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101 Persistent Truths About the Nigerian State |
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Wednesday, 30 June 2004 |
1. Nigeria is a haphazard manifestation of the illogic of a crazed British Administrator.
2. There is no Nigerian living today that can say that his/her ancestors subscribed to the creation of this entity.
3. No Nigerian had a part in the creation of this State.
4. None of the ethnic nations that are under the jurisdiction of the Nigerian State are under its jurisdiction by their own voilition.
5. This situation of Imposed jurisdiction reeks of colonialism.
6. The current leaders and negotiators in the Nigerian political system are those who are merely standing in the shoes of Colonialists and Imperialists.
7. Since Nigeria supposedly gained Independence; its economy has been geared towards supplying the needs of foreing Nations.
8. This mono product economy is reminiscent of the colonial era when Farmers were forced at gun point to grow cash crops that would satisfy the needs of Britain.
9. The Nigerian State in order to ensure admninistrative control; function by inverting natural flows of Leadership. The British created an Improper power structure in the country by extending the dominion of Northern Islamic Fascists over Christian Peoples in the North and by deposing rulers that the people had chosen for themselves and replacing these rulers with stooges backed by force.
10. This is still the situation today; as there is no ruler in Nigeria past or present that hasnt derived his power from Imperialism.
11. IBB in all his looting escapaded was backed by British and American financiers as was Abacha etc.
12. The only elected representative of the peoples, MKO Abiola spoke out openly against Imperialism and foreing control in Africa. He was imprisoned with American consent; the Americans also backed Abacha in his self succession bid. Americans persuaded MKO to give up his mandate; which of course he refused, MKO died.
13. There is No Nigerian language. English as a language in NIgeria is a mere extension of Britain. Are we Africans or Britain extension AFRO?
14. There is No Nigerian culture.
15. Nigeria is not a pluralistic society because the Plural peoples it has under its jurisdiction are under such a jurisdiction by FORCE.
16. Nigeria cannot be said to be a MultiCultural Nation since it represses cultural and ethnic animations amongst those who are under its jurisdiction.
17. The process of Nigerianization will involve stamping out all traces of this ethnic and cultural animations. This can only occur through genocide.
18. Most of the loot from Nigeria ends up in the Western world.
19. Sustaining Nigeria as it is is tantamount to sustaining the work of the Imperialist.
20. The only hope for Nigeria is ethnic autonomy in a Federation of Nations NOT Regions or States.
21. The constant source of violence in the Nigerian State is Islamic Fascism. This singular phenomenon has killed more people than any act of ethnic Irredentism.
22. The de facto response of the Nigerian State to this Fascism has been to avoid any discussion of it or to cuddle the Islamic Fascists who initiate these attacks.
23. The Nigerian State has also been known to blame the victims of these fascist attacks.
24. Moslems have killed more Christians in Nigeria than Christians have killed Moslems.
25. Moslems have killed more Christians in Nigeria than Christians have killed Christians.
26. There is no region of the State today that agitates for its own law and its own distinct society more than the Islamic North. Yet, this same region insists on denying the other parts of the country any sort of native animation.
27. Indeed, the Islamic Fascists now want to introduce their own societies from within in other parts of the country and thus fragment the lands of the Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa etc.
28. Although Moslems have been indicted in the fermenting of so many riots, NO high ranking Moslem has been brought to trial or justice in a public manner of these matters.
29. The resolution of the Miss World riots is still pending.
30. Yet, President Obasanjo insists on attacking Christians in this matter of Ethnic revanchism.
31. This is because Obasanjo is a stooge, brought to power by the same Fascists.
32. The power structure which enthroned Obasanjo is backed by Imperialism.
33. The only hope out of the oppression of the Nigerian State is for all to recognise that the voice of Jacob behind the hand of Esau is the Imperialist. We have to recognise that we have ENEMIES and that regardless of who says what; We MUST defend ourselves.
