quote:Nwude is a convicted thief and deserves all he is getting. So also is Balogun, the disgraced police chief from Oyo State in Southwest Nigeria.(The Highest ranking public official to be so humiliated). ....addy
Adolph (N)wa(g)bara, was the highest ranking public offical to be humiliated that bad but I guess you must have over looked him.
No Shaking.
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quote:Adolph (N)wa(g)bara, was the highest ranking public offical to be humiliated that bad but I guess you must have over looked him. - Ed
What is being said to addy here is that the highest ranking public official to receive justice obasabjo way is an Igbo, albeit an efulefu at that. Making my (our) claim that obasanjo is engaged in an extreme kind of selective bogus war on corruption very authentic.
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quote:“Either this war is fairly fought across the board, arbitrarily (dump the names of all offenders like ibb, danjuma, people from the Yoroba area, Awusa area, Igbo area, Calabar, Rivers and have a neutral party pick names) or it is better forgotten.” - MeBiafran
I fully appreciate the position shared by Amadi O + yourself. It goes without saying that such selective justice burns my heart. However, the bottom line for me is this: If King Kong refuses to bring criminals to book because of his ethnic prejudices then that is his failing. If I condone the criminal activity of any (especially those of Igbo extraction) that is my failing.
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Obasanjo is a crude dictator in civilian clothing. What really mesmerizes me is the nonchalance attitude of the Nigerian populace. They empower these crooks. Are Nigerians really this weak or what? I have seen protests in Latin American countries, Eastern Europe, and Asia against the institutions. But, in Biafranigeria, it is always one long "thesis" paper after the other. No actions!!! Power is never acquired easily. Infact, even USA understands that you can not argue with a lunatic. We need the spirit of preemptive strike among Nigeria citizens for that country to move forward. NIgerians? Am perplexed.
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How the failed state works against Igbo ------------------------------------------------------
Ozodiobi Osuji Nwanna:
Finally I sense your outrage, and I am now satisfied that there is the possibility of using your original mind to deal with the Igbo problem. I understand that you left Nigeria very long ago and you've rarely been back; but I wish to tell you that the current allocation is an improvement from the state-sponsored decimation of Igbo economic life through the unfair structrure of the Nigerian state. I want you to note the implications:
a) The Igbo states run the highest budget on education. Imo has more schools than all the states of the North put together. Imo state alone of all the states in the South-East has more students seeking university admission than all the Youruba states put together. These figures come from JAMB. The implication is also that the entire South-East has about 97% graduate unemployment, given the percentage of people graduating from the universities, and the restrictions of the state structures that prevents them from entering into the formal economy.
b) It also means that the Fderal government grants the entire Igbo states, with a notional population of 30million people, to be conservative, less than $100m to operate annually; this is less than the annual budget of some Community Colleges in the United States. This is also the cause of the "escape" of human capital from the East because of a stiffling lack of opportunity; as well as the cause of the "nku ukwa" hysteria, because such limited access to livelihood has driven our people to really demonic edges...what the Igbo call, "ike kete orie."
Since 1970, the Igbo have lived in the condition of slavery, and only those Igbo who understand this feel the outrage in their bomes. What you have just seen, from this allocation, is not the entire story. If you notice, the Federal government keeps the chunk of the allocation, and uses it to make vast supplementary investments in the North and the West, so that although the North and the West have these allocations on paper, they actually get more by direct Federal investment. The Igbo states have simply no other alternative. In fact, we use our scarce allocations to build infrastructures and hand it to the Federal eg: while the FGN built new Fed. Medical Centers in other places from the scratch, we handed them the old Queen Elizabeth Specialsist Hospital and the old General Hospital in Owerri; while they built the Federal Polytechnics in other places, we handed them the the Polytechnic in Nekede Owerri; while they built new structures for the Universities of Agriculture in other places, we handed them the already existing structure of the Colle of Agriculture and the Roots Crop Research Institute in Umudike. The Imo state government is begging them currently to take over the Alvan Ikoku College of Education because its education budget is massive and it can no longer maintain AICE. In other words, the Federal government builds in other places but takes over already built things in the East.
This issue has been raised and debated, and many have never quite understood the real condition of the Igbo. I even suggest that the solution is not another state created out of the East, because, at most, you get another N1billion naira, and up the Igbo allocation to N15billion. It does not solve the problem of inequity. The issue is to ask: how is it that we came to this patch? Are all those shouting for Igbo autonomy mad? Many of them have had real stakes in Nigeria, experienced its degrading injustice, and are today resolved in the dismantling of that unjust system by all means. What we seek is a West African Federation of autonomous states. The Igbo - from Ugwuocha to Agbor can constitute part of that union, while the Yoruba from Ondo to Kutonu can constitute another, and so forth. But in its current formation, the Nigerian state is a burden to the Igbo. The earlier the Igbo comprehend this, the better for them. Igbo vital resources - human and material - will never be utilised for the greatest good of humanity, trapped as it is, in its current relationships, except something radical is done.
Obi Nwakanma
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Uncle Sam to the Rescue: GET READY FOR THE REPUBLIC Of BIAFRA.
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U.S. threatens sanctions
•Obasanjo won’t go for it, says Mbang
By Chinedu Offor
(Washington) and
Stella Odueme (Lagos)
Washington proposes to take several punitive measures against Abuja if President Olusegun Obasanjo seeks a third term.
Tension is growing between the two countries over Nigeria's future leadership.
To cap it, the United States Government is reportedly furious with what State Department officials called "an unwarranted attack on the country with the tacit support of the Nigerian leadership by Presidential Spokesman, Femi Fani Kayode".
He recently rebuked Washington over comments by serving and former administration officials who frown at suggestions of a third term bid by Obasanjo.
Sources confirmed that the government has taken the unusual step of informing members of Congress of a possible leadership problem in Nigeria.
The notice to senior lawmakers of both parties also contained an earlier assessment about the possible disintegration of Nigeria.
"If the present administration seeks to stay in office longer than its current term, the scenario in the assessment could come sooner than expected" senior government officials said.
Measures that could be applied against Nigeria include military, economic and diplomatic.
The U.S is a major supplier of military hardware to Nigerian forces and the administration assists the country in economic policies, such as the recent debt pardon by the Paris Club.
Congressional sources said the U.S supported the debt forgiveness after obtaining assurances from Obasanjo of a smooth hand over to another leader at the expiration of his term.
"The deal was to give a new leadership in Nigeria less economic burden to chart a new course for the country, but all bets will be off if Obasanjo amends the Constitution to prolong his term", said officials.
Reminded that the U.S could be seen to be dabbling in the internal affairs of another nation, one insisted that a leadership crisis in Nigeria could have a "devastating domino effect" on the whole region and would "severely hurt the administration’s goal of encouraging democracy, term limits and good government on the continent".
According to sources the U.S. administration decided to pay closer attention to the "persistent rumours" of a plot to extend the term of office in Nigeria after failing to get a clear denial from Abuja.
Recent reports that 30 governors and several of their state Senate and House of Representatives reportedly signed on for a constitutional amendment for fear of being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) also causes anxiety.
"If this story is corroborated, the administration would have no option than to consult with its allies on the need to tell Abuja in clear terms that such an action would not be supported by the international community" American officials said.
But back in Lagos, Prelate of Methodist Church of Nigeria, Sunday Mbang, expressed confidence that the President would not go for a third term in 2007.
His words: “People don’t know Obasanjo, that is why they are talking like that. I have known him for long, he is not going for a third term. When he finishes his second term, he is returning to Ota and I am very confident about it”.
He charged Nigerians to embrace the wind of change in the spirit of Christmas to make things better for all, just as Jesus Christ, whose birthday is being celebrated this season, came to make the world a better place.
Nigerians should shun corrupt practices to move the nation forward, Mbang pleaded.
“In spite of so many churches packed full every Sunday and with the huge crusades, corruption, bad habit are everywhere. It looks like Nigerians inside and outside out are dirty.
“Jesus Christ has come once again this Christmas to change lives and I hope that this Christmas, the lives of Nigerians will change. I hope that policemen who have been collecting N20 on the roads would stop taking it, NEPA would give us light and bad roads would be repaired in the New Year so that the lives of Nigerians would change for the better. That is the Christmas message.
