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Upon reviewing the ministerial and
other appointments made by President Umaru Musa Yar Adua, it is abundantly
clear that few Igbos are given significant appointments. The few Igbos in this
man’s administration are given inconsequential positions.
In reviewing the pattern of
expenditure of public funds, it is clear that the Yar Adua government does not
believe that it is necessary to develop Alaigbo. Roads, bridges, schools,
hospitals, factories etc are not built in Alaigbo.
Lawmakers from the so-called South
East Geo Political Zone, on June 25, 2005, apparently, voiced their unhappiness
with the Yar Adua Administration (reported in ThisDay of June 26, 2008).
Mr. Umaru Musa Yar Adua must believe
that Igbos are orphans in his Nigeria. He must believe that Igbos do not
deserve anything.
This man must have a very poor
opinion of Igbos. In fact, he must believe that Igbos are worthless otherwise
what on earth would make him totally ignore Igbos?
I believe that Mr. Yar Adua is a
confused man. If he is not healed of this confusion, this ignoring Igbos is
planting the seed for Nigeria’s destruction.
Even those of us who hitherto
believed in the continued existence of Nigeria are now getting so angry at what
this man is doing that we contemplate separating from Nigeria. If this is what
Nigeria is all about, I certainly do not want to be a part of it.
Hitherto one had concentrated on
trying to understand Igbos, particularly why they seem politically
unsophisticated. Moreover, one was angry at Igbos for having the tendency of
seeking positions in Nigeria and when they get them ignore other Igbos. As it
were, some Igbos wanted to become very important persons in Nigeria, lobby
Igbos to support them and when they are supported and given some positions in
the Nigerian political set up proceed to do nothing for other Igbos.
An example is Ngozi Iweala, the
former minister of finance. No one can accuse her of doing something for
Alaigbo. Her only accomplishment in life is that she was made a minister (to
serve her vanity, not the people). The lady and her kind got their prestigious
positions and, in effect, said to Igbos: screw you; you are fools, I used you
fools to get the position I desired, and dumped you.
One is not a spring chicken; one
understands the Igbo lay of the land. Igbo elected officials, such as governors
and legislators, seem to use Igbos for their own good. They talk about the
marginalization of Igbos by other Nigerians and use that to get Igbos to feel
angry at other Nigerians. They appeal to Igbo nationalism and mobilize Igbos
behind them. Then they go to Abuja and get a share of the loot from the oil
resources. They do not spend that money doing anything for Igbos. If in doubt,
please show me what Igbo governors etc have done for Igbos lately, what roads
have they constructed, what schools have they built etc.
No, these people are clever rogues
and we all know it. Nor did this tendency for Igbos to take their people to
cleaners start recently. A review of Igbo politics since Nigeria’s independence
shows that Igbo leaders have always screwed other Igbos.
Azikiwe and his Onitsha crowd
completely ignored Owerri folk (the man did absolutely nothing for Owerri
folk).
Michael Okpara and his Umuahia thugs
were more invested in seeming powerful than in doing anything for Igbos,
certainly not for Owerri folk.
Then there is the big clown called
Emeka Ojukwu. This man took Igbos to war and when the war was lost, like a lily
livered coward fled to the Ivory for safety. This man led secondary school boys,
who fought his war, while he and his supposedly more experienced soldiers from
the Nigerian Army sat on their asses, to death. The war turned sour and Ojukwu
turned tail and fled to go save his bloody life.
This man calls himself a general. In
marshal traditions, a defeated general either commits suicide (Japanese
generals do that, Hitler did that) or surrenders with dignity and accepts
execution from the victors.
But, no, the “great Igbo general”
fled for his freaking life and in the process shamed Igbos. He shamed us, for
he, in effect, told us that he is a coward who placed his miserable life above
the life of the soldiers he led to death.
This man was not a leader; a leader
is in front of those he leads and takes the consequences coming to them. Ojukwu
told Igbos that Nigerians were coming to kill all Igbos and fled to go save his
life; this creature abandoned other Igbos to be killed by Nigerians!
And the man allegedly ran away with
whatever liquid wealth Igbos had, and has not accounted for it. This is
criminal behavior, and for that alone he ought to be punished.
Let me put it as succinctly as I
can: Ojukwu is a self serving man. He ought to be lined up against a wall and
shot to death. But the man does not get it; he still masquerades as the
great leader of Igbos, the “Eze gburugburu” of Igbos (who gave this piece of
shit, this coward that title, any way).
