nor necessity to savage the British Empire.We might disagree with the idea but it served the people and their interests.Human beings are always prone to behave in such terms mostly.Britain was colonized over and over. Britain was a colony of both Rome and France at some point in time.It is therefore not anything to preach to the British people what colonialism means. It is something they understand very well.They deal the hand dealt to them.It is called life. We however must note that those things can't happen today.It is even hard to imagine it ever happened.It is also a fact of life.Not only are they unacceptable but very impossible for such to be brought about under the present set of reality.First the British people as a sovereign nation of people will prefer hell to boil over the entire earth! And second the would be opponent will think the action over long and hard. If such a person has his head on his shoulders and his mind focused on reality he will conclude it is not a good idea.My essay is however not about Britain but Nigeria.Britain created a country out of different sovereign nationalities of people in the West African region.Britain first uses the normal diplomatic (hubris) ploys and conquest and those things that go with subjugating weaker people.Britain formed protectorates from Lagos, Rivers/Delta,fought the Egba people, fought with the Bini people, fought with the Igbo an event spearheaded by the Arochukwu clan of igboland.In the end the British had what it called the Southern protectorate.It merged this amorphous entity with another one cobbled up northward of the space.It was something they were willing and ready to try. The man entrusted with this excercise justified it as a "marriage".And it is in this fact we find redeeming truth.To the extent a marriage is not a do or die affair neither is this event.</p> <br> <p>I have no intention to repeat the history of the said event. The man who was entrusted with this responsibility had formed two seperate protectorates of very unequal economic realities.Something he laments about in his conversations.He savages the people of one area as lazy and unproductive. But he will later choose them as partners.I find it a subject that will take many lines and will not delve into that here.It is very well documented and has been praised and lamented even lambasted over the years.Young chief Obafemi Awolowo called the arrangement a "marrige of convinience" which it truely is.And referred to nigeria as "a mere geographical expression".The people of northern nigeria had ugly things to say of the relationship and nigeria.The leaders of northern nigeria have had ugly things to say of the relationship some of which were very incendiary.It was their game to say what a bad arrangement and how incompartible the nigerians are. Which is suprising considering the relationship was suppose to benefit them more and actually does. Today they are wasting the lives of youth who are agitating for a better soceity in Eastern Nigeria in an oozing magna of patriotic zeal! Even a civil war which cost nearly five million lives has not cured their disdain for the Igbo and other people of Eastern Nigeria.The fact crude oil accounts for the survival of nigeria is why they want to pretend some people in the region are more tolerable.But they too are massacred and dehumanized. It is not a relationship.It is subjugation.All the people of Eastern Nigeria are still very despised by the northern elite.It is this group that has hurt nigeria.They are a cabal of very selfish self-centered and corrupt people.Look at the people around them! When the angst around them worsens they point fingers.They accuse and create diversionary mechanisms. Many feel it got even far worse.Some of this people have introduced fanatical religion into the mix. It is not the subject of this essay.</p> <br> <p>We want to say that the British claimed or rather Fredrick Lugard claimed he was creating a relationship between a "the south; the lady of means, and northern nigeria: the well behaved youth and suitor".And it is in this statement we find redemption.Northern nigeria has not been well behaved in the relationship.To the British they might be well behaved. In the relationship they have been very bad.The Igbos have been massacred repeatedly by them.They have foisted a war on unarmed people of Eastern Nigeria. And they are still spoiling and raging! Lately the youth have become a kinapper, bandit, terrorist, rapist and everything a suitor must never be! In view of this ungoing reality the union can't continue.The victim has ended it.I am not a lawyer and would not worry myself about whether a treaty lasts a hundred years or more.I am a realist. I happen to know that sovereign entities enter into treaties and they can back away from it. When a treaty does not serve the envisaged purpose people will rethink it. Britain did exactly that with the European Union. We must see that as a very good example of how a people must pursue their own self interest.</p> <br> <p>If the people from the sharia states will not have a conversation with the rest of nigeria it will be presumed they have moved on.Everything else they do will be seen and regarded as convinient propaganda. If you just want to plunder and take no responsibility you must find a good and effective mask for it. It is not as if nigeria can't work. It could work. But they just would not allow it. The resources are needed by the ones aspiring to become feudal Lords! Being helped by those who have their own motives these people want nothing constructive for the population.It is much too expensive.They need the money for themselves. Dr Azikiwe and Chief Awolowo contrary to what many from outside africa claim did in reality work out an agreement. They formed an alliance known as (UPGA) United Progressive Grand Alliance.In fact the alliance broke the so called grip in northern nigeria.It was not allowed to stand.But it would have created a prosperous united nigeria! It was that agreement/alliance that brought about the 1966 coup.It was not acceptable to the people who controlled the politics of the space.The unseen hands did not want the "well behaved youth" to look bad so the method of overturning the reality had to be subtle.The youths from southern nigeria in the armed forces were used to carry out a coup from which nigeria was turned into a fulani colony.It is ironic for the representatives of the British did not have high opinion of the fulani. In 1916, Lord Frederick Dealtry Lugard, the first Governor-General of Nigeria, said of the fulani; "The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself". It caused me to go ..ouch!</p> <br> <p>So we see the nature of this "friendship".The man Lugard had demonized the african people in his book called "The Dual Mandate. He had savaged the entire african people with no exceptions.Some of his observation or assesment concerning "greed, vanity" and " lust for power' amused me a little bit.But some people believe they are "friends" with those who think of them in this kind of way. It is very suprising. Often they are made to believe it does not matter so long as they know there is a relationship.The africans who fought for independence rejected a relationship that denies them equality.We have some who have been cajoled into a false assumption. It is this presumption that has denied them the capacity to build relationship with those around them.Today it has made nigeria very unworkable.Militarization, and terror will not change the reality.No one has the monopoly of violence.The people of Eastern nigeria the glue that had held nigeria together are truely exhausted.The sheer frequency of fatalism from the fulanis in nigeria is tiring and exhausting! The recent return to marauding, banditry even terror in plain sight was the last straw. It is unreasonable to ask the people of Eastern Nigeria to rethink.Nigeria has cost them far too much and much than what they have benefitted from it. It is a bad venture. It is an assesment they must make as enterpreneural people.The ones who are likely to ask the people of Eastern nigeria to rethink have not sacrificed anything of much significance.The coups was either masterminded by them or sponsored for their benefit.The Igbo people and their kit and kin are moving on too! The core north have a community of their own choosing.Others have a right to do the same.It is the assesment of many that the time has come to move on.They will not say this for fear of what might happen to them.However the decision represents the general consensus in the space.It is the momentum propelling the present course of action and is very immutable.</p> <br> <br> <br><center><a href="returntopeace.html"/>ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: THE PYTHON DANCE PARTY HAS MANY CASUALITIES</a></center> <p>We had pleaded with the government of nigeria when it was apparent it was considering some kind of action against IPOB in time between September 15 to October 14 2017.We advised that nigeria is now a democracy and the matter should be seen as a political one.What we saw was a reaction similar to the days of the days of the unknown soldier. Only this time it was far worse! How do you run a democracy that way? What we saw was inherently evil.We advised there was no insurrection and rebellion being meditated because the group in question the IPOB (Indegenous people Of Biafra) was demanding a referendum.We hear the request for referendum in the British Parliament every week! No, I mean very often.It is a civil request.How on earth will this concern the British military? Unthinkable. In nigeria the youths call for restructuring animates those who profit from misnomer.The military now created the atmosphere for such to happen more frequently.The strong people went to Umuahia to do a "python dance".The fervent plea to the military and the authorities is on this site. We asked the leaders from Southern nigeria to reach out to the government.It is where this becomes tricky.What the many ambitious presidential aspirants did in the circumstance was not clear to me.I have said that when our motives are not pure neither will our actions be without odour.The nigerian navy and airforce are srambled to confront youths armed with cellphones.They were so irritated and animated.Something that can't occur when communities are attacked and tens of people killed and vandalized.We saw how the military went to Umuahia with amoured tanks and fighter aircrafts, bombers and men dressed like astronauts but for their weapons.We do not see such diaplay with Boko Haram.</p> <br> <p>We have never seen the prisoners taken in the fight against Boko Haram. Now against these we see all the massive show of force. All that against a group of jobless youths with unfathomable angst carrying their cellphones! The outcome was nearly fifty people killed and many more missing.Among the missing at the time was the leader of the group Nnamdi Kanu whose father's residence was stormed as though it was a fortress! What was needed was a little respect. The owner of the compound is a traditional and paramount chief of his people.Militarizing the situation was very improper and very disrespectful. Many think it was done as a way to spite the people.Traditional settings in Igboland are not military entities.They are festive and places to give and receive encouragement.The display of military muscle was quite inappropriate and unnecessary.It was a very laughable event if not for the fatalities.The military acted like an expeditionary force. It was a disgraceful move by a military of a country of two hundred millions people many of whom are among the most resourceful in the world.Nigeria now has a military that accepted terrorists who had massacred and raped among their ranks.Such they purport are repentant.The people concerned are all fulani.It is a novelty nobody else will adopt.First it puts the idea of law and order on its head! To pardon a murderer is one thing. To place them in charge of the lives of other people is a careless display worthy of not just rebuke but serious sanctions!</p> <br> <p>It is very important to stress that we are not going to be able to minimize the sense of fear and trepidation this will create among other soldiers especially the ones that are not fulani.By this action the authorities have shown thy are not interested in building a united country.If it were not so they will be concerned for this truth.But they will also be concerned for the people who were denied the love and presence of their loved ones by this set of murderers.What the nigerian government has done is to offer them sanctuary in the armed forces of all places after exonerating them in the killing spree of nigerians.We find such mindset troubling.The government recently made retiring military chiefs ambassadors.Some of them are accused of presiding over the murder of innocent citizens.Actions such as these point to impunity.The 1999 constitution derives from this mindset.Some people commit a treasonable offence and are not only quick to exonerate themselves but are making themselves kings over the rest! The Oputa panel was a superior frame of mind which recognized the need for forgiveness and closure. But it is an approach and narative these group spurn and ridicule every chance they get.We find these things very worrisome and a trend that is very unsustainable.For these same people to be the peace makers and the ones accusing the rest of unpatriotism not only overturns truth and facts, it is trampling them as a routine.</p> <br> <p>We ask to be allowed to have the space to rebuild our communities that nobody has rebuilt since the civil war of 1967 to 1970. Why is that a problem to those who do everything for themselves without consulting with anyone at all? We demand to know from the people who claim to "rule" nigeria if it is a lie they kept the nigerian northern boaders open after inviting their so-called "people" in. We demand the plan they had in place as near millions of them trooped in. We are not amused that a group of people who have millions of youths with neither education nor skills can ask for more of what they are unable to manage.It sound like insanity.Under such circumstances they expect indegenous population not to defend themselves? The right to defend oneself is not given by any government or authority. It is a natural right. It is the God given right of every living human person. How much more within the context of a sovereign nation of people.If the nigerian military is not withdrawn from Eastern nigeria immediately the world will come down on Aso Rock. Every thing will crash down hard on the people who fail to reason before they act.The people egging them on will be too small for what will be coming very soon upon them.</p> <br> <p> It is very evil for the people that starved children to death in the millions to preach to us.It is wrong for the people who opened the womb of pregnant women smashing the foetus to preach to us.It is evil for the people who are now encircling our communities yet again killing,maiming and raping women and children to preach unity to us.Ordinarily the people of Eastern nigeria are very content to go about their business in a space that is free.They care very little about politics until the space is disturbed. It is why a few fatalistic people use terror to try to intimidate them into abandoning leadership to them.Right now rather than discuss ways to find mutuality they are threatening to cease all property of people from Eastern Nigeria if they demand a sovereign nation of their own. We tell the people who have property in certain parts of nigeria not to worry about such things.ECOWAS has courts and laws.Besides if the people of Eastern Nigeria determine their course of action everything will be resolved.If it involves paying compensations the resources will be found to do so.</p> <br> <p>Citizens of Eastern Region remitted over sixteen billion dollars to nigeria in the last year.If they have a nation they are more than able to pay compensation for liabilities if need be.I would love for the people of Eastern Nigeria who oppose the idea of an independent nation to think reason with us.We have tried to make nigeria work. Our people are the most invested in nigeria. But look at the people who are ravaging our lives because of that.It is abuse of a priviledge.The proper response it to take away the priviledge.It is more difficult to heal nigeria than to turn the page. The people who are preaching peace and unity are the reason it can't exist.It is hard to consider the impact of soceity that refuses to pay people for their work.In other words nigeria has reached a situation where its debt burden make it necessary to turn workers into slaves.When you work and you are not paid what are you? You ask the question: what was the borrowed money used for? The people who preside to take a loan become billioneers. We have leadership without compassion.They even owe pensioneers! We want a soceity that is better than that. The Igbo soceital model which is practiced by the entire nation of people can do a lot better.The igbo nation includes our people who share the same culture and value system.</p> <br> <p> Due to the egalitarian and republican nature of the Igbo culture, dialects and styles are prolific. We ask any person who dares to think to look at the instrinsic values.The "Ekpe" and "Okonko" soceity as well as the art "Uri" an art form of indegenous ancient citedal of the land is housed by the Ibibios and Annang people. So also is the "Nsibidi" the "Igbo" form of very ancient writing. It is for this reason the oldest institutions of learning in former Eastern Nigeria are located along that axis.Dr. Nnamd Azikiwe attended one of such insitution. How could they be different? The "deity" of control among the people the "kamanu" is housed in Ozuzu in Rivers State. As a people we are being abused, milked, plundered and pillaged by others. We have been exploited in many ways.When human labor was the most important ingredient for development they took among our strongest as slaves. Today our resources are taken from us for nothing. Let us face the issue militating against the people of Eastern nigeria that now emperil them as a people.Why would Britain prefer dealing with Nigeria than the actual owners of the crude oil they need? For many years this product was taken from the land at no cost to Britain.When Shell camp was built in Owerri before even the 1940s nigeria had no idea what was going on.We propose that the British government and people look to be a little fair to the people of the area.These are people they happen to know very well.When they agitate they will not stop.What they ask for is equity.If they do the people will collaborate with them better than this bumpy blood filled relationship with nigeria. It is a choice they will make or they will be the loosers. They recall the people always find a way to be free.</p> <br> <p>So now they push this fake country that will not work no matter how hard we try. We hope they listen. And we now turn to our own sleep walkers who claim to be leaders in Eastern nigeria. It is very true that the head of state of nigeria went to a place like Egypt and invited people into nigeria. He promised them visa on arrival.We started shouting at the time knowing the implications of that. Today these hardened murders are all over Igboland and eastern nigeria.They are positioned in Enugu, in Ebonyi in Rivers state and all over Cross River State. We are witnessing a plan to repopulate nigeria with muslims.And the nigerian military has become an accomplice to the disappointment of many of us who had hoped the institution could be reformed to become patriotic.It must be clear to these men who claim to be leaders that their emotions and sentiments means nothing to the people they are dealing with. They wish to be president but who really cares? Do they think anyone besides themselves consider such an earth shattering opportunity? Each and everyone of them is angling for the same position.It is the height of delusion and misdirection. But they are all taken by it and would not listen to any one.These people are aware and are playing them as fiddle.Ordinarily these are not people who could outwit them but they are very vulnerable due to their own lack of proper perspective. Why are some of our people not focused upon the value and worth of self interest? It is in their interest to pay attention. if they will not Abuja might become their permanent home.</p> <br> <p> We are being "misruled" by those who undertake things they are unprepared for.They want to "rule" nigeria and have indeed done so with disastrous consequencies.It is clear they have no idea how to lead much more govern. It is too cumbersome for them.The details agravate them and throw them into fits of rage.To engage with others is beneath them.The question one asks is: why do they want to be in a democracy? Fact is they do not want to. It is only a facade to have access to resources of other people.It is the reason they go for coups when they can't have their way.It explains the twelve sharia states in the core north as we speak.It is the reason they seek feudalistic settings.Who would dispute the fact that the foreign fulani in many parts of nigeria attempting to take over their ancestral land have backers in high places? Killing people in their farms is not the end game.Causing them to flee in fear and taking over the space and their heritage is the real plan.Let us even examine the idea of threatening the source of livelihhod of the population.Is that not an attempt to commit genocide? This action is coming again from people against another whom such had been attempted in the past. It is not a cattle grazing it is provocation with ulterior motives. Any group of people that will not organize to protect themselves will join the internally displaced population.We all know how life works in the "camps"! It is therefore unreasonable to question why the ESN was formed.Many support the Eastern Secuity Network (ESN) but are not members of IPOB.ESN became necessary when the lives of our people became threatened before us.The alternative is not imaginable by any stretch. What we have here is stark incompartibility.Pretending and glossing over it has cost so many lives already. It is time to accept reality and move on if a workable amicable solution is beyond everyone.</p> <br><a href="thewayweare.html"/><img src="adamma.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="160" /></a> <br> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br><center>THE PRESIDENCY SAYS THE ORDER TO SHOOT CITIZENS IN IMO STATE WAS NOT FROM ABUJA</center> <p>The presidency has made some statements concerning the disturbing images of pure slaughter going on in Imo State.The presidential spokesman Mr. Garuba Shehu says the Governor of Imo State is reponsible for the atmosphere in Imo State.The governor invited the military and is responsible for the order given to the military in the state.It is what they call throwing someone under the bus. if anyone is looking for a true life illustration this is a very stark one.It is stripping a drowning person of their desperate even threatening grip on someone else. Ugly as it is we know life happens that way sometimes. But we had pleaded with the governor even warned sometime ago out of concern. We told him he will be exactly where he is today! He lumped everyone who expressed concern for the unethical events in the state, those who dared to tell him the truth "hooligans".A word that had been mangled in his lips.</p> <br> <p>His frequent trips to Aso Rock is a sign by its self that he is having a very hard time. Something that was clearly predictable to all but himself and his sponsors. By this trips he extracted a "shoot at sight order" from the presidency.We can see this clarification became necessary as the presidency tries to keep from drowning with the man with a millstone to his gubernatorial neck! At least there has been no shoot at sight even against marauding killing bandits. We have no casualies by it except in the land where the supreme court elects governors.It is really sad to think! We had seen this coming and had warned our people. We were ignored. Civil disobedience is the response to this kind of situation in a democracy.Instead they accepted gifts.It is sad the dynamics was changed by the people who just wanted to shed the blood of our youths.</p> <br> <p>The space was infiltrated by all sorts of terrorists with cows, and other various guises.We witnessed the shameless build up. We are no fools.We invited the world to watch the savagery with us.We have the witnesses standing with us. The nigerian government is not in the most comfortable of positions. We have a clear evidence of state sponsored terror.Attempting to blame a people who demand equity is disingenius. Why would the most peaceful soceity suddenly turn violent? What aspect of the culture of Eastern Nigeria supports such disorder? It is foreign and sponsored by interest alien to the well-being of the space and its own.Our land cries yet again.Our land is yet again desecrated by the blood of our own children.The answer to the charade by the Supreme court was impeachment.The state legislators knew that. But they were prepared to trade this priviledge for money.</p> <br> <p>All of them just switched party! The choice to trade their power and authority to correct the course of events for money is why the state has been turned into a killing field.I have articles on this site warning the people they will suffer for the choice they were making at the time.It is costing lives and property and there is no end in sight.I know the legislators will be wishing they could switch right back! Greed and avarice will lead to these type of situations.Democracy might seem like a game but it is not.When you are given a weapon use it or keep it until you need it. Self serving people who present themselves in public service are not always successful in masking their actions.Sometimes Nature sends highlight and focus on them. We have a very glaring example.The sponsors of the sharia court judgement in Imo State share the blame here. So also those who saw nothing wrong with the misnomer. How sad!</p> <br> <br><a href="makingthegong.html">our article about the nigerian challenge</a> <br> <br> <br><a href="onenation.html"/><img src="umuafoigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="180" /></a> <br> <br><br><a href="#smashingup.era">...See Our article on..Smashing Up A Country By Quickstep</a> <br> <br> <br><center><a href="makingthegong.html"/>THE GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA ISSUES AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF EASTERN NIGERIA</a></center> <p>Nigeria is suppose to be operating a democratic system not a "patriocracy" nor a monarchy.President Buhari is not a "baba" of all nigerians. He is a president with well defined duties.He is not the father of nigerians as some misguided and ignorant people claim and purport.Some nigerian can take a pass on that! Fathers have a role in the family and reasonable people would not want to have a father who will be political with them.But we are all very different! Southern Nigeria have been under a cloud of death for the last three years.Many of us who had an open mind towards this administration have only shame and regret right now.The government started a move to seek reconciliation by declaring the death of Chief M.K.O Abiola a national tragedy. Somethng we had encouraged and prodded them to move forward along such lines. We had suggested they pursue dialogue in the dealings with agitators. We reminded them that such happens in every democracy.We watched as the far right and extreme elements in the government pull the president and government into extreme positions.Instead of seeking reconciliation they begin gathering personal information of nigerians.Such a move will only serve sinister purposes in a soceity that has nothing else to offer and afford citizens. Something we thought the national assembly should have halted promptly. But as usual they were not even engaged or concerned.We remind the national assembly it is their duty to oppose and checkmate such moves.Anything that has the prospect to threaten the liberties of the individual must be Read by them. What do they think the people elected them for? We have watched as the country took a turn for the worst under a very avoidable circumstance.</p> <br> <p>After youths were conered in Lekki toll gate and pushed in a move to make them drown in the Atlantic waters some us realized we have a problem.We had nigerian youths with the national flag singing the national anthem and openly celebrating their democracy.Some people chose it was an opportune moment to show how undemocratic they truely are.People who control the instruments and forces of coercion of state showed how far they are from democratic tenets.We feared this to be the case from the very start due to the culture and history of these people. The signs were on very early.This event showed us how deep and dangerous these tendencies could be.No sooner the government was sworn in did it become obvious that there was a very sinister agenda.Some people in power and government started to invite members of their ethnic group from around the world into nigeria.It is hard to understand how and why citizenship is overidden by such blatant act of nepotism. In the same space the same group have carved out twelve states in which they have established the sharia law. Sharia law is not an open system. It applies and serves only those who are muslims.A very bold and far reaching move one would imagine.There was no plebicite or referendum. But the nigerian state is suppose to be a secular state.The same people are imposing and forcing themselves on the rest of the people plundering their assets under the guise of unity.It is therefore very pertinent to place the outburst of no other than the head of state of this beleaguered people in proper perspective.The people of Eastern Nigeria have been massacred time and time again.Between 1967 to 1970 over four million were massacred in a a pogrom and the war of genocide which followed.</p> <br> <p>How can a man who was at the center of these entire event allow himself to utter such word as he did recently? It will be foolish of anyone to say he was misquoted.He spoke the words into the camera and microphone. They were his own exact words and his own thoughts.Words they say are a window to the heart. The man has a government that is very allergic to people of Eastern Nigeria.He removed a "chief justice of the federation" and almost got him imprisoned! He was replaced by a sharia judge.And nigeria is a secular state by law. The country does not operate a sharia law system. It is impunity yet the nigerian people are living with it. Law and justice is why countries are established. We have a situation where someone is trying to be over and above it. It is what is called feudalism and the worst version of it.It is not just the disdain he shows for rule of law. But it is also the love for terror. The man in question was a coup leader and maker. He ousted an elected government.Let us again recall the most gruesome massacres including in the genocidal war, the Asaba massacre.He was there. He witnessed it.We could not claim he approved or partook.Any human who witnessed these images and is not touched has ceased to be human.How about someone who was there in person?</p> <br> <p> In this event little children, pregnant women, men of all ages and all were shot dead in a stadium.The people responsible went around to ensure the victims were indeed dead! My question is: Is this the kind of language the man wants to speak? I wonder if it is the kind of "treatment" he is refering to.We alerted the world earlier of such a possibility. The head of state of nigeria said and I quote "many of those matching today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occured during the nigerian civil war.Those of us in the fields for 30 months who went through war will treat them in the language they will understand". We have something that sounds like the words of men who have presided over genocide around the world.Such heartless and very terse words by a man who is refering to an unfortunate event as the one in question is indicative of something much more omnius.These were very heartless and unkind words.We heard very cold words from one who claims to seek peaceful coexistence.Somebody just displayed a total lack of empathy and remorse. The protest is about the lives of youths many of whom are teenagers. It is about a future they are not able to see at all. The kids are worried about their future.Words of kindness and reassurance is what leaders use. Why are some who kill and rampage paid off while others are killed for just complaining? Fulani youths go off and kidnap citizens and demand hefty ransome and everyone including the government pays them.How is such a fair situation? We want those who are busy trying to paint the youths from the south in bad light to understand they are creating an industry of death for their own youths. What they are creating in the country is a prospect where the ordinary people are all loosers irrespective of their side of the divide.</p> <br> These youths are demanding a better soceity an activity they engage in openly.But law enforcement started to kill them as though they are flies! The whole world was treated with those images.Today the entire community is provoked and roped into the massacre by the government of nigeria.The head of state has his own children.The country set them apart as a mark of honor.He must lead to be deserving of it. And these are peoples' children too.The soceity owe them an existence at the worst.It is something he has denied them by these terse words of his.And we are telling the people to rise as one and oppose the use of terror and tyranny in soceity.What the people need is leadership and government not terrorism and fear. Certainly not bloodshed.These youths have seen their lives rendered useless by a rutherless administration.Without ideas and suspect even with hideous intention the adminstration has allowed terrorist to ravage the whole country.</p> <br> <p>Today he issues an existential threat to the people of Eastern Nigeria specifically but to all nigerians nonetheless.It is true the civil was was fought in Eastern Nigeria. But today the import is well appreciated by all.We have a government busy gatheing information of citizens including their phone numbers and records of the carriers.It is frightening.We have a government which will not provide ordinary electricity.The citizens can't find jobs. Industries have died due to paucity of foreign currency to import necessary tools. Existing ones are on life support. Yet the government needs personal information of citizens and details of their personal and private lives.Why? Such intrusive invasions of personal liberty is the hallmark of state terror. What does the authorities need someones's location for? Recently we heard in a video as soldiers departing to Eastern Nigeria were told to "shoot everybody that moves". It is enough! The people are no longer going to wait until the noose closes in again.We know there is a plan to create didorder as excuse to destroy lives. It is also going to allow this government to keep itself in power.None of these are desirable to the people of Eastern Nigeria.We have a government with a tenure of eight years but it frequently talks about "ten year plan of government". The hint must be taken seriously.We are looking at something very sinister.We want the world to make a very clear mental note of these facts. It is important to realize that all the noise is because the people are demanding their right.The people of Southern nigeria demand self government.Nigeria would never have happened without such agreement and can't exist or survive without it.</p> <br> <br><a href="truthbetold.html"/><img src="igboglam.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="160" /></a> <br> <br><br><center><a href="truthbetold.html"/> AN EAR SORE! NNPC TO INVEST IN LAGOS REFINERY</a></center> <p>Somebody please tell NNPC the money they receive from marketing crude oil is not toy money! It is real money and the land from where the crude is taken is not a no man's land.It is derived from land with indegenes in it. How in the world are the people and indeed nigerian people suppose to take this sort of news from NNPC? First and foremost if we declare Eastern Nigeria Native Religion or Christain territory in response to their declaring sharia in twelve states in the core north a lot will change.It will be hard for all these people to come all the way to manage the resources belonging to other people.Not while they keep theirs well tucked away to just themselves.Not while theirs is encircled and circumscribed with a legal system to which other people are all enemies.We heard the youths of the area are asking for help to stir up the NNPC kingdom. It will get very very hot if they push this matter.We are well aware of the people who are dumping murderers in Eastern Nigeria and the Delta region. We are now getting a clearer picture! Somebody tell the NNPC that nigeria is changing and very fast too! If they want to perform some money tricks it must be less insulting! Giving money belonging to other people away in this way is going to make it very hard for NNPC to funcion without very big challenges.The people are engaged and interested in this event and demand it stops forthwith. We know they just flew the kite to test the wind direction.But what they will get will be a severe storm!</p> <br> <p> It is very rude to the people to whom this resource rightfully belongs.We know monies are being embezzled from sales of crude oil by those who have no rights to ownership in any way.The methods are becoming too brazen.When it is this audacious the people are well within their rights to intervene and will. NNPC has many refineries that have never worked.It is spending billions of dollars that can't be accounted for on them. To what will they blame these missed opportunities? Bad luck? To what will they attribute the waste? Now NNPC will spend monies enough to pay for all the refineries it has built to buy just twenty percent in a private refinery in Lagos.We see exactly why all the other government parastatals are dead! All milked to death by these evil geniuses.No, incompetent and ungrateful specimens of humanity.If this organization did not make a hell of money it would not be able to function right now.The crippling choices these people make are stunning.But they are determined to kill it now. They are about to accomplish that. They are with this most senseless proposition we have heard in a century! Nigerians are dying in want and penury and these people are doing these kind of stuff. All with resources taken by force from an autonomous indegenous people? What kind of mindless, heartless plundering is this? We are about to see wonders in nigeria! Somebody is about to stir the hornet and beehives at the same time.We are waiting for this disaster to finally unfold.Some people are planning to cause an explosion in nigeria. No wonder we are hearing of the sweet talk from the colonial people. There is about to be a windfall.Meanwhile natives are perishing for lack and youths are languishing without occupation. They now know what is happening.The hands are becoming clearer by the day! It is not religious fanaticism we are dealing with after all. It is exploitation and colonialism by a new means.It is why we hear all the talk about unity while they keep their end walled out of reach by a religious decree.It is time again to fight the imperialists!</p> <br> <br><center>WE DEBUNK THE EXCUSE OF SHORT TENURE AS REASON FOR LACK OF MEASURABLE &nbsp;&nbsp; ACHIEVEMENT </center> <p>I just had to put up this article in defence of the ordinary people in africa who are being robbed blind and then blamed for their own condition.I begin by stating that a representative is suppose to be like an advocate.One hires a legal representative who will go there in court and fight as though he is the one affected by the circumstances.The political representative is suppose to advocate for the people in the same way.We know they take and accept the mandate and divert the benefit to themselves.It is robbery.It is like a lawyer wins a case for damages he instituted for a client and keeps the claim all to himself.As a disclaimer we like to state that the example we are about to use here has nothing to do with the profession of this man.It has everything to do with his character.His choices for identifying with his people rather than the opulence of the powerful is unique. It is unlikely a man wishes to take power by the use of force only to turn it over to serve the people. It was no immitation and it can't be copied. What can be emulated is the mindset.We all remember Thomas Isidore Sankara of former Upper Volta.</p> <br> <p>The youngman in his thirties was a military man who showed the whole world the meaning of leadership.He took a country without direction and turned it into a veritable progressive nation.Within a few short years a drought stricken hungry nation was producing its own food and had to spare.And was poised to change the usual narrative about africa and africans.The man rejected external loans, shunned handout and looked within.He mobilized the people to prosecute infrastructural projects by direct labor.As a result stretches of roads and railway lines were constructed with next to nothing as cost.The cotton farms were not only revived the country was producing its own clothing from the cotton it produced.It was this youngman who told african leaders they must insist "our people consume what they produce".He insisted it was foolish to have apitite for what one can't afford.He sold the fleet of expensive vehicles belonging to the powerful in government and applied the funds to the agenda to serve the people.He was fit agile and quick to respond to the needs of the citizens.</p> <br> <p>He transformed the rights of citizens from civil to womens rights.He changed the name of the country from Upper Volta which meant nothing to Burkina Fasco meaning "homeland of a righteous people"! All within less than four years.It will shock any decent mind that such a person was betrayed by his own.Enabled by the same people who encircle and empoverish africans giving them air-heads as leaders this gem was killed.We remember Patrice Lumumba as we recall the circumstances. Painfully we have to add President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli of Tanzania to the list.The inhumanity against africa continues.In this man we had a very well prepared man who came ready to serve Tanzania and Africa.The man had already transformed Tanzania before our own eyes. And doing it all with no external loans burden to soceity. He preached self-reliance like Thomas Sankara. Again he was cut down by those who like the present evil narative. We cry out to the world for men and women of good conscience to see how this practice has kept africa where it is.The borrow and spend people aiding the external cartel maintain a vice like grip on soceity and hamper people for whom they have no compassion.Their gift is often to spurn crises to cover for their lack of ideas.Just like slavery was ended by concerted effort by decent people this evil must be tackled in a similar way.It will take such effort or nearly two billion people are condemed to lives of severe adversity.</p> <br> <p> We have men who will take their countrymen and women and turn them into slaves in their own homelands. It is absurd these men are not able to understand that when they borrow these huge amounts from outside they enslave their fellow citizens.Even far worse is that the monies are misapplied often at the insistance of the lenders.So a man from outside brings currency they earned working for one week and use it to purchase two years of hardwork and service of their own citizen.How foolish is that? Who needs these kind of people as leaders? I use this analogy to let our people understand who their enemies are.How could they care if they had no understanding of these issues? The men they choose are enslaving them, killing them.They make forty percent kick-back from contracts that will not be executed.And the money was borrowed! It is not invested but shared.It follows the payment is going to be difficult.These are choices these men make standing reason on its head! It is clear they and their families and cohorts are immune from the reality their betrayal creates for others.Time has come to let the world know any time we loose one of our own any stooges emplaced will face a very rocky reality.We must do what love for our people demands!It is time to keep the thieves from ruining more lives! We do not wish to keep enabling people without intergrity when there are many who do among us and are willing to serve our people.</p> <br> <br><br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="adamma7.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <a href="makingthegong.html">our article about the nigerian challenge</a> <br> <p><font color:="blue">African Renaissance.</p></font> <br><center>THE HONOR TO OUR FALLEN HEROES SPEAKS VOLUMES!</center> <p>The world saw the deserted streets of the former Eastern Nigeria.It is a referendum of a kind.It is like a voice vote. We conclude the "ayes" have it! Our communities in Eastern Nigeria will begin to rebuild the social structures as a nation of people.This time everything we do must include all our people cut away to spite us.All the people who share the culture and values we have as a people are invited to reunite with their kit and kin.We invite our people across the niger the people of "Ahaba" which they call "Asaba" and neighbors.You know they called them the Ika-Igbos. We invite our people from Igbanke, Afo, Idoma, Itolu,Igedde and Ufia to this glorious reunion of our peoples! Our GOD has worked this miracle out for us. If they did not start this new massacre we might never have risen up as one people.We would like them to show us the difference beween the Ijaw and the Igbanke or Ijaw and the so-called Ika Igbos,the difference between Annang and Effik.We have proved these are the same people. We have taken the wedge out carefully and tossed it away.The culture mark them as the same nation of people.</p> <br> <p>As a people with one destiny let us unite around the cause of peace and progress and forge a future that is clearly great! We like to thank our people for speaking through this event like the wise people they are.Even inspite of our own men who have become victims of deceit by both self and by contrivance.We believe the world has heard you very loud and clear.Let us wait for their response.Let us also see what will be thier reaction to the massacre by bandits and the nigerian army.And all this to a request for self-government by an indegenous people. As we wait for the world to acknowledge us let us begin the real work.After all we are a free people.We got no permission from any one to be part of the nigerian experiment. We are free to leave when we determine it does not serve our interest well enough or even at all! As some people create a religious nation for themselves we must ensure we do not become a colony of any aspiring local imperialist and taskmaster! Our people are by make and design a free people!</p> <br> <br><br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br><center><font color="purple">OUR WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE IPOB</font></center> <p>When the Zikist movement began it was quickly clear that it was the entity to spearhead the quest for independence.The people who felt trapped were delighted when the nationalist entered the fray.What the organization did was to give a structure to the resistance already within the soceity.The Zikist movement was not approved by all.Some people as always will complain but do nothing else.The Zikist movement presented a very formidable challenge to the colonialist. It forced the entity to deal with the fact that it was not a structure with foundations.It was an attempt to use that weakness ever so often.By making demands of resources the colonial government lacked it was made very vulnerable.When the movements activities required policing but the government lacked the manpower it was clear something had to give.Negotiation ensued! If the colonial government was not going to kill all the dissidents it made sense to hear them and seek a solution for the disturbance.The IPOB in choosing the model must use the same approach.The nigerian government does not have the ability to police nigeria even at the present time.It is the reason to the resort to brute and lethal force.The military has been stretched to its very limit.The government does not want to negotiate.It lacks the capacity to understand how these things work.We like to assure the people in the nigerian government who are planning elections when there is not sustainable structure that they deceive themselves more.Who wants to live in their nigeria? The youths in the space are moving on.The people calling for Biafra, Oduduwa and Arewa are all mostly youth.Where is the future in their plan?</p> <br> <p>We want IPOB to realize they are not alone.The reason for the focus on them is that the people in government are more focused on the resources in nigeria than on the country. It means in fact they are far worse than the mercenary.They have no sympathy for the system.It is their greatest weakness.The killings at Nkpor in Anambra and Lekki in Lagos prove this point.It was brutal. It was merciless. You do not treat your fellow citizens like that.Nigerian authorities do not worry that nigerian youths seek to migrate en mass.So long as the resources they need are there they are satisfied.The IPOB is a challenge to them because it threatens the source of their reward.Unfortunately for them just like the Zikist movement the IPOB is a structure that seeks to give people the way of escape.It seek to give them back their own normal environment. So the struggle is very organic.When there is danger and an escape is provided the people will naturally choose it.I therefore encourage the IPOB to stay very focused.The arrest of Nnamdi Kanu was not something he did not consider.It is that clear to me.He is a very thoughtful person.The only thing he would never know is how much he can rely on his friends.We are not suprised to hear all the misunderstanding. However prudence demands that the people who are frightened and disappointed at the news of his arrest must cheer up. It is how these things are. He will be free.He did not commit treason. Self defence is a human right.The massacre at Nkpor and at his father's residence show a determined effort to kill him.He is a human being. You try to kill somebody and he escapes and you claim they evaded arrest. Does a dead man appear in court? If he tries to ensure his own safety it is all right before God and before good men!</p> <br> <p>All he has done is ask for a referendum.He did not create Eastern Security Network. The outfit was not created to liberate Biafra.The Eastern Security network was a creation of the people of Eastern Nigerian in Diaspora who saw the carnage and brigandage the fulani was bringing into Eastern Nigeria.It is a reality they had challenged the government to deal with. But no action was taken.In a place where people had been massacred in the millions before you do not question whether the same people who had committed the crime are willing or capable.The people moved to protect their loved ones. It is noble.We ask the IPOB to not just focus of the people of Eastern nigeria within the present boundaries. They must also remember their people in Igbanke, Afo, Idoma, Itolu, Igedde, Ufia. The Ekumeku warriors who fought in "Ahaba" what they now call Asaba were from Aro-Chukwu. They had gone there to help defend their own.The Omu institution in Ahaba is wholesale institution of the Aro people.We are the Igbo people. Our GOD is our leader! We like to tell them also that the present day Nasarawa state was created by General Sanni Abacha to appease the Igbos after the death of Chief Ken Saro-Wiwa.They had gone to him and had warned him that something bad was brewing. Among notable Igbos who confronted then head of state was the Ikemba Nnewi..Dike Ogu Ndi Igbo! They had registered with him the feeling of marginalization of the Igbos in nigeria.The slicing away of the Igbo tribes into Northern nigeria by the colonial government was included in the list of grievances raised.They had recounted how nigeria was minimizing the Igbos and sqeezing them into non-existence.Ebonyi and Nasarawa was an effort to redress the complaint.Nasarawa is the home of Afo and Umu-Aro people. If you doubt me do not worry about dialect just look at their masquerades and their mode of life.We urge the IPOB to think like champions. Champions find a way to win.We are praying for all of you.</p> <br> <p>Your leader will be set free. He is not a criminal and he killed no one. It is impossible to kill somebody in nigeria while you are living in Europe.You must make the case.It might interest you to recognize the capability you have compared with when the battles were waged. In the Biafran struggle the exploits of Radio Biafra is nothing compared with what our gallant youngmen are doing with their cell phones. Their youtube channels and videos are watched all around the globe. So we are saying to the people in IPOB that you have everything you need and more to prevail.Your struggle is just. The african people must determine how best they will relate or the galantry of our founders was for nothing.The reason for their effort was to elevate our people.Now our youths are trooping out of our countries.And we have those who are unable to manage a tamed population bring in nihilists. What will they do to create peace and progress? Is it by burning everywhere and killing and kidnapping everyone in sight? You have a justifiable indignation. Our founders will be weeping in their graves.In some of the cases these countries are being run into the ground due to bad policies! We recall the glory days of the University of Nigeria at Nsukka! The days of the University of Ibadan and the Ahmadu Bello University. Look where we are today! Education is not even talked about at all. Some people in their excitement and misguided sense of patriotism are killing intelligent gifted youngmen on account of their ignorance.</p> <br> <p>Where is the future of such a soceity? Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was thinking about the future. Not his own but the generations to come. Today we have people who care next to nothing about anyone but themselves and their "paddy men".The universities founded by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe are not being funded by the states.They are not able for the most part. Perhaps their priorities might also be questionable.But the states are not equipped to succeed.All of them are now glorified releif centers.They are not even able to support primary education.Our youths are bitter and they ought to be.It seems nobody is thinking about their own future. We want to encourage you to stay focused. Your struggle is selfless and noble.And GOD is on your side. Many of you can relax in the countries where you have sought sanctuary.I will quote from the Book of the Psalms Psalm 137:5-6 of the (KJV) Vs 5 "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning". And in next verse V6 "If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy". We know where your character comes from. We ask you to keep your mission and maintain your vision.It is how a struggle works.Fight the good fight of faith.Fight wise and God's speed is our wish to all of you. <br> <br><a href="ourtime.html"/><img src="adandigbo.jpg" align="left" width="100" height="100" /></a> <br> <br><center>THE NIGERIA ARMY UNLOADS FULL SCALE GENOCIDE IN EASTERN NIGERIA YET AGAIN</center> <p>We had alerted the world to what we saw as a ploy to attack the people of Eastern Nigeria.We cried out as the nigerian government descends to the lowest in the history of the country.We have reports and videos of nigerian law enforcement going into churches to arrest people in Enugu state.The next step will be to start asking them to accept the faith of their captors! We demand this to stop immediately! If not it will lead to the destruction of the entire nigeria! We have reason to think there will be a response to this event thet might be very disproportionate due to the implication it carries! It is very provocative and no reasonable person ought to be behaving in such manner in a purpoted country! We had warned the antics of the government might lead to a complete breakdown of order.It is noteworthy that the government had masterminded the removal of a duely elected government in a state.In Imo state the government through a sharia chief justice removed a duely elected governor, declared the winner of an election by the electoral body the INEC. Since then the area has been thrown into bloodbath. Eastern region was very peaceful until this wicked act of government.We all are witness to the irony of this event in nigeria.</p> <br> <p>Evidence abound that suggests government is into sponsoring lawlessness including terror and banditry.And further uses the instruments of coercion in the state to intimidate, harass and waste lives. It was the same move in former Western Nigeria that brought down the first nigerian government.We are very suprised that a government headed by a man who himself has been no stranger to the problems of the country will be acting as an agent provocateur.The nigerian government has dispatched the military a digraded band of men filled with "repentant" Boko Haram terrorists to Eastern Nigeria to kill innocent people.We hear they are there to battle Eastern Security Network (ESN). We know they might not like the leader of the group. However it does not mean he represents anything evil. To the contrary he has tried to help highlight among the glaring inequity and contradictions of the nigerian soceity. We realize such activities are fraught with danger.The perpetrators will usually have a different idea of justice from the victims. It is a fact every fair minded person much make allowance for. In Igboland and Eastern nigeria equity is not just a word it is a way of live.The motto of the Igbo is: "Live and let live".</p> <br> <p> The ESN is the embodiment of this motto. They are there to allow ordinary people go about their lives. This was a group founded by people of Eastern Nigeria resident within nigeria and outside nigeria.It was in response to the killing, burning,raping by the bandits.Government had failed to do so for years!Instead they introduce threadbare stunts like "unknown gunmen" as a guise and excuse to unleash the army to full scale slaughter of citizens.Events like this one remind us about the plain spoken nigerian soldier General Sanni Abacham.We recall his words that any terror in the nigerian state or against it is sponsored by those in government is should last for more than 214 hours! It is therefore not suprising that Igbo youths and So now they have found the boots to come around to murder citizens who have kept their homeland safe from foreign gun wielding marauders! So the government of nigeria was indeed using the bandits to try to provoke a war.There is a goal to smear the Igbo people and make them a target.The fulani has ceased tincan Island port, but he is no vilain. He has ceased the crude in Ijawland and Burutu port is turned into private fulani use. The oil in warri belongs to fulani. Calabar is surrounded by bandits from Sokoto who are code named "refugees". But the Igbo is the enemy. The Igbo is used by nigeria to spew the spectre of terror. Something we have now alerted the rest of the world about before it began.And now they are in Igboland to provoke a fight.</p> <br> <p> We have bonded with other southerners this time. We were ahead of them and the world has caught them yet again in another goof-up! It is the reason we conclude the terror in nigeria is sponsored by government or agents and sympathisers.We have so many signs to support collusion.We have the army now helping the bandits! The military is withdrawn from fighting terror to fight and slaughter law abiding citizens.This reaction of government will hasten the growth of this group. It will not weaken it.We watch once more as this group of hardliners who have hijacked nigeria bungles yet another opportunity to forge unity and seek a peaceful resolution of conflict. We ask why this is their priority.We might be getting to the root of who is behind the genocide in nigeria. The world is about to find out who is sponsoring the terror in nigeria. The various statements credited to the British representative in Nigeria are very troubling indeed! We have seen no remorse for the loss of lives in the genocide of 1966 to 1970 which was aided by the then government in Britain. If we recall this whole event got worse since the discovery of gold in Zamfara state in North eastern nigeria.</p> <br> <p>It reminds us about how Eastern Nigeria lost four million lives between 1967 and 1970. Great price to pay for the oil found in the bowels of their Motherland! It is important to make the connection.Today we are witnesses to the large scale massacre in the North east of nigeria facilitated by Boko haram. We have proof this group is sponsored and supported by highly placed nigerians. Some how the problem in nigeria is around the newly found resource and the existing one. It has nothing to do with unity.We have some people we believe from outside Africa laying claim to the crude oil and gold in nigeria. And we have shameless nigerians and so-called leaders aiding the plunder! Poor law enforcement is slaughtering and being slaughtered in the ploy.Terrorists nicknamed bandits or trainee low-grade terrorists by the authorities are thrown in the midst for good sound effect! The lives are not important. The lives are purely collateral. Our people must wake up and defend their lives by all means.The soldiers in nigeria do not represent the nigeria we used to know.They now serve the "caliphate 12 sharia states.The other people there the southerners and middle-belters are very confounded and shut out.It is for this reason people like Hope Uzodimma, Bola Tinubu and now Dave Umahi are being recruited and courted.</p> <br> <p>Without them this thing is already over! No resource is spared to keep them humming for now.It means nothing to promise them the presidency where they will be infested with "rats" and murdered by cochroaches if they were allowed.But it is not even meant to go that far! First there is no way to surmount the confussion among the extremist renegades who are in control.Next is how the hell to refine the military with terrorist repentants acting as leak apertures.How a non-fulani will survive the vice-grip of a military with such level of infiltration is hard to see.The nigerian army had always suffered self inflicted attrition.The present level is far worse.The entity requires new direction and needs to be made less dangerous and prone to self immolation. It is the plight of an amorphous entity without ideals. It is not the kind of force to help maintain the nigeria the people are expecting. It has been changed to an expeditionary force by a would be conqueror.Before now many of them had perished through planned plane crashes,coups, counter coups, false accusations, murder and extra judicial executions. Today it has become even more perilous to be part of the entity.We plead with the United States government, the United Nations, the European Union and Human right organizations to prevail on the nigerian government or force it to withdraw the troops from Eastern Nigeria immediately.We call on men and women of goodwill around the earth to lend a helping hand and voice before this degenerates any further!</p> <br> <br><a href="providence.html">our article about the nigerian challenge</a> <br> <br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br> <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDdOgYBLYQI">Demanding A Bribe From The Wrong Person:A frustrated lagosain hawker Stands Up For himself</a> <br> <br><br><center>THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS TO FOCUS ON THE PEOPLE AND THEIR NEEDS </center> <p>Quite often we listen to the politicians from the national assembly in particular on the television reel out a list of the problems of the soceity. The governors do this and everyone is used to it.Frequently they come out to lament "lack of adequate funds"! Since there are not alternative conversations these are matters that quite often inundate an already beleaguered citizenry.The people are treated to often sonorous long anthem of the problems of nigeria that dies out because the program has to end.Sometimes it will be the acrimonious debate of the combatants that aims to not find solution but faults in each other.Recently an attorney general of nigeria was heard comparing a murderous gang of men who entered nigeria illegally and are killing, abducting, raping and killing the citizens with business men from another tribe.Such a low blow coming from a man whose job it is to maintain order including unity! It gives no cause for great expectations.It is a let down that will cost him that office in other societies.But we know they all serve "Mr. president".So long as they protect and insulate him from "ungrateful" nigerians their job is complete.</p> <br> <p>The national assembly should not have been focussing on elections now. So many lives are being lost under circumstances that are very avoidable. The national assembly can ask the military not to go to kill citizens. It is part of their job. No one has the right to deploy the nigerian military like a boys scout yet they can kill and destroy lives. Such grave decisions must be weighed and made by reasonable people. The national assembly must appropriate this authority before the country goes up in real flames.If they fail it will be their greatest regret.We have a disaster on hand.We hear them talk of government. It appears they are not aware they are included in it.As the ones chosen to represent the people they constitute the beating heart of a democracy.We expect them to constitute a commission that looks into the conflicts in the country. It will not be a bad idea to bring in the lawyers and spokesmen in Afenifere,O'dua Peoples congress, Ohaneze, Indegenous people of Biafra (IPOB),Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF),Middle Belt Forum, and all the groups agitating today in nigeria.Why would the government shun them? Are they not citizens? If they desire to be heard what is wrong with that? Let them be heard! In other soceities these new ideas could transform soceity but not africa. In a situation of institutionalized servitude new ideas are treated as poison.Today in nigeria youths who demanded change in IPOB are being killed in broad day light by corrupt politicians while the world watches. The so called leaders do not understand how leadership works.When they need something they will come out and address the people and roll out the army with tanks and police to enforce it.The people will request their attention and get just numbing silence.A call on the phone will return a busy signal.Until they need something again!</p> <br> <p>It is not clear to them they can forfeit the right to do that.The mandate they enjoy comes from the people.It is the reason they are now very confussed when the people will not isten to them.For a very long time it has been their reaction to the people who elected them. We all know if they do what they should the swords will be sheated, the guns will be withdrawn from the streets, and peace will return.It is not wise to use gasoline to fight fire.It is what we see presently.The issues being raised are very structural and political.They are mainly constitutional and very existential.You must negotiate them.You have to negotiate them.It is what human beings do when such matters arise. European Union did not tell Britain the agreement which by the way Britain signed willingly was not negotiable.When the British people spoke and made their choice that settled it.The people are sovereign.The nationalities in nigeria demanding to be heard must be heard or the people who shun them have nobody else to blame but themselves when they seek alternatives.So those charged with the responsibility must seek and find ways to dischrage same. If they will not sit up and begin to address the issues arising from the present structural decay and deficiencies in nigeria the structure will collapse over them and the fatalities will be varied.It will not only be the poor people as usual.</p> <br> <p>We like to see the elected people empathise more with the population.Now thanks to them we have refugees in nigeria. They will call the fancy name "internally displace people" but they are still nigerians.How have they addressed such problems? The refugee camps have become havens for criminality and banditry.The host communities are themselves sacked.We have here a serious problem that can't be wished away.Elections are not the solution to these.We all know it.Most of the persons responsible for the confussion today were either brought into the country or armed by the people who are seeking elective offices.It is criminal to wash their hands off it and turn it over to larger soceity.As they refuse to do what is necessary Nature will not wait.People will look for alternatives and options.When it makes sense for them to move on they will.It is not something to use a military that will fight citizens rather than terrorist to combat.It will fail. The present focus of the people in leadership is a very troubling disconnect.It will be a mistake for them to think the people are not paying attention.</p> <br><br><center><a href="nowistime.html"/></a></center> <br><center> THE PRESENT CONSITUTION REVIEW IS A PLOY TO BUY TIME</center> <p>We see the present constitution review as a ploy to buy time.These men know fully well it will be rejected. All it is meant to serve is to allow the atmosphere for another excuse for an election to sustain the present fraud! It must be clear to them now it will not happen. An election under the present atmosphere is an incendiary bomb.Such a ploy will fail and turn disasterous perhaps.What is needed is a commission like the one headed by the eminent Jurist, Justice Oputa.Such a commision will propose how nigeria can be returned to the organic constitution that founded it. The commision could even be given the authority to bring the documents to date. An agreement does not age.What happens are disagreements. If nigerians have disagreed it will not be one side having its way and the rest towed along.Everybody moves on.It is how it works! If we want to move forward it must be as agreed.Let some people with knowledge huddle up and quickly propose how to bring the founding documents to date. The states are in regions and they replace the provinces.The present event could be used as input is such a process and that is how it might serve anything at all.Otherwise it is a big waste of time. And quite clearly a Middle Belt region is over due.Also self evident is that the Igbanke, Afo, Idoma, Itolu,Igedde and Ufia tribes must be in Eastern Nigeria. I can explain the meaning of all these words. These are people of the same nation as the Igbo and people of eastern Nigeria. Why they are not in Eastern Nigeria is an egragious aberation.(I refer those who want to know the meaning of a nation to consult the Oxford dictionary or wikepedia.) It is the most realistic solution and correct one at the moment.If this is again ignored nigeria has already been dissolved.Nobody needs any permission.There was none when the union was agreed to.It was an enterprise our forebearers accepted to try willingly. It must not comsume anymore of their offsprings.</p> <br> <p> We are not in a position today to make a new constitution.It is very impossible to make a new constitution in an atmosphere where most parts of nigeria are not even accessible due to conflict.We expect the very people who are in power through the constitution to change it.Had we such people in nigeria who would complain? But truth is we do not.It is clear the people are having so much fun.It is the reason they are not quite sure why the nigerian people are not! We will not expect salvation from them.Nigeria is such a place and quite a place.Why do we not even ask the students to score themseves in the West African School Certificate examination or even the Bar examination? We expect the men who were elected using a constitution to codemn it and change it for us! It is what Fela Anikulapo called the character of "upside down" and "Opposite People".Reviewing a document that has no credibility or that is even ilegal and fruadulent shows lack of character. Besides,in our own view it is not needful. If we do not honor the one made with such solemness as the founding one it is unlikely the one borne out of bloodbath and hubris will be honored. Constitutional processes are a very difficult processes especially on raw and sore nerves and it is costly to make a constitution and get it accepted.America the model for an ideal modern state has the founding constitution in nearly three hundred years of its existence.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria was founded by Britain and they almost specialized in constitution making. They just kept churning them out.It ought to have been a sign.But man were they determined to make it work! In backing out from the European Union the British teach us a very important lesson.Every union is not suppose to work.Nigerians have had so many constitution the list is a book! An ammendment to the american constitution took almost twenty years to complete. It is time consuming under normal circumstances.It is very sensitive and touches on existential matters.All these make it a proposition doomed before it begins. The present constitution is a big fraud and a good recipe for underdevelopment. Recent events where government declare citizens terrorists and foreign bandits "untouchable" makes the effort an attempt to give legitimacy to an enslavement. We have a government currently at war with citizens for daring to dislodge foreign bandits.Citizens are murdered by nigerian soldiers and the bandits are escorted to graze cattle in farmland of citizens. We wish the people spearheading the present charade luck.It is occassion to come out in parade while foreign bandits murder citizens in broad day light and the military shoot down "nyamiri"! and "christains".We see what people bereft of ideas can do with power.This one is a gory display. The attempt to stiffle indegenous independent entities is a recipe for disintegration and chaos.It is fraught with disaster!</p> <br> <p> The mortifying pictures of deaths, blood and murders, of mass graves and grief is awful.We like to remind the politicians who claim they are representing the Igbo people and the people of Eastern Nigeria to take a breath. The people are very strong and the intellectual depth and capacity within can run our own small world efficiently like it is around the globe.It is sad they prefer to beg than negotiate.You beg your master.But you negotiate with your peer.Nigeria is a federation or it does not exist.If somebody acts as though nigeria is not a federation react as if no such entity exists and you are within your rights as a humanbeing with some dignity! What it means is that the present attitude of government as though nigeria is colony of any particular clan will cause the nationalities to exert their sovereignty and flex it for effect! It is a federation after all. We remind those who serve in elective positions they are first citizens of their ethnic nations when there is doubt.It is sad they are the ones that brought the nigerian military that was routed by the barefoot jihadists in northern nigeria to come to our motherland to murder our youth.It will be on record against the people responsible.Their puport patriotism for a country they alone will sustain is pure servitude.They sacrifice four million lives, sacrifice oil and gas for sixty years, sacrifice progress as a people and beg to belong! How shameful is that?</p> <br> <p> It is not how unity is achieved. And we must not make a habit of consitution making. Some like to focus on how to clip wings. Naturally anything created to fly must fly.By nature eagles will fly even if reared among chicken.It is Nature.It is trigger for instability to try to stifle some people.If we are not able to agree we have to accept it as reality.How many more must die? There is no other agreement between the nations of nigeria to be one entity outside of the original constitution.We laugh as the clowns who think they are better politicians than Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe who checkmated the British with his co conspitator Chief Awolowo run themselves aground. It is not only disrespectful it is presumptuos and foolish. Yet again in less than ten years they prove democracy is not their thing! They threw away a founding constitution, the very document on which their oath to serve was predicated.And furnish their own, the one they prefer! That constitution is the only hope for nigeria.It is the agreement we have as a country. In it we have a "consitution" an agreement that founded nigeria.It is a fact that must carry a strong underscore! The regions had consitutions.The coup makers did not topple one constitution but five. All the regions had their constitutions. We need to fall back to that. We recall the Yoruba adage that "if one can't find his way forward at least he knows where he is and where he started". And the Igbo will say "if your help will be a source of trepidation and discomfort let me be"! We must stop wasting time.It is a precious resource.We have many citizens of nigeria who are in the space age. This contraption will not be able to keep them for long! It is going to be bursted and they will move on. It is how Nature works.It is not reasonable to stand against the current.Those who are happy talking about cows must be allowed to keep at it! They have that right and so do the ones who have other challenges.</p> <br> <p>Let me say this.If this step is not taken and done quickly nigeiria is already broken.We predicted all what is happening far back as two dacades ago.Many might recall the suggestion we made in 2002.We saw an opportune moment and a personality with the depth. We got slammed. We got called all sorts of names.We were reminded about our "level" and all that pedigree nonesense. Today we are vindicated big time! In fact we are the ones accused of trying to elongate Chief Olusegun Obasonjo,tenure. What we said then was this: We have a country that is free from debt.It is the best time to return it to the organic parts that are self sustaining.We said then a move like what happened in South africa will give nigeria the chance to return on track.We know the military would not wait for four years but for nearly forty years they could not fix what they perceived as so simple.We believe a lesson had been learned.It is really sad that politicians would rather settle for so called 1999 constitution. We mean a document given them by the same people who violated their oath and word of honor.It paints them with the same brush! If the present administration that has caused this descent to the bottom will not do anything to correct it we are not suppose to be a country much more a nation. Let us all count our losses and gains and move on.It is very dishonest to pretend to solve a problem as they wish to do. It is giving false expectation and they know it.</p> <br><a href="onenation.html"/><img src="umuibe.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="150" /></a> <br> <br><p><font color:="blue">African Renaissance.</p></font> <br><a href="challenge.html">our article about the nigerian challenge</a> <br>d <br><center>Dr Chuba Okadigbo YET ANOTHER IGBO SACRIFICED</center> <p>"We must not be blackmailed into killing the sharia idea.Sharia must be spread all over nigeria". This is a statement taken from an interview the present head of state of nigeria gave in the year 2000 granted to Freedom House Radio.Yet a couple of years later an Igboman like Chuba Okadigbo accepted the position of running mate in a general election."Oyi" as he was popularly called had abandoned his intellect.He descended to play the game of chicken to make some more money.And hear the man who was respected for his intellect abandon reason in search of raw power:"The Estabilishement might not allow us to Rule Now, but be that as it may, on a very good day, at the appointed time, Buhari will rule Nigeria. What I do not know, is whether I will be around when that happens. But even if am not there, (our own Chuba Okadigbo then turned to Buhari and said) please Muhammadu, move on and fear not! The vultures will gather against you, but you know what we stand for. Be strong and continue for you shall overcome!"! He lost his life shortly after. Okadigbo died trying to make his "friend" succeed! In 2018 June the 3rd his young son Obiajulu Jideofor died under suspicious circumstances in Maryland USA.Today we learn of the death of yet another of Chief Okadigbos children Pharoah A Okadigbo.A huge truck (the type used in transporting killer herdsmen to Southern Nigeria) crushed the man in Abuja.Exactly in line with how they operate.Eastern Region and her people must wake up.It is not a time to sleep.Our future is very badly threatened!Next time you see an Igboman or his brothers from Eastern Nigeria who is sick and suffering from intoxication and ascendency please intervene. It is the meaning of true love!We must not allow the spread of something meant to kill us all! <br> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="igbobabes.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <a href="#nonewconstitution">You Can't Change A Constitution: You Change Behaviour!</a> <br><br><center>NIGERIA THE COUNTRY CEASED BY FORCES OF TYRANNY</center> <p>The nigerian government sometime ago stopped the teaching of nigerian history in all nigerian schools.So nigeria is a country with leaders that hate its own history. We know they did in southern nigeria schools.With sharia law in place in most of the core northern nigeria there is no way of knowing what obtains there as policy.The fogginess of such soceities make it hard for the law to be applied unifromly and evenly.We are not going to be able to save nigeria.Armoured thanks will not save nigeria.Armed soldiers who will not defend the people from bandits but terrorize them will not keep nigeria united.Some people have already destroyed it. And they are making sure what ever loop hole they leave that can herald peace is plugged.What they are trying to do is subjugate the rest of the population.Such an idea must be resisted by every means possible.Some of us fear it is much too late.If nigerians won against the military junta a few decades ago they can also win this one but most are just fade up.It seems much too hopeless.The military has finally been ceased by the people who for the entire life of the country have been on that mission. We propose the way out.What the rest must do is find their own method to exert and force authority. The forming of the vigilante groups is a necessary first step.It must not be the end or they are willing hostages.The nigerian military is so compromized words are not able to express it. As we speak the military is being purged of southern officers of christain persuation.It is clear the nigerian government has waged the war against Boko haram with no desire to win. Presently how to crush ESN a vigilante established to flush out bandits in Eastern Nigeria is the focus of the nigerian army and police forces. We have a situation where foerign armed bandits infiltrate communities kidnapping, killing and rampaging. No nation of people will accept such a reality.</p> <br> <p>The government of nigeria declares that banditry is not against the nigerian state. In other words fulani bandits are above the law! According to a government spokesman ESN is more dangerous than terrorists. ESN is a local vigilante founded by citizens in a federation to protect their own communities.Quite clearly the governnment of nigeria does not understand politics.Opposition includes wide disagreements.It is aimed to force dialogue and concensus. In every democracy it is the norm. Rather than embrace dialogue the nigerian government is killing its own citizens. The governors are reduced to bench warmers and cheerleaders like the other elected people.The nigerian senate and house of assemly from time to time issue statements just to praise "Mr. president" for doing nothing.The states have no way to exert authority outside of the central government in a so called federation.The governors in these states chose to defer to the federal government in order not to fall out of favor.Presently the guise of fighting the ESN is being used to earn a conquest yet again on the people of Eastern Nigeria. It is one two many. After loosing four million lives a people get tired of the noise of certain people and their war mongering ideas! We believe that it has become very pertinent to ask some people to seek to understand what it means to be citizens of a country. It has been made clear to us that their loyalties are much more overarching than their citizenship.To that extent it is evil to hold others to rules to which they themselves are not subject.It has been made clear that some people in authority in nigeria are more concerned about how to accomodate their "kindreds" who are not nigerians than for the other nigerians.It is not even nepotism.It is far worse and there is no word for such in political discuss.It is unacceptable and defeats the idea of having a country and bounding it by law both international and national.It is what is at stake in nigeria and it runs very deep.In other to prevent challenge they founded Boko Haram. </p> <br> <p>It is very clear Boko Haram was set up for such an end.As the people from southern nigeria talk and dither the others execute their plans systematically.We hear recently the founders of Boko haram use helicopters to deliver amunition, victuals and all manner of needs to them.We received videos of nigerian southern military officers sent to the war front with no amoured tanks and no food supply.These soldiers are sent to Zamfara. In zamfara Boko haram boast the most sophisticated weapons.Remember there is gold minning in Zamfara. These Christians Middle-belt and Southern military men are put up there to be massacred. They knew it and have cried out for help.It is the reason we are calling for help.It would not be news but for the fact that the same people who do this are going around nigeria pretending to be peace makers.They are in Eastern Nigeria carrying out a massacre in the name of peace. We remind and refer the world to the Oputa Panel findings on massacre of the people of Eastern Nigeria. But we hear the empty talk about peace.It is a guise to lull the people into a false sense of security. Nigeria is a country without individuals who can force the people to sit down together and have a conversation. It is a nation without heroes.The opportunity politics affords other countries can't work here due to deep fault lines.The man they chose as president has proved incapable of doing so.The elected houses and their leadership can't either.</p> <br> <p>The people must rise to their own feet and reclaim their soceity from these criminal minded corrupt murderers.The last Senate and House of Assembly were led by two people who by comparism are outside the league of the present ones. The two houses at the time were clearly independent as requird by law.The presidency has been ceased by foggy and shadowy characters.The first lady herself alerted the country over three years ago.Today her prophecy is eerily coming to pass.Wake up the nations of nigeria and reclaim your sovereignty or become subjects of a new threatening dominion! It is sad to hear leaders pleading to reclaim their sovereignty as a people. It is not possible to loose your sovereignty just because you willingly went into an association. If you start a company and invest in a business and it proves unviable you do not loose your identity to the business.You move on.You are not a corporate entity you have created. Nigeria is not the individual nations that make up the country. These can regroup in any other ways and reconfigure in whatever more combinations.It is the meaning of sovereignty.</p> <br> <p>We had earlier told some of the people who personalize issues to study a little more. The problems and space will remain after they are long gone.God truely is not in need of haters and their schemes.God desires and helps good ideas.The United States of America and the the rest of Europe chose to rehabilitate Germany after the second world war.The people of the United States whose youth were mowed down in Normandy on D-day passed a Bill in 1948 to help rebuild the entire Europe including their adversary Germany.In total the United States spent more than thirteen billion dollars in this effortr.At todays value you know that was a lot of money.We see in this the way true leadership works.The United States realized that without its allies it was economically and militarily vulnerable.Besides it recognized that war is always an aberation.What we all truely desire is peace.It is what we must work and toil to sustain.Coming back to nigeria we find the difference in thinking.After making lofty pronouncements at the end of hostilities we see the marks of war and even the causative factors still today.The personalities in the hostility from one side are all dead. Interprete it however you choose.Those on the "victorious" side are all well and hearty.It is the first jarring sign.The promise of rehabilitation and reconstruction never occured.How could it with the kind of hatred spewed by those in a position to hinder it.We can still feel hatred from their words and utterances.<p> <br> <p>The idea of Biafra makes some people boil over. We like to tell them their anger frightens no one.We know they are not being patriotic. No it is not because they are patriotic.They mistake their greed for patriotism.What they have wished is to do away with the people of the area "so the oil companies can have unfettered access to the oil resources in the area." I did not make this up. One politician made this suggestion from the floor of the nigerian senate.In his head the people occur with hydro-carbon deposit and one of the two happen to be more precious.It just was not the people.The people could be expended for precious crude oil and the barrel dollar.It is the solution this politician offers and proposes.Ask him to move from his own homeland and it is a different matter.If we wanted solutions we had already suggested one nearly twenty years ago.We proposed then a new region.Today it is clearly the way out. At this time of the initial proposal the sharia idea had not formalized as it is today.The sharia states made their case as they have always done.They do not ask anyone for permission. So now create the Middle-belt region or state.Call it whatever the people choose.Call the sharia states Arewa Region and state. Call Western Region Oduduwa state.Call Eastern Region Biafra. The former Mid-west region will be called the Bini region.Each of these regions that are now true federating units could rightly be called states.Each will have a duely elected premier.The former begging states within will become the provinces in the states.If this is done there is a country that is based on its founding principles and very viable. It will be on its feet again and kicking.Each of the states begins to develop its own economy at its own pace like it was before. It is how other people solve problems.If this is not done those who create hinderance must recognize it is impossible to tame or stop the whirlwind.Solve a problem or nature will take its course.</p> <br> <br> <br><br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br> <br> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br><br><br><center>ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NIGERIA AND THE RULE OF LAW</center> <p>These are the days of impunity in the nigerian space.In the days when the military "ruled" nigeria there was no Youtube and the internet was not there.If a politician whether he wore the "Khaki", "Camouflage" or the "Agbada" gave interview to the media whether the tube or print he controlled the narative.In the sense that if he is not reported in favorable light he will send the boys to the media house to confiscate everything. And the house is warned never to repeat the offending report ever again.It was the approach. It happened quite often. And they called it a free press.It was "press freedom!" The press was free to report what the authorities like.We had been treated to the theatre of this absurdity.It is not new.What is new is the new low level of this absurdity.It has become worse by the reality of actual liberty of those who provide reports and the variety of the sources and locations.If a politician makes a mistake he is toast.If he sticks his foot in his mouth there will be pictures and movies of it.Before he is aware millions have already seen it.Very sad! It is not something they like at all. We all can see why these people always want to "rule". It is clear why they hate the law.It is their joy to be in law enforcement. But they hate to conform to the law. They want to be in a position to control the law instead.We see this motive as so inherently corrupt!</p> <br> <p>Somebody was shown in an interview in the nigerian press comparing nomadic cattle fulanis to spare parts dealers.If we take this on the face of it one can see how off the mark this man is.It is a cheap tribalistic stunt.He is fulani.The people who deal on spareparts in nigeria are mainly the Igbo people.Recently nigeria admits there has been an influx of fulanis from around africa into nigeria at the invitation of certain unpatriotic nigerians.These are nigerians whose ethnic loyalty far outstreches love of country.And we find them in high places in nigeria especially of recent. Many of them have homes in Niger, Chad and so on. We are not talking summer homes.We mean homes! And we hear they are deity over there.Nigeria is just their workshop. What they are doing in nigeria much more attain such positions of leadership one is hard put to explain.Why such people do not seek to serve where their loyalty is suprises and disturbs many of us.The attorney general of nigeria is reprimanding the governors of Southern Nigeria for enacting laws to curb the menace of these invaders who have traumatized nigerian citizens.Many of them kidnap citizens, rape women in their farmlands, kill the men who challenge them. Ogun state media showed men with their right hands cut off by these invaders. And they were not few who suffered this savegery in their own homeland and farmland.</p> <br> <p>And this happened in their own farmlands I have to repeat.All of this are not normal to the nigerian soceity.The attorney general has the affrontry and temerity to compare this people with the Igbo business people.The Igbo business hire locals and build their communities and it is something the nigerian people can agree on.The Igbos rent houses in the cities and pay rents.They pay taxes and contribute to communual life.We have some people who will reside in the forests and invade soceity as they choose. Their cows disturb the flow of traffic and the life of citizens. The people had tolerated all of that. But you bring in terrorists and killers to intimidate them.No responsible leader must allow such impunity.For once the governors are right! We often hear the adage that water finds its own level. We find a man with such impaired ability for deduction in a position where such is a requirement.You can place a man on top of mount olympus but he will crash from there if you let him to his own devices. The attorney general is wrong as can be. And people like him and the chief justice and head of the nigerian supreme court have destroyed nigeria. It is for the kind of impunity these men put on display we have calls for dismantling the system. If there is no way to change these things and alter the trajectory, I am afraid the calls will carry the day.No world power can make a people who feel traumatized not resist. It is not a natural thing to expect.</p> <br> <p>We like to show the world how low nigeria has gone.We have a man who has no idea what his job entails.As the attorney general his job is to defend the rule of law.He should have defended the governors who quite clearly were within the bounds of their authority.He instead went with his sentiments defending criminals.Let us flip the coin! In Northern Nigeria where there is Sharia law we have the HISBAH forces.We see the destruction of the businesses of southerners in these areas that will not attract even passing comment from these misfits.We see piles and piles of liquor and alcoholic drinks destroyed every time and no person brings down hell.These businesses loose millions of dollars in revenue due to no fault of theirs in their country where the law should have protected them. But they were made victims.Nigeria is suppose to be a secular country. And a Yoruba, Igbo or Ibibio investors will have their liquor shops vandalized by HISBAH and no compensation is paid by the so called federal government. So many states have been paying compensation for cattle and the farms vandalized is not anything anyone discusses.The attorney general has thought if he picked on the Igbo people there will be no problem.He could not be more wrong.The whole nigeria now know what they are doing. The world also is aware.</p> <br> The nigerian born fulani who stands in line for services and get switched by the bandit is their victim.We have politicians who are ready to destroy a soceity that made them to further an agenda of looting and plundering! In what way are they helping the native born fulani who is not a political elite? Is sending them with cattle to confront communities not sending them into war? And how are they likely to win such a war? It is hardly how you help anyone.In any case this kind of knee jack reaction never arose when the nineteen northern state governors made the same decision precisely on 9th February 2019. Even with the worsening and fatalistic turn everything has taken the attorney general would like the state governors to wait. Perhaps when enough of their citizens have been raped, killed, their homes burnt or their limbs cut off then and only then are they suppose to take action.Worse for everyone concerned is the damage these men have done to the relationship between the fulanis in nigeria and other citizens.It is how nations are destroyed.</p> <br> <p>It is wrong to set them at variance with people with whom they have lived peacefully.It is not in their interest and they know that.The hausa is a victim of the evil machination of these men. It has no safe haven.Everyone except this select few is abused and vandalized.The TiV, the Jukun, Igbira, Idoma, Effik, Ijaw,Isoko, Edo and so on are in this together. The governors who switch to other party are afraid.All of the governors and senators especially from the former Easern Nigeria who switch party have come under severe pressure.The boiling point temperature in the region was infused deliberately through the election hubris master minded by the supreme court.In insuing confussion armed bandits were smuggled into the space.The governors are threatened from more than one side. They have been surrounded by terrorists and angry frustrated youths and citizens.Governing under such circumstances is really hard. Much more so for the ones that never really intended to.We are faced by a present danger! We ask our people to know redemption is near. No war is necessary and there will be none.We just disagree with these unpatriotic, unsympathetic and morally bankrupt set of people. It is not an Igbo versus fulani issue.Nigerians know what the difference will be if the Igbo was to be at the helm.But that is not even the issue.We are saying some people are very incompetent and they have destroyed the soceity. We are saying there is inherent corruption in their reasoning.There is nobody else to blame but themselves.When a man who has not mastered how to drive takes a muscular 250 horsepower sports car and takes off on a spin and crashes it he is absolutely to blame.Mr.attorney general you are in the wrong job.Go and take your seat with your brothers in Myetti Allah. Seat beside the guy with the Abacha style sunglasses.It will be a perfect seat for you!</p> <br> <br> <br><a href="onenation.html"/><img src="adamma.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="150" /></a> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br><br><br><center><a href="makingthegong.html"/>THE WORLD MUST PREVAIL ON THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT</a></center> <p>We have the responsibility as reasonable human beings to alert the world to a human catastrophy being fermented in the nigerian space.Some people with very small minds have been trying to unravel the nigerian political space for some time.The Eastern Region of nigeria is one of the most peaceful places on the face of the earth. It is a reason for the progress and the prosperity in the area.Quite clearly it is the reason for the envy that drives the whole dynamics of the politics of nigeria.It is very self evident the present government has been trying to reverse history and even rewrite it. It has done every thing in its power to infiltrate this hitherto peaceful population with the view to distabilize it.It does not help that the men behind these schemes are people with the world view of conquest and domination.Their attempt to conquer rather than collaborate with others is the reason for the numerous conflicts in africa.The government of nigeria has descended on a very peaceful population killing, abducting, raping, maiming and plundering citizens.We hear they want unity. But they will not initiate dialogue. Instead the government and its agents have unleashed a full scale slaughter of the people of Eastern Nigeria! Any politician in the old Eastern Region who aids the murder of our youths will answer to the people of the space in due course. Any such politician who chooses to work for interests outside of those of the people will not blame anyone else.We hear the politicians are aware that fulani and their foreign terrorist friends come into our communities and cease our youths and take them away under the pretext of seeking nigerian unity! We will warn the federal government there will be very serious consequences.We saw images of youths shot in shallow swamps a few years ago, we do not have a count of youths killed recently in Lekki. We are not stupid. What kind of unity is this? Is dialogue precluded in their own method?</p> <br> <p> How are they going to attain unity or peace in this way? It appear they aim for the quiet of the graveyard. We believe we alerted the world to this tendency early enough. No excuse is possible this time.It appears they have gone back to their plan to wipe the people out again.It resulted in the loss of four million lives.Quite clearly the shores of Europe will soon begin to feel the effect of what these people are doing.It is clear to us it is the outcome they seek. It is the real agenda. Some people who peddle hate and who use it to further their other goals would like to see such human problems in Europe. It helps the populism rhetoric and feeds it like gasoline in fire.It is not anything these marauders understand. It is not a local problem.It is as international as any problem can be.The world must force the nigerian government to abandon the massacre of its own citizens.Nigeria is withdrawing soldiers fighting terrorists who have destroyed the economy, reputation and future of the country and are sending them to Eastern Nigeria.Some youths are demanding self government. It is not a crime in any soceity. But in nigeria the government that budgets on loans and borrowed money will kill youths demanding a better future.This priority will astound any leader anywhere else. But it is the kind of choices these people make even in every other area of life. Men with suspect understanding presiding over two hundred million lives and wrecking absolute havoc.If the government will not stop the massacre there is need to create a safe haven for the citizens of the area. The international community must insist upon that before European streets are flooded with helpless people seeking safety.It is the only solution to the incessant resort to mass killings and plundering of the people of this area.</p> <br> <br><a name="selfdetermination.era"></a> <center><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVcGgUNuJxE"/>The Struggle For Right of Way: cattle Invasion:Abuja Nigeria</a> <br> <br><br><center>HERE COMES THE POLITICIAN WHOSE OFFICE IS THE SOURCE OF DEATH FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE!</center> <p>Politics is a call to serve the people being represented. It is hard to understand how a politician will insist upon remaining in office when his office and the way to it is littered with the corpses of his own citizens. When the stink of the dead will not allow him to get to the office. We call on the appointed governor to do the honorable thing immediately.It is not likely that he can find an army that can change the situation.The army he is relying on is avoiding a duty by running away and instead placating Boko Haram a bunch of bare-foot untrained jihadists.Indeed right now it seems they have an unwritten deal in place from all we can see. Using his brothers and sisters as human shield is evil and unconscienable and will not save the official in question.No type of human shield can properly protect him and his family from the coming hell that is threatening.We warned him the aim and goal of the scheme is to distabilize Eastern Nigeria. The people who created a sectarian soceity against good advice found out it is no paradise.The difference between what they did and what makes sense is what they are eager to destroy.We urge the federal government to understand the position of extreme elements within government.It is a mistake to declare a war in Eastern Nigeria.The country will be the looser.The killing of innocents youths who are just frustrated with soceity is the fault of this government. It is shedding innocent blood.Its bad policies have created these harsh realities.The people who push the government into these extreme positions created the unacceptable events government is faced with. The Supreme Court is headed by one such.And we call on the man to do the honorable thing now.He should resign. Quite clearly he created the bloodbath in Imo State.The two men must resign their positions for their lack of honor and intergrity.Most importantly the man who benefitted by this egregious "hokery pokery"!</p> <br> <p>If he meant to serve the interest of the people this is when to show it. We wish he had listened to the call to resist the trojan horse.Now it is clear to him.It would never have been possible for the nigerian army to find the reason to fully invade Eastern Nigeria and spoil a people without cause.The IPOB are asking for self-Determination.Nigeria is suppose to be a country of authonomous regional nations.Where then is their sin? We advise the politicians in Nigeria to think about their own future.It is not possible that any person will kill innocent people for power and be guiltless.It is clear the government is not interested in peace. Quite clearly it is the government creating and fermenting the conflicts.The Supreme Court reversed the outcome of an electeion announced by the legal authority. When did the court become the means of attaining office in a democracy? Is that suppose to be a competition with the ballot box? Again it is all government! And one will with anguish lament such a disaster upon a people.We wish our people listened more.We wish they understood more.It is impossible to be a dog and a man at the same time.The people who abandoned the platform a person of vision provided for them are the reason our youth are being slaughtered now in their mothers' kitchen.</p> <br> <p> The honor they chose will live far beyond their shortened lives and we will never forget their supreme sacrifice. On the other hand those who choose masters over God will end up as dogs! No master will die for his or her dog.Our God shall deliver His people! We know he is the source of our every victory. We do not have to fight for the God we serve.He vindicates the cause He favors.Do not ask me about the last time.If the reason for the maltreatment is the last time it has angered Nature. As the nigerian authority shed the innocent blood of our youths it must be clear to them they are grossly in error.As always they again do everything in their power to foreclose any chance for dialogue and peaceful resolution of the causes of these unending conflicts.And all the problem emanate from the same source.It is the greed of a few who pillage soceity for just themselves. We tell our people to mourn our youths and make it an earth shaking event like the mourning of the Iva valley miners of November 18 1949. It was a single event that galvanized the people of Eastern Nigeria to end colonialism.Once again our brave youths have taken evil head on as their forebearers.Every time the agents of the government take a life of our youths the people must respond with a resounding rejection by mourning the death as an abominable act against the land and its people. They will not be slaughtered like the nameless when we all watch helpless.They are in their own community.Why would they be killed when they violated noboby? Nigeria or not they are our own and mean the world to us!</p> <br> <br><center>QUO VADIS NIGERIA </center> <p>I learnt of the attempt to withdraw the personal security details of politician in Southern Nigeria with great alarm. Even the governors are not spared.We are talking about men who are chief executives of states. Is any zone of nigeria safer than Eastern Nigeria? So again they cease the governor of Ebonyi state doing their number on him. We have the answer though! Are we to assume that the APC and their Imo State Supreme Court election and its fallout has fully worked the intended magic? This events underscores our argument the federating units and peoples must know how to defend themseves.It is possible for a government to go full renegede.Since governors are elected by the people the Inspector general of police has unwittingly approved the default of the governors falling back to the electorate for protection! Failure of which there is full anarchy being spurned in Southern Nigeria.The question is why? The Inspector general of police appears to be fully implementing a plan.We recall What Obadiah Mailafia (the former CBN deputy) said the escaped Boko Haram explained will happen this year. We recall he said the plan is to kill top ranking members of soceity to cause confussion.Now we have unknown gunmen. The people who are clamouring for self determination and a better and more equitable soceity are declared terrorists.</p> <br> <p>Even the colonial government never took such severe steps.But we have clueless men who call themselves leaders foisting hell on their own soceity and fellow citizens.We watch as they further complicate the predicament of nigerians people.We recall the British Colonial government negotiated more than four constitutions prior to the one that ushered in independence.How can government say it will not negotiate soceiety? Some people are in the wrong job. Why have these men equated the call for self determination to rebellion? And whereas Boko Haram which is a full rebellion is pampered and its members rehabilitated those who are calling for a more equitable soceity are being massacred.The people who kill and rape and pillage soceity are rehabilitated and rewarded with membership of the armed forces, the elite authority for protection of life and property.Something is very wrong. It is their actions that are actually leading inexorably to the disintegration of the country.The nigerian police must know it will be a mistake to abandon the nigerian people and side with Boko Haram and the extremists.</p> <br> <p>The extremists will not win. They never do on the long run.The people of the nigerian space will overcome these criminals who want to destroy the soceity that made them rich and "successful". Now the citizens are called "collateral".One governor actually called his citizens "collateral" who could be expended in the fight against bandits.It makes one wonder the kind of mindset of a leader who would think of sacrificing law abiding citizens for a criminal,terrorist, bandit. One wonders why the bandits were invited into the country by these same people. We have youths being killed in their villages while foreign marauders are running a show of horror.We have a country of endless contradictions.Why are the governors from southern nigeria being punished? Is it because they demanded restructuring in response to the yearnings of those they represent? Is it because they banned open grazing for same reasons.Why would a governor allow for a situation that places the pasturing of animals over the safety and lives of those he represents? So the governors are being threatened by gun totting soldiers who do not know the sources that feed them could soon dry up? We see what the governors are dealing with in a country suppose to be a federation. Now we see why they have not been able to serve the people they represent.We now see the blatant arrogance, arrant nonsense and intimidation they have to put up with.</p> <br> <p>What we need to see happen is a follow-up meeting of the other representatives, the senators and the house of assembly members.It is how they give impetus and moral support to the decision of the governors. We hope they do this without delay. It is how democracy works.It does not work with AK47 riffles.What the government of nigeria is practicing is not democracy. It is called tyranny.Whether it is the thousands of criminal men armed to the teeth we saw in the forests of Ondo State or now the combat ready soldiers in Imo state what we see is abuse of authority and power. And it stinks! The governors from northern nigeria can meet everyday and it is all right.Myetti Allah can meet everyday and make proclaimations and order the government around and it is all right. Once the people from the south meet there will be sanctions as though they are little pupils in a kindergaten class.We warn these people that these men represent indegenous sovereign ethnicities who willingly participate in the nigerian experiment. If the rigours of the experiment becomes awful they might have to reconsider! The soceity is sliding into full dictatorship and it could trigger various kinds of reactions. Already we hear the calls for severance with the usual source of the pain.We remind the culprits how such events works in places such as the nigerian space!</p> <br> <br><br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <br><center>SOMEONE IS FUNDING THE TERROR IN NIGERIA</center> <p>The nigerian state has been systematically plundered by a very determined group of people. But they have maintained a straight face and mouthed unity while at it.It must no longer fool anyone.We all remember NITEL, NEPA, NPA, CBN and on and on the list goes.These are all run by men who become richer than nigeria.Some of these entities have been milked to death.Such entities include : NITEL, Nigerian Airways, Nigerian National Shipping Line and so on.We had appealed to the authorities in nigeria to commence work in rebuilding nigeria for many years.The regional government were more accountable and helped the people a great deal.The present system has no way to hold leaders accountable. Once elected they are thin gods! For so many years we have appealed without success to those in authority to return the soceity to a place of financial prudence and independence. The founding constitution provided those kinds of checks.Not so for the 1999 one, the decree is just mainly an exclusive list.It just requires the people to stay way from anything that will make them economically independent. The fraud of 1999 has all the promises to citizens taken away through a kind of disclaimer more or less protecting public officers for misrule.It is not worth my time.I have no respect for it.It is not the subject matter.Just go take a good look at it anyone who cares. It is an absolute fraud! In the United States of America the salary of the president is known and so is the salary of any political position.We asked that a sincere effort be made to erase the idea of looting and a mindset of plundering.It is insane to plunder ones own soceity.But we were ignored.Today the plunderers are turning on soceity.Now they are spiting soceity with their blood soaked wealth.They now want it all.It has been nearly two decades since we have failed to move the conscience of our politicians.The criminality has gone on without hinderance.It suprises me there is a frustration with the instability resulting from the unrelenting gorging and gastric overindulgence.</p> <br> <p>Now we have terrorists and killers all around nigeria imported by politicians to ride to power and thereafter throw them into the communities.It is foolish not to anticipate the mayhem resulting from their unpatriotic behaviour.It is a shame they are the ones accusing citizens and requiring them to sit still and be massacred.We see bandits dig up weapons from the ground.How can they have these sophisticated weapons in a country where the rest are not allowed even the most modest? It is clear some people have been preparing for a conflict.It is the reason for the lack of movement inspite of the numerous demands. It is not what the rest of Nigeria was looking forward to.However to ignore this development will be the worst mistake any group of nigerian will make.The men who have entered our communities have no regards for life.Our communities must band together and defend themselves.We ask the people of Eastern region to insist on self-determination.Nothingless will do.It is the most basic form by which they can survive.The nigerian soceity has been completely vandalized.Heartless murderers are on the loose.Rebuilding will be impossible with the constant nuissance from them.It can't be done with the distraction of these people who prefer anarchy and fatalistic turbulence.</p> <br> <br> <br><br><center><a href="newagitations.html">"MINORITY QUESTION AND RIGHTS IN NIGERIA"</a></center> <p>It is time to seperate truth from fiction.The African continent has one distinction.The people have not engaged in the practice of large tribes swallowing up smaller ones.It is not the practice of the african people.The people who are foreign to the african environment do not understand this truth.We started to trace the origin of certain problems now rearing up its ugly head threatening to derail the African development agenda.We see the threat as coming from external influences and forces.Being we are trying to rebuild from the ruins of these influences it is not desirable for those clutching them to be in the fore front.The idea of some people seeing themselves over others always lead to a very bad place.History is replete with the skeletons and ashes from it.It is one reason we call on true African to rise up and reclaim their true heritage.It is something they can teach the rest of the world. It is hard to miss the fact the world saw Nelson Mandela and were struck by his morality and courage.Before him was another African taken to America to become a misionary.The man instead became the first true African liberation fighter.He was the founder of the African National Congress(ANC) in south Africa. This Zulu from Natal was called Isaka Seme (or Pixley Isaka Seme,he was adopted by a missionary Stephen Pixley ).His speech in a debate which was published in April 1906 in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and Manchester Guardian in the United Kingdom is worthy of mention.Also worthy of mention was the fact he was only in his twenties at this time.He titled the famous speech " The Regeneration of Africa". In this speech he reminded the world that Africa was not a desolate or wasteland with no culture.To the contrary he said Africa can teach the world a thing or two about mutuality and coexistence from its rich heritage and culture.</p> <br> <p>I wanted to make this point before returning to the issue of minority rights among the african people.The African people have actually been able to keep the cultures of both small and big tribes intact.It is not very common.Returning to Nigeria the politicians who fought for the independence of nigeria knew the need for building a community.They succeeded in their quest for independence due to this uncommon strength.Chief Anthony Enahoro is not Yoruba.However it is undeniable he pushed the agenda of the Action Group harder than anyone else besides the veteran Chief Awolowo himself.In the NCNC the very indomitable Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, Chief M.T Mbu and Magaret Ekpo were the anchors of the party yet they were not Ibo.It is the agenda of the oppressor to sew the seed of discord.When there is good leadership these things are accounted for and treated with the delicate care they deserve.Nations and people are united by things outside of language.The United States of America the richest and strongest country in the world is an idea not written in volumes of paper.It is the ideal of the humanity of every human person.Ideals and goals are the things that create unity always.It is true for any situation including nations.We truely believe the people of Eastern Nigeria and western Nigeria can become great nations.So also can the twelve states in the north that have united around religion.We truely wish them good speed! We are all africans.What they must not do is to try to force anyone to "unite" with them.It will destroy their ideal and goal.Any group that wish to work together must determine these goals and ideals and the imperatives of their union including morality.The killing must now stop. <br> <br><a href="makingthegong.html"/><img src="umuafoigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br><br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br><center>"UNEASY LIES THE HEAD UPON WHICH IS A CROWN"</center> <p>We watch fulani settlements shown on the internet through google map as they grow in number all across Eastern Nigeria! It is now obvious why these crop of governors were selected.With the history of the fulani and the man in Aso Rock this is a worrying development.How on earth can they account for these people? As citizens? These people can receive anyone anytime even an entire army from the air or land.They can do anything from such places where they exist in seclusion. No wonder they are unsettling the most peaceful place there is.What type of relationship will this be called? While our governors sleep at night they can overrun the entire space.They now own the army, police and every other institution of coercion of the country.How could our leaders exhibit this kind of negligence? These people do not only take away the land they also take the liberties, way of life and safety of our people.The question then is asked:What is the job of government? With these settlments and the military and police controlled by fulanis why do the governors think anyone can take them serious? Can anyone believe the nigerian army does not know these settlements and who lives in them? Our governors might already be haboring Boko Haram! We are talking about Fulani cities in Eastern Nigeria! </p> <br> <p>The ESN is not only desirable. We conclude it is required and necessary.The ESN must also be well equipped.Presently our people are not responding as one would have expected. Without them the Igbos and their relatives in Eastern Nigeria have lost their wonderful heritage.The carelessness of these so called leaders is very frightening! Every single one of them wants to be president of nigeria. And they drop their guard and jettison common sense. We ask the begging question: "where is the redeeming value of their type of leadership?". Why are they recruiting their own brothers as human shield? It is selfishness taken to a new level.We plead with them to make the so called "Ebube Agu" part of their personal detail.They will just become objects of target practice for nigerian soldiers otherwise.They will be slaughtered and ESN will be blamed just to disrupt the community.The federal government planned something like this for the area.We pleaded with them not to go through with it.They left it in the hands of our own so called "leaders" and they gladly comply. We find it appalling.It is very sad. Now the confussion in Northern Nigeria is being planted for the peace loving and community building people of Eastern Nigeria by their clueless leaders! Of course at the behest of the marauders who aim to plunder every place they put foot on.We know the people who worked very hard for the fulani outposts in Bayelsa, Imo and Abakaliki and Akwa Ibom. These outpost is where all the amunitions are buried awaiting the orders. Our governors are taken by their own ego in the face of mortal harm. We urge them to move quickly.There is no time for prevaricate and banter.You have murderers at your door steps.Our people are not a conquered people and are not about to become one. These men ought to have thought these things through. As other people watch them make big joke of themselves the actual victims are our people. How can they preach unity to a people who have paid for everything that has sustained nigeria from the very start? Why are they now required to also give their lives? These men must please think. As for some of the "chiefs" and whatnots from southern nigeria who make noise about unity and one country it is a shame.You must look around you and see the tightening noose aiming for your throat! They say a word is enough for the wise.</p> <br> <p>If you do not see the country is already divided with two different systems of law and jurisprudence you are not paying attention. If you are waiting for when your hand will be cut off for the liquor you imbibe cupiously it will soon come. By God we honor our traditional institutions and will ensure they endure. It is our heritage. We request of them to look at the situation and use good judgement. Our youths require their reassurance.If they do not see the looming danger it will overtake everyone.The government of nigeria has an ethnic cleasing agenda. Something some so called leaders have become too comfortable to notice.It is now very evident.It is sad to watch people being displaced in Igboland and Eastern Nigeria.To watch our people carrying their belongings and scampering makes some of us very sad indeed.Some people will pay for it.The quote above does not say "Uneasy lies the head.....unless you are a politician from Eastern Region of nigeria".The source of this new disgrace and dehumanization must be found and rooted out.We are watching and there are going to be repercussions.</p> <br> <p>How can the Nigerian government continue to make this kind of mistake always and still expect anyone to stand with it? If the ESN claims its avowed goal is to protect the citizens of the area. What is the problem with that? We all are aware people are not able to go to their farms and look for food for their families.And government has done nothing except dither and find and make excuses. Soon as the people themselves find a solution the reluctant and unwilling warrior governors or administrators swing into action. Only they are doing so against their own. All their effort is to thwart what seems to be a very good solution. It is shocking that on one hand the Abuja government (not federal by any measure or standard) is so focused on killing members of an organization clamouring for self-determination.While on the other we are being treated with a tacit approval of massacre by the nigerian government in cohort with an ethnic group focused on a discredited hegemony.</p> <br> <p>The government kills and the other groups ramp it up some more. It is clear the nigerian government either on purpose or anything else has failed to stop all manner of terrorists, bandits, kidnappers, killer herdsmen all of whom are related to the people at the helm.What is unity where one side has no worth and value? So why target a peaceful region, intending and doing everything to opend it and create anarchy? It is Western Region and the center all over again. We hear "wetie" again. And as usual everything goes up in flames and smoke.We watch as incompetence ceases the country and its people in a never ending choke hold. It appears this time their wish will come to pass.It is that nigeria is blown apart into its real and natural constituencies! It is clear they never wanted a country much more a nation.You do not "inherit" human beings. Nobody "bequeaths" nations of different people to anyone.What is the person? GOD? It is a terrible thing to say. They are not articles of possession.Their former leader called fellow citizens an "inheritance" and never appologised. Again we see a loading up by men of similar mindset! </p> <br> <br> <br><center>MANIFESTATIONS OF EVIL IN THE AFRICAN SPACE</center> <p>It is not that one wants to be pessimistic.An observation is in order.We lost very recently the former Secretary General of the United Nations. We are talking about an African with panache, finesse and great intellect.In tow are five african heads of state or former heads of state.Among them the most brilliant, thoughtful, charismatic and compassionate. I know there is a pandemic but for God's sake we have a problem with this kind of situation.Please somebody look into the issue of how we care for our sick.Can't we have a place to care for the sick among us? Infact can't we have a place to care for our own that we consider indispensable? We must have such people among us or we are going nowhere. It is a very existential.We must do better.The African Free Trade is a very big deal! I do not think the african people realize the implication of what they pulled off! Now they must work through the mine fields that the detractors will most definitely emplace.We are not accusing anyone.It is a simple natural observation.We are just asking our people to excercise more care and caution.See who our real friends are and add to the number very carefully.If you have been hurt repeatedly by someone it makes no sense at all to keep returning to them for answers! Do you understand what we are saying? <br> <br> <br><a href="#selfdetermination.era">Self Determination Is Inalienable</a> Human Right</a> <br> <br><center><a href="returntopeace.html"/>SELF-DETERMINATION STRUGGLE IN NIGERIA IS NOT FRIVOLOUS</a></center> <br> <p>The people who have been tinkering with nigeria have touched on very raw nerves.It is very unlikely the damages can be repaired due to rampant reoccurance.We now must begin to address how best to be very good neighbors.It is not possible to have your enemy keeping the most sensitive records of information about you.We are all into the information business these days and we know its value.We also know that abuse and misuse is very possible and can be very dangerous.Nigeria has refused to reassure the rest of the world it has no intention to pursue the avowed agenda of ethnic cleansing of the ultra extreme elements who have ceased control of the central government.The people who call for self-determination are enemies of the state.But some people removed the constitution that created the nigerian state with autonomous regions. In fact the 1999 constitution is the regurgitation of the Decree 24 1979of the military. Men under oath to defend the same constitution. The motto of the American military is:"This we will defend". Refering ofcourse to the constitution.The military in a democracy defend the constitution. It is what they vow to defend.It is the basis of all things else! The same men who treat an oath like a cup of liquor are the ones who talk about intergrity.No wonder we have the situation on hand presently.It is the ruin of what used to be a country.We now have some of them in "agbada" and "babariga" completing the demolition job.So they want to blame Oduduwa agitators and IPOB but they are dishonest and that is why.</p> <br> <p>In Eastern Nigeria the land of the Igbo people and their relatives the Effik, Annang, the Ibibios, the Kalabaris and the Izon life is a celebration.Even work is turned into a celebration because it is communual.Very soon we will be rejoined by our people from Igbanke, Afo, Idoma, Itolu,Igedde and Ufia tribes.You read the names again and you discover they are all Igbo words true and true! These people should have been part of what the British called Eastern Nigeria. Without regards to their culture and identity they were ceded to Northern Nigeria.Any little attention to these 'little' matters of identity will be clear to a very casual observer.The British government with the experience in these kind of issues understand this.However without these people the area called Northern Nigeria would have been almost uninhabited arid land.We know they were trying to help their friends! Today with the assertive and aggressive manner being pushed by the people others must defend themselves and their identities or become extinct.Eastern Nigeria is one place where identities have been preserved due to the idea of consensus building predating western civilization.We want to show the world the reason for the massacre going on in Middle Belt .It is the same reason why four million were systematically destroyed by this same axis.It is the same people.The governors of River, Cross River or Abia or Bayelsa etc are not being sympathetic to the plight of Benue state for the sake of politics.They are related by blood.</p> <br> <p>During the colonial era the Muslims in Northern Nigeria tried many times to emplace sharia law but the British government would not allow them.Today they understand why.The people from these areas will not accept the extreme subjugation of the female or impositions required in this system. Their way of life can't be more different.The women in these areas play very important indeed pivotal roles in the running of communities.In actual fact they are the glue that hold the communities together.Through marriage, the markets and other endeavours the women maintain exchanges that foster unity and a sense of community.The women are not invisible and can never be. The system can't afford it. It will impoverish the community socially and economically. We just highlighted a major area of cultural clash.The many others are just as significant.Today twelve states in core northern nigeria have emplaced Sharia law.It is their right as a community and nation of people.They knew their position will be difficult to defend peacefully in a country like nigeria. But it never detered them.Their resolve and determination never precluded the use of violence.It is part of their faith. Having exercised such right for themselves they now want to intimidate and terrorize others into canine submission and acceptance.</p> <br> <p>What is colonialism? It is exactly what we described in the preceding paragraph.Is what it is! No sugar coating. It is complete as it is. The problem is it can't stand.It took time for the people to see the full implications of these developments.A matter also made worse by use of mindless violence. They should have listened to their "friends". The advice they rejected was borne out of experience. Now they have found out much too late.It is for this reason we do not see how nigeria survives the present turmoil. It will not be glossed over.It has very intrinsic consequencies.The declaration of the sharia law ignored the four million who perished in the name of unity of nigeria a country that was suppose to be secular. As if that was not enough Nigeria joins the organization of Islamic countries. In the heat from citizens the authorities lied saying they were there in observer status.However it has sinced been proved that Nigeria is a subscription fee paying full member. Eastern Nigeria was on track to become industrialized within a decade when the war of genocide was foisted on the people by those who do not wish africa well.But many africans had no idea what was at stake including the clueless agents who push an agenda alien to their own self interests.</p> <br> <p>Again the problem arises from the same axis on time to checkmate the effort to regenerate and recreate the climate for progress.Rather than focus on the agenda of people of the area they are forced to be dealing with cattle grazing.The people in this area are not in a place of living by the day.They have ideas and invest in them. The farms being destroyed are investments.Are the people sponsoring this mayhem saying one investment is superior to another? Among many other questions to ask and things to say, but this people are in their own space.By the right of ownership no other person can override their own priorities.It is called provocation.Something that has been going on for years now.The people are in a very different place quite clearly.We are making the case that it is not a good idea to yoke a horse and a donkey. When they could be talking about and dealing with 3_D printing and space exploration and a good future for themselves some gun totting urchins are ferried into their space to distabilize it.The union is not a good match and must now be ended. We truely believe the outcome of this struggle determines the future of the african people.</p> <br> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br><center><a href="theigbosandnigeria.html">MORE FOREIGN LOANS FOR THE NIGERIAN CENTER AND STATES TO SHARE </a></CENTER> <p> Just like we predicted the legislative houses have approved more loans at the request of the Abuja central government.The purpose of the loan? It is needed for "infrastructural development".The government wants to borrow one and a half billion dollars ($1.5bn) and nine hundred and ninety five million Euro (E#995m).It brings the debt stock to about thirty two trillion naira. It was less than twelve trillion naira when the present government assumed office.The present administration alone has trippled the external debt stock.We knew the request will be approved.The rubber stamp has come down as usual.We just delayed the process by alerting nigerians.The borrow and share continues.The regions used to support the federal government.The present role reversal where the spendthrift holds the wallet is sad.It has pauperized the citizens quite clearly. The former regions never had one single "white elephant" project.All of them were initiated by the federal government.Today we have so many abandoned federal projects some of them costing tens of billions of dollars.In aladja, in Ajaokuta,steel rolling mills,power projects, refineries littered all over the place all abandoned federal projects costing the country in the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.It is exhausting.It is tiring.It will not change because the people know nothing else.</p> <br> <br><a href="makingthegong.html"/><img src="umuibe.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <p><center><a href="nationweneed.html"/>THE NIGERIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT MUST ACCEPT BLAME FOR ESCALATING THE VIOLENCE IN THE NIGERIAN SPACE</a></center> <br> <p>The Lekki peninsula mass murder which left the entire earth shocked at the brutality of the nigerian authorities against own youth was one of such example. We have no true and authentic official count of the dead. What country treats the life of its citizens in such a manner? And it is but a tip of the iceberg in unlocking the dirty lundry list of this ignoble behavior.We have a government that has battled an army of religious zealots killing for entertainment, raping and kidnapping for fun. It has not seen much progress in over a decade of the confrontation.The group is expanding its control and terrorizing the whole country.Rather than seek how to unify the country against them the authorities have been very busy alienating the youths from Southern Nigeria every chance they get.It makes us think they are not worried about the unity of the space in reality.Their casual reaction and approach to the threat and the effort to even fund the rebellion by paying hefty ransome to the bandits seem like encouragement.We see here who is dividing the country.The people who take it by force are rewarded and the one who ask and request are murdered and slaughtered in cold blood. We asked them what their priority is.Now Abuja is under threat like we told them years ago.Boko haram hoisting flag anywhere in Niger State must be a rap on the door these happy people must hate to hear!</p> <br> <p>Youths from Eastern Nigeria have been demonstrating for the actualization of the state of Biafra.Chief Olusegun Obasonjo's government had to manage their tantrums from time to time. We were made to understand the group were actually asking for self-government. Nigeria was founded based on such a right. It is not something that should threaten anyone.Nigeria can't exist if it becomes clear that some people want to "colonize" the others! Nigeria will break up.It is no "intimidation". It is truth.The government at this time understood what was unfolding. At least they had the space to negotiate their position.It never became a threat to the peace at any point but a normal excercise of liberties in a normal democracy.They were allowed their space in so far as they threatened no one.Soon as the new government was sworn into office they threatened to deal with "every group that threaten the corporate existence of nigeria". By this they actually were refering to those agitating for self-determination.One keeps wondering where they got a corporate entity with no articles and memorandum determined by the stakeholders.</p> <br> <p>Presently nigeria faces fragmentation due to the inept ways this matter has been handled.The groups were massacred and their dead shown all over social media.The weak and unreasonable denials from government could not convince anyone.Rather than address the underlying issues the government chose to be sponsoring armed groups in the areas it considers "unfriendly".It chose to intimidate the Eastern Nigerian groups and other groups demanding self-rule.We have a government that has seen the expansion of the rights of certain people over others, and rampant nepotism which has removed the sense of the space being a federal entity.Upon that ancestral lands were being confiscated by the same priviledged group and the owners killed and displaced.We have internally displaced citizens! It is hard to understand such a term.We have watched as ancestral lands are being renamed.The government has done nothing.People submit their right to be governed to avoid these things.Any government that would not gurantee the right to life has lost its mandate and raison d'etre.</p> <br> <p>Rather than buy war planes, and armoured tanks, importing armed bandits the government should solve problems. It is the reason for government.It is strange how they react to problems.The agents of government want none of it. It is called intimidation and ingratitude to Mr. president.One hears things like "no one can intimidate Mr president". It is a pity.But he will have no country to be president over.War of independence are rare these days. Nations rise and the world will take notice. And give them their space. It is no intimidation. It is the meaning of the United Nations charter on the issue.It is not suppose to be intimidation. We see an example how leaders solve problems. People disagree. An effort is made so that happens without avoidable bloodshed. We are showing those who can't solve problems how problematic issues are resolved.It is dynamics of the human behavior.If they are threatened they will fight back. Nigeria is quick to press gun triggers. Human life for which government is needed becomes the less than secondary issue! It appears matters are at a head right now.We find no way the nigerian military will defeat a combined force of all Boko Haram has become and all the forces they are stoking in Southern Nigeria.The consequences of this new dimension will show very quickly.Nigeria can't survive if Yoruba youths shut down Apapa port and other places from where nigeria earns all that Vat tax money.If the youths from Eastern Nigeria shut down Eastern Nigeria which they are very able to do nigeria can't function.There will be no revenue from oil.</p> <br> <p>We just want to tell the government it has a couple of options and they are not good ones.Instead of talking about 'intimidation' and ingratitude it must seek to address the problems in the country.We think an honest effort to address self-government as was agreed hitherto is the answer.So far we have had no leader who is able to see that the assets of the nigerian nation states was stolen by the coup of 1966.In 1999 some people changed the ownership by decree calling it a constitution. It is a shame so many people you would have thought could see such a situation for what it is choose to look away due to what they have got for themselves. But this injustice will no longer stand.Nigeria will not hold any more election based on this farce and bare face robbery.It is a disgrace.It serves only the priviledged.The rest must stand up and fight until change is emplaced! Nothing short of that will do! The president must do the job he organised all manner of situation for.We remind him how he marched and marched! Today those who do are shot and killed.He should lead.It is part of his job to address and even solve these problems.He chose to be there. He was not conscripted!</p> <br> <br> <br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <p><center><a href="trueafrican.html">THE INFORMATION MAKING ROUNDS ABOUT EXECUTIONS OF SOUTHERN MILITARY OFFICERS IS TROUBLING</a></center> <br> <p>Boko Haram was created to intimidate a president who was seen as unfit due to the idea and sense of a hegemnony.He hails from Southern Nigeria. Today Boko Haram is more of an enforcer of the muslim sharia law and has attained unlimited reach. They now have bandits as foot soldiers.Boko Haram is now more normal than bandits.Boko haram have "repented" members in the nigerian military.To understand such repentance one must recall that these are people who have killed and raped and maimed the innocent.It is hard to imagine the place of the law in such a decision. Imagine the reality being forced on the nigerian people.Communities are ransacked in full view and broad day light by so called bandits and soldiers look on.When we made this observation it was denied by the government and her agents.We see how they have become a big source of problem that can get much worse as millions are now being displaced.The massacre and scale of suffering they have inflicted on nigerians is very hard to describe.We are not able to describe it for those who have lost loved ones,the displaced, those abducted and later released, or the raped and maimed.It is very sad. We thought a democratic government will help and should.But some people are not amenable to the rule of law where all are equal.They prefer a system where they control the law.We predicted this trait will derail the process if not checked.As we can see they have taken over the entire apparartus of state and law in a federation.It affords them the priviledge to control the law rather than be subject to it.We do not have a country now with equal citizenship.We have the rulers and the subjects.We have exposed a reality that will always be explosive in the space.No wonder it is. After all these are indegenous nations from yore. So it is a matter that promises to really get very ugly very quickly. Which really brings us to the the most troubling news item these days.</p> <br> <p>We are hearing that southern and middle-belt military men and officers are being systematically wiped out from the nigerian armed forces. The new trend is mass execution by purported Boko Haram. The nigerian press must not shy away from this all important issue.It has become difficult for international press with the soceity made more dangerous on purpose.Remember our own Genghis Khan in Kaduna promised them they will return "in body bags" if they attempt to interfere.We are in a country where an elected governor uses such a language. One can imagine his own internal and private scruples and morality in a country like nigeria! Such threats in the past had resulted in those who made them eating their own "shoe", no I mean words! We have an atmosphere ripe for despotism.Perhaps someone wants to become an emperor.It might be the reason and goal for attempting to build a kingdom through conquest. It is easy to understand why Boko Haram is now normal.The caliphate is going to be the entire nigeria! God forbid! (Not so though unless it excludes the Eastern nigeria and all the tribes of the Igbo people).The military in nigeria does not want to take government even if it desired to.One more coup in nigeria is proof enough to the world the country can't hold together as one. It is all the proof the whole world needs and they know it.It would be foolish to do a coup.By it they end their hijack operation much sooner than they would like.</p> <br> <p>It is clear or should be to them it will be deadly for them and the soceity.For all their excesses one would have thought they would be very glad they have finally succeeded in breaking the country they have done everything to destroy.The idea we fear is the repeat of Yugoslavia type genocide within the military in nigeria. Nigerian military is no longer interested in fighting the terrorists.Instead it appears they find it easier to harmonize their point of view with the terrorists.Perhaps it is war fatigue or part of the original plan. But we hear southern soldiers are being murdered in hundreds very frequently these days.The victims are mostly soldiers of different persuation especially the christains. We heard the clerics declare the idea of fighting Boko Haram is coming from christains and not " fellow muslims".We fear the nigerian army has been balkanized by this wedge.It is a development with dire consequencies.Nigeria is therefore heading into very bad territory.The sectarian violence we predicted could result from the dagerous games so called clerics play is here. We never expected it this quickly. And it will be the end of nigeria.Thanks to those who ignore the obvious truth.</p> <br> <br><br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="igbobabes.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <a name="smashingup.era"></a> <p><font color:="blue">African Renaissance.</p></font> <center> <br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <a name="nonewconstitution"></a> <br><H6 class="myclass"><span style="color:brown"><div valign="left"><font size="4" color="purple"><cite><br> <center> THE FOUNDING CONSTITUTION IS THE REASON THERE IS NIGERIA </center><br> <center> THOSE WHO REJECT 1963 CONSTITUTION MUST KNOW THEY REJECTED THE NIGERIAN ARRANGEMENT</center></cite></font><br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspWe have some people who think matters of law are like their "fraternal relationships".No they are not.The law is how you bring people who might ordinarily be mortal enemies to agree to work together.You do not pick and choose after the deals are made.We see this symptom in our daily lives and it is militating against our development.What kind of people will throw away an agreement and continue to make noise about working together and unity? What is such unity suppose to accomplish? Their own goals? They want unity based on how they feel.What an arrant absurdity? We return to this issue again and again because the way to the future of africa passes through this place and this issue. In the 1950s rather than go to war with a restless colony the British government chose to help the disparate nations it cobbled up into a colony to negotiate how to build a country together.Chief Obafemi Awolowo leader of one of the tribes to the west had choice words for the effort labelling it "futile" and the would be country a "mere geographical expression". He kept it going in ridiculing the government of nigeria when they tried creating states against his advise during the 1966 crises.He told them that his village in Ikenne will one day demand a state! Prophecy! He and some others especially from northern nigeria saw no need or possibility to a nation emerging from nigeria.Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe a leader of the tribes to the east of nigeria saw not just the possibility but a necessity for according to him it helps africa.According to him "when two incompartible meet they can co-exist if they learn to "agree to agree and agree to disagree"! It is a principle of patched unity.It is so in most countries in the world.The Azikiwe line of thought which the Igbos and people of eastern Nigeria have championed and sustained at their own expense has survived even on life-support.It had worked even if not very well until the extrists came to power recently.The roles are now reversed. Those who wanted unity are asking to leave the union and mean it enough to force the issue.</p> <br> <p> How times and realities have changed. We recall how after numerous consultations and emissaries these men who objected to a country called nigeria became part of those who negotiated a federation.And a country was born.The constitution was the consumation and agreement.It was a testament of the relationship that was negotiated.However at independence there still was no nation or country.Only one person among the top echelon of the leadership was mindful of this truth.He pleaded with the others to "join hands with me to build a nation".He could not convince them. It would take too much work.And a lot of sacrifice. Each of these men dug in to carve out for themselves a name and a chiefdom.Asked how he saw the issue of unity in the young nation then prime minister of northern nigeria went into a tirade against the Igbo people saying they were "always aiming at being at the top". These were among some choice and non-charitable assesment and poor grade he gave his now fellow citizens.It is not how you build a community of people as a leader.The southerners accepted this reality and whereas they would hire northerners as fellow citizens they will be given positions in northern nigeria only on contractual basis as temporary hirelings.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspThe leader and prime minister of northern nigeria said he will never hire a southerner especially an igbo in any position in his constituency. According to him he will seek an expertriate to fill the position first.If none was available he will consider hiring a southerner but "only on contractual basis".This is not what you would call a model for unity would it? It also does not scream patriotism at all.How time changes everything.Today the people of eastern nigeria who are the catalysts of the union want to end it and they want it now.These were the type of deep held resentment the military chose to confront with a mix of appeasement and decrees.And each "horse rider" had his own ideas, some of them terrible ones.These are matters of the mind and heart.They removed the agreement that defined the basis of any union much more a country.They divided the space they called a country but with no constitution into tiny enclaves they called states.These entities had no constitution or defined attribute whatsoever.We remind ourselves that these men had no mandate to govern in the first place.But they overreach to even determine how soceity ought to be structured and all of that without the people who must live with it.It is the travesty we have endured and which must be now confronted since the consequences are no longer sustainable.In doing all this harm they had only one agenda and it was how to isolate the Igbo people and strip them of claims to the wealth and resources from crude oil.At this point in time there had been a pogrom, a massacre and a "genocidal war" against an unarmed portion of the society for the same exact reason.Today after more than five decades the country is back to the same position again.But the positions are now reversed. Some people are exhausted and exhausted all their patience.The fulanis whom the Igbos had actually mentored in modern politics now want to colonize them.The first fulani lawyers and doctors were trained in institutions managed by the Igbo people.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspThe British had managed nigeria hitherto as an enterprise. With vast experience in matters of goveranace they navigated the many problems.Their focus was the resources and they managed to get what they mostly needed.They knew there was crude oil in nigeria decades before the native leaders.The native leadership did not have the faintest idea what crude oil is used for or even what it was. In any case they could not reach this asset with bare hands and lacked any knowledge how to reach it.Even if any of them had heard about this resource and its value they had no idea what to do with it.The British must have helped themselves with plenty of this resource.One might say this without being in danger of lying.The people had no idea what was going on in any case.This was a business enterprise and all is about plenty profit with little expense.It was their charge and goal.It worked for them.It was not their duty to manage nigeria the country of nations that negotiated a testament.They have their own country to run.It will be unfair to charge or accuse them of instigating a proxy war for oil.The people who managed events were africans and 'nigerians".If they claim to have been used they made themselves tools.The coup of 1966 was a reversal of the run-away progress in nigeria which had startled her many detractors.Anyone who wishes to help nigeria today will just reverse the move.It is one single step which returns the nation to the path of prosperity again.Adding states or regions will not be outside of this approach. The nation created a region before. It gives back sovereignty to the various nations within nigeria.It is what we see as viable and wholesome at this point. One is at a loss to understand the reason why some people want or recommend other things.We had an interruption.If this very easy step is taken now we have a country we an build into one nation.If that is what we want to do.The silence means we are not intent on doing that.So then what is the reason for pretending we want a nation? Is it to have access to resources to waste? The more the delay and confussion the chances the country will split in ways we are not able to determine.Perhaps it is what some want to see.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspTo refresh our minds in the year of the Lord 1966 the nigerian military chose to "moonshine" as politicians.At this time a nation they were running with no consensual agreement or constitution was called nigeria and a federation only as nicknames for neither was true.They had tossed out the constitution that founded nigeria and there was a military command structure "rule".You will not have a federation as command structure.This difficult undertaking in a young nation was assumed by these inexperienced bunch of youths as a part-time job.We were told they suspended the constitution of nigeria.Apparently they had no qualms taking the nation hostage which is the implication of the move.If nigerians were enlightened people there was absolutely no basis to govern them without it.There is none whatsoever.They are not even remotely a country without it.It is still true today. And that is the problem.If there is war in nigeria again it is because the people who claim to be patriotic are either ignorant or depraved and even vile.How could you bring all these different people together without any agreed framework for them to exist in one entity? We now see that the concept of liberty or freedom is alien to some people.We have a nation of a kidnapped population and they are all on their knees begging!We have a grossly traumatized and dehumanized population.They are not thinking about their liberty or even right as citizens.They are seeking how to survive.To some there is no survival that does not address the issues of liberty.Some are just concerned with how to corner all the resources and pocket everything they can lay hands on.This group happen to be the only ones that are armed.This group are from core northern nigeria the ones that have also taken the nigeria military hostage. They are not concerned with their own liberty or that of anyone else.How do they wish to co-exist with others for whom it is like the air they breathe?</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspSince 1966 it has been the program of some people with villainous tendencies and it has cost africa millions of lives and they are poised to take even more!The world must understand that when two hundred million people are in turmoil it will shake the whole world.The turbulence will not be local. We see the same mentality and carelessness going on.Haven't we had enough of this quick fix ideas and thoughtless throwing of money at problems? We choose solutions on a fly without any evaluations.They use money from the federal coffers to sponsor terrorists in the name of "palliative". And they claim there are no poor people in southern nigeria.Poverty is man made.When you refuse to train the people around you in productive skill but will rather arm them you are sowing the seed for insecurity.It is that simple.And insecurity breeds poverty.The nation that was negotiated as nigeria is suppose to be a federation.If you have a federation every part is treated as equals.The resource that was taken from the coffers should have been expended in a way that all the states are reached.We watch these things and are troubled by the fact that the same people who sponsor indulence and corruption are still in charge.Nigeria the nation that lost all its earnings to what now is called "Abacha Loot" is still alive and well.It is what must truely change.And we support those who call for change in our soceity that will remove the need for these repeating cycles of greed and violence and the poverty it spreads. People are murdered in their farms and their homes burnt and law enforcement will not find the "terrorists" and cattle "herdsmen". They just disappear.When one of the invisible "herdsmen" is killed the police will apprehend the killer quickly.You are not running a country like that.You are just sponsoring evil.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspYou lock soceity down in a curfew and people leave the streets and you use the opportunity to ferry murderers into the most peaceful and productive portions of soceity just to unravel them. We urge the african leaders especially the ones who have shown us they know the direction our people should be heading to intervene.It is important because this is an existential issue for africa and people of color.If nigeria does not find a way to move forward together it is a lost opportunity. Yet it is better the peoples do not continue to waste one another or rather that some are not wasted by an armed segment of the soceity.In the last few years northern nigeria has become a home and hotbed for all kinds of terror.Now they have been given the resources by an enabling conniving dispensation which seem to have a very soft spot for the mindset that sponsor these activities.The impending loss is africa's loss.Very recently african economies and societies started a steep climb out from poverty. All that is about to be reversed by these people for the benefit of their "masters".Whoever that might be at this time we have no idea.They like to play the dog to just any one willing to sponsor violence.We want the african people to mark those behind the problems in nigeria as the enemies of africa.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspLet us come home to eastern nigeria for some brief word with our brothers who are governors.We wish at least there was even one lady among them.For some reason women of our stock hate oppression more than some of our men!We have governors in the eastern nigeria who are loyal and submissive to abuja.And we pleaded with them to set up a regional security outfit to protect life and property of our people.We had good reason to warn them earlier on.But some of them do not understand the power of sovereignty residing with the people who elected them in a democracy.Even the constitution they often claim they swore to defend requires them first to protect lives and property in the state they lead as executives.It is the first job of government.You will not see a citizen from the southern part of nigeria selling liquor in the sharia states.It can never happen.Why? They have local police to enforce such laws and other promulgations protecting their sovereign interests.The people have sovereignty over the events in their own environment.This same people who operate these laws to safeguard themselves,these same people who excercise their own sovereignty will bring cattle into farms belonging to citizens in the state in the south.They rape women and children and execute farm owners.We need to change this and it will change. Some unscrupulous people hoping to stir up insecurities sponsor mayhem in our soceity.We see the trailer loads bringing cattle and armed people into communities.</p> <br> <p>This is not a friendly act by any stretch.Recently a bomb exploded in Imo state killing three men.Their names were listed.It is different.They are not nameless statistic.You go to Igbo land and kill somebody his family and community and the entire soceity will find you out.You will not disappear and run into the bush and hide and think it is over.If you destroy farmland and set home markets on fire it makes it worse.The markets in this part of the world are sacred.The consequence is such the culprits will never be forgiven.If you determine to destroy a people they will know how best to respond.They will come for you.The land is not a fertile place for suicidal people.Eastern nigeria is a land of festivities and celebration of life.You will not plant murderers for them and think they can thrive.It can't happen.They will not fit and they will not survive.The space is taken and the people can defend it.They used to claim these people follow identified foot path around west africa.We see how untrue these claims are.Now we know all those are fabricated to maintain this evil vice of control and intimidation.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspWe now know they sneak these men and cattle in and position these people to terrorize communities. They could do these things and no one has stopped them.They can sack a hamlet of citizens dislodging them suddenly.They will burn the homes of citizens and rape their wives and children and kill citizens brazenly.Somebody explain to me is this what any governor wish to excuse?.And come out and issue worthless tepid condemnation for the massacre of innocent citizens? We cried out and western governors formed Amotekun. And the subservient ones in the eastern nigeria are waiting to see more of their subjects beheaded and massacred before they can act.The constitution most of us reject but some of them vowed to defend empowers anyone not just to right to himself to self defence, but to also defend those around him.Some of them are lawyers.But the constitution is written in plain english language.If they need help with it they have cabinets filled with lawyers including the attorney general of the states.</p> <br> <p>If anyone is murdered in the space again by these hired killers and mercenaries we are going to sponsor civil disobedience against all the governors in the space.We can do that in a breeze!We know the ones who are fighting day and night to protect the community they swore to protect.We know to make the necessary exceptions. We wish to let them understand we will respect and stand with them as long as they show compassion for our people.If they will speak out for the rights of our people they will have no problems about loyalty of our people no matter where they reside. If they bring the lackadaisical method of the feudal overlords in eastern nigeria they will be in trouble with the citizens and the population in our space whether they reside within or anywhere in the globe.There are many eyes from around the entire earth watching.They must respect the right to life of every citizen of the space.Our people have been abused and massacred and violated long enough.Anyone in the space in the name of being a politician who wishes to add to the suffering of our people will see the version of the people reserved for traitors.The region is the only place in the world they can call their own.They matter in it.It is not a death sentence to be poor.Poverty is something our people know to fight.We need the space and freedom to do so.It is not something we have excuse for.And we can no longer afford the time to wait.We saw this problem many years ago.This site contains our commentary of many years back.In eastern nigeria we are our brothers keeper.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspWhat they are doing now is what has militated against the people of africa and their development.They are the enemy within.Nigeria can exist where the nations take responsibility for their own affairs.The agitation for self-determination in nigeria which has taken various forms and a lot of tolls would not have been necessary.Some people are not able to live within the boundaries of civility.How do you have law without a constitution? Nigeria sadly is attempting the impossible.The constitution which founded the nation was jettisoned by soldiers in a coup.Upon exit they foist their own.The nation is in self immolation as a result.We know these things are not exact science.But we know something that will never work.Our people are fiercely ethnic and tribal.You are not going to pretend it is not a reality.It is.Nigerian people can each grow at their own pace.No one says people must grow at the same pace.It was the basis for what they call nigeria. How do they feel comfortable with the fraud they call a country just to waste lives.And imagine the waste in resources that can be used to improve the quality of life of the population? What we have right now is pure criminality.The world is shocked to learn of those who seek foreign loans in billions with 40% finder's fee! How can anyone justify the idea of assigning Oil Blocks to individual?It is corruption crying to high heavens.How in the world are we able to explain these behaviors and claim to be a country? It would have made sense to place these precious men on the payroll of the government of nigeria than bribe them with resource hijacked from other people.The country is sponsoring banditry and claims to be fighting banditry.Nigeria is sponsoring corruption and fighting corruption.We know why the space will never get better.There is no question it has never crossed the minds of many that nigeria is unsustainable.The people who insist on retrogressive positions have finally destroyed the nation.We know what needs to happen and there is no need for any further delay.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp Their idea of solving social problems is to haul their fellow citizens or whoever they have ceased with cattle and goods into locations where they can become even bigger problems. And all of that when they have decreed a lockdown for everyone else.It is terrible to hinder the growth of the continent just to enrich a handful who have no interest in those around them.It makes no sense.We have communities that are prospering and doing very well in africa.They ought to be the examples.This is exactly how the Tutsi people were maligned in Ruwanda and someone who had the resources helped fund a "final solution".Some people can't wait to get their hands on what belongs to everyone.Stealing wealth is different from creating it.Some people know how to vandalize societies and become rich by it.It does not even matter to them if it is their own society.They do not care what their action does to so many whose resources are taken in this way.It is not what you call leadership among any group of people.These people might claim to be successful but they are not in the same class with men and women whose ideas have enriched many lives and created unimaginable opportunities.One class are good people the other are not in the same cathegory.Therein is the clash of ideas in nigeria.Where africa goes after this will depend on who wins in this showdown!</p> <a href="challenge.html"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="providence.html"/>RIGHT TIME IS NOW.....SPONSORED ENTITIES ARE ABOUT TO UNLEASH BIAFRA / RUWANDA TYPE DEVASTATION AND GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA.......Be Our Partner And save Innocent Lives.</span></h6></a></center> <br> <br><br><center><a href="#nonewconstitution">Why A New Constitution? Who Sets Own Qualifying Examination? Change Questions To Suit Them?</a></center> <br> <br> <br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="igbo2.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <br><a name="smashingup.era"></a> <center><h4>HOW TO DESTROY A NATION</h4></center> <div align="right"> here >>><a href="challenge.html">See articles detailing the hijacking of a nation by those who are determined to wreck it.</a></div> <br> <br> <br> <center><cite>Logic and reason determine why events occur and how to manage or avoid them.When this approach is missing in any setting the result is always disaster.In stating the actions that will destroy a nation we all inherited we want those who are responsible for these events to alter their course or they are headed for a nasty collision with nature and its immutable forces.Some people will always ask the question,what are they looking for? What actually do they want?.These questions become the cover every time there is injustice and those affected complain. I will lay out here the reasons nigeria is in the present condition.Until these issues are addreesed there is no way for it to make any progress.These are the the issues:</cite></center> <br> a)<p> Foist a document that completely contradicts the constitution agreed to by the nations and their peoples.And this document is in no way a result of the due diligence done in the original founding constitution of the nations.Instead an effort by some to force an agenda of dominance and preponderance over the rest of the nation.Insist on this document against the rejection of over seventy per cent of the population.</p> <br> b)<p> Insist this document is a constitution.And proceed to run a federation as a unitary centralized entity.Emplace very weak federating units that are not viable and are not able to function as strong federating entities.Continue to repeat the fallacy like a mantra that the unity of the nation is not negotiable.Every time those who are hurting complaim chime this threadbare refraim.</p> <br> c)<p>Continue an agenda of external borrowing to fund the massive bureaucracies of these dependent entities with no plan to wean them of the dependence.</p> <br> d)<p> Militarize the polity and make every dissent a criminal offence.Use the military like a private police force and stump on the heads of dissenting personalities.</p> <br> e)<p> Make the judicial arm and the courts a choir of the executive.Their job become singing and dancing and hand clapping to support the executive.</p> <br> f)<p> Make the legislative arm a quick rubber stamp extension of the executive.</p> <br> Now Read On: <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspAny person born in nigeria or has nigerian roots who is more than forty years old must have followed the ups and downs of a nation that has incredible potentials but has been terribly beset with leadership problems.The points listed above are also reasons you make coups!Your qualification and experience becomes irrelevant.Institutions are compromised and intimidated into canine submission. Let us remember the first press conference held by General Aguiyi Ironsi as the first military leader. He seemed completely oblivious of the very explosive situation he was saddled with.Then again the excited boyish press conference of Lt. Col Yakubu Gowon which resembled the introduction of members of a debating club rather than a world press conference.The newly minted military leader was signalling the change of government in a nation of over a hundred and thirty million people.Compare that situation to what this same person would have done today, were he to find himself in this same situation.But in this news conference he was informing the world that some army generals had been killed including the self-declared head of government at the time. Many people of his ethnic origin were also massacred in a revenge orgy.There was none of the gravity of this afore mentioned situation in his appearance and in the pervading atmosphere around him.His demeanour in this conference did not reflect the gravity of the situation for one single minute.The smile on his face and the upbeat atmosphere in the room had no reflection about the omnious cloud and disaster that was imminently impending.This painted a picture of a general sense of a lack of perception of the nature of the problem on hand. In a predatory world that is not a good thing.Nigeria was so vulnerable it is no wonder millions of lives were lost as a result! </p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspThe problem was not the youthfulness of the new "leaders" but just the complexity of the world in general and of the society in particular which called for experience.At this time these people had none.He was letting the world know that the new nation that had just got independence from Britain had been thrown into the thrash-bin.But he comprehended very little of this truth.Since then the nation, nigeria has always flirted with one misfortune after another, been courting disaster after disaster! We saw Soviet Union collapse and a new Russia strong viable and prosperous emerge from its ruins. We have seen India lift tens of millions of its citizens out of poverty in a story too good to be true. We have seen a China emerge that is frighteningly sucessful. But nigeria has remained in the same stagnant position as if daring the world to try to make her do anything differently. In the field of science there are check-points or controls.When you have experiments that have progressed well you save the results and the underlying factors that produced them.As you continue the investigation you have a point of reference in case there is no where else to go in the investigation.In data processing you take your backups and store the results and if things do not progress well you restore your backups.</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspYou will not go back to posting transactions one by one.Any one who has ever implemented new systems will know this is what will break your back and make you quit!It is what nigeria chooses to do.Rather than return to a well tested constitution approved by those who should know,they opted for tinkering with their untested ideas to the detriment of innocent precious lives.It has been a terrible nightmare and promises no end.It is the reason many are calling to dissolve the republic! Since their document is sacrosanct to them the decision to come together was mutual.It will not be forced on anyone.The United nations charter on self-determinations guarantees that.If nigeria is not returned to the founding constitution nothing anyone does will save it from splintering.The fault lines are very natural and it should not be suprising to anyone.The only ones who delude themselves are the gluttons who are never satisfied! The ideas they have are all about maintaining the failed status quo.They resist anything that will revive the nation and cause growth and progress.And they parrot unity and peace as though these are realities they can create like the numerous decrees they churn out with glee!</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp The most disheartening fact of the intervention of the military in nigeria was not the youthfulness of the officers who were involved in it.It is the diabolism that precipitated it.A section of the nation had a resource which the rest wanted to plunder and that in the same nation!The external forces were like the proverbial evil spirit looking for a victim and meets a very sick being carried to the evil forest.The evil spirit quickly laid claim!It had its job made easy!Colonialism was wrong.Slavery was wrong.Presently though we must be preoccupied with policies that maximize opportunities for the people of the continent.It is how you rehabilitate a place.Those who preach unity are not saying anything new.The colonialist did it better.Britain knows how fiercely ethnic africans are.As for nigerians the empire had their ideosyncrasies on their finger tips.Why would anyone delude himself as to why they agreed with the agitators to a federation?Was it not easier for a colonialist to manage a place as big as nigeria from a single command center?They know that better than anyone else.They could never have wasted their time sponsoring a unitary nigerian government.They did not.The young military officers were filled with patriotic zeal.They bellowed and shouted One nigeria! One nigeria!</p> <br> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspYou have things you consider non-negotiable including matters of culture.How are those going to be resolved except you are willing to impose on the rest?But you must respect your differences or you will not be able to co-exist. If you do not possess the capacity to impose yourself by any reasonable stretch of imagination you have a stalemate.It is exactly where the soceity is presently.Now after so many years and a war that cost millions of lives they realize sharia law is very important to them.And they carve an entity out and mark it as seperate.Nigeria as an entity is not able to survive under two seperate types of laws.The British knew this.Even for all their softness towards northern nigeria they would not touch the time bomb.Nigeria does not practice common law only because it protects everyone.It is the only way to maintain an equal citizenry which is a prerequisite for a democracy.Now they have managed to create another reality.You are suppose to be a federal republic and a democracy but the underlying reality undermines both.And the new reality overlayed by hubris does not preclude violence as a way of life.But you will not force your new reality on others if they disapprove.It is why the original constitution made the nation secular and the regions autonomous.You ignore the fundamental issues and underlying facts of a relationship and want to address only your own concerns.It will lead to everything we have witnessed so far.</p> <br> <p>It is very disconcerting!The people of eastern nigeria and like minded people around africa perhaps were too optimistic to think that having been empowered by good education they could help lift themselves and the many millions who look to them for help out of squalor, penury and suffering.This has proved too difficult for the same crop of people who present for leadership over and over offering little or nothing. It is like summoning a village dancer to a medical emergency. Our roads are not in conditions that make traveling easy.Yet without the ability to move freely there can be no development. There are no hospitals and when there is a place with that name there is nothing else to it. And as we all know the hood does not make the monk. The hospitals have no doctors, no nurses and no equipments to help diagnose and treat the sick. The youths in their prime are without occupation. These are very severe problems. When you add to this a declining education system that is not able to match the challenges of the environment with capable youth to deal with them you have a picture of a very bad present and even a worse future. It is how nigeria has been trending since the military took power in 1966. The empowerment of a false elite class which is so self-serving it will not recognize any other part of its own body has been an ordeal to watch.If the present set of leadership want to continue in the gyration it is up to them.But they know the results already.On the other hand they could demand to pursue a course of reason. It will definitely have its results.And they will be good.</p> <br> <p>We watch the governments stumble from one unattained goal to the next unfinished one with resources strewn along the course so wastefully it becomes a form of art! Worst still the goals are the ones they set for themselves! We have no reason to expect anything different for the same fundamental principles and dramatis personae persist unfortunately. We can only expect these things to get out of hand. And we do not have the intention to allow the people who have not been able to build anything help destroy the little that exists in an orgy of blood thirst! The resources to build the people is spent arming them with AK47 riffles given to them by those who reject their humanity.The idea is they kill or get killed.What kind of empowerment is that? It is easy for some of us to see through this whole set up.Something too difficult to perceive when there is greed,prejudice,hate and indifference.But the population has always rejected these things. Our people have always summoned their better selves for the most part.This accounts for why the difficulty is created in order to break the resolve.It is what leadership must account for.It is non-linear! </p> <br> <p>If the people did not resist the imposition on them of colonization it would have been a different matter but they did.We have the account of our heroes who perished for resisting the impostors.Their names adorn our traditional history. Some speak of the radicalization of africa as though it is new. Africa has always had men and women who challenged authority and the status quo.If that is radicalization, it has always been there. What they lacked are the extreme weapons of intimidation and coercion.They did not have guns and ammunition of the very lethal types.They were always and mostly silenced by "superior weapons". Among themselves once they made their bows to hunt wild life for food that was it. They mount their horses and use their bows to scare and intimidate their enemies.They go out in the cover of night and carry a few people. That was it.Enemies were often neighboring kingdoms from whom a fair maiden had been stolen, an arable piece of land was in dispute.You still had the same markets and exchanged ceremonies.They were concerned about the good life they all shared. You did not wish to make things too ugly! The idea of having our own people suffer to the extent we have witnessed is alien to us.Conflicts such as Biafra and Ruwanda genocide are very unafrican.We see external hands in them. It must be resisted and rejected.</p> <br> <p>Their inter-tribal wars were waged while keeping the lines of communication open.We should be proud of their sensitivity to the suffering of their own. Something they did even in times of severe disagreement. If disagreements seem to deepen a very steep bout of dialogue through emissaries will be unleashed. Our people were nobody's fools.The narative are unfavorable of africa because the people have been stripped of their resources.The narative had to justify that.There is the attempt to justify the episodes of extreme violence known in europe and arab world as necessary for civilization. We find no evidence to justify such a theory since civilization began in africa and there are no marks of such extreme episodes.Africans need to be proud of who they are and look around themselves for answers for the challenges that face our communities.We believe that africans built a civilization before and can do it again.But they must understand the reason for the lack of progress in the communities of africa presently.The answer lies with them and them only.You are not going to hold your neighbor hostage because you are poor.If you do it long enough both of you will die of starvation.You will understand what it means to exact yourself to prevent someone else's progress.In nigeria some people are comforted that they have considerably stifled the progress of the people of eastern nigeria.It has become their achievement and they wish to perpetuate it.But life and nature is not always kind to the oppressor and persecutor.In the usual reversal of reality nature frees the oppressed.It always happens.The nigerian experience will be no exception.We had tried to appeal to the people who will soon see themselves washed ashore like fish out of water to allow a relationship as it was designed.They will enjoy the advantage of scale and it will still be all right. If they will not do so by choice nature must take its course and they will only have themselves to blame in the end. </p> <br> <p>It is called self-determination.It is very condescending and even patronizing to choose for a people how best to organize themselves.Who is best suited to lead them.How best to prepare their youths for the future.Every society and community must make these kind of choices and take responsibility for the outcome.When this is imposed it become oppression.If there are benefits in changing what they see as the best fit for them but they must be the one to make that determination.It is like taking away their ability to survive as a people. If we look at nature the living organisms that thrive are the ones that have evolved a leadership strategy. The ants survived and the dynasaurs perished. The division and wedges that have driven the many upheavals in nigeria is to blame for the decay of infrastructure or lack of it. And it is responsible for the lack of progress.It will be irresponsible to blame this government or any particular one for the many problems of nigeria.It is a culmination of many poor set of choices.Blames have gone around for many years.Solutions are the expectations of the people for which they battled very gallantly and are poised to find answers.It is not a time for the excuses we hear such as "we vowed to protect this constitution". If you take an oath to protect a decree while you are in a democracy you are confused.The yearning of the people is to see the day the young men and women who are wasting today begin to acquire skills to help transform the society.Some communities can't wait for when they will take their future in their own hands.The present bogus federation that controls everything has stiffled development.It can't be said enough.It hurts even the people who enforce it.The few beneficiaries of the aberation will never be the reason for the massive failure and injustice it perpetuates. </p> <br> <p>If a person will not protect the interest of the owner of a business he will not have the job for long.Your oath is to the nigerian people and their collective interest.The only instrument today that represents that is the constitution at independence.The nigerian people fought very hard for a representative government.They chose their peers and fellow citizens.If that trust has been misplaced events in the next few months will prove that.Nigeria needs to be returned to the federation it is suppose to be.And such change needs people such as the ones that have been chosen by the people.The men and women in the two chambers must do battle for the survival of the nation and put their names in its history.It is what leadership means.If the military were not able to solve what they considered a problem for four decades having waited for just three years after independence too bad.We must return to where they found us.We know we were doing all right.Their new prescription is killing a nation that should have been in a different place today!We do not wish to blame them but we must return to what works! Oil and mineral could be the priority of lazy people.How much has nigeria earned from oil this past year? In comparism how much has been earned from remittances of citizens residing outside? If the nigerian nation was made the place it could be can anyone imagine the possibilities? Who wishes to live in this myopic reality of a few misguided people and their many henchmen?