| Practical Steps To Breaking-up Nigeria |
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| Written by Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 26 May 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Some years ago the American intelligence community looked deep into the soul of Nigeria and predicted her break-up in 15 years. It will be foolhardy to assume they were wrong. Every indices and every prognosis points to the same dire conclusions. I sympathise with those who continue to play the ostrich, and those who are afraid of change even if it means self determination and freedom. Nigeria is not for real and was never meant to be. The evidence abounds all around us. Since her creation over 3 million people have died as a consequence of her existence. From the Tiv riots, to the Western region Akintola- Awolowo crisis, to the pogrom, to the genocidal civil-war, to frequent ethno-religious riots, to government massacres and decimation of whole communities i.e. Odi and Zaki-biam etc to routine Army and Police brutality and extra-judicial murders, Nigeria is quite simply a nation that drips in the blood of her own supposed citizens. It is a nation at constant war with itself. The toil, tears, brutality and death Nigerians have faced within their own boundaries is much more than any, ever witnessed from White Colonial masters, or even the South African Apartheid regime at the height of it's power. The Apartheid regime in its worst days never wiped out whole communities as is ever so common in Nigeria, neither did their Police or Army routinely brutalise, rape and murder citizens without any provocation as is the case with Nigeria. Nations exist for the enhancement of the common good and protection of the basic fundamental rights of her citizens, but Nigeria functions only to protect the new internal colonisers who took over from the White Masters. It is an outpost of evil, a nation of unbelievable oppression, and injustice. The logic or purpose for Nigeria s existence has long been defeated. The tragedy of leadership and the un-progressive feudal caliphate system that produced idiots like the lousy, unconscionable and mentally inferior Olusegun Obasanjo as president is part of the price we are paying for being in a nation that shouldnt be. It is not an accident that Nigeria has never produced any great and progressive leader. It has not and will never be in the interest of the new internal colonisers, or feudalist cabal to produce young progressive new generation dynamic leaders. As long as Nigeria exists, they will rather always opt for a recycling of stooges whose only mission is a preservation and continuation of the status quo stranglehold. That system has successively produced all the ethnic idiots and mentally inferior charlatans who have misruled Nigeria to-date, and empowered evil, rapacious buccaneers and profiteers like Chris Uba, Lamidi Adedibu and Sunday Ehindero who lack any iota of conscience. I have thus come to the conclusion that breaking up Nigeria is a task that must be done. My research has shown that it is actually easier to break-up Nigeria now than it was in the 60s. The world has changed so much since the 60 s. Arms are now more readily available, and new very effective methods of guerrilla warfare are now so common place, such that a faceless guerrilla army of just 2000 men can bring the nation to its knees as we can see in Iraq. Many new nations are increasingly becoming independent through United Nations organised referendums like in East Timor, Montenegro etc, with more independence referendums coming up in Kosovo and Southern Sudan . The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 without firing a shot in spite of their stockpile of formidable conventional and nuclear weapons. It is thus obvious that the geo-politics of the world is changing rapidly to make it easier for Nigeria s eventual break-up. Anything but Nigeria , even if it means each of the 36 states becoming a nation. During the course of my research I have come to discover that there are many unbelievably tiny nations, some of which like Monaco have a landmass of just 1.4 km² yet they were able to make successful thriving nations that enjoy unlimited prosperity, human rights and freedom. See link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density . The most practicable way to tear down Nigeria , under the current world geo-politics is 2 fold. (1)A massive mobilization of international support by regularly contacting and lobbying the United States government and civil-society, the United Nations, the World Jewish council, the British government, civil society and House of Lords, the World council of churches, the French government and civil society, the Chinese government etc. In the case of the Chinese government they would be very willing to back you up with arms and logistics once crude oil is part of the bargain. (2) The raising of a well armed and determined faceless militia, using guerrilla methods to specifically target government officials, strategic infrastructure, Police, Military personnel, crude oil installations etc to make the nation ungovernable. The predictable reaction of the federal government with waves of massacres will increase the sympathy and support of the local populace for the militia and attract the attention of the international community which will eventually lead to the intervention of the United Nations to conduct a referendum on self rule. Sometimes such struggles take time, but in the end it succeeds. It is a classic strategy long employed by many nations and most recently by East Timor, a tiny enclave of only 1 