*Failure of Ohanaeze & Igbo Intelligentsia
Mazi Onumonu-Uzoaru Oha-Ka.
I feel the pains of Ndi-Igbo, no different from the pain of all those Igbo who have wrapped themselves around the Politics of Appeasement including the Conspiracy of Silence about the Genocaust and continuing marginalization of Ndi Igbo, tossed accountability overboard, rubbished the rule of law by enthroning the abominable selective policy of sacred cows by wearing blinders when it suited them, and embraced the attitude of see no evil, hear no evil or speak no evil, as long as they were able to pick up the crumbs that fell off the table of their Hausa-Fulani/ Yoruba masters, as they continued to suppress, oppress, marginalize and murder your so-called brethren.
I would expected not to mention ndi -igbo's association with the great professor, Maazi Stanley Diamond, a true son of humanity who will shed tears at the support of one of his pupils for this ego self centered dictator who engineered one of the greatest disasters in human history by snatching defeat out of the mouth of total victory in a war that should have lasted less than six months with very little loss of lives to a complete defeat that lasted three years with the near extermination of his nation including the high prize that Ndi Igbo continue to pay since this defeat, if he were today alive to understand the complete and total incompetence that led to the defeat and betrayal of a mourning and brutalized nation.
Let me summarize a few of the key points that will be pertinent to this discuss:
1. Was Ojukwu warned that this was a war Igbo/Biafra could not afford to loose?
2. How did he prepare for this war of survival after witnessing the unmitigated and unwarranted massacre of over 500,000 of his brethren all over Nigeria engineered by the spiritual leaders of the North, the Emirs; political leaders, all Northern politicians of any stature; education leaders, professors; military leaders headed by Gowon, the Hitler of Nigeria; student leaderships, etc?
3. How did his administration go about building a groundswell from the world in support of a dehumanized nation?
4. What part did the elders, especially those recognized internationally play in this fight for survival?
5. Did he not know of the plan to exterminate the Igbo and their brethren by the North?
6. Why was Igbo West of the Niger not part of Biafra, and how could any nation go to war, especially a war that all understood was a war of survival, a war that Biafra could not afford to loose, with one hand tied behind its back?
7. While planning for the invasion up to Lagos to liberate the West, what was his plan for the protection of Igbo West if this strategy failed?
8. How did he prepare the army for a war that Igbo/Biafra could not afford to loose?
9. As the war dragged on, were there other alternatives to total defeat, at least to give Biafra the breathing space it needed?
10. What were his actions since he was fortunate to leave Biafra during the complete defeat and surrender of Biafra?
11. Did he not understand what was happening in Biafra?
12. Did he travel all over the world to keep what was happening in Ala Igbo in the eyes of the world?
13. Did he contact the Biafran worldwide movements that were already in place, movements that were responsible for the survival of Biafrans and that even helped finance the war to update them on what was going on and continue working with them to hold Nigeria responsible for its actions in Biafra and to seek the eventual realization of an independent Nation, Biafra?
14. How did he go about making sure that the Genocaust continued in the limelight around the world?
15. How about Ndi Igbo in Diaspora, how did he go about holding them together after this unprecedented defeat, a defeat that had cut the heart out of them to the point that many now questioned their relationship to God?
16. What did he do to bring hope to these his downcast brethren, people who had given all and whose dreams now lay in ruins?
17. What did he do about the thousands of Biafran children flown out of Biafra to other parts of Africa or even the world?
17. Why did he return to Nigeria if he believed in what he and his brethren had fought for and died for in their millions?
18. What conditions did the Nigerian victors set for his return to Nigeria?
19. How did these conditions affect the Igbo/Biafran nation?
20. Why did he not intervene to get Ndi Igbo do something about the total neglect of the Biafran amputees, those who gave their body parts that Igbo might survive?
21. Why did he and other so-called Igbo leaders sit on the hands for the past 40 plus years as the oppression, suppression, marginalization and Genocaust continue in full force?
22. As the Nigerian overlords placed their puppets over Ndi Igbo, people who stole the monies that should have paid teachers, government workers, provided needed basic facilities to the people, what did he and other Igbo leaders do?
My brothers and sisters, these are a few of the questions that must be raised and answered.
Soon Njoku and the other Army leadership were distressed at the lack of policy direction in the region. Either efforts were needed to negotiate the peace, or preparations for war had to begin. These officers met with Ojukwu, but their fears were not allayed by Ojukwu's arguments.
He demonstrated his ruthlessness and his modus operandi in the way he preempted the potential threat to his power by these military officers.
Nonetheless, he managed to slip out of the country, touring Africa to gain support for the ANC's guerrilla army, visiting Tanzania, Ethiopia and Algeria, a number of revolutionary leaders gave him advice on guerrilla warfare and tactics. He even visited Britain.
The authorities wanted to defuse the situation, and they offered Mandela his freedom on the condition that he unconditionally gave up violence. He refused.
I hope you have done your research and this time you will stand and defend your god Ojukwu. Let me repeat what I have already written a number of times, by the time we are done, generations to come will compare Ojukwu to Judas, whereas Judas was responsible for the betrayal of one man, Jesus, Ojukwu will be remembered for the betrayal of a whole Nation, the Igbo Nation and other nations that made up Biafra.
QUICK KILL IN SLOW MOTION: THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1984/SMR.htm
Nelson Mandella
http://www.mandela.tv/mandela_story2.html
Nelson Mandella
http://www.mandela.tv/mandela_story2.html
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