</p> <br> <p>And leadership is required due mainly to problems.We are not talking here about giving a segment of society a false and misguided sense of conquest.Nigerians in other parts are not into that and they are not having it!Not even as a joke.What they wish to see is the implementations of decisions and resolutions reached to move soceity forward.In the 1950's there was a certain point of view that nigeria is not a nation but "a mere geographical expression".The negotiations that produced the constitution that founded nigeria is not a document like any other.Upon that constitution rests everything concerning the entity called nigeria.We warn the politicians to focus on returning to that document or prepare to have no entity to pillage and people to traumatize and waste.There is not going to be another charade in the name of a democratic election.The pantomine and travesty witnessed by nigerians in the last election is an example why we say there is no nation here.Imagine an electoral body waited for all materials for an election to be taken out from the volts where they are kept for safety and distributed before cancelling the election.How could they account for the materials? We have men and women but mostly men who have no compassion for the people angling for their resources.It is so bizare.</p> <br> <p>This people have not solved a single problem since 1966.They have made them all far worse.It is disheartening to watch the politicians focus and dream about elections when citizens are dying daily due to lack of political structure.They hold on to the very one causing all the problems.They do not care there is no constitution that indeed enables a democratic space.How is it possible that the military that rejected the constitution when they hijacked the nation will bestow one on you? It is sad.Societies have power struggle but leadership has the responsibility to place these events in perspective and reach the ordinary people in their places of need.In this place the players just do not care.The only thing that concerns them is power and the resources it affords them.Who could have imagined that so many nigerians will be killed and their communities destroyed?.If this happened under colonial rule what would have been our reaction? But our own people have no problems at all with it.And that is the problem.All that is needed is a soceity that gives people the space they need and the tools to meet their own needs. Give people a chance to move themselves and their society and community forward.The people in the space have suffered enough.It is the reason so many perished especially among the freedom loving people of Eastern Nigeria! We tell all who claim to be leaders in the region to make sure that a structure is emplaced to protect lives.They swore to an oath to do so.If they will not the people of eastern nigeria will invoke native elements against them.We know they are happy to be in power.If however the purpose is not to protect the people who have been victims too many times then it is no use to many of us.We are not perhaps able to change nigeria.It does not mean we are going to be the sacrificial people anymore.Enough has already been done in that regard.Unity is not losing yourself.The people must take their own future seriously.The resources of the region has been used to develop even people who do not care for their existence or for the people around them.It is enough price to pay for those who are even complicit in their own colonization.</p> <br> <br> <br> <a href="#nonewconstitution">You Can't Change A Constitution: You Change Behaviour!</a> <br><center><h4><font color="purple">AN APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA AND A SPECIAL WORD WITH THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA</h4></font></center> <br><center>%%%%%% </center> <br> <p>Let us say like the american would say it that you owe us at least one good turn.We do not have to explain it.Here is what we need from you if you wish to make good.Mr President you remember the ordinary people of that part of the country actually believe you can help them. You understand they are not free until they pick up arms.You know this to be why they have fallen for the idea of militarisation.They want and need empowerment.Evil minded people are exploiting their desire.But we have to ask you to find it in you to turn them away from this tendency or else africa will remain the poverty capital of the world.Look at Ethiopia.We have no way of avoiding the same fate if we wait.The stranglehold and vices of the first tier world and the second and even the third tier world has painted such a destiny for the african people.Nigeria is now becoming a class on its own.It is a class that has all the things that make one want to avoid it.The perculiarities are very frightening.We call on Mr. president to use the power of his office to move matters along.We see no help from the people who are very comfortable around him.They can't see how close they came to being sacrificed for the decay.Do a favor to the ordinary people who see you as their own person and aided you to attain power.We know the idea to push religion as an end is threadbare.The people need help.They need help now and today.</p> <br> <p>They are not abstractions. They are flesh and blood like those who live today and want them to put their own desires to live at abeyance. Religion matters when a person seeks actualization.It can't replace wants and needs of the physical body, like food. Give the hungry the food that will be there many years after you have left office.Mallam Aminu Kano empowerd people.His legacy lives on till today.Your gift is to set them free by returning the nation to the agreement that will give them a country again.The country has been stolen from them.Some like to play north and south.All we have are loosers.It is not geographical.The pitch is a blindfold and deceit.We see the massive poverty and it is everywhere one turns.It is not how to govern more than two hundred million people.It will become a source of big palaver.We are surrounded by terribleness that makes it hard to look to the future.We are not able to refine petroleum in nigeria.We have refineries built with hundreds of billions of american dollars.All of them can't work.We spend some hundreds of millions to maintain them! And they all produce nothing.But Niger Republic is able to build a refinery and sell petroleum products to nigeria.We have here a very glaring example of what nigeria has become.And we have a growing population of mostly teenagers. We all know nigerians will read this theft.Nigerians know the people who own the petroleum refinery in Niger Republic.The matter is making rounds.We are not able to build roads for the masses but private entities can build nylon paved ways to their properties and businesses. Mr. president the nigerian people are being provoked.</p> <br> <p>It will lead to places we do not wish to go.You remember I had told you before that you could help nigeria.Nigeria is not able to generate electricity.Nigeria no longer can boast of good schools.It used to be one of the greatest strength of this country.Some of us were in school with foreign students from outside africa.We now have a few individuals who own nigeria.And they want it exclusively.The people have become their miserable tenants.It is the definition of feudalism.And it will always lead to mass rebellion.History around the world is replete with examples of mass uprising as a result of draconian living conditions.It is the history.Nigeria by the fortune of her own history is not a homogeneous brand of citizens.It contains those who can spit fire. We know how that will work and it is not good.Some "Johnny just comes" and their "Ginni came lately" have no idea! Nigeria is not their normal quiet docile bunch.Feudalism will never work in nigeria.The British learned that,found ways arount it until it became too difficult to maintain.And they are no whimps.The people who are playing this game do not care for any lives.It was something the Britsh colonial government had to worry about.But the people in government in nigeria must worry about themselves at least.The future must concern them.No person is guaranteed or assured of anything in perpetuity. We had thought you are a man that wants to help the masses and they believed you.Now it seems you have also abandoned them. You know they will try to help themselves and it will hurt africa.The climate will be exploited by the enemies of africa.Can you please hear me and act quickly.It will be seen by some of us as a favor.We know it will help save lives.</p> <br> <p>We know where the country is heading if you regard this as another political pitch. It is not. It is a last ditch attempt by a person who is hurting for his people.We can act now and return the country bequeathed us by patroitic nigerians to a proper footing which blesses generations. Some of us will thank you and it will be our reward for supporting you.In the days of Sovereign national constitutional conference and all the other efforts to seek answers you were yourself available or ably represented.It is the way other peoples and nations get better.We are not suppose to allow the advantage of having a person like you and all the other people who participated in those efforts to be another nigerian moment.Please rise to this moment and occasion for the sake of posterity.I could join the anger and anguish and we will end up exactly like Ethiopia.I do not wish that on africa again.You and I know that the world does not care if africans die in any number.You know it and I know it.So let us see an action in the best interest of the ordinary people who helped you to gain power.The constitution of 1999 is a wish list of the feudal class.End it.It is deadly.The lawyers in nigeria must explain why they accepted the 1999 "constitution" from the military. If they accept it is a decree we understand it was all they could do. It was a long fight. They were tired of fighting and were suffering from battle fatigue.Otherwise you have your stolen vehicle returned to you.But it will not start. The person who returned it will not accept blame. If you are too afraid to blame such a person but you still do not have a car.It is why nigeria is withering away slowly.You might want to take a look at it again.There is nothing about the constitution that sustains unity and equity.It spells dominion from beginning to end.Please be the one that returns the country back to its proper footing.If you do history will be kind to you.</p> <br> <p>We know your wonderful wife an accomplished citizen in her own right understands these issues. Many times she has lamented the lack of engagement of the ordinary people in the business of governance.We believe she is as disappointed as we are in the brutalization of citzens as they try to engage and participate.She has shown and proved that she has heart for the people and also understand what you yourself know.Surrounding you now are people who know nothing about how you became president.Some of us wanted and needed a "rebel" of some sort in Aso Rock. We needed a person who can shake the system in favor of those who are the real owners.If you will not they are going to take what rightfully belongs to them. The shame is that such paths are not predetermined.I have said it before that we are better off managing the change we need.We must return to a place where nigeria becomes a country again.The civilized world know that nigeria is not a country now.You have a diverse collection of people living together hoping for the best.It is not even something to talk about. It is dangerous and can be exploited.It is the case and we all know it.</p> <br> <p>President Mohammed Buhari are we to believe you are part of the people who now see nigeria as a muslim nation? Are you part of the people who have turned nigeria into a feudal system and not a republic and a democracy? Are you among the people who think unitary government can work in nigeria? President Mohammed Buhari are you among those who have turned nigeria into an african shame? Is it how you wish to be remembered? You know the people around you are not completely in agreement with you.It is the little disagreement they harbor that becomes a sea change in the lives of nigerians.They want a democracy that stiffles dissent.It is no democracy.We read your personality and body language.You give then the freedom to excercise their power. And they do exercise their office but they do it for themselves only.Nigeria should never have been in the shape it is now.The debt stock has weakened the nigerian economy because the borrowing was not directed to production.Nigeria borrows to fund government and its agencies.It is very absurd. Mr president do me just this favor in return.</p> <br> <p>I think I deserve it.And I today demand it before witnesses.It will be a gift that keeps on giving to the african people.It will prevent a war that is becoming inevitable.It will unleash potentials that will suprise all of us.It will give hope to our teaming youths and make them know we care about their future.And it will tell our enemies we can change course.You see the various nations around the world who changed course.We can see China. We see India.In africa we show a little determination it is stiffled by all means using our own hands.It is always using the hand of africa to feed it the deadly potion that destabilizes and immobilizes her.Please, do something different for the sake of the generations that will suffer as a result of riding this "do nothing" and "just spend money" classic vehicle of 1966.The sponsors of the prevailing atmosphere in 1966 knew exacly what they wanted.They wanted us where we are now. You were one of the few who thought it was wrong.</p> <br> <p>At risk to your life you tried to do something to change it.The coup you were part of touched on many of the problems that still undermine progress in nigeria today. What is needed is a new direction.The idea of clanish loyalties had never helped nigeria.The abundance of it is the reason for lack of progress.The small interval of growth that has been recorded was when leadership sought out capable minds and engaged them in the service of the country. We must begin to reward ability and delivery.Our population is growing and we must have a plan for the growth or they will turn on us.I do not think anyone is hoping that all these youths migrate "abroad"? It is time to work.We know military intervention is a postponement of the inevitable.Nigeria thoroughly exhausted that recourse. It is the reason we thought you could help not as a former military person but as one who desires a better soceity.We are now thinking perhaps we did not understand you well.It is very difficult to reconcile the events of the present with the man we used to know.It appears we had missed or ignored some very important clues.We just wanted to have cause to hope our soceity is not again traumatized by lack of reason. Today that hope is almost lost and we are becoming very disappointed.You know nigeria will be plunged into another war if the people who are turning it into their private property are not countered very quickly.The other people who have been watching these developments have plans.We will not hesitate to adjust our choices if you prove not to be who we had thought.</p> <br> <br> <br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="igbo2.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <br>%%%%%%<h5><center>NIGERIAN CIVIL LEADERS HAVE THE CHANCE TO PROVE THEY ARE CAPABLE::IT APPEARS THEY ARE WAITING FOR HELP!</h5></center> <p>Those of us who live outside nigeria in a kind of voluntary exile have a perculiar problem.You can return to nigeria but you do not feel like it because the reasons you left are still there.The Sanni Abacha government for me was the lowest nigeria could go.At least that was how I felt.At the time it seemed nigerian citizens had become pawns on a serious chess match.One master passes them on to the next. It felt so bad to be part of such a degradation.It was not just our currency that was devalued. We all were! We now have a situation where the same thing is playing out with the representatives the people gallantly emplaced at the helm of the affairs of nigeria.This time the "Masters" are playing the "tribe" card! We wish to warn the people in leadership that they are going to be held accountable.Despite waging a pogrom on the part of nigeria with the best index for development these people have learnt nothing.Nigeria has been placed in a difficult place to account for a youthful population that is largely idle.We ask those who play this tribe game what has been gained after cutting down the people of eastern nigeria and confiscating their resources.Like the youths from that part will ask "How far now?"</p> <br> <p>We remind them that "though tribe and tongue may differ; In brotherhood we stand". We said before that those who have no idea what is trending with ordinary nigerian must not present themselves for leadership.Nigerian youths want to be given the space to realize their potentials. They want to do the type of things they are doing in places where they reside in refuge.This nation used to have jobs for the citizens who wished to work.Those who wished to do other things to sustain themselves found the opportunities.It is not the case today.And excuses will never solve this problem!Can the leadership of the nation presently work for that? We believe we are suppose to reconfigure the nation to achieve that.Some of us have said so.It appears it is the only thing that makes sense now.But it appears some people do not know how to be deliberate when there is bound to be change.They prefer the change to happen on its own.But it is better to manage change.In that way you control it. </p> <p>Right now the men who are leading the nation down the precipiece with this new facade of "fulani" monarchy know what they are doing.Even the fulanis will become their victims.It was done in Ruwanda.Just the same thing exactly!The architects of this mahem have hurt africa far too many times.They really only think of themselves and their very narrow interests. Nigeria is not going to be broken by them in a battle.Nigeria is an accident of fate. As with most things in nature how it shakes out is up to us.If we determine we are not meant to be together as family we could be good friends.The present set of events where somebody will lead cattle to uproot crops and decimate farm land of citizens will provoke confict.Now these men are fully armed and kill those who confront them. The irritation and outbursts are capable of precipitating national strife.The Global Terrorism Index places "fulani herders" as the fourth most deadly armed bandits in the world.The mix of the fulani herders and the Islamic State West Africa Province is too toxic.We wish this was a manufacturing outfit or something that will enhance life. But we are dealing with a killing machine.They were responsible for nearly three thousand deaths in 2018 alone.</p> <br> <p>We add this to "Boko Haram" and their hard headed insistance on an Islamic nation.Since 2009 this group has been waging an ugly war of attrition against the nigerian state.The basis of this struggle is threatening the nation and its corporate existence.It is not good! We know how the nigerian so called civil war was precipitated.It started by maligning the Igbo people.This job was undertaken by religious clerics who used every opportunity to fan the embers of division with incendiary rhetorics.Igbo people were blamed for being too ambitious.They were often castigated and maligned for trying to dominate everyone else.Some of their youths in the military were lured into a preposterous "coup".They were military people yet the civilians were blamed for this act of indiscipline.It led to a pogrom and massacre and a war of attrition and genocide.Since then a bunch of people wish to remotely control the lives of people with whom they feel neither connection, empathy or concern.They sit down in a remote place some place and plan the lives of hundreds of millions.Even for the wise and experienced and applied minds this is daunting.When the simple take on such a task it is time to escape for dear life!It is what we see unfolding in nigeria.Some people can't see the effect of the idea of too much centralization. We can do better than that today.Instead of loosing another single Igbo life we are better off on our own.If the Igbos leave nigeria they could pursue other relationships.Interestingly the Igbo people have always made friends over the years.</p> <br> <p>Boko Haram has been waging a very violent conflict that is costing nigeria so much economically draining her of resources needed to assuage the youths that wage the war!It is very ironic.But nigeria has leadership that is very perculiar.Since the end of the war the nigerian government waged on the Igbos and the people of eastern nigeria for their oils wells it refuses to allow the ports in eastern nigeria to function.Such an important natural asset is deactivated by government.The ports in lagos are clogged and cluttered but it is all right.You do not wish to allow the ports in "enemy territory" to function. But you will take their oil by force of arms!These crop of leaders have killed the cotton farms and made the fields dissappear in the entire northern region.This was a source of income for so many.Most importantly it was an occupation for many.They have done the same to the groundnut and rice pyriamids.We have idle men with manicured nails, and with zero skills roaming around every government agency looking for contracts!And the many others who are lost,completely confounded by the situation.They resort to crime not knowing what else to do.I frame the violent outbursts in nigeria in terms of criminality.The government is not able to provide occupation for its population.And it will not allow structures that will do so! In a community with a youthful population this act of the nigerian government is self defeating!It is for these things,childish acts, lack of tact and class, it has fueled the present agitation for Biafra.It has created boko haram.The government by its own action created these nightmares.Picking the Igbos as scape goats will not work.You do not want a repeat of these kind of events.It will elicit and enjoy so much sympathy!Any other attack on the igbos or people from eastern nigeria within the nigerian space will be the end of the entity as we know it.The world made a mistake once.Many people will never allow it again!This fact must never be ignored by those who will not allow reason to precede their actions. </p> <br> <p> The government had done nothing for the people whose resources was hijacked for nearly fifty years.If even as a facade you needed it.It is not how you make yourself credible.By its own actions the nigerian government has alienated the people of eastern nigeria and the Igbos.The numerous efforts at rehabilitating members of boko haram and reintegrating them is at variance with the experience of the people of eastern nigeria.The people of eastern nigeria were stigmatized as though it was the intention of the so-called conflict. And it is the reason.In the drama that has lasted for decades the people of western nigeria have busied themselves picking all the ripe fruits they can find without any qualms.It is time to close ranks.The south must work together or keep quiet and accept their enslavement!Except that the people of eastern nigeria are very willing to go it alone one very last time if it came to that!</p> <br> <p>The sons and daughters of Oduduwa benefitted from the Igbo when the people moved eastwards instead of risking a war of attrition.This account of the migration of the two nations is example of the complex political dexterity of these peoples.It is an enconter in which the two civilizations survived. It is such a beautiful thing to think of our ancestors in such glorious manifestations.We believe our peoples shall transcend the present predicament.The Ife culture carries the evidence of the encounter of the people of Oduduwa and the "Eri" people.Today the Igbo people can also "move" their relationships further east.There is abundant communuality and similarities.It is not possible to bottle up the Igbo.They are earth citizens.They sojourn everywhere in the world.But the Igbo are very loyal to the ancestrial links.The small game of creating animosity will be resisted by the leadership.I am not talking about politics.Leadership in the Eastern Nigerian space must now transcend politics.</p> <br> <p>It is now existential.The people who created a decree they call a constitution and created a sharia entity are doubling on as the peace makers.It is very mind buggling.We are all the same people in Eastern Nigeria.We have the same culture.It is how you prove it.The market days, the Okonko, Akang and Ekpe are there to prove it.Most especially the mark of elitism in the space in the past the Nsibidi.The Odongo phenomenon stretches all the way to the Congo river! We are ready to prove our findings.Using language as a marker is mockery.It is a way to divide people to weaken then as a unit and a nation.Language changes very rapidly.In a generation any language undergoes clear detectable changes.We are all the same people in the space.History tells us so.We are able to see it too.</p> <br> <p>As a child you are introduced to a host of relatives too numerous to remember.But from whom you derive energy and strength.It is the power of the Igbo family.Their energy is a force of nature.If nigeria finds no use for them there will be the need to first look inward.The people of eastern nigeria will first prove that a good government is possible.In less than ten years they will have everything nigeria can only wish for! After that we could seek to merge with other people who will have agreements with us to continue along the paths we shall chart for our peoples.We find no need for any further blood bath in nigeria. Enough is enough.And one more thing.The idea of resorting to pulling the military out of the barracks is wrong.First thing is the military is not a private security outfit. It is an institution.The military have a function.</p> <br> <p>We are not going to allow those who plan to precipitate another pogrom to use the military again.They have learned their lesson hopefully.In their adventure in "ruling" nigeria they have left a trail of blood...including their own. It must never happen again! Nigeria must allow and empower the various ethnicities and communities to evolve a corporate way to protect and govern themselves.Most crimes are local!Every community know their own citizens.It is an irrefutable fact.Why does the federal government of nigeria also work against this truth? Why not allow people to help protect their own environment? Do they not have a stake in it? It is in the grain of a federation.You have state governments whose primary function is to protect life and property of its citizens.A state government must have the tools to do its job.The nature of what might be needed within the states must be such that the police can manage or there is an undeclared war in the polity. The military is required when there is a threat to the sovereignty and territorial intergrity. Both of these are violated by the nexus of the herders who cross boaders into nigeria and Boko haram which seeks a different nation.Nigerian army must focus on this unfortunate situation.The issues that give rise to the likes of Boko haram are not at first mainly military matters.They are political.But they are normally ignored.Over a period of time they harden and become ugly. It is for this reason that the nation must reconfigure to reflect what works!</p> <br> <div align="right"> here >>><a href="challenge.html">See articles detailing the hijacking of a nation by who are determined to wreck it.</a></div> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <br> <center> <br>%%%%%% <h5><center>RETURN NIGERIA TO THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION THAT FOUNDED THE COUNTRY::CALL IT RESTRUCTURE CALL IT RESTORATION, JUST DO IT!</h5></center> <p> We lend our voices to the call to have a nigeria that returns to true constitutional government. It means that nigeria returns to the original constitutional government by which it was founded. Nigeria was founded as a constitutional democratic federal republic.The people of nigeria with the help of the British government which at the time was the 'legitimate' authority negotiated many constitutional reforms. The culmination and anchoring one was one in 1954 which instituted regional governments as the federating units.Eastern and western nigeria became self-governing in 1957 followed by northern nigeria in 1959. After independence in 1960 three years on in 1963 the nigerians on their own with the lesson from Britain fresh in their minds negotiated their own constitutional amendnent which made the entity a republic.Now any one can blame Lord Lugard or his female friend all they want.More power to a Briton who was able to pick a girlfriend who was involved in what was his life challenge, thug of war with ethnic native civilizations.I do not see the problem with that.We must all learn to choose such companions.I respect that.</p> <br> <p>I wish the world was perfect but the truth is that it isn't.And any nation for all it claims to be is in fact a collection of interests that in many cases at variance.It is a matter of constant work.I have problems with those who can't seem to know how to maintain a structure.It requires actions.You can't live in a home forever and do no maintainance work in it.Troubling as that is what is worse is to try time to time to dismantle the edifice.And this is your own primary residence.Events like the creation of states that completely ignored the established provinces created as viable functional entities was one of such actions.The creation of bunch and bunch of local governments in say Kano for instance and such other places on a whim by Sanni Abacha was another.Exactly the same type of gambit we see in the so-called new constitution.The hubris that now threatens to unbundle the nigerian state.The so called new constitution names a particular religion and still mouths secularity at the same time. It names "sharia law" for some people and "law" for the rest.So which is the generic type of law in the nation? The constitution by which the nigerian nation was founded is what the elected men and women must summon the courage to bring again to life. The deliberation ought to be how to phase the current system to the system that renews the life span of the agreement to be one people.They must be brave and courageous.It is easier than the endevour that earned us independence from colonialism.If they find the courage to do so the nation will always remember their effort.</p> <br> <p>Why did nigeria need a new constitution?We had a military intervention.It is called an interregnum.It is an interruption.If a game is going on and for some reason an interruption occurs as soon as the interference is removed the game is resumed.When an interruption occurs during an occasion for example a meeting is interrupted you remove the source and continue the meeting.It happened in several nations in the course of their existence.Power struggle is real.It is a fact of life.The nation has a life.And regimes have their own life spans.The two are not interchangable.What the nation needs now is to look at the reason prime minister Tafawa Balewa saw the need to go over the head of the president to interfer with the government of western nigeria.It was a complete breach of protocol.Do we make a new constitution for such a reason? How many constitutions will you make to suit the whims of each person who gets elected? No.They must stay within the bounds of the law.You will not have a society if any persons or group are above the law.The president at the time noted that the constitution was being breached and was promptly ignored.He told the prime minister that his action will cause a consitutional crisis.The president at the time excercised due diligence.Has this atittude changed?When you make a new constitution and the president wants a judiciary that sees the law through a prism selected by him you are back to the same place again.So you do not change the constitution. You need a behavior change.But for the unfortunate situation there would have been no military coup.And all the other events that were precipitated by the unfortunate situation would have been avoided.</p> <br> <p>The new constitution is all trouble.A matters that should have been left to discretion of the local space was placed in a document such as a constitution.In a federation of autonomous entities this is a source of breach and conflict.And this done in very specific ways that leaves no wiggle room.To do such a thing in a place like nigeria is very disingenius.I like to say again that the constitution that was agreed to at independence is a fine document.The language is solemn and succint.We need not say our colonialist never intended us to be this disfunctional.No. I do not believe that.If nigeria runs properly they have a nation with whom they share a bond.If there is disfunction all sorts of interferences happen.So I think that the help offered to nigeria by Britain to achieve an agreement and a constitution was genuine.There is no patriotism in changing what works with another that will never work.This is not patriotism.It is one of those things certain priviledged people do that make others less than they truely are.Injecting religion and all other such details in the constitution is disingenius.It is very contemptuous even to the adherents it is suppose to benefit.And such things create strife.And we see that.This does not help even the ordinary adherents that will be devastated by any misapplication.And that a very looming possibility.The poor and helpless as usual will bear the burden of it.And look at the landscape already.This is not nation building.It is the opposite.It was not what the people who followed the example of the architects of the nation state did or how they reacted to such a challenge.They held and conducted a plebicite and followed along the known path.They enshrined secularity in the constitution and chose a republic.They chose a federal republic.They kept it clean and simple.Their choice was a nation governed through and by reason.It is the true meaning of a republic.And a federation implies they acknowledged the multiplicity of nations and cultures.</p> <br> <p>They also on their own created an additional region: the mid-western region.It was viable. They did not suspend the original constitution or make a new one. They negotiated amendments and agreed to them and implemented them. Not bad for a three year old nation! Unfortunately in 1966 there was a military coup.The intervention of the military was one act of international sabotage inflicted on the young republic.I believe on purpose by those who stood to benefit from the drift.It was a perfect wedge to prevent the progress being made at the time by some sections.The disdain for dialogue and the ability to "rule" was the troubling deviation.After all this is a nation that fought to be free from an experience.It has been the bane.And now it is about to unbundle the nation.The military was not able to wait for a new nation to find its own footing.Remember just after three years of unfettered democratic experiment they decided it was too clumsy.One is wondering what type of learning curve these young men had expected of their civilian compatriots.But in time they have had their own experience with human problems as it relates to governance.</p> <br> <p>It may have seemed a lot easier than it proved to be.The military suspended part of the constitution as we were made to understand.But for the level of ignorance and illitracy there would have been no nigeria for them to "rule". How do you "rule" people who fought and won independence for themselves in order to become a democracy? The nation fought a civil war and the military still continued to "rule". And we can't seem to be able to get away from the mentality of "ruling" and start "leading" and "governing". And we have a ruler in Abuja who doles out money to states to fund their budgets.No wonder there is unemployment and pervasive poverty. The first casuality of the military regime was the structure of the government as a federation. You could not have a military run a truely federal government in a place like nigeria. It was the first problem.It is the problem now! There is a federal government being run from the center.If you fund the budgets of states you run them. You could never actually call such an arrangement a federation. </p> <br> <br> <p>We are not going to become experts in constitution making.The military will not either.The one that founded nigeria is good.If not well too bad.How do we cede such honor to anyone? The men who framed the original constitution deserve our respect and highest honor.They were brave.They were courageous.We owe then a debt of gratitude.If somebody thinks such is unnecessary neither do we see the need to embark on a fruitless journey with any such person.What will be the reason? Look at the condition of the nation!Honor is earned.Very high honor is bestowed.The people will do so to who they wish. No one is suppose to take it by force. If they do it will wane and dissipate just like battery power.Matters of our collective safety is not ceded to any body.It is a collective responsibility.It is for this reason the nation is on the brink as we speak.The government is no longer in the position to guarantee the lives of citizens.Try as much as it can but does not! The promises are unattainable.Safety is achieved through trust and dependability.Who will listen to a call to continue to live with a set of platitudes that ignore the reality of nigeria and the aspirations of the nigerian people? Return the nation to its rightful owners and emplace their constitution. No more no less! It is a no brainer. We have been through this many times.Each time the convenient approach is prefered. We proposed this matter in the post Abacha government and were branded those who wanted to elongate the regimes tenure. But guess who went shopping for yet another general a few short years after? It is always good to make haste slowly.We suggested then to revert to the 1963 constitution and start over.We pointed at the time to what happened in south africa. It is possible to correct aberations when there are reasonable people. It would have seen the then head of state hand over an economically viable and politically healthy nation to the next government.Such a government would have been economically sound and ethically and morally grounded.It would be unimaginable for any person to try taking the nation down a precipiece again. The "bigmen" called us names. This particular matter was the sole reason for a website ... betternigeria.com at the time( between 1997 and 2008).</p> <br> <div align="right"><cite>....->Our beloved Umuada an Igbo institution.... </cite> <img src="ndiada.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <br> <p>It is very serious business to negotiate constitutions in places like nigeria with plurality of interests. It is not a reason to ignore it for then you will be where we are now. Ask the British government what it took to negotiate the various constitutions that culminated in the one that some people chose to trash. United States has amendments as a way of making the constitution relevant, current and succint to perculiar needs. It is rather very regretable that the nigerian two houses of elected men and women ignored the constitutional querries being posed by Boko Haram, IPOB, OPC, PANDEF and others.The elected men and women have forgotten the many who laid down their lives for the democracy for which they are made custodians.Are they worthy of the great honor and priviledge bestowed on them? We have a nation that was "ruled" not governed by the military for the most of half a century.The same people have hovered over the "democracy".It is a shame Boko Haram chose to pick up arms.But organisation change societies.The Igbo Union of yore and Zikist movement won nigerian independence.We must never forget the heroism of the men and women of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO).It is because of them their fellow citizens can share and participate in how they are governed.WE must therefore organise.It matters.</p> <br> <p>If the executive captures the judiciary most of whom they appoint why must the legislators be suprised?As the representatives of the people how have they ensured this never happen?They clearly have not demonstrated an understanding of this burden.But when the executive captures them also? It is sad.Nigeria will never be "ruled" again!We have had the strategic marshall plan of the northern nigeria ceasing all the forces and apparatus of coercion in nigeria.They have "ruled" nigeria for nearly five decades.The doctors,lawyers,engineers,economists,scientists and what have you have watched.They watched the unfortunate saga play itself out.Had it been a success northern nigeria would have taken credit for it.But it has produced a war that cost the african people nearly five million lives.It has the nation with the potentials to be one of the greatest in the world on its knees.So they captured power but failed to use it to advance the cause of maintaining it.</p> <p>Human soceities are organic.Human beings are organic.Organisms react to stimuli including danger.Nigerians are awake and they are in the mood to move on.If anyone attempts to do that type of thing again he will have many pieces in his hands.If legislators understand the issues they must face reality and stand up to the other arms of government and represent those who chose them and their interests.If they choose not to face the obvious challenge they must understand as has been said human society is organic.Living organisms advocate for themselves if all else fails!If they watch the news from north Africa to Asia and the Americas they will see evidence of this truth.They must demand to return nigeria to the people.It is the main reason they are there.It is the main job!They chose to horse around the status quo instead to protect their job. They embarked on "consitutional amendments". The only problem is they were amending a "decree".</p> <br> <p>We wish to remind the men and women elected into the two chambers that they have a very high morale obligation to the people of nigeria and africa.The military governments which lasted for decades had "rulers" like Sanni Abacha. Up until now we are not able to determine how you could operate a government in which such level of corruption existed. It was never captured by any audit or inquiries. You can't call such an arrangement a government or such a place a country.And it is up to each person to determine what to call a place governed in such a way.It was not possible to detect the gross abuse and stop it for the good of the nation. Nigeria has no way to capture this type of infraction and make it justiciable.It is always a post mortem pathology.The "forensic audit" that has been made so popular in nigeria remind one of a get man who is complicit in a robbery.By the time he alerts the authorities of the robbery the thieves are holding a party in their hideout.You start to worry if the people who claim nigeria is their estate really believe it.Even if one would consider it prodigal to run any estate or a cartel even in the manner that events depict.So far it appears they believe it is because it is exactly the way they have been running nigeria. </p> <br> <p>You do not wish to go back to the British government and ask if they made such a deal with anyone because it is foolish to do that.The head of state of the British Empire sent a proxy by the name of Princess Alexandria of Kent to hand the Freedom Charter to the nigerian people.Watch exactly what a civilized nation did in 1960 during the independence inactment. She handed the instrument of empowerment to the nigerian people represented by the house of parliament.This instrument was handed to Jaja Wachukwu who was the Speaker of the house at the time.There is therefore no truth in the claim of those who perhaps do not understand how civilized authority is transfered.The instrument of authority was not even handed to them! Their claim is the imagination of the wishful thinker. The nigerian people will determine if they want this unequal arrangement resulting from either ignorance or plain arrogance to continue. If not they could emphatically demand what they hitherto agreed to. Any one who will not honor an agreement is responsible for its abrogation. In which event everyone could return to what they were used to. We lived the old system in our ancestors for tens of thousands of years. Why must we perish now?If some section seek to become preponderant the rest would have to rethink the relationship.No reasonable person enters a relationship to perish in it. A situation where you are required to surrender to someone the right to decide whether you live or die is not one with a complicated recourse.</p> <br> <p>The citizens have fought so hard to change this for themselves.Every time the people that are suppose to help will betray them.The only thing left is for the citizens to take matters into their own hands. The people who can prevent that are the men and women in the two chambers.They can observe and determine inequities and highlight them even if they are not able to redress them.I say this because most do not understand it their function in a democracy.The purpose of the legislative arm of is to see the government runs smoothly.This is done through empowering legal muscle to bring about desired effects.They are in a position to make a decisive impact in such regard if they wish to become relevant.When you have a nation which calls itself a federation omit a region in the choice of leadership you know something is awfully wrong!We must get to where there is leadership that is reasonable.Citizen Wole Soyinka is a nigerian. In calling the nigerian government of that day mistaken in its approach to the conflict resulting from the 1966 coup he clearly showed his level of perception. We are not suprised at who he is today. Nigeria need men and women who have morale stature. It is easy to talk about unity and peace.Oppression has conflict embeded in it.In every unfair decision and choice is the element of conflict. It should not be lost to anyone that nigeria does not have to include the eastern nigeria to exist. Neither do the east need nigeria to exist.The union must be mutual!</p> <br> <p>If there were a few other people like this citizen who felt compassion for his fellow citizens at this very trying time five million lives would have been saved.The others worried about just themselves their careers and their personal future.If the equity he envisaged had been perceived by the others who knows where nigeria will be today? There will be perhaps an industrialized nigerian nation today rather than this perpetual infantile spectacle. We need men and women who understand that money is not everything.Some of us hold this man in a place of very high honor. We did and said so long before he won a nobel prize.Only in nigeria can a government loose almost its entire earning to corruption. What is troubling is that it went undetected. President Sanni Abacha owned nigeria and ran it like a personal estate.For all we know such a thing could still be going on.Who knows? We do not have the people who can question actions and intentions.The docile acceptance of everything on its face value is very unfortunate.If you are a leader it is because some people defered to you to protect their interest.</p> <br> <p> The military govern by decrees.How could they hand you a constitution? Our elected men and women are yet to fully comprehend the immense power and responsibilty of their position in a democracy. They are yet to understand that the people of nigeria litrarily depend upon their judgments and decisions whilst in the chambers of the national assembly.The chambers and the courts are suppose to be a check to an errant executive in a democracy.They are the only difference between any other type of government and a democratic one.How is it they allow oppression to persist even when the people have gallantly installed them?</p> <br> <p>With two elected houses how could nigeria be threatened by tyranny? Do they realize that each senator or assembly man or woman is a quasi "president" of his own electorate and consituency? You defend your turf and mandate with the mindset of an executive.There are suppose to be the clash of ideas and the choices and the selections of the best-fits.We could not have docile rubber stamp houses. Was that what the nationalist and agitators for a democratic nigeria died for? The houses in the states watch while governors run amok.The executive pocket or captures the judiciary and they take the convinient position of spectators. Are they under the illusion they are immune?Nigerians are expecting their representatives to get on with their work.The president ran with the promise to return nigeria to "true federalism".</p> <br> <p>The rest of us take that as a commitment to the nigerian people.No number of hangers-on or even impersonators will erase that.Until he claims otherwise the nigerian people hold the national assembly responsible for the inactivity along the direction of implementing this noble goal.Returning the nation to the founding constitution will guarantee that (a) the country survives and (b) the country grows.He had opined he did not wish to have the process dealt with outside the ambits of due process.We had thought that would have been all the signal the new body of legislators needed.Why are the nigerian people still waiting for this process to get started? Are they suppose to elect a prime minister to initiate the process? We are watching and hoping they realize that with high office comes high responsibilities.</p> </center> <br><div align="left"><cite>---> Igboukwu our past 900CE </cite><img src="artofigbo.jpg" width="230" height="180" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></h4 <div align="left"><cite>---> Igboukwu art our past 900 CE</cite><img src="igboart.jpg" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></h4 <div align="right"><cite>---> Igboukwu art our past</cite><img src="igboartad.jpg" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></h4 <div align="right"><cite>---> Igboukwu civilization 900 CE </cite><img src="igbopyriamid.jpg" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></h4 <div align="right"><cite>---> Igboukwu civilization</cite><img src="nsude2.jpg" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></h4 <div align="right"><cite>---> Igboukwu civilization</cite><img src="regalpot.jpg" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></h4 <br> <br> <br> <br><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <br> <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="blue">GOVERNORS IN EASTERN NIGERIA MUST ALLOW THE PROTECTION OF A VULNERABLE PEOPLE: UNITY DOES NOT OCCUR IN A VACUUM</font></center> <br> <p>It is very sad that the people of Eastern Nigeria especially some Igbo governors are inviting an army of occupation into the Motherland again.In this they traumatize our people again.How could anyone do this to those whom they are suppose to represent? We are going to be plain.Any politician that invites any such entity into the population has lost the right to lead our people. It is not reasonable to expect anyone who is unable to navigate the small politics of providing assurance to the local population to go to the world stage to negotiate on their behalf.In other words a politician who is unable to seperate the local and the communual needs from the universal one is not qualified to represent our people in a very complicated world.We will not accept their clash with IPOB. We will not tolerate it at all.We will not accept their misunderstanding of the need to have a way of responding to the call and demand for the collective safety of our people.We are aware of their inclination to pursue expediency and easy answers including excuses.We remember their numerous excuses before now.If they think their personal ambition is synonymous with the needs of the nation they are about to face a very big challenge.And it is not one they are able to surmount by any stretch of imagination.We are up against a hydra-headed monster that is getting more sinister by the day.The Fulani Nationalist Movement of Nigeria is not new.The name says what it is: a political movement that is not only well armed but advocates the use of violence as a means to attain its goals.We want the so-called peaceful politicians from Eastern Nigeria to stand aside and to quote the Holy Scripture allow "Deep to call deep". We have a faith which teaches us that life is sacred and sacrosanct. We know our governors have forgotten that! We know they can recruit a few praise singers and chorus boys and girls with their enormous resources.We know their new allies in other to help them have made them accountable to nobody.All we have is the truth and the future!</p> <br> <p>We know they relish fanfare and all the niceties of politics.It is the reason they see the future in terms of the people who seem able to further their own personal goals and perpetuate them. Somehow they ignore the fact the same people lay claim to the ancestral land we all call home.The people threaten to one day overrun the entire space. It leaves one in wonderment as to how one seeks unity with those vocalizing such sinister motives against them and their own. If it was meant to be a joke it was made in extremely bad taste.But it is not. Presently they are killing and burning and raping. Are those jokes also? We are not aware where the governors hinge their patriotism.In that they miss the point.Right now there is a very different reality.Boko Haram is not a group located in the North West of Nigeria.It is part of a religious group in the Sahel region not averse to violence as a means to attain its aims and goals.It is part of a growing and expanding movement.It is embeding its men and ideas in every area of life in nigeria.Sharia has been extablished and they have taken half of the country with ease and not even a whimper.So we want to warn the governors who run to Abuja they will sign their own death warrant.As our own we throw them a lifeline. If they reject the thinking of those who have the perspective they will not have in a million years the blame is their own. We all do not have to be governors but we all are children of the Motherland! To that extent the protection of the space is not the job of the governor alone.Under normal circumstances the people will cede the responsibility to government that knows, understand and accepts the responsibity.In return the citizens dignity and safety is guranteed as rights.The governors are not going to claim to represent the people when all they will do is to align themselves with these hostile forces.We wish to warn them that the people are not only paying attention but taking stock.</p> <br> <p>In the very near future they will hear from the sons and daughter of the Motherland from around the globe.The many children of the space called Eastern Nigeria including the ones who were taken by force away from the land are interested and paying rapt attention. And it will be retribution of either for good or evil.The choice is up to our enemies. We can be friends and we can be foes! We ask them to make their pick.No body can deceive our people with wedges and such issues anymore.It is now settled that our people were purposely seperated because of the resources God had blessed them with. Wasteland and poluted environment is all they have while stranger have reaped billions of dollars.The family is united and have reclaimed its assets and heritage.The people have reclaimed their inheritance and it is not going to ever be taken from them ever again. God in His infinite mercy did not allow us to become desolate.We have again a collective voice that reaches the very heaven.The governors will see what we see or they are on their own.We wish them luck in their begging expedition.Recently a governor was nearly killed.If that was not enough the people responsible owned up openly and then issued an open threat to him. It is the atmosphere we operate under. Such is the reality. What will the government do? Capture the terrorists and lock them up? How good have they been at it? If that happens to one of these men who administer the space as sorogates who will speak for them? We know they understand the dynamics and it must frighten them cold.Will they seek help from the army which accepts "repented Islamists"? We are just asking our "patriotic" governors a very simple question! We are all mourning the giants of Africa. Men like Ben Bella of Algeria who was Muslim but was instrumental in the fight to liberate Southern Africa.We remember men like Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia.These were men of character and ideology who fought tall and strong as Africans first.They call their neighbors brothers and sisters.Today men of little intellectual stature and suspect self confidence hide under religion and other extraneous matters.These small minds refer to their neighbors as infidels.And they are sponsoring the fleecing of a continent great men suffered to liberate. We must protect ourselves from their politics of self immolation, communual destruction and attrition.</p> <br> <p>We have refugees in the tens of thousands from Nasarawa and Taraba in Cross River State. How do you justify such logistics? Imagine peaceful Calabar come under attack from even only five hundred armed men? Imagine that. We have danger all around us.You already have an army and police where you have no idea who gives orders and from where.Who will these governors deceive? They can attend all the meetings in Abuja but we know they have no idea where the orders come from and who makes the decisions and why.What they attend are photo opportunity which from all we can see satiates most of them.The few who know it is not enough we know and have made a mental note of.If one wishes to run for president of a country like nigeria and must contend with so many terrorist entities when the segment has power what will happen when they loose it? And they unleash their men in every place yelling "Araba! Araba"! And so you do what? Are you going to be a president beholden to such forces? If so what will be the nature of the authority that will be yours as president? We know some people are incapable of these kind of thinking.Our people have already sacrificed four million lives.Thanks to these kind of "leaders" even Ohaneze a family umbrella organization is now being hovered by the same people who tried to wipe the people out.It goes to show how low the people went to choose the ones to represent the space. It is what happens when one allows too much proximity.It is hard to imagine the people of Eastern Nigeria meddling in such matters in the case of any other ethnic group.It is what need to change. Now is the time and it will no longer wait. We have urged the men and women who claim unity and advocate peace to bring their partners to the table for years and they are unable to do so.</p> <br> <p>I hope the picture is clear to these representatives.It means they do not represent the interest of our people.When people are talking about religious issues you must listen. Especially if the religion gives them the right to destroy those who disagree with them. You can't focus on other things when there is instability. Not when the religion gives them the right to deceive their enemies.Our governors seem not to understand the issues.We have watched them.It is sad to report they do not get it.Our observation is that they are very eager to please.Unfortunately they are not able to sacrifice enough on the alter of an unwilling god.Not even if they sacrifice themselves.But no they will not because they are too corrupt and have heaped possessions and loots they want to enjoy sometime further along.And they habor a bigger dream and want some more time to "rule" nigeria. It means they can make even more money! It is all that matter these days to those who call themselves leaders.It is however an unequal relationship and they understand it. Many of us see a mirage the cheats have spawned to keep them hanging on. We know the game. And we will no longer waste our collective future in the musical chair game.Our collective good as people is more important than the ambition and dream to "rule" the space called nigeria.Our people are able and have always charted a course which has blessed them and the African people.It is what they are doing as they have always done. We are not going to join forces whose goal limits not just themselves but the people around them.Therein is the difference.It is like night and day. We have progress to make for ourselves and our people. It is very clear they are pursuing their ambition to the detriment of the collective interests of our people.To the extent these are existential matters it will not be left in their hands.If they do not heed our warnings they will be on the outside looking in very soon! A word they say is enough for the wise.</p> <br> <br>here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igboyouth.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<< </font>...</a></div> .... <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="purple">THE CITIZENS ARREST OF THE SPACE PARADING FALSELY AS A FEDERATION AND REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA</font></center> <br> <br> <p>We are not suppose to preside over our own case.We hear it said quite often.If your country is sick to whom do you turn? If you are a free people and you have a disagreement how would you resolve it? The methods we know are (i) through warfare and (ii) throught dialogue.In 1966 nigeria was hijacked by some men in uniform claiming the politicians were corrupt and irresponsible.It was just less than four years since gaining independence and the people at the helm had never before been in charge of such hefty issues.All of a sudden they will have to settle the frequent skirmishes between completely incompartible nations that are now under the same roof.The complication became as apparent as when a child of primary school age is given a quadratic equation problem to solve.The reason being he claimed he could.The more qualified people are not given the problem because they are not the preferred subjects.The "representative" will fail or succeed on behalf of the rest in the space.The situation caused a genocidal war that took the lives of nearly four million people. Again we hear the bird of darkness flapping its wings. We must stay awake and determine our safety first.The nigerian situation is not a failure of the people in the space. It is the design of the interest that would benefit from the failure.Nigeria was given arms to prosecute the war with Biafra by as many as ten different countries.In trying to understand what they stood to gain we could begin to understand the nature of the problem in the nigerian space.</p> <br> <p>The answer is a citizes arrest. The country fails to fuction.An entity of two hundred million people can't just fail.It is very disasterous.The citizens arrest is very necessary because the other methods have become compromised.The corruption and the falsehood that gave rise to the problem are clear reasons not to seek answers from such entities.The nations in nigeria know who they are and related with one another in the not too distant past.The arrival of the europeans was just a recent event.The nature of the problems and the whirlwind ride has made it seem as something that has been there for centuries.However it is so recent some of the people who witnessed the genesis are still with us.We have a problem of impersonation.Nigeria is a name given to a group of loosely assembled nations stiched together for ease of access to resources and control of such resources.It is this foundation that must be addressed by the affected citizens.We read about the plebicites that were conducted by the colonialists.We praise the effort.We could not even attempt it today.Such an effort will be a disater in every way possible! The colonialist wanted a country.It made perfect sense.It also made sense to confer legitimacy to the enterprise. However it is doubtful the result would have turned out any different than the intended one.So the question therefore arises: would the Yoruba want the Fulani to manage his waterways and his land boaders? </p> <p>Is the Hausa happy to have his identity subsumed inside the Fulani indentity, a nation of fewer people than themselves? Are the Jukuns the Gwaris,Birom, Nupe, Idoma, Tiv, Igbira happy to be subsumed in any other tribes? Northern nigeria has more than three hundred ethnic groups with distinct characteristics.Are they happy to loose themselves within any other group? Is the Igbo happy to be surrounded by an army controlled by people whose religion empowers to kill those who do not share the same faith? Igbos and the people of Eastern Nigeria are almost entirely christains by faith. Are the Ijaw, Ishekiri,Urhobo, Effik, Ibibio, Annang, Kalagbari,Bini and Ogoni happy to surrender the oil in their soil to people who have nothing in common with them? If it is trade what have they derived from it.Is it turning their community to a wasteland and oil poluted space? Is that meant to be their reward? The plebicite that answers these questions would have been the most appropriate for the nigerian space.Unfortunately such would never be. If there is no equal compelling reason to address such weighty issues who would push for them? Nigeria is therefore a falsehood on so many grounds.It is evident this arrangement is not meant to build the nations within nigeria.The friction is arising from the inevitable scuffle. Imagine a country founded as a federation funding the budget of the federating units.Where else would such a federation be found? In which other federation are the resources of the federating units held by the central government? The government of nigeria confiscates hydrocarbon deposits found in southern nigeria.It is nationalized and the people see nothing of it except poluted farmlands and environments.But gold is discovered in northern nigeria and it remains the resource of the local state.The hydrocarbon deposits found in the north is not being put on stream because it is local. The excuse is that it might be needed more by the future generations.We are showing you why there is trouble in nigeria.The country has different standards for citizens. And it is now causing much anger.The scar and history of the country does not help.</p> <br> <p>The people who determined they wanted a country that we call nigeria today had the experience to manage diverse views.If all fails they resort to carrots and sticks.Today the nigeria space is all sticks and neither experience and no carrots at all. In fact the carrots are for the elites who actually have good quality food already.It serve nothing! So the system collapses for want of underpinning values.I would like to leave the reader with a few thoughts.If one is looking for answers for self benefit, whatever he finds easy and possible is the answer.If on the other hand one seeks answers which will endure the test of time the necessary questions are usually asked.Who said the Igbo people would like to have armed men parading with cows in their farmlands? Who said they will tolerate strange forest inhabitants raping their daughters and wives while in their farmlands in the name of unity? Unity to accomplish what? And that is the question! So we tell the nigerians we do not wish to continue to seek answers from unwilling entities.The partnership that would create a country was sabotaged from the start.Right now there is no partnership.We have a situation where there are subjects and the priviledged.The false entity exists without an agreement.The man who understood the danger and tried to put it right within the military was brutally murdered for even raising the issue.His partner tried to salvage his vision.The effort has been under siege and has been all but completely reversed.</p> <br> <p>The nigerian military foisted its thought and wishes on nigeria after hijacking the space for nearly forty years.It could not wait for four years.Designated men and women tried to find the answers to the issues confronting a young nation and truely master the incipient challenges.The country enters a new reality which tolerates no dissenting views. Praise singers grew in number and wealth.The few dissenters honed their game and aim and fought very galantly.Most of them perish in the effort.The military is exhausted from self immolation and attrition.They hand over to mainly fresh civilians who now are trying hard to perpetuate the same falsehood.We gave the nigerian people the man who must have the answers.The nigerian people have a man who symbolizes everything that has been going on in nigeria.He is the man of many hats.He might be the solution.The right methods must however be applied.We urge persuation and reason. President Mohammed Buhari was a young officer at the time of the first coup.He was very active in the military government era and held many of the choiciest and juiciest positions.At the end of his military career he did not walk away.No.He was the breathe and soul of the opposition upon return to civil governance.Some claim he tries to be the rival of Chief Olusegun Obasonjo.I disagree.On two counts they differ.Chief Obasonjo is willing to subject himself to the rigours of learning.He is perhaps the only one among the men of the nigerian military establishment very open to dialecting on ideas.He set up the Oputa panel in a military junta.And I want those who will start insulting the writer to do some thinking first.He did not have to! The military in nigeria at that time had absolute power.Seeking even an appearance of due process was an act of an angel under such circumstances.Our evaluation must be based on these realities.He went back to school.He delights in making his vision open. We have facts here.It is what people like me do.Try to look at the fact objectively to determine causes and effects.In comparing these two men we immediately determine these facts.</p> <br> <p>One of them goes back to improve himself. Someone makes himself accountable to others. It shows humility.It also shows openess to change and new ideas.He has published some books outlining his vision and thoughts.On the other hand President Mohammed Buhari is the subterranean type who relishes strategy and suprises.I do not want to use the word clandestine but his inclination tends towards being secretive. We must demand answers from him. In the military these might be very great assets.They might also be good assets for a monarch.In a democracy it is not as helpful.Democracy lays claim to transparency. Whether it is true or not depend on who you ask.He was governor of North Central State a huge part of what is the twelve monolithic muslim states.He was military president.This guy was a powerful petroleum minister and still is.President Buhari was the engine in the Sanni Abacha regime. General Sanni Abacha took power when nigeria had attained military government fatigue. He understood it.He needed a person to lend credibility and legitimacy of some form.Without president Buhari there would have been complete anarchy and he knew it.For this reason the government made him the offer he could not resist.President Buhari was the de facto prime minister of the General Sanni Abacha regime. We thought Sanni Abacha was not very smart and truely he was not a genius.But nobody will argue he was street smart.He made President Buhari the manager of the Petroleum Trust Fund.He knew how to get the fund when he needed it. He had no problems with that quite clearly as records and history has shown. This fund was actually the life sustaining wire of that dispensation.President Buhari knew that to be the case. He pulled the wire any day that government was dead! It must sadden President Buhari that what he accomplished for General Sanni Abacha he has been unable to do for himself.We remember the Shakesparean adage.."there is a tide in the affairs of men...". If we want to say to him "..physician heal thyself?" We realize he already attained power under the most challenging of situations.He must have clout therefore. He is therefore part of the masterminds that produced the common ground for the twelve state muslim sharia nation with complete religious bureaucracy.</p> <br> <p>It might have been aimed as a political step mainly which it surely is by all we can see.But it has produced some serious side effects.Something that is not wholly unexpected.But politics is not a pursuit of peity.At least if the goal was to attain power it conveyed the passengers to the corridors.The fallout must be addressed with equal passion not emotion.The Muslims have a stronghold. Why must a christain stronghold be a sin? We ask the minimalist Eastern Governors what they plan to do in the event the jihadists carry out their threats? Are they going to call in the army which accepts the "repentant" terrorists? They really think such is enough reassurance for the people under a threat of such a scenario? So the balance we have now is needed. Balance is always a good thing. If anyone ignores truth they collide with it soon enough. The people of Eastern Nigeria deserve a space where they can thrive. After all no where are they truely loved in nigeria outside of this space! </p> <br> <p>Nigerians have the man who has answers.Many claim he lacks capacity.How can a man with President Buhari's credential lack capacity? I do not think a man with his experience has a problem of capacity.Reluctance or ambience might be what to call it.I sometimes think he is being blackmailed by some who know somethings about him that he wants to keep from the public. It is the kind of thing that can make a man like him very helpless.Certainly not capacity. I think there must be other explainations.He knows something so many do not.If he is not able to resolve these religious problems in northern nigeria it will be close to impossible to find solutions in anyone else.Nigerians should encourage him to return the country to the founding constitution. It starts the healing process.He holds very considerable clout in the area from where nigeria is being dismantled.If the country is returned to the nations a lot of the clashes will end.The boundaries are well defined in such matters.The centralization of governance in a federation is very difficult if not impossible.The many examples around the world informs us quite clearly. It is very traumatic for citizens as we know here in nigeria today.If we are not able to keep our first agreement neither can we keep any other.We must end the constitution making encores.It is a way actually of echoing the failure. If nothing happens soon we will have new countries from nigeria. We ask him whether it is the end game? While at it though, any nation of people seeking to be defended by this present nigerian state is sick in mind.It is a state in quick decline.To blame President Buhari alone is falsehood.There are many others and the fear is that his feelings might have made him too vulnerable to the more religious hawks in his sphere of influence.If there will be no return to the agreement that founded nigeria we know the answer in Eastern Nigeria!</p> <br><a href="makingthegong.html"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font></a> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">WE DEMAND A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO QUICK EXECUTION OF SIX CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS BY THE EX ARMY CHIEF JUST A DAY BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE</h4></center></font> <br> <br> <p>We received the news of the dearh of Prince Ukwuoma;Ekene Ebere;Amos Azubuike;Godwin Uchendu;Ebube Issiah who until their death belonged to the nigerian army.These young men were attached to The Armoury Division of the nigerian army Abacha barracks Abuja.According to information reaching us these men along with twelve others were being investigated for loss of weapons from the armoury.The twelve others comprising Yorubas and Fulanis were exonerated.The six all christians and Igbos were hurriedly executed.During the investigation they were not allowed to reach their family or any lawyers. What is more troubling is that the General Buratai ordered them executed a day before leaving office.What was the hurry?Is it how little human life now accounts for to these men? We demand to understand what transpired.We also like to warn the Igbos who are serving in the nigerian army to understand they are in mortal danger.Some of us would never have believed it will come to this ever in the country again.We bring this matter to the public for awareness and to comprehend the level of provocation the people of eastern Nigeria are enduring in every area of life in nigeria.I have quote from the press from an outlet already named: <br> <br>Secret Execution Of Six Igbo Christian Soldiers At Abacha Barracks In a statement made available to NewsProbe Tuesday, the group said it  received with rude shock and deepest dismay the Monday, 25th Jan 2021 secret execution of six Igbo Christian soldiers, attached to the Armory Department of the Nigerian Army, Abacha Barracks in Abuja. The slain Igbo Christian soldiers namely: Prince Ukwuoma, son of a traditional ruler; Ebube Isaiah, Amos Azubuike, Ekene Ebere, Moses Anyim and Godwin Uchendu were secretly executed under the instruction of now Retired Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, a day before he left office on Tuesday, 26th Jan 2021. This shocking news was disclosed to us by Barr E.R. Okoroafor, an int l human rights lawyer, who is very conversant with the matter and was also contacted by one of the slain soldiers through his family to defend them in the trumped up charges, executed using hazy and clandestine Military Court Martial. <br> <p>We had tried to explain the miltary intervention in nigeria as an episode in history and had been of the opinion that the healing of our soceity is paramount.As an Igbo and a Christian I have been forced to reorder my priorities and thinking.I do not believe this move to execute these apparently innocent Igbo christain youths is anything but a very clear message of contempt and hatred.It was the intent for the accusation and they were framed.But is now an unfinished business for the general.It hangs around his neck.The man would not allow the next person in authority to look over what was on the ground. By this action Lt.Gen. Tukur Buratai is now an enemy of the Christians from Eastern Nigeria and the world and the Igbo people in particular.He is well aware what it means.It makes no sense for the Nigerian army to contiinue along this part of self immolation.First mistake is the idea to reabsorb former terrorists into the nigerian military.It is unheardof.Second is the aiding of bandits against farmers.The farmers are citizens too.In other places around the world farmers are protected because they are the source of the meals the soceity need to survive.Here is one more piece of evidence that these people either do not understand their responsibility or they do not care for the citizens.Some argue it is both.They feel nothing for those they purport to lead. <br> <p> This man hurriedly kills these youngmen who have taken no lives! He felt nothing for them.He treated them as worthless pieces of thrash. He by the action displays a very troubling level of ignorance or is it blatant hatred.Neither of these are proper for a position such as the one he held.When someone has taken no lives it is not customary to consider taking their own.Assuming a soldier stole weapons do you execute them for that? What then do you imprison a soldier for? For swearing? We have an army that rehabilitates terrorists that have killed scores of nigerians! An army that facilitates ransome for bandits who kill rape and burn entire neighborhoods.But we know the only mistake of these men who were proud to sign to defend what they errorneously considered their own country.It cost them their very lives. And it is made worse that these lives were taken by someone to whom the well-being of these youths is intrusted! We warn the others to be careful.It is a very serious situation. By this action they can see they are regarded as mere expendibles in that entity.They carry cross-hairs on their backs! Such is not soldiering.It is suicide.And they are enduring great evil indeed. He could not even pretend for the sake of fundamental fairness. This is not a very brilliant leader.His actions did not impress some of us.However his atittude fits a pattern to scape-goat the Igbo.We believe this was a set-up.It was an attempt to make some the outsiders and villains.It is usually the resort of inept leadership.The idea of scape-goating the helpless is old. It is not surprising he had rather limited success in his tenure.We want him to know the case has gone to the court in the Hague.The case has gone to the ICC and by the nature of it we pleaded for expedited hearing.</p> <br> <p>Unfortunately he unwittingly had dragged with him many others and all of this under very avoidable circumstances.His entire actions as it pertains the Christains in general and the Igbo people in particular will be thoroughly scrutinized.Again we tell the people from Eastern Nigeria in the military to be wise.We also warn the nigerian authority of the elements in the military who want to sow anarchy to benefit thereby.Easterners in the nigerian army (we would say southerners but obviously the other people know their way around) should be careful. We can sense the feeling towards them.It is neither friendly nor sustainable.We non-politicians in Eastern nigeria are aware of what need to happen quickly. We tell the politicians who prepare for another election in nigeria before resolving first whether there is a country they are crazy.They do not care people are dying in hundreds daily? When communities are being burnt, when citizens are IDPs in their own so called country? They are either delusional or crazy.In Eastern nigeria we are a community of the same people.We value and cherish life in our own communities.As we say "it is our share under heaven".</p> <br> <p>We had hit our stride and found our destiny before the genocidal war hindered us.We now know who sowed seedlings the division in our soceity and the reason.However God has already judged them. The crude oil has made them poorer.Their people are uncared for.Only a few rich among them is not how you account for the enormous wealth they had stolen from us.We were left nothing but degraded environments.We will not allow anyone and persons among us to be used to divide our people.Any ideas in that direction will be dealt with summarily. We are going to work together and elevate our communities.It is the goal and the people of God say Amen! We are working for the garthering of our people to the East and beyond the so-called borders.Unlike the others we do not invite them to come to nigeria and fight for land.They own where they live.They are all indegenous people. We look at the culture and the other things that define nations.Our goal is unite our strength and shed our wicknesses.It is the goal that has occupied some of us for some time now.Events like these make it easy for us to know what to shed! <br> <br> <img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br>br><br><br><br><center><h4><font color="blue">THE WORLD CAN NOW SEE WHY THE SUPREME COURT APPOINTED SOMEBODY IN IMO STATE!</h4></center></font> <br> <br> <p>We need to have a count of the youths again killed in Imo State.The images will also be needed. Such materials must be properly secured and made available to the authorities when they are requested.It will be needed to make our case for the independence of the people of the space.It is the only thing that can afford safety at this point.Also required is the number of killed in Obigbo in Igwe Ocha.Today it is clear to us that the Jihad the Fulani promised has started. There is no other explaination for what we are witnessing throughout the entire nigeria.We must not think there is any other way out.We have to ask to be set free from the stranglehold of the nigerian army and police.After all these are elements many of whom have foresworn the massacre of the entire Eastern Nigeria.It is true they reintegrate the terrorists.The recorded information is made available to some of us.It is very frightening.We see an army that will not fight terrorists.The nigerian army has not really truely engaged the Boko Haram group as it is capable of.Now they are pretending to be tough inside the city killing innocent citizens.It must be because they are christains.</p> <br> <p> I was watching as elements of the nigerian military lay on the ground shooting into the public.What kind of soceity is this one? The supreme court appointed governor of Imo state demolished a hospital in Imo State built by former Governor Rochas Okoraocha.We are talking about a hospital that has bed capacity of nearly one thousand.For some of us a hospital to care for the people is not politics. It is a matter of compassion. In this very act this man has actually proved on whose side he is.The supreme court appointed governor destroyed new landmarks constructed by the former governor to give the city of Owerri a face lift. These are landmark that are commended by all. This man is busy destroying the state governed by a man who belongs to the same political party as he does.It is exactly why we have said these men are not politicians but pure criminals.It is what we have said that some people within the corridors of power are capable of anything. And that is the problem.The people of the state know this man and his former way of life. Today he is given the police force in the state to continue with the nuissance he is so used to. The government of nigeria must show it does not sponsor these kinds of criminal behaviours now threatening the very existence of the entity called nigeria.The people are the ones to make the determination what type of soceity they want to live in.We had warned them the conman sponsored by the sharia land will spurn illusions and delusions in the state. We said it could be far worse than that since the sponsors are no strangers to fatalism.Now they know.The man is sponsoring demolition without bombs and inviting nigerian troops to kill for him. We are seeing state sponsored terror in action.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria is suppose to be a democracy but a sharia chief justice was chosen to make a religious point. Islamic inscriptions are placed in the military logo and the currency notes.The country joins the Organization of Islamic countries.The other nigerians slumber on in the name of peace.And they pretend not to understand the anarchy now unfolding in the space.These things were done under a military which is in complete sympathy.All in a nation that is suppose to be secular.The chief justice a learned and accomplished lawyer was kicked out simply because he is a christain.For good measure he was slammed with accusation of being corrupt! In Nigeria we are asking? In Nigeria corrution is a crime?.Imo state must have the highest number of christains in Nigeria perhaps after Lagos.Very recently the case to establish whether the governor was a legitimate candidate in the election came up for hearing and the military initiated a fracas within the state.Some local vigilantes were their targets.They are surprised the people feel insecure and have moved to defend themselves.Why would nigerian government give Hilux Trucks and cash to terrorists and shoot law abiding citizens? We would like the whole world to see the level of inhumanity going on in Nigeria.In the past three years mass graves have taken the remains of countless christains in southern kaduna and other parts of nigeria where the sharia law is practiced.Such a tactics do not help rule of law and unity.But the impunity goes on.</p> <br> <p>Kaduna a hitherto peaceful state has been divided.The part of the state that is largely inhabited by christains have become a grave yard.It is not a coincidence that the governor here had boasted about his own "stock". We shuddered to hear a chief executive make such remarks. In a soceity like nigeria where the literacy rate is this low such are very incendiary issues.Religion or ethnicity will ignite conflicts among people easily.In this case someone in authority combine the two without any qualms.Christains in the state are now at the receiving end.We have seen their homes and villages sacked and razed to the ground.We hear of a plan to repopulate entire nations of people with a more preferred group.They seem to forget such had been attempted in certain parts of africa and it actually backfired. But nigeria must not be playing with such ideas.Nigeria has a history of a war in its recent past. We know what these people are about to cause in Nigeria.The 1967 to 1970 episode will be a play compared with the threatening explosion.</p> <br> <p>We appeal to the United Nations to see how the population can be sheltered from further massacre by the nigerian army.It has become a pattern. The army will massacre the Igbo youths and tepid explainations and denials is all that will be required.The world now can see events as they happen.Yet the nigerian government has never accepted responsibilty for the mass murder that has become common place in nigeria.Inspite of the numerous images and audio evidences the denial continues.It was claimed that the army escorted some of the bandits that have sacked entire communities.We heard and seen these things in northern nigeria. We ask the governor of Imo State what he is attempting to accomplish.Does he think the army will install him emperor too? Why is he bringing unfriendly strangers into the state? Is it so he can use them to intimidate the population? Now he brings the army too! The chief justice made him governor. Will the army make him emperor? If he dreams so he is in the worst place to anticipate that. Why is the army deploying to fight a community militia in a federal republic? We will ask the United Nations to immediately intervene before this gets out of hand. We have citizens who were captured by Boko Haram and the army has not been able to engage the terror group to free them.It has no clue where they are.</p> <br> <p>Why would they rather fight people who have kept an environment safe thus far? We want to show the world that the government of nigeria can explain the insecurity in nigeria.It appears it is being sponsored.If it is not part of the said jihad what is it? The nigerian government has never shown any commitment in tackling the menace of a roving band of armed men claiming to be MYetti Allah militia.The police charge offices are filled with citizens reports and complaints of incessant murders and mayhem by this group.A former Finance Minister of the country had his farm hijacked and he himself was kidnapped.His security man was murdered and as an act of pure hate his chest was cut open and his heart ripped out. All in the mans own farmland. No please.It is not how you manage a soceity or govern.It is not acceptable by any stretch.How can a community face such a grim reality and wait for anyone to protect them? If such a community will not rise to its own deffence it has been swallowed up.It has been overrun. We like the nigerian government to curb the excesses of its military who will aid reprobates,renegades and terrorists.We will not have a soceity where anyone just wades in with weapons to threaten communities.We have an army that will not look for such culprits but will come in to threaten and kill citizens.How much are nigerian called to endure to be part of such an organized mayhem? If they have energy they should go to sambisa forest where the terrorists are waiting.The entire nigerian space is being overrun. Why are they fighting those who wish to secure their own environment.Where have they kept safe? We ask where have they kept safe? The entire northern nigeria is under threat.Why must the other people wait for them? Why do they have problem with citizens keeping their own environment safe? Nigeria is a federation after all.Something does not seem right.We see militias owned by Miyetti Allah and all sorts in northern nigeria and it is not a problem to the nigerian army.It goes beserk anytime southern nigeria does anything to be safe. In the present climate of insecurity their reaction is very suspect.It is the reason the people are very alarmed.</p> <br> <p>Nigerians must therefore arm.It has become very neccessary.Anyone asking citizens to disarm in the face of threats from foreign bandits and roving armed militia many of whom are foreigners is delusional.Nigerians should arm as quickly as they are able to.It is the only way they stand a chance to survive or to repel the invading militia.The Yorubas who profess Islam must not think they are safe.The infighting of sects and groups in many countries are worse than external wars.They have no idea who these people are and what they profess as faith.It is very dicey to hope they will be safe.We must all be outraged at the complacency of our own government.What is going on? Why is the nigerian army quick to kill people in Eastern Nigeria? Worse things happen in other places and nothing of such is heard.In the last three years the nigerian army has killed thousands of Igbo and youths of Eastern nigeria.It was their purpoted involvement in the Lekki protest that brought the nigerian military.And among the dead were Igbo youths.How can a people live in a country with those who have foresworn to wipe them out? They jump at every excuse and opportunity to kill Easterners or the Igbo people.It is the reason they planted a stooge as governor in the heart of Igoland in Eastern nigeria.Many of us warned the people this was going to happen.Having said that we warned the man himself of the danger.He made this choice and it is now his cup.</p> <br> <p>We ask the governor how he feels presiding over a massacre of Igbo youths? How will he clear his name to posterity? Now he declares a curfew in Orlu.It must make him feel very powerful.It is important to remind him that the Igbo people have a very long memory.I know those of them who play poitics in Igboland today are a different kind.But Igboland and Eastern Nigeria have patriotic sons and daughters.We are watching as these one play a loosing hand.We see Myetti Allah "negotiate" with terrorists for payment.We see even governors negotiate and pay ransome to bandits.Our governors and politicians do nothing but pin blame on their own.Our youths become their sacrificial nameless objects.It is sacriledge and they must know the people will demand the explaination to all this. What kind of useless politics are they playing? Do they think the rest are like them? Are we all stooges to the Fulani? Do we beg to exist as a people? We will demand and request the United nation to ask the nigerian military to explain the reason for the incessant massacre of christains in nigeria.It has become too much. It has become too frequent to ignore in the name of internal problem. It is genocide going on in nigeria.It is happening in southern Kaduna. The victims are christains.It is happening in Eastern nigeria and the victims are again christains.Right now in Ondo and Oyo states the most populated christain areas and local governments are under seige.The party in power in Nigeria is using the name of politics to spread and execute the agenda of Islamization of the entire country.It is time to ask where these armed men come from. What will happen after the flexing of muscles? Are we suppose to accept this as a way of life? I know the answer from the free people of Eastern nigeria.</p> <br> <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="blue">GOVERNORS IN EASTERN NIGERIA MUST ALLOW THE PROTECTION OF A VULNERABLE PEOPLE: UNITY DOES NOT OCCUR IN A VACUUM</font></center> <br> <p>It is very sad that the people of Eastern Nigeria especially some Igbo governors are inviting an army of occupation into the Motherland again.In this they traumatize our people again.How could anyone do this to those whom they are suppose to represent? We are going to be plain.Any politician that invites any such entity into the population has lost the right to lead our people. It is not reasonable to expect anyone who is unable to navigate the small politics of providing assurance to the local population to go to the world stage to negotiate on their behalf.In other words a politician who is unable to seperate the local and the communual needs from the universal one is not qualified to represent our people in a very complicated world.We will not accept their clash with IPOB. We will not tolerate it at all.We will not accept their misunderstanding of the need to have a way of responding to the call and demand for the collective safety of our people.We are aware of their inclination to pursue expediency and easy answers including excuses.We remember their numerous excuses before now.If they think their personal ambition is synonymous with the needs of the nation they are about to face a very big challenge.And it is not one they are able to surmount by any stretch of imagination.We are up against a hydra-headed monster that is getting more sinister by the day.The Fulani Nationalist Movement of Nigeria is not new.The name says what it is: a political movement that is not only well armed but advocates the use of violence as a means to attain its goals.We want the so-called peaceful politicians from Eastern Nigeria to stand aside and to quote the Holy Scripture allow "Deep to call deep". We have a faith which teaches us that life is sacred and sacrosanct. We know our governors have forgotten that! We know they can recruit a few praise singers and chorus boys and girls with their enormous resources.We know their new allies in other to help them have made them accountable to nobody.All we have is the truth and the future!</p> <br> <p>We know they relish fanfare and all the niceties of politics.It is the reason they see the future in terms of the people who seem able to further their own personal goals and perpetuate them. Somehow they ignore the fact the same people lay claim to the ancestral land we all call home.The people threaten to one day overrun the entire space. It leaves one in wonderment as to how one seeks unity with those vocalizing such sinister motives against them and their own. If it was meant to be a joke it was made in extremely bad taste.But it is not. Presently they are killing and burning and raping. Are those jokes also? We are not aware where the governors hinge their patriotism.In that they miss the point.Right now there is a very different reality.Boko Haram is not a group located in the North West of Nigeria.It is part of a religious group in the Sahel region not averse to violence as a means to attain its aims and goals.It is part of a growing and expanding movement.It is embeding its men and ideas in every area of life in nigeria.Sharia has been extablished and they have taken half of the country with ease and not even a whimper.So we want to warn the governors who run to Abuja they will sign their own death warrant.As our own we throw them a lifeline. If they reject the thinking of those who have the perspective they will not have in a million years the blame is their own. We all do not have to be governors but we all are children of the Motherland! To that extent the protection of the space is not the job of the governor alone.Under normal circumstances the people will cede the responsibility to government that knows, understand and accepts the responsibity.In return the citizens dignity and safety is guranteed as rights.The governors are not going to claim to represent the people when all they will do is to align themselves with these hostile forces.We wish to warn them that the people are not only paying attention but taking stock.</p> <br> <p>In the very near future they will hear from the sons and daughter of the Motherland from around the globe.The many children of the space called Eastern Nigeria including the ones who were taken by force away from the land are interested and paying rapt attention. And it will be retribution of either for good or evil.The choice is up to our enemies. We can be friends and we can be foes! We ask them to make their pick.No body can deceive our people with wedges and such issues anymore.It is now settled that our people were purposely seperated because of the resources God had blessed them with. Wasteland and poluted environment is all they have while stranger have reaped billions of dollars.The family is united and have reclaimed its assets and heritage.The people have reclaimed their inheritance and it is not going to ever be taken from them ever again. God in His infinite mercy did not allow us to become desolate.We have again a collective voice that reaches the very heaven.The governors will see what we see or they are on their own.We wish them luck in their begging expedition.Recently a governor was nearly killed.If that was not enough the people responsible owned up openly and then issued an open threat to him. It is the atmosphere we operate under. Such is the reality. What will the government do? Capture the terrorists and lock them up? How good have they been at it? If that happens to one of these men who administer the space as sorogates who will speak for them? We know they understand the dynamics and it must frighten them cold.Will they seek help from the army which accepts "repented Islamists"? We are just asking our "patriotic" governors a very simple question! We are all mourning the giants of Africa. Men like Ben Bella of Algeria who was Muslim but was instrumental in the fight to liberate Southern Africa.We remember men like Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia.These were men of character and ideology who fought tall and strong as Africans first.They call their neighbors brothers and sisters.Today men of little intellectual stature and suspect self confidence hide under religion and other extraneous matters.These small minds refer to their neighbors as infidels.And they are sponsoring the fleecing of a continent great men suffered to liberate. We must protect ourselves from their politics of self immolation, communual destruction and attrition.</p> <br> <p>We have refugees in the tens of thousands from Nasarawa and Taraba in Cross River State. How do you justify such logistics? Imagine peaceful Calabar come under attack from even only five hundred armed men? Imagine that. We have danger all around us.You already have an army and police where you have no idea who gives orders and from where.Who will these governors deceive? They can attend all the meetings in Abuja but we know they have no idea where the orders come from and who makes the decisions and why.What they attend are photo opportunity which from all we can see satiates most of them.The few who know it is not enough we know and have made a mental note of.If one wishes to run for president of a country like nigeria and must contend with so many terrorist entities when the segment has power what will happen when they loose it? And they unleash their men in every place yelling "Araba! Araba"! And so you do what? Are you going to be a president beholden to such forces? If so what will be the nature of the authority that will be yours as president? We know some people are incapable of these kind of thinking.Our people have already sacrificed four million lives.Thanks to these kind of "leaders" even Ohaneze a family umbrella organization is now being hovered by the same people who tried to wipe the people out.It goes to show how low the people went to choose the ones to represent the space. It is what happens when one allows too much proximity.It is hard to imagine the people of Eastern Nigeria meddling in such matters in the case of any other ethnic group.It is what need to change. Now is the time and it will no longer wait. We have urged the men and women who claim unity and advocate peace to bring their partners to the table for years and they are unable to do so.</p> <br> <p>I hope the picture is clear to these representatives.It means they do not represent the interest of our people.When people are talking about religious issues you must listen. Especially if the religion gives them the right to destroy those who disagree with them. You can't focus on other things when there is instability. Not when the religion gives them the right to deceive their enemies.Our governors seem not to understand the issues.We have watched them.It is sad to report they do not get it.Our observation is that they are very eager to please.Unfortunately they are not able to sacrifice enough on the alter of an unwilling god.Not even if they sacrifice themselves.But no they will not because they are too corrupt and have heaped possessions and loots they want to enjoy sometime further along.And they habor a bigger dream and want some more time to "rule" nigeria. It means they can make even more money! It is all that matter these days to those who call themselves leaders.It is however an unequal relationship and they understand it. Many of us see a mirage the cheats have spawned to keep them hanging on. We know the game. And we will no longer waste our collective future in the musical chair game.Our collective good as people is more important than the ambition and dream to "rule" the space called nigeria.Our people are able and have always charted a course which has blessed them and the African people.It is what they are doing as they have always done. We are not going to join forces whose goal limits not just themselves but the people around them.Therein is the difference.It is like night and day. We have progress to make for ourselves and our people. It is very clear they are pursuing their ambition to the detriment of the collective interests of our people.To the extent these are existential matters it will not be left in their hands.If they do not heed our warnings they will be on the outside looking in very soon! A word they say is enough for the wise.</p> <br> <br>here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igboyouth.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<< </font>...</a></div> .... <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="purple">THE CITIZENS ARREST OF THE SPACE PARADING FALSELY AS A FEDERATION AND REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA</font></center> <br> <br> <p>We are not suppose to preside over our own case.We hear it said quite often.If your country is sick to whom do you turn? If you are a free people and you have a disagreement how would you resolve it? The methods we know are (i) through warfare and (ii) throught dialogue.In 1966 nigeria was hijacked by some men in uniform claiming the politicians were corrupt and irresponsible.It was just less than four years since gaining independence and the people at the helm had never before been in charge of such hefty issues.All of a sudden they will have to settle the frequent skirmishes between completely incompartible nations that are now under the same roof.The complication became as apparent as when a child of primary school age is given a quadratic equation problem to solve.The reason being he claimed he could.The more qualified people are not given the problem because they are not the preferred subjects.The "representative" will fail or succeed on behalf of the rest in the space.The situation caused a genocidal war that took the lives of nearly four million people. Again we hear the bird of darkness flapping its wings. We must stay awake and determine our safety first.The nigerian situation is not a failure of the people in the space. It is the design of the interest that would benefit from the failure.Nigeria was given arms to prosecute the war with Biafra by as many as ten different countries.In trying to understand what they stood to gain we could begin to understand the nature of the problem in the nigerian space.</p> <br> <p>The answer is a citizes arrest. The country fails to fuction.An entity of two hundred million people can't just fail.It is very disasterous.The citizens arrest is very necessary because the other methods have become compromised.The corruption and the falsehood that gave rise to the problem are clear reasons not to seek answers from such entities.The nations in nigeria know who they are and related with one another in the not too distant past.The arrival of the europeans was just a recent event.The nature of the problems and the whirlwind ride has made it seem as something that has been there for centuries.However it is so recent some of the people who witnessed the genesis are still with us.We have a problem of impersonation.Nigeria is a name given to a group of loosely assembled nations stiched together for ease of access to resources and control of such resources.It is this foundation that must be addressed by the affected citizens.We read about the plebicites that were conducted by the colonialists.We praise the effort.We could not even attempt it today.Such an effort will be a disater in every way possible! The colonialist wanted a country.It made perfect sense.It also made sense to confer legitimacy to the enterprise. However it is doubtful the result would have turned out any different than the intended one.So the question therefore arises: would the Yoruba want the Fulani to manage his waterways and his land boaders? </p> <p>Is the Hausa happy to have his identity subsumed inside the Fulani indentity, a nation of fewer people than themselves? Are the Jukuns the Gwaris,Birom, Nupe, Idoma, Tiv, Igbira happy to be subsumed in any other tribes? Northern nigeria has more than three hundred ethnic groups with distinct characteristics.Are they happy to loose themselves within any other group? Is the Igbo happy to be surrounded by an army controlled by people whose religion empowers to kill those who do not share the same faith? Igbos and the people of Eastern Nigeria are almost entirely christains by faith. Are the Ijaw, Ishekiri,Urhobo, Effik, Ibibio, Annang, Kalagbari,Bini and Ogoni happy to surrender the oil in their soil to people who have nothing in common with them? If it is trade what have they derived from it.Is it turning their community to a wasteland and oil poluted space? Is that meant to be their reward? The plebicite that answers these questions would have been the most appropriate for the nigerian space.Unfortunately such would never be. If there is no equal compelling reason to address such weighty issues who would push for them? Nigeria is therefore a falsehood on so many grounds.It is evident this arrangement is not meant to build the nations within nigeria.The friction is arising from the inevitable scuffle. Imagine a country founded as a federation funding the budget of the federating units.Where else would such a federation be found? In which other federation are the resources of the federating units held by the central government? The government of nigeria confiscates hydrocarbon deposits found in southern nigeria.It is nationalized and the people see nothing of it except poluted farmlands and environments.But gold is discovered in northern nigeria and it remains the resource of the local state.The hydrocarbon deposits found in the north is not being put on stream because it is local. The excuse is that it might be needed more by the future generations.We are showing you why there is trouble in nigeria.The country has different standards for citizens. And it is now causing much anger.The scar and history of the country does not help.</p> <br> <p>The people who determined they wanted a country that we call nigeria today had the experience to manage diverse views.If all fails they resort to carrots and sticks.Today the nigeria space is all sticks and neither experience and no carrots at all. In fact the carrots are for the elites who actually have good quality food already.It serve nothing! So the system collapses for want of underpinning values.I would like to leave the reader with a few thoughts.If one is looking for answers for self benefit, whatever he finds easy and possible is the answer.If on the other hand one seeks answers which will endure the test of time the necessary questions are usually asked.Who said the Igbo people would like to have armed men parading with cows in their farmlands? Who said they will tolerate strange forest inhabitants raping their daughters and wives while in their farmlands in the name of unity? Unity to accomplish what? And that is the question! So we tell the nigerians we do not wish to continue to seek answers from unwilling entities.The partnership that would create a country was sabotaged from the start.Right now there is no partnership.We have a situation where there are subjects and the priviledged.The false entity exists without an agreement.The man who understood the danger and tried to put it right within the military was brutally murdered for even raising the issue.His partner tried to salvage his vision.The effort has been under siege and has been all but completely reversed.</p> <br> <p>The nigerian military foisted its thought and wishes on nigeria after hijacking the space for nearly forty years.It could not wait for four years.Designated men and women tried to find the answers to the issues confronting a young nation and truely master the incipient challenges.The country enters a new reality which tolerates no dissenting views. Praise singers grew in number and wealth.The few dissenters honed their game and aim and fought very galantly.Most of them perish in the effort.The military is exhausted from self immolation and attrition.They hand over to mainly fresh civilians who now are trying hard to perpetuate the same falsehood.We gave the nigerian people the man who must have the answers.The nigerian people have a man who symbolizes everything that has been going on in nigeria.He is the man of many hats.He might be the solution.The right methods must however be applied.We urge persuation and reason. President Mohammed Buhari was a young officer at the time of the first coup.He was very active in the military government era and held many of the choiciest and juiciest positions.At the end of his military career he did not walk away.No.He was the breathe and soul of the opposition upon return to civil governance.Some claim he tries to be the rival of Chief Olusegun Obasonjo.I disagree.On two counts they differ.Chief Obasonjo is willing to subject himself to the rigours of learning.He is perhaps the only one among the men of the nigerian military establishment very open to dialecting on ideas.He set up the Oputa panel in a military junta.And I want those who will start insulting the writer to do some thinking first.He did not have to! The military in nigeria at that time had absolute power.Seeking even an appearance of due process was an act of an angel under such circumstances.Our evaluation must be based on these realities.He went back to school.He delights in making his vision open. We have facts here.It is what people like me do.Try to look at the fact objectively to determine causes and effects.In comparing these two men we immediately determine these facts.</p> <br> <p>One of them goes back to improve himself. Someone makes himself accountable to others. It shows humility.It also shows openess to change and new ideas.He has published some books outlining his vision and thoughts.On the other hand President Mohammed Buhari is the subterranean type who relishes strategy and suprises.I do not want to use the word clandestine but his inclination tends towards being secretive. We must demand answers from him. In the military these might be very great assets.They might also be good assets for a monarch.In a democracy it is not as helpful.Democracy lays claim to transparency. Whether it is true or not depend on who you ask.He was governor of North Central State a huge part of what is the twelve monolithic muslim states.He was military president.This guy was a powerful petroleum minister and still is.President Buhari was the engine in the Sanni Abacha regime. General Sanni Abacha took power when nigeria had attained military government fatigue. He understood it.He needed a person to lend credibility and legitimacy of some form.Without president Buhari there would have been complete anarchy and he knew it.For this reason the government made him the offer he could not resist.President Buhari was the de facto prime minister of the General Sanni Abacha regime. We thought Sanni Abacha was not very smart and truely he was not a genius.But nobody will argue he was street smart.He made President Buhari the manager of the Petroleum Trust Fund.He knew how to get the fund when he needed it. He had no problems with that quite clearly as records and history has shown. This fund was actually the life sustaining wire of that dispensation.President Buhari knew that to be the case. He pulled the wire any day that government was dead! It must sadden President Buhari that what he accomplished for General Sanni Abacha he has been unable to do for himself.We remember the Shakesparean adage.."there is a tide in the affairs of men...". If we want to say to him "..physician heal thyself?" We realize he already attained power under the most challenging of situations.He must have clout therefore. He is therefore part of the masterminds that produced the common ground for the twelve state muslim sharia nation with complete religious bureaucracy.</p> <br> <p>It might have been aimed as a political step mainly which it surely is by all we can see.But it has produced some serious side effects.Something that is not wholly unexpected.But politics is not a pursuit of peity.At least if the goal was to attain power it conveyed the passengers to the corridors.The fallout must be addressed with equal passion not emotion.The Muslims have a stronghold. Why must a christain stronghold be a sin? We ask the minimalist Eastern Governors what they plan to do in the event the jihadists carry out their threats? Are they going to call in the army which accepts the "repentant" terrorists? They really think such is enough reassurance for the people under a threat of such a scenario? So the balance we have now is needed. Balance is always a good thing. If anyone ignores truth they collide with it soon enough. The people of Eastern Nigeria deserve a space where they can thrive. After all no where are they truely loved in nigeria outside of this space! </p> <br> <p>Nigerians have the man who has answers.Many claim he lacks capacity.How can a man with President Buhari's credential lack capacity? I do not think a man with his experience has a problem of capacity.Reluctance or ambience might be what to call it.I sometimes think he is being blackmailed by some who know somethings about him that he wants to keep from the public. It is the kind of thing that can make a man like him very helpless.Certainly not capacity. I think there must be other explainations.He knows something so many do not.If he is not able to resolve these religious problems in northern nigeria it will be close to impossible to find solutions in anyone else.Nigerians should encourage him to return the country to the founding constitution. It starts the healing process.He holds very considerable clout in the area from where nigeria is being dismantled.If the country is returned to the nations a lot of the clashes will end.The boundaries are well defined in such matters.The centralization of governance in a federation is very difficult if not impossible.The many examples around the world informs us quite clearly. It is very traumatic for citizens as we know here in nigeria today.If we are not able to keep our first agreement neither can we keep any other.We must end the constitution making encores.It is a way actually of echoing the failure. If nothing happens soon we will have new countries from nigeria. We ask him whether it is the end game? While at it though, any nation of people seeking to be defended by this present nigerian state is sick in mind.It is a state in quick decline.To blame President Buhari alone is falsehood.There are many others and the fear is that his feelings might have made him too vulnerable to the more religious hawks in his sphere of influence.If there will be no return to the agreement that founded nigeria we know the answer in Eastern Nigeria!</p> <br><a href="makingthegong.html"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font></a> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br><br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">WE DEMAND A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO QUICK EXECUTION OF SIX CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS BY THE EX ARMY CHIEF JUST A DAY BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE</h4></center></font> <br> <br> <p>We received the news of the dearh of Prince Ukwuoma;Ekene Ebere;Amos Azubuike;Godwin Uchendu;Ebube Issiah who until their death belonged to the nigerian army.These young men were attached to The Armoury Division of the nigerian army Abacha barracks Abuja.According to information reaching us these men along with twelve others were being investigated for loss of weapons from the armoury.The twelve others comprising Yorubas and Fulanis were exonerated.The six all christians and Igbos were hurriedly executed.During the investigation they were not allowed to reach their family or any lawyers. What is more troubling is that the General Buratai ordered them executed a day before leaving office.What was the hurry?Is it how little human life now accounts for to these men? We demand to understand what transpired.We also like to warn the Igbos who are serving in the nigerian army to understand they are in mortal danger.Some of us would never have believed it will come to this ever in the country again.We bring this matter to the public for awareness and to comprehend the level of provocation the people of eastern Nigeria are enduring in every area of life in nigeria.I have quote from the press from an outlet already named: <br> <br>Secret Execution Of Six Igbo Christian Soldiers At Abacha Barracks In a statement made available to NewsProbe Tuesday, the group said it  received with rude shock and deepest dismay the Monday, 25th Jan 2021 secret execution of six Igbo Christian soldiers, attached to the Armory Department of the Nigerian Army, Abacha Barracks in Abuja. The slain Igbo Christian soldiers namely: Prince Ukwuoma, son of a traditional ruler; Ebube Isaiah, Amos Azubuike, Ekene Ebere, Moses Anyim and Godwin Uchendu were secretly executed under the instruction of now Retired Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, a day before he left office on Tuesday, 26th Jan 2021. This shocking news was disclosed to us by Barr E.R. Okoroafor, an int l human rights lawyer, who is very conversant with the matter and was also contacted by one of the slain soldiers through his family to defend them in the trumped up charges, executed using hazy and clandestine Military Court Martial. <br> <p>We had tried to explain the miltary intervention in nigeria as an episode in history and had been of the opinion that the healing of our soceity is paramount.As an Igbo and a Christian I have been forced to reorder my priorities and thinking.I do not believe this move to execute these apparently innocent Igbo christain youths is anything but a very clear message of contempt and hatred.It was the intent for the accusation and they were framed.But is now an unfinished business for the general.It hangs around his neck.The man would not allow the next person in authority to look over what was on the ground. By this action Lt.Gen. Tukur Buratai is now an enemy of the Christians from Eastern Nigeria and the world and the Igbo people in particular.He is well aware what it means.It makes no sense for the Nigerian army to contiinue along this part of self immolation.First mistake is the idea to reabsorb former terrorists into the nigerian military.It is unheardof.Second is the aiding of bandits against farmers.The farmers are citizens too.In other places around the world farmers are protected because they are the source of the meals the soceity need to survive.Here is one more piece of evidence that these people either do not understand their responsibility or they do not care for the citizens.Some argue it is both.They feel nothing for those they purport to lead. <br> <p> This man hurriedly kills these youngmen who have taken no lives! He felt nothing for them.He treated them as worthless pieces of thrash. He by the action displays a very troubling level of ignorance or is it blatant hatred.Neither of these are proper for a position such as the one he held.When someone has taken no lives it is not customary to consider taking their own.Assuming a soldier stole weapons do you execute them for that? What then do you imprison a soldier for? For swearing? We have an army that rehabilitates terrorists that have killed scores of nigerians! An army that facilitates ransome for bandits who kill rape and burn entire neighborhoods.But we know the only mistake of these men who were proud to sign to defend what they errorneously considered their own country.It cost them their very lives. And it is made worse that these lives were taken by someone to whom the well-being of these youths is intrusted! We warn the others to be careful.It is a very serious situation. By this action they can see they are regarded as mere expendibles in that entity.They carry cross-hairs on their backs! Such is not soldiering.It is suicide.And they are enduring great evil indeed. He could not even pretend for the sake of fundamental fairness. This is not a very brilliant leader.His actions did not impress some of us.However his atittude fits a pattern to scape-goat the Igbo.We believe this was a set-up.It was an attempt to make some the outsiders and villains.It is usually the resort of inept leadership.The idea of scape-goating the helpless is old. It is not surprising he had rather limited success in his tenure.We want him to know the case has gone to the court in the Hague.The case has gone to the ICC and by the nature of it we pleaded for expedited hearing.</p> <br> <p>Unfortunately he unwittingly had dragged with him many others and all of this under very avoidable circumstances.His entire actions as it pertains the Christains in general and the Igbo people in particular will be thoroughly scrutinized.Again we tell the people from Eastern Nigeria in the military to be wise.We also warn the nigerian authority of the elements in the military who want to sow anarchy to benefit thereby.Easterners in the nigerian army (we would say southerners but obviously the other people know their way around) should be careful. We can sense the feeling towards them.It is neither friendly nor sustainable.We non-politicians in Eastern nigeria are aware of what need to happen quickly. We tell the politicians who prepare for another election in nigeria before resolving first whether there is a country they are crazy.They do not care people are dying in hundreds daily? When communities are being burnt, when citizens are IDPs in their own so called country? They are either delusional or crazy.In Eastern nigeria we are a community of the same people.We value and cherish life in our own communities.As we say "it is our share under heaven".</p> <br> <p>We had hit our stride and found our destiny before the genocidal war hindered us.We now know who sowed seedlings the division in our soceity and the reason.However God has already judged them. The crude oil has made them poorer.Their people are uncared for.Only a few rich among them is not how you account for the enormous wealth they had stolen from us.We were left nothing but degraded environments.We will not allow anyone and persons among us to be used to divide our people.Any ideas in that direction will be dealt with summarily. We are going to work together and elevate our communities.It is the goal and the people of God say Amen! We are working for the garthering of our people to the East and beyond the so-called borders.Unlike the others we do not invite them to come to nigeria and fight for land.They own where they live.They are all indegenous people. We look at the culture and the other things that define nations.Our goal is unite our strength and shed our wicknesses.It is the goal that has occupied some of us for some time now.Events like these make it easy for us to know what to shed! <br> <br> <img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br><br><br><center><h4><font color="blue">NIGERIA MUST CORRECT THE STRUCTURE COSTING INNOCENT LIVES OR...</h4></center></font> <p>The people who are running the entity referred to as nigeria must understand what it means that a system has failed.If they continue to pretend that the entity they are operating works they are deluding themselves.Nigeria failed in 1966. The coup was a failure of leadership.It showed lack of capacity.It was a sign of lack of discipline. But the innocent people were killed in the millions for this mistake.It ought to have been detected and foiled. There are those with such responsibility in the system.But it was not. The course of events should have ensured the preservation of the constitution which ought to be sacrosanct in a mutlti-ethnic soceity like nigeria.The contrary was the case.The military should have punished the culprits of the coup to set example with them. It should have then promptly returned the country to the path of normalcy.It would have deterred would be coup makers.Their constitutional duty is to protect the country from external aggression and to defend the constitution.Their oath is to the constitution. It is what binds all the people together.We are dealing instead with a situation where some in such an institution insist on an aberration and would like to force everyone else to accept same because it favors them. It is not how patriotism sounds or works.</p> <p>The military coup was an error that should have been corrected and the system returned to normal.It is how corporate entities function.It is how systems work and it is how you know you have established a system.You do not have a corporate entity or system if it is not able to self correct or if it is not sustainable.Nigeria fails in these two very imporatant areas of established criteria.You have a system which is altered significantly everytime there is new management.And the stakeholders are held at more than arms length.It is not how a system works.In the case of nigeria the system fails and remains in comatose and some people are reaping and reaping.The turn the limp body every way they chose and take what they want. They will not seek to resurcitate it. A country has people in it. They will not accept such conditions for too long.We have people who have altered the norms and negotiated positions.Not only that they did but also impose their own ideas as though they are sovereign over the people. Every time those who are hurting complain they are hammered into silence.We hear lectures about the corporate existence of nigeria.It might be because they know it is a lie. It might be the reason they maintain and sustain the unending refraim. <p> We do not see it.Where are the articles of incorporation and who are the stakeholders? Where are their seals and signatures.You just can't go to some people and confiscate their resources and insist it is good for everybody's use. But what you own is good for you to keep.There is gold in Zamfara. They can keep it.You cease the oil in southern nigeria.Nigeria will continue to be the death trap it has become until some people accept their error and mend their ways.If they reject equal citizenship with those they think they conquered in battle or by their line of trade they have it all wrong. And they will have only the pieces of the entity in their hands very soon.The country has been shattered to near pieces already. Nigeria's neighbor Ghana is moving fast along taking full advantage of the vacuum the situation in nigeria presents.It might take decades to catch up with this close neighbor.We wish to tell the people who are running or ruining nigeria to allow a conversation about how to return nigeria to the country that was negotiated by the nations and regions. If that fails the people will return to their former status and seek new alliances.Isaac Adaka Boro is not Igbo.He is not Sunday Igboho or Nnamdi Kanu. He fought and died for self determination. It is not something this select few will continue in the "infinite wisdom" to skirt around as though they are the parents of the rest of nigeria.If they fail to listen to what they are hearing the regret will be all theirs in the not too distant future.</p> <br> <br> <br>br><br><br><br><center><h4><font color="blue">THE WORLD CAN NOW SEE WHY THE SUPREME COURT APPOINTED SOMEBODY IN IMO STATE!</h4></center></font> <br> <br> <p>We need to have a count of the youths again killed in Imo State.The images will also be needed. Such materials must be properly secured and made available to the authorities when they are requested.It will be needed to make our case for the independence of the people of the space.It is the only thing that can afford safety at this point.Also required is the number of killed in Obigbo in Igwe Ocha.Today it is clear to us that the Jihad the Fulani promised has started. There is no other explaination for what we are witnessing throughout the entire nigeria.We must not think there is any other way out.We have to ask to be set free from the stranglehold of the nigerian army and police.After all these are elements many of whom have foresworn the massacre of the entire Eastern Nigeria.It is true they reintegrate the terrorists.The recorded information is made available to some of us.It is very frightening.We see an army that will not fight terrorists.The nigerian army has not really truely engaged the Boko Haram group as it is capable of.Now they are pretending to be tough inside the city killing innocent citizens.It must be because they are christains.</p> <br> <p> I was watching as elements of the nigerian military lay on the ground shooting into the public.What kind of soceity is this one? The supreme court appointed governor of Imo state demolished a hospital in Imo State built by former Governor Rochas Okoraocha.We are talking about a hospital that has bed capacity of nearly one thousand.For some of us a hospital to care for the people is not politics. It is a matter of compassion. In this very act this man has actually proved on whose side he is.The supreme court appointed governor destroyed new landmarks constructed by the former governor to give the city of Owerri a face lift. These are landmark that are commended by all. This man is busy destroying the state governed by a man who belongs to the same political party as he does.It is exactly why we have said these men are not politicians but pure criminals.It is what we have said that some people within the corridors of power are capable of anything. And that is the problem.The people of the state know this man and his former way of life. Today he is given the police force in the state to continue with the nuissance he is so used to. The government of nigeria must show it does not sponsor these kinds of criminal behaviours now threatening the very existence of the entity called nigeria.The people are the ones to make the determination what type of soceity they want to live in.We had warned them the conman sponsored by the sharia land will spurn illusions and delusions in the state. We said it could be far worse than that since the sponsors are no strangers to fatalism.Now they know.The man is sponsoring demolition without bombs and inviting nigerian troops to kill for him. We are seeing state sponsored terror in action.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria is suppose to be a democracy but a sharia chief justice was chosen to make a religious point. Islamic inscriptions are placed in the military logo and the currency notes.The country joins the Organization of Islamic countries.The other nigerians slumber on in the name of peace.And they pretend not to understand the anarchy now unfolding in the space.These things were done under a military which is in complete sympathy.All in a nation that is suppose to be secular.The chief justice a learned and accomplished lawyer was kicked out simply because he is a christain.For good measure he was slammed with accusation of being corrupt! In Nigeria we are asking? In Nigeria corrution is a crime?.Imo state must have the highest number of christains in Nigeria perhaps after Lagos.Very recently the case to establish whether the governor was a legitimate candidate in the election came up for hearing and the military initiated a fracas within the state.Some local vigilantes were their targets.They are surprised the people feel insecure and have moved to defend themselves.Why would nigerian government give Hilux Trucks and cash to terrorists and shoot law abiding citizens? We would like the whole world to see the level of inhumanity going on in Nigeria.In the past three years mass graves have taken the remains of countless christains in southern kaduna and other parts of nigeria where the sharia law is practiced.Such a tactics do not help rule of law and unity.But the impunity goes on.</p> <br> <p>Kaduna a hitherto peaceful state has been divided.The part of the state that is largely inhabited by christains have become a grave yard.It is not a coincidence that the governor here had boasted about his own "stock". We shuddered to hear a chief executive make such remarks. In a soceity like nigeria where the literacy rate is this low such are very incendiary issues.Religion or ethnicity will ignite conflicts among people easily.In this case someone in authority combine the two without any qualms.Christains in the state are now at the receiving end.We have seen their homes and villages sacked and razed to the ground.We hear of a plan to repopulate entire nations of people with a more preferred group.They seem to forget such had been attempted in certain parts of africa and it actually backfired. But nigeria must not be playing with such ideas.Nigeria has a history of a war in its recent past. We know what these people are about to cause in Nigeria.The 1967 to 1970 episode will be a play compared with the threatening explosion.</p> <br> <p>We appeal to the United Nations to see how the population can be sheltered from further massacre by the nigerian army.It has become a pattern. The army will massacre the Igbo youths and tepid explainations and denials is all that will be required.The world now can see events as they happen.Yet the nigerian government has never accepted responsibilty for the mass murder that has become common place in nigeria.Inspite of the numerous images and audio evidences the denial continues.It was claimed that the army escorted some of the bandits that have sacked entire communities.We heard and seen these things in northern nigeria. We ask the governor of Imo State what he is attempting to accomplish.Does he think the army will install him emperor too? Why is he bringing unfriendly strangers into the state? Is it so he can use them to intimidate the population? Now he brings the army too! The chief justice made him governor. Will the army make him emperor? If he dreams so he is in the worst place to anticipate that. Why is the army deploying to fight a community militia in a federal republic? We will ask the United Nations to immediately intervene before this gets out of hand. We have citizens who were captured by Boko Haram and the army has not been able to engage the terror group to free them.It has no clue where they are.</p> <br> <p>Why would they rather fight people who have kept an environment safe thus far? We want to show the world that the government of nigeria can explain the insecurity in nigeria.It appears it is being sponsored.If it is not part of the said jihad what is it? The nigerian government has never shown any commitment in tackling the menace of a roving band of armed men claiming to be MYetti Allah militia.The police charge offices are filled with citizens reports and complaints of incessant murders and mayhem by this group.A former Finance Minister of the country had his farm hijacked and he himself was kidnapped.His security man was murdered and as an act of pure hate his chest was cut open and his heart ripped out. All in the mans own farmland. No please.It is not how you manage a soceity or govern.It is not acceptable by any stretch.How can a community face such a grim reality and wait for anyone to protect them? If such a community will not rise to its own deffence it has been swallowed up.It has been overrun. We like the nigerian government to curb the excesses of its military who will aid reprobates,renegades and terrorists.We will not have a soceity where anyone just wades in with weapons to threaten communities.We have an army that will not look for such culprits but will come in to threaten and kill citizens.How much are nigerian called to endure to be part of such an organized mayhem? If they have energy they should go to sambisa forest where the terrorists are waiting.The entire nigerian space is being overrun. Why are they fighting those who wish to secure their own environment.Where have they kept safe? We ask where have they kept safe? The entire northern nigeria is under threat.Why must the other people wait for them? Why do they have problem with citizens keeping their own environment safe? Nigeria is a federation after all.Something does not seem right.We see militias owned by Miyetti Allah and all sorts in northern nigeria and it is not a problem to the nigerian army.It goes beserk anytime southern nigeria does anything to be safe. In the present climate of insecurity their reaction is very suspect.It is the reason the people are very alarmed.</p> <br> <p>Nigerians must therefore arm.It has become very neccessary.Anyone asking citizens to disarm in the face of threats from foreign bandits and roving armed militia many of whom are foreigners is delusional.Nigerians should arm as quickly as they are able to.It is the only way they stand a chance to survive or to repel the invading militia.The Yorubas who profess Islam must not think they are safe.The infighting of sects and groups in many countries are worse than external wars.They have no idea who these people are and what they profess as faith.It is very dicey to hope they will be safe.We must all be outraged at the complacency of our own government.What is going on? Why is the nigerian army quick to kill people in Eastern Nigeria? Worse things happen in other places and nothing of such is heard.In the last three years the nigerian army has killed thousands of Igbo and youths of Eastern nigeria.It was their purpoted involvement in the Lekki protest that brought the nigerian military.And among the dead were Igbo youths.How can a people live in a country with those who have foresworn to wipe them out? They jump at every excuse and opportunity to kill Easterners or the Igbo people.It is the reason they planted a stooge as governor in the heart of Igoland in Eastern nigeria.Many of us warned the people this was going to happen.Having said that we warned the man himself of the danger.He made this choice and it is now his cup.</p> <br> <p>We ask the governor how he feels presiding over a massacre of Igbo youths? How will he clear his name to posterity? Now he declares a curfew in Orlu.It must make him feel very powerful.It is important to remind him that the Igbo people have a very long memory.I know those of them who play poitics in Igboland today are a different kind.But Igboland and Eastern Nigeria have patriotic sons and daughters.We are watching as these one play a loosing hand.We see Myetti Allah "negotiate" with terrorists for payment.We see even governors negotiate and pay ransome to bandits.Our governors and politicians do nothing but pin blame on their own.Our youths become their sacrificial nameless objects.It is sacriledge and they must know the people will demand the explaination to all this. What kind of useless politics are they playing? Do they think the rest are like them? Are we all stooges to the Fulani? Do we beg to exist as a people? We will demand and request the United nation to ask the nigerian military to explain the reason for the incessant massacre of christains in nigeria.It has become too much. It has become too frequent to ignore in the name of internal problem. It is genocide going on in nigeria.It is happening in southern Kaduna. The victims are christains.It is happening in Eastern nigeria and the victims are again christains.Right now in Ondo and Oyo states the most populated christain areas and local governments are under seige.The party in power in Nigeria is using the name of politics to spread and execute the agenda of Islamization of the entire country.It is time to ask where these armed men come from. What will happen after the flexing of muscles? Are we suppose to accept this as a way of life? I know the answer from the free people of Eastern nigeria.</p> <br> <br> <br> <center><font size="4" color="blue">THE SOUTH MUST ACCEPT THE BROTHERHOOD AND LIBERTY NOW OR SUBMIT TO ETERNAL SERVITUDE</font></center> <br> <br> <p>I should say the people of eastern Nigeria are determined and it is without equivocation. A few who have no way of knowing not to accept bribe of their own money are the exception.I do not like to defend someone who is able to defend himself. However when there are unreasonable and insensitive comment made in an exigency it must be quickly rebutted and dismissed. If this is not done the gullible will start to process the idea. We see the need to appeal to our neighbors and brethren to hold fast or the storms will shake them off.The storms and waves will come.Why are they worried about how the Eastern Securtity Network came about? Would they rather have themselves surrounded by Jihadists? It is clear some do not follow the slaughter of christains going on in the sahel which quite clearly has entered Northern nigeria.Who is so foolish to play politics around such issues? It is true some people are more interested in a different future than Nigeria.Yet they are at the helm in the country.And they are killing the other people slowly to get there.Would they rather the soldiers who are sympathetic to such beliefs defend them than their own flesh and blood? Did they see the jubilation among Northern naval officers when their boss a man from the so called south-south was removed recently? It was very troubling for me.Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas was replaced by Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo.The jubilation was deafening. The reason for the celebration is because his replacement is a northerner.It is not how a soceity is suppose to work.This is a military not a political party.In all situations the military are suppose to have a bond that makes one trust the other.You want to trust your partner and fellow soldier with your life. It comes to that in battle.It is the reason why they are not able to defeat Boko Haram a rag-tag barefoot but well knit group.We know they complain the terrorists have better weapons.Unity,ideal and purpose is a weapon.It might not help too.</p> <br> <p>Quite clearly the nigerian army is nepotic and the loyalty is to other matters than the calling. We say this because we wish it were not so.It is the reason we ask those who want to wait the sign they need to warn them of danger.The politicians we know it is the lust for power.But what is in it for the ordinary people who are slaughtered daily like chickens? We are still not able to convince the few who would rather be servants than free people. We cant convince the few who would rather perish than live in a free soceity where there is abundance and safety.It appears they believe it is impossible.We are not discouraged though.It is not the reason to be distracted.If they would rather serve we insist they serve their own people.Right now there is nothing on the table to negotiate about whether there will be an autonomous Eastern Region.We have it already. It is constitutional.If there is a disagreement as to whether the 1954/ 1963 constitution is the agreement for an entity called nigeria then nigeria ceases to exist.In which case all other issues are mute.Everyone is home already.If anyone wants nigeria it is not without the basis and the agreement.It is that simple.It is impossible to have nigeria on any other terms. It was not the arrangement and agreement.We warn the people talking about 2023 they have no entity to run for office except they have already accepted this truth.In which case the people affected are to assume same.</p> <br> <p>while the entity burns and thousands die all they care about is their ambition to "rule". It is strange they think their heartlessness qualify them to lead.The entity called nigeria was formalized with a constitution.Everyone is acting as though this contraption is a mystery abstraction.It will not exist without an agreement.If the agreement ceases so must the entity.We warn the fools who think this is a fools parade to understand it is not. This is very serious.We recall warning the former senator and now imposed governor not to accept a trojan horse gift but how much he loved it! Now it appears he is lost and can't tell apart citizens and terrorists.He can't trust the police anymore.He calls in the military routinely as if he is at war with the citizens.He issues decrees to arrest any one at sight! What a democratic set of events.So he blames locals who want to keep their own environment safe.And he is the one who imported election riggers and mercenaries to suppress the people. Nigeria will not exist on the terms of those who already created a nation that is Islamic and under a different law and jusprudence.At least the rest can disagree.If not we must accept their is a big problem.Some people want to paper over such a big issue.We demand a return to the constitution that created nigeria immediately.Some people might regard this as the normal call for restructuring. It is not.It is a call to decide if there is a country or not.Those who have already restructured to suit their own needs might be wondering why the rest are waiting for them.Who will restructure the Eastern Nigeria? How do you restructure Western Nigeria? It has the same people.You need an agreement ti co-exist and we have one.We just alerted the people about the plot to restructure the nigeria.But it is sinister.We have "Kenan" also called "Abakpa" or officially Calabar being reconfigured with thousands of "refugees" from Zamfara,Kebbi and Yobe.We alerted the people to a scheme to oust them from their ancestral land.It is the only restructuring they will get.If those with whom they entered into an agreement have abandoned it why are they pleading as though they have no recourse? Nigeria must be returned to the constitution that founded it or the people of Eastern Nigeria will walk...We make the demand with definite time lines.We do not beg.And we do not plead. There is a choice we can make that we feel is even better for us.We will not continue to waste precious time and lives.We must return to the agreement or there is no country for anyone to "rule". It must happen quickly.</p> <br> <p> If that is not so then there is no Nigeria. We are done with the spurious webs being spurned without end.What is South-South? You create such incongruent entities and flood the area with foreigners armed to the teeth! And you turn around and urge and preach unity and peace.These are part of the ploys to confuse and obfuscate. What are the states suppose to serve? Are they federating units? if so why can not a single one of them finance its own budget? What is the long term goal here for sustainance? More borrowing? We have said it is over.It is the same thing that was done to cause division during the genocidal war.It is why we are here today suffering and complaining. Today everyone is dealing with the effect of the quick bribe.Our brothers were given bribes and they forgot that the first people to be murdered in both Northern Nigeria and Lagos during the pogrom were not Igbo people.One was an Effik and the other an Ibibio person. The impostors use dialects and so-called ethnicity to divide family members.It means nothing to them than that. The Igbos assumed it was home and family and soon the murderers stretched their hands on the Igbos too. Isaac Adaka Boro was the first indegenous person to seek secession. It is a pity some do not perceive at the level of others.Look at how many years it took for the majority to come to agreement with his conclusions many years before.As a people we have won the autonomy we demand in Eastern Nigeria.It means our hamlets and homesteads are also free.However if we do not defend it we might again loose it. We therefore appeal to our people for the sake of posterity to sacrifice the proverbial plate of porridge. If they choose to eat it they must also know they will continue in their present slavery forever.We have this window to safety.We must not wait.We must march on now. Major General Philip Effiong was right.His dedication and fortitude strengthens us.We thank Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for his matchless courage.Today we thank God for the spirit in our youths led by an able and brilliant man.We must encourage Nnamdi Kanu and let him know his work is appreciated by our people.It is a sacrifice for posterity and our progeny.It is a noble cause.I used no honorifics on purpose.Just to assure all of us that ordinary people are able to accomplish extra ordinary things.It takes courage and fortitude.</p> <br> <p>The bribe takers and backstabbers are not only wrong but foolish.Who will set them free when they are ready? They were given a platform they sold it for cash.Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu (Ochie Dike Ndi Igbo) gave them APGA and nurtured it with his last energy.To their shame they abandoned the party and went whoring. Today they join APC and two hundred thousand bandits(Boko haram terrorists) become their personal detail and election riggers.In return they pledge the people and land! And the terrorists are given Igboland to possess. It is very awful what these men are doing!You urge the people to allow armed murderers in their farms and fallow lands.They kill and rape on a binge.What are the people going to do for food? The conmen who claim to lead know land belongs to the community in Eastern nigeria.Some people have lost their damn mind. They partner with people who swear to kill them at any opportunity.To their shame they will not think over these things.We wish we could leave them with their masters.But they are our kit and kin.We know their day of regret will come.But it must never be our hinderance.Our day has arrived and we must do what is necessary.We just wish to appeal to everyone to make it easy for the people who have to carry the burden.The only satisfaction in this whole thing is that our people are made safe.Eastern Nigeria had the best calibre of leadership and that is why they delivered the fastest growing economy and one of the fastest industrializing nations in Africa and the world respectively.</p> <br> <p>We like to remind the governors that their atittude is inexcusable.I have never shared their political positions.They fail to understand that politics is warfare with ideas.No time have they heard the northern governors castigating much more condemn terrorists fighting and killing nigerians.They never condemn Boko Haram that has checkmated the nigerian army for over a decade.In eastern nigeria the story is very different.The governors are busy seeking out their own who demand a better soceity.They mastermind the killing of their own brothers and sisters who want to secure their communities.In no other part of nigeria is such the case.I always tell them to grow up and it is time they do.Why do they shun help from soceity they claim to protect? Why do they want the people to wait and be killed? Even when they seemed powerless in the face of marauding killers? They seemed content to just issue tepid empty appologies for lost lives and sacked communities.For what reason do people want a government? Is it for worthless and fake appologies? It was all they were able to do.We have killers parading in Igboland as herdsmen raping,killing, burning and sacking entire communities? They will offer appologies for the murderers and kill their citizens and kinsmen. And their favorite recourse is rather to fight and kill Igbo youths who galantly choose to defend their motherland.How much is their goverorship worth anyway? It is a pity they choose to place themselves on the wrong side of history.The day will come to give account and they must remember that.ESN is very useful in Eastern Nigeria and will remain.Governors have term limits.A word they say is enough for the wise.</p> <br> <p>It was something they were very satisfied to do for their people.Some of us are very lucky to have met some of these men.Their simplicity and humility hides the very brilliant minds.The men and women were fierce negotiators and very brilliant managers and technochrats.They were very certain about the outcome they wanted.Today what we have in the land are people who lord over their own people like "kings" but outside they negotiate like slaves. With suspect skill sets they have nothing tangible to offer the people.We know Nigeria is a place where salaries are not paid to workers but not like ten to fourteen months of owed salaries.It is heartless to ponder such an idea. We understand everything about the rainy season but it used to rain when Chief P.O Ururuka as Minister of Works for Eastern Region carved beautiful paved road through the entire Eastern Nigeria.In comparism to what is going on today it is mind blowing.What is the miracle is it was done with agricultural produce and taxes.There was no cursed crude oil money and the famous "dollar/barrel" budget narative.Today there are no new roads being constructed.The old ones are not being maintained.The schools are in utter disrepair.Children of the poor are not learning.So we see more trouble in the future not less. It is leadership from you know where! It was not so in the Eastern Nigeria government.It was a government manned by patriotic sons and daughters of the region.It was a very contented government where budgets were crafted professionally and adhered to.We had leaders indeed. We know without them the Colonialists were running rings around the head and feet of the others around Nigeria. It is a legacy that should make us very proud. Why do we have the present crop of inept leadership? Our people are not so sure about nigerian politics.Certain people from up the northern part have no idea what democracy is suppose to be. For them a soceity exists just for them alone.Politics in Nigeria and what it is still looms in the rear of their minds.With such brutal minded people at the helm many are not just apprehensive but even resentful.And it seems we are about to have a encore.It is why reason informs us to do something very different and quickly too. </p> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5> <br> <br> <br> <br> <img src="igbo2.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><center><br><br>%%%%%%<font color="purple"><h4><center><a href="challenge.html"/>THE STRUGGLE TO FREE EASTERN NIGERIA FROM INTERNAL COLONIZATION WILL NEVER BE POLITICIZED</a></font></h4></center> <br> <font color="blue"> <p>We were not surprised to hear some attention grabing attempt by some who are not new at it. Ever so often people with some ambition try as many times as possible.It is not a bad idea.In life there remains a time and an opportunity to achieve something very meaningful.It is the mark of quality of mind to understand it and ride it.We just wish to state that some people are wrong to think that the struggle for the people of Eastern nigeria to excersise their full autonomy can be politicized.If this movement could be corrupted it would have done so.There has been very ample opportunities.We know some people have had the chance to do some good things for themselves and that is good.There are some who for this event have forsaken everything including opportunities these noise makers will never imagine.If they wish to make noise about the past we will ask them what they have accomplished.What did they achieve apart from enriching themselves? How did the people benefit from their sacrifice? And this is not to belittle anyone but a reality check. So we wish to tell them to be careful.It is very dangerous to interfere at this point. I say this with a sense of duty and also compassion.The nature of the effort preclude some trivialities.In any life and death effort to open a weak link and pretend it is not sabotage is not wise.It is our struggle and all are welcome but in ways that will not disturb the free flow of order and structure.It will not be tolerated.</p> <br> <p>We have the commitment of the men and women of goodwill around the world to see to it that the people of this region never again suffer the fate they endured in 1967 to 1970.It is not anything new that some people prefer to settle and that is the problem. We know a leopard by its spots.It is not necessarily a blemish but it is how we identify its kind.You are not going to have it both ways.Once you are settled by the oppressor he knows you have a price tag.It is not anyting anyone will wish away.We must continue to pursue this issue with sincerity and singleness of mind.It is the only reason it has come this far.No magician with a magic wand is responsible for the success but God.IN GOD WE TRUST.If we thought there was some person with the magic to wave and everything suddenly appear but where have they been? Were they waiting for the people to be entirely wiped out before they do so? The whole Eastern nigeria had been surrounded by Fulanis moved in from everywhere as refugees,herdmen and political thugs.It is a shame the politicians in Eastern nigeria presently are in the pocket of the fulani and northern oligarchy.At no time have the space been in such a very vulnerable position.So where were these magicians? We urge our people who have struggled for matters like resource control and ethnic and minority and civil rights to know the day they prayed for has come. God has strenghtened their hands. But now we must build on sincere and strong foundations based on family, love and brotherhood. We urge organization like PANDEF, MEND and others to understand the power of synergy and unity and apply reason and good judgement.It is clear every slack and opening will be exploited.The people who have enslaved the rest of nigeria and now threatening the entire african space are watching.It is where we need them and we extend a hand as family and welcome their contribution.As we all know in matters like this everything must be orderly or it will become harmful. We assure them we understand their position but will not tolerate confussion and greed.It is why this matter has lingered.It is the reason Biafra was not realized and we lost four million of our people.We have come this far by the grace of GOD!</p> <br> <p>We like to tell them that we are very confident and feel pretty good about our chances without their help.However we welcome all in the fight for the liberation of our dear motherland.It calls for no disorderliness for that we will not tolerate at all.We are not such as will play with the lives of these many youths that came out because they trust us! We will never play with their lives.It is a commitment they must trust.We know some people look for opportunities.This here is not one of them.If they do not think properly they will end up on the wrong side of the struggle.We like to remind them that we have a family and we have a tent large enough for our family.We will not allow anyone to create the impression of a power struggle as seen in fundamentalist religious groups.It will not be the case.We have an effort of very informed and sophisticated minds.It is not a gamble of some ignorant people trying to make some money.We have a struggle of men and women who have a goal, who are propelled by vision and purpose. Our vision derive from our root of godliness.It emanates from our faith in the One Supreme God and we are all family and adorned by HIS best intentions. It is premised on the fact that we can achieve like anyone else if given the right atmosphere.We have here a struggle to give our own people a space to prove it and to unleash their creative genius for the world to see.It is not a gamble to get anyone to offer some money to us.No sir.We would like to assure our people that they have working with them men and women with ideals and character and that they can be assured of.We do not have an attempt by some to get attention.It is not. At this point is it not a little pretentious for anyone to just wake up and begin to pretend to have answers? So then where have they been? Our people are dying and on daily basis! What would it take for their compassion to become ignited? Would that happen when another set of millions are massacred? It is rather self-serving to say the least.Our mission will bless us, our children and their own.It will bless the African people and the world. Please join us as we plead with these men to understand what we have said and comply and conform to reason as we move forward. We have honor and respect enough for all our people who help to bring about this noble vision.</p> <br> <p>We quite understand how inertia functions.In the present situation some feel very comfortable and can only see marginal changes.It is also true that they are not aware yet of how far the struggle has gone without their input.It might shock them to understand the point which the struggle has reached.Yes they will be appreciated and celebrated if they join forces with the ungoing effort.However if they wish to be used to create any form of drag and inertia they themselves know how dangerous that might be for anyone.From all over the world our people have offered help and given approval of this effort.We have received commitment from great minds around the globe.It is out of the league of would be warlords and those who trade with the lives of others. We have a movement of very God fearing women and men.Our word is our bond.Our people know that and it is the reason for the way things have moved along.Nobody will change the trajectory at this point.We have passed that point.Perhaps the inevitability of the outcome is driving this desperate behavior. However it is pointless.Collaboration is needed still.We are not going to bargain.It is not what we are seeking. We do not wish to make our space a den of religious warloads.We want to create an environment that will make our people the safest they have ever been and the most prosperous. If they knew where this movement has reached they will join ranks. The attempt to compete will backfire badly.We are not looking to annoint warlords.No! We always like to speak to our own with love and kindness and compassion.It is how a family functions.We are not going to allow distractions and noise the type of which will demoralize our youths who are out there paying the full measure of their love for our motherland.No! It will not happen.No sir! Anyone who has any such thought must end it quickly.It will never be tolerated in the struggle.Our people have shed too much blood.We will not trade their blood for anyone to become rich or famous! A word they say is enough for the wise. Now let us march forward to victory together!</p> </font> <br> <br><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <center><br><br>%%%%%% <h4><center>NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE ATTEMPT TO GAG AND BLINDFOLD THE MEDIA</h4></center> <br> <p>Nigerians who are of age remember the creatures dwelling in Aso Rock.Some of them are creatures of rebellion and revolt. With the exception of the man who became a vice president hoping to change the leopard's patches the rest are feudal elements.Their effort to shed the toga always seem to falter.It shows the extent and involvement.It is a mistake to seek to have a magical transformation.Such does not always happen as we are now witnesses. What that means is that they do not subcribe to freedom of expression and opinion.They will suppress it and violate it.Many of us who understand how contradictory it is for those who have these attribute to seek democratic leadership are not suprised.It is asking the dog to keep a pack of fish.It will be eaten.It is very ruinous.It never works.The dog will be swearing by its intergrity and honor.There will be denials and howls and barks.In real life it costs lives.We are not able to see any way such people can lead.In an attempt to "rule" they mount road blocks against themselves and others.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria has this unfortunate situation which repeats in many areas of national life and it has kept a nation capable of being great on it knees.We watched as young men and women waving nigerian flags and singing nigerian national anthem were shot and killed.We are hearing that as many as fifty lost their lives.In the world of "apple", "microsoft","twitter", "space-X", "amazon", we weep for a country that destroys its own youth.One single life under such a circumstance is horrible.It could be any of these people in our own circumstances.For feudalistic mindsets its all about competition for existence if you must do better.In which case the youths have a fight and a cause.It bears with it their life, future and their dignity.</p> <br> <p>We are being treated to a contagion of inpunity as the press in nigeria is being punished.While the rest of the world worries about the deadly covid-19 the nigerian youth has much more than one threat.The youths are being slaughtered and maimed.One wonders what type of "responsibility" these people desire from the press in the face of these kind of events.Are they refering to martical loyalty of the oppressed? Nigeria will never become such a place.Not under the new set of events.Those who seek office must now brace for scrutuny.We are appalled at the idea that a government which claims to have been elected by universal sufferage will choose to gag and blindfold the mouthpiece and eyes of the people it purports to represent.The press is the emblem of liberty in any soceity especially a democratic one.Why are they being given this type of steep fines for performing their duty to soceity? If the fines are enforced we will conclude there is an attempt to destroy democracy in nigeria.I do not think there is any chance the news houses in the United States or any where in the democratic and free world is fined for relaying news.The courts are available to take cases of infringement of the law by any entity.</p> <br> <p>These media houses should have been sued by the government.It appears the government of nigeria thinks it must adjudicate whatever it considers an infringement outside of the courts. We wonder why it has a court system at all.We know the judges are handpicked but for God's sake why can't they even pretend? They are wrecking a country of two hundred million people like a tray of "cake".Has the very nation become "cake" also? It seems the disappearing "national cake" is creating a problem of aberation.News agencies are suppose to relay the news.They just portray events as they are.It is what they are suppose to do.If they embellish it they are counterfeit.Are the people who are trying to "rule" nigeria implying the press instigated these events? What an absurdity that argument! They could not if they wanted to.We had a reaction of frustrated youths who are seeing no future for themselves.These actions or are they reactions from those in power are not reassuring either.It is absurd for a government and a country to fight its own youth.The press must show events as they are.We suggest that the affected entities seek redress in court.Let it be done for whatever it is worth.It is the right method.It is the process.These people do not understand process,procedure and methods.</p> <br> <p>It is pertinent to alert the people who make these kind of decisions that they are being watched.The rest of the world are interested in what is happening in nigera.The world has become aware of the fatalism that is unfolding by the day in the space.They recognize it will spill over and create havoc of a great proportion if allowed to fester.The nationalities within nigeria are excercising their sovereignty by demanding to take their own environments that are being destroyed by speculators.They can run them by themselves.They had done for tens of thousands of years.We know the interests are vested but nothing is more so than a people whose lives are under threat of complete annihilation.The people in governemnt might consider the military their property.Actually the military is suppose to be a symbol of pride in nations.In a country like nigeria that will never be a nation because of events such as this it becomes a symbol of suspicion.By using it as they do they sabotage the purpose of the institution and place it at cross purposes to its own.</p> <br> <p>We like the members of the law enforcement to know nigerians appreciate they are needed.At issue is the composition, the purpose and focus.Why is attacking youths carrying flag a more pressing priority over citizens who are murdered daily by unknown gunmen,vandalized and burnt villages and settlements? Why are there killings all over nigeria and the government seem not to care? Why does it seem the government is not worried about the suffering of the citizens in a horrific pandemic? It is the appearance created by actions of government itself.Why is the nigerian government increasing taxes and tariffs for citizens when the rest of the world is doing the exact opposite? Nigerians do not hate the law enforcement. It is the priority of government they find disgusting. What is under conversation is pervasive corruption within all the institutions.What is at stake is the future. In so far as these are delicate issues the state must allow the system to determine the guilty.In trying to protect and defend bad behaviour it erodes its own credibility and legitimacy.</p> <br> <p>We therefore appeal to the men of reason in these places to bring themselves and reason to prevail.If we are not able to do so the space is going to be subverted.We live in a predatory world.We do not expect a predator to pass up an opportunity for a good lunch.Some people are looking to sell their obsolete weapons.Others are looking for an uneven partnership.The type some african leaders are eager to embrace when their backs are against the wall.As we appeal to the people of conscience around the world we also call on our own people to require fairness and nothing less.We need the correction to happen now.We need a system.One like every system which is self correcting and self sustaining.If nigeria will not be allowed to become one, some components will leave the arrangement.We hate to call it a union now in the absence of the founding constitution.</p> <br> <p>It is quite clear nigeria is today neither a federal government nor a republic.It only answers to such in self deceit.The sooner the people who think they are in control start the inevitable conversation the better.The massacre of the youths is the watershed.It can't be business as usual ever again.The space will not be allowed to go any lower than that.If it appears such will occur ever again the nations will excercise their options quite inevitably.It is how it plays out every where. We are not able to see the reason for the arrogant proclaimation that nigeria is non-negotiable.Who is playing God to make such assertion? Nigeria is a work of a British administrator called Fredrick D.Lugard.Nigeria is a union he cobbled together in a recent 1914 from nations some of which had existed for thousands of years.Somebody changed what God had done.If Lugard an English man can come to africa to rearrange nation states to suit his plans why are the people not able to determine if it serves them well or not? Unless of course they are not free.If they are free and sovereign they can! </p> <br> <br><br> <br><br><img src="umuigbo2.jpg" align="right" width="230" height="200"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="jajawach.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br> <br><center><a name="wasting.nigeria"></center> <br> <br><br><br><center><h4><font color="blue"><a href="challenge.html"/>WHY NORTHERN NIGERIA MUST ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONDITION OF THE NIGERIAN STATE</a></h4></center></font> <br> <br> <p>At independence the people in Nigeria had a chance to chart the order of peace and unity. However it was not to be.From the very start the people of Norhtern nigeria determined to undermine the new country.The Igbo and Eastern Nigeria or Southern Nigeria fought their reluctance and the colonizer simultaneously.It was just one month after independence that the Sardauna of Sokoto then premier of Northern Nigeria goes off on a tirade declaring the new country "an estate of our father".The newspapers publish headlines of it. Grand durbers were staged to mark the declaration.He follows up with an interview with British Broadcating Corporation in which he roundly denounced the Igbo people. And these people are suppose to now be fellow citizens in a brand new country. In the interview he vowed never to hire any southerner in any position unless there is no other choice.In fact he said he would rather hire a foreign contractor first.And if he is unable to find then he will hire nigerian from the south but also on contractual basis.In this interview he excoriated the "Igbo people" for everything including breathing and walking around like everyone else! I do not believe these were relationship building moves.If one can't see the connection between these actions and the massacres of the Igbo that occured in the area such a person is daft.It is very clear you will not have a soceity that is peaceful by such line of thinking.</p> <br> <p>It is clear why they will not concede anything to the rest of soceity.If the rest are either your "vasaals" or "conquered people" why would you negotiate with them? So exactly when did these northern leaders catch the unity virus? At what point did the "unity" gene develop in the part of the country that wanted nothing to do with the rest? You know the answer! Crude oil.It is the reason we laugh at the southerners who are hoping to forge a "friendship" with these people who think themselves as masters.It will take a change of mind-set first.It is what we have not yet seen. The pity is that this atittude feeds the narative of the oppressors and offer the best excuses to continue to exploit the environment. It provides the excuse and the room. If you leave such vacuum in a predatory world it will be exploited unfortunately to your own detriment.You close rank and build your own community.And the Igbo and people of Eastern Nigeria have tried to help Nigeria!</p> <br> <p>It is impossible to have a situation like the one described that produces equity. Many of us have always known these matters will either be resolved by having these position denounced or ending the relationship.Countries are entities.It is not true the claim that "nigeria's unity is not negotiable". We can't even see the unity they are referring to.Is it the constant slaugther and instability and now terror? There has been uncountable military coups and counter coups.There have been uncountable so-called constitutions all of which were nothing other than decrees. There were hitherto neither plebicites nor referendums.The military authorities all of who come from those who see the nation as their estate write up a line of thinking and foist it on the rest.It is what has been toppled.It has ended.Just as we see those statues come down around the world to mark the end of despotism we have defeated this evil in Nigeria. It was the goal.It has been achieved. The vile order is gone for good! It will be the constitution agreed to before independence or there is no Nigeria.As it stands when the promise is given to return to the constitution the generation who see the danger in living in the explosive called a country will have to be convinced to go along.They see a better future without the albatross around their necks.It appears to be the problem presently.Nigerians now identify more with their ethnicity today than any other time in the history of the moribund state.</p> <br> <p>How will the youths from southern nigeria surrender their future to people who have no respect for life? All the people in the entity do is live and celebrate life.It is so different from those who do not value life.You have the people who live through others.The youths in southern nigeria know what is different.Such life is not for them. It is not possible.Having watched the sacrifices of the older generation fail woefully to satiate the people who want to add no value but demand everything on the table they want none of it.In fact it is possible that the position of the return to the constitution before independence is rejected by them.We are not able to convince them of the merit of an entity that plans an election when thousands are dying daily in the hands of bandits whose source and nationalities/nationality is yet to be determined.It is the stuff that make you lose interest and confidence in an entity and they have.Nigerian people do not feel as though there is a country. The political elite are intent on milking a dead cow. All they think about is the next election.All the country now exists for is elections.The people die, the heavens fall.It is elections. It is very sad.We have one of the most achieving people in the world.Nigerians have proved resilient and competent in the world stage as individuals.</p> <br> <p>The people from Eastern Nigeria reside everywhere around the globe.The problem they have is their country and its government and leadership.Is it the military governments who take every thing in the treasury? Or is it the civilian one that is striving to rival them? It is such a reversal of narative.We place the blame squarely where it belongs and we are not being careless.They have killed the nigerian state with the "ranka dede" culture. It is the atitude that looks at the "leader" as beyond reproach.It is the reason a so-called cleric can threaten the catholic Bishop of Sokoto for criticizing the president.The shame is the man himself is not a stranger to controversy. The president once made a coup and broke rank with his leaders.This is not a person to be sheltered by a nameless "cleric". But these are the kind of praise mongers and drummers who have sank the ship of the state called nigeria. Some nigerian governors have thrones instead of working office spaces.And they are not alone. It has become the new craze and act of vanity of the powerful.The opulence of their offices shows it is not meant to be a place where problems are addressed,tackled and solved.Most of them have gold plated thrones! The bandits and herdsmen and even the terrorists in nigeria are all from one part of the country.And it is where you see this display of power and opulence the most.Again in the predatory world we inhabit weaknesses are never rewarded they usually are quickly exploited!</p> <br> <p>Somebody needs to really do some work! So how come these fancy thrones in the midst of such human emergency tending to a national tragedy? How so ironic? Our population is becoming poorer.Our soceities are in tomoil due to ravaging poverty.If our states were doing well who cares? You imagine states that will not pay wages of their own staff display such filthy opulence? Some of the governments that will engage citizens and refuse to pay wages citing lack of fund have fund to lavish on such vanity.Imagine such priority? And these are suppose to be the advocates of the citizen in such matters.Compare these with governors say in the United States or in any civilized soceity.We see this tendency in areas where leaders tend to see fellow citizens as subjects rather than partners.It is for this kind of reason one governor in Eastern Nigeria has the fight of his life and it will be so all day and night.He is in one hell of a fight.The people who placed him have a different sense of leadership than the place he finds himself.He brings a mindset alien to the people.Only the people in certain parts of Nigeria see leaders as above any reproach.It is a feudalistic mind set that has now eaten deep into the fabric of the nigerian soceity.When you question a leader and demand explainations for his choices he feels insulted and his supporters are enraged.Yet democracy requires and demands such accountability.It is a government of the people. Let me take another piece of evidence.At independence the regional leaders came to the seat of power at the center and left the source of their residual power to their lieutnants.</p> <br> <p>What do you have from the people who have ruined Nigeria? The leader stays back and sends a representative.Having no base of his own the representative felt like a floater.It was the bane of the young republic. The man was forever looking for a base.He tried to raid Western nigeria for a political base.He failed to penetrate the tough armour of Chief Awolowo.The people will not yield any ground.The many attempts to break through the fortifications of a people who clearly were on their own land and soil resulted in an earthquake.It was what destroyed the young republic.We still see the atittude today.We admonish these people to go and have some reflection and consider if they wish a relationship with the people of the south. It is worthless to fan the embers of hatred like they do and speak of unity.It is one particular governor and another one who is the echo whose idea it was to invite cross-border invaders to bolster his large ego who keeps at it.He has been flagged for this crime against the country.It disqualifies him for any ambition he might nurse. Nigerians have that penciled down aganst his name. We tell him and those like him to rethink.It will not be a military conquest.</p> <br> <p>The people of Eastern nigeria as promised will liberate the entire nigerian space but do not not need any "estates" and colonies.We have four million dry bones that will become a rapid army of judgement on invocation! Our people are hard working.They need nothing God has not given them.They work and they create wealth.It is their gift.They are not the ones who became rich by diverting assets of the entire soceity.We know the people who sponsor the so-called herdsmen. The world now knows and other africans now have become aware.Again we urge the people to go back and think and reason together.We do not think they really care about Nigeria. If their first instinct is right they do not really want Nigeria. What they want they already have in the twelve states where they have excluded the rest in the act of governance.The sharia entity is their first love.It is already theirs. The rest did not have a say in their choice.They are the ones who have divided the country.It is such a guile and deceit for them to be mouthing unity.All they have focused on is how to plunder the so-called "estate". It will be very different now that the rest have realized the truth.It is the reason we tell them to think again.If they start a war today it will go very differently.It is that much certain!</p> <br> <br><br><br><a href="makingthegong.html"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font></a> <img src="adaeze.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br><br><font size="4" color="darkbrown"><a href="providence.html"/><center>TIME FOR PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE TO INTERVENE IN NIGERIA.</a></center></font> <br> <font size="4" color="darkblue"> <p>It takes one bout of fear and confussion for the inexperienced to spew up a well kept secret.It is the experience of nigerians in the last few years.But the nigerian problem has not been much of a secret.Nigeria has been pleagued by leadership problems from the start.It is clear we have a very fundamental problem.We have diversity of views.It is something prudent leadership would have anticipated.But it is raining and the roofs are leaking and badly too. Quite often we do the very normal which is blame the colonial government.But they have been long gone.Iam afraid this blame belongs to those who sought leadership.Having found it they are acting confused and scared of the responsibility.Nigeria has many nations.It is no secret.It can't be wished away.It is reality.Some people keep deluding themselves with ideas about owning the others. The Great British Empire dumps a hot flint and some careless bloke owns it.And into his long flowing gown he tucks in the glowing flint in grand bravado! Well, good luck!.And all that for those who share nothing with him in terms of history.It has been one tragedy after another.It has cost lives in the millions and is not abating.The colonial government used indirect rule. They recognized the influence of the people.These ones use brute force for everything.It is one contradiction after another.Somehow they are unable to find a reason and a way to work together with citizens. We know force has its perks but it also has its problems.Ever so often it leads to revolt and rebellion.</p> <br> <p>Again we see the effort of the harpless government in power to unravel every chord of unity in the country it claims to lead. We see the extreme elements in their midst steering the country to the brinks.They do not approve kidnaps but they negotiate hefty ransome for terrorists.The government might need to create a Kidnap Ransome Department to facilitate negotiations.No? It is becoming very difficult to watch this unfortunate regular feature.In the southern part of the country especially the eastern part we have some grovelling men putting up a show. Their brand of politics is one of begging the center for everything and seeking approval for everything.The people and their sovereignty has been sacrificed in their approach. It seems everything is going right in their own eyes except for their own mistakes.All the flaws of the system are theirs to put right at the cost of their own citizens.Its a real pity! Some people want to beg and crawl.It is hard to make them do anything else.We watch what is called spinelessness.You are wondering how long they will live and how many times they will die.According the the maxim, "cowards die many times...." The governors who excuse herdmen that kill and maim must have their reasons.Far be it that they do it for political capital.Such will be terrible! Well if anyone tells me that these governors do not ask themselves why herdmen have suddennly multiplied in nigeria since 2015 it means they do not think.Many of us know it is an attempt to provoke another war in nigeria.A war in which those who have disarmed the rest of the country expect a decisive victory.Now they know! Cowards who will rather be slaughtered like cows.No they plan to run away and leave the citizens in the mess.It is why the people must defend their own soceity.