ANAMBRA - The city of Onitsha was in the early hours of
yesterday being Saturday January 11, 2020 witnessed yet another market fire
disaster as the motor spare parts market (Mgbuka Obosi) was razed to the ground
by a strange fire which according to eye witnesses started at around 1am in the
morning.
A distress called was made to our correspondent by people
residing close to the motor spare parts market around 2am, an hour after the
fire started, and upon reaching the venue, a lot of people especially those
trading in the market who have been alerted by their colleagues were busy
trying to fight the fire in their own little efforts to see if they could help
to save some goods from burning completely, but all was efforts in futility as
there was no sign of the state fire service to tackle the situation.
Recall that a similar incident occurred back in November
of 2019 when a petrol tanker laden with petroleum products fell down at
Upper-Iweka, spilled its contents and burst into flames which later escalated
to Ochanja market and destroyed goods worth billions of naira and left many
dead and others injured. In this case, the motor spare parts market was hit
with strange fire which also destroyed goods worth billions of naira and
rendered many hopeless more especially in this starting of the year when cost
of living is very high and extortionate owing to the just concluded Christmas
celebration during which many were usually seemed to have exhausted their
livelihood in their villages during the festive period.
In recent times, Biafra business men and women have
witnessed incessant and uncontrollable fire disaster in their place of
businesses more especially in the market places. In the recent months ago, a
long list of markets in Biafra land where Biafra business men and women are
plying their trade have been torched and goods worth billions of naira have
also been destroyed by fire which have left a good number of people pondering
and doubting if such occurrences was a coincidence or an orchestrated plan to oust
Biafrans most especially the Igbo speaking Biafrans out of business and render
them economically irrelevant in the hostile Nigerian state.
Justifiably, anyone thinking in that line of thought
should not be penalized or seen as a pessimist, for the fact that such
occurrences are now predominantly only in the Eastern region of the country and
should be a matter of severe concern by any right-thinking human being.
So bizarre it might seem but taking a closer look at the
situation involving in this recent fire disasters which has adversely affected
the Igbo owned businesses, one must recall that there was a taped phone
conversation between one Kunle and a certain Alhaji Farook where the later boosted
of Fulani evil agenda to sideline Igbo Biafrans economically, politically and
socially and to relegate them to the background in every affairs of the country
during and before the end of the tenure of late Muhammadu Buhari, meanwhile,
these recent incidents appears to be delivering on such promises and evil agenda
against ndi Igbo in the socio-economic and political space of Nigeria.
Regrettably, our people more especially the Igbo speaking
Biafrans either have short memories or they are docile to understand that such
utterances are already in play since the deployment of this method of sudden
fire outbreak in the market places which seemed to be lethal for the
achievement of the evil northern agenda towards us as a people. A saying has it
that a nation that failed to learn especially from history are doomed to repeat
it but in a harder way.
Recall that in late November and December of the past
year of 2019, it has been petrol tankers laden with highly inflammable liquids,
which usually falls around crowded areas such as market places or residential
areas and catches fire and burning down everything within the vicinity, then in
this month of January 2020, another strategy of strange fire outbreak in market
places was deployed, a similar example is the fire outbreak at Ogbete main
market Enugu and then this one in Mgbuka Obosi, in Anambra state all in this
starting of the year. Yet some people are still thinking that such events are a
mere coincidence!
To say the least, the earlier we stopped being docile and
understanding that these incessant and sudden fire outbreak at our market
places are premeditated attacks on our businesses which will definitely render
us economically irrelevant if nothing is done now and fast, the better for us
all.
Just as the Western part of the country has lunched Operation Amotekun a few days ago,
the Southeast part of the country must borrow a leaf from their Southwestern
counterparts and lunch special market guards and other similar security outfit
to checkmate these menace going on in our territory, this is not a task to be
left only for the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB) who is seemingly the only
organized front to checkmating these attacks, but a task for all the people who
are residence in the old Eastern region of the country. This is because the
government of the day who have failed to protect lives and properties of the
people they vowed to protect, the people must improvise.
In summary, we must rise and support the demand for a
sovereign Biafra State if we must live respectfully as humans.
Written by:
Princewill Akubumma
For: Anambra State Media
Edited by:
Ngozichukwu Ada-Dav
For: Anambra State Media
Published by:
Chibuike John Nebeokike
For: Anambra State Media
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