Dear Secretary of Arewa Youths, I read your ultimatum to Federal Government demanding that they revert to the RUGA enforcement under few days or you and others will take drastic action against Us, mostly the Easterners.
Nwata fu ogu egbolu egbo, osi ogu kpo ya iru (When a child witness an aborted fight, he will crave to be in one).
I am not worried by the bare face desecration of the might and Myth of The Federal Government with that daring ultimatum you issued, the calculated insults meted to them in course of the Letter, which is outright challenge to the Federal Government to show who is in actual charge of the affairs and Security of the Nation, but that I digress from..
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Truly, I understand the misconception and misconstruction orchestrated by communication, understanding gaffe.
You Wrote in good English, I know you understand the words and wordings you used, so I am not about to lecture or assume that you erred in the presentation or intents, rather I will simply do a rejoinder, that way I can circumvent the aftermat which will not go according to your wishes and dictates.
In 1967 when a minor misconception occurred, the polity was boiling and because we are peaceful people, our Leader then General Ojukwu opted for Peace, he went all the way to Aburo Ghana and other heads of states intervened and Gowon was brought with Ojukwu for a peaceful settlement that will bring coexistence, which after putting all the Works and agreement signed, Gowon reneged and forced a Genocide which is still the problem that bedrivelled the Nation 52 years after, making all the Minerals deposit sitting under our Soil, a curse while it serve as blessing to other Nations.
This may serve as our own ABURI MEETING as the world have evolved.
Let's move back a bit to what you may have at the back of your mind as pamphlet of the Threat, which was the result of what happened in 1966 that metamorphosis into the Genocide of 1967 that lasted till 1970.
A 3 years siege that held this Nation to Bondage, yoked us down into Recession, kept bead over us as backwater people and even Ghana and Togo, nations that doesn't have just one resource of a Local Government in Nigeria,yet they have a Nation that bested ours in all ramifications.
Credit to the Uncivilized War we fought at the peril of greater tomorrow.
Which at the end a pronouncement was made "NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED" Even though it was a lip service, for we are Vanquished and the North are the Victor's.
But if there is that muted slogan, how come we fought the War without hoping for a Victor and the Victim?
Then, we lost the lives of over 5 million Kids, slain on cold blood and we have our Houses laid to ruins, we have our Churches and schools Bombed to dust by Airplanes flew by British Planes and Pilots, but before it came to that, do not forget that, the Army then thought they have the East covered because they evacuated all the Armaments and left the Barn (Armoury) empty, so when they invaded us through OBOLLO AFO NSUKKA, they said it was Police action, that they will ran over the entire Igbo land within 48 hours.
Sure they invaded and tried to Ran over the land, bit shockingly, for 3 years, same number of years it took Germany to withstand the World was what it took Easterners to hold thier land, and even at that, the Nigerian Army succeeded in taking some places and also we recovered most of the taking and do not forget that we fought back with only Spear, Cutlass, Stones and Offor na Ogu, that also brought into context the Mechanical and Technological ingenuity of NDIGBO, where we manufactured GUNS, BULLETS, MORTARS under intense duress as we faced a Conspiracy ochestrarted by the British and rest of the world because they fear.. THE RISEN OF FIRST BLACK AFRICAN SUPER POWER,, they were AWED because we refined Fuel under maximized hostility and it was on mobile refinery, feat that Only Norway aped 25 years after we showcased the ingenuity.
The Russians was Hell bent on not allowing the Biafrans to go because they fear that we will recolonize the World as we manufactured the first world Intercontinental BALLISTIC MISSLE we called FLYING OGBUNIGWE and which we refused to Deploy even though it would've changed the tide of the War, but the Christ in US never allowed us to commit such heinous Crime that would make Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like Children's Cartoon program.
Remember that the same confidence that is making you to think that we are pest that can be exterminated without resistant of any sought, was what drove the generation of 60 and that pegged this Nation into the present status of Nonetheless we are into today as a Nation without Notion.
Maybe you may have in your mind that "Inyamiri" can't do a thing, they can't raise a finger in retrospect but come with me, as we stroll near the Stream of Reason..
No sane man will assume that there is nothing even a baby can do to him, because the Baby may Vomit Breast Milk on his Well Ironed clothes and you have to start washing or changing... That He has done something.
One can say "I am a General, there is nothing a Recruit can do to me" Do not forget, he may set your Car of house ablaze, Shoot you or your Family and the Worst case scenario is that he will be punished or killed, but he has proved that there is something he can do.
Even your wife, you can say she can't do anything, but a little portion of SNIPER she soaked in your Food has done enough damage.
So Dear, stop assuming a Tribe that goes places and make wealth, not just pennies and Kobo, but they make wealth and live well..
Not only in the North or South, but everywhere in the World, they command presence, wealth and respect, they excel where others fail and they don't see Impossible, they only see solutions and ways of turning deficit to surplus...
So you assuming there is nothing they can do, while you do as you please, must be an advise from the Tainted pot of Devil himself.
So moving up an appeal to you, such threat cannot, will not and can never give this Nation a way forward.
Carrying out such threat has collateral that may make reprisal childs play.
Yes, your Tribe has all the Functional offices in NIGERIA, but have you ever sit down to calculate that the wicked push against us made our Sons to have Base overseas and they are not paupers, they don't beg bread wherever they are, they Bake bread and they live like Kings, which means they have made thier BONES in many places and they are in touch with home..
So perish the thought that you have what it takes to contain Ndigbo, for we have Sons and brothers that have what is required to Fend off unwarranted aggression and in Nigeria as a Nation, we have made our Bones and evidence is everywhere, in every cranny and Nook, it is the gift of God.
Then, back home we simply have those BAKASSI BOYS and Vigilantes that don't shirk when there is a Shake and the best bet is not to prod the Nest of BEES just because you think they are tiny and you are large, they produce Honey and at same time, they produce Sting that can leave one Blind and in Comma.
Dear, most of Ndigbo are not buying the present Agitation for BIAFRA that is why it still stand like Rag tag movement, if this kind of amateur game will push majority into seeing it as the Only Solution or Option and finally as way of Life or survival , I can guarantee you that, the equation won't remain tilted.
Kindly Note that we are known to make BEST OF ANYTHING WE SET OUR MINDS UPON.. WE DON'T GO FOR SECOND BEST..
There is one Late Musician in Igbo land, he chant and I present "ituam iche, ntua gi iche, ife iga ejim tuam iche ka imalu, Nkem ga eji Tua gi iche Kam malu" (You cast your Pebbles at me with your Choice of projectile, my counter or Reprisal is also known to me only)
In a shorter version, nobody has monopoly of maiming..
In our language we have a saying which provides "A Sheep when pushed to the Wall will Bite, even when she is not carnivorous in nature".
Let me also retaliate that Ndi Igbo are not living at your mercy even in the North, we have never asked nor gotten a free accommodation, free land or free anything, instead we are pushed to pay a very high price for anything we owned..
Not only we pay for it, we improve it and better the environment to suit our taste.
We worked for anything we have, we labored for it and we go everywhere bearing good wills, as we develope places, build better environments as against those who ruin Farm lands or sweat of others.
What you can cherish about us is that we don't have the culture of having Sex with Cow or Ram.
If truly your people wants to live among us, there is always a price Tag for lands and we are ready to sale and we are very good host, I can assure you that.
You see, maybe because nobody has ever burnt to the ground the houses or villages in the North, you think that War is Jaw Jaw...
The first time we ran back to East and you chased us down and wipe away many off the road, making me to remember the Slaughtering we got at Benue, Gboko to be precise. So next time, I do not think We are going to run, ebe esu nwualu oburu ini ya.
Unless the National slogan of, One Nation is changed, we have the constitutional right to live anywhere in Nigeria as free Citizens, unless we are Constitutional restricted.
If you have tasted that which War bring, I am sure you won't be talking without recourse..
I laugh when Government hired goons to burn down Thatch houses up North and they cried that BOKO HARAM razed a town, so the Federal Government can move in and build them an ancient city as replacement, a feat that was never tried in the East after they bombed us into oblivion but evident in Benue and other places in the North.
Sure, we have seen how they have rebuild BENUE and other Northern states in a Stealth Mode, and we are not troubled, we have no craving for them to come and build us Igbo land, we are capable and we make oasis in the dessert, just allow us a place to stand and we Shake and reshape the Globe.
If truly your people want SPACE to live in the East, I can even lead the Campaign as long as they will do what Ndigbo does,, we buy land and make it a mansion, not a hiding desolate.
We turn swamps into Fortress, we make bush a modern GRA, we turn EVIL FOREST into VGC and we spread Love and never hate to wherever we dwell.
If you can replicate that, then we have a deal..
As Today is Sunday and I want to respond to you what you wrote on your own day of worship, I kindly and humbly enjoin you to know that, it takes 2 to Tango.. And once the Gene is push out of the bottle, nobody can put him Back inn..
If truly this Nation wants to think, see the scale down here and make your own conclusions..
*NIGERIA'S 36 STATES & FCT RANKED IN ORDER OF LAND SURFACE AREA.*
*RANK STATE KM*
1 Niger State 76,363
2 Borno State 70,898
3 Taraba State 54,473
4 Kaduna State 46,053
5 Bauchi State 45,837
6 Yobe State 45,502
7 Zamfara State 39,762
8 Adamawa State 36,917
9 Kwara State 36,825
10 Kebbi State 36,800
11 Benue State 34,059
12 Plateau State 30,913
13 Kogi State 29,833
14 Oyo State 28,454
15 Nasarawa State 27,117
16 Sokoto State 25,973
17 Katsina State 24,192
18 Jigawa State 23,154
19 Cross River State 20,156
20 Kano State 20,131
21 Gombe State 18,768
22 Edo State 17,802
23 Delta State 17,698
24 Ogun State 16,762
25 Ondo State 15,500
26 Rivers State 11,077
27 Bayelsa State 10,773
28 Osun State 9,251
* Federal Capital Territory 7,315
29 Enugu State. 7,161
30 Akwa Ibom State 7,081
31 Ekiti State 6,353
32 Abia State 6,320
33 Ebonyi State 5,670
34 Imo State 5,530
35 Anambra State 4,844
36 Lagos State 3,345
*Anambra + Enugu + Abia + Imo + Ebonyi = Total 29525KM²
Kogi = 29833KM²
(KOGI alone is wider and larger than all the South East states)
**Ogun + Oyo + Osun + Ondo + Ekiti =Total 76320KM²
Lagos = 3345KM²
Niger alone = 76363KM²
Niger State is larger than Entire Southwest States -
The entire southeast is a little less than Kogi State.
This shows that North have more than enough space and place for anything they can think Of for Grazing or RUGA ...
Why asking from the Less Land privilege?
Think about this.. You have a Flowing River and also Fountain of Water at your disposal... But you want me to hand you my only Sachet water for you to Bath with it, when you can swim in yours and Bath clean and healthy..
Have a great Sunday and think a way to move this Nation out of the Decadence and Putrid and not how to bury her in an ACIDIC HELL FIRE.
This is Mazi Odera POg JP, trying to discuss solution than advocating for anarchy.
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