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A Funeral Oration Presented at the Death of Nigeria |
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Tuesday, 25 May 2004 |
Friends, you can never be Romans or Countrymen!, We don’t have a country.
I come to bury Nigeria and ensure that she is buried. Her maladrous stench insults heaven and intimidates earth.
Do we talk about the evil that men do? In Nigeria, it germinates and fructifies fourfolds in our lifetime.
Obasanjo is a king of the Jungle by divine rights. He is an honourable man. PDP is an honourable party. When an honourable party kidnaps a governor, it is a family affair. When an honourable party kills one of its Vice chairmen, it is a deed by armed robbers. When an honourable party trustee chairman threatens people with supreme mortal injuries, the victims are bludgeoned into apologies. Nigerians are idiots and greviously have we answered it.
Obasanjo is a noble man and PDP is a noble party.
If he is not an honourable man, how then can a planned peaceful protest become a threat to his omnipotence? How can a suspect of a capital crime stand for an election from the Prison yard and join senate deliberations from Kirikiri. That is only in PDP, the noblest party of...(in Africa) erase gangsters, that was a printers devil.
The fool is he who has refused to accept that OBJ is a king by divine rights and the only solution, like Abacha and IBB, to the Nigerian problem. I did not say they are thieves!, though billions of Dollars was placed in their accounts by their different gods while they slumbered and slept.
And when the President blesses his subjects with a presidential idiot and CAN my foot, he is simply being presidential in bearing and manners. After all, he presides over a population of 130 million idiots.
When debauched youths earnestly yearned for Abacha, a little over 120 million idiots looked on idiotically. When the noblest party of pathological thieves stole election 2003 as Anenih told us in Port Harcourt they would, a little over 120 million idiots went to their beds grumbling to their pillows. Today, a compromised set of Old he goats are clamouring for the advent of another thieving enterprise under an IBB government, a 130 of these idiots are looking on as they are being maradonically out dribbled a second time.
Nigeria is dead. We must bury it or its stench will drive us nuts. Though she was conceived as a bastard out of the adulterous liasions of colonial boardrooms, she subsisted as a cow to be milked dry and perpetually butchered for suya. While alive our Hausa/Fulani brothers did their bit in herding her with skill and expertised like a herd of cattle into the Bretton woods of doubts and debts. She went into coma under IBB and Abacha. In 1999 a democratic blood transfusion tried to rescue her out of the ICU, then she was raped and infected with the acquired immune deficiency sharia by the He-goat from Zamfara. OBJ had no vaccines for that. Other 11 Northern He-goats followed suit, with repeated rape and assault, infecting her with a cocktail of drug resistant and mutated forms of other socio-political veneral diseases. The hijacked senate and the puerile House of Reps became a hotbed of furniture allowance and Ghana-Must-Go. The economy grew from bad to worse as OBJ jumps and globetrots. Her obituary became a foregone conclusion, but corruption and inequity held the country together as we jostled to out-steal one another in the race to fill our individual pockets. PDP stole almost all the vantage positions from which its regime of robbery is conducted with least resistance. Audu Ogbe became the Justice minister, the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal or rather the High Court of Apology rolled into one. Every crime against the state, became a PDP family affair. OBJ became the Police forensic and ballistics expert in chief, as he was able to pinpoint with unparalleled precision and accuracy, the angle of piercing; the muzzle and recoil velocities; the calibre and the speed of each bullet expended by the „armed robbers“ that murder those who fall out with some PDP power brokers, without stealing or making away with anything. The Police stooge that was Tafa Balogun looked on as Nigerians die daily at the hands of gun-wielding lay and police robbers in our streets, homes and highways. Anti-corruption crusade left the big fishes IBB, Tony Anenih and his works ministry and other high calibre rogues that bestrode the embrace and fished out the small fries or the fishes that fell out with the god that was OBJ.
