You have a point about MASSOB. It really showed its stuff during the "sit-at-home" call.
unfortunately its explicit call for the realisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra will always make it a tough sell for many people, particularly the more conservative elements of Igboland who merely want a greater share of Nigeria as presently constituted. Somehow, a way will have to be found to translate MASSOB's popularity into an idea that does not threaten the territorial unity of the country - unless of course other parts of the country agree to ALL go their separate ways.
That is the challenge.
Anyway, as to what happened in the South-West, I refer to my piece;
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Bolaji, Thanks for your interest in the affairs of Ndi-Igbo, especially the way you pretend to care. I will appreaciate if you limit your contributions to issues on Nigeria "national" matters. Dabbling into the issues that is very dear to our heart,like WIC, and MOSSAB is nothing but mockery. Thanks for your interest in Igbo affairs anyway? peace
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I care - in my own special way. I believe that I know as much if not more about Ndigbo than many an Ndigbo, and certainly more than many non-Ndigbo really care to know about Ndigbo.
I am, as I have sometimes asserted, a prophet to Ndigbo, not in a predictive sense, but as one who sometimes has to say what Ndigbo might sometimes not want to hear, particularly from a non-Ndigbo. You see, you cannot call me "efulefu", you cannot call me a "sabo", so many of you are stumped.
But I care - in my own special way.
Jisieke.
Bolaji Aluko
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Considering how disparagingly everyone speaks of WIC, it's no great wonder but a great relief that such a gathering was held in Nashville(white Tennessee) as opposed to Memphis(black Tennessee). Sorry to have to put it in black and white terms but that's the way it is there(I was born and raised in that part of the country and lived in Memphis 14 years). Also such a conference in the state of Tennessee by leaders ostensibly seeking to advance the Biafran cause cannot but be seen as a slight to the memory and work of Martin Luther King by their unwillingness to associate the conference with Memphis, the city where the struggle for african-american civil rights and dignity reached its zenith. Such as association would I think have sent a clear message to the Nigerian FG and the world, even though the conferees might not themselves have been acceptable...but that association was carefully avoided. Biafran actualization will need the help and support of the international community, whether you believe it, want it, or not.
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Prof. Bolaji Aluko, I disagree with you on this one. There is no way you will claim to know more about Igbo issues than Igbo's themselves. It is nothing but a false claim on your part. I still appeal you stay away from core Igbo issues like wic and massob, rather let us write on issues about nigeria and its massive messy problems. I will be glad if you respect and honor this appeal. Your contribution on Igbo issue is nothing but a mockery and insincere. peace Chima
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There is no way you will seek to exclude people like me from discussing Igbo issues. It will be nothing but a fallacious advice on your part. I still appeal to you to ensure the freedom of expression EVEN on core Igbo issues like WIC and MASSOB, including on wider issues about Nigeria and its admittedly massive messy problems. We are all in the same boat together.
I will be glad if you respect and honor this my candid appeal. Rest assured that my contributions on Igbo issues, like that on other issues are in every way serious and sincere.
Jisieke.
Bolaji Aluko
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Had WIC/WEAK had the balls to squarely face the nigerian evil opponents of Igbo advancement, the Igbo issue vis-à-vis Biafra, MASSOB, Abandoned Property and many more would have been a settled matter in our favor, but no, they’re busy running around Abuja looking for leftovers. SHAMELESS nonentities!!!! Someone ought to direct those confused and conflicted folks in wic how real assemblies, organs with men and women of courage do it.
quote:We are ready to go our way ... Niger Delta groups say, commend leaders of their home states - The Port Harcourt Telegraph NEWS
More angry reactions are coming from the people of the Niger Delta region at home and abroad urging a peaceful split of the nation if the majority tribes continue to insist the South-South won't qualify to benefit from their God given wealth. The latest reactions posted to Telegraph's web site is from a relatively unknown group of Niger Deltans residing abroad.
The group which goes by the name Niger Delta Republic Movement expressed serious indignation, asking their compatriots at home, "why don't you consider separation very seriously and invest lots of energy to achieve it?"
The group went on, "The Islamic North has one and one reason only for liking Nigeria: and that reason is revenue allocation."
It stressed, "Many other communities in Nigeria also have the same reason and they support the North to lead them in enforcing revenue allocation. So, we can never get our demand through tribal democracy."
Until recently, only the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force and the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Front led by Alhaji Asari Dokubo have been in the vanguard of the request for a plebiscite which would allow ethnic nations within the Nigerian project to decide whether or not they would want to remain within the entity as it is now.
Asari, furious at the position of the North lamented that those who were not producing anything were now arrogating to themselves the right to decide what the owners of the resource that is keeping Nigeria together should have.
Agreeing with the NDPVF and the NDPSF on the issue of separation, the Niger Delta Republic Movement based in London thanked leaders of the region for standing up to the North and the rest of the country.
"Once again, we the people of the Niger Delta living abroad", they wrote, "congratulate you for the commendable manner in which you handled the issue of Revenue Allocation at the Obasanjo's (comic) Conference."
" It would have been inglorious if you had succumbed beneath the pressure and the fear that were mounted upon you by those who represented the large tribes and the rulers of the Islamic North", they said " We are sure that you were able to understand how arrogant they are when it concerned the exploitation of our resources. They assume the right to mention any amount of revenue it pleases them to give to our people from our resources. "Since from the turn of the last century, we in the Niger Delta have made Nigeria what it is.
"We gave it all the attribute that earn respectability and notice in the international world. So of the more than six ports in Nigeria, only one, Lagos is outside the Niger Delta. "None of the tribes large and small have anything like that. We enable Nigeria to have a Navy which is good enough to be invited to Portsmouth to celebrate the Naval battle of Nelson and Trafalgar.
"Now they are raping our land and resources, enjoying the epithet OIL RICH NIGERIA. We who give to Nigeria all its prestige and all its revenue, are treated just like aborigines and slaves."
The reaction of the London-based group was signed by Aliyi Ekineh and Godfrey Arumoh, Patron and Coordinator.
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Now that wic has become wicker, I hope the efulefus are satisfied with their BASEMENT jamboree? One had expected at a time the useless assembly needed someone with balls to take it out of the self inflicted wound in irrelevance, it turned out to pick another clueless to further lead it into deeper basement. Every person who considers him/her self decent should abandon this hopeless organ immediately before you too are called efulefu. What a bunch of shameless fools!!
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