“Anybody who collects bribe during the elections in 2007 will die, that is what I asked God to do. That person will die completely, from beginning to end.
“Nobody will rig the elections, nobody will cause confusion in this country, no more strike, everybody will live peacefully in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”
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Yeah, let’s see how the ape will square off with the real big boys in D.C. It has always been easier to do a whole lotta talking as the ape and his minions wont but now that the imaginary line is drawn I hope the ape miscalculates. I see another Sergeant Doe treatment in the making, you all.
quote:But back in Lagos, Prelate of Methodist Church of Nigeria, Sunday Mbang, expressed confidence that the President would not go for a third term in 2007.
His words: “People don’t know Obasanjo, that is why they are talking like that. I have known him for long, he is not going for a third term. When he finishes his second term, he is returning to Ota and I am very confident about it”.
Someone should tell this shameless fake, mbang to shut the hell up ALREADY!! Was he not the same man that double talked his ass out of favor few years ago? For those who are not aware of his M.O., he talks the talk at dawn then in the darkest of hours goes begging for crumbs and forgiveness.
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I thought about openning a new thread on: "How to implement Biafra from scratch," but decided to settle for this one. Anyways, here's how to get started with Biafra now.
First lets go to work on Obuaku City, no further delays or is there a reason why we can't start now? -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nnaa,
We have to learn from others. The European Union started small as a free trade area among the Benelux countries (i.e. Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemborg). Now see what we have!
Similarly New Biafra must be a coalition of the willing. The core Igbo states must start a free trade or prosperity zone among themselves called Biafra, then admit new entrants who fulfil the strict membership criteria: no Islamic rules, no trade restrictions, no protectionism, no quota system, no federal character, no state sponsored hajj, no mucking about, only meritocracy. Those unable to compete must stay out and receive state welfare.
Those who hate the name Biafra must keep out and stay out (o ruo na komittee anyi ahaziwa).
Ndeewo!
Ani
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“Speaking with The Guardian on phone from Washington yesterday, Cohen said his recent comments on the alleged third term bid were to clear the misgivings about the position of the U.S. on the alleged third term bid.
Nigeria's Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, had accused the Western power of backing Obasanjo's third term bid because of the gains they derive from the economic reforms of the current administration.”
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If a statement by the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Soyinka, a ‘One Nigerian’, who not only believes in ‘One Nigeria’ but is ready to fight for it, could get the US of A to react, could we imagine what effect Igbo ‘One Nigerians’, led by the great Igbo Novelist and the former Common Wealth Secretary General, what is are their names again, could have done for the marginalized, brutalized nation, a nation slated for extinction – the Igbo nation?
One then begins to understand why Soyinka is a Nobel Laureate.
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The Guardian Wednesday, December 28, 2005 U.S. insists on monitoring democracy in Nigeria By Idowu Ajanaku
TOP officials of the United States government have re-affirmed America's interest in Nigeria's democracy. Reiterating the country's recent position, a U.S. official said yesterday that America would not stop monitoring the six-year-old democratic rule of President Olusegun Obasanjo. The U.S. decision came against the background of a recent warning by Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, special assistant to the President on Public Affairs, that Washington should steer clear of Nigeria's political engineering. Fani-Kayode accused America of reacting to a hypothetical situation on the alleged third term bid of President Obasanjo. But the U.S. Secretary of State for African Affairs, Mike Cohen, insisted that America would continue to watch the political situation in the country. Speaking with The Guardian on phone from Washington yesterday, Cohen said his recent comments on the alleged third term bid were to clear the misgivings about the position of the U.S. on the alleged third term bid. Nigeria's Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, had accused the Western power of backing Obasanjo's third term bid because of the gains they derive from the economic reforms of the current administration. Cohen stated that more than any other country, his country worked tirelessly to ensure the return of democracy to Nigeria. According to him, apart from imposing economic sanctions on Nigeria and placing