Nigeria: Indeed, this House has fallen! It is only amazing, if not shocking that Nigeria, as state and player in the global world, as it has been a nation of peoples was once seen and known a stable and promising. It is even surprising that the same gusto or the pretence of it in urging nationalism has taken flight of the country. When it became necessary for Nigerians to fight people of the old Eastern Region and their Biafran enterprise, there was unparalleled uniformity and drive to hammer down the so called rebellion. In the same vein, the entire global world powers came together to ensure the beating down of Biafra. The British government specifically sent in one General Alexander into Lagos in 1968 with the sole assignment of locating and destroying the legendry Uli Airport. It was British/World Power tussle against tiny Biafra. In an interview in 1997, Ojukwu told me that the same British government specifically set up a ruse humanitarian organisation with the sole aim of finding him for precision execution and eventual smashing of Uli Airport. He was smart enpugh to detect the moves of the organisation when, rather than follow the convention of sending releif, one organisation offered to bring cash in aide of Biafra. He, Ojukwu saw the trick and played along. The so-called aide worker visited an equally ruse Biafran Headquarters which the British bombed (and was laughed at). The rest, mthey say, is history. We only need to be reminded that the subsequent emerging national elites have ensured the dismantling of the political and economic Igbo race as punishment for daring to ask for independence. Today, we have a plethora of post Nigeria-Biafra war literature, most of which written by the victorious generals holler about valor, discipline, result, brilliance and mastery of strategy. Even recently, an ex-general, Oluwole Rotimi, stamped his feet on the floor as he glared right at the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ojo Maduekwe, and bellowed: I was the adjutant general of the Nigeria Army that defeated your rag-tag Biafra Army. Of course, for the effrontery, he lost his job as Ambassador. Again, you can consider the flamboyant opening of the book, My Command, by General Olusegun Obasanjo: I was set and I moved to explode the heads of rebels...but not to bow their spirit. There have been many more, and the ones written by Northern Generals were keen flowery and testified of great fighters who never conceded a quarter. Yet, recently, many erstwhile officers have come to confess that they just realised that what was given as the aim of the war had been discovered to be far from the truth. We thought we were fighting for unification of Nigeria, but we now know that we fought to oil, said one. These, indeed, are by the way. What is at issue today is the juggernaut called Boko Haram, which is gubbling Nigeria territories, beheading our citizens in their thousand, and now renamning our dear Mubi which they just over ran. And you ask, as I am asking, where are the unification generals? Where are the world powers? A forthnight ago, the British Secretary for Commonwealth and bla, bla, bla, said in response to a question in the Common, Boko Haram is Nigerian problem. We advise them but it is one they have to solve. Goodness! Yesterday, former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar said that Boko Haram could over run Nigeria as a whole. Many have been insulting him but I differ. How can we insult a man who is privileged to have the facts, who has the national and international connections to know the facts on the ground and who has only mustered the courage to shock us with the threatening facts? No! Remember how it has become difficult for Nigeria to get simple fighting equipment these days. Each day, they catch our aircraft and blame it on a pastor. The other day, they said it was Asari Dokubo. Ha! But again, that is not the issue. A few days ago, a colonel was alleged to have burnt his tanks and ran into the bush with his soldiers. And I said, wait a minute! Where are the valiant soldiers who were raised by the Nigeria-Biafra era generals and who ought to be better given the newer and precision fighting equipment at the disposal of the great army? Have you heard the stupendpus amount being expended daily by Abuja politicians, especially in the bid to seize party structures from their governors? Your heart would fall if you hear these figures. In one case in a Southern State, the sum of 950 million Naira was raised to ensure control or is it perversion of the representatives of the Party Headquarters who had been sent to conduct the congresses and bring the list of delegates. The governors are said to be dazed. Some are said to have threatened President Jonathan with outright rebellion. And I laughed! Wont you laugh as well? These men are like the proverbial foolish man in my village who waged some smashing and debilitating wars to have control of the mat only to find that he ought to have fought for the portion of the ground before he acquired the mat. So, would he sleep with the splendid mat in his arms? Mtcheeeeew. Boko Haram is bluffing its way across the length and breadth of Nigeria, grabbing territories, holding, marrying off and selling our girls, and politicians are busy fighting over the seats they would have no spot to place and put in use. Charade!!!
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 09:48:11 +0000
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