34. The loss of life and property by Christians in the Nigerian State is alarming; yet, there has been no compensation.
35. It is thus evident that a way must be found OUT of the current imbroglio that is Nigeria.
36. The call to "Keep Nigeria One" is a wicked and suicidal call. It is a call made by selfish Men who only SEE what there is to be gained by virtue of being a Nigerian.
37. These selfish persons believe that Nigeria as the most populous and potentially most powerful African country serves as a bulwark and as a veritable voice for Black Interest all over the world. They think that splitting this entity erodes this advantage.
38. What these selfish persons fail to note is that for 100 YEARS, this so called Giant of Africa has shown us NO Giganticity in ANYTHING. Furthermore, in 40 years of Independence; this so called Giant has initiated a self destruct program that MAY end up taking down a significant portion of West Africa with it.
39. All they see is what is to be gained by being big, yet impotent. They do not see the blood and the lives that have been lost.
40. They fail to realize that that which enslaved you cannot now set you FREE. Nigeria is a slave master. It cannot be a liberator. The attempt to dine with the devil or to convince the leopard to change its spots, after 40 years has produced nothing but carnage.
41. These selfish people also fail to realize that there is NOTHING upon which they base their claim except sentimentalism and emotionalism. They cannot show that the Peoples under the jurisdiction of the Nigerian State are there by their own consent, they cannot show that Nigeria has any legality in the will of the people; yet by reason of emotional attachments; they wish to preserve a monster.
42. This kind of emotional attachment was not allowed to get in the way of the Slavics and the Czechs and the Uzbeks and the Tajiks who all snatched their Freedom from the Jaws of Imperialism.
43. The idea that breaking up confers no benefits is ridiculous. One might as well ask - "What Benefits does staying together confer?"
44. The standard of living now is MUCH lower than it was in the Pre-Colonial era; diseases cannot be combated, identity is fragmented and confusion reigns. Children are forgetting their languages and their History.
45. More people have been Killed in the area of the Niger confluence during the Colonial and Post-Colonial era than were ever killed in the Pre-Colonial era.
46. Not only is it immoral to subject peoples to governments and institutions that they reject, it is highly criminal also.
47. Nigeria has NEVER been one. Right from the period under the colonialists; Ethnic peoples had been agitating for Independence and autonomy BOTH in the North and South.
48. The new Nigerian republic was Shattered by civil war only 7 years into its life.
49. 40 years after, the same issues STILL are on the table.
50. The people who call for a Sovereign National Conference to determine the way forward in this country are not the Traitors who are splitting up the country.
51. The real traitors are the crooks and criminals who try to pretend that Nigeria is ONE when in fact, it has never been ONE.
52. The agitators for an SNC recognise that legislators cannot do the work of an SNC since they were elected by the Institutions of a State system who very legitimacy is in question.
53. Legislators cannot take the place of ethnic national representatives at an SNC because these legislators are crooks and criminals brought to power by centralized machineries of Fraud designed to perpetrate Hegemonic power structures.
54. The idea behind an SNC is NOT to renegotiate Power structures within the Nigerian State, it is to question the Idea of Nigeria itself.
55. An SNC gives peoples and Nations the opportunity to say "I want in" or "I want out"
56. We have HAD enough of some Idiots at a central location peering down at us from lofty heights and telling us what is good for us.
57. The Ethnicities of Nigeria are quite capable of determining their destiny and they should be allowed to. Why force them into an arrangement which they detest?
58. The common claim that these Ethnicities have NO Indigenous authorities, rights or sovereingties predating the Colonial era is plain crock!
59. If they possessed none of these as some intellectual frauds would now like to claim; then the system of rule under the British which was in many extents indirect would not have been possible in the first place.
60. The Yoruba do not derive their rights, identity, sovereingty or LIFE from the Nigerian State. They are an independent people who Predate and Pre-Existed Nigeria which authorities, sovereignties and territories ROOTED in Yoruba Land. This applied to the Urhobo, the Igbo, the Ijaw, the Tiv, the Jukun etc.
