Little wonder Igbo Elders rendered a redention that provides "Okwu ana aso anya adighi ebi gboo "(Words spoken with absolute reservation and restraint doesn't end on time) .
So it's time igbuwa aki oyibo Nsugbe ka Ohu na Ogodo ke nsi (Time to speak fact and lay things bare).
There is a glaring provocation that is ongoing now in Lagos State against IGBO RACE, a repeat of what led to the Counter Coup of 1966 which was the result of meeting held at MAPO HALL IBADAN where it was resolved that PA OBAFEMI AWOLOWO will be the President after the Coup ,the Coup of 5 Majors which were later tagged IGBO Coup,making it case to revert Overt and Covert hatred against NDIGBO and cause provocative savagery against us.
It worked , for our blood were used to soak the ground, the blood letting was so much that even the gods decided that good things will continue to be a mirage in a Nation that has the highest Mineral resources.
Nigeria has the best and most Minerals on our soil, but the Human has empty brain, making us to be hungry in midst of plenty.
Well, after the coup, he was found culpable and the Army tried him for treasonable Felony and a mild sentence of Life imprisonment were handed down to him and he was committed to Calabar Maximum Prison.
A place he was until General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu released him during the initial hostility which was the result of the Coup he carried out, he was released and he promised that once he got back home to the West that he is going to pull Yoroba out from the AMALGAMATED MISTAKE called Nigeria, with that every Tribe and Race would've found a life that is common and enjoyable instead of the constant hostile life that does nobody any good.
Fast forward to the act of pre-War nay Genocide of 1967 which were targeted to eradicate NDIGBO from surface of life and annals of humanity ,but the great mistake was they did not ask God his plans for same people they plotted to extinguish.
The good old book said and I provide "MAN PROPOSE AND GOD OPPOSED "
Today in all the UNITY SCHