By
Osita Ebiem
The life that can be considered as
truly fulfilled whether private or public, is only that which has been lived
according to what it believed in. It does not matter how much material
acquisition or the number of trophies and laurels that have been accumulated,
in the end true life's successes are only measured by whether we believed in
something or not, have we lived according to our persuasion. A truly successful
life is that which believes in something enough to live or die for that thing.
As individuals and as a people of Igbo/Biafra you must stand for something or
you would not be considered as worthy of the space that you occupy on Earth.
The totality of a people's culture comes from the experiences they have passed
through. Collectively and individually the Igbo/Biafra people went through a
very far reaching experience that would stretch on till the end of time and,
that must continue to guide and inform the way we believe and act as
individuals and as a people forever.
It is through conducting our affairs
as riding the crests of this constantly nagging echo of that horrifying period
of our history can we claim to have evolved as a people in the comity of human
beings. Because it is only by the conscious, deliberate and constant reference
through reasoning and instinct rather than chance to our past experiences shall
we be able to progress and go from one level of development to the next. What
we mean here is, if we had fallen into any booby trap travelling on a path as a
people we must be able to reflect and analyze when, where, how and why so that
we don't get caught in the same web the next time.
Like a people riding the
tiger we cannot afford any careless moment or become less vigilant at any time.
Moreover, we must effectively dismantle those sources of our hurt and act so
consciously and methodically and effectively to sanction those responsible for
our pain such that the next time not only would they not try to harm us but
they would never have the ability to contemplate it in their mind. That is to
say that after we would have understood every aspect of the enemy's snares through
serious study then we must effectively dislodge and demobilize, ahead of time
before they can pose any danger, all of the enemy's fangs and subtle
deceptions.
This can easily be done by knowing who your enemy is and reading
and interpreting correctly his every move. Igbo/Biafran politicians and leaders
must wake up to this all important leadership responsibility.
Nigeria's Genocide on the people of
Biafra starting from 1945 in Jos, 1953 in Kano and, 1966 till the present time
as we write this must serve to persuade all our conducts, policies, decisions
and utterances as private or public individuals and groups. In the recent time
a few things have happened that have necessitated us to re-emphasis and remind
us of our collective and individuals' responsibility to guard vigilantly the
sanctity of this our common-ownership – the Biafran Genocide.
Every
Igbo/Biafran no matter their place in life must constantly be reminded that
none of us can afford to forget at any moment as we act or say things or deal
with people or conduct businesses with those who would want to kill us and
those who actually did as if they never did anything wrong against us or any
human being anywhere for that matter. These people did everything wrong and
must be told so and dealt with in that light.
This point is necessary to heed
because it would not only help in the survival of our people and Homeland but
also for the sake of the survival of humanity here on Earth. Any crime against
humanity must not be ignored or taken lightly. People must constantly keep it
in view and keep asking questions and demand for answers.
We shall illustrate this discussion
with the recent unwholesome behavior and wholesale betrayal of the people's
trust of one of our governors. The Governor of Imo State Rochas Okorocha
received Yakubu Gowon in Owerri recently. The man Gowon is the same person who
headed Nigeria's genocidal squad against Biafrans about 44 years ago.
The most disturbing thing about
Okorocha's meeting with Gowon the evil murderer of Igbo/Biafrans is that the
Governor acted not in the spirit or in the interest and dignity of the Igbo
nation; he was not like the person we have come to respect in him and in other
Igbo men and women. On this occasion while dealing with Gowon, Okorocha let all
his guards down and at the same time those of all Igbo people whom he
represents.
The Governor without shame acted as if the Igbo people of Imo State
were so needy today such that they are no more dignified enough to differentiate
from whom to accept favors. Should the Igbo nation descend to so low a gutter
level and accept medical assistance to cure malaria from the man who murdered
3.1 million of their children, women and men and up till today never said
sorry? Such an act meets all the description of shamelessly taking a knowingly
poisoned food from a monster. We, all Igbo people had expected that the
Governor should have looked this killer of Igbo unborn and suckling babies and
their mothers in the eyes and told him no thanks for his poisoned gifts. Like
Samuel to Saul, Okorocha should have told him that Igbo people do not take
“gifts” from just about anyone, at least not from an unrepentant killer monster
like him.
The Igbo of today and always have
pride. Let the Governor and his people tell Gowon the murderer that he should
go stuff his medicine and gifts in his anus in hell because that is where
murderers of little babies who do not say sorry go to.
The Igbo people of Imo
State will not give Gowon any such opportunity to show himself in the light of
those who are doing good and charitable works around the world. He does not and
can never belong in that class. The people of Imo state should remind that head
of the Nigerian Genocide squad that it is still the same people who between
1967 and 1970 he refused access to food and medicines sent to them by the Red
Cross, Caritas and other charitable organizations that would have helped them
at their neediest moment. Remind Gowon that he was so heartless that even after
the so-called end of the war he Gowon would still not let Imo state people and
other Igbo/Biafrans receive the needed medicines and food sent to them by the
good people of the world.
Go check it out, Jimmy Carter of United States that
he wants to imitate is not a murderer but Gowon and Obasanjo of Nigeria are
murderers who have not regretted the Biafran Genocide which they executed. And
as if that was not insulting enough in Governor Okorocha's unforgivable
political and diplomatic misstep, he went on to request that Gowon the murderer
of Igbo/Biafra people participate in General Ojukwu's burial. What was Okorocha
thinking? What the Governor was saying in essence is that the murderer should
come to dance on the grave of his victim. Let the reader think of it, can
anything be more abominable than that?
The Igbo/Biafran nation cannot accept
such a disgust and sacrilege.
Biafran Genocide is so important in
the history of the whole world and strikes at the very core of humanity's
individual and collective existence such that we can only ignore the
desecration or careless handling of that sacred history to our certain
damnation.
In the same vein we recall to mind
the man Kunle Adegoke, a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
with Phone number: 234-802-333-7003 who about two weeks ago had boasted so
brazenly that he with other Nigerians would wipe out Igbo/Biafrans off the face
of the Earth. This is what he said exactly in his own words; “If they [the
Igbo] attempt the same thing again, we shall wipe them off the surface of the
earth. Ebi loko yin (starvation is your [their] albatross).” When there was a
wide outcry against such display of callous insensitivity from this potential
Nigerian ethnic/religious cleanser of Igbo/Biafrans (his email address reads
sultanadegoke@yahoo.co.uk he is also an Islamic terrorist.
That makes him even
more dangerous) he came back to apologize because he said that among his
clients he has as many Igbo/Biafran clients as Nigerians. Now the question is
why would any Igbo/Biafran person still patronize the man who would kill them
and everyone of their people and wipe out their memory off this world? Was it
not Awolowo of Nigeria who had said when talking about the same Biafran
Genocide that hunger is a legitimate instrument of war and that they would not
feed their enemy so that they can have strength to fight back?
But the reader
must bear in mind that the “enemy” that Awolowo was referring to were mere
defenseless civilian babies, children, women and men of Biafra. Think about it.
Now why should any Igbo/Biafra people continue to patronize this Adegoke so
that he can have enough money to acquire the weapons with which to murder
Biafrans en mass as he has threatened? No community or individuals should
continue to patronize and encourage persons and businesses that do not have
their good interest at heart. It is morally wrong to do so.
Source: Modern Ghana, 24th
December 2011.
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