“The
trick is that while they dangled their useless meeting before Ohanaeze (just to
give them a false sense of importance), Buhari will be annihilating their kith
and kin in the Delta with his Northern dominated Army. After that, they will
face Igbo squarely. That is “divide and rule” in its simplest definition, and
Biafran demolition is their target.” Tim
Tochukwu.
For many Biafrans in the thick of
agitation for the independent state of Biafra, anger rose on receiving the news
that Ohanaeze Ndigbo, a rusty and inconsequential
group from Biafraland, on Sunday, February 21, had a meeting with some Northern
manipulators. To make the matters worse, the
Biafrans considered it appalling that in the current dispensation in expired
Nigeria, some Biafrans could still be so-shortsighted
to hold such a meeting, and then come out with the trash they called a
statement.
Since October last year, after Nnamdi
Kanu, the Biafran leader was kidnapped by Nigerian government, Biafrans have
been in the streets in Biafraland protesting, and asking for his release.
Internationally, Biafrans were also simultaneously protesting daily in front of
Nigerian embassies; British embassies; European Union (EU) and United Nations
(UN) offices. In the process of the protests in Biafraland, nothing less than
1000 Biafrans was murdered by the Nigerian government and its agents. More than
double of that number were inflicted with varying degrees of injuries.
In spite of these, and instead of
initiating a meeting with the leadership of Biafra, the usually dubious and
manipulative peoples of the North went to hold a meeting with some elements in
Biafraland who they described as Igbo leaders. Meanwhile these people were mere
stooges and quislings, who the North had gathered in the past to consistently
help them thwart the emergence of true Igbo leadership.
Naively or foolishly, these so called Igbo
leaders sat with the Northern manipulators who had come under the aegies of
Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to release a statement. The statement, in the
main, was that they had faith in Nigeria, and had agreed to live together in
one indivisible Nigeria. And going through the statement, it proved to Biafrans
why Nnamdi Kanu have often referred to those so-called Igbo leaders in Ohanaeze
as naïve and foolish.
The meeting was reported to have been held
behind closed door. Why closed doors? Where they agreeing payment and terms of
payment? Then they condemned the killing of some unarmed Biafran agitators...
So which ones did they condemn their killing and which ones did they agree with
their killing?
Ohanaeze and ACF also called on the
Federal Government to release all those detained on the account of the
agitations as well as compensate their families. And so we ask “after that what?”
So after that, Nnamdi Kanu will continue to remain in the enemy’s gulage;
Biafraland will still remain the back-garden of the Fulani and Yoruba; and
Biafrans will continue to be their slaves? So this is the fate Ohanaeze wants
for the people it claims to lead, while its membership smile to the banks with
bribe-money and quislings’ appointments from. Pathetic jokers!
Ohanaeze also signed the trash: “We will
also continue to meet with our other brothers, the Afenifere, the South-South
Peoples Assembly, the Ishekiri, the Urhobo and many other socio-cultural groups
to promote peaceful co -existence and unity of Nigeria”.
“Unity”, as what? Is it unity as slaves or
as conquered people? The Fulani and Hausa, or even Yoruba are no brothers of
Biafrans; neither have they ever treated Biafrans as brothers. Biafrans have
nothing in common with the Fulani, the Yoruba and the Hausa. Their brothers are
in Niger Republic; Chad Republic; Cameroun; and even in Benin Republic, and
they know it. They can do well to go and seek them out to be united with them,
and not with Biafrans.
How come they in Ohanaeze did not
understand the game of the Northerners as they claimed to be Igbo leaders? How
come they did not see the anomaly of ACF representing the North and its different
ethnic nationalities; but intending to hold meetings with representatives of
Ijaw, Itshekiri, Urhobo, etc., which are parts of a whole – East (Biafra). It
is a shame that Ohanaeze did not realize that by accepting to go into that
meeting alone, without their Brothers in the former Eastern Region (Biafra),
they were defeated already.
Why would the North come in block to meet
parts of a splintered East? Is the North more homogenous than the East (Biafra)?
Of course they are not because the North consists of different ethnic
nationalities more than the East. They have Hausa, Fulani, Junkun, Borno, Tiv, Kaje,
Gbagyi, Kanuri, Berom, and several others. Even at that, they are not from the
same root, (they are not even blood-related). For instance, the Fulani peoples
are nomadic cattle herders from Senegal, their kith and kin are still in Futa
Djallon Mountains till this day.
But Biafrans are same people from same
root – Ijaw, Ibibio, Igbo, Itshekiri Ogoja, even Igala Idoma, and others. They
are related by blood. They have lived together for thousands of years in a
confederation that had not seen conquests and empire-building. So how come the
Northern manipulators would stage such a meeting with Ohanaeze, and they would
attend?
Ohanaeze is not representing anybody, and
have never done. They are a bunch of self-appointed leaders. Ndigbo are not even
qualified to meet with the North without their brothers in Biafra, not to talk
of an insignificant Igbo group, Ohanaeze, which only exists to enrich its
members at the expense of those they claim to lead.
Perhaps the most important question would
be, “If Ohanaeze claims to truly seek the good of their people, how come they
did not spot the ‘divide and rule’ in that meeting from the onset”. The best
thing they should have done would have been to first decline the offer, then
seek a meeting with their Biafran brothers in the East. If the North is Arewa;
East is Biafra. With that they would have forged a common front to meet with
the North.
But no! Their bank accounts and quislings’
appointments are better for them than the good of their people. If that was not
the case, it would have occurred to them that the meeting was set up because
Muhammadu Buhari was already on a mission to decimate Niger Delta – their
Biafran brothers. The trick is that while they dangled their useless meeting
before Ohanaeze (just to give them a false sense of importance), Buhari will be
annihilating their kith and kin in the Delta with their Northern dominated Army.
After that, they will face Igbo squarely. That is “divide and rule” in its
simplest definition, and Biafran demolition is their target.
Enough of the manipulations, lies and
deceits! Let it be known today that Ohanaeze does not speak for Biafra. They
neither represent Igbo or Biafra. They are a group of quislings and saboteurs
set up by the Northern controlled National Party of Nigeria (NPN) of 1979.
Biafrans had thought that they would change their orientation over time, but
their last meeting suggests that indeed, a leopard cannot change its spots.
We ignore them and move on with our march
to Biafra.
By Tim Tochukwu
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