a travelling ban on some of the leaders who stalled democracy in Nigeria, American officials suffered untold hardship from the then military government. Cohen recalled how the former American Ambassador, Walter Carrington was harassed by security agents for helping the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), an umbrella body that fought the military junta of the late Gen. Sani Abacha. Carrington also helped to persuade the leadership of Afenifere to participate in the transition to give it credibility in 1999. In fact, Carrington alongside Senator Abraham Adesanya, Ayo Adebanjo, Solanke Onasanya, the late Bola Ige, Ayo Opadokun among others were tear-gassed by the police at the Surulere home of the late Onasanya. Justifying America's interest in the survival of Nigeria's democracy, Cohen said that the United States attached so much importance to peace and stability in Nigeria. Besides, Cohen noted that in as much as America would not want to dabble in the internal affairs of Nigeria, his country would ensure Nigeria's compliance with the rule of law. This, he said, would strengthen democracy and its structures. While calling on Nigerians and their leaders to ensure the survival of democracy, the American official noted that there was no alternative to this political system. Reminded that Obasanjo had not indicated his interest in a third term, Cohen said that from the history of Nigeria, especially in the last 10 years, it was a country where anything could happen. To him, the issue is not whether Obasanjo has spoken or not, it is rather whether the system is not being used to promote such an agenda. His words: "The same drama also played itself out during Abacha with the political parties adopting a serving general to the surprise of the entire world. So, America does not want to take chance." Reminded that Fani-Kayode had warned on the need for the U.S. to steer clear of Nigeria's politics, Cohen compared him to the former Iraqi Information Minister, Tahir Aziz, who enjoyed propaganda. "Even at a time Bagdad, the Iraqi capital, fell to the Allied Forces, Aziz was still lying to the people; that is what the presidential spokesman is doing," he said. But he praised Obasanjo's anti-corruption war, which he described as unprecedented in the history of Nigeria. To him, if corruption is tamed in Nigeria, the nation will be on its journey to greatness..
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quote:If a statement by the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Soyinka, a ‘One Nigerian’, who not only believes in ‘One Nigeria’ but is ready to fight for it, could get the US of A to react, could we imagine what effect Igbo ‘One Nigerians’, led by the great Igbo Novelist and the former Common Wealth Secretary General, what is are their names again, could have done for the marginalized, brutalized nation, a nation slated for extinction – the Igbo nation?
Prof Chinua Achebe(?) and emeka the EFULEFU anyaoku are the names you're searching for. Part of the reason the Igbo have been in this boiling porridge for too long is the apathetic outlook of people who should be in the vanguard of advancing our agenda to tell the world exactly what nigeria is about without the usual pandering. My experience here tells me that we the Igbo bear the greater burden of what befell us, no two ways about it! Gani, Wole and few others who share similar heritage with the dictator have been shouting themselves hoarse on his misrule then a fast forward on the eastern front reveals disturbing numbers of efulefus praising and falling over themselves for the tyrant to continue. Then you wonder! MASSOB should retrain their attention on Igbo no-goods after which we meet any outsider that impedes our advancement head-on. But it must be the efulefus first, they’re more perilous to our survival I’m beginning to notice.
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“My experience here tells me that we the Igbo bear the greater burden of what befell us, no two ways about it! Gani, Wole and few others who share similar heritage with the dictator have been shouting themselves hoarse on his misrule then a fast forward on the eastern front reveals disturbing numbers of efulefus praising and falling over themselves for the tyrant to continue. Then you wonder! MASSOB should retrain their attention on Igbo no-goods after which we meet any outsider that impedes our advancement head-on. But it must be the efulefus first, they’re more perilous to our survival I’m beginning to notice.”
MeBiafra,
Finally, we are getting somewhere. The problem as you stated is within, not out there. If we solve the problem within, Biafara would not be an untenable goal.
As usual, our fore-parents, those geniuses who gave the world, ‘Spirituality’, ‘Democracy’, ‘The Rule of Law’, and ‘Civilization’, already gave us the solution. All we have to do is implement them.
Tell me what would true leaders do in the scenario below?
The properties of a defeated people were declared abandoned and seized. The leaders were given the option of getting their properties back, while the properties of the led were confiscated.
Accept their properties; Or refuse the offer until all the properties of their followers had been returned.
The answer will tell you what type of people Ndi Igbo now call leaders. This might also explain why Ndi Igbo turned their faces away from our brethren, the Biafran veterans who gave their lives and body parts so that Igbo might live. It might also explain why it is now every Igbo for him(her)self.
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Well, well, well; guess what I found, othniel’s piece written in 1986 before his abject hate for Igbo/Biafra swept his danda feet off to start sounding like a broken record on anything Igbo. For the newbies, othniel was a Bini chap that roamed wild here before his numerous illegalities caught up with him. If these guys knew that nigeria is an unworkable concoction, why get mad with those trying by every peaceful and civilized means to get the freaking hell away from the banana republic? Makes no sense!
quote:BEASTNIGERIA The Bible uses colorful, imaginary, symbolic words in describing nations and the ruler/kings of these nations. Most of these words are borrowed from the animal world. We therefore read, for instance, of lambs, lions, cows, eagles, sheep etc.
Now, the white European, in his own wisdom, fully aware of the above mentioned symbolism, thought within his dark white soul, that he also would create a beast/animal, and would give it its name. He envisioned an animal with a low IQ, fully dependent upon the instincts which it receives from its maker/creator. This beast would be thirsty for human blood which it requires from time to time and from season to season. Whenever hungry for human blood, this beast, fully created by the white European, would at its own evil will, begin to attack, slay and kill, any human being it meets. It, the blood hungry and blood thirsty beast, would make no difference between killing and eating the flesh and drinking the blood of a young suckling baby, or an old, greyly aged old person. Thus was the vision which the white European, in his own dark white soul, envisioned in the late 19th century.
His vision, to a very large extent, materialized itself when the artificially created nations, beasts of no other origin than the deepest depths of hell, were set loose upon humanity in general, and upon the people living in Africa, Asia and South-America in particular. Artificially created nations, which the Bible clearly describes as beasts or animals, such as Nigeria, Togo, Kenya, Indonesia, Congo etc display daily in the news how true a creation of the white European they are!
The beast called Nigeria, for instance, is a very hungry beast; hungry for physical human flesh. This beast called Nigeria is extremely violent and uncontrollably ready to kill, devour and drink human blood. Evidence of this can be seen in the statistics: the number of people who died violently in Nigeria since the day this BeastNigeria was set loose upon humanity in general and upon the people living in present day Nigeria in particular, has remained at an alarming constant level since 1960. Statistics further undeniably reveal that within a circle of five years there have been occasions of mass violent blood shed and slayings due to coup d'états, power struggles, ethnic cleansing and wars in BeastNigeria.
COME AND SEE: Whenever a bulldog or any other huge dog attacks and kills a human being, people are shocked and distressed. The police is required to exterminate and kill this dog. In most cases this is exactly what happens. Have you seen it? The solution to the problem was not prayers to heaven, diplomatic discussions with the owner of the dog or professional training for the dog. The dog was not sent to a re-training camp, neither was the dog given the proverbial 40-minus-one beating. The dog, the animal, the beast was simply killed.
...and this is the message: Kill the beast. Extinguish the animal. Slay the blood hungry dog.
Annihilate everything that stands upright with boldness, and openly sheds human blood and gets away with it. Oppose everything and every system which allows peasants to take their cutlasses in the morning to kill innocent human beings, and then after the slaying, the peasants go back to their farms, wipe the blood from their cutlasses, and continue their harvesting work with the same cutlass. Such is the practice of some people in present day Nigeria. The beast we are talking about here is the BeastNigeria. It is a beast. It is vicious. It is deadly. Its one and only heart's desire is to drink human blood. Portugal and Britain in particular and the rest of Europe in general are the direct creators and upholders of BeastNigeria. The demarcation lines of BeastNigeria were established and finalized in a highly dramatized meeting of 14 European leaders in Germany's Berlin in 1885. At this meeting two main principles were adapted which would ensure the European's superiority in Africa:
1) Divide and Conquer 2) Join and Conquer
Divide the peoples, then they will become weak and disorganized and Europe will be able to conquer them. Join various tribes and peoples, force them to physically join together to form one nation, then they will be visited by the sinister and evil spirits of power struggles, coup d´états, tribal wars, tribal uprising, tribalism, armed robbery, daylight robbery, mob justice, bribery and corruption and massive blood shed. And while the African tribes, forcefully joined together against their own will, are busy fighting against each other, Europe is busy "eating all the flesh from off the African earth" - carrying away the precious crude oil, diamonds and other natural resources.