million people that courageously resisted the Indonesian armed forces using guerrilla methods while some of their leaders on exile lobbied the international community until the United Nations intervened and conducted an independence referendum. Guerrilla warfare is a strategy of war by faceless militias that is impossible to defeat even by a heavily armed army. Around the world from Sri-Lanka (Tamil Tigers) to the Congo , Uganda to Iraq etc protracted un-winnable battles, some lasting decades have raged, mostly ending only when a political situation is found. Welcome To Biafra ! In terms of the struggle, the Igbo are still at the first and critical level of taking advantage of a large Igbo Diaspora to mobilise international support for Biafra . On the home front MASSOB has pioneered the grand beginning of Igbo activism, which though still non-violent, but is bound to take different shapes and dimensions including armed guerrilla militancy in the near future with the ultimate aim of bringing the United Nations to supervise a referendum. I have absolute confidence, that once the Igbo chooses to go down the road of guerrilla conflict, the famed Igbo spirit of determination, courage, creativity and aggression which sustained them against all odds for 3 years of civil-war will ensure the final dismantling of Nigeria. My research has shown that whatever the circumstances, there are no constraints to Biafra . The territory and land area might cover the whole or part of the old Eastern region and even beyond or be restricted to native Igbo speaking areas spread across the Igbo triangle of Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Anioma, and Igbo areas of Rivers state. Indeed even if the Igbo choose to construct their nation on the pedestal of only the 5 South East states, there will still be no constraints. Singapore a nation with a landmass of just 704.0 sq km is the 17th richest nation in the world with an economy premised on small scale enterprises and manufacturing. See link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore Taiwan is interestingly a nation that has a lot of similarities with the South East, with a total landmass of 32, 260 sq km, see link: https://www.odci.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tw.html roughly the same landmass as the present day 5 South East states and a population of almost 24 million, they succeeded in building, through creativity and enterprise a very prosperous state. My research also revealed that Botswana though landlocked, is one of the most successful and richest African nations. Belgium and Netherlands are also nations of similar size with significant prosperity. There are therefore no constraints to the possibility of building a free and successful Biafra , with or without our Eastern neighbours, taking after the Asian Taiwanese model of large clusters of small scale enterprises, creativity and manufacturing. I have no doubt, that the Igbo once in their own nation, will become unfettered to use their hardwork, creativity and enterprise to build a prosperous nation. One of the immediate challenges of Ndigbo in the new nation would be to create a bustling metropolis that will suck in at least 15 million people. Lagos for example is just slightly over half the size of Anambra state yet it contains an estimated 15 million people, heading for 25 million by 2015. Even more eye opening is Delhi in India with a landmass of just 1,483 sq km less than a quarter of Anambra state, yet it has a population of close to 14 million people.See link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi In the years ahead, Ndigbo must be focused and resilient as we undertake this final journey in our necessary road to freedom from an evil nation and un-progressive feudalist cabal that like a Witch desires no progress, and seeks to hold down others desirous of progress in the same un-progressive boat. History has shown that no pseudo-nation can survive. The Ottoman Turk Empire collapsed after centuries of being together, the Roman and Greek empires collapsed, the Soviet union most recently collapsed against all odds, the British empire collapsed after centuries, and Scotland one of the last vestiges of the British empire recently voted in the Scottish national party whose campaign and aim is to separate from England after centuries of being together. This establishes beyond all reasonable doubts, that no matter how long it takes, pseudo-nations like Nigeria must inevitably break-up. Just imagine the possibilities in a free and independent Biafra . The Igbo are builders who have gone round building distant lands in Nigeria ; imagine what a great nation we can have if the Igbo can concentrate all or most of their investments in Biafra . Have no nostalgia or regrets for Nigeria , because Nigeria is not the wish of God, if Nigeria were the wish of God, the oppression, wickedness and injustice prevalent in the land would not be there. Long before there was any such place as Nigeria , there were Igbo people, and long after Nigeria would have passed away there would still be Igbo people. In this final struggle, many would die, but that is the necessary price for any struggle for freedom. Ndigbo were in the forefront of the struggle against the superior, craftier, and more formidable British in the struggle for independence and prevailed, there is no reason why we cannot prevail in this struggle against lesser mortals. Prepare for the rising sun, prepare for the new dawn of Biafra ! Comrade Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu
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Posted by Robot| 26.05.2007 08:24