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Recent events in Nigeria would have convinced many Nigerians who had hitherto been in denial about the injustices and marginalization prevalent in our society. As for my Igbo brothers and sisters who have complained bitterly about the zoning arrangement single handedly dictated by the infamous hater, Olusegun Obasanjo, which sought to push the Igbo, a major ethnic group into political oblivion, I urge them to take heart. Obasanjo is not God and whatever he has done now can only be temporary. Besides the elections were massively rigged. In a normal free and fair election the Igbo can use their massive numerical strength to negotiate political positions, but in the awkward situation where votes no longer count as elections are rigged without any remorse, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Obasanjo and his evil co-travellers choose to share political positions according to their bankrupt morals and ethnic bias.
{mosgoogle}On the flipside, it is also a good thing that some of these things are happening as it will serve to finally convince many Igbo politicians and moneybags that they have no stake in Nigeria as presently constituted, which will eventually induce them to join and or add their very strategic voice and effort to the MASSOB self determination project. The patience so far of Ndigbo has remained critical to the continued survival of Nigeria . I remain absolutely confident that when the Igbo finally wake-up from their slumber and decide to mount a muscular challenge against the Nigerian establishment, Nigeria would become history. as no nation has survived 2 civil-wars.
Nigeria is quite simply “one nation in injustice.” The evidence abounds all around us. With the end of the civil-war, the villains of the war (civil-war produced no heroes) masquerading as lovers of “one Nigeria,” when in reality all they loved was the crude oil deposits, began manifesting their true colours when they began redrawing the boundaries of oil producing areas in Imo, Abia states by annexing them into Rivers state to deprive the Igbo of any substantial oil deposits, and the mindless exploitation and subjugation of the Niger-Delta which has in recent times occasioned the MEND insurgency as a natural response to long years of deprivation and injustice. The marginalization of Ndigbo also became a feature of the evil politics of the post-war villains which has also naturally occasioned the MASSOB struggle.
Fela Anikulapo Kuti said it years ago, that Nigeria is worse than an Apartheid state. How the authorities in Nigeria hopes to build their dream “one Nigeria” through injustice, exploitation and marginalization remains to be seen. The continued incarceration of Uwazuruike whose MASSOB group is non-violent is a testimony to the evil mentality and mental inferiority of Nigerian leaders. The federal governments recent actions is a clear indication that they only redress the grievances of armed violent groups. Their actions have tacitly supported and encouraged MASSOB or other groups to take up arms. The government have in effect sown the seeds of conflict. Perhaps they are confident that they can crush by force of arms any armed insurgency. This reasoning is not a surprise. The mindset of the average Nigerian leader does not evolve with the times.
And that is why in 2007, they organized elections that where worse than those organized years earlier. Rather than move forward, they continue to move backward, both in their chicken heads and in their actions. In their stupidity they have failed to realise the changed realities around the world. They have failed to note how less than I million East Timorese battled the formidable Indonesian army in deadly urban insurgencies and eventually gained independence. They have failed to realise how the mighty Soviet Union could not stop the break-up of their republic. They have failed to observe how Vietnam prevailed in war against the formidable United States army using guerrilla warfare methods, they have failed to observe how the Iraqi Kurds fought against the genocidal Saddam Hussein and prevailed against all odds, they have failed to observe how the American army is being humiliated in Iraq. They fail to realise that even the civil-war which was a full-scale conflict as against an insurgency by faceless groups, lasting for close to 3 years against all odds is indicative of what can be today when militant groups take up arms.
Because they are foolish and evil, they have failed to reflect on the increasing sense of ethnic divisions, proliferation of ethnic militia’s and increasing call for self determination by various ethnic groups. Any wise group of leaders would have done some honest soul searching and ask themselves: Why is it that 37 years after the civil-war and 47 years after independence Nigerians are increasingly divided?
Why is it, that even with the creation of 36 states, more people are disillusioned now than they have ever been?
Why is it that Nigeria is getting farther and farther away from becoming a true nation?
Why is it that more people now favour disintegration?
And why is it that the call for a sovereign national conference has remained consistent?
What can we do to address the grievances of the various groups, foster reconciliation and commence genuine nation building?
These are the questions that wise and genuine leaders who truly love the nation, not the fake “one Nigerianists” or “Crude oil Nationalists” should be asking. But rather what we have is a bunch of self hating, mentally inferior, idiotic leaders who have adopted the erstwhile colonialists methods of killing or detaining anybody who speaks out against injustice or asks for self determination. These bunch of new internal colonisers, worse than the erstwhile European colonialist in many respects have continued to live in delusion that they can kill the will of the people through arrests and assassinations. They failed to realise that even the European colonialists in spite of their formidable armies still had to in the end grant independence to the various colonised nations.
Just like the colonialists, the Nigerian pseudo-nation is to bound crumble under the weight of her injustices and internal contradictions. Many are praying for it, many are beginning to fight for it, more and more will join the fight and sooner or later we are going to dance on the grave and ashes of an utterly evil, demonic and genocidal Nigeria.
As obvious and glaring injustices increases by the day, the ranks of nationalists and potential extremist fighters will continue to swell. I know many people who believed in Nigeria before, but who have now changed their minds because of recent events in Nigeria. It is a good thing that Nigerian leaders have vindicated MASSOB and other groups who have always insisted that it is impossible to get justice In Nigeria. Yar’Adua as a product of an evil system cannot act differently from a nation whose logic of existence is evil and injustice.
Perhaps it is time MASSOB and other groups shed their non-violent stance and take up arms against the federal government. In doing that they will be justified in fighting for the emancipation and independence of the Igbo nation. The blame for any armed insurgency should rest on the table of the federal government which sowed the seeds of conflict. It is part of the fundamental rights of man to fight for his independence by any means necessary in any environment where there is injustice, inequality and where he is being inhibited from achieving his full potentials.
There are many methods through which the Igbo can make Nigeria ungovernable as the determination for emancipation increases. Beginning from mass civil rights rallies, demonstrations and riots, up to extremist insurgencies which can be very effective through classic guerrilla warfare methods of laying ambushes and assassination of strategic government officials, the bombing and or blowing up of police, army barracks, SSS offices, government parastatals, the sacking or sabotage attacks of oil producing installations in Imo, Abia states and Igbo speaking areas of Rivers state including the oil producing forcefully annexed Igbo territories of Egbema, Obigbo, the Ukwa Villages etc the use of truck bombs in Abuja to target government installations and officials etc. These classic methods have been used around the world by groups like the Irish IRA, Kenyan Mau Mau, the freedom fighters in East Timor, erstwhile Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and present day Iraq etc. In all cases they prevailed as insurgency wars are largely unwinnable.
All it will take is a few sufficiently indoctrinated and determined men and women with machine guns, rocket propelled grenades (RPGS), improvised explosives devices (IEDS), dynamites, and perhaps a resumption of the production of civil-war era “ogbunigwe” bombs which was known to be highly effective for the purposes of ambushes and the blowing of strategic oil and government installations.
There is nowhere in history, where an oppressed people did not eventually take up arms against their oppressors in spite of whatever odds existed. Civil protests and insurgencies as a response to oppression and injustice has begun in Nigeria, and will predictably widen and get worse hence the federal government has chosen to suppress, arrest and kill aggrieved groups rather than dialogue with them. As for those Nigerians who genuinely desire a united Nigeria, I sympathise with them, but al least it has become clear by now, that the true enemies of Nigeria are the leaders.
Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu
Email:lawrencenwobu@yahoo.com
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Posted by Robot| 23.06.2007 22:43