Many Nigerian familes became fierce competitors with the vultures and other scavenging foragers of the garbage heaps that has become the major Tourist attraction in our city capitals. The Governors kept stealing their states and local government area allocations and stashing them in foreign accounts. And for every Joshua Dariye or James Ibori, there exists over 30 other governing thieves who help themselves to their state’s funds. Ngozi Iweala and her feminine undersecretary were deluded into thinking that sanity exists here as their shoutings, accusations and indictment of the State Chief executives trailed into oblivion, without concrete action investigative action of such a high profile accusation by either the relevant authorities; the senate, not even ICPC. None of the governors threaten to resign if Iweala does not prove her allegation against them. None of them instituted asuit against her and her office for such an „unwarranted allegation“. Neither did the President cause his attorney general to institute an investigative committee at the Federal Executive Council level to look into the allegations. Iweala been a world class financial technocrat knew the legal implications of her statements and allusions in that direction, yet no one saw it as weighty enough to warrant a serious consideration.
The 300billion naira roads built or maintained by Anenih seemed to be constructed in Mars. No evidence exists anywhere to justify such a huge expense. Yet no one is asking questions. I urge OBJ to scrap ICPC and apologise to the family of Sunday Afolabi for arraigning him before the courts of public opprobrium, while the man that „fixed it“ walks scot free. OBJ like Raji Rasaki of Lagos-Maroko demolition fame, sent the bulldozer at the toll gates. The proceeds of that Toll gate was yet to be accounted to Nigerian commuters who for years were forced to pay this road tax, which invariably they believed will be ploughed in maintaining the roads. The roads were not maintained and the money accruing therefrom remain unaccounted for. Today, many potential Chinua Achebes, Wole Soyinkas, Aminu Kanos are today citizens of cemetries consequent upon these bad roads.
As poverty ate deep intothe people, primordial frustrations came to the fore. Religious fanatics killed for their dead gods. Muslim idiots burnt 48 Christians in a church. The Christian sons of thunder decided that no religion has a monopoly of violence. All in Yelwa Plateau state. The inspector general failed the nation again as his grotesque incompetence and that of is rotten Police false became attenuated. The Holy Governor of Kano state felt that Islam was threatened because the Christians for the first time decided to give an eye for an eye. The Ulama council Chairman in Kano led a protest March after Muslim organizations had a day meeting declaring and giving the Federal government an ultimatum. The Muslims rioted in Kano killing people and looting shops in the name of Allah. OBJ swallowed the insult to his authority by the Islamic fanatics. He came down to Jos and vomitted more of the insults on the Christian fanatics.
Fuel prices have been increased arbitrarily by the marketers for best flimsy excuse in the world. The government seemed powerless in the face of this.Despite the rise in the price of crude oil in the world market, it has not translated to a better life to Nigerians of all strata except the stealing politicians whose fat accounts and fat cheeks paints a picture of wellness, while their subjects look like kwashiokor victims of a refugee camp. The Niger Delta that lays this golden egg has remained a backwater of irrelevance while a piece of desert like Abuja was courtesy of the petrodollars from the Niger Delta, transformed into an ultra modern city of glass and concrete.
Fellow countrymen, this has been so long an oration, the tomb is really itching to lay its hands of finality on this stinking cadaver before us. Let us lift the fingers covering our nostrils in puerility and give this decomposed body a shove into a long overdue rest.
Nigeria is dead. Let the Sharia North declare itself an Islamic Republic of Northern Nigeria. The West can call themselves whatever they want, likewise all other ethnic federations. Let no one disturb the Ogonis and the people of the Niger Delta, they have a right to seceed with the ocean of oil coursing beneath them. Their most Christian land cannot be funding a contraption that bears them ill will and massacres them when they profess their faith or reside in the North. Let every one get to his tent. It is over. OBJ is only pretending. He is holding to nothing. Just like Nero, he will continue fiddling until it all burns down. The weird sisters told Macbeth that he cannot be destroyed by a man born of a woman. May be Nigerians may be thinking that way. But they should remember that there exists Cesarian sections. Not every man is born. Some are yanked off their mothers wombs.
May the Soul of Nigeria and that of all the faithful departed...Through the mercy of God rest in Peace
Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh can be reached at ogbunwezeh@nigeriavillagesquare.com
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