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On April 22, 1990, Major Gideon Orkar, Capt. A.A. Nonju, Capt. Harley Empere, Lt. Col. Anthony Nyiam, Major Mukoro and several other military officers in a coup to overthrow the corrupt regime of Ibrahim Babangida, were arrested after they failed in their bid to divide the country. The coup was funded by the Great Ogboru.
In his speech, Orkar made the following broadcast: "...In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauschi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately..."
On this basis, methink nothing would have changed on the ground the khaki boys who carried out this coup were careless and tactless. Perhaps if they had succeeded, the entire country may have led to a total anarchy and chaos.
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I raised the above topic over four months ago, and typical of our silence, it was ignored. Today, the Christian South are chanting "We Must Go! We Must Go with Fatwa on the head of Isioma Daniel, dead or alive.
It's amazing how time flies and how we live to see history repeat itself. In 2000, scores of Igbos were murdered in the Sharia debacle. We talked and did nothing about it. It happened again and evidently we are not doing anything about it.
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Ifeanyi At this point nothing surprises me about Nigeria. we all are at a crossroad at this point. I think even the North are starting fed up with that patch work called Nigeria. It is a matter of time before it self distruct. This coming selection may be the last straw that put a nail in the coffin of Nigeria.
The attempt to isolate several states of the North by the Orkar coupists was another mild sign of the growing dissatisfaction of the "Slave Tribes" who had more recently started feeling the pinch of "what goes around comes around" I say mild because in all their failed bravado none of those coupist fools could match what Biafra did when we stood up against "Nigeria" and the racist British and world forces arrayed (for complex economic colonial reasons against us).
Someone once said somewhere in this forum that (and I quote loosely) "The Biafranigeria civil war was the only war in the modern 20th century that brought together the superpower rivals of the cold war on the same side" a conspiracy that also included silence. Silence in the face of a holocaust second in proportion only to the Jewish holocaust at the hand of the Nazis.
What economic trappings are there to be had in that geographical area that is so attractive as to bring the British and the French together as in the recent conspiracy to carve out Bakassi and cede it to Cameroun as a solution to the security concerns now being encountered by their petroleum companies in the restive Niger Delta?.
It is rumored that during the civil war, the then Soviet Union offered Ojukwu support if he would give them a 50yr oil drilling rights on the offshore coastline of Biafra, but Ojukwu figured that the mighty USSR would not only drill the entire contents of the offshore supplies within fifty years, they would also tap their proboscis underground through hi-tech and also tap the onshore supplies, and so he said NO!!
Even though the above is an anecdotal rumor that I can't be prove, I don’t doubt that the British and French are now poised using Cameroun to achieve the former USSR's goals for themselves as an alternative to dealing with the restive youths and women and entire peoples of the Niger Delta.
That is why doing something about our plight in Nigeria is a daunting task. Do not be shaken to know that all our names are known by the appropriate quarters and that they will not hesitate to pass our comments on to the Biafranigeria government as sacrificial pawns for elimination if we tread too heavily on the wrong toes.
But Igbo have done their part and they sacrificed heavily for their principled position and were punished by the greedy "civilized nations" for taking a moral stance. Whatever seed of courage and moral righteousness empowered our noble heroes to stand and fight for what was right in the past still dwells in every single one of us and shall be awoken again at the appointed time if rallied together through meticulous and long term organizing, instead of the ad hoc manner of the civil war induced by the exigiencies of a desperate response to outside attack.
The so-called self serving toy coup by the Middle Beltan Orkar and his Bendelite cohorts through which they would have supposedly excised some Hausa States but promoted a "One Nigeria" in which they would seek to "keep the Igbo in their place" (this is the mindframe of every so-called Nigerian minority) only goes to show that those idiots even if they had succeeded on the short term had no good intentions, nor did they understand the global nature of what they were doing.
Only the Igbo in Nigeria have been capable of realizing this global scenario, but having no capacity to withstand it have been thrust into the position we are now, to just stand and watch while the jokers and clowns do their coups.