Thus BeastNigeria was created and carefully kept under watch for about 75 years since 1885. At the end of these 75 years BeastNigeria was set loose upon humanity. It has continued to devour human blood just the way the white European envisioned it.
This abomination has to be stopped. This wicked display of barbarism must end in our lifetime, in our generation, in our time. And our time is now. Let no one deceive you into believing that the next generation will bring about the splitting up of BeastNigeria. It must and will happen in our generation. - written by Othniel, 1986.
Then you wonder what MASSOB is all about! The knack for these nigerians to speak from both sides of their mouths and jaws commit them to make MASSOB or Biafra the villain in their play of stupidity. Sometimes after reading their rhetoric you think may be isi agbakala haa.
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Eziokwu bu Ndu - Truth is the foundation of Life.
Who knows maybe there is hope for our elders!
The problem is that the elder refuses to give Africans the only solution possible - the recreation of Africa, the African way (The New African Order)!
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"The major problem with Nigeria is Nigeria itself," he said, reasoning that the failure of the nation to grow beyond a predominant state of docility is an outcome of the way the Lugardists, (colonialists) put it together. Everything, including the structure of the state, its system of government, laws and ideology of development was intended to lead to a general flop. "The Lugardist state nowadays parades itself as a democratic Federal Republic of Nigeria. But there is nothing federal or democratic about it."
The Guardian Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Build African super power now or perish, Chinweizu warns By Chuka Nnabuife
AFRICA seats dangerously on the receiving end of the new world other. The only solution to check the imminent extermination of the black race is for the continent to rise now and take its fate in its hands. The formation of a new and strong Africa, equipped with industrialisation will serve as bulwark against western and Arab exploitation of the continent and its peoples.
This was the view of celebrated scholar, social commentator and writer, Professor Chinweizu. With this declaration, Chinweizu set African leaders and the intelligentsia on a task to step up now and save Africa or see the continent perish.
The academic and former newspaper columnist made it clear last Saturday night that the fate of the black continent hangs on a precarious balance during an event organised in his honour at the Agip Hall, MUSON Centre, Lagos. Packaged by the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) and the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), the programme chaired by Ambassador Segun Olusola while serving a public lecture by the scholar as major event also featured two performances, including a Crown Troupe of Africa presentation of Chinweizu's dramatic reply to Okot P. Bitek's Song of Lawino and a spontaneous poetry performance by Akeem Lasisi and his Songbirds.
Chinweizu observed that contemporary situation in Africa worsened by the visible gang up between global economic, religious and political forces to perish Africa.
Beginning his lecture curiously from the conclusion, the maverick professor of mathematics, playwright and essayist who was first seen in public that night after he survived a stroke attack in 2000 said: "The conclusion of my paper here is in three sentences.
"One: The 20th century has been the most disastrous for Africa and the worst century, so far, for black Africa.
"Two: The problem of the 21st century is the problem of the African continent. "And the third issue is that we must note that Lugardism is the root cause of Africa's current problems."
By 'Lugardism' the don meant the continued effect of western and Arabian imperialism, colonial mapping of the continent as well as the Western and Eastern deliberate pauperisation of the black race through religious, cultural brainwashing, trade policies and neo-colonialisation. He observed that since the 12th century AD, Europe and the Arab worlds have consistently dealt devastating blows on the black race through wars, conquests and annexation; trade, deliberately lopsided international economic policies, as well as slave trade, forced labour and the spread of health epidemics of which HIV/AIDS is the most current symptom.
Consistently referring to Nigeria as a 'Lugardist' state Chinweizu frowned that "after 50 years of fake independence... Nigeria is not yet a nation." According to him the country's failure to become a state stems from the way it was put together and the political systems that operate it.