The relevant point is that Igbo
so-called leaders have always taken Igbos for a ride and we all know it. We
know it and no longer trust our so-called leaders, for all they seem to know
how to do is use Igbos for their pockets. Like their ancestors who sold other
Igbos into slavery and used the pieces of gold they got to buy Ozo titles, and
in their primitive eyes seem very important persons, contemporary Igbo leaders
specialize in selling other Igbos into Nigerian slavery and could care
less for the fate of Igbos.
Thus, when some of us hear about
Igbo leaders, such as Ralph Uwazurike and his MASSOB, and so-called Igbo
socio-cultural organizations, such as Ohaneze, we smile and say: you got to be
kidding me, right? Those clowns are self serving and are not worth a second of
ones time. Some of us became cynical and say: if our so-called leaders
merely use us to get their share of the national cake why bother supporting
them, why bother with Igbo affairs at all? Screw them. In a situation where
Igbos seemed motivated by self interests, not public interests, some of us
tuned out Igbo politics.
Alas, cynicism is dangerous, for it
enables folk to do nothing while the country burns.
All those notwithstanding, it does
not follow that Igbos should be completely shut out from the commanding heights
of Nigerian politics, as Yar Adua apparently has done.
If Yar Adua has an ounce of
intelligence in his head he must realize that he is alienating all Igbos. If
somehow he imagines that there is no price to be paid for this alienation of
Igbos let him think twice.
If this man does not change course,
clearly he would cause many Igbos to work against his administration and the
country he supposedly leads. And it would be very easy to bring down his
do nothing administration.
For a start, Yar Adua is not
legitimate for he was not elected by the Nigerian people; he is an imposter
superimposed on Nigerians by the Obasanjo criminal gang. Many Nigerians
tolerate Yar Adua because they desire peace in Nigeria but his apparent
isolation of Igbos from his administration raises question afresh about his
legitimacy.
Out of fear of harm and death from
the goon squad that the government sends to harass those who oppose them,
Nigerians tolerate them. Nigerians are so afraid of death and dying that
they would tolerate the petty dictators, the jungle tyrants that oppress them.
It is possible to get Nigerians to
overcome the fear of harm and death that disposes them to tolerate the thieves
that have ruled them since the country obtained its pseudo independence from
Britain.
I have been wondering whether
Nigerians, indeed, Africans are an intelligent breed of human beings. Are
Africans as dumb as white racists say that they are?
If Mr. Yar Adua is not a dumb ass
one would think that he would have the foresight to recognize where he is
leading Nigeria to, to another failed African state.
How long does this man think that
those he shuts out of his government would sit on the fence and tolerate him?
This man must be totally
unintelligent if it has not occurred to him that if human beings are treated as
if they have no value and dignity, as he is treating Igbos, that it enrages
them, and that when people feel between a rock and a hard place they take up
arms to fight their way out (or suffocate in despair).
At what point would African leaders
become intelligent and do the right thing, govern for the interest of their
entire people and stop alienating a significant percent of their population? At
what point would these fools recognize that they create rebellion against them
and bring about the instability that characterizes most of Africa by shutting
some folk out of governance.
Just look at Robert Mugabe and what
he is doing in Zimbabwe. You ask: is that man a piece of shit or a human being?
If he is a human being and has been in office since 1980 and has not
accomplished much what else is he going to accomplish in the few years left to
him on this earth? Why not take his do nothing self out of office and let
other people try to do something for Zimbabweans? Of course, he would not
take his sorry self out of office. He would stay put for it is only in office
that his vanity is stroked.
Yar Adua is making me angry, so
angry that lining him up against a wall and shooting him to death would be a
kind way of treating him.
What exactly is this man doing in
office? What has he done in the over a year he has been in office?
Frequently running to Germany for
medical treatment? God, does this man, if that is what he is, not have
shame? Running to another country for medical treatment is an indictment
of his administration’s lack of accomplishments.
If this man is sick why not use it
as an opportunity to improve the delivery of health services for his country
men? No, that is not his concern; his worry is to stay alive and stay alive for
what one does not know.
Get this man out of my face.
Ozodi Thomas Osuji
June 26, 2008
ozodiosuji@gmail.com
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Posted by Robot| 26.06.2008 15:41