61. These peoples are not Tribes wandering around without a clue as to their own existence - they are formed, organized and structured societies - both now and then with settlements, customs and a History.
62. And yet, even those designated as tribes (such as the Iroquois and the Cherokee and Navajo) in North America retain a vast amount of autonomy.
63. Nigeria gives to none of those under its jurisdiction anything. It does not give them a language, a mythology, a name, a philosophy, a world view, a religion etc. Why should such a deficient idea be made to live at all costs?
64. The process of Nigerianization involves subverting the ethnic Nations against which the Imperialists first declared war. Thus Nigeria is continuing by its very essential structure, the war of the West on Africa.
65. And were Nigeria to be a democracy, then Populism would have its way. The tenets of all Populism dictate an adherence to the will of the people. The people want an SNC and they want autonomy. Why does the Nigerian State refuse?
66. Nigeria is a Dictatorship. It was born, formed, fashioned and created that way. Its rulers are chosen from Cabals of Former and Present Dictators.
67. The eternal question remains - "Why should we keep Nigeria one?" WHY? WE did not create it, we do not sustain it, it does not cater for us, it caters for foreigners - so why should we keep it one?
68. Is Nigeria our Home? NO; as the Northerners have quite clearly demonstrated.
69. Is Nigeria our FatherLand? NO; Oduduwa does not mean to the Igbos what he means to the Yorubas. WE are not children of the British, we are Africans.
70. What does Nigeria then mean to us? What does it mean to me? What does it mean to you? Sharia? Amputations? Religious Irredentism? Islamic Fascism? Stoogism? Lackeyism? Pumping Oil to the Fat and Greedy Westerners?
71. The Nigerian legal system is Imported. Its system of Governance is Imported. Its economic philosophy is imported. Thus Nigerian in and of itself means nothing. It is a mere extension of the wishes of Imperialists and other Foreigners.
72. There are those who argue that other countries such as the USA which experienced civil wars still managed to stay together. What they forget to add is that the Americans DECIDED to found the USA of their own Voilition. Nigerians DID NOT decide to found Nigeria or CREATE it; so they have no STAKE in it whatsoever. They are living in a borrowed tent.
73. There are those who argue that breaking Nigeria up will result in unviable Banana republics. What they forget to mention is that Hong Kong and Singapore etc while being exceedingly small in population, are doing quite very well on their own.
74. There are those who argue that the 1914 amalgamation is not an Isolated event but a continuing one; that is, North and Southern regions of the Niger confluence were already being amalgamated before the British through a Natural process and even continue afterwards.
75. This view is a blatant LIE. Why not argue that the Igbos and Present day Cameroonians were also in a process of being Joined as a Legitimacy for a new Biafro-Cameroonian State?
Why not argue the same for a Eko-Beninoise state?
76. Indeed, why not simply argue that the whole world was in a process of being joined before 1914 - and use that argument as a platform for the legitimacy of the Nigerian State?
77. The simple ludicrousity of such an argument would be that under such circumstances one would expect me to be able to walk into South Africa and claim it as my country; simply because of a process of Human interaction.
78. The truth is that whereas significant exchanges had occured between several of the ethnic Nations now in Nigeria before the British came; such exchanges were cognizant of regions of autonomy.
79. Indeed; exchanges are even now made between the USA and Mexico. Does this make the USA Mexico and does this make Mexico the USA?
80. The problem with Nigeria is not that it forces us to live together; but that it strips us of our authority.
81. The problem with Nigeria is not that Africans cannot get along but that they are being forced to get along.
82. The problem with Nigeria is that selfish interests have Interrupted the process of Mutual exchange between ethnicities, stripped these peoples of their authority and plundered their lands and resources.
83. Some have argued that were the State to be dissolved, mutual exchanges would continue.
84. This of course, is true.
85. But what these criminals who bring up this argument fail to tell us is that such exchanges would continue on the basis of a clear recognition of autonomy and territory and sovereingty.
86. Thus, a divorce might not neccesarily make a man and a woman ENEMIES.
87. Indeed, they might even become best of friends after the divorce; especially if such divorce annuled an arranged and unwanted marriage.
88. However; even if they were best of friends after the divorce, the Man can no longer claim certain rights the behove to a Marital relationship from the woman. He cannot expect anything from her that Friendship does not guarantee.
89. This is the way with Nigeria. It is a question of ethnic rights and priveleges and above all, authority and autonomy.
90. Another ridiculous argument is that the world is in a process of Globalization therefore Nigeria must stay together.
91. This is a big lie. If indeed the world is globalizing, then why cant I just hop into a plane and fly into Canada? Does globalization erase the rights of Peoples over their territories? I think NOT.
92. Furthermore; it is even in this era of Globalizing that we see MORE and MORE ethnic affirmations - such as what occurred in the USSR.
93. What Globalization does is that it creates platforms of Mutual and Equal exchange so Nations can ally themselves of their own violition.
94. We thus have agreements and treaties and organizations like NATO and EU where States SEEK to Join OF THEIR OWN VOILITION. Indeed, in a funny way, the Globalization argument DOES support an SNC and a possible split up of Nigeria instead of the other way round.
95. If Indeed the character and nature of Globalization was to be reflected in Nigeria; THEN, Ethnic Nations would be members of this Nigeria Construct OF THEIR OWN VOILTION.]
96. The construct would also be premised on an a priori recognition of the authority and autonomy of these ethnic Nationalities.
97. Is this the case in Nigeria? NO! Nigeria is about force and domination. Globalization is not about force and domination. It is about People opting into a platform of their own WILL after they have adjudged it capable of delivering certain benefits, satisfactions and gratifications.
98. Nobody under the jurisdiction of the Nigerian State today is there as a result of OPTING or CHOICE. This is contrary to the spirit of Globalization that the selfish elements love to talk about.
99. It is also ridiculous to talk about the constant conflicts in NIgeria as being some sort of provincialism, atavism or primitiveness. Such a position is just plain stupid. In their haste to mould Africa in the image of the West; these selfish elements measure every phenomenon by Western Standards. If we did the same; we would even realize that the West is even more provincial that the provincialists in Nigeria some talk about!
100. But for those who identify such concepts and ideas as "Yoruba" "Igbo" "Tiv" etc with some form of Tribalism or Primordialism; they will never be satisfied until they become some faceless, transluscnet "International Citizens". They claim they are Nigerians First and "Igbo" second; or "Nigerian" first and "Yoruba" second. Such nonsense! In their bid to aspire to that deception which they perceive as a higher state of social organization they fall right into the trap of Slavery - for what is Nigeria but a drawing on the map? These ones claim to be "advanced". They are "DeTribalised" or "UnTribalised" FOOLS! In their haste to reject their Yorubaness or Igboness; they PLAY right into the Trap of the Imperialist. Being Nigerian does not make you an African! It makes you a pseudo British! A dressed up Monkey! One in Need of Civilization! One who is being tutored and trained as though he had no sense! Africa does not mean Nigeria, Zambia etc. It means Yoruba, Igbo, Shona, Zulu etc etc. I ask these "DeTribalized" peoples - "What then do you call yourself?" And they reply - "I am an individual" Yeah right! Thats why you speak English with an accent, wear suits, defer to the West etc - You are an Individual who has pitched his tent with the West and propagate that culture, because the so called Notion of Individualism which you subscribe to actually does not teach you to wear Iro and Buba. It teaches you to wear suit! So much for Individualism - these crazies just end up jumping from one group into another!
101. The Proper Definition of any Modern African State, including Nigeria should be this - "An alliance of Nations of their own voilition structured to give way for ethnic animations and cultural persistence in such a way that neither undermines ethnic autonomies nor threatens the alliance". We must redefine Africa and Nigeria to start from the African point of view and not the Imperialist One. Dissolve these haphazard state systems and let us interact with ourselves as Yoruba to Igbo etc and not through the superficial cloak and veneer of Imperialist constructed identities.
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