</p> <br> <p> Give them one of their own and they come alive!@....They will become vocal and brave. It is a crying shame.The whole eastern nigeria is now surrounded by barracks of a fulani army and camps of fulani militants.These governors are worried only about their own citizens who wish to confront people whose nationality they do not know. We begged them to do something to no avail.They continued to chime the excuse that they are chief executives with no power.Now see what power they have!! After citizens move in to secure their own community the excuse makers all came alive.In which war did these armed men conquer the nigerian military? So why are the men of the nigerian military fighting citizens instead of invading murderers? In the ensuing confussion we are hearing the secrets of the fulani agenda and everything else.The problem with this development is that it is exactly how very bad things happen.It is how they start and quickly get ugly. Humans fear for their lives.It is normal reaction.Why is the government of nigeria so tactless in handling matters of unity? The Chief Justice of nigeria Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, GCON is an eminent nigerian Jurist.He is from southern nigeria and a christain. The federal government replaced him with a muslim Sharia judge in a non-sharia judiciary.The man is fulani.The president himself a muslim and fulani.In a country like nigeria this move was very insensitive. It is an example of how the government has helped those who seek to wreck it by all means.</p> <br> <p>The people from southern nigeria were watching this development as all hell broke loose and armed able bodied men started to stream into every part of nigeria.All of them are fulanis.What would anyone expect the rest to feel? We can now understand.Now they unleash mehem on the population.Why is the military which has been silent in the face of all these provocation quick to attack a local security arrangement? Does the so-called constitution not empower citizens to defend themselves and others? Why is it a sin for citizens who feel vulnerable to protect themselves? Why would any one attack people with the anticedents in eastern nigeria? We are talking about a people who have lost four million of their own? Why is that?.Boko Haram was spurned after twelve states in nigeria broke away and formed a nation of Islamic law and jusprudence.The government has been pretending to be combating them.We are not convinced and are not able to see their commitment to fighting Boko Haram.It was hard to convince them to tag this group a terrorist group.The rest of the world did before nigeria reluctantly did.The government trying not to provoke internal strife by any means.</p> <br> <p>Today other groups that have emerged are treated with kid gloves and pampered and given trucks and truckloads of money as they kill and maim citizens with glee.We think this is to help equip them properly. The people of eastern nigeria create a vigilante to protect themselves and they are tagged terrorists. The nigerian government moves in for the kill.Yet this group has killed nobody and have kept the area relatively peaceful.How in the world the government wishes to run two different countries has been the source of much distress.It has been difficult.The nigerian government will dispatch il-equipped southern christains to attack the terrorists.It reserves well equipped men to fight and subdue the southern entities that question this strange arrangement.Right now a governor is imposed in a state that has the highest number of christains in nigeria.But they clearly elected a different person. The sharia chief justice of nigeria picked his own man and imposed him on the state.The state has become a firing squad and killing field for the nigerian military and their appointed governor.</p> <br> <p>We want to declare to the rest of the world that nigerian government has made clear by its actions that it wants to create a country which is Islamic. It is not a development that is acceptable to the majority that happen to be chriatains.It will therefore be difficult to find any peaceful arrangement under the circumstances.The government will need to reverse its own positions in many areas.It is how to begin to redress this error.It is only then the conversation about returning the country to a true democratic government can begin.Since the government of Chief Olusegun Obasonjo there has been no other government with the economic physical discipline to create financial health for the country.The present constitution makes it very impossible to achieve that goal.One wonders the reason for all the parade and charade going on in the clear absence of such a goal.With a population of over two hundred million people this ought to be the priority not religious bigotry,ethnic chavinism and nepotism.At the time we had pleaded for more time for that government that actually seemed to understand the issues to help a little more to put the nation on the right course.</p> <br> <p>We had requested for the country to return to the founding constitution.The present dispensation is still an off-spring of the military. We think it is responsible for the non-democratic disposition we witness quite often. Moreover it functions through a constitution that was made by the military men.It is absurd to expect this arrangement to meet the yearning and aspiration of the various nations in nigeria.We will continue to experience this nightmare until that reality is recognized and redressed. Nobody expects this bunch to arrange a constitutional conference and implement its findings.The present climate will not endure it. And it lacks the capacity and thoroughness.We notice the scanty acts of kindness by some governors.After all the constitution of nigeria absolves them ab initio. As they relish their paradise the world caliphate plans and hatches more plan. They have a plan which is now clear.It is how to silence this very natural opposition that some of the reactionaries seek.In other to accomlish that they have invited elements from various terrorists entities within africa into nigeria.Unfortunately the government has been slow to condemn these actions.It leads some of us to one inevitable conclusion.Since the religion in question places little value on the lives of those who disagree the world must understand why the others must create a bulwark or perish.</p> <br> <p>We know the people who have done nigeria this disservice.We recall their television appearances and commentaries and newpaper articles.It is no secret.They ended nigeria.They parade a military whose goals and purpose they have changed as the "nigerian military". Just watch the ones they send to Orlu and Obigbo and other places in southern nigeria and the one that fights Boko haram. It seems like two different forces and it is.The priority is clear. But their actions are clear and has clear consequencies also.It is their actions that has summoned the undertakers now hovering for their day in nigeria. We know it is almost unavoidable.If the African Union and other entities in africa will not deliberate on the nigerian situation it will be out of their hands and league very soon.Nigeria is their big brother we all know that.However poor leadership has placed the big brother on the brink.It will be going down if intervention does not happen quickly.The nigerian army must stop attacking the nations in nigeria.They have been victims for far too long.The army fought the people of eastern nigeria for a military coup carried out by soldiers.The war of genocide was avoidable.</p> <br> <p>If they do not wish to fight terrorists from outside disrupting lives why confront local citizens who do? Are they sponsoring this event? If the military will not correct its position it will mean a declaration of war on the rest of nigeria.We have a federation a republic and a democracy not a kingdom.We believe many in the nigerian military will heed this call.We also think that people in authority around the world should urge the nigerian government to respect the sovereignty of the nations and stakeholders in the country.The sooner that happens the better for everyone.If a country of more than two hundred million people unravels through conflict the world will feel the rverberations.We are taught that a stitch in time saves another nine. When a fabric is riddled with that many stitches who wishes to put it on? It will confer an appearance of a crazy person on the best of persons! It seems to be where nigeria is now.And it is getting worse.</p> </font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>><center><h4><a href="challenge.html"/><font color="purple">PLACING NIGERIA IN CONTEXT AND LEADING FROM THE FRONTIERS </h4></center></a></font> <br> <br> <br><font color="blue" size="5"> <p>I listened to an interview given by the governor of Bauchi state recently.According to him the bandits and terrorist have "mesmerized the nigerian army". I feel that such a language does not capture the sensitivity and concern that a man in such a position ought to show.We all remember the governor who opined that the fulani race is better off united in the nigerian space.As an african I have nothing against any other african.But the feeling must and should be mutual.In saying what he desired for his race he never said what he intends for the others.Some people are already in the space.He never even addressed the idea of providing for the fulanis who by virtue of being nigerians have bonded with the other nigerians.They have been on the queue for the services accruing from citizenship.Now you wish to dump new people ahead of them because they are better armed? His obssession is with the ones who have guns and "equipped with AK47 weapons to protect their common-wealth".As a politician it suits him well.It serves him well we know that.But he is not the only one involved here.And as we had expected he never said what and how he intends to handle the problem with the limits of space.</p> <br> <p>We all remember the scientific idiom: " matter occupies space". If you have a limited space you are not going to be able to squeeze so many people into it.He also forgot the sovereign people who "own" the place can protect "their commonwealth" from impostors.The other component of this idea of herding cattle in farms is that people need food to survive.Man can't live on cow meat alone! It is an existential threat to destroy farmlands.As would be expected living things will respond to existential threats.The government and the people of nigeria must know these symptoms we all observe have a cause.The balkanization of nigeria started about two decades ago when twelve states broke away from the nigerian commonwealth. But they will not fend for themselves economically.Instead they wish use the same people with whom they will not socially interact as equals.</p> <p>They will assume control of all the resources of those who have now become sort of underlings of the reality this group is attempting to create. Today they seek resources from what has become their colony.When people accept injustice it leads to being oppressed. It is the natural order.Nigeria was a country founded as a federation in recognition of the diversity.It is foolish to ignore such a very clear reality.Every time the same people who demand a sacred approach to their demands descend on the others casually it is an act of oppression.Just when nigerians needed help on how to put food on the table these selfish few strike yet again.Instead of the conversation about dignified living in the space, some pick a template for conflict and disaster! They have strayed too far from good judgement and we are witnessing the unavoidable and inescapable ramifications.</p> <br> <p>In southern nigeria the space is so limited that land is being reclaimed from the sea.Our friends in the northern part of the country will ignore vast expanse of land available in the area because it needs some work.Just like we reclaim land from the sea we can reclaim land from draught and the desert.We reverse nature through compliance.It is called work! We have watched these men who do not understand what it means to break a sweath call for violence.You want a Fulani man from Niger or Mali to come into nigeria in Yorubaland or Igboland to defend his "commonwealth".His commonwealth is there in Mali and in Niger or in Bauchi.It is evil to consign people off to avoid responsibility after they have been used. You do not have a paradise in Bauchi or anywhere in nigeria to offer anyone anywhere you heartless conman.You hear one thing from these "leaders" and think it is tasteless, tactless and classless until you hear another far worse!. It is pertinent to remind everyone involved that violence is unproductive and serves no good.Dialogue is how problems are better solved.</p> <br> <p>We can all see how and why it is very unnecessary for the people from the northern part of the country to think their only option is to "migrate" to the south. The one problem here is the south is already occupied.The way of life is set and fixed. It is not presumption. It is reality. If you want to live with them you accept the existing rules.You do not make your own.When you do it is called affrontry and confrontation.It is a declaration of war against those who are there already. The nigerian authorities must know these are complications and realities governments are suppose to avert. Here we see a government masterminding such events.The claim there were cattle routes from the early days of the nigeria federation is very unreasoned.We are talking about nearly seventy years ago. At which time there were only thirty million people in nigeria. Perhaps also not more than a few hundred thousand heads of cattle.It is some of this kind of facts and realities that are lost to the "leaders" who repeat things mindlessly.</p> <br> <p> When you have million heads of cattle and two hundred million people you have a different problem.In addition to this is also the problem of perception.We must remember the time the former leader of Libya Col. Muamar Gaddafi used to visit nigeria. Perceptions and behaviours are related.It was very frightening to see the effect he had on the space.I can't imagine how the government in nigeria handled the events.It was very imposing and intimidating.It called for tact and perspective and such was applied. It is such matters that cause frayed nerves and bruhaha.By playing possum the nigerian government of that day averted what would have become a very explossive event.However what nobody addressed was the sympathies and affiliations.Nigeria has those who lean more towards those kind of bonds than the ones with other nigerians.Today it is not prudent for the other nigerians to assume silence. It is neccessary to expose these loyalties and resolve them in some way.Otherwise one day the people will wake up to find that nigeria has become another Lebanon or far worse.Lebanon was a leisure destination with a very prosperous booming christain population a few years ago.As if they hated that they opened their doors to their neighbors.The neighbors came in and waged battles against the christain population.It was jihad open season in Lebanon.It continued until hundreds of thousand if not million of christains had to to flee the country.Today there is no sign of those who once controlled Lebanon who could have maintained what they had including prosperity and the good life.We see all the markings in nigeria and they are very disconcerting.Our government has been sucked and milked to comma paying ransome to kidnappers and reformation and repentance fee to bandits and terrorists.What a country and what a time. The fundamental Islamic forces which negotiate kidnap and ransome with the nigerian government and military is the same ones sponsoring the events.It is very clear to everyone.How suatainable is that? One is able to see why the nigerian military has been overwhelmed by these forces.In one place they pretend to be benign only to metamorphose afterwards to a danger.</p> <br> <p>Anyone can be deceived, even a military.It is the reason I think the nigeria military will be unwise to attack Amotekun or Eastern Security network.These entities will not confront them naturally. It is impossible. Any governor creating and manufacturing such events is a fool and an enemy of the people he purports to lead. Government is a form of vigilante with rules and guildlines.We see these entities as original in that they seek to protect their own communities.It is very personal.They have clear mandates that are moral and therefore legal.Usually what happens without these entities is always anarchy and total chaos.It is what they seek to avoid.They do not come out of nowhere.These situations are natural reaction to insecurity. I listened to the nigeria minister of information as he explained why IPOB is declared a terrorist organization. It is strange how blissful ignorance can be.He tried to explain why killer herdsmen and bandits are not terrorist but an organisation with no history of violence is branded a terror organization.Exposure and education is very important to qualify to lead a supposed democratic republic of two hundred multi-lingual and multi-ethnic people.It is in the knowledge that one discovers that diversity of opinion is part of soceity.In the United States of America there are militias groups.None of them is regarded as criminal until a crime is commited.</p> <br> <p>There are people who drive vehicles with license plates and tags with names of the "Repubic of Carlifornia" or "Republic of Texas" and flags or even carry Confederate flags.The United states fought a war against the confederates.Right now these are citizens expressing themselevs.The law of the United States allows freedom of expression.It is a principle.The minister of information of nigeria can't stand the Igbo, he hates the Igbo.He makes that obvious. The fact is the Igbo know they are not beloved in the space. But such is life.In his ignorance he thinks his hate translates to law.It is the law that you enforce as a government.Government can't enforce feelings or opinions.It is why nigeria is now in very bad shape.Some of the members of the nigerian government do not know how to delineate between their feelings and the law.It is why you must bring a sharia chief justice to head a non-sharia judiciary! In the United States these people are not terrorist because they carry these flags and even guns.And you are talking about very powerful guns these guys carry. Nobody care until they use it to attempt to hurt anyone.The people who commit crimes are called domestic terrorists.IPOB members were killed when they lifted no weapon against anyone.The world watched as so many of them were killed by this government.How many lives are too many? At what point is self-defence warranted? The nigerian government that appointed men like this minister must take responsibility for the complication created by their lack of understanding of what freedom of speech or a federation means.</p> <br> <p>I raised the issue of the perception of loyalty earlier on because loyalty is everything.If we have a soceity to which nobody owes any loyalities we have created an entity of death. People are best in entities to which they are loyal.We have oaths and allegiance when we are granted citizenship. Our northern brothers are more loyal to these external entities than the ones with whom they share the nigerian space. It is a fact and it is a reality we do not wish to discourse.It is like the issue of infidelity in a relationship.Nobody is eager to talk about it.We all know that forces like ISIS and Islamic State Of West African Province have many sympathisers in nigeria even within the corridors of power.Our security agents are rather willing to seek to ally with such forces to avoid problems.In doing so they make the problems far worse.We have a sharia government which leads a monolithic twelve states in northern nigeria.We have an assumption that there is any religion that has no factions.Religion has versions and factions.It is for this reason that modern nations base state policies on ideologies that are fixed and not subject to relative ideograms.In the nigerian situation we have a reality which right now is playing out.We raise the issue that someone is a muslim.Is the muslim you are talking about a Sunni or shi'ite? Is he a fundamentalist? Which one is he? Here is not a situation that is problem free.The issue of distrust does not resolve itself by resorting to religion.In most cases it is made far worse.I think what is playing out in northern nigeria is very predictable.It is for this reason the colonial government rejected the sharia idea for as long as it lasted.Now look what has happened.</p> <br> <p>The nigeria army will commit a fundamental error to throw its reputation into this quagmire.It will be the worst it can inflict on its own self.The entities are free people who know how to solve problems. If the government fails they will do what they need to do.It will be a mistake for the very government which will not fight terrorist turn around to fight citizens as witnessed in Orlu. If such becomes the case the nigerian army will encourage a free for all fight. In which case it will be the very victim too.And you are looking at how a soceity descends into chaos and anarchy.It is therefore wrong to my mind for anyone to expect nigerians to wait until they are engulfed in the malaise before seeking some sanity.The worst mistake the nigeria military will make will be to think it can jump into the space of nations and not mess up.It will fail.The nigerian war would have failed if the Yoruba, Effik, Annang, Kalabari, Gwari, Nupe,Birom, Ibibios, Idoma, Ijaw, Jukuns, Hausa, Binis, Uhrobos and the others felt as rankled as the Igbo did in 1966.Today they all feel rankled by the nigerian state.What the Igbo felt in 1966 is the feeling in the entire nigerian space today without exception.Right now it is the feeling.The present dispensation has managed to unify a feeling of alienation among almost every other ethnicity.The Fulani agenda has become all too pervassive.Many of the local Fulanis are dumbfounded.It has created I fear a very permanent real obstacle for unity and peace.Nobody want to think they are about to be supplanted.It is a terrible feeling.The men who started to canvass such ideas have done nigeria disservice and by extension their own who were co-existing peacefully.It is difficult to know a nigerian fulani and a migrant one.All of them are migrants by nature.It is disingenius to peel away the little trust that enable citizens to tolerate arm wielding strangers in their midst.The politicians accomplished that fit all by themselves!</p> <br> <p>Human beings infact living organism react to stimuli.It is another scientific maxim.It is impossible to hurt someone and make them not to feel hurt.Once the action is taken the feeling must occur.You avoid the feeling by avoiding the action. It is not possible that you inflict the action and require the feeling not to happen. Such a position is very unwise.We urge the nigerian army to understand it will not be able to control the situation.The intention and purpose of the unfolding set of events is to cause it to become sucked into an error.It is how entities become discredited and invalid. It is best to allow the entities to work out how to be safe.When peace is achieved such a reality can then be ovelayed by the most current. If the nigerian military ignore this advice it will be sucked into its own mess and become mired in religious and ethnic bigotry in an exigency which will ruin any force.Nigerian army can't wage a religious war. It has all sorts of people in it.They are bound to break ranks.It is human to feel alienated.Nigerian leadership must go back and pick up the country abandoned in 1966 in pursuit of petroleum wealth.It is possible to acknowledge the new middle-belt region and formalize it.It frees up the sharia states to operate in a way that is not inimical to some form of national cohession and unity.It means nigeria can have five regions that are de-facto nations with viable economies.I have suggested this so many times.It is the only affordable solution to the present problem.The rest are so prohibitive the country disappears from view.We lend this idea to the "leaders".And they better listen or they will wish they did.It is very heart wrenching to watch ordinary people wasted and nobody seem to care.Sometime very soon the repercussion will confront the soceity.If there is no way to find covergence then we must all accept we have lost the nigeria we all know and move on like real adults.Only children want to eat their cake and still have it. Adults understand it is not possible.If you work against a country you are going to loose it. Some people have worked against nigeria for such a long long time while pretending unity!.</p> </font> <br> <br> <br><br><br><a href="challenge.html"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font></a> <img src="igbo2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">WE DEMAND A PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO QUICK EXECUTION OF SIX CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS BY THE EX ARMY CHIEF JUST A DAY BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE</h4></center></font> <br> <br> <p>We received the news of the dearh of Prince Ukwuoma;Ekene Ebere;Amos Azubuike;Godwin Uchendu;Ebube Issiah who until their death belonged to the nigerian army.These young men were attached to The Armoury Division of the nigerian army Abacha barracks Abuja.According to information reaching us these men along with twelve others were being investigated for loss of weapons from the armoury.The twelve others comprising Yorubas and Fulanis were exonerated.The six all christians and Igbos were hurriedly executed.During the investigation they were not allowed to reach their family or any lawyers. What is more troubling is that the General Buratai ordered them executed a day before leaving office.What was the hurry?Is it how little human life now accounts for to these men? We demand to understand what transpired.We also like to warn the Igbos who are serving in the nigerian army to understand they are in mortal danger.Some of us would never have believed it will come to this ever in the country again.We bring this matter to the public for awareness and to comprehend the level of provocation the people of eastern Nigeria are enduring in every area of life in nigeria.I have quote from the press from an outlet already named: <br> <br>Secret Execution Of Six Igbo Christian Soldiers At Abacha Barracks In a statement made available to NewsProbe Tuesday, the group said it  received with rude shock and deepest dismay the Monday, 25th Jan 2021 secret execution of six Igbo Christian soldiers, attached to the Armory Department of the Nigerian Army, Abacha Barracks in Abuja. The slain Igbo Christian soldiers namely: Prince Ukwuoma, son of a traditional ruler; Ebube Isaiah, Amos Azubuike, Ekene Ebere, Moses Anyim and Godwin Uchendu were secretly executed under the instruction of now Retired Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, a day before he left office on Tuesday, 26th Jan 2021. This shocking news was disclosed to us by Barr E.R. Okoroafor, an int l human rights lawyer, who is very conversant with the matter and was also contacted by one of the slain soldiers through his family to defend them in the trumped up charges, executed using hazy and clandestine Military Court Martial. <br> <p>We had tried to explain the miltary intervention in nigeria as an episode in history and had been of the opinion that the healing of our soceity is paramount.As an Igbo and a Christian I have been forced to reorder my priorities and thinking.I do not believe this move to execute these apparently innocent Igbo christain youths is anything but a very clear message of contempt and hatred.It was the intent for the accusation and they were framed.But is now an unfinished business for the general.It hangs around his neck.The man would not allow the next person in authority to look over what was on the ground. By this action Lt.Gen. Tukur Buratai is now an enemy of the Christians from Eastern Nigeria and the world and the Igbo people in particular.He is well aware what it means.It makes no sense for the Nigerian army to contiinue along this part of self immolation.First mistake is the idea to reabsorb former terrorists into the nigerian military.It is unheardof.Second is the aiding of bandits against farmers.The farmers are citizens too.In other places around the world farmers are protected because they are the source of the meals the soceity need to survive.Here is one more piece of evidence that these people either do not understand their responsibility or they do not care for the citizens.Some argue it is both.They feel nothing for those they purport to lead. <br> <p> This man hurriedly kills these youngmen who have taken no lives! He felt nothing for them.He treated them as worthless pieces of thrash. He by the action displays a very troubling level of ignorance or is it blatant hatred.Neither of these are proper for a position such as the one he held.When someone has taken no lives it is not customary to consider taking their own.Assuming a soldier stole weapons do you execute them for that? What then do you imprison a soldier for? For swearing? We have an army that rehabilitates terrorists that have killed scores of nigerians! An army that facilitates ransome for bandits who kill rape and burn entire neighborhoods.But we know the only mistake of these men who were proud to sign to defend what they errorneously considered their own country.It cost them their very lives. And it is made worse that these lives were taken by someone to whom the well-being of these youths is intrusted! We warn the others to be careful.It is a very serious situation. By this action they can see they are regarded as mere expendibles in that entity.They carry cross-hairs on their backs! Such is not soldiering.It is suicide.And they are enduring great evil indeed. He could not even pretend for the sake of fundamental fairness. This is not a very brilliant leader.His actions did not impress some of us.However his atittude fits a pattern to scape-goat the Igbo.We believe this was a set-up.It was an attempt to make some the outsiders and villains.It is usually the resort of inept leadership.The idea of scape-goating the helpless is old. It is not surprising he had rather limited success in his tenure.We want him to know the case has gone to the court in the Hague.The case has gone to the ICC and by the nature of it we pleaded for expedited hearing.</p> <br> <p>Unfortunately he unwittingly had dragged with him many others and all of this under very avoidable circumstances.His entire actions as it pertains the Christains in general and the Igbo people in particular will be thoroughly scrutinized.Again we tell the people from Eastern Nigeria in the military to be wise.We also warn the nigerian authority of the elements in the military who want to sow anarchy to benefit thereby.Easterners in the nigerian army (we would say southerners but obviously the other people know their way around) should be careful. We can sense the feeling towards them.It is neither friendly nor sustainable.We non-politicians in Eastern nigeria are aware of what need to happen quickly. We tell the politicians who prepare for another election in nigeria before resolving first whether there is a country they are crazy.They do not care people are dying in hundreds daily? When communities are being burnt, when citizens are IDPs in their own so called country? They are either delusional or crazy.In Eastern nigeria we are a community of the same people.We value and cherish life in our own communities.As we say "it is our share under heaven".</p> <br> <p>We had hit our stride and found our destiny before the genocidal war hindered us.We now know who sowed seedlings the division in our soceity and the reason.However God has already judged them. The crude oil has made them poorer.Their people are uncared for.Only a few rich among them is not how you account for the enormous wealth they had stolen from us.We were left nothing but degraded environments.We will not allow anyone and persons among us to be used to divide our people.Any ideas in that direction will be dealt with summarily. We are going to work together and elevate our communities.It is the goal and the people of God say Amen! We are working for the garthering of our people to the East and beyond the so-called borders.Unlike the others we do not invite them to come to nigeria and fight for land.They own where they live.They are all indegenous people. We look at the culture and the other things that define nations.Our goal is unite our strength and shed our wicknesses.It is the goal that has occupied some of us for some time now.Events like these make it easy for us to know what to shed! <br> <br> <img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br>br><br><br><br><center><h4><font color="blue">THE WORLD CAN NOW SEE WHY THE SUPREME COURT APPOINTED SOMEBODY IN IMO STATE!</h4></center></font> <br> <br> <p>We need to have a count of the youths again killed in Imo State.The images will also be needed. Such materials must be properly secured and made available to the authorities when they are requested.It will be needed to make our case for the independence of the people of the space.It is the only thing that can afford safety at this point.Also required is the number of killed in Obigbo in Igwe Ocha.Today it is clear to us that the Jihad the Fulani promised has started. There is no other explaination for what we are witnessing throughout the entire nigeria.We must not think there is any other way out.We have to ask to be set free from the stranglehold of the nigerian army and police.After all these are elements many of whom have foresworn the massacre of the entire Eastern Nigeria.It is true they reintegrate the terrorists.The recorded information is made available to some of us.It is very frightening.We see an army that will not fight terrorists.The nigerian army has not really truely engaged the Boko Haram group as it is capable of.Now they are pretending to be tough inside the city killing innocent citizens.It must be because they are christains.</p> <br> <p> I was watching as elements of the nigerian military lay on the ground shooting into the public.What kind of soceity is this one? The supreme court appointed governor of Imo state demolished a hospital in Imo State built by former Governor Rochas Okoraocha.We are talking about a hospital that has bed capacity of nearly one thousand.For some of us a hospital to care for the people is not politics. It is a matter of compassion. In this very act this man has actually proved on whose side he is.The supreme court appointed governor destroyed new landmarks constructed by the former governor to give the city of Owerri a face lift. These are landmark that are commended by all. This man is busy destroying the state governed by a man who belongs to the same political party as he does.It is exactly why we have said these men are not politicians but pure criminals.It is what we have said that some people within the corridors of power are capable of anything. And that is the problem.The people of the state know this man and his former way of life. Today he is given the police force in the state to continue with the nuissance he is so used to. The government of nigeria must show it does not sponsor these kinds of criminal behaviours now threatening the very existence of the entity called nigeria.The people are the ones to make the determination what type of soceity they want to live in.We had warned them the conman sponsored by the sharia land will spurn illusions and delusions in the state. We said it could be far worse than that since the sponsors are no strangers to fatalism.Now they know.The man is sponsoring demolition without bombs and inviting nigerian troops to kill for him. We are seeing state sponsored terror in action.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria is suppose to be a democracy but a sharia chief justice was chosen to make a religious point. Islamic inscriptions are placed in the military logo and the currency notes.The country joins the Organization of Islamic countries.The other nigerians slumber on in the name of peace.And they pretend not to understand the anarchy now unfolding in the space.These things were done under a military which is in complete sympathy.All in a nation that is suppose to be secular.The chief justice a learned and accomplished lawyer was kicked out simply because he is a christain.For good measure he was slammed with accusation of being corrupt! In Nigeria we are asking? In Nigeria corrution is a crime?.Imo state must have the highest number of christains in Nigeria perhaps after Lagos.Very recently the case to establish whether the governor was a legitimate candidate in the election came up for hearing and the military initiated a fracas within the state.Some local vigilantes were their targets.They are surprised the people feel insecure and have moved to defend themselves.Why would nigerian government give Hilux Trucks and cash to terrorists and shoot law abiding citizens? We would like the whole world to see the level of inhumanity going on in Nigeria.In the past three years mass graves have taken the remains of countless christains in southern kaduna and other parts of nigeria where the sharia law is practiced.Such a tactics do not help rule of law and unity.But the impunity goes on.</p> <br> <p>Kaduna a hitherto peaceful state has been divided.The part of the state that is largely inhabited by christains have become a grave yard.It is not a coincidence that the governor here had boasted about his own "stock". We shuddered to hear a chief executive make such remarks. In a soceity like nigeria where the literacy rate is this low such are very incendiary issues.Religion or ethnicity will ignite conflicts among people easily.In this case someone in authority combine the two without any qualms.Christains in the state are now at the receiving end.We have seen their homes and villages sacked and razed to the ground.We hear of a plan to repopulate entire nations of people with a more preferred group.They seem to forget such had been attempted in certain parts of africa and it actually backfired. But nigeria must not be playing with such ideas.Nigeria has a history of a war in its recent past. We know what these people are about to cause in Nigeria.The 1967 to 1970 episode will be a play compared with the threatening explosion.</p> <br> <p>We appeal to the United Nations to see how the population can be sheltered from further massacre by the nigerian army.It has become a pattern. The army will massacre the Igbo youths and tepid explainations and denials is all that will be required.The world now can see events as they happen.Yet the nigerian government has never accepted responsibilty for the mass murder that has become common place in nigeria.Inspite of the numerous images and audio evidences the denial continues.It was claimed that the army escorted some of the bandits that have sacked entire communities.We heard and seen these things in northern nigeria. We ask the governor of Imo State what he is attempting to accomplish.Does he think the army will install him emperor too? Why is he bringing unfriendly strangers into the state? Is it so he can use them to intimidate the population? Now he brings the army too! The chief justice made him governor. Will the army make him emperor? If he dreams so he is in the worst place to anticipate that. Why is the army deploying to fight a community militia in a federal republic? We will ask the United Nations to immediately intervene before this gets out of hand. We have citizens who were captured by Boko Haram and the army has not been able to engage the terror group to free them.It has no clue where they are.</p> <br> <p>Why would they rather fight people who have kept an environment safe thus far? We want to show the world that the government of nigeria can explain the insecurity in nigeria.It appears it is being sponsored.If it is not part of the said jihad what is it? The nigerian government has never shown any commitment in tackling the menace of a roving band of armed men claiming to be MYetti Allah militia.The police charge offices are filled with citizens reports and complaints of incessant murders and mayhem by this group.A former Finance Minister of the country had his farm hijacked and he himself was kidnapped.His security man was murdered and as an act of pure hate his chest was cut open and his heart ripped out. All in the mans own farmland. No please.It is not how you manage a soceity or govern.It is not acceptable by any stretch.How can a community face such a grim reality and wait for anyone to protect them? If such a community will not rise to its own deffence it has been swallowed up.It has been overrun. We like the nigerian government to curb the excesses of its military who will aid reprobates,renegades and terrorists.We will not have a soceity where anyone just wades in with weapons to threaten communities.We have an army that will not look for such culprits but will come in to threaten and kill citizens.How much are nigerian called to endure to be part of such an organized mayhem? If they have energy they should go to sambisa forest where the terrorists are waiting.The entire nigerian space is being overrun. Why are they fighting those who wish to secure their own environment.Where have they kept safe? We ask where have they kept safe? The entire northern nigeria is under threat.Why must the other people wait for them? Why do they have problem with citizens keeping their own environment safe? Nigeria is a federation after all.Something does not seem right.We see militias owned by Miyetti Allah and all sorts in northern nigeria and it is not a problem to the nigerian army.It goes beserk anytime southern nigeria does anything to be safe. In the present climate of insecurity their reaction is very suspect.It is the reason the people are very alarmed.</p> <br> <p>Nigerians must therefore arm.It has become very neccessary.Anyone asking citizens to disarm in the face of threats from foreign bandits and roving armed militia many of whom are foreigners is delusional.Nigerians should arm as quickly as they are able to.It is the only way they stand a chance to survive or to repel the invading militia.The Yorubas who profess Islam must not think they are safe.The infighting of sects and groups in many countries are worse than external wars.They have no idea who these people are and what they profess as faith.It is very dicey to hope they will be safe.We must all be outraged at the complacency of our own government.What is going on? Why is the nigerian army quick to kill people in Eastern Nigeria? Worse things happen in other places and nothing of such is heard.In the last three years the nigerian army has killed thousands of Igbo and youths of Eastern nigeria.It was their purpoted involvement in the Lekki protest that brought the nigerian military.And among the dead were Igbo youths.How can a people live in a country with those who have foresworn to wipe them out? They jump at every excuse and opportunity to kill Easterners or the Igbo people.It is the reason they planted a stooge as governor in the heart of Igoland in Eastern nigeria.Many of us warned the people this was going to happen.Having said that we warned the man himself of the danger.He made this choice and it is now his cup.</p> <br> <p>We ask the governor how he feels presiding over a massacre of Igbo youths? How will he clear his name to posterity? Now he declares a curfew in Orlu.It must make him feel very powerful.It is important to remind him that the Igbo people have a very long memory.I know those of them who play poitics in Igboland today are a different kind.But Igboland and Eastern Nigeria have patriotic sons and daughters.We are watching as these one play a loosing hand.We see Myetti Allah "negotiate" with terrorists for payment.We see even governors negotiate and pay ransome to bandits.Our governors and politicians do nothing but pin blame on their own.Our youths become their sacrificial nameless objects.It is sacriledge and they must know the people will demand the explaination to all this. What kind of useless politics are they playing? Do they think the rest are like them? Are we all stooges to the Fulani? Do we beg to exist as a people? We will demand and request the United nation to ask the nigerian military to explain the reason for the incessant massacre of christains in nigeria.It has become too much. It has become too frequent to ignore in the name of internal problem. It is genocide going on in nigeria.It is happening in southern Kaduna. The victims are christains.It is happening in Eastern nigeria and the victims are again christains.Right now in Ondo and Oyo states the most populated christain areas and local governments are under seige.The party in power in Nigeria is using the name of politics to spread and execute the agenda of Islamization of the entire country.It is time to ask where these armed men come from. What will happen after the flexing of muscles? Are we suppose to accept this as a way of life? I know the answer from the free people of Eastern nigeria.</p> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><br><center><h4><font color="bloodred">WHY DID THE MILITARY DEPLOY HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS TO KILL INNOCENT CITIZENS IN ORLU?</center></h4></cent <br> <font color="blue" size="4"> <br> <p>Again the nigerian military succumbs to it usual trade mark of hate and contempt for the Igbo people and Igboland. Where else in nigeria will the military send gunships to terrorize citizens except that the governor in Imo State is their scion? It is pertinent to warn them they are playing with very serious trouble. And Boko Haram is not a problem compared with what they are about to unleash upon themselves.If they want to be an army of occupation it is exactly what they will become in Eastern Nigeria.Very soon they will be dealing with the collective wrath of th Igbo people and by extension the entire eastern nigerian space.We know their game plan but it will be thwarted.It is not going to work.The idea is to make other parts in nigeria feel better of than the Igbo people.We understand the game.However we have no murderers and terrorists in Igboland or in eastern nigeria unless they were sent.It is obvious they support the terrorists and bandits and are not pretending about it.The truth is nigeria has been messed up beyond repair by those who claim to lead.Why send helicopter gunships to Igboland which happens to be the most peaceful in nigeria? Their gunships will be blown to pieces if the people felt like it.And it will no longer be something they will consider outside the options if they keep up with this level of brazenness.Why is the nigerian army too happy to shoot people in eastern nigeria? Why are they ever and only too happy to shoot at the people of the region? How come the people of Eastern nigeria will be dealing with attacks from bandits, killer herdsmen and then nigerian military? It looks we have a collaboration the world must help fathom before it becomes another full scale genocide.</p> <br> <p>It is important to make the military to understand that if they wish a war it is what they will get.As reasonable people seek a way out the complication created by rudderless leadership it is not wise to keep widening the chasm.We understand some people want to precipitate a coup. At this time the last thing any person who understand history or human behaviour is any more aggravation.We recognize many do not understand such life details.But it is only because they do not know nigeria is already gone. It has to be put together to ever work.So far we do not see the skill that is able to do that.The only thing that need to happen today is as has been proposed.If the military thinks terror will solve the nigerian situation they should see how well they have done with illitrate barefoot bandits.Boko haram is right now out of their league.The people they want to use for target practice are citizens who want to keep their community safe.They dare not hurt members of eastern security network.We repeat they must not aim to hurt members of community trying to secure it from murders and marauders.The entity is a bona-fide apparatus to maintain law and order set up by free citizens who desire to be safe.It is lawful.Self defence is fundamental human right.In the event the nigeria government has failed and we have heard the excuses and do maintain safety and security is why you have organized human soceity.The people have found a way to maintain law and order as a free people.Other parts of the country have done the same thing.The people are free to seek to be safe by joinig forces together.We have vigilantes in soceities and it is not new.It is an arrangement allowed around the world. We tell the nigerian army they were shooting the entire Igbo people and by extension Eastern Nigeria in Orlu.Very soon they might have a rather complicated set of problems by making such choices.</p> <br> <p>We warned the people to reject the imposition by the supreme court upon them and live. The advice was rejected.They took bribes and made themselves rich.Rather than impeach a man they knew will sell them off to be killed like cows they accepted bribes and switched parties and loyalty. Today the people are paying the prize of that betrayal.The people of Imo State must remember the representatives who sold them out to be massacred. The blood of all that are killed is upon their heads.They are all guilty of blood.The representatives are the bastion of defence and fortification for the people.In a democracy they are the ones who would have repelled the attack of the Sharia sponsors and their agents in the military.Instead of that these ones have served as agents of death by betraying their own people.We want them to know that it will not get easier for them.The people will ask questions and they and their families will have to explain these actions.The nigerian military will not protect them from their own fellow citizens whom they have betrayed.Again we ask the world to see the level of provocation the people of eastern nigeria are enduring in nigeria.How is it that last week a community was razed down by bandits in Ibadan and the law enforcement was helpless? But they will deploy in a peaceful environment to terrorize law abiding citizens.The soldiers return every now and again to shoot and kill citizens in Orlu with helicopters. We note this action as pure terrorism.It will be an event they will have to explain to the rest of the world.We have asked for the images to be collated for transmission to human right entities world wide.</p> <br> <p>On the day this was going on the soldiers sent to wage war on Boko Haram were crying out for help.According to them vehicles could not reach them due to bad roads in Kaffa.They needed water and food and reinforcement to continue to press their attack on Boko Haram.As at the time they were stranded and desperately reaching out fo help.As I listened and watched them my heart went out for them and other nigerians.First they look badly equiped with no good shoes.And their uniforms looked old and wornout. Is it not really sad? I received the message with so much disgust and fruatration.These men are sent out to be massacred by Boko Haram.It seemed clear to me that is what was going on here.The men who spoke were mostly Igbos and Yoruba soldiers.The military had helicopters to send to Orlu to shoot at people in a peaceful environment.But these people were stranded in a war situation. What a priority? Somebody is responsible for this error and the people will demand explaination at the appropriate time.Meanwhile we remind the military to at least pretend there is still a country.They act as though they are members of a fulani constabulary.We do not see the marking of the army and military some of us wanted to belong to at some point.The image is ruined by those whose intention is to make the soceity their own personal property. We see a collaboration from the military with these terrorists.The military attacks Orlu with helicopter gunships and the foot soldiers the herdmen and bandits take over Lili and Orsu.But we tell them we will be right back.We surely will get back to this matter very soon.Eastern nigeria is a settled entity.There is no force from hell that can plant murderers among us.It will never work.It is never going to happen.Such planting will not prosper.I quote the scripture : He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots".The seed they are sowing will wither from the roots up and fast! God will answer our enemies and it will be very swift.</p> </p> <br> <p>The nigerian army is summoning their own worst fear and nightmare.The people will resist this evil gamble.The Igbos will not again be massacred.We urge the United Nations to condemn the actions of the nigerian army and impose sanctions on the officers who gave the orders to shoot at innocent citizens.I was dissappointed to watch the military dropping paratroopers in Orlu. We had stranded soldiers in Kaffa and we do not send these men to help them? Instead they come to Orlu to demonstrate paratrooper ability! But for what? Boko Haram is not in Orlu.We like to let the world see how the nigerian army which has largely become an ethnic force is ravaging Igboland.The army will rather fight in Orlu for the northern political elites and errand boy and scion of the political class.The citizens are abandoned to defend themselves against cross-boarder killers and terrorists.We know why.It is a "cashflow matter" .Our people in yorubaland call it "egunje".Bribe takers and givers have destroyed the political space referred to as nigeria.The military is choosing to fight where the reward will come fast.In doing so however they underscore why the people want to be set free and they will! We urge the women to organize and show their disgust for what the state has become.It is in their hands to move this matter along.We have a democracy not a war.We will not have a man who got a mandate from the court to govern with guns and the military.</p> </font> <br><br><br><a href="makingthegong.html"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font></a> <img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style color:="pruple"><td> <br> <center><h3>THE TIME SAYS......? IT IS TIME TO DECIDE FOR A COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA OR THE NATIONS WITHIN IT</h3></center> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>Some people are very difficult to convince.Evidence will not convince them neither will facts.Nigeria will not survive the events that are threatening in th horizon.It is a matter that need no prediction.It is a certainty.It should have happened much earlier.Illiteracy and fear is the reason why the nations within the country called nigeria have been "shuffering and shmiling".They know they had been violated.But to live by the word of those who violated them? It is absurd to make countless coups and top it off by removing the constitution that established the entity. Now you have no country.It is exactly what the action means.It has no fancy way of saying it! We have here a line of thought that is leading to distress now and will lead to very severe reactions in the future.It is best rectified now.It is true that coups are not legitimate ways to attain power.In nigeria the people are made to operate a constitution foisted by coup makers.Unfortunately nigeria is not a nation.Nigeria was formed by the attempt to bring people of very different cultures and worldviews together.It is a dangerous experiment only the lust and hunger for the resources had made possible. It would never have happened without the agreement by the concerned parties.We must appreciate the sense of duty and act of pure compassion that compelled the colonizer to help the entity they had fashioned.As they were leaving they aimed to make the people own the arrangement.By their effort they helped the nations come to an agreement that was of their own choice. No matter how we feel this fact must be acknowledged.Nigeria could not therefore pretend to exist without it! It stands to reason therefore that it is this agreement,this constitution that the entire structure of the nigerian edifice is founded upon.It is what the nigerian military and every arm of government must swear to uphold.Their oath must be to this constitution overlayed by the Bible if they are Christain and the Quoran if they are Muslim.As for the idea of any one laying claim to leadership to circumvent it, suspend or abandon it? It shows how far the country has strayed from common sense!</p> <br> <p>When the colonizer was about to leave, as early as in 1955 independence was already offered to Eastern Nigeria and Western Nigeria.It was a choice and magnanimity of the people to wait for the part that was not ready at the time. One brave act of african brotherliness and patriotism has become a very deadly mistake that already taken four million lives.It was an option freely negotiated.The agreement lapses when the situation changes.Why would the part that first attained independence now be under subjugation by those who never even wanted independence? As at the time they knew what they wanted and fought for it.It ought to be that clear to all.Those who are not able to forsee disaster are not even paying attention and are not concerned.Nigeria is no longer sustainable and it needs not be anything an oracle has to declare.It is pretty obvious.If the people are not interested in the relationship as agreed the entity ceases to exist.It is not something new.It is reality and life.Using elections to pacify the ruling class will satiate them alone.The people will revolt and they have.</p> <br> <p>History informs us that from this point the gap and chasm only continues to widen.It is the reason one is surprised at the ruling class who pretend all is well and are playing the ostrich.The rest of the world is aware there is a very serious problem.We have an offer and an option. It is one or the other.It will not be an election but an agreement that brings back the entity or call it a day for the free nations to exit.Nobody needs any heartless waste of innocent lives.The people accepted willingly to experiment the "geographical expression" or "the British creation" called nigeria. We have to say that this is a decision the citizens are suppose to make.It is not a choice that will be made by a handful of military men whom having secured a good future for themselves are very satisfied.It is not a choice for a handful of politicians following in their footsteps repeating the exact same pattern.It will take a concensus by the citizens acting freely who must agree to continue with the agreement.It is the agreement that formed the country. If the agreement fails or ceases to apply so also has the entity it creates and the relationship.All the emotions about intermarriages and whatnot are mere emotions.Intermarriges do not create nations or countries.Human being get ugly when angry.Dispute over resources cause anger! If it is difficult to make a nation out of the "geographical expression"then end the deceit.It has proved very difficult so far and those who are suppose to find solutions are looking for none.They seem contented to watch people buttered on daily basis.It is very dangerous to have two hundred million people who have no common goals and aspirations living together under any guise.It is extremely dangerous. And we are seeing what can happen. And it will only get worse.We are having a government which is influenced by bandits and terrorist who "repent". We have agencies of government becoming infiltrated by nebulous and shadowy personalities.It is very terrible to imagine.Nigeria has changed so much for the worse in a very short time.</p> <br> <p>It is time to end the relationship if the will is not there to respect the agreement and original constitution.Such a step will save innocent lives.It should happen and must not take four million more skeletons.Perhaps it is what some people are waiting for.We say this and we owe it to ourselves as nations of people to keep our communities safe.If we are not going to respect the agreement that brought us together, it means we should never have been together in the first place.It is simply logical.We must accept that simple reality and go our seperate ways.Any other prank will result in the continuation of the present bloodbath which is only going to worsen until hell comes crashing down.We made a suggestion the way people who solve probems approach issues of this nature.The legislators can enact a set of laws which transforms the governace to a transition for the remaining period.It will enable and emplace appropriate agencies to usher in a new properous country.We have a constitution that was a thorough work.We can move with the hard lesson learned and build a better soceity for the african people. On the other hand we can allow the nations to go on and find their own security and prosperity which is easier outside of the present stiffling that is needless and mindless.It is hard to imagine why a group of people will hijack a nation and prosper by it and keep others in perpetual subjugation.If the right thing is not done it will lead to anger of the type that is apocalythical.</p> <br> <p> It is such a matter that leads to bloody revolts and this one will widen and engulf everything on its path very soon.The sad thing of all of this is that the country was heading in the direction of healing after the National Conference of 2014.The reactionaries respond with the creation of twelve state sharia nation. And then dump thousands of armed terrorist in areas they expect opposition and another set pretending to be herders and even refugees in the bushes of southern nigeria.It is clear they do not want a peaceful country much more a nation out of nigeria. They have a more sinister plot. Unfortunately they have been caught with their hand in the cookie jar! Imagine having refugees from Taraba and Zamfara in Cross River State.I call that a victory for the jihadists in which they did not even have to fight.But subterfuge is part of warfare! Thankfully this one has failed! Farmers are butchered if they are males and their women are molested and violated.When the farmers and citizens of southern nigeria complain of the menace the sponsors threaten repraisals upon southerners living in northern nigeria. Again it is game on.The comparism is an example of the mismatch of people that forms the entity called nigeria.The southerner is living in northern nigeria in a rented house and works and pays taxes to government.The southerners obey the draconian laws imposed on them by a religion they do not profess.We see only trouble ahead.It is a snare by those who do not desire a union of equals.You have responsible citizens building soceity by supporting their communities.</p> <br> <p>How do you compare them to marauding armed men who are living in the forest distabilizing communities? How does it make sense to anyone to compare taxpayers an asset to soceity to marauders who destroy the farms a soceity mainstay? How do you compare productive law abiding citizens to anarchist and criminals? It is game on again in the goaless and aimless kingdom.Only this time it is the death knell of the nigerian state. We just can't play this game anymore.We conclude that some people will not accept democratic practices and undermine it however they are able to.It is what we have here. We say we are sick of it.The present set of events fit the same pattern again.It was exactly the way nigeria was derailed in 1967.The patriots and political engineers in nigeria then Dr.NNamdi Azikiwe,leader of the NCNC, Chief Obafemi Awolowo leader of the Action Group and the leader of NEPU Mallam Aminu Kano,and the United Middle Belt Congress or UMBC led by Chief Joseph Tarka had formed an alliance.Regarded as a miracle at the time it was a real game changer for nigeria.It was thought very impossible but these african giants pulled it off.It was called the United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA). It was really unbelievable at the time.In the looming election this was a shattering mighty political force.I know this was the actual reason the coup was instigated by reactionary men who just tinkered with the young minds in the army.We might accuse the outside hands but who did they kill for refusing to be used? We need to speak the truth.In the absence of the study of history in our schools our youths have no way to know these things.What we are witnessing is not an isolated event but a repeating pattern that has kept nigeria on her knees.It has to end.Some people want a soceity that just feeds their own interests! It is exactly the enemy we are dealing with. They employ whatever they need to, religion,ethnicity or terror. It is time to see the end of it one way or another.</p> <br> <p><font color:="blue">African Renaissance.</p></font> </center></mynuccss></span></font></h5></td><br> <br> <br><br><br><font color="purple">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</center></font> <br> <br> <br><br><br><br><center><h4><font color="blue">A CALL FOR A 24-MONTH INTERIM GOVERNMENT TO RETURN NIGERIA TO THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION </h4></center></font> <br> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>We had raised the issue of the threatening insolvency in the nigerian present political structure when power was returned to the civilians via the 1999 constitution.Fortunately the debt was cleared by a combination of luck and excellent marksmanship and focus.The government found success where the other failed through knowledge. The people who knew what to do were given the job. We reminded the people who assumed power that their work was to restore the nation to a proper socio-economic footing.We had also called for return to a structure that is sustainable.It did not happen.. Our call which is far more than what it seemed at the time was only heeded in part.I wish they went all the way with us. Nigeria will be in a different place. Today we have those in power who are tone deaf.Unlike their predecesor their own agenda is now and today.And they have no regard for knowledge and experience.Loyalty and servile compliance is all that matters.The greedy elite have always been self-indulged. Here is the problem of Africa: Let me throw some light here again.When the British and other colonialists arrived in africa there was an organised politics and civilization.All the artifacts of culture and art point to that reality.What Africa had lacked at the time was the brutal uprising of the masses that had produced a movement in Europe. It was this movement that produced what is now called Western civilization.Those who study history know Europe decisively dealt with the same feudalistic climate they met in Africa.The Europeans who came to Africa were revolutionaries at the frontiers. They were seeking to extend the gains of their efforts at home and they did.The result is a very wealthy Europe.It was the same thing that happened in America.It was the same thing.The people rejected the notion of a single person owning others and everything.Instead the idea of a free community of free enterprise that rewards talent and result was advocated.The idea of a prosperous soceity for all was the idea that made Europe what it became and is.</p> <br> <p>When the British and other Europeans arrived in Africa any African monarch could muster thirty thousand fighting men or more.If they had banded together as a people and a society in the face of the existential threat that slavery and colonialism became they would have prevailed.But they did not.Each of them struggled in his own domain. The invaders knew and understood this weakness and expoited it.Today Africa still is in the same mindset that caused the collapse of her civilization and power.It is the mindset that make some of us tend to look down on themselves as a result of centuries of demonization and contempt.Suppose the African people today resolve to change this reality.Here is how to start.Create a standing army or Rapid response Force of three hundred to four hundred thousand men and women. It is how you deal with the internal bleeding and the fracturing.It gives impetus to development without the distractions created by these many fractures and the instability they breed. It solves the security issue. It is these fracture that cause the economic reality and other challenges.A gobal well informed control can stop such tendency.By global we mean an afro-centric approach. We can't become self reliant by depending on others.</p> <br> <p> We can only do by attempting and giving it our best shot.Presently we only react to external prompts.We know these are not meant to serve us or our own interests.If and when africa does this its effects are many.No external interest will just come in casually to reap a windfall by disturbing the space.It will be a very major investment and challenge to confront such a force.No prudent person would take on a challenge of this order for just a reward of a few hundred million dollars.In the absence of such a presence Africa is still as vulnerable as when the citizens were captured and taken from their motherland. The leadership in our nations and countries still fail to understand and appreciate the nature of power and the dynamics of human population.It is surviving and having something to spare in case of the rainy day.It is existential.Had Europe not dismantled its monarchies or made them more benovolent and people centered it will not be a world power today.The perspectives and visions will be limited to the vision of whoever became the leader. Today the collective ideas of the people are in play.In other words they made the monarchies become assets and a rallying point for soceity.When a new leadership emerged in the European landscape it solved soceital problem not for self and not to suit themselves but to help soceity.It is how to deal with human problems.Our "leaders" in Nigeria will cause problems rather than solve them.</> <br> <p>In a new country like Nigeria a group of soldiers saw an opportunity and took it.It was forty years to get them to capitulate.We had no revolution.The men were spared and still wield a lot of influence.It is not how you depose those who will reject order.You have to strip them if need be.Nigeria chose not to which is a novelty.If the soceity choses such out of magnanimity there must be limits.It protects everyone in the end.Power corrupts.Clearly this was not done in this case.The deposed people own the constitution nigerians are presently using to govern themselves.It is mind-buggling and preposterous.It is like the thief leading the search for the stolen items. It is like the accused sitting in judgement.This is a people who do not intend to get better.The country is turning in place like a stuck wheel.And they have condemned generations for this lapse in judgement.Nigeria will never get better like this.It is not suppose to.The people of Eastern Nigeria went to war and lost four million people.The enemies of Africa sponsored the war.It is a blood guiltiness they must feel.The guns and bombs that killed these people were supplied by them.The children who died of hunger would have lived.I know some of the Igbo and people of Eastern nigeria who perished in the war were icons in that day.Poet Christoper Okigbo,Rex Jim Lawson, Dick Ihetu Tiger of blessed memory whose work had reached world acclaim were only in their thirties.They were killed.Many others like them, Musicians and talented engineers and craftmen of repute were viciously killed.Why? Our people do not ask why.Eastern Nigeria was developing rapidly looking and appearing like Europe just a few short years back.The invaders recognized what was happening.All they had done in two centuries hitherto was fight and subdue one another.While at it they had forged various weapons. It is something they understand very well.If they allowed the rising civilization it will overthrow them. They acted against it.Here they used convinient proxies.Presently just as the Africans have against every odd successfully lunched a common market which without a doubt is a game changer we have conflicts being ignited all over Africa by the same agents and proxies.</p> <br> <p>I hate to be a pessimist.However I happen to be a realist.Nigeria was not going to work anyway! The British knew it.How can the Fulani lead the Igbo? How can the Fulani lead the Yoruba? Even if the Yoruba is a muslim but the Yoruba has subterfuge.And I mean it in a good way.They can use it to survive.It is in this regard strength.It is not a weakness.I lived in their land. And they are a very friendly people.Politics is not the domain of saints.The Hausa is "honest".The hausa politicians used to be among the most prudent in nigeria.And that is the problem.They lost out to the Europeans.They got cheated.It is like participating in a robbery and getting robbed by your partners.Again they lost to the Fulani. The Fulani said, we are the same.When we "chop" it is for both of us.We are brothers.And the colonialist said ""that is very correct!". It is the outcome they desired.The Hausa started to question the colonialist as partners. It is how the Hausa people were swallowed by Fulani a population less than half of them. The Igbo and people of Eastern Nigeria remind the European of himself.Revolt and trouble is part of who they are. It is something they did not have to plan.It is sponteneous.Something the British knew very well.The colonialist seemed to like the hausa a lot during the expedition.During the expedition the British used the hausa men as his "soldiers". So why does he now prefer the Fulani? The answer is very clear.The Fulani are more malleable.The British did not come to Africa to build countries. Some people quote the British leaders as saying so.But they did not need to say anything. We ought to have known. If all the Africans perished they could barely wink.These people are Europeans.The goal is prosperity first.They were at each others throat a few short years behind.They killed their own monarchs and princes in search of the present prosperity.They could not careless about the suffering of Africans if it were a hinderance to their goals. Is it still the case? I do not intend to answer that.The kindest act of the British was to help the people make a constitution for themselves as they exited.</p> <br> <p> I still think the fact that Britain was colonized at some point made them a little more sensitive. It was very benevolent of them to seek a genuine solution for mutual coexistence in nigeria.We can all try to appreciate the quality of minds that negotiated the Nigerian 1954/1963 constitution.For some nigerians to supervise the "rejection" of the 1963 constitution is evil.It is more terrible for the same people to think about having a country after rejecting the basis.In addition these same people impose on the rest a Sharia twelve state structure in the same country. An imposition that never sought the opinion of the other stakeholders.In doing this they did not check how many times this attempt was opposed in the past. These air-heads think they are more intelligent than the British government.They might even be.Which I doubt very much as the results bear witness to! But on the side of the British government are the many years of dealing with such matters.They helped craft a constitution for nigeria from 1954 conducted plebicite in every hamlet in nigeria. Who dare think this can be replicated today? The terrorists and bandits will not permit such an excercise.Rampant corruption will give it a monumental bill. In the end the result will be unaccetable.It will be corrupted.It is a work that took over fifteen years before it was adopted at Independednce.It represenst the only way these people have any chance to "exist" together. We will tell the delusional men and women who think they can rule by force that they are playing with fire.The day it will erupt they will be consumed by it.It is important for them to look at history.We see these people attempt to use the British model as Colonialists. You see why we say they are delusional? The British Empire was not building a new nation with its colonies.The colonies were just well, colonies.It has nations making up the Great Britain.Keeping those prosperous and united is the challenge.</p> <br> <p>It is her charge.In Nigeria as in all other such colonies they have no such burden.Why would a Nigerian leader want to divide people of Eastern Nigeria? Why does he want to divide Ondo/Ado and Ijebu people? It is very delusional. When there is strife in Nigeria the whole country hurts.You have a country but you need a nation.Nations endure and countries splinter ever so often. Boko Haram conflict in one far corner is ruining the economy. Niger delta Youths and Avengers just disarmed to see if the government will meet their demands.It is not hard for them to rearm. You have an entity in such flux and you are attempting to create more rift? It is the last thing you want to do as a leader.It is very elementary to grasp that.The Igbo and Yoruba people are well established indegenous entities.It means they have survived milleniums.Why would anyone think to supplant them now? It is the idea some have nursed.The fact something created an aberration does not mean it is factual or truth.The Afonja/Shehu Alimi (Salih Janta) episode is an aberration.If you make it a model you assume the system is unable to recover and learn and such is bad logic.You trick someone a first time he understands your not to be trusted.He keeps his guards up. Go and ask Napoleon Bonaparte.Now they use religion and money.It is not new.Bribery has been with us since time began.Every effort has been made to buy up some people.Most of whom they made prominent for such a reason. But nations are systems.They retain ability to self-sustain.It is the quality and character of every viable nation.It is the reason countries dream to become nations. It is common knowledge.We can understand the yearning of the youths who ask soceity to give them something they can work with.It is not unreasonable.It is reality. Apparently these crop of leaders have no such capacity.</p> <br> <p>We make a clear proposition. We notice there is a lack of ideas.Nigeria should have a two year transition program that phases out the present regime into a federation with regional governments.The present government can serve that purpose.At least it lays caim to legitimacy through election.The Middle Belt region should be created in the interim period. In addition to the existing four this new region becomes the federating entities as was envisaged at the beginning.The present states should then be phased in as provinces.If the (I wanted to use the word "fools" but) people who are resisting this knew what is coming they will move quickly. Otherwise they will in the next few months face impossible scenarios.Nigeria will break.Presently I could not dream to be a soldier in the Nigerian army.It is terrible to think what has happened.Nigerian army is now a private enterprise.It is going to continue to degenerate until it is reorganised and given a more patriotic vision,perspective and purpose. It was the military that created these states that served more or less as palliatives.The states were created without recourse to any economic considerations.It was a way to silence the demand for a more equitable soceity. So you bribe the agitators.It is why we say they were never envisioned to become federating units.Yet a state must be an economic unit to function properly as a system.The army we know it was an off-shoot of the Royal Niger company and the Hausa Constabulary.It did not have its origins in ideals and patriotism. We know that.Some people change their own systems though if they determine to.Apparently we are not able to do so as Nigerians. But we have something that will work for us.We intend to move forward. As a nation of people we can seek our own good.Nigeria as we know it is moribund.If anyone imagines the present nigerian soceity will last another couple of years with no solution proposed to give the people especially the youths hope, such a person deserve pity.But we think so of the so-called leaders.They are very delusional.If it were not so they will not focus on election when the citizens are dying in avoidable conflicts and communities are being displaced.</p> <br> <p>The soceity has so many with bottled-up anger which is about to explode at any unfortunate persons.There will be scape-goats. I wish to warn those justling for presidency of Nigeria.It is a very potent poison.Nigerian debt burden will unravel everything when repayment is due two years from now.If Nigeria is not returned to where the people can work again quite clearly the Oduduwas are very ready to take the exit turn.The people of Eastern Region are already on it.Forget about the appologists. They think they owe nigeria for making them rich. Among the Igbo they are irritants.When these people leave the Fulani youths will turn the guns given to them on their so-called "masters".These are young people who want to live.They will see their mates in Oduduwa and Biafra making good progress and they will turn on their own.It will be the revolution in Africa.We must see the end of this idea of Afrcans colonizing their fellow Africans.We will see it to the very end and end it in the African continent forever. Southern Nigeria is curreently having the revolution of ideas. It will be free soon.The education comes first. Next comes the awareness and then the liberty.It will be taken.It is usually not given. The Holy Scripture says that the Kingdom is preached and the "violent take it by force". Let that much be very clear to those who resist the obvious.The Nigerian army will not stop a determined people.It has never happened in history.</p> </font> <br> <br><br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style color="bloodred"><td> <br> <center><h3>WHEN THE COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA DIED.......WE HAVE AN ENTITY WITHOUT LIFE. IT IS DESTROYING CITIZENS.WE HAVE AN IMPOSITION.</h3></center> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>At the end of the nigerian civil war we had some men who made a lot of money carting and disposing of what was left of old palm kernel bags still litering every part of former Eastern Nigeria.It was the relic of what was a major export and foreign exchange earner for the region.Within a few years the entire stock in the area was totally disposed. The palm kernel pyriamids disappeared along with pyriamids of palm oil barrels.And we all watched as a soceity closed doors and windows on its own citizens.We watched a country shut its doors to income and wealth.Wiped out occupation and industry for millions of citizens. It created abject poverty.The nigerian government removed the incentive for the people to contribute to the growth of the country by nationalizing the assets of one nation of people in the country. Nigeria framed budgets around the price of a barrel of crude oil! Before now the country existed without this product and was doing very well indeed. The country criminally confiscates the assets of a single nation in the union of nations and a federation.And nigeria died.The peasants lost interest in working the land and rushed to the city to make a quick wealth.Corrruption became a massive statue.Nigeria was made an oil country.Our friends who do not understand arithmetic thought they could now compete and compare with those with populations of a few million people.What is more tragic is the people produced more of the product even with a much smaller population.It means there is actually no basis for comparing with such countries at all.But nigeria stubbornly stuck to the idea of making its economy oil dependent and oil based.The poor peasants lost a line and market and were financially ruined by the nigerian state due to this carelessness.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria did this harm to the peasants in the entire Nigeria.It had the same consequence in Northern nigeria.It did so to all the small time farmers and peasants in Western Nigeria.The nigerian state destroyed a well structued economy.What I am about to explain is why we have millions of unemployed and unemployable youths.Many are unemployable because they have no type of skill including simple ordinary social skill.They have not been to school due mainly to abject poverty. And are even unable to count a few things without becoming confused.Nigeria decided to confiscate the hydro carbon deposit found in Eastern Nigeria.Since there was a constitution which will prohibit such action the criminals instigated a coup. Some young officers from the portion of the country that produced hydro-carbon deposits were used.As a reprisal the entire region was blamed for this military coup.The constitution was suspended which was the main thing! The thieves had their hands on the crude oil. Blackgold as crude was called in the sixties and seventies was just what it was.The entire Middle East with the exception of the state of Isreal was swimming in this ocean of new found wealth.Our friends from Northern Nigeria became aware.Remember they have "brothers" in those areas! The only problem is they will not receive from these places but give! The lifestyles was flashy and good. It was a matter of how to gain access to the means and they found the way.In their frenzy they destroyed the nigerian state. We are therefore appalled at their false galantry and facade of patriotism.</p> <br> <p>Eastern region up until the start of the civil war was a net major foreign exchange earner.And it was not from the hydro-carbon or so-called petroleum sector.Nigeria really imports petroleum. What we have is hydro-carbon deposit which is like any other mineral such as bauxite,alminiun,tin,columbite and many other such minerals abundant in Northern Nigeria.These minerals belong to the entity where it is found.Nigeria destroyed Eastern Nigeria killing four million people because of hydro-carbon deposit.All attempts to prevent this confrontation was rebuffed. The genocide was made inevitable because of the level of desperation in the mind of the bandits.It has been one hell of a criminal enterprise.Till date they are unable to make it help the country in any way.The refineries built with billions of dollars will not work.The communities have poluted land and angry youths parade regularly.Nigeria exports crude oil and imports petroleum and other petroleum product. Nigeria imports kerosene and up to lubricating fluids are imported.Meanwhile the industries that sustained the country especially agriculture were systematically destroyed.Every Region in nigeria was sufficient in production of its staple food.Nigeria up until recently posted large foreign exchange bills importing food! It is impossible to run a soceity of more than two hundred million people like that.Eastern region was self sufficient in food production before the pogrom and genocidal war.Now look what mess the soceity is in.</p> <br> <p>It is impossible to save nigeria by the fancy approaches of the criminal minded few who created a constitution to further perpetuate the evil we have described.It is unlikely the soldiers truely understood what the criminal minded elites put in the constitution.The most didligent lawyers must read between the lines to understand these kind of stuff.Who wishes to swear that our brand of military "rulers" were able to do such due diligence? Who thinks General Sanni Abacha studied the draft of nigerian constitution very carefully? many will swear to an oath on that and will all live full lives.He never did! The truth is nigeria has no chance at all if it was not a federation.It is not possible to have this arrangement continue.The problem is hard to surmount.The population has outstripped the and outgrown the resources.We are talking humans capable of trouble making.And we can see the consequencies already.You will not have the miserly budgets of the state governments in the face of very enormous problems.It will never work. It is criminal for any government to add to the present debt stock.It is not an option.Nigeria is at this crossroads.It is hard to pretend there are very easy answers.However nations are organic.The United nations charter confers the right to self determination to national indegenous entities.If the people who have confiscated nigeria will not reason the nations have a recourse.</p> <br> <p>The control of the means of production is the battle in the industrialized nations.In agrarain nations like in africa the farmlands are the means of production. It is how the people survive.You safeguard them.The people concerned know that.They might not march like real union of workers, but they have just as much instinct.It is why it is suicidal for the fulani to venture into the farmlands of citizens and pretend to be grazing cattle. Since when did cattle become more important than people? We know among certain people and their religious beliefs they are subservient to those above them.In other places it is not so.Ownership is determined historically and according to who has rights.The people who front them have other goals.In Eastern Nigeria where the people have once been massacred for oil it is not a joke.It is a serious act of provocation.We warn that these people be withdrawn quickly.No person in the area would like such tasteless joke.It is not possible for them to sustain the reaction and counter attack from such act of aggression. How come some think election is the answer to structural problems in soceity? If it was not dangerous it is laughable.You set up the structure first and use elections to test them.You will not use election to test or correct a ricketty structure.It is very dangerous! When you have gasoline and you strike a match you must expect an explosive fire! It is called knowledge.You need no oracle to predict that.We have everything pointing to disaster if an acceptable order is not agreed on first.We do not have a military problem.It is a political problem and a constitutional matter.Nigeria fought a so-called war and the problems are still here.Perhaps even far worse.It is proof that the answer is not found in the use of force. We are not able to convince the proponent of terror coercion.Like a child obsesseed with a tool they have not mastered they continue to insist.</p> <br> <p>As for the threat from the nigerian military we remind them about Boko Haram.It is now more than a decade. Compared with what is coming that is a walk in the park.If they have been paying any attention to what we have been saying things are about to explode.Right now what so called herdsmen are attempting is to distabilize the population centers and the coastlands of Western Africa.We have warned the Europeans and others people aroundthe world it will be very dare.meanwhile as people of eastern Nigeria who were killed and starved to death in the millions once we tell our people one thing.You will not go out there and die in the waters of the Mediterranean or in the South or North Atlantic ocean.We are witnesses to what these people are doing to our citizens in the sahel region. As we speak we have hundreds of thousands dying in the seas as they try to flee this madness.The people of Eastern Region are sick and tired of running! They have returned home and it will become safe for them by any means possible. We tell our youth from the area one thing. At least put on a uniform in honor of the Motherland and defend the land of our ancestors.Any fulani whether he comes in a convoy of cows or cars and truck will be resisted.If they want a colony out of nigeria and not a country as agreed it will be over their own dead bodies not of innocent people in their homeland and Motherland.We are tired of their habitual dithering in the face of critical emergencies.We are human who can solve problems.Everything is not a matter for prayers and then war only.Sometimes actions are required not just violence and "prayer". It is called problem solving.</p> <br> <p>We are all tired with the ambivalence of the authorities. It is still more dithering.Even as things keep getting worse we see no movement.Chidren are kidnapped and raped until they have children of their own. We have an abducted little girl kidnapped before our eyes.You all remember her, Lea Shuiabu.She is still with her captors years after all kinds of promises were made.Even the prominence this matter has gained did not and could not confer inevitability to the case of her rescue.Someone is proving to have an stronger position in this matter. Unfortunately it is not the custodians of the forces of coercion on behalf of the state.Unless they are applying deceit.The nigerian security agencies are either complicit or must accept failure in these regards.The security agencies have left the people feeling extremely vulnerable.How do such entities threaten those who attempt to help the areas that have always been the most vulnerable? Are we suppose to take it that it is their goal to destroy lives yet again in these areas? It makes it difficult to accepts their reassurances when such matters are unresolved.It touches raw nerves on so many levels.The peasants will soon arm against anything government does.It is how anarchy ensues.Already there is an army of college trained youths who are not able to escape.The conditions around the world will not allow them.The nigerian elite military or politician is simply not prepared for this kind of emercency.They are a creature of comfort.It is why we predict it is over! We have beggged for years predicting this eventuality.Now it is here.We do not see how these men can roll their sleeves and do the heavy lifting involved in seeking peace.As usual they will pick a victim to attack.Only this time one wrong move it is inside the twin jaws of the feared nile crocodile.Youths in the north are armed and now so are they in the south.It is one mighty mess. And we are not able to see the way out of it.</p> <br> <br></center></mynuccss></span></font></h5></td><br> <br> <br> <br><br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">THE FISSION IN THE IGBO SOCIO-CULTURAL GROUP AND THE IMPLICATIONS</h4></center></font> <br> <font color= "blood red"> <p>We saw the watering down of the Ohaneze and we knew we had to prepare for the worst.It is now clear to everyone that the association has been compromised.Our advise is for the two groups to reconcile and come out with a blue-print to elect an executive the Igbo people will respect.If not both will be obsolete. At a time our land is surrounded by armed men we have no idea where they came from we can't afford to have any clowns distracting from the very main issues. It is a nuissance we have absolutely no patience for.Our governors were there when states in northern nigeria enforced sharia law that prohibits anyone in their soceity from consuming liquor or any form of alchoholic drink.The sharia law enforcement went to locations and confiscated suspected alchoholic drinks and destroyed them.Who argued about the economic impact on the victims? Millions of dollars our business people residing there used to import or buy this beverage went to waste all now in the thrash dumps of northern nigeria. Still part of their unending sacrifice for being "nigerians".</p> <br> <p> We remind the nigerian people about how a christain and a man of eastern region descent residing in Kano was beheaded and his remains put on display! Gideon Akaluka an Igbo resident in Kano was killed in 1990 and nothing happened to those who committed the crime.The nigerian government helped the criminals by hiding them in remote prisons.Let us remind those pontificatihg unity. Let us remind those also touting an unbrekable country they own.Whereas it will be hard to prove the law was promulgated to hurt just the southern businesses operating in that part especially of Igbo stock they were hardest hit by such a law. Many of them who chose to remain in the entities have complied with these laws or they risk death by any other incendiary accusations.They have all other laws that protect their own soceity and these laws are enforced by their armed force and law enforcement apparatus.We wish to remind the nigerian army to note this very present and very consequential fact.It is illegal to go in pursuit of a sovereign people who seek a way of securing their own lives in their own environment which has come under imminent threat.There is nothing in the world permitting anyone or excusing such actions.</p> <br> <p>The governors in eastern nigeria will allow the same people who did all they could to protect their own soceity and environment to come to eastern nigeria to destroy the soceity and communities under their watch.Cows are taken into farmlands to waste crops.Yam and cassava tubers are harvested and consumed by the herders and their cattle.The farmers toil all year round for no harvest.Imminently the herder now pass a new sentence of starvation on the people yet again. We have still not recovered from the hunger of 1967 to 1970! Communities are burnt and women are raped in their farms.Their husbands are maimed or killed if sighted in their own farms.The nigerian law enforcement usually will find no pepertrators.It is very hard to imagine this to be any form of cattle rearing.It is a planned provocation. It is a clear attempt to provoke a people. We are alarmed these governors hide their heads like ostriches and pretend to be safe. We see them talk about protecting everyone.Who will protect the farmers whose means of livelihood is destroyed? We dare to ask, who will protect them? While the governors in eastern nigeria are busy angling for vice presidential ticket or an elusive presidential ticket their community is under attack.Our villages are now taken over by murderers and carefully planted anarchists from the sahel.Sadly enough even with all the warning and prompting the governors chose to do nothing.</p> <br> <p>We have a governor imposed on the people against their sovereign choice and we can see what havoc his presence is creating in the community.We know who masterminded the division in Ohaneze. And we wish to warn those who desecrete the Igbo people that there will be hell to pay.It is not business as usual.If anyone finds it necessary to undermine the collective will of the Igbo people he will be forced to eat the "food prepared by the community all by himself". If it kills him that will be the prize to pay for greed.We received reports of the sponsors of Boko Haram,the bandits and all the anarchy in the northern nigeria the Myetti Allah sponsoring candidates for the Ohaneze.We are talking about a family organization of the Igbo people! Who could have thought such affrontry possible? So now you know who sponsored the one enthroned by the magician himself.He even wanted to erect a monument for his god and master.Only that we said to him that the monument and tombstones might be the same thing.He might have to make a very clever choice.He should honor his master no doubt but not in our land.Fulani Nationality Movement of which Myetti Allah is also part in communique distributed to its member in 2018 condemned the Middlebelt for obtructing their march to the ocean.It was alluding to an event in 1804.All those who think this is a random event must reason this position and think again. FUNAM said in the communique and we quote " We FUNAM have asked all Fulani across West Africa to raise money and arms for the coming war...". The war to complete the march to the sea. We have "nigerians" of a diabolical type among us.They are nigerians only when it suits them.We all can be such "nigerians" too. It is for the rest to grow up and wise up.</p> <br> <p>It is clear the Supreme court know now it made a very big mistake.It was not wise to provoke a fight with a hurting group of people.Action the magician chose with glee.It was an insult to come to the heart of Igboland to carry out such defeacation. We hold it against him.No generation of our people will forget the insult.He made a statement by dishonoring their collective and sovereign will.Now the people can see the cascading effect of the illusion he has created as a master magicians. We are consulting among our own. We might find a "witch" or "wizard" to confront him rather soon.It is dangerous to allow a man who has no respect for the lives of those who disagree with his faith to be at the helm of the alter of justice in the land.It is very unacceptable for the people of eastern nigeria.We are consulting around the world. We like to determine if this is something to seek redress through justiciable means or other methods.Our people are people of order and process.When our consultation is complete the entity will be notified. Eastern nigeria is a nation of five member brethren.The family has watched as a government exclusively run by a single ethnic group has against the requirement of a constitution it uses as excuse ran the country into the ground.It hurts when they argue that the unity of nigeria is not negotiable.It actually shows us the dept of ignorance and delusional mindset we are up against. Some people think they have a right to hold others in a relationship against their will.In eastern region we think like family.The youth are more enlightened and determined than their forebearers.They do not need lecture to understand the reason why the outsiders want to educate them about their own family.The reason is so obvious to them.We share the idea that every group manage their own environment and resourses.It is where fairness begins.Do not come to eastern nigeria to emphasize dialects for us.Only in eastern nigeria is every dialect seen as an ethnic group.</p> <br> <p>The languages in the eastern nigeria are dialects of the same main root as has been proved by experts.The people themseves know they are the same people. Ijaws, Ibibios, Annangs the Effiks, the Kalagbaris are not different tribes but the same people with different dialects.A typical person from Izii in Abakaliki will not understand someone from Ngwo in Enugu if he does not pay particular attention.Does that make them different? They differ from one another just as any of them differ from anyone called an Igbo person.It is another way of stating that they are the same people.The way to survive natural clashes of humans is seperation.It can be by space or methods, including language.We saw example when Umukurushi became Rumukurushi,and Umumasi became Rumumasi and so on in the Niger Delta.One can see the confussion in trying to rename "obigbo" junction so they skirted around it and tried to make it disappear. But you see what we are getting at? It was the response to a war of genocide and attrition.If these names are not corrected and all the "RU" removed in our generation it risk causing major confussion to future generations. Adaptation and survival dictates some new detailing and humans comply and comform.However the wise know the truth.It is what knowledge and wisdom means.Eastern region is a nation of five kindreds at the core family.It is how the "Ise" invocation came about.It means "we are all in agreement".We urge that these names revery=t back to what they are suppose to be. We pray the people of these areas of africa might keep their identity and be proud of it as it is typical for africa since the world began.Eastern nigeria is unique and blessed. It is not wise to dispute it.The envy and even jealousy is understandable.However to surrender to it is to spite God.He meant for us to make the place something that will help the continent and humanity. </p> <br> <p>It does not also hurt they are believers in the supreme deity whom they call The God Of Creation. Nigeria would not have existed had religious issues been brought to the fore. Had such ideas come up in the beginning by any chance nobody stood any chance of making anything out of these people.They could not be more different in such regards.It is a fact the British colonial governmment knew and avoided at all cost.It is not even something they would discuss.It is unacceptable to now act as if this is an area to triffle with.And there is this brazen carelessness about it.The people of the area are not anyones fool.They will never accept a soceity in which they have such a contradiction.And neither will this generation.It is one move too far.They set up a parallel soceity and law and were not challenged. It is the reason they pushed it even further.We think it might have served everyone well in the end.At least they have their own soceity the way they like it.It is the reason their interference in the Ohaneze is the last insult the people of the area will take from them.Free people determine their own affairs.Today we remind them of the very prophetic words of the able son of the land.General Philip Effiong boldly declared to them at a rather difficult time that it will be very tragic and regretable if they repeat the mistake that led to the pogrom and genocidal war.</p> <br> <p>We see a very brazen effort and attempt not just to repeat the egregious error but to enlarge the scope and depth of its horror.It is sad that it took the collective action of the people who saw the looming danger in the horizon to stir the governors in eastern nigeria.We want them to do what they can.We already know they are compromised and are not even able to protect their own offices.It is no use to pretend otherwise. We remind them that they did not come out a community of fools.Once they felt "threatened" or as I said protected they swung into action.All their previous excuses were out of the window.It is not how you lead.But we understand.We suggest to them to try and learn how to tell time.It is not a time to beg them or their masters.The country they claim to lead is in debt it is not able to pay by any chance even a miracle.When the repayment of the current debt burden fall due it will be impossible to run the states.Like we said many years ago and were ignored, nigeria has been ensnared. It has a structure that enables even promotes corruption and its attendant consequences.Its military structure has become compromised by religious bigots who already destroyed the political structure.The nigerian military accept terrorists who they claim are repentant back into the armed forces. A move many of us see as a gesture for peace with them but an act of cowardice and abdication of their primary function as protectors of the sovereignty of the nigerian people. How does a terrorist repent? If one might ask, how is their penitence determined? Nigeria a conglomeration of nation states is not a place to plant some more suspicious things. It has far too many of those already.Sadly they have destroyed a soceity that has been their cash cow.We know they want us to sympathise. But quite honestly we don't.</p> <br> <p>Our sympathy is with the lives they have ruined and with the people whose future has been destroyed by their actions.We will work with our youths to see what is salvaged of their own future.We were driven away to foreign lands by a hostile government and the atmosphere of violence and insecurity it created.The least we can do is to serve as the voice of Abel that weeps before GOD pleading "Avenge us O God of the injustice in our land". We know even they themselves feel the time.We trust they know the world has turned and the time has changed.The charge and the control is out of their hands. The peoples of nigeria have taken their own soceities back.If they want to manage theirs through sharia, the others might choose "Amadioha" or "Kamanu" or "Sango" or "Ogun" or Orumila" or"Ahajioku". It is for the free people to choose that for themselves.What it means is that nigeria is not going to convert anyone by force to a certain faith. Everyone has a right to accept or reject any faith.It is the meaning of a secular status of the nigerian state.What they have done in twelve states of the federation goes against this very basic tenet of the constitution they tout and use as excuse. If they do not heed this warning Boko Haram will be a children playground episode.We hear terrible and rumbling anger by people who are consequential.We are talking about those with knowledge and understanding about soceity and government and how it is suppose to work. It will not help to think violence because they can bring a very serious version. And they can bring personal trouble for those who want to resist the future these patriotic africans are attempting to create for themselves and africa! </p> </font> <br> <br><br><br><a href="makingthegong.html"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font></a> <img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br><br><br><center><h4><font color="blue">IMMORTALIZING PEOPLE WE HAVE LOST IN EASTERN NIGERIA FOR THE SAKE OF UNITY</h4></center></font> <br> <font color="brown"> <p>I wish to remind the people who want to convince us about their prowess to understand we are a community of people. We have the advantage of a very rich history.Our people have survived millennia before there were other inhabitants in the nigerian space. It is a correct historical fact.Our most recent history has been complicated by the interference of civilizations which choose to be disruptive to other cultures rather than collaborative.We lost our youth to international abduction and terrorism "tranformed" into an accetable trade and referred to as slave trade.Today some of us recognize our own people by their looks and behaviour.Once you spend some time with them your stomach will start to churn in frustration.Ever so often in the United States of America this is a very common event because many young men and women from the west african coast ended up there.Labor and ideas they have afforded the entity has helped create the most prosperous country on earth.We cannot begrudge the entity.It will have to deal with its own history mistake and all.It is the way of Nature.The United States is the only country in the world with the diversity it boasts that operates as a nation.If you abduct an Ameriacan citizen the consideration will not be the ethnicity.America will respond as a matter of principle.We see how a set of principles and steady leadership can steer a soceity away from a very bad past.It is not perfect as we all know. However nobody will dispute the determined effort of the cream of the leadership within soceity to keep moving in the appropriate direction.Leading this charge in my view is the American military forces.When you listen to the leadership of the American military and see their response to incidents you will understand this statement.One will observe the consistent effort to respond to the need to forge the perfect union.I am not comparing anyone with America here. I just want to show that determination and leadership around well defined and pricipled and institutionalized agenda works.Do not wonder what this has to do with the four million people from Eastern Nigeria who perished for Biafra between 1966 to 1970 and the many dying daily presently.I intend to lay out the parallel in the ensuing paragraps.</p> <br> <p>I watched Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe play the most iconic role to keep nigeria united yet the people of nigeria rejected him outright.Aguiyi Ironsi was killed because he dared to think nigeria could be one country.The main reason he was killed was because he stressed unity and made a case for a nation where merit through effort was the ticket to upward mobility.It was seen as an idea that would cause the country to be dominated by the Igbo people.Perhaps it was a wrong time.In the place where things will work there is never a wrong time to do what is right.But he was not ready for an ideological war for he did nothing to prepare himself or fortify the office he occupied.He was extremely vulnerable and appeared to be very unconcerned about it.He was a "pan nigerian" he always said. He was murdered in cold blood.We watched Chuba Okadigbo who was intelligent and sometimes a little bit loqacious ride the nigeria storm.It did not end well for the Igbos.He was murdered. Permit me to say that Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu was a man whom nigerians understand could have taken the country to the promised land. But he is Igbo.We recall diplomatic Arthur Nzeribe politician to the core and crafty as they come.It is not possible in the world for any man to take it over this mans's head.He was not acceptable to the nigerian people. He is Igbo.I can't keep going.I would if I had time and space.If you place this on the premium that the people were massacred to the tune of nearly four million people you will understand the lack of empathy and even compassion towards the people.If anyone begins to respond to hatred in a way that indicates self hatred such a person strenghtens the hand of his oppressor.Community and self love is the best of all! Today we have governors who for reasons I am not able to explain possess the wrong idea and estimate of themselves.In Northern Nigeria the governors defer to the collective position even when it is difficult.You watch them negotiate with bandits openly.We see the same thing in Western Nigeria.In Eastern Nigeria the governor will just consider his concerns only.It is difficult to see how they weigh the concerns of the people in their decicions.It is alway their concern to please Abuja and the people who control it.</p> <br> <p>We will move Eastern Nigeria towards the future it deserves. It was already well on her way to that future before it was trucated purposely.Imagine the effort to industrialize nigeria today.Those who do not wish Africa well attacked Eastern Nigera on purpose.Eastern Nigeria had assembled all the right pieces for a revolutionary industrial growth.It had lunched an industrial bank and an agricutural bank. It had food sufficiency.There was already an industry in every area of the primary need of the people.Eastern Region was constructing roads like crazy and had non stop electricity supply! There were academic institutions turning out people who excelled. Those who went to the first world for further studies were in demand for their academic promise. Eastern Region had sprouting municipalities at a rate only to be imagined.It had a steel rolling mill.Manufacturing was going on in Eastern Nigeria in Aba. Aba made products were all over Africa.Fulani was instigated by outside interests to create a stumbling block. And they happily did.Just like they are doing today. Only this time they are doing it against the entire African space. We know the politics in Europe and how it affects Africa.Again they rely of their favorite tools of disabilization.To blame this on a particular national policy of any entity is perhaps to stretch it.There are enough bad and ugly human beings who will take advantage of people who are not properly anchored! Anyone who has followed what we are doing must remember about two years ago when we alerted the governors that there was a great effort to infiltrate the region and weaken it by situating coercion.We said it over and over that the governors needed boots on the ground that is friendly with our people.They excused themselves and dithered over and over.We saw the issue become a matter of photo opportunity.But we were warning about the current problem now traumatizing an already over traumatized people..</p> <br> <p>We resorted to pleading and begging our people around the world to help and they did.But these men only are concerned about their massive and mercurial ego within the space and their murderous masters in Abuja.For God's sake Eastern Nigeria was a story of a civilization truncated by those who would not stand a success story where the Igbo had prominence.Some of us are in the effort because we are under the WORD of our honor and the TRUTH and commission to our people and the GOD our ancestors invoke and praise and beseech in the names we all bear! We remind the governors in Eastern Nigeria to remember who they are.These men have no consideration for the future of the people and we see it in their choices.Why would they be making effort to create anarchy in the space? How come they have difficulty galvanizing the population to protect the environment.Once it was done they want to disrupt the effort. What is their goal? We like to tell them that the Eastern Security Network has the backing of the people of Eastern Nigeria.It is not a fact their political destiny is able to alter in any way or form.ESN can be funded from now to the end of time.It is hard for the governors to take a position like that without consulting Abuja.Meanwhile a million of the headaches in the Eastern Region space is planted by Abuja and the guiding hands that love innocent blood from the region.We have come to the end of that dynamics.The governors will not sacrifice anymore people from Eastern Region on the alter of a country which does not know they exist.Eastern Nigeria has poluted farmlands and ecological problems from oil production.It has destroyed farmlands.They see nothing of the benefit of the resources from the oil.It is used by the north to develop northern nigeria even their neighbors in another country! It is our view the outfit they have formed is their way of approving what they have seen to be Very effective.Most importantly something the people believe in approve and trust.It is the desire of the people they lead. If so they must defer to the real organization. It is how such things are done and we recognize politics is clumsy and sometimes ugly.Anything else will be very unhelpful and perhaps will be deadlier than the darts and arrows even perhaps worse than the efforts of the enemies from outside.</p> <br> <p>How could the federal government be asking Eastern nigeria for land for fulani to breed cattle? How are the people suppose to survive? So we have a situation the government now send guns wielding fulanis to force the issue.We tell the governors we are watching.Any of them who plays with the situation must understand the implication.As for those who pose as Biafran leaders we will tell them one thing and they must listen.We are doing very serious work.We will not tolerate clowns.We are thinking of precious lives at stake now and in the time to come.We are thinking about generations of our people. We are not in the mood for the palmwine atmosphere kind of conversation. We need to finish the work and our people can do what they like in a land where they are free.Anyone who wants to constitute a distraction when we have thousands of our youths who have volunteered to keep our motherland safe must know we are not touts or political thugs.If they cross paths with the goals of these brave sons and daughters of our motherland they will regret it.The governors who preach one nigeria know nothing about Sharia law including the one who was installed by its operators and enforcers.Gideon Akaluka lived in the Northern Nigeria before Sharia became the law of the land in the sharia nation of nearly half of the former country.The man was killed and his head was hoisted on a pole and was used in a gory parade all over the city of Kano.Where in Yorubaland will such a display be acceptable? Where in Igboland or Eastern Region a federation of the longest enduring set of tribes in Africa is such display possible? It is a test for this union of death.The man was accused of blasphemy. However his wife who doubles as his business partner said the accuser owed Gideon money.We warn the people who play politics with the lives of our people they are not more important than the lives we have already lost. We honor the and esteem them by this effort.We like them to understand that.We need no permission to honor our own as we choose. We need no permission to defend ourselves from those out to murder us.Again any politician who wants to cross path with the entity the collective wisdom of the people of the Eastern Nigeria has emplaced for their own safety will blame no one else. </font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><img src="igbobuigbo.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="igboezue.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">THE NIGERIAN MILITARY MUST REMEMBER ITS PAST: EASTERN NIGERIA DEMANDS EQUAL TREATMENT AND RESPECT</h4></center></font> <br> <font color="black"> <p>The nigerian military has to clearly understand its mandate.Nigeria is a federation of nations.If it confuses its mandate and its feelings there will be confussion in soceity.The people of eastern nigeria have a sovereign right above every so-called elected or handpicked governor.It is the virtual power they concede to such authorities in governments.When a governor is unable to keep an environment secure the people must find a way to do so.In the United State there are militias in every community.There are all types of named and unnamed militia groups.But without a doubt the American military is perhaps without equal.How is it then that a nigeria army that will not fight Boko Haram an avowed enemy of the nigeria state will attack a group of people whose sole aim is to keep their own community safe? It is therefore the proof we need that the insecurity is being sponsored.We wish to tell the governors that they are provoking the people of eastern nigeria in siding with dubious authority.We want them to now be ready for the people reserve the right to react.The people can hold a politician in esteem and they can also make his name for a by-word.And that is not all they can do to an errant politician and an insensitive and abusive "leader".In teaming up with forces with dubious intent and even the ones clearly against the people they have made a very unwise choice and they will not need any prophet to tell them so! In placing their political survival above the lives of the people they have displayed selfishness uncharacteristic of the people of the space. In the space life is sacrosanct and sacred.</p> <br> <p>Why do they trust an army that has lost the battle with untrained barefoot bunch of armed renegades? Boko haram is alive and well.We see them go to Katsina to kidnap anyone of their choosing! Katsina is the home state of the president and commander-in-chief of the nigerian army.It is a statement they make every now and again. How possible is it that the nigerian army can overcome a well trained and educated seasoned group? It is laughable that people have trained and came out to serve their community and you then take notice.The police had no idea of this.The nigerian intelligence agencies had no idea.And never even caught a wind of it. They were surprised! The military was better off staying out of it.They could have pretended this was a civil issue.They never knew about it.The nigerian army did not have any sense of what was going on.Suppose they were enemies who came to liquidate the community? It was already over before this nonesense! Now they wish to show off.It is pure vanity.And we are not interested in such display of phoniness.Who needs that? It is the question we ask? We have a political problem not a military one.</p> <br> <p>It is in their own interest to make the distinction.Where is this military when the state governors offer bribe, levy and ransome to bandits to allow citizens to go to their farms? Traditional rulers, Bishops and Chiefs are being kidnapped or killed in our communities and we are all helpless.To whom and where are the communities suppose to seek help? Where is this military when citizens pay tribute and levies to bandits? We ask these questions and the answers are obvious.I say where is the military when the villages are burnt and citizens massacred and women raped and in many instances killed? I use present tense because it is on-going.It is therefore not possible for the government of the nigerian space presently to give any guarantee to anyone pertaining to safety of life and property.Anyone doing so makes mockery of the sacred duty and responsibility.Naturally that responsibility devolves to the individual and communities under such circumstances.It is called self-determination.It derives from self-preservation.No sane person will do nothing when he is in danger of being killed.So why do they expect a sovereign people to wait and do nothing in the face of very obvious threat? It appears their understanding of what a country is suppose to be is very wrong.We all can see how some misjudge events.It is not the people of eastern nigeria that deserve blame.</p> <br> <p>They are victims.It is the forces and the people who allowed them to create the reality being addressed.It is so hard for some to get a grip of the concept of thinking and reasoning! The people of eastern nigeria did not create a sharia republic. Our northern neighbors did.We hear them blame the fulani.But they all pose as one entity.Are we now suppose to make the distinction? We did not invite armed bandits into nigeria.They did.Again they blame the fulani leaders.We heard these invitations and we do not know who made them.In what way are we suppose to know the rest of the north are not in agreement? Did any of them condemn the statement or idea? How come they see these as uniting steps in a federation and secular republic? What do they need from us? Is it canine loyalty? Well too bad! We are not such as can afford them that.When they want a soceity of human equals they can come to us and ask for dialogue.We just want to be safe for now. We all recall recently when Ethiopia a prosperous growing economy hit the bottle neck of tribal wranglings. Many of us pleaded for tolerance, fairness and equity.As usual the insider men carried the day.Now the nascent new african economy is on her knees.Nigeria is next in line to bring down. Our leaders are yet to grasp the depth of the mire spurned to keep africa a depot for spares for other economies.Colonization was possible because the agents saw an undefended and divided space.Some of us have learnt nothing from our past.And we see they do not get it.Many of us do and will ask the help of good men and women around the globe to change this narative.We appeal to the nigerian leader to understand that armies do not prevent wars.It is the work we do for peace that does! We want the nigerian army to think before they respond to challenges.It is not just cursory thinking. We are talking about reasoning here!.</p> <br> <p>In their midst are men and women who understand these things.It is in their own interest to ask.We know they want to show strength.Boko Haram is the test they need.The bandits coming across the boarder are allowed without any interference. But these are citizens who want to keep their community safe.They jump out for a show of force.How so preposterous! But it is no military issue.It is a constitutional question. It is not political.It is existential.It is more related to politics than military.It must be made clear to them that southern nigeria is not the only place meant for military display of power! BoKo haram and its affiliates bring the firepower and challenge if they are looking for it.We heard some people want to create anarchy to justify a military take over.However such a theory sound like an idea in the realm of the absurd.We know absurd things happen in nigeria.But such is not even just absurd.It is very toxic. No person in their right mind must be contemplating such crass absurdity.Nigerian space will explode in one instance at such event.Mr.President must look around him for those who want to overreact in this matter. It might provide a clue.</p> <br> <p> We see our fellow citizens living in the moutains.Why is that? We have so many refugee camps in nigeria today.Can they explain it to us? Northern nigeria a hitherto peaceful entity has been turned into hell.Why is that? It is a proof they have reached the very end of their own wits.Why are they still pontificating? Who are they trying to deceive? The religious paradise they envisaged has turned into a nightmare for them.Is that what they wish to bring to eastern nigeria with unthinking handpicked governors?The first paradise for a hungry man is to give him food.All around them are very hungry people and they are more concerned with their future.There will be none for them in the space if they fail to find answers Those people will hunt them until they will flee into exile. And that will be if they are lucky.We know it is why they seek to export the problem to eastern nigeria as a form of redirection and distraction.But we must continue to let their citizens know to hold them accountable.It is a democracy not an aristocracy. We suspected this a long time ago and said so.We call on the people of eastern nigeria to be calm but alert.We had earlier called on all world bodies and the world community confiding in them about this game plan. We already preempted them.We knew they will do this.We said they will attempt to encircle eastern nigeria and call their mudering marauding "bandits" and "herdmen" to complete the work.We said so.We call on the United Nations, the European Union and the African Union indeed all governments that respect the right to life to prevail on the government of nigeria to withdraw its army from eastern nigeria.We have appealed to the United States of Ameriaca against the abuse of the religious and fundamental rights of the people of eastern nigeria. Four million people are enough lives to sacrifice for a country and government operating outside of a constitution.</p> <br> <p>If nigeria keeps the army in a region that is not at war it will be interpreted as an occupation and the people will have no choice but to respond accordingly.We call on the nigerian government to rethink this selective response and recognize its dangerous consequences for nigeria and africa and indeed the world.If the government provokes a group very capable of creating more problem than Boko Haram how can it cope? Quite clearly they are not able to resolve even easier matters.Is there any sense in provoking people who are nursing a lot of grievances already? We know this is a very big mistake and call on the necessary authorities to end the seige on eastern nigeria immediately. It will not help.It only carries the seed of dismembering nigeria. if it is not their goal they must immediately withdraw from eastern nigeria.We know they find it hard to see what other people can see. If it continues the people will reserve the right to seek help however they choose to survive. We do not think it is the outcome the government of nigeria desires. But it is what their action will create.We make this appeal as responsible africans.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria has already its hands full with Boko haram, ISIS west africa, Bandits, armed herdsmen.Why are they eager to create a new enemy? Citizens must be allowed to protect themselves. Why is the government preventing that? Are they in cohort with the murderers? We need to react to our challenges like thinking rational beings.The nigerian government which is not able to guarantee safety of life and property is not in a position to take away the right to self defence which is a human right.If they wish to continue their program of ethnic cleansing against the christain easterners we must call on the world to act. We alert them to a grave error.If any lives are lost in this gambit it will be subject to adjudication in the world and international court.And the people of eastern nigeria will also demand the adjudication for the millions of lives the space has lost in the genocide of 1967 to 1970 to these same set of events.In the mean time the people of eastern nigeria reserve the right to self defence which even the so-called 1999 constitution the feudalistic military imposed decree of 1999 which they use as excuse.In the face of so much insecurity is it not unreasonable of anyone to expect a community of people to do nothing to keep their own space safe? Ordinarily would it not be irresponsible? I want to appeal to the people of eastern nigeria that we have the word of honor of our brothers and sisters from western nigeria.They know it is not time for politics.We are dealing with issues and matters of survival presently.We have unknown people entering our space and killing people and altering our communities and way of life.It is a very serious issue and challenge.We would like the leaders and activists to leave room for synergy until there is cause for the contrary.Accordingly let us keep our language in line with a spirit of collaboration.Our people have a saying that you will first free the chicken from terror and threat before blaming it for wandering. </p> </font> <br> <br> <br> <br><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="ndinne.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <b> <br><br><center><h4><font color="blue">NIGERIA WAS NEARLY PLUNGED INTO WAR BY A CARELESS DECISION</h4></center></font> <br> <font color="black"> <P>We were cringing at the sight of the nigerian military combing the bushes for law abiding citizens who were after terrorist and bandits. Nigerian government do not really believe or take IPOB as anything but true africans and patriots.It is only narrow minded self interest that will cause anyone to not see such altruism and courage in these african youths. Apparently the people who have caused all the problems think the youths who are victim are the real cause.We reject the premise and line of thought.The military were more intense in their pursuit of these youngmen from eastern nigeria than for the badits and terrorists.Our people are being killed and their communities violated by urchins from all around the sahel region marauding and terrorizing the entire nigerian space.It was sad to watch the nigerian military demonstrate a regretable misplacement of priority! It was such a very strange event to watch.The nigerian military displayed a troubling nervous behaviour in its reaction to the people of eastern nigeria rising up to the security challenges bedeviling the area. It is a problem all sections of nigeria are dealing with. What was this condescending reaction for? I can't imagine the US army being troubled by the emergence of a Civil Defence group.The FBI and the local police force will be the ones to deal with any such matters.</p> <br> <p>Their reaction turned out to be more dangerous than an effort to resolve the challenge.The people in question are in uniform and are looking to operate like the rest in the country.Just because some governors do not appreciate the need to have a secure environment in which they have some control does not mean it is not necessary.Just because some have become used to allowing their citizens to live in fear does not mean it is normal.The states in eastern nigeria live with different armed groups some from outside nigeria according to the authorities themselves.All of them brandishing weapons in our communities.And the community is unarmed.The community is sanwiched between armed groups.In the midst of so much insecurity a community can't allow itself to be encircled by a combination of armed groups they do not even know.It is dangerous and requires a response by any thinking group of people.The eastern region as a community of sovereign people are right to respond to their own need.We believe the nigerian army should have been a little bit more circumspect and professional.In reacting as they did they allowed emotion rather than professionalism to drive or guide their response, atittude and reaction.</p> <br> <p> If the military in any situation does not enjoy the confidence of the people there will be a big problem.We know the authorities understand that.It made no sense at all that the nigerian army just jumped into the communities to search for the members of the Eastern Security Network.And we know they understand fully well that this group emanates from need in the space and their sovereignty to respond to their own needs.What the army put on display was not a prudent move.It was not one of their best moments. When Amotekun was lunched there was no such attempt to dislodge the group.We are saying this because the nigerian army is laying a foundation for anarchy. Some of us have done a great deal to try to help the country we call our own.Our efforts are not being appreciated.Some people will not respect who we are and what we represent. And it is very sad.When video of the nigeria military wandering around searching for the members of the ESN was shown on the internet many of us were more than disappointed.What this soldiers who are prisiding over a crumbling country are showing us is the utter confussion they are in. Ordinarily the people of eastern nigeria will look up to the nigerian army.But this is an army that recruits so-called "repentent" terrorists.</p> <br> <p>One is at a loss what the objective and goal of such a "repentance" might be. It is hard for them to assure us that such is not the reason the nigerian army is vulerable to the extent the terrorist pick them like ripe apples! What is far worse is what these men will do to innocent people whom they view as infidels.The entire eastern region had been under the threat of a mass slaughter before.Now we have the same threat with men in the cloak and cover of the nigeria military uniform. It is a very unwise choice and decision made by those whose motive we understand quite clearly! We do not intend to save the nigerian army and the northerners who sowed the seed of the religious inferno now raging among them before we save ourselves.We must keep our own place safe first. We must create some form of stability in the country.We have a counytry that has been thorn apart by an ever widening conflict emanating from just contradictions.And we know who created these conflicts.It has to begin by people taking responsibility for their own environment.Had any external mischief maker planted some bombs or shots and killed a couple nigerian soldiers we would be in a shooting war now. And by God there are many such entities.God just spared us! It is not what I will call careful and painstaking response by such an important institution! And we wonder why nigeria is a country where war is the only way to settle soceital issues.It is little wonder therefore the country of a marrige of convinience is heading for a very bitter divorce very soon.It has become apparent. It is what they fear.But they would rather do nothing but buy guns and fighter jets. Care is how we preserve precious things, not terror! </p> <br> <p>Some of us have been wondering about the soundness of the decision making process in the most lethal entity of coercive power, in nigeria, the military institution.It appears decisions are made on the fly.The decision to send soldiers to Lekki toll gate to confront protesting youths was pedestrian to say the least.It was very unnecessary.The nigerian army has been made to look very ordinary by such actions.Now some Civil Defence entities in eastern region are being attacked by the army.Nigeria has been made a laughing stock by these actions.If this group was seen any different than most of us, there could have been a better approach than what we just witnessed.But the emergence of ESN in the space is waranted and ought to be commended! It is the reason the display did not tickle people because it is not fuuny.It frightened many due to the weight of the carelessness.And that is the problem. We are suppose to be living in a country. There is no one in nigeria who has not followed the conversation of the people of the eastern region around the need for a security outfit.We have had all sorts of names floating around for it. The governors said they had reached the decision and even read a communique establishing such an entity. They have been a unable to bring it about.One time they will cite budget constraints another they will complain about logistics and all other such matters.How ca a community of people depend on a governor who is termed for at most eight years? If such a person will not do what they consider important, they must in self-interest. </p> <br> <p>Eastern nigeria is perhaps the most vulnerable of all the regions in nigeria by history.The military has just proved it by reacting in the way that it just did. The nigeran military as an institution knows the structure of Igbo soceity. It is a family of Age grades or "Ndi Uke", First Daughters or "Umuada", Kindreds or "Umunna", Family or "Ime Obi" and so on.It was how nigeria gained independence. These various groups mobilized to set nigeria free.The new colonialist is just starting to feel the heat.It has nothing to do with a particular group. It is the nation of eastern nigeria reacting to repression and enduring injustice.How is it IPOB is the only problem they have? We will never accept the labelling of IPOB as a violent or terrorist group.Especially not by those who empower and habor groups who are killing, raping, kidnapping and destroying property with reckless abandon.IPOB is not anything like these and does not deserve even to be compared with them! Groups like Myeti Allah had attempted to override the government several times.We know and they make no secret that they are fully armed. It is very wrong for the army and sister security agencies which are presently owned by a single group and tribe to isolate the Igbo people and pretend and alledge they do not wish to belong.The practice of an armed forces now used like a private army to unleash terror on the rest is even more tragic.It is a pedestrian prank no military should accept or such an entity is no better than a gang camp.Their trick might backfire as now appear to be the case.Over and over in the past we had warned that this stunt will be pulled one time too many.Here we are! Why do they pretend to be surprised?</p> <br> <p> We warned this might happen a long time ago and pleaded with the authorities to rethink this method.In their now very typical arrogance they promptly ignored the truth.People who have known this reality since they were born are tired and fade up with it. Hearing the nonesense incenses them and rightfully so.The people of eastern nigeria are given one condition after another to be "fully" accepted as nigerians. We wonder how the Igbos and easterners who are the founders of the nigerian state are now outsiders who must be "accepted".Terrorist like Boko Haram and bandits or armed herdsmen are paid and "rehabilitated".The lives they waste become collateral damage.We now live in a soceity where human life is worthless.It is a sad fact which the people of the region will not accept for themselves or their offsprings.It is a soceity with priority that is misguided to say the least.Unfortunately the nigeria these people now control is not attractive to people of eastern nigeria.The governors who we believe were handpicked do not surprise anyone.Recently we have evidence of Myeti Allah and other groups from northern nigeria trying to influence the outcome of Ohaneze presidential election! Imagine what they will invest in a governorship election in the region! These emerging facts should frighten every person of eastern region descent. In view of their agenda for the region that has hitherto cost the people four million lives this is carelessness at its worst.It is pure insensitivity.We see the rudeness and affrontry that is miles high and getting worse!</P> <br> <p>What they have done makes it imperative to demand they allow the same rights enjoyed by every other region in eastern nigeria or else they are playing into the narative of those who argue nigeria has already been split.It is not possible to have one country where the law applies differently to the different groups and nations of the so-called federation.It will cause another trouble. And we want to stress that any other such trouble will not be easy to overcome.What are those who resist constructive change and solutions looking for? If they want to cause another war they might just be misreading the situation.It does not seem they will be able to control the direction of any such distress in the polity.The youths are hurting. And they have lost faith in the quality of decision making and leadership. We know some people think a military take over solves all problems.But there might be situations where it will be the very last straw.Nigeria is way past such a place. It appears however it is where some are dragging the ship of state. If they have nothing better to do right now it might just be the best time to initiate a dialogue than start a senseless conflict.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria can't have a sharia police in nearly half the country and prevent the rest from protecting their own citizens.It is wrong and evokes anger.You will not treat a segment of soceity with such spite and not cause big trouble eventually.Since the yoruba nation has Amotekun the nigerian government must allow the people of Eastern region to have a corporate way to secure their own environment.It is how a people express sovereignty.In the end it solves a problem that will only get ugly if not addressed.If the quiet and sedate northern nigeria is in such a turmoil,southern nigeria a hub of activities must not allow such condition. And they must not sponsor the contradictions that has upended their own space among us.The governors are being used to sponsor armed groups that will have no way of surviving the tenor of a governor.It is one of the reasons for the mess in northern nigeria. The ad-hoc vigilante each governor forms retires into the shadows with weapons and nothing else.</p> <br> <p> With weapons in their hands and no other means of sustainance terror, criminality and violence becomes the only choice.We thought of a better answer. It is commendable.We do not choose their methods.We do not need them and their solutions which are often not well thought out.It will be horrible for us to allow governors to put their future and safety over and above that of the soceity that produced them.Our people are egalitarian not feudalistic. If they have fallen in love with the ways of their masters we suggest they follow them.We suggest so because they will find no room for a feudalistic mindset in eastern region space. It is the reason the step taken by indigenes of the region should be commended rather than attacked by those who have no problem solving skills.It is better to have the conversation as a soceity than start a war.The threats and killings and even terror will not make us surrender our way of life.It creates the imperative to fight for an environment free from them completely! It is the resolve at the present moment.Our ancestors weathered the odds.And so must we.We see violence all around nigeria again and it is not being addressed in any satisfactory manner.Nigeria and its so-called leaders must show some advancement in thought process since the last pogrom and genocide.This approach often displayed to challenges and problem solving in the space leaves more in expectations.It is the reason some are looking for a better soceity.</p> </font> <br> <br> <br><br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">AGAIN ANOTHER APPEAL TO THE POLITICAL ELITE IN EASTERN NIGERIA</h4></center></font> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>In the wake of the return to civilian government we had called for the return to the founding constitution of nigeria. When a company is founded an article and memorandum is what documents the company as a legal entity.In it the owners are listed.The nature of the business and all other such things are clearly spelt out.You are not going to tamper with this document.If you do the stakeholders will sue your eyeballs out of sucket.It is their investment you wish to toy with.In the case of a country the constitution is what spells these things out.In a federation the federating units have constitutions and every paraphenelia of a nation embeded as same is submitted to form a union or a federation.The regions in Nigeria before the coup in 1966 had each a constitution.It is such a big shift for some military personnel who we now believe wanted to impose and create a preponderance substituted such a constitution with a decree which now trasfers all assets to the center.The federating units and their constitutions were collapsed and their assets ceased and subsumed in a center which asserts control as in a centralized command structure. It was the main reason the people of Eastern Region went to war.At the time the rest of nigeria had no idea what was being explained to them. You have a group who claim the country is the "estate of their father" and the people from "southern nigeria were conquered people".And the people in "Middle- belt are to be used as vassals". One would actually wonder why the Middle-belt and Western Region joined in a war against those that actually sought to free them. They would not even use the situation to force the hand of those intent upon foisting an enslavement upon them.All that is now history.</p> <br> <p>We know that the present agitation in Eastern Region is led by mainly those who did not participate in the last so-called civil war.Many in the struggle saw and experienced the injustice and are incensed by it.It is wrong to refer to it as a war.It was a plunder, massacre and spoiling of an unarmed region of a so-called country.Every entreaty and overture for peace was rejected. We see the people using every kind of guise to force the reality they have designed even today.They use terror as a tool of subjugation. Governors buy new trucks for "repentant" and offer cash rewards to terrorists.You wonder what they do for the model citizens.The "repentant terrorists and bandits" in turn hand the trucks and financial rewards over for communual use of the ravaging terror network in the country.We know who sponsor the evil in nigeria.The ex-governors and current governors in the southern nigeria are busy on the other hand angling for "rotational or revolutional presidency" a perfectly well crafted distraction and deceit.Who thinks that a governor can speak his mind when you have barracks and military regiments in the state armed to the teeth to whom the governor is just a toy? The same is the case with the police force.You have a federation and a republic by name.Nigeria is not a federation and not a republic.If it was a republic leadership will revolve around ability.It is clearly not the case.if it was a federation governors will not line up in Abuja begging for money. We know who pays the piper dictates the tune.Over the years we have raised these issues and said it was bound to ruin the entity.It is pretty obvious you will not opt to feed so many people rather than enable them to learn how to feed themselves.It is not complicated to see this reality as a false one.</p> <br> <p>Today nigeria is ablaze from the desert to the sea.The population have finally seen the light.The Igbo people have a saying that whenever anyone wakes is their own morning.To the nigerians who have just woken up we say "Goodmorning!" So now there is work to do.It has bee made more difficult over time. But it must happen or we have a country of slaves and masters. Unfortunately the ones who want total and absolute control are a mere proxy.It is for this reason I think any person in Nigeria who attacks IPOB or Nnamdi Kanu and the new independence movements in nigeria is a big fool unless they are Fulani.Any region in Nigeria that will wait for anyone to protect it will get "protection" from armed bandits and Boko Haram.It is no accidents. It is the design.It is how sectarian entities operate.Nigeria is no longer secular. It is Islamic and before you open your mouth to talk without facts ask the organisation of Islamic States to which nigeria belongs. It is for this reason any Igbo person or anyone from Eastern Nigeria who attacks Nnamdi Kanu is very sick in mind.Where do we find a perfect man now to help? How long are we suppose to wait until we have such perfect persons? Do the critics think they will do? All we hear from them are argument from a place of the inebriated.It is not how it is done.You need a very sound mindset to make and get your point across. We had prayed for help and God answered our prayer.It is to my mind a sign from God.Some of us have been called the worst of names.I have been insulted and taunted using the stigma of the cause I have taken at my own personal expense.But I was not given this vision by man and I am not accountable to anyone.I know I am not perfect but this work must be continued. We operate from only a window or door of opportunity.We take it when nature and God point one to us.It is alright to await a perfect time.Let those who feel compelled work. It is to God who showed me what to do that I hold myself accountable.I urge my brothers and sisters to have the same mindset.It is also the atitude to betrayals and false friendship.It is bound to occur.Demas a follower of apostle Paul forsook him for "better pastures". Had he continued perhaps we would have an epistle by Demas in the Scripture.Pauls labour for God is remembered in that we see the good work he left.He even knew it.He said "I have fought a good fight...... ".Demas could not say so.We only remember him as one with fickle faith.</p> <br> <p>It is more difficult when you have to appeal for support.It is why we tell our people to make this work easy.We know our people are great investors and have good sense of what makes for a reasonable venture.We want them to take a look at the future.If they do they will support the struggle now.No person in their right mind advocates war.You prevent wars by being very strong.Negotiations only occur when there is parity.We tell our people in the frontlines we are standing with you shoulder to shoulder. I know it is difficult to understand how terrible it is to be involved in these things.The ones who want to be appeased are fine. They will take their gain and retire to a good life.I published betternigeria.com as soon as the first civilian government was lunched. In it we advocated a return to the 1963 constitution. Everyone remembers as we were blamed for trying to "elongate" someones tenure. I emerged from that episode injured and bruised. Yet all I did was use my own resources to lift my voice to a very clear danger in choices being made by those in authority.Today I feel very vindicated.The ones who want to see result and change see dificuties. Some of us can't keep jobs or even have a life.It is already bad enough.People are placed around us to make our lives more difficult.Friends are bought and compromised by authorities and people who want to halt our work. But we keep and maintain focus as God requires of men and women with clear visions.It took me a while to understand what was happening when relationships around me were crumbling. But yes it is hard.Please let these men and women do what they are called to do.You are not going to do it.You actually do not want to.You do not share the vision.You might sympathise.You might even think it is about being brilliant.It is not! It is not enough.It takes a lot more than being brilliant.</p> <br> <p>I do not use feedbacks anymore.Insofar as I am led to just get the information out.Feedbacks almost made me sick and discouraged.It will be filled with discouragement and insult by silly minded people.If you want politeness and sweet words go look for them in the palaces not in the trenches.We therefore wish to admonish our people to be reasonable.We have never been so close to actual freedom. We are not interested in the ambition of those who are not able to build anything for the last sixty years.We have no roads, no schools, no hospitals.I mean look at these men running around in Eastern nigeria calling themselves leaders.I know they are rich.But how can we compare them with those who actually led and served? In less than five years Dr. Michael Okpara and his partners built the best hospitals, road networks,provided portable water,farm and agricultural settlements, colleges.And all that with no oil revenue.Eastern nigeria had the most emerging municipalities in the entire african continent.Now someone tell me how rich was Dr. Michael Okpara,Dr Akanu Ibiam, Chief P.O Ururuka and the rest of them? How rich were these wonderful sons and daughters of eastern Nigeria who gave the world "an emerging economy" as Eastern Nigeria was then called? We have standards.</p> <br> <p>So now we compare them with those who have unmotorable roads,terrorist filled farmlands,poverty and hunger stricken population and youths without educational or job opportunities.It is unthinkable in this part of the world. It is not acceptable.Everything that has created such a reality in the environment will be tackled and removed.Our people need to begin to work for themselves to prosper and enrich their own lives again. The people are upward mobile and like to measure themselves against what they are suppose to achieve.They set measurable targets and goals for themselves.And they are all time or age based.If they are not doing well they know it.It is not enough for them to pin the blame on God. Those who copy other people or work for them must go to them for recognition.We are unable to see what they are doing when salaries are not paid.There are no roads, no running water, no electricity, no jobs. The youths are not learning to prepare them to be competitive. We are very thankful for the men and women in IPOB and the work they do.It is cause for hope in an entity that has lacked it for a long time. To the men and women of IPOB we say we celebrate you all.We ask their leadership to remain steadfast and be assured many of us know and understand their intentions and pray and wish them well. </p> </font> <br> <br> <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igboyouth.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igbobabes.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<< </font>...</a></div> ..... <br><center><h3> BROTHERLY APPEAL FROM THE OUTPOSTS</h3></center> <br> <font color="brown" size="5"> <p>The events in Rivers State are not funny.I have watched with so much disappointment how our people are being humiliated in the exact same way it happened one hundred years ago.The North is humbled and the west is humiliated and the final port of call is eastern nigeria.We have a recycle.This one we must reject and defeat! The Igbos rejected amalgamation and would not sign the docements.The document contains not a single hint of Igbo approval.I wish to tell the people of eastern nigeria who pride themselves in their ability to reason to put on their thinking cap again.Please remember how the governor of Rivers State defended this very cause.He was purposely targeted for a take down.We had warned but he was distracted delibrately.The situation and the confussion was created to distract him.We have the entire eastern nigeria surrounded by armed bandits and they force the governors to call in the army.We want to warn them that they are dealing with a sinister plot.The north wants complete control of access to the sea.<p> <br> <p>We are of the opinion that the nigerian experiment failed from the start.The failure was in part due to original intent and purpose.Whereas the southern participants wanted a nation and a commonwealth the northern oligarchs and feudal lords saw a kingdom.It has been their plan.We see how unrelenting they are.Unfortunately their worldviews are not in agreement to the worldview of the Ijebu people who are successful merchants, the Egba who are warrioirs and in modern times educators and academicians.It is not in line with the worldviews of Eko people who are a blend of people who are well travelled and skilled in modern business enterprise.It is not in accord with the worldviews of the Igbo people or the Ibibios or the Effik who are merchants,entertainers and educators.It is not in line with the worldviews of the Annang or the Ijaws who are mostly the same people.In other words the union was doomed from the start due to the divergence afore mentioned.When people like Dr.Usman Banguje lay claim of the oil in Ijaw land citing UN law of the sea he ignores the fact he has no access to the sea.First we see the goal of their quest for unity is not peace.It is not even religious as they use religion often as a cover.Their quest is economic. These men have imporverished their own people.They take their resources and place it in the hands of those they serve.In return they have titles and fancy property and clothing.They produce millions of hopeless youths who are prepared to die more than anything else.They see no future at all for themselves.Now they take aim at our own youths.We want a country but not this way! The push back from the youths are in order.It is instinct for survival.self defence is natural law.<p> <br> We want to show our people why the north want to block the Igbo from access to the sea.They know the Igbo will resist their foolish claim robustly.It is lost to them they had failed.The new claim has failed because there is autonomy and sovereignty in the nationalities.They joined the country called nigeria with their individual sovereignty.His theory omits that true and he forgets he has no access to the sea without a constitution which a sovereign people a re privy to.If his theory offends them they cut him off.laws are that tricky we must remind the pseudo-intellectual.Each ethnicity in nigeria is a sovereign entity.It is the reason they have traditional rulers.He therefore has no portion in southern nigeria at all.We need to tell these people that except they correct their faulty worldviews they will have to go their own seperate way.We know he is doing what oligarchs do.In this case however there is a big problem.The people are willing and ready to fight.It means they will have to go their own way or risk permanent attrition a fear that ends all colonization and dominion.We need to explain to the Lagosians why they are now tenants to the north or simply put to the fulani.It might help them to quit fighting the Igbo who share same worldview as they do.Those building fancy billion dollar outposts in the sea are staking their claim and they have already warned it belongs to them.We know what Pa Obafemi Awolowo would have done in the wake of the plan unfolding in Lagos. We had warned some years ago concerning what is the slow capture of lagos by forces of feudalism.We know Alhaji Lateef Jakande averted these tendencies by sheer alertness.Some people are preoccupied with self.If there is no move now the sale will be closed and complete.We praise the brave youths for reading the handwriting and reacting accordingly.</p> <br> <p>It is like striking the match to light an environment doused with gasoline.We like the United Nations and African Union to pay attention to the unfolding situation in nigeria.We all must act with reason and caution.They wish to bring war home to us yet again.We are not responsible for Boko Haram.It is their own problem. They created it by false logic.The governors have no business sympathising with a government that has lost its sense of purpose.They are chief executives and must excercise independence and sovereignty on behalf of the people at all times.Something this particular governor had done so well until now.We must remember he is human.Your governor is not a deity.He can make mistakes.He was confused on purpose.His profile was no longer tolerable.They purpose to cut him down.Please do not allow them to succeed.Rehabilitate him and uphold him.Suprise your enemies.Find it in you to forgive him as your own flesh and blood.What we had desired was an atittude of collaboration since any form of competition is bound to be exploited by entities aiming no good.</p> <br> <p>However they have perfected "election" as the tasty "cake" they dangle at the ever so greedy nigerian politician.The "vice presidency" of nigeria has become where dreams go to die! What a "vice" or pardon me "de-vice"! We have an idea who is responsible for the present height and size measuring events.We ask the governor to accomodate the youths as ought to be the case.Disparaging them will only make matters worse.He will not govern in a vacuum.Most importantly is his own reputation and ambition which is the target of the ones who sponsor these events around him. It does seem thsy are outsmarting him. And it has happened because he abandoned those who genuinely wish him well.He is having the experience of the lizard that abadons the Iroko tree when the cat is after him.There are enemies within.It is not time for him to refuse a few set of additional pair of good eyes.</p> <br> <p>He ignored all the signals and warnings aimed to help him from the outliers.Sometimes power does that to somebody.The state was being infiltrated by trained men from outside nigeria who are right now in position to destroy the state. If he continues to refuse to listen to those who have same interests as he, they will succeed.There is an attempt to make it appear as if the fight against the injustice in nigeria is not supported by the entire southern nigeria.We know many in the north support the call for more equity in the soceity at least.Who had been at the fore front of the call for equity in nigeria? Isaac Adaka Boro, Ken Saro-Wiwa,Anthony Enahoro,Chief Obafemi Awolowo,Mallam Aminu kano, Col Dimka are not Igbos.We have those who have learnt to use unity as pun.When they truely mean dominion. How do you explain that the people who run a parallel government in twelve out of thirty six states are the ones preaching unity? It is bizare to say the least.Their focus is not elections as they pretend. Even though they show obsession for it, that is not their goal.It has no purpose to them.What they are after are the resources in southern nigeria.They are very good proxies as they have always been for other entities.The refineries being built with tens of billions of dollars in the north and western nigeria are not owned by nigerians.The nigerians are proxies.We must identify the mysterious hands that ruin all national assets with aim to hand them to priviledged individuals in a nation of two hundred million people mostly youths.Well,we must if we do not intend to turn our youths into the streets to beg for a living.We just can't do that! It is not our own way of life.</p> <br> <p>They always presume these youths from the north who they had armed will remain loyal to those who will not care about them and their own future? It turns out they are not as servile as they had wished.We are not suprised this often does not pan out.Some people are very careless.We think it is not prudent to make such presumptions in such fickle circumstances.The plans being hatched are those of the actual owners.We are not going to be able to match them if our people who are in position of authority refuse to use information.If you are not happy that someone is stealing your resources you react and show disapproval.You can fight or just complain.This is the situation in nigeria.Their attack is strategic.They are positioned against Lagos. The bridgehead in Shagamu has a purpose. It is not the only startegic position that has been fortified by those who wish to takeover nigeria by force.The Yoruba would have had to fight for these places in the near future if the youths did not rise now.We need to support our youths who have suddenly recognized the harm being done to their future.It means the present hardship they endure is just the beginning.We must support the effort to have a more equitable and egalitarian soceity.We all know the soceity has been so badly skewed.It certainly must be redressed.We must never allow it to get worse.They have made northern nigeria unihabitable with policies that are revisionist.Since creating their religious republic in twelve states they have known no peace.We do not need their faulty logic here in the south.</p> <br> <p>This rises above the political career of any one politician.It is sad they are distracted with elections when they have lost their very citizenship.Humility will let any one see that.Humility it appears is not compartible with the type of politics played in nigeria.We like to appeal to our sons and daughters to know we stand with them through these events and the cause that precipitated them.It is just and righteous.If the soceity that was to be created by the 1914 amalgamation will not work we are not helpless.A Yoruba adage says that if one does not find a way to get to where he intends at least he knows where he started from.An Igbo proverb says a rejected person must not reject himself.If the constitution that was agreed to is no longer acceptable to the people who control nigeria, the rest must determine whether they want to continue to be "nigerians" under their present terms.We agree with the youths in their just pursuit of equity.Discussing elections under the type of atmosphere in nigeria is the height of insensitivity and utter disregard for life.If a country is not able to guarantee safety of life and property what use it it? What use is government that is not able to maintain basic things as roads,schools,health centres, etc? We refer to nigeria as a federal republic? Why would nigerians collectively continue to deceive themselves? Nigeria fails all the tests quite clearly.On the other hand each of the component parts will pass every of these tests and can do these things and with ease and excellence.The question then is, what ought the choice be for the people? We urge the Yoruba people and the neighboring nations and kindreds in Western Nigeria and the Igbos and their kindreds in Eastern nigeria to close ranks.It is not a mystery what some people are attempting to do.The Afonja/Shehu Alimi saga is the model for all APC states in the South. Truck loads of miscreant and terrorist are packed into the states from northern nigeria.It is not democracy it is conquest.We urge the eastern nigeria to revamp APGA/NPP and protect themselves and their own people.So must the Yoruba also revamp UPN/SDP in their own interest.I want to warn Nigerians that Boko haram is another ploy to colonize the nigerian space.It has become a way of relocating people and changing the demographics of nigeria.How else can you place four thousand Fulanis in Cross River State? Since these people are a militant group who will call for reinforcement from outside nigeria what will a governor do? Rather what can a governor do? He controls neither the police nor the army? A word they say is enough for the wise. We urge the people of southern nigeria to get wiser and protect their ancestral land.If they would not they awill become an exiled group of people.The people on their heels know how this is done.It is no question it is game on in southern nigeria! Our youths get it! We praise them for their understanding of events.As for the political class that has neither vision nor knowledge of history we say stumble on.The presidency of a non-existent country waits for you!</p> </font> <br> <br> <br> <br><center><h4><font color="purple">THE AMALGAMATION OF 1914 WAS NOT A LEGITIMATE EVENT BUT AN INDUCEMENT</h4></center></font> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>The amalgamation of 1914 was the reason why we have a geographical space known as nigeria.But it was a deceit.Sounds familiar? It sounds like the 1999 constition! It was suppose to be a document that says that all in the space wilfully accepted the arrangement. We want to examine the situation that gave rise to the event.From early 1800 the British empire had become aware of the need for a sustained presence in the african continet.Nigeria, ie the space had become one of the location in the west african region.It would be very difficult to lay claim to the entire continent. No colonizing entity in africa wanted such a logistical nightmare.It was like a cat trying to kill an elephant for dinner! It is noteworthy that none of the countries that was a colonizer had any experience in managing such a vast territory.It would be a nightmare to manage.The best the British empire had done was India. The British empire was an audacious move.Imagine Britain with a population of twenty one million people colonizing India.India had a population of over two hundred million people when the British set foot on the soil of India.India had an indegenous language and population dating back 4000 years before the 9th century (CE) when the population that became present day Britain started to form.India had civilization dating back over 3000 years before Britain.The British claimed the self immolation of widows and the caste system in India were anti civilization.They wanted to "educate" the Indians.Though Britain had a class system it was "benign" and more"gentle".We know it is the power of the gun!</p> <br> <p> It was after the Berlin conference of 1884 that Britain turned her attention to Africa.The European scramble for Asia was running it course.We know the British empire anticipated problems from this front.The indian muslims had been indoctrinated and claimed British new cartrige bullets were made from pig fat! The British knew this was sign of trouble.The scape goat was the emperor.The trouble was revolt of bengali muslims.It was an indication and a reminder that the people had found their voice.After the banishment of emperor Baliandur Shah the British started shopping for alternatives using the window of the intervening time.In 1900 Britain started some form of power manoevres in West Africa.The contact was first started with trading.Later they began to form what they called protectorates.It was later to become military expeditions like what happened in India. Around 1900 Britain set her eyes on land and resources from what is now Nigeria.When all the chips were down the civilizations were all toppled by some combination of coercion and deceit.</p> <br> <p>In 1914 the sudued entities in the space today called Nigeria were made to sign a combination of armistice,peace and trade treaties.In all it was just a guise to wrest control and power.In 1914 one of those flurries of paperwork and seals was foisted on the people now called nigerians.The so called amalgamation document was rejected by the Igbo paramount rulers after being enlightened of the implication by the formost "intelligentias" of that day as a sale of the "motherland".In any case the British had learnt the people were "no good".They invited the following to sign the papers:HRH maiturare Sarakin Muslimi And Sultan of Sokoto,Usman Dan Maje, who was to become the Emir of Kano as reward,a prominent Yoruba lawyer Kitoyi Ajasa who was Knighted and became a member of the British empire,HRH the Oladigbolu of Oyo empire,HRH R Henshaw, the Obong of calabar said to be a descendant of returnee emancipated slaves, HRH Abubakar the shehu of Bornu kingdom.The Igbos with powerful and consequential civilizations in Aro-Chukwu led by Eze Aro, in Nri led by the Eze Nri, in Onitsha led by Obalike and the Obi of Onitsha Obi Okosi refused to be involved.The British claimed to the others that they were snubbed! I want to show the people who talk about rebellion how wrong they are.Eastern Region did not take part nor sign the so called amalgamation treaty.To the extent that the Obong of Calabar never consulted with the rest as is the practice and custom in Eastern Nigeria he was there in his own right and as an observer.The Igbo who are the oldest in the family and by custom the custodians of the family inheritance rejected the agreement.</p> <br> <p> In and by this single act of disobedience and resistance the Igbo leaders had invalidated the Amalgamation process from the start.It is the reason for the very tenuos relationship between the Igbo and the British colonial rulers.In the mean time the people took the opportunity of the ralationship to travel to Britain in droves to study.It was these men who were trained in Britain and America who upon their return renewed and strengthened the flame of resistance and liberty in Eastern Nigeria.The agents of the colonial government were made objects of ridicule.It was an act of nobility in Igboland to speak out against "foreign rule". It was a mark of being aware and enlightened.It was also a weapon of ungoing resistance.On the other hand the colonialist made every effort to elevate the men and women who promoted the "British empire". Britain being the creature of great knowledge of human behaviour noticed the wane in the attraction of the empire.It was promptly substituted with the "commonwealth".</p> <br> <p>However this was not going to solve the problem. The people will not settle for anything but complete independence.One would argue the battle was and is still ungoing. It is the reason we demand change for the better. History informs us the battle has many forms.We now understand it is both asynchronous and assymetric.The people must therefore learn to be very adaptable and nimble.The leadership that does not possess these qualities will not serve the led in the african space.It is the nature of the problem in Africa.It is not possible to appeal our way out of poverty.Resources are managed effectively to fight poverty.If one is careless it is possible that inspite of great endowment poverty will be a presence in a soceity.Nigeria is today and now the sorry case it is for this reason.We therefore support the call for "decentralization" of government.It will allow nations to move at their own pace in self actualization.There is only one way to do this peacefully.If the approach is not attractive for the proponents of the present decadent system the alternative is confrontation.It appears that the hitherto silent population are now looking forward to the later!</p> <br> <br> <br> </font> <br><center><h4>THE MOMENT OF TRUTH IS UPON THE NIGERIAN SPACE</h4></center> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>It was quite disconcerting to hear a person of the calibre of Professor Ango Abdulahi accuse the "Igbo" of masterminding the disruption in Rivers State recently.Nigerian youths are protesting the bleakness of their present and future.Why blame this angst on the Igbo people? As one of the "leaders" in the nigerian space should this be his contribution at such a volatile period? Now I want to alert our people to understand this man is not just another politician.He is one of the master strategists of the northern elite.I think the accusation must have surprised many of the Igbos who claim to be "friends of the north".It did not suprise some of us though.It is the normal to attack Igbo to gain political relevance.I do not believe that he went down to the South to make such an inflammatory statement without a purpose and intention.We must remember the North or rather the fulani controls both the army and all para-milatary entities and every arm bearing entity in the nigerian space.He commands them to use force and terror.And we want to let the world know that if they do we will not stand idly by and be massacred again.</p> <br> <p>I hope the peace makers in eastern nigeria are paying attention.Incidentally not long after he made the statement the law enforcement killed some citizens in the very location of his outbursts.Now I wish to make clear that eastern nigeria became part as a nation of people.Their pranks are futile.The people in eastern nigeria know their relationship.Professor Ango Abdullahi and others like him will never change that.It is over. We must tell these men who have fed fat on the misfortune they call a country the truth.It is a shame to see what they have made of a country that was full of promise.At the brink nigeria now ranks among the very poorest in the world inspite of enormous human potential and a vast array of natural resources.What more do they want the people to do? Nigerians have watched people who claim to be leaders loot the entire treasury.It is enough.All we ask is to be allowed to create some form of order in our community and our lives. We ask the nigerians who pretend to seek solution to nigerian problems why they are looking for solutions.What is nigeria? Is there such aplace as nigeria? How can they have a country where there is no agreement? The army writes up a set of platitudes that satisfy them and jam it down the throat of all the others.Is it how you get a country?</p> <br> <p>If the army suspended the nigeiran consitution in a coup why has politicians continued to live the wishes of those who clearly broke the laws? We must know the nigerian people have been doubly raped.First by the betryal of its own military. Now the political class is doubling it up. The 1999 consitution is a falacy.The military which illegally took power is in no place to provide a country with a consitution. Our politicians have not found the courage and the moral rectitude to deal with this obvious fact. You can't make an agreement with some one and change it it suit you.When you do it is no longer an agreement and ceases to be binding.Nigeria ceased to exist in 1966 when the military tossed away or suspended the constitution that brought the different people together.It is the reason for the various problems.It is that constitution which provides the moral authority to confront the human issues in the relationship. Man is first a moral being before a legal one.</p> <br> <br><p>The same Igbo people who are remitting billions of dollars from outside nigeria where they toil to sustain a country that will not allow them to build schools and hospitals or even roads are now the enemy.The same Igbos that are laboring everywhere in nigeria to build an economy is again the enemy.The same Igbo who had the resources like oil taken from their land through a genocidal war is again the enemy.For over seventy years fellow citizens have become colonizers and the Igbo has endured patiently while laboring hard for the entity. Yet again they are enemy.We know a tepid appology will be made. But we do not think it changes anything.No! We hate to think this is a random statement.It is a masterfully placed call and order.We all recall that for the last couple of years some of us have lamented the dumping of youths from Niger republic and other parts of west africa of fulani stock in Igboland and eastern nigeria.Will the nigerian government claim ignorance in these matters? We like to say that it is time the governors in eastern nigeria understand the issues.They are all angling to be president but their land and nation is being stolen. They are being turned into puppets in the soceity.How can a puppet lead?.We will never allow that to be the case.The people of eastern nigeria are known for their zeal for life.Our culture is the celebration of life.We will not allow any suicidal gun carrying, hostile hostage taking, kidnapping religious bigots within and among us.We will not live in fear in our communities.It is our sanctuary.</p> <br> <p>Our people are not going to be taught good neighborliness. They reside all across the globe.They understand what it means and know the worth of safety in such circumstances.It is no reason to have their own homeland stolen from them.We are watching those we helped and nurtured trying to excercise dominion over us.Nigeria is home of absurdity of all sorts.Ordinarily it is said that one should put the best foot forward.We see a situation that practices the converse instead.In a country for which our forebearers fought so hard to free the Igbo is always the enemy.The ones who try to paint this picture have benefitted the most from a soceity they contribute a net negative.We know they are the ones who sponsor the terror in nigeria. They pretend for the sake of the outside world.But we know Boko Haram, herdsmen and bandits are all the same people.The impunity they display is the result of these threads of terror they have weaved to control a soceity they have never actually contributed anything to build.Their main contribution is always violence. And we are now sick of it.We will not allow ourselves to be overun by the terror that is aimed and sponsored purposely.We call on the rest of the world to intervene whilst there is still a chance to prevent a calamity.We call on the nigerian people to wake up and demand a soceity our people fought for.If we can't have that there is nothing wrong with the seperation some have been demanding for so many years. It is clear they want to make their participation in the space so burdensome that the rest will demand to end it.Now they have succeeded.It is up to us to do what is needed for our own sanity and survival.There is no time left to waste.</p> </font> <br> <br> <img src="okgirl.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="africana1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <center><h3>OPINION OF THE WATCHMEN</h3></center> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>We have received information about the nigerian army dispatching the so called 'elite' force to Imo State.We wish to let the governor know that he is going to be held accountable for anything that happens as a result of his choice to invite the military to a very peaceful state.He claims he was elected by universal sufferage.Is he saying the same people who elected him are turning on him? What is the reason? If he was imposed on the people it is another matter.As an organic entity this must work itself out.Hiring soldiers from even the most elite force will not help.Human soceity is organic.It is systemic.It fends for its own self.Well trained soldiers know these things.He and the other governors in the region were warned of the infiltration of the communities by armed religious zealots from the northern part of the country.The answer is to mobilize the community to protect its own surroundings.The idea that the nigeria military will be a source of comfort to the people of eastern nigeria is very trite and even absurd.It is hard to know those who were around when the last storm took more than three and half million Igbo lives.Most of the men who masterminded the storm are here with us.Innocent lives were wasted.Now we know it was all for crude oil.We like to remind the elites that the lives that are being wasted daily are fellow citizens and africans.God will hold some of them accountable for it.We can't always blame external forces for these atrocities.We must remember the meaning of responsibility.</p> <br> <p>If the governor wishes to forget his past he is not able to convince the people to do the same.Right this moment there is a war in nigeria. Muslim Religous zealots are up in arms and have been for the last twelve years.Some of them are called terrorist as a result of the extent they are willing to go to achieve their avowed objective.They are demanding a nation where our own way of life is not acounted for.They are waging this battle even assymetrically.How does the governor ignore such an important fact? People from their ranks are received back into this same army.What more need we say to the governor? The governor wants to have citizens of his state taxed by soldiers for their own pockets and have them collect tarrifs that will not come to government coffers.And that is the best case scenario.Worst case is many are massacred as is often the case.They will be happy with him but he is deciding his own political future in so far as it will depend on these same people who will be taxed or killed by these people he has invited.</p> <br> <p>Since 2012 we have seen the reactionary elements in northern nigeria planning to overwhelm the nigeria soceity with problems of insecurity.In that year about four thousand fulanis were said to have been displaced from Taraba State. We questioned how Cross River State will be the home to a Fulani tribe. The people of the state did not understand what we were saying then.Everywhere you have nigerian military now they want a fulani population as though nigeria is a conquered entity and the nigerian military their constabulary.The people thought we were not making sense. Right now it is clear we were absolutely right.Benue State was right to reject the Burden.Cross River state government in 2012 was a leadership without the capacity and the depth we see now.It is incomprihensible how a governor and a nigerian with a sense of history will allow and accept a proposition to host a fulani tribe.We called it an encirclement.The people of Cross River did not understand now they do.It must be reversed or the Effiks and Ibibios have no homeland. The citizens must begin to request for the Taraba State government to find a suitable location for its own citizens.Taraba has by far more land than Cross River State. It has more resources then Cross River even gold.How can Cross River state be saddled with such a burden? We know some men have no balls! It will cost the people their ancetralland and homestead.Whosoever was governor in Cross River who allowed this invasion is a big fool.I know it must all be the quest for the presidency.But it never materializes.In the end the presidency will cost the original nigerians their ancestral land.They will lament and weep and cry or are they already.The Fulani is doing a number in the Nigerian space.We got ready early in eastern Nigeria. They managed some bridge heads but they will all be taken over by citizens army and people.</p> <br> <p>The nigerian army will not send soldiers to determine the source of the slaughter going on in the north and middle belt.We have mass graves as our citizens are massacred in the thousands. We throw our hands up because the fulanis are carrying AK47.The rifles are sold to everyone.The rest will do the exact same thing.They do not manufacture it.They buy it.And so can anyone else.The people of eastern nigeria are even able to build that rifle.They can pick it apart and fabricate it if they want to.They are able to arm themselves.It is why there is the desire to keep them squeezed and hemmed in.But the game is over.They have made their case to a world whose attention they never received when four million of them perished.Today they are making a fresh case as the same people who massacred millions surround them even as they are totally disarmed.We do not think this to be funny.Any governor who thinks this is a simple event to be solved by resorting to heavyhandedness will destroy his career very promptly.It is that simple.Good politics require that all demands are considered carefully even in exigencies.</p> <br> <p>The IPOB and other voices in eastern nigeria who demand self determination must be taken serious.We urge unity, dedication and a clear sense of purpose among them.It is the time they had been wishing for.We warn the people who are in power today to know power is transient.The people are sovereign and that will not change.Every occupation has always ended at some point.In 1966 an aberation in the way of an interregnum was foisted on the nigerian space by men in uniform.There is a reaction as though we do not remember where the interruption occured.We have an interference of fedalistic instincts in the nigerian political space.The nationalists who are today demanding what ordinarily is obvious are being made the "bad" people.The ones who have taken their resources by force are not! We disagree and ask the "nationalists" to be reasonable and listen to the people they represent.When they overreach we must all speak to the cause.Without question they represent the means to a better future for the people of eastern nigeria.Our idea of peace is not giving away our resources in form of "oil blocks" to people who have never set foot in the land when sons and daughters and even neighbors are ignored. The people can't continue to wallow in abject poverty while their resources make other people wealthy. It must be ended. And the time has come.We must participate in shaping the dialogue so that they stay focused and on course.Everywhere in the world the arrowhead for liberty is a specific group who will dedicate themselves to such a cause.These young people have shed blood and laid down their lives.It is the solemn prize for any cause.They have braved armed ruthless military with nothing but courage and the righteousness of their cause.