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"You know it is normal that after generals go to war, they return to the table to seek and make peace, that is what we are doing. We are optimistic of success" by Ngige

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Two men in your state disagree is not excuse to kill people and burn property. Blame yourselves.

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Again,one wonders how long it would take EO to restore democracy in the forum by allowing his own topic "Should anambra governor resign to flow naturally with the other topics in order of the house`s response to it.If it were merely an opinion poll,then it should be separated and placed by the side of the screen away from the current topics.The thing was just perpetually pinned up there as though it was a sit tight ruler itself.I think it kills interest to see the same old topic for too long without anything really new being added.

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Just to please you, I have asked the webmaster to un-pin the topic. Let democracy reign! ~~~EO

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Originally posted by njiko umuigbo:

About two days ago,Obasanjo went on nta and bitterly castigated Gov.Ngige and Nigerians for not considering the "moral"burden of Ngige`s pull out in the agreement with Chris Uba on the manner of "off setting" the later`s expenses.

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Njiko,

Well done on the effort you have continued to make on this thread.

It now appears apparent with that statement credited to Obasanjo, and to the naked eye that the money spent in rigging the elections in Igboland may have been Obasanjos personal funds.

This would explain his dogged determination to collect, or else inflict commensurate damage on Anambra as has come to pass.

I can't say I envy Anambrarians at this particular point for the choice they must make as to determining whether to lead the igbo nation in chasing out the vandals or not, but I must say I wish the same had happened in all Igbo state capitals (minus the loss of life of course).

That way we can all come to understand where the priorities lie in this thing.

SELF PROMOTION AT IGBO EXPENSE? OR JUST WELL INTENTIONED WARRIORS TREADING THE PATH TO HELL?

On another mass mailing I recieve, I read some comments by an individual member of a certain PNF/USA posted in a Nigerian daily.
I also saw some maneauverings by an individual of a certain ASA/USA which despite supposed good intentions both displayed in my view a certain self contradiction.

I laughed heartily, then I rested in somber reflection.

I understand more and more that Igbos must move cautiously. The cankerworm is indeed deeeeeeeep.


HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL

I did also hear the forlorn voice of a wounded but greatly polite Igbo man, and moved with silent reverence for the solemn purity of its strain, I decided to post it here:

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Nwannaa Jimmy na Anambra na ndiigbo ibe m,

Ekenem unu bu ndi so na-agba mbo ihu na Ani igbo obughi so Anambra si na oke onunu ochichii o no n’ime kita wee puta. Ife m ga eji dee ifea na asusu oyibo, bu na amahom ma i/unu na-aghota ma na asukwa igbo ofuma. O buru na m malu na i na-asu ma na-aghotakwa igbo ofuma, aga na edelu gi na igbo.



With regards to your press release earlier with regards to Anambra issue and the subsequent ones I will once again commend your group’s diverse effort in trying to support a rather progressive agenda for Anambra state in particular and igboland in general.



Having said that I must as a point in a right direction or suggestion, according to my own humble views, start by using the igbo adage that says: A naho etinye ose na-ebe a na-agwo ogwu anya odo. (Which can be translate to mean: You don't add pepper/chilli in a medicine meant to clear the eyes). The other one says: Onye cholu igbo ogu bulu uzo gbo i du aka na onu (He who wants to stop a fight should do it at the finger pointing stage).



To start with the first one, I think, it will be important to be open to all contributions from all true igbos in general and Anambras in particular, those who mean well for the well-being of the state and the Igbo nation. Even though we know there are those who cash in during the state of Anarchy and pains of the masses, we know at the same time that there are people who spend sleepless night making selfless efforts to see smile on the face of the people (Because real joy I believe lies there when everyone is happy). But the issue is, how accommodating are you to call such people on board and at the same time let go of the spoilers and judases within the apostles?

Every good intention can stand and at the same time can be rubbished when arrogance, pomposity and selfishness/self glory suddenly become the main goal. I need not emphasis more on this ‘cause the case in Iraq is there as point of reference. So what I am trying to point out is that your group should try and take away all traces of the aforementioned traits.

The truth is that no matter how strong ASA-USA might seem, they cannot stand to fight that evil alone, and no other fragmented group can either. We need the like minds on board, from all parts of the globe in connection with those like minds at home (whom no matter what cannot be underestimated). I read through the press release and while I agree with your intention in some the proposals and ideas, I must point to the lack of signs of inclusion, but a sort of (Bush style) threat of (You are with us or against us no more discussion, no question and no contribution, just follow). As far as I know I cannot see or hear of any effort your group has made (Since you seem to have organised yourself somehow) so far to expand and reach out to other Anambrarians in other parts of the globe, (like Europe, for instance) forgive me if you have, but I have not be aware of such.