"The major problem with Nigeria is Nigeria itself," he said, reasoning that the failure of the nation to grow beyond a predominant state of docility is an outcome of the way the Lugardists, (colonialists) put it together. Everything, including the structure of the state, its system of government, laws and ideology of development was intended to lead to a general flop. "The Lugardist state nowadays parades itself as a democratic Federal Republic of Nigeria. But there is nothing federal or democratic about it."
In his view, the nation, like most contemporary African countries borne out of European colonialism, was created to prey on its citizenry.
"Lugardism is not peculiar to Nigeria. All the states in Africa are Lugardists," declared the theorist.
Citing cases of state killings of its citizens which he tagged "random acts of state terrorism" the author who unusually bears only one name identified incessant social violence, wars, pogrom, government forces' (military and police) brutality and ethnic cleansing as hallmarks of post-colonial African nations. And these frequent uprisings were original plots of the colonial masters - the Lugardists.
"The Nigerian State is not an instrument of the Nigerian people. It has never been, and may never ever be, the so called independence notwithstanding...
"The claim that Nigeria is now a democracy or as some prefer, a nascent democracy is false. Nigeria has never been and may never be."
Highlighting more of these kind of developments from several black countries of Africa and the Caribbean in South America, the former columnist of The Guardian made a gripping presentation that showed how blacks have been the butt of several centuries of territorial expansion campaigns by Europeans and Arabians. And currently, the North Americans under the guise of globalisation."
"Black Africa is the claws of two race wars. The European/western war and the Arab race war," he emphasised, all through his presentation which took over two hours.
The bloody drive of these races to gain more economic grounds for their nations, get cheap labour for their industries as well as their genetic biases (including hatred, superiority complex and phobia for the people of black skin) have kept Africa in doldrums even when the entire universe pay lip service to globalisation. Scooping references from several ages even as far past as the 10th century AD, Chinweizu served succinct evidences of racism against blacks by Europe, America and the Arab world. From modern times he found flaws in almost the global and continental bodies, from the World Bank to the IMF, WTO, OAU, NEPAD and even the AU which humorously dubbed "the suicidal 'Africa Unmanned' Agenda." According to him "Africa has been re-colonised and AU and NEPAD are instruments." NEPAD, he said, is an EU document handed over to the leaders of Africa in Cairo.
Dwelling further on the issue the lecturer noted that in the last century, Africa has even been a worse victim of racism than the Jews. He emphasised that racism goes beyond skin colour. In a section of his paper devoted to Race Wars, he noted that racism manifests in many forms even as leaders of modern Africa play blind eye to that crucial factor. "Slave trade is race war. Colonialism is race war. Neo-colonialism is race war. Racism is race war."
His observation is that over ages Arabs and the West have used their concerted racial onslaughts on the continent to dominant and discriminate against the coloured people, intellectually as well as politically even when there no proof that a person with a lighter skin is superior to the man with a darker skin. But the irony is that "the governments of black Africa have refused to rise to racism."
Notwithstanding all the darts fired on Africa the fact that the continent opts to fold its hands and mope helplessly as the forces that ravage her from outside stay awake, endlessly plotting the doom of blacks, baffles Chinweizu. "It is clear that our disaster over the centuries are caused by African powerlessness."
To him, this helplessness is begging the question because other continents like China in Asia have equally been victims of the obnoxious machination of western imperialists and Arab expansionists. Yet the 20th century remarkably saw China burst out of those claws to become a great continent, to be reckoned with in global economics and politics.
The Abia State born scholar who Lasisi cast as an enigma in his poetry said Africa must look towards China and study how she plotted her successful against the mighty imperialist forces. "We must start from awareness... In bringing about change the first thing is awareness (of African cultural, religious, intellectual and scientific advancement)... we must churn all the 'isms' - capitalism, socialism, Islamism, Christianity et cetera... "Like China did too, industrialisation is the key... Those guys (the west and the Arabs) are not invincible. The challenge that was thrown to Africa was thrown to other parts of the world too. Go and ask how China overcame the challenge," the speaker said.
Arguing that the situation has grown so terrible that it seems only those who are under 30 years old now would have hope of seeing a better Africa, even if the campaign to save the continent begins immediately.
Somewhat disheartened, the alert Chinweizu who though he walked to the podium with only the aide of a walking stick had to sit in wheel chair to deliver his lecture, told his audience that the prospect of change is dim. Looking to his audience, from his silver chair, the 63 year-old but still handsome man said: "What you are up against is horrendous. I don't envy those of you who will be alive in the next 50 years. I pity you."
He feels that things may actually turn worse given the lackadaisical attitude of African leaders and the intelligentsia to the vital issue. The threat is not a mirage. It is a point that people should look up to, seriously."
"Poverty," he pointed out while taking questions from the audience, "is no excuse." He therefore dropped his warning, which sounded like a canon: "If we don't build African power by 2016 we will be exterminated."
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Nigeria has no established enemies outiside it's vicinity. Nigeria's greatest enemy is Islam and is within. History has shown that Islam does not sanction or practice Democracy because it is about checks and balances, freedom of expression, assmebly, government by the people and for the people.Democracy in Nigeria is just a grandstand waiting to be ambushed by Islam. The northern Nigeria are no friends of democracy and will never, because Islam is their daily bread, dehumanizing and know no freedom. Nigeria's ill is partially the Yorubas because they are lazy and inept. But the greatest enemy remains to be Islam in the north.
Hail Biafra
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quote: “Out of the number (585) that they freed, only nine have returned on their own. We have sent out search parties to look for the escapees, while we hope that some will return by themselves.” --Deputy-Comptroller, Onitsha Prison, Mr. Columbus Omeneko posted by IgboBood February 23, 2006 12:18 AM
nigeria can no longer guarantee the safety of its prisons nor that of any of its institutions. nigeria can no longer guarantee the safety of its foreign investors, especially in the oil sector ( which is all there is ). nigeria is doomed to die.
___________________ Biafra is inevitable.Illegitimis nil carborundum. Posts: 760 | From: europe | Registered: Jan 2005
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Focus on the Purple, blue and dotted lines: Igbo/Biafraland left out again in nigerian rail construction projects, financed with crude oil money from Igbo/Biafra land.
Biafrans, when do we end the chattering and pick up arms again to liberate Biafra from oppressive, incompetent and backward cultures. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
___________________ achieve Biafra and show the difference Posts: 643 | From: Los Angeles, CA | Registered: Nov 2002
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The nation’s beleaguered disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failure exposed by Huricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Cripled by years of poor [/b]leadership[/b] and inadequate funding, the Federal Emergency management Agency cannot be fixed, a bipartisan investigation [WITHOUT BRIBE] says in recommendations to be released Thursday. - RedEye 4/27/06
“The nation’s beleaguered disaster response agency” is a disaster itself! Does this bore semblance with the out of juice arab/fulani nation of nigeria? What the U.S. senate panel is proposing for the embattled FEMA is the perfect antidote on the northern elements’ curse on nigeria. When folks like me scream for Biafra we do so knowing that to effectively combat the incessant mediocrity in the awusa land, the remedy will be a total DEMOLITION of that junkish quasi country anything else is like whitewashing a structure in obvious state of dilapidation. Won’t fly! The attempt to restructure FEMA points to why the white race are far more ahead of the arab/fulani mess, they are always looking for ways to cause a redress contrary to their nigerian counter parts who instead of doing the right thing, wallows deeper into abyss with multitudes of titles and awards. A very poor way of taking care of business for the better! What message does a title/award without the subsequent respect that goes with it convey?
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2483 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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It beats me hollow what makes the one-nigerianists so proud to be associated with that corruption mill. Why after these many years and with the benefits of all the atrocious conduct of past and present administrations, why these idealess folks think there’s a cure in sight for a stupid country? When for example these morally unfit and adulterated legislators pass bills such as this, does it ever occur to them that the next legislators after them may in fact undo/rescind them? Why for crying too much are my people forced to be part of a worthless nation we have no interest in? And to Mr. Paul Adujie who wondered in one of his gibberishes why the Igbo sho
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