-The Awusa as stupid as they are will loudly boast that they are the only ones who know how to successfully pull out a coup. (as if that is some big achievement to celebrate) -The Yoruba will stand by in rigid fear and either be subjected by force to join or treacherously abandon any semblance of morality by wholly jumping into the perceived winning side (no matter how distasteful to them) whereupon they would later revise the story and put themselves in the drivers seat (making their initial cowardice out to be some kind of Machiavellian feat of strategic diplomatic calculation). -The "Slave Tribes" (Tivs, Middle beltans, and their southern counterparts) will continue to grumble gripe and conspire (like slaves) and every now and then they would mange to sneak in a toy coup here and their in which they would promise all things to all people, with the hidden hope that when they get to power they would then begin to unfold their true motives, and hoping that if the feared Igbos should start to get comfortable, they would form alliances with the previously excised group to put them in check.
All because in their evil minds they fail to see that the fight is really a fight for the true political, Economic, social independence that they really never got from the colonial masters who only continue to see us as a collection of conquered peoples and as fair game for exploitation. All because in the little minds of these so-called minorities the specter of "Igbo domination" looms large enough for them to ignore the fact that Igbos were never a cohesive monolithic group who meant anybody any harm, but who as result of their success orientation now engender from their very co-travellers in colonial domination, such latent hatred and suspicion as to participate and condone in the holocaust visited unjustly against the Igbo.
The question is: what can we do? are we cowards? or do we have the blood of our noble heroes still coursing through our veins?
Let me put forward two poits
1.) Unlike the Arabist uncircumcised Al quaeda model of approach, we are different and we shall prove it. jumping up and down in turbans and robes chanting jihad and blowing yourself up and killing innocent civillians (like the palesinians) is not the way to do it, nor is jumping up and down like backward idiots shouting "sharia" and chopping peoples limbs right left and center (a methodology which seems to be the preferred "Aprhrodisiac" of the Awusa-Fulani muslim in Biafranigeria)
2.) Constituting ouselves to be gossipping slaves, undermining one another for crumbs from the master's table like the the "Slave Tribes" of Nigeria, the "Mighty" Yoruba, or the opportunistic "Efulefu" do is not the way either.
What is the right way in my opinion?
The right way is that which has aready been started by the founders of this forum:
ENLIGHTENMENT! AWARENESS! CONSCIOUSNESS!
But these three things in and of themselves are not the end as they cannot by themselves produce the desired results in a terrain like Nigeria which could bog down a disciplined goal like a deep muddy soil slowing down a disciplined runner.
-UNIFIED PERSITENT PRAYER! (ON SOME SELECTED DAYS YEARLONG) -UNIFIED PERSITENT FASTING! (ON SOME SELECTED DAYS YEARLONG) -UNIFICATION IN SOLIDARITY THROUGH MUTUAL CONTEMPLATION OF THE FACTORS THAT COSTITUTE OUR COMMON GOOD -SHORT TERM, MEDIUM TERM, LONG TERM PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MODEST AND ATTAINABLE GOALS(GIVEN OUR COMMON GOOD) (which will seek to bind us for once into a cohesive and self appreciating group)
Fortified in these interim steps, and with some semblance of formiddable structure established within the group, one would find that the sought after sparation would be brought to us at our own doorstep.
When I mention Prayer, am sure that some cringe. some may even laugh. Someone once told me that "The greatest battle is that which is done on the knees in prayer". I know this for myself to be a true saying. It also says in the bible "Unless the Lord build the house, those who build it labor in vain" I hereby also witness this to be a true saying in my life and so by extension tend to suggest those things which have worked for me and which I see absent in many of our sought after aspirations.
When we apply these measures with a conscious unity, only when we do these can we be capable of surmounting the daunting challenges of global proportions which the Lazy "Nigerians" blinded by the lure of Cheap Coups and cheap "democracy" have not even begun to confront.
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