</p> <br> <p>The governors in eastern nigeria will not govern in a vacuum.The choices they make will determine if they have the loyalty and support of the people.Let me make clear that there is no chance that the Igbos are dislodged from Igboland or that the people of eastern nigeria are run out of their land.There is no chance of that happening.If anyone requires their resource the open door and recourse is negotiation not war.Anyone investing on that has a very bad investment.The people who come to eastern nigeria are welcome to enjoy the hospitality and atmosphere of liberty in it and live it up.If they come with weapons to destroy lives of the people God will make their own lives a byword.The people of the region are trying without help to rebuild their community after they lost everything.All their resources were taken from them.If the people who stole from them are in want, is it not a story for the folklores? How come they are the ones complaining and fighting after exploiting crude oil for over sixty years from a community? And look at how they use it.Nigeria will export crude oil and then import the various crude oil derivative.In fact the Igbo people and people from eastern nigeria weep as they watch the mess the government makes with the oil politics.Every section of nigeria is able do a lot better than is presently the case.And it is all thanks to the mentality of those in government.The central nigerian government is now treating certain parts of nigeria as vassals.We believe this is a reaction of a mindset of those bereft of concrete uplifting ideas.</p> <br> <p>How are they full of bitterness when they are the ones who took the resources and left nothing for a community but poluted environments and wastelands for over sixty years? Who killed General Aguiyi Ironsi for daring to believe nigeria can be one? What was the battle cry? Let me remind the people who are preaching unity they were yelling "Araba", "Araba" in the hallow ground where the blood of two eminent nigerian were shed. Araba means "seperation". It means "revolt" and "rebellion".An Igbo military officer was killed while being hosted by a Yoruba officer.The Yoruba was asked to hand over his guest and live. He honorably refused and was killed with his guest.Today these people who refused to use more peaceful methods to resolve a confict but called for total seperation are preaching unity.We know why.They have good reasons for their new position.For over sixty years they have taken complete control of the country and its assets.The whole nation has been turned into one hell hole of abject poverty and penury but for some in the "ruling class" of the people in control.And nigeria is not suppose to be a kingdom but a republic.</p> <br> <p> Today the people who are hurting agree to that total seperation they requested years ago.The position is the only way to resolve an enpasse resulting in their total refusal for any change in the situation caused by the 1966 uprisings.The fatalism in nigeria is mostly a vindication of Laurence Peter principle which states that "in a heirachy every employee rises to their level of incompetence".The corallary also is relevant and states that "in time every post tends to be filled by an employee who is not competent enough to perform the duties".The part of nigeria that resists new ideas has hampered the rest of the country for far too long.It is time to act and make a move for a change of circumstances. Words have failed to work.Those who are hurting are going to free themselves or resign to the fatalistic cycle and ritual. It is not important that not everyone in this part is of this mindset.What matters is that the mindset controls the outcomes from this part.It is the result that must inform the resolve of those who must seek to free themselves from the cloak if it does not fit.</p> <br> <p> The Yoruba sang against the colonialist after a decisive victory in the battle against colonialism.But the people returned again and again until the resolve of the natives was broken.They asked in the song how they are suppose to pay tax in their own land to outsiders.The Igbos and easterners had a full raging war with tax collectors till the end of colonialism.The women in eastern nigeria took the fight against taxes personally.All that is now in history that is banned to a new generation.We are not just paying the taxes we refused to pay to England. We are paying it to people who will not match us word for word in an argument.Today some people are ignoring their own history and playing the ostrich.It is time to ask the north to use her enormous wealth to benefit it own.The people of southern nigeria will manage on their own.No longer will the guise for unity be used to strip people of their resources only to waste everything.The people want to manage their own lives .It is very unlikely they will waste their resources in the face of so much needs.Those who do not understand this imperative will be on the outside very soon.Every community in nigeria must learn to manage its own environment.It is what was agreed.There will be a government at the center that does what is agreed by all.It is the foundation of the nation and we must return to it or everyone is already home!</p> </font> <br> <br> <br> <img src="umuafoigbo.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">REGIONAL SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS IN NIGERIA ARE NOW A NECESSITY</h4></center></font> <br> <font color="Blue"> <br><p>The twelve states boardering the sahel region to the north of nigeria have a police force.The sharia police was established many years back.It was emplaced to enforce sharia law which the people of the area had either accepted by force or by choice.The fact is that the law had been made to supercede the laws of the federation in the environment.The rest of the country took this very omnious punch on the chin and acted as though it never hurt.It seems though they were hurt very badly.They endured it for the sake of peace.They have tried to have a dilogue since this move was made to no avail.The forces responsible for this move refuses to negotiate.Instead in a not so surreptitious move they have invited their kins from around africa to move into nigeria.These men are invited to come with their arms and weapons if they are lucky to have any! In a country that disarmed its own citizens this move has an obvious implication.As though this tilt is not enough, everytime the armed bandits ceased and kidnapped people the authorities will quickly negotiate a very hefty "ransome".In this way the government has built a renegade army that has opposed the nigeria military and is almost encumbering it.<p> <br> <p>The question now is whether the nigerian police and army are able to fight this purposely created and empowered monster.The truth is no! They can't.They are not nearly as well equipped.The renegade army is better manned and outnumbers the real one in proportion by function and expectations.It is not surprising therefore they are not able to defend nor protect citizens.They have been overwhelmed on purpose.We know how ungovernable environments are created.If we did not we now have had the lesson.Nigeria has been going down this path since 1966.Many have paid the supreme price.But a section has suffered more having lost nearly four million innocent lives.Today once again the country is in a place where the full cycle is in place.Nigeria is back where it was in 1914.An interested British government was looking for where to "invest". Yes believe it or not colonialism is a form of investment.Britain sent some of her citizens who were skilled to africa to seek resources.The man who was to become a "lord" Fredrick Lugard was a retired Lieutnant colonel.He had skills in military expedition.He was in africa to create an enabling environment for the British enterprise to prosper.He was a British success story."Nigerians" are complaining.But his mandate was neither to "found" nor create something that suited them.He had a different goal. His goal was Euro-centric and British.</p> <br> <p>Today we have a new problem.Nigeria has had inept leadership, that much is clear.They joined the Organization of Islamic States.But they would not explain their reason.Perhaps none was clear in their minds except just the feelings.What was a secular state doing in such an organization? An organization will have purpose and goals.Nigerian leadership most of which has always come from one part have claimed it had only observer status.It turns out nigeria is a subscription fee paying member and had the full rights as other members.So why the deceit? Nigeria has more christians than muslims.They knew if they accepted the truth it will cause some very serious problems.So they will rather postpone the evil day. The dreaded day is eventually here! It will be a very serious mistake to minimize the enormity of this problem.It was easier to stress the commonality of the africanness of the people than to tow the line of religion with its divisiveness.But that choice was already made.The rest must live with the consequence.If they will not become muslims by implication they must be outspoken about it.We think the message is very loud and clear.We can all exist and live together as has been the case for centuries or we go the ruinous path we see in many places around the globe.In eastern nigeria we are earth citizens! It is impossible to make us anything else. The effort has been ugly and deadly and promises no end.</p> <br> <p>In so far as the nigerian military did not find it necessary to fight the sharia police or the Amotekun it will be provocative to pick a fight against Eastern Security Network.Nobody has been prosecuted for all the houses that has been burned in eastern nigeria.We have heard and seen children massacred and no one has been called to account.Christians are being killed and burnt alive in Kaduna, Zamfara,Yobe,Jigawa, Bornu in Kogi and other places in northern nigeria.It has become so routine governments do not even respond to the citizen distresses.There has been no case brought against anyone when entire villages have been sacked and burnt.We saw this in the middle-belt area for years now.But recently such events have crept into eastern region.Nobody has been arrested for all the kidnapping and massacre that has become common-place in a hitherto peaceful environment.We have been told they are cross-border and foreign invaders! Imagine that! There has been no arrest for the ruinous destruction of the farm crops and means of survival of the people of the land.Are they suppose to wait until famine and hunger wipes them out? Are we suppose now to get used to this kind of strange events in our communities? What kind of leadership wants to normalize these kind of ugly incidents and uncivilized behaviour? And we hear the sermon on tolerance.Who wishes to lecture the people of eastern nigeria and the Igbo people about tolerance.It is very presumptuos.They can teach anyone in the world.They know what it is.But they understand vulnerability and insecurity especially in nigeria! What was the crime of our hardworking and enterprising people who are massacred over and over by these same people? Those who are called governors are attempting an impossibility to present armed murderers many of who are not even from northern nigeria as our neighbors.If they have lost their minds the people need to remind them.Why would your neighbor reside in the forests and not among other residents? Our communities have been places where we celebrate life since the world was founded by the God we serve and beseech in every invocation? </p> <br> <p>It will be foolhardy to entrust ones future to such eneptitude.Incidentally the people of eastern nigeria know how to do things for themselves.If the governors had answered the call to secure the people they would not have embarked on self-help.They were very happy with their own safety and comfort.The people cried out severaly for help into a vacuum.The echo and reverberation roused the citizens within and outside to action.Nature they say abhors vacuums.These men could not careless about the people they claim to govern.We have always said that soceity is both systemic and organic.It will be a very big mistake for any army to march against a people who just want to be safe.It will be a very big error.The nigerian army and police are advised to not be used to embark on a mistake and a fools errand.If they shed blood, it will not be paid for with water.The government is not able to overcome much easier circumstances.Quite clearly this is by far a very emotional and difficult issue. Nobody must be fooled to assume otherwise. As an Igbo adult and a man of eastern nigeria descent who witnessed with youthful eyes the glory days I believe the eastern governors feel safer today.It is very sad some of our politicians do not actually understand politics as a means, actually a tool box. You pick according to your versatility, intellect and capacity.We see their submissive and canine attachement to those in Aso rock and vassals.But the feeling is not mutual.The people watch this and feel nervous,confused and extremely vulnerable. They still remember the recent past and usual unrequited affection of the former politicians from the area for the center. We need to chart our own course.It was what we said a long time ago.We need to reclaim our sovereignty and relate only for our own benefit and no less.If they are threatened and they have different layers of security, how does it appear they think the ordinary people should feel comfortable?</p> <br> <p>They can therefore appreciate how the more vulnerable citizens feel.As politicians it is not convinient to express or acknowledge what they truely feel.Nevertheless many of us appreciate that and will accord them reasonable room. But it is only to the extent it will not be at variance with the interests of the people. We remind the eastern state governors that Miyetti Allah announced a security network which they said will protect fulanis everywhere in nigeria.We all know they have already done so.We did not hear a whimper from our governors.We all know the group will move secretly and swiftly to do what they wish.And look at the condition of the nigerian space.We have people who are training publicly and wear uniforms and some people with sadistic minds are criticizing them.All they know is how to come out and offer useless tepid appologies for human life.Their brand of leadership is odd even weird.Already Miyetti Allah own fulani herdsmen militia, and bandits armed to the teeth.Anytime they need money they will be helped to apprehend a few people and herd them away.The federal government will arrange a few tens of millions in hard currency for them. But apparently it is not enough.They are forming an even "stronger force".Our own people want to wait and see the outcome before they react.We see people murdered on daily basis.Life has been so desecreted in the space it is hard to fathom the implication for our soceities. Our governors should grow up!.We have IPOB which has members who hold meetings everywhere around the globe in the open.They are very well received throughout the face of the planet.But they are banned in nigeria,thanks to lack of depth.We must therefore ask the IPOB to learn to adapt to the times.Everything that is suppose to help them protect and maintain a safe environment must be guarded. It is not the time to show off any sophistication.We are the underdogs here as of the present time.We could use some secrecy too even though the goals are different.</p> <br> <p>In this particular case the people have drawn the line on the sand.No selfish political agenda will change it.No abuja budget will prevent this service to the motherland. It is the will of the nation of the people of eastern nigeria.It shall prevail.Intelligence will be sent to the network from around the globe.The world can trust them and can atest to their discipline and commitment.It will get every support and help it needs to protect life and property in the space.It is the goal.The politicians can focus on the craft and games.The group is apolitical and have focused on the preservation of a people and their way of life.They have never committed any murders. Every decent person from eastern nigeria must supports this effort.We need secure environments for anything we wish to do.We need it for its own sake.It is what we are used to and our way of life.The Eastern Security network is the sovereign answer of the people to the insecurities they have had to deal with. No governor has the answer to this need.It can't be met by the piecemeal approach they have.The team spirit they witness among the IPOB group can't be replicated through politics. It is not possible.As a human issue only reason is able to solve such matters.And we salute our young men and women for their courage and resolve.The gene of the space is in them.It is unreasonable to leave such a problem at the level of transient party politics.If the action has alerted our so called leaders it is a welcome change.The people of eastern nigeria have answered the need of her people.Any governor who opposes it should move to northern nigeria where he will feel safer.Now they feel courageous enough to form security outfits.Everything is about credibility.They lack it. The opportunity was lost and it is their own fault.What we tell the governors is what we tell other entities like the Ijaw youths. Work with those who are willing and ready to achieve results.Stop your old antic.You want to make noise and receive bribes and receive tokens. The oil wells you own are given as largese to everyone else but you.It does not worry you.You want treats like pets.Why don't you grow up for a change? Why isolate yourself from your own family? You know and understand it leads you no where.They bribe you and after you have spent the token, another round of weeping and crying about your plight begins.Work for your own liberation.Synergise, with others as the opportunity presents.It is how it is done!</p> <br> <p>The incompetence of the leadership prompted the people founding a method to keep their environment safe so they can focus on living.If any so called leader is against the soceity he purports to lead he has very limited time in the position and even a far limited influence.In being intimidated by bullies and corrupt shadowy persons whose dubious intention is not a secret they forfeit the respect their office demands.I would have sympathised with them had we not begged and encouraged them to no avail.They just would not. Fear had kept them frozen.Now they feel threatened and it is time to act. It did not matter that the soceity and community they claim to lead is vulnerable.Some people step in to fill the gap and vacuum and it is time for them to jump to action. It is the definition of self-occupation and egotism! Now they want to set up dueling armed youths in Igboland and eastern nigeria. It is what we say about their priorities.Again they will fail.We urge our people to be wise in their actions.It was clear they had been intimidated.It will not matter any excuse they will adduce after the fact.We are dealing here with matters of life and death.It is not just sirens and motorcades and fancy buidings and big offices.Lives are at stake.It is the real challenge.It is a pity this fact is lost to these men who have been conditioned and handpicked by our detractors to play the puppets.However this is no drama or puppet show.It is real life. "We the people" are aware of the need to be safe.The sovereignty of the people is the reason they are able to do this.It is their right in so far as the government has failed them.Anywhere in the world this is the right thing to do! Nigeria might think otherwise but will soon learn about something strange to the authorities called the sanctity of life.Nigeria will not exist that only meets the yearning of a small segment to the detriment of the larger population.It is not how you build a soceity or country.The people who have nursed this ungoing provocation have no further to go with it. </p> <br> <br> </font> <img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="ndinne.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">WHEN INJUSTICE IS SO CLEAR IT BEGS REMEDY: THE NIGERIAN CASE</h4></center></font> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>The people of eastern nigeria were maligned by the nigerian ruling class as incorrigible social climbers who care little about others.It was the song for so long until it took root.The very friendly disposition within the nigerian society was shifted against these very enterprising citizens.All along the goal was to attack the people and confisticate their resources and subdue them.Over time this goal was achieved with the massive help of certain external forces and hands.Nigeria attacked eastern nigeria in order to take complete control of the crude oil and hydro-carbon deposits in the area.We want the world to note the very foundation of the insecurity in nigeria that threatens her very existence right now.The region saw her citizens massacred at every feigned offence and unprovoked outrage.It culminated in a war of genocide that took lives of over three and a half million of the citizens of the region.The world stood idly by as millions of children were starved to death.They watched or refused to watch as mothers were cut open and unborn children smarshed in a gory display of hate.All we ask our people is to stand real strong. The idea of self-defence is above politics and beyond any such bantering.We must defend ourselves and we must use what we have.So let us get to it with resoluteness and the purity of our prayers and invocations to the God of creation.The past must not discourage us but spur us to re-examine ourselves.It is our duty to see what is wrong and what we can change.It is true our people were killed for every pretended outrage.It is true the behaviour was allowed to continue beyond what was tolerable.It was tolerated for far too long.We are not going to allow it anymore.</p> <br> <p>Today the people who displayed these extreme behaviors are the same who are armed and kill their former partners and everyone else.Many have always chosen these killers as partners until they are the next victims. In a world where peace is a re-requisite for progress and development we can't play such games.On our part we demad change of behaviour or parting of ways.There is no other way out of this.We see the extreme brutality of the killings! We have a section of soceity with an unmitigated tendency towards violence.We see a very quick resort to violence than dialogue.It is not how any modern soceity has evolved.And who needs this? But they are also the same who preach peace.How so ironic! We have the people who were mauled and defranchised by their own fellow citizens being preached to.It is very bizare.We get it! But eastern nigeria has taken it all for the last sixty years.It is now over.Thanks to incompetent leadership and insatiable greed.It is the recent effort to further dehumanize the people that has actually provoked a sense of outrage in the space.We all watched a citizen of eastern region who was the Chief Justice of the federation humiliated out of office. He was treated with so much scorn and ridicule. It was as if he was actually from a different world. He was then replaced with an expert in sharia law.We have two insults.We have a government which hits a section with a one-two punch. It is no way to lead or govern. First thing is the people of eastern nigeria are mainly christains by all accounts.How can a leader miss such a salient point? It seemed as though they were being given a not so subtle message that nigeria has changed from a secular state to a sharia one.It provoked the present outrage that will not actually be soothed by the verbose bombast of politics.It is beyond politics.It is existential!</p> <br> <p>They are looking at a glaring injustice and blatant disregard for decorum and no one can tell them how to take it.It has not been the only problem.Nigeria has been exploiting the oil from the southern states for over sixty years.We all know how the resources has been used to buy up Dubai and all other places.We know how one man's loot has been brought back in tranches of hundreds of millions of dollars without end. We all know people are given oil wells and oil blocks as though it was found in a no-man's land. All the beneficiaries are outsiders and non-indegenes.You see the blatant disregard in every action of the ruling class and the government it sponsors.It is a showcase of lack of understanding of process.But here in is the present trigger.Recently oil has been discovered in the northern nigeria but they are not in a hurry to exploit it. Gold has been discovered but nigeria quickly changes the rule.The nigeria that went to war for crude oil and destroyed four million innocent lives for crude oil now leaves it up to the owners of the gold to pay the federal government royalty.In fact the citizens have been minning the gold as of right.Yet by all account gold is more precious than crude oil.</p> <br> <p>Southern nigeria has only degraded farmlands to show for the oil discovered in the area. Four million people an equivalent of the number that perished will sign up today to defend the honor of this sovereign people.We believe there is a better way however. But it is up to the people who take others for fools. It is the crux of the matter! Some people are just fillers. Nigeria will not care what happens to them if there are other interests.It is the reason the people have risen together to reject such tenuos relationship.You either have a relationship or not.You are not suppose to give someone the right and access to destroy you when they so choose.It is what the present nigeria is. It is a state which provides for some to use others.The youth who happen to be very bold and alert have detected and rejected this condition outright and do not even want to negotiate from such a position.A confused nigerian government is a sorry situation.This time the adults who have pleaded with government and the ruling class to no avail agrees with the youths.We see the nigerian youths beleaguered at home. And with rising nationalism abroad now unwanted.It is a very ugly predicament.And they are bitter.For some reason the nigerian government seem to miss the point.Nigeria is not the only place this retrogressive forces are at play.It has taken down the fastest growing economy in Africa. Ethiopia is now at war.And it is a war that will produce just loosers in the end. If nigeria is also taken down the two significant patches of bright light that appears in the continent are successfully extinguished.It is the reason we hesitated and cautioned and called for reason.But those who claim to lead in the space have more engaging interests than these! And they are busy playing games with those who dare to speak the truth to them.</p> <br> <p>When you have made a habit of outwitting your allies always there comes a day they will anticipate you correctly. Nigeria is at the point where the usual genuine peace makers have given up.We have a confussion fit for a Shakesparean drama.It is a shame it is happening to real people.It is not fiction.When a child makes a mess the parent will ask him to fix it.The parent knows he is not able to.If so he will not have made the mess.We have a group that would not accept its own inadequacy.In the face of obvious tangle and mess they do not need help.But if they had any idea what they were doing they will not make such a mess so quickly.We have a sense of a situation where there was so much hurry to unleash on soceity everything that was rejected hitherto.It was a rush to turn the nation into their pipe-dream. And they assumed the rest had no choice.It turned out their anticipation and perception of the soceity could not be more off the mark.The people who want a united country have created a seperate twelve state, sharia nation with its own laws and law enforcrement apparatus.We have a Boko Haram moving the agenda of the said entity towards more extremism. Why do the people who are sponsoring these things think the rest are stupid? Why do they believe the rest will go to sleep when they hear their lullaby about peace? What kind of peace and unity are they looking for? We know there is a peace and quiet of the grave yard.They gave us that one time before. But never again will it be.We will have peace on the agreed term.If they want peace they know the boundaries.Let them now respect it.Everyone must control their own resources and their environment.The center can focus on what is agreed.It is how we find lasting peace.If the condition our forebearers negotiated will not satisfy our "friends" we might not be as generous!</p> </font> <br> <br> <br><img src="ada.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...The reason we work!</font> <img src="okgirl.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><br><center><h4><font color="purple">WHY THE STRIFE IN OHANEZE SHOULD WORRY THE IGBO "ELITE"</h4></center></font> <br> <font color="Black"> <p>Some people unfortunately do not recognize the concept of self evaluation.Such people are always assuming too high a level of importance for themselves.They tend to overestimate the impact they are able to make in a situation.Nothing can be so absurd as the noise from a man who had too high opinion of his own self. I sincerely do not believe the Igbo people are the kind of people that are easily divided in matters such as we have in Nigeria today.However there are bound to be a few exceptions and we have just been treated to one of them in the way the Ohaneze was transitioned from Chief NNia Nwodo.It is very important for me to point to the Igbo people the reason they will begin to pay attention to what some of us are saying.When the magic in Imo state that catapulted a candidate who had the fourth highest number of votes to the winner of the election happened we said it was tragic.In a democracy the election is the determination of the sovereign will of the electorate.When that kind of event happens it should be undone or it will become a license for other acts of disrespect.When we asked the people to make clear what they wanted they chose to be silenced by money and fear.We know we must fear but if there is an event that might cost your life the sooner you start to fight the better.</p> <br> <p>Now the cankerworm is reproducing of its own kind.We know how someone emerged Ohaneze leader.We know how certain persons were provided huge sums of money to buy the entire state house of assemby.We know how much it cost to buy each member.We know how much it cost to split Ohaneze and pick a stooge as president. These men ought to be worried. The youths are not excited about their new attempts to betray the people when the wounds of he previous are yet to heal. It is not an act of reason.We think it is a shame some make a mess of their own reputation in such fashion. We know certain Igbo people especially the ones who have decided to play the slave politics of nigeria have been turned into purchasables.They are thrashing their own stock.We actually do not need Ohaneze right now especially under the present set of circumstances.It has become irrelevant.A plight which has been made worse by the undue interference it permitted on its operation from outside.It is not able anyway to produce actionable agenda. It is not able to perform ad-hoc. One wonders how it can be useful in a situation of dire need for action.The current president is worse than a puppet.What we now have is a megaphone for the people who cleave to power claiming the country is their father's estate.Any Igboman who can be an appologist to such an idea must go and have his mind examined for soundness.The Igbo need an advocate for matters of Igbo interests without any filters.</p> <br> <p>The utterances credited to the man who they claim won the election as Ohaneze president makes one wonder which planet he has been residing upon.If he lives on earth he would have noticed the menace of terror being sponsored on purpose by the people he wishes to serve.He must perhaps have heard that every part of nigeria is under seige by this same axis.Perhaps the man would have known that Nigeria currently is in debt to the extent that it might take more than one generation to pay.One is therefore tempted to ask this man what he wants the youths to do to make him happy? At his age he sounded like a very unreasonable old man.He has been all sorts of things in Nigeria.There is no question nigeria has beeen good to him.Going by the standard of the present crop of nigeria's leadership he must have some billions of dollars stashed in different places.We like to tell him that many people in the space do not have the same leaverage he has.They and their children will work to make their daily living.</p> <br> <p>But they can't find the jobs.People like him have presided over a country with no constitution for over fifty years.Apparently they figured out how to govern without one. Only it has been an absolute disaster.They have ran a government that is not accountable to anyone.They have presided over the most corrupt entity ever known to man.The consequence is clear for all to see.So the man wants the people of Eastern nigeria to resign to such a way of life forever? If it is what he wants to tell the youths and other people in Eastern Nigeria he will be promptly rejected. It is no use for him to even try.He might have noticed that the Igbo people and their brethren in Eastern Nigeria have very little appetite for the brand like him presently.The cacophony of the type he brings will not be allowed to disturb the space. The people will tell him in no uncertain terms that this is not business as usual.</p> <br> <p>He wishes to talk about Igbo presidency.We say how nice! We like to ask him a few questions though.How come the time the Igbo will get to be president is now? The rapayment of the massive debt burden will be due in a couple of years.Presently Nigeria services debts with over sixty five percent of the country's annual revenue.The amount borrowed by the present administration eclipses the amount that brings the current repayment which gulps down this whooping percentage of the annual revenue.Many of us are cringing to imagine what it will do to the people of Nigeria.So now under such a situation they want an Igbo to be the president? They want an Igbo to be president when they have created a Sharia nation that is shredding the nigerian space like paper? So now they want an Igbo to be president when Boko Haram is clipping and mowing down the Nigeria army and destroying them like no man's business? So now is when the Ohaneze "administrator" will like an Igbo to hold the presidency of Nigeria? </p> <br> <p>For a few minutes he sounded like Mr Ukpbi Asika the administrator of East Central State during the so-called civil war.He sounded like the impostor he is.For many of us that association has been rendered irrelevant anyway. It is so fearful of the Nigerian space. And now comes a president who is a total sell-out. We need an Ohaneze like the Igbo Union of old that withstood and resisted colonialism. Unfortunately for those who made this move they have shot themselves some place higher than the foot.Even higher than the hips.The shot they have fired is very likely to damage a very vital organ.You will not render the voice that will negotiate "against" you for the people so biased in your own favor.It will not help credibility.It makes no sense. If he has no credibility how is he suppose to get even the attention of the people? By subterfuge, lies and terror? Unfortunately terror is ten for a penny in Nigera!</p> <b> <p>All they have done by this interference is to provide the agitators for self government the ammunition they did not have before.When you do such a thing as try to control ethnic organizations it is sign of desire for total defranchization.It is a sign of excessive control.It always will backfire big time.In a place like the United States the government will not be seen to be interfering with organizations like the NAACP and other such entities. Such will create great alarm. It is the reason we say that the present government in nigeria does not understand its responsibilty to its own self.The overzealous people who claim to support the government are the quickest to give it a black eye and ruptured nose.Why is that? How could it claim to know what to do for the governed? </p> <br> <p>We have witnessed so many disturbing activities of government that show complicity in the instability in the space.What is the need for such complications? We like to ask the Igbo nation to disregard the current Ohaneze.An organization worthy of them will be floated or a version created that will actually and truely advocate Igbo causes.This one presided over by the appologist is not what we are looking for now.He could form a cheerleading club for a coming Igbo presidency. I think such a role will better suit him.He is not a product of the true desires and yearning of the people of the space.If some people enabled by a groping government are looking for something to control they should have the man and as many as he can buy. The rest who are not for sale might leave until the association is purged and cleaned of the touch that came from a wrong place.</p> </font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <center><br><br>%%%%%% <h4><center>VISION OF AFRICA: OWELLE OF ONITSHA (Dr.) NNAMDI AZIKIWE AND MADIBA NELSON MANDELA::THE ENCOUNTER AND CALL TO ACTION!</h4></center> <br> <br> <br> <br><img src="africaal2.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/><font color="black">....<<<<<<<..Africa says can you do this!... Can they do this? to the left...</font> <img src="africana.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.................<font color="black">........>>>>>>>..All our children.....Are they able to do this...to the right...</font> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>In 1961 the apertheid south african government was on the hunt for young agitator Nelson Mandela. Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and the trail blazing party the Zikist movement now called the NCNC had just worn independence for nigeria. At this time Nnamdi Azikiwe was the Governor General of the young nigerian nation.But his attention was also on the battle in South Africa. He had his own battles but he knew he could not ignore his responsibility to the brotherhood. He invited young Nelson Mandela to nigeria. On arrival to nigeria Dr. Azikiwe introduced him to the able nationalist and fellow african freedom fighter Chief Mbazulike Amaechi. Chief Mbazulike Amaechi was then a minister in the cabinet of the government of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe. Nelson Mandela remained with him in Lagos at # 5 Okotie Eboh Street in Ikoyi.He was to be there for over six months.During the period of his stay with this nationalist Nelson Mandela returned with him to the village in eastern nigeria several times. Inside this period he had developed a frienship with its people.The south african struggle was not something the people of eastern nigeria heard as news.We salute the honesty and the utmost sense of purpose with which men like Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe pursued african liberation.He made the Igbos and easterners believe africans are one.It is what you call leadership.In eastern nigeria the struggle in south africa was not a different struggle from the one they had waged.</p> <br> <p>I would love to assure those who diparage Dr. Azikiwe for not pursuing an intrinsic Igbo agenda to let up.The man is a leader indeed for his work endured him. He found Dr Michael Okpara and took him on his wings.he gave the Igbo people Dr Akanu Ibiam. Chief P.O Ururuka the veritable labor minister of eastern nigeria was his discovery.Dr Azikiwe took along with him every part and portion of the Igbo race.He never left anyone out. In fact he was a compass of the extent of the race.If one has the same vision it is easier to see the same things.Was he perfect? By no means! The true answer is Dr Zik like the rest of us was flawed.But if one is looking for a leader with vision, a human with fless and blood, not a spirit who is infallible this one was as good as they come.Dr Zik maintained the relationship within the Igbo race without fanfare.Go and ask Chief M.T Mbu, Chief Okotie-Eboh,Dr.Paul Unongo and many others.And the people understood him very easily.Immediately at the end of the nigerian so called civil war he toured the various area where the Igbo people are domiciled. At the return to civil democratic government he won election in all the places very easily.It is something the ones who blame him are not able to do.We need his type of vision.We can fight without pulling a single punch.He knew how to do that very effectively.He won the liberation of nigeria with his pen! He took the Igbo people with him as he pursued the quest to liberate the rest of africa.And they prevailed!</p> <br> <p>They were participants until they were saddled with a big burden of their own.In many ways it was not a coincidence! Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe himself explained he never believed in a unitary model for nigeria.He never believed in africa with isolated governments.As one who believed in the economy of scale he could not side with those who were intent on scuttling the young nation and were searching for poisons portent enough to accomplish that goal.He insisted on a center with some measure of centripetal force when all he felt were very centrifugal forces.He calls himself a pragmatic federalist.But for his vision the turbulence prior independence was sufficient to send every group to their own tent.He soldiered on.Negotiated a compromize with the British colonialist that no other nigerian appreciated its implication.He did all he could in the turbulence of the sixties.Without him there would have been no nigeria.There was more than enough impediments to see to that.He managed through them all.It happens in many young nations.He maintained there was need to build the relationship the others complained did not exist.</p> <br> <p>He alerted the nation when the prime minister was having a tug of war with the government of western nigeria.He appropriately called it "a breach of protocal".We know he was right on point as always!But now rather than normalize the nation with lessons learned after wandering in the wilderness the leaders lurch to the past.However the past is full of the mess they had made.The blames in the past aimed to diminish the accomplishment of certain people have become a source of great irritation.The people of eastern nigeria are perhaps the one group that have made the most sacrifice for the nigeria nation.If anyone is tempted to accuse the Igbo people it might serve such a person better to think again upon it.The people believed the vision of african revolutionaries.They never focused on the tribal pettiness that is now ruining nigeria.If they are tired it must be respected.It happens in life.They are feeling it is time to heal.You will not be a good nurse when you are sick.</p> <br> <p>We have read some opinions lately of some who want to blame Dr. Azikiwe for handing power to General Aguiyi Ironsi through the parliament.Does the military need anyone to hand power to them in a coup?How preposterous!Some people needed a coup.And they did everything to create the situation for it.Dr. Azikiwe was made irrelevant.The prime minister will go over his head threading blows with premier of western nigeria.It was not necessary.The party at the center did not win in western nigeria.The premier had control and the constitution gave him unfettered power in every matter for which the punches were being thrown at him. What happened was that northern nigeria found no way of gaining total and complete control of the military.It was no secret the hierachy was not smooth.It was no secret the northern military officers felt more powerful than their southern counterpart.The military had many highly placed top officers from southern nigeria,but the infantry and recruits in the entire forces were mainly northerners.</p> <br> <p>Some powerful personality in northern nigeria had encouraged a massive recruitment drive to create this nightmare. It made the flow of order and command difficult.Southern officers were badly outnumbered and knew it was apparent to the lower rank and file.Such a reality required very serious plan for containment.But there was none in place.The main plan was how to shake this arrangement up so control goes to the northerners as needed.There were the patient ones and there were the very impatient ones.The only people who were sitting targets in this omnious arrangement were the military officers from the south.They had wished it was different.But wishes are not horses!They knew it was a problem but they would choose to sleep over it.The coup was the only way out.Intrigues are part of military doctrine.In a young nation with so many interests and all sorts of intervening hands it is not difficult to see how things went wrong.The world need to know the truth.</p> <br> <p>It was engineered by those who would benefit.They might have used proxies.To blame the Igbos for the coup is to be deceitful to the core.It is a terrible lie.The men who were roped into this scheme had absolutely nothing to gain.They were in a dance but the drum beats came from across the wall.They had no idea what the drummers looked like or who they were.These men are smart enough to know such lopsided execution of a coup will create resentment.They could never be the ones to engage in such action that would leave them vulnerable.They were framed in a scheme in which they were the victims.They were part of an effort to correct what was seen to be wrong in which they were actually the problem.The 1966 coup was an execution of a well planned strategy to shift the balance of control to suit the scheme of those who believed the nation was bequeathed to them.Anyone who insist on blaming the Igbos and the southerners will make peace impossible to achieve.The facts are known.And the people now know what happened.If Dr. Azikiwe was from the northern part of nigeria it would have been unimaginable for anyone to treat him as he was.As he had always maintained history will vindicate the just.Today the world is aware of what he fought for and what he stood for.It is where every revolutionary wants to be.What is annoying is that this same people continue the same schemes after a people have lost millions of lives in a power grab to benefit just a few of them.With their own youths up in arms against them the elites from northern nigeria are looking to blame somebody!Why did the prime minister find it necessary to interfer in western nigeria? What was the point of it? What was he looking for? Quite clearly the people not just love but relished the leadership represented by chief Awolowo and his Action Group.</p> <br> <p>It was the frequent and unneccessary interference of the federal government in the regions that was resisted and rightly so.After all it is a federation!We could never blame the Action Group for insisting upon its own manifesto in western nigeria where it had political control.The center was lusting for power it did not need.The collision was bound to happen if not neccessary to assert and protect the power of the regional consitution.It should have been respected.Now we see the consequence.Unitary government was tried before independence under no less a manager than imperial Great Britain.It failed woefully.They took notice and corrected it with the agitators.The nationalist and his compatriots found a model that could serve even the entire continent.They were clearly looking ahead when he and his peers settled for a federation and a republic.In the midst of the struggle within they kept an eye on south africa and the events there.Inviting Nelson Mandela to nigeria at this time was a clear risk to a young nation.But they made a clear statement by it.It is how leadership is displayed.It is how you lead.But you can never rise above your own capacity.Had leadership like what this man had shown been replicated within nigeria it will be a great place today for us and our children.All the people who scuttled this dream can do is blame him and those who gave them a nation.We know how rich all these people are.And the nation they were stewards over is in shambles.How does their profile compare to these great men? We are not interested in their self acclaim.We are able to see the mess they have made.Leadership is to look ahead and plan ahead.</p> <br> <p>In the political world this move by Dr. Azikiwe made it clear that Nelson Mandela had relationships that will be difficult to placate if harm came upon him.It was a move by a man playing in a world he understood well.By it he forced the hand of the oppressor down. It was how the decision was made to have him incacerated when he returned to south africa. The nationalists made clear there will be very serious retributions if harm came upon Nelson Mandela.Before the intervention of Dr Azikiwe the moves were on to eliminate Mr. Mandela.It was what he thought and feared and he was very correct. The nationalists in the NCNC felt the same way and they did whatever they could to help.We need men and women of such capacity and depth. Africa needs nationalists and vissionaries again.It must be recalled that the Zikist movement as a pan african organisation sent two prominent lawyers to help defend the Mau-Mau fighters.It implies that they were involved in the struggle for independence in Kenya.We have seen politicians and are they very plentiful! But the work is not finished.It is sometimes not politics. It is hard work. There is still so much to be done! Instead what we have are people fighting over what is already done.We have people who are fighting over cake!They have not baked any.They do not know how to. </p> <br> <p>The NCNC invited young men from Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe and registered them in schools in nigeria mostly in eastern nigeria. A host of them were in Ziks grammer school.Budding politicians were invited and trained in the NCNC Political Training School in Yaba Lagos.When Nelson Mandela was freed from prison among the very first actions he took was a return jounery to the area he made a homestead in time of neccesity. Many south africans do not know this truth. But for the pioneering leadership of these Igbo sons Nelson Mandela would have been destroyed and our eagle would have fallen unriped! We tell those who lust for power to understand it not for the sake of it.Power is to be used to achieve greater good.We call for the men and women who will change the narative in africa to enlist. We are here and we identify with spirit of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe,Madiba Nelson Mandela, Abdel Nessar, Ben Bella,Emperor Haile Selassie,Julius Nyerere, mallam Aminu Kano,Mrs Ransome Kuti, Margret Ekpo,Winnie Mandela, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Jomo Kenyatta,J.J Rawlings, Thomas Sankara, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi and other sons and daughters of Africa too numerous to mention.Let us tell the people who want power to first determine what they wish to accomplish.</p> </font> <br> <br><img src="ada1.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="oursis2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br><br>%%%%%% <h4><center>AGITATION FOR A BETTER SOCEITY IS A NOBLE ACTIVITY AND CAUSE:%%%%%%: IPOB MUST KNOW IT HAS CONCRETE SUPPORT %%%%%% </h4></center> <br> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>we hear the argument of the people who insist IPOB is the problem of Nigeria.If the truth must be told those who insist on such baseless arguments are the real problem.In fact as we look around we find that to be true! All IPOB members have done is make it known that the nigerian government as constituted since the coup of 1966 is a false reality.We say they are very right.We have done that since the last three decades! Nigeria did not exist before the British arrived in the coasts of Africa.Nigeria is not a name of anything that is african.It was a name made up like a catch-phrase! It is artificial.But artificial things could be made to work.God gave us ability to create.However we must also excercise care and love must be the goal.We can start things.We form asociations.We form countries.They all mostly fail.Nations are sustainable because they are organic.Nigeria is in trouble with coups and counter coups and associations which counter one another.Political parties are formed and they will not follow the manifesto and therefore have no character.So a new one is floated and new promises are made.The personalities switch sides on a wish portraying a total lack of commitment.</p> <br> <p>Year after year there are new parties with no track record.As african people we usually demand sincerity from one another in everyday life.In politics we become a different type of being.In most african culture if you swear an oath with the local elemental deity you had better be sincere.But the leaders swear to the Bible like they drink wine and still deceive the people? We must understand that politics is a tool.How we use it is entirely up to us.If one buys an electric chainsaw and uses it mechanically it is his fault.It is in order to learn how the tool works and then use it accordingly.In other to adapt tools the principles of their operation must first be clear to us.Today we turn to Europe for answers.If we look at history we will find the many dead as a result of wars do not bear witness to a past of peace in that soceity.Africa must begin to use the natural instinct of equity that abound within the ethos of the african culture.</p> <br> <p>God and Nature win with consitency and rules.Our problem is we want stuff and we make things up and we can't find rules that are sustainable and consistent to uphold them. Falsehood therefore becomes a constant companion of those who wish to create realities without any consistent rules.Groups like Arewa Consultative forum have made a name attacking the Igbo people.They do so to mask a grand theft of a country in broad day light.The feudal elites are attempting to steal a country with so many people in it.With an agenda like that every group that will call the problem out is a problem.The reason it has problem with IPOB is because it is believed to be an Igbo group.But in that assumption they are wrong.The people of eastern nigeria are people of the same family.Unlike any other group in nigeria this is a true nation.Eastern nigeria is the only true nation in nigeria by definition.The culture from food to everything is the same! As you transverse nigeria you can identify members of this family. It is what the IPOB is saying and it is fact!</p> <br> <p> Arewa Consultative Forum and the sponsors will not be able to seperate the Igbos from their relatives.Their dubious efforts is a futile one. The Igbos have seen the strings of "investmensts" in the coastiline and are keeping close watch over them.Those who issue quit notice must recognize there is ample opportunity for reciprocity.It has become their only activity and reflex upon irritation.But they must watch themselves.It is easy to start something ugly. Any time they feel like it they will issue a quit notice to the Igbo people living in northern nigeria.It appears that is their main job! We want the members of IPOB to know that the group are just practicing demagoguery.It is part of partisan politics.If they think they are the only people who retain such priviledge we hereby invite them to real life!</p> <br> <p>Nigeria destroyed a section of the country because oil was discovered there.Presently gold has been discovered in Zamfara state in northern nigeria.Nature can sometimes make a situation settle an argument for the voiceless.The four million people of eastern region descent who died because of crude oil are looking down.They are all members of IPOB.The young lives ended recently in the quest for a nation where they hoped to have worth and value only reinforce the need to fight the system until change happens.The only difference is the approach and tone.Nigeria is a place where nations were brought together by coercion in 1914.The colonialist tried to maintain the hold but could not after a while.In a peaceful surrender the colonialist negotiated with the various nations to accept to remain one entity.Northern nigeria rejected the appeal outright.It was persuaded and appeased into accepting to be part of the arrangement.In 1966 by a string of manoevers the northern feudal elites ceased power and threw out the agreement creating nigeria.It is a shock to many of us that the rest accept to live in an arrangement where they are not even recognized at all.Equality comes after something is proved to exist.How could we compare something that exists with another which is only imaginary? Nigeria was established by the agreement of the nations that make up the space and entity.It was a mutual agreement.The details of the proceedings are available in pictures,videos and paper.All that has been subverted by the feudal northern elites.</p> <br> <p>Today there is a place called nigeria which is suppose to be a federal entity but it is not.It is suppose to be a republic but it is not. It is suppose to be a democracy but they are trying very hard to subvert that also.It is clear they have taken the reins of the process and pocketed it.We know the meaning of that.Nigeria is now a private enterprise. It is being managed like a personal enterprise only very poorly.Organisations like Arewa Consultative forum which is sponsored by the northern elites mainly feudal overlords do everthing to create an atmosphere of intimidation.If terror is what gets them what they need they are not averse to it.We know who sponsors bandits and armed herdsmen.We know who sponsors Myetti Allah.How is it that these people who are violent and do not pretend about it are acceptable and the ones who are peaceful are the source of all problems in nigeria? We like to encourage the members of IPOB for their bravery.We commend them for their resilience and ask them to please be attentive too.We urge IPOB to learn to settle their internal problems within.Every human group must have problems now and again. How they settle their rifts is a measure of maturity, resilience and poise.</p> <br> <p>You are not going to settle issues on the air and social media.We like to tell IPOB their struggle has cost lives.Even if they have never been serious in their lives it is time they understood the implications.They will have false fronts and false friends. We had warned them not to fall for the trap to engage in violent approaches.The struggle for change in nigeria is already a won battle.It is not the time for them to begin to get distracted and be drawned into skirmishes with hoodlums.In our villages today are people who speak our languages very well and are well received by our people.But they are moles of those who hate our way of life.We must therefore choose wiser methods.For now we do not need violent methods.If such will ever be used it will be done in a very sublime way.This time the world is engaged in our struggle.The way these things work is that in your strength you prevail and in your weakness you are taken.Is that not how life works?</p> <br> <p>We urge them to be brave and courageous.The value of violence in struggles of this nature is limited.Persistence is the answer.You are brothers and sisters of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.Perhaps you do not know that Dr Azikiwe actually mentored Dr. Kwame Nkurumah.He talked Dr Nkurumah into attending college at Lincoln University where he earned his own higher education. He talked him into using more peaceful means to fight for Ghana's independence.Your uncle and brother and father was the "liberator per excellence" of the entire african continent.This is no fiction.It is fact and truth.So guys take heart.You are in good company.He is looking down on you! It is commendable that the group has engaged very tenaciously.When the challenges occur there will be help.It must be understood that there are many who have voiced support for the struggle.And these are men and women whose word can stand. So we like to tell them that if the people who think they own nigeria will not rethink the others will let them do so very soon.</p> <br> <p>They are free to excercise their right to refusal of the new arrangement.It is that simple.War is not an option.All we are doing is to sensitize the world to the situation and the need to protect ourselves.It might take a little time but it is better than fighting a war.The people we are dealing with happen to know this fact.The Igbo presidency issue or rather guise is a result of this realisation.It is suppose to beguile the leadership and undermine the current effort to take our soceity back.How can an Igbo be a president of an Islamic nation? Nigeria is now not a secular state and not a federation.What good will it do any person of Igbo extraction to preside over such a time-bomb? Nigeria needs to go to the operation table first or the end has come. True Igbos and easterners understand that.We do not know about the "politicians". Quite often they view issues with their belly and not their eyes! Fortunately for the people of eastern nigeria their true leaders were never people who could be corrupted.Who could corrupt Dr M.I Okpara? How could anyone corrupt Dr Nwafor Orizu? How can you corrupt Dr Akanu Ibiam? It is impossible to corrupt Magaret Ekpo.Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe prided himself as being "above corruption".Our real leaders knew the value of their own personhood.These are people who understood the meaning of intergrity in our human family.Their prime concern was the worth and value of the lives of our people.Their struggle was to enhance the quality of the lives of our people.It was their total commitment.</p> <br> <p>The rest of nigeria indeed africa looked up to them and rightfully so.Our people need a new orientation.Since after the episode of the genocidal war we have some who call themselves leaders who follow rather than lead.Even after no less than Dr Azikiwe himself led the way after the genocide our men have chosen to go under the table.Men like Chief Sam Mbakwe,Dr. Alex Ekwueme showed it is possible to lead from where we are.These men added value to the quest for a better soceity.We dare anyone to deny these men helped the soceity irrespective of what tribe and ethnicity they belong to in nigeria.Some people only took billions of dollars belonging to the nigerian commonwealth.In attempt to cover their tracks they entrench anarchy for the rest of soceity.It is the reality that engulf the rest of us presently. The climate in the present nigeria is such you need no ideas to qualify to "lead".The soceity is going nowhere.Naturally in such a situation no leadership is necessary.Neither are ideas. We urge our leaders to use their minds well.You are not looking at presidency until you are part of an entity or until the entity exists.We ask those who want to be crowned president to show us the constitution of the nation they wish to govern.It has become clear to the "overlords" that their prank is unsustainable.It is the reason they seek confrontation and yet present a gesture and facade of peace .We want to tell the people who are agitating to hold their line.It is a just cause.In time the just shall prevail.</p> <br> <br> </font> <br><img src="igbobabes2.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="maiden.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br> <center><h4>NIGERIA A COUNTRY IN NEED OF A SHIFT IN PARADIGM </h4></center> <font color="Blue"> <p>Our lessons ought to be learned from the winners. We must run to win.And to win is to cause change and for the better. The NCNC was an african party in nigeria. Its vision was beyond the shores of nigeria.Its dreams are just starting to materialize. It is what we call leadership. Let us make a nigeria that serves as a hub that powers an african century.Change nigeria make it reflect our dreams and the dreams of the founding fathers. If not done there is neither impetus nor imperative to continue to watch or preside over such many killings in a ruinous enterprise.If the slow motion and do nothing approach continues nigeria will break up.And some of us would rather have that than have a country that is supervising the slaughtering of its own citizens.And this is happening against a masterful blueprint that has been thrown away by those who misjudge their own place.It is sad when some people want to assign their own position in history.It never ends well.History offers many examples.Nigeria as of now is like behemoth which can't seem to find its own feet. However if the original and founding constitution of Nigeria is honored the states given to us by the military will stay and become the provincial governments.</p> <br> <p>How on earth did anyone opt to change the original constitution? Do they think constitutions are like decrees? The military officers swear to uphold the consitution. It is the constitution they swear their oath to.It is not to a country.There is none without this document.How did we come so far away from reason? It is what some of us have been asking for so many years. Why did military officers who vow to defend a constitution destroy it, change it, abandon it? How can any reasonable person trust anyone who could treat an oath in such fashion? How are you suppose to make them give you their word? So for what reason did four million Biafrans perish? So that the one who survive will be entangled in conflict with cattle rearers? You fight wars to defend constitutions.Constitutions are testaments and agreements.Agreements and testaments are accepted willingly on account of their purpose and intent. In what way did it seem they could do a better job? Somethings are too presumptuous.The motto of the American military is:"This we will defend" By this is meant the constitution.As we forgive the mistake but we must return the country to proper footing.The waiting is bad. Right now the position of the founding consitution is even lower than the minimum that is acceptable.If the step does not occur then nigeria is gone! It will lead to disintegration.People can do better than this whole bungling that is going on.</p> <br> <p>It was a dilligent search for answers and almost a miracle and a cure when the document was crafted before independence.It was a lot of work, negotiation and tact and statescraft.All did not matter at all to the ones who prefer the present anarchy.However we must move forward or allow each party their own space.It makes absolutely no sense to hold two hundred million people hostage to benefit a handful.If there are those who do not understand but the people might turn on them if the present anarchy continues.Since they have gone the way of cutting up everything at least make it have pattern and form.One state or two in the former eastern nigeria creates a semblance of parity.The section of the country that produces the resources used by everyone has the most degraded environment. They are far behind in infrastructural development due to policies that are inexplicable.These policies that caused the civil war continue and creates anger obviously and justifiably! It makes no sense to stoke these kind of issues except for the kind of leadership that we have.</p> <br> <p>The regions will provide a viable arm in addition to the center.This must happen quickly to save the country. If we have a set of politicians that will not summon the courage to do the needful neither must they expect the people to trust them with their lives. As for how the proposed amendment will work it is what you have the professionals for. It is what they do! Huddle up some very experienced constitutional lawyers and require of them to bring the 1963 constitution to par with the current nigerian state. They will certainly deliver the expected result. It is not as difficult as it seems to those who have given it no thought.Yes we had a parliamentary system. The British operate a parliamentary system and have the House of Lords and the House of Commons.</p> <br> <p>In the United States they have the Senate and House of Assembly or congress.In opting for the American structure the people who made the recommendation were looking for greater freedom and autonomy for the states and various nationalities.But the implementation has seen even more restrictions and limitations and control.Under the British parliamentary system you have the autonomous Scottish or Irish government for example. But nigeria prefers to have this limbo arrangement.They have states that are funded by the center. There are states whose resources are hijacked by the center! This is neccesitated by the desire of some people to impose themselves on other nationalities.It is for this reason the national assembly and the senate must have a sense of the potentials of the resources in the entire country. </p> <br> <p>We believe the nigerian law makers ought to have a full inventory of every mineral resource in nigeria.The value and impact on the local economy and that of the country must be a tool in their repertoire.Instead there is a focus on the resource from one area.So now you go to the same people again and ask them for their land for somebody to feed his cattle? There is a sense in which there is an organised or legal form of banditry going on.We are witnesses to the inhumanity resulting from it.There is absolutely no reason why the present system could not be phased into the original and founding constitution. We had earlier given broad view how this can work seemlessly with the existing structures.It is this very noble step or the normal snooze and the many nations or tribes called nigeria will be shopping for alliances that will work for them and move them forward as was the case before colonization.</p> <br> <p>We have the weapons to fight back in every part of nigeria.It is not only the niger delta that is being ripped off in the charade going on in the nigerian space.The hausas and other indegenous people are in very serious trouble too.The fulanis say "me too". Our people are being killed also.But we know certain people are being murdered like flies.We have a trouble maker among us.Who is the person? Ocassionally they kill some persons they do not mean to as a diversion.For full impact they have increased the frequency recently.And they have scared off investors and wasted investable fund in the polity.And they are not religious people who do these things.It is a mere facade.Their goals are economic.But in a very primitive and narrow sense.What we want to say is that a democracy is a process where you leverage your assets in negotiation that affect everything concerning your life.The threat to life is a political move that requires the ones that are hurting to seek alliances.</p> <br> <p>It is therefore a negotiation of sorts.What the hausa leaders need to do is to demand complete control of their own resourses including their arable land.The Ijaws have lifted weapons many times without the support of these other entities.But they are not the only ones being violated.The hausas have lost their land and identity in this ungoing saga.It might happen to the others if they do not wake up.Hausas were great merchants.Agriculture and trade is how their forebearers flourished.Today we hear hausa and fulani as though they are twin ethnicities.They want to be in a position to take care of their own interests.If they are free they should be able to do so.If they are not their freedom is a fluke.They need the liberty to set the tempo and pace around them like everyone else.They can then hire and train effective police force to pretect their own space.Oil and oil boom is a deceit.We had no boom.The people just found an excuse to rob and vandalize their own neighbors.It is a diversionary tactic.Like all things in life with the passage of time it is becoming clearer and clearer as the injustice it is.</p> <br> <p>The people of eastern nigeria must do the same.Western nigeria must also understand that the taxes from custom duties, the vat taxes and all other resources in the area can provide more than what is needed to build a very strong and modern economy.What type of unity is this? The entities are denied their resources and they watch a few people turn themselves into billioneers.Somebody gets up and says we need our resources and one of two things happens.If it is difficult for them to threaten to kill the person or indeed kill the person they will promise the person the presidency of nigeria.We need a nation that works and benefits all its citizens.If nigeria can't do that some people within nigeria will leave.It is absurd to be promised or given a position and made to forfeit you right to preserve and protect what is yours.Now the list includes lives and property.We do not doubt the patriotism of anyone.But please should we not demand the same zeal when it comes to work and production of the resources? We have a pack of mostly well dressed men who lineup to "rule" a country that imports everything including even shoe polish and toothpicks.How are the population of mostly youth going to find occupation? We have a soceity that exists just to transfer its wealth to others after a few elites have taken all they wish to themselves.Such a situation need to be resisted and rejected.</p> <br> <p>We must demand that the people who want the exclusive right over what belongs to other people make theirs available.Better still they should use it to develop their space as the others do exactly the same.It is fair to seek such outcomes.It removes acrimony and mutual suspicion.Anyone opposed to that is looking for a colony.He is the trouble maker in our midst! Those who will be choked are free to seek to free themselves from the yoke.It is how you can have peace.The union will then be mutual and free of supicion.The regions or rather nations that make up nigeria must begin to push for the right to protect and provide for its own people.In seeking new partners new undestanding is inevitable.If it is the the good that come out of the present trauma it is at least a positive.The center is no longer in the position to protect citizens as it should.That much is very self evident. Using the agencies of government to oppress the citizens is sad.Even more pathetic is the fact that the agencies could be far better and much more effective than they are.But they are not.So they are a victim of their own actions!The forces that produce underdevelopment abuses the agents that catalyze it.It is very absurd.We are in a position to change this reality for the many africans living in nigeria and make it a lesson others could copy or emulate.</p> </font> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br> <br> <br> <br><center><h4><font color="bloodred">NIGERIA WAS FOUNDED BY AN AGREEMENT CONSUMATED IN "THE" CONSTITUTION</h4></font></center> <center>%%%%%% <h4><font color="bloodred">WE MUST HONOR THE WORDS AND COMMITMENT OF THE FOUNDERS </h4></font></center> <br> <font color="blue"> <p>We have been shouting ourselves hoarse in our appeal to the northern elites to allow the 1999 constitution to now rest.We recognize the purpose it served.There is no way to explain the joining of the Fulani and Yoruba.No way to explain the co-existence more intrisically of the Fulani and Igbo,the Ijaw and Hausa or the Effik and Birom and so on in any union without the constitution which the military suspended.It is a miracle they managed because our people are largely ignorant and servile.But we know all that is changing.We have a world that is now so interconnected and largely uniform in terms of information delivery.Our youths get help in many areas as far as information goes.It must be the reason some thick-headed revisionists are determined to ban social media in nigeria.And it is a real pity.We like to let them know that any government that attempts such a thing will be disgraced off the stage.It is a shame some keep repeating the same logic that is dividing the country.Such utterances and behaviour is the reason the youths have lost interest in a country they represent much better than the so-called ruling class.<p> <br> <p>What we have observed is that some people just want power to enrich themselves.However they have done so for nearly one century.In all soceities this is always the time frame when the population comes up with serious questions.It is happening in nigeria and the nigerian elite who mostly are unversed in both african and world history are shocked.They do not understand their resort to terror is not going to be the nature of the game going forward.Those who are looking to be rich must do what other people do such as incubate, create, nuture ideas.There must be certain services they avail soceity.We have seen their ingenuity in thievery and banditry but those do not count anymore.We need ideas that help elevate soceity and humanity.The idea to have a soceity like nigeria which agregates population of african people is such an ideal.It might have a different original intention and purpose.It does not mean we are not able to appropriate the purpose and intention and normalize it to suit our own objective.We are all africans after all and we seek a commonwealth.If we got help it is not a disaster.The word "citizen" is underscored in the idea that we all share a goal of building a commonwealth for all our peoples.If we have ethnic goals they must be made agreeable to the common goals of such a commonwealth.It seem pretty obvious the agenda of these people is not along such lines.At this point there is no time for long arguments. All that has been done.We must start from the point of intersection and move inward to a complete convergence.If there is no intersection but just the parallels it is still a game. And if they play the usual game for time it is a pity.Only one who is deluded will fail to read the climate in nigeria.Every normal adult can tell time and to a large extent can predict the weather.</p> <br> <p>We appeal to the people pushing the ammendment of 1999 constitution to recognize there was no nigeria by 1999.There was only an imaginary state that goes by that name.In the wake of the aberation of 1966 a coup of the military abolished a nation of consensus and created one of force of arms.How would anyone wish to convert such an aberation? It is the reality those trying very hard to give impetus to the 1999 constitution want to impose on nigerians.As the arguments persists many have lost interest in the entity arguing it is irredeemable.Like the British persuaded the Sardauna of Sokoto and Chief Awolowo and others who sought regional independence the government should engage the ethnic nationalists. The resort to force will degenerate for these are emotional issues.We urge them to return to the founding constitution and take a new look at it.We must realize the founding constitution allows for the creation of more regions.It affords them the opportunity to normalize the application of the sharia law in a way that is not inimical to national integration.The bicamearal legislature being proposed is already a feature in it.We do ourselves a great deal of favor by revisiting the rejected "stone".We urge the people who wish to continue to flog a dead horse to take a good look at the precious document beqeathed the country by erudite,selfless and patriotic men and women.It took a lot of tender considerations of things we are dealing with today.The founders are vindicated.If anyone is patriotic they will not try to erase such a national monument and replace it with private logo of self ego and ethnic chauvism.</p> </font> <br> <br> <br><img src="igboattire.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="igbo2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <center><h3><font color="black">THE PEOPLE OF IMO STATE MUST NOW RESIST THE GOVERNOR</font></h3></center> <br> <font color="Blue"> <p>We have watched this man install an Emir or was it an Immam in Imo State state. There is no stranger place in the world for anyone to attempt such absurdity.Why does he like to tempt the patience of the citizens? Now he is about to deny the people their right to freedom to organise.He wants to deny citizens the right to protest in a democracy.What kind of democracy will that be? He just wants rallies of praise singers and boot lickers? If IPOB is banned and they contest it the nigerian soceity will force the courts to uphold justice. It is how democracy works.It is a contest of ideas. Dictators will not decree their wish and force the courts to uphold same. Why would the people who sponsor herdsmen and Myeti Allah declare IPOB terrorists? IPOB has lost nearly one thousand of its members. Who has seen them with weapons? Who have they killed? We know some people do not understand the meaning of democracy. It is becoming more and more obvious why this man was hand picked by the gang of marauders who have been vandalizing nigeria for over seventy years.We do not believe however that the military in nigeria lacks men of intellect.<p> <br> <p>Also we do not think the nigerian police is without men and women of good perception. IPOB as an organization has raised the issues of misgovernace in nigeria and abuse in a way that it might receive attention.It might not have the best approaches.But if there is a place and a people who need such a group it is eastern nigeria.The people lost their resources to a gang.We are witnesses right now as the Boko Haram is being treated. The entire people of north east are not held accountable for the actions of Boko Haram. But Igbos and indeed the entire eastern region was made responsible for a coup that was facilitated by the people who now hold the country hostage.It is the greatest injustice in the history of africa if not the world.The people lost nearly four million lives. Who wishes to allow such mindset and appologists of such ways around us?</p> <br> <p>The governor of Imo state must have returned from some place.We know he never experienced the same injustice like the rest.He gleefully proclaimed himself the number one citizen of Imo State.Who else is aware of that very fact? We never realized he is the number one citizen? Guys can anyone truely believe the man is the number one citizen of Imo state? It is a very disconcerting fact.Now you can all see why this man was imposed on the people of Imo State. We can assure the IPOB that they have the right to peaceful assembly in Imo State.The police and even the military will see to it that it is without a hitch. We know we have men and women able to set such tone from Aso Rock down there to the uniformed men and women in Imo state.It had better be so or we are in trouble as african people.If this man and his terrorists he just imported want to ferment trouble they are on their own. They will be shown that nigerians are on the average not as incapable of perception as we have seen on display in Imo state recently.The tactlessness and the display of sheer opulence is the problem of nigeria today. And this man has been put on display as what is wrong with nigerian politics. We have a political class that does not recognize responsibility.</p> <br> <p> Here we have a governor who would rather seek to strip citizens of their rights than seek alliances and understanding. We have a governor who will threaten citizens than address them. He knows threatening will provoke confrontation.It seems that is what he wants. They wish to make Imo State a war front. We are Igbos. We do not engage in attrition as a method of conflict.We proclaim God as our Leader. He gives us victory.If he is not with us his defeat will be achieved easily even if he still sits on the throne.Such actions as we have observed trying to provoke a fight and escalate confrontation will not end in his favor.In a democracy opposition is a welcome and normal situation. Dictators do not have opposition.We see that is how he feels.However this governor can not become a dictator in Imo state.Never! If he has a thick skin as he claims then we are about to see if indeed it is true. If he does not have a thick skin why did he choose to go against the grain of the norms of the community?</p> <br> <p>He should brace himself.When he issues threats he must know it could go either way.The world is interested in the plight of the people of eastern nigeria.He is happy he has escaped to and is now numbered with the oppressors.But we are people of God and we know what we are trying to protect is His gift to us. We are not spoiling for something belonging to someone else.It is for this very reason we call on the men who have dedicated some of their time to work for the emancipation of our people to realize these issues are not unpretentious.There are no straight line scenarios in these kinds of matter.We must work with all our people in eastern nigeria, the former midwest,the Benue and part of plateau which share same values as we do.When we do things to help other people it is not something for vanity.It is not wise to be vain in the things of God. HE is not in our league.</p> <br> <p>If one of us is honored we should and ought to be happy for him or her.There is no need for envy unless ofcourse the motive is wrong.We must tackle our problems with diligence because if we would not God shall find those who are willing and ready.We therefore need for them to hold their ego in check and work. In due course God will make whatever is their due available to them. Let us all get to work.It is wrong to seek linearity in these matters.We must expect some contradictions in life.After all everything in life is such.Come on guys!Your world has no pillars.But it works.It is all that matters.We just want this spectre of bondage and slavery taken off our backs and from around our necks.It is worth it for us to know our children are free and that their own children shall be free.One is not enslaved by those he tries to help.It is not how it works.</p> <br> <p> We have not yet received explaination as to why IPOB was declared a terrorist organization when herdsmen who have killed over three thousand people this year are represented in some states in nigeria. The umbrella group representing the herdsmen has representatives in every state of the federation. It is mind-boggling.You can see why we think some nigerians are cowards.The politicians will negotiate with terrorists but not with youths who want to be heard by government.If the way to get attention is through arms then arms it is! Why is politics about violence and threat of violence rather than ideas? Perhaps it stems from the fact they are not aware of their rights and the rights of others. It could also be they do not understand the world is not as closed as it once was. Anyone who uses power ruthlessly these day will be made to pay for it before he gets too far.We wish to warn the man to understand that it is one thing to be installed by the courts, but another thing to survive. Democracy is a system of government where the majority will always have their way.</p> <br> <p>Eastern nigeria has been punished by some people as a ploy to deny them of the right to their God given resources.They stole our resources for seventy years.And gave us nothing but grief. This man perhaps does not understand that what Boko Haram is doing is by far different from the situation that precipitated the so called civil war.It is a war of attrition purposed against the nigerian state by citizens who reject the system. Biafra was born by the rejection of the system of its own citizens.The system massacred citizens and disowned them. The system imposed a blockade on its own citizens.Nobody has tried starving Boko haram people to death.But it was the policy of the system against citizens who declared Biafra to keep from being destroyed completely by the system.We are not suprised Boko Haram is being tranformed into a part of enforcement of religious code being imposed on all of us by the system.They have forgotten such spurious ideas are the reason for the war of genocide against Biafra.</p> <br> <p>The event is the reason for which the people of eastern nigeria were made third class citizens for sixty years.Boko haram is a war without provocation.But they are accepted by the nigerian military.I mean the nigerian military, the institution that deals with the safety and security of the country.Is this magnanimity or a half-witted reaction to a complicated problem? Why were the Igbo penalized so much for just trying to survive? Nigeria must answer the question honestly to earn its unity or else! Boko Haram hates the country called nigeria.But they are rehabilitated and persuaded. It is clear they do not want to be part of nigeria. The people of eastern region were killed and maimed all over nigeria for any excuse.The people have always been genuine builders for a truly united nigeria.Look how far we have come! They now beg to be part of the run for leadership.</p> <br> <p>How preposterous is that?We have an Igbo man he wishes to selectively ignore this truth. He must know there are many nigerians who do not reason the same way he does. When there is a mistake you address it and correct it. If he thinks his job in Imo state is to propagate any agenda different and at variance with the wishes of the people of the state he is out of luck. We know there are people who can claim to be anything including Immams and Mullas and still have no idea what it means.It is a different thing when a person is doing something they truely understand.An Immam in Imo state needs plenty of prayer.There will be those who will pray him into space in a single fly! Greed and avarice are terrible vices. We wish him luck in Imo state because he will need it. We wish to remind him that Igbo women have never lost a fight. When it comes to survival they are champions.They are five for five and no losses since 1914 to date. Today they and their children have a challenge. We already know the result.The Imo governor and his Immam are in our prayers!</p> </font> <br> <br> <br> <img src="ada.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="africana1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style color:="blue"><td> <br> <center><h3>THE LEKKI MASSACRE IS A DANGEROUS SYMPTOM</h3></center> <br> <center><font color="Blue"> <p>I had listened to the statement on the floor of the house of assembly by the Speaker of the supposed federal republic of nigeria.As a believing optimist with the tendency to think the best in the african I had expected this was the atittude of the government towards our hurting youths.And was I so wrong! He was just given his opportunity to display a civilized facade while the ones with the penchant for atavism had their own plans.I would not dignify the denials of the military when the pictures are circulating the whole earth.We all saw men in uniform come out from nowhere to shoot at youths who were armed with banners and placards and cellphones.If these number of armed uniform men do not belong to the nigerian armed forces, it means the government does not exist.The denial put and portrays the country as a failed state without any question.They must understand they have overplayed their hands and this time it is stuck in the cookie jar! The rest of the world can see what indeed the nigerian youth is up against.</p> <br> <p>The world bears record of the achievments of the nigerians in every walk of life outside of their own soceity.As individuals and collectively they have credit for remarkable accomplishments.In nigeria a number of factors have hindered this same streak of success the individuals have achieved outside.There are retrogressive policies that place ethnicity over ability and feudalistic overhang that destroys everything that is contrary to the accepted point of view.The youths have risen against the twin evil that have kept them in poverty and want.We must make this effort succeed.They have paid the supreme prize for resisting the evil frontally.It is the hallmark of bravery and heroism.We see the pictures as they drown in oceans across the continents but this murder by the guns of government will be avenged.We watched them mowed down by the ones who are suppose to defend them in what should be their own homeland.We have videos with horrifying images.In one of them a group of nigerian military men were torturing a youth.We hear them swearing in hausa over the youth who they tied up and hung like barbeque animal over a fire. He was being kicked and punched with their guns.You will never treat any one like that even in a war.You want to tell us these people are nigerians treat those they consider their fellow citizens like that? No parent should endure to see such a sight. And there is no war in nigeria? Sorry this had to be said as it is. We need to address this with the rest of the world.</p> <br> <p>Their blood was shed for a righteous cause.We want to warn those angling for political office that we are aware of their own goals. It seems they do not care whether a soceity exists or not so long as they "rule". Right this moment there does not exist a country over which they wish to preside.It is in the interest of the rest to reform or find one.It is what these youths are saying for which some with no understanding of events have taken their lives.You ought to have a human soceity before looking for who "rules" of better still govern it.You do not control a human crowd with guns.You do not control animals with guns.These people have lost the ability to reason and it is a problem for the many of us who are watcing these events.In the face of these events we appeal to the youths to take a deep breath. They have made their point to the world.I strongly urge them to take a look what they have done! They have for once impacted policy of their own government on demand.The last time that happened was when the nationalists were making the various demands that led to nigerian independence.We are very proud of them and their new found voice.</p> <br> <p>The heroism they have shown is historic. If they withdrew from the streets right now there is no loss of face.After all the movement can easily reconvene without qualms.It is their sovereign right.We urge them to calm down and use their minds more than their emotion.We urge them to negotiate in good faith and move matters along through reason.We do not intend to fight a war with the nigerian government.The citzens are demanding a responsible government that responds to the distress of citzens.It is the primary responsibility of government.It is absurd they like to maintain peace where no life is at risk and not in places where people are being slaughtered daily to undetermined and unknown sources.We ask why government is not invested in finding out who is responsible for the death of so many nigerian citizens.Every now and again soldiers and police men fly off the hing and shoot citizens as though they are pegs for target practice.We have come to the end of that road.</p> <br> <p>We blame the people who invited the army. Why are the politicians bringing the military to these matters again? These men from certain part of nigeria do not understand the difference.But it might just be mischief. We heard their call for 'iron fist" when infact the mature patient reaction to this event was the right answer.We have a democracy.We wonder why the army was invited.It has the appearance of misogyny.They remind us of a matter of interest that we always like to ignore.Now it is becoming too much to pretend we do not understand the full implication.The military has now been owned by one part of the country in a so called federation.We are not suprised at their reaction to a peaceful protest.They have taken other nigerian for granted.It is the import of their denial in the massacre. They put on display once more the perceived credulity of citizens under the circumstances.We warn the military not to mislead its own again to think it can "rule" nigeria.If it is ever tempted to resist it with great forebearance.The so-called "iron fist" some in government are calling for is the exact example of the true voice of the bandits in this government.It must be taken seriously.We have said many times that many in this government do not care about democracy.In fact they abhor it.We must be mindful of these kind of voices and what it does to the soceity.</p> <br> <p>We had earlier on warned that this type of event will be used to unleash the full scheme for which able bodied men have been imported into nigeria in the last two years.We alert the world to recognize this for what it truely is.It is a jihad finally upon nigeria.Those who have been threatening for years and years are about to carry out their word.I want to make it clear to the people of eastern nigeria that they are the prime targets of these events.It is all for the oil and gas. And yes they need the ports too.So they need lagos. We have an idea about the sponsors of this mayhem.It is still all about refineries and oil and gas.We are seeing the people who have taken over the resources of the entire northern nigeria reach to the south in a final swoop.It will be a mistake to see this as entirely a demonstration and protest by aggrieved youths.The government will be wrong to think the violence will help the cause of politics and the government.It has a different agenda and the control is outside of the reach of government.The forces attemting to upend nigeria want to have a failed state. It is their preferred type of atmosphere and climate.It is very sad to observe they are making serious headway.It is the reason their positions are always asymptotic to those of the other citizens.</p> <br> <p>Do these narrow minded people know anything about democracy and government at all? We have been following difficult events around the world all centered around human right and liberties.It is strange these people have not moved one inch since the days the nigerian reknown musician sang " sorrows, tears and blood...them regular trademark".It was a song of nearly forty years ago.Many are now ready to move on from that country he lamented. It is time to march into the promise even without those who never really wanted to be part of it.They were persuaded by sacrificing the honor of the rest in the country.It keeps on giving. The rest of the nationalities and ethnicities have sacrificed more than enough for the companionship that only takes and gives and offers nothing.The guise of religion which shows and exhibits neither compassion nor morality convinces none.</p> <br> <p>Presently pro-democracy demonstrations are going on around the world.We have never seen anyone come in with guns. In the last year France has dealt with demonstrations that sometimes are difficult to watch for the frightening number of people in the gatherings.It persisted, but nobody used guns.We believe the people who are "ruling" over two hundred million people in what is now called nigeria do not have value for lives.We are asking the world to help the citizens free themselves from these class of uncivilized but well armed bandits.We regret to have assumed they will not take the lives of citizens under these kind of circumstances.The nigerian youth has every reason to be offended with government.They are aware of the enormous wealth and resources available within nigeria yet they are in want. The people who are responsible for their predicament do not endure the same conditions nor do their children.They destroy the country and run to other places for the most basic needs like health care.They destroy the education system and send their own children outside to acquire skill and knowledge.The youths are not able to actualize themselves even after acquiring skill by any means.They lift their hands to ask a question and you shoot them in a democracy.</p> <br> <p>We had thought the government will show compassion and a listening ear like the speaker of the house had indicated.We knew it was too good to be true.It was not long before those who own the system came in.First we heard the threat from the usual quarters where "quit notices" and threat are issued non-stop.The "Arewa" landlords are breaking nigeria.Again their peers in the army complied and have taken the lives of innocents youths and citizens.We like to know who commands the nigerian military.Who issued this order? Every single time these folks in Arewa Consultative forum have threatened, the military has always responded and complied by taking lives of citizens.How come they have such relationship with the nigerian military? We find such very troubling.We have a war going on for over tens years with so-called extremists, bandits and Boko Haram.We do not see the same swiftness and success.Entire communities are sacked, their homes burnt and they are massacred and no one is prosecuted for it.Nobody is apprehended.So it is a deceit.It is being sponsored by the same people who pretend to fight it.</p> <br> <p>The other nigerians are tired of the game.The massacre is the wakeup call the rest needs.It is time to demand change or the "Arewa" people can go their seperate way. After all this "Arewa" has not accounted for the murders and arsons and displacements of ordinary people from that part of the country.It means they are not part of this clearly priviledged "Arewa".The youths are demanding a government that empathises with its own citizens.They are asking for leadership that solves problems not create them.It is not the time for exotic names that only embody a few people of priviledge who swim in opulence and comfort while others wallow in filth and squalor.We are warning these people to be very careful or they will be dealing with the rest of the nigerian space.Their insensitivity and regular call for violence is no longer tolerable.The struggle will not be divided by these people who have been the misfortune of nigeria.</p> <br> <p>God forbid that the nigerian people will go back to their slumber after the blood of their youth is shed.The guns were pointed and those who claim to be nigerian pulled the trigger to kill nigerian citizens who were displaying the bravest act of patriotism.It can't get any worse than that. We have a display of the absolute lack of understanding of the essence and purpose of a country and a government.These youths have taken back the soceity our founders dreamt about.They perished not for what they will get for themselves.They wanted a better soceity.The idealism and the cause they died for is how great things happen.It is the birth of the new spirit that will propel a fight for a new and better soceity. Their pure and brave spirit shall guide us to the soceity of our collective dream and the space that spurs the african renaissance.</p> </center></font> </center></mynuccss></span></font></h5></td><br> <br> <img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br><a name="anarchy.era"></a> <h6 class="myclass"><span style color:="grey"><td> <center><h3>IMO STATE AND THE SPECTRE OF FEUDALISTIC ATAVISM</h3></center> <br><div align="center"><font color="black"> <br> <p>Imo state is one of the places in nigeria with the potentials to be at par with any part of the world.The population is generally literate and civilized.We needed a cerebral person to harness the potential and add value.Our enemies want to halt the march and the growth.And they always find ways and how they can prevail.Now we are asking the people to take their destiny in their own hands.It is what democracy means.It was the reason we needed them to pay attention to events.Elections in a democracy are like shooting wars.One is an alternative of the other.Many of our so-called leaders do not understand what is at stake.Some of our people are playing with those who are only interested in killing them.They see a grin on the face and take it for a frienship.Why they feel such insecurity is beyond many of us.We cried out when a chief justice with a mien of an occultist rather than the brightness and quickness of the "learned" imposed a fourth runner up in an election on the people.Many of us understood he was obeying orders.</p> <br> <p>The "imposed governor" himself said so. According to him without the help of someone who is now late he " would never have become governor".We recall the fact that "Myetti Allah" one of the religious groups of fire eaters in northern nigeria had proposed to form a vigilante group for the south east. WE remind them we have state governments and autonomous sovereign indegenes in every state of nigeria.If they are trying to destabilize nigeria it will not be without cost for them. It might seem to them they are sacred cows but when the chips are down nothing is spared in situations like this.They must know they are touching on existential issues for a people who have suffered a genocide in their hands before.Not just once but repeatedly.We wish to remind them to be very careful. They must be careful what they are wishing for.Nigeria might become too big for them sooner than they can imagine.</p> <br> <p>They must have sensed the vulnerablity of the area.And we know why it is so and who is responsible.Perhaps they notice the incapability of most of the governors in the space.Why are the governors so incapable and seemingly powerless even though they are suppose to be chief security officers? When they swore to an aoth to protect lives of citizens did they think it is routine? They now have a chance they always wanted.We wish to warn these people to tame their ambition.It is much too loud and even very unrealistic.The people of Imo state can even ask for a fulani governor also! They are so very arrogant one might add.In other places you will not govern people after you tell them in a democracy that you were imposed on them by someone who sidelined their sovereignty and handpicked someone else.We all know usually in a democracy people are not selected they are elected by a sovereign population.If anyone is insinuating the Igbo people are not sovereign such a person will be suprised how they will answer.They will elect their choice based on their agreement in the campaign.Now they can see why the sovereignty of the people of imo state has been stolen by some remote operation.We urge the women and youths whose future will be pawned by a mindless and careless native to get up and fight.This is not partisan politics.It is survival politics.If nothing is done very soon imo state will begin to experience the instability that plagues the areas with feudalistic point of view.</p> <br> <p>We know why the entire northern nigeria is now in turmoil.In the south especially in the Eastern nigeria there is no chance you will get one small child who does not want to own his own mansion and drive several cars and marry a hot wife.I know this to be true.I grew up among ordinary folks.You will not go there and preach to them you will be rich and and they do not have to be!It is how they have produced all these young murders they now want to send to us to manage.One of the main characteristics is unabridged greed of the master class who use the population as toys and tools.And we know that violence and the attendant underdevelopment are among the effects.Our military must understand what it means to have a situation where armed men are being invited into our communities from outside nigeria.Those who see this as empowering will wish they did not embark on this gamble.Nigerians know them.Self defence is a human right. And nigerians own the regions and the states.They have made Abuja so powerful. One of these days it will run dry on account of the greed emanating from it.And they know it themselves.Nigeria in so far as it comprises of tribes and ethnicities has owners and sovereignty belongs to them.It is not artificial.The ethnicities are well rooted entities.They are not toothless bulldogs.They can bite and bite very hard.</p> <br> <p>Our people around the world are not interested in party politics.They want the development of beloved homeland.We are prepared to show anyone who is for sale that the rest of us have no price tag.The people who are not able to govern by uniforms and decrees have found alternatives.Our people must react and respond to the schemes with reason or they will become far worse than they already are.They are about to be made slaves in their own homes.They must resist the tendency this governor has to please outside interests rather than the population he claims to represent.We could not careless who put him in power.The devil himself might do that for all we care but we know what we want and must demand same.If he will not use power deriving from the sovereignty of the people in their interest he will be resisted.If he will not use same in ways that are agreeable with the manner of life of the eastern region space he will not be much use.If he will not be any use to the people of the state they must neutralize him before he hurts them.It is not politics.It is survival.If the man continues to import children who have no understanding of communual life and family,if he continues to import children who bear no last names he will answer to the people.</p> <br> <p>We heard a politician from one of the northern states referred to the almajeris and herdsmen as "economic refugees".We have some people import citizens of other nations as thugs for elections.Once they are in power they do not wish to be perturbed.One would have thought their religious belief would have precluded such chicanery and duplicity.Apparently their religion does not go that deep.We recall how some herds men mounted road blocks in Ekiti state in yorubaland early this year.It seems these men are Greek "gift" and trojan horses for all APC governors in southern nigeria.You can see why we say that some people do not understand democracy.Are they dreaming kingdom expansion? Why do they wish to alienate the governors from their base? So they can rely on the rigging machine and that way be beholden to them? And we want to warn those who play with the idea that it is dangerous.They are accepting colonization of their people unwittingly.If someone is importing them hoping to use them in Imo state such a person should look at north eastern nigeria and its sorry state.It all started as political thuggery.</p> <br> <p>If he continues to import heartless youths who can already kill by the time they are six years old,the people will need answers from him.They should ask him what he wants because he is about not only to ruin imo state but the entire eastern nigeria.Governors in the north who have better understanding of these people are afraid of them.Who the hell is he to think he knows better than they do? We have seen him around and have understanding of his abilities.We have heard people of the same faith with these children speak concerning them. We know people from northern nigeria who have spoken out about the danger these children pose to communual life.They need those who know them well to tend to their spiritual and emotional needs.You have severely traumatized children bearing arms.And ever so often it results in armed conflicts.Why does he think he knows better than these men? He does not seem to understand that all the problems we experience around the world is about resources.If someone is smuggling armed people to your environment he wants to control you and your resources by intimidating you through the use of violence.</p> <br> <p>How will the governor control these people who are coming into the space in the night? He might deceive himself into thinking they care anything about him.He is there talking about unity.The governors who threw these people out understand that calculus better than he does.When someone is armed and you are not they will determine the terms of the existence with you or they will do away with you.He thinks they are coming because he is popular! More troubling is that this man who claims to be democratically elected is detaining journalists for calling him out.If he does not wish to exchange banters he should stay home.Now there is going to be accountability.It is what is happening. In democratic politics bantering is part of the order.If he has opposition what are they suppose to do? Send him flowers? What does he wish to be called "his royal majesty governor of imo state declared most eminent by his godfather and the supreme court"? And they might even add "taken from fourth position to number one, numero uno"!</p> <br> <p>How does he wish to be refered to? In what way should they address him? His majesty the king of imo state.How does he wish to be called ? Does he wish to be called "the conqueror of imo state"? He should quickly release the man he detained or he will be governor of nothing because he will completely loose the people.Very soon he might be dealing with a new reality.He must not underestimate the level of frustration in the youths.If he watches the news he will see the waves and waves of our youths trying to flee bad leadership.So many perish in the attempt.He should see how they are treated in these places.Here they have face to face the men who create these ugly and grim realities for all of them.How does anyone try to make it even worse for them? Those who put him in this position do not actually wish him well.But he might not believe us.They really wish to sacrifice him off knowing the level of anguish in the space.We tell him as one of our own.But we realize it will ring hollow to him now until they have their noose around his neck.He must remember the igbo people are quick to learn.If it becomes clear to them he is not dancing to their own tune they will respond.At that time he will spend money but it will buy him nothing including peace of mind.The people of imo state will reject his turning their space into an alien entity before their own eyes.They have their children to bestow their space to.International Non Governmental Organizations(NGOs) have said the herdmen in nigeria have killed a total of two thousand five hundred and thirty nine nigerians.And the year was only half way.Among the people of eastern nigeria life is sacred.We are not able to teach these people our way of life.But they will abide by the codes or they are not welcome in the midst of our people.Every progress made by the human race are masterminded by a single person.Our future depends on the lives of our people.</p> <br> <p>If the parents of these children and youths he is importing do not want them, the people of imo state are too encumbered at this time to append them to the list of their own many problems.They can't afford good schools for their own children who are willing and ready to learn.There are no means to do so.They want to hire more teachers and are not able to.The ones who are teaching are underpaid and therefore unmotivated.And our people know and believe in the power of education.But have these extreme powerlessness foisted on them on purpose.They want to build and equip schools and are not in the position to do so.Where is the man called governor hoping to find the resources for all these his vaunted kindness and liberality? Nigeria has been governed or rather misgoverned by parents and grandparents and even greatgrand parents of these children.How could he dare suggest he will use resources meant for the children of imo state to provide for those who lay claim to aristocratic right over others? So now their needs supercede the need of children born in the state? Who will treat anyone from imo state like that anywhere in nigeria? So he is suggesting that the children in the state require no attention and must move lower down the queue? These youths have state governors who control far more resources than he does.If they forgot their youths it must be their problem.They appoint him knowing he is kind of benighted so they could use him as bridgehead to disturb the rest of eastern nigeria.Look what is going on in their own space.</p> <br> <p>They have war in every part of their space. It is not how you make progress.And the people of imo state must resist any attempt to import such anachronistic frame of mind in the space.We are serving notice to the man called governor in imo state to know the people are interested and are watching him very closely.If he is not their own they can at least make him translucent.It might be uncomfortable. We call him out from around the world to apply reason.He must serve the people of the space or go to the people who appointed him and serve them there in their own space.If they love him as much as he loves them that ought to be a piece of cake.In eastern nigeria governors are not kings.In eastern nigeria sovereignty belongs to the population not to any overlord.Politicians are servants of the people not their tingods.He will not be allowed to import loyal subjects that can be "used" for anything as is practiced in some places in nigeria where these are from.They have run into problems with the practice.As they try to push to him a vicarious incendiary liability he thinks he has become very important.Igbo people solve their own problems.</p> <br> <p>Everyone might not like their approach but it works for them.They must figure out something that works for them. What is this man? Is he father christmas? Imo has youths who are suffering and need help.They lost everything they would have inherited to these same people. At the end of a pogrom,war of genocide and massacre their parents and grandparents started over. And these are the wards and children of the people who had ensured every resource they owned was taken from them.We are witnessing a spectre of grand illusion.The man they call governor must reintroduce himself.He has now got us so very confused.We are now confused by his pledge of loyalty over and over.He wants to make imo state responsible for those whose approach is always to push every problem further ahead and forward.The people of eastern nigeria have helped them long enough to their own detriment.In the quest to rehabilitate the entire northern nigeria as governor of imo state he is on his own!</p> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br> <br> here <<<<...<br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="right" width="220" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<<<..... </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="ndinne.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>>> <br> <br><center><a href="makingthegong.html"/>Read our opinion on the politics and religion without compassion</a></center> <br> <center><h4><font color="purple">RUGA RELOAD:THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY MUST REJECT ANY LAW THAT SEEK TO VEST MORE POWER ON THE OVERBLOATED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT</h4></font></center> <br> <font color="blue"> <p>We learned with even more sadness the news that the nigerian House of Assembly is poised to pass a law that attempts to vest the federal government with the power and control over every resource in nigeria.One is tempted to ask why? Are these people aware that Sanni Abacha was a child of this kind of mindset? We are troubled by the insensitivity and lack od depth that drive such actions.The national assemby is a sacred place and must have men and women who understand the nature of their responsibility.They must be places and positions filled by reasoning segment of our population apparently such is not the case.We have loans being taken with glee with clauses ceding everything to the creditors including sovereignty of their own country.It is a troubling new low.Considering that nigeria should not be in need of such loans one is distressed.Which part of this game plan is a secret? Of course some people do not want the country to succeed.And the ploy is to continue to oppress the rest until they fight back.We are at such a point.Ordinarily no one would attempt to have his ethnic group control every instrument of government in a federation.It is very pedestrian at best and at worst offensive. If you do not wish to fight a bloody war you opt for democracy.It is also a war but a different type.Democracy is an attempt to reason positions of people who disagree with the view to achieve a compromise.So why do nigerian politicians only want to have their way? If the other side refuses then it is a conflict.It is exactly why other people choose democracy.In this case all it serves is facilitate conflict and disagreements.The national assembly and nigerian senate we know will rubber stamp anything the executive demands.It is what they said themselves.Their leadership is on record for making such statements quite often.For some reason it is lost to them that they are the advocates of their communities and the ordinary nigerian who perished in thousands to fight for democracy.It is how they got elected.They have forgotten that.Unfortunately they are still being robbed, jailed and murdered.</p> <br> <p> It appears that is the only priviledge as an ordinary citizen of nigeria.The authorities will pardon Boko haram terrorists but kill youths who protest for a better soceity.The men in the chambers of the national assembly keep busy rubber stamping everything the excutive wants.Why would any nigerian at this time take more resources from the people in their states and hand same over to a center that is so corrupt? We are not able to see transparency in any action or policy of government. Every policy move has been a prank against the rest of the country.Take RUGA for instance, this government wants to resettle all fulanis around africa in nigeria! You know they have run into problem for the same ideas of imposing on other ethnicities in other parts of africa.It is a very bad idea.People need understanding and collaboration not nepotism and ethnicism.The answer is to tow the line or it might become a full blown revenge wind.I said it before some people are smoking something too hot for their mental faculties! We are watching a situation where the men appointed by government to excercise oversight are now wanton abusers.The ethnic groups are being mugged and robbed of their resources by agents of government.</p> <br> <p>Why would anyone wish to transfer his assets to an incompetent manager? Nigeria has been so poorly managed it has lost everything and has gone cap in hand to beg? So what is the reason for which more resources are given to such an entity? The regions entered nigeria as sovereign entities.Anyone who is making any laws that violates this tenet is not just being foolish but crazy.Such a move will lead to loss of lives.It will not be only rejected it will be fought and the battle will be severe.It is very sad the desire to regulate the church and gag the press and take the land from the states all come in one season.Some people must be smoking something very hot! The effort to cobble nigeria up was extreme.It took caution and experience to manage it.Some people took an assignment too tall for their own skill level.It has been difficult to maintain and keep up.Since the end of colonialism some try to normalize the impossibility to their own shame.If anyone claims nigeria has been easy let us see if it is true.Nigeria has lost four heads of government to violence.There has been more than nine coup d'etats. We did not include the Shonekan/Abacha and June 12 event.If we must it means we should add two to the number of heads of government lost to violence bringing to a total of six in six decades.Nigeria has had seven constitutions.Each consitution is amended until it is hard to know what was originally proposed.</p> <br> <p>The effort to have an entity which serves as a drain pipe to other soceities will not succeed anymore.We are going to have the various ethnicities take their resources back and manage same.The citizens are resident in these nodes of soceity.The present arrangement where those who manage assets of government become richer than the government must be rejected.It is criminality of the worst kind.They are the ones funding private armies against innocent citizens.We know that all the men who have managed the central bank have become billionaires.All who have managed NNPC have become billionaires. All who have managed the nigerian ports are all billionaires.All who headed customs are billionaires. On and on the list goes.These men have vandalized the entities that would fund a rich verile country.The national electic Power Authority (NEPA) of old would be a very rich parastatal providing employment to citizens and financial resources to the coffers of the country. But it was vandalized.Nigerian international Telecommunication Ltd(NITEL) was a very wonderful place for young nigerians to work.This used to be a national telecommunication carrier capable of finacing the budget of a prudent government in nigeria.It was vandalized.</p> <br> <p>NICON a major national insurance company that was very prudently managed by able nigerians is all but finished.It has been ruined by inept management.Some people with suspect and questionable qualifications and no experirnce took these places over and ruined these national assets.The Nigerian National Shipping Line(NNSL) was a place young people secured employment and grew to more empowered citizens.It has been ruined by bad management.Nigeria has no national air carrier.Nigerian Airlines of old could not be sustained.Nigeria could not find men and women who could manage such tricky investments like other nations.And this is all due to politics of retrogression and revisionism.I would like to know what these people who claim to love nigeria eat as food.The population of the country is growing and we have disappearing assets.Now they want to sell NNPC.It is the lifeline of the nigerian nation.Without money from crude oil today nigeria will boil over quickly.We now have a dagger aimed at the heart of the nigerian nation by those mouthing "one nigeria" and unity.One is tempted to ask the reason those who are responsible for these avoidable situation are against those who are tired of the tragic drama they are forced to endure.</p> <br> <p>Some of us are witnesses of the atittude of lack of care on the part of some in the soceity.They are given positions they know next to nothing about.We knew this type of thing will happen inevitably.We are witnesses of the spoiling of a country by a section with only minimal contribution.It is not enough to steal. They wish to take everything!They wish to sell to the public. It is another name for stealing a national resource.It is another name for taking what belongs to a commonwealth and handing it to the priviledged.Poverty is ravaging citizens and they are picking up arms as a reaction.We do not see such issues as politics.It is sickening to watch. In disbelief one watches a country with great promise completely destroyed.We have millions of youths who will complete their education and stare into an uncertain future.Nigeria is in debt and keeps borrowing.Who are the ones who want to submit more resources to an entity that is in such a pitiable state? We wish to make clear that even if the state governors are too weak to fight off this madness the citizens must and shall.The only chance for recovery for the nigerian people is through the states and ethnicities. It is the reason for the pushbacks in soceity.Human soceity is organic.Something lost to some so-called leaders.If the states have their land resources ceased from them by a federal government with a penchant for mismanagement and thievery what else is left? The nigerian people must remain vigilant and resist any attempt to steal their resources by a government that has been hijacked by some hacks and bandits.</p> </font> <br> <img src="sphinx.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.<<<<<<<<to the left...</font> <img src="ourhist2.jpg" align="right" width="230" height="180"/>...>>>>to the right.. <br> <br><br><center><a href="providence.html"/>Read our opinion on the politics that offers little service to the people</a></center> <br><center><font color="purple">HOW TO BUILD NEW CIVILIZATIONS, PYRIAMIDS OR OTHER LANDMARK STRUCTURES IN AFRICA AGAIN</center></font> <p>We have been thinking about how to bring the african people together in a very meaningful way. We have the African Union and now the continental free trade zone. Our enemies are not idle though. In comes intolerance in the form of religion that has neither heart nor understands compassion.And we know it is the true essence of every religion. So it is not truely religion we see in display in africa. It is the old ploy in new garments.It is a ploy to deceive using religion.Within the continent the people are making serious effort to find their past.It is not difficult to see the effect and cost of the partitioning of africa.The many wedges are all still alive and well for the most part.In seeking answers we must pick a natural template. The culture of the african people is encapsulated in the african festivities.One of the most powerful festivities in africa that is remembered even by the africans who endured the worst of man's inhumanity to man the slavery is the "Nganda" festivity.The impression of this festivity overcame these terrible experiences. In many instances the festivals are remembered almost very vividly.The drums and the excitement and atmosphere conjures life's most sought after item: happiness.We are talking about the Nganda, the Ekpe and other Masqurades and festivity. In many parts of africa it is named differently. However the order the form and essence are so identical we can recognize it easily.We are saying that people who share culture are the same people.It is a very strong unifying pillar in any soceity.The african people can use this festivity to attempt to rebuild very contiguous soceities around common values.In such a way they can find once more the greatness they embody.</p> <br> <p>African festivities celebrate life as a worthwhile experience and indicates the urgency of this pillar in living.In between the challenges of living festivities celebrate life in a very special way.It is as if those challenges were never there.Festivities focus on joy and happiness as a day or even many days are set aside to find happiness in any way by any means.It is as if soceity cofers a very special right to everyone to be happy.In Eastern nigeria this festivity is captured by the "Ekpe soceity". The festivities of the Ekpe soceity are very important in understanding the people of the Eastern nigeria for example. It portrays them as one community.It truely puts paid to the lie that they are different people. In this soceity one discovers the people are the same because this soceity and its festivities have the same exact names.This festivities in its pomp and peageantry capture the culture in every way among the people.Most importantly the soceity hides the valued citedal of Igbo civilization.It is what makes them the same people. Mischief makers know this truth! It is why we confront with confidence those who dispute the fact that these are the same people.The only difference they can cite is language.We know language is the quickest element of soceital life that changes very rapidly. How come they descend to the lowest common denominator? We might not even compare same language as it evolves in generations.Eastern nigeria is perhaps the only part of nigeria with the same people in very large area of land. It is sad the politics of nigeria indicates otherwise.It is indeed very sad.It is also why they are truely the largest single ethnic group in africa if not in the world.The Igbos are found in the lower Benue area, in Kogi and beyond. Igbanke, Afo, Idoma, Itolu,Igedde, are Igbo people.The names clear up any arguments.</p> <br> <p>The reason for the war going on in the Middle Belt is the realization that it has become very impossible to keep these facts and this truth under lock and key.The internet and the social media has destroyed all the long held secrets and yokes.It is said that knowlege is power. The criticism of social media must be understood. The democratization of knowledge and information is godly even Divine! It is my personal opinion.You find yorubas called by other names who look at themselves and say "we are yoruba people" or they look hard at themselves and conclude "we are Igbo". The Nganda festivity is celebrated in Senegal, Zambia, in Mozambique and Mali Zimbabwe Central African republic, in parts of Uganda, Ruwanda, Kenya, the Congos.It is celebrated in some form in the entire africa and among the africans in the diaspora.In africa this is the religion that will trounce any other.It is said that if you beat the afrcan drum hard and loud enough new realities emerge and somethings are shaken off too.It is a display of the rich culture of the african people.It celebrates life with the urgency by a people who recognize the need for laughter, joy and happiness in life.It is by using such tools that we find the true greatness of this people once again.The Igbo people are descendants of the people who built the civilization of the nile valley. It is the truth.It is hard to expect the history as told to acknowlege such a reality.</p> <br> <p>Anyone who wants the truth can find that Axum, Kush or Ethipia and Egypt were built by people who came from these lands.We recognize that Southern nigeria is inhabited by the people who were part of the great civilizations of the Nile valley.They are part of the owners of those civilizations. They are the ones that inhabit these areas. It accounts for the suprises the colonalist ecountered in dealing with people they saw as backwards.It accounts for the eventual collapse of colonialism for it was not an act of repentance.It ended due to persistant resistance.Today as we piece together a new africa we must identify and regognize the African Exploitation Interest Group and who are the members and the activities that define the status of their membership.We are quick to identify Europe and the main culprit in colonization of africa.Today the dynamics are very different.Individuals and groups with clandestine interests and motives are a possibility in the mix. We must know who these people are and how their actions affect our own realities.The other groups using such strong affiliation and ties like religion and faith must be identified as well.We must also recognize our own heroes.These things go together.</p> <br> <p>We owe a debt of gratitude to some musicicains like TPOK O.K jazz, Tabu Ley, Manu D'Bango, Stephen Osita Osadebey, Chief Enyang Henshaw,Chief I.K Dairo and many in the diaspora.The living legends we must acknowledge in more tangible ways.Quite often we let them wonder if soceity understands their heart beat. Records like "africa mokili mobimba" captures the kind of essence we refer to. In fact some of them at various times promoted these festivities as they worked tirelessly to portray the africa they represented with so much pride. I always have said that these men were indeed giants in the continent.Without question their enduring work helps tell the story of a people. They were in the battle field earlier than many and lasted longer than any. We still have some fighting as hard today.The african festivities are not just entertainment. They are capsules by which the people and their way of life are preserved. The festivities are overt and covert in their embodiment. We must understand their value and use them to rebuild.It is our considered opinion that the art of writing did not mature as quickly as was possible in africa due to this fact. The people documented their lives well in these events to their satisfaction.They did not require any other way to encapsule their history and way of life.The festivities and the history they portray and often times dramatize is one way to begin to assemble a new african civilization that will endure and even compete with any in the world. </p> <br> <br> <br><center><h4>RESISTING THE PLUNDER OF AFRICA AND BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS INSTEAD </h4></center> <br> <p><h4>We present a point of view that we are not going to continue to pretend. Instead we want to make the world aware that Africa and africans are weary and worn from centuries of abuse plunder and rape.The african people have been maligned by the same sources responsible for their condition.We do not wish to continue the game.In so far as we understand there will always be those that see things in a very different light we decide to make our pitch.Here is the point: Africa has arable land, a very big asset in the world.We all know some had tried to cease african land by force and spurious means.It is a battle that africans have won for now hopefully but must realize is not over yet.Africa is blessed with very beautiful shore lines around the continent.Many of us have had the opportunity to celebrate with others the most beautiful of these great work of nature.These to my mind are not the reason why african people are in trouble.Let me state the problem here.The african is built strong and durable.Nature meant to have a capable hand for the vast arable land.In a world where labor is an issue it is a big deal.They can produce wealth.The problem is that quite often they are gamed out of it.The wealth they often produce is not theirs.We are requesting for some fairness.We ask fair minded people to take a new look at the relationship.It could be better and a little bit more mutual.We must all realize we could have been the ones on this other side.We all know it is neither their making nor ours that we are on either side.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>Africa has seventeen percent of the worlds population.It is referred to popularly as Human capital.It is prime factor.The population of Africa is sixty percent youth.I sometimes think it is because recently it has become difficult to live to ripe old age due to distresses in the continent.The more the world modernize the more the pressure on the continent.In many places in the african continent war is ravaging the population and we will get to the reason for it.But it takes a toll on the elderly who are neglected as a result.In africa the aged are completely dependent on their family.So african youthful population to my mind is not hard to understand.We have this demorgraphic lopesidedness that is imposed by constraints that are not totally natural.If these youngmen are not busy fighting wars they are herded away to different places around the world to labor.The modern day migration is a very advanced chase game.The african is the amateur.Africa has ten percent of the worlds oil output.It hardly needs up to one percent of this for its own use.It leaves the continent with a clear nine percent it could sell.But we see all sorts of things in play here.The benefit of this nine percent is reason for wars sometimes and instability instigated from outside.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>The continent has ninety percent of the worlds total reserve of Platinum.We know platinum is rare.Africa should be the better for this, one would have thought.For many years we had coups and counter coups on account of this resource.It is why we say to those who sponsor the destruction of lives for this mineral we know your aim.It is hard to kill everyone that will lay claim here.Come to an agreement and let us be partners.You do not have to sponsor gangs and have blood guilt on your head and your hands.Let us help you. You too should help us.If stability is established it benefits the world as an entity.We do the same thing for the Cobalt.Africa also has ninety percent of the world total reserve of cobalt.You will begin to see the reason for the perpetual tussle over Africa and her people.Africa has almost the entire world reserve for platinum and cobalt at ninety percent.If this is what nature has afforded us all. It makes no sense to not allow order and proper management.The african too is to understand and truely learn to aggregate his strength rather than fight one another. Very often the real problem is thousands of miles away.We are not making excuses for bad government.It is part of the problem.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>Africa has half or fifty percent of the worlds total reserve of Gold.Africa is by this the surest continent to seek gold.We know that it is not hard to see why a speculator will turn his attention to a place like that.Speculation is a gamble.If we are not able to protect our gold there will be robbers all day long by our door steps and such is the reality.The places with gold deposit have been among the most brutalized in the continent.The african must ask for a clear partner who helps in stemming these setbacks and forces of retrogression.It must be a deliberate policy.It must be as clear as the danger that not having such a policy poses.It is not possible to wish away the reality that you will be ambushed if you have gold on you of such worth.And africa has endured this reality so often.Time to change the approach has come.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>Africa has nearly seventy percent of the worlds reserve and supply for Manganeese.If you need manganeese urgently the surest place to turn is Africa.It is becoming clearer why this continent is being ransacked.The structures in the places where these minerals occur are not nearly anything to withstand the collision and forceful nature of these demands.We want to show quite clearly why africa must develop a blueprint for the access to these resources.Such a blue print will make the scramble a very negative event.In the absence there is no reason a speculator will look anywhere else.The present strategy of wishing away the problems is not anything we must continue as policy.It is not.There are no consequences.Africa must find a way to place and attache consequences to infringing on her interests.It might be something for which help is needed.The Arab world tried violence and it failed.Africa must seek her own methods.They must be peaceful methods but persistent.The world has never resisted powerful relentless persuations.</p></h4> <br> <p><h4>Africa has thrity five percent of the world supply and reserve of Uranium.Yes Uranium! We know the many military and civil uses for this mineral. It will become very apparent why the african must develop leadership that is not shallow. If there is anywhere in the world where one finds the need for good stewardship it is in the continent of Africa.It is the reason it is regrettable we have among the most careless and unfocussed stewards.We have custodians who are not mindful and careful.The african must change this situation.We are not going to change our circumstances without a hollistic look at these matters.It is the challenge of our time and we must resolve it.The first step is to make the problem clear.We believe it is what we have done here.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>Africa is the source of seventy percent of the worlds cotton.Yes the african continent supplies the world almost the entire need for cotton.We know this is very important.The weather will not be suspended.The weather event will bring demands on cotton materials.So we have a produce that will never diminish in importance at any time.The people of Africa must negotiate their strength.Africa was cut into fifty four countries by those who were fighting for her resources.Today the african leaders must use these many voices to cause attention to the unhealthy relationship between Africa and those who need her resources.There is nothing wrong in using this as leaverage especially at the United Nations where their votes will help determine perception at the least and policy at the best.Our proposal is a new relationship which places morality, equity and justice as basis.Africa must choose those who will be fair and just.In making the choice it would not hurt to seek friendships and common interest,however morality is most paramount.</h4></center> </p></mynuccss></span></font></h5></td><br> <br> <img src="africa.jpg" align="right" width="230" height="180"/>...>>>>to the right.. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><center><h4><a href="makingthegong.html"/>THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT AGENDA: A PROPOSITION AND INITIATIVE</h4></a></center><font color="blue" font size="4"> <br> <p>The people of color do not have to continue to fight to just exist.One will not downplay the importance of survival for all else to be possible.However there must be a way to get past the grind of the position at the bottom.It is an endevour that will requires more than normal effort.It will need a concerted effort and dogged determination that will suprise the detractors.It is how to break the mold.We propose a joint science initiative for africa.It is very difficult for any of the countries to go it alone.What is needed at this point is a joint effort. Africa should launch a science initiative that will embrace the whole people of color in and outside africa.Such an initiative will be a success.The idea is to have a mandatory two million dollars initial contribution from all the african countries.Thereafter an annual contribution towards the goal of placing the continent of africa in a position to survive with her own people.Presently we are just depending on the goodwill of the more advanced and sophisticated soceities.However africa has what it takes to build a new order.Her human capital is primed and ready.Leadership is needed to harness what is already available.</p> <br> <p>If we take a look at civilization today it would seem as though africa is in a different world.Yet what is needed is a careful management of resources and the continent and her people can make a contribution and most importantly create a handle for african environment and affairs.The initiative will tackle issues of research and development of indigenous ideas that addresses problems of our own surroundings.We can target areas like health and become proactive about our own health issues.Presently we are alerted when there is outbreak of so called tropical diseases.It will be helpful to have a place with dependable data when there are such problems.Being the first to notice anomalies in our own space will be welcome change.Such will help timely and effective response and service delivery.Some african leaders seem to think life is not a competition but it is.Your health is one aspect of your ability to compete that is prime.Had healthcare been a priority in many african countries the leaders and their families will not have the need to run abroad for treatment routinely.It becomes even a security issue of sorts in a world with so much uncertainty.</p> <br> <p>Such an initiative can take on matters like space and weapons research.The africans can manufacture weapons for self defence.There is nothing wrong with that.We know what this will mean to the future of africa.It means they will close ranks, shun their many internal skirmishes and come together to tackle problems of their very survival as a people.The initiative will provide the people of color a chance to prove they are more than able to compete.It provides the much talked about level playing field.The african can just focus on solving existential problems and not deal with deliberate distractions that will not abate.The argument has been made.It is time to place the reality on record.In many cases presently people of color have made contributions that will not be on record to their credit.Their ideas are used and they get only passing reference at best.With a place such as the one we propose the people of color with fertile minds will find the support they need.We are not talking here about an institution that will need financial help and grant from the developed world.Rather what is needed is an institution the african people will fully support knowing it is a great investment for their future.</p> <br> <p>The initiative will make available resources to help shape ideas that are useful making them ready to tackle lives problems.Importantly it will have perspective of the african.It will be a good thing to use an equipment produced in africa.We have so much good that we can do to the rural population, in agriculture,in health, education and in generally enhancing the quality of life.The initiative will be the arrowhead for such a reality.These are some of the things that africa should be addressing now.Already there is a big deficit and the idea is not catching up. It is responding in a certain constuctive manner.The increasing deficit will make participation impossible at some point.It will mean that africa will forever be the place to find spare parts for the business of the rest of the world.What a horrible existence! The present situation is a sign of total resignation and surrender.It is how we became victims.We are the ones that can end such a reality.It is a duty we owe ourselves and those after us.</p>. <br> <p>What africa needs is a place that will incubate ideas or birth new ones.And such a place must also have the resources to build the idea to a point of usefulness.We know many of africans successful people will help make such a place a very big success.We however need to move now. We need to become a participant rather than an observer.Any modest participation is better than total surrender.We can start with owning some of the things that are already possible for us.There is great value in solving our own problems.It is very likely africa will find friends who are willing to help.We know collaboration becomes possible when one has capacity to add value.We are not going to continue on the path of despair and resignation to fate.We find out we are able to help our fate with a great deal of foresight and effort which is already given us.If we need to make africa more successful these are the kind of things we should be considering.Cooperation and building capacity is how we empower our people to take charge of their own lives.If leadership does these things the people will take care of the rest on their own.They are quite capable of that.In regard to making this initiative proposition actionable we look towards african countries like Ruwanda, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, Liberia, Ethiopia,Eritrea, Nigeria, Egypt.Leadership from these is a practical way to give traction and impetus to an idea that is overdue. We suggest they create a panel to set the idea into motion to truely free the spirit and genius of the african child. </p> <br> <br> <br><h5 class="mynucss"><span style color:="pruple"><td> <br> <BR><center><h3>THE AFRICAN MANIFESTO: FEDERALISM AND GOOD GOVERNANCE THE ANSWER TO AFRICAN UNITY AND RENAISSANCE.</h3></center> <BR> <br> <br> <br> <center><font color="blue"><h4> <p> We have said many times in the past that africa will not rise above the vision of the people.We remember great men and women who fought very hard for the independence of the african continent.In the various countries the politics is the same.The resources are shared and the "masters" take their own.The country is then left to manage what is left.And that is the problem.Many of us have not learned to manage anything.Let us consider the vision of the men who fought for african independence.They were of the view that they were better off united as a people.In that they are right.So why not move forward and do what is necessary? The "masters" do not want that to happen.It is where the ethnic card becomes important and the "master" plays it. We know it is what we suffer from.The question is why then do some african leaders fall for the trick of playing the same game? Whereas they preach patriotism they work against it in principle.It is the sad paradox.Nigeria for instance should be an economic powerhouse today but it is not. Nigeria is in debt and it is a very big shame.The country has resources to run the entire africa.So what is the problem? It is what we intend to discuss here.Should africa continue along the path of providing resources to others or must we use our own resources to create wealth for our people? If we are to do the latter which we must then the idea of fighting for position must end. If the african does not act like the rest who create a framework for cooperation they will continue to fall far shorter than the potential of the space.</p> <br> <p>Our leaders who fought for independence must have seen the possibility of working together.The neccessity is rather obvious.The challenge is in doing it.If the challenges are too many it will be abandoned.It is the reason for half a century not much has happened.If you must bring people who share nothing in common together better be sure you understand what you are doing and what you are getting into. The constitution is the covenant and the word the people give to one another for reassurance. Nigeria was suppose to be the learning experience.The Nigerian constitution of 1963 was the last foot print of the nation building process in africa. It beats many of us why some people would assume superior understanding of those who dealt with the various people in their natural and true elements.It is too presumptous.And it has never worked and can't work.Our people like all other people around the globe are fiercely ethnic.If you show and work with the understanding that everyone is important you will make progress.The day the natives around you win your heart they have destroyed the larger bond.We have consistently said for nearly thirty years that all the detour from the original constitution will do is to create more trouble.</p> <br> <p>You are not able to unite people anymore than God . You must create an understanding that is present.And you must keep it.You must work with what you are given and that is the people.But we know the reason for the aberation in nigeria was greed.Some people saw their opportunity and chance to become very rich.The oil producing states and regions should have been taxed not have their resources taken from them.It is injustice. But it is greed. Injustice has become too generic.It put the country in a difficult bind. And it is the reason this experiment is now failing. We lack men of courage to call the error and correct it.It is not made easier by the economic component. And that is the real problem.They have allowed the country to drift and we know nature abhores vacuums.Very soon it is going to be over. Some of us know nigeria could have worked under good leadership.It is now rather very difficult to correct the harm that has been done.</p> <br> <p>Naturally we can claim only to the extent that the lesson was learned.But that is not what we see.It is part of a transition and evolution to nationhood if you are attempting to build one.Not when your effort is to worsen existing differences. But we must return to the part of growth and prosperity. All that has happened since 1966 has been crises management.And it is not our forte.And some are much worse than others. The various agitations of the present time was the reality that the British government and the men who negotiated independence faced. The unitary government introduced by the military government due to in large part the hierachical nature of the army was a convinient and easy answer to a rather difficult problem. It is left for every one who lived the experience to decide whether it was a success or a failure. That is not the subject of this piece. We must attempt to solve the ever recurring problems of the ethnic nationalities.We must unite the nation states to the status of a nation by forging national unity through dialogue and consent not arms and war.It is not done by force.It is done through dialogue and negotiation. Such should include solving the issues of citizenship and integration.It must involve allowing the people to govern themselves.After all they were sovereign entities before they entered the nigerian arrangement.</p> <br> <p>We do not see anything that confers superiority to the nigerian state over the sovereign consituent entities.We must allow these entities to invest in their own citizens and environment.It is dubious for anyone to claim to know better than the people themselves.If they did in the past time has proved them liars. Without a resolution of these issues in a meaningful way the experiment is doomed. But we are of the view that we have conducted the experiment long enough. Let the results be used to achieve measurable progress in some way.If not let people move on.We can't live our lives standing at a single point. It is the part the people are interested in. They are bored by the long academic arguments of ethnicities and battles that yeild no bread and butter. And therefore their resort to armed struggle as if they are dealing with foreign entities. I listened to a governor from one of the northern states who argued that Zik was in support of a unitary government. I have never heared a more fallacious statement. It is a clear mis-representation. Those who do not have the truth will never know the difference. But it was to butress his argument that the North had always been the zone that wanted true federalism. So let us have it now. It is better late than never! If not now and immediately it is over.</p> <br> <p> Nigeria should have the states that were created from each region represent the full power of the former region. If we choose to have six zones or regions those should be created the same way the old mid-western state was created.The two extra zones that should have meant a growth of two extra regions to date will accommodate the people who do not fall into the contiguous arrangement in the previously existing four regions but have definite identity. These will become the federating units and it will be in line with the original constitution. Nigerians created the region and it was seemless.Today such is impossible.The "leaders" are all talk and no motion.The mid-west region was created after a referendum.Today youths talk about referendum and get shot to death by hoodlums in uniform.What state are they serving? The personality or nigeria? We thought our unformed men have become better trained.We are going to require to do far more if we need a country.What we witnessed recently is rather very sad. If we returned to the constitution of 1963 we are not creating a new beaureacracy.It truely solves the present quagmire. On the other hand we might keep quiet and there will be many nations come out of nigeria.It could be our preferred outcome.We propose a single six-year term for the presidency and the governors. The governors will rotate leadership of the zone among the six-states in the zone on annual basis. The heading state provides infra-structure and logistics for the zone during the period. In this way states are free to band together to add value and create a pool of resource to execute large projects. They can go into arrangements for the attraction of investment guaranteed by the eguity that such arrangement. The one term will allow the office holder to focus on problem solving instead of plotting for re-election. <br></p> <p> The restiveness of the youths is due to the fact that the society is so stagnant and offers them little hope. It is not difficult to see that the problems in the North is the revolt of the youths to seek equity and a more inclusive society in which they have value. It is hard to seperate the Boko Haram from the militarization of the herdsmen. It is easy to see the nexus. It is a feeling of alienation. It is the sense one gets from the rebellion that is tagged Boko Haram. It is a rebellion far more serious than the Biafran war. It has lasted longer and may continue until the underlying issues are addressed.Instead the politicians are embracing the struggle tacitly.And they presume the other have no idea. This is not something that can be solved by military defeat. It is an idea. We have a political issue.You have a dialogue and reach an agreement.It is an attempt to bridge a feeling of insecurity. It seems they have achieved a status and a place on the table.But the other stakeholders in nigeria might not cosent.And you are back to square one. They issued a threat to the Igbos living in the North. It was seen to be very potent. They issued an order to the Federal government recently and the government complied. They wanted somebody arrested but the army went even farther than that. This was after the threat to arrest its officers and men was treated by them as a nullity. It appears they prevailed. The government retracted its own orders. You see why force becomes more and more attractive to the youths from other parts? Africa has a lot to learn from what is happening in nigeria.If it can be resolved properly we have a solution to the unification of africa.Unfortunately we have so called leaders who do not solve problems.They wait for issues to "resolve themselves".It begs the question why they are elected.Let me say they will represent the youths who are hurting or they will be out of job very soon.Something will give and it will not be the ethnicities and their resources ever again!</p> <br> <p>It is hoped that Nigeria will return to the path of dialogue. Whatever we blame the colonialist government for our own government has done. Only with less tact. We accuse them of divide and rule. But it was applied in the South East to triangulate the Igbos and take oil from the Ijaws who are fewer in number.Does anyone wish to know why the twelve states in the core north have the fatal crises they now wish to sow around the entire country? It is their attempt to create a nation by force of a religious fiat. Like using a military decree it also fails.In eastern nigeria where people have had a very cordial relationship they insinuate differance to steal the resources of some people. Where is the unity in the so called northern nigeria? You are not going to kill everyone in an attempt to be at peace with them. They come to eastern nigeria and hijack resources and waste everything.Had the resources been well applied it will be a different matter.The people watch others get rich with their resources while they languish in penury.The average man from northern nigeria is also a victim of the present hijack operation going on in nigeria. He is made poorer because his own natural resources are also being wasted.It is the height of lack of tact to deny anyone the use of their own resources and make a show of it.It will lead to confrontation at some point.It has and promises no end.No matter how long anyone does this it will be a sore that will not heal.The few who enjoy nigeria are not enough to keep the contarption they keep together by force going. In nigeria the atittude of those who came up with the idea has been worse than the injury.They push the youths of the soceities away on purpose.In all the oil producing states in nigeria there is an atittude to endanger the youth on purpose.They run away from the soceity leaving the aged who are hopefully been conditioned to the situation.Right now it has backfired in nigeria.The anger it fuels is what is upending the nigerian soceity.Good governance and experience would have maintained the situation.An attempt to push for more of the resources of the population has angered even the elderly who would advise caution.</p> <br> <p> The idea of tokenism has failed to placate the angry youths and the not so young who have known the injustice.It is not the type of anger you want to maintain.You must negotiate a peace or there will be none. The little trick of throwing crumps from time to time is no longer an answer.It is done again and again to avoid allowing those on the table who will demand equity. Instead the ploy is to prefer those who will be grateful. By this approach the gulf between those in power and the other stateholders and federating units is widened further and further. But the British government maintained dialogue with the agrieved nationalist. They could have executed all of them at the time. Who would have cared? But they never did. There in is the lesson for those who execute their own citizens in the name of peace.By their own misplaced priority they have chosen to destroy a dream.But men must dream.The soceities and ethnicities must pick themselves up and start walking again.They had been sentenced to crawling by cheats and thieves.They can even run and run real hard.Perhaps like others they too can do great things for themselves and for humanity.It is our expectation.It is how we get to the africa of our dreams.</p> </center></font></h4> <p><font size="5"><img src="artofigbo.jpg" align="left" width="280" height="280"/> <p><font size="5"><img src="igboman.jpg" align="right" width="280" height="280"/> <br></center></mynuccss></span></font></h5></td><br> <br> <h6 class="myclass"><span style="color:purple"><td> <p><h4>THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD HISTORY</h4></center> <br> <p>The representation of the people of africa in the contemporary world is a display of adamant abuse.When one looks to the past africa had every opportunity to be the greatest military power and it was at a certain time.It was not the agenda or goal.One will immediately see the genuineness of the african brand of civilization in their tolerance.The various religions in africa did not stand any chance if the ancient monarchs did not accept people from other belief systems.Had these monarchs maintained their native identities and deities their problems would have been fewer.They would convert to other beliefs and thereby erode their own legitimacy.Unfortunately this became the undoing of this great human endevor.Africa had the best horsemen and her archers were feared throughout the known world at the time.</p> <br> <p>They struck fear in all who contemplated any confrontation by their accuracy and courage.Africa with her human capital and skill could have been able to defend her own interests.But her weakness came from within.African monarchs who had fraternal understanding that helped propel their development converted to foreign religions and became mortal enemies.The african experiment became a victim of its tolerance and accomodation of foreign influence.All other civilizations rebounded but not africa. We must as a people begin to ask the hard questions. How is it then that africa has not been able to rebound like the others? Is the continent being subverted? Let us look at the facts since we mean to learn something from them.In our study every civilization that recovered had always gone through the time of self re-assesment.We must see events by our own eyes rather than the borrowed lenses. We must understand there has been a very concerted attempt to distort the history of the african people. We know that history is not passive.It is a guide.</p> <br> <p>Our history has the records of our type of vision and the inspiration within them.Africa had this seed taken from her storehouse and vandalized on purpose.We propose that the reason is that ours was a very dominant type of civilization.By that we mean that the scale and depth of these works left by these civilizations are very intimidating.Before the advent of social media it was easier to keep these things away from the people.It was not difficult to lock files documents and keep the keys out of reach.It was simply to make sure nothing that would contradict the agenda of oppression is allowed to reach the people.Today it is not so much as easy.We see the records and the details and are in awe.And then you start to wonder why you and I never heard about all these things if they were not deliberately masked. The pyriamids at their time were by scale unimaginable.It is the reason there is an attempt to paint this fact with a different color than the facts speak.We look at the portrayal of egyptian civilization as a lone event in africa.When you know the truth it is hard to see any other reason for the mask.We africans know that these things are african in origin because they carry the quiet prestige and lively spirit of the space.</p> <br> <p>The kingdoms of Kush or Cush and Aksum and Zagwe in and around modern day Sudan and Ethiopia predated Greek, Babylon and Roman civilizations.These civilizations built pyriamids and other landmarks whose scale,magnificence and opulence are more than noteworthy.And all these civilizations were along and around the nile valleys.For some reason these other ones are ignored.There are excavations in modern day Eriteria that predate the Aksum kingdom. Very clearly these historic sites which date back to the eight and nineth century are not civilizations which the world knew nothing about.For some reason it was not of much interest in the scheme of things.Could it be because there is no way to argue they were all european in origin? We see evidence of various other centers of civilization around africa's watery coastline at this time.The more knowledge we gain by "new" information the more the stereotypes become falacious.In the realization they were used to replace what should have been a beautiful history we push them far away.</p> <br> <p>We are learning our own history as new information due to a regime of extreme humiliation and misinformation.The works of our people are carted away to foreign lands and displayed as "exotic" art rather than relics of the civilization of a community of people.As art it becomes an individual effort instead of a representation of a culture of a people.We actually believe that the people of africa who were captured in the trans-atlantic trade era were war captives.When you ravage any culture as africa was it is a war.It is stating it mildly.It was a genocidal war.It was a war of attrition in which the Goliath prevailed.The icing was the balkanization and colonization of nearly the entire continent.The history of the civilization that was ransacked is narated by the victor.We can look at the looted treasures and imagine a sophiticated community.But the narative says something else. </p> <br> <p>These are treated with light gloss and necessary mention.We have been confronted by a complete europeanization of Egypt.Like other things that have befallen africa we look face down and allow our chests to grow with a big breath.There is no way to call for a different look.The case of Carthage is something that would rather be comical had it not been about a people and their past.Some "scholars" are only too eager to remove everything honorable from every column that says africa.We see all the people of importance in the history of carthage depicted as ones of european heritage.However we all know that before the fall of the civilizations of north africa the populations were drawn from the rest of africa.It makes perfect sense because they have easier access.From conquest to desertification and repopulation we can understand changing demography.It is not rocket science.However we notice a total disregard for the other competing african civilizations of the time.And we wonder why they are not even part of the narative.</p> <br> <p>Africa is this synergy that has been the source of everything that gave us the present civilization.We watch as this fact is replaced with a layer so different from this truth.We present the iron smelting and industrial furnaces of Lejja Nsukka in south eastern nigeria dating to 750BC.There are works that predate these ones.For some reasons they become subjects of intrigues.The history of south eastern nigeria has been subject of so much intrigue it could pass for a type of comedy.But we all know that these matters are not treated that way in other set of circumstances.Today history is banned in our schools.Our children are forbidden from knowing their own past.We know the people guilty of this are not aware whose interest they are hurting.They just know they are serving their masters.We complain that the pyriamids in Agbaja and Nsude likely precursors to the egyptian pyriamids are ignored totally.</p> <br> <p>The igbo people of eastern nigeria have a lot to say concerning the nile civilization.The facts and evidence are on their side.The logic and arguments are very convincing and are helped by the many evidence available.We learn these things in complete shock and suprise.Inclusivity is therefore important because we never know what else Nature reveals to any of us.Who cares if it comes from where? I know it would matter very little to many.Truely it is suprising at first to learn the contribution of people of color to science,art and even technology.These are treated almost like neccesary mention and an appeasement by a doxological minimal.We are a team in this spherical boat called earth.There are some who forget that.It is not by limiting the horizon that we open new frontiers.It is not in placing stumbling block for some.These things hinder the idea of universal good.</p> <br> <p>We believe the Nile civilization was a communual growth.We observe a pattern and aggregation.The precursors of the egyptians civilization are Ugwelle kingdoms 6000BCE, the Afikpo kingdom 300BCE, Nsukka 3000BCE and UmuNri 500BCE and we also have the IgboUkwu 900CE.These kingdoms have intrisinc works perculiar for such a time most of them prior to egyptian era and civilization.Igbo architecture include pyriamids like the ones found in Nsude Agbaja, Mbari.Their writings include Uli,Nsibidi and Ikwu.The idea of counting and writing are prominent in Igbo culture of these times.For some reason these are all consigned away.The African people must begin to see through these games.It is our own duty to plan our route to a better and prosperous future.We must be able to challenge the conscience and perhaps the humanity of the rest.We might be afforded true friends by Providence.We are all watching the rise of the new India.I can only speak for myself that many of them are not exactly white.There is nothing wrong with being white.And many of us appreciate the positive contributions to our humanity by those who are whites.It is foolish to try to contest that.But we all are not suppose to be and can't be white.And we are not, and it is all right.</p> <br> <p>It is clear we have a common origin.And if somebody wants to fight we rephrase that.We all have a common destiny.We all share the earth and it is not a limitless resource.Many indians I have met appreciate that fact and the implied competition.And they do not believe at all they are not as intelligent as any they meet.And it works always.Next time we hear of the "tact" (to use a positive word) of the indians we remember survival requires tact.We hear of "intrepidity" of the chineese.Everyone needs it.Any community of people who wish to prosper and not just survive or exist at best must show up at the table by whatever means.For many of us it is how and why we encourage ourselves to keep searching for answers.If we want to wait for fairness we are going to wait for a long time.Time is a way to limit any human. It is one resource they do not own and can't control.Those who are tired of waiting have started a move for change and many more will follow in the coming days.</p> <br> here <<<<...<br><div valign="left" ><img src="Akwa.jpg" align="right" width="220" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<<<..... </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="akwa2.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>>> </font>...</a></div> ....... </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <h4><center><font size="3" color="brown"></h4><br><a href="uniteafrica.html">see elaborate article on way forward for nigeria and africa</center>/</font></a> <br> <br> < <br> <center><h4>STRUCTURE OF THE NIGERIA THAT WILL THRIVE</h4></center> <br> <p>It appeared to many of us that there was an attempt by some people in northern nigeria to pick up the very worthwhile mantle of egelitarian brand of politics that Mallam Aminu Kano represented in the former northern nigeria.I must urge the youth from that part of the country who seem rudderless to look for old tapes of the man's speeches.It will inspire them more than any religious sermon.They are being made to sacrifice their lives for people who do not care for them.It is a useless sacrifice.The man Aminu Kano won the respect of nigerians and others by butting heads with the colonialists and everyone in his way.Why are the new generation about killing themselves and others like them to please some people who teach them religion but would not give them life? Who comes first God or man? If they serve God they must learn to honor life.Their own lives and the lives of others.If they seek a religious hegemony they will loose their neighbors and freinds.They must remember a freind who is near is better than a brother that is far away.</p> <br> <p>Mallam Aminu Kano was a proud african man. He was a man who understood faith.You must love yourself first. How could you love anyone else? He did not care about anything else but the welfare of the country and especially the people who chose him to lead them. The man was honest and his only goal was to help the people he represented.Beyond that he also understood the aspiration to be free which the african brotherhood afforded.Many of us had hoped it was the void the present occupier of Aso Rock wished to fill.We were wrong.We know they are disappointed too.The ex military man saw an opportunity and took it.There is nothing wrong with that.The only problem is that we are not short of opportunists.What we need are men and women who want to help solve the problems hindering and militating against the progress of our people.We are tired of those who are looking for opportunities rather than create them, those who create gulfs instead of bridging them to create oppornities.</p> <br> <p>When we create enough opportunities the struggle and fighting will end.It would not matter where one was born or who their parents are when there is work and a place to be filled you will hire the person who comes along.It is why we want the politicians to find the nerve and guts to return the country to the founding constitution.It is how to start a movement forward.It is impossible for any better document to be fashioned for nigeria.They can amend what they have on their tables for ever.It is fundamentally flawed.They must do the needful.One realizes it is not our nature to want to do heavy lifting. We tend to want to leave it for the next person who does the same.And we are not able to make any progress.If they will not find the courage the country will splinter before their eyes.The self proclaiming kings will not prevent it.We know they have hundreds of thousands of helpless kids they are willing to expend but it will not help.These kids are dying anyway trying to run away to other countries.They are drowning in the oceans,on the hot desert sands.It is what has provoked some compassionate africans. Right now there are africans who know where they need to be.They are determined to move in the direction of that goal for the sake of themselves and posterity.They can join forces or remain as side and footnotes of history.</p> <br> <p>We have heard the argument that it is difficult to determine the nature of a restructured nigeria. In a document earlier on published on this site we suggested a structure.It is based on affordability and possibility.We are suppose to be a federation.The reason is that nature had already made clear delineations.Each region had clear zones.We must quit swimming against the current.We must use the natural ethnic blocks as they are.If we continue to ignore this truth and play politics instead this present nigeria will collapse like the white colonial one did.It is the same people still inhabiting the geographical space.If they resisted colonial Britain they will also resist a religious imposition.It is that simple.They will resist the new imposition.We have the regions which now contains states. Even before states there were provinces.</p> <br> <p>The reason the provinces were created in a certain pattern was they were suppose to be economically viable.If we had such considerations we are one solid west african nation by the time we have thirty or more states!Quite clearly some leaders have limited understanding of the need for aggregation.When they are locked in their cacoon of tribe and tongue and how to capture resources for the use of this enclave.You acknowledge the tribe and employ it as a planning tool.Instead you create phantom local governments and states with no consideration for viability and linguistic cultural affinities.What you are doing is to create problems. And we can see it play out daily in nigeria.Our leaders are not able to apply rational aggregation of facts to problem solving.They like the office and power but to solve problems require some measure of rigour.It is the reason they are in love with easy solutions.</p> <br> <p>Who needs planning when you have money!This is something somebody swimming in crude oil resources might like to think!We had autonomous regions.You discover oil in eastern region so you abandon farming and prosecute a war against the owners of the oil.You take the resources and waste everything because you actually do not own it.In addition you complicate the natural couse of events.We must return to planning as a soceity or the population growth will create a nightmare too difficult to describe.Nigeria must return to regional autonomous governments.Now the states become the provinces.It is very obvious that returning to a situation that allows the entities to not only be viable but inclusive is useful.The present situation where the federal government is the custodian of unity but the population lives in the states is laughable.It is very abnormal and unnatural.Presently someone from one local government is persona non grata to the next door area. Clearly it is not how you unite people.You are not able to find refuge with your neighbor.If you are unable to secure a job it is what it means.You are not acceptable.You are not welcome.</p> <br> <p>It is helping dysfunction.Let us have the zones or regions.We already have about six zones which are viable economically.Obviously a nigeria with four to six zones with the states within as provinces will have sustainable federating units and very viable economies.It will be in line with the foundations of the country and it quite clearly beats this one with begging entities.What is the need to have a country that is unable to protect its own citizens? We are watching the making of a disaster.Nigerian population is growing and the borrowing and indebtedness is rising even faster.And nigeria is playing with fire. Their style of borrowing is in rather shadowy terms with negotiations led by people of untested understanding of the vegaries and unwritten rules of international deal making.We are witnesses to the enslavement of our people by those to whom such things have no meanings. </p> <br> <p>The massacre and pogrom and the resulting so called war were all plans implemented by masterminds that only used the puppets from within.We have had it and it is now over.Our people are very poised to move on. We urge the IGBO UNION, IGBO CONGRESS to register the Biafran cause with the Unrepresented Nations Peoples Organization (UNPO) without further delay.This organisation gives voice to people who are in countries where the structures seek to suffocate them.We must seek to be part of organisation and forum that deals with inequities.These relationships become very important when a people want to be heard.The normal channels will reflect the opinion of the same people who are responsible for your predicament.It becomes your word and their own.Those who propagate the idea that the people of eastern nigeria are not united are deceiving themselves.General Philip Effiong is not from Onitsha.The main voice of the Biafran cause veriatable Chief Okoko Ndem is not from Enugu.Biafra is the name that preserved the family of people from eastern nigeria when there was a plan to wipe them out because of their resources.We need to reach out to those who share our aspirations.The more relationships we have with other entities the better. If some people are waiting to start the type of assymetric dysfunction they are used to we have news for them.The world is watching.We are going to make it hard for anyone to have the temptation to try to annihilate us ever again.</p> <br> <p>We are not going to allow anyone to try to choke and suffocate us in this space again!The voices of the innocent people seperated from their own people and land like that of Abel will ring from every distant land where they are.Our people who were flushed away like dirt will start the fight.And it will be nasty and ugly.We like to warn those who are not inclined to pay attention.It is not business as usual.It appears so many do not know that nigeria is coming to where it might become ungovernable.But it need not be so.The reason for politics especially democracy is to resolve conflicts not exchange pleasantries.It will not hurt for that to be part of the exchange.If we can resolve our differences it is yet something to offer the world. The price was paid and it shall never be in vain.So many lives have been lost in the quest of this repeating set of events. And will never become something to repeat for appeasememnt.Anyone dream such a dream must go seek help real fast!The present people in the landscape are not for sale.They have a mission!. The Yoruba and Igbos are people of destiny in the dream of the african nation.When they work together great things happen.We remenber Sir Hubert Macauley and The Rt Hon Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe in our time. But even before there ever was nigeria these two peoples had crossed path. </p> <br> <p>I do not have the space and time to dwell on that.But history shows they had a chance to destroy each other a long time ago in a war. Even before the first european found a way around in europe these two tribes had settled a very fundamental destiny changing event on their own! They must find a way to go from potential to actuation.One can have the potential to be anything but never become one.The help to actuate the true potential of africa which is often talked about is what we ask from Providence.We do not wish to hear more sermons about africa's many potentials.And we have drowning youths in every sea.And the blood of africans washing every landscape.We are in an era of actuation of the many potentials.It is what is going on now. We request our people to be the wise people they are.We are not one for too many drama.We have cornered the bandits that took away all our means of sustainance.We just wish to take what belongs to us and rehabilitate our people.We are very able to do that.The idea is to close rank and work together to achieve what works for everyone. One will hope that is what happens soon enough.If that is not done nigeria will not remain one. At least not in its present configuration.</p> <br> <br> <h4><font size="3" color="brown"></h4><br><a href="returntopeace.html">see elaborate article for detail</font></a> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="africana.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... africans are white or black by nature actually<<<<<<<<< </font>....</a></div> ...... <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="grndpaal.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the right... africans are black. Africans beget white kids no joke at all>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ...... <br> <br> <br> <br><h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <center><h4>THE GOVERNORS FROM EASTERN NIGERIA MUST CONDEMN THE VIOLENCE AGAINST UNARMED CITIZENS</h4></center><font color="blue" font size="4"> <br> <p>Who gave the command to attack the youths? Who approved the order? We know the governors are always mindful of their photo opportunity in Abuja.In actual fact it is the paradox.Ordinarily a governor will do everything to assert authority and independence.It is the only way you can be an advocate for your own state.The nature of the political calculus is that the governor actually has the people and their resources in his domain.If you understand that calculus it is what will guide your relationship with the center.The governor that learns to create the space and room for the excercise of his own authority without undue influence is truely serving his people.In the eastern nigeria we have had the problem of lack of voice in the nigerian state.We all remember Chief Sam Mbakwe who was called the "weeping governor".He resorted to theatrics including crying in public to bring attention to matters of urgency in Imo state.In the other parts of nigeria the various organizations that span every area of human endevor bring attention to issues very quickly.Some governors in eastern nigeria view any voice apart from theirs as interference.In politics the opponent will try to drown your voice.It is the measure of how effctive he is.So you allow all other voices and use them as appropriate.It makes sense.So why are the governors more willing and open to those who hate them than their own people? why is it an affront for them for their own to express own identity? The people must assert themselves to defend what belongs to them. Resources belonging to the state are sovereign possession of the people.If they are executives how are they suppose to pressure the center that controls everything?</p> <br> <p>We know their problem.Once anyone is elected governor his focus is re-election and eventual run for president! The desire to serve the people and meet their yearning goes quickly to the back-burner.It is the problem.It is all personal ambition and aspiration.It is why they are not offended that somebody killed young people under them.Their own kit and kin are murdered in cold blood and there is no outrage.Who needs a leader like that? The kids were excercising their right as citizens.It is very sad they feel so threatened by helpless jobless youths.They show no empathy and have no compassion for young people who are showing frustration for the kind of hopelessness that stare them in the eye.If all they care about is power what is it suppose to serve and what is the purpose of it? If they add their voices on issues like this one it helps give some perspective to their position.We see why the amorphous 1999 consitution was created.Some people have conditioned them so well.It is so different.Eastern nigeria before the 1966 episode was a display of the stars in a galaxy.The government had the best of minds from the area.The progress in the region is recorded by history.They might check it out.The history is there. Anyone can check look it up.Eastern region was everything to be proud of.</p> <br> <p>It scared the people who prefer to leave us the way we are now.The premier will look for the best and bring him or her in to help the region.Today we have a bunch of self-centered insecure power mongers.No wonder they are toyed with by Fulani herders and cattle rustlers and bandits.How often do they hear governors from northern nigeria complain about Miyetti Allah? Who do they think equip these people? Can any of the barefoots who scare them afford an AK47 rifle? We were told the group had received one hundred billion naira from the federal government.It is unbeleivable that the federal government that is borrowing for everything has such resources to lavish on an organisation like Miyati Allah.The worrisome thing is they are now making it a habit to demand ransome from the federal government to end insecurity.Ordinarily it means they accept full responsibility for the events.When you give a group such money they are able to wage a war.The world can see why the people of eastern nigeria are done with the deadly cycle of events.The governors who think they can work around this matter must know it is serious.They want to drive you out of your space.