When I say ‘pepper should no be in the vicinity where eye medicine is produced’ is that, you cannot use some of the tones in that press release to drum up a real support from the real and true Igbos or friends of Igbos. So you find out that instead of getting the real honest ones to come together and map out plans for a lasting solution, it will end up adding more salt to the injury. So make it known how you want the willing ones to contribute and in what areas, because as you might think your group is the only ones working, there are other silent groups that are working their own way to see a positive changes in our dear homeland.

On the other adage, He who wants to stop fight must do that from the finger pointing stage. When the last s’e’lection was carried out by so-called PDP and Obasanjo gangs, which the whole world agreed the out come to be far from the voice or decision of the vast majority of Nigerians especially that of Anambra citizens.

Most groups like your ASA-USA was also of the opinion that it was not the mandate of the people that was declared. But, unfortunately, you did not stood firm in insisting that the results be nullified, or that the court be encouraged to speed up the case. While you were at one end shouting that the election was not in-tandem with the people’s wish. Your group at the other hand arrange to pacify the illegality by spraying award/recognition on the same man Ngige, that has displayed disdain to the wishes of the people by agreeing with the devil to impose their wish on the people, as against the people’s will, there by rubbishing the many hours wasted by the people to exercise their right of electing the leader of their choice.

To me, your award or recognition or whatever name given to it failed to stop the pointing of finger but wait to separate the fight when more damage might have been done. What it shows (even when the master minder stood and narrate his evil plot and how he even re-wrote the decision of the people) is your group giving green light by recognising such barbaric insult on our people.

Even though they say ‘Igbo enwe eze’, (Igbos have no king or Eze) Igbos never made mistake when it come to democracy and the voice of the people always supersedes the voice of any one man or gang no matter is perceived state of wealth. What is happening today is not only war against people but against our core foundation, and well reasoning Igbo must wake up fight the evil.

I wrote to the ASA-USA when I read about that idea on their website, but no reply was made to that as to either clarify to me or others who wonder like me the rational of awarding recognition to illegality. The Bible says (without making it religious) resist the DEVIL and FLEE FROM HIM! And all that can come from the devil. With all the circumstances surrounding the selection of Ngige and with all the journeys and evil oaths taken. I don’t see any justification in clapping for this man for using the state money to repair roads and other things (Which was the basis for the ASA-USA argument for the awarding) because, nothing free comes from the devil, and we cannot expect to accept the gift or work of devil and expect to run away from its fangs.

So if Ngige (Who is really living his name: okuko belu na ngige egwu, ngige na onwe ya na- egwe ‘ the fowl that perched on a rope is dancing while the rope is dancing’, no rest for both) has breached his contract with his master Devils in Uba and Obasanjo, Anambra people should not get themselves involved in such dirty deals.

Our insistency and efforts should be geared towards throwing the man and his so-called godfather out of the office (or even ostracize them from aniigbo as our tradition permits for the spoilers of the land like them and their like) he was trying to occupy by force, but instead to get a rather responsible and honest person who is willing to SERVE his people and not to rule them or swear a secret oath to sell them to our enemies. While the gangsters go and settle their differences or try some other place.

We should not have in anyway shown any sign, that for the sake of (cheap quick-fixed) peace we are in support of illegitimacy! Because any support we gave today to such evil act will only give green light to the ones of tomorrow. We rather fight the war today once and for all and live in a lasting peace than to live on an illusive peace that is no peace at all.

For instance, Mbadinuju ‘the praying governor’ and Emeka Offor era got away with such evil and destructive show, giving Uba the green light to come with his own show, because we condoned it. So do we need an Einstein or fortune teller to tell us that the evil we tolerate today become recurrent in the future? If that omen was fought then head on, Uba, Ngige and Obasanjo would have think twice before taking Anambra or any Igbo land for a ride.

OK, if we now say, hey Obasanjo, Uba, and co. leave ‘our “democrazically” elected governor’ alone. What signal are we sending out there for tomorrow? A question to all of us who might wish to take side at this present impasse. As far as I am concerned and from the much I know of the truth on the ground, Anambra has no legitimate governor, no thanks to Uba, Ngige, Obasanjo and their partners in evil. Who now go around recruiting the youths that will be leaders of tomorrow into becoming their thugs of today, instead of being in school or warming up to take over the leadership baton.

Like we all know the truth is no ‘buts and ifs’ it is straight (call it black or white if you like) take it or leave it, yes or no, positive or negative. Taa bu gboo.. Let it be a mistake on the part of ASA-USA to have taken such side up till now in supporting Ngige’s illegitimacy that is capable of draining their moral standard. If he wants to come clean he should first give up what he is holding that is not a mandate from the people.



It is about time that all Igbos should on one with each person going into soul-searching and sober reflection period with few questions to be answered at the end:

• Who am I?
• After all said and done where am I from?
• What have I or am I or will I contribute to promote positive changes in my village, state and Igbo land?
• If I suddenly die now how would I be remembered? Will I be remembered as a True Son/Daughter of Igbo land use my wealth to affect positive or destructive change, or that even though I have no money that I stood on the path of truth and justices regardless?

With the above questions answered honestly individually, I believe we will all come out according to our groupings,

Thus:

1. Those who are true Igbos that mean well for Igbos and Igbo land.
2. Those who are out to thwart everything that will spell the further existence or progress of Igbos and Igbo land.
3. And the ‘fencers’, those who cannot say where they belong. Since the greatest truth is the one to ones self, no hanky panky we know it because it is in us.

We are blessed more than our fair share in aniigbo, so why must we choose to ask for curse that is meant for others? Why must we walk on a promised land that flows with milk and honey yet suffer perpetual kwashiorkor and even resort to being refugees in our own land and even in lesser-blessed lands?

I will leave it here for now but hope this will not only be rushed through, but meditated upon.

Udo dili unu.

Ifeanyi

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Perspectives: Anambra or Nigeria?

By Chuks Iloegbunam
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Tuesday, November 30, 2004


To look again at the recent mayhem in Anambra State, there were going to be local government elections on December 18, 2004. All other states in the country had long conducted their local polls and forgotten about the tedium associated with balloting in Nigeria. But Anambra hadn’t conducted its own local elections because of the welter of intra-party problems afflicted on it by the fractious factions of the misruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Now comes November 10, 2004 and the state goes up in flames. It is all in the name of the protracted disagreements between Chris Ngige, the Anambra Governor and Chris Uba, the PDP overlord in the state.

Reactions to the debacle have been legion, many of them no more than hot air. That is why we must look at the basic questions again. To start with, what happened in Anambra isn’t an Anambra problem. It is, first and last, a Nigerian problem. On the ordinary level, Anambra’s roads aren’t plied by Ndi Anambra alone. When, therefore, the sponsored political thugs blocked the bridge over Amansee River, thereby stopping vehicular traffic between Enugu and Anambra States, innocent Nigerians and even foreigners got entangled in a regrettable mess they knew next to nothing about the fomentation. The same thing happened when the Niger Bridge over the River Niger was blockaded. The Niger Bridge which connects Onitsha in Anambra and Asaba in Delta State, is a federal property, the main link between the east and the west of Nigeria.

At the more fundamental level, when the Police, a Federal institution, folds its arms and watches as whole towns and villages are torn down and burnt to ashes, its destructive effect cannot be only on those who happen to live in Awka or Onitsha or Enugu-Ukwu or any of the numerous villages that surround these metropolises. How can you invite and keep foreign investors in a situation where law enforcement officers lead bandits in the wilful destruction of lives and public property? Other questions: When the police failed to act on the side of duty, reason and good governance, what prevented the State Security Service from attempting to master the breach? What is still preventing the Nigerian government from apprehending the destructive criminals?

Not surprisingly we have entered into a new season of the full-page newspaper advertisement. It isn’t wrong, for those who can afford the expensive business. There is no attempt to condemn it here. But some of the messages coming though these paid adverts make very little sense. Mr. Felix Ogbaudu is the Police Commissioner in Anambra State. Mr. Evans Ebbe is the Commander of the Mobile Police unit in the state. Some of the adverts in question have called for the transfer of these characters who negated their oath of office during the mayhem.

The question to ask is this: If you chased Ogbaudu and Ebbe out of Anambra, where would you want them posted to? To people and places deserving of unscrupulous police officers? If you chased a wasp off your body, is it so it should fly off and sting who? The point is that Felix and Evans acted scripts provided by those they are responsible to. Not because they hate or love Ndi Anambra. No. They offended the Nigerian constitution because they had for bosses people who preach good but act evil. Where they are located makes no difference whatsoever. Was this Ogbaudu guy not the Oyo State police boss when all policemen attached to Justice Minister Bola Ige went out in one go for a meal, while assassins moved in and Ige became history?

One of the mortal dangers trained like a blunderbuss on the heart of Nigeria today is the misplacement of the role of the police in a federal setting. The right thing is to have police establishments on state basis. The other right thing is for the police to be answerable to the state, not to the person that happens to be the political head of the state. Much of the abuse inherent in the current political dispensation is tied to the manipulation of the police. This malignant tumour isn’t something curable by transfers across police formations. Whether in Lagos or around the region of Lake Chad, men under arms would still take instructions from manipulators of Nigeria’s defective constitution.

Take this: All the political warm up for 2007 will amount to nothing, at best, or will turn out cataclysmic unless the state of the police is fundamentally altered. The police was one of the principal instrument used to rig the 2003 general elections, the other being the “Independent” National Electoral Commission (INEC).

These were the bodies used to rob the people of Anambra State of their mandates in last year’s elections. If, therefore, certain Anambra traditional “rulers” take out full-page adverts to comment on the “latest” Anambra crisis, and start by pledging their “unflinching confidence” in the government of His Excellency, Dr (Chief) Chris Nwabueze Ngige (OON), they are entitled to their opinion. But it doesn’t mean that the notion of equity is lost on the Igbo society.

A lot of these guys are calling for the PDP to get out of Anambra. Isn’t Ngige a card-carrying PDP member? Isn’t it on PDP’s platform that he occupies the Anambra gubernatorial position? A lot of these guys are acknowledging that the 2003 Anambra governorship election was massively rigged. But they would rather that the robbery is swept under the carpet so that “we can move forward”. After all, rigging took place everywhere else!

It is difficult to understand how these casuists expect to move forward on the wheels of injustice. Why should the rational expect a house not to topple that was built on faulty foundation? Most of the problems dogging the country today stem from the blatantly rigged elections of last year. If, elsewhere in the country, certain politicians decide against seeking redress for electoral fraud, it is not sufficient reason to clone copycats in the Igbo country.

Rigged elections throw up allegiances of the unclean variety. That is why the Senate is yet to utter a word on the devastation of Anambra, even though its president is Igbo. That is why, in the House of Representatives, the honourable member that tabled a discussion on the rape of Anambra was a Yoruba member belonging to the Alliance for Democracy (AD). Yet Igbo legislators in the Lower House of the National Assembly are in scores.

These guys knew that the violation of Anambra was reprehensible. But, in allegiance to the man that deployed corrupt INEC officials and police officers to wangle them into parliament, they would rather that Anambra State was abandoned in the back burner. To reiterate the point, no society moves forward on the wheels of injustice.

If there exists a distinction between Ngige and the Chris Uba PDP, let the Governor institute a judicial panel of inquiry tomorrow morning, to probe the destruction of Anambra State. After all the constitution vest in him the power to appoint such a commission of inquiry. If the igedu hands of the PDP are not pervasive in Anambra State let the State House of Assembly institute tomorrow morning a House investigation of the destruction of Anambra State. After all, there are constitutional provisions to back such a House move.

Okeke as a woman’s name tingles the ear! If the PDP is not pissing on the heads of Ndigbo and telling the ethnic group that it is raining, why is the despoliation of Anambra being described as a family affair? Why did Governor Sam Egwu of Ebonyi State, an otherwise sensible and respectable man, allow himself to be placed at the head of a charade termed the Presidential Reconciliation Committee? Why should the president seek reconciliation (read, the sharing of Anambra’s patrimony) between two disreputable camps – one camp bereft of judicial legitimation, the other composed of out and out renegades?

The situation has degenerated into everybody, wherever they come from, becoming a teacher of Ndigbo. This from Mr. Adeseye Ogunlewe, Obasanjo’s Works Minister: “Ngige neglected those who put him there. And they told him: ‘you can never survive’. They look at it as a struggle against injustice. And I told him: ‘you don’t have the strength of these people financially or in any form. Give them what they want’. If you go into any electoral arrangement, you must fulfil your part.” What do the destroyers of Anambra want if not political booty? How does one describe the problem if not as Nigerian, when federal might is deployed in the quest for the patently unjust?

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