</p> <br> <p>Do eastern nigeria rear cattle? Whose interest are they protecting by sheltering people who quite clearly are dangerous to them and their own citizens? They have clearly lost their way.The nigerian new breed political class have auctioned away the collective patrimony handed to them by selfless patriotic africans.The men and women who won independence avoided loans like a pleague.It would have helped to give them a head start instead they dug deep and clawed for the resources from within their communities,cocoa,cotton,palm oil,rubber etc. The present group like the prodigal sell everything.They started with crude oil and it has been downhill ever since.They pawn everything they find at home.Like a drug addict who look around the house for anything of value to sell to feed a bad habit.These people just hate their own fellow citizens! They even import foreigners to massacre them.The nigerian electric power authority(NEPA),NITEL,NPA, Nigerian railway Corporation and so on have all been sold.Nigeria is the name of an entity with so many people and mortgaged assets.The young men and women clamouring for independence are not foolish.It is unreasonable to leave ones future under such shadows.They have a new fancy word,"concessioned".How about pawned? It is a frightening word.Imagine concessioning your future to those who need it more than yourself? All these entities could have helped build a solid economic base for the country.These have all been mortgaged by these band of robbers! And you as a governor and gatekeeper for the citizens will allow them entry to the barn where your seed crops are stored? The youths have every right to fight.</p> <br> <p>It is their future after all.As we speak the federal government does not touch any asset in northern nigeria! Imagine the resources in the north are being used to enrich private citizens.We recall Lord Lugard built the initial railway line to the north precisely Kano by taxing the southerners to the eyeballs for liquor.Meanwhile the beneficiaries hid under religious cover of abstinence from alchohol.They pretend they do not drink!The people hid under fake religious piety.The story of developing infrastructure for one group from resources taken from another is not new in nigeria.Men like Christopher Sapara William argued against the injustice.And the answer was amalgamation.Yes the amalgamation "Unity".It has become the "differential equation" quiz given to primary school children.And we see the struggle and the disaster on its trail. Study the history.It is true. They turn to you to submit your own resources to be concessioned.You pay vat and they take the lion share because they have large land area.And they head the table on the matter!You little lamb grow up.You must fight or disappear.By that we do not mean go to war.We mean grow up and know your own rights.Who needs a war, but to know it is unfortunately part of human history is to be wise.If you pretend not to want it chances are you will always have it at your door steps.If you keep ready no one will do so lightly.</p> <br> <p>Our governors do not want to fight.We wonder aloud as they show mien of "little lambs".They could not even start a security outfit.They could not move the ball to even start the game.And they claim it is not for fear? So then what is it?We are worried that such men bubble to the top of the leadership among an endangered people in eastern nigeria.It is troubling.They lack what it takes with just a few exceptions.You are a governor and you have no control over the police or the military command.In the United States the national guard in the state is under the governor.The state has the state troupers, a very good police force.The county government has a police force.How will you have a government with no power of enforcement?It is a nigerian development! It only happened because we have people who are very conditioned.It is impossible that a governor will actually want to work for the people and have no need for enforcement of some order.It is what they have tried to do.The youth find a vacuum around their lives and bravely rise to fill it and you do not love them for it? You are not one of them.You do not share their feelings and you do not empathise with their plight and frustration.We know how power works.You gravitate towards the one that helps your influence.If they choose abuja the people will never become abuja converts.They are sovereign.We hope to see a change of atittude as we try to correct the mistake of the past.We are a free people and our children will see our own work.It was our people who set the african continent free.As they surrender their lives to some people with dubious intentions they do not expect a race of people to blindly follow them.Their personal ambition is their own problem.True leaders from the area have always been a source of light to the african people.As they struggle and angle to become president of a dying country we are determined to maintain the life line of our peoples.</p> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5></td> <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="adandigbo.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<< </font>...</a></div> <br> <br> <br> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <center><h4>EASTERN NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA SHOULD UNDERSTAND OUR PEOPLE ARE VULNERABLE</h4></center> <center><font color="teal" font size="4"></center> <p>One reads the denouncements of the people in authority especially as it relates to the liberties of our people.Many of us who witness good governance are most provoked by the incompetence we see in nigeria.We also see the inaction even in the most mundane of things and we are infuriated.We all know how it feels when one is skittish.It is the reason we do not want people residing in our forests with guns.It is threatening and frightening.And it is exactly what it is intended to serve.When we hear the leaders in these organisations who we expect to spearhead the fight for emancipation of our people double speak we must consider two things.Are they motivated by greed and self?Are they afraid? Eastern nigeria has been a theatre of various schemes.In many other places the people who face our type of situation are worse off than we are.For that we thank God.It is not that we have not suffered at all. After all we lost three and half a million lives.However our people have survived nearly intact.The relationship between the ethnic minorities and the rest in nigeria has been a very sore point.In eastern nigeria there was a harmony that suprised even the colonialists.They identified these differences for their own objectives which is very understandable from their standpoint.But the space is largely intact as a community.When Isaac Adaka Boro attempted a rebellion the other people in eastern nigeria were not as incensed as the people who knew he was alluding to their oppression.We remember Ken Saro-Wiwa who was gruesomely hanged to frighten the people demanding fairness.These men are heroes in our own eyes.But it did not have to get to such a low level.Fairness is something that ought to resonate with all of us.We meet demands for fairness in our common humanity or in our faith.In one we are one family by choice in the other by Providence. </p> <br> <p>We must therefore pursue the emancipation of our people with the singleness of mind it demands.We heard one leader say that the Igbo people are equal partners in nigeria and therefore will not be pushed around.We know he was being hypothetical.He means to say that the people of eastern nigeria "are suppose to be" equal partners. I place the missing words in quotes.If the people of eastern nigeria were equal partners their resources will not be hijacked. But it is.They will be represented in the reins of power by proportion of that partnership.We all know that is not the case today.When a partner calls for dialogue everyone comes to the table.We have heard calls upon calls and requests that have been ignored.These calls have not even attracted a requisite acknowledgment.Such a partnership indeed! If you are a partner your opinion will not be ignored.Without being negative we would like to show the people who pretend the problems in nigeria are not serious enough they are wrong.Perhaps they need to come to terms with reality.We do not expect them to take any foolish risks.We are very realistic and understand their condition and the various threats.But we know we are all aware of the perverseness of the situation we all face and we expect at least that it be acknowleged.If the country we call nigeria was truely a federation it will be the most beautiful and easily the most properous in the so- called third world.In fact nigeria would be called a third world country for lack of any proper classification for the trajectory in which it started.We know why it has been in the sorry state it is now.</p> <br> <p>We owe it to ourselves and the generations yet unborn to unshackle the space.If we need to break it to achieve that it is worth it.We pray it does not come to that.We have no idea how far from that goal the bandits will take us.We have no control over that.Those who think they have the upperhand must know it is not sustainable.The first option is to prevail upon those who think they will maintain a false reality to come to terms with the truth.Any magician becomes diminished when the secrets of his illusion are revealed.The world has been striped bare by social media, Nigeria included.We know it is impossible for the present arrangement in nigeria to survive.It is responsible for the condition in the space.Those who wish to gain power allude to this fact and avoid it once they attain power.But there are two hundred million people whose destiny and future are tied to the situation.For them the situation must be resolved.The question is whether it will be done with the spirit of shared comraderie or will it be parting of ways? History is replete with nations that splintered.Nigeria has no immunity.Among the countries which split up were some with the best armies.When a wedge is allowed for long it splits a soceity by fault lines.Some actions make these situations far worse.We know leadership is important.However leadership aimed for a part rather than the whole is a pity.We know Eastern Nigeria will be a nation that can have electricity and maintain it.</p> <br> <p>It will have good roads and maintain them.It will have very excellent schools and maintain them.It will have among the best hospitals in the world.It will have industries that provide for the communities and run them efficiently.Our youth will be gainfully employed and our elders will age in safety. Indeed such was already the case before the war of genocide of 1967.It is what we ask to be allowd to repair.Why would anyone be against such and want a relationship with you? Why would you seek a relationship with them?If anyone find relevance in any other set of facts outside of these issues it will be his own problem.He will not make it the burden of the rest of us.If anyone wants nigeria and loves nigeria he must accept the condition by which it came into being.If someone claims to love nigeria but hates the constitution that founded the nigerian state such a person is a bareface cheat.And we are looking at many such faces!We are going to have the country our gallant founders fought for or there is no deal. We know anytime some people hear the name "head of state" or "president" in nigeria they start to salivate.The idea is to to get your hands on money and power you do not have to account for. We are going to change all of that.If there are those who think it is not true they will figure it out as time goes on. We are not going to be watching our youths drown in all the seas around the world, watch our sisters violated around the world, watch our people wasted in avoidable conflicts and pretend it is all right.It is not and we are able to change it and we must. The time to accomplish that is upon us.As a mark of respect we did not engage in name dropping.However we need to make the situation clear so we all are on the same page.</p> <br> <p>We have appealed to the leaders of the various civil organization in eastern nigeria to see the effort to free the space as sacred and sacrosanct.We do not want to hear the language that is unbrotherly against anyone who is risking his life in the struggle or we will mark the attacker as not genuine.We are not fighting for preminence.We are fighting against it.We are a democratic people.You make your case before the many courts in Igboland.We have Ndieze,NdiNna,NdiNne, Umuada, Umuokpara, Ndiuke, Ikwunne, IkwuNna, Amala, ImeObi and many others.You choose where to make your case.If you have the resources and time you go before all of them.God help you! Who are these people talking about streamlining the struggle? Who taught them that? Who stremlines the Igbo people? Some people who aspire for leadership must study to understand the people they wish to lead.The space called eastern nigeria is the most democratic portion of earth under heaven.If you serve the people they show very genuine respect and love.We advise the people who are looking for a fight to face the enemy.We are not going to tolerate attacks or insults on IPOB and their leader.If there is anything we wish to correct it will be done in an atmosphere of mutual respect.In igboland you build consensus.You convoke it. You build it.You will never impose it.It is without any doubt that I state that the other dialects in eastern nigeria have this same culture.A long time ago we made the case that the idea of dividing eastern nigeria was driven by mischief and greed.It is unheard of to divide up and seperate people who share so much.Eastern region is a nation.It entered the nigerian arrangement as one nation of people.It will never change by the grace of God.We have not yet met the crook who will change that.They did it for petroleum and oil.It is now inflaming everything around them.It is unravelling their lives.It will continue until they have a change of heart.So please in para-phrasing the Scripture allow brotherly and sisterly love to continue in our midst. We are a family of God fearing people.It is what we showcase to the world.Make your case and let the people hear you and make up their own minds.You will not be the prosecutor and judge in Igboland or anywhere in eastern nigeria.It will not happen.What is even better is to serve the people with devotion.The God whose name they invoke in every gathering is able to reward us all.</p> <br> <p>We work for our communities.You will not malign your brother in order to make yourself important.It never works among the people of eastern nigeria.Your work will promote you. It is not right that we are bequeathed a space and we loose it or the resources in it to some others for this long.Now they want it in pepertuity.Who would accept that? And we claim we know GOD and and trust HIM as our LEADER? Our help come from above.All we do is ask.We receive leadership and we accept leadership.Among us they are proved by and through love of the brethren.We know the people are an old civilization.They know phoneys and charlatans.They can spot them miles away.Eastern nigeria lost three and a half million lives.We are given the impression that only Igbo speaking people perished in the massacres and genocide.It is an after thought.The murderers are now thinking about how to balkanize the space.Their dream of wiping out everyone has failed.The people who were killed in Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri in Zaria in Jos in Kafanchan in Lagos and every remote place in nigeria included all easterners.How will an almajeri on the street distinguish between Igbo and Ibibio,Igbo and Annang, Igbo and Ijaw? It is a new blatant lie.They hate the people of the space.Now they need a foothold.And they are getting none whatsoever.It is a pity these people have no remorse.The same thing is now playing out against every other nigerian.In southern Zaria and kaduna we are now witnessing ethnic and religious cleansing.We are being treated daily with blood letting by the same group of people to whom life means nothing.If they values their own it will follow they could be made to value the lives of others.They care very little for their own lives.It is exactly the reason we insist they must be in their own environment and run it as they please.But they have absolutely no right to invade other communities and visit this type of culture of death and savagery on them.The world must insist on this simple truth.This idea of unity is perverse.</p> </mynucss></span></font></h5></td> </p> <br> <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<< </font>...</a></div> ....... <br><H6 class="myclass"><span style="color:brown"><div valign="left"><font size="5" color="teal">NIGERIA CAN'T SURVIVE WITHOUT THE FOUNDING CONSTITUTION!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp </font> <br> <br><p>We want to tell the men and women living in comfort high up while the ground under their feet is getting hotter and hotter that at some point they might need to put their own feet down. The people who are living in these circumstances are crying out daily and no one is listening.Nigeria did not need the coups and counter coups.It only needed to understand the new circumstance that had become her reality.Today some people do not want a nigeria that was agreed to but one of their own imagination.It is a very big pipe dream.If the so-called leaders do not have the sense to return to the last mark of true nation building their tower will collapse over all of them.This is not a prayer but a sincere warning.Countries fail.Nigeria is no exception.It is sad to watch people who claim to lead react to challenges of governance like unprepared students who are mystified by an examination question paper.They come out and answer their critics by blowing hot air.But the soceity is dealing with very present challenges which are not being met.And they will not listen to genuine advice.Instead they throw tantrums like babies who expect someone to deal with the problems.We see this behaviour with the legislators.When leadership challenges manifest they appear on the television with tantrums in form of irresponsible and unreasoned proposals as legislation.The judiciary throw the idea of logic and reason to the wind and go with their whims.Our courts have presided over the most travesty that can be imagined especially very recently.</p> <br> <p>What is a leader if there are no problems? These ones take the problems and multiply them sometimes even exponentially.You have military men use their leaverage of being armed to ingratiate themselves.It is all that it was! I would not accept they were entirely moved by patriotism.If they were they would have looked at the best examples not the worst.Correction and return to the norm is how such plays out.They were not going to obey the constitution but will be the author of one? Where did their sentiment for constitutions come from? Well I know.It is called "How to escape the people after making an avalanche of coups and dogging your own country. Sani Abacha and friends to the rescue!". Remember I said many times we forgive these men.They just acted as men. They are no gods or saints!Our so called leaders are not able to see the contradiction and hypocrisy in the event that is ruining a country with so much potential and promise.The men and women who fought for the independence of nigeria were great people.The constitution is the heritage they left all of us.To sqaunder it is the very example and characterization of rank foolishness.</p> <br> <br> <p>When you lead the problems are yours.You solve them. It is what leadership demands.If you multiply the problems they are still yours.The founding constitution is the minimum offer that the agitators will consider.One might be too optimistics here as the events show.But it is no time to hold on to old unworkable pranks.Events have blown them all open and away! The time demand action and some movement not rhetoric and empty threats and insults. It means we can have a middle belt region created, bringing the regions to five.And these will be autonomous regions that will each sustain its own economy and culture.It is the only type of structure we should be looking at now if there is any chance to at least postpone the ineviatable.The regions are going to be saddled with the responsibility of making the states more productive.Given the proximity of this arrangement to the problems and resources it is bound to succeed.Obviously the present structure has failed.It was ill conceived and was a product of hate mongering.The twelve states were created against the dictates of a constitution which instituted the army which arrogated to its own self the power to abrogate same! It is a total farce.The creation of these states gave no consideration to their future sustainance or to the fact that the regions are federating units.There are now thirty six of them.And they represent nothing in particular.The most impactful problem of all is that they are not viable and are not likely to ever be under the present set of circumstances.</p> <br> <p>In tampering with these federating units the army assumed the power and sovereignty of the associating entities that became nigeria.It had no merit in terms of reason and law.It was all concocted and fabricated to have access to an asset belonging to an entity within the country namely: crude oil in eastern nigeria!The entire world has watched what they have done with these resources! Today the government reacts as if nigerians just woke up and suddenly started to complain.There has been problems.Unfortunately events occur at some point.They argue that nigerians had all the time to seek answers.Now it is their own turn to enjoy and all of a sudden everyone is complaining.The present president of nigeria led demonstrations against the government of Goodluck Jonathan.He complained about the same things that the citizens are complaining about now.President Goodluck Jonathan is not my "kinsman" and I do not claim to be his "paddyman". All some of us were asking for was to do what was necessary.It is still the situation today.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria is not an organic soceity.It was formed out of different nations.The British government understands how to manage inorganic soceities.The British empire is inorganic.The British soceity is not managed as a unitary system.It is not possible therefore that the British created the present nightmare in Nigeria.They might have their preference about who to relate with.Who doesn't? We all deal with choices everyday.In the same way we must face our own problems and it includes not being anyones favorite.The nigerian government ignored the reality which is that there would have been no nigeria without the constitution of 1954.The regional independence in western nigeria, eastern nigeria and northern nigeria were not even simultaneous.The constitution which resulted in independence in 1960 which was updated in 1963 is what gave us what is today the so called federal republic of nigeria.Why would anyone who claims to be patriotic even think of tampering with such a document? Some us are of the view that this kind of ignorance is unsustainable.And it is also inexcusable.What kind of patriotism is it that forgets the difference that resulted in the entity you claim to love? It is rather laughable had so many lives not have been involved.They love the name that provides them all they want.All the substance is taken away by they themselves.When you toss the constitution away and make your own the people have become your subjects.You have tossed out the agreements and consensus and partnership that establishes the federating units as equals.So you do not have a nation or even a country.Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe explained this quite often.You build countries into nations.Countries break up even very easily.You will not break a nation.Nigeria is not now a country.They will not allow it to become one due to their highhandedness and headiness.You can't have two sets of laws in the same country.How difficult is that to understand? It is not hard to fathom.</p> <br> <p>What this means is that the present government has not addressed the problems for which it sought and received a mandate.Nigerians are not just waking up to complain.They fought the military and returned their country to a constitutional democracy.However they suffered a treachery as is normal in a power tussle.The people are determined to correct it one way or another.If nigeria will not work as agreed then the components are very free to return to their usual normal lives.It is no rocket science.It is not possible that a Yoruba man will live in a country with an Igbo or Fulani or Hausa or Jukun or an Ijaw man or a Benin indegene and they will all get along.It is impossible.The normal practice is for them to sit down and agree on their terms of association.They consumate their agreement through a negotiated constitution.You do not force feed them for these are breathing free entitites.If this approach is not followed it is conquest of a people.We know the fulanis in nigeria and their "leaders" understand this.It is not a fact lost to the other entities.It is the reason there is the present instability and insecurity.They will not be able to keep it a one sided slaughter for long.The other components will rise to their own defence.We all know the meaning.Their resort to clamping down on indegenous entities arguing and fighting for their right to exist will fail.It will collapse for lack of merit.</p> <br> <p>If they are not willing to allow the country to return to how it was formed they must know they are the ones that destroyed it without any questions.It is not enough to say they are being given a bad name.The fact is they have presided over the affairs of nigeria for such a long time and the soceity is not making any progress.When a meal is prepared for you and your two hundred and fifty hungry co-laborers and you eat everything alone, you are going to face difficult choices.Nigeria has two hundred and fifty ethnicities.How do you become a prepondant over such even when many of the groups are in the position to take you to the cleaners very easily? They might react in any number of ways!It is not realistic to expect the other stakeholders to wait for them to continue the same of the old routines. The population is growing and the families have mouths to feed.If what they are doing is serving them it does not mean it serves the others and they are no longer willing to wait.It is the part that surprises them that the people have suddenly risen to declare the same thing.We recognize they are new to these developments.However their masters know this to be how these events unfold.The natives and indegenous people will find a way to return to their stolen land and take their resources back.Every occupation ends.Every colonialization ends.Everything comes to an end at some point in time.If they do not heed the advice it will be the last honest and candid confrontation with the truth before the ineviatable unfolds before their very eyes.</p> <a href="entertain.html"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="challenge.html"/>RIGHT TIME IS NOW</a>.....Empower The People.....RE-ENGINEER .TOPIC:: TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW :OUR PEOPLE NEED HELP .......Be Our Partner</myclass></span></h6></a> <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igboyouth.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igbobabes.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<< </font>...</a></div> ....... <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="teal">SOUTHERN NIGERIA IS BEING INVADED BY BOKO HARAM!</center></font> <p><font size="3" color="purple"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspWe had for many years advised the leaders of thought in southern nigeria especially those in the eastern flank to find a way of protecting themselves as sovereign entities.We know and understand the people in western nigeria have a soft spot for northern muslims.Some of them are muslims."The crab walks sideways to the left not by choice.It has its eyes on left side.".This is a very apt Igbo proverb. You know how the crab walks and you follow it accordingly.In the southern part of nigeria we have been made to beg for our own resources because we do not want to defend ourselves.If someone uses religion to try to dispossess you,then use faith to defend yourself.This should have been the responsibility of the men who swear to an oath to protect people and their property in the states.And they will not emplace the means.The ever smiling and "friendly" subservient men who always bubble to the top of leadership in the space will never take the advise afforded them seriously.Their enemy is their friend until they are slaughtered like cows.They want to defend a constitution but those who gave them the constitution have a different set of laws including overriding ones.Something we pointed out to them and warned them to defend themselves since they are given the mandate to do so.Everything you do before you emplace that is a waste of time.Now the military wing of the muslim north has come to enforce the sharia law.They have imported their "brothers" to help them. They enacted the law in the nigerian space which is suppose to be a secular country and they were allowed to get away with it.Now they think they own the space.It is time to draw the line and place boundaries.</p> <br> <p>We are people of law.Our ancients lived by law.Our communities live by law and everyone is under the same law.In the community the rules are made and all will abide for the common good.How do you harbor anyone who will not abide by rules? Today we have invaders who are fully armed in a country that forbids arms to non-approved personnel.Who is sponsoring this illegality? What is the need for it and why is it met with tacit approval? All of them are fully armed. It is impossible to accept that reality in eastern nigeria.Anyone who wishes to live in the space will live under the same law. The nigerian army and the nigerian police ought to support this position or they have no business puting on the uniform.If they will not help disarm these marauders the citizens will be advised to become disobedient to them.They are not allowed to bear arm.Imagine that even men and women who had license to bear arms had the license revoked and the gun taken away in eastern nigeria.Imagine that.But they have some invade their community who are armed.We see a treacherous situation.Those who enter the space must disarm or the people will not only rearm themselves but know there is already a war afoot.Citizens must disarm those in their midst and do so quickly.It is their sovereign right to protect and defend themselves.It is also the law.It is what the governors vowed to defend.It has nothing to do with abuja.The police and military ought to understand this.It is why they loose their lives.We will never have guests in the land who are above the law. We must all join hands and end this nonesence that has hindered africa for so long!</center> <br> <p>These are terrorists.We have now very little time to react.We can't depend on a government that has shown very little interest and concern in the massacre of citizens, the looting of their property and the burning of their villages and homes.What are these governors going to do? Continue to pay ransome for cows that destroy farmland of families in their own native communities and motherland? And reward those who lead cattle to destroy farmland? What kind of useless justice is that? What are these men going to do when these thousands of armed men are trooping into the forest lands of the eastern nigeria? Our people must rise up now and confront this evil.Our ancestors did same and God gave them great victory and we inherited a wholesome godly community.It is what we are going to pass on to our children.Anyone who ventures into the space will live under the law or perish by the law.The law in eastern nigeria is communual based.Anyone not chosen by the people is a floater.He or she will not even understand the under-currents.Administrator Ukpabi Asika was called "Onye Ube". And it is strange the people in their anguish could have such enduring sense of humor.They make it very unpleasant for persons who betray the people and their way of life.It is never going to be easy for such people, those who sponsor them and the ones they sponsor.It is the character of the people.It is embede in their DNA.Even if an emperor was appointed among the Igbo people he will feel the heat of their resistance.Anyone bearing weapon outside of authority is a terrorist pure and simple.All such must be disarmed and very methodically one person at a time.The police lacks the capacity to defend the people.That much has become obvious.Even if the will was there they have neither the manpower nor the firepower to confront terrorists.The people being dumped in our land are trained fighters.Can anyone imagine if the forests were not safe for our people during the war time? Our farmlands are the places we get our food from. It is where they derive their living.There will be no Igbo race today if the forests did not shelter our people. The whole Igboland was rounded and wrapped up by these forces now encircling us yet again! And the world watched and did nothing.Today we must wakeup and act with purpose and intent.The message must be clear so the people with this mad dream forsake it forever! We know some governors say they were appointed.But they must decide who to serve and live with the consequence of it. We know some were elected.They have to work with the people.</p> <br> <p>It is not a problem to have anyone aspire to lead a people but it is wrong to want to lead people for whom you have no empathy or compassion.Who would these men sacrifice rather than act quickly? Who would they waste? We are dealing with people who do not care about their own lives.We are dealing with terrorists.Governors in the northern part of nigeria understand this problem.They will not touch it.No state governor in southern nigeria should allow his state to be taken over by terrorists and marauders.Where have the law enforcement been when people are carrying weapons and hiding weapons inside vegetables? Is this not the same law enforcement that will not allow natives to keep their dane guns? We see the ingenius ways of hiding the various sophiscated weapons these men are wielding.They have vehicles with special chambers for hiding multiple guns.We have seen vehicles caught with more than ten hidden guns.What we are witnessing is a full armed invasion.These people have targeted specific areas that point to history and it gives me the impression that it is a statement of intent.They have been unloading these men in Oyo, Lagos,Bende, Benin.These are all legitimate kingdoms in the south.We have a real existential threat in our hands. Our people must take these weapons brought into their space.We must not expect much from the police force.The resources for the forces have been diverted by the element in authority sponsoring these fringe entities.They are better armed than the nigerian police force.In the space the weapon they bring will become Goliath's sword.It is foolish to wait for the police.These are terrorists without a doubt.These are the same people murdering our military people in sambisa forest.They are not going to turn our farmlands into sambisa forest.They must be flushed out and disarmed.Unfortunately eastern nigeria is no sambisa.Every inch of the space is inhabited.They will be outnumbered and disarmed.Anyone who speaks in contrast to this fact will be held accountable for this problem.We see a government that has taken tens of billion of dollars of loan to develop infrastructure in the are of the country he hails from.But he forgets loans are meant to be repaid.It would have made sense to invest part of the loan in th infrastructure of the areas that drive the economy of the country.One more they shoot themselves on the foot "on the mark".It will be hard to win a race with such injury.They do not like the Igbo or the people of eastern nigeria but that is not the point. </p> <br> <p>The community must rise as one and "comb" out the forests and disarm everyone with weapons.Anyone who has cattle must rear cattle just like the natives or go back from where they came.The people of eastern nigeria were cattle breaders.The "igbo cattle" a breed now on the brink of extinction is a testament to that.But the community evolved to an agrarian one.Are we suppose to return to the past? In igboland in the sixties there were rules for local cattle breeders.These rules were meant to manage the space for the benefit of everyone.Today we have trailers belonging to those who plundered nigeria and produced this massive population of beggars who dump them with cattle and guns in our communities.They want to make their selfishness our problem.We see the trailers droping them off.It is a scheme of infiltration.It is why they will not negotiate for a better nation and society.They want to rule the rest of us by intimidation and threat and terror.And turn us all to beggars.God forbid! We know they are not cattle breeders but terrorists.We are sick of the menace of those who choose to live in the past.Our communities are committed to development.If you wish to live among the people in the community you must abide by the rules.If not the community will see you off for their own health and safety. Even in the face of a world pandemic they argue with science and knowledge and clear obvious reality.What are you suppose to do? Are you going to force someone like that to accept what you propose? You must have a way of continuing with your own life.The people of eastern nigeria existed before 1914. In 1901 when the British confronted the Aro confederacy the people defended their way of life.It is on record.We have floaters who do not want to be responsible for their own lives.They have "masters' using them as agents of distabilization.These are men who just like to wander around and create insecurity. Our people must rise now as one and protect our space from these modern day marauders.We have no more time to waste with them.We want to move on.We see no future with this manner and pattern of recurring carnage and mayhem and destruction. The rest of the world are moving into a future that is very sophisticated.We do not wish to be stuck in this primordial base instinct of begging for everything.There is work to do and there is progress to make.</p> <br> <p>pOur civil organizations must work together.The Lower Niger Congress, The IPOB, MASSOB and the leaders of the other organisations must work as one body and save the people they claim to love.We like to remind the leadership of the various groups that we are not people who allow personality cult.If our people call anyone it is for a reason.Our people have leaders who are usually proven men and women of intergrity. And igbo leaders are constantly eveluated for strength of character.If our men start bikkering rather than face the enemy it will not help them in their quest to earn the honor of our people.We need to make that much very clear.We call on the various organisations within eastern nigeria and in igboland to arise and answer the call of our people for help.IGBO UNION, World IGBO CONGRESS and the OHANEZE have to organise our people by hamlets and villages to "comb" the forests around them.They must keep the guns they recover as evidence.But also for defence.It is a matter of life and death and must not be delayed.The forests were the santuary for our people when we were almost wiped out by these same group of people during the pogrom and the massacre they call a civil war.Today as free people they must never be allowed to habor the intent of ever trying to disrupt our peace.But we are going to rely on our people to hold their own side of the plan.We can't live in communities with murderers hiding in the forests and farmland. And these are the source of our livelihood.Our communities must take definite interest in the people around them.This is the test.We do not believe there is any need for animosity amongst the various organisations.This is time to pull together as one people.There is nothing personal in this.</p> <br> <p>The goal after all is the emancipation of the people. If they can't we will see what they are doing in a very different light.We are IGBO people.The other people in the space are our relatives.We must remember that our enemies wanted our resources.But our God caused it to burn through their hand.It made them poorer.Igwe Nga was renamed Opobo.But Opobo is home to men and women with proud Igbo ancestry.King Jaja had pure Igbo blood flowing through his royal veins.Igwe Ocha was renamed Port Harcourt.Our own brothers and sisters who eat the same food with us were made to renounce us as family.Aba-akpa was renamed Calabar.We still have Aba the "Enyimba".Anyone who applies the mind a little bit can see the trail and the relationship.We have Aba-akpa-Nike in enugu today.The ibibios, effik and annang languages are dialects intrinsically related to igbo language.Linguist have comfirmed that.In any case our oral traditions have it well on record.Ibibio,effik and annang have custody of among the most intricate of traditions of our people.The "Mgbede" traditions and so on are well retained.Some do not know that, i am quite sure.The "Eri,Akang,Nsibidi,Ekpe&Okonko,Odongo are some of the traditions in their custody.Has anyone explained "custody" in Igbo culture to these people? Odongo and Nsibidi are precepts that resonate all the way to the abyssinian highlands.They are not suppose to argue with any fool as to whether we are the same people and a family.We know why division and animosity was sown amongst us by plunderers and thieves.We know what it was.</p> <br> <p>Lately it was all for oil blocks and blood money.Earlier some people wanted to take our beautiful shorelines and beaches.They pushed the confrontational ones farther inland and retrained and conditioned the agreeable ones.So many perished.Those who survive adapt quickly and do what they need to for survival.It is the story of africa and africans.Our own are used to needle us.Our stolen resources brought the oppressor nothing but misery and confussion.Now their own children have risen up against them and they wish to push them to us.They preach unity to us.Imagine! Imagine our experience.We have our monuments renamed by those who are not part of the community.However our cultures endure and have withstood all these interferences.Our leaders are our kinsmen not our thin gods.We are in a place now that we have to move on.We are done with this musical chairs game.We have a problem.Where are the law enforcement agencies? Who are these people being ferried all over southern nigeria? So we are going to watch the area turn into middle belt region? The day they fell for the temptation of bringing terror to the south was when they messed everything up for themselves.It will not be the case.Southern nigeria will not be a battle ground.It will move to where the actual boudaries are suppose to be.And it will be the fault of those who are starting all of this.And the law enforcement who are just standing by and doing nothing at all must know they will not be having siesta when it gets uglier.They are watching trailers unloading armed men in our soceity and our communities.The federal government pretends to have no intelligence about this very unsettling situation. Who is sponsoring these people? We know the past informs us government can be behind evil sometimes!And the day of accounting will come.But we have to deal first with the matter on hand. We do not want to watch our sisters and mothers raped, and our youths massacred and wasted in our own communities.We have already endured that.Is the nigerian nation today worth such an investment? Hell no!</p> <br> <p>If they use these so called terrorists there will not be any other recourse for us.It will be called a terror attack.We must organise every hamlet and village to screen their environment of these invaders and flush them out very urgently.Anyone bearing arms in the environment and space must disarm or leave.Better still disarmed no matter what they choose to do.Anyone in the community must have license to bear arms or be disarmed. It is the law. We are not going to live in a lawless environment.It is not our way of life.Anyone who wishes to live among us must abide by the same laws of leave the space. We are not going to negotiate or banter with anyone in that regard.We are going to have a lawful environment.This must become the focus until all the infiltrators are flushed out and disarmed. Every community must organise a "combing' event that aims to clear the environment of these foreign elements who were smuggled into the country by northern feudal overlords. It is an agenda of control by those who do not wish to practice democracy.In this action they have shown we all do not belong together.A leopard is not capable of changing its variagation.These are the youths they used to stuff ballot boxes with election materials in the so called election.You know they were rewarded. International cameras showed where they threw boiled rice on the paved streets for them to eat.It was a sight so belittling of all of us!These youths were treated like anumals after being used to win power.Some people create problems for themselves.They create the basis for boko haram and other such entities.They do not understand what fairness means.They know these youths will expect to be rewarded for their effort.Instead they are going to be banished and dispatched to fight innocent people.All that is left is for them to touch anyone or hurt any person in the space.When they do they know they have broken the nigerian state finally like they have always wanted.We are a democratic people.We have had enough of the distraction.If some people will not accept the democratic process we must draw the line sometime and some place. This might be it.It is time to move on.</font></p> <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igbobabes2.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<< </font>...</a></div> ....... <a href="entertain.html"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="actnowtosavenation.html"/>RIGHT TIME IS NOW.....Empower The People.....RE-ENGINEER .TOPIC:: ACT NOW TO SAVE THE NIGERIAN STATE .......Be Our Partner</myclass></span></h6></a> <br> <br> <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="teal">LEADERS OF THOUGHT IN EASTERN NIGERIA MUST SPEAK UP!</center></font> <p><font size="3" color="purple"> <br> <p>We want to say that the Igbo people are not "ruled".They are "led".Every facet of their soceity is fashioned as egalitarian. Every voice that speaks for them is chosen to represent them by consensus.We remember the saying that "a single person can't build a timber and log bridge".It is not what you have in most places.In some places one man speaks and everyone else will fall on the floor and concur.Such is not the Igbo culture.We therefore admonish anyone who wishes to represent the Igbo people to be tolerant to dissenting point of view.Everyone and anyone can make a contribution.It is what liberty means.You will convince through logical superior argument not by bullying anyone.It is also helpful to build relationships where possible.At the end of the day if anyone dissents they will act in line with their own convinctions.It is the reason we must use persuation where possible.In the past nigerians especially people from south eastern nigeria who are predominantly christians have watched the closeness of a certain part of nigeria to forces outside the nigerian nation.Yet it is this part that lay claim to pristine patriotism. The explaination is often made that what they have are tribal and religious affiliations.One often wonders why they would consider relationships normal for them and not for others.If they would not invest in relationships within the country they are not being patriotic.The idea of trying to impose on other people is not new and it is not what it means to be patriotic.It is the reason for wars and destruction.It is not a tool of nation building.Those guilty of this are not the ones to preach patriotism to other nation groups.It must be made plain that every linguistic group in nigeria has relatives in africa and outside.The Igbos have such affinity dipping into all the seas surrounding africa and the earth.We have proof and they are empirical.</p> <br> <p>It has recently been turned into a sectarian entity by those who have pushed their ethnic and religious agenda to a point it has become unsustainable.They inscribe arabic (Islamic) words in the isignia of the nigerian military a supposed secular military and on the nigerian currency.The United States of America has the inscription "In God We Trust".It is in the official language which is english.We demand to know why the nigerian military chose arabic. These things happened under the military dictatorship and under the leadership of military men and some with very limited world view.We know the men among the retired military officer cadre who will be pertubed by such matters.For most of them professionalism was more important and the main goal.Ordinarily it is odd to assume you can control tens of millions of people against their sovereign will.It is impossible.And those who contrive such ideas are not wise.These men never believed the military dictatorship will be ended by nigerians but it happened! The men and women who are non muslims in the military must know we are thinking of them.So we call those elected into the chambers who are non muslims to raise these issues and demand they be corrected immediately!.Nigeria is a secular nation.</p> <br> <p>It has citizens who are of different religious beliefs.Nigeria as we know it presently is not a conquered territory.It is an entity of free sovereign nations.It is a very big shame that the governors and most elected men and women in the so called south south and east east (and whatever else are in the eastern states) do not understand this important truth.They feel that the stipend they receive from abuja makes them subjects or hirlings rather than sovereign representatives.And that inspite of the fact the resources that produced the stipend are all derived from the places they are suppose to represent.How do you represent a people with such a subservient mentality? There is a sense they want someone to treat them with respect.But they have to earn it! If it is not challenging to sideline anyone in a contention the person will be sidelined.It is the reason it is a contention.It is not a family picnic.Matters of this nature are suppose to be mutual.If they are not it means you will defend what belongs to you! Were we a nation where citizens show mutual respect no one needed to be reminded of such a basic fact. But you force the issue and it will be taken care of.</p> <br> <p>Recently some governors in northern nigeria had openly invited their "brothers" from neighboring nations into nigeria. In one instance we saw videos of able bodied men and teenagers trooping into nigeria from the northern borders. We are told by our people there that this is an ungoing event.In a nation that is not able to count its own citizens and that has children abandoned by their parents and nuclear families this makes no sense at all.Are these governors in need of people? What was the aim for these invitations? But we saw them do this without any qualms.Now there is an emergency and they are transfering these people to other states.Who can explain such thinking? Where is the sense of responsibility here? We suspect this was why they needed "RUGA".You remember the idea that some people want to create "colonies" within other entities.If you are wondering why nigeria is in the present state there is your answer.</p> <br> <p>The people at the helm of authority see a feudal system while the rest see a democracy.There will be winners and there will be loosers.And we are not stupid.I heard some human right advocates citing the nigerian constitution and the right of citizens to free movement.We respect the idea of advocating for the helpless.But it must be even for it to make any sense.You will not advocate for someone to be free to kill another. These 'advocates' know there is a lockdown as a result of a pandemic that is killing and ravaging lives around the globe.These states in southern nigeria risked everything to protect their own citizens and will now allow people on suicide misson to sabotage it all for them?I hope not! There is a lock down.The federal government made a proclaimation to that effect.It is the law.These people must not always place themselves over and above the law.We are aware of the slant in law enforcement which will quickly make arrest when a terrorist marauder is killed. But the farmers are murdered in their hamlet and farms by terrorists and law enforcement fells and no longer works.We do not want to imagine the lockdown has become an opportunity for some villains to infiltrate cilvil pupulation with these armed murders.We all are aware how nature can cause evil to boomerang.Why did the governors scrap the so-called almajeri system? What was their plan for handling the effect of their action? We suspect these are all very well coordinated efforts to push the "RUGA" colonialism that was roundly rejected by the nigerian people. We warn the people behind it that it will hurt in the end. If they wish to cause pain they must be prepared to receive some too.</p> <br> <p>Any state government who allows potential health hazard for citizens in the name of bogus constitutional provision is being rather foolish!Everything about law is to protect life and right to life.It is mischief to place the letter of the law over the intention and spirit. In an emergency the focus is the protection of lives.It is the reason for the proclaimation by the federal and state governments.These people came out of entities.We commend the states which decided to dismantle the "almajari" system.But they must have a plan to rehabilitate the youths or their move is worthless even senseless.The governments who have these infiltrators must not be saddled with the responsibility to test them.We hear of the shortages and the lack of resources and capacity in the states.Is it the time to promote the exodus to an area that is struggling to do the right thing?For what?They need the resources for the citizens over whose safety they preside. They must return the men to the places their journeys originated from.When the health hazard is over we can talk about whether they are citizens of nigeria in the first place.After that we will discuss rights.</p> <br> <p>It appears the reluctance to negotiate mutual coexistence underscores an intention to push military conquest.So what we are seeing is the middle-belt being methodically overun.And the present infiltration of the south by these lawless and suicidal individuals has the same goal.We had in the past warned the governors in eastern nigeria to be vigilant or they will be presiding over potential emirates!But the good LORD forbid!Our ancestors prayed God that we be better off than they were and some of us believe in the power of prayers.We know most of them were elected by the people of the state.There might be those who are "appointed" who knows! The south east is a pristine religious entity.So we know what these move entail and it is by no means a benign move.In the past it was these same heartless youths who ripped pregnant women open and butchered foetuses and people from the south east in a conflict their overlords and masters engineered and instigated.It is these youths who are called herdsmen who are slaughtering farmers,burning their homes,destroying farmland and feeding farm crops to cattle.How difficult is it to know these people are working under superior counsel?</p> <br> <p>They are the boko haram on whom the nigerian government for over tens years is spending human lives and scarce resources.Recently the president was away for medical treatment and these urchins had virtually taken over the reins of government.Their proclaimations had almost started a blood letting but for the intervention of reasonable people.No one said anything about their bahaviour.We must therefore be mindful of those who are not aware of what works and what does not.There is no country that can survive under the conditions presently in nigeria.If these people are pushing a military agenda they will be sorry.The south will move and push the issue including the unfair boundaries.Our people who live above the niger and benue are not lost.They reside in the same nation with us or something is wrong. The military and police baracks used to be places of safety for nigerians from every walk of life.These days some people are enemies in a nation that claims to want to remain united.Somethings take more than just empty words.</p> <br> <p>Today we have a military being given a very bad and limited image.The nigerian terrain will be made even.The nature of the terrain will determine what type of action is needed.If such is not the case and if that does not happen quickly the people of eastern nigeria will seek other alliances as a free people.Anyone hoping to undermine this by planting lawless and heartless individuals in their midst must understand the community knows how to identify its own people.No type of army is enough to defeat an idea whose time has arrived.Finally the world have witnessed the trailers ferrying these thousands of people with cattle to different places in the southern part of nigeria.They would lie to the world that these people traversed nigeria with their cattle on foot in search of pasture.Now we see it is a big lie.They sneak into the population with trailers in disguise and dump cattle and gunmen among them.We now know some rich "ugly" people are using them as agents of destabilization,spies and hitmen.We see how they have these expensive weapons.In a situation that call for caution these men are being transported around with utmost recklessness to communities that have closed businesses to save lives.Those who do not care about these people are using them to endanger other people.It is worse than being used as pawns.We can all see that quite clearly.We studied about the marauders in primary and secondary schools.We are now witnessing their methods of operation and it is apt without a doubt. We now know how herdsmen can afford such expensive weapons.These trailers and the cattle and men are owned by some "influencial" people.It is these men the people of the east must unmask.We know God will continue to do so for us in grand style.We ask our freinds from around the earth to help us.We do not want the blood of our people to be spilled again by mindless people.If it is determined who is sponsoring this lawlessness, an appropriate response must be fashioned in line with the people's desire to protect themselves from further violation,abuse and massacre.</p> <br> <p>How is it possible that these youths were able to pass all the numerous state boaders in a lockdown imposed by the federal government? Where are all these strong and very physically fit and able bodied people coming from? We might be looking at a boko haram infiltration in the making.Also quite notable is the fact that these young men found the means of transportation when they are said to be without means of sustainance.Who is footing this bill for them? Who is paying for their transportation? How are they suppose to be supported on arrival to the their chosen destinations?There is a very omnious situation unfolding before our very eyes.We hope quite earnestly that our international friends are mindful of this dangerous development.We are suprised that the federal governnment has been silent in the very dangerous unravelling going on.It is very sad that once again these youths are being equated with cattle.They are being used as expendable pawns.They are herded together in the very unhealthy conditions and are being taken to places where quite clearly they will be suspects and open to hostility.Where in themselves will they find humanity? They have never experienced it ever.All they have known is dehumanization, neglect and disdain.How is it we are not able to see this as an incendiary situation? </p> <br> <p>If the governors in the south were exorcists it will still be a great challenge to change these many lives in a swoop but they are not.Their own people are in a better position to know how to help them.Where really has all the resources taken from nigeria been going with these many children out of any kind of normal life? What is the emergency that has precipitated this development of warehousing all of them to the south? These trailers have a few cows as disguise. Who wants to eat all this meat at this time really? Are the leaders of the people of eastern nigeria serious? They will need the rice and salt and all these items being hauled with human cargo by these mammoth trailers in this pandemic? It is better to turn to vegetables and chicken which are the staples in the area by the way.Who really needs all this trouble just for cows.We have native cows which by the way are healthier, and need no trans-continental politics to breed.Seriously speaking something bad is about to happen in the nation if the wise in the society do nothing.And doing nothing is the favorite nigerian solution.On our part our people must be a lot more alert and nimble.These able bodied men are not "almajeris". We suspect a very sinister motive.It appears the bird of darkness has started its evil howl once again.Something is in the works and it is very ugly.</p> <br> <p>If the southwest reject the "treat and crumps from the masters table" the alternative is the use of force for those who see relationship in terms of master servant only.We know that eastern nigeria has been a target of those who can't coexist as equals.And it is either that or we are out from where they will have excuse to invade our liberties and violate our sanctity.The threat from some of the urchins and loud mouths must not be taken lightly.They are the visible part of those in the "sambisa forest".Our people must not wait for anyone to protect them.And please we need to understand the urgency of the situation.The communities must organise regularly and "comb" out the surrounding forests.Relying on the local law enforcement has become a suicidal move and death wish.Our communities must fall back to one another for their own safety.It is an ancient practice which we must now revive.They must do what our ancestors had always done for themselves.Most importantly we must pray God to show us the way out of this endless nightmare and evil.Life is challenging enough.If a country becomes a reason for a people to feel unsafe and impoverished it is time to rethink and seek new possibilities.</p> <br> <p>It is in honor of the nearly four million lives that were lost to this impossible union.Our young children were starved to death.Nursing mothers watched their babies perish helplessly in the millions for the sake of this? We see people do wonderful things around the world and we waste lives placed among us by divine providence.Such is not the culture of the people of eastern nigeria.We do not wish to be inducted into it.And we must react with courage, precision and decisivesness.If someone finds your suffering funny it is dangerous to entrust same with your safety,future and your happiness.The nigerian experiment has cost the people of eastern nigeria a lot.The talk about Igbo presidency is so prepostrous and asnine.Nigerian must be restructured first or any Igbo who is not able to see the need must check his DNA. Nigerians ought to plead for Igbo presidency in view of what it is able to do for the nation after same is restructured as suggested or we must not engage in such frivolous and wasteful enterprise.The nation is in debt to a point it is pitiful.There is a negotiation to push the payment of the interest forward.If nigeria is left as it is anyone hoping to become president in 2023 will be presiding over a bedlam.In other societies where human lives matter the need to make the nation states productive and independent will be priority.However in nigeria the framework of government is an excuse to cease resources belonging to others.And pirates are not accountable to those they have stolen from.So even inspite of the resources stolen or ceased they borrow on behalf of the citizens!</p> <br> <p>We are hearing nothing will be repaid on these debts for the next three years.The payment will fall due when a new person is elected president.It is what some who claim to be Igbo people are clamouring to inherit?Talk of pure insanity! Focus your energy on the restructuring of nigeria or the space will be worse than the sahel region.The space will be ungovernable.And it is what some people prefer.In which case they will imports everything including water.But mostly amunition and such other hardware.It is the truth.Those who are dragging their feet might be the scape goats.Some people's lust for power is insane.The Igbo people were pivotal in ridding the nation of debt after they were humiliated and their resources plundered and wasted for fifty years.These fools who will continue to fight to impoverish and enslave themselves and people around them must be very careful.They want someone to lord over them to free them from the responsibility to deal with life's challenges.There are those who are not afraid of the challenge.And it is the clash of these ideas and the cultures that embody them.There is a very different type of sense in the atmosphere.If they are not careful they will be used as baits.We know how the same entity was reaching out to Chief Awolowo's Action Group party and Chief Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwes party the NCNC simultaneously.This was aimed to create competition between the forces that should be in control when harnessed.It has been the bane.Those who wish to control their own affairs must not opt to be servants at the same time.I do not intend to explain this statement.The Igbo people have a saying that " a native born and raised within who require interpretation to a native adage is a dent to the culture". What is needed is an entity that can move citizens of the region forward.If nigeria will not be restructured very urgently the people of eastern nigeria must seek ways to protect the future of its own people.The people have lost so much to the present insanity.</p> </font></h4> <br> <br> here >>><font size="5" color="blue"> <br><div valign="left" ><img src="oursis.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="oursis2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder? <....</a></div> </font>.......<<<<< </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="#anarchy.era">Supreme Court Destabilizes Igboland</a> <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="teal">NIGERIAN SUPREME COURT GAVELS DOWN ANARCHY!</center></font> <p><font size="3" color="purple"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs <p>Here we go again.Here we have a jurist who is a religious zealot and one with active view points and agenda.We could have no better personality to stage judicial coups than one with expansionist world view.But is the supreme court of a nation a place to position such a man if peace is the objective? It is our opinion it isn't.Those of us who have been in the trences working for the geographical expression cobbled together by shrewdness and enterprise to become one entity are no longer optimistic.Some people do not want unity.They want power.We knew all along that some people want a foothold in eastern nigeria at all cost.And they want it on their own terms.But they have failed.It will never be on their own terms ever. The intent to create confussion in the area and hence truncate the agitation for a more balanced federation has failed.There is not a chance in hell that somebody will hold authority anywhere in south eastern nigeria by proxy.It will never happen in the space.The people of eastern nigeria are blessed.Our women will drive the impostors out.Our women are not passive members of our community.They are active and very portent.If they reject you in the space you are done.And there is no way to infiltrate any community in eastern nigeria with our mothers in charge.</p> <br> <p>Their network if from the God of heaven.It is unbeatable.And there will be no war in nigeria in which eastern nigeria will be victimized again.God forbid that!Some people drunk with the blood of million of innocent children and pregnant women and unborn children think we are daft.The game is finally up!What type of mathematics or arithmetic catapaulted somebody who won the fourth highest number of votes to winner?Is there any over-arching reason for the Supreme court to throw out the findings of the lower courts which again are in concert with the agency and institution with the responsibility to oversee elections?It is the kind of action that make institutions irrelevant.Judicial activism is one way to make clear the capture of the nigerian state.If the independence of the Judiciary is compromised the intergrity of the government becomes questionable.It might be the intention of some people to win it all.They wanted "colonies" called "RUGA" and the people reject it resoundingly and they resort to appointing stooges as governors in the same places they had marked for "RUGA" colonies.But nigeria is suppose to be a democracy.They are speaking in codes to the IGBO people and Easterners.But they will become victims of the achille heels of the greedy.In eastern nigeria you have a family of people.And they have learnt from their mistakes.They want us to hope against "Hope".However we want to remind the people who started a war because oil was discovered in eastern nigeria to listen to us:you took the oil for fifty years plundered the entire nigeria,ceased the ports none of which occur in your local space and took the revenue and your own are poorer for it! If you are to score yourselves even you failed.Your ideas are not just primitive they are evil.So do not use religion as excuse.What you have done will discredit any religion.No religion will approve such massive fraud!.</p> <br> <p>Why did the supreme court accept documents rejected by INEC? We learned the agency rejected votes that lacked intergrity in the whole election as a rule.Why was it overuled in this particular case?If somebody "dicovered" votes for himself, why did such a person not know the votes cast for the other entities that stood for the election? Were the polling units where these magical votes came from just for him alone? In any case is there any other source of obtaining legitimate result outside of INEC? Is the court able to just confer such authority and such knowledge? The number of accredited voters is the maximum number that can vote in an election.When you have an arithmetic that sends your totals barelling past this number you have a case of forgery.It seems this arithmetic would not lend itself to such scrutiny. We know some people can be challenged by simple arithmetic.It is either that or there is a tendency to ignore facts and use anything needed.The same reason nigeria has no population figures!.Was it arithmetic or some kind of religious ruling?What is the type called, feudalistic arithmetic? Is there an explaination to this saga? Why are they trying to create confussion in a peaceful state?Any institution in a soceity that will be capable of this kind of egregious error and course of actions will destroy such an entity.If such is not the objective then the supreme court or indeed anyone who find himself in such a position must self-correct or be doomed to failure.No institution is infallible at all to the extent it is run by humans.</p> <br> <p>We understand that the court that is the final arbiter is not suppose to be gullible.But it is more a responsibility than a status confered on it like say kingship.We know this is the reality of some people.It is hard for them to get their minds around an idea such as democracy.If class determines everything it affects the reality including the law of the land.The idea that everyone counts and matters equally before the law is hard for such people to accept.You are not going to have a democratic nation where some people have no place at all.We see this problem manifest in our soceity in various forms. Are they able to do this type of thing anywhere else in nigeria and not expect a very explosive situation? Do they think the people here have no right to act wild over such matters? So why are they testing the patience of the people.Elections have patterns.The result they arrived at seem not to fit in the election at all.</p> <br> <p>What other position did the coattail produce in the election? Is anyone saying the people just voted a governor and that was it? Were these not facts anyone interested in justice would have examined? It is why we say these people have no respect for lives!Now the outcome they desire is to see the people turn on one another.The people of Imo state and indeed other well meaning Igbos must not allow themselves to be pushed to do anything foolish.I recognize how that the person who will not accept the result as determined by the body that conducted the election and the state court is now a peace maker.This after reaching to a place where there are affiliations he obtains the result he likes.So now there can be peace. And that is the problem we have with the type of people that have taken the nigerian nation hostage.They will litigate nominations in their own parties. The courts will determine party nominations.The courts will determine election results.They can't be reined in by their own parties.The courts have taken over and are now "ruling" nigeria! We are appalled at the new reality that is emerging from the soceity.Why is it hard to understand that a democracy means consensus building? It is very sad and disappointing.They cross from one party to the other on a whim as though they do not represent or believe in anything. Some of us think it could be true of them.And they are custodians of democracy.It appears we still have thuggery in place of process.And it just must change.We appeal to the nigerian people to know they have a responsibility to oversee the democracy they sacrified so much for.Any person who is not worthy of it must be made to feel it and to know it.If the people learnt how to hold the politicians accountable they will learn to serve.Every couple of years or more there is a chance to vote in elections.The essence is to use it to send a strong message to those who serve.When they buy their way out of accountability all is lost.</p> <br> <p>We see the end to all of this.There is a reason for the desperation.We are not going to have Owerri sector all over again!It happened it is done and over with.The people are going to be free.The Igbo people and our people in eastern nigeria must show they are above this level of political chicanery.If they use the court the people can use the house and it will be endless gridlock and strife.Why would the supreme court want to have a governor who will face the threat of impeachment as soon as he is sworn in? I know there is nothing going on here that is based on ethics on all sides.Unfortunately no soceity can have order under such circumstances.Everyone is looking out for his own interests.Meanwhile the work of the people and their needs become a secondary issue.What kind of judgement is that? Is this not still playing the destroy or delay game which has marred the progress of the igbo people since 1966? Who will remember the work of the people in such a situation? These men and women and the parties whose expectations and prospects are being dangled like pedullums? We are going to rely on the people to resolve this matter.As usual nigeria serves up confussion rather than solution.And one is never suprised anymore when counter intuitives events like this occur.It is all in pursuit of money.It is the reason everyone want to make it "big".We call on all parties to excercise restraint and wisdom.As a people we have a big problem.Our enemies have not relented.The people must know they determine their own leadership eventually and ultimately.</p> <br> <p>They are free people by destiny in this part of the earth!We know some of our people who wish to be president of nigeria have been promised.But they are to be blamed if they allow themselves that level of naivete.We can only wish them well in what will be a solo effort.Right now the issue is to return the resources of the people of eastern nigeria to the rightful owners.It means more to us than one miserable lonely man in abuja.The presidency must not be about that!Look what they have done to the vice president of the federal republic of nigeria!The people must know that they are the ones to determine who governs them. The people of eastern nigeria are demanding to have the nigeria they agreed to be part of.If they do not accept this model pushed by fundamentalists and zealots they are not going to ram it down anyones throat!The people fought for democracy and they know what they want.Now those who were in APGA and refused to stay focused on building the party and chose instead a marriage of falsehood must love their own plight now.Well not really. They are fine.It is the people who have been betrayed.These things will be comical if not for the mischief and poison embeded in them.Why do this in igboland?They are purposely trying to create confussion and strife among the citizens.Why is this type of effort being made to irritate and aggravate a large section of a polity?Why is it the place to experiment and test deadly ideas? All of a sudden we are like people in darkness.We remember Justice Chukwudifu Oputa,Justice Clement Obiora Akpamgbo,Justice Emmanuel Ayoola,eminent lawyers like Gani Fawehenmi and others too many to mention and the legacy they labored for.We are not the ones who have no heroes! We urge the world to demand the training and experience of the man with the gavel in the supreme court of nigeria and compare his qualification and experience with the other members.On its own it speaks volumes of the reason for nigerian problems.</p> <br> <p>There are some people who will not understand the thredbare trick of promising presidency of nigeria to all the intellectuals from the south.Every person is justling and auditioning for presidency and prosterating and worshipping the people they claim are less enlightened than they are. Men and women who could have changed the entity for themselves and their fellow compatriots!The people who can demand a better soceity for everyone are captured by selfishness and self occupation.We do not want to list the names of accomplished sons of Igboland and eastern nigeria who gave the world a first class economy in the late fifties and sixties in eastern nigeria.Eastern nigeria was adjudged a rising world class economy.Why is it all of a sudden everyone wants to be president of nigeria? What happened to the sense of helping our own and one another? Was the spirit taken down by the attack on the igbo and other people of eastern nigeria too? One only prays that is not the case.We believe that the clarion call going forth will quicken our peoples in that space.Their collective survival is at stake.The era of attacking one another for treats and dog food is over!The idea that the people who are known for looking out for one another are quickly embibing feudalistic tendencies is very sad.We like to see the quick end of this tendency.For the sake of every thing that is sacred among us it must end.</p> <br> <p>This makes one to feel really ashamed of what nigeria has become.It is a pity.We remember people of igbo extraction like Dr Chuba Okadigbo,Dr Alex Ekwueme,Ikemba Odumegwu Ojukwu,Chief Sam Mbakwe,Justice Oputa,Chief Arthur Nzeribe and the rest of them who were speaking to the need to situate nigeria in such a way that the past does not repeat itself.These great men it appears suffered for nothing!You can't play soccer inside a jungle.You will create the proper venue and atmosphere for it.The nation must choose the men and women who are ready and knowledgeable or the nation is doomed.Right now the situation is quite laughable indeed. The people of Imo state must not allow these people precipitate their famous "unrest" or "civil disorder" of Ibadan and western nigeria in Imo state.We remember what happened at the time.Some people were not happy at the pace of development in the area.They did whatever they could to end it.If they create a situation in the community where somebody is in dire need of raw power,such a person will attempt to wrest it.It is the reason they impose these people some of who are no more than chalatans to unravel the community.</p> <br> <p>We must never allow that. We know the people in the space know how to keep anyone in authority within the bounds and limits of what is tolerable in the community.When it is exceeded even children in the space will be used to resist and frustrate such a person. Our people must resist this strange type of configuration within the space.They have resorted to using the courts since coups are no longer acceptable.The objective is the same.When the courts cannot be seen as knowledgeable,impartial and ethical its shine is gone.You might as well allow everyone to go for their bows and arrows or swords.It is very unreasonable to play pranks with the courts and the judiciary in a place like nigeria.It makes no sense at all.It ranks among the most extreme actions taken recently.It only compares to the Boko haram idea in the sense that it rejects rational methods.The only difference is that one group chose violence as a direct method and the other as indirect.</p> <br> <p>They should take it to their own environment.We want none of their "jurisprudence" of blatant falacy. They have their part of the nation up in flames.Are they trying to do the same to us? We had our own baptism.Now they must not wish it again upon us.Have they forgotten the pogrom?Have they forgotten the war of blockade and starvation?Igbos and indeed the whole of the people of eastern nigeria must remind these people of 1967 to 1970 and three and half million lives!Have they forgotten little children who died of starvation and malnutrition?Have they forgotten infants who lost their mothers to malnutrition?If they want us to believe them they should accept what the other more than seventy percent of the nations population are demanding.Restructure the nation.Stop trying our patience.If we run out you will not like it at all.Honestly speaking it will be wrong for anyone to think there is an easy way to impose on the Igbo people.There is none.The igbo people will not buy this childish scheme of confussion.</center> <br><br>...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="tradition.html"/>.Please Click here for article...It is about the people .Make Life better for them...It is time</a>... </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br> <br> <br> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="250" height="200"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="newagitations.html"/>.Click here for article....Make Life better for them...It is time</a>... here >>>.......<br><div valign="left" ><img src="oursis2.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?....</a></div> .......<<<<<<< <br> <h6 class="myclass"><span style="color:black"><h4>AUTONOMOUS REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS NOW OR IT IS OVER ALREADY </h4></font> <br> <font color="purple"> <p>We are watching the exact meaning of confussion in the nigerian political space.The sad thing of it are the more than two hundred million lives. Over the years we have tried to emphasize to the nigerian people the importance of the founding principles of the geographical space we refer to as nigeria.The authorities banned history in the schools.It undescore the level of arrogance that envelopes the space.Who in their right mind will contemplate such act againt self? How can anyone who does not know or remember his own history make progress? We know and remember that nigeria became a country when the people sat down to agree to one.The agreement was entered into willingly.No part of nigeria was dominant or preponderant.Today the nigerian military a federal instution has been taken over by one ethnic group.What that portends for the federation is clear.It is a crack that runs through the entire ethnic fabric that form the entity.It is tearing it apart.Some within the system have done this harm in every area of life in the soceity and they want peace.You do not achieve peace like that.Nigeria did not come into existence until conditions were met.Some people insisted on their own demand.Now they renege on the condition and expect the rest to conform.</p> <br> <p>We remind these same people that we realize they never even needed independence.It is why they hate the history that recounts their reason for delaying the independence of their own nation.They actually did not need independence.And we doubt they do even now.How is it possible for them to lead those who required it? What is their vision of something they have no need of? It is for this reason that nigerians require the constitution that founded the nation or else there is absolutely no need to continue to waste time trying the impossible.There is nothing that can make a Igbo or his relatives in eastern nigeria with their quest for life, their inquisitiveness and vibrancy accept the servile almost subdued life that cedes all choice outside of self.It will never work.The Igbo people are spiritual and literate in a natural sense but not too religious.The people accept some responsibility for self and understand consequencies.The igbo and people of eastern nigeria will trade or negotiate loyalty for comfort.He never forgets the terms of the contract.If anything changes he react quickly.They seek to take their own environment and manage it.It is not anything they must be loosing their lives for.Nigeria is no longer conducive for the aspiration of the people of eastern nigeria.If the conditions will not change they are not the ones that will change. It seems they are not the object of the relationship but their resources.</p> <br> <p>We remind the world that these same people had their children, infants starved to death and the world did nothing! They had pregnant women cut open and their foetus smashed while they watched as their own life ebbed out. The world did nothing.We try to control ourselves.We try to control our emotions and these events do not help.We do not have to accept or submit to the army controlled by the same people who did these things to us.It is what they see as conquest.It is genocide and a human crime.We remind the world again.Four million lives are a lot of people.The event of 1967 is a shame that must not be an appendix of history. We will not have the police controlled by them.If the control is not shared we are out! We are not going to have every para-military organisation in the nation and the states controlled by them and feel safe.Who would? We watch as members of the law enforcement single out particular people for torment and torture.We are not to see these events as rites and initiation ceremonies into citizenship.We are enraged by them Yet we must maintain reason. Our youths are right to organize themselves as they do.It gives cause for us to know they get it.The world does not guarantee our lives if we do not fight for it.Four million people from Igboland and eastern nigeria perished in concentration camps.They were systematically starved and the entire world did nothing. Despite the gory images smuggled out by brave men and women who risked their lives to break through a complete encapsuled population there was no empathy. An enclave was created by complicated minds who were determined to esterminate a people who resisted them. It is a sin crying to God.Their crime was and is that they wanted to manage their own affairs.</p> <br> <p>We warn the confounded authorities in nigeria they have not seen anything yet.The people are very angry with their greed and mindlessness.The problem is going to get more difficult.We do not see how the Yoruba self conscious as they are and literate will accept imposition.The yoruba have the inquisitivesness common in the south of nigeria and the middle belt regions.They will not accept matters because it is a given.They have a point of view and will debate and argue their point of view.The Yoruba will resort to subterfuge if sqeezed.It is also true of the Igbo people and I beleieve indeed anyone who values liberty.In other words his loyalty is not a complete surrender.As a student of history and life it reminds me of nature at work.Nigeria will not survive the attack of the south. It can survive Boko Haram.But when the south withholds her graciousness nigeria will not survive.We are at such a point in time.Those who dream of violence have failed.The element of surprise envisaged is taken away.The people are wide awake.How then are the people who pretend to control what they do not own preside and maintain authority? It is the nightmare Aso Rock faces.</p> <br> <p>It is the reason they sponsor instability so they can find relevance.We want to encourage the governors in southern nigeria to quit wasting their time banning civil indegenous organizations.They have no power to do so.They are mere managers.The enterprise belongs to the people.The people own sovereignty.Any governor in eastern nigeria or western nigeria who will not find the deftness to manage the rising nationalism among the ethnicities will become irrelevant.The will,spunk and purpose to work with the people is going to determine who fails and who succeeds.We advise the indegenous nationalities to collaborate as much as possible with the governors.They represent and provide some structure without which there will be complete anarchy and it is not the goal of the indegenous people.It is the outcome the marauders seek.Any southern governor that believes and thinks the indegenous people are to blame for the present mayhem deserves some counseling.</p> <br> <p>The people are watching their communities infiltrated by murderers.The people of eastern nigeria still nurse the hurt of their loss.If 1967 was a mistake what about the language of threat and terror that repeats? Why are armed murderer being imported and dispatched to peaceful enclaves? What is their presence in these places going to add but violence?It is becoming apparent the government is aware of these ideas.It is the reason it condones these threats and "quit notice" from the "landlord" and 'warlords". They are turning nigeria into a failed state. And their rants are not to be ignored.They often precede the attack on lives.The world certainly does not expect the people to trust it to help.It never does in time.It is always after the fact.So we encourage the "leaders" in government in southern nigeria especially eastern nigeria to be mindful of the infiltration.They come with intention to confuse and complicate matters.It is how instability happens.We know better!The price is the resources.The target is the area under attack.They want land and the resources.If you own these things then defend what you own.The intruder will negotiate or leave.If you will not defend the resources you will become the collateral waste and damage.The choice is not linear or easy.Our own youths have fallen yet again to the forces of darkness.</p> <br> <p>It is time to ask for those responsible to pay for the damage they have caused. If they want to explain it we have no time for that.The businesses that were damaged and the markets that were looted are not events we did not forsee.How were the able bodied men smuggled into our communities suppose to survive? What the whole world see as a spontaneous reaction of youth to the insensitivity of government to their yearning and prediacament was hijacked by hacks and bandits as usual.Government should be up to the task of knowing its own surroundings.When you have warlords and kingpins, it is more diabolical and sinister.The attempt was quickly made to sectionalize and ethnicize the anger in order to find excuse to attack certain people.We must not continue to endure this type of fate in a nation sustained by our own resources. It is wrong we are rewarded in this way in a country founded by the forebearance and courage of men and women from this part of the space.Our people are learning how this type of evil is initiated and spread.So now they must rise as one man and defend their own community and soceity or submit to the menacing evil.Our ancestors fought imposition and so must we.Our children and their own deserve no less from us.</p></font> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="ndiada.jpg" align="left" width="250" height="200"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="newagitations.html"/>.Click here for article....Make Life better for them...It is time</a>... here >>>.......<br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuafigbo.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?....</a></div> .......<<<<<<< <br><H6 class="myclass"><span style="color:brown"><div valign="left"><font size="3" color="teal"> THE NEW AFRICA IS TAKING SHAPE!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp </font> <br><h4><CENTER>THE ROLE OF THE JUDICIARY IN THE EMERGING AFRICA:</CENTER></h4> <font size="4" color="black"><p>Many of us recognize we are not going to wake up one certain day and the african continent has become industrialized and thriving and we are invited to take a seat and enjoy! Our forebearers taught us it takes a lot of hard work and sometimes suffering and very difficult choices and even the ultimate price.For so many that is the case and we remember them all with very deep reverence and love.In the running post independence there emerged so many with ideas about how to "rule" not lead or even govern.They were no where when the colonialists were there.No. They were too intimidated to offer even a whimper.Soon as there were familiar faces their ideas kicked in and they became unstopable.They will not listen to anyone else.Unfortunately they did not understand what was needed or even what was happening.All they knew was that they are better than those at the helm of affairs of the state. The results are in the last few decades.They are pathetic!This line of thought caused the african people so many precious lives and time. And it has hampered growth and progress.It must now be changed.If change is not possible the source is to be done away with.Each entity existed before for centuries.No need to wipe one another out!It is a problem with an solution.And it does not have to be fatalistic!</p> <br> <p> We had our brothers who were in the military and therefore had the tool for coercion available to the state.They saw the opportunity for themselves.Many of them were more motivated by how to escape poverty and make sure they leave it far behind than they were for the matters of the states over which affairs they presided.A few of them thought it was a great opportunity to express themselves even if in the most grosteque of terms. Leading the group was Idi Amin.But young Thomas Sankara and J.J rawlings saw it differently. And we are thankful for their examples.Once more we have returned to the era when the law must control the actions and reactions of everyone in our society.The question though will be, are the people who must lead ready for the responsibility?We saw in Kenya where the judiciary played a prominent role in steering the society away from violence to order.We are thankful for the resilience and the pace-setting poise that marked this event.We are certain the seed will serve not just that nation but the rest of our peoples very well.</p> <br> <p>The problem is that among us are a few people who think themselves too high to learn from anyone.They do not think education or experience matters at all.The continent is in a very different place as a result of this few and the negative contribution to the efforts of our great men and women.In nigeria for instance the Supreme court recently removed a governor that was duely declared winner by the electoral body in an election ignoring also the rulings of a tribunal and a lower court.And now the new governor has returned the gesture.He cozies up as a favorite of the religious faith of the Justice of the supreme court.He even has appointed an Imam in the most christian state in nigeria.Their appoint him and he is in a hurry to give the entire eastern nigeria and Igboland to them.Their magician hatched a new plan to conquer the stubborn eastern region.The people call on the name of God.Inspite of all the faults their enemies accuse them of they enjoy God's favor.That much is certain.They are a nation of people and enjoy natural sovereignty.And they are christians.If somebody falls in love with any people who are different but eastern nigeria belongs to Igbo people and their brethren.It shall remain so.He is now the Emir of Imo state!But he must know he is over a people who can defend themselves and their way of life.</p> <br> <p>It has been so for many centuries.They failed with RUGA and imposed a governor through the courts.But the people still have sovereignty no matter what anyone does.We see the markings of a "conquest".Only problem is this is occuring in a place where people are hurting from the injustice that has been pervasive.And it will not take much to make them clean the slate.Money has changed hands but the short-changed are more numerous and so this will not end well.Smuggling in miscreants into the space to start an intimidation and destabilizing schemes will result in a quick firestorm that may dissolve the nation.It might actually be the intention of those who had formed a seperate nation in twelve states since nearly fifteen years ago.We do not intend to engage in any waste of the lives of the people of eastern nigeria ever again.It is not a gamble anyone can be allowd to play in the space.Those who have this intention and plan will be exposed and God will deliver the helpless people who have suffered so much already due to institutionalized incompetence.</p> <br> <p>It is I guess what the people hatching these schemes really want.But they want to blame it on some other people.Boko haram is not a mystery it is an idea of some people who are fronting the poor among them.Rather than leadership and programs that improve their lives they are armed instead and instigated to violence.The people who hatch these schemes have been in control of the nation for nearly one century.They have hijacked not just their own resources but even the resources of other nation states in the country.Wasting resources that would have developed the entire nation.They have no idea what to do with the opportunity they took for nearly one century.So they embezzle what they can and give away the rest.Now they are cap in hand wanting seeking to borrow from anyone irrespective of the terms!Today they preach to those around them that their enemies are people who have nothing to do with the pervasive poverty they have created around themselves. You see why the youths in eastern nigeria are not looking to anything about nigeria.All they see are lies, hubris and chicanery.And these ones make it difficult for the ones who express and portray any optimism for nigeria and its survival. The youths predicted nigerian government will do something like this in eastern nigeria.They believed the government was out to capture the space not negotiate a political understanding.They maintained it is the goal.And they have been proved right.And these people will not even help those who wish the nation well.How are you going to govern people who have lost trust and faith in the system? How on earth is that possible?They continue to deceive themselves in this scheme that has ran its full course.</p> <br> <p>Many of them still delude themselves like the most diehard colonialists who stayed on till the people started to have run-ins with them.They never learn, do they? Perhaps rather than the gathering of the Igbo people in which there is complete communion the governor will now stage grand dubars in Imo state! It seems rather delusional in our view for anyone to take such thoughts concerning anywhere in eastern nigeria.They will hear from the people. We leave that to the Imolites to determine for themselves.Something we believe they are very capable of doing.Some decent person should have wispered to the governor, "how patronizing? Don't do that,governor".Imo state will remember somebody and a word he coined to describe this kind of situation.They will remember the word made popular by the previous governor.We mean the governor before the anarchy!"Iberiberism" is that our people abandoned their own home, 'The All Progressive Grand Alliance' (APGA).Dr Azikiwe showed them how to enter the arena and take charge with his Nigerian Peoples party(NPP).He controlled the politics of nigeria with what he had.There is no question about that.It was very masterful.They always talk about how Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu did not respect Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.It is not what I heard him say.</p> <br> <p>He said himself he had tremendous respect for the african icon.He said his own ideas were not different but a way of making Dr Azikiwe's vision benefit the Igbo nation and the people of eastern nigeria.According to him it was the only game in town.He was a man with that kind of pragmatism.I heard him articulate the african and nigerian problem with the clarity of an oracle.These people do not want answers.They want cash money.Why do they think he formed APGA? It was to maintain what Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe had started.Great men are always open to learn. But fools? The outcome shows us what is different.Now they brought Fulani herders to patrol the farms of the people of eastern nigeria.We watch as people who claim to be fulanis slinging AK47 rifles watch their cows destroy farms of citizens of the state on purpose.If you were beaten black and blue in the ring and a referee raises your hand as the winner that could work.If the victim opts to mug you in public then you are done!Politics is not soccer or basket ball.It is like american football or rugby.You are not going to depend on someone else.You will be strong for your own self! Look where they are.We see them inside the pocket of the people they ought to teach.It is a very big shame.They want crumps when the kitchen belongs to them.These are pathetic people. We know the youths will have the future in mind when this issue is confronted.All we plead is that they must be very cerebral in dealing with this matter.It is our heritage.We know why some people are desperate in their move to control the state.But time has already run out.There is little the oppressor can do at this point.Bowing out gracefully would have been an honor.What they have contrieveds in Imo state is so careless it is unforgivable.The sovereign wish of the people should have been respected.They should have seen the opportunity of the review as a way out of the mess they made.As usual they are amused and entertained by their own delusion.Perhaps nature and God does not consider they deserve to escape the consequence of such a blatant overeach.</p> <br> <p> If you know a better recipe for disaster let us hear it! We do not think politics is an end.Politics does not exist in a vacuum.It is a means to an end.It is a tool to manage society.You need a society first.When you turn humans to their base instincts you do not have a society.You are not going to lead a people against their wish.And it is hard to lead those who have lost a sense of their own humanity.If you try you will be resisted. We know desperation will create these kinds of situations.It is the reality some wish to create around themselves.We are witnessing an unravelling in the state.It is the prevailing situation under the present set of circumstances.There are those who find imo state irresistable as a bridgehead.Not to build friendship but to introduce a dominion. Some people who pride themselves as being predators make the same mistake.Wrong timing is what nature uses to get even with them. I think the adventure in Imo state is a very bad gamble and an example.Unlike in the wild where might is right God presides over the affairs of men!And this dangerous gamble was not needful.And it is about to cost the people who concocted it everything!</p> <br> <p>It is a mistake for anyone to think they will use such misguided pranks on the people of a state like Imo state.This state has among the most learned people in africa.It is even a bigger error to be so brazen about it.If someone has lost the sense of where they are they need to be given a compass.If they know how to use it.But the courts are places of reason and process.The courts dialect on ideas to see what is the most reasonable given the facts.In other words the court seek the truth. By applying the human mind through morality it sieves the facts and arrives at the closest approximation to the truth. We have looked at what was done in this particular case and it lacks merit on every count.If the court nullified the election that would have been unnecessary but not unusual.But to come up with its position is a travesty.Even if you wish to be funny there is a bad place to do that.In trying this kind of prank in a place like Imo state the people behind it demonstrated a total lack of gravitas.We have said this many times.Imo state has her children around the earth.In many places their positions are very influencial.</p> <br> <p>How did they intend to escape the scrutiny? If the nigerian government is not careful replacing the chief justice of the federation will be the most deadly mistake and action it ever took.One starts to wonder whether this was an act of the president from his own thoughts or another result of the pressure by the so-called "cabal".Unlike a coup a judge has no tools of coercion outside of the law.If the law is breached and justice is compromized the judge is worse than a pedestrain and his word very meaningless and therefore worthless.In a democracy that is a terrible situation.We know the intention is to divide the people but like we said the space is immunized.The only way anyone will relate with the people of eastern nigeria is through negotiation and dialogue not hubris.If anyone dreams a war they will loose.If they dream deceit they will loose too. It is therefore important for the people who tried to plant this time bomb for the citizens of the state to remove it or it will be a weapon they provided against themselves.</p></center><br><br><br> .</font> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="nwadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="newagitations.html"/>.Click here for article....Make Life better for them...It is time</a>... here >>>.......<br><div valign="left" ><img src="igbobride.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?....</a></div> .......<<<<<<< <a href="entertain.html"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="actnowtosavenation.html"/>RIGHT TIME IS NOW.....Empower The People.....RE-ENGINEER .TOPIC:: ACT NOW TO SAVE THE NIGERIAN STATE .......Be Our Partner</span></h6></a> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br> <br> <center><h3>GOVERNORS IN EASTERN NIGERIA SHOULD START WORKING FOR A BETTER EASTERN NIGERIA......PLACE THEIR VISION ON RECORD</h3></center> <font color="teal" font size="4"> <br> <p>We have watched with great admiration the work going on in Cross River State, River State and to some extent Ebonyi state.Every state governor in nigeria has a great opportunity to place his name in the history books.States are ethnic entities and homesteads.Ebonyi and Enugu states must know they are not goint to be too kind to some invaders with guns.For some reason there is a fixation which is unhealthy. And we must try and curtail it for the sake of our children.Our people will and must never vacate their ancestral land for anyone.Any leader who allows that must know he has failed.It does not matter who invited them or who is sponsoring them.Our leaders must learn to play politics that protects the future generations.We love everyone but everyone might not like us.Therefore we must understand that and prepare for it.We have history to remind us.Eastern region is a christain soceity.Is it worth going to war for? You bet! They have sharia to protect them in the north and they bring AK47 to our neighborhood? So what? We are Igbo people and the people in eastern nigeria are our kit and kin.It is different when some people who have no regards for our culture come into our midst and are brandishing guns.As a governor you must fear for your own life too.Someone gives them the guns.So we must empower your youth.At least show them you care.It is their future after all.Some of us understand why some people hate IPOB.Our governors must realize they have no better shield.Our plan must include ensuring there is no chance for conflict.Why would anyone come to eastern nigeria to look for territory? Who will give Igbo or anyone from eastern nigeria such a chance anywhere in nigeria? And Igbo build and make contributions and pay taxes.So we have people who will become a pain in the butt for us and our children.Leaders must know better than that.Those who want to push us off our land have to fear too!Governor Lateef Jakande never was president of nigeria but we remember him as a hero.He made Lagos a yoruba territory.Chief Samuel Ogbemudia is remembered for his great work in the former Bendel State.His people were called Bedelites! They were very proud of him.They are till today.It is how you lead.</p> <br> <p>Chief Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe is remembered for his love for the state he governed and the people.I can't imagine anyone during that man's leadership coming to Imo state to engage in hubris. Sam Mbakwe will run to the United Nations quickly.He will cry.He will shout.He knew we are endangered in the nigerian space.He could not be fooled by anyone.It is very important to remind politicians that the nigerian people are more sophisticated than they appear.They keep score.It has been a while since some have been riding them like horses very soon it will become avery severe problem.If you take them for granted they will remember to place you on record.If in doubt ask the nigerian military.The divorce was bitter and permanent.God allowed me like Sanni Abacha to ensure that.We are asking the governors in eastern nigeria to have a plan and dream for at least one city that will bear their imprint.They have enough time and resources to make such a mark in one city that it is impossible to forget their name.Instead all of them want to "rule" nigeria.I realize it is great to sit on top of billions of dollars and not account to anyone.We know the present nigerian structure is unsustainable.It is the reason we asked for the african people to determine the best way to aggregate productively.Nigeria right now is suffocating the young population within it and such is neither helpful to the individual nor to our collective growth as a people.If you listen to the politicians including the ones in Khaki you will think locating power in the hands of certain bloc is the answer.It is not.What africa needs is a master plan and men and women dedicated to its execution.Men and women who recognize the importance of leadership and provide it and plan for its continuity.The node of leadership we want to address in nigeria is the governorship node.In eastern nigeria we have been squeezed in every way.Our people are all over the world not by choice.It is unacceptable for anyone to return home from those places only to have to contend with invaders.It is a bad idea by those who contrived this evil and it will overtake them. If the people pushing these kind of demonic ideas do not stop it will engulf they themselves.These kind of ideas do not show leadership.Nepotism always brings and causes conflicts.An atmosphere of confilct can't engender prosperity. The nigerians must know that so called leaders who push the idea of dominance are the reason why they are in bad shape.Other people must react to such stimuli and it is usually negative.</p> <br> <p>It is apparent that the present crop of leadership in nigeria has a different idea about how to govern.But whatever they think has nothing to do with the truth and the facts.Nigerians as a people have not surrendered their sovereignty to murders and mindless looters.If you work for anyone in eastern nigeria even if it was the poor widow who has nothing she will feed you.She will make her best effort to provide you with food and even entertainment.What it tells us is that our people do not expect those who work for them to starve.The type of greediness we see is sinful.They expect a fair honest day's job and they reward that.Our governors must realize leadership is sacred.I know some people make it a goal to be in the guiness book of records.But even that becomes obsolete.The only thing that will never change is what we do for the truth.Let me explain a little bit more.Even as a colonial power Britain did some things in nigeria that suprise me as I look at our history.The leadership they provided in seeking solutions to the people they put together in nigeria is commendable.The 1963 constitution is a product of such leadership.They resisted every effort by the north to make sharia an issue.It is a position the citizens themselves have overlooked to their own confussion and detriment to date.Against good advice they have set their own environment on fire.It is hard to try to help someone who aims to thrust the sword through you on such matters.Our leaders must leave our sacred lands for our children how we found it.We do not need to thread insults and abuse one another for that.We all understand that much.The north brought the present confussion on themselves.They were persuaded to allow religion to remain a matter of individaul right.As a nation with a feudal past it was an honest position and sincere advice from the colonial government.An honest person gives one the benefit of their own experience.Perhaps it is this atittude that has made the British Empire very consequential.</p> <br> <p>I understand what this word means.And please do not try to educate me.I know what I am saying.For a nation her size this country is very consequential indeed.Our politicians will jump right over such delicate matters with the glee of a child who was just taken into a toy shop.They had fascination with all sorts of things, especially cash.And quite often it is not a solution to issues.It is always the problem. I know they will dispute my argument .And they will ask me questions.I want to say this is my own opinion.You are entitled to your own.They were Honest? You will ask me.How could they ? They colonized us.In an imperfect world things happen.Great Britain learned after the revolutionary war with the United States to prepare for the independence of colonies.In fact till today that plan still works.I am not qualified to hold brief for the empire and do not pretend to be knowledgeable enough to confront those who have arguments.I just know that God uses what He can find.I know the frustration as we look for justice around us.And we suddenly begin to ask God to help us understand what we must.Even those who dispute the existence of God find no alternatives when the questions are tough and many.We ourselves who present to serve are imperfect.We look at events in such light and we are able to get passed them.History has many ugly faces.It is good to know them.Better still is the blessing to understand them.If anyone tells me that the colonialist did not perceive that the Igbos and their ralatives in eastern nigeria can hold their own I will disagree.They knew that very well.We also know it. </p> <br> <p>Nigeria will return to what works or there will not be only Biafra. Nigeria is not an organic entity and you will not pretend it is one.It is called self deceit.It was not called Federal Republic of nigeria because some people like those words.What kind of leadership ignores such persistent reality? We have lost more people this year alone to ethnic violence than in the entire period of colonization of nearly hundred years.If we had leaders right now there will be a think tank developing ways to run the systems in parallel before the end of the present dispensation.Are they doing so? No. They are planning elections!The federal government is not solvent.The states are not autonomous and self-sustaining.So you have a nation quite unable to sustain its own systems.So this is not a system.Every system is self sustaining.So what are they going through the motions for?It is why some of us are wondering why they think they are leaders.So the governors in eastern nigeria must take the initiative to help the citizens in their states.They can help create the enabling environment that will help the people find their own way.The oil economy syndrome has destroyed the real economy of our soceity that was agrarian and self-sustaining.It is what the governors must resuscitate.The cashew farms must return with best practices.So must the palm plantations.It appears they are afraid to start any project they can't finish. If a governor has a four year term he can start a palm plantation or regenerate an existing one.We used to have cocoa farms.Our people had cash crops that sustained them.How can the state partner with the citizens to make them economically independent? We are looking at how to emplace such atmosphere and sustain it.It is survival not politics.This must be the foundation from which politics is derived.Our rice farms and tubers like yam and cassava and these cash crops must seek better yield through research.Our local colleges will now find new relevance.If these places are properly funded initially they will become self-sustaining and enrich the soceity.</p> <br> <p>Some of us want to provide leadership in many other ways than just one and we are quite sure it is how it is done in places that have done well.However we know how little respect our people have for intellect and ideas.It is responsible for where we are.If you find some money to start a business nobody knows anything better than you.If they have ideas they can go start their own business.We had many coups rather than have ideas put together to solve problems.It is the reason for where the nation is today.And it is a very bad place.Ask the youth about it.Many of us know how it is.Thank God for the maany of us who know this must change.We see the nations where things work and the people who actually create important things always accept partnerships and collaboration.In our core soceity we do that in igboland and eastern nigeria.Age groups will create thrift clubs.They will create "task mates".They will accept contracts to clear large expanse of land, plant or weed for a fee.Some groups do same as patnership and accept turns. But we do not take these ideas any further.It is where our future is.And no place in africa is this done better than in eastern nigeria.We are saying to move it further along. It really works. We like to have a community that works.And we know how to achieve that.So let us do that. If those in the nigerian space will not see the point we are making that it is impossible to sustain the present fraud it is their own problem.You can't steal and loot your own seed money.The resources in our community is like "seed money".These things are collective patrimony.</p> <br> <p>You defend it, better it, enlarge it and pass it on or your own lineage ends.If they continue to insist we must leave them to their own devices.It is reality.We are not suicidal.If every gun in the nigerian military became a machine gun or armored tank it will still not save nigeria if the leadership continue to ignore the fault lines.In the mean time the leadership in the eastern region space must begin to work for a bigger economy and a brighter future.We must not ignore those who do not wish us well.But we must plan for our future.It is our responsibility.Let the good people of the region sit down and do what they have always done for generations past.The people must agree on how to ralate with one another after all they are all indegenous people.No loafer or interlopper can change that fact.If we need a National Anthem of our collective heritage it must be in our own language.We must make such an important instrument that reflect our common heritage.From Igbanke, Afo, Idoma, Itolu,Igedde, Ufia, Kalabari, Ijaw or Izon land,Igodomigodo land our anthem must be sang in the native tongues of our people.When we come together in one accord we must have a way to thank God for the unanimity in an anthem that acknowledges that special favor from God.It is how we make this moment something that will bless our children and their own children and on to the end of time.Before I forget I want to ask the governor in eastern nigeria where in nigeria the easterners are given the attention and special protection they give to those who add no value to the community? In most cases they are made to endure more difficulties than non-citizens.But people of eastern nigeria are not violent, they are productive and add value to their environment no matter where they are.It is for this reason we wonder aloud why they still take away from those who have given so much.Their brand of leadership is very strange indeed! So we will unite and bond with our own people.We do not need violent suicidal killers in our communities.If they renounce violence they will prove it first.On the other hand our people within nigeria will fuse their effort to become as free as they have always been.</p> <br> <p>I want to know if there is any Igbo man who does not understand the meaning of the word "igbanke". Perhaps there are.Such must ask the ancient among them.If there is any Igbo man or woman who does not know the meaning of "Idoma". Such need to ask too. Are there the ones who do not know what "Izon" means? Irrespective of what young people and perhaps those who refuse to enlighten themselves might say, Izon is Igbo dialect and word! We asked and we know the truth.Let all our people rejoice indeed. Our salvation is wrought by God! Our songs ought to be songs of rejoicing not songs of anguish.This time we prevailed not because we are strong but because God showed us His matchless compassion.Our anthem should be a celebration.It ought to be an invocation of delightful communual outpouring of thanksgiving. Why do the ones who wish to confuse us expect us all to sound the same? Do they? Dialects occur in every ethnicity.If we were to use dialects as a mark of identity every next door will be a different ethnicity.Eastern Region is a core of the same people.If we have an arrangement in the West African space or Africa or indeed the World we are people of a definite identity.Nobody is able to change that.Our problems were caused by crude oil that was discovered in our territory.In our own view we can use our commom experience and the lesson as an opportunity to unite all our people.If we can strengthen the bonds within there is no limit to what we are able to do.Such could be the the best outcome from our loss in the nigerian repeating cycle of violence.And it will be a fitting end to it.We must not allow ourselves to be defined by those who need our resources.As a people we are distinct from the resources we own.God gave the resources for us to prosper by.We must not accuse God who blessed us with intellect and mind when we choose to ignore the use of both.We guarantee our people that better days are coming.</p> here >>>.......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="okgirl.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?....</a></div> ...........................................................................>>>>>>>>>>>><br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuafoigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... unique africa.....and all her children ....</a></div> .......<<<<< <br> <br> here >>>.......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?....</a></div> ...........................................................................>>>>>>>>>>>><br> ....</a></div> .......<<<<<here >>><br><div> <br> <br> <br><br><h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <center><font color="teal" font size="4"> <br> <center><font color="blue">THE REASON FOR INSECURITY IN NIGERIA</CENTER></font> <center>Nigeria had five constitutions in place when the coup of 1966 took place.It was not only one constitution that was abrogated but five different constitutions.The military which took this step was at this time already an illegal entity.Nigeria does not exist without those constitutions.I have shouted myself hoarse over the many years and will not continue to repeat the fact that we have very different people living together by force.There is no type of understanding whatsover.Chief Awolowo was charitable when he called it a "mere geographical expression". We know even the geography is too complicated.The terrains are different, the climate and vegetation and all whatelse! In terms of ethnicities it is a nightmare.If there is peace of any type it is an exception.If anyone in government today would like to address the nigerian problem he or she must begin from there.We made a very strong case under the government of Chief Olusegun Obasonjo for a step that addresses our national ill but were insulted to a point it hurts till now.I was called a "pied piper" by a person I still remember very well.They claimed we were bought to work for a "third term" agenda.Somebody wrote that I shuold go and claim my treat! He effectively in his mind had rubbished my opinion then.I have not claimed to know much, but it is clear to me that you can't force anyone into being in an arrangement if they are free.Our people are inherently free.Who will you cage? The Igbos, Ijaws, Ibibios,the Annang,the Kalabari and so on in eastern nigeria were represented in the eastern nigerian constitution.</center> <br> <center>They were represented in the eastern nigerian House of chiefs.It was the De facto stake holding entity in the region.These are all indegenous people.They are all autonomous and free people.What can anyone do to change that except genocide and bloodbath? We have this replicated all across nigeria.And indeed across the entire africa.We should have known better! The constitution of these nationalities are their dreams and aspiration.The youngmen cleaning gutters around the world and the girls who are now being violated or whoring in strange lands are victims of the grand robbery.They were in the loins of the men who entered into this nigerian arrangement with those constitution as the basis of understanding.It is impossible to have an arrangement flouted flagrantly by one side and still used as an excuse.Every apparatus of government in nigeria is existing on falsehood.The stakeholders on the nigeria nation were removed forcefully since 1966. We now have an arrangement that serves to enrich a few men every once in a while. Like we said before it will only get worse.If we were wrong then only time will tell.</center> <br> <center>When you play the music of the ethnic nationality of any nigeria you can watch his or her countenance change.He or she becomes emotional without exception.How would a set of people ignore such a very present reality.When young people argue about age in the leadership of nigeria it misses the real point.The coup makers were much too young to even understand the real issues. And that is part of the problem. We know the youth must lead.He or she must be a youth at heart.The men who fought for independence were all in their youth.Look at men like Dr Nkrumah, Dr Azikiwe,Chief Awolowwo,mallam Aminu Kano, Robert Mugabe,Nelson Mandela,Chief Mbonu Ojike,Chief Anthony Enahoro at independence.These were all young men. We remember them as statesmen and "old politicians".We know when Yoweri Kaguta Museveni came to the aid of Ugandans.He was a young man with glittering moustache!How about Paul Kagame when he participated in liberating Ruwanda? We encourage our youth to do the right thing. It helps to think about the greater good.As far as some of us are concerned the British government expected the regions of nigeria to mature to a proper relationship within nigeria.It is nature.If you hold something precious that belongs to another person except you are pious you will not give it to them until they ask and perhaps forcefully.They were not suprised the Igbo people were the first to start the trouble through Biafra.They had anticipaated it but not as quickly as it happened.We are doing what we need to do.Many of us see the relationships in other parts of the world.What we see did not just materialize.They evolved over time.Many of them as a result of very painful history. If we stay the course, we will attain the goal we have set for ourselves.It takes work and capacity and reason.</center> <br> <center>Our problem is that some of our people have been altogether selfish.They have no respect for the soceity that has given them opportunities nor for the lives of the citizens.Their actions say this. It is a statement requiring no emphasis. The emphasis of their actions speak volumes.Where on earth did they get a constitution that overrides the constitutions of the various ethnic nationalities? It was copious presumption and arrogance! It is the reason one part of nigeria operates sharia and the others a different law. They divide the country and do not even realize it? I would like to list headlines of the news from four years ago from Enugu:Fulani Kills a pregnant woman; Herdsmen massacre christians in Enugu; Fulani herdsmen attack Anambra killing at least three; Catholic priest killed by unknown gun men in Enugu.The killing by the members of the armed forces in Enugu is just part of a pattern and has confirmed our worst fears that there is another plan to wipe out our people.The culprit is always the one who assumes all other people are fillers.We have spoken to the effect that this atittude should stop. We have pleaded and we have appealed all to no effect.People will rise to their own defence.It is the reason for Boko Haram.It is the reason for IPOB.It is the reason for PANDEF.It is the reason for OPC.Recently we witnessed a massive number of able bodied men entering nigeria from the north east boader.This event was reported by the international press that lasted weeks.International televisions stations showed able bodied men trouping into nigeria. Many of them assumed a war was imminent.Until today the nigerian authorities have not explained to citizens what the event was.In a country with agitated youth why bring in more in same situation or far worse? Lately they started moving these people down to southern nigeria.In these areas the lifestyle is so different!Who can say this is not a recipe for disaster? It is a very strange type of leadership.So we hide our heads and keep plugging away.It is so ironic we are the only people who find we are in a hole and we recruit proficient "diggers" and put them to work! Please, please for the sake of innocent unborn children let the conversation begin. If we are not able to tolerate one another let us go our seperate ways and become good neighbors.</center> </div></center> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5> <br> <br> <h6 class="myclass"><span style color:="grey"><td> <br> <h3 color="purple">SOME STATES IN NIGERIA ARE NOW BEING ADMINISTERED USING DECREES</h3> <br><h4 color="black"> <center>The people of Imo State woke up to a decree called The Imo State Adminidstration Of Criminal Justice Law(ACJL#2, 2020). We are wondering which is the first one.The law now makes the man who became governor through a judicial process that nullified the votes of citizens a potentate.The governor was able to make a docile house he got through magic to switch parties to pass a law which invalidates the law courts in Imo State.We said this kind of things will happen. And this is why the people who appointed him picked a person like him who is clueless.It would have occured to some other person that as an elected governor that he is not able to place himself above the courts and the law.Democracy can't be used to shelter fascism.He claims to be an elected governor and he also took oath to uphold the law.In other places he will be impeached quickly.But he has the cash and we all know that.We are talking real cash.And they are all birds of feather and each has his price.It is ironic that a man who used the courts to achieve power would want to sideline same to maintain it.How power intoxicates!We warned the people of Imo State to be very alert. It is clear now that some people have been day dreaming about sacking the people of eastern nigeria from their homeland.They compare us with christain in southern Kaduna.Imo State is not Southern Kaduna and nobody is afraid of the man the hater of the people of eastern nigeria have chosen as their point man.He is the type they are able to get from among the people and there is a very good reason why.Why does a governor wish to detain people without recourse to the law in a democracy? What kind of power is he looking for?</center> <br> <center>Does he want his henchmen to crown him king? They picked him as their point man because they know they are able to knock his head against every hard object.This is just the beginning.We are wondering the kind of money that was expended in making the men elected by the people of the state abandon them with such glee.Is the governor able to say how much it cost to perform this magic? We told the people of Imo State that the Chief justice of nigeria does not wear the magic hat for nothing!Now they can see what we are talking about.We warned the people of the state to be very careful.The reason an enemy will create stampede in a crowd is to cause harm.The Supreme court with so many lawyers tossed out the INEC's position that votes were invalid because they did not meet set criteria.If such matters are not important to the courts how can they determine a winner? And it is not suprising they picked a person who did not have the highest number of valid votes.They were not worried about validity and intergrity of the process.They were sent to Imo State to do a hatchet job.We feel sorry for the voters of Imo State.They lost the governor they voted for and lost their representatives.We know when some people roll they move with bullion trucks in power throttle with full load! We like to tell the people they do not have to put up with excesses of a man they did not even choose.It is a democracy.Their recourse are many.The options are very many.The first is to challenge the decree in the court of law.Infact with the right calibre of lawyers they can tie the governor in legal knots for as long as he is in the Okemba Owerri-Ukwu.</center> <br> <center>We think that is the immediate line of action.Before he throws the state into further turmoil the people must go to the courts to adjudicate this insanity.Why does a governor need a law to empower him to detain citizens indefinitely? Even military dictators are shy to propose such.He behaves like an emperor in a colony.His masters must have hyped him up.And it is all mischief making. Reality has set in so soon.You can't govern by decrees in a democracy! We want the people of Imo state to be aware that they will determine the direction of events in the state.We see the budding signs of tyranny.Igboland is however not a fertile ground for such a thing.Even though the man who claims to be the governor of Imo State is not known to us as one of our brightest at least he should know the Igbo people are not pushovers.He should have thought it over to accept a greek gift on their behalf.He should have known it will be rejected. The people live by consensus. How will he manage his new nightmare? It appears he has declared war against the youths of the land. The parents who have been largely silent will emerge and it might be a handful for a man who already has an unsure perch. He brought this upon himself.He should have waited for another election.But we know his godfather was there and he could not afford to miss the opportunity.We do not think the man understands that the people who push him along have motives too.And their motive is to use him as an agent of destabilization in the region.They want to use him to undermine his own people.</center> <br> <center>We had advised our Fulani friends to abandon the old idea of ethnic domination.It leaves a trail of death and destruction.Quite often it does not leave the protagonist on the top where they love to be.They did not want the industrious Igbo people who fought and won independence on their bare-backs to lead.They do not want those who if they had led nigeria would have given the world a first rate prosperous country to lead.And they and everyone else know that. Why do they think such people will submit to their own brand of leadership? And all they will get is the fiendish murdering of one another and the present national slaughter? A nation full of prospects and promise is now a world spectacle! We know why they are shy to allow Igbo leadership.It will leave what they have been managing in the dust!They know it.They talk about national security as if they care.If they do why do they sponsor insecurity by arming bandits and terrorists? Their problem is the outcome.They are now used to milking this dead cow.But the rest are tired. Look at the nation they took in plenty.Today it is the poverty capital of the world.Nigeria is now the most violent country in Africa and the third in the world. We do not wish to associate with such realities.We tell the governor to " use his tongue to count his teeth" as the Igbos will say.His behaviour make us worry about the quality of leadership in the space.It is beginning to look more and more it is one of the many schemes hatched against the people.</center> <br> <center>If inspite of the obvious lack of grip and grit had they brought courage to the arena it would not have mattered.Our people are down on two counts.They suffer on account that their leaders will not perceive the issues properly.They suffer because their leaders do not have the courage to advocate for their own perculiar circumstances.Every action of this particular "governor" shows he does not appreciate the hurt of the people and the persistence of the forces of oppression.We know they imported some murders into our communities to instigate them against an army of oppression and occupation entrenched in the entire Eastern Nigeria.Our people are not violent and they know it.We want to warn them not to think there is any victory in that move.The response will be swift.The people will arm quickly and defend themselves.We wish to warn them it is a terrible idea.They are attempting to surround us again and play the blockade game.If the nigeria army attack citizens of Eastern Nigeria again they will defend themselves.It is not a way to resolve the present situation. Self determination is fair to all. It is what our people are asking for.Nigeria if it exists is a federation of components of autonomous indegenous ethnic regions.If not so then there is no Nigeria.Does the governor understand this fact?</center> <br> <center>He must now face the people he is trying to undo.If he needed our advise we will tell him to head north.He will be an excellent governor there.He sympathises with the way of life over there.The man with the administrative power tries also to own the law.He loves the idea. If they love him as much we are about to see a miracle.He appoints Immam on a fly.Many of those who love to use the power will appreciate a man like him. He will do very well.It is clear Imo state with so many christains and learned people who are quick to express and excercise their God given rights are not his type.He has already hit rock bottom! We like to tell the "rulers" who are not approved of the people that they will face dire problems.It is a very frank and sincere advice.I want to quote a French philosopher Rene Descartes on his work and discussion called Discourse On Method.I pick a particular part which I relate to which in latin states "corgito ergo sum" and in French "Je pense donc je suis" and in English it means "I think therefore Iam".The same draws up a corollary from this statement which states "dubito ergo corgito ergo sum" and it is translated into English as "I doubt therefore I think,therefore I am". It is possible that some people will resign their lives to submitting to the whims of other people.The space called Eastern Nigeria or whatever we choose to call it is not a fertile place for such manner of live. It never has been and never will be.</center></h4> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><center><font size="4" color="blue">THE THREAT TO BISHOP HASSAN KUKAH: A SYMPTHOM OF THE SAD RAPID DECLINE IN NIGERIA</CENTER></font> <br> <font size="3" color="black"> <br><p>We normally read about threats from clerics to citzens in some Islamic nations and we cringe.Finally nigeria is now in the club.The dream of those who have been pushing for a soceity they control totally is finally within reach.Not really! Nobody should hold their breath for such a reality.It is a real fools paradise!Who ever imagined such a reality could be enabled in a supposedly secular multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic soceity like nigeria? It is very sad to see how much some people do to provoke others.The Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah is an indegenous son of Zagon kataf. He is a Catholic Bishop in a very important district.He is model citizen and a man of intellect in his own right.Bishop Kukah is a world citizen. He was born in Southern Kaduna/Southern Zaria area.Zagon kataf is part of the areas in northern nigeria with rising literacy and a very virile modern population.Recently these areas have come under wuthering attack from all sorts of forces of retrogression.The progress in the area is under attack.Villages are burnt and people are slaughtered mindlessly.The sin is that these people express the christain faith.Nigeria has internally displaced citizens in what is called (IDP) camps.We call this ethnic cleansing. But in a "civilized" democratic nation? </p> <br> <p>We have a soceity at war with its own self and it is a war of severe attrition.And it is not the first time. Bishop Kukah as a native son just expressed the feelings of his people and the rest of common humanity.The evil we are all witnessing in the area is intolerable. Someone threatened to hang a bishop in nigeria publicly.It is not something to view or consider in isolation. It is part of a siniter agenda unfolding in the space.At a time effort is being made to educate and enlighten this force has an opposing agenda. It is very important to note that this is how a soceity declines into anarchy and total repression.These conditions go hand in hand with poverty and insecurity.If a man of the standing of Bishop Kukah will be threatened for expressing himself there is trouble.There is a general feeling of nearly the entire population of the country that nobody is safe.He expressed the feelings of the voiceless around him.Such a threat must be taken seriously.These men have "power" over so many brainwashed young people who have been made to take them as gods.</p> <br> <p>It is so difficult to just have one peaceful week without a new sympthom that threatens to blow the nigerian nation up.It is not a good thing. Since those who think nigeria is their property have rejected dialogue it will be difficult for them to control what the soceity will become.The population will definitely respond to the new reality these religious bigots are forging.It will lack their own contructive input.It is hard for any reasonable person to imagine that two hundred million people will allow a few selfish and greedy people to plunge them all into total chaos.In the places where people like this hold sway the soceity is always a total mess.We can look around the sahel region and see the result of their work.Now nigeria has been included in the sorry list.Citizens of these areas are drowning in oceans around the globe. They are unwanted immigrants in every nation and country around the world.And the threat is growing.Recently the nigerian space has become the target of this relentless attack on the individual and the value of life.The effect in the nigerian space is resulting in the now very strong counter forces to neutralize this evil.It is a very welcome change. What we see is not religion.It is not fate. And it is not faith. It is the same forces that produced colonialism still at work.The actors change but the script is the same.</p> <br> <p>Unfortunately some of these so called clerics are hardly educated in the real sense.In a very dynamic world that is growing more complicated by the day they are armed with only a near tunnel vision of life.It is hard to imagine any civilized person thinking that a government can exist that will not have those who disagree with it.Even in the most repressive regimes opposition abound.General Mohammed Buhari a former coup maker himself and military head of state is no stranger to opposition and disagreement.He was ousted in a coup.Yet he opted to become a politician in a democratic setting.We can see the people who have made his life hell. We see the people who have made it impossible for him to act on any of the promises of the campaign that brought him into office.Nigerians can now see the people who have hijacked the government and spurned terror to alter the space to suit them.The country has been taken over by a bunch of untrained religious bigots.Unfortunately the script they play is not of much benefit to them. Look around them and you will notice the lack of compassion.All you see is pervasive poverty. Resources are taken outside nigeria for the benefit of non-nigerians who sponsor the falsehood we all witness daily.</p> <br> <p>Whereas an Igbo business man will live with ten or even twenty apprentices whom he will train, these men teach no life skill to their wards.A yoruba man will establish a secondary school or technical school in his community once he has made some money. He will take wards and mentor them.It is hard to see how some of these clerics help provide life skill to their wards.In what ways do they offer emotional support to these very young kids who depend on them? We all need support of all types from time to time. They live in paradise and prepare their wards for the next one.All they do is teach them hate and arm them with AK47 riffles to enforce their authority.We have charismatic leaders who have mentored great leaders and followers.Most religions has them the muslim religion included.But it is not in words. It is visible work and achievemts that traansform lives.When President Buhari is blamed it is because he is in charge.People like this man whose name I honestly do not intend to echo else he exults, are indeed the problem. This recipe of his will breed Boko haram and bandits and killer herdsmen.It is the story of how a country with promise has been ruined. It appears the slide will end the nigeria we all know unfortunately.</p> </font> <br> <br> <div valign="left"><font color="teal"><h6><center> NOW COME ON!!ANOTHER TOP ENTERPRENEUR FROM EASTERN NIGERIA IN TROUBLE!!! IS IT TRUE?</center></h6></teal> <font size="3" color="black"> <p>We heard that the nigerian who airlifted fellow citizens stranded in south africa is being accused of money laundering by the united states government.What is more troubling is the glee with which the nigerian government responds to these kind of events.We have those who are really at a loss in understanding the meaning of a nation and government.It is a real pity.We all remember Obinwanne Okeke very well.This young man was named by Forbes magazine as one of the foremost young enterpreneur of african descent.If nigeria will not understand that the people who invaded africa and took her citizens and resources were not saints then we have problems.If they had any remorse they will not be fighting to maintain the stranglehold as they do.We do not support crime.But we are not to feel pity for greed.When they scam africa it is smartness.If by any chance an african finds a way to try to protect himself it is a crime.How did Allen Onyema become a criminal just for trying to alter the nature, structure and partnership or relationships in a business he owns? For over a decade he had the same partners and business associates. And nothing has been heard of him but good reports.Suddenly he tries to make things a little better for himself and his business and hell drops bottom!Where in the world do we have these clean business deals?And it is all linen and white crystals and purity?Where? We want to know.The federal government through a representative chimes the timely rebuke.It could not have been better polished and more diplomatic!How so patriotic what we heard this person say about a fellow citizen in the clutches of another nation!Some nations are called bananna countries for a reason.If you are afraid of someone but you must keep this fear at least at a level that is not so laughable.</p> <br> <p>How in the world will the leadership have nothing good to say about their own fellow citizens who have tried to break an impossible mold to try to build a future for themselves?How are they and others like them able and free to compete?Are they to wait for AID and handouts?Now that is the real issue? We tell the young men who are fighting for a better future for themselves to keep it up.It is the answer to the problem. You need a place where your own interests are important too.Those who wear oversize shoes are not able to run well!Changes in the world and the intricate interplay make politics a serious undertaking these days.Some seem to think their careless actions,reactions and overreactions will simply be swept away by time.Sometimes it is not the case. Since january 1966 the new thing in nigeria has been to try to use the people from eastern nigeria as toy things.At least the people know where the rain caught them.And where they sought shelter.If they lost anything they know who stole it.If the people fight back it will become very ugly.They know everyone who has skeletons and where the cupboards are.The ones who live in glass houses must stop hauling stones all over the place.It is dumb even asnine. It is important to let the people sponsoring these events understand that fact.Or they will open a new front of serious attrition.If the billions stolen from nigeria become subject of investigation then america or where ever it is gets to keep the money.If the people who are initiating these schemes understand what we are saying here it will help them.They will start this fire but they might get burnt.We remind them of the popular nigerian maxim : "If you Tarka me I will Dabo you!".It is the story of two people from the same nation of people in nigeria: Chief Joseph Tarka and Godwin Adzuana Dabo.One was not inclined to shake the status quo. The other will not only shake it but wanted an earthquake.The times have changed.These things assume more serious dimensions these days.Let those who have ears hear!!!</p></font> Read the article: nigerian uneven government: here >>><a href="truthbetold.html">See article about how the nigerian soceity is skewed against the best it has:frustrating and hindering the very best: the best chances of its own success!</a></div> <br> here >>>.......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="umuada.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....Our proud heritage ...to the right.... We have no lives to waste Our youth our pride....</a></div> ...........................................................................>>>>>>>>>>>><br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuafoigbo.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... unique africa.....and all her children <....</a></div> .......<<<<< <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <br><center><h3>ANOTHER MASSACRE OF YOUTHS OF EASTERN REGION BY MEN ARMED BY THE NIGERIAN STATE IS ONE TOO MANY </h3></center> <br> <p><h4>The double standards in the nigerian space is without question the reason for the almost certain collapse of the country.It should have been very easy to have a nation out of nigeria if the people were open to it.But from the very beginning it was not what some people wanted.The question is who were they afraid of? Why did they sign up to an agreement if it was not what they actually wanted? Nevertheless we have been living in a country where some people think they have a right to use any excuse at all to attack others.We like to tell them that atittude has come to an end.It will no longer be the case that we are going to continue to tolerate the slaughter of our unarmed youth in their own communities by people armed by the nigerian state.It will not be unanswered.If anyone takes lives of innocent youths who are complaining about the future that had been taken from them even before they were killed such a person will answer to decent people.The world has left such primitive behaviors behind.The government will not attempt to solve the problems that militate against the citizens, but will move to end the lives of its own citizens.It is called repression.Enugu was the switch that ended British colonialism in africa.Hopefully the end of Fulani incipient colonization is also here.Our youth will not perish in vain.I watched the interview granted to the boys who were being paraded as criminals.The charge against them was they were having "Kung FU" training! The governor must distance himself from this episode.These men will go back to whereever they came from eventually. What I saw was a time bomb! Martial arts training is what youths do every where around the world to be fit and healthy.It is strange that a nation with no good hospitals will forbid youths from excercising for fear they will revolt.We had twenty one innocent youths killed by incompetent men in uniform.The blood of these innocent boys will set the rest free from the present mess!</p> <br> <p><h4>In 1949 twenty one coal miners were shot dead by guns purchased by the British colonial government.For a little bit of perspective let me place the event in historical context.The labor government in preparation for a very pivotal election in 1950 started a series of political manoeuvring.It wanted to position as strong and nationalistic.Who else to use but the poor colonies.We advise those who think the sound of bitter nut has anything to do with the taste to think again.Every politician feudal or elected dumps on somebody.We just want to make sure we are not the victim. It is the simple meaning of liberty.The Labor government passed The British Nationality Act of 1948.This replaced the Commonwealth citizenship Act .So rather than have a single commonwealth citizenship there was now the citizenship of the United Kingdom and the Colonies.It was a signal to a downgrading of the citizenship of the colonies.The authorities understood this to mean they had more powers in the colonies.This backfired quickly.The colonies saw the idea of being part of the British Empire as a deceit.And they reject it outright.The agitation for independence quickly multiplied.Our people were stirred up by the realization they were being deceived. It was not as if they did not know this fact.In making it so obvious they were too inclined to react to show their disgust.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>It woke our mothers up in eastern nigeria and ended British colonialism in nigeria.Never again will our people be slaughtered by armed bandits.We have a group of people who have hijacked the instruments of power in nigeria and are using same for group enrichment.Our resources have been taken and we have watched as it is wasted in frivolities while our youths are wasting.We watch our parents age prematurely due to suffering.We watch our people waste before our own eyes.We must resist this as a mark of honor and love for our own lives.If oil was discovered in northern nigeria we will have no nigeria today.They would never have allowed their resources to be used for the building of our own soceities.Our resources have been used to build the north for over sixty years.We have no motorable roads and no schools for the children.Our colleges are under funded. And our resources are used to fund lavish lifestyles of people who do not care for our existence.We have endured enough of the present insult.They hate the people and can't even pretend about it!These people have opted for the use of force rather than negotiated collaborative existence in nigeria.And they will be resisted until they vacate the precious land of our mothers and fathers.They will not kill our children as a test for power. Not when their lives were taken from inside the bowels of their mothers within our own communities.They were warned never to do this again.Now they have and we must show that we too want to live.We are not the type that will betray trust and it is very true! We should not be the only people who should be worried about the present turn of events.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>We all recall how Lebanon descended from a prosperous nation to a bed of anarchy and religious radicalism in less than half a century.Lebanon had become a liberal westernized culture that was prospering.It was a rising destination for tourism in the Middle east and a strong economic base for new investors.In the flow it forgot it was in the midst of a tough neighbourhood.As a majority christain entity the leaders had forgotten the numbers game.They had mistakenly allowed too many muslims to infiltrate its population.But the people who were coming in were focused on their own goals. And they declared a jihad against their benevolent host as soon as they had the number to sustain a war.We see an attempt to do the same thing in nigeria especially under the current administration.It appears and seems as though it is the main goal as of the present time.This will have very serious impact around the world. If nigeria degenerates the whole world will feel the impact.There are two hundred million people and that is a lot of people.The West and the industrilized world had a chance to support a nation that would have been a bastion and bulwark against this reality.Eastern nigeria which declared its territory the nation of Biafra in 1967 is a christain enclave.It would have been the Isreal of the african continent.</p> <br> <p><h4>It was an attempt to protect the heritage and its people.But the industrialized world was more interested in crude oil than in their christain brethren.Nigeria was given arms and intelligence to defeat Biafra.Today nigeria is being quickly islamized and radicalized.Nigeria is a nation right now where natives and indegenes are being driven away from their homeland and their places taken by radical jihadist while the government turns a blind eye.What we hear often is that it is a clash between herders and farmers.What we see is that christian farmers are being slaughtered by well armed and trained fighters on a well organised mission.The government of nigeria forbids citizens to own weapons.But apparently these are super citizens. Whereas the dane guns of the other citizens were taken from them these ones have AK47 sometimes more powerful rifles.Anyone can see nigeria is about to go the way of these nations we read in the news! Social Media displays mass graves everyday of massacred nigerian citizens by men the government own spokesmen admit are not nigerian citizens.Yet this same government call these encounters clashes.How can this be a clash? One person is armed the other is not! It is not a clash. It is genocide.It is genocide in slow motion.What do the world expect the ordinary person to do? Wait until it is their own turn? It is what the youth in eastern nigeria are up against.Some politicians who refuse to see the omnious signs are more worried about their career.When the radicalization is complete they will be toast and it will be too late.If nigeria is not forced back to its foundations the best solution may be to allow the nations to return to their status before 1914 amalgamation.It is dangerous to live in a space with no agreement for mutual existence.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>The youth in eastern nigeria live in a sovereign entity and have a right to live their own lives.We wish to state without equivocation that whatever and whoever is responsible for this will be made to answer for it.It will be placed before the world in a way that such matters have never been pursued.We plead with those who have evidence of the incident to bring them as we must petition the United Nation and copy all free nations around the globe.It is not a crime for citizens to protest.Nigeria claims to be a democracy.Protest is normal in a democracy.It is the actual tool of the democratic process.What would the government prefer? It is very possible they provoke these youths to arm themselves, then What? They are unable to resolve Boko Haram or killer herdsmen or bandit.The people who choose to be peaceful get killed.The government is about to change all of that now.Their goal to regulate the churches and to control every aspect of life of citizens is nothing short of outright colonization and religious hegemony.The rest of the nation will not accept such an arrangement.Every time these armed government agents take a life of these brave youths who are prepared to pay the supreme price for liberty they make the so-called unity a farce! We wish to warn the "slow men at work" who claim to be leaders that we lost these youths because of their peace initiatives.What kind of peace are they looking for? Boko Haram was there when Buhari was elected president.OPC was there when Olusegun Obasonjo was elected president.President Jonathan became president inspite of the Niger delta avengers and PANDEF.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>In any case where is the nation they are eager to be president over? Are they going to be president over adherents of sharia religion? Do they understand the implications of that? It is easy to see some people are still not aware they have been duped and are about to be slaughtered also.Why are they the only ones who must go on all fours and make peace with everyone to be president of nigeria? They should be ashamed of themselves.We loose our children because they are looking for recognition from those who massacred four million of their own people.We are very concerned for them and their inability to reason.They receive bribes and tokens of the future of their own people stolen and kept by those they are able to overcome. But they will rather be slaves.If they think they are equal parners in a nation that only exist in their imagination why are they not able to call for a discussion of the issues upending the entity? What kind of partnership works like that? It appears some people do not understand why they lost four million members of their own community.Perhaps they think it was a passing fantasy!Now we will leave them to their own thinking. It is their business.Our soceity must move forward.We preach forgiveness not foolishness!</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>We like to know the reason these youths are being slaughtered. Why would the police and military mow down unarmed youths in their own communities? These are not youths with history of violence and they are unarmed.This same government has been incapable of prosecuting a single armed herdsman or bandit.These are groups that have terrorized the population killing innocent citizens.We have mass graves everywhere as a result of their terror.We are beginning to feel that the armed bandits and herdsmen are indeed the same as Boko Haram.They all have same goal in furthering the agenda of foisting a new way of life in the entire space.We are therefore calling on all freedom loving people around the world not be silent.It is not a time "to wait and see".Unfortunately we have been here before.We need to stop the massacre of youth in a country that has lost its sense of purpose.It is hoped that this petition prepares the minds of the world that this people will not stand by and watch these events idly anymore.If there is any group of people who lay claim to power but will not protect lives they are not suppose to experiment for long. Nobody must be allowd to toy with human lives. Nigeria had wasted four million mainly Igbo christians.It must not be an idea to see whether the perpetrators are capable of repeating the same if they are allowed.As we can see their appetite has increased.Now they are aiming at even more people.It is not the purpose of human lives.We all know how matters of religion work with some people.Nigeria has been a long experiment with very devastating results for the people of eastern nigeria.We have come to a point where it is no longer worth it for us.Let the government tell the world why this massacre was necessary.We like to know why this incident and confrontation was necessary and who was threatened by demonstrating youths.<h4></p> here >>>.......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?....</a></div> ...........................................................................>>>>>>>>>>>><br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igboattire.jpg" align="left" width="220" height="200"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder? <....</a></div> .......<<<<< </center></mynucss></span></font></h5> <br> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <br><center><h4> WE APPEAL TO THE GOVERNOR OF ABIA STATE TO CONSULT WITH THE PEOPLE </h4></center> <center><center><font color="teal" font size="4">We have a saying that charity begins at home.I do not need to interprete the saying to anyone.Abia state is not immune to unrest and mayhem.It is not what anyone desires especially not the governor one would expect.We heard the governor of Abia state lament how the agitation by IPOB was the reason why he could not develop Abia State.What is the reason for the agitation? Perhaps the governor remember there were roads in eastern nigeria when he grew up.There was pipe-borne water.There were very good schools with well motivated teachers.There was electricity.All around Umuahia big boom boxes played loud highlife music from shops to the delight of residents.There were well equipped hospitals.Queen Elizabeth hospital in Umuahia where the governor reside was a world class hospital.Golden Guinea brewery was a world class brewery at the time and top of the line.The Modern Ceramics Limited was a wonderful place to take a child for inspiration.Today we see a people in severe retrogression.And it is not because they are not able to do better.This condition has been induced upon them.So does the governor think the youths have no reason to be angry? What would he have them do? We require our politicians to play a little politics and stop being servile and petty.They should play politics as a means to an end.It is a democracy and they are not anybody's toys.We are not willing to play the democracy of hijacked citizens.If they would not give Abia state help it is because they do not wish to.So let the youths fight for their own future.You are happy with yours our dear governor but these youth have an uncertain future that gets more omnious by the day.</center> <br> <center>If you have no answer to a problem wisdom demands you do not get in the way.If you disagree with them tell them the alternative.Does the governor think the country can survive as presently configured? Well that is a mute question.The nation is on life support presently.Some of us are a little disappointed at the brand of politics played by most politicians from eastern nigeria.Their retail style subservient politics is not how you are able to develop any place.By the grace of God they will live to see how development happens. It will be rapid and it will be unapologetically strong and focused.And it will be beautiful and glorious.We wish all of them well and we want them to live to witness the transformation that will happen in eastern nigeria.We wanted it for the Nigerian state but the people still want to continue to indulge their looters.As usual the people of eastern nigeria have come to a place where change must happen and they know it.It is what the governor is dealing with. Some dexterity is what the governor needs.We advise the Governor not to appoint a "Traditional Ruler" for the people of Afara-Ukwu.They happen to be the best custodians of their own traditions.It serves him well to defer to them rather than use the swagger of his office. He can do it.We do not say he can't.But it will neither serve him nor the people well.We all know what Umuahia means to eastern nigeria and we all want umuahia to remain peaceful and prosperous.Some of the people pressuring him to sow the anarchy he is indicating wanted to destroy the entire people once upon a time.We want the governor to remember that.They now see a chance to set the place ablaze.Is that what the govenor wants? It is not new.He must remember that always.</center> <br> <center>There was a time their goal was to wipe everyone in the area out from the earth.The governor must not play into the hands of those who are looking for a chance to jump in and destroy Igboland and eastern nigeria.If they wish to "deep their feet into the sea" from eastern nigeria they will need to reconfigure the world first.It is not possible to do it without destroying themselves in the attempt.We have GOD who will never allow such to happen.We are able to say so with quiet and humble confidence.It is something the governor should know.We like to tell him that those who work against the project of freeing eastern nigeria from bondage will regret it.He must not be one of them. I advise him because it will be wrong to allow him to place himself on the wrong side of history.Somethings become opportunity to seek peace and reconciliation.Whatever he does he must know Abia state will be peaceful to the extent he understands the import of his own choices.We learnt Boko Haram wants to invade eastern nigeria.We are not going to be bickering over ego and bruised pride.Eastern nigeria has children and friends who are able to keep the space safe.If he misses the train now he might as well forget it.We want him to succeed as a true son of Igboland not go down as an emisary of bondage.</center> <br> <center>But he must work with us.We remind him of veritable Chief Dr.Jaja Nwachukwu.He was known for his love for the truth.We remind him to check history for Jaja Nwachukwu's many clashes with the same people who are putting pressure on him today.They are the ones who see youths many of who are university graduates who protest asking for change as terrorists.But they will encourage armed killers and provide excuses and alibis for them.The "Ugo Ngwa" understood who they are and stayed strong and committed to God and to the service of humanity to the very end.He was wise as they come and was actually the man who received the mantle of authority from Great Britain to guide nigerian democracy.It was he that received the Charter on Independence from Princess Alexandria of Kent.He was able to hold his own with anyone.Let this great son of our motherland be your inspiration.Why does it seem that the governor is rattled by those who seek authority through falsehood and by force? We know how it always ends.</center> <br> <center>As the first Ngwa son to lead in nigeria Chief Jaja Nwachukwu left a tall order and big shoes.Those who will not follow in the step of their own leaders fall far too short.The governor must be careful with the struggle of the youths of eastern nigeria to move the nation forward.They are asking the questions that need to be asked.The governor will not ask these questions.But they must be asked.Why are we in a position of helplessness when we are more than capable of much more? Why is that? We do not want to waste our time and his demanding answers when we are well aware he has none.He must appreciate that gesture and return same.We want to remind him that without them there would have been no nigeria.At least not a nigeria that will have someone like him as governor.He should allow the people of the area to work out something that suits them and maintains peace.If he dabbles he must know every power is not from one person.Sometimes power come from too many people and it is very easy to become isolated.Boko haram is a result of political mix-up.</center> <br> <center>Today it is a nightmare to the whole world.The people of nigeria have watched the different standards to this group and others.The the nigerian government want citizens to accept "repentant" Boko Haram members.IPOB members are non-violent and have been attacked by authorities relentlessly and their member killed in the same country.The worst they could be tagged is a seperatist political party.In democracies these things happen and they are managed by wisdom.Boko Haram becomes repentant after murdering and wasting lives and property.Boko Haram came about as a result of opposition to a southern president who also happens to be a christain.IPOB who are mainly christians are murdered for demanding a better soceity.How nice.Boko haram and Bandits are given photo opportunities with members of the ruling class.They are paid ransome in billions of naira.It begins to seem as though they are on government errand.</center> <br> <center>They are reabsorbed back into the army.And the authorities want us to believe they are not aware of the source of this group? Nigerian youths have often fallen victim to the trap that now await innocent ones that dorn nigerian military uniform in the name of patriotism.The government is seeking the best way to rehabilitate "repentant" Boko haram and bandits. If you ask us we have a suggestion.How about form a national choir make them members and assign them oil blocks as compensation? It really ensures they are fully reintegrated!Such a world of difference. The Igbos and people of eastern nigeria are still answering for declaring Biafra to keep from being wiped out.And that was nearly sixty years ago.Boko Haram is still plunging the country into penury and complete anarchy.Foreign and local investors are scared of the savagery and brutality on display by the group. </center> <br> <center>Their attempt to invade the entire nation is not a secret and they are repentant.And it is acceptable to the government that is being runover? The nigerian government of the day stood by and watched people of eastern nigerian starve to death.There was a coup sponsored by members of the military.It became an excuse to massacre people of eastern nigeria who were not members of the military.The same people who were massacred because nobody wanted them would be invaded when they attempted to seek a refuge in their own land.The world is sponsoring a unique type of peace and unity.The genocide is another event in the list of injustice humanity has allowed to the shame of us all.So the Governor has his job cut out for him. He must work with a great deal of circumspection.The people of Afara-Ukwu need solutions not more problems.There is absolutely no reason anyone should attempt any hubris with them.It is the type of thinking that has ruined a nation that was poised for greatness.</center> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5> here >>>.......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="igbokids.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?....</a></div> ...........................................................................>>>>>>>>>>>><br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="oursis.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder? <....</a></div> .......<<<<< <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <h3> WHO ARE THESE MEN? ARE THEY ACTUALLY SPEAKING FOR NORTHERN NIGERIA?</h3> <center><font color="teal" font size="4" <p>We all remember a military "ruler' in nigeria whose signature appearance was an Idi Amin type bespatacled sunshade face. It turns out he was not very different in character from the man he seemed to admire a lot.Today we have a band of young men from northern nigeria led by a young man who seem to admire the military leader a lot.We have a civilian potential coup maker.He comes out like a military coup leader and makes incendiary statements in a soceity and gets away with it.If he wants to try jail food the government must oblige this guy finally. Other people will just whimper and they are in hot water. Why is that? It appears the government forgot to arrest this man before.I never heard of this man or anyone in his group before they almost precipitated a war.When the elected president of nigeria was away in England on sick leave these men led by this same bespctacled youngman declared southerners especially Igbo 'persona non grata" in northern nigeria.He claimed he was retaliating for those who are agitating for a federation.For God's sake nigeria is suppose to be a federation.Only in nigeria does federation mean something like a colony.We want to remind the world that at this very moment Boko Haram is killing and maiming nigerians. Islamic jihadists are attacking west africans including nigerian communities. For some reasons these men are not aware of any of these realities.We wish to remind nigeria that Abacha episode was not a good place in the history of this nation.Their only problem is with the people of southern nigeria especially the igbos.His "master" was like that too. For some reason they do not mention other people in eastern nigeria.They think they are smart.I have problem with these people for a few reaons.We have never heard of these men before.It means they have really no track record to commend them.They have not accomplished anything with themselves.They might have tons of money like many in nigeria.It is not what we are saying.We know many in northern nigeria who will speak and account for events properly.Every time these people speak they misrepresent facts either due to ignorance or as a pretention to tact. We are disappointed at how bare their effort is.The rape of a nation of accomplished learned men and women by a man like Sanni Abacha is something that we must never forget so quickly.It was accomplished through brutality.It was accomplished through violence.It is always the last resort.We remember how Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged in a gruesome show of shame.Anytime a person of like mind is attempting for power in the space we must all speak up.We do not need it.</p> <br> <p>The government of nigeria issued an order for a lockdown but these men were ferrying cattle and armed men to communities.We know they were because they came out to defend the illegality and dangerous episode.Some very powerful men were providing the resources. That much is now a known fact.The government order was ignored.These men were able to beat all the many checks to arrive at strategic places in southern nigeria.Thanks to their connection of high "pedigree".We are beginning to see the people behind these events.The world must note who these people are.When the next genocide in nigeria happens these are the sponors along with the hands funding and empowering them.They have been placed above reasonable people in northern nigeria.Silenced with terror the other men are now passengers in this furious downhill ride and unfolding coup.Anyone might wish to make Igbo different than how God made them.It is not the first time. But these bunch of non-achievers do not seem to be prepared to represent anyone including themselves.Right now the sponsors of their efforts at destabilizing nigeria are being exposed and identified. And it is thanks to their unschooled and unresonable outbursts.Why are they after the Igbo? Are they the only nigerians complaining about their love for violence and reckless disregard for human life and dignty? Money is not everything.Communities are where people enjoy human association and dignity.You are not going to be anti community and want anyone to accept you within their own space.Why do you send armed people into communities? Yet government will not allow them to arm themselves.It is a contradiction of government intention and a rebellion.Something the ignorant is not able to understand.Now indeed the people must know to protect themselves by any means possible.You can have cash but you might not be able to pay against the forces of nature.If you wish to have a conversation with other people you must first mature to the conversation.A legitimate argument is a force of nature.It is immutable.We tell the people of southern nigeria to understand that if they allow armed people to surround them their liberty is lost.It is worse even than that. It means they have become endangered.It is enough the army and the entire miltary apparatus has been ceased by these people.These foolish muderous outbursts must be redirected to the world to witness our predicament in the nigerian space.</p> <br> <p> Nigerians are having a very mature conversation about how they want to make progress as a soceity.These people do not seem to understand that kind of conversation.You would think the Igbo people are the only people in the world saying they do not want terrorists in their midst.It is foolish to be repeating these kind of behavior.How are they able to have these kinds of positions? What is unity? Who needs such unity? People begin to question who is behind these men? Every adult knows puppets are enabled by people.We must begin to see these men for what they are. Today thanks to gallant nigerians there is democracy. It is no longer possible for these kind of men to use some people in military uniform to plunder the nation.This is their best effort at it.It is not that these men find pleasure in singling out the people of eastern nigeria especially Igbos. Eastern nigeria and the Igbos are a problem to them. There is no chance they will overrun the nation as they have planned.We have the world on alert about their favorite agenda.They love violence.We want to know why they ignore the fact that nigeria is presently fighting a war they instigated.Resources needed by our people are diverted to soceities who do not need them! And some person with pedestrain perception will call the people of eastern nigeria rebels? Like I have always said ignorance is sweet until it is exposed. Actually one should tell these men the people of eastern nigeria were mugged by nigeria.It was a daylight robbery.They had their resources stolen for over seventy years.The world now has the facts.We thank social media for making access to facts and the truth possible.It is the reason some people do not want youths in the soceity they claim to run to study history.They are very afraid of history.And they make it even worse every chance they get.We want someone to prevail on these men to quit threatening the peace of the country.Perhaps they think every time you do not agree with somebody it means you can call them "rebels" and declare war!Like we said ignorance is very sweet until reality challenges it.</p> <br> <p>If nigeria want resources from eastern nigeria it will be on the terms of the citizens of that area.It is what it means to be free. If you take somebody's resources without their approval they are your slaves.It is time to make peace with reality.We have taken this matter to the rest of the world at this point.In any case where is the evidence of the monies stolen for so many years? Nigeria is on the brink.Every place where people like them prevail nations fail and feudal lords take over.Some people are saying before you make nigeria a failed state where fundamentalist war "lords" rule, we are out of here!It makes sense to most people especially those who will be victims.The nation is already in shambles.Education has collpsed.The hospitals are without life saving equipments.There are no roads.Especially in the areas that produce the resources that provide for the nation.Now you want to talk about unity.You are living in a nation and you are above the orders of the government?The nation issues a lockdown order and you find an opportunity to further an agenda of destabilization and war.And you have the audacity to accuse those who call your evil out as "rebels". You must have a nerve! We do not think some people understand the meaning of a democracy. And they are too lazy to try to find out.In a democracy you advocate for your position.</p> <br> <p>You will not make a soceity of people allow you to place the well being of your cattle over their lives. But it is not about that. We knew it was a front and a facade. We asked the world to watch your effort.Your plans were out.You were caught with your hand in the cookie jar.If the world was not watching them pull this stunt you see how they behave? Now they will accuse the victims. It would have been of the lies that become reason for violence and genocide.Ruwanda is fresh in our minds.And so is Biafra.Biafra was not a rebellion.It was an attempt by a people to survive injustice.And by the grace of God they did.Rebellion is what Boko Haram is doing.And you are the one sponsoring them.You use your influence on government to ensure Boko haram members are reabsorbed into our armed forces! You ensure they infiltrate the nigerian army and cause the force unnecessary casualities.Some have destroyed nigeria tossing away the building blocks one by one. And they pretend with a straight face and mouth unity.Your outburst prove it beyond any reasonable doubt.We know you will be behind bars if not for the nature of the politics in nigera.We want the world to know who they are fighting against and who is killing innocent citizens in our space.</p></font> </center> <a href="challenge.html"/>-----------------Where Are The change makers? </a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3>We Need a different kind of leadership</a><br>...........................<p><a href="providence.html"/>RIGHT TIME IS NOW.....Empower The People.....RE-ENGINEER OUR SOCEITY TO SERVE THE PEOPLE <br> <br><div valign="left" ><img src="twin.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..... </a></div> . <br> <br><div valign="left" ><img src="oldtwin.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>..... ....</a></div> .......... <br> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5> <br> <br> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <center><h4> WE HAVE A USEFUL CONFESSION FROM A FUNDAMENTALIST GROUP.</h4></center> <center><font size="4" color="Blue"> <center>An Oxford trained nigerian with a doctorate degree Dr Obadiah Mailafia has alleged that intelligent reports from repentant Boko Haram members indicate and implicate politicians as we had always known.In an interview with Nigeria Info FM the eminent scholar said the Fulani were planning to wage a war in nigeria by 2022.We suspected that.We knew there was a reason for the mass infiltration into nigeria of able and fit individuals of their stock since early 2019.He said they have moved logistics arms and money to prepare.He said they have embeded themselves in every part of nigeria.According to him there are three phases in the plan.Boko Haram, herdsmen and bandits are the first phase.The second phase is going to be targeted assasinations which is expected to start by 2021.This they know will precipitate the final conflict and war by 2022.Dr Obadiah had names and confirmed exactly what many of us have observed.This confirms our worst fears that there is not going to be a peaceful resolution of the nigeria quagmire.</center> <br> <center>So where does this leave the rest of us? The entire leadership spectrum in eastern nigeria must pay attention.Our people living outside nigeria must know that we must consider what our people in nigeria are saying or doing in light of their own safety.They are not going to do anything to endanger their lives and we must never insinuate that they do.We are suppose to take the situation as our challenge.We do not have a lopesided military structure with a noose around our necks.Nigeria has been taken over totally by murderers. The government it appears is hostage too.Like other people in our situation we must have a wholistic approach to the eastern nigerian problem or our children will be confronted by it.The presidency of nigeria is not anything when there are terrorists who can overrun Abuja on a whim.It is important to force a negotiation that settles these issues or it is better to move on.Any person who wants to take responsibility for what has happened to nigeria as an idividual is out of his mind.It must be resolved collectively for anything meaningful to be achieved.We are suppose to be in a secular country and we watch people blindfolded and shot at point range in the name of religion. Somethings have been drastically altered.And it needs to be addressed properly.</center> <br> <center>Any person whose ambition overides this great need will have many headaches.It should be his own personal problems.It must not become the destiny of an entire race of people.Nigeria need urgent help.If this help does not come in some way the country will be fractured.The fault lines are all clear for anyone to see.The people of eastern nigeria as a community are fighting an existential threat.Nigeria is in debt up to the eyelids. So what will Igbo presidency do for any ordinary Igbo man? The ordinary people in Katsina are under seige.Their lives have been turned upside down by the hoodlums that have hijacked nigeria. Paid killers are rampaging the nation causing terror to settle scores.The president is from katsina state and he is unable to keep the entity safe.This can't continue.These are not small issues.No soceity can survive under such circumstances.We now know who is behind the religious or ethnic massacres going on in nigeria.We knew there was a quiet preparation going on.We knew they were omnious but had no idea how elaborate it is.</center> <br> <center>Their cover blown wide open "Miyetti Allah" the organisation that claim to "protect" the fulani herdsmen and the nightmare nigeria has become is not mincing words. According to their spokesperson they have a date set to launch a fulani militia or vigilante throughout the thirty six states of nigeria.As if the country is not in enough mess already.It is a short cut of calling for war already.Every state in nigeria has a government.And nigera is a federation."Miyetti Allah" as a religious group has its rights.But it has absolutely no right to breach the state governments.It is criminal and vandalistic to make such a proclaimation in a nation with an elected federal government.Whenever we find the name of God associated in anything we pause.God is the Author of life. Is it possible for the wise to build or create a work and then destroy it? We know the wise create for display and exhibition to teach knowledge.If we engage in destroying the work of the wise we can't claim to be wise.We know many have used the name of GOD for all sorts of evil.But GOD is not evil.We must know God by HIS work.Those who destroy lives with so much impunity must not use the name of God as excuse.When they do we should never take then serious.God has character.We see and observe that character in Nature.It is incendiary to use religion to advance political causes.But many have done this with very disasterous consequences.To a very large extent nigeria has been a victim of this mindset before. We in eastern nigeria are determined not to be part of a repeat.The Nigerian government that has allowed these men to act without restraint might intervene now before it is too late.</center> <br> <center>When everyone begins to respond to this kind of breach governments collapse.It might be the goal of those behind these activities. "Miyetti Allah" will not be able to go to eastern nigeria to lunch a muslim fulani militia among Igbo people for instance.Who can think such an idea is conceived as peaceful?.It is a declaration of war against the Christians in the region. "Miyetti Allah" will not expect the christains there to accept such blackmail.It is too tall an expectation.It has to be made clear for all intent and purposes they are looking for very big trouble.If there are fulanis in eastern nigeria they are protected under the same laws which protect all other citizens in the states.It will be unthinkable for anyone to imagine that tribal militias will guide and protect every ethnic group in nigeria.So why do we have a country? We have been saying that the reason for vandalizing nigeria is to have a failed state so as to push an organised religious uprising.Here we finally are! If anyone is under the illusion they can smuggle arms and men into the area and declare war suddenly they have another thing coming to them.Southern nigeria had called on the United Nations and other world bodies to institute oversight into the killings and ethninc cleansing going on presently in nigeria.This case must also be made for the records to the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States.We must make this matter known to them now.It is existential and it must not be treated casually as is everything else in the care of this group of "leaders".</center> <br> <center>Their declaration for a nationwide militia is untenable and will hasten the collapse of the nigerian arrangement.We have a man of Dr. Mailafia standing speak to the attempt to even destroy more lives.So far the world is appalled at the genocide going on in nigeria.We do not think this is a matter for our ears only.We need to take this to the rest of the world.Considering that this country has cost some people more than three million lives this must be given the urgent attention it deserves.We must place the nearly six thousand lives lost this year to so called bandits and herdsmen in proper context.It is ironic the people being accused for the loss of lives are threatning an even more organised action.It seems some in authority are actually behind the near descent into anarchy in the space.We have an even more existential threat now than Boko Haram it appears.The spokesman for "Miyetti Allah" said they have been working with Vigilante Group of Nigeria(VGN).We see why opposition are scared to death.According to him the organisation has agreed to partner with them.We have an explosive issue ladies and gentlemen! The nigeria state is fully hijacked.</center> <br> <center>Our military has been breached and compromised by the mix of reabsorbing so called repentant Boko Haram and the use of private army to pursue a political agenda.It is nothing the rest should take lightly.It is a big revelation and an early warning about what is coming.Those who are talking about restructuring must now understand they have to think about alternatives.Nigeria would have been a great place for us all.Our founders had negotiated a nation with promise.The words of their agreement and their honor does not inspire us.Yet we claim to be patriotic.Their intergrity and sacrifice does not inspire us to add to their own work.Yet we have those who want us to believe they love nigeria so much? We like to know what they have sacrificed for the good of nigeria.Perhaps they think squandering the future of citizens is a sign of patriotism.We know the regions were all each very particular about its own growth.It is how competition works. Even if each of the regions wanted the upperhand is that not natural? After all politics is local.We always speak with our native audience in mind.It is how you advocate and represent people.We call it a "fight".It is an alternative to warfare.Some people do not understand that.They want the actual war and bloodshed.Their ideas negate the very essence of a democracy. Right now these people are trying hard to introduce the religious anarchy that is destroying lives half a world away into nigeria.And many of them are even unaware of what they are doing. Nobody said anyone is not free to practice any faith they want.But they must truely respect the right of others.Our founders thought all that through.Our so called leaders today never even considered such.</center> <br> <center>And they think they qualify to give us a constitution.So they flunked the initial easy quiz for true patriotism.They rejected a constitution which afforded them a nation and a platform.In a place like nigeria the constitution is everything.You have no commonality without it.It is how we entered this mess.Without the constitution that is what it is, a mess indeed.These people could not be any more different! We leave the mess behind by returning to that constitution.We must do so with a mindset to respect the spirit and letter of the consitution with the benefit of our ugly experiences.It is the initial first step to meet those calling for full seperation half way.And pray it placates them.But they choose to do nothing at all.You go from a secular nation to one run by a sharia chief justice.We now see that chief Obafemi Awolowo was right.He called the country " a mere geographical expression". I say "ouch"! It is belated I know. However if in 2020 you are fighting over "cattle colonies" in autonomous states something is wrong.If the chief justice of a secular nation understands only sharia law, then someone has the wrong ideas about the relationship.If after over one hundred years nigeria still fails infant one class exam we know danm well Chief Awolowo was right.When you go from being a secular country to one having an atmosphere of religious hegemony it is serious. It is a very long big jump.You are never going to be able to paper over such mighty gulf. If they will not talk, one little more such careless jump and it is all over!Return the nation to the first constitution.It creates a semblance of a country at least.It moves the space back to a clear possibility.Our founders and their legacy are way taller than these men who parade themselves as leaders today.Most of them have itching fingers and it is hard to believe they understand honor or intergrity.Those men gave us independence.What have these ones done? Put their generation and the next in debt.It means they effectively did everything they can possibly do to put their nation in bondage.We can't compare them with the men who gave us the constitution they tossed away.And it was hard diligent work that they were in no position whatsoever to replicate.</center> <br> <center>Our founders were focused and selfless men.They could have taken their own comfort which is all these crop of men care about.In that and by that fact alone they have our vote.They negotiated a federal government based on autonomous regions of nation states.The nigeria they negotiated was secular.Today everything they agreed to have all been breached.You do not have a country and you are running around making noise about elections and all.Where is the country they are governing? It is absurd.It will lead to more trouble.And we need none of that.Some of us try to blame the colonialist for what is going on.I beg to differ.We like to understand the character of people with whom we have any type of issue.We think the British government is much too sophisticated for the type of mess nigeria has become.The United Kingdom will not engage in the type of mess going on in nigeria.It is the kind of thing that is hard on the conscience and reputation.Somebody would have been held accountable for it.Once the agitation for independence started they realized the people had woken from the trauma of defeat.They are very good at applying the psychology of a people.It was at play throughout the episode in africa.Once they had noticed the resurgence of nationalism they folded the Union Jack and left.The truth is they changed and changed strategy.Do they have ways to influence the events in nigeria? I believe they do.However to blame them for all our woes will not be a fair account of the events. Our people have had their own chances to do things differently.They made their own decisions and choices.To that extent they must accept responsibility.What we are witnessing is the attempt of novices and amateurs.It is like a lion cub attempting to eat a crocodile.The people of eastern nigeria are an ancient civilization. We want the British Government to stay out of this one this time.Unless it is to prevail on nigeria to return to the founding constitution and the word of their honor.If the call fails we in eastern nigeria are done with the experiment. Politicians from eastern nigeria must return home to consult with the people.Nigeria will be returned to the foundations or eastern nigeria will not be part of its killing fields.We have been there. Done that!.</center> <br> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5> <br> <br> <br> <img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <br> <font size="4" color="blue">THE FREEWHEELING STYLE OF THE NIGERIAN COURTS AGAIN UNFOLDS IN BAYELSA STATE</font> <br> <center><font size="4">We have an unfolding drama in Bayelsa State where the courts appear to be working in tandem with the central or so called federal government.But it is a tragedy.It feels like the military government all over again.The learned men and women have sold their hearts and conscience for naira and kobo.The judges are behaving like unlearned and confused people. It is hard to believe what we are witnessing in Bayelsa state.At what point does litigation end? Does the nigerian constitiution offer the electorate the right to have a government free from intimidation? Or will the elctorate look to the drama from the court houses from one election to another? Democracy is being redefined by the ubiquitous nigerians. It appears that the federal government feels that APC must control every oil producing state.If the electorate thinks otherwise the courts must correct the position.And we are looking at trouble.The people in those states must resist the diabolical presumption that feeds such mindset.Who is behind the unending tussle and petition warfare in the state of Bayelsa and Imo State? We were of the opinion litigation for an election is timed.If it is not why have a process at all? Imo state now has someone who was fourth in votes in an election as their governor.</center> <br> <center>If anyone thinks there is no reason for the confussion then who is contemplating undoing the Amnesty program? Somebody wants to start trouble in the area.It is certain that this government has not demonstrated capacity to initiate any solutions.So what is it going to be? Why are they upending existing solutions? They wanted to import people from other countries and arm them against their own citizens. What do this people think we are, fools? If your equipment has twenty percent failure rate you toss it away and you have nothing else? Why is it they only think about creating conflicts? What is it going to be? An Oil war with the people of the Creeks and the shores? Nigeria must be careful.If the people tinkering with these matters open another war front in southern nigeria the country called nigeria is finished. What is the reason that the government wants to reverse the Amnesty program of Shehu Musa Yar'Adua? So if you have a problem with an equipment you throw it away.And you do that even before you think of an alternative? Why do we take these matters together? It is because they are related.We are witnessing a quick descent into fascism.We have people sentenced to hanging for playing music.We have mile high fines for to hinder free speech.We have journalists jailed because public officials are irritated by them.</center> <br> <center>We have irresponsibility and lack of decorum on every turn. Was this what so many of our people perished for? The nigerian courts just like the lower and upper chamber have been pocketed by the executive.The nigerian government is beginning to show a tendency towards authoritarian control.We like to remind them the world is interested in nigeria.Two hundred million people are a lot of people. And we have a world that has become more aggregated. We must think and reason our own safety in eastern nigeria.The people of eastern nigeria will not live in a colony of anyone.They fought and won independence for nigeria. If nigeria is recolonized they will liberate themselves.Let it be made clear to those who look for war that they might be far worse off by war.Every war is a gamble.They might start one and find themselves at the receiving end.We know unfortunately the foot soldiers are just obeying orders. It is important that the men with itchy fingers think very properly before they leap into the inferno they themselves have ignited.</font></center> <br> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5></td> <br> <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="purple">THE MASSACRE OF PROTESTERS AND BRUTALIZATION OF CITIZENS IN LEKKI WAS SIMILAR TO IVA VALLEY IN NOVEMBER 1949***<center></font> <br> <p>I have no intention of recounting the history of the coal miners ordeal in Iva Valley in 1949.The truth is that citizens and indegenes were massacred by a colonial police force for protesting low wages at the mines. We know the actual reason the colonial government killed twenty one indegenes was to create fear.For the first time in the history of colonization the Colonial government feared a rebellion and anarchy.The miners were demanding better pay and were arguing they were actually the owners of the coal.We know the argument though technically correct was politically frought with danger and it did cause trouble. Four hundred policemen went to Iva Valley and were unable to end the unrest.Additional troups were requested and as many as another four hundred were sent.Eight hundred armed policemen descended on Iva valley but were overpowered in a riot which was increasingly turning into a fearsome mob.The authorities panicked and ordered use of leathal force.It resulted into the killing of twenty one people.An action the government had intended for the purpose of intimidating the people instead angered and galvanized them to seek change.The colonial government quickly set up Fitzgerald commision of inquiry and tried the usual popular patch work but to no avail.Songs of mourning and lamentation against colonialism became popular and were used in every gathering to shore up support for the movement.</p> <br> <p>Eleven years later nigeria gained independence.Today it is clear to nigerians that nigeria is a colony of the FUlani.In trying to subvert the Igbo family meeting the "Ohaneze" the impunity was clearly unmasked.The Igbos are dealing with an imposition of a governor by the Supreme Court in one of the Igbo states.We know that the many who doubted the declaration of the Sardauna of Sokoto that the country named nigeria was their father's estate now see he was serious.If it was a prophecy it is now made reality.If it was a marching order it has been fulfilled.He said Northern nigeria was to see "the South as a conquered territory".He commanded that "the conquered people must not be allowed the control of their own affairs".For the many who will start to say this is a fabrication the article was published in the Parrot newspaper of October 12.A declaration celebrated and marked with grand durbars throughout the whole entire northern nigeria. Even for africans that was too much of an insult! For me it was better to be residents of a British Colony than to be part of a fulani muslim estate.I happen to be christain and Igbo.It will be difficult to accept an arrangement as the one nigeria has become on a permanent basis.We have appealed to no avail. Over the years the Igbos have tried to get the rest of nigeria to understand the problem the configuration of nigeria posed to progress and development to no avail.In a last ditch effort they declared a independence and sovereignty over their territory but were subverted by the western world.</p> <br> <p>Today the daily massacre in nigeria tops the number killed in Iva Valley in November 18 1949. Yet the present government will not even lift a finger or acknowledge the sad situation.The massacre of twenty one Igbos moved them to fight for change.The present one is far worse and there will be change without a doubt.We shall again be free of internal colonization.We are going to rid ourselves of the burden and bloodbirth without a question.For the people here life is sacrosanct .It would have been better for the nations to have gone their seperate ways in 1960.Chief Awolowo of Western Region wanted such a prospect.The Sardauna of Sokoto leader of Northern Region wanted it.The only person to dare dream of a nigeria that could exist as one was Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.It is quite clearly what was in their best interest.It appears the desire to work together which Dr. Azikiwe the pan africanist pioneered is not shared by the rest.If today after six decades it has failed we must accept reality and move on.It is the only real option here since the willingness to work together to solve problems is not there. You will not have several hundred million people and not be willing to meet their needs. It is stoking an earthquake and fire at the same time.The idea of unity by collaboration is not shared by our compatriots from northern nigeria.The many of us who had thought it was possible to make reason prevail have not made any headway.And so much precious time and lives have already been wasted.</p> <br> <p>Now that it has become clear to us all that we might never have the kind of understanding and trust that will help build a nation out of nigeria let us accept the reality.Let us quit forcing the issue any further. And now do the needful without any further bloodshed. It is not as if northern nigeria really want nigeria.If they did they would not yank off twelve of their states and make them a sharia nation without word and consultation with the rest. We know it is the free resources they really really like.And who would not wish so for their own "father's estate"? They never actually wanted to be part of the nigeria the others will agree to. It took for someone to tell them it was " to be their father's estate" that the entire northern nigeria exploded in festivity and celebrations. We on our own part never agreed with the British to become part of "an Estate to anyone".It is our position and we maintain our sovereignty.In 1966 when the counter coup was carried out the aim was to liberate Northern Nigeria.It is wrong even evil to allow the next generation of people who are ignorant of these facts to suffer for our inaction.It will be prudent to cobble this thing up again only to have it collapse on innocent people.It must be the reason the people of the core Northern nigeria are very reluctant about restructuring or even returning to a proper constitutional framework.How could they negotiate with "conquered people and vasaals"? On their part this decree which they fraudulently call a constitution ensures and assures them of their "estate". It is that or nothing. We now share their reluctance but obviously not for the same reasons.We have made all the sacrifices and are no longer willing to continue the arrangement.It is very hurtful to our own sense of nationhood and progress as a free people.We do not see the reason why we lost four million precious souls.Our request is to agree on what needs to happen.On the other hand if the dialogue will not happen it means every region even nations are free to excercise their own sovereignty.This has become very necessary in the face of mounting insecurity and constant loss of lives.</p> <br> <br> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <br><center><font size="4" color="purple">WHEN LEADERSHIP FALL ON THE LAPS OF THE INEXPERIENCED AND NOVICE</CENTER></font> <br> <p><h4>We have watched with consternation the various outbursts of the group which call its self the "Arewa Consultative Forum".In many of the accounts in the social and print media this group is refered to as "northern elders". It is clear to some of us that these people could be elders to those who present the accounts.However we know the elders in Northern Nigeria! We know them by name and their contribution to national discourse.But who are these people who are trying very hard to cause the disintegration of nigeria? It is ironic they were the strongest voice in the creation of the twelve sharia states in contiguous areas in the north.So they have a nation of like minded people in their own pocket.It might be a victory for them but comes with a price they never considered.All through the discussion that materialized in the country called nigeria from the 1940s to 1960 the issue of the place of religion in the polity came up.Every time the agreement was to leave such to the individual.It was a choice that was very well informed.In many places that had placed religion within the authority of the state the results are very troubling.The incendiary results have been the reason it is avoided.These people ignored this reality and have made religion a very big issue in their own part of the country.For a country which has various nations of people with very different values it is a very bad idea.It is obvious there is no chance in hell they can change the others.The cultures are set and the traditions are with the people.What they have done is divide the country and they do not yet recognize that.It is how insensitive they truely are.They are the most vocal in the area and yet it is "sound and fury".They pretend to be for one nigeria yet everything they have done is contrary and rather inimical.We recall their very troubling "quit notice" to the Igbos in northern nigeria.It was at a time the president was away on account of his ailing health.Nothing could be more inauspicious at the time.They understand this presidents tendency towards them and they abuse it deliberately.We believe they knew what they did was quite capable of upending the uneasy peace in the soceity.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>We saw the Vice President at this time Acting President swing into action.He toured the entire nation.He met nigerians in their communities. The various stake holders were invited to Aso Rock.The Vice President then Acting as President held consultation with the various groups.The looming danger to the nation occassioned by the outbursts of the toddlers pretending to be elders was averted.Recently the Vice president had warned against the danger in the divisive actions and language that has become the pattern these days in the polity.These bunch attacked him.It has become their reaction to everything he says or does.Up until recently they have all but put the vice presidency out of work.And this is a position that is guaranteed in their so-called constitution.Perhaps because he is not "Arewa".We like to warn these people that we are all tired of their insults.We know that in their heads there is no nigeria.They have "Arewa" and the colony.However this only exists in their heads and their ill-equipped minds.The Vice President is an accomplished citizen.He is a world citizen.We are not able to say the same of those who attack him regularly.Perhaps they should look more carefully at the facts.The man has done more to help the soceity than all these people put together.They must not be blindsided by the fact of his ethnicity.We like to ask them to please pretend there is still a country.We know they are very excited.They have achieved their goal of having their "Arewa".We also know something about the Greater Sahara.We all know about the new african civilization that is a religious purity! Do they think we do not have the facts? We have the dosier of the Libya connections.We have no ill-feelings. After all we are all africans.We have our own belief system and must be mindful of anything that hampers it.But we wait and see.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>I was a teenager when I worked with The Department of Geological Survey in Kaduna in the 70's.It is very troubling that the minerals in the northern part of nigeria are not being exploited by the federal government like petroleum products from southern nigeria.It was a general belief that it was the policy of northern nigeria to leave the resources for the future.The geologists at the time all of them southerners used to joke that the day northern nigeria wants to exploit these resources they will find a way to break nigeria up.Quite honestly I believe that is what they have done.How can they decide to Islamize half of nigeria without considering the feelings of the rest of the country? You behave like that when you have already determined the outcome.It is for the same reason they refuse restructuring.To them it is a waste of time.It is just a matter of buying time and taking whatever they can get.The conditioning in nigeria which transferred from colonialism must end.Citizens must recognize that liberty also means you take responsibility for your own wellbeing.We love to depend on the "master".The makers of this policy know the south will not fight the way northern nigeria fought for the crude oil in Okirika and Abonema.It is the reason there is so much poverty.Our schools are in worse shape than under the colonial era quality wise.We teach our children it is alright not to think.It is alright not to be original.We teach them to just aim for a "peaceful" life.They are not allowed to study history.I can write a book that covers the earth about this! It says you are nothing at all.The children from northern nigeria learn about jihad all day.It provides al their need.Sometimes it is necesary to disturb the silence of death with the noise of life.It must happen for africa to find its place.We must do what is necessary inspite of the agency of detrogressin enthroned to ensure it never happens.Southerners especially christians must think about the future also.Northern nigeria to my mind has moved on.</h4></p> <br> <p><h4>We believe in the principle of mutuality.If they have found the panacea to a peaceful mutual co-existence that benefits them better we must wish them well.However they must end the pipe dream of looking for participation in the lives of the others.It does not work like that.There will be no such things until the mode and methods are agreed upon.If they play with these facts they will meet the kind of realities they have never encountered.We know they have been very well shelterd.Today the world is changing in form and content.If they rely on the old configuration they think they have mastered they will fall over and very hard.The order they know have no permanency of entities only intention and purposes.They thought they are now on top of the world.We remind them these things change from time to time.If they are bad followers they will not make good leaders.All they have done is mine the steps of the present government.It is not what we call support.It is pure diabolism.If they love nigeria and behave as they do there is nobody in their right mind who will like for them to come into anything they wish to keep together.They are not as important as they think they are! They are just spoilers.Nigerians know the people who will speak from that part and get their attention.We suggest they get the leadership of one with some track record.Such might show them a thing or two.It always helps to be led by one who understands the issues.</h4> </p></mynucss></span></font></h5></td> <br> <br> <br> <H6 class="myclass"><span style="color:brown"><div valign="center"><font size="4" color="teal"> <br> <br> <center>THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER WAR IN NIGERIA IN WHICH THE SOUTH FIGHTS AGAINST ITS OWN.<center></font> <br> <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<p><center><font size="4" color="purple">The people of southern nigeria waged a great effort to become free.They were tricked into a relationship which they would never get used to. Many say nigeria never fought to be free. They fought to remain free. They fought at the start and fought very hard.Our detractors seem to be unaware of that fact.It was the war fatigue that made it necessary to negotiate the end of colonization.Nigeria is a nation that started with wars and humiliation of the african people in the space.They must not continue to act as though they have been damaged.They as a people existed before colonization.And they did quite well for themselves.The artifacts of the civilization speaks to that fact.Nigeria has the men and women who can cause change and they will and the time is now.Nigerian people are not really as docile as the world has come to think and believe.Every segment of what was cobbled together as nigeria fought the colonialist.It is such a great irony that the wars against the entities were actually waged using the hausa men as the fighting men and foot soldiers.If you are wondering the reason the nigerian army is in such a great shape now you know why!</center> <br> <center>Look who is now the victim.The colonialist did not want to expend the lives of their own citizens. It is a sad situation as we watch hausa youths drowning along with youths from other tribes in africa who wish to eacape to find better lives.Their colonial buddies dumped them very fast!When you see these youths being parked as sardines in trailers to be used to prosecute "RUGA" colonies you are reminded of history.It is as if we are watching another Ruwanda massacre in the making.This is perhaps the right time for the citizens organizations namely the IGBO UNION and other such organization to investigate the possibilities of seeking redress for the vandalism taking place in south east nigeria.It might be by such actions that we prevent a full blown war.We know some people prefer warfare since they feel they have nothing to loose.There has to be a very direct way to confront this evil without allowing another attempt to undermine the effort people of eastern nigeria yet again. We have heard the song of being the true nigerian and it is now sickening to us.We have lost everything and have nothing more to give for the sake of nigeria! It is time for us to love ourselves more than nigeria.We see another big effort to start a conflict by those who like to serve other people and betray their own.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspUnfortunately it gets even worse for africa and her children.But it need not be so! Again a new elite wants to "use" some people.They have learned how to use their own.The new elites are defined by unbridled self-indulgence and promotion tinged with a form of complex that devalues and undermines community.They all have one thing in common; a penchant for sacrificing everything and everyone around them.African nations will still be colonies today if these men were in charge.It would have been enough to offer them the many privileges the liberators had and still pressed for freedom. The new elite day dreams becoming the new master citizen and "new colonialist".Unfortunately the local colonialists in this case is attempting to re-colonize angry frustrated and bitter victims who have learned from their past.Nigeria is full of that type of game of musical chairs.You can now understand the origins.Oba Kosoko was the first eminent citizen to be booted out with the pretext that he supported slavery.Imagine the people who booted him facilitated slavery.Oba Akitoye was installed and Lagos became a crown colony in 1861.In 1884 after the Berlin conference the Oil River Protectorate was declared and became a British protectorate.This was to become a trigger to many conflicts in the area. The Ijebu Kingdom was defeated in 1892.This was followed by the Edo kingdom in 1897.The Edo war was hard fought from 1896 to 1897.The kingdom capitulated finally towards the end 1897.The Anglo Aro war was the worst for the colonialist as the Igbo people resorted to unpredictable strategies and suprise attacks and sabotage against the colonialist.The Aro conferate military resistance which began in 1901 ended in 1902 in an "armistice".But it was not the end of Igbo resistance to colonialism. They were the first to resort to civil disobedience in the space when everything else failed.It lingered to the very end.The Sokoto caliphate fell in 1900.Kano was conquered in 1903.The amalgamation of 1912 was the cobbling together of these various patches of armistice "agreements" and arm twisting of these nations and peoples.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspOne might find it a little strange that the hausa was used in the military campaigns and then dumped.But it is how oppression works.There is a saying that "there is no paddyman or buddy in the jungle". There is the boss and the others.When the Yoruba and Igbo people and other southerners started to demand to be represented in policy making the colonialist were suprised. After resisting them to no avail some of the pliable ones were appointed to "serve".They made a point to sort of "demote" the hausa who was beginning to learn how to act in an assertive manner like the southerners. But it was a game of numbers.And they had a plan "B". They were all wedged using the fulani.The Fulani are fewer in number and more pliable.The hausa was not going to be helpful because their population made them a threat.If they found a good leader they could become a big problem. So they were demoted by design. We can really begin to see how our many problems began.The game of fortifying the northern part of nigeria was not for the sake of the africans there.The colonialist needed the leaverage to control the "rambunctious southerners.The idea was never to have a united entity.It was never the goal of the colonialist and should never have been.The colonialist has a homeland to provide for and build.The colony are a different people.These were people who were different and did things in their own ways now all taken hostage by another entity.Is the colonialist suppose to allow them develop affinity so they can build strength to oppose him? It will be foolish to allow such a situation.It was not the goal.The hostage taker wanted the resources both human and material for the good of the homeland.He had to devise a means to achieve that goal.It was his own challenge and own goals.Today our people must know how to redefine their new challenge.If they want to build a nation they will start from a founation and build with structures that are determined by what type of soceity they hope to build.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspIf they want to use anything that rejects this basis it is a waste of time.There is nothing and no way on earth the scenario we described earlier can produce trust and collaboration among the various entities.The collapse of colonialism came when the people recovered from the defeat and found their voices.One must give the British credit for the swiftness with which they attended to the various modes of agitation. When it became clear the people were no longer deceived by the idea of being a protectorate they knew it was time to move on.The nigerian project will collapse for the same reason.We urge the leaders of thought and elites who have "ruled" nigeria to try and get their act together.The various agitations are not an aberation.What is a mirage and aberation is the idea of a "united' nigeria.What is the basis of such unity?If a constitution bestowed by those who would not respect one in the first place is a basis for unity the logic is twisted and upside down.Nigeria was founed based on the constitution they rejected.They did not renegotiate the so called country with the stake holders.What we have in nigeria is really uncharted waters.What will two hunders million people do when they are victims of a hijack? The world is about to find out.It is a very clear misplacement of priorities and it is taking a very heavy toll.This clear imposition and misrepresentation must be corrected or the nation has already been divided by nature.It will be foolish to expect anything else.The fault lines are much too deep to be papered over and the repeated chorus of peace and unity is as futile as having a nnation in the first place. The elected men and women must act quickly.If they would not the rest are moving on.It is such times that it gets tricky.But nations survive their oppressors and impostors.We understand the trick of invoking religion to whip up sentiment among some yoruba muslims.If someone calls you an infidel it does not get any worse than that.It means there is no sympathy for whatever you profess as religion and faith.Therefore in the matter of seeking safety of lives and property we must all know it is united we stand and divided we fall. And the time to speak out is now.If someone is armed and you are not the argument is one sided.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspWhen the nations and her peoples realize they are being used and they find their voices they will break the shackles again.The way out is to use the negotiation that was reached by these entities when they chose to work together to found their own soceity.It is very impossible to have a plebicite in nigeria today.One reason is that the nation is not in a position to fund one. The second reason is that it will be a phoney process.Since independence in 1960 every important input from the population is usually rigged by those who prefer anarchy.The nigerian military were not in a position to trvialize an event such as the plebicites and numerous consultations to form a union of nation states.It is how you have anything to call a country from a geographical,linguistic diverse entity like nigeria.They might have thought it is easy to replace an agreement reached by the people by military fiat.Man were they wrong!They should have asked the more established nations.They also thought they could solve the other issues like learning to build and respect institutions.Unfortunately they made the problems far worse.They complained about bribery and corrution but the military gave us General Sanni Abacha.What he did was take over the entire nation.Nigeria became his property.Such behaviors are matters too serious for letters of the law.They are matters of the heart and mind. It is one thing to make a coup.It is another thing to build a nation. Colonization is one thing but cobling different people together and then "governing" them as an entity is another.Some people do not want the work.And it is typical that they hate hard work.But nation building is very hard work.The military acted as though they have an organic society. But they were presiding over many nations that came together by chance and agreed on how they can work together.They tossed the agreement out and we have been going through the motions and talking about unity but there is no nation yet.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspNigeria is not an organic being.The only instrument that gave it life is the 1954 constitution.It gave rise to 1960 when nigeria became an "independent" nation and 1963 when it became a united "Federal republic".It is different for an organic entity with same culture and lifestyle and unifying historical bonds.We must remember the entities were each "defeated" by the British.I realize how we hate to accept our people were defeated.But for what reason will the Union Jack be raised in Eko or Ijebu or Umuahia or Sokoto? It says it all.They existed in their own right.And then they were conquered and subverted. But they still found their voices afterwards.No matter how many wars are fought the same exact things will repeat.Nigerians or the africans living in the space called nigeria can do something which is helpful to their growth as a people.They can work together to build a soceity.If we are looking to unite africa should we not start with the one given to us by Providence? If we assume here that there is a chance any one segment of nigeria claims the military but still it is no guarantee for them to forge peace.Military might does not translate to conquest or guarantee peace.Consensus and agreement are the ways to achieve understanding and then peace.If they want to see the youth of africa prosper they help nurture the culture of peace.These young men should be taught crafts,given life skill like repairing broken equipments such as cars.They should be taught how to relate with other people in an atmosphere of mutuality.Most of them have never experienced such.Instead they are handed guns.They have never learned anything about life and the values of life.It is a grave evil to hand them deadly weapons.It is evil with no bounds.Unfortunately the guilty ones are among us and we see them and they see us!</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspInstead of beating the drums of war the men and women who call themselves leaders should initiate dialogue.Rather than that they are busy recruiting idle youths from around africa in the name of religion.What type of evil is that? How is it this people are intent upon keeping the african space in perpetual lack? How come they always choose war mongering as a first resort? Leadership is about solving problems not creating them.When the people are agitated you initiate dialogue so they can deliberate on those issues and find answers to them.Now we are free.We do not have anyone to help set the stage for us to have a conversation with one another. The British are gone.They can't help in that direction.We are now "independent".Our experience in africa is that some of those who acquire influence and wealth are confused how to react when there is conflict.Instead of being a source of strength to soceities that have made them they resort to hegimomy and primordial instincts.Men like Felicien Kabuga of Ruwanda who became a fugitive instead of a bright light of hope in Ruwanda.In nigeria some rich people are flexing their muscles.Unfortunately as usual in the wrong way.We blame those who use these men and all.However these men wanted to be used.They deceived themselves more than the people who trusted them.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspGeneral Idi Amin of Uganda and General Sanni Abacha of nigeria are other examples of how the african people define themselves and portray very negative image of the soceity.Our leaders must learn how to build their own communities and soceities.Lately africa was posting unbelievable growth year after year.This was largely due to some leaders who have emerged and taken the challenge as a badge of honor.We knew the people who want africa to remain their garden will never relent.Nigeria needs that kind of leadership very urgently.Our elected men and women must act with poise and courage.It is important for them to remember they are there as a result of courage and sacrifice of nigerians.We remember the men and women some of whom paid with their lives to have a democratic soceity.It is important to always keep them in mind.They represent the people and their aspirations and can't take cover under the pretext of a constitution which is not able to keep peace.And we all know why.The people have nothing to do with it.As so many are killed and houses burnt, and entire communities are sacked they must not as representatives of the people accept such as a normal.They are not leaders just because they have ten-mile motorcade or rather pile-up.They are suppose to solve problems.If they choose to do nothing the ethnic nations will pick up arms and defend their homelands from marauders.It is what they have done from time.If the nigerian nation will not grow up to its responsibilities the agitations will become real fault lines.</font></center></font></span> <br> <br> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="adaeze.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="newagitations.html"/>.Click here for article....Make Life better for them...It is time</a>... here >>>.......<br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?....</a></div> .......<<<<<<< <br> <br> <center><h6><font color="black">THE COURTS IN LAGOS AND GOV. ORJI UZO KALU!</h6></center> <br> <br> <p>We would like to let the the Igbo people know that they must resist the temptation to be the ones to provide the sacrificial personalities to the nigerian state.It is over with.The time has come to make those who are so inclined to understand it will be resisted very vehemently.Nigeria is corrupt.The institutions are screeming corruption.It is vissible in the highways and the by-ways.Corruption with capital "C" is that the nation descended on a region that had something of worth (in this case crude oil) and mugged the region.Gave the region a serious beat down.The world watched and "condemned the unnecessary bloodshed".Our world did nothing as children in millions were starved to death and others were killed by guns and bombs supplied by the same people who issued the tepid statements urging "reconciliation" time to time.A segment of the nation was surrounded and pinned to a cage and subjected to the worst attrition the world will ever know.Yes,we know something about corruption.And nigeria has been this "united" country!</p> <br> <p>And it has been the unappologetic position of some in the nation since.We fought a war and you lost!The strong arm approach it is called!And everyone settles down to their own portion of the spoil.If you wish to talk about corruption we must get to the root.It is no secret.We do not support corruption.Everything and every action is a seed.Therefore to think there are places that are pristine and immune is asnine.The people who are now trying to portray the former governor as the most corrupt do not impress us.We all know it is not true.He is a priviledged young nigerian who played into the hands of the orligachy.He had believed quite errorneoulsly he was actually accepted.And they have done what they are very good at!They lured him away from his best defencies and then dumped him.Let me say that this young man is a very astute business man. He took the business that his late father founded and moved it very farther along.He was a governor of a state that is difficult to govern.</p> <br> <p>The infrastructural needs in the state require a budget nigeria will never afford for it presently.Abia state needs a man or woman who has a desire to lift a highly motivated people out of the deep despair that began since 1966.It was not his calling.The former governor saw the office as one of the various opportunities he had in the past.We can explain why some people from eastern nigeria think they must wear a "northern" face and garbs.It makes them entitled to their own portion of the spoil.It is the idea.Many people from the place weep and boil as they watch the spoiling of a people!The people of eastern nigeria are self starters and are able to build their own commuinity.All they need is an end to the vestige of neo-colonialism called a "federal" government in nigeria.The refusal to return nigeria to its founding constitution will cause another conflict and it will spell disaster for a country that only virtually exists in name alone.Every single institution is subject of parochial patronizing loyalty.</p> <br> <p>The ex governor thought his position was a reward for his loyalty and personal effort.Not a particularly sensitive pair of ears to how the people feel in nigeria.He was not more corrupt than the others.The man checkmated thieves and armed robbers with the "bakassi boys" group.He is an enterprising person and actually has better qualification and credentials than those villifying him today in nigeria.His sin is he thinks he can be president of nigeria!He thought he will be celebrated with a grand durbar when he goes to his "friends"!After all they turbaned him.But see how the game goes? It is how the game works.What they are doing to him does not prepare him for the high office he wants.Those who are afraid he could make things difficult for them targeted him early.And pried him away from his own people.They might have even suggested to him the pranks for which they now want to hang him.Again like I said he opened himself to his worst enemies.The result is what we are witnessing today.The Igbo people must know he is still their own.He is an enterprising Igbo son!You will drive away that which wants to apprehend and devour the chicken before your admonishment.It is a saying of the Igbos!</p> <br> <p>The igbo people should do what they do best.They can take risks to redeem their own.Hopefully he will focus properly when his ordeal is over.Nigeria knows what to do to check corruption.Until they return the nation to where all its citizens from every ethnicity have an equal stake, it is winner take all.And sabotage and looting and impunity and all the malaise we see are all among what must not be.But we know it is there.In fact the governor comes from among people who demand accountability from leadership.In some other places whatever the leader does is divine mandate.And that is part of the larger nigerian problem.It is why we seek to have the answers in this one.But in a nation that works.No one deserves any less.The people who elected him need for him to be at the senate to represent them.They should not be the scapegoats of a failed system.The governor is not more corrupt than the others!In a corrupt system he is indeed a victim and scape goat!</p> here >>>.......<br><div valign="left" ><img src="igbomen.jpg" align="right" width="300" height="200"/>.....to the right.... 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In the year 1965 eastern nigeria was adjudged the fastest growing and industrilizing economy among its peers in the world.The effort was taken down by an unjust evil war. It will be eastern region of nigeria or another nation.It will be though.That much is settled.</cite></a></div> <img src="maiden.jpg" align="left" width="250" height="150"/><td width="100" height="1" valign="left"> <br> .<br><div valign="left" ><img src="newyam.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the left.... Our Culture and Our way of Life Is to Us and To Our Children! ...</a></div> .......<<<<<<< <p><img src="outofcollege.jpg" align="right" width="150" height="150" alt="LET US HELP YOU GET THE MESSAGE OUT" /></p> <p><strong><font color="teal"> Make The Dreams Happen. Join The Game Changers </strong><p> <p> <center><STRONG>PERSPECTIVES AND INSIGHTS:<cite><br><Center>Shifting the paradigms</center></STRONG></center> <CENTER> <TABLE border="0" width="650" cellspacing="1"> </h3> <table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="middle"> <div align="center"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1"><tr><td valign="top" align="center"> <div align="left" style="width: 600;height: 45"> <form action="http://www.addchief.com/cgi-bin/" METHOD="GET"> <p align="center"> </div> </td> </tr></table> <br><H6 class="myclass"><span style="color:brown"><div valign="left"><font size="3" color="teal"> STOP PRESS!!! THE FUTURE OF AFRICA IS FORMING!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp </font> <br><h5><center><cite>LEADERSHIP IS MORE OF WHAT IS DONE THAN WHAT IS SAID</center></h5></center> <cite><font size="4" color="black" ><center>One remembers vividly the marches for "universal sufferage and franchise, civil liberties and real national sovereignty,equity and justice".As a student of the university of Lagos of yore it was always the buzz in the air and the idea.It was the culture in all the higher institutions around the nation at the time.From the institutions around the nation the news of the politics in the campuses helped nurture and fuel the fight for a return to a democratic government.The institutions of higher learning in nigeria get as much credit as any group.Like the others they shed their blood too! The constant clash with the law enforcement was a way of keeping the issue alive and on the front burner and was very deliberate.You soon get into the beat of it.It was a very present issue and the debate and dialectics occured just anywhere.It was a present issue and there was the general sense that keeping the thought alone was an achievement.There was the general understanding that the idea on its self challenged the status quo.Even that modest as it seemed was believed to be an achievement.And I do believe rightfully so.The students maintained contact with leaders who shared their passion and some times their time and other resources to sustain and enrich the dialogue.</center> <br> <center>It was something that many took to heart.We knew that this was the best time to build on the things that will define the nature of impact our lives would eventually have.The most subtle but impactful events were the times we shared with men and women who could share their own life experiences including their disappointments and triumphs.Education is not just about the certifications.The people who expend their resources to make this possible would love to see the capstone of certification. But the person must have that feeling and knowledge his life has been impacted and enriched by the interraction and the experience.Knowledge and experience will always serve us well.They prepare us for leadership in the true sense of it.Leadership is not like magic.The value of an educated mind is the impact it makes within the sphere of influence.Education as I have said or implied is also what we learn through observation.Education begins as soon as there are objectives and goals that one who has attained them helps the other that hasn't navigate the process of attaining same.</center> <br> <center>In the university of lagos all offices were very hard fought.It is something you come to understand about the place.You must make a choice how to participate.It was by its own an interesting event to see the dynamics.Even the very religious and pious learn the futitlity of attempting to abstain.So you make a choice of how best to respond and brave it up.And it becomes part of ones experience.From the office of the student union president to the office of the "hall presidents" are contested very robustly.The elections are major events.And please it is not true nigerians do not respect election results.The process has to be transparent and genuine.I never heard the complaint about rigging or malpractices.Prof Humphery Nwosu conducted an election in which there was no chaos.Not that the possibility was not there but because every excuse was taken away by effective planning.The results were announced and copies provided by the commission.There was no place for just anyone to tender evidence and result on behalf of the commission.No one would have dired it.The military respected Dr.Humphery Nwosu for his professionalism.</center> <br> <center>But for it they would have jailed him or worse even done away with him.He seemed to have lost the sense he was dealing with a dictatorship.He pushed and pushed.The man was the last person to abandon the fight for the fateful June 12 election. No, it would have been impossible for someone to jump out of the wood works to disrupt the process for which he had charge.Humphery Nwosu will raise hell.It was just not possible.He fought the military and would not let up.It is how we fight for process and order.It is not a given. We emplace it for ourselves.And then ensure there are like minded people to maintain it.Now the whole world is able to see our point.I therefore opine that it is not true that nigerians are not able to respect democratic processes.Nigeria has an elite problem.We thought the military fatigue was the issue.It is not!</center> <br> <center>Now the same people have put on wigs and we are again turning in a new gyre.The so called "difficult problem" of conducting free and fair elections is a matter of choosing a competent and principled person to lead the effort.And there are so many nigerian who can do so.But the people who want a different outcome know where to go to secure it.And blame it on "difficulty". If you give finite algebra to a history student it will be "difficult".What we see in larger soceity is the result of hubris.And it is not exclusive.If it is allowed everyone will dive in.I know you are going to cheat so i do my own level best.But most institutions do try to present the ideals.What we learn is that it is not wrong to seek to lead.But the one with an idea or ideas must at the very least be heard.The pattern was to test the ideas.The hall quadriangles were theatres of dialectics. The would be lawyers, social scientists and the scientists did battles quite often.The people had ample opportunity to hear your ideas.They remember what you said and hold you to it.</center> <br> <center> The community will always remember what you promised and hold you accountable.I want to bring this logic to the national discourse.When a party is in government it has a duty to work to fulfil promises not make excuses and obviously not explain the problems.The problem is the reason the community needs leadership.How to solve it is why you seek leadership.The mutuality and nature of this reality is intrinsic.If you do not think you have a solution it is evil to pretend otherwise. It is like the use of smoking mirrors to deceive the people.It is like pretending to be a physician or an engineer.Lives are involved!The moral burden and the ethical questions these kind of issues raise are the reason some of us are not suprised at the level of corrution in the polity.Corruption seem to be at the heart of nearly every node.Recently a politician was on record as saying the days of the military were better! So you quickly see this person is not a political fit for the position he is occupying.His views are not shared by the many who braved death to vote in an election for which he claimed victory.So you ask yourself what he is there to do.He differs prima facie from the population he claims to represent.We have many examples of the general lack of perception displayed by some of these kind of people.</center> <br> <center>We have nothing against the military but we think the nation was misdirected by some men in uniform and a cohort of other nigerians who do not truely understand the meaning of patriotism.And I will explain the statement.Nigeria as a nation had five constitutions when the military took power in 1966.The four regional constitutions and the constitution of the federal government.The regions had the capacity to plan and fund the budgets of the various entities and that was a responsibility and a challenge.The nation was economially healthy.The nations or regions had a tool and weapon of participation in the formulation of policies in the country.When oil was discovered some people thought it was magic.Suddenly planning and physical responsibility were no longer fashionable.The unfortunate people who had the oil on their territory were vandalized.The constitutions were banned.Some people initiated a ruling class that has destroyed their own nation after the massacre of nearly four million citizens.It was all well and good no regret no appologies until oil prices fell in the mid 1980s.The government reacted in absolute panic.The "undertakers" and "vultures" called investors who had patiently watched the charade swooped in.If they engineer the mahem who cares!They asked for the currency to be auctioned and devalued.It was done for three naira to the dollar.In a heart beat nigerians saw the living standard fall three notches in nose dive.Since then it has nose dived hundreds of times.Poor patient nigerian,they weather on.The "investors" demanded for nigeria to "liberalize" her economy and markets.My goodness!Suddenly nigeria was importing everything from tootpick up to the fanciest cars like crazy.In the meantime the nigerian manufactured items that would have kept some of the money we earned from oil in our economy were called "igbo made" and shunned.All sorts of fabrics were imported.The local textiles industries and cotton farming were killed.Nigeria wasted her resources and moved what it earned to europe and everywhere outside africa.Nigeria imported rice with over five million dollars a day at a time.We have rice farms that died because we would not touch locally produced rice.On and on goes the litany of the insane policies.</center> <br> <center>This disorder was handed back to civilians with a single constitution which made it the way of life.Nigeria will never recover until the nations are back to being productive enough to fund their own budgets.If borrowing is a virtue work will be optional.But it is not.If you want to borrow the one who worked for the money will tell you the worth of the labor.If you throw away your resources you learn a thing or two when you go to borrow.But we have leadership that is in delusion.It lacks the realization that when there is no food on the table the family will not be united and peaceful.They keep talking about unity with unworkable economic structures. If the states are going to be children that will always be provided for in what way is the federal government able to meet this need? If not why not allow the regional arrangement in which the states as provinces are not the burden of the federal government? We will have better schools and hospitals.Our youths will find employment because industries will spring up.We will have manufacturing because we have industrous youths who are wasting due to a system of government that will not challenge its own citizens.We have politics that lacks depth and capacity to solve problems.Instead we see lavish and ostentatious display.The affluence displayed amuses those who understand the true picture.</center> <br> <center>In some cases the lavish display of affluence is so out of line with the level and standard of living among those they represent.At least wisdom would require that certain actions are toned down to not provoke envies and jealousies which are human.Are we really prepared to continue on this path of self immolation? I was priviledged as a student to listen to Malam Aminu Kano in one of the lectures he graced.He said that it is important to know that the people can trust their leader.Anyone that knows the influence and impact this man had will see that he understood what he needed as outcome.It is basic,but many ignore this very important fundamental.The suprise they show when the people react in self instinct for survival is disappointing.We see how shocked they seem to be.But then again it might be a facade.Now bringing that reasoning to the national politics.Nigeria has Boko haram because there are youths who feel under represented and abandoned.No way anyone can deny that. Even they are enraged that the same ones who play these stunts with them turn around to exploit their predicament.Why was religion not the tool used by a man like Aminu Kano? Why was religion not the tool used by Waziri Ibrahim? It is the tool of a new elite bereft of ideas.</center> <br> <center>How many religious uprisings was experienced in their day?Some of us always resist and reject the temptation to condemn our military brothers.We reject the idea of truncating a process and sacred trust.At the time everything else seemed easier.We now see why it took a long time for the soceities we admire to come to where they are.We do not think it makes nation building any easier but it does not make it impossible.It is nothing to applaud.There is always a place for honor.But we live in an imperfect world.They saw an opportunity and took it.We have to move past it.We are now done with that experience.It was bound to occur under our circumstances.Now it is not anything anyone will wish on himself!What we speak is that we must build a soceity where the rich and poor can both survive and live.In an ethnic plurality like nigeria only democracy can gurantee that.You will be unreasonable to copy another with a different set of circumstances.In the end you want to be able to solve problems not exarcerbate them.These days in some soceities the meaning of poverty is changing.It is more like a situation and circumstance from which a member of soceity can be rescued.It is quickly losing original meaning. Some soceities are in a place where virtually all citizens are guaranteed all essentials of life.It is a goal many now see as attainable.In view of such facts it is irresponsible for anyone to win power and not make the people see their commitment to solving the problems for which they were given authority in the first place.</center> <br> <center> Let me say that a ruling party in a nation like nigeria must have an image of cohession.It is important because our past was marked by the lack of it.This will project a sense of purpose and progress.The ungoing drama that is unfolding is sad.It simply goes to show some people will not accept the leadership of certain among them.We know the long reach of these hands that will offer anything to dislodge those they do not approve.If you disapprove of anyone that has been chosen to lead a party you must endure the process of the party.It is wrong to run to the court and subvert the party.In some places if you do that you will be expelled.The political party makes rules to protect its own image.You will not be in contest to lead hundreds of millions of people when you are unable to control a handful! How they are going to have a soceity based on such convoluted logic is unfatomable.This macabre show must not be peddled at the national stage.The world is watching and it seems absurd.It is not right for goodness sake!It is much too dangerous.For a nation that lost millions of lives before this is not good.</center> <br> <center>If they do not have Boko haram there they will have such other problems. Their ideas are not attainable in modern times.Anyone you want to use will learn quickly.And you have a mortal enemy.How are they going to make anyone accept them or trust them when the person knows he will be rejected and expended in due course? These things become problems sooner or later.Quite very often much sooner.We have seen the latest agenda of court injunctions,court rulings and court savagery.Why would anyone in their right mind think this is not an explosive in the making? The courts are not going to start to "rule" the people again.It was what the people fought the military for.If the courts are not careful they will become exactly the opposite of what their mandate requires.When they are used to subvert justice and rule of law it is just a very big pity.Democracies are an effort to determine the sovereign wish of the people.Elections are the emperical method to concretize the peoples' choices. And because human beings have a way of making almost every good thing a matter for a great tussle and competition the courts are suppose to intervene. 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THE FUTURE OF AFRICA IS FORMING!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp </font> <br><h5><center>NIGERIANS GET READY:THE GOING IS ABOUT TO GET EVEN TOUGHER</center></h5> <font size="4" color="black"><center>During the conversation about return to civil rule we had demanded a return to the constitution that founded nigeria.It had no problems.The problem was the men who were ill-prepared for constitutional governance.Some of them thought the constitution was not meant for them.The people who still have this mindset had dismissed us as "nobody".We have to say we told you.Our people are dying which was predictable but those who were lusting for office rather than responsibility would not see it and never foresaw it.We have said that our people deserve better than a consitution that did not honor their heroes,their past and obviously has no place for their future. On every count the document fails to recognize the reality of nigeria as a country of many vibrant ethnic nations.We see how this can be a problem for an oppressor.But it is a useful tool for the people themselves.They have built their relationships along these lines for generations.If you ask me, I think the african people are a resilient people who have so much to be thankful for.And I believe their faith in God has served them well.But some people see only failures and therefore would rather evaluate themselves through a different set of filters.We must see ourselves through our own experience and our values must be a repository of these experiences.We are a people who have endured slavery and colonialism and boundless treacheries.And a people who are still dealing with pervasive exploitation that now uses forces from within.</center> <br> <center>The constitution given to the nigerian people is a constitution that should have been replaced within a couple of years of transiting to democratic rule.And we said so and used every method open to us to agitate for it.Nigeria was a nation before the military took power.It was not founded by the military.It is not a mark of respect to usurp power outside of constitutional framework.But it is a reality.And we endured it.But even more disrespectful is the attempt by some of those who benefitted from the aberation to shut the victims out of a way to heal.They also now wish to assume the power of the arbiter.We are thankful that we were able to get through the aberation but it must not define who we are.It is very sad to give in to such a predicament.We love our brothers in the military but we must understand a nation or a people have epochs and dispensations and times.We are not going to allow any regime or epoch to destroy our destiny.We now understand why General Muritala Mohammed was killed.As a philosopher soldier he did not fit the plan of that day.He made clear he would not have had a problem with returning the nation to the founding constitution.He believed the duty of the military was to protect the motherland.For this belief he paid the supreme sacrifice.After nearly three decades of wasting even more precious time we are still in a conversation about whether or not we should return the nation to the constitution of its inception.If nigerians were not sometimes sedate or even docile this would not have been the conversation at this point.The nation is on her knees and deep in needless debt.How on earth are they planning to pay themselves out of the current level of indebtedness? How are they going to do that? Conjure up some looted funds? </center> <br> <center>If you look at the revenue for the past twenty years and projections for the next twenty based on their model nigeria is headed for perdition!What magic are they expecting from their economy of sharing national poverty? The sooner the nigerian people take themselves out of the contraption that will never work the better for the african continent.The day the nigerian law makers summon the courage to begin the step towards returning the nation to its foundation is the day they would have earned their place in the nation.Until that day they are a tool of forces that devastated our people.It is not difficult to see why somebody will give you a loan when he knows you are not suppose to be in debt at all.A person who knows you have no business borrowing from them will be very gad to offer you a loan. It says to you I rule over you! Our politicians are not going to borrow themselves out of the problems they have created by accepting a false reality.If nigeria ignores the prominent regions that has clearly emerged it will be history.These regions will only become more prominent.We are dealing with human beings here, and they have started to make known their discomfort.History teaches us this never abates.Like new chicks and hatchlings the middlebelt region (the new one), the midwest region ,western region,eastern region ,the core north (a new one) will emerge as new nations.Already the core north has taken care of their own interests. The sharia law is in place and the police is there to enforce it.If this is not the meaning of a nation someone give me the definition!</center> <br> <center>They did not wait for anyone to tell them what to do.They did not wait for anyone to tell them what they need.Boko haram is the military arm of the emerging reality.The nigerian military is finding out yet again how tough it is to fight ideas.The nigerian military is easily one of the best in the continent of africa.But they have had limited success fighting Boko haram.We know the reason.The ideas(not method) of Boko haram are a shared point of view within the space.These men are the ones that were willing to risk all to bring it about.To those who look up to them they are not the villains.Whatever the other people can do to help they are doing.As they pitch in their proverbial "widows mite" the nigerian army is sent on a wild goose chase.Trained military men are running around looking for "terrorists" who are sheltered by sympathisers.I dare to say it is wrong to send our men in uniform on a "fools errand".Are we willing to give them orders to wipe the enemy out? Really? </center> <br> <center>The way we see it, the people in the space have made a choice.Our own position is that what is good for them is also good for the others and the rest of us.The method they used is also open to the rest.Unity is not the duty of one segment of the nation.How could the ones who did such a thing for themselves be the same people to tell the rest how they ought to respond?In life anyone can excercise the right to act first.But it becomes oppressive for them to determine how the victim responds.Those who are throwing the hood of nigerian oneness and indivisibility and the wool of deceit of unity over the eyes of everyone are not so smart.They are borrowing to develop infrastructure in thier own parts of nigeria in addition to hijacking the resources of the rest of the nation.But they are pleading with the owners of the hijacked resources to wait until the nation is doing better.They have given a poison pill to the nation by the constitution that strips the nation states of the ability to deal with their own problems.And they know the nation is never going to get better.The lattest loan is the the last straw.It throws the country into the list of distressed nations.</center> <br> <center>Nigeria is now on the verge of total collapse.If the nation spends close to seventy percent servicing its current debt burden then you could imagine what addition of over twenty billion (20Billion )dollars will mean.And we are told forty percent of the twenty two billion is going to the consultants.Nigeria will borrow twenty three billion dollars and give nearly half of the amount to "consultants".Consultants we are told are the ones who "helped to secure the loan".You see how they do business in africa? Somebody loans you money and fronts his brother as the consultant and takes half the money back from you! And you pay for the full amount with interest.Please!Who would like to live in such a reality? If nigeria will owe nearly ninety billion dollars(90 billion) it is nothing anything anyone could try to minimize using the smoking mirrors of GDP/Income ratio.I could not explain it here in layman lingo.But when you borrow you do not have the comfort of choosing your own lifestyle.It does not work like that.If those ratios are good you will pay your own way. But you can't.It is not a prank.You are not in the position and are not able.You are not pretending to be poor.You do not have money!What it means to the ordinary people is that their own dreams for a good life will be put on hold.The dreams of the citizens will go into abatement.</center> <br> <center>And that abatement is not something with a time value anyone can predict.It therefore means in the meantime that Nigeria will not be in the position to modernize the military,police force and indeed the various institutions that will propel it to modernity.It will not be in the position to build schools or colleges or modernize existing ones.The nation also is not able to pay decent salaries that will motivate teachers to educate and empower a new generation.The nation is not in the position to attract good personnel from outside or within nigeria,build modern roads networks and industries.And it means the nation is not able to care for the aging,provide for the citizens welfare system, good medical facitities and a modern healthcare system.It means our people must run abroad to deal with health challenges.If they can afford it.For people who fought to be free from those entities it is rather laughable.When they are unable they are already certain of a damning set of choices.</center> <br> <center>When these things are not possible there will be youth restiveness.It is not rocket science.If they are not able to see any path to a meaningful future they will fight for their lives and rightfully so.Whether they become armed robbers or militants,kidnappers or bandits will depend on the environment.The chances are there and very high.The unemployment in such an atmosphere will just be the fuel that will set the spark.If these things are happening already they are about to get worse.The various nation states must demand to take their own destiny in their hands.We are able to determine how to relate with one another.It will require no further bloodshed.Each entity is entitled to this right by universal law.The african people will sit down and have a conversation that is well overdue.The sooner the better.If the men and women who were chosen by the people lack the nerves for it they will make themselves obsolete.It will be done without them.The nigerian elite inherited a nation without any debts and they will pass on an indebted nation.It means they have failed.And it is a terrible failure for the essence of a nation is to build its people not to destroy them.One should have thought that when you add a product or mineral to your revenue stream that it should have made the nation wealthier but they managed to impoverish the nation instead.</center> <br> <center>They now have to run to everyone to beg and borrow to fund their own budget.In the past the nation survived without crude oil.All we hear is the price per barel of crude oil.The land mass is used to share oil proceed.It will not be cultivated for occupation and proceeds. It is the kind of leadership that will lament about crude oil price in a nation such as nigeria.And this has been going on for over four decades. Switzerland is the size of Niger state in land mass.Its annual revenue from agriculture is over hundred billion dollars.Niger state is not one of the largest states in nigeria.And we share oil revenue according to land size.And the governors who go to share money in Abuja will complain they have no money to secure their states.Who asked you to contest to be a governor? What is a governor doing not know who is coming into his state and in what number? Is it possible you were placed there to supervise the overunning of your own motherland and hometown by marauding jihadist? What did you want to do differently? These are the men who were eager to participate in an election in a nation that is suppose to be secular but have a Sharia chief justice.And this after they have carved out twelve sharia states complete with a seperate law and enforcement paraphenelia.These kind of leaders!Pitiable is what I call them.But the people they represent are worse off.They can buy tickets and run away in a single moment with their families. You see why they do not care?</center> <br> <center> These are the men who got "elected" in a sham election where the voting documents had been given away to riggers by default in a bungled but preplanned cancellation.These are the governors who are satisfied to participate in a federation where money is "donated" to them from the center to run their budjet.It is time for nigerian to wake up.If a nation smaller than the state you govern in land size makes one hundred billion from agriculture you could at least make a little fraction of that.When did crude oil become the only way a nation can exist? We gave an example of a nation that has achieved enormous wealth through agriculture.You just need land and good leadership.Nigeria has arable land in abundance.We can make a call about what is missing here.But these people take crude oil from the land belonging to citizens and make money from it and then waste it.These same mentality that make them graze cattle on the farmlands of citizens and uproot the tuber crops from farmlands and feed to their cattles.If any native did such a thing he or she will be accused of witchcraft immediately and censured.Where did these herders come from? Are they nigerians? These type of behaviors make the allegation that many of them are not nigerians no longer farfetched. The people of the south east must reject this new line of thought and make it abundantly clear to anyone who is having a delusion.</center> <br> <center>They must use whatever they find to protect themselves and their means of livelihood.Anyone talking about unity while trying to make them starve to death must not get their attention.Any stooge they appoint by whatever means in the political space to sustain this farce must be treated like a virus.They are looking for a confrontation in the space.Their "kotima" is going to have a very hard time in eastern nigeria.That much is guaranteed fact.Agriculture is possible in all parts of nigeria.There is no need to transverse the nation looking to feed cattle in another persons farmland.We heard the cattles are actually owned by political interests and these herdsmen are fronts.You now understand why they possess weapons their entire herd cannot pay for.It is a political issue much like the new debt burden.We suggest every portion of nigeria go back to work and build its own wealth using its own available resources.No more thievery! And no more hijacking and kidnapping and banditory.The plutocrats must know the game is over.Brick by brick every problem militating against progress in eastern nigeria will be dismantled.Our people living outside wish to return to develop a new africa and help build a better world but are being hindered by these forces.We know their reason.And we understand we are not going to wish the things we want into reality.They have had quite a time with their victory in a "war". Imagine a nation that goes to "war" just because a resource was found within the nation itself.It is by it own a statement of the nature of the relationship of the nation states within nigeria.The adverserial relationship is so palpable you can see the way it plays out all the time.</center> <br> <center>But they won the "war" and have enjoyed their bonanza. Eastern nigeria must now move on.The jamboree is suddenly over! The binge is over.Time to work.Anyone with a different idea will have to do it without those who know what needs to happen now.We now understand the reasoning that caused the pogrom and the so called war.It is not religious it is economic.Religion was just an excuse.It is for this reason the leaders for that part of nigeria must be realistic. We now understand why there was an effort to wipe the entire population of a people.It is ironic that the people of eastern nigeria would never have reacted in such a manner had they been allowed to manage their own resources.Nigeria would never have become a borrowing and pauper nation had the resources that was wasted been left to its rightful owners.The people enjoy work.And they are enterprising.It is not a statement to make with reservation.It is the truth.The money would have been invested and preserved!Today the money would be in very large manufacturing enterprises all around nigeria.The money from oil would be in well managed businesses around the world and every where around africa.Instead nearly three million of them were massacred by those who would waste the resource and throw the nation into want and self immolation.How sad.So now the people of eastern nigeria are to feel bad for the people who wasted their future? Is it the meaning of the game with herdsmen?</center> <br> <center>No even if there was a so called war enough time has passed.It is time some people know some things never last forever.If they push any further questions are going to be asked.And it might become nasty.They are not going to like it at all.So somebody tell the herders it will be a wrong place to start trouble if they can see where this might lead.Our ancestors fought the most sophisticated army in the world.And so can we.It does not have to come to that.But if the alternative is this constant trampling by some people it might be the reality they are invoking unwittingly.They must never think they own the monopoly of violence.The people they are kicking around are able to fight back and very hard too!The "Ekumeku" of today will be severe and very well funded and very well manned.The people who have been turning the other cheek for more than one century are fade up and sick of it.They have their dreams and a society they call their own.If nigeria is a farce it is time to move on.We do not want to have a repeat of pogroms and massacres.And certainly not a similar thinking.Oil is a mineral like any other.We know the minerals in certain parts of nigeria are being mined. And we are told the people enriching themselves with these resources are bandits.We think it is exactly what happened to the petroleum resources too! It is a resource.The people who own it must not be punished for the reason that it occurs in their space.If it becomes a problem they reserve the right to require no one to further disturb and disrupt their own environment.We have had enough of the nonsense!The same goes for grazing of cattle.</center> <br> <center>There is enough grass where the cattles originate from.Grass can be grown.We have suggested to the governors in the part of the nation where these herdsmen originated from to show leadership.It is what they are elected to do.Nigeria is never going to make progress when all the so called leadership does is explain problems.Anyone is able to do that.These governors are not going to find a way to make it possible to irrigate portions of already abundant land.We all know that when the land is irrigated grass will grow on it.You could even grow cash crops and engage some of the youth wandering all around without an idea of life and the future.It is how you offer dignity to people.It is not by radicalizing them by making everyone their enemy.Instead they want to have RUGA.No. Every state in nigeria need not rear cattle.It is your own occupation.You must cater to it.It is not suppose to be the problem of anyone else.It is not how society works.You are not going to force your needs on others.We now have a society that require that everyone grow in lock step! Enough of the foolishness already.We are in a bad place by this method of thinking.They want to have armed people patrolling other communities violating their identities,sanctities and trampling on the traditions.This is not likely to continue to be acceptable in view of the fact that we know the crowd is now mixed with non-citizens.It is a deadly mix no community must be forced to imbibe in the name of unity.It is mindless and unacceptable.Those with these kind of simplistic views to life are our problem.Grass can grow anywhere in africa.It must not become an excuse for a people to be violated and provoked.If any politicians try to justify citizens being violated in their space in eastern nigeria again that politician will know that the space belongs to a thinking people. </center> <br> <center>They have arable land just like most of africa and use the money from oil to subsidize the land for lying fallow.The land will not be cultivated because the proceed is not counted in millions of barrels a day.Everything must be paid for with oil.And what oil will not pay for is paid for by borrowing.This is not sustainable.All the time we hear the complain about oil prices in a nation like nigeria.Nigeria has a population of over two hundred million people.We are not like any of the other oil producing nations.In fact the nations with comparable populations reserve whatever petro-chemical deposit they have for national use.We are comparing ourselves with nations with twenty of even forty million people.And these nations have better production capacity than nigeria.The cost of production is far lower in these nations than in nigeria.These men look at lifestyles of elites in such nations and want to be like them.Nigeria is not Dubai or Saudi.There are two hundred million people many of who could quickly become rambunctious.If you ignore them they will become Boko haram or kidnappers!We have leadership that will not face this reality and eventuality. And you earn a few billions from oil and embezzle a lot of it and misapply the rest.And youths are running riot all over the place.And so you hand them weapons and point your neighbor to them as target.You are scared of the mess.It is yours nonetheless.You must find the way to solve it.If you ask for help discretion will be used.It is not by force.</center> <br> <center>And you will not comply to rules of decency instead you opt to pounce on oil belonging to a community and segment of the society. And we were thinking a few billion dollars from oil was all we needed to make everyone rich! And they will travel to Dubai and learn new lifestyles.What the elites did because of oil is really unforgivable.We even begin to suspect that all the schemes and treachery was a result of the discovery of oil.It is sad when one thinks it over.There is something wrong with the mindset.And it is persistent.No type of market attenuation disturbed budgeting in the days of regional governments.They were all able to fund their own budgets.Now even the slightest type spell doom.We have leadership issues in the nation. When every little market attenuation is a major problem to the nation something needs to change.If the nation is thrown into recession everytime there is drop in the prize of crude oil when such is a basic nature of the markets they ought to grade themselves.Moreso when we realize nigeria had no crude oil and still funded budgets and owed no debts.We have that history to remind us of what is possible.Why should the elite want to impoverish their own fellow citizens by pushing forward critical decisions that will set them free? The people must know to liberate themselves from the shackles that are now put on them by their own? 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Partner With The Game Changers</a> <br> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="igboyouth.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it <div valign="left" ><img src="igbokids.jpg" align="left" width="220" height="180"/>.....to the right.... the ones you do it for....It is for their sake we work! <br> <class="mytraditions"><span style="color:brown"><div valign="left"><font size="3" color="teal"> THE FUTURE IS HERE A NEW AFRICA IS FORMING!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp Watch?</font> <br><h5><center>GOVERNORS OF THE SOUTH EASTERN STATES MUST SHOW LEADERSHIP</center></h5> <font size="4" color="black"><center>We heard the threat of the Boko haram against the people of eastern nigeria.Now they are famous!We have no response to those who will not have a conversation with others about their feelings.We hold discussions with those who know its worth.When you pick a gun you have written off your own life.When you have taken lives yours does not count any longer except for the purpose of giving account for the one you took..Life involves disagreements.When you pick a weapon in the course of a disagreement you are not looking for a solution you are seeking an escalation even if at the expense of your own life.We do not consider such leadership.Our heriatage is to solve problems.We are not ones to abandon our own people or use them as bargaining chips.The people of eastern nigeria must understand it takes two to tango.We are not going to be negotiating with terrorists ever so often.When the head of state was away for treatment about a couple years and half ago some terrorists had threatened the people from that part of nigeria.They had sidelined the government and were making proclaimations with all pomp and power.They are all walking around as if nothing happened! Imagine we have an Arewa nation with its own laws and they will preach unity to the rest? IPOB is like any other group agitating for autonomy in nigeria.As citizens of nigeria they have the right to agitate.We wish to let the people who are having the illusion of becoming the darling of the whole of nigeria to wise up.There are twelve states that will never even look at them at all.They ought to always remember that!If anyone wants to be president of nigeria as it is such a person is very delusional.If such a person is from eastern nigeria their predicament is even far more pathetic.Every part must maintain the pressure to have the place corrected.It is no time to accept thirty pieces of silver! There is no nation to be president over.The nation is battered economically and socially.It has been destroyed.It needs reworking or it is dead.It is sad the people are not mindful of the reality and could not even care!But the blood of innocent people being slaughtered daily is crying to the throne of God.</center> <br> <center>IPOB or indeed any nigerian has the right to agitate.And it is within their right to do so.Anyone who wishes to abridge the right of a nigerian within the nation is an enemy of not just nigerians but the african people.Let me repeat anyone who is wishing to make others live in fear rather than under the law must know the end of religious facism in nigeria is near.They must watch themselves carefully.Some people will not allow nigeria to become their own problem.And they are watching.And they are collecting facts and data.Every noise and every killing is on record.And those responsible are known.So let us warn the ones who are auditioning and testing the water.It is hot.It is very hot.It is cold and very cold. They might just jump right into fire by wrong judgment or into ice.Nobody in authority must respond to such people.The future they deserve awaits.We hope the institutions in eastern nigeria do not again fall for the trap.It is not the job of the leadership of eastern nigeria to massage the ego of such entities.They will be answered.It might be an answer they will understand or they will not hear it coming.They need not descend to such bantering with such minds.It humanizes evil.These are a very frustrated angry gang of youths who clearly are disenchanted with their own leadeship.Why must the leadership of eastern nigeria be involved? At least Boko haram knows who hijacked oil from eastern nigeria since 1966.If they never knew the people of eastern nigeria were massacred for oil they need to study some more.In eastern nigeria our job must be to get ready for any eventuality.If nature thrusts nationhood upon our shoulders are we the least qualified in nigeria for that?</center> <br> <center>The leadership in eastern nigeria must engage rational reasonable citizens.They are chosen by their own peers.They were given authority.Boko haram must know that if they provoke the world any further they and their sponsors will be fished out.We have it on good authority.We think the works are taking shape.If they wish to escalate their activities they must understand the consequence.They must be prepared to face that reality.It is what we understand by the way things are going.We might as well make it clear to them.If they open their mouths too much or push the envelope it might be all that is needed for justification to come for them.It is not anything they understand perhaps but it is the truth.They must never make such a mistake at all.But we know those who want to push the nation down a precipiece at all cost are hard at work.We also know the benefit they anticipate from such an eventuality.But it is not anything they can clearly determine.It is past anything they can conjecture.As it is they are about to touch the most sensitive nerve.The people of eastern nigeria are grieving over the ruin of their nationhood.They are wondering where their people would have been today but for the present comatose arrangement.Imagine that you have to suffer because somebody thinks they deserve what you own better than you.It was the reason they lost over two and half a million lives.If anyone dares to even make that type of silly insinuation again nigeria must know there is going to be a conversation about the future in all honesty.It is not a path we wish to ever walk again.No.Thank you very much!</center> <br> <center>They are about to expose themselves.And against warnings and good judgment.It will be the worst type of unmasking ever.It must be made clear to them that the people of eastern nigeria are not the ones who passed a law in twelve contiguos northern states of the nation seperating them from the rest.The people in those states made that choice.It means nigeria has two completely different types of governance as we speak.We are talking about the unthinkable.Does Boko haram want their caliphate to be in nigeria? Are we in war just because someone is trying to become an emir? How is a war going to change a tradition? We have so many reasons to feel sad for nigeria.How will they achieve a conversion of an entire people? If so do they think the people of eastern nigeria would have been kept in such a nigeria by force? We really ought to be looking ahead already.If this is the mindset of those who are operating sharia law already it means our problems are more severe than we had thought.This matter is no longer worthy of some of us.We warn now to avoid more serious issues with the Boko haram people.If they were not yet born when the people of eastern nigeria were massacred in nigeria someone ought to educate them.We have done enough for nigeria.If it will not work we do not wish to keep running around for ever. If they were to fall for the lure of attacking the people of eastern nigeria in their own native land ever again it will be an event those who have spawned the Boko haram idea will regret forever.</center> <br> <center>We hold the hands of those around us and move with them. And we move them forward.The world now know the sponsors of Boko haram.The people of eastern nigeria know the masterminds of Boko haram.Many of them are living in goverenment mansions and other such strategic places.It explains why it has been rather difficult to overrun a bunch of barefoot untrained and unequipped gang.The nigerian army is not to blame for a situation that is more political than military.If it is religious it is still a political issue.How will a military professional deal with a suicidal who wishes to kill or be killed so they can go to heaven? If you take him as a captive you are in danger as much as you were in a battle.You engage them in a war that respects the sanctity of your own life you will breach international order.We are not suppose to make ourselves living posts or bodies for target practice in the name of a war.Nigeria does not have a very easy way out of Boko haram.Those who foisted it meant for that to be the case.They wanted it to be the sword of damacle over and above those from other entities.It is more of a political weapon.The question is whether the other segments accept that for themselves.It appears they misjudged the nigerian people.The other people are not that much excited about such a nation.It is a prospect they totally reject.</center> <br> <center>Our governors must therefore use their good position to provide cover for the citizens of the geographical space.They must provide a security umbrella for the space or they will wish they did.When the initiative is out of their hands so also will control.But the people will live in their own space and feel safe in it.If they fail in doing so it will be a mistake they will regret enormously.Had they been decisive the recent events would never have occured.No person born in eastern nigeria must ever ask IPOB to quit their demand for a much fairer nation.What are they offering? In fact we encourage the IPOB and the IGBO UNION to register the Biafran cause with the Unrepresented Nations Peoples Organization (UNPO).If Boko haram attacks eastern nigeria it is writing the independence declaration for eastern nigeria! Their demand is not politics.It is truth and equity.It is therefore above politics and more of a sovereign issue.We read about one frightened governor accusing someone of sponsoring IPOB.How sad! Who sponsored the IGBO UNION of yore? Who is sponsoring the union now?The igbo people organise themselves no matter where they might be.Is the governor unaware of this fact? We urge them to be courageous and have faith in God.There is a just cause they are suppose to understand no matter the attenuating circumstances.</center> <br> <center>The governors from eastern nigeria and indeed politicians must remember they stand upon foundations of great men and women.Our forebearers provided leadership for a continent in dire need. Our heritage as a people is order and good government.The call for unity and consensus is the way all matters are resolved.Our people celebrate the life daily events in work and play and they enjoy it and encourage all to participate and partake.Our theatres are open to all.Our people mingle together and celebrate life together.The Igbo people will share everything in public view except matters of divine articles of their heritage.Great effort is made to entrust such matters to well proven and dependable people in the community.It is a matter of dire importance.We remind our governors that leadership is a trust.The people will grade them and place them and situate their work in history.They must remember that igbo people have the various ways of censure that can be very difficult sometimes.The courts of the Igbo people have no jails and no detention places.But the dispensation of justice is as effective as any for ages.We talk about history but every action is already part of it.They are making history.They must determine which type they want it to be.Igbo have many ways to ensure actions are not easily forgotten.It is the way the people make sure generations to come learn about times when communual bonds had been violated or upheld.And those responsible for it.Now a black sheep has been planted in their midst.No worse evil could have befallen the community of Igbo people.This is not politics.It is pure evil.And it is not difficult to understand the reason for it.But they are to realize the people are not going to play victim for anyone anymore.The people will defend what is theirs and they are well able to do so.The enemy will be shown what has changed.If anyone has the illusion to import the terror in the middle belt into eastern nigeria we have news for such a person.Dream on!If anyone attacks the people of eastern nigeria such a person will not determine the boundary or the method of the response.The people have lost millions of lives in the nigerian enterprise have tried.If it fails the least the owe themselves is to work away.</center> <br> <br> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="igbobabes.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it <div valign="left" ><img src="thepeo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it <br> not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="tradition.html"/>.Please Click here for article....Make Life better for them...It is time</a>... <br> <br><center><cite><h6>EASTERN STATES LEADERS AND POLITICIANS MUST KNOW THEY ARE NOT ALONE</h6></cite></center> <center>We are people who make a home out of every place around the world.It is an attribute the world has come to know about us.We know our own history.It is not 1967.This is 2020! Those contemplating and plotting "emergency rule" declaration in eastern nigeria must be ready for the birth of new entities pretty soon.God is the one that judges over the affairs of men.The jungle justice of animals is not applicable to rational human beings who fight to institute order and justice.The situation in nigeria now needs a lot of circumspection.And we know it it is not abundant in the nigerian space.The tendency is to blame everyone else and take no responsibility.They must not allow anyone to pin any blame on them for their own carelessness.It will also help if they keep the past where it belongs in matters that are sensitive or else emotions will take over.It will be a mistake for anyone to see us the people of eastern nigeria as toys.If they do serious complications will come upon their lives.Our people are weeping and crying and praying.They must never dream of the ideas of 1966 and 1967.Such a move will prove too devastating to contemplate.But the people of eastern nigeria must be prepared to protect the area from further abuse and violation.We are going to rely more on the youths and the citizens than the politicians who might be hinged to their many other interests.It is a matter of who has more at stake.I think the infiltrators will hate to know they have people who are smarter than they are and who could bear arms if they so wish.No one has better right to self defense than these in their own environment.When policy makers resort to careless actions the people must see how best to minimize the effects.If a governor will not learn tact in the face of the kind of brigandage being witnessed he might as well follow other leaders.What is the eastern regional security outfit called? Community policing, the governors tell us.They have already hired the supervisors.The very people the citizens wish to be protected from are the supervisors of the community policing.Do they have access to the images of youths that have been killed in the region? </center> <br> <center>They are at the verge of loosing control of a good handle that has been afforded them. It is sickening.When the youngmen deride the politicians we try to call them to order.But there is an urgency.The people are not feeling safe and community policing is not a name conjuring safety in anyway for the citizens.It is not the police that is adequate or the community that feels in control right now.The configuration must be something more thoroughly and carefully fashioned.Community policing and the question is who is in the community? The community has been infiltrated by entities that are not helpful.Destablization has become a weapon of the forces of facism in the nigerian space.We are never going to give our people the future they are yearning for if the area is not made as peaceful as the citizens are demanding.The world will support the people of eastern nigeria to keep the region safe.We make this statement with caution and a sense of responsibility.The entire world has watched for years as the people have virtually been begging the rest of the nation to agree to issues that will make the nation funtion and operate better to no avail.This inspite of the fact they are the ones who have paid with millions of lives for the existence of the entity.The southeast lost the resources of the people to greed.Oil and petroleum products was made the right of government and taken from the people.As subsistence farmers they were denied use of their own land because it cantained hydro-carbons.The land is then vandalized to prospect for oil and abandoned.It is made a wasteland while the indegenes still live in it.Oil block and right to ownersip were given to people from nowhere around the geographical space.The world need to hear the reason for the agitations.</center> <br> <center>The people are very sick and tired of the injustice.It is what they wish to confront once again.This time the anticipation is that there are friends we are able to rely on.The world are witnesses to the industry of the people.We have had to do without what should have been a great help to us.And those who hijacked our resources are complaining still.What are the rest especially those who have suffered pervasive injustice suppose to do? The economy is being destroyed probably on purpose.Are the leadership of eastern nigeria suppose to wait to find out the what the consequences will be? Are there not more than enough decay already? Education has collapsed.Eastern nigeria produced men and women in different fields the world came to know.Today education has been abandoned.In the scale of the need of the environment it is below the base.Nigerian leadership issue has become a bad dream and the people of eastern nigeria must look to the future.It is enough.Please somebody tell those concerned we are rejecting the caricature future they are painting for our children and the children of our children.There are things we must do for ourselves and our own children.We know we can depend on the goodwill we have around the world.In response to the hard work by the sons and daughters of eastern nigeria the leadeship at the home front must leaverage the effort.The answer to so many of the problems in the nation are with the diaspora. With the level of insecurity there is no way anyone will make a case for a serious commitment in time under such situations.We need a safe environment in that part of the nation.We need not beg anyone for that.Do the governors get that? Must we have sharia to qualify to guard our own environment? Their thinking and commitment to constitution rather than the people they represent is absurd.Their assignment is to lookup the meaning of the word "sovereignty".</center> <br> <center>Easten region is a sovereignty.It is how nigeria came into existence.If not so it does not exist.A nigeria where some entities are hijacked by others is not to be defended by anyone. If they fail to respect the will of the people they misunderstand the meanings of testament and agreements. Agreements have paper and spirit.As those who are conferred with the honor to uphold the testaments they will choose the letter and word or the spirit.Their choice will determine whether they succeed or fail and to what extent.Are they not aware the federal government can only do so much for them? They also happen not to be the loved ones and can't be ever? But without security in their communities everything else will fail.They must therefore make a choice.We are not able to explain this matter any further.We expect they understand how the extreme events in nigeria usually begins.We must never again be caught unprepared.If unity is possible we are for it. But we are never going to be the ones leading the charge for unity in nigeria.All it does is inform the rest we wish to dominate.We have had enough of the ugly cycle of the insecurities of the other people around us.We have our own space. Let us make it what we are very capable of.There is nothing in nigeria for us to risk all for.Our elders did that and got burnt.We must not.It will be very foolish.If we are needed it is alright.If not we can build our own future, having sacrificed the present to the anarchy and lack of prudence,order and process.We know we are able to create process for ourselves and we can build the community of our dreams which is in line with our own manner of life.</center> <br> <center>The governors are not suppose to import murderers into the space to destroy the way of life of the people of eastern nigeria. I can't imagine any Igbo who experienced the nigerian pogrom and so called war that expects the people to welcome gun wielding murderers in their midst in the name of anything.Anyone who calls himself or herself a leader who reasons like that ought to be ashamed of him or herself.There is a price to pay for sabotage.Anyone who submits to the rape of the people will pay a penalty for it.Such an act is not politics.These are matters of life and death. Some things are more urgent than others.It will be more than attack songs.Those concerned might have to uproot to the space they prefer.It is only fair.If our forbearers left us a pristine space we owe same to our own offsprings.If not we have been outwitted.But that is not the case.We expected the punch thrown but are suprised at the carelessness and timing.For it is going to be returned.First the source that masterminded it.It is what democracy is about.After that the lackeys.They do not even wish those vicious attack songs against themselves or in memory of evil they have done.Their children will live with it and even the children of their children.It is a very painful censure!It is meant to be difficult and painful.Igbo justice system has no jails.The death sentence in Igbo justice is not something hard to understand.If anyone takes innocent life without cause the system will receive or entertain no appeal even in the case of insanity.For this and many other reasons they must be brave and must not seek to play the lackey.Our heritage is very strong and focused leadership whose vision is usually miles ahead.The aberation we are having of recent is a result of the detours of life.Our people deserve better.We are back on course and we are not allowing anymore of these detours having identified the source.We intend to hold to this part of the world and make it our portion under heaven.Those who are not with us will be identified and shoved aside.It could take a little time but will happen.We will march forward with those who wish to continue the good work started by our forebearers.We must see events impersonally or we will miss the point.Inspite of the imperfections we see we must maintain the value and dignity of our heritage and common bond among ourselves.</center></font> <br> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="marryima.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it <div valign="left" ><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it <br> not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="tradition.html"/>.Please Click here for article....Make Life better for them...It is time</a>... <a href="entertain.html"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="thenewideas.html"/>.. : Paradigm Shift For Africa..TOPIC::..... 'RETURN TO VISION AND CAUTION; A JUST SOCIETY FOR ALL: A SHIFT IN PARADIGM....Building A Community</a></class> <a href="pcontactus.html"/>.Please Click here to contact us....We would like to here from you.....sometimes...It is time</a>... Read the article here >>><a href="trueafrican.html">See article about how the nigerian government scuttled a car fabricated by a nigerian three decades ago.</a></div> <br> <h3>INVADING ARMY?</h3><cite><font color="black"><div class="a"> <center>An international news organization was showing thousands and thousands of able young men invading a portion of north eastern nigeria.Watch out abuja!It was said they were responding to the visa on arrival announcement by Mr. President the head of state of nigeria!You know where this announcement was made? And that with no enabling laws and process in place.If it is true somebody better make a clarification.If this is not a plan to reconfigure nigeria it is better to correct the impression right away.This is a lot of people trooping in endlessly.Unfortunately at a time the nation is in dire need of resources to provide for the nigerian youths these new arrivals could really complicate the issue much more for the citizens in these states.It is not as if their problems are not already difficult.But we heard from the grapevine this was part of an old plan to take some people away from where they could constitute more serious problems.But now they will make matters worse where they have arrived.Though an asset for the elite who have new and willing toys,they are a new demand on scarce resources.They are competition to the ones who are in need of help and have already been on the queue for it.This number of people will evoke an emergency and will require immediate attention.It is a very great diversion.And very capable of taking attention away from the real issues.We have a very important conversation going on.It concerns the future of the republic.Nigerians must focus on the issues.And brace themselves for the impact of this episode.It is bound to be serious.</center></cite></h6></span></font></div> <h3><center><cite>NO CAUSE FOR ALARM? A REASSURANCE ?</cite></center></h3> <font color="black"><center>We think there is cause for alarm!We knew that something was about to happen.When you have more than "four divisions" of able bodied men trooping into a country looking for free visa something is behind it!Has the National Assembly initiated inquiry into the source of the influx?At least have they asked the authorities in charge of immigration in the area?Other citizens need to know what they are dealing with. Nigerians from other parts have placed the world on notice.If the people of eastern nigeria come under threat again they will retain the right to self defence.It must be understood that the choice for peace does not imply surrender.The whole of southern nigeria is being assumed to be a conquered zone.It has become very obvious.In the past the south west used to be given the impression they were stakeholders.Not anymore. The winners have claimed their prize!We have just seen an attempt on the life of a powerful person and a member of our own community.If this is done to a person like a former head of state we know the message intended here.But those who made this attempt have misfired!They have exceeded their limit.They will not intimidate the people of this area again.The people who have done so much for nigeria even providing the resource enjoyed by everyone else will never again submit to more of this constant contempt,ridicule,manipulation and spoiling.We recall the manner in which Chief Ken Saro Wiwa was contemptuosly murdered.His crime was speaking up for his own.Enough already! No person should try to tell us this is local politics.It is not.We are not going to have a repeat of Chief Akintola and Chief Awolowo in Bayelsa!No.It is not going to happen.It will be resisted.It is too late in the day.And the tricks are too shallow for the political space.The oil in eastern nigeria belongs first to those who own it! It is the law of God and nature.</center> <br> <center>We wish to let the people who have been selling the threadbare hubris of national unity for so long to drink some water.It is very obvious many are not sober and their actions are very hurtful.How could you do these kind of cruel things to people and call them your fellow citizens? How is that possible?What benefit does being nigerian bring to someone from eastern nigeria? In what way does being nigerian enhance their lives?Leaders must answer these kind of questions or they are deceiving themselves.The nigerian nation abandoned production of cotton, cocoa,palm oil and palm kernel,cashew nuts hides and skins,rice,millet and other cash crops and dived straight for petro-dollar.In their greed they have hurt so many people.They abandoned the responsibility of catering for the lives of millions of people by encouraging and promoting their means of livlihood.We have leadership that took a nation where people could work in any part of the nation to one in which you will not find work outside of your own clan.It is easier for an expatriate to get a job in nigeria than for a nigerian of a different state.Talk about leadership!We are wondering where the unity exists.The only reason for the noise about unity is because there is the need to maintain the vice-grip on crude oil.There is no other way in which the space has unity.You do not have institutions that foster unity even among neighboring states.They are killing one another.We need to ask the ones who are leaders what their goals are.You are never going to build a soceity based on falsehood and hubris.You are not going to be able to use force or deceit all the time.It gets to a time when the scales fall away and the questions multiply.In a place with a history of lack of answers the future gets bleak rather very quickly.We are wondering how the nigerian government intends to continue to function in a way that people are less united today than they were fifty years ago.How do you look to the future together like that?These are some of the questions they do not ask themselves.If you are not able to deal with these realities you have already lost control. <br> Read the article here >>><a href="newagitations.html">See the article on the still repeating set of events that almost destroyed nigeria fifty years ago.</a></div> <br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The nigerian nation needs more than prayers.Prayer require active work of faith and righteousness.WE need fairness and equity and then prayer.In that order.We can't only pray and continue in the reason God would not heed us.It is wrong to place the burden of unity on one group of people.So we talk of unity and peace. But only to the extent that one group of people have borne the brunt of the demands for both.So unity and peace as long as some people give nothing at all.And then turn around and pack the table clean!Nations around the world invite investors to their countries.In nigeria people from eastern nigeria will usually move to various part of nigeria and create jobs for themselves and hire their fellow citizens.The opportunities provide for families theirs and their employees and produce positive multiplier effect of economic growth.The politicians who could not solve problems for which they sought power chose instead to catigate these great citizens highliting them negatively.In other places these are role models you want to encourage those you lead to emulate.But they really have no care in the world about these people.They serve only as pawns.Having nothing to offer the people they focused on attacking the citizens who deserved nothing but their support. <br> <center>It was this line of thought and the attack on industry and excellence that led to the pogrom and massacre of people of eastern nigeria.These men went to places where there were no known opprtunities and created possibilities there.It is ironic how such became the evil for which people were slaughtered.The same line of faulty reasoning is back in full gear.Now we have the principle of hijacking the resources of other people.Whether it is grazing cattle in the farms of citizens or hijacking their land and home steads to plant new sometimes foreign loyalists it is wrong.It could be hijacking oil from those perceived to be voiceless.Whatever else the present idea stinks!Other nigerians must determine if the situation represent a scenario of nationhood they want.For us in eastern nigeria it is not acceptable.A repeat of fatal hostilities to us is not necessary.We are nigerians by choice.The principles of intimidation is not something we like to get used to.It is leading nowhere.It is the type of ideas that make some parts of the world hot as boiling pots of oil. The people of eastern nigeria must not think turning the other cheek will solve the problem.If they are tired already it will only get worse.So to say it is enough is the right answer.They must identify the "career minded" politicians who will sacrifice the overall good of the environment for dog food and dog biscuits and flag them properly.</center> <br> <center>We are going to work together in the southern part of nigeria.We are going to make the ground rules.There is no question we will succeed.Our goal and the future that awaits will be the reason to work for success.If there are those who refuse or reject the ground rules they are free to walk.There will not be a fight.If anyone will choose that the fight will be taken to the person without any doubt at all.Here is the truth.Nigeria as presently constituted can't make meaningful progress.It can borrow but it will not be enough.It will be indebted and make the matters far worse.Unfortunately that is the cycle.The work needed now will be done by citizens who know they are engaged in improving their lives and working for a better future.It is the kind of reality that produce change.We have the resources.The right people will be able to mobilize it.It is how you create the opportunities.If you focus on sharing there will be struggles and friction.We said so a long time ago.You are not going to build a soceity where people will not seek and find employment in their own soceity.Something is wrong with that picture.The states have become selfish clans and enclaves of many with itchy palms.The resources being vandalized comes from a certain portion that has been subdued on purpose.For that reason there is a need to maintain control.Here is the problem with that: Nigeria will never be able to police the nation from the center.It can never be in a position to afford that.It is enough to drive it into penury.It will not control two hundred and fifty unwilling nationalities!</center> <br> <center>Even the military will be too extended indeed over-extended to be dealing with strife emanating from this now normalized perfidious approach.On the other hand all the nationalities in nigeria could be productive and pay their taxes to a physically fit federal government and maintain their own infrastructure and government.It was what was agreed to.A physically fit federal government will have a police force that will be needed to enforce existential matters of the federation.The nation states will maintain their own laws.Nigeria will not exist if anyone had floated the idea of controlling every nation state from some place either within africa or outside.We wish to let those who are toying with the idea of controlling the others to get a grip.They are having a nightmare not a dream.Is it not obvious to them? If they will not come to the table and discuss the future they will not be part of it.They are excluding themselves in trying to pretend to be over and above everyone else.We believe they will understand the dynamics and fall in line quickly.If they delay they are going to be stranded.There is an africa on the move.Our forebearers worked for it and won us freedom.Nelson Mandela dreamed it in our day.He planted the seed and watered it. And he paid the full prize for it to be nurtured always.We must claim that duty or we are reprobates and we are not! </center> <div align="left"> <img src="igbokg.jpg" align="left" width="190" height="230" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <div align="left"> <img src="ofo.jpg" align="right" width="190" height="230" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <h4><center><cite>WHO IS WATCHING OVER US?</cite><center></h4><cite><font color="black"><div class="a"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center><center>We knew it.We knew it will come to this!The type of gruesome images we see far away are now part of the landscape.We see young people blowing themselves up.The adults who by nature should protect these people betray them!These are in our own space and it is very strange indeed!We are not willing to have to deal with such a situation.Not when we are free.It is unacceptable.We had warned the people cuddling this evil and talking and kicking up religious storms.Now they have their wish.It is time the people of southern nigeria decide whether to move forward as progressive modern soceities or backwards to the dark ages.The way to respond to inequity in the world is certainly not to turn on your own and mow them down each time you are upset.We used to assume some extraneous forces are behind events like this. Now we know it is only partly true.There are some within our soceity capable of such actions.There are many whose interests demand they mistreat some other people.The nigerian nation could not exist as one single entity if there are those within it who have the mindset to kill others of different faith or belief.It is the reason so many people were alarmed by the statement credited to the chief justice of the federation.It lacked respect for the nations original constitution the reason the nation still exists and the people of other faith who have endured all manner of tinkering with the boundaries.It is very pathetic that after so many years and so many lost lives we have the same set of problems.In other soceities such a disposition should have disqualified him from a position which requires level headedness and knowledge.In other soceities this pronouncement will cost him his position.You do not decree peace and unity.Actions create peace.We have some "leaders" who do not know how to solve problems.But they are good at creating a bunch of them.It is a very bad sign.One would have hoped that those with extreme views are not given the podium and limelight to avoid the mistakes of the past.But here we are dealing with repeating set of events and marking time.A nation with over two hundred million people within it must be led by those who are conscious of the serious nature of this responsibility. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>His idea that the frontiers of the sharia law must be extended ruins the provision for secularism in that agreement and nigerian constitution and even in their certificate of acquisation of the nigeria state,which they refer to as a constitution!A document which was issued by them to themselves as a right to own nigeria.At least the nigerian people know when the constitution that made nigeria a nation was suspended.The provisions of that constitution is why there is still this entity refered to as nigeria.When that agreement between the stakeholders of the nigerian state is abrogated by one party the provisions are voided.The military can claim it is not a direct stakeholder.It is a different matter when people who hold authority and proxy do so.When and if they do the other parties have a legitimate right to respond in kind.Every agreement has this type of understanding embeded in it. It is for this reason we tell those making incendiary comments to be careful.Everything has its elastic limit.Even the patience of the people in the political space known as nigeria is not exempt. The timing of his call was wrong.He is the wrong person to make such a pronouncement because it comes across as careless.He could not claim it was a mistake.Neither can he say he was misquoted.He is the authority.This is precisely why it is wrong to flood every position in a federation with people of one line of mindset.It is dangerous and they are on the verge of plunging the nation down a precipice.They would like us to believe they are against boko haram. We have no way of knowing for sure.Everything they have said and done seem to suggest they would like to see such an entity.They needed such a tool for forcing compliance to the tenets of their faith.Due to the nature of facts and reality they will not be singing praises of such entities.As mere mortals we can only look at the material evidence before us.We think they are responsible for boko haram and such other entities. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Boko haram should not have allowed its members to descend even farther down to such manner of brutality.They are typically unafrican and unacceptable in whatever circumstances within the space.They have actually alienated the people of southern nigeria who happen to be predominantly christians.They are not responsible in any way for the event for which this act was perpetrated.If anyone is interested in fighting the United States of America and her allies africa is hardly the first place to look.So why have they killed ten people who are suppose to be their own kit and kin? Are they able to reason this with us?We appeal to these men to remember that they can really find relevance in the space being negotiated in the environment presently.It is not a time for arms.We need the minds.You are not able to apply the mind when hate,bitterness,disdain are the controlling emotions. The people of southern nigeria are not christians because whites imposed it on them.It is not completely true.In part it could be true.The people of southern nigeria are christians because they believe in the Universality of human reality.The universality comes from the same Source of quickening.And this is not within we ourselves.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We have different names for this Truth.But we all share this belief.The doctrine and methods and the details are where the divergences happen.Suppose we trust the same One who places us here without our permission or approval to know the purpose? Then we have less need to want to resort to violence.If we did that we will be looking for similarity and areas of common ground and not differences.Our traditions show we honor the work of God in that we all surround our leaders with love and protection and trust.In our own case we believe he is there to help not exploit.The people can identify with God who is there to help them.So we demand service and help from our leaders.We serve them. But they serve us too!We require that of them.I can say that of the Igbo people.Our people love their leaders rather than fear them.It must be what drew them to the christian faith.Using the place as a group and sample we can project the same for the rest of southern nigeria.What these people are portraying by their constant acts of violence is that they are at odds with the space and the environment and the values.It is a choice they are making themselves.It does not have to be that way.It is avoidable.There is such thing as respect even tolerance.What is inevitable is the consequence.By this and other acts of violence what they are doing is to take their struggle for religious freedom and liberty and throw it into a space where the motive is against God and humanity.It is extremely selfish to require something for yourself and not consider how the people around you are affected.It is exactly what morality including religion seeks to prevent.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Now we ask those who stoke religious disagreement if they like what they have created?It does not matter whether it is intentional or not, but the rest must seek a safe space before it is too late.There is no way under the sun you want to insist or make an argument to keep people where they will be faced with guns and explosives during debates and disagreements.We neither desire nor subscribe to that kind of environment.It is unacceptable.Those who control the military,police,immigration,customs,the courts,the legislative arm of government, the presidency and everything else, will not threaten the rest and call it a joke!If they were on the other side they are not going to be tickled by these events. Some people in nigeria lost millions of lives before.As a result we want to warn the people from eastern nigeria resident in places where they are vulnerable to think safety.They must not assume too much.History is not on the side of such logic neither are the facts.We want no accidents. We need no fake appologies.It will never be the case ever again.We like the whole world to know that the people of eastern nigeria have a saying that if your relative is a victim of witchcraft you do not want to hear the hooting of an owl on your fence.We need now to have a safe space to nurture our own way of life.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The people who fought very hard to create the twelve contiguous sharia state in nigeria must understand they drove a sharp dagger into the soul of the nation.We would say they were used.But we know they will dispute it.In part because many of them are not even aware of these things.It is not to say they are not free to do so.But they must accept responsibility for the consequencies of their actions.They are the ones who made entities like boko haram inevitable.It is said that nature abhors vacuums.If you create an entity of law, enforcement becomes imperative.The young men who find no place due to the self-serving leadership of the so called elites found some relevance.It is the legacy of these myopic "leaders".The problem with creating sectarian environments is that they are always dogged by violence without any exception.There are many of us who would have loved to see a nigeria that is prosperous.Such is the desire of those who wish africa well.But strategically there are some who would rather like to use people from africa only as vassals and tools.At the very best they want the ones who will serve as toys and disposables.It is what they have become used to.It is the reason we place high premium on the trust and goodwill built through friendship.The people of west africa will do business as neighbors for the first time in nearly hundred years.Perhaps if we used guns and tanks we might not attain the same results.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It is a great victory for the sons and daughters of africa who made this happen.We also thank the men and women of good will around the globe who are touched by the plight of the african.Just when so many are working for a better future this is all these ones can contribute?We think something is in it and it is odd.Have the people who take this matter casually thought about what the men capable of the type of brutality the world has watched in the last few years can do with the type of sedate and non-confrontational population they are reaching for?The rest of us do not wish to find out their motive.We know what it is.They want access to tens of millions of innocent youths who for lack of occupation could be turned and indoctrinated to become enemies of humanity.It is not what we are looking for.We need youths who aspire to become useful to themselves and their communities.We need medical doctors, lawyers,enginners,musicians,bricklayers,teachers,nurses,carpenters,painters,good husbands,good parents, whatever profession or vocation.We want happy children and teens in heathy nurturing communities.We want an environment where the elders are not frightened every time they look outside the door or window.We need youths who help extend the frontiers of learning and knowledge.We need a nurturing environment that enables our youths become part of global competition.It is the nature of the present conflict.Our goals are our prayer.There is no way we can loose!We want to provide the environment that allows our youths to become anything they put their minds to.Not severed limbs.Certainly not wasted lives! </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It is the reason we all are wondering why a man we thought of as "austere" and "disciplined" a person we thought had good qualities of leadership is another blank card for nigeria.The nation is trapped in a web of financial speculation that could plunge it in perpetual debt and dysfunction.The reason being that he has been surrounded by those who see no merit in his own vision.He ran for president three times promising to return nigeria to "true federalism".Instead the government is the narrowest and shallowest in a life time.The men who have his ears have turned him away from the rest of the nation confining him to his clan.It is clear these men are not interested in his own future.It is theirs they are working for.If they want the people to believe he put up a facade as one who could be relied on,it is a very unfortunate development.They are telling the nation the whole thing was a massive scam!Many call him the captive of the villa. By subjecting him to their narrow world view the nigerian people are again the loosers.It is very sad to watch the slow but steady descent of the nation into anarchy and decay.The roads in many parts of nigeria especially the eastern part are horrible.The youths are not receiving functional education.The industries that provided gainful employment are all extinct due to regulations that will target and hamper them.It was part of era of overthrowing and being overthrown.Now we must find our way to build consensus and move our space forward.It is how other people make progress.Many of you do not know a nigerian citizen fabircated a car engine in in 1985.Constructed a full automobile a year later.The nigerian government just stepped in and scuttled his effort.Being from eastern nigeria there was fear this could lead to other more serious things! Serious things like actually build or fabricate or manufacture or produce something useful to soceity and the world! You know as it is that is forbidden in the country called nigeria! I put a link here to the article about the issue.</center> here >>><a href="trueafrican.html">See article about how the nigerian government scuttled a car fabricated by a nigerian three decades ago.</a></div> <br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The seige mentality of these men is driving policies of extinction and extermination.These are the areas that led the economy and drove growth and prosperity for the nation.The people are now all living in foreign lands looking in.Europe,the americas and every corner of the earth have become places of refuge for people from the areas that produce everything that sustains the nigerian state.It is an irony that keeps getting more and more blatant.The sooner nigerians are given the chance to chart the course of their own destiny the better.These spoilers are making themselves too vissible for their own good.It appears they are on the course to steam rolling their own perdition.Their present course is directed against entities with no patience for these type of vices.The nations that will bear the full brunt of a collapsed nigerian state will not fold their arms and watch it happen.They will see the need to compel the nigerian government to return to the founding constitution and stem the tide of agitations and slide towards anarchy. It might be a reason for the ones engineering these counter intuitive initiatives to rethink.It is very impossible for any one in their right mind to force people who are planted firmly around the earth making huge contributions to accept the reality these men are forging in nigeria.It is impossible.No one will force more than eighty million igbos to live in a nation where they will be slaughtered every now and again for being hard working people.It will no longer be the case.Some people are not aware of the realities of the present day.If they reject returning nigeria quickly to the founding constitution they will soon be negotiating and pleading for a conferderacy.Even that too may be rejected!We speak for ourselves other people must react according to how they feel.The people of eastern nigeria have suffered enough to sustain nigeria.Other people must show they are part of it.Not only to take but also to give. The gun slinging and explosive totting young men who front religion might be forced to face up with those who left them no other choices.It is the way it should be.They have done too much harm already.</center> </center></cite></h6></span></font></div> <a href="entertain.html">..</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3><p><a href="onenation.html"/>.. TOPIC :VISION OF DESTINY OF A PEOPLE..ONE DESTINY..ONE PEOPLE..ONE GOD...ONE PETITION UNTO GOD..A NATION WHERE NONE IS OPPRESSED::.. ..Be Our Partner</a> <a href="entertain.html">..</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3><p><a href="returntopeace.html"/>.. TOPIC :TRUE FEDERALISM...THE AFRICA OF NOW AND THE FUTURE CALL FOR RETURN TO REASON AND VISION::.. ..Be Our Partner</a> <a href="entertain.html"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="wethenomad.html"/><font size ="3" color="teal"><h6 class="myclassC"><span style="color:brown">..:>>>>.... A Vision Of Brotherhood::.TOPIC:;'STOP THE WASTING OF LIVES". 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AFRICA IS RISING AGAIN</font> <br><br> <font size="4" color="black"><center>We are saying that africa has something to contribute in our world.Some people are not aware of the fact that it is impossible to erase history completely.Human beings are each a piece of living history.If people survive so will history.It is no exergeration to say that africa has a lot to do with where humanity is and where it is going.This is a fact that must be clear to the men and women who aspire to lead.If one is challenged by a knowledge of the truth it is a defficiency rather than an attribute of strength.On our own part feeling of inadequacy will hinder the chances we are going to be able to negotiate positions that represent our true worth.And we must take responsibility for that much from the start. So if we are advocating that humanity should move away from violence and force towards negotiation and dialogue we must be ready to lead.And the best leadership is charismatic leadership.It is leading by example.Even for the non-believer in the christian faith the model of the life of Christ is note worthy.Jesus Christ was the ultimate in the style of leadership. Even if we take His work and walk carnally it is very impressive.He never made a different eating arrangement with his followers.He shared same abode with them. His dress code was not different from theirs.He was their leader through knowledge and provision.Africans have what they need.They must make their partners understand this fact.</center> <br> <center>It is how we cause change to happen. The african people know very well that nature is able to sustain when we keep our expectations modest and simple.We live it everyday.If we do not but we see it daily.If we reside in that part of the world we must know this to be true. And the human race needs sustainability and must enforce it or it will ruin its own future.It is what we could offer the world.How to sustain a simple environment, and get functionality still out of it.Every advance we make in technogy has nothing to do with conscience.And it is conscience that sets the stage for the environment.It is for this reason it is wrong for us to look up to others to guide us in this regard.We want those who do not experience these things to be the ones to show and teach us our own daily experience.It is absurd.We can offer the world forthrightness, patience,courage and above all love.These are part of simplicity.In a world where rancour, greed and distrust are a given we are in a position to provide such a leadership genuinely.There is not anyone else in the world that has not earned distrust.They have tried to destroy one another many times before!It is the reason it is very sadening when africans throw away what is the greatest asset they have and enter the ring where the odds are stacked so badly in their disfavor.</center> <br> <center>Having made a general case let us return yet again to the issue of insecurity in nigeria.We are watching the nation that stands the chance of being a leader in the world crawling and groveling in anticipation for assistance.We have a nation that should be a source of solutions becoming a problem.The men who fought for independence will be very ashamed of this crop of so called leaders.The many who perished fighting for democracy will be suprised at the turn of events.We are arguing over whether nigeria should be "a true federation".Really? We have lost nearly seven decades wondering and wandering!We fought a war.We had several massacres and lost millions of lives.Insecurity is not new in nigeria.Neither is the attempt to inject religion into the polity.Several times in the past even during colonial time the British Government had many running battles with certain so called leaders from the core north.It is on record.Time and time again the colonialists rejected the many attempts of creating a sectarian state.Now they have had their way and look what the outcome is for the nation.If there is a constant in nigeria it is insecurity.A very careful examination of the facts points to the same source.And it is continuing.We can trace the insecurity to the same group who have pushed the issue so relentlessly.I suggest we ask the British! Why is it difficult to see that nigeria can never survive if it is not a true federation? There are not only hausas or Igbos or fulanis or yorubas or effiks or ibibios or ijaws or tivs or jukuns or edos and we can keep going on and on.So you look for similarities and have communities in managable ageable groups.It is what makes sense.It was what the colonialists did. It is what you do to manage people.They had to do that fundamentally colonialist or not.If you do not manage human beings well even the most servile could turn deadly and kill you!</center> <br> <center>The truth is that the men who have the apparatus of power are not really worried about the impending disaster of two hundred million people "streaming" out of africa suddenly!And they will be entering a world with open arms?Of course not.There is a saturation presently and immigration is today a bad word.The idea of returning the nation to the constitution that guarantees that every component part survives and thrives as an entity is paramount.It is not a choice. It is a must.If the "leaders" can't see this truth something is very wrong.Right now they are sitting of a keg of gunpowder as the saying goes.I think the explosive here is far more potent than gunpowder.Nigeria is not in a position to delay this issue.There is no other approach that will not end in a deadly stalemate.The nation is in no shape to conduct a referendum.Every election is litigated.Are you going to have a referendum litigated too?It appears the answer is omnious.If you can't go to the courts to vent and give your own people something to sink their teeth on too bad.They will bite someone.The constitution at independence is a valid document.It is a thorough job in our situation.It is acceptable to all.Why are the authorities not prepared to solve the nigerian issue? It appear they will rather have the nation splintered.They are more likely to succeed in that regard.We love doing what is convinient.And right now the most convinient thing is to allow the drift to continue.And we all know the end of it.</center> <br> <center>It is very sad we do not have men and women who understand that the constitution at independence is what should be amended now. We could not have ignored the option that can bring peace if it is the goal.Why is it the people talking about peace do so only as long as what they want is the only option?Who calls such a search for a solution? They are not seeking peace.They are looking to impose a situation.They had the gut to emplace sharia in twelve states of nigeria.And that without asking the rest of the nation.It is absurd how they view coexistence.The original constitution gives the regions semi-autonomy.It is how their alchemy even remotely becomes explicable.Otherwise they have already divided nigeria into two.And the rest can go their way.It is one choice.The other one is the reason the nation is a grave yard.Those who made this choice are enjoying the present situation.It was their design.Sectarian entities have the atmosphere presently in nigeria.It is not something these men are unaware of.Nigerians must resist anyone perpetuating it.We have said in the past that there is not a chance that anyone is able to lead a nation like nigeria using hubris and smoking mirrors.It might impress friends.But it will offend the others and tick them off.But it appears there are a group of people who think there is no better approach.And they will delay and drag their feet and deny reality.The nation is this pathetic mess right now.But it is the better to look ahead and expect they truely understand what the nation is going through presently.If they love the nation it is time to act.The idea should be how to phase the current dispensation into an arrangement that can forestall the threatening fissure.The consitution at independence will keep the nation.And it will prosper and become the nation we all want.The new one will break it.This is the kind of leadership that is required right now.</center> <br> <center>If the gentlemen and ladies in Abuja wish to continue flogging the dead horse their journey would have ended before it ever began.Some have raised the issue of the original constitution being based on a parliamentary system.We wish to tell them that government styles and method of representation are things for which the consitution is a guide and skeleton.If we are not able to use a fine document like that to govern ourselves it is because we do not belong together.Making a thousand constitutions will never change that fact.It is difficult for one to understand why so many lives are being wasted and it seems as though there is an attempt to normalize it.When you have a situation where citizens are being sacked from their homes and towns there is a problem.What are governments for?What is the duty or function of a government? This is the pertinent question at the moment. And it requires an answer or the nation is loosing its footing.We would like to advise those tempted to think this could be resolved like treating the common cold to please think again.What we have on hand is serious.</center> <br> <center>This is how you have the ungovernable sahel regions.It is the recipe.We are loosing a nation we are capable of nurturing back to life and good health.If nigeria breaks up it will be because of the sturborn insistence of those who have savaged, vandalized and brutalized her who would not let go.Could be when nigerians start asking very hard questions they might.Questions like where the monies they budget annually goes.And so on.Some of us have an idea why they do not wish to have a fuctioning system.The nigerian people have suffered a lot.All they need are leaders who are concerned for them. Nigeria need leaders who understand the idea of government and a nation is to make the lives of citizens better and to enrich the commonwealth of her people.If the nigerian nation is destroyed it will be because the leaders and people citizens have trusted have let them down.It will not be because the citizens desired any less.</center> <br> here >>><br><div valign="right" ><img src="igbobabes.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="maiden.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< <center><font color="brown">REGIONAL SECURITY IN NIGERIA:THE EASTERN FLANK</center></font> <br> <center><cite>What happened to the south eastern regional security outfit that the governors promised? Someone made the allegation that our leaders are becoming conditioned.But by who? We said it that some of these governors are behaving as though they were not elected but handpicked by the "internal colonialists".We know the exception. Otherwise we are not able to explain why they are so easily intimidated.It is now clear why certain kinds of persons are prefered as leaders in eastern nigeria.You have a very articulate and sound person who is rational he would not be the choice.If there is one who is insecure and docile he qualifies.Why would anyone be afraid to move to protect his own people from very obvious and persistent violation,abuse and sometimes massacre? These men started "planning" a regional security outfit before we heard about Amotekun.It is not difficult to see the reason some are advocating a parallel government in the area to protect the population.We now are being pushed to use harsh language against the men who were "elected" by the people of eastern nigeria.With the exception of Governor of Rivers state the rest behave like docile subjects of a czar.Please stand up the people are behind you!We remind them they are chief executives of states that have millions of people.Some nations in the world are smaller in poplation than these states.What is needed is a step forward.Today Amotekun is there for the people of western nigeria.No longer will anyone play games with them.Eastern region is still playing the game of "guardian".The only problem is the position is a role play.The people who hold the substance are not interested in that.You can waste your time all you want.Time to wake up and lead or be prepared to be sidelined.We remind the people of eastern nigeria that they saw how the whole of western region rose up as one for Amotekun.All institutions were mobilized to achieve the goal.Eastern nigeria must do the same and quickly.We call our brothers in Akwa Ibom and Cross River state to understand the issues and play the game of matured minds here.Our survival as a people is at stake.We remind them that their actions are a display of their courage.It is no time for fear.If you want and wish to be respected act and behave the part.If we want our voice to be heard we must not allow our enemies to plant noise around us.<center> <br> <cite><center>The idea is for the different regions to evolve a security arrangement that keeps their own environment safe and secure.A federating unit must be strong in the sense that it is able to assert its own position. If not it will be unable to advocate for its own citizens.The people of eastern nigeria must be thinking of something that includes the entire space as one family.If this is not done they will continue to slave for those who are able to do so.In the case of northern nigeria they have chosen force.Boko Haram is no accident neither are the other groups including the bandits.It was bandits that tormented our people and took them and sold them as slaves.It was bandits.From Zanzibar,Zimbabwe,mauritania through Ghana and the entire west coast of africa the marauders thwarted communities and made them vulnerable to invasion and attacks from other kingdoms.If we can point to one internal catalyst for under development in ancient africa, it is the marauders.Bandits vandalized entire fabric of society.They did it before europeans showed up and partnered with them soon after.And they castrated the men.We must remember that.What we must insist upon are agreements and values.If they are not agreed on it is dangerous to assume the other party who is already breaking all the rules will develop empathy suddenly.They must be made to do so by forcing them to consider the inevitable.It is not a new thing.Those who play about it and think it is benign must think again. The question is how is it that the leaders in eastern nigeria will go to abuja to seek answers and they have not sat together in Enugu, Port Harcourt, Uyo, Ikot Ekpene, Calabar or Ogoja?</center> <br> <center>Why is that? Is it because Abuja has been built with their money and they go there and they are cringing? If you are there thinking about oil and petrol there is so much solid mineral in the northern nigeria they can pave their roads with gold.When they carefully walled twelve states off in the guise of religion some of us know the truth.How many of the clerics are aware of the value and specific mineral deposit for which the cloud and smoke screen of religion is being spawned?The mineral deposits that will control technology of today and the future all happen to be in these states! But they will not touch any of it.It is their own.It is being exploited or shall be out of record.They love nigeria so much and want unity on these kind of terms.Is that what you love? We are not in the mood for the game of numbers in the family.These people are our family.In eastern nigeria it is the same family.No thief will teach us our own history.Until they return what is stolen and have done full restitution we must not accept their opinion of us.They teach us Igbos are not related to Ibibios? They teach us Ijaw people are not related to Igbos.The families from where these people migrated are still here.We are going to show the world the archeological remains and ruins of the forebearers of these so called different tribes.How can people who are different share the same exact culture?And it includes foods,complete equivalent manner of dressing?</center> <br> <center>We tried in the past to survey the articles of entertainment like drums and flutes, the dances and so on.These are too much to be coincidences.Sometimes they are too exact to be refered to as similar.It is terrible what greed can do.The same people who want everything in your pocket are giving you your own history lesson. We love the way the mighty men and women who wanted a secure region for themselves stood up to the bullies.It is how to be great.You make your enemy eat his own words! I watched it.I witnessed the whole drama unfold.Our safety is our responsibility.It is foolish to require it from another person.God makes us accountable for it with His help. And it is how it is done.We want to see how the perpetual prospects for nigerian presidency will approach the problem.We have those who have made it an art form to audition even to those who pay no attention to them.We want to see if they will see the opportunity to audition once more or a matter of the survival of their own people.We wait and see.</center> <br> <center>We are one people.It is best to put our best foot forward. When you listen to General Philip Effiong you will understand what I mean.General Effiong was erudite and will stand eye to eye with any from around the world.We remember Okoko Ndem.The men and women in the situation knew these were men of value.They took notice of these great men in their midst.Margaret Ekpo organised women in the entire eastern nigeria.She was a respected leader.Eastern nigeria was the most harmonious region in nigeria.It posted the fastest growth numbers.The place was a family.Those who envied what was going on were prepared to derail it by all means.Our ideas work.Their ideas do not work.Today we must begin to reason in ways that put our future clearly before us.It makes focus a lot easier.Enough is a word for the wise! We must be our neighbors keeper.How can we feel secure when our back is the vast open seas and we are not together? If we do not know that our enemies do. Our people must seat together and chart a future that is acceptable to all of us with mutual respect and dignity as the watchword.All the intrigues are always with the people of the eastern nigeria and their kins.Instead of allowing them to stay with their kins the people who are fighting for their lives now were offered "independence by joining" those with a different culture and way of life.The people from northern nigeria were allowed to be with those with whom they share cultural similarities.The ones to the south had no such luck.Today the people of the western cameroun are gasping for air and being choked.As part of eastern nigeria there was seamless cohession.</center> <br> <center>The people who did not understand the magic of the British people have themselves to blame.The British Empire was an efficient organism.Just like the nucleus entity.If we wish to put the empire in the past to make everyone feel comfortable.The truth is they put together entities the way they made administrative sense.The emphasis on who leads who in the colonies is something to be viewed from that standpoint.And we all know that in that regard you look for similarity.And they are no stranger to these kind of issues.How you give someone independence by adding them to another entity is novelty.But the people were suppose to reject it.The people to the north were advised to.They opted to remain with their kit and kin.It was a hint for the people to south to stay with the people they knew well.But you see our people can protest and complain a lot.If you are a colonialist you too want such a person to suffer!Emotions took over.The rest is history like they say.Now the people they joined have rejected the grafting technique.They want to swallow them instead.They are cutting the people up like meat for food.We have people in the north of the Benue river.You just need to check the culture and language.The river did not just mark exact lands and cultures and flow in accordance.It is not the way humans react to nature.They crossed these rivers to seek pasture.Now the people who want to take the whole space are inching forward anyway they can. Today the game plan is to smuggle beligerant populations into these entities to consume them.But only if we wish our own to become food and if they want to.The people of eastern region must realize they have their own kit and kin in Kogi state who will hardly identify themselves for fear.The river niger and benue is not a definite natural line dividing north and south as those who planted this lie insist.</center> <br> <center> We have the opportunity to show our brothers and sisters who live above the niger that we are ambitious enough to embrace their dreams. We are also aware that those who want to share of dreams must protect the visionaries in their midst.The idea is to begin to invite and involve them in all activities of our community.As we seek solutions it must include their input.It is for this reason the regions and the contiguos states must seek areas of collaboration for mutual benefit.We must harmonize education systems and training.The community must embrace the dream they seek to bring about and work together for it.Curricullum and syllabi must reflect experience of a people,their aspirations and their needs.It means education and planning must be in the hands of the community.If anyone must help it must be in the areas of the provision of resources.As they say charity begins at home.If the academic and other institutions of knowledge will be a source of solutions and not a drain for scarce resources they must be local. Not in terms of the source of skill but in seeking how best to answer the questions and the needs and challenges of daily life in the community.Our colleges of technology and other technical institutions must be given the resources to prosecute small projects that tackle problems with new ideas.We must endow them with the resources and challenge them with the questions from their own communities.If this is not the goal and approach what is the idea?As we begin to do this we are going to grow a population of solution oriented segments of our communities.It is how we start to energise our people and get them ready to compete and survive.Security is about being alive.Providing food and means of livlihood is topmost of what is needed.</center> <br> <center>Like we have maintained we have people who have similar heritage with the people of eastern region above the benue river.It requires no proof.They are there in Benue and Plateau states over there in Kogi state. Let me warn the people of eastern nigeria again.It was your land up to Ndigene,Ndiani and the whole entire area with contiguous culture all the way to Zanzibar.You can trace the culture and the artifacts.These are part of the same people pushed and squeezed from their original lands and habitat to the west.They are splintered, scattered and dispersed and their civilization whittled down and destroyed.It was then. Bakassi peninsula was your land.It is today.It is happening again in your own lifetime.Many of your people are now hanging in limbo.Do we find Ikenge and does it mean anything to any of us? Our people used to live in "ndiani".We know that from records in stories and folklores.And the partitions are artificial.You find the other portion of them on the other side so far away.Some had escaped hostility and other events.You find them in what is today called cameroun.And they are struggling there and getting massacred like cows.But look at our peoples all the way to the congo river and beyond.Take some time and study the way of life.They are not similar they are equivalent.We allow ourselves to be weakened through divisions and infantile squables.</center> <br> <center>We remember Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe and his vision of Africa.His party the NCNC provided training for budding politicians from around africa!Many castigate him for being unrealistic.We celebrate him for his vision for an independent nigeria and how he brought it about.We thank God for the record of his contributions.He was called the "Zik of Africa".His eloquent portrayal of the african cause earned him honor from our colonialists and from many among us.We remember like minded men who worked with him on behalf of their fellow citizens.These men were not worried about wealth as they were about the pursuit of their vision.It is for this reason they achieved the liberty that allow those who now embezzle billions of dollars of resources that will provide for the people.It is a big shame.This is a small detail of work left for those who inherited leadership to build the community of their dream. And they are not able to do just that! So much is done to slight and minimize such a colosus.They claim he was getting ahead of himself!Our reponse to those suffering from familiarity is that vision is to get ahead of everyone else!What do you have to compare with those you castigate? Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was instrumental in the effective campaign for the liberation of the african continent.He surrounded himself with many able men from the eastern nigeria and other southerners we all know and look what they did! We can't see the work that compares.All we see are disappointments and setbacks.</center> <br> <center>Not able to uproot weeds and grass they jump to the trunk of an iroko tree!It is not even funny. If it was intended to be humorous their sense of humor is irritating.We remember and celebrate the work he did to bring about his own vision.We know nigeria is a land with no heroes.Little wonder things are the way they are for it. But we remember him and we celebrate his wonderful vision and love for our people.As for those who have always prefered conflict and destruction we have had it with you!You will conform or walk!It will be one or the other.We are not going to continue to crawl when we could walk,run,drive and fly.We will not continue to beg when we have everything we need.You stay with it.We have embraced the possibilities before us.We are done!Eastern region will be autonomous and move her people forward.International laws support our move.Nature is on our side.We have made too many sacrifices for those who wish to remain a burden. We are no beasts of burden.We are a people.We are not going to speak for the others.But our arms are open. But we have the rules that make those who belong a family.</center> <br> <center>If eastern nigeria does not become a place that will provide for our indegenous people to thrive they will become extinct.Our people will organise themselves better or they will become tiny insigificant little tribes and will eventually diappear.You look at the beautiful culture and style and regal apparels of a proud people and know it will not be if you want to play the nice people.The other people have not been nice.A group of people try to survive by changing their habits in hostile environments. This includes how they speak.It is called adaptation.Those who think their dialects are matters that are too intricate to explain should think again. It happened to the Biafran people in this generation.Some of us know that and remember how it happened.The people changed their dialect in three short years.Imagine if the event lasted longer.If you hate to see that happen again you have to use your voice to fight in order to prevent it.Protect your land and values.If it matters to you then do more than wish and complain. 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HUMAN PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED BY PEOPLE....WASTE NO AFRICAN MINDS...WE NEED ALL..Be Our Partner</a> <a href="entertain.html">..</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3><p><a href="nowistime.html"/>..:>>>> TOPIC:: Honor Mandates::....TOPIC::;'Another Wasted Mandate?"...CAUSE THE CHANGE: Position For Development..Be Our Partner</a> <br><h6 class="myclass"><span style color:="purple"><td> <center><br><font size="4" color="black"><div valign="center">NIGERIA IS HEADING DOWN A PRECIPIECE:</center> <br> <center>Eastern nigeria and her peoples wherever they are will not be bullied any longer.They have been fully vindicated by history and current events.Nigeria a nation endowed with every resource useful on earth is in debt to the tune of eighty four billion American dollars.For a nation with over sixty percent youth population this is a time bomb.What kind of a government will enslave many unborn generation in such a way? What type of leadership will allow a nation of two hundred million people to be sold in place? It is the reason the people of eastern nigeria have been trying to leave this mess for nearly seventy years.Who will correct this big mess that has now been made by these people? Words are not always enough.It takes doing.And these people have quietly destroyed nigeria.Eighty four billion dollars can transform the entire west african region.But we are dealing with cold-hearted selfish rogues.They just stole it for themselves.Now the fools will have to deal with it.And this after wasting all the resources from petroleun from 1966 to date. The people of eastern nigeria must begin to make new plans.Nigeria is not working and might never work.Actions they say is louder than words.Now we must find a way to do things for our own people.Let me explain that a little bit more.The lunching of "Amotekun" in south western nigeria happened so that other people can follow.It is not a competition.It is leadership.It is important the people who are thinking of names like south-south understand what they are doing.</center> <br> <center>If they play into the hands of predators they will be taken for food.Numbers and size matter when these kind of issues are at stake.Sentiment and emotions are not very useful.Eastern nigeria was the most prosperous nation of people in nigeria if not in africa when the coup occured in 1966.All easterners prospered. Forget the fact that there were some complaints.It is part of life.There is never a perfect situation with man.You listen and you address them.Sometimes you listen very carefully and it is noise and you do nothing.The fact of the matter is the entire people of eastern nigeria made progress and very reasonable progress.We know some people wish to compare themselves with themselves and measure themselves and see themselves.As it turns out they have been stuck with their ideas.Their ideas don't work.If you are not able to plan to succeed the inevitable is failure.In a certain part of nigeria there are twelve states that are intrisically joined together.It is a political move.It might also be religious.One must be a coincidence.However the benefit is that these states have found a way to forge a union.Those who would not will continue to complain.If the other people want to compete they must find their own solution.If all they want to do is complain about the choices of the others it might just be a waste of time.</center> <br> <center>It is sickening to hear some of the complaints by people who have no idea what nigeria had done to the people of eastern nigeria.It is true they were very envious of the standard of education in eastern nigeria.Industries were springing up everywhere in Port Harcourt Calabar in Umuahia,Aba, Uyo. eastern nigeria was doing very well indeed.We must find a way to return to that degree of success and more.It must be accomplished through proper focus.The expectation to achieve anything meaningful without any cost is pure fantasy.Illusions and fantasies are what they are.When your intergrity has been undermined the only way to regain it is by emperical evidence.You prove yourself.Our citizens are everywhere around the world doing unbelievable things.What we lack is a group of men and women who will do what it takes to provide at least a modest environment for them to thrive at home.And we can't seem to find that in nigeria.Appealing to pity sometimes makes it worse.Predators have an instinct to devour whatever they consider to be weak.We warn our brothers and sisters in eastern nigeria that Igbo people can survive in a nation.The state of Isreal is doing just fine.However we are relatives and we know our strengths and weaknesses.We can work together just fine.We were able to do it for excellent results before.Those who are sowing enemity are enemies.They are filled with greed, envy and jealousy.They hijacked a prosperous nation and turned into a killing field.They have made a choice they are happy with.It is not for anyone else.They made it for themselves.</center> <br> <center>If anyone claims to be tough the time comes to prove it.If they claim to be smart they also must show it.Words are not always the way all matters are settled.As adults we all know that!If someone wants to take your home you must be prepared and willing to challenge them.You must be prepared but above preparedness you must be willing to confront them. The bottom line is you do not want to loose what belongs to you.If you fail to do so the person might come for something else.It will not be enough that you surrender in a single area.In southern nigeria we lost the proceeds from oil to certain forces.Our ports are run without our approval and consent.Our children are going to school with curricular that are suspect.What kind of education excludes history? We pay VAT tax on liquor and use the money to fund the states that prohibit liquor.We must be careful not to make any more concessions.Today they kill and threaten to transplant themselves over others.Time to wake up.Now it is enough.We ask for good men and women around the earth where our people are residing to be our friends indeed.The nigerian crises that claimed the lives of over two and half million lives of people of eastern nigeria made us know that brotherhood is not about location.It is about actions.Our brothers and sisters are those who help us and stretch a hand of fellowship at difficult times.Each and everyone of us must decide what we like to do to make africa better.We must determine what our contrubution shall be.We make up our mind to live for a cause more than ourselves.</center> <br> <center>Such men like Sir Arthur Alves Pereirra.Sir Pereirra was a young pilot when the nigerian crises began.He made a choice that shows us how much good each one of us is capable of.It is estimated that he helped save the lives of so many people.The people will not put a number to the lives he helped save.It is true that many in the area today owe him a debt of gratitude.Without the food and medications he brought into a completely blockaded entity perhaps the count would be far worse than it is.We thank the angel of life and pray for more like him on our earth.We heard this man is alive and well and we wish him more of God's favor.It is our prayer that God replenish and renew his youth and grant him the yearnings of his heart.We know a man like him must understand that.Such men show us the family of humanity still exists.They show us brotherhood still exist.The many motherless children the powdered milk he flew into the enclave had reached and saved must remember this man. The many malnourished children and adults the powdered food he flew into the jungles of "Uli" then called an airport should remember to thank this man! Such men deserve better recognition than we show.We see such people as very successful indeed.After all success if only measured in terms of ones possession then in our reckoning many who made our world better were failures.To some of us failure is to serve nothing more than one own self.It is so sad that a nation like nigeria which lost millions of lives in a genocide and war of genocide is today plagued with so much violence.It appears and seems the country is not able to rally around any basis for unity.So many lives being are wasted and innocent children are still being massacred by the same forces.There is absolutely no excuse for the world to pretend not to notice. We have some men and women especially men with overflowing dresses holding court one machine gun distance away from armed mindless murderers.And they are pretending to be safe!</center> <br> <center>Thankfully there are still places in the hearts of many for matters of these nature.There are still many who are touched by suffering of others.To these men and women it it not a television sound byte.It is important information concerning others.It is information about those who might need our help.The bonds of our global commonwealth still reminds us of the human family.And these people have made their names out on banners that are weather and time proof.And their lives are therefore transcendent.Matters of these nature are beyond politics.If we are not able to lift some issues over and above politics and make them sovereign issues we are not doing enough.Humanity will not survive the neglect of matters that touch on the value and essence of life.The many wars we still fight sometimes limitlessly is proof we get very careless quite often.However to be good adults require we create a proper handle for managing crises around our world.If we are not able the weapons we claim we are piling up as deterents will actually be used.We are not going to succeed in the game of rolling the dice during conflict and hoping someone blinks first. Someone might come along who can spoil it and cheat and dare the table.We must find a way to make certain issues distill fast enough to make timely solutions possible and imperative. Matters of equity and truth must become sovereign in their own right.Such issues must become issues that men and women of conscience can tackle without fear.Any barriers around such are unwarranted and must never be respected by those who dare to seek equity.It is how the human family might survive.It will not be achieved by ethnicism.The many failures of civilizations based on priciples outside of equity proves that fact already.The longest lasting human civilization is non ethnic.It is a nation built around equity and the universality of its truest essence.</center> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="adandigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< <br><div valign="left" ><img src="ndiada.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>......to the right ...>>>Beautiful daughters of Igboland ..a people on the mend.......>> see article a must read >>>> click here <a href="wiseupeast.html"/>..Click........</a></div> <br> <br> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <a href="entertain.html">..</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3><p><a href="thisone.html"/>.. 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Every ethnic group in nigeria is saying the same thing.Return the nation to its foundations.Nigeria was better before the military intervention.We must make our voices heard in the same context.We need a nation that works.If it is not nigeria as it so be it.But we are going to have a nation! And it has to function as a nation of reasonable people. The nation returned to an anxious polity is unworkable.It was voiced then by some of us.It is today a "slave" nation.The youths have every reason to be very angry.What are they suppose to do? Resign to their fate? So you wish to lift them out of poverty, first undo the shackles.Return the nation to the founding consttution.You will not suspend one constitution and return another one.It is a bad deal.If you took something from someone you must return what was taken exactly.You will not negotiate that.It was our argument then. And events have vindicated us.Our argument is valid.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspNorthern nigeria is capable of sustaining it own economy and become a vibrant prosperous community.So can the rest of nigeria. It could do so with even groundnuts which it is quite capable of producing at any scale.It produces rice and livestock.Northern nigeria used to produce cotton in commercial quantity.But there are so many other things that can come out of this region to make us all better.We have the same thing in the the western part of the nation.It is more than able to hold its own.Cocoa can still bring enormous wealth to this part of the nation. So can intellectual capacity and service delivery. Eastern nigeria is already moving along its capacity in service delivery and merchandizing. It is still capable of producing palm oil, palm kernel and cocoa.And yes eastern nigeria used to be sufficient in livestock farming.It produces cashew nuts and rice. So why is the government of nigeria satisfied with killing nigerians because of crude oil?And it uses the proceed to import food? Who benefits from these bizarre scenario? Obviously not nigeria or africa.The rest is wasted and normally goes unaccounted for.On and on this has gone. Centralized governance has proved to be a very big disaster for our people in the face of monumental corruption and unabated graft and hubris.It was never like that in the regions in the first republic.How could they have done so much with so little?</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspReturn the nation to the constitution that empowers the nigerian people to produce wealth for themselves. We are hearing the talk about lifting millions of nigerian out of poverty.Lifting millions out of poverty will require structures that work. Not talk.Not just the talk about it!We have an emergency.We have youths roaming without hope and expectations.They have heard all this talk for far too long.They have no faith in it. You are not God or magicians.Allow the structures that empower the people.It is all they need.Overbearing centralized control and remote government is suffocating the citizens.It breeds ineptitude and crass corruption.It feels worse than colonization. Their problem right now is the government and a constitution that has impoverished them! It appears government is unaware of what needs to happen.It is very frustrating! It is not a problem of any one section.It is a national burden and must be seen as such by any one who claims patriotism.You do not wish to keep your fellow citizens in penury and urge them to support you!If the people of eastern nigeria agitate for Biafra, it is because they can't speak for the others.Our cities were taken over by nature and grass grew over our dead in unmarked graves.Our streets turned into jungles and grass grew over what used to be our streets.Our girls and their mothers and our wives and sisters were raped.Our grandmothers were violated before our own eyes.We do not wish to recount these things for the sake of it.The people of eastern nigeria were targeted because they were working to pull themselves and other fellow citizens out of poverty and lack.We must tell the world such a thing will never happen to us ever again</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp We are Igbo people.We build. We build teams of people and we are self-starters.Chief Dr. Akanu Ibiam,Chief Dr.Michael Okpara, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe,Mazi Mbonu Ojike, Dr Nwafor Orizu,Dr Chike Obi,Chief Dr. K.O Mbadiwe, Chief M. T Mbu, Chief P O Ururuka, Dr Jaja Nwachukwu, Ms Magaret Ekpo, Mrs Janet Mokelu,Dr.Pius Okigbo, Mazi Sam Oti,Prof Kalu Ezera,L.C Mbanugo, and last but not the least Odumegwu Ojukwu Snr. were among the very best of Igbo leaders of their time.This list does not include all of them and people of other ethnicities in eastern nigeria.Eastern nigeria was intimidating intellectually at this time! Men like Chinua Achebe,Cyprian Ekwensi, Christopher Okigbo,Gabriel Okara were blazing the trail in the literary world.Each one of these people made contributions in the great stride for which eastern region became the envy of competitors. I do not have the space here to list the names of factories that came on stream within a short period after independence.It spans manufacturing,shoes making,mining and quarying,cement making,brewing, steel, tourism, textiles,aluminium, ceramics, and then the agricultural settlements.These industries and settlements were spread across the entire region.They were scrupulously and meticulously supervised and efficiently managed.Eastern nigeria was posting the highest numbers in growth per capita when the crises in nigeria began.The economic indicies at the time placed eastern region ahead of places like malaysia,Korea,taiwan,and singapore.This is what was truncated in 1966 using some misguided youths in military uniform.Quite clearly there is no better way to move the population forward than giving them the tools to manage their own lives.And this is not some gratuitous asertion.It is the truth.It is not suprising to some of us.What it has served was intended. It was aimed to slow the paceof growth and even reverse it.And the people who exucuted it must be feeling very elated.How come we are expecting them to change a reality they made sacrifices to achieve? Change must come from those who need it.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspEastern nigeria has always lead since independence.The various regions were making very good progress.Today one person controls everything.The result is the mounting debt profile of a blessed nation of industrious citizens.We need no war to solve the present empasse.We have sought help and we have it handy.The United nations charter on self-deternination called the DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF INDEGENOUS PEOPLES" empowers endangered indegenous peoples like us to invoke the charter on self-determination.Everything we seek are covered in articles and we reference one of the most applicable portions as follows"Articles 3, 4 and 5 of the declaration read as follows:<cite>Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.</cite> By the forgoing provision we are not in an impossible situation.</center> <br> <div align="right"> here >>><a href="newagitations.html">See article on how the nigerian nation has been hijacked by extraneous interests.<p>Interests who are determined to wreck it. Having abandoned the foundations of the nation based on the autonomy of the stakeholders they are sending it to the brink</a></div> <br> <img src="osagiafoh.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="150" /><a href="entertain.html">..</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="truthbetold.html"/>..:>>>>..African Debt Forgiveness Allows Her Reset priorities...TOPIC::;'STRUCTURAL IMBALANCE IN NIGERIA POLITY"... SELF-DETERMINATION CREATES PROSPERITY...Be Our Partner</a> <a href="entertain.html">..</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="createthis.html"/>..:>>>>... Unity Is Possible::..TOPIC::;'A NATION WHERE NO ONE IS OPPRESSED".. EQUAL CITIZENS BEFORE THE LAW ..NOT RULERS BUT LEADERS: CITIZEN LEADERS: ........Be Our Partner</span></h6></a></class> <img src="drekwueme.jpg" align="right" width="150" height="150" alt="LET US GET THE WORD OUT WITH YOU."/> <a href="entertain.html">..</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p> <a href="theagle.html"/>..:>>>>...... 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Goal is SELF-DETERMINATION: ..Not Balkanization...Be Our Partner</a> <a href="entertain.html"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="wethenomad.html"/><font size ="3" color="teal"><h6 class="myclass"><span style="color:brown">..:>>>>.... A Vision Of Brotherhood::.TOPIC:;'STOP THE WASTING OF LIVES". HUMAN PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED BY PEOPLE....WASTE NO AFRICAN MINDS...WE NEED ALL..Be Our Partner</a> <img src="ekwueme.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="150" alt="LET US GET THE WORD OUT WITH YOU."/> <br> <br><div valign="left" font color"back"><center><h4>THE NIGERIAN MILITARY MUST NOT BE USED FOR OPPRESSION!</h4></center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp </font> <br> <font size="4" color="black"><center>The frequent deployment of the military to eastern nigeria is now a problem.Our soldiers are being sent out to confront what is suppose to be political matters.Those advocating for Biafra are africans. So they do not hate nigeria.They hate what nigeria has become.Nigeria should not be on life support.The nation is greatly endowed.It has among the most enterprising people in the world.Those peddling patriotism miss the point.Can anyone explain what they love about nigeria presently? Of course if you are there and the nation is paying your rent and all you are going to be "patriotic".What we are talking about is different.There is a continent on the verge of being taken over a second time.There are people who understand the potentials.How long they can be at bay is our predicament.They are pushing and pulling.It is why we are in our present shape.It needs mind that know what is at stake and what is needed.There is need for a different kind of leadership.Anyone who is not able to provide for himself is not going to be free.We are not yet in heaven.Among humans you must be able to fend for your own self.It is what is fueling the call for Biafra. You are not going to live in a nation by force.Especially not when you do not have to.Not when you are not being served and you know you are able to do far more and better.Some of us who have expectations for the continent of Africa will not allow a few selfish people to destroy a great vision.A vision of those who sacrificed everything to win independence.The frequency of invasion of the eastern nigeria has become worrisome.Why is the military fascinated with the idea of deploying tanks and personnel to the most peaceful portion of the nation? Can't they see it is futile? How can they explain deploying armored tanks to Umuahia? It makes one worry about the priority.We hear everyday how armed fulani men ravage every part of the northern nigeria.We watch as people are killed without consequences.Is that how a nation is suppose to work?</center> <br> <center>Citizens are being driven from their ancestral homes and homesteads.And it is ongoing.The nigerian military will rather deploy for a funeral of a citizen who was law abiding all his life.In what way has the IPOB breached the nigerian constitution? The government has cases with the members in the courts.IPOB members have cases with the federal government in the nigerian courts.They are all over the place with their flags.Is that the way terrorists behave?Agitation and protest are protected rights of citizens.If protests are violent but it becomes something the police and the courts are to deal with.Where does the army come into this? Have they seen any member of the IPOB that is armed? They orgainize everywhere around the world.This abuse and frequent resort of deployment of the nigerian military with full combat gear to deal with protest will be something the military will have to explain someday.At that time it will be in regret.We have tried to see if this unfortunate situation is averted. And it is necessary to let them know that if they kill one more single person in eastern nigeria under these circumstances they would have lost that part of nigeria.From what we know it is a setup they must resist.I know that some people can't seem to understand things that are obvious to others.Nigeria is a democracy or is suppose to be one.If democracy fails in nigeria again there is nothing else to hang around for.It is proof enough.It is very important to let some people understand this fact.</center> <br> <center>It is normal for citizens to disagree with their government. It is not the meaning of treason to disagree with the government in power.It is not treason to reject the ideas of a government.It is called opposition.Treason is to advocate and to employ violent means including the use of arms to overthrow a government.So far the methods used by IPOB has not risen to any such level.It can't even be called serious opposition.The treason charges against the publisher of Sahara Reporter is another such frivolous attempt to abridge the rights of citizens to propagate alternative ideas.Using the word revolution could sound unfriendly to a dictator.In a democratic government it is not a fighting word.It is a call for dialogue.As we learn how democratic environments are managed it must be done with an atittude that is not clouded with wrong intentions.It is unfortunate some people do not know it is legitimate for anyone to demand for a better life for himself and others.The reason for political parties is to advocate for a better life for members and their constituency and to advance the course for it.Why is the military being used to deal with what should be a civil matter?</center> <br> <center>It is in order and legal to advocate for autonomy.Ask Britain or Germany. Ask the United states.There is a flag of california nation.There are rallies for an independence california.The same for Texas.In fact everytime taxes are raised some citizens in some states of United states advocate or agitate for independence.The united states authorities will not have the military move in.The institutions monitor the events and control them.How is it that eastern nigeria has become the favorite location for the nigerian military?One wonders how much this costs the nation. And this in the face of real existential threats.It is mind buggling! We have a full blown rebellion they should be dealing with some other place so far away.Boko Haram is killing people almost daily.Do they know something we don't about this? What about the other armed groups now emerging? Are we to resign to our fate? We have terrorists infiltrate the entire nation killing innocent citizens.Is this how the nation is to be run?</center> <br> <center>Why are the authorities more worried about unarmed citizens who wish to bury their dead? What is the fear here? Someone will land with para troopers? We want to tell the nigerian military to remember that institutions are established by ethics.If they do not develop character inspite of the challenges that they confront they will fall short of the honor of being called an institution.Presidency is different from Mister President.If the personality clashes with the institution the personality is the one to be corrected not the institution.Honestly some institutions develop somethings that make it tough and costly for anyone to want a clash with it.It is how institutions are protected from personalities that could attempt to bring it to ruin.Good managers of institutions are the ones that protect the values.The generals in our military do not believe someone will descend from the sky with storm troopers and cease "Biafra Land".So why deploy several thousand soldiers to Igboland? They might cook up a war with the Igbos again.If and when they do this time they can't come away without having their faces covered in ashes.Some big headed people are pushing this agenda of vanity.The blood of the innocent who perished without cause will ensure they stumble and fall over their own weight.Let the warning serve those who wish to listen. </center> <br> <center>Some of us fear the constant provocation will push these groups to seek to protect themselves with very disastrous consequences.Why do they presume some areas of the nation has the monopoly of violence?We hear the deployment is an extortion scheme for which there is a great lure and thirst.It has become a way to reward loyalty.Others claim that southerners are deployed to fight Boko Haram and northerners are sent to eastern nigeria.And the southerners are being killed and depleted on purpose.And the northerners who are sent to eastern nigeria reap a harvest of rumpled naira notes.This is a type of explosive that make the atomic bomb a toy.We sympathize with the military and understand it is irritating to have to deal with these repeating set of events.It is the reason you keep religion out of politics.This is a rule some former military "rulers" trifled with.Now they are left to deal with the fall outs.It is dangerous.As we all can see it is difficult if not impossible to manage.The answer is not to replicate it everywhere. It is not the type of problem these generals want to play with.Many people believe this to be true.It is wrong to make anyone think they are free to trample on the rights of others. The problem is the people are sick and tired of it.And when it costs them lives of their unemployed youths in the bowels of their communities?Many of these youths hold more than a college degree.You can't take provocation any higher.The idea of confronting youths agitating for a better life with lethal weapons takes the meaning of high handedness to another level.We beg the youths to please understand that we value their lives.We derive no pleasure from the funeral of our people whose lives are cut short unnecessarily.We remind them that they are not as helpless as it seems.We just plead for their patience while these things are being sorted out.We know they are angry.And we also understand why.Our approach has always been the path of reason.It is our heritage.</center> <br> <center>No one will be complaining if all was going well.And the people know they can provide for themselves and their own if given a free hand.And the outside world have started paying attention to it. The people responsible for these approaches that lack tact and wisdom will precipitate something that will be very impossible for them to manage.Where in the world will you militarize an entire region and nation of people because you are afraid of a single person?You had a citizen who submitted to the courts.And you will invade his home rather than have him face the judges.It is one bungled move after another.Nothing can be said to make it acceptable for anyone to come to Afaraukwu or anywhere in eastern nigeria and shoot any youths again.It would not matter what the name of the person to authorize any such murder is.It is very unacceptable to us.And it will never be tolerated again.It will mark a beginning of another type of response.No one person has the monopoly of violence.Those who disregard the lives of others must bear this hard fact in mind.They are not immune.We are all dependent on one another.It is a trust issue.When it is violated it has far reaching ramifications.Survival is what any living thing owes itself.The people of eastern nigeria understand what it means to be endangered and are not intending on a repeat.We advise the ones to have such a temptation to desist.It is needless and very unhelpful.</center> <br> <center>The IPOB is an organisation that is respected throughout the world.The members organise freely and hold meetings around the globe just like the IGBO UNION. Why did the British government not declare the Igbo Union a terrorist organisation?We worry that these type of provocation may lead to confrontation.And we warn that no life must be lost again under these circumstances.It could have a consequence they are not even able to imagine. And these deployments corrupts the military.Most importantly denigrades the aura.If anyone can confront the military who will the nation turn to in time of extreme distress? If the military is used to fight protesters who will fight Boko Haram and the others who have declared war on civilization? Deploying the military like a private security is not right and it is very unethical.From a historical point of view it is a mistake to be avoided.It was the frequent deployment of the military to western nigeria that precipitated the first military coup in nigeria.Even this fact is reason enough to desist from the same temptation!It feeds indiscipline and corrupts morals.And it infuriates the citizens who are humiliated and incubates rebellion as a result.We are saying that the people who have these careless atitude towards the dignity of other citizens are the ones who ferment rebellion.</center><br><br><br> .</font> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="nwada.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< <br><div valign="left" ><img src="truth.jpg" align="right" width="150" height="150"/>......to the right ...>>>Not exactly the work of a savage mind....Igbo Ukwu art 10th Century AD...a people on the mend.......>> see article a must read >>>> click here <a href="wiseupeast.html"/>..Click........</a></div> <br> <br> </table> <img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="150" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS "/><b><b></h4><img src="groupsuccess.jpg" align="right" width="150" height="150" alt="LET US GET THE WORD OUT WITH YOU."/> </table> </form> <center><h3><center><strong> <font color="blue"></font></strong></center></h3> <P> <strong><align="left"><script type="text/javascript" src="round_corners.js"></script> <div radius="20" id="curve" style="background-color: #9BD1FA; border: 3px solid #00009C; width: 2445px; height: 16350px;"> <center>%%%%%We have Our Highlight Article Here:::: And We invite you to join us in making AFRICA better::%%%: A better WORLD.<a href="enemywithin.html"></a> <br> <br> <center><a href="makingthegong.html"><font color="brown"><strong>WHAT WE HAD HOPED FOR!</font></strong></center></a> <p> We have no time to be pampering the people who made nigeria this hell hole it has become.Nigeria was negotiated. It was not Lord Lugard who gave us nigeria. It was Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and his Zik Movement who did! It is clear the fulanis did not want nigeria.They feared the Igbos will not allow them the free reign they were having with other tribes. They were right!They were helped to subdue the Igbo people but it has made their predicament far worse.Nigeria cannot continue in the form they like.The other people are raving mad! Today nigeria will be what it was negotiated or there willl be no nigeria. We talk about restructuring. We just demand that nigeria be returned to the nigerian people.A truely federal government with federating units that are very viable and autonomous as negotiated and agreed at independence. Nigeria is a federation. It means it is an entity comprising of other entities. The federal republic of nigeria was a rising star before it trajectory was scuttled.Nigeria had development indicies that would make enemies envious.In 1966 nigeria was a young nation of very great promise. It made our enemies jittery.And we are victims of their masterplan for curtailing that rise! We had hoped for bold initiative to return to that trajectory.It is not for the weak hearted or the one without ideas. </p> <br> <p>If the call is ignored the entity is not sustainable.Whose idea is this suffocating arrangement in which resources of indegenous people is taken from them by aliens! Do not tell me this is unity.It is not.What we have here is brigandage and inpunity. It has got to end. If those responsible for it will not end it peacefully but it must end. And the time has come. We need men and women who understand the issues.It is the meaning of a Republic. How can you have republic led by "rulers"? And the meaning is incompetent? Nigeria will henceforth demand to be governed by leaders.The leaders will not complain about "problems" and relish "parades" and "travels".They will have answers and solve problems. Nigeria needs to return to the founding constitution.It is what makes sense. There are twelve states that have technically seceeded by enforcing a different legal and judicial system. We can't continue to turn a blind eye to this reality. Other entities and zones must also become autonomous.It is not a favor.It is the basis of the arrangement or else everything collapses.It is not possible to tell any group of people who have survived for generations that you have an identity more suited for them.It is not something that has ever worked anywhere in the world. </p> <br> <p>What is good for the twelve "sharia states" is good for others.What were they thinking when they were creating a distinct entity for themselves? By creating an exclusively feudalistic system in a part of nigeria constitutionlism and democracy is already compromised if not jeopardized.It is at the heart of the present crises in the nation.They can't have an entity they own exclusively and still impose themselves on the rest. It is not how you attain peace.When sir Ahmadu Bello tried to do same the British government wedged it using the Willink Minority commission of 1957.Now that they have enforced the sharia code for themselves they forefeit the right to constrain the others to remain in a status-quo they themselves have rejected.We would not know how to constrain them to do without this arrangement except by going to war. The better alternative is demanding same for the rest.Issues that well meaning people considered very explosive and divisive are now treated with kid gloves.It appears some people in nigeria today just do things with no recourse to history. It is so mindless one is asking where were the people when this rape happened to them? It is not enough for them to collect lion share of free lunch money from the federation and keep what belongs to them.</p> <br> <p>Everyone has to work for their own lunch!If it is the dictate of their faith other people must also invoke their own faith to break free from the present bondage.You will not use matters like faith to explain situations that dehumanize other people.When different people decide to live together fairness becomes an issue.It is this type of complication that make it necessary to use fundamental fairness rather than subjective matters like faith.Like using the force of arms it complicates relationships.It becomes very difficult to know where to draw the line.You are not going to ask me to accept an imposition of your faith over mine.Such matters are always extremely difficult to resolve.They are best avoided as a premise!</p> <br> <p>At the end of the military rule this mess should have ended.Why return a stolen item with your name inscribed on it? The nigerian politician was so eager to return to power he lost track of reason!The 1999 constitution of nigeria refers to the Sharia code so many times but nigeria is suppose to be a secular state.How many mentions does it make of other religions?If you operate two legal systems in a country one must be superior or else you have anarchy.How will the politicians answer this riddle? If they tell us the two systems are parallel then what is the meaning of that? The constitutions bestowed to nigerians by the military uses land mass as one of the criteria for sharing revenue that come to the federation account.The revenue comes from oil from small Rivers State,Edo,Imo etc.These are all very small states in terms of land mass.</p> <br> <p>You would ask what has land mass got to do with anything? If someone will opress another person any excuse is generally enough. The federal government takes resource that belongs to communities with so many people and give it to other people because they have more land area!A very troubling logic one may think.But it is what the so called constitution says! It is no wonder they are in love with it.When you gain so much for no reason why change it? I ask the people from lagos state that claim to be patritic to remember their sea ports are managed in fact owned by people from some where else.If that is not colonialism can they please explain it to us?Can they explain why vat tax paid by a lagosian is used to subsidize the land size of sokoto?There was a time when people like Hebert Macauley would risk his life against something not as nearly pernicious.Now the people are becoming very assertive.Where do they think it will end? It will not be long before the titles in lagos begin to sound different.The dress code is there already.</p> <br> <p>When someone wants to treat you like a fool anything goes!It takes money derived from VAT tax from liquor from small Lagos state, Ogun state, Imo etc where people consume liquor and gives to Sokoto where liquor is a stigma and a sin.Why do they accept this kind of money? Is it not sinful?Those who sought power after the military especially the legal minds did themselves and nigeria very little service.We know some muted this issue.But the majority were happy to enjoy small rewards at the expense of truth.They ignored their conscience and better judgment.They ought to have spoken out.It is what it means to be enlightened.Compare this document with the original founding document, the actual constitution of nigeria.We have no business continuing with this deadly experiment.The military constitution is slowly killing nigeria.Your stolen car is returned to you with new ignition system.What makes sense is to go to the dealership and request original ignition system for yourself or you do not own a vehicle.</p> <br> <div align="right"> <img src="igboattire.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <br> <p>Power struggle is not neat.It could be very nasty.The nigerian military punished the eastern region the most prosperous and progressive in the nigerian commonwealth for the sin of its own members.It refused to take the blame for a coup precipitated by armed military men.It instead blamed civilians and precipitated a civil war.Somebody was not thinking properly here!The error still entangles the nation. The military should have returned nigeria to the constitution they suspended.To continue on the present path is not just senseless it has become unsustainable. Allow the various zones to become economic entities.We are not going to escape this reality.Those who impede this inevitable outcome are going to have themselves to blame for it. You will not continue to ration poverty!From independence to the military coup of 1966 and the consequent so called civil war no region was ever subsidized by the center or anyone for that matter!We would dare to ask how much debt did nigeria owe before the military took power?The regions were paying for the infra-structure and superb healthcare and education without debt!</p> <br> <p>Now look what they did to the nation they claim to love! All the regions were self-sufficient. How such a very important ingredient for creating an administrative entity escaped the nigerian leaders at the time underscores the importance of the Igbo people in nigeria.Nigeria is ungrateful to the Igbo people. But it is true without the Igbos there would not have been nigeria. We can blame Lord Lugard all we want. But it was Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who truely midwifed the present nigeria.Without him there would have been no nigeria. The Igbo people can hold their heads high and be proud of this great work they did for the people of africa and the black race. They must never allow non-starters to destroy their heroic trailblazing work. When a child insults you with the help of a bully you wait your chance.The people of eastern nigeria are excellent politicians when they determine to play politics.</p> <br> <p>History is there to prove it.Nigeria will not be in this shape had the interloppers not gamed the society when the people of eastern nigeria were voiceless.Everything that was done from indegenization decree to state creation had ignored the fact that you need skill, spunk and gravitas to run a show! Nigeria is a complete disaster because those who are running the show have no gravitas! It is the truth.They created states with no consideration for viability.They thought oil money was inexhaustible! It is not the way business minded people reason. What a way to build a nation! It would never had happened if these very enterprising people were in the configuration that cooked up this farce.They are business managers and traders by lifestyle mainly and understand there is no known way to sustain something that is not viable. It is another obvious indicator that it was not about unity but the discovery of crude oil and petroleum in that part of nigeria.</p> <br> <p>Today the nation is a hostage of that greed.Nigeria was dismembered into states not unlike what happened in Berlin in 1884 where the colonizers of africa sat down to dismember africa.Like that mistake which sparked two world wars this idea is no less evil. We say this with all modesty that if the nigerian nation does not return to the path of decency,honesty and forthrightness the end is nearer than it seems. How you go from economically viable regional entities to states that beg for money to pay salaries is an administrative negative wonder of great proportion. Ordinarily you will not exchange something that is very efficient for another that fails every time! Unfortunately lives are involved. Hitherto nearly five million lives of the people of eastern region had already been wasted in this very horrible falsehood. The people have no more patience for it at all. From other parts of nigeria are youths who are watching their lives go to waste.They have institutions of learning that are ill equipped with frustrated unmotivated teachers.</p> <br> <p>Never in the history of nigeria has there been such disdain for the local institutions of learning. The entire political class have their children studying outside nigeria.They have their children in the United States,Britain and so on.When sick they travel abroad for treatment.The citizens watch the development in shock and resignation. In the future it should matter that someone is dealing with the same problems as the rest! Not even in the days of the military are our institutions of learning so degraded. And the political class see the challenge as unsurmountable.They have given up already.But you can do nothing without learning it first.So how could they give up on so many young lives?Why do the present day "rulers" have such a short fuse and attention span? How can we expect to lift ourselves out of the depths to which we have fallen? If they have no interest in these matters what are they attempting to accomplish? Enrich themselves? If their children are not in these institutions how on earth are they invested in them?The young people must have these facts as they choose their leadership.We know they are making their voices heard. But they must be heard and must insist. They need a future too.It is the reason for the chaos that is prevailing presently. They are pushing back and it will get louder and more and more challenging and sustained. It is time for true leadership and we need to scan the horizon properly. If we miss this one it is over for the nation we all now know</center></p> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES IN AFRICA</font></STRONG></center> <br> <p>The reason for all the struggle to be free is not to have a few men and women who will replace or surplant the estwhile rulers.It is to have a representative government of a free people.We must understand that politics is not what comes to mind to reasonable people when there are structural noises.It is safety.The Igbo people have a saying that a person killed by a falling three that first gave a loud echo of its broken trunks was killed by stubborness.Africans must know what it is to be hated. For them to hate one another is terrible. But one can understand how it feels when you are constantly looked down on.But we have to realize that everything we know as human beings began in africa.For such a long time africans could ignore constant degradation and inhumanity meted out upon them.It became fashionable to parcel out their land, even strip them of the right where they stand by colonizing them there! Their daughters and and sons are carried away into bondage and captivity.It is time to change this narative.Now the tools are available. The men and women are ready.We have to get to work.Needless to say that those who wish to immitate the colonialist or practice the act of dehumanizing their fellow citizens will be resisted.It was done in the past.It will fail today!</p> <br> <p> We need men and women who understand that you must change your own circumstances yourself. But first you must change your thinking! The rebuilding of the ruins of the african people will require a few men and women who understand the issues. They also must be decent human beings and very God fearing people.It is only God who gives us vision and insights that can deliver the oppressed. We are praying to God to send us such people. We pray that they come from all over the world. Africa has people in every place where there is human life.Politics is something most people can do. But leadership is not for everyone.When there is a problem it has to be solved.Sometimes it will take more than just throwing ideas around. It will take concrete steps that address the problem. When there was structural issues in nigeria in the colonial era the leaders addressed it. When South Africa was to go up in flames the problem was addressed.The solution can be the right one sometimes. At other times not.In some cases so-called leaders create instability to promote nepotic agenda.In such cases the predators will just swoop down and blood will flow.</p> <br> <p>Our best efforts must be to solve not create confilcts.There has to be an effort to address the problems not create conflicts from them. Under such atmosphere solutions will become impossible.There is no need for the government of nigeria to be going around soliciting for land for the fulanis to graze their cattle. If an igbo president of nigeria went around soliciting for land for for the people of eastern nigeria to build settlements for their businesses that would be something.Would it not? Would that not have been a very big reason to descend on the Igbo people again?.They go and begin to tempt the state governments.It is pathetic.The governors are confounded.They have to go to abuja to receive their stipend.Suppose the states refuse for reasons that are obvious does it mean they do not mean well for the compatriots? Now what we hear is that some people seek to bring in non-citizens with the excuse they are of their stock.Should there be any truth in this allegation it is laughable.Not because it is funny.But because it is very prepostrous.If every ethnic group did that it will be a complete disaster!This is the type of things that make some of us wonder whether the people who lead us are the one who give problems any thought at all.</p> <br> <p>Nigeria is blessed with abundant land.We could not stress it enough that up to the heart of the sahara desert whatever nigeria wishes to do to enhance life will be supported by africa and the world. Nigeria must support and encourage the very sustainable "sand-dam" scheme by which millions of acres could be reclaimed from the desert and sahel region. It is proved and it works.It is simple and inexpensive.It is a better idea than embark on a bogus scheme like "RUGA" and spending billions of dollars recreating lake chad.We see another white elephant project! Imagine the population shift that this scheme is purporting! And it sound dubious to say the least.Have they considered the turbulence such will generate? No, it is not a good idea. Instead nigeria should encourage and assist locals to own the idea of "Re-greening".This method of regenerating soil which is reclaiming thousands of acres of desert and sahel land area is very appropriate in the area where drought challenges normal life.It is the way we engage nature in give and take.It is not by running around or looking for who to fight. We know "RUGA" will have a huge budget but it will end up as a big disaster and failure due to corruption.The program of re-greening is proved and successful.It empowers the community and it is their own idea.</p> <br> <p>The community owns this project and sees to its success.It is sustainable and very helpful in providing for the people and alleviating poverty.If the government wishes to help the poor these are among the schemes to support.The big named "RUGA" is a high sounding idea.But like many governent owned entities in nigeria, it will end in uncompleted structures and disappointed even destroyed lives.The "sand-dam" and "re-greening" schemes are two very simple methods that will lift millions out of poverty if managed properly.These are life-saving methods that are proved. It helps the areas retain and attract new population.The methods of re-greening and "sand-dams" are two effective methods that will address both long term and short term challenges of drought and desertification.We do not need to look any further for solutions.These two meet the need.In areas that have water ways and rivers seeding them with good fish fingerlings will feed our people.As an african who has seen the devastation and loss the african people endure as a result of wrong answers to the games of nature I could not be silent at this point.</p <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>If the governments will use the agricultural ministries to provide these kind of help in places with even small bodies of water it can do wonders for the population.Governors in southern nigeria might use this handle to provide valuable nutrition for many poor families.Satelite offices and outposts of the ministries could coach locals in efficient ways of using the natural resource to improve lives in their communities. It might not be high sounding but will impact many lives positively.It might be a good idea to explore alternatives now that beef is leading to "RUGA" and AK47 rifles! Our people might as well settle for more fish.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Africa needs leaders today.Leaders who are not of the short fuse and minimum attention span.Leader who can think solutions. Leaders who will see the problems in the Congo basin and surrounding areas as african.Africa is in need of men and women who are able to actuate and hasten the realization of the potentials of her population.Africa and her potential is no news.News is to actualize the potential and give it value that affect the lives of the people who live in the continent.We see the beauty in other continents that would not have been possible without the labor and sweat of africans.It is time to rebuild her broken hedges,alters and monuments. Most importantly it is time to rebuild her people.We pray God to send us men who will be touched by the loss of our youths to other nations. Leaders who will be touched by the lives and death of the people who inhabit the continent.We pray God to send us the likes of the great african sons and daughters who have gone to take their rest. The nation needs men and women who love and appreciate their fellow citizens.It needs men and women who understand duty. It needs statesmen who will address the structural issues confronting the continent. The citizens are clamouring for it.</strong> </center> <br> <br><center><font color="brown"><strong>UNDOING THE EFFECT OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE</font></STRONG></center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> I believe it was the venerable Mwalimu Kambarage Julius Nyerere who said that "when two elephants fight the grass suffers". Honestly many do not fully understand the nuances in this adage. One of them is that the suffering of the two elephants are self-inflicted.Unfortunately it assumes that there is no aggressor.We all know it is not often the case.But the grass? The elephant feeds on the grass,tramples upon it when it walks and gets around.Africa must not remain the grass for the elephants. At least thank God we can say that is not the case.Africa is one continent that was able to withstand the aggression of the europeans.It is still a problem but not in the same way as for the american indians and australian blacks the aborigines.In a way nature used africa to compensate for the containment the other people of color endured.The leadership in africa must understand that if they are not like these other people not because the intention is not there.Africans must always help to sustain natures gesture and favor.It requires that they look at the attempts that were meant to contain the people of africa.</center> <br> <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>It would not hurt to try to reverse them and expect new attempts even if the approach and methods has changed.They must constantly remind themselves that the events of 1884 show quite clearly how much their culture and values and survival matter to some with very aggressive agenda.All the fancy words will not heal the wounds nor remove the scars. We must nurse ourselves back to good health.We can see it needs great work.But if we want to survive and leave a society to the next generation instead of a labor camp we must redouble our efforts.Nature is bound to give is help.But we must be prudent enough to identify useful help and embrace it.We should be heartened when leadership such as what we see in Ruwanda, Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, uganda and others are emerging.We look at the value addition and the quality of lives of the citizens in these nations as a result of leadership.The value of good government is measured by the way it meets the yearnings of the people.It is very noteworthy that the president of Ghana saw the potential of a very healthy relationship with our sister nations outside of africa. Africa did not set out to have satelite nations.But we are thankful for how nature has managed the issue.It appears we have many satelite and sister nations.Our prayer is that they recognize the power and strength in numbers and positioning.The "live and let live" ideology of the africans has survived outside her own shores! African search for solutions must include the men and women of african descent who are in places outside africa.Mutual and open communication is a requirement at this point. It is very important to understand that their perspective is very pertinent to our common survival.</center> <br> <center>Such matters as the ungoing endless conflicts in Congo region could be tackled with their mediation.The region is very important to the growth of africa.This area is the hub of the africa we are all wishing for.It is for the same reason some forces will not let go. We all remember the death of Patrice Lumumba.His death could be traced to the reason the area the sorry state it is today.When you have aircraft landing inside the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo you can understand why a man like him was not right for the nation.He made it clear he meant to help his fellow citizens. The people who killed him were not actually the ones who needed to have him removed in their way.The ones who condemed Patrice Lumumba were outside the african continent.They had speculated on the resources under his care and determined which mattered more.But this man was also the custodian to the well-being of his people.We deduce by these types of actions how much regard some people have for the african person.We are appalled that rather than negotiate terms of collaboration the inclination is always to find a way to take everything.Nature in its own power will resist that.All we need is show up.It is not difficult to see that nature intended to have the people in these areas have a certain type of environment.The people are cordial and family minded and patriotic.We must determine to work in agreement with nature therefore!The African Union must do whatever is within its power to prevent the vandalization in the geographical space.The resources in the place must not be the reason to impoverish the people.Those who killed Patrice Lumumba have also exiled his children and banished them.They have planted never ending conflicts to destroy lives and prevent cohession and progress.The african leadership must consider these issues.Their job includes how to reverse the trend and heal it.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The resources left in his custody was his undoing. Those who actually killed him knew very little about the real issues.It speaks of the need to know the points of our vulnerabilities.We must not only intensify and ochestrate our relationships but must develop new frienships.As people with a common destiny our friends must be able to look for our interests in matters with global implications.Osagyefo Kwame Nkurumah one of the pillars of modern africa took his spouse from Egypt.Africans like Ben Bella, Anwar Sadat and the others from north africa maintained a very firm hold on the brotherhood of the african people.These men were religious and understand the place of faith in every civilization. But they showed a great capacity in demonstrating it is only one of many factors for stability, prosperity and peace.We need men like that today in our political space.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The idea of not interfering in one anothers domestic affairs is a policy but the african culture is too strong for that type of position.If your brothers wife raises her voice and calls your name during a domestic dispute it is not proper to keep silent.You will call him to order and ask him to back off and respect his dignity. You know he will accuse you of everything including witchcraft and adultry while he is angry.Inspite of that potential risk you will try to mediate.If any of his children run to your house it implies you must do something.You at least will reach out and find out why the child was kicked out from home.It is the culture. If non intervention means do nothing while your neighbours are wiping themselves out you are sure to be all alone at some point.Humans are bound to have times of disagreements.As we look to the time when the national boundaries become checkpoints it is important to care for one another presently.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>We are pleading with our people to remember the men and women who fought for the liberation of africa.They are just like the rest of us.The only difference was they saw injustice and determined to resist it.On our part once the enemy changed tactics we declared victory and turned the page.But our problems are still there.We too must seek new methods.We need our resources to survive.We must negotiate for fairness.They need our resources and we know that. But we need it too.How to resolve the problem in ways that are mutually beneficial is the new approach we seek.It seems the men are battle weary but we are not without help.We very often minimize the effort of the women.In the struggle for the liberation of nigeria the women waged the struggle in eastern nigeria in a manner worthy of the amazons they are.The idea to tax the women was one of the last straw that ended colonialism in the african nation.They proved to the colonialists it was a bad idea.The women charged back like lionesses whose cubs were under attack.Unlike the men they would not resort to dealing with it as another single event.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>They came down with the weight from the anger for everything else.They laid seige in police baracks, in police stations and anywhere they thought will bring them attention.They beseiged the homes of the warrant chiefs and made life difficult for them and their families.The women waged a determined and relentless assault on the system.They understood the colonialist had limited human resources.This was not their problem.They had the numbers and they used it.They made it difficult for the authorities to find enough resources to manage the crises.They came out in their numbers overwhelming the system by sheer magnitude of their numbers.It was a winning strategy.The tax law was rescinded.It was the first time citizens forced the hands of the authorities in such a direct manner.The men took notice and borrowed the approach.The credit must go to our mothers for their bravery and wisdom.They did not kill anyone or fire a single shot from any gun.They did not make it possible for anyone to find any excuse to use lethal force.And we must remember and celebrate their contribution.They were not passive or spectators in the struggle.Our leaders make a great a mistake when they overlook our mothers and our sisters.They matter a lot in our struggle to improve the lives of our people.</center> <br> <br><center><font color="brown"><strong>NIGERIA FINALLY SIGNS THE AFRICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT</font></STRONG></center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>We wish to commend the policy makers in government of nigeria for the decision to sign the african free trade agreement. It was very suprising to hear that nigeria which was spearheading african integration had developed cold feet concerning the agreement. At first we thought it was just to have time to look over the agreement but it became a position. And what an odd position it was! Africa is finally on its way to becoming the leader it is destined to be. Our people finally have a way to beat back the unseen hands that have created unnecessary conflicts in the most fertile areas of the african continent.It is the needed catalyst to open the doors to innovation and creativity in a continent's mostly very young population.It is time they are given the chance to prove their mettle.We have market to sell local solutions that are affordable by the people.It is how we create local industries and technological depth.The ball is now in the court of our young enterpreneurs! Let the race for the true african century begin.</center> <br> <center><center><font color="brown"><strong>RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA:HOW ELSE CAN THIS BE SAID?</font></strong></center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>Another season and a time to select those who will "rule nigeria! The nation is in dire need of leadership. President Putin has rebuilt the estates of the former Soviet Union and made it more prescise and more prooductive. Nigeria is still groping in the dark. I was in Abuja in a hotel with some Soviets when the Union was dissloved. It was a sad spectacle. I rejoice with them as they have again found their swagger! Our "rulers" are killing nigeria.By "rulers" we mean those who should have been leaders but will instead resort to use of raw power. Boris Yeltsin of the former Soviet Union was being mocked by many but little did they know he had the answer to his ailing nations problems.A young man with all the training and understanding of the inter-play of world politics but with no other political pedigree was his unequivocal response. We are witnesses to the beautiful outcome of his choice and solution. Who would have credited the "dancing" and often inebriated leader for the sound choice he made on behalf of his nation?</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>In finding a fitting cornerstone he shares in the praise of what has become a sucessful state of Russia. Today no reasonable person will deny him that credit.Again the parade and carnival is on in nigeria.Nigeria attained independence and spurned the architects and pioneers of the battle to be set free.The choice was terror rather than dialogue.Unity and progress has never been achieved by coercion, terror and intimidation. We are suppose to seek people who have taken time to seek answers to the problems beseting the nation. Nigeria is in need of men and women who would want to lead and help others find answers to the various issues that need to be addressed. We have a lot of people with "baba-riga", "agbada", "dashiki" and "suit" but the problem is serious. It requires rigorous men and women. The nation needs people with depth who can think and profer solutions. We can't continue this normal parade or even charade and expect any solutions to these problems. The young generation of nigerians are not too keen about living in one big country that does not work.They need jobs and they want the good life.And who should blame them? Many of them have been to or seen smaller nations that work well.These images are so available thanks to science. It is not comforting to preach peace and unity to them. Peace and unity belongs to those who earn it not those who just talk about it.</center> <br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The history of nigeria is replete with failures. And failure has a psychology. And they hate it. The countless military coups,the civil war and millions of lives lost and the present massacre going on on daily basis are not good pointers.The citizens had forced a consitutional conference.Why is their own objective different from those of the "ruling class"? They are rulers not leaders. It is the simple but true answer.Now the people have a chance to seek leadership. The citizens want the nation they agreed on not one foisted upon them. It was the reason they fought against colonialism. What is the difference? Even far worse the nigeria under colonialism is a far healthier one structurally and economically.The problem was control.I would like some of us to take some time and study the various players in the fight for emancipation in africa.</center> <br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>History reserves a place for everyone according to their work.We have come to a place where dialogue is such an unpleasant chore for the people in authority.They prefer war to dialogue. It is a strange preference. But it is not suprising.If all you want to do is establish dominance,negotiation is not neccessary.We see the evidence of this pathetic choice around us.The sooner the matter of the structure and nature of the leadership of our societies are tackled the better our chances for survival.It is not a game. It is the reality which becomes the future of a people and their descendants.For the many who want to keep quiet I want to say that it is the option of the nameless.I will remind them of what Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu told his detractors when he returned from exile. Some had questioned his patriotism and had wanted to dump on him.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>They wanted him to feel sorry and recant or express regret for declaring the state of Biafra. His reply to them:"A live barking dog is better than a dead lion". Very fitting response to those who fail to take a position when events demand it.We hope those who did not see the need to restructure nigeria according to the Aburi Agreement can understand now. They now are begging to have regions and basic self government that was a guaranteed issue according to the first constitution and can't. And it is just the opening act.It will only get worse.Let us remind the nigerian people that since 1966 they have been under one form of "colonialism" or another.<br> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The military suspended the consitution. How you govern a people without a consitution can only be imagined. They pulled it off nonetheless.The very extensive interval was named " a military rule". On the exit door they left a decree and nicknamed it a constitution. The men and women upon whom it fell to correct the anomaly and aberation fell for the alure of power. They chose to follow in the footsteps of the plundering "class". The nation must be returned to its rightful owners. It is the reason for all the strife. The proclaimation and emancipation document is the constitution of nigeria. If it is not returned nigeria is a colony of the people who imposed whatever else is prevalent as government.It is not rocket science. It is simple logic.It is the issue.Some of the people who did not understand our arguments at first are now aware due to the effect of its implications. We are comparing leaders who faced the world power,Great Britain and stared into their eyes and down the barel of their guns with no other type of support except pure courage with opportunists.How much of their stash of funds have we discovered?In comparism imagine the ungoing avalanche we witness on continuiing basis. The nationalists had the choice to be comfortable and silent.They chose to be combative in the face of injustice. I can't see the basis of any type of comparism at all! The framers of the nigerian founding constitution are people of honor. We prefer their instincts.Those people were selfless. Let us have the constitution they left for us.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center> A transcendent document was abandoned in exchange for a gratuitous set of platitudes. It was an offer from those who could not care at all for anyone else but themselves. We hear they fought to keep nigeria united. The question is united to accomplish what? What army did they fight? What great bravery to declare war upon unarmed fellow citizens.The completely blockaded citizens were suppose to perform magic to survive a war of attrition. For some inexplicable reason this condition lasted for thirty-six long months.Not that anyone allowed this to be drawn-out so that more people of this unwanted clan could perish.It is very impressive is it not? We must be mindful of these realities before they become our eternal regret.We should all remember that everything nigeria is trying to acomplish today without success was already available in eastern nigeria. Eastern nigeria had farm settlements,agricultural research centers that had functional results, a steel rolling mill,top class hospitals with nursing schools that were vibrant and well staffed.The region had well staffed dispensaries and health clinics in every village and hamlet.They were regulated by government but were privately ran.These dispensaries and health centers had very important role in the healthcare delivery system since they were located where the majority of the people lived. There was a beautiful and growing network of roads,pipe-borne water and constant and regular electrical power in all the municipalities,industries that produced what it needed and were very well managed. Power supply has proved to be such a mighty giant for nigeria.Eastern region had many power stations to ensure steady supply of electricity for her budding industries.There was an emergent perculiar civilization that had been nipped. It is what some of us are very upset about.Eastern nigeria was very clearly an emerging successful young nation.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center> It had among the best secondary schools in africa. The tertiary institutions will compete with any in the world. The students graduate from them and go on to excel everywhere in the world.There was food and the population was engaged in economic activities and productive. The economy was local and sustained by local enterprise. Now see what nigeria with the new so called constitution has done to the people! Return nigeria to the constitution that founded it or else every segment is better of on its own. If this people believe that this is business as usual they might find the war they were looking for when the people were not ready for it.And believe me i do not envy an army that would wish to engage the generation that carry the grudge of the genocide the Igbo people have endured within nigeria.The hurt is palpable. It is easy to hurt feelings in this area. But nigerians have never cared about it typically.They could ignore it but do not make them believe you do not care. There is a generation that is focused, filled with righteous indignation and will do whatever it takes.The present massacre confirms what they already think of nigeria.There is little regard for the lives of certain citizens!A certain segments of the society looks down on others.Just let every group look after its own affairs.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The fault lines are already too deep it is a rift.No need to pretend otherwise. It is the genuine feeling.Just let it be.The idea of unity is not to squeeze out some people. It is giving everyone the space they need to excel.The founding fathers thought so and we absolutely agree with them. It is far better than the present unfettered slaughter going on. Extreme events such as the one that have been witnessed remind us of the wisdom and need for federalism.Up until as we speak many nigerians indeed africans are not aware of the actual reason the nigerian so called civil war was precipitated.The people of eastern nigeria were the target of this war of attrition not just for crude oil that was discovered in this area. It was just the catalyst for a measure to slow the pace of development.In their view to place this kind of resource at the disposal of a people who were doing so much with so little was not a gamble very desirable for the "authorities" at this time.The impact and impetus such resource would have added to their run-away pace of development was apparent to them.In a way the colonizers were looking out for their interest as a people but the nigerians who were in the position and power during this time had no clue about the real issues. They were concerned about themselves and their narrow interests.</center> <br>here >>><br><div valign="left" ><a href="newagitations.html"/><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> <center><font color="brown"><strong>NIGERIA: WHAT IS AT STAKE</font></strong></center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>Very often in matters like the nigerian situation the truth is the first casuality. We must try here to get at the root of the problems or they will never be resolved sucessfully.There is not a chance at all that a nation of over two hundred million people can succeed by sharing or even rationing its natural resources.You ask me the question: how about wasting the resources? The answer is very clear. Trouble! The people have to become part of the process of building wealth and creating new resources.It is not difficult to understand this truth. Having established there is a problem without a question, we need to find the solution: how best to create the basis for the citizen participation.The states in nigeria were created when it was thought that nigeria had come upon unlimited financial resource in crude oil. There was no thought given to the viability of the entities. Now we know better.The states must become viable. Each state must do what it must to emplace leadership that brings the state to where it needs to be. It is the same effort and focus for the nation.We need a regional or zone structure.The basis should be to aggregate particular contiguous agreable populations.The new structure of regionalism will enlarge the pool of resource and enhance the chance of success.Nigerians should have been looking for those who can accomplish these goals.It was simply what the British empire did.As we try to rediscover the wheel let us not continue to pretend there is no information available to us.The only reason there were more provinces in southern nigeria than there were in northern nigeria was because there were more viable population center and commercial entities.The people who created states wanted to have a chance to get more from the loot they had confiscated from their unfortunate neighbors.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>In trying to find solution to the problems we ignore the truth to some more confussion and wandering around for many more decades!But no one has that kind of time to waste any more.Reconstituting the regional institutions will create more opportunities for growth.The states will collaborate where it is possible to create new opportunities for the people of the area.These are the goal for restructuring.It is to return nigeria to a path of growth, peace and prosperity.The present system is false and leads at best no where and inevitable to disaster.The goals are imperative.One will call this voluntary only if the person thinks having a nation of two hundred million people without any bonds is in order.Otherwise these are now hopefully well defined goals.They are very attainable goals.When you have the men and women with the capacity to accomplish these things the problems caused by these realities will dissipate or even disappear.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center> The nigerian economy before crude oil was discovered was a very good one.It ranked in the top of the economies in the developing world at the time.Government was structured to run based on the resources of the nation. The oil "bum" had changed all of that! It introduced the "idea of nationa cake". The nation was captured by a band of heartless looters.Nigeria has built Oil refineries with billions of dollars that are not working.It imports petroleum products after wasting billions of dollars on these refineries.The people who hijacked the nigerian nation have tormented its people and are still tormenting them.These things make self-determination very imperative.They are realities that nigeria cannot fix for those who have been wronged.They are not suppose to be begging for self-determination.The question is why it did not occur earlier! It is more than past due.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>There is a steel complex built with tens of billions of dollars that will not produce any steel. Nigeria imports after wasting billions of dollars on Ajaokuta Steel Complex. A complete city built with resources that could have served other areas of the econony.We have giant electrical and power projects that cost billions of dollars that yielded no results.On and on goes the list of what popularly came to be known as "white elephant" projects.The idea was to start phantom projects that will end with the ground breaking and foundations. They were usually ambitious projects but those who initiate then and those who are suppose to execute them had no obligation or responsibility for their success or failure.The project will be "commissioned" and the money will be "earmarked" in the budget and the nigerian people will assume the pockets of the "bigmen" will finish the job. And you will not touch the culprits because their kinsmen will jump in front of them and defend them.Every tribe must have their own "bigman". And we know that all tribes are not equal.Today nigeria uses about 64% sixty four percent of her annual earnings to service debt.You are talking about the nation being enslaved. In other words some people fought for liberty from colonization and their compatriots saw to it to reverse this and make it far worse! It is for this reason you must allow each tribe the custody of its own resources.Their bigman will have to find another line of work. The community will protect what belongs to it. It is that simple.They will demand that it serve them, that it meet their goals and aspirations. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>There has to be a place to draw the line.If the refineries built by the government will not work it is unimaginable to believe that any individuals will want to benefit from such abysmal failure on the part of government. Can anyone imagine the value of these investments that have turned out to be worthless? If the government must create such opportunities for particular individuals it has lost its moral right to exist.As you look at these major failures you wonder how the nation still exists. Those who benefit have found a way to keep their contraption going. They have oil blocks,oil subsidy and other such dark alleys where the mugging of the economy occurs. No government or nation can survive such level of immorality and corruption.The high turn-over of government at this time was a quest to control the honey pot. Why are the nigerian people not able to ask the people who executed these projects to account for the resources expended on them?But there again it is a stolen resource! The oil from where the money came was looted! And the looting is still on. The people who own the resources are starving, dying, wasting, exiled to faraway lands.They languish in these places while other people live large on their resources. God will helps us to change this pathetic state of affairs!There will be a nation of its own people.It will be theirs to love and nurture as it nurtures them in return.When your nation cares for you and invest in you and your future it is a show of love and a statement that it cares for the citizen. The zeal for our country is first the instinct of self-preservation.There will be a nation that places a high value on the lives of its own citizens. It is the nation that is waiting to be birthed one way or another! .</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> Nigeria was living within her means and was making very pace-setting progress.What need to happen is to return to what works.Now that the illusion of wealth is over nigeria must return to the path of prudence. The regions or zones are the key to returning nigeria to a path of health and prosperity.The federal government has no capacity to provide for the states with the ever increasing and often unfunded budgets. It is a recipe for disaster even at cursory appearance and evaluation.The funding of the present structure of government in all the states and the center by its self is not cheap.It will not be achieved through borrowing or using an ever diminishing and finite resource like oil.The solution is in changing this failed structure immediately.Emplacing the regional or zonal governments with lean but effective structures and the authority to harness resources in the zones and find or create new resources must be the goal.If restructuring nigeria is not the priority of the present dispensation it will be consigned away to the bin of disgrace for there is no other way out.Nigeria will not borrow its people into prosperity.The nigerian space was being run by the British empire and the people were not dying of hunger.There were no epidemics and health disasters.In other words the colonialists held the soceity together and the empire benefitted from it as a corporate entity.Today the soceity is in shambles and nigeria as a corporate entity is in debt!The leadership are running a rich soceity at a loss to its citizens and the nation as a corporate entity.It is a damning reality.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Nigeria will be restructured or will disintegrate and the present dispensation including the government and opposition will be blamed for their lack of courage and genuine patriotism. When Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe gave up the premiership for nigeria he demonstrated true patriotism.It was a statement requiring no explaination.But it was an action.These days all we hear are empty words from people who are only out to enrich themselves.They do not even pretend to have any other motive but "national cake". We examine the body language of some of these people and it is cold and distant.No wonder the loss of lives in the society has become a normal event.Even their resort to ethinicism is a calculated attempt to push very personal agenda.The attempt to railroad personal ideas instead of building consensus in a society with diverse religious beliefs, cultures and varyings level of education and development will always cause problems.Why continue to push the botton over and over? We all know the result! It is the survival of the nation first. Sectional interests matter only if a nation exists! If the goal here is not to cause a disintergration it is time to reverse course.What need to happen right now is very obvious.Return the nation to its original foundations.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>We were in full support of the previous government until it reneged on the promise to restructure.It remains the single most portent approach that spares nigeria from the curse of disintegration that plagues young nations. But nigeria is no youth.It just suffers from perpetual maladjustment. It is over one hundred years old as an entity. We might not have been in charge but the blueprint is available.Any person who wishes to run an organisation and opt for their own approach will not blame any other person! If we can't get it to work too bad! The nation had a constitution based upon the nature of the fault lines and what is possible.After detouring to exotic recipies, it is time to return to the 'grandparent' recipe.We had hoped to bring that about earlier.We had hoped!But we knew this time will come. We had wished it did not have to come to this.</center> <br> <p><center>Every opportunity we had was wasted, squandered.Under the last administration was most painful.It was the very reason for which the battle for the realization of the leadership was intense and the choice was made of someone who should know the need to return to the original constitution.The choice was for one who recognizes the inevitability in the end of that truth. However we became aware of the inertia and recognized the reluctance and the lack of will to proceed with a very profound agenda. But we realized the reason for the fear. It seemed as though the president being one from a particular section of nigeria did not consider it his place to make the change needed. The fear of being accused of unfairness made it a hard sell for him to supervise the neccessary change.If you have been a victim of unfairness and come to a place of authority you correct the situation. It is a morale imperative. Who would you wait for? Who owns the absolute right to make changes in a society? Anyone in particular? Some of us will not accept the narative of the indentured.Our forebearers rejected the notion.And so do we, and shall our descendants! We are here again and the issue stalls once more. With mounting economic, civic and humanitarian issues, this matter can no longer wait.</center> <br> <div align="left"><cite> <--- Igbo people and art africa's gems <--- <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> <br> <div align="right"><cite> --------------> Igbo Ladies africa's gems... keep it going Ladies ---> <img src="ndiada.jpg" align="right" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>THE POLITICS OF NIGERIA AND THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH EASTERN NIGERIA</font></strong></center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>Let me begin by quoting a nigerian politician of yore. " I am convinced it is wrong for people to think the acme of political ambition is a ministerial position...". Chief J. M Johnson or "J.M.J" as he was popularly called was quoted as saying. In this he was refering to a situation no different than what is going on today.Every politician wants to be in the good books of the president.Every politician wants to hold one high office or the other.But politics is about fights and struggles for resources. It is the alternative to warfare! The politicians from the south east must understand what the Igbo people mean when they say that "a debt can dry but will never decay".If someone owes you remind them as often as you can.Nigeria as an entity has cost the people of eastern nigeria more than any other group. It is a truth that can never be overstated. Anyone who fault this fact should be ready to pay for lunch for the nation for as long as eastern nigeria has done. And they have done it on an empty stomach. They leave it to other people to determine when they are fed. For some reason they can't understand that when the lunch is threatened everyone will sit up and think properly.It appears this truth has been lost to nigerians.You do not make a demand for your own resource without being ready to confront anyone who has denied you the use of it.If you can't you have lost ownership.When anyone is expecting a favor he abandons his gloves that includes the politician.On the other hand when you need a victory the gloves are needed.You put them on and get ready to "mix it up" as they say in boxing.You beg for what you own only if you have been stripped of ownership.If you wish to make that point it is not seeking a favor. You go in and you fight. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The metaphor for politics is to "throw our hat in the ring".In the ring you either fight or you are not only in danger of loosing. You could be hurt very badly even. It is no gimmick. The respect and favor of the electorate is won by the gloves. It is what gives longevity to a politician. Politicians from eastern nigeria must now appreciate how much regard nigeria has for them! They have been completely sidelined and made to appear like ornaments in the chambers.From being grossly underepresented to being apparently inconsequential the picture is a caricature.It is an attempt to ridicule the people of the area and humiliate them.Needless to tell any person from that part of the world what to do.All of them in the situation experienced the events that led to what some refer to as the civil war.Every person from within the area in question knows the truth. We like to see the fire in their eyes. The people of this part of nigeria endured a genocide and were not rehabilitated.We are in a democracy and there is only one way to make your case. Now that they have no responsibilities except to their electorate they should come out swinging like people with a goal. They can also choose to go there and continue to sing lullaby of unity and peace for which they are paying for everyones lunch while hungry themselves.Of course we all need peace and unity but it is not the responsibility of just one section of the country.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>When they do what they are suppose and capable of doing the whole world can see and take note that they are totally unhinged and completely unfettered.There is a reason a place can be difficult to control.If your needs are not part of the agenda you match the brakes until it is included. The politicians from the part that seem to have been forgotten can change the narative. It is what is expected of them. They should go to the chambers of the house of assemblies and senate and stand up like men and women of honor and fight.Experience is the best teacher. What they do and how they react will determine if this kind of behavior towards a certain part of the nation continues.The people of south eastern nigeria are very capable of playing the type of politics that will cause them not to be ignored by anyone.Thankfully nigeria now run a presidential system of government.In the United States of America a single senator can withhold a nomination of the president forever technically.He can stifle debate until his point of view is considered.I know the people of eastern nigeria are not intellectually lacking!They understand politics too! There is absolutely no question about that. If Great Britain could not ignore them for long neither can nigeria.If nigeria know the tricks they must be reminded that the Igbos and other people of the south east have been in the space longer than many others.They can play the tricks too.Without appologies they too must require respect and dignity and are entitled to whatever is the full benefit of citizenship.If the relationship will not gurantee this reality they have the right to reject it.It is that basic.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>We see north eastern nigeria being rebuilt after Boko Haram picked up arms against a sovereign state of nigeria.Up until now we do not know who these fighters are.Are they foreigners who wish to invade nigeria and establish a religious dominion we are not told.It is really the type of things that suprise many of us about the atittude of the nigerian people. They have assumed the Boko Haram issue is ethnic.Now our children in the nigerian armed forces are exposed to unwarranted threats from within.This type of matter is not an IPOB issue.It is an existential national issue. When someone will look down on citizens as if from a throne and proclaim that the unity of the nation is not negotiable is that not very preposterous? What is a democracy?A democratic government is a system of negotiating governance.It goes to show what we are dealing with.If this was taken as an important job which it is at least someone will know what the requirement of their job is.We are not talking about understanding what it is.We mean just to know what it is.But we have two hundred million people who must depend on the whims of those who are clearly clueless.They toy with the lives of citizens and act as if it is all right.We have twelve states in the nation that are politically seperate from the rest.</center> <br> <center>This type of situation has potentials for igniting a religious war.It could be in fact what the nation is presently grapling with.Just that the portion of the nation that is the most vulnerable is pretending to be unpertubed.So the people who are always armed are attempting over and over to provoke a fight.But the stumbling continues.We can complain about agitations but they will get more and more serious.This is because some people have already taken a step to have their own seperate entity in line with their own taste.If they did not receive pocket money from the oil money and vat tax money and money from running the ports in the south what would they need them for? You see why the unity is not to be negotiated? No, you seat down and you talk or you have no country but a geographical expression.We pity the other nigerians who are slumbering through this systematic rape. We begin to think about the Biafra war of 1967-1970! What is responsible for the difference in the way the two events were treated? One group are christians and the other are predominantly muslims.The muslims declared Jihad on nigeria. They captured a portion of the nation and declared it a caliphate.This should have been frightening for the non-muslims.What kind of threat did the people of eastern nigeria who were slaughtered around nigeria pose? Eastern nigeria met with the leaders of nigeria in Aburi Ghana in early 1967 and agreed on how peace can be attained.It is on record.Both sides toasted to the peace agreement.It was hoped that war had been averted. But the people who are still killing nigerians today reneged. The man who negotiated was just a puppet. They nicknamed him head of state. Are we to see all the muslims in the light of these kind of theatrics in nigerian politics? If the perpetrators of these acts succeed they would create the form of difficulties other environments have that hinder progress.We must work to avoid such outcomes.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> We know Boko Haram are youths who were largely left unprotected and uncared for by responsible adults. Now it is the problem of the world! Some people use the claim of protecting the interest of everyone to attain power. what happens next is they have access to exellent life and the rest have nothing at all.Northern nigeria has work to do for its population. But a corporate plan that tackles this problem wholistically is not best addressed by tangling up the rest of the nation.What Sir Ahmadu Bello was doing was the best approach.You will put your own house in order!The nation could have a few men and women who are extremely rich and so many extremely poor citizens. Why are they suprised that they are "overtaken" or rather confronted on the highways by the law of averages? Poor unemployed youths have found empowerment with violence.You are not going to defend the herders to success.You are not going to decree them to wealth and success.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>You have to give them a chance and opportunity to develop their minds. Someone gave you the opportunity.Obviously giving them the licence to carry weapons and arming them will make them violent.They will see the glaring inequity differently when empowered whether with the weapon of knowledge or violence. It is for this reason we think some of the elites always resort to this doctrine of hate.At least momentarily it provides vent for the angst of the frustrated youths.But we see that some things are changing. Some of them are coming to the realization that they are being played. Which we think is due to the teaching of some of the non-mainstream clerics.This is the nature of human soceity.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>It is the predicament of nigeria presently.It is the nightmare that precipitated the pogrom against the people of eastern nigeria and a war of attrition and genocide.We point the northern muslims to the other muslims from western nigeria.They are better exposed and are more likely to have better education and are also more likely to have means or better livelihood.Their world view is therefore different even though the religion is the same. What we learn is that you are a person first.The yoruba will acknowledge his identity as distinct from religion.It is the same for the people of eastern nigeria.For most muslims from northern nigeria the personal identity fuses to religion.It is a point of view that is not rationalized or reasoned by the individual. In many cases the interpretation is received without questions.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The other nigerians will never accept this model and world view.And the person who does not share the interraction and knowledge of self as distinct from religion will not usually have the patience to hear or share your thoughts.It is a mindset that provides an identity.You have to offer something better.It has to be more tangible than rhetoric.Our society offers a surfeit of that and no more.The ordinary person needs some form of anchor.Religion becomes just that.The well educated northerner is liberated from this mindset.He is able to provide for himself and his own. But some would exploit the vulnerability they understand exists around them. It happens ever so often.Perhaps that explains why it persists. And there is a conflict which transforms from itself time to time.And the nations deals with the same set of problems over and over.It will take work to educate a population.It will take commitment and focus and these are in short supply under these circumstances.Instead of trying to solve the problem confronting the citizens of the nation they claim to lead they resort to divide and rule.In the case that you belong to another society that works.If nigeria is where you call home it is foolish to do this kind of thing.But the game is to stigmatize one segment at a time.Unfortunately the easy culprit become the Igbo. And now they are simply tired of it!</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It was all in the game plan at the time.In these days of google and youtube these documents are easily available.We can finally see who was deceiving the world and nigerians.The "rulers" of nigeria at the time chose to blockade and massacre innocent young men in a brutal conflict they were not prepared for.There were no amouries in eastern nigeria.The nigerian soldiers of eastern nigerian origin were disarmed and sent home to eastern nigeria. If they are lucky.Nigerian soldiers deployed in eastern nigeria were sent on leave and were allowed to travel with their weapons due to the prevailing insecurities.One side was hurting and still did more and more for unity.In this war one side had no access to food and weapons.And the world looked the other way!It is still the same set of events and usual reaction.Women and children were starved to death to finish the job.As always the final solution against the igbo people failed. And today a people are questioning why the world supervised such groateque injustice.So who is preaching that empty unity to the Igbo people and the people of eastern region?If it does not ring hollow in their own ears it is because they are adamant.Talk about unity and brotherhood.Preparatory to this already determined goal they were villified and made to become undesirable in their own country.We watched recently as youth with cellphones were mowed down by soldiers in full military formation.No.The people of eastern nigeria are not having this nonesense anymore.If anyone wants to use the flanks and try to divide the region such a person and their interest will be flagged.It will be the worst stigma africa has ever known.It is important to do this.We are going to have to deal with the forces that have kept our people on their knees for so long.It is time to see it off for ever! The world was once more watching young people in eastern nigeria being mowed down with glee.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The absurdity of this event was only rivalled and surpassed by its gravity and offence it evoked. For here we were watching history being repeated.It more than proves our point.Across from them in neighboring Camerouns their kindreds are in a similar situation.Just like in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century the people are being massacred.People are killed because they dared to question intruders.In the present day so called western camerouns and the congo region men had their heads cut off and displayed aloft to scare others.The grand father of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was killed in the public sqaure(Nkwor NNewi) for daring the imperialists.The blood of our great men and women have paid for our voices.Anyone who tries to silence us will face divine providence and destiny.Now see the evil seed in the likes of men among us in the thousands.These look right down on everyone else.They proudly wear the of surrogates.These shameless africans now do the dirty work that europeans are too ashamed to do in africa.They are proud willing tools and allies.The only thing is they lack capacity to think in terms of mutuality.We do not wish to depend on kindness. We demand compassion and goodwill so that we can reach our own potentials and bear our own burden.We discover it is possible to build such relationship in our world.The african people must understand this fact.They must seek help within themselves and people of good conscience within the present world order.It is a mistake to play wait and see.It is wrong to see what happens.We have seen enough and it is not good.The upheavals continue and nothing happens.But the struggle for liberty will not usually subside. The indegenous or local incipient colonizers with no knowledge of history have no understanding of this fact and reality. They just hope that killing the people who protest will end the yearning to be free. Remember the people of eastern region were the ones who desired independence and waged the different battles for it relentlessly.The western camerouns was then part of eastern nigeria. It is therefore remarkable these events are occuring with a certain troubling pattern.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We wish to warn the "wanna be" presidents from the eastern part of nigeria to think again.Until the nigerian soceity is corrected being president in it is just personal fulfilment.The people of eastern nigeria are not stupid.If any person has such absurd ambition it is their own problem.We remember the many people of eastern extraction that had aspired to lead nigeria starting with the venerable Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe, an eminent philosoper in his own right.He did everything he could have done and some more.He was denied by those who had nothing to offer but this mess we have right now.Have these men who are wasting their time forgotten Dr.Chuba Okadigbo who was murdered by those who he tried to please and accomodate and enlist as allies and political pals? This fine politician was killed like a cow. And Chuba was a brilliant Igbo son.Smart as they come!The Igbos and easterners did not know how to respond to his demise because he had put himself at cross purposes with their collective good.How about Dr Alexander Ekwueme? They took the political party he formed from him and then made him spend some more money and then some more money.Look how he ended up.Dr Ekwueme was smart and sagacious.He was a self-made man of worth.Most of what he had was from the sweat of his brow and reward of his sharp intellect.Dr K.O Mbadiwe toyed with the idea too. Are we going to forget Chief Arthur Nzeribe? Arthur is intelligent,street smart and fearless.Please do not forget Chief Dr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.This man made friends with all sorts people in nigeria.But did they support his ambition for the presidency?</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We warn the political lightweights and featherweights prospects who are nowhere near these intellectual champions and giants to look themselves over in the mirror and think again.We do not try to glorify paper qualifications or even wealth rather we speak to quality of mind and arguments and logic.At this time leading nigeria is not as important as self determination.Our people and their future is being systematically destroyed.The idea of using the lure for the presidency to delay the correction that will help tens of millions of nigerians is a sign of where we are as a people.The people who are being played for fools must rethink and do things differently.If you show you can't be ignored you wouldn't.And those doing this to us are not our match at all.So quit the shameless auditioning and fight for your survival and the progress of the people you love.It is a better and more important goal.When your brothers and sisters can receive good education and find jobs you have achieved something good. If you make them useful in solving problems in their own environment and experience good communual life and you know you had a part in it it is rewarding.So lets get to work. It can be done.If nigeria needs us it is fine.If not we were a people before they came along!We made nigeria.Nigeria did not make us.The people of eastern nigeria need to understand that no other region would have allowed what they have endured.</center> <br> <cenetr>It is their resource that has been vandalized and stolen and hidden all around the globe by the kleptomaniacs.Enough is enough.And it is time it said to those who think they are clever!If they call you Ijaw and Annang or Ibibio and Calaabari and Effik and tell you the igbo is your enemy are you daft? Are they your friends? Why are you enemies with the one related to you by blood? The people in eastern nigeria come from one family.It is not ancient history.It is a recent matter.Some of us can recite the history without looking for any reference.So in northern nigeria they are one people? It is not what we heard.Someone deceived another and snatched up his lunch is what we heard! And they are not even related.In the eastern region the population are one family and one people.They like you to imply that everyone from every place north of the niger and benue is a northerner.But even the British colonialist did what they could to preserve the identity of the people of the middle belt.And they themselves fought the attempt by some acting like crocodiles to swallow them. They knew the intent was for the purpose of arm twisting the rest.So why are they fighting?Why do we have Boko Haram and armed herdsmen and marauders and bandits?Do you know the number of dialects in western nigeria? How about in northern nigeria?Love your neighbor and prosper! Our people survived for thousands of years and those who just arrived on the scene will take our resources and then enslave us?</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>When that has been sorted out we can talk about nigerian leadership.Our own survival as a people is what is most paramount to the people at this time.Again before somebody runs off praise singing and parading himself as a leader, let such a fellow determine his interest and the corporate interest of the people of eastern nigeria. It is pathetic to note that these men are not able to determine that they are nothing at the moment but mere pawns.Rather than see issues and matters as they are they have this perception that they are exceptional.And we just cannot see it.In the first place what exceptional minds do is to call and determine malfunctions.They do not want to ride it as though it is normal.The people of eastern nigeria have become stigmatized in nigeria.It is a scheme that was framed to hurt them.It must be changed.They do not deserve it. Nigeria indeed africa owe them a depth of gratitude.Nigeria owes them a deep felt appology.The war was not a mistake. It was a deliberate attempt to destroy a people.If the nigerian authorities did not understand that but they were working for interests that did. Today we see the effort to cease every gateway in and out of nigeria having it manned by just one set of people in a federal republic.The customs and immigrations in even nations that are not diverse are made to be inclusive.Every strategic position in these entities in nigeria is taken by the same people out of just plain pure vanity! Can't they feel it? It seems and feels so odd. Nigeria wants to have a situation where the personal effects of the people of eastern nigeria returning from outside is examined by those who can't hide the hatred they feel against them.You feel it as they interact with you.They wish to frighten off some people from a space thier ancestors claimed for tens of centuries before these ones showed up.Some people are trying hard to split nigeria.But they put on a facade so that other people are blamed for it! They are killing nigeria. And their stigma of the people of eastern nigeria especially the Igbos will no longer matter at all.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>And that stigma exists till date.The constant accusation was they are too ambitious.They challenge authority.But all they have is an alternate point of view. Here we have a roving band of murderers armed to the teeth and it is business as usual.The system builds a revolving door for them. They try being terrorists and if they do not like it it then the government retrains them for some other activity! What a scam.They capture citizens and trade them for cash. In the typical "suffering and smiling" attitude of nigerians they have been weathering it.The culprits are received back into society without preconditions. And are being rehabilitated while their peers are still fighting. As they transform into " fulani herdsmen" the sentence of death hangs over the heads of the citizens.Now they have turned to kidnapping citizens for ransomes.The government we have learnt even pays the kidnappers. One only hopes this allegation is false.Otherwise it turns the nation into a goldmine for the bandits.Incidentally this will only be a new low. The christian south east had a pogrom foisted on them and and five million people were killed as a result.And their society was completely destroyed.The people were neither rehabilitated nor was there ever any conscious attempt to rebuild the portion of nigeria that was purposely savaged by those who envied the progress it was making.The reason it is important to be fair minded is because you will not need to explain your actions all the time.The relationship of the other parts of nigeria and eastern nigeria has always begged explainations.Again the same type of worrisome events that caused the pogrom and massacre of the Igbo people and other people from eastern nigeria are repeating.And it is not for anyone to tell the people how best to react.</center> <br> <div align="left"><cite> Igbo people gem of africa <--- <img src="thepeo.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> <div align="left"><cite> <img src="meirinafrica.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> <center><font color="brown"><strong>REBUILD EASTERN NIGERIA TOO: EASTERN NIGERIA HAS SUFFERED MUCH NEGLECT</font></strong><center> <br> <div align="right">Visit from a big cousin ----------></div> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> What type of impression is the nigerian leadership creating in the mind of members of the society especially the youth? If nigeria actually is looking for a future that includes all the parts it must reflect in the way issues are handled.The leaders must be seen to be fair to all. There has to be equity and justice must not only be done but must be seen to have been done.Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe is no longer available to plead nigeria to the people of south eastern nigeria.He seemed to be the only one who cared about equity and justice.The people watched his galantry fall far short and his words fall on deaf ears. If their observation and experience lead them to conclude it is not worth it the nation is finished.Those who lead must convince every segment by their actions.The casual reaction to the yearnings of certain segments of the society is the reason the talk about unity will not resonate with them. If the youths from northern nigeria can pick up arms so can the youths from the south.It is important to make that clear to those who have difficulty understanding these type of issues. They make it difficult for the ones who desire peace and could attain it.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Those of us who preach peace and unity must be realistic and forthright. It is one thing to close ones eye and continue to echo empty words. It is a different matter to speak words that are matched with actions. Nigeria has been a bad investment for the people of eastern nigeria.They own seventy five percent or even more of the resources nigeria runs on. But the society will not build roads in the area. It will not rebuild the degraded environments even from the ruin and damage from oil prospecting and drilling.The place is in disrepair and decay. We reject the blame on the governors in this part.Other parts of nigeria do not have angels. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We know the government is concerned for the citizens of the north eastern nigeria and that is understandable. But it begs the question why do the people of south eastern nigeria who never wanted to fight a war endure a far worse predicament in nigeria than those that are still fighting? Boko Harm has not surrendered.If it has the world will need to know.There is a very elaborate program of rehabilitation and it is budgeted for.When the war on eastern nigeria ended there were only empty promises.Very pious fancy words were spoken and promises were made.But the promises were not meant to be kept. The excuse we are given is that the promised "Three R" after the so called war was abandoned because a particular politician was against it.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We do not think it is enough to abandon a program of government because of the objection of one person.The nigerian government promised the people of eastern nigeria a program of "Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation".The "administrator" of east central state Mr. Ukpabi Asika became the punching bag and a subject of angst and wrath of the frustrated people.He was accused of corruption by the people.He maintained his innocence claiming the federal government never provided any funds for the reconstruction as promised.The more he tried to defend the federal government in their ambivalent silence the more the people lampooned him in songs and cryptic jokes.It seemed as if the government of nigeria forgot a people who came out of a very severe disaster.It maintained the silence as time dulled the need and urgency. </center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center> Reconstruction of the area was abandoned due to the objection of the politician whose name and opinion we have.There is no question that as a result of that type of atmosphere and nature of government at the time in question he prevailed.We know this same politician was among the ones who rejected the peace accord that would have prevented the war.In the face of these kind of capriciousness unity and peace is not possible.We intend to diligently highlight the wounds of our nation.It makes cure and remedy a lot easier.If the intention and desire are there to seek reconciliation in the nation it must be wholesome.Today as nigeria rehabilitates the north east it must do the same for the south east.The effects of the war did not disappear they are covered by clouds and paints of emotions.Nigeria must show fundamental fairness and equity.Those are the major pillars of unity and peace. If these things are set in motion peace is possible.Empty words and threadbare cunningness will fail.The people are not stupid and there is no way for anyone to deceive them. If they determine they have had enough it is over!</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> It is neccessary to draw the attention of the world to the suffering of the people in the area that provides all the resource the nigerian state uses.A typical example is that a poor farmer could have his farmland with farm crops completely destroyed by prospecting and drilling activities and there is no way to seek compensation. As if that is not enough nomadic cattle rearers descend on the farmland of indegenes vandalizing the crops.How this can be justifiable is a wonder. You have a person who has a business of rearing cattles desiring to sustain his business by wiping out the crops of a farmer. How should the farmer have the burden of nurturing the cattle of a cattle breeder? Why is nigeria being turned into a private estate in reality? The authors of this madness must thank themselves for the breakup that is imminent.If nigeria cannot build spare part malls for the igbos or "adire" and "gele" shops for yoruba women it must abandon the idea of government funded cattle ranches.There are two hundred ethnic nationailities in nigeria.And it is a federal government. What government is not able to replicate for all groups it must not start. It will not only have the appearance of nepotism it is nepotism.It is not the job of government to be sponsoring ethnic chauvinism.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The behavior of the herdsmen has attained a troubling momentum and must now be called what it is.On January 5 2016 the people of a quiet southern town of Ubulu Ukwu woke up to a normal day.So they had hoped.But their monarch had been kidnapped by Fulani herdsmen.It is a great abomination in Igboland for a monarch to perish under such circumstances.But the kidnappers meant to humiliate this kingdom."Ubulu" tree in Igbo culture is used for marking boundaries and building hedges."Ubulu Ukwu" has a significance in the history of the migration and hence the survival of the Igbo people.It is very clear that the people executing the script we are watching in nigeria are very particular about their targets.Recently they targeted the daughter of the leader of a think tank organisation of the yoruba people.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>There are so many people who recoil and even try to shrink to make for peace.It is how civilization and a people disappear.When someone invades your space and embark on a campaign of violence you must resist it or perish.These events are not isolated incidents.We all witness the big tussle between egypt and ethiopia over the building of a certain damn over the nile.But some people within nigeria had damned the niger river up north within nigeria without considering the effect on the other peoples.The southern niger was depleted almost completely.They will never be able to do it outside of nigeria.They will be too afraid the behave in such a way.But within they have subdued everyone!So they imagine.If not how could you have damned a water source like the niger without any conversation with anyone?The people wake up and a water source they are used to for generations had disappeard.It is never how you approach communual life! It is how some people give themselves away as bad neighbors.You are not going to treat fellow citizens in such a way.And those who are gradually heading to perdition must wake up.If the idea of unity is to loose everything you own perhaps it is time to think again.Those who have been deceiving themselves since with the little pacifiers they are given to suck on from time to time must wake up too.They might be the first victim. It is the way oppression works.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>We have war of attrition and intimidation going on.They are becoming more and more emboldened.And the communities must rise to the occassion.These kingdoms especially in Igboland existed for thousands of years before any of these unabridged turbulence.The people must ensure their own survival.And must protect their way of life and insitutions.In the last few weeks priests and other members of the clergy are being slaughtered with glee!How can the government respond to these events by banning the various organisations that wish to protect communual life? In what way has the government shown that it has the capacity to control these events? Under the government of Chief Olusegun Obasonjo the "OPC" a yoruba organisation tried to flex its muscles.Even though it waged the battles that brought the general to power he did not only condenm the actions that appeared to be improper but banned the organisation.He went further and asked law enforcement to shoot at sight anyone found to be creating anarchy under the banner of the said organisation.No one was killed as a result of the order! The man understood the thinking of the people behind the noise.Nepotism is impeachable in a proper democracy.I know in nigeria you can pocket most people especially if you choose a chief justice you are able to pocket with no qualms.And who is not able to say no to you.Who will stand "tall" for the ordinary man? And he will look up to you like a dog would a master.Who can't even look into your face and eyes to require answers and demand justice.Some people will never understand the meaning of a democracy due to their inherent martial nature.So we see impunity and most of us are not suprised at all. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>But we are seeing a situation where the abuse and desecration of institutions of kingdoms and ethnic nationalities seem to be rewarded by the authorities.We wish to warn that even the appearance of this situation is dangerous. Obviously nigeria is not one happy homogeneous ethnicity.If anyone will descend on the people and their way of life they have the right to reject such imposition and have always done for generations! Very soon communities will reject the presence of these gun wielding murderers in their midst and it will not be any matter for which the people behind this scheme can do much.If you have no respect for institutions of a community they have a right to require that you seek sanctuary somewhere else.We are told the men who are destroying our communities are not even nigerians.So then who are these people and why are they armed in nigeria where the citizens are suppose to turn over their own arms to a beleagered police force?</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It sounds like provocation of a serious nature. The politicians are not looking to bring these issues and demand that society redress them properly.They will make attempts and are drowned out by those who see themselves as overlords. As if that was all they wished to do they will give up.Perhaps the people should be made to realize that the goose that lays the golden egg can choose to rest. It happens in nature.There is an Igbo proverb that says "if those who enjoy eating beans will not pamper the one who prepares it, he or she may avoid the tedium".What that means is that there will be no beans for those on the table. A word they say is enough for the wise!</center> <br> <div align="left"><cite> <img src="jajawach.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> <br> <div align="right">Visit from an eminent niece <br>Jaja Nwachukwu and Golda Meir ----------></div> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>ECOWAS AND NIGERIA: POLITICS, RELIGION AND THE LESSONS</font></strong></center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We are immediately moved to issue an alert to the goverment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There is an incubation of a difficult specie.The adherents identify as shiites.The implication is there are affiliations which might not lack resources depending on what is at stake. It is an error to have such a dangerous situation at the capital city of Abuja.We saw in the way a very high ranking officer of the police force was killed in retaliation.It portends warfare.If there is no intelligence around these events it could be anyone.The DSS and other such agencies must have actionable intelligence for the police.They are not suppose to get out there to become objects of target practice.Nigeria is not a banana republic!Safety of our citizens is the most important duty of government.The Islamic Movement of Nigeria is making a case that need to be resolved very wisely.They are nigerians and are very free to make their grievances known.The authorities must navigate this with utmost carefulness.We do not want this to get to where there will be confussion about the best response.It has to be necessary,according to law, patriotic,fair and proper.We recall how it was said that the governor of Bornu state Ali Modu Sheriff had promised a sect an Islamic ministry in the state.This was a compromise for what they wanted: an outright islamic state. It is said he had a cordial relationship with them.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>He needed them to be elected and for re-election.The sect then called "Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda 'awati Wal-Jihad" meaning "people committed to the prophets teaching for propagation and Jihad".The governor had won a second term and would not make good his promise.The people feeling they had been used started to protest.The organisation whose aim was to enforce a sharia state was formed by Mohammed Yusuf.In one of the clashes the leader was murdered alledgedly by the police.This group will transform into Boko Haram.The lesson here is that those who like to ride the crocodile should not attempt to sacrife other people.The governors cousin was murdered by the group along with five other people in retaliation and several reprisal attacks on both the police and other citizens were just the opening salvo of what is now a problem of the world.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>But these men were asking a governor to surrender a mandate of a democratic process.At least the governor realized that offering them ministry will be a bridgehead.And by the nature of these kind of relationships he would become a sqautter in his own government.He played the usual hand for which politicians are known.A nation or state will worry about the satisfaction of all its citizens.But how does the leader of the nation or state relate with powerful entities?.The answer to this question will help in settling the issues and challenges of the entities that seem to overlook the government.It appears there is a conversation that certain part of nigeria must have.</center> <br> These issues will break the nation. Unless that is their intention things must not continue like this. And there is the reason for the insecurity that engulf the nigerian nation and threatens the region. Due in particular to the fact that religion is never homogenous it will always be a difficult tool to use in secular arbitration. In every religion are doctrinal issues which will sometimes become very polarizing.What we take from every religion is the element of idealism,faith and belief that man is capable of doing good.It will not be in the interest of the citizens of nigeria to allow a situation that will further complicate a very delicate environment.This focus and attention on religion is an omnious sign. So much could go wrong.Mutual respect and space should have been maintained. Nigeria comprises a population that is of varied ethnicities.With such a delicate fabric tossing flames and flints around is unreasonable.The people will generally get along without these issues.The more they are stressed the less unity is attainable.The people of other faith must know when to demand a space free from encumberances.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>But the solution is simple.People have their manner of life and their beliefs.You have to have a way to delineate these as not to allow them to collide with the interest of others.These boundaries are neccessary and a formal agreement is necessary.If respected it will keep the peace.If there is none there will be a breakdown of order.The people who will be choked by the overeach of the one who will propagate their belief system will fight back at some point.You do not allow this scenario.You negotiate.Otherwise what will result will be conflict and bloodshed.Every religion will have adherent who are shaped by their environments including allegiance.It is not the exclusive priviledge of any particular one.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Our communities must have a sense of how they can experience their best existence.It will form the basis of how they negotiate.Government especially democracy is a negotiated method of mutual coexitence.The ecowas communty affords us a new opportunity to vitiate the consequence of the 1884 Berlin conference.Our people can gravitate towards the ones with whom mutuality is possible.It gives our ethnic entities a chance again to compete rather than gasp for air from underneath the squelching armpits and chokehold of oppressors.Policy formulation in the sub-region must have a mindset to form a template using what is possible and compartible with good governance.</center> <br> <div align="left"><cite> Igboukwu art an african gem <--- <img src="mask.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="180" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>ECOWAS MUST BE FIRM ON THE MALIAN COUP MAKERS</font></strong></center> <br> <br><center>The restless malian armed forces must find a way to support the civil soceity.Their propensity to march into the presidency is neither a mark of discipline nor professionalism.It is important for them to look at Nigeria and Ghana where inspite of the many disagreements among politicians the military has focused on its own responsibility.Why is the malian army making a coup in 2020? Why are they acting as though they are completely disconnected from reality?The world is in a very different place than coup making.And it is a very unnecessary distraction.In many quarters around the world they are going to be calling for very severe sanction against such behaviour.The people who are celebrating the coup deserve pity.When there is desperation everything seems like an aswer.We all know that the military will not resolve the problems affecting africa.They are political problems.If they were things that will be resolved through chain of command and straight left and right it would have been solved during the many years of coups and counter coups in africa.Many of our soceities have shown we can move forward when the soceity figures out a consensus.It is the way forward.It is difficult and it requires patience.The people who give examples must understand it is difficult to build institutions and give them character.It requires and demands that we might be able to take power by force but reject such a choice.We do so because it is against the accepted norm and detracts from the institution we would like to help create or uphold.Every time we succumb to the temptation we let ourself and soceity down.Again the Malian army has failed the test.</center> <br> <center>Let us reason with the military men a little bit.Africa need foreign and domestic investment. What this means in ordinary language is that our communities must be peaceful and must feel safe.We needs to reassure the africans outside that there is stability.We have to create the notion of continuity in policy making.It is not how you set the stage for development.Coups generally are a mark of unrest and instability and uncertainty.We commend the coup makers for not resorting to spilling of any blood. At least it is one area we consider an upside, if there is any to a sad event such as this.We want them to know it will be a consideration in resolving the unfortunate event.Africa has lost a lot of time already.There is no further time to waste on childish detours.In the eyes of the one who has not understood a problem it seems very easy.The present day Europe or America is not willing to tolerate any atmosphere that will force thousand to become desperate to seek refuge.They are not in such a mood.It is the worst signal from Mali that the military will seek to insobordinate its functions from civil authority.This is not the time for that.What type of soceity do they wish to establish? No,that era is gone.Recently african nations have made commendable progress.It shows the solution is democratic institutions which allow the people to seek to move their ideas forward.What they have resorted to is not wise.They might be armed but every problem is not solved by armed intimidation.In the world stage who are they going to intimidate? Yet Mali as a nation must work with the rest to get the help the soceity desparately needs.Any of these men who is interested in politics should shed his uniform and jump into the crocodile pond.It is how to do it.You join politics and you go and jump into the arena. The days of military coups are gone.Africa needs disciplined armed forces focused on the onrous task of defence of the motherland.</center> <br> <center> <br><br><a href="makingthegong.html"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font></a> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>TOWARDS EMPLACEMENT OF STRONG DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS IN AFRICA</font></strong></center> <br> Democracy has nothing to do with the duration a person spend in office.The very important requirement is that the person is the choice of the electorate.Very often some people argue the lack of merit of longevity in elected office.To many of us that sounds like "sour grapes".If someone could be elected to parliament as often as the electorate desires so must it also be for the executive arm.This could be modified to suit the electorates point of view.In situations where demography require modifications for participation and inclusion these could be taken into account.These policies are as important as the process.if they are not in place but they will manifest midway in the process and pose very difficult problems for the technocrats.It is not their job to sort these things.It is the function of politics to do that.Their job is to manage the process.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We watched the difficult challenge in managing the elections in kenya for instance.It took the nation a lot of resources to get through the hump.We are very proud of how this was handled. The african union is really coming of age. But these cases must not be mere events. They must be serious learning moments.Presently nigeria is going through a similar situation.The only problem is in the case of nigeria we have dark alleys and patches of isolated wilderness where the process is unlikely to navigate in safety.First of which was the postponement of the election when the materials were already out of the strongholds.It should never have happened.You will not get to this point without ensuring the process will go forward.There is absolutely no excuse for it.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The time provided for resolution of conflicts arising from the election must be bound by the election time table.We now have the senate screening members of cabinet when the process has not yet determined a winner. The legal process is part of the system process.If you have determined the matter why waste time and resources? The process should have been expedited.It might have been necessary to 'seqester' the jury, place the evidence before them and require them to produce a ruling within the time table.It is how you manage a process and make it transparent and relevant.When the impression is created that the outcome has been predetermined it will not satisfy the aggreived.Nigeria can have elections that are not rigged. Election is a sample of the electorate. A sample must be consistent or the result will be unreliable.If we do not want wars and destructions we must use the best minds to handle these matters.The plan and scheduling for the elections and the arbitration process is not the best they could have been.We know that.Even before people from outside complained many nigerians had voiced their concern for the management or rather mismanagement of the process.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It is very sickening to hear the argument that INEC has no server! How in the world will this process have been undertaken under such a murky and shrouded atmosphere? How do you have a computer peripheral with no computer in place? It is like saying you have a printer and scanner but have no computer.The card-reader is a peripheral device.It has to be connected to a computer to be of any valuable use.Unless it is a toy. It is like saying you have a cell phone and no network.It is not the type of argument a technocrat with a responsibility to manage a make or brake process for two hundred million people should be making.It is rather very sad.Without prejudice to anything that is part of the evidence in this matter here but you will not use the peripheral if it is not connected to a system. It will be a scam! If it is not a scam it is phoney!! Either way the joke must not be on the patient,hardworking and peace loving ordinary citizens.The joke must be on the "expert" who would want to game the people by invoking technicality.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Humphrey Nwosu conducted an election that was evidently transparent and the process was managed with finesse and panache. Nigeria did not increase in land mass since then.It is important to make choices that help build trust. What we are witnessing is part of the reason many have lost faith in the system.If you hear the young people say they hate the country it is due to matters of this nature.Government must do things that make citizens proud to identify with their own nation.Nigerians will excel at everything and their government will be the reason they scratch their forehead in embarassment.If there is going to be a reason to say we want to remain together it must be that there is a determination to seek excellence.In the effort the government with the enormous resources it controls must lead.The evidence of good leadership must reflect on the lives of citizens.It is the primary function of government or it has failed.When such is the case it will not do to turn on the masses who have endured all the pain.</center> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>QUALITY MEDICAL CARE AS SERVICE AND PATRIOTISM</font></strong></center> <br> <div align="left"><cite> Igboukwu art in the 10 Century AD <--- <img src="igboartad.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center> "....after a brief illness and treatment abroad" is a familiar phrase.It was so since the end of the so called civil war.It has been more than fifty years.It is not what you call progress.We have pleaded with the government to facilitate the emplacement of facilities for treatment in nigeria that will attract professionals from across the globe.It is not rocket science.Over the years we have wondered how many of our people would have lived if such places existed. Imagine someone is sick and they must endure at least twenty hours of stressful travel to seek treatment.I have often wondered why this kind of problem persists among us. </center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>If our medical schools had the type of support they deserve our teaching hospitals will be true centers of excellence.Presently many of them are deserted as the men and women whose vision founded them and their disciples have mostly fled to seek greener pastures.Just as many have started their ways back the spectre of insecurity is being sponsored and orchestrated.It seems nigerians must wake up and understand what the nation is dealing with.Nigeria won her independence in 1960.It was a battle that was very hard fought.Today nigeria is indebted to the extent that it needs about 68% of its annual revenue to service debt! Some nigerians took a nation that was set free by heroic citizens and ran it right back into slavery.How can you run a nation of two hundred million people on charity and "pocket" money? It is for this reason that I feel it is a mistake for anyone to abuse the trust of nigerians.If things don't get better the people will become very bitter.It is when questions get asked! </center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We keep saying that there is absolutely no way nigeria survives this predicament without restructuring.The people of each federating unit would determine how much corruption they can live with.We are not going to continue to treat corruption as normal pick pocket drama.The people must be made to understand it undermines them directly.Having said that, it must also be added that the handout being given to the states is not enough to tackle real problems.The regions had hospitals with great reputation and pride.University of Ibadan teaching hospital, Ahmadu Bello University teaching hospital, University of lagos teaching hospital popularly called "Idi-Araba" or "LUTH", University of nigeria teaching hospital (UNTH) were all places to seek help.Today these insitutions are struggling.The nation is spending its resources servicing debt!It is not going to be business as usual. You have a nation with mostly youth.You are looking at a difficult problem.They want to know they have a future too.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The conversation to restructure nigeria is a way to mitigate the effect of the mismanagement before it explodes into crises.The various manifestations of the present are only harbingers of what could happen.If there are the ones that are not worried their courage is not properly founded!The prospects without this step is not good.If these places are not restored as places of exellence once more it will be a case of running backwards rather than forward. <br> <br>here >>><br><div valign="left" ><a href="newagitations.html"/><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> <center><font color="brown"><strong>LEADERSHIP IS FOR THE STRONG AND PURPOSE DRIVEN</font></strong></center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Nigerians are not strangers to the current occupier of Aso Rock.Neither is he one to be suprised by them. For if there is a nigerian that has waged battles with his fellow citizens it is this man.War against indiscipline,you would not make the mistake to try and "pee" in public, or throw litter,jump a queue,austerity measure, you name it! All this before you have any good public conviniences,or any efficient even functional means of transportation.Nevertheless some of us believe he is a patriot who has been shaped by the nuances of his own circumstances.Patriotism is a word that has become difficult to interprete outside of the result it produces.What we have always done is call on his best instincts.Very often he is not prepared to wait.Age has made him kind of mellow but habits are hard to break.He plotted a coup and survived a counter coup.Every adult who was tuned on remember "The Black President" musician Fela Anukulapo-Kuti chime sarchastically "over take don over take overtake".The man is still fighting!He ran for presidency over and over.Each time he lost he would not go quietly but test the system by going to court.The man already has his name in the history of nigeria.What we ask him is to have it etched at a place of honor.It will not be achieved by allowing himself to be taken captive and hostage by those who have limited themselves to local and clan championship.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Nigeria is trapped by financial speculators who have taken advantage of gaps in society to attempt a new enslavement of two hundred million vibrant hard working africans.We know the man understands what some of us are saying.If our nation is in debt as a corporate entity it will use the resources of the center to pay.It makes no sense therefore to put your resource where it will be taken by someone else.If our states are given more of the resources we are ensuring the prosperity of our own people.We have said this in many ways.But it seems it was not made clear enough for some people to understand the issues.We are still expecting that the events in our nation will lead to better choices.It seems nigeria only makes the right choices when there is collaboration between the various ethnicities.Examples abound,like our new beautiful capital in Abuja.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The people of western nigerian could have rejected the move.Having the capital in lagos had many economic advantages and benefits.But they saw the need and were among the leaders of thought that propelled the move.Today it is one of the things that were done right.We had suggested having certain conversations before the elections since they were not matters of partisan nature.But we know how anxious some people are to get their own chance.They can't wait to pounce on the "nationa cake"! Now 68 percent of the cake is in foreign hands.Anyone knows that if you function at 30 percent capacity you are not in business yet.So we just wish to let our people know that this mistake must be corrected.We are not expecting anyone to do it for us.It is interesting how the legislators who happen to be the aggregation of the representative government elected by the nigerian people ignore the present instability.They pretend not to know the reason for it.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>They are busy beautiful painting their Abuja-nigeria while the country is in shambles. If your home is threatened by fire you want to repaint it before you solve the threat.I wonder sometimes how anyone will assume they could continue with the kind of situation in nigeria for much longer.South eastern nigeria has no motorable roads.They have no good airports.The seaports locateed there are all not functional.All because oil was discovered in the area.And here was the most advanced region in terms of self help and communual development. And it is the unquestionable truth.It is not a good place for a nation to be.The kind of reasoning will lead to nothing else but disaster.And some people think they have the upper hand.They do not know that sometimes nature can help the helpless! </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Their legislations outside of restructuring today is a gross waste of precious time! You are not going to hide in a leaking house when there is a storm.It will never be comfortable.When there are structural and systemic issues you will not continue patch works.It will not solve the issues.Nigerian leadership are behaving like a person who wishes to drive a car with water rather than gas.He thinks it is cheap.The problem is it will never work.Nigeria has too many complications to be run from abuja.The nation is a federation not by choice but by nature.It requires leadership to make the statement.This burden falls on their shoulders and they must act.It appears they are not able to see the omnious clouds that the rest of the world are able to see quite clearly.As they hesitate and play the game of horse gambling the train is leaving the station.People want to leave and go to where they count for something!If nigeria can't work might as well be any other name but just a nation that works!</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Nigeria had its constitution suspended because it was thought that there was a shortcut. After fifty three (53) it proved to be a mirage.The honesty and courage to acknowledge that there was a mistake is why we are still wandering!Now a new generation has had it.They want none of it.If a nation was in debt and was cleared and has again been run into a worse debt then there is a big problem. Something is wrong.The federal government must focus on the things it can do properly.The regions were performing wonders before the coup of 1966.You must aim at returning to such rates of development or nigeria will disintegrate.Some people deceive themselves into thinking it is far fetched.It is not.It is a reality that is so menacing presently.You will not force people to remain in an entity.It has never worked moreso these days.When this reality is placed in perspective it might help calibrate certain excesses.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>If the national assemly recommends to the president a panel of its own members with some experts selected to facilitate the process it would be something very noble would it not?In doing so we could have a process entirely democratic and within the present laws.Even though we have been practically wandering aimlessly.The decision will be made how to phase their tenure into the consitution that was suspended by the military in 1966.It is that simple if it done immediately.It will be a clear fifty three (53) years of groping and wandering as a nation of almost two hundred million people.A time of the enrichment of a few at the expense of the many.They have to get to work now.There is no time to waste. If there is anarchy it is impossible to have democracy.There will be dictatorship.And if dictatorship manifests in nigeria it is game over! It is probably the kind of situation some would prefer.On the other hand they could do what most reasonable people will do right away.It will leave enough time for the process to transition into a new tenure at the end of the present one. In doing so only those who understand what is at stake will jump into the pond that promises to have many crocodiles!</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It is not in the interest of anyone else to solve a problem like this.Our people galantly fought to be on the table changing an ugly spectre painted against them and the generations to come.To make myself clear nigeria in 2015 had a debt exposure to the tune of about seven billion dollars.Yes seven (7billion) without a zero billion dollars.Today after about just less than five years nigerian debt exposure stands at a towering eighty four billion dollars.Yes you heard it right (84billion) american dollars in all!This represents more than a ten fold escalation.It was a war to shelve the debt burden and to leave paris club and other such entities and try to turn a corner.We must thank Chief Olusegun Obasanjo for the resolution of that debt burden along with the experts that made it possible.Nigeria became debt free!It was time for our nation to take off as we had calculated then.The nation then had a debt burden of about close to forty billion (40billion) american dollars.The freshly minted politician who was almost killed in jail by his fellow military officers who wanted to continue to aid the rape of their own nation proved he had a goal and a mission.He got to work with like minded nigerians and some help and removed the shackles.Chief Obasonjo's government started a space agency!See how far away that is now.When the government of Alhaji Shehu Musa Yar'adua wanted to borrow externally it was a difficult conversation.Nigerians did not want to hear it.The same issue attracted the dreaded letter from Chief Obasonjo to President Goodluck Jonathan.Today we see a complete reversal of instinct. Some time in early 2018 the vice president Yemi Osibanjo said the external debt profile was sixty (60billion) american dollars.Where is our minister? Many nigerians were alarmed by the news.One can see the slow return to the era of enslaving nigerians through rampant borrowing.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>After listening to the people who were extoling and preaching the many values of borrowing I was troubled and sad for the nigerian people and africa.When you borrow the creditor has the right to set the agenda.Your goals become very secondary.The issue is how the creditor gets his investment back! It is not what you want to achieve.You sell your dinning room and table.Not just that the kitchen and the keys.The nigerian currency used to have a purchasing power above the dollar.But we wasted the additional revenues that came from oil.Soon afterwards we were going cap in hand to borrow.And they said devalue your currency.And you complied.What that did was to take the ability of your citizens to accomplish somethings for themselves and give it to other people.They come in to the country with a few thousand dollars or pound and they can buy everyone.And they can order your citizens around.The money the citizens labored for had become wads of useless paper!It is all in leadership as you can see.Had the leaders done what is right for the nation which was invest in their sure source which was agriculture the story will be different today.Had they invested to move our raw materials a few notches up the value chain we would have created a steady economy that would guarantee a better future for our children.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>Such an economy would require a lot of labour.Our youths will not be idle.There would have been at least something to keep them busy.The resources were not just wasted but they went borrowing.And also wasted what was borrowed.Now we are on the verge of enslaving not just the present generation but the ones yet unborn.You will not tell the people you mean well for them when this type of action come repeatedly towards them from you.And that is what makes it difficult to preach peace to these youths and do nothing to show the problem has a solution.In view of this fact we disagree with the people who do not want the conversation of restrcturing.It is the very barest minimum.If they dislike it, their snooze will usher them into pure anarchy and disintegration.They must know we are telling them nothing but the truth.They are in denial and want to kill everyone who dares to speak truth to them.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> I recall that Dr Yakubu Gowon and Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu reached a deal that would have ushered in a very prosperous nation in Aburi Ghana.By God it should have been allowed to stand. It is five decades and we are marking time still.Every time we look at history we wish that Chief Awolowo had not seen the time as his personal "golden opportunity".But we are all mere mortals!He was the only one who could have made things better for the nation at this time.It became a chance to settle scores.But it is the nature of politics and the human experience.We remind those who are hesitating.Take the chance now.Do the right thing today and put history on your side.Had the nation taken advantage of the agreement to revert to a strong federation we would not be where we are today.At least we will not still be talking about how to estabish RUGA settlements.Our peers are sending probes into the stary skies!They are sending rockets to the moon and further.And there are minds capable of such things among us.Those are being obstructed by bad leadership.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<centerThere were already international standard farm settlements in nigeria by 1963.They all disappeared.What a pity! Now looking down from there Chief Awolowo and his compatriots will be sad for a nation they fought so hard for.They will be wondering what the people were drinking when they ran up this kind of debt profile for the nation.It amounts to a short chaining of a country of mostly uneducated,unskilled and unemployed young citizens.It was the struggle to have a better future that led to the skirmishes that precipitated the massacre and then the so called war.The problems were more economic than ethnic or social. Here again the nation has been ran very close to the eye of another impending storm.How do you pay back this kind of debt and face the monumental challenges facing the country? Where will the borrowing start and where will it end? Well they started it! It was difficult to service debts under a military government it will be impossible with politicians who will promise what they do not even have.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It was difficult to settle the debt nigeria owed.Those who were tuned to such matters remember it.The difficult part was to agree on how much was owed.The creditors kept moving the needle forward.It was difficult then.Most people will remember, the IMF and the Structural adjustment programme(SAP).It was so difficult even military discipline could not resolve it.They could not fix it! This time the new situation will be deadly.This kind of borrowing in an economy of people where the best asset the youths are idle is a terrible idea.How is it going to be repaid?The reason for the drift and idleness is not being addressed. It was a great effort to set our people free.I know nigerians are not aware how the battles were fought and won!Some people have already overturned the gallant effort.And many of our citizens are not even aware of the implication of this unfortunate debt trap.Our children and their children are being sold by the "rulers".They preach debt/GDP ratio.It is arrant crap. It is a fangled rubbish in a situation like our own.You can only measure or compare things that are similar.We see no way this is managed with the level of growth and an expanding set of responsibilities including fledging population and decaying infrastructure or lack thereof.These people have no care in the world about the nature of these kind of entanglements.They run overseas for grocery shopping.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>What about ordinary nigerians who are in their own father and motherland? In the next few years we are looking at pure enslavement of the citizens of nigeria.Where was this money borrowed from and to what use was it placed?Are the legislators elected by the nigerian people aware of this impending total enslavement of the nigerian people?Are the nigerian people going to accept this sentence to empoverishment or change it? It is the question before us today.Labor is abundant in nigeria.It is through labor you are able to create and build wealth not by borrowing.Where did china borrow from?Who would have lent to them on the terms they desired for the good of their own people?Where did india borrow from?The collapse of the USSR is an event we all witnessed.It was said that Russia had become a third world country.If it were so some people know how to work themselves back up.Where did they get all the billion and billions of dollars in loan?Where? Who lent them? Who was very glad to give the Russians loan and lift them back up?Their leader moved them to do what needed to happen.You will never grow by borrowing.And then misapplying it!</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>What was the nigerian debt exposure at the time the military intervened in 1966?Such information will place matters in perspective for us.I believe many can understand where we are going with our own line of reasoning.We wish to prove to those who care that the men who won independence for nigeria had a mission.I can't imagine any of the politicians who would dare to borrow on behalf of the federal government with this much glee!Men like Mallam Aminu Kano, Chief Awolowo,Chief Michael Okpara,Alhaji,sir Ahmadu Bello will have some serious questions for such people.It would never have been allowed.These men were on a mission.They had almost succeeded!Some people ought to get to work.Nigerians are not stupid.They are aware their politicians are not magicians.Where is the need for the new smoking mirrors idea?</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Why try to deceive your own people? The men who were prepared to set the nation ablaze to win power have now the chance to prove they have ideas.It is not by making the nigerian people work for slave masters! Oh no! It will not be the case.If any rubber stamp head wants to try nigerians let the person go ahead and try!We must put our own resources to work.Put our young population to work to build wealth for themselves and for the people.Borrowed resources will not have the same effect.Nigeria does not lack resources.The idea of borrowing in a scaled economy will not help in nigeria where abuse and corruption is rampant.It is best to build our own resource base and grow it.And we are not playing.We mean to let our people know how to help ourselves.It will be difficult but it is the way out.A ten fold borrowing is too alarming already after one term in office.Is this an attempt to mortgage the nation or what?If the government will not restructure nigeria or return it to a place where people will take charge of their own lives it will get ugly.This might be seen as a guise to wreck the future and destiny of the people.It is not something that can wait.We do sincerely hope there are some that are paying attention to our entreaties and consider it the great offer it is. It will not remain on the table for long.The people behind, the younger ones feel that so much has already been conceded.They are looking for a complete break from the source of the hurt they feel.They argue nigeria has been hijacked by extranous forces.They say the mariage between "the southern lady on means" and the north has hit "Aso rock".They deserve no blame. </center> <br> </center> <br> <div > <img src="afrismile.jpg" align= "left" width="180" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/> <img src="baobab.jpg" align="right" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS IN SOUTH AFRICA:THE NEW MALADY </font></strong></center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We have been watching this sad event far too often.How so very disheartening to watch the repeating unrelenting attacks of south african blacks on other africans.It is very sad event which keeps repeating with more "widening gyre". The fact is that this behavior started soon after south africa became free.It became the way to thank the african people who fought with determination and purpose to defeat apertheid.The south africans are not aware the african people bestowed upon them a very perculiar honour. The first so called xenophobic attack occured when President Nelson Mandela was still in office.It appeared egragious but it was not unexpected.Some of these people did not appreciate Mandela's mindset and sacrifice. The situation in south africa is not linear.At no time ever have the europeans been made to loose their strangle hold when they determine to settle in any place on earth.We wish to tell the south africans to be wise.They are fighting with people who are crafty.Remember apertheid fell because there are millions and millions of africans in south africa.African solidarity set them free.Why are they turning their back on their own? The proponents of aperthied are whites.It is the nature of the fight.How did they come about the twist in their logic? Are they serious picking on street shop owners in their neighbourhood? These shops supply them the basic staples and conviniences they need.Is this how they assert their citizenship? Some of us see this as a red herring!</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>How helpful is that?South africa has the second largest economy in africa.These people are not aware they could become real estate agents,welders,mechanics,handymen, plumbers etc.We checked the list of real estate agents in south african major cities and found hardly any black persons.This is just an example.It is how you enter the contract space and compete.If the south africans had not been so touchy there would be some kenyans in these markets, there would have been some nigerians and other africans in these markets.They have built up financial capital and have the prerequisite skill set. But they are afraid of the tantrums of the south african youths and some of their atavistic mentors.Some of these would rather fight their neighbor than use the time to pickup needed skill.And your enemy will not train or teach you.It is impossible. And we know mentally it will be more bearable for these people if they are mentored by whites.And they will be toasted like bacon because they can hardly appreciate the depth of treachery and capriciousness that goes with these things.But they think fighting with whites is an euphemism.The whites are human and they are looking to survive and be comfortable and preserve it for themselves and the people they care about.It is the nature of this struggle.No one hands it to you.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>You want to think being close to the white confers special dignity that is something you can determine. But it can't by its own translate to meat on the table.That you must earn! The history of south africa makes some feel they are better than other africans.This by its own is pitiable.In of its own it is very disappointing.So they resist the notion they need help, especially from "migrants".We know how the emotion works! Have they been to nigeria?Nigerian population increased by tens of millions.Not the one or two million or so people that could want to migrate to south africa. Do they know how many non-kenyans live in kenya?These are african people.Do we hear these arguments in europe?Why fight their own? Why gripe about migrants?We know these are people who will take them by the hand and show them how to navigate these minefields.But rather than emphatically lay these foundations they are playing to their weakness.If they prefer migrants from europe to migrants from other african countries why did they fight apertheid? It is the reason and purpose for leadership and courage and a sincere heart.So the blame for these events go to leadership.Migration is a human problem and you will solve the problems of your environment and society despite and inspite of it. It could become something that helps.After all america and europe were built by "migrant" labor! Good leaders turn challenges to opportunities.We know that is why africans are tolerated in europe.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>They are not there because they are desired or wanted. They are there largely because they are needed.In other to build and strenghten her economic base south africa needs talented craftmen and artisans as well as technocrats.The former plans the formal and informal sectors and the latter are the foot soldiers who implement.The politicians should empower the citizens and enable them to acquire useful skills that integrates them.There must be a program that expands the skill set of these youths.This becomes a way to give them a sense of being part of the progress they see daily.A few hundred million rands in budget could accomplish this.In a couple of years you have young men and women with a path way to a better future.In these things they have comparative advantage over the so-called migrants.When the youths see and feel these kind of things they will not feel very threatened by the migrants.These are common sense matters and issues.It is more helpful than accusing migrants to score cheap popularity and political point. It is deceit.How do you determine a migrant in south africa? By looks? If a resourceful person learns the language and fits himself or herself what are you going to do?Send every suspect migrant in for DNA screening?We see ways the politicians can begin at least to nibble at the glaring inequity in society.It is not by attacking migrants. They are very useful partners.Immigrants or migrants make up less than 1.5% of south african population.It is what the demography says.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The rest we hear are convinient lies.It is therefore wrong to claim they drive down wages or that that they are the reason for high unemployment.It is a very bogus lie.The people who complain are largely unemployable.They have no skills even social skill.The refraim that immigrants commit crime sounds like an echo from the past.There was a time the black south africans were seen as vectors of crime in beautiful south africa.Black south africans in the days of aperthied must not forget the feeling.They are so very stereotypical.If a citizen or resident of a nation commits a crime there is such a thing called due process.An immigrant with skills must not be accused of crimes and punished.There must be due process. We should encourage citizens to learn to compete.In the end it is what it always come to. Citizenship does not confer skill.It has to be acquired.Rather than get down to the dirty necessary work of telling these people the truth and urging them to do something with themselves the politicians resort to the pride therapy.It is not only unhelpful it is a very reprehensible. It will not put food on the table.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>They must use their time, a resource they seem to have in abundance and train in these areas and acquire skill so urgently needed by society.At the end of the day society will pick those who are ready.Nature they say abhors vacuum.It is sickening to see and hear them continue the very same argument even today.Apertheid is gone. But the battle for survival is the same gruesome bare knuckle fight. They blame the other africans who come to south africa and wish to help them hew out space.They ought to humble themselves and learn how it is done. These are people from societies that had learned how to do these things.Instead they assume this mecurial attitude and knock these citizens of africa.They must be very careful.We all live in the same space.It is hard to forget certain behaviors. But they are not able to do what needs to be done.They are over eighty percent of the population of the nation and control not even ten percent of the economy.Are they going to change this situation by attacking those who could be the support they need? It is very defeatist.In hurting the other africans they are like the sick who kills the native doctor when their disease is in remission!It is not a wise decision. Now because of what they are doing the people holding these places are going to continue as long as they wish.You can't fight a battle you do not understand.The politicians using these ignorant people to spite those who helped them will learn a life lesson in not a too distant future.Some of us know where this whole thing is headed.It is still a battle. It is not over yet. </center> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>THE AFRICAN UNION COMMITS ITS FIRST DIPLOMATIC BLUNDER</font></strong></center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Many of us have watched Dr.Arikana Chihombori-Quao with great admiration.Her position as the first African Union ambassador of the United states has been one of the most uplifting actions taken by the African Union.To so many it has been a moment of great pride for the african people.It is very pertinent to note that the african diaspora had been in need of such a strong voice for too long.It was very refreshing to see this lady who embodies what is uplifing about the people of africa come shinning through.We appeal to the Chairperson of the African Union to re-instate her immediately.Needless to say her removal risk alienating so many africans who are not interested in any puppeteering at this time. This must be well understood.Let any person who is not able to show backbone stay away from the affairs of the african people. Or else if they are placed in the position they will be disgraced and quickly.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Anyone who has followed the thinking and agenda set by this daughter of africa will understand her position. You are not going to be funded by someone and be able to set your own agenda.You might set it but can't drive the agenda.And we understand her position and agree with it.Her struggle has been to quicken our people to get involved and not just be fixated upon surviving day to day.She is saying what many of us are saying that we must begin to think about the future like the other people.Why must the African Union be funded by the very people who ensalved her people, colonized them and are still tethering them around their own interests?How about the africans are left to determine for the first time in hundreds of years what is the best thing for her own? If God gave us a voice to ask these questions why would anyone silence it?They listen and are more interested in their own master's voice.It is time such people know the support they get from these masters must be sufficient for them.They will not be supported by the future of africa. And africa has a future.It does not matter that her past dogs her and refuses to let go.The africans are capable of supporting the African Union and fund its needs.When their own voices are the ones that matter, they will be responsible for the entity that gives then that voice.This lady was on the verge of success in the task assigned to her.Why change a winner? Excepts indeed someone seeks to make you fail! We must allow those who wish to fail to do so on their own.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We know why some so-called powerful hands have remotely done this.But there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.Africans are recovering from the devastation of the past.They are nursing themselves back to life with the help of good friends.They are in the position to determine everything concerning their own future.If there is any doubt to that events like this will dispel it. She has to be re-instated.We are calling on the Presidents of Nigeria,Egypt,South Africa and Ruwanda to see to it that this dent on the African Union is removed quickly.We want this done with minimum delay.It means a lot.Delay is one of our problems!This lady must be allowed to canvass freely the relations and patronage africa is looking for.We are not going to allow the game of kicking down every little structure God allows to edify the african people.We reject the idea to silence this very important voice.It is how a people show they are free.We must be able and free to comment on the issues that ail us.We reject the idea of removing her and the coincidence of her comment on one of the sorest wounds still festering in the continent.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Please let the world hear it is not true that the African Union will be complicit in this kind of betryal.This is like being given a blackeye by a family member.It is very difficult to accept the excuses that the tenure of the Ambassador has expired.We like to believe that those who assign tenures did not intend to truncate their own success.It is not possible to find anyone that will match the passion, intricate understanding to details and general knowledge this lady brought to her trailblazing position.It is hard to find a person with her nurturing, and patient temperament.Just as the rest of the better segment of the world was settling to a new type of vibe from africa somebody tries to switch it off.There is something wrong with what we are watching unfold!And that is our point.Those who are not able to resist the pressure to do this kind of thing to their own must not seek to lead.They are not the kind of people we are looking for in this dispensation.This must be made clear to all.It will save some people a lot of heartache in due course.It is not possible for them to rest having pulled such self-defeating stunts.They are going to be made very aware that africa has moved on from that era!</center> <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><a href="newagitations.html"/><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> <br> <center><a name="igboworship.explained"></a></center> <br> <center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Return To Sub Index</a></center> <br> <br><p>WE SAID</p> <br><p>We said it is owned</p> <p>Is what we said</p> <p>That we we came upon was made</p> <p>For that they ordered us stoned</p> <p>And wished us wasted and dead</p> <p>Look what we came upon they said</p> <P>Our earth this home we found</p> <p>We came upon a twirling spinning sphere </p> <p>Floating among trillion others</p> <p>Same elements uniting the geometric wonder</p> <p>By element joined as same <p> <p>All looking spurned out by an order </P> <p>From the same one man </P> <p>To us all earth is home </p> <p>For that we paid not a penny</P> <p>So hard to think or believe</p> <p>How it all came together</p> <p>But then here we are</p> <p>Family of men able to make and also share</p> <p>Ideas that make things come together</p> <p>As we choose to function</p> <p>In our purpose and notion </P> <p>Like the unfathomable Source </p> <p>Which spuurned the human race</p> <p>And wisdom that framed it </p> <p>Among all else why the earth</p> <p>Is made cozy as a unique gift</p> <p>Some precious thing to bequeath</p> <p>Source that esteems and hold us precious</p> <p>Not unlike little things we craft</p> <p>Or like all else we know </p> <p>Our workd or the crops we sow</p> <p>We said it is made</p> <p>And gratitude is what we owe</p> <P>Not graft greed and strife</p> <p>Endless violence hampering life</p> <p>Men who fuss and gripe</p> <p>Making it even impossible for many to behold</p> <p>As they claim there is a chance</p> <p>By many gullible fable old</p> <p>The old big farce</p> <p>Signed today June 17 2022 <br> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>CONCEPT OF IGBO SPIRITUALISM IS NOT PEGAN</font></strong></center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp <p> Many years ago when on getting to the United States I became active in ministry i encountered so many opinions about the nature of the faith of the african people. It was of great concern to me because of the ignorance and misinformation involved. It was called idolatory and pegan worship. I will explain why this is pure misinformation.The Igbo people believe in "Chukwu Okike Abiama": Which means the God who shares or creates and reveals Himself for witnessing"! HE is called the "Chi-Ukwu": the Big God! The Almighty GOD. God is called "OKA KAA". This is no new lingo and it means:THE ONE with inexpressible immensity.We are talking here about names that connote certainty and assurance."Ose Kpuru Uwa" means the distinct and great mastermind of creation".We believe this says it all.The Igbo people are not pegan worshippers.They worship the true God.The concept of "Igwe Na Uwa" is very much the Igbo way of life.The invocation is "Ikpoku Obasi Bi N'Igwe".It means to invite the God who dwell in the heavens.These are ancient Igbo words. The Igbos believe the elements unite the universe with its "Maker".This reflects in the belief system as every object has its own "chi" or god.This is where the undeliberate student might become confused.It is however when it begins to become very interesting! The Igbo "chi" is the acknowledgment that everything in creation bears the signature hence the identity of God.It is the God who will give you the fruit to enjoy as an incentive to plant the seed to regenerate.It is for this reason the Igbo people frown at any form of sex with no purpose for regeneration either of the bond of matrimony, a relationship or procreation. Anyone familiar with Igbo culture know this truth.Among the Igbo people the family is everything.It is the means of survival.It is therefore easy to understand why they would frown at those who would not propagate it.</p> <p> The Igbo "chi" is the guardian for purpose in creation.If you know your "chi" and find favor with her she will "share" or reveal your purpose with you. Your "chi" will reveal your purpose and as you agree and work with your "chi" your life becomes very precious to you as an agent of the purpose of your existence.It is the reason the "Ofor" and "Ogu" which translates to grace and truth becomes imperatives for anyone who wants to partake of communion with deity. This is important because the "chi" is an agent of the God of creation.Herein is the main reason the Igbo sprituality is not pegan for it centers on the Supreme Force of creation who is no other but God.Everything begins with Him the "Isi-Isi" and "Odu-Odu" or "Azu- Azu".The God who is the front guard and rear guard. The "front of the front" or the "back of the back". This implies endless or eternal. The symbols include the cross, which symbolizes endlessness and the circle which implies infinity or "agwu-agwu".The truth about the system of the ancient Igbo is the understanding and unity with creation and nature.</p> <p>The circle (gburu gburu) the circle, which signifies endlessness and the straight line 'elu n' ala'(usually drawn top to down) which represents heaven and earth is part of the invocation.So also is 'aka nri' for the right hand and 'aka ekpe' for the left hand.These are all taken together always.The meditation is done in purity of purpose and spirit.Every gathering of the people is a real congregation which begins with an invocation and communion.It ends with a benediction.One of the practical divination of the elemental spirits is called the "agwu".The "Agwu" is short for "Agwu-Agwu" which implies infinity and God.The diviner covers his or her head with the hat symbolizing the rainbow.And succintly called the "rainbow hat".The hat has a bulb or spherical tip.It forces the hat to tip in form of an arc like the rainbow.And the diviner must position natural chalk of all colors representing all known and unknown elements.This becomes a representative and practical universe.As can be seen here the Igbo divination is gender neutral and very representative of the material universe.Igbo divination is reaching out of the material universe to the unseen Form.Divination in this concept sees existence as a continuum.And the idea assumes a tranformability.It says that life continues.By making inquiries the diviner accepts there is a Source of higher knowledge.It is one reason the people believe they owe their exitence to a Source and therefore accountable to same.</p> <p>The level of abstraction in Igbo spirituality will indicate to you quickly that this is not a practice of a shallow form.Nature is embraced with kindred spirit and knowledge.It indicates depth only the practiced can quickly perceive.One will immediately perceive the unity of purpose and agency.It is the power of the agregation of the "chi" layering to the Supreme Spirit from very simple forms. The power and the intensity and the nature of purpose found in all things of creation reveals its depth.The Igbo popular invocation in every gathering derives from this agregation.If your "chi" summons you there is an expectation of revelation, inspiration or castigation.It is the reason you have to make time to meditate so you understand the dynamics of the relationship and forstall unpleasant suprises.Hence the Igbos say "Onye kwe chi ya ekwe". Your "chi" will say yes only after you! Igbo deity centers around the God of creation and consumate purpose.It has no pantheons.Among the Igbo names which explain my line of thought are such names "Olu Chi",which means "the work of God".The name "Aka Chukwu" is interpreted as "the hand of the Almighty God". These are ancient names like "Nwa Chi" which is interpreted "child of God". Igbos give the name "Ebube Chukwu". It translates "the majesty or glory of God".We have names like "Egwu Chi" which means "reverence of God" or "Egwuatu". No Igbo bears the name "Ujo-chi". Why is that? Let me explain something here.Some interprete "Egwu Chi" as "the fear of God".They are not correct.The Igbo word for fear is "ujo".</p> <p>"Egwu" is used for only God or deity.It connotes possibity of terror or evil.Igbo have a very popular name that records this pillar of belief. The name is "Egwuatu". The name means "we fear no evil". Such a name is a manifestation of deep confidence and abiding faith.It shows us the Igbo are believers in Divine protection and guidance. We know humanity would never make any progress without this atittude and character. Every Igbo person know this to be the truth.Our relationship with God is not something any foreign entity brought to us.Our people paid attention with a quiet spirit. Anyone knows the Igbo people summon a quiet spirit in every assembly.The order and command will be "Onye Obula Nwuo Yii".It means "we should all be quiet".It can also be interpreted as "we need silence". The ones with a sense of humour will demand "everyone to leash their dog".This is a solemn call for silence.In my experience in the community it works. Anytime a respected person call out for quietness the people respond.The Christain faith was accepted by the Igbo people because it was in line with their manner of life.It was not imposed.If the Igbo people had not accepted the faith they will resist it.It is on record that they understand the tactic of passive resistance.Anyone in doubt can go and ask the colonialists.The Igbo "Chi" is the God of creation and controller of Nature.</p> <p>The Big God "chi-ukwu" owns purpose. He assigns agency.We first contact Nature. And what ever nutures and shares is assigned the female sex or gender in a dual world.The Igbos have this truth well preserved in the culture and religious practice. Igbos call women, the mystery people..."Ndi Omimi" or "Ndomi" for short.On the other hand the antagonists call them "the dificult ones" ..."umu nwanyi".We have a culture with full dialectics of its own existence.It helps to butress the claim this is a very ancient culture.The name "Ndigbo" is a short for "Ndi Gboo" or the ancient people.The nature of government even its simplest form indicates sophistication which is overlayed by a different reality.When you take a wife the relationship does not bring "in-laws" into your life but "ndi Ogo".It is for things like this that languages can't actually be translated.They are interpreted.Sometimes the interpreter does not understand a word.The Igbo word for "in-laws" is "Ogo" meaning the most pure type of kindness.The word means "the gracious and kind ones".It is the true meaning of the word.The relationship is based upon this reality.Our new family is surrounded by families exchanging kindness and graciousness with one another.A new family is received into an atmosphere of kindness!The culture is a celebration of work and life.It is said that "one does not want to be on a high palm tree when the "edere" drum sounds".If the people had no culture the "edere" will sound on a day people are at work.How incompartible!How difficult it will be for a man to come down a tall palm tree when the "edere" drums are in full sway. The "edere" dance is one of two cultural essences the people honor.The "edere" dance is honored as much the ones with the ability to write.This dance form is used to honor the young achiever.The other is the "ese" dance. The culture compares this to the art of drawing and painting! Actually the "ese' drummer navigates nine drums with dexterity that will confound any human mind.The 'ese' dance form honors ones who grow to ripe old age at their passing.</p> <br> here >>><br><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the right...........> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp <p> We know that pegan worship is the association of divinity to inanimate objects.Igbo spirituality give recognition to nothing outside of God.It is in God we meet creation.This is the true significance of the Igbo invocation. All things begin from God who shares also in the work done by the various agents.If you know the "mind" of your "chi" you will say yes to only the things that will help you attain your purpose.Many people complain Igbo things are closed! They complain the Igbo people do not like to teach other people their language and definitely their secrets.The Igbo people may be among the most enterprising in the world.However matters of this heritage is closed and preserved by very strict regiment premised on sincerity and honesty.They are not a difficult people. The truth is the Igbo people are perhaps among the kindest and caring people on earth.But they will detect a phoney very quickly. And when they do whether he is their own or someone else God help such a person!</p> <p> The Igbo spirituality permeates the justice and jurisprudence of the system.It demands nothing but "eziokwu" or truth. The "ogu na ofor" will enforce truth.It is premised on the fact that "eziokwu bu ndu".Truth is life.These things are at the heart of the agitation in nigeria. The system foisted on the people is alien to them and is a far cry from what the culture is capable of. The Igbo people have democracy ingrained in the DNA.Every process in Igboland is democratic. Every gathering is so democratic it is troubling.And it is not for the sake of democracy.It is aimed at building consensus and forging unity. You will not have a gathering of this people and you have no provision for those who wish to express their opinion. If you do everything you discuss is sure to be thrashed by sarchasm.It will be lampooned for even the slightest mistake. The famous "Igbo Kwenu.....Igbo Kwezuo nu".This is the primer invocation of unanimity.It is for this reason Igbo invocation says "Izuzu gba izuzu gbazuo" which means the consultation and emisery shall continue until decision is reached.It is also why the Igbo people accept blame for only decisions they make.There are cultures that will turn on a leader.The Igbo will protect their leader if they chose him and he retains their trust and approval.If there is a decision they have been privy to they will never blame their leader for it.They love truth in the matters relating to one another.It is this foundation that makes the Christain faith very strong in Igbo land. It is not unlike what they already know and believe.</p> <p>The Igbo Deity is the Supreme Creator. It is that certain.The agency of the Form becomes the intricate part to understand and therein lies the certainty by which our assertions are made that this is no pegan religion.And it is not!The agencies are myriad all determined by human need and one of the many and very primary one is the "Aha ji oku" the "Name that carries fire".This agency is one that is the most revered in terms of matters of day to day existence.The solemness of the groves are not the measure of darkness but light.It is the same solemness that a worshipper will feel or summon in the spirit in deep awe.But the people make everything physical.The God they serve is made manifest in the elements.It is how their faith is concretized.It does not make it perfect nor can imperfection be inputed to it for that reason.Only the work it produces can cause such a justification.And the 'Ahajioku' is invoked for the planting season and the harvest among others.But by far these are the main occassions.One invocation is to request permission to use the resource for the season.The other invocation is to offer thanks through the agency for the use of the resource and the ushering in of the harvest at the end of the season.When there is a dispute over land and boundaries and any other such matters this agency is the source reached for help.</p> <p>The collective will of the people is the Spirit of the "AmadiOha" the "prince of all". The "Amadioha" is an agency of "Kamanu". Amadioha is the name used in the part of Igboland around what is now called "Ikwerre land" in the area today called Rivers State in Southern Nigeria.The Amadioha is the agency for equity,justice and righteousness.The "Amadioha" operates through thunder and lightening and other very forceful acts of Nature.The Igbo associate electricity with "Amadioha". It is for this reason the leaders of Eastern nigeria sited the most powerful elctricity generating plant in the "home" of the 'Amadioha". It is absurd when some claim the people of this area are not Igbo.It is as absurd and unreasonable as can be.The agency of this Igbo spirituality is said to be resident in the area of Ozuzu in the Rivers State known by the Igbo people as "Igweocha". It is why the "Kamanu" is called "Kamanu Ozuzu".Our people tell us our ancestors saw this area as a place to go when they wanted Nature's intervention in a course of events. It is therefore suprising some people are disputing the "Igboness" of an ancient custodians of an aspect of Igbo culture.We know it all because of brent crude oil.But some things are more important than crude oil.Our culture and identity are tied to our survival as a people.It is just because they want to take resources of the people they have resorted to this kind of disturbing distortion.The people are as Igbo as any other part of Igboland.In fact it is strange to see the belief system here in tandem with what obtains among the Igedde,Afo,Etolu,Ufia or even the Idoma and other outlying areas.All these people around so-called Middle-belt with identical culture and belief system happen to be actually Igbo people. <p>The markets and public spaces which serve as the people stadiums of sorts,their places of recreation,where they celebrate their common humanity, are protected by the "kam anu".The agency translates heavier than heavy.In another translation "ka alu".It translates more than evil or greater than evil.It is bigger and more powerful than evil.This is the agency of recourse when there is inter-tribal wars.Due to this agency Igbos had very few of them.There is indeed no history of any serious wars within the Igbo tribe or with their neighbors.This agency became a way to make peace rather than war! But war if it had to be.The community is a single entity.It is these agencies that "igbos" see as the very equivalent of the idea of "karma".They enforce justness and equity.Names are how the people remind themselves of values that are shared.Names carry a lot of significance.There is something about a name.The Igbo believes that.Let me remind the people of nigeria what was the closest effort to healing the country.The panel instituted was called Oputa panel.The full name of the chairman of the commission was Justice Chukwudifu Oputa."Chukwudifu" means, "The Amighty God exists without any question, without a shred of a dout, without a shadow of a doubt".It appears to work as events seem to prove and this further reinforces the belief.Names mean a lot to the Igbo people.The igbo people give names with intention and purpose.We recall the very impactful work of Professor Kalu Ezera an Igbo son.Names are a prayer,even prophecy! We also know the doctoral student Chukwuemeka Kalu Ezera a doctoral student in the University of Carlifornia in Berkeley.Those who knew him testify to the sharp intellect that frightened some people in the 1990 nigeria.</p> <p> He travelled to nigeria an never returned.He died in a freak car accident.The same type that placed Chinua Achebe wheelchair bound to his death.We recall the threat to the life of the Yale university stimson fellow Dr.Kalu Idika Kalu.A finance expert of global repute who served the nigerian nation with distinction.His home was fire bombed while he was there.Providence spared his life.I had to digress to expose a troubling pattern.These are things that must be called out!!But yes the igbo people believe in names.And the names given by the Igbo people is another way to preserve a thought and an idea.In a way it is how they make their philosohpy outlive them.A name like "Njo Ka Mma" (Evil Is Better) is one such name.In Igboland it is suppose to be a terrible name.But it is not.The people recognize it reminds them about who they are!It makes every Igbo person pause and think.The people believe it is better to live according to the morale dictates of the conscience.Every now and then there will be those that will question the principle.This name bring the argument before the entire community.The rejection is therefore collective.This is one of the examples of the depth of the Igbo culture.Names are part of the documented culture of the Igbo people.And names prove the Igbos believe in God only.Names like "Onye Bu Chi?".This name is a question and it means: who shall claim to be God? The answer a resounding one.None.Such other names like "Onye Ka chi?". Also a question, this name inquires if there is one who considers himself more or greater than God!Obviously the answer is same.None.The Igbo give a name like "Onye Di Ka Chi ?". The name asks the question: Who is like God? It can be interpreted as " Who can be compared with GOD"? The Igbo people give names to express their faith in the only supreme being and God!And they give names that they hope become very important.Names link the people to their God.We make this case that these are people who have the intention and determination to point to the source of their faith. He is the reason they make attempts to achieve common good.</p> <p> If you serve Him you will not do anything else but serve to do good.It explains why the Igbo people reject warfare as a first choice to settle dispute.Instead the choice is dialogue and consensus building. War is seen as evil and even cowardly.Names such as "Ogu Bu Ujo" meaning "fighting or war is a result of fear", outlines this line of thought among the Igbo people.It will not permit war if everything that could resolve a crises without bloodshed has not been exhausted.It explains a lot of what the Igbos have done in their past that is mistaken by some for weakness.The Igbo names conote deep and abiding faith in God.These names were there before any missionary set foot on the african soil.The Igbo people are people of faith.We have names like "Chibuzor" meaning "God is the way". We have names like "Chi awolam Oke". Meaning..."may God grant my own heriatage".We have names like "Ogechi". This is the short for "Ogechi Ka Mma".It is short for "God's time is the best".It is obvious that this people have always known God. He is very present in their way of life.We believe the people who arrived in africa just saw people who were not well clothed.It also did not help that their skin color was not even a little fair.Besides every group have their own things that will not be acceptable to some for which they however have an explaination at least within themselves.Intrinsically however the Object and principles of the worship in the Igbo "Chi-Ukwu" is not pegan.In so far it is attributed to the One and only God..of creation and Nature.</p> <p> The Igbo will invoke "Anyanwu Na Ubosi or "Ubo chi". "Ubo chi" or simply "ubochi" is more appropriate. It is the sun and the day light.It is wonderful to see the day to partake in its gifts and opportunities!But "Anyanwu" is the eye of God. "Anyanwu" the eye of the One who does not die.The day is the gift that came from the One who does not die. Ubo chi..is the gift that God shares with creation.It is the communion with the universe and the abstraction in the elemental. Many misunderstand this and refer to it as ritualistic. But in other faiths there are things which seem ritualistic too!Igbo convocation and unianimity with elements is not misplaced.We are all related intrinsically. And science is finding out that this union is indeed true. The universe consists of the same elements. The people are not groping. They know what they are talking about. The Igbo civilization is among the oldest if not the oldest in fact. A lot of the belief systems in todays religions are subsumed in it. The principle of "karma" and natural justice is the incentive for morality.You do not force morality on someone. You let them know the consequence of the lack of it.It is the reason the Igbo spirituality is not cathegorized.It does not consist of multiple cathegories.It builds from a singular and derives from singularity. It is about God and because God can only be good you will not seek anything else from Him.</p> <p>The Igbo as we speak use positioning in their gathering, buildings and settlements including cities as a way to declare their faith in God. The Igbo Obi< The main living space in Igbo compounds is positioned to always face the east.The rising sun is the sign of positive energy and good life. The rising sun is of great significance to the Igbo. "Ihube" meaning the front of where you are is the east the direction of the rising sun. The head of the family begins the day by calling on the God of his ancestors to help him and his family.He faces the direction. If he has the time he will share with the spiritual essence through the pouring of libation and other methods incuding breaking of the sacred seed "kola nut", which is broken first into four.Four signifies the Igbo week and market days identifying each.We said before the Igbo does not worship any other God but "Chi-Ukwu" the big God.However the agencies are very significant in daily life as GOD is revered and worsipped but blesses through the many agencies at work through GOD.The Igbo name "Uwadinachi" or "Uwasinachi"meaning "life emanates from GOD" captures the central place of GOD in the lives of the Igbo person.The Christain faith and Judaism are very well understood by the Igbo people.The element of the flow of life from God to the person is at synch and with no differences.Every other thing depends on this relationship and the Igbo ascribes omniscience to the "big god" the "chi- ukwu".We see element of the invocation and the sacrament or sharing in the worship as acknowledgement and recognition that the Igbo serve a GOD who is quick and alive able to participate actively in their very lives.</p> <p>Herein are the similarities we see between the Chriatain faith and the native faith of the Igbo people.Suppose human beings could not smell, hear, see, move,feel or taste even if endowed with capacity to think it would have been shallow. The ability to communicate would have been greatly minimized.It is also clear the need will be limited.Therefore our senses clearly hone us to our immediate universe.We are made to participate in the universe on a give and take basis.It follows therefore the choice of how to live is just a binary one:to live as a victim or to live with purpose.So one has to frame the owner of his purpose.Will it be self?The work and wisdom of God is enough reason to frame Him according to our capability and capacity.The Igbo faith does so.It framed God as the ultimate!We therefore are able to frame God as we deem fit.After all we are indubitably surrounded by His own work including we ourselves.We cannot have concrete form and deny the existence of God.The two faiths accept this truth.In the precepts of the Igbo faith whatever anyone can say about human existence could only be modest to deserve attention.It is easy to take flying jolts and leaps of arguments but what good is any of it?We just do not know is the short answer!And it is the truth.</p> <p>Once that is settled everything else may resume or start.You take revelations slice by slice.If prudence,circumspection or genuineness is seen to be the requirement for our happiness why is it not our goal? Why is it not the end by its self? Why is it that authenticity,circumspection,genuineness and prudence are made theoretical? We know these are real issues and matter just like the truth.We believe these things are no different than the truth.Genuiness is truth and truth is genuiness.And it is what we desire from one another.You can cheat someone and do so indeed and it is no theory. But an action with consequences.You have what belongs to him.And you try to show you could be trusted!Such a blatant facade a contradiction and contrast to truth.You are suppose to reject the idea because it is condemnable.In Igbo religion it is the clear cathegorical teaching.The "Ofor na Ogu" prohibits falsehood and hubris.The elemental and practical material things used in the worship reinforces the power.It is why an african will swear falsely to anything but not to these elemental material things of worship.They believe these things are potent.And it is not a misplaced perception.It is the potency the christian fellowship assumes when God is made the center of its focus.</p> <p>It is the commandment.Treat others well.And avoid falsehood in your relationships.Should this not be the issue?Rather than the means to attain other ends it ought to be the end.Rather than a recourse to resolve other issues it should be the foundation and these other issues will not manifest.When we decide to become contrite we had already hurt somebody.The faith says you do not have to get there.This fundamental precept of the Igbo faith is very identical to the precept of the Christain faith.In the Christain faith the precept of prudence has an Author.He laid out a comprehensive, cohessive and clear logical precept: "Treat others As You Would Love To Be Treated".If possible "Love Your Neighbor As Yourself".The Igbo will say "Egbe bere Ugo bere".Let the eagle perch and let the kite also perch". It would have been translated as "live and let live". But I like to explain a nuance of the Igbo language here.The eagle is regarded as the king of birds.Its flight has elegance and magesty to it.It is very strong.The talons of an eagle will perhaps pose a big challenge and threat for the kite.So could the kites' if well aimed even though it is not as big as the eagle.So better if both do not start any such event.Love and tolerance is the name.This precept is the main cathegory of the christian faith.One can hardly find any divergence in the objectification of the Supreme being and His purpose for man.The Igbo people could not agree more with this! It is the reason the Faith seem to mesh with theirs.It is no accident many of them embrace the christain faith.</p> <br> <br><a href="cryforhlp.html"/><img src="adamma.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160" /></a> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>THE ATTEMPT TO REGULATE SOCIAL MEDIA IN AFRICA</font></strong></center> <br> &nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>As people of africa living outside the continent you are very aware of the problems of the continent with her wondeful endowments.Our people have a saying that a beautiful woman must guard herself.If she does not her beauty will be the reason she will endure many difficult situations and relationships.It could also be the reason she is worshipped and adorned in the palace!We did not choose our circumstances, but we can determine it will not destroy us.United States and Britain are the nations our modern day leaders looked to as models. They saw what they could learn to add to their own knowledge base.We would never hear that these nations are interested in regulationg free speech.When people are free to express themselves no problem is too difficult to solve.Despots and people bereft of ideas always want to muzzle free expression.They do not wish to expose the shallowness of their minds.You fight ideas with ideas.The bane of nigerian society is the temptation by some people to resort to very unorthodox methods in the quest for power.A free society that practices democracy relies on ideas.In trying to bring draconian regulations these people are requiring the force of arms to enter the arena where ideas are being canvassed.In what ways is this different from a military government or a dictatorship?Nigeria was delivered from the hands of those who prefered the kind of government that precluded the concerns of citizens.So it is true that the tendency and appetite exists for such on the part of certain people who think it is their right.It is the reason such outbursts must be taken seriously. They are the spouts of the mindset of such people.</center> <br> &nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The nigerian people have worked very hard to institute a democratic government.It is sad to hear a legislator propose a law to regulate the media.An effort to be on favorable terms with Aso Rock without a doubt!But nigerians needed champions.Not boot lickers and drummers and praise singers.These people had nearly fifty years to satiate themselves with that.It goes to show some people did not know what they were doing in the four walls of the school house!We know our muslim brothers and sisters have their religion.And so do we.This has to be understood quite clearly.Faith is a personal matter.And this must be made clear and respected on both sides.If not there is no way to co-exist.It will not happen.We all know that if nigerians find good leadership they would need no one to alert them to it.Gen. Muritala Mohammed was loved by nigerians.Chief M.K.O Abiola was loved by them.The feelings for these men clearly cut all the lines be it religion or tribe or whatever else is there!</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It means the problem is leadership.Somehow there is always a reason the ones that the people prefer will not meet the approval of the type who hold the power of life and death.It is why the people are bitter because their struggle seem to have no solutions.We think those who are not able to take the heat must get out of the kitchen.Nigeria will never be ruled successfully.It will be led or governed by leaders.The idea of creating a tribunal and a new bureaucracy shows how detached some are to truth and reality.How to fund this from a new loan? And that to try some who might disagree with the status-quo is so primitive and feudalistic!Nigeria has already too many laws in the regard the young senator must not think he is the most sensitive nigerian to have appeared around the corridors of power!There have been quite a few.Some of them with messianic halo.But the nigerian people are looking to solve problems right now.It is not endure plutocrats or'wanna bees'. It is what the people are saying.Do not deceive them into believing you are one when you are not!When they complain it is because they would love to see things get better.It is no reason to wish to have them all die by hanging!We do recall how entire communities have been sacked in this nation by the government as a punishment for disagreeing with policies.This makes it difficult to determine whether the armed herdsmen and all the armed bandits are proxies for powerful people.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It is disheartening to think that we see citizenship in such light.Little wonder our people are escaping like from a hell hole in droves.It does not have to be this way.You must give your own fellow citizens the reason to dream with you.You must give them the vision that incorporates their collective dreams.It is not about you and your ambitions.Any nation even nigeria is more than that!We challenge the men and women who have been busy with counter intuitive ideas to show us what they have achieved?Some people worked hard to rid the nation of debt and they ran her right back into it as though it was their mission.How on earth are they able to explain that nigeria a nation with abundant crude oil reserve and agricultural produce import every item just a step away from the things it produces including petroleum?Nigeria is led by people with counter intuitive ideas.The petroleum trust fund was an attempt to assure the nigerian people their resources was being properly managed.But how did the man get away with so much loot?Everyday we learn of more loot.All of them in hundreds of millions american dollars!A trust fund is some fund you set aside for the future.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>When the Chief Obasonjo administration arrived there was nothing in the nations accounts and coffers.It is not anything a person can help when insitutions fail.You need more than one person for institutions to work as they should.It will always require time to correct these things.The new dispensation found no existing foundations to build upon.Nigeria was importing tooth picks at the time.They found no infrastructural investment of interest at all.And the exiting government invested nothing on infrastucture of any type.No structure stands today as a result of that tenure.One is therefore at a serious loss to understand why such a wound was inflicted on so many people.We only remember so many local government created out of Kano alone.In the hope there is money coming in from oil.You do not situate institutions to educate people and give them skills.Instead you create some more incubators for suckers for the national cake!It is the type of leadership we have become used to. They had money in trust fund and then borrowed more from outside?Nigeria will borrow money from nations that have not even a fraction of one percent of its natural resources.It is not just nigeria. Look at camerouns, which they touted as the most peaceful nation of earth.The rich nation was lulled to stupor and deep slumber while it was being milked to the bones.As population exploded and needs became abundant the government crumbled under the weight.The Congo has been a hot bed since the dys of patrice Lumumba.The most endowed place on earth has the poorest population and nearly all its able youth living outside as refugees.We need to have a new way.If we are not planning on becoming extinct as a people we need to begin to do things differently.</center> <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><a href="newagitations.html"/><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Nigeria is sliding inexorably down the same path.The skirmishes are reaction of stressed and distressed minds.It is bound to get worse.If the present borrowing streak is kept up nigeria is on track to become a completely failed state.Let me explain the statement clearly.When a nation is unable to provide for recurrent expenditure it is already failed!Put in simple terms the recurrent expenditure is the cost of running the government. When it also owes external creditors who can't wait for excuses on top of that it is a disaster.If and when you add unfettered corruption you have a mix bound to explode!It begins to manifest in unpaid salaries in arrears for years.You are going to have rampant civil strife,sometimes violent. It is already the case.It will manifest in decayed and decaying infrastructure.It is the case.You can make one corner of your house look like heaven, if the house has structural issues having to do with any other part the house is compromised and in danger.We paint and paint in abuja.It produces nothing!Ignoring the places that feeds abuja will ensure it will fall with a thud! Education which prepares a new generation will go to the back burner. It is already the case.The military will be given tokens and will lack the robustness required of it.</center> <br> <center>The people will have a feeling of trepidation and anxiety even insecure.The citizens will begin to seek sanctuary and refuge in other soceities.We all know whether this is true or not.As we go down and look at everything the nation should never be we get alarmed.Our examples are the sahel region of africa.Thorn apart by conficts of all types these nations are all in shambles.We test these rules and find they all hold true.These are the indicies by which to test quality of leadership.We hear people say but "we did not cause these problems".The other one is,"these problems never started with us". It is the reason you sought leadership.It is to solve the problems. It is not to add to them and claim not to be the one who started it. It is time for leadership.If the leaders from the various regions will not exert themselves on behalf of those they claim to represent the misrule will take root.Nigeria is a natural federal entity.Return it to the constitution that founded it.Add what must be added with consensus.Attempting spurious methods is nothing but mischief.And will not only fail but breed discontent and strife.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>While the so called leaders focus on themselves and how to stay or get power the work and service to the people has become very irrelevant.It is either these people do not understand public service or the nation has bred very unpatriotic minds who care very little about the entity they claim to lead.It is the reason for the numerous agitations.And they counter with violence and careless and reckless distruction of lives.You want the people to be silent? The only way to silence critics in a nation like nigeria is by the means of a military government.I know the nigerian military will not touch the poison with a twenty pole prunning fork.It is one of those things about a nation. The lesson is learned.It was painful but there is no way anyone wants to take the people through such a path today.Similarly We are going through this phase of some people trying everything possible to test their power and influence.If the people are made to understand the promises made to them during elections are not worth anything, they will develop models of response.Those who want to lie to the the people and gag them to prevent them from questioning being violated are not going to make careers in politics.The option they are exploring is not possible in the present day.There are just too many ways to get the word out these days.If you block one method another one will be used.It is where the world is today.There is very little anyone can do about it.We appeal to the ones with dark ideas to reconsider before they summon the devils to dinner.We like to discourage the same exact type of politics that sank the first national government in nigeria.</center> <br> &nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>How do we have these perceived differences? On balance everyone needs a safe space where they are free to pursue their goals in life. Quite often these goals happen to be identical.We would ask God to come down Himself and lead us if we knew how!When it comes to how people are led by others God asks that we use reason. It is what he gave to us to manage that event.Every time we choose those incapable of thinking we are committing a sin against God.When we choose those who will not pay salaries,owe retirees and live ostentatiously with seed money meant for the citizens we are acting as infidels.No religion will ever approve such behaviors and choices.We all remember the battle between National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) and the military.Even Sani Abacha did not prescribe hanging for the people who disagreed with him.He hanged some people though.But it was specifically for unfettered access to crude oil resources to fund his loot.He was smart enough to know the nigerians will kick against making that a law or decree.Somebody who was elected by citizens who abandoned their needs to brave death and hell to vote can come up with such an idea.It is deplorable to say the least.And no, do not blackmail us with religion!Which religion will approve the celebration of corruption and its enthronement in the face of so much suffering and the hanging of those who object? Religion by the way is not always synonymous with godliness.Any time we are to choose between the religious and the godly it makes sense to choose the latter!The former will breed anarchy and death.The latter increase, love, progress and very clear evidence of general betterment!</center>....<br> The saga of wasted mandates in nigeria...see article..<a href="nowistime.html">click here for article</a> <img src="africana1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180" /><br><br><center><font color="brown"></font></center> >>><br><div valign="right" ><img src="okgirl.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">.. </font>....</a></div> ...... <center><font color="brown"> DIALOGUE WITH THE TONE DEAF AND THE EVER WIDENING FAULT LINE</center></font> <center><font color="Blue" font size="4">&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The hills make their statement and it is set.You will descend or climb. You choose your direction and that is it.Again some law makers and their sponsors who should very well have contested for "Niger State and Arewa has talents" rather than the senate of a federal republic with over two hundred million citizens are showing their stripes! These men come from a state thorn apart by sectarian violence.The citizens are displaced and are refugees every where including outside nigeria.The unemployment in the state is among the highest in the country.There is a challenge of how to educate the young in the state.Youths are abandoned by mothers who are often without the means.But these are no issues for some people.These law makers are among such people.They have a far more serious problem than these.How to deal with those who dare disagree with them is the problem. The country is in dire straits trying to fight insurgence their "genius" has foisted on the rest.</center> <br> <br> <center>&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If there was a secret among them on the direction and future of the country they exposed it by this position.They have run the country aground.The nation is out of money.It has more bureaucracy than it can afford. Yet these want some more.Apparently in their judgment when you run out of money you go out and incur more debt.The recurrent expenditure of government has stiffled growth and made provision of social amenities impossible.You have the debt burden. It cost nigeria nearly seventy percent of what it earns to service debts.A business run like that is dead!There is pervasive youth unemployment and poverty.This in essence has resulted in stress on the system threatning peace and stability.But it is not anything that is a problem to them.Their fragile ego is to them and ought to be a national priority.You see why so many now want out?They have broken the rock solid determination of the citizens of the country.The propensity for borrowing rather than principled and prudent spending has put the country at the peril of perpetual indebtedness.These legislators and their sponsors are busy seeking limelight to showcase unfatomable ignorance.The world is in no mood for religious hot heads who call for violence against those who disagree with them.</center> <br> <center>These are people who recognize they are too weak intellectually to challenge their opponents and so opt for violence instead. Obviously a country of two hundred and fifty ethnicities and over two hundred million people is no place for it.The danger this poses to the rest makes this a very important issue.There used to be a clamour for restructuring.Thanks to these it has subsided.The various nationalities are now more interested in moving on in some way.The people have lost interest in the entity that provides no answers.Is it not laughable that a country that is unable to maintain basic peace is trying to introduce a law that stipulate death for opposition? And they are promising fairness!Without any doubt that could not convince anyone.Nobody in their right mind will choose to live under such a cloud of death.It is the beginning of the gradual slide to anarchy.And nigerians are not all rich but they are not foolish.The legislators who want to colaborate with arms of government to criminalize opposition do not belong in democracy. And any group that will indulge in such a practice will be marked by those who will be victims as enemies.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;They were begged to quit portraying the country in negative light to no avail.They are looking for foreign investment and they are going to be doing this? You can see the intention is to kill the economy and create strife and distress.We have seen the pattern spreading all around the sahel region.Governments are distressed and rendered useless.And the space is taken over by forces of anarchy and bandits.And the war lords and super overlords will emerge.It is the goal.Now they want to be all over the place "making their case".Today the world is a small space due to technology something that irks their mindset.They want a place they can run without any interference.A place where their massive ego will rule supreme and trample every weak under foot. Unfortunately it is not the direction of humanity.We have embraced technology and for good reasons.And will continue in our pursuit of it.If it means a parting of ways so be it.We know their goal.Just put this in the court system they have killed. Nigerians will remember eminent nigerian jurists whose labors have been effectively thrashed.We know the chief justice is their kit and kin and master magician.However nation building is not like magic and grand illusion.It is painfully real.You sow your seed and your harvest will be of the same type as your seed.You will not pack your magic kits and ride into the horizon.</center> <br> <center>In politics if the people are provoked they will take issues with you.Very often the consequences are grave.Nigeria has serious problems presently.Their idea of comic relief would have been okay if it was funny. But it is not.It is very dangerous.If they have no ideas about how nigerian many problems can be tackled they are in good company.It is the main requirement for their position!We feel for those who went there seeking answers.They were thoroughly fooled.This dispensation is not for problem solving. It is for the satisfaction of quota conditionalities.It is the message of those who have seized the seat of government.They are the ones who have even alarmed the first lady of the country with their pervasely extreme views.A true patriot and a brave and wise african lady has cried out one too many times.She has lamented what they were making of a man she knows well.Now referred to notoriously as the "cabal", they push the envelop. But they should not push it any further.There is a new coalition forming.It is looking for answers.If they stick around long enough they will be confronted with equal ferocity.It is time they do themselves a great favor and leave the space.In the mean time if they keep quiet when they have nothing good to say nobody will know the condition of their minds.The mouth is the spout of the mind.Right now it is portraying them very badly.</font></center> <br> <p><font color:="blue">African Renaissance.</p></font> <center>Who Is To Blame For The Present Error In The African Community?</center> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp The african people have been victims but it is not the reason for the level of underdevelopment.Life is a challenge and very often does not seem to have a measure for weighing fairness.What that means is that as we face our own challenge that we confront it as without seeking excuses.The african continent will do a lot better if there are no outside hands interfering.However nobody can afford us such guarantees.There will be interferences.But good leaders will find the best approach that delivers result inspite of these problems.Quite clearly a good leader might not achieve all he set but he will achieve reasonable success.Usually it is all the people need.We lack minds have set some goals and have such as reasons to seek power other than the priviledges. We do not have such in the african political space.When they happen it is accidental.Many are not in it to serve anyone but themselves.In africa we have a people who have been and are being vandalized by outsiders now being raped by their own leaders! In nigeria the leaders are neither interested in agreements nor consensus building. What we have is the description and definition of feudalism or monarchy. It leaves no room for accountability. It is one of the reasons corruption is rampant.It is not how democracy works.Many of us are worried democracy might be on very unsure footing in the space if these facts do not change quickly.</p> <br> <p>The ground is being made suitable for planting dictatorship rather than sustaining a democracy.The unfolding events should alarm any careful observer. And some of the worst culprits are parading as leaders and peace makers! We worry these are signs of both atrophy and dystrophy. If the cause of an ailment is what is on the menu it is not good. Look at nigeria going to pieces before our very eyes! Tell them to return the country they hijacked.Nigeria was working well for a very young democracy.The coup was instigated by the enemies of the young country.We have an idea those who feared the competition of such a seemingly efficient well endowed country.They abound even among those posing as well wishers and patrons. The world must tell those in leadership in nigeria to think nigeria first.It seems they have their eyes on their many benefactors instead.Nigeria must return to what was agreed or disintegrate. It is the minimum that brings the voices of dissent to the table.Only then can we speak of peace. There are too many problems that are not being addressed by the present structure.Such is not an accident.It has no capacity to address such problems.These are the issues raising the many voices of agitation.Killing and arresting personanities will not solve the problem.The problems require solution unless the goal is to kill everyone! The countries that supply weapons to the nigerian state know and understand they have aided the senseless massacre of citizens. On our part in Eastern Nigeria there is no intention of repeating 1966- 1970. Violence is not our choice.The relationship is not a creation of GOD.The organic nations still exist and have recourse.We have a right of natural choice.It puts us on the moral high ground. The world has grown and so have we!! We call the attention of fair minded people from around the world to arbitrate and settle this never ending injustice that has already claimed nearly five miilion lives! The ever unfolding tragedy made worse now by religious bigotry, rapacious nepotism and ethnicism is called NIGERIA!</p> <br> <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="blue">GOVERNORS IN EASTERN NIGERIA MUST ALLOW THE PROTECTION OF A VULNERABLE PEOPLE: UNITY DOES NOT OCCUR IN A VACUUM</font></center> <br> <p>It is very sad that the people of Eastern Nigeria especially some Igbo governors are inviting an army of occupation into the Motherland again.In this they traumatize our people again.How could anyone do this to those whom they are suppose to represent? We are going to be plain.Any politician that invites any such entity into the population has lost the right to lead our people. It is not reasonable to expect anyone who is unable to navigate the small politics of providing assurance to the local population to go to the world stage to negotiate on their behalf.In other words a politician who is unable to seperate the local and the communual needs from the universal one is not qualified to represent our people in a very complicated world.We will not accept their clash with IPOB. We will not tolerate it at all.We will not accept their misunderstanding of the need to have a way of responding to the call and demand for the collective safety of our people.We are aware of their inclination to pursue expediency and easy answers including excuses.We remember their numerous excuses before now.If they think their personal ambition is synonymous with the needs of the nation they are about to face a very big challenge.And it is not one they are able to surmount by any stretch of imagination.We are up against a hydra-headed monster that is getting more sinister by the day.The Fulani Nationalist Movement of Nigeria is not new.The name says what it is: a political movement that is not only well armed but advocates the use of violence as a means to attain its goals.We want the so-called peaceful politicians from Eastern Nigeria to stand aside and to quote the Holy Scripture allow "Deep to call deep". We have a faith which teaches us that life is sacred and sacrosanct. We know our governors have forgotten that! We know they can recruit a few praise singers and chorus boys and girls with their enormous resources.We know their new allies in other to help them have made them accountable to nobody.All we have is the truth and the future!</p> <br> <p>We know they relish fanfare and all the niceties of politics.It is the reason they see the future in terms of the people who seem able to further their own personal goals and perpetuate them. Somehow they ignore the fact the same people lay claim to the ancestral land we all call home.The people threaten to one day overrun the entire space. It leaves one in wonderment as to how one seeks unity with those vocalizing such sinister motives against them and their own. If it was meant to be a joke it was made in extremely bad taste.But it is not. Presently they are killing and burning and raping. Are those jokes also? We are not aware where the governors hinge their patriotism.In that they miss the point.Right now there is a very different reality.Boko Haram is not a group located in the North West of Nigeria.It is part of a religious group in the Sahel region not averse to violence as a means to attain its aims and goals.It is part of a growing and expanding movement.It is embeding its men and ideas in every area of life in nigeria.Sharia has been extablished and they have taken half of the country with ease and not even a whimper.So we want to warn the governors who run to Abuja they will sign their own death warrant.As our own we throw them a lifeline. If they reject the thinking of those who have the perspective they will not have in a million years the blame is their own. We all do not have to be governors but we all are children of the Motherland! To that extent the protection of the space is not the job of the governor alone.Under normal circumstances the people will cede the responsibility to government that knows, understand and accepts the responsibity.In return the citizens dignity and safety is guranteed as rights.The governors are not going to claim to represent the people when all they will do is to align themselves with these hostile forces.We wish to warn them that the people are not only paying attention but taking stock.</p> <br> <p>In the very near future they will hear from the sons and daughter of the Motherland from around the globe.The many children of the space called Eastern Nigeria including the ones who were taken by force away from the land are interested and paying rapt attention. And it will be retribution of either for good or evil.The choice is up to our enemies. We can be friends and we can be foes! We ask them to make their pick.No body can deceive our people with wedges and such issues anymore.It is now settled that our people were purposely seperated because of the resources God had blessed them with. Wasteland and poluted environment is all they have while stranger have reaped billions of dollars.The family is united and have reclaimed its assets and heritage.The people have reclaimed their inheritance and it is not going to ever be taken from them ever again. God in His infinite mercy did not allow us to become desolate.We have again a collective voice that reaches the very heaven.The governors will see what we see or they are on their own.We wish them luck in their begging expedition.Recently a governor was nearly killed.If that was not enough the people responsible owned up openly and then issued an open threat to him. It is the atmosphere we operate under. Such is the reality. What will the government do? Capture the terrorists and lock them up? How good have they been at it? If that happens to one of these men who administer the space as sorogates who will speak for them? We know they understand the dynamics and it must frighten them cold.Will they seek help from the army which accepts "repented Islamists"? We are just asking our "patriotic" governors a very simple question! We are all mourning the giants of Africa. Men like Ben Bella of Algeria who was Muslim but was instrumental in the fight to liberate Southern Africa.We remember men like Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia.These were men of character and ideology who fought tall and strong as Africans first.They call their neighbors brothers and sisters.Today men of little intellectual stature and suspect self confidence hide under religion and other extraneous matters.These small minds refer to their neighbors as infidels.And they are sponsoring the fleecing of a continent great men suffered to liberate. We must protect ourselves from their politics of self immolation, communual destruction and attrition.</p> <br> <p>We have refugees in the tens of thousands from Nasarawa and Taraba in Cross River State. How do you justify such logistics? Imagine peaceful Calabar come under attack from even only five hundred armed men? Imagine that. We have danger all around us.You already have an army and police where you have no idea who gives orders and from where.Who will these governors deceive? They can attend all the meetings in Abuja but we know they have no idea where the orders come from and who makes the decisions and why.What they attend are photo opportunity which from all we can see satiates most of them.The few who know it is not enough we know and have made a mental note of.If one wishes to run for president of a country like nigeria and must contend with so many terrorist entities when the segment has power what will happen when they loose it? And they unleash their men in every place yelling "Araba! Araba"! And so you do what? Are you going to be a president beholden to such forces? If so what will be the nature of the authority that will be yours as president? We know some people are incapable of these kind of thinking.Our people have already sacrificed four million lives.Thanks to these kind of "leaders" even Ohaneze a family umbrella organization is now being hovered by the same people who tried to wipe the people out.It goes to show how low the people went to choose the ones to represent the space. It is what happens when one allows too much proximity.It is hard to imagine the people of Eastern Nigeria meddling in such matters in the case of any other ethnic group.It is what need to change. Now is the time and it will no longer wait. We have urged the men and women who claim unity and advocate peace to bring their partners to the table for years and they are unable to do so.</p> <br> <p>I hope the picture is clear to these representatives.It means they do not represent the interest of our people.When people are talking about religious issues you must listen. Especially if the religion gives them the right to destroy those who disagree with them. You can't focus on other things when there is instability. Not when the religion gives them the right to deceive their enemies.Our governors seem not to understand the issues.We have watched them.It is sad to report they do not get it.Our observation is that they are very eager to please.Unfortunately they are not able to sacrifice enough on the alter of an unwilling god.Not even if they sacrifice themselves.But no they will not because they are too corrupt and have heaped possessions and loots they want to enjoy sometime further along.And they habor a bigger dream and want some more time to "rule" nigeria. It means they can make even more money! It is all that matter these days to those who call themselves leaders.It is however an unequal relationship and they understand it. Many of us see a mirage the cheats have spawned to keep them hanging on. We know the game. And we will no longer waste our collective future in the musical chair game.Our collective good as people is more important than the ambition and dream to "rule" the space called nigeria.Our people are able and have always charted a course which has blessed them and the African people.It is what they are doing as they have always done. We are not going to join forces whose goal limits not just themselves but the people around them.Therein is the difference.It is like night and day. We have progress to make for ourselves and our people. It is very clear they are pursuing their ambition to the detriment of the collective interests of our people.To the extent these are existential matters it will not be left in their hands.If they do not heed our warnings they will be on the outside looking in very soon! A word they say is enough for the wise.</p> <br> <br>here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="igboyouth.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180"/>...<font color="black">..to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?>>>>>> </font>....</a></div> ....... here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuadaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="180" height="160"/>.....<font color="black">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<<<<< </font>...</a></div> .... <br> <br><center><font size="4" color="purple">THE CITIZENS ARREST OF THE SPACE PARADING FALSELY AS A FEDERATION AND REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA</font></center> <br> <br> <p>We are not suppose to preside over our own case.We hear it said quite often.If your country is sick to whom do you turn? If you are a free people and you have a disagreement how would you resolve it? The methods we know are (i) through warfare and (ii) throught dialogue.In 1966 nigeria was hijacked by some men in uniform claiming the politicians were corrupt and irresponsible.It was just less than four years since gaining independence and the people at the helm had never before been in charge of such hefty issues.All of a sudden they will have to settle the frequent skirmishes between completely incompartible nations that are now under the same roof.The complication became as apparent as when a child of primary school age is given a quadratic equation problem to solve.The reason being he claimed he could.The more qualified people are not given the problem because they are not the preferred subjects.The "representative" will fail or succeed on behalf of the rest in the space.The situation caused a genocidal war that took the lives of nearly four million people. Again we hear the bird of darkness flapping its wings. We must stay awake and determine our safety first.The nigerian situation is not a failure of the people in the space. It is the design of the interest that would benefit from the failure.Nigeria was given arms to prosecute the war with Biafra by as many as ten different countries.In trying to understand what they stood to gain we could begin to understand the nature of the problem in the nigerian space.</p> <br> <p>The answer is a citizes arrest. The country fails to fuction.An entity of two hundred million people can't just fail.It is very disasterous.The citizens arrest is very necessary because the other methods have become compromised.The corruption and the falsehood that gave rise to the problem are clear reasons not to seek answers from such entities.The nations in nigeria know who they are and related with one another in the not too distant past.The arrival of the europeans was just a recent event.The nature of the problems and the whirlwind ride has made it seem as something that has been there for centuries.However it is so recent some of the people who witnessed the genesis are still with us.We have a problem of impersonation.Nigeria is a name given to a group of loosely assembled nations stiched together for ease of access to resources and control of such resources.It is this foundation that must be addressed by the affected citizens.We read about the plebicites that were conducted by the colonialists.We praise the effort.We could not even attempt it today.Such an effort will be a disater in every way possible! The colonialist wanted a country.It made perfect sense.It also made sense to confer legitimacy to the enterprise. However it is doubtful the result would have turned out any different than the intended one.So the question therefore arises: would the Yoruba want the Fulani to manage his waterways and his land boaders? </p> <p>Is the Hausa happy to have his identity subsumed inside the Fulani indentity, a nation of fewer people than themselves? Are the Jukuns the Gwaris,Birom, Nupe, Idoma, Tiv, Igbira happy to be subsumed in any other tribes? Northern nigeria has more than three hundred ethnic groups with distinct characteristics.Are they happy to loose themselves within any other group? Is the Igbo happy to be surrounded by an army controlled by people whose religion empowers to kill those who do not share the same faith? Igbos and the people of Eastern Nigeria are almost entirely christains by faith. Are the Ijaw, Ishekiri,Urhobo, Effik, Ibibio, Annang, Kalagbari,Bini and Ogoni happy to surrender the oil in their soil to people who have nothing in common with them? If it is trade what have they derived from it.Is it turning their community to a wasteland and oil poluted space? Is that meant to be their reward? The plebicite that answers these questions would have been the most appropriate for the nigerian space.Unfortunately such would never be. If there is no equal compelling reason to address such weighty issues who would push for them? Nigeria is therefore a falsehood on so many grounds.It is evident this arrangement is not meant to build the nations within nigeria.The friction is arising from the inevitable scuffle. Imagine a country founded as a federation funding the budget of the federating units.Where else would such a federation be found? In which other federation are the resources of the federating units held by the central government? The government of nigeria confiscates hydrocarbon deposits found in southern nigeria.It is nationalized and the people see nothing of it except poluted farmlands and environments.But gold is discovered in northern nigeria and it remains the resource of the local state.The hydrocarbon deposits found in the north is not being put on stream because it is local. The excuse is that it might be needed more by the future generations.We are showing you why there is trouble in nigeria.The country has different standards for citizens. And it is now causing much anger.The scar and history of the country does not help.</p> <br> <p>The people who determined they wanted a country that we call nigeria today had the experience to manage diverse views.If all fails they resort to carrots and sticks.Today the nigeria space is all sticks and neither experience and no carrots at all. In fact the carrots are for the elites who actually have good quality food already.It serve nothing! So the system collapses for want of underpinning values.I would like to leave the reader with a few thoughts.If one is looking for answers for self benefit, whatever he finds easy and possible is the answer.If on the other hand one seeks answers which will endure the test of time the necessary questions are usually asked.Who said the Igbo people would like to have armed men parading with cows in their farmlands? Who said they will tolerate strange forest inhabitants raping their daughters and wives while in their farmlands in the name of unity? Unity to accomplish what? And that is the question! So we tell the nigerians we do not wish to continue to seek answers from unwilling entities.The partnership that would create a country was sabotaged from the start.Right now there is no partnership.We have a situation where there are subjects and the priviledged.The false entity exists without an agreement.The man who understood the danger and tried to put it right within the military was brutally murdered for even raising the issue.His partner tried to salvage his vision.The effort has been under siege and has been all but completely reversed.</p> <br> <p>The nigerian military foisted its thought and wishes on nigeria after hijacking the space for nearly forty years.It could not wait for four years.Designated men and women tried to find the answers to the issues confronting a young nation and truely master the incipient challenges.The country enters a new reality which tolerates no dissenting views. Praise singers grew in number and wealth.The few dissenters honed their game and aim and fought very galantly.Most of them perish in the effort.The military is exhausted from self immolation and attrition.They hand over to mainly fresh civilians who now are trying hard to perpetuate the same falsehood.We gave the nigerian people the man who must have the answers.The nigerian people have a man who symbolizes everything that has been going on in nigeria.He is the man of many hats.He might be the solution.The right methods must however be applied.We urge persuation and reason. President Mohammed Buhari was a young officer at the time of the first coup.He was very active in the military government era and held many of the choiciest and juiciest positions.At the end of his military career he did not walk away.No.He was the breathe and soul of the opposition upon return to civil governance.Some claim he tries to be the rival of Chief Olusegun Obasonjo.I disagree.On two counts they differ.Chief Obasonjo is willing to subject himself to the rigours of learning.He is perhaps the only one among the men of the nigerian military establishment very open to dialecting on ideas.He set up the Oputa panel in a military junta.And I want those who will start insulting the writer to do some thinking first.He did not have to! The military in nigeria at that time had absolute power.Seeking even an appearance of due process was an act of an angel under such circumstances.Our evaluation must be based on these realities.He went back to school.He delights in making his vision open. We have facts here.It is what people like me do.Try to look at the fact objectively to determine causes and effects.In comparing these two men we immediately determine these facts.</p> <br> <p>One of them goes back to improve himself. Someone makes himself accountable to others. It shows humility.It also shows openess to change and new ideas.He has published some books outlining his vision and thoughts.On the other hand President Mohammed Buhari is the subterranean type who relishes strategy and suprises.I do not want to use the word clandestine but his inclination tends towards being secretive. We must demand answers from him. In the military these might be very great assets.They might also be good assets for a monarch.In a democracy it is not as helpful.Democracy lays claim to transparency. Whether it is true or not depend on who you ask.He was governor of North Central State a huge part of what is the twelve monolithic muslim states.He was military president.This guy was a powerful petroleum minister and still is.President Buhari was the engine in the Sanni Abacha regime. General Sanni Abacha took power when nigeria had attained military government fatigue. He understood it.He needed a person to lend credibility and legitimacy of some form.Without president Buhari there would have been complete anarchy and he knew it.For this reason the government made him the offer he could not resist.President Buhari was the de facto prime minister of the General Sanni Abacha regime. We thought Sanni Abacha was not very smart and truely he was not a genius.But nobody will argue he was street smart.He made President Buhari the manager of the Petroleum Trust Fund.He knew how to get the fund when he needed it. He had no problems with that quite clearly as records and history has shown. This fund was actually the life sustaining wire of that dispensation.President Buhari knew that to be the case. He pulled the wire any day that government was dead! It must sadden President Buhari that what he accomplished for General Sanni Abacha he has been unable to do for himself.We remember the Shakesparean adage.."there is a tide in the affairs of men...". If we want to say to him "..physician heal thyself?" We realize he already attained power under the most challenging of situations.He must have clout therefore. He is therefore part of the masterminds that produced the common ground for the twelve state muslim sharia nation with complete religious bureaucracy.</p> <br> <p>It might have been aimed as a political step mainly which it surely is by all we can see.But it has produced some serious side effects.Something that is not wholly unexpected.But politics is not a pursuit of peity.At least if the goal was to attain power it conveyed the passengers to the corridors.The fallout must be addressed with equal passion not emotion.The Muslims have a stronghold. Why must a christain stronghold be a sin? We ask the minimalist Eastern Governors what they plan to do in the event the jihadists carry out their threats? Are they going to call in the army which accepts the "repentant" terrorists? They really think such is enough reassurance for the people under a threat of such a scenario? So the balance we have now is needed. Balance is always a good thing. If anyone ignores truth they collide with it soon enough. The people of Eastern Nigeria deserve a space where they can thrive. After all no where are they truely loved in nigeria outside of this space! </p> <br> <p>Nigerians have the man who has answers.Many claim he lacks capacity.How can a man with President Buhari's credential lack capacity? I do not think a man with his experience has a problem of capacity.Reluctance or ambience might be what to call it.I sometimes think he is being blackmailed by some who know somethings about him that he wants to keep from the public. It is the kind of thing that can make a man like him very helpless.Certainly not capacity. I think there must be other explainations.He knows something so many do not.If he is not able to resolve these religious problems in northern nigeria it will be close to impossible to find solutions in anyone else.Nigerians should encourage him to return the country to the founding constitution. It starts the healing process.He holds very considerable clout in the area from where nigeria is being dismantled.If the country is returned to the nations a lot of the clashes will end.The boundaries are well defined in such matters.The centralization of governance in a federation is very difficult if not impossible.The many examples around the world informs us quite clearly. It is very traumatic for citizens as we know here in nigeria today.If we are not able to keep our first agreement neither can we keep any other.We must end the constitution making encores.It is a way actually of echoing the failure. If nothing happens soon we will have new countries from nigeria. We ask him whether it is the end game? While at it though, any nation of people seeking to be defended by this present nigerian state is sick in mind.It is a state in quick decline.To blame President Buhari alone is falsehood.There are many others and the fear is that his feelings might have made him too vulnerable to the more religious hawks in his sphere of influence.If there will be no return to the agreement that founded nigeria we know the answer in Eastern Nigeria!</p> <br><a href="makingthegong.html"/>..<font color="black">.>>>>to the right...</font></a> <img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<font color="black">..<<<<..to the left...</font> <br> <br> <br><a href="createthis.html"/><img src="adaigbo.jpg" align="left" width="150" height="160" /></a> <br><img src="umuanyi5.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.. <br> <br></div></td> <br> <br> <center><font color="brown"><strong>QUALITY MEDICAL CARE AS SERVICE AND PATRIOTISM</font></strong></center> <br> <div align="left"><cite> Igboukwu art in the 10 Century AD <--- <img src="igboartad.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center> "....after a brief illness and treatment abroad" is a familiar phrase.It was so since the end of the so called civil war.It has been more than fifty years.It is not what you call progress.We have pleaded with the government to facilitate the emplacement of facilities for treatment in nigeria that will attract professionals from across the globe.It is not rocket science.Over the years we have wondered how many of our people would have lived if such places existed. Imagine someone is sick and they must endure at least twenty hours of stressful travel to seek treatment.I have often wondered why this kind of problem persists among us. </center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>If our medical schools had the type of support they deserve our teaching hospitals will be true centers of excellence.Presently many of them are deserted as the men and women whose vision founded them and their disciples have mostly fled to seek greener pastures.Just as many have started their ways back the spectre of insecurity is being sponsored and orchestrated.It seems nigerians must wake up and understand what the country is dealing with.Nigeria won her independence in 1960.It was a battle that was very hard fought.Today nigeria is indebted to the extent that it needs about 68% of its annual revenue to service debt! Some nigerians took a country that was set free by heroic citizens and ran it right back into slavery.How can you run a country of two hundred million people on charity and "pocket" money? It is for this reason that I feel it is a mistake for anyone to abuse the trust of nigerians.If things don't get better the people will become very bitter.It is when questions get asked! </center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We keep saying that there is absolutely no way nigeria survives this predicament without restructuring.The people of each federating unit would determine how much corruption they can live with.We are not going to continue to treat corruption as normal pick pocket drama.The people must be made to understand it undermines them directly.Having said that, it must also be added that the handout being given to the states is not enough to tackle real problems.The regions had hospitals with great reputation and pride.University of Ibadan teaching hospital, Ahmadu Bello University teaching hospital, University of lagos teaching hospital popularly called "Idi-Araba" or "LUTH", University of nigeria teaching hospital (UNTH) were all places to seek help.Today these insitutions are struggling.The country is spending its resources servicing debt!It is not going to be business as usual. You have a country with mostly youth.You are looking at a difficult problem.They want to know they have a future too.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The conversation to restructure nigeria is a way to mitigate the effect of the mismanagement before it explodes into crises.The various manifestations of the present are only harbingers of what could happen.If there are the ones that are not worried their courage is not properly founded!The prospects without this step is not good.If these places are not restored as places of exellence once more it will be a case of running backwards rather than forward. <br> <br>here >>><br><div valign="left" ><a href="newagitations.html"/><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> <center><font color="brown"><strong>LEADERSHIP IS FOR THE STRONG AND PURPOSE DRIVEN</font></strong></center> <br> <div valign="left" ><img src="ndiada.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <div valign="right" ><img src="umuafoigbo.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td> <center><font color="black"><h3>ARE THESE BURNT HOMES IN EASTERN NIGERIA? WHAT ARE WE DOING?<h3></font></center> <br> <center><font color="Blue" font size="4" <center>We have finally got to the point where the objective and motive of those sponsoring the herdsmen is obvious.They are not cattle fulanis.These are marauders and murderers.Anyone who tries to provide cover of legitimacy to this motive is an accomplice in the crime against humanity.We like to place these people on record.They must be held accountable when the time comes.The history of marauders in africa is well known.It is the ancient agents of distabilization in the african space.It is time to speak to this agency with a single voice.We do not have free land in eastern nigeria.Every inch of soil in the space belongs to the people.Leadership in the space is a trust. You hold it for the benefit of the people.It is not for the benefit of the individual.There is a very big difference.It is the idea that seperates the invaders from the people who have been victims.And it has come full cycle and to an end. Again let me state it for the purpose of emphasis: every inch of land and soil in eastern nigeria belongs to the people.We have some thieves who have made billions from oil in eastern nigeria and the people who own the oil are languishing in squalor.If they can keep the money from oil so be it.We know they can't.It is dirt and not just blood stained but blood soaked.It is what is pushing them now to perdition.Now they have a new agenda to remove easterners from their motherland.For that reason we will go after the men who are behind these moves.They have no eacape. We want our brothers and sisters around the globe to help us.We are not able to prevail without them.We do not wish to be made refugees in nigeria ever again.We are better off not being part of an entity which envisages only such misery for us.We are now very sick of the endless carnage from the same unrelenting source.It is for a time like this that God has ordained for our people where they are.We must do what love demands to prevent any further bloodshed among us.Our people have been tormented for far too long.We have sacrificed millions and it is more than enough.We had said it times without number that these people are sponsored.Now it has become obvious.The cattle they bring here is a ploy.They are situating themselves at the locations that are among the most important for our survival.Their strategy caught the attention of many easterners a long time ago and their every move has been under careful watch.We have proved to the world they are after our lives.No further proof is needed at this point.The case is clearly made.</center> <br> <center>We all saw the massive trailer trucks that will haul armed men and cattle and dump them in communities while they were sleeping in the middle of the night.It is not anything they will deny.The whole world have the photo and videographic evidence of these events .While they are busy doing this they are talking about elections as distraction.Even corona virus becomes a good decoy.People are being slaughtered in their homes,their farmland vandalized and their homes burnt, their wives and children raped before their eyes before they are killed. It is not the kind of country we wish to be part of.They are free to have it to themselves.We need not be part of such hell.We can do much better and must! However if anyone thinks they will force us to accept this reality they are not thinking at all! We have done everything for nigeria.But it has done nothing for us.All we receive is hurt and destruction.Annually people of eastern nigeria living overseas return funds that sustain a government that has absolutely no interest in their well-being.It is so absurd to listen to arguments about who will lead a country that has been so rudderless.We have men who have nothing at all to show parading themselves for another round of horor carnival and lawlessness which they call elections.We had men like Chief Lateef Jakande. While he was governor his passion for education is nothing you had to preach.It was clear.So was the effort he made on affordable housing.Dr Michael Okpara's passion for agriculture and agro-based industry is still vissible after more than half a century.He was in the position for less than four years.We also remember Governor Samuel Ogbumudia who was governor of then Bendel state.He was in the state house for about seven and half years(1967-1975).What he did in Bendel State is still visible in Edo and Delta states today.He was a military officer.He built roads and hospitals and schools.And he built them to standard.</center> <br> <center>Why is it these men will be in power for eight years and there is nothing for which they can expend passion for the good of the people? And they have the shamelessness to be parading themselves as potential leaders for a country of two hundred million people? Do they think we are all suicidal? We are looking at a soceity they have ruined!They are not even able to protect lives.How can a state be taken over by armed militias and murderers and the state government has no idea about the reason? These people do not understand what it means to be chief executive.They pass the blame.You have no one to blame if you are chief executive.You take the credit but you take the blame too.If we hear one more single person is harmed by fulani herdsmen in eastern nigeria we will ask the entire Igboland and eastern nigeria to react appriopriately.They will be encouraged to express their autonomy and sovereignty in a way the world will understand that they are indeed fade up.Those who wish to keep their jobs must focus or they will be out of both luck and work soon.We understand our brothers and sisters from northern nigeria are satisfied when their brothers succeeds. We also do.In this part of the world we want to succeed too like our brother.It is not competition.</center> <br> <center>It is egalitarianism.They say "what is good for the goose is also good for the gander".If his success will not elevate us we will find our own way.We are not the type to be played or used as fools.Why would they displace their own people and send them as refugees to the Calabar and as herdsmen to Edo, Anambra, Bende, Enugu, Calabar, Imo, Ekiti,Ijebuland, Egbaland, Lagos? Where is their sense of fairness here? We are suppose to fight now for our farmlands too? We lost crude oil and wealth it brought. They are in the process of taking the gas also.They do not even mention Delta region in naming the project.Did they discover gas in ajaokuta and kano? We did not write a constitution that converted groundnut earnings to federal government coffers when we had groundnut pyriamids.They kept their earnings and used it to develop their soceity.We have our arms twisted to the elbow joint in order for them to take crude oil.Now it is gas! And we lost four million of our own people.This is their idea of unity.It is what they call unity.It is destroying nations of people because of their resources.It is the point we wish to make to the rest of the world.We are tired of the abuse. Any fair minded person can see what we are getting at here. Some people are about to provoke the ire of these peoples who have been hurt and are still hurting.Now it is their farmland.Their farmland is how they survive.Their resilience is dependent on their ability to provide for themselves.We like the whole world to see the nature of the provocation.Those who sponsor this evil already control every organ of government in the so called federation.They have a total vice grip on the mlitary.The idea is to provoke the people.Then they will come down like they did in 1966.We are warning the people who are pulling these threadbare stunts to stop.They are not as smart as they think.Their every move is under the microscope.And we want the world to be our witness while they are at it.</center> <br> <center>These are people who had culture before anyone else set foot in nigeria.We are not talking about those who are not able to fight.These are people who are more than able to defend their own heriatage by any human standard.We want to make somethings clear.We are not interested in the type of atmosphere and stage the few thievery renegades have set.It is worthless without any proper way to express it.The youths are not being educated. They are not occupied meaningfully and their times are not accounted for.They live in abject poverty despite abounding and boundless energy.THe elderly live in fear and penury.What kind of leadership is this? The leaders who negotiate these exchange of resources for friendship should listen.The children in these communities deserve a good future.Those who want your resources are not more human than you.It is time our people rethink their settling for dog treat when the kitchen belongs to them.They will choose to fight in full strength or beg for what they own.It is their choice to make.If the delta region fight together they will prevail.If some people will allow themselves to be used they should blame no one else.</center> <br> <center>We want them to allow the people who can fight these battles to fight for them and they will enjoy a very resounding victory.A word they say is enough for the wise.Our communities deserve better.It is sad that for so long the pettiness of a few allowed the rape that denied a people their own resources for nearly seventy years. We know we can do a lot better.We have an agenda which makes ethnic chauvinism unnecessary and irrelevant.We can provide for all and more.It is what the resources are meant for. And we are satisfied to do so in our own soceity that works according to what we believe.It must work for all of our people.So far nigeria refuses to be that type of soceity.It is the statement of solemn self indictment propagated by these people.We just want to be free to do what we are capable of for our own future and the future of our children. And we are going to reject any attempt to undermine our effort by the same people who sponsor instability for its own sake.In the atmosphere of instability every other measure becomes irrelevant.And it is how they want it.We reject those who think like that. They are very free to go their way and so are we.We have had enough of the cycle of destructive episodes.</center> </center> <br> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5></td> <div valign="left" ><img src="igbo2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <div valign="right" ><img src="adaigbo2.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <br> <br> <br><h6 class="myclass"><span style color:="purple"><td> <center><font color="black"><strong>AFRICA AND THE CHALLENGE OF LEADERSHIP</font></strong></center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We all know that a significant portion of Africa is desert land. Ever since we were young it has fascinated some of us.For me having walked the lands is a matter of both pride and utmost humility.It hurts to see that some of us are expending our time in matters that seem unconnected with the reality we are suppose to love and are accustomned to. Let me say that we have work to do nevertheless. No matter what anyone might say to distract it is not impossible just difficult. We are focused because we know it can be done.Some people are doing what needs to be done and it provide encouragement and a sense of possibility.We just need to have the right kind of people.Leadership is so important we need not preach that to anyone.But not everyone understands that we get the leadership we deserve.If anyone wants to control you all they need to do is take charge of your thinking.Our minds are the greatest fortress God afforded us.If we surrender it to anyone we are completely dehumanized.Slavery fell because many of the enslaved people continued to exude the confidence and poise that must have spiritually challenged thier enslavers.Even in their denial the "man" within continued to torment them.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If our people endured the injustice and came over and "passed over" to the other side we must see that victory and humanize it and own it.God wins victories for us.HE does not need them! Victory has many forms.Only the aware might recognize them.Question is what do we do with it? We have flag independence.How do we gain liberty? How do we free our minds from shackles and burdens intended to encember us? How do we move forward with our own goals and the matters of our own interest and general good? We are not going to blame anyone if they pursue their own interest.We have to do the same in fact in ways that show our own experience and values.We must for instance think about how to provide water in our arid lands. We must for instance reclaim the land taken by the desert and make it provide for the people.It is our challenge.Building magnificient structures and fancy things must come after existential matters have been addressed.We must think about the survival and well being of our citizens.In places like Kenya and Ethiopia simple methods like sand dams have been used to transform large portions of land.</center> <br> <center>In nigeria some people (and I do not wish to name names) are not interested in such efforts.They want "big brother" and "baba" to conjure magic wand solutions.It appears some are very contented with expelling as many of our people as possible.What matters is that they have conered the resources of the nigerian people. It is not very complicated. Building big damns might sound impressive but planting trees and using simple sustainable irrigation schemes are the real solution to the present problems.We could embark on a damn project if we have the money to pay for it.However to borrow money on ursary and embezzle most of it and waste some more is no solution but further enslavement.To then create enmity and a war is taking the misapplication up a few notches.War takes the resources and hands it back to those who think they need them more. And we will destroy the environment even further and we can't sustain planting of trees and maitain simple agricutural lifestyles that will in turn sustain population.The schemes are abandoned and the population migrates and we have a new problem.Nigeria could be one of the most beautiful nations in the world.Instead of a debt ridden nation it could be prosperous and her citizens among the most productive world citizens.But first it must be rescued from those who are choking her to death. Something many have seen as impossible hence the call for Biafra, Oduduwa and other new nations.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbspWe had suggested a reforesting program for the most arid areas as a matter of policy.Part of the money spent in the poverty alleviation programs in the states most affected by draught should have been used to initiate pilot programs. We could start with a few hectres.The state governors must not feel that it is not worthwhile since tree planting is along term investment.One realizes that political survival is a dire challenge especially in their brand of "democracy".If the federal government had listened to us at its inception by now we would have a few thousand hectres of reclaimed areas.Instead they wish to displace populations and plant favorites.We know there is no better delusion than that.When the "baba" leaves Aso Rock the people who were displaced will go after their "enemies" and the new government will inherit a mess. Do they need anyone to tell them it is why people fight wars? Would they rather fight wars than engage hundreds of thousands of youths who are prepared to work? If they had listened to us we will not have this much disruption within the population presently.Some day somebody will find a way to do what is inevitable.Nigeria is not only about the people who own big bank accounts.We could do something to help those who really need help.Sharing cash makes it easy for money to change hands very quickly. We all know that. These are methods that postpond existential issues.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Since agriculture is the maintstay of our economy our leaders must fall in love with it. Our people need that.We can't be the ones that will continue to undermine our own future.Simple things work.Contract award is interesting because we have the idea that government is some far entity.It conjures a sense of carelessness among some people.When the leaders invest on these big schemes without careful considerations it is like attempting to build on quicksand.It is a waste of time.We have northern nigeria that has so many billionaires who are all retired government officials or government contractors.The same part of the country has the highest level of insecurity.It is unfathomable that this whole thing is a metamorphosis of less than four decades.Power has corrupted a serene part of the country and made it armed against its own self, restless and almost ungovernable. All this in one generation.However it is not irreversible.We watch the universities in places with problems such as draught and erosion look for better and more important issues to postulate upon.Many of them have members who are experts in the practical and physical sciences.They should have been challenged to seek simple answers before we embark on our many limb risking gambles.The men in power might think it is not their fault but it is. If you seek power without purpose but you will still account for what need to happen.Our people need stable environments. If they have that they will turn on the better part of themselves.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a common behavior we notice in human communities.Those who are guaranteed their meals are going to behave better than those who are not. Let us start to work with this very simple premise.In many parts of southern nigeria the problem is erosion during the rainy season and draught in the dry season.We plant our food and store our harvest.We must apply the same reasoning to the problem of erosion.We harvest the rain by channeling it properly.If we want to build water storages upwards or downwards but we must solve the problems by carefully considering the many alternatives.We have to learn to manage our land and use water and store the excess.In time of draught it is a solution rather than a problem.Creating water ways will provide a handle to the problem of draught and remove threat of erosion.Elaborate yet very simple well thoughtout plan will solve these problems.We have always had these problems. What has changed is the quality of attention given to them.Somebody will say well this is a climate change issue. It is what leadership is about. It is not in or about very long motorcades and sirens and many bodyguards.If we have men and women who know what our needs are and provide them we should and ought to defend them.It is a truth and no sane person will argue it.In some places we have people who sell our continent piecemeal for nothing and ask the people who receive what they paid nothing for to "keep the change".All because the people who use them call them what they themselves know they are not.When your enemy calls you prudent after you have sold or forfeited your homestead you must know it is in mockery.</center> <br> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br> <div valign="left" ><img src="africaal2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <div valign="right" ><img src="grndpaal.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <br><h6 class="myclass"><span style color:="purple"><td> <center> VANTAGE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</center> <center><font size="3">&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Every once in a while the American people will perform these perfect displays of footwork to show what experience means.As the most enduring democracy and the oldest human experiment in governance they might really be making the case that this is no longer an experiment!We saw it in two elections that would have resulted in the loss of thousands of lives in other entities.To refer to these elections as cliffhangers is because there is no better word.We have seen it in two impeachment proceedings.These events are so divisive you see flames come out of the eyes of the opponents.But it just like a sport.They leave the halls and enter the same vehicles.The american people put it behind them with a wave of the hand.It is beautiful to watch and commends democracy well to the people who are willing to do the work and embibe the spirit.These displays are manifestly beautiful.It is much like watching the mesmerizing dances from China and other places around the globe.We see these events and appreciate them no matter who we are.We know that work has gone into them.It is the reason we are able to appreciate them more.The United states congress is guided by a lady who is a very experienced legislator.She led her caucus with steady hands and had no rebellion in the ranks of a place where disagreement is licensed.But she had none because she knew how to get it done.They saw what was perceived as a breach of the constitution and pursued it to its logical conclusion.Some argue it was political.Well, that too.Is it not part of it? For a person who obviously never intended any such turn of events she was a class act at it.The case went to the Senate of the United States and here comes another well groomed leader.He masterfully coralled very independently minded members of the senate to see the need to dispense the issue quickly.His argument was simple.It is an election year.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Let the people decide the issue. After all this was a choice they made.The United states Supreme court comes in. The Chief justice on whose shoulder this burden would have come to rest shrugs it off. He keeps a profile that would have made him invisible had he not been in charge.This definitely can't work for everyone!It is the reason some other nations do not prefer democracy.It is near impossible to achieve a situation where personalities will fade into institutions.It is the the beauty of this but it is also the greatest challenge.It is not achieved overnight!And we can't blame anyone for choosing what work in each circumstance.With the exception of when inevitability forces it upon us waiting is not the strongest forte of humanity.In the case of the United States was a colaboration of both destiny and chance.The desired outcome led the process.It has largely been the reason for the state on the union.The goal of these leaders is to show that the system they oversee works.And we are witnesses that it truely does.We see and there are these displays that prove that it works.It is the reason I say that it does seem that the Ameriacan people perhaps do this to show the world that they can!For developing nations who want to be like the United States it must be made clear that it takes work.And work depends on time.If one were to set a timeline that is not generous it implies the learning curve must be steep and the work intense.But everything is possible.American institutions are not strong because of american power.America is strong because of them.It might just have been a training for the people who might want to understand how the system deals with adversity.But they made it look so easy. It just would seem that for an uncommited student it might look or feel like a simple or mundane task.But this was a constitutional issue.In many places lives will be lost and disruption will happen.</center> <br> <center>&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In some places to put the head of state on notice is to upset the applecart.Here the institutions working together dispense justice just like a routine.The lesson is that if a people commit to a way of life and are fortunate to have the minds who can guide their work they will succeed.It is not yet a perfect system but events like this show it has gone far.It is therefore a lesson for young democracies.It is about the institutions that hold a system. It is not about personalities.There must be the commitment to building the institutions by giving charge to men and women with clear minds and understanding of the purpose of their nations.Since many nations in the african space have chosen to walk this route it is a commitment they must be ready for.We know that the times and challenges will come. But it is not needful to reinvent the wheel.We could learn from those who have done it before.We could see how best the solution fits the situation faced by places in africa.It is doable.It is possible.How to make our collective abilities work for common good must be the goal.It is the challenge these events throw at the developing nations including our people in africa.It is something that requires their focus and commitment.We just witnessed the power of a constituency in upholding it own values.Also the leadership to take the best and most positive read of it.It is the lesson of what we have just witnessed.</center> <br> <center><a href="nigeriamustbefree.html"</a></center></center> <br> We have an interesting interview for you.<br> Listen to a living legend. Member of the Zikist Movement give a brief accurate history of nigeria. Click Here to watch======> <a href="nigeriamustbefree.html"></a> <h4><font size="3" color="brown"></h4><br><a href="contact.html">We expect to hear from you</font></a> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br> <div valign="left" ><img src="beauty.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <div valign="right" ><img src="afrik.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> <br><h6 class="myclass"><span style color:="purple"><td> <center><font size="3" color="brown">THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHY IN NIGERIA </font></center> <center><font size="4" color="blue"> <center> Some time in between 2011 and 2012 over three thousand refugees from Taraba state were moved to Benue state. These refugees were then relocated to Calabar.We all know how some people will dangle the prospect of nigerian presidency before a hitherto reasonable person and turn them into a docile near embecile.The question one is forced to ask is why Fulanis are refugees in nigeria and why in eastern nigeria? Now that the federal government claims Boko Haram has been defeated are these people going back to their homes? If it is not the case then Boko Haram is exactly what we have suspected all along it is. We want to know why someone moved these people to Calabar of all places.It is important to know who made the call for these people to be settled in calabar.Northern nigeria is not too populated to accomodate three thousand fulanis.We like to know the people behind the mayhem that is going on in nigeria.It is by placing the faces behind these reprehensible behaviors that we might be able to understand the scale and scope of harm intended.These are people who have no empathy for anyone.Whether they find excuse as religion or tribe or tongue it does not matter.They are evil.It is that simple. Some of us fear that our so called leaders do not even know what is going on.</center> <br> <center>It is very sad and unfortunate but it is nevertheless true.I have no way to explain to my self that three thousand fulanis will be moved from northern nigeria to calabar. Now calabar is experiencing kidnapping and banditry.It will not be the land of peace it has always been for us.Calabar is one of the most peaceful places on earth.The pristine weather and the people blend into a harmony that is unique.But peace is created by people.When trouble makers go where there is peace it will no longer be peaceful.Fulanis have become associated with dispute of one type or another.History of the african space is replete with these episodes.The people of eastern nigeria have witnessed before unfortunately.Perhaps they are naturally not or so they say.But in matters of such urgency as ordinary everyday life who needs such academic issues? Until those who use this front to further their self interest or the people themselves see the vanity of this reality no one should lift the burden for them.It is their problem.They must deal with it. These people must be returned to where they lived originally. The federal government claims Boko Haram has been defeated.The governors are made to accept these things as though they are not chief executives.It gets clearer by the day why some people will not accept democracy or federalism or rule of law.</center> <br> <center> This Boko Haram is beginning to look more and more like a scheme being masterminded with intentions that have nothing to do with religion.We see colonization 2.0.(or new edition).The way these people moved so quickly during the lockdown to ferry thousands around the entire southern nigeria ought to be a source of worry for the people in authority.But they are not worried, it appears. The concern most of us have is that they are not worried about the general well being of the citizens in any case either.If they were why would anyone move a Fulani from all the way from northern nigeria to calabar as refugees?What is the commonality here? What is the underlying arithmetic in such a decision? There are so many places in northern nigeria to have accomodated such populations.If those people are afraid of the end game of such a move why would a governor in south eastern nigeria think he knows better? The desire to be in the good books of certain people push many to loose even the instinct of self preservation.It is unrealistic to wish to accomodate a person prone to violence except you can get them first to renounce it.Unfortunately we have a population whose life revolves around a faith which makes violence the only means to negotiate.They have exploited the resources of southern nigeria for nearly seventy years. We have a very dangerous manipulation going on by the people who want to maintain their vice grip on the people of southern nigeria and their resources.</center> <br> <center>The resources in northern nigeria has been pocketed already by the few who claim the right to lead.They promise the people the resources will be used in the future.In the time being they use same for themselves and their immediate circle.We like to know precisely who these people are.Nigerians and indeed africa needs the information.We can begin to understand Boko Haram a little better now. Boko Haram is just a facade. There is an unseen hand moving these needles in nigeria. African leaders must pay attention before we come to a place where tens of thousands will be dying in a proxy confrontation.Presently by the day hundreds perish. It ought to be a serious problem but to those who are in position of authority presently it is not a big deal.When actions are taken with no consideration to effect and consequence it is insanity or near insanity. It is our opinion that these types of massive move of population is evil.How will these many people in a swoop not distort the way of life in calabar? We continue to say that the idea of having a centralized government in a country of nations is vile and will result in another massacre.We know why they want a foothold in calabar.Having established "refugee camps" in calabar they want to take over Imo State. Can anyone see the march to the sea? I see the steps without question.Those who claim to be easterners who are harassing the agitators are slumbering passengers.They might not even know when they pass their destination.They have already lost their entire luggage.</center> <br> <center> If these people will live peacably with others it is another matter.They are armed but other citizens are not.Some people have skewed the equation already.We know they are being used. They do not own the cattle.They do not own the guns.It will not be long before they will use cattle as excuse for conflict.I do not know how the peace loving people of calabar will deal with the unfolding spectre of kidnapping and banditry and violence that is associated with these herdsmen.One thing is clear, that our people have owned these part of heaven and earth for thousands of years.No scheme from the depths of hell will change that. We must have a situation where the governor of a state is able to understand fully and take charge of events in his own state.We know those behind these schemes are not prepared for that.I do not know the herdsmen know why they are in calabar.The people who have caused thousands their lives in their own nation are hard at work.And we must resist if not confront them.The concern here is that this type of careless and thoughtless actions always result in very deadly violence in the end.They will begin to tell us about how fulanis do not forget.Well people of eastern nigeria have not forgotten those who wanted to wipe them out from the map.</center> <br> <center>Why can these people not plan how to improve the lives of people around them? All we see is rather abuse and violation of their humanity and using them to do same to others.They are used as mere pawns. One is at a loss as to the type of fraternity that has complete disregard for lives.In any event the present governor of cross river state is cerebral enough to understand there is "no paddy man in the jungle".He has citizens of the state who were born into a nigeria that has already taken everything from them. We have the bakassi people who have been neglected for years. We see a situation where some "fast thinkers" want to create a mix up.We are not fools. It would not matter if some people will not begin to lay claim to everything and pull guns out in the future.A great leader must see the trap for what it is. The people of cross river state may be hospitable.But they are not stupid.They are hospitable. But not to the extent of giving away their birth right.The move down to calabar is suspect.It seems like a jihad rather than an innocent relocation of "refugees". A word they say is enough for the wise.</center> <br> <center>The incendiary statements credited to one of the major sponsors of anarchy,banditry and terrorism in nigeria the so called umbrella association for fulani herders suprises no one in the world. We already let the rest of the world understand the reason the Igbo people lost three and half million of their own in a genocide sponsored by this same groups and their interests.We have shown the world how they function and their objective, their religious beliefs and how it ties to their actions.It is why one and half million children were starved, hacked, smashed, stumped to death between 1966-1970.Out of the three and half million massacred in the genocide one and half a million were children. In that episode they wanted crude oil.Their sponsors lulled the rest of the world to sleep with talks about unity.Today they have been told gas is now more important than crude oil.In their usual arrogance but mostly greed they think they can bully the people again for the new resource.Unfortunately for them the people got ready early for this eventuality.They took the rest of the world as witnesses.As they try their stunts their every move is being watched. The so-called umbrella organisation is a front for the people who are using cattle as ploy to gain access to environments in which they will be suspects.But communities must understand they owe nobody the responsibility of providing for their herd.It is their personal business.They must take absolute responsibility for it like all other citizens.By taking position among them with weapons and terror they want to emplace a new layer of control. One with noose even tighter than the military and other such forces.Boko Haram is not different from these groups.They all work in tandem.</center> <br> <center>We must get the rest of the world to see how nigeria has been taken over by medieval revisionist and reactionary elements.It is extremely difficult to bring the nation to where it is governed by the rule of law under these kind of circumstances.These groups undermine governance and create anarchy by design.Their sponsors thrive in places where governments fail.It is their favorite kind of environment.How can a group of bandits and externally funded marauders want government to give them authority to protect an authonomous region of a different people in the federation? How so brazen? Can yoruba people or igbos living in northern nigeria who pay taxes and rent ask for such authority? These people do not pay tax.They do not pay rent and make practically no contribution to communual life.If the people of eastern nigeria will heed the call to boycot cow meat they will be helping themselves.If they did there will be no reason for anyone to plant terrorists among them.Ordinarily we will all be seeking ways to make the soceity work for us all.But some people have the nerve to think the rest are fools.They want to control everyone. Meanwhile they have an iron-clad territory protected by sharia law to which they all belong? Even those who share same faith from other parts are seen as quasi-infidels.</center> <br> <center>How is any government suppose to manage this kind of mix-up? The government is stuck in the mud of these terrible marsh. And these groups know it.It is for this reason from time to time they dare government to show their foot soldiers who is in charge.It is what they have worked hard to achieve.It is time for the rest to let them know the game is up.They have cooked up so much poverty and suffering around us all.The ploy to use cattle as excuse to "colonize" the rest of the nation was made clear to many doubters.Now it gets even clearer as we see these people transported with cattle they can't afford and even weapons they are in no position to own.The nation has always had the various socio-cultural organisations.They are all well known.These groups are new.They came out with agenda to dominate and control the rest of soceity.The world must hear us and see as we point to the excesses of a group determined to cause mayhem one of these days.We warn the Igbo people and the people of eastern nigeria to be ready and alert.We have shown them they have invaders among them.We are asking the world to help us determine the sponsors of these groups.Before they prosecute their agenda, the world owes the vulnerable soceities in nigeria a fairer chance of survival this time around.</center> <br> </center></myclass></span></font></h6></td> <br>======================================================================================= <a href="entertain.html"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp</h3></td><p><a href="wethenomad.html"/><font size ="3" color="teal"> <div align="left"> <img src="igbokg.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="250" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div> AND UNITY ARE ACHEIVED THROUGH ACTION NOT EMPTY WORDS...STOP WASTING AFRICAN MINDS..HONOR LIFE...WE NEED ALL..Be Our Partner</a> <img src="mask.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="200" alt="LET US GET THE WORD OUT WITH YOU."/> <br> <h6 class="myclass"><span style="color:brown"><td>..:>>>>.... <br><center>WELCOME TO OUR MESSAGE BOARD:</center> <br> <br> <br> <center>AFRICANS AROUND THE WORLD ARE LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP </center> </font> <br> <font size="4" color="black"><center>We have heard some people in position of authority , power and whatnot make certain statements unworthy of the position they occupy.Nigeria holds a place in the heart of all africans.It is the reason the abuse is more damning.In other nations or countries the people who occupy such positions are people of tested abilities.Ones who are not driven by lack of knowledge,emotion and vanity.Nigeria is a country beset right now with too many problems.The nation needs those who can solve problems.It has those who can create them in abundance.Demagogues and rabble rousers are abundant.They are not in demand.Trouble makers and those willing to kill and be killed are available.But they are not able to help themselves or indeed anyone else.In 1929 when the colonialists imposed taxation on the women of eastern region they pushed back and hard.In fact the women made the colonialist suffer his first loss of prestige.They did not accept the taxation and they prevailed.They fought back.It is how we behave.Man or woman in eastern nigeria it does not matter.When they are oppressed they fight.It is how these now have a nation in which they can hold court and talk nonsense! They must know that there is a saying "if you try and fail,then try and try again"! If they want to dare those who love liberty let them go ahead.In the end it will be the story they live to regret.</center> <br> <center>Who told anyone to make a declaration that the people of eastern nigeria will not receive help from the nigerian government until they drop their demand for Biafra? You see the problem we have with the reasoning of these people?So if your child complains he is hungry you will drive them into the streets for being ungrateful? Who reasons like that in a family?All we experience from these people is pure venom and hate.Did they make the statement on their own? If such is the position of the authority it is very sad and regrettable.When a person such as a minister makes a comment it will be regarded as the official position of government.Some people must know it is not a small thing to represent over two hundred million people.If someone is not emotionally ready for such responsibility they must find a different line of work.Politics and democracy is an alternative to a damning reality.The alternative is warfare!There are other things the very unenlightened and inexperienced can try.</center> <br> <center>When Ken Saro Wiwa was killed our people were very upset.The Igbo people felt very violated and thorn.Somebody had used this man, one of their own to peddle the theory the igbos were different from the "izon, ibibios,annang, and effik and the kalabaris and the rest.They needed that to foist a false reality on the people.And they made sure to isolate him from the rich heritage he is part of.At last when they came for him the family could not come together to defend him.The family tree of the people of eastern nigeria is something very easily accessible.The people who wish to deceive know the truth.So they spawn the lie and ban history from being taught to young people in our schools.You can see why the internet is their enemy and worst nightmare.Yet our people prevailed on the youths who had picked up arms in frustration to give peace a chance.Once again we prevailed on our people to turn in their weapons and they did.Now they are making us look and feel very foolish.When Shehu Musa Yar'Adua came under attack by the anarchists it was not because he was not religious enough.He was suppose to kill all his foes and give them limitless access to crude oil.But they fronted religion.Who will they fool with that? We know their 'axe" with him. He refused to give them unfettered access to the resources of nigeria.</center> <br> <center>They like to pretend the southerners were responsible for what happened.The ones among them who became stupendously wealthy are not denying they are responsible for what happened.If there is one to whom his own is expendable for whatever reason it is very sad.An Igbo or indeed anyone from eastern nigeria who does that is under a curse.They are all under one "erim".Those who do't know what it means please go look it up.It is the reason you know the people of old knew some "smart" people could come one day to divide them.Since unity and consensus is everything for them they wedged that possibility.Everything the law is not able to address in this society is covered by "erim" effectively and it is iron clad.It is higher than law! You have to be proud of a heritage like that!The other people pride themselves in using their own as lifeless blocks to attain power.In this part you are going to answer for it.The southerners were not responsible in anyway for the abridgement of president Musa Yar'Adua's government.The strongest opposition to his government was something originating from above the niger and benue rivers. Just like it is today.There is a troubled and divided kingdom. </center> <br> <center>Those who despised him had their eye somewhere else.He failed them and they looked away from him.There was a better alternative.What do you call that? Religion? What matters is what gives them the resources without any fetters at all.So we tell those who see only in one dimension to realize the problem of nigeria is more than what they can see from their very narrow perspective.Nigeria has more enemies than the ones with guns in sambisa forest.It has more enemies than the ones with guns and cows parading the streets and farmlands of law abiding citizens.The enemies are the ones with upside down sense of justice who pay herders for cows but say nothing when people are killed,when their homes are damaged and their crops destroyed.Such are indeed great enemies for when they promote such injustice it leads to massacres and pogroms.These men are being sponsored to forment instability.They are not as dangerous as the evil men who sponsor them.Those hide in good suits and expensive custumed "agbada" clothes.The are indeed the more potent ones.They are very well dressed and with deep pockets.We urge the emotional ones to look properly around themselves.If they get careless they might be sacrificed without qualms.They will learn the truth perhaps too late.These men are not subtle after all.Their lifestyle speak volumes.They swing from one part of the earth to the other to do "business".They will sacrifice anything and anyone including the nation they pretend to love.We are not able to see how and the manner their love for the people around them manifests.We have people who need help.The poor boys on the streets are their tools.So why would they have a plan that ends that? The system is useful and it is part of the culture. So they claim.But their own children are not among these people who quite clearly are helpless.The people in eastern nigeria want to help the people around them and that is the difference.</center> <br> <center>It is their nature.And it is the expectation.If anyone will dare to threaten them again using their own resources as a weapon and a bait against them such a person will learn the hard way. The people have every right to demand to be treated with dignity,fairness and equity.And by God they have a right to their own resources.The sooner we begin to address these problems the better.These people existed before 1800.They will survive 1914 and far beyond it.They survived massacres and a pogroms and one called a 'civil' war.How you fight a war with unarmed people? The people had no access to arms and amunition.At first they claimed it was a police action.The world was suppose to be alarmed at the prospect of a war in a nation with a completely blockaded enclave.You would think but nobody cared at all. The world stood by and watched as three and half million people were eliminated by starvation and guns supplied by some enablers.How you fight a war in which your opponent have no access to food? We are in a different time.These people must be careful with their words.It is from words we know what a person thinks.Unity is not a fancy word. It is a condition of agreement and equity.So we want those who talk about unity without equity to do due dilligence or they are very big and loud bunch of frauds.</center> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="umuoma1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<img src="adandigbo.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>... <br> <center>The people of eastern nigeria have come to a place of their own in nigeria.The British government during colonialism recognized it.As experienced managers they were able to detect the ability of the Igbo people and the family in eastern nigeria to organize themselves very well and easily.They did their best not to go against it but to use it as much as they could.They set up commissions,and commissions tried constitutions, changed leadership arrangement.When time came they knew it.The style of the new internal colonialists is election rigging and coups.But coups became very irrelevant quickly.The people were not looking to replace white bosses with black ones and they made it clear. Rigging elections with reckless abandon is primitive and will only provoke war and deaths eventually.There are better methods to seek new arrangements.Our problem is we love to wait and wait and wait.If you work and wait for result it is a virtue.If you will not work and wait you are lazy.Some people are angry about the complaints there are so many abandoned children in certain parts of nigeria.They are offended by it.But it is not a lie.It is the truth. If it is in fact the truth why fight the messengers? What is needed is for the elite to deal with the truth.On one hand they use population as a ploy to attain power and on the other it is a problem they are not able to address.Is that not the meaning of ingratitude? The population issue became a ploy to wrest power and resources among other even more diabolical ones.These are the methods some people are more willing to try than dialogue.</center> <br> <center>If sophisticated nations employ dialogue to resolve issues there must be a benefit.Why continue on a path of waste and destruction?But no.Instead they will lay one spurious claim after another.And assume the other party to be fools who are not able to understand the pranks.So the society is grounded and unworkable.The claims are not based on any emperical evidence nor any tangible facts.Facts speak and they bear light.The eastern part of nigeria is indeed very densely populated.So also the western portion.You will not drive a single mile without heavy settlements and populations.On the other hand away from the sea you could drive hundreds of miles without populations.It is in line with knowledge.Population increases towards the sea.It should not be the other way round.But nigerians have lived this freakish reality since the British relinguished authority.It would never have happened on their watch.No reasonable leader will permit toying with such explosive issues.But such is the reality in which some preach unity. It is not about who should be master.We ought to seek parity and equity.The last time nigeria was properly counted was by the British Government.In the count the Igbos were the most populated single liguistic group in nigeria.Eastern region was the most populated region in nigeria at the time.It is the only record we have with any value to it as far as popultion goes.It was for that reason the region had more provinces than the rest.It is a clear fact.The provinces are still very useful today.It is how you govern and lead.</center> <br> <center>You must use the facts.You know the British used the concept of northwest and northeast.It is how you create aggregation.You can't have northern nigeria and then southeast and southwest.It is an aberration.If you like to have a place called northern nigeria as an entity then southern nigeria must be assumed.Otherwise you create a serious imbalance.In their model the southwest and southeast were more populated than the northwest and the northeast.So they had more provinces. The British government was not playing games.The colony will not become a hot mess in their hands.And it never did.It is called responsibility.So the new colonialists overturns the truth and overrides it reversing the reality outright.Since then we are not able to count our citizens.Is it how you achieve unity?And look how fantastic it is proving to be!Nothing seems to be working at all.We recognize the place of politics and all.What we reject is hubris.They did not even need independence.There was an arrangement which was well suited for them for the most part.Not clear about what it means for a nation to be independent and for citizens to be free they think they must now recolonize the nation.The people who claim nigeria was bequeathed to them must therefore answer these questions.We have more.But let us begin with these.Does a person bequeath something they do not own? Why did the imperialist choose to leave? If they were not able to sustain a system being more sophisticated where was the chance of the rookie? Oh they claim they are more populated.Are they insinuating the count taken by the British colonial government was wrong? If so what would be their reason? Such would be an absurd argument.</center> <br> <center>It is very clear they were not particularly fond of the Igbo people for very understandable reasons.Perhaps these facts are worthless.So they lay claim at any cost and here we are.Therefore they must be in charge and also again look over here at all the open arid land.We have a lot of land. We have more land than the people in southern nigeria.This is something they repeat all the time.We have a lot of land.Does anyone know the land size of Canada? It might help someone to see the nature of it population.Do they know the land size of Libya? What is the population?What is the nature of the spread of the population in that nation?But then again nigeria does not use facts.And we have lived this anomaly.And they have two claims one spurious and another irrelevant. But these become two reasons they deserve to be in control and must lay claim to power.And so they did for more than fifty years uninterrupted.What is sad is that they are complaining.They are up in arms draining the nation of very valuable resources including precious lives.If they produced rocket propelled granades and AK47 rifles and machine guns and bombs we will conclude they are diverting resources to themselves.But as usual they will make a tiny amount of the cost of these and the rest is given away.And all this by people surrounded by acute even abject lack.And they have the audacity to preach peace and unity.When you bring treachery into the family it is very devastating.A country is like one family.If it can't be like one family then it is not suppose to be one country.Also if you will lead people you must know they have the ability to resist even confront you.If they are uncomfortable and feel threatened they could destroy you.Self preservation is an attribute of living things moreso humans.It is not a stroll or walk in the park.</center> <br> <center>Leadership at any level is serious business.In politics it is the alternative to warfare.It feels like warfare sometimes.Good leaders are the ones that are proactive.If somebody will not do the needful but will rely on the action or reactions of others they are not in business yet.Southern nigeria must learn how to fight objectively.If you will accept a situation that undervalues you then you are cheap.If you make yourself cheap why would anyone who wishes to do business with you aim to upgrade you first?In a job interview the would-be employee has a weapon.He or she is free to walk away.It creates parity.It is not a situation of "you have got no choice but what I say". Nobody negotiates like that. It just does not happen.You bring yourself to a position of parity and it is easy to negotiate as equals.If you are trying to backstab your partner and the ones to help you achieve parity you had lost before you started.This has been the unfortunate position of the people of southern nigeria since the so called civil war and especially since the demise of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Chief Obafemi Awolowo.It need not be so.The people of eastern nigeria are a nation and so are the people of wastern nigeria.These are sovereign people.You could not say the same about northern nigeria.Northern nigeria has many nations of people with very distinct ways of life each of who lay claim to sovereignty.It is reason for the resort to the use of force and intimidation.This method is not new.the turbulence we have in the system and politics in nigeria is the interferences of the vestiges of the entities that controlled others by force.These forces we understand have both internal and external components.It is the complxity that confounds our people who only see things in single dimensions.</center> <br> <center>It has been in use in the space.The so called civil war was an effort to extend it.Unfortunately our brothers and sisters in western nigeria were in their sweet slumber at the time! Today everything is transparent and open.It is difficult to keep secrets these days.In the world of social media and real-time communication it has become a nightmare for both victim and oppressor.The lure of oppression is in the guise and the guile.When it is open it becomes dangerous on all sides.It is rather ironic that the facade of unity in northern nigeria is used to demoralize present leaders from the southern nigeria.They are too intimidated to challenge it.Instead they cringe and beg.Some times they wish to pout like the oppressor.But he has your resources.In that he has one up over you!The nigerian coup of 1966 aborted a progressive grass root movement and master plan.The coup was actually aimed against a plan that would have transformed nigeria.The coup makers claimed to be progressives.How sad!Some of us love certain men because of their persistence in seeking to make their nation a better place for everyone.They came together and formed an alliance that defied every odd.It was to become their political capstone and gift to nigeria, africa and the world.</center> <br> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="akaike.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="challenge.html"/>.Click here for our other important ideas...Make Life better for them...It is time</a>... <br> here <<<<......<br><div valign="right" ><img src="adaigbo2.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... elegance is reality is it not?...<<<<....</a></div> ....<a href="agitations.html"/>.Click here for article....The Africa We Dreamed About.Time To Make It Happen Is Finally Here.......</a>... <br> <br> <br> <center>They determined to build a friendship of ideals.Dr.Nnamdi Azilkiwe of the National Council For Nigerian And Cameroun (NCNC), Chief Obafemi Awolowo of the Action Group (AG), Mallam Aminu Kano of Northern Elements Progressive Union(NEPU) had agreed to an alliance of progressives.It was known as United Progressives Grand Alliance (UPGA).It was a big draw and resounding success and great statesmanship for these great minds.The election at which this agreement was suppose to be tested was not allowed to take place!Somebody was scared or some people were very scared of this reality.They never thought it was possible.But these men pulled it off!Had they been allowed to chart a path of reason and rationalism who knows where nigeria would be today.The disagreement between Chief Awolowo and Dr. Azikiwe was over-amplified.Who took Chief Awolowo to eastern nigeria when he feared the man might be destroyed in jail in western nigeria?Have anyone asked about the condition of his stay in Calabar and who saw to it?When the western region was embroiled and captured by a greedy center who tried to mediate and diligently sought peace? He worried about the consequence of such outcome. Dr. Zik knew some people wanted to eliminate Chief Awolowo.</center> <br> <center>It turns out all they wanted was control.Soon as they had it the man became their friend.Unfortunately he was manipulated away from his very noble goals.Dr Azikiwe knew Chief Obafemi Awolowo was good for western nigeria and nigeria.The other people wanted him dead or remade. Who called the prime minister to order time and time again concerning the breach of the constitution?In one occassion as head of state he lamented that the constitution was being violated.And we must be able to discern the sources that care very little for consequences in nigeria.We can see what they have done to the nation and its people.Who would think they are the ones who are preaching unity to the ever patient victims? And such is the story of a nation that has been like a vehicle driven at close to zero miles per hour.It is uncomfortable.Now it appears the victims are tired and very fade up and the talk sounds like an irritant rather than the sweet lullaby it used to be.They talk about unity but are the very source of anarchy and unrest. We show you now why the coup of 1966 was more diabolical than the clueless men who were holding courts as the coup makers.They were used and we hope this has become clearer now.</center> <br> <center>Nigeria was an enterprise of the British empire.It is not something too deep to figure out.But the various nations were there before this time.They had nothing in common except trade and commerce.These nations fought the British government and were conquered one by one.It is not military power that ended colonialism.It is an idea.Ideas ended it.We must remember that the idea of colonization was seen as an enterprise.It was usually not a corporate event at the beginning.It came first from individuals or groups as ideas.The nation is usually drawn into these things.These men will make some money first and influence policy and change the dynamics.It is why the people in the space now called nigeria can today do one of three things:take this event streamline it and make it work for them as african people,work out modalities for some type of collaboration and go their seperate ways or allow it destroy them.Beyond that we can blame anyone as much as we want.Even as we do the same dynamics are playing out before our eyes.Man has not learned to see equity as an imperative.If the British empire did not colonize nigeria another of those with the power would have done so.The area of africa called nigeria is how colonialism impacted us.How we deal with it is a measure of resilience and adaptability.The place called nigeria is not organic.Without internal well measured artifice and agreements it will never work.The interplays that brought it into existence were all external.The colonialist understood this and tried to assist.They helped negotiate a constitution before relinguishing authority.Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe was perhaps the only one who truely appreciated the implication of the predicament.</center> <br> <center>But he was very optimistic.Perhaps others did and were too pessimistic.The mindset still persists excepts in words.In fact many today blame him for being too optimistic.But they are quick to undermine and dismantle the work and cobbling that was done to put the place together.And yet they claim they want unity.The house of chiefs was the acknowledgement of the original authorities in the land.The native authorities had a very prominent place and was infact acknowledged at the apex of government in that the president was suppose to be as apolitical as possible.Today a governor will rebuke a local chieftain like a school child.He and his people will breathe fire like dragons.It is the way people defend their pride.Simple arithmetic!Go to Ghana and see the traditional institutions and the honor they enjoy.The man Zik knew this.And they say he worshipped traditional rulers.He needed their trust.He knew he had earned himself a place as an institution.So he respected institutions.When the young men in the military planned to disrupt the order he caught wind of it and ran for dear life.It is what happens when you have friends.Such lives transcend time and even epoch.What he stood for was how to make africa better for all her children.What we represent is who we are.The people of eastern nigeria could remain in nigeria if they wish.If they do wish so they know what to do.</center> <br> <center>Nigeria has no place of honor for anyone.Otherwise the legacy of Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe to nigeria would be a stable reasonable system of government.The leadership he afforded nigeria was genuine and has not been and might never be matched.The paucity in terms of time and the character displayed through such times makes it a very high order.The man labored hard for nigeria and africa.He tried to emplace a level of trust within the space to no avail.He tried to be apolitical as a ceremonial president to make the arrangement work but was made a looser!He was played for a simple country man who did not understand hubris.He often quoted himself that "history shall vindicate the just".Today he has been more than vindicated.If Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe was Socrates, Dr.Kwame Nkrumah was Plato.Many africans today who aspire to lead do not know Dr Azikiwe's political work started in the former Gold Coast where he got a job upon return from the UNited States.Ghana returned to Nkurumaism and she is doing very well indeed.What president Jerry Rawlings did for Ghana was take her back to what worked well and make it even better and insist on it.It is a lesson.</center> <br> <center>We love Jerry Rawlings not because he is good looking.As a young man he could not put up with what was going on.He changed it.And did it with clean conscience and hands.We have not been returning his "loot" from around the globe for years and years.We love him because he is a true patriot and a son of africa!Nigeria can achieve the same result by returning to the constitution that was negotiated by those who know and understand the issues.If so called leaders lack the courage nigeria as we know it is history.The United Kingdom has among the finest military.However it did not make sense to them to fight endlessly with very relentless people.Nigeria was given independence because it had become a needless burden.Inspite of the economic advantage colonialism afforded there were diplomatic and ethical issues that continued to mount. Apartheid South Africa had a good army.Yet the system collapsed under relentless pressure.Nigeria will reform or it will be history.The melancholy and tragic drama going on in that theatre has gone on for far too long.The horror has become unbearable and traumatic for even those who love horror movies.</center> <br> <center>The various nations that constitute nigeria are strong enough on their own.They are able to break the entity.We can all see that. Before the coups were the many undercurrents too inimical for unity.But for the undercurrents a coup would never have been considered at all in the first place.Some ugly things were going on already.It was a series of serious manipulations.It is how these things have been shaped unfortunately.Today the southerners who waited for those who were not ready for independence are now being taught a life lesson.It is hoped that they have enough courage and perception to see the way out and take it without further delay.The truth is the truth.If someone takes advantage of you once it is up to you to make it difficult to become a habit for them.We must determine we are never going to have another Biafra or Ruwanda type genocide in the african space again.We should also be wise enough to say that we will not waste the resources we need so much fighting useless and mindless wars.But must resolve to make our space work for us.We know if we do not we will loose the space to others.Humans are extremely competitive and are not always good.They have the scars of two world wars and thousand others many of which persist and hundreds of million people dead as a result to prove it!</center> <br> <center>If you give up it becomes the norm.If it is worth fighting for then you fight.The choice and method is what determines the wise.The battle for human dignity is based on the truth that the right is from God.It is basic.When this truth is well understood half the struggle is already won.You seek friendships and understanding and rebuild or build on them.Sometimes it takes agreements that are negotiated and settled as a people to people events. Why fight like the helpless, as one drowning and expect to be taken serious?It is an opportunistic reality.Empathy is often not the first reaction or even a consideration.It is time to be serious and demand ones own worth one way or another.The people of eastern nigeria have done it many times before.Eastern nigeria is destined to be free.The colonialist knew it.They saw it first hand.With or without anyone else it is their goal.However it makes sense to work together when it is possible. It has great benefits.But somethings are more important than others.We must not be deceived by the rapacious who preach unity and practice bondage and servitude.We are no longer interested in their idea of unity.We have lived the results.Unity is not achieved by empty words or diabolism.It is achieved by dialogue and agreements.Those who preach unity must first seek agreements and consensus. If they will not nature must then take it course.Liberty is a God given right of all human beings.If the people of eastern nigeria determine to move on it will not be for the lack of effort to make nigeria work.</center> <br> <br><br><center><a href="#betterfuture.era">Find your Topic Of Interest</a></center> <br> <a href="wiseupeast.html"/>..Click...... 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But some in the group will not and rather insist on an illusion that will destroy everyone.Some people might find such situation unacceptable and opt out.Rather than accept collaboration in other to give worth and value to the nation some rather wish to stick to vanity and hubris.And it is unravelling the entity.Power is used to devalue others rather than to make them better.It is an example of such ignorant displays.The idea that some people want to have power and use it to their own detriment rather than allow for its use for mutual benefit is why nations break up.Nigeria gained independence from Britain and was in turmoil shortly afterwards.Those who created the aberation are all by far richer than the founders.We are willing to make exceptions for those who have used their time and personal resourcefulness to create wealth.We can count their number and they are so few a year old child can count them.The rest are very rich and we know why and how.</center> <br> <center>Some of the actors in the aberation have more personal wealth than all the founders of the nation combined.And it is what we are dealing with. The nation has lost its soul.The idea to have a representative government where the people can demand to see what their resources are used for is now like a distant dream. It appears that the people who will not allow reason do not think the rest have a right to seek to be governed by it.They are happy to loot the nation and throw the citizens away.They park them on trucks and give them a gun each and one round of amunition and dump them some place else! People sat around the table and agreed on a federal republic.But among them were those who never believed in either of these.They will not have a federation and not a republic.So the question then becomes: why did they accept to be part of the union? And the other stakeholders are tired and fade up. We know a federation accepts difference to the extent their independence or sovereignty is not just acceptable but normal.A republic is a soceity where the leaders are men and women of knowledge,proven and well tested abilities.Nigeria is neither.Nigeria has proved not able to live up to any of the qualifications.Mediocrity and the enthronement of often very pedestrian minds in positions of strategic importance is the norm.And it has killed a soceity that once looked like a place to be.Now the nation is in ruinous debt and still borrowing.Ethiopia is planting five billion trees this year to fight desertification.How many trees are we planting in nigeria? Those who are digging are almost diappearing from sight.And you wish like shouting "please stop digging". It is enough! They keep digging and digging.As if that is not enough they are enacting policies that will ensnare the nation and create fracas and turmoil as though it is the goal and reason for government.</center> <br> <center>During the government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari many saw the many attempts to use the constitution as the reason for deviations.In other words the laws were made to modify what the constitution stipulates.The resort to amend it rather than seek answers within the context it stipulates became the norm. The constitution was amended every now and then.Then speaker of the house of assemblies once lamented that some people of influence always tried to arm-twist legislators.So we ask are they elected to have soft arms?.We have gone full cycle.The man who will not stand the brigandage is now in charge.He is not in military uniform but a free flowing "babariga".We know the man is dealing with a different reality having to be surrounded by some that might be rather very carnivorous.It must seem disconcerting for a guy who will give orders and it happens just exactly.His choices today will exonerate him from his past or convict him.He must watch himself and rely on God fearing allies.It might save his life.Those fighting for institutionalized banditry are many and they mostly belong to his side of the geographical divide.It never was like that before the coup.At that time the politicians from the part used to be among the most prudent.How things have changed! It make us remember that "absolute power corrupts absolutely".When we heard that the federal government is issuing an executive order to specify the seperation of the various arms of government, their autonomy and equality one was tickled.But this is a serious matter hence this piece.The consitution did not make it something dependent upon the benevolence of the executive.In enforcing compliance to the executive order will the executive be the arbiter? Suppose those who are affected view it as interference? If you do not belong to the same party with a governor and you withhold funds from him how is he suppose to take it? This clearly is going to be a source of many deadly battles.These people created this nation with "feeding bottle" economy.They need it just to loot.In other to do that you must be in charge and hold the treasury.It is looting made easy.They do not care for anything else.Look how they are now throwing their own youths and children around.</center> <br> <center>None of the states wants to take responsibility for their own citizens.We are now dealing with fulani people fighting indegenes for their farmland in southern nigeria.How insane and absurd is that?What in the world is a fulani doing in somebody's farm in edoland? What kind of leadership is this? The man is being misadvised and there is an agenda to divide the nation.Why do they blame IPOB? There are very clear gaps even man holes in policy making. Agitation is inevitable because what is desired here is total subjugation and annihilation.For the igbos and people of eastern nigeria it can't be suprising.If they are restive the authorities ought to understand the reason. In policy making you are not seeking advantage for yourself.The other side will see it and you have a conflict.It is exactly what makes it hard to practice the kind of policy making we have without frequent fracas.The intergrity of the intent is never above board.This makes it imperative to have a constitution that is autochthonous.The people agree mutually on the mode of coexistence.Anyone who is playing with those principles will understand quite clearly that he or she is going against them and might be confronted by them.It is the reason we say that we forgive our brothers who hijacked our communities and imposed a system of government that suited them.But we know it is not sustainable.It is why they are no longer in charge.The people will always win.We forgive them but they are not in any place to tell us what we want.The matter had already been settled.What brought them to the saddle was an aberration.They might see this as a negotiation.Truth is not negotiable.This is the moment of truth. If they will not heed this warning then we must chart the paths that present as default.The nation is exactly where it was in late 1965. The only problem is the predicament of the igbos and people of eastern nigerian origin is the predicament of the entire nigeria with exception of the twelve sharia states.It is very sad the nation is managed in such very insensitive ways.There are no lessons learned.We make this effort knowing it will be snobbed and rebuffed by the highminded.One day they will wish they had listened to us.The way we are trying to make this work is the same way we are going to focus on a new agenda.At that time we are not going to pay attention to any noise making.From all we have seen we know most of these do not care at all about the ordinary citizens they claim to represent.</center> <br> <center>How difficult is it to appreciate this fact? It saddens some of us that the Arewa Youths are not able to see that they are better served working in concert with the youths in the south.The cattle rearer will rather challenge another farmer struggling to get by than government.Government can even bring in those it could use rather than use the resource to create empowerment for citizens. We have sambisa forest to be used to torment our soldiers but not grazing land for cattle for citizens.And members of soceity are not able to see the danger that posses to their future.If you arm someone with riffles and buy some cattle for them and turn them into a community you are not being smart.You are being evil. We have a problem of perception. And some in leadership position choose to exploit it.To many of us it depicts lack of empathy rather that smartness. If we are returned to the old constitution we know the next move and the next step.It makes life better a little bit more still for our people.At the appropriate time after the 1966 coup is officially ended we have the proposal that enables the resulting five region structure to take shape and become economically independent.We can have that debate and conversation when we get there.We need no referendum in the states that have already agreed on a framework.They have already a nation in place.The middle-belt region is a nation.It is the reason it is under attack.Those who used to assume its loyalty have lost it hence the resort to violence. Our proposition is workable and affordable.It is logical and is both legal and true.If we did this very quickly nigeria could survive.Otherwise we can all enjoy the last days of the nation today called nigeria.It is bound to splinter.IPOB, AREWA, ODUDUWA, IJAW, PANDEF, BAKASSI & EFFIK, IBIBIO resistance even Boko HARAM are mere symtoms.The list is already all encompassing showing the entire nation is in turmoil.What more evidence does anyone need? Initiate some dialogue and diffuse the tension and distress.Rather than do so they hold elections.It is foolish to put fancy covering over a broken and damaged structure.Even under these circumstances some are gearing up for yet another show of shame in the name of elections.How so vile and heartless! Education has collapsed. Secondary education in nigeria was one of the best in the world.Today a graduate of the so called "high school" is not even able to read and write in a proper sense.The various regions and peoples of nigeria have abandoned their own children and their future in the hands of those they know have no interest in their education.It is very sad and rather unfortunate.WE hear about the sophistication of the people of the southern part of nigeria.Perhaps it is for that reason the other people have chosen the principle of coercion and honed their skill and apparatus in it.It means that southern nigeria will seek freedom the only way it is done.Fight for it.Not necessarily by gun and bullets.</center> <br> <center>What nigerians need is knowledgeable and accountable leadership.But the structure must first be emplaced. The present one is like using an engine meant for a truck to try to power a train.Their argument is that the engine will work.And you ask them work to accomplish what? If we had people who can determine that it is better to allow able bodied men and women to work than try to feed so many of them we all will be the better for it.If we had leadership that understand how to create the enabling environment to harness the labor force that is readily available than pawn them to other soceities we would make some progress.This is not a tribal matter.It is not ethnic.It is realistic and sound policy making.If we had leadership that will respond to the needs of all nigerians with concern and reassurance the space will be more peaceful.We have leadership that views the nation as a foreign field.The relationship is for the resources and not for the people.You can even pit the people one against the other as colonialist would do.It is no suprise the people react the same exact way they would to a colonialist.You are not suppose to pawn the nation and mortgage the future of hundreds of millions of people.In any case you ensure you and your friends are free from poverty.The people did not endanger their lives fighting for the right to govern themselves for such purpose and such ends.They just needed the tools to secure a better future for themselves.Return nigeria to the founding constitution.It is the most reasonable action now and yet it is the most cost effective at this point.All other alternatives are prohibitive, untested and invalid.We could go back to pre 1900 Western africa.We must abandon our cars and beautiful mansions also when we choose that.The challenges will wipe those things away at any rate.If we are intolerant we are not going to be able to coexist no matter the configuration.We are not able to live in the past and the present at the same time. Do we ask why we were colonized and enslaved? One way or another we must make a choice even by what we do or choose not to do. The present system is not only unsustainable it will lead to disaster of great proportions.How can people who claim to believe in a democracy be the ones to impose a subterfuge and smoking mirrors? Nigeria has been constitution hopping from first republic to second republic , third now on fourth republic.In any case which is a miscount which we ignore for the sake of national pride.For many of us it is either we return to the original one or we are not meant to be one country.If some will not see it they might be presiding over the disintegration of the nation.</center> </center></myclass></span></font></h6> </td> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="oursis.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="oursis2.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder? <....</a></div> .......<<<<< <br> <h6 class="myclass"><span style="color:purple"><td> THOSE WHO WANT A UNITED NIGERIA MUST SHOW THEY HAVE INFLUENCE <center>We often hear the word "rule" when it comes to the government of nigeria.It is unfortunate. Just very recently I started to think that we might never have had a democratic government in nigeria.It is military "rule".They have no ideas or policies they are interested or invested in.They can't lead because they have no understanding about what it is to lead.They can't govern either. It takes training to learn to govern.They have been "ruling" as feudalistic overlords.The people are hurting and spoiling and many are dying.Now it is "Buhari Rule".It might be why some people are busy planting gunmen everywhere in southern nigeria.Southern nigeria is being overrun by gunmen.They want to cow everyone into servile submission.And we hear some rable rousers.One person makes some stupid claim and another makes even a more outrageous one.Gone are the days when men like Prof Ango Abdulahi will speak from a wealth of knowledge and abundance of caution.Men like Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar are now only heard as though he is not even a northerner.Yet these are the men that gave the northerner a sense of pride. We all know all Col Umar needed was to wish to lead a coup.He had that kind of clout.Inspite of this vantage which was what the other men would die for he maintained a professional disposition.He is called the people's general and it is true.The nigerian people loved his courage and stoic disposition.Today we have all sorts of taliban-like war leaders.And they are spreading anarchy all over nigeria.The one nigeria scheme is being destroyed on purpose.I believe it is the case.They choose people and handpick even governors as we are beginning to see.If it is the case in eastern nigeria we are about to find out. We know the governor of Abia state perhaps attended college in northern nigeria.He is not governor because of that.Everyone who went to school in northern nigeria is not governor.He applied himself.We give him credit for that. However our people must understand how oppression works.Honesty and kindness is not among the virtues. </center> <br> <center>If the governor thinks that Igbo people who were slaughtered like animals by this same fulanis a few years ago will trust him to change them to peace loving neighbors he is grossly mistaken.Land is a sore matter to Igbos.It is like going to the state of Isreal to demand to purchase such and such acres of land. It is just not possible.You can't do it.Any governor who does that will not like the reaction of the Igbo people.Igbos in diaspora are in the millions.We know why they are not at home.The same with our brothers and sisters from other parts of eastern nigeria.What kind of leader will sell their homeland to a person who abandons a free open empty land to come to compete with them for so little? They bring "refugees" from north eastern nigeria to Calabar in the thousands.Now it is almajeris.What in hell is that? Who told anyone we are wishing that kind of reality? Are they trying to lay claim to eastern nigeria? Our history and our stock are well known.The type of life they desire is their choice to make.But that is something our people did many years ago.If you come in their midst you will tow the line or move on.Why are they aiming to take over everything strategic in our midst? Who do they take us for? Idiots? If it were so we would not be where we are.They have an agenda.Sometimes some predators over estimate their own strength.Our loss in 1966 has a reason we know.The people responsible know we are aware too.There will be no such luck a second time.One wrong jump it is right into the fire.Do Fulanis really think the Igbo people and their relatives in eastern nigeria are threatened by them? The people are very capable of keeping their own place safe.If the institutions in nigeria are used to pursue the vain agenda we have spotlighted they will be shunned.Eastern nigeria is not shy to take a stand. They are also quite capable of defending themselves.The idea of installing the people they have conditioned was already flagged before they started.We know they remember the past.If they seek to repeat it too bad for them. We don't.</center> <br> <center>What we see is that some people in nigeria are rather preparing for war.We think the idea of trying to provoke the Igbo and easterners is an old trick.They took oil and wasted everything with just a handful of richmen.Our homeland is not crude oil.Besides the world has watched their action with disgust.The looting and brigandage has no admirers. When anything else will happen in nigeria the approach will be either a conversation as we suggest now or the United Nations will be asked to mediate a seperation.There will not be any room for the slow smoothering that occurred in 1966.Nigeria will negotiate peace within or learn of its own demise from the outside world.The world did nothing when three and half million people perished.Things are different today.If this present matter is not settled quickly we will demand a seperation before any useless excuse of worthless unity is used to massacre our people again.The genocide in Ruwanda is something the world remembers but some people in nigeria do not want the massacre of nearly four million people mentioned.What are they thinking? Is this the seventh century? They remove history from the education curriculum.It appears they think hiding the history makes it go away.We feel that the lack of depth in the leadership that parades itself in the nigerian space is the reason for the present rut in the system.They claim to be fighting for the muslim faith.We see nothing religious in the injustice being spread towards all peoples.We know every religion teaches the vsanctity of life.Every religion expouses morality and good ethics.So when we see people who are morally bankrupt using religion for excuse we count them among the many fraud that abound in soceity.It is that simple.I have not seen so much harm befall any idea! Some of us have read the work of learned muslim scholars.By them a lot in our civilization was preserved.History keeps the record of everyones walk and talk.We know talented artists who profess the muslim faith.The problem with the rable rousers is they have nothing to show.We do not think they understand the implication of the positions they take on issues.Rather than allow their ideas to be subjected to scrutiny like everyone else they preclude conversation and opt for violence instead.It is why they always want to "rule". Unfortunately the world has moved on from where their ideas are.</center> <br> <center>They do not want to hear the word 'Biafra' but they continue to repeat the same things that caused the pogrom and genocide.We are not suppose to wait for anyone to tell us to do what is best for our communities.The people of eastern nigeria are a sovereign nation. It is how they entered the nigerian arrangement.If anyone is playing a stunt of any sort it is at their own expense.We did not loose four million people in a comedy.It is dire and serious.These people are the ones who took our oil for nearly seventy years.And from every indication they wasted the earnings but for these sprinkling of "rich" people.They ceased the ports in lagos and take the earnings from custom tariffs.And they closed the other ports in nigeria. According to them it is for the security of the country.We ask them who gave them the right to cease the ports of autonomous indigenous people? Are they colonies in nigeria?.You can see the nature of the "unity" and relationship.It is very important to tell those who advocate a "united" nigeria to move fast. They have a very limited time.The train is about to leave the station.If they are not able to convince or prevail on the violent ones there may be only so much they can do very soon.What they are running right now is not a country.They are ruining a generation of lives. They have brought the space to a place of ruin.It will take a miracle to undo the harm that has been done especially in the past few years of rather lack lustre leadership.We have the word the "presidency" meaning just anyone who walks by Aso rock. We wish to tell those auditioning for presidency not to hold their breath.If they are not able to help retreive the nation from renegades they should forget 2023.If what they mean is to have people wait for 2023 just for them to start another waiting time they are out of luck.They have politics that solves no problems.They just create them and abundance of them.Who needs a soceity like that? There will be answers.If they will not provide them the people will find them for their own communities.</center> </center></myclass></span></font></h6> </td> <br> <h4 class="mysucss"><span style="color:dogerblue"><td> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="umuoma.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....<align="left">to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< here >>><br><div valign="right" ><img src="ndiada.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....<align="right">...to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder? <....</a></div> .......<<<<< <center><h3>THE IDENTITY WE SHARE</center></center> <center>We want to elevate the conversation about the identity of our people.It must go far deeper than the dialects we speak.It must not rely on just the methods of communication and the representations.We must look at the other things that speak to a feeling and sense of collective achievment.There is nothing that speak to the appeal to a sense of pride as clothing.We refer to it as mode of dressing. The two piece wrapper and headgear of the female in eastern nigeria is key.So also is the matching robe and the hat for the man.These are important marks of identity for africans who share a common past.We use these facts as we identify the people who share a common ancestry in africa.Many in diaspora remember through shared oral history.Within nigeria and throughout the african landscape we watch these women proudly fully assert their ancestry.It is something that empowers by its very presence.</center> <br> <center>In the quest to rebuild and reconsruct africa we must look to our common heriatage.The songs and the dances put the display of the common heritage on a pedestal.You can't miss it even if you are careless.We have carefully traced the african landscape piecing together these similarities despite the intervening influences such as religion or colonization.We must now use these facts to build a community of people who will set goals and achieve them. We have a world where resource is the issue. The person who learns how to secure and leaverage what is useful will get attention.Whether the attention is respectful or not will depend on the readiness of the entity to negotiate its own strengths not weaknesses.Whether the people who share the nigerian space need eastern nigeria is up to them.The people are not going to deny who they are.</center> <br> <center>We do not intend settling disputes among brothers and sisters who are endangered and are seeking a way to escape from prison hands.Any internal squabble is a give away to the bullies and is very inexcusable at all at this point.What we show the world at this point must be discipline and order.It is what the soceity we criticize lacks. We must never show any sign we are about to recycle this tendency. We would like everyone to focus on their strength and do whatever they think they do best.It might serve us all well if we show respect to one another with so much highlight on us.After all it is part of our culture actually.It is really what we have to offer,our inherent understanding of true democracy.It is in every institution in our space.We preach kindness and love but we must practice it.We do not have to wait for a new land to arrive first.The place in question is ours by God.And we strongly believe we have made that point to the entire world this time around.</center> <br> <center>We like to make something abundantly clear to the brood of self-occupied people in eastern nigeria especially among the political class.We like to address those who are unmindful of the predicament of our youths.Many years ago I wrote an article in a website then www.betternigeria.Perhaps it influenced the reaction by the then president who tried to help but was rebuffed.We all know he is the wrong type, don't we? How we compound our problems and they get much worse.In the article the problems of the almajeri system was highlighted as a national disater waiting to happen.The article tried to shed light on why muslim militants clerics like Maitatsine(1980-1985) find willing youths.It is this body of youths who are abandoned by their own community and soceity.It took a few years.Now we have Boko Haram, hersmen and worse and worse it gets.It is not how you make progress.Today the rest of nigeria is not too far behind. We like to remind the ones who care for nothing and none else but themselves that we are watching them and keeping tab.We see the elderly among us and we know they need us.</center> <br> <center>We see the vulnerability of our region presently.We have seen collapsed education system.We have watched as industries in the region dry up by design.We are not able to find any concerted efforts to address youth distress among us.We like to warn these men we are not going to negotiate with them.Evidently we are not reasoning at the same level as they do.And they can easily deduce that already.We are not one for foul language but some actions are very nauseating.And we would rather allow them to stay on their own lane.We expect it satisfies them.If not so it is a big shame. We are not able to teach them it is very important to negotiate from a position of strength.We have watched them worshipping and crawling around on all fours for nearly sixty years.We have watched their effort on "Igbo presidency".Such is nothing they should have been begging for.Eastern nigeria sustains nigeria.These ones do not understand anything about unity of purpose and collective effort.Their political prostitution that puts them at the mercy of everyone has become their go to game.They get their "appointment" and enjoy their "loot". And it becomes the story of a nation and its people.</center> <br> <center>We are wondering why the man who own the kitchen begs for food if he was not really either "foolish" or crazy.We want these men to control themselves.It is in their own interest.There is absolutely no need for any confrontation since nobody is asking them not to pursue their personal dreams.However to expect the reasonable ones among us to sell our collective destiny is not happening at all.We are not ready to follow their lead. We know what it means requiring the carte to pull the horse.They are looking to be led by some who do not care for them.They want pity from those who once wanted to wipe them out.We do not wish to walk in their plan.We have a better plan.We know they are in pursuit of their own turn to "chop".We want to build a better more prosperous soceity for our people.And we do not see them as obstacles at all.Unless they make it so in which case they will collide with an immutable force.Such a situation is to us very unnecessary.</center> <br> here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="ada.jpg" align="right" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the left.... beauty in the eye of beholder?<....</a></div> .......<<<<< here >>><br><div valign="left" ><img src="ada1.jpg" align="left" width="200" height="180"/>.....to the right.... beauty in the eye of beholder? <....</a></div> .......<<<<< </center></mysucss></span></font></h4></td> <br> <h5 class="mynucss"><span style="color:purple"><td><center><h3>BANA AFRICANA: VIVA AFRICA</h3></center> <font size="4" color="black"><center>We wish to encourage the african youth who has been the victim of systemic injustice in the world.It is important to remind the youth they are not alone.God watches over us all.HE is God of us all irrespective of how it appears to anyone. It might not seem so but it is very true. I want to use this platform to encourage the youth and tell them to cheer up and know that the best is ahead.And they must learn to look to a future that is indeed very bright. We know right now it seems foolish to be optimistic.The world suddenly is making a turn to the past and the worse after a burst of optimism. We all are witnesses to the progress the relative peace has brought every part of the world.One is at a loss why this sudden change in behavior.We had watched when the military manuevering began.We felt that they might lead to a bad place.We wish it was a wrong observation.But we are not encouraged by the noise of threats of violence and such posturings at the present time.It seem like a progression from the last set of events.It appears that we are witnessing an escalation rather than deescalation.</center> <br> <center>Our fathers had started a good work so we must now complete it or at least take it farther along.We have added no value for the most part.There are only in few places within africa where citizens enjoy relative comfort and benefits of citizenship. We have reached a place our people must be encouraged to stand up and fight for change.The goal is take the energy being expended in these many ethnic and sectarian confrontations and turn it into a critical mass for positive change.It is clear the confrontations are all economic at the root.We truely believe that any of our communities that will evolve a more equitable manner of dealing with the many problems of soceity will be the most peaceful. Our people are not difficult to please.Our cultures encourage collaboration.From our tuaregs communities and their camels to the fishing communities, true africans understand collaboration.But like other people we have renegades.And that seems like the problem we have presently.It must be resisted.We need youth who are focused on learning how to make a living rather than being given hand-outs.Africa is not actually a charity case.And we must begin to understand that.It is all sorts of negative genuis from some of those who claim to be "rulers" rather than leaders.</center> <br> <center>All the talk about globalization is still about resource "sharing". The only problem is that one side gives and the other takes.Once in a while if it makes the receiving side feel a little better about the injustice a donation is arranged for photo opportunity. So we must know how to protect what we own and demand what is fair price.We too want a good life.As we learn to do so we will find fair minded men and women ordained by God to help us.Hoping against hope is what causes distress and dispair.Our land and our resources are ordained and given to us by God.If we opt to defend it God will send help.Anyone who wants a union with us in which we do not matter but our resources matter might have to seek such union somewhere else. We have come to the end of that road.We must account to our people for the resources God has afforded them. We must reject unions that will take their resources and make them beggars.All relationships premised upon such assumptions and axioms are nullified by this present truth we are sharing with the rest of the world.We had begged since for a family settlement to no avail. Our resources were hijacked and we were ostracized in addition. It is in the open.There is no need to want to cover anything now.The evil relationship has been exposed.Any conversation about relationships will be negotiated openly and we will have witnesses we trust.</center> <br> <center>The frustration factors into some of the anger we see against home governments.Our governments must not be concerned just about partisan politics in these matters.Citizens are citizens and their right to hold whatever views must not become compromised.In the end the african people will find their own solutions.If they are not willing to do the work it will elude them and a new generation is confronted with even a more difficult and worse set of scenarios.It is the reason why we work.The type of leadership we seek in africa is the one that will look challenges in the eye. We have existential problems like water in africa and africa is almost surrounded by oceans.And we can't solve water issues.Our choice to solve such problems shall require that we forgo the flexing of muscles that happen ever so often. We have too many unnecessary conflicts.We might use ten billion dollars to solve a massive problems such as the one described.Instead it will be spent on purchase of armament. In terms of the global percentage for the nations that have big muscles this is mere pittance.When we spend such on military hardware it will not even show on the radar.Such amounts are snack money.But it can solve a real fundamental problem for us.</center> <br> <center>The military machine is massive and understandably so.But we are not there yet.We can make peace with our brothers and conserve our resources.It is far more strategic than the posturing we see from time to time.We might choose instead where we deliver the best result that impacts the african situation. However when we start our favorite outside induced skirmishes we expend more than twice this kind of resources on war machinery.And we loose our own people in addition.The problems are still there.And it is exactly how they want it.And they justle over who gets what chunk.It is a choice we must make so we do not continue to suffer.We hold our hands over our heads after the fact and weep and call them names.Instead of investing on bombs and armoured tanks and disused and outdated war planes we can make a wiser choice to solve these existential problems.It is how we start to deliver a better quality of life to our people.It is the type of leadership we are requiring in the african space.</center> <br> <center>African Renaissance</center> <p>The African is again challenged by a multi headed monster. Even before the continental free trade agreement takes off the monster has struck! The nations that used to be engines of growth are mired in one type of conflict or another.Is this the direction the African people desire or are they being steered by the strong hands they ought to be fighting in other to truely survive? We ask this question now. It is time the leaders begin to confront this monster.Religion without virtue is of no value being without work. Religion without compassion is dead. Ideology is being replaced by religion and conflict.We can't wait for GOD to show us who is not fighting our cause.We can do that ourselves.It is how we defeat the ugly monster. Africa must demonstrate virtue and morality when it counts.The people need help out of poverty that has turned them into slaves inspite of being blessed with everything nature can afford.African leaders now stand up and lead.The good LORD shall help you when you do. Nature will stand with you!</p> <br> </center></mynucss></span></font></h5></td> <center><font color="brown"><strong>THE POLITICS OF NIGERIA AND THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH EASTERN NIGERIA</font></strong></center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>Let me begin by quoting a nigerian politician of yore. " I am convinced it is wrong for people to think the acme of political ambition is a ministerial position...". Chief J. M Johnson or "J.M.J" as he was popularly called was quoted as saying. In this he was refering to a situation no different than what is going on today.Every politician wants to be in the good books of the president.Every politician wants to hold one high office or the other.But politics is about fights and struggles for resources. It is the alternative to warfare! The politicians from the south east must understand what the Igbo people mean when they say that "a debt can dry but will never decay".If someone owes you remind them as often as you can.Nigeria as an entity has cost the people of eastern nigeria more than any other group. It is a truth that can never be overstated. Anyone who fault this fact should be ready to pay for lunch for the nation for as long as eastern nigeria has done. And they have done it on an empty stomach. They leave it to other people to determine when they are fed. For some reason they can't understand that when the lunch is threatened everyone will sit up and think properly.It appears this truth has been lost to nigerians.You do not make a demand for your own resource without being ready to confront anyone who has denied you the use of it.If you can't you have lost ownership.When anyone is expecting a favor he abandons his gloves that includes the politician.On the other hand when you need a victory the gloves are needed.You put them on and get ready to "mix it up" as they say in boxing.You beg for what you own only if you have been stripped of ownership.If you wish to make that point it is not seeking a favor. You go in and you fight. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The metaphor for politics is to "throw our hat in the ring".In the ring you either fight or you are not only in danger of loosing. You could be hurt very badly even. It is no gimmick. The respect and favor of the electorate is won by the gloves. It is what gives longevity to a politician. Politicians from eastern nigeria must now appreciate how much regard nigeria has for them! They have been completely sidelined and made to appear like ornaments in the chambers.From being grossly underepresented to being apparently inconsequential the picture is a caricature.It is an attempt to ridicule the people of the area and humiliate them.Needless to tell any person from that part of the world what to do.All of them in the situation experienced the events that led to what some refer to as the civil war.Every person from within the area in question knows the truth. We like to see the fire in their eyes. The people of this part of nigeria endured a genocide and were not rehabilitated.We are in a democracy and there is only one way to make your case. Now that they have no responsibilities except to their electorate they should come out swinging like people with a goal. They can also choose to go there and continue to sing lullaby of unity and peace for which they are paying for everyones lunch while hungry themselves.Of course we all need peace and unity but it is not the responsibility of just one section of the country.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>When they do what they are suppose and capable of doing the whole world can see and take note that they are totally unhinged and completely unfettered.There is a reason a place can be difficult to control.If your needs are not part of the agenda you match the brakes until it is included. The politicians from the part that seem to have been forgotten can change the narative. It is what is expected of them. They should go to the chambers of the house of assemblies and senate and stand up like men and women of honor and fight.Experience is the best teacher. What they do and how they react will determine if this kind of behavior towards a certain part of the nation continues.The people of south eastern nigeria are very capable of playing the type of politics that will cause them not to be ignored by anyone.Thankfully nigeria now run a presidential system of government.In the United States of America a single senator can withhold a nomination of the president forever technically.He can stifle debate until his point of view is considered.I know the people of eastern nigeria are not intellectually lacking!They understand politics too! There is absolutely no question about that. If Great Britain could not ignore them for long neither can nigeria.If nigeria know the tricks they must be reminded that the Igbos and other people of the south east have been in the space longer than many others.They can play the tricks too.Without appologies they too must require respect and dignity and are entitled to whatever is the full benefit of citizenship.If the relationship will not gurantee this reality they have the right to reject it.It is that basic.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>We see north eastern nigeria being rebuilt after Boko Haram picked up arms against a sovereign state of nigeria.Up until now we do not know who these fighters are.Are they foreigners who wish to invade nigeria and establish a religious dominion we are not told.It is really the type of things that suprise many of us about the atittude of the nigerian people. They have assumed the Boko Haram issue is ethnic.Now our children in the nigerian armed forces are exposed to unwarranted threats from within.This type of matter is not an IPOB issue.It is an existential national issue. When someone will look down on citizens as if from a throne and proclaim that the unity of the nation is not negotiable is that not very preposterous? What is a democracy?A democratic government is a system of negotiating governance.It goes to show what we are dealing with.If this was taken as an important job which it is at least someone will know what the requirement of their job is.We are not talking about understanding what it is.We mean just to know what it is.But we have two hundred million people who must depend on the whims of those who are clearly clueless.They toy with the lives of citizens and act as if it is all right.We have twelve states in the nation that are politically seperate from the rest.</center> <br> <center>This type of situation has potentials for igniting a religious war.It could be in fact what the nation is presently grapling with.Just that the portion of the nation that is the most vulnerable is pretending to be unpertubed.So the people who are always armed are attempting over and over to provoke a fight.But the stumbling continues.We can complain about agitations but they will get more and more serious.This is because some people have already taken a step to have their own seperate entity in line with their own taste.If they did not receive pocket money from the oil money and vat tax money and money from running the ports in the south what would they need them for? You see why the unity is not to be negotiated? No, you seat down and you talk or you have no country but a geographical expression.We pity the other nigerians who are slumbering through this systematic rape. We begin to think about the Biafra war of 1967-1970! What is responsible for the difference in the way the two events were treated? One group are christians and the other are predominantly muslims.The muslims declared Jihad on nigeria. They captured a portion of the nation and declared it a caliphate.This should have been frightening for the non-muslims.What kind of threat did the people of eastern nigeria who were slaughtered around nigeria pose? Eastern nigeria met with the leaders of nigeria in Aburi Ghana in early 1967 and agreed on how peace can be attained.It is on record.Both sides toasted to the peace agreement.It was hoped that war had been averted. But the people who are still killing nigerians today reneged. The man who negotiated was just a puppet. They nicknamed him head of state. Are we to see all the muslims in the light of these kind of theatrics in nigerian politics? If the perpetrators of these acts succeed they would create the form of difficulties other environments have that hinder progress.We must work to avoid such outcomes.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> We know Boko Haram are youths who were largely left unprotected and uncared for by responsible adults. Now it is the problem of the world! Some people use the claim of protecting the interest of everyone to attain power. what happens next is they have access to exellent life and the rest have nothing at all.Northern nigeria has work to do for its population. But a corporate plan that tackles this problem wholistically is not best addressed by tangling up the rest of the nation.What Sir Ahmadu Bello was doing was the best approach.You will put your own house in order!The nation could have a few men and women who are extremely rich and so many extremely poor citizens. Why are they suprised that they are "overtaken" or rather confronted on the highways by the law of averages? Poor unemployed youths have found empowerment with violence.You are not going to defend the herders to success.You are not going to decree them to wealth and success.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>You have to give them a chance and opportunity to develop their minds. Someone gave you the opportunity.Obviously giving them the licence to carry weapons and arming them will make them violent.They will see the glaring inequity differently when empowered whether with the weapon of knowledge or violence. It is for this reason we think some of the elites always resort to this doctrine of hate.At least momentarily it provides vent for the angst of the frustrated youths.But we see that some things are changing. Some of them are coming to the realization that they are being played. Which we think is due to the teaching of some of the non-mainstream clerics.This is the nature of human soceity.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>It is the predicament of nigeria presently.It is the nightmare that precipitated the pogrom against the people of eastern nigeria and a war of attrition and genocide.We point the northern muslims to the other muslims from western nigeria.They are better exposed and are more likely to have better education and are also more likely to have means or better livelihood.Their world view is therefore different even though the religion is the same. What we learn is that you are a person first.The yoruba will acknowledge his identity as distinct from religion.It is the same for the people of eastern nigeria.For most muslims from northern nigeria the personal identity fuses to religion.It is a point of view that is not rationalized or reasoned by the individual. In many cases the interpretation is received without questions.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The other nigerians will never accept this model and world view.And the person who does not share the interraction and knowledge of self as distinct from religion will not usually have the patience to hear or share your thoughts.It is a mindset that provides an identity.You have to offer something better.It has to be more tangible than rhetoric.Our society offers a surfeit of that and no more.The ordinary person needs some form of anchor.Religion becomes just that.The well educated northerner is liberated from this mindset.He is able to provide for himself and his own. But some would exploit the vulnerability they understand exists around them. It happens ever so often.Perhaps that explains why it persists. And there is a conflict which transforms from itself time to time.And the nations deals with the same set of problems over and over.It will take work to educate a population.It will take commitment and focus and these are in short supply under these circumstances.Instead of trying to solve the problem confronting the citizens of the nation they claim to lead they resort to divide and rule.In the case that you belong to another society that works.If nigeria is where you call home it is foolish to do this kind of thing.But the game is to stigmatize one segment at a time.Unfortunately the easy culprit become the Igbo. And now they are simply tired of it!</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It was all in the game plan at the time.In these days of google and youtube these documents are easily available.We can finally see who was deceiving the world and nigerians.The "rulers" of nigeria at the time chose to blockade and massacre innocent young men in a brutal conflict they were not prepared for.There were no amouries in eastern nigeria.The nigerian soldiers of eastern nigerian origin were disarmed and sent home to eastern nigeria. If they are lucky.Nigerian soldiers deployed in eastern nigeria were sent on leave and were allowed to travel with their weapons due to the prevailing insecurities.One side was hurting and still did more and more for unity.In this war one side had no access to food and weapons.And the world looked the other way!It is still the same set of events and usual reaction.Women and children were starved to death to finish the job.As always the final solution against the igbo people failed. And today a people are questioning why the world supervised such groateque injustice.So who is preaching that empty unity to the Igbo people and the people of eastern region?If it does not ring hollow in their own ears it is because they are adamant.Talk about unity and brotherhood.Preparatory to this already determined goal they were villified and made to become undesirable in their own country.We watched recently as youth with cellphones were mowed down by soldiers in full military formation.No.The people of eastern nigeria are not having this nonesense anymore.If anyone wants to use the flanks and try to divide the region such a person and their interest will be flagged.It will be the worst stigma africa has ever known.It is important to do this.We are going to have to deal with the forces that have kept our people on their knees for so long.It is time to see it off for ever! The world was once more watching young people in eastern nigeria being mowed down with glee.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>The absurdity of this event was only rivalled and surpassed by its gravity and offence it evoked. For here we were watching history being repeated.It more than proves our point.Across from them in neighboring Camerouns their kindreds are in a similar situation.Just like in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century the people are being massacred.People are killed because they dared to question intruders.In the present day so called western camerouns and the congo region men had their heads cut off and displayed aloft to scare others.The grand father of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was killed in the public sqaure(Nkwor NNewi) for daring the imperialists.The blood of our great men and women have paid for our voices.Anyone who tries to silence us will face divine providence and destiny.Now see the evil seed in the likes of men among us in the thousands.These look right down on everyone else.They proudly wear the of surrogates.These shameless africans now do the dirty work that europeans are too ashamed to do in africa.They are proud willing tools and allies.The only thing is they lack capacity to think in terms of mutuality.We do not wish to depend on kindness. We demand compassion and goodwill so that we can reach our own potentials and bear our own burden.We discover it is possible to build such relationship in our world.The african people must understand this fact.They must seek help within themselves and people of good conscience within the present world order.It is a mistake to play wait and see.It is wrong to see what happens.We have seen enough and it is not good.The upheavals continue and nothing happens.But the struggle for liberty will not usually subside. The indegenous or local incipient colonizers with no knowledge of history have no understanding of this fact and reality. They just hope that killing the people who protest will end the yearning to be free. Remember the people of eastern region were the ones who desired independence and waged the different battles for it relentlessly.The western camerouns was then part of eastern nigeria. It is therefore remarkable these events are occuring with a certain troubling pattern.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We wish to warn the "wanna be" presidents from the eastern part of nigeria to think again.Until the nigerian soceity is corrected being president in it is just personal fulfilment.The people of eastern nigeria are not stupid.If any person has such absurd ambition it is their own problem.We remember the many people of eastern extraction that had aspired to lead nigeria starting with the venerable Dr.Nnamdi Azikiwe, an eminent philosoper in his own right.He did everything he could have done and some more.He was denied by those who had nothing to offer but this mess we have right now.Have these men who are wasting their time forgotten Dr.Chuba Okadigbo who was murdered by those who he tried to please and accomodate and enlist as allies and political pals? This fine politician was killed like a cow. And Chuba was a brilliant Igbo son.Smart as they come!The Igbos and easterners did not know how to respond to his demise because he had put himself at cross purposes with their collective good.How about Dr Alexander Ekwueme? They took the political party he formed from him and then made him spend some more money and then some more money.Look how he ended up.Dr Ekwueme was smart and sagacious.He was a self-made man of worth.Most of what he had was from the sweat of his brow and reward of his sharp intellect.Dr K.O Mbadiwe toyed with the idea too. Are we going to forget Chief Arthur Nzeribe? Arthur is intelligent,street smart and fearless.Please do not forget Chief Dr. Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu.This man made friends with all sorts people in nigeria.But did they support his ambition for the presidency?</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We warn the political lightweights and featherweights prospects who are nowhere near these intellectual champions and giants to look themselves over in the mirror and think again.We do not try to glorify paper qualifications or even wealth rather we speak to quality of mind and arguments and logic.At this time leading nigeria is not as important as self determination.Our people and their future is being systematically destroyed.The idea of using the lure for the presidency to delay the correction that will help tens of millions of nigerians is a sign of where we are as a people.The people who are being played for fools must rethink and do things differently.If you show you can't be ignored you wouldn't.And those doing this to us are not our match at all.So quit the shameless auditioning and fight for your survival and the progress of the people you love.It is a better and more important goal.When your brothers and sisters can receive good education and find jobs you have achieved something good. If you make them useful in solving problems in their own environment and experience good communual life and you know you had a part in it it is rewarding.So lets get to work. It can be done.If nigeria needs us it is fine.If not we were a people before they came along!We made nigeria.Nigeria did not make us.The people of eastern nigeria need to understand that no other region would have allowed what they have endured.</center> <br> <cenetr>It is their resource that has been vandalized and stolen and hidden all around the globe by the kleptomaniacs.Enough is enough.And it is time it said to those who think they are clever!If they call you Ijaw and Annang or Ibibio and Calaabari and Effik and tell you the igbo is your enemy are you daft? Are they your friends? Why are you enemies with the one related to you by blood? The people in eastern nigeria come from one family.It is not ancient history.It is a recent matter.Some of us can recite the history without looking for any reference.So in northern nigeria they are one people? It is not what we heard.Someone deceived another and snatched up his lunch is what we heard! And they are not even related.In the eastern region the population are one family and one people.They like you to imply that everyone from every place north of the niger and benue is a northerner.But even the British colonialist did what they could to preserve the identity of the people of the middle belt.And they themselves fought the attempt by some acting like crocodiles to swallow them. They knew the intent was for the purpose of arm twisting the rest.So why are they fighting?Why do we have Boko Haram and armed herdsmen and marauders and bandits?Do you know the number of dialects in western nigeria? How about in northern nigeria?Love your neighbor and prosper! Our people survived for thousands of years and those who just arrived on the scene will take our resources and then enslave us?</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>When that has been sorted out we can talk about nigerian leadership.Our own survival as a people is what is most paramount to the people at this time.Again before somebody runs off praise singing and parading himself as a leader, let such a fellow determine his interest and the corporate interest of the people of eastern nigeria. It is pathetic to note that these men are not able to determine that they are nothing at the moment but mere pawns.Rather than see issues and matters as they are they have this perception that they are exceptional.And we just cannot see it.In the first place what exceptional minds do is to call and determine malfunctions.They do not want to ride it as though it is normal.The people of eastern nigeria have become stigmatized in nigeria.It is a scheme that was framed to hurt them.It must be changed.They do not deserve it. Nigeria indeed africa owe them a depth of gratitude.Nigeria owes them a deep felt appology.The war was not a mistake. It was a deliberate attempt to destroy a people.If the nigerian authorities did not understand that but they were working for interests that did. Today we see the effort to cease every gateway in and out of nigeria having it manned by just one set of people in a federal republic.The customs and immigrations in even nations that are not diverse are made to be inclusive.Every strategic position in these entities in nigeria is taken by the same people out of just plain pure vanity! Can't they feel it? It seems and feels so odd. Nigeria wants to have a situation where the personal effects of the people of eastern nigeria returning from outside is examined by those who can't hide the hatred they feel against them.You feel it as they interact with you.They wish to frighten off some people from a space thier ancestors claimed for tens of centuries before these ones showed up.Some people are trying hard to split nigeria.But they put on a facade so that other people are blamed for it! They are killing nigeria. And their stigma of the people of eastern nigeria especially the Igbos will no longer matter at all.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>And that stigma exists till date.The constant accusation was they are too ambitious.They challenge authority.But all they have is an alternate point of view. Here we have a roving band of murderers armed to the teeth and it is business as usual.The system builds a revolving door for them. They try being terrorists and if they do not like it it then the government retrains them for some other activity! What a scam.They capture citizens and trade them for cash. In the typical "suffering and smiling" attitude of nigerians they have been weathering it.The culprits are received back into society without preconditions. And are being rehabilitated while their peers are still fighting. As they transform into " fulani herdsmen" the sentence of death hangs over the heads of the citizens.Now they have turned to kidnapping citizens for ransomes.The government we have learnt even pays the kidnappers. One only hopes this allegation is false.Otherwise it turns the nation into a goldmine for the bandits.Incidentally this will only be a new low. The christian south east had a pogrom foisted on them and and five million people were killed as a result.And their society was completely destroyed.The people were neither rehabilitated nor was there ever any conscious attempt to rebuild the portion of nigeria that was purposely savaged by those who envied the progress it was making.The reason it is important to be fair minded is because you will not need to explain your actions all the time.The relationship of the other parts of nigeria and eastern nigeria has always begged explainations.Again the same type of worrisome events that caused the pogrom and massacre of the Igbo people and other people from eastern nigeria are repeating.And it is not for anyone to tell the people how best to react.</center> <br> <div align="left"><cite> Igbo people gem of africa <--- <img src="thepeo.jpg" align="left" width="160" height="160" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> <div align="left"><cite> <img src="meirinafrica.jpg" align="right" width="180" height="180" alt="WE ARE YOUR PARTNERS IN UNVEILING YOUR BUSINESS TO THE WORLD"/></div></cite> <center><font color="brown"><strong>REBUILD EASTERN NIGERIA TOO: EASTERN NIGERIA HAS SUFFERED MUCH NEGLECT</font></strong><center> <br> <div align="right">Visit from a big cousin ----------></div> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> What type of impression is the nigerian leadership creating in the mind of members of the society especially the youth? If nigeria actually is looking for a future that includes all the parts it must reflect in the way issues are handled.The leaders must be seen to be fair to all. There has to be equity and justice must not only be done but must be seen to have been done.Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe is no longer available to plead nigeria to the people of south eastern nigeria.He seemed to be the only one who cared about equity and justice.The people watched his galantry fall far short and his words fall on deaf ears. If their observation and experience lead them to conclude it is not worth it the nation is finished.Those who lead must convince every segment by their actions.The casual reaction to the yearnings of certain segments of the society is the reason the talk about unity will not resonate with them. If the youths from northern nigeria can pick up arms so can the youths from the south.It is important to make that clear to those who have difficulty understanding these type of issues. They make it difficult for the ones who desire peace and could attain it.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>Those of us who preach peace and unity must be realistic and forthright. It is one thing to close ones eye and continue to echo empty words. It is a different matter to speak words that are matched with actions. Nigeria has been a bad investment for the people of eastern nigeria.They own seventy five percent or even more of the resources nigeria runs on. But the society will not build roads in the area. It will not rebuild the degraded environments even from the ruin and damage from oil prospecting and drilling.The place is in disrepair and decay. We reject the blame on the governors in this part.Other parts of nigeria do not have angels. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We know the government is concerned for the citizens of the north eastern nigeria and that is understandable. But it begs the question why do the people of south eastern nigeria who never wanted to fight a war endure a far worse predicament in nigeria than those that are still fighting? Boko Harm has not surrendered.If it has the world will need to know.There is a very elaborate program of rehabilitation and it is budgeted for.When the war on eastern nigeria ended there were only empty promises.Very pious fancy words were spoken and promises were made.But the promises were not meant to be kept. The excuse we are given is that the promised "Three R" after the so called war was abandoned because a particular politician was against it.</center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>We do not think it is enough to abandon a program of government because of the objection of one person.The nigerian government promised the people of eastern nigeria a program of "Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation".The "administrator" of east central state Mr. Ukpabi Asika became the punching bag and a subject of angst and wrath of the frustrated people.He was accused of corruption by the people.He maintained his innocence claiming the federal government never provided any funds for the reconstruction as promised.The more he tried to defend the federal government in their ambivalent silence the more the people lampooned him in songs and cryptic jokes.It seemed as if the government of nigeria forgot a people who came out of a very severe disaster.It maintained the silence as time dulled the need and urgency. </center> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center> Reconstruction of the area was abandoned due to the objection of the politician whose name and opinion we have.There is no question that as a result of that type of atmosphere and nature of government at the time in question he prevailed.We know this same politician was among the ones who rejected the peace accord that would have prevented the war.In the face of these kind of capriciousness unity and peace is not possible.We intend to diligently highlight the wounds of our nation.It makes cure and remedy a lot easier.If the intention and desire are there to seek reconciliation in the nation it must be wholesome.Today as nigeria rehabilitates the north east it must do the same for the south east.The effects of the war did not disappear they are covered by clouds and paints of emotions.Nigeria must show fundamental fairness and equity.Those are the major pillars of unity and peace. If these things are set in motion peace is possible.Empty words and threadbare cunningness will fail.The people are not stupid and there is no way for anyone to deceive them. If they determine they have had enough it is over!</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center> It is neccessary to draw the attention of the world to the suffering of the people in the area that provides all the resource the nigerian state uses.A typical example is that a poor farmer could have his farmland with farm crops completely destroyed by prospecting and drilling activities and there is no way to seek compensation. As if that is not enough nomadic cattle rearers descend on the farmland of indegenes vandalizing the crops.How this can be justifiable is a wonder. You have a person who has a business of rearing cattles desiring to sustain his business by wiping out the crops of a farmer. How should the farmer have the burden of nurturing the cattle of a cattle breeder? Why is nigeria being turned into a private estate in reality? The authors of this madness must thank themselves for the breakup that is imminent.If nigeria cannot build spare part malls for the igbos or "adire" and "gele" shops for yoruba women it must abandon the idea of government funded cattle ranches.There are two hundred ethnic nationailities in nigeria.And it is a federal government. What government is not able to replicate for all groups it must not start. It will not only have the appearance of nepotism it is nepotism.It is not the job of government to be sponsoring ethnic chauvinism.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>The behavior of the herdsmen has attained a troubling momentum and must now be called what it is.On January 5 2016 the people of a quiet southern town of Ubulu Ukwu woke up to a normal day.So they had hoped.But their monarch had been kidnapped by Fulani herdsmen.It is a great abomination in Igboland for a monarch to perish under such circumstances.But the kidnappers meant to humiliate this kingdom."Ubulu" tree in Igbo culture is used for marking boundaries and building hedges."Ubulu Ukwu" has a significance in the history of the migration and hence the survival of the Igbo people.It is very clear that the people executing the script we are watching in nigeria are very particular about their targets.Recently they targeted the daughter of the leader of a think tank organisation of the yoruba people.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>There are so many people who recoil and even try to shrink to make for peace.It is how civilization and a people disappear.When someone invades your space and embark on a campaign of violence you must resist it or perish.These events are not isolated incidents.We all witness the big tussle between egypt and ethiopia over the building of a certain damn over the nile.But some people within nigeria had damned the niger river up north within nigeria without considering the effect on the other peoples.The southern niger was depleted almost completely.They will never be able to do it outside of nigeria.They will be too afraid the behave in such a way.But within they have subdued everyone!So they imagine.If not how could you have damned a water source like the niger without any conversation with anyone?The people wake up and a water source they are used to for generations had disappeard.It is never how you approach communual life! It is how some people give themselves away as bad neighbors.You are not going to treat fellow citizens in such a way.And those who are gradually heading to perdition must wake up.If the idea of unity is to loose everything you own perhaps it is time to think again.Those who have been deceiving themselves since with the little pacifiers they are given to suck on from time to time must wake up too.They might be the first victim. It is the way oppression works.</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>We have war of attrition and intimidation going on.They are becoming more and more emboldened.And the communities must rise to the occassion.These kingdoms especially in Igboland existed for thousands of years before any of these unabridged turbulence.The people must ensure their own survival.And must protect their way of life and insitutions.In the last few weeks priests and other members of the clergy are being slaughtered with glee!How can the government respond to these events by banning the various organisations that wish to protect communual life? In what way has the government shown that it has the capacity to control these events? Under the government of Chief Olusegun Obasonjo the "OPC" a yoruba organisation tried to flex its muscles.Even though it waged the battles that brought the general to power he did not only condenm the actions that appeared to be improper but banned the organisation.He went further and asked law enforcement to shoot at sight anyone found to be creating anarchy under the banner of the said organisation.No one was killed as a result of the order! The man understood the thinking of the people behind the noise.Nepotism is impeachable in a proper democracy.I know in nigeria you can pocket most people especially if you choose a chief justice you are able to pocket with no qualms.And who is not able to say no to you.Who will stand "tall" for the ordinary man? And he will look up to you like a dog would a master.Who can't even look into your face and eyes to require answers and demand justice.Some people will never understand the meaning of a democracy due to their inherent martial nature.So we see impunity and most of us are not suprised at all. </center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp<center>But we are seeing a situation where the abuse and desecration of institutions of kingdoms and ethnic nationalities seem to be rewarded by the authorities.We wish to warn that even the appearance of this situation is dangerous. Obviously nigeria is not one happy homogeneous ethnicity.If anyone will descend on the people and their way of life they have the right to reject such imposition and have always done for generations! Very soon communities will reject the presence of these gun wielding murderers in their midst and it will not be any matter for which the people behind this scheme can do much.If you have no respect for institutions of a community they have a right to require that you seek sanctuary somewhere else.We are told the men who are destroying our communities are not even nigerians.So then who are these people and why are they armed in nigeria where the citizens are suppose to turn over their own arms to a beleagered police force?</center> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<center>It sounds like provocation of a serious nature. The politicians are not looking to bring these issues and demand that society redress them properly.They will make attempts and are drowned out by those who see themselves as overlords. As if that was all they wished to do they will give up.Perhaps the people should be made to realize that the goose that lays the golden egg can choose to rest. It happens in nature.There is an Igbo proverb that says "if those who enjoy eating beans will not pamper the one who prepares it, he or she may avoid the tedium".What that means is that there will be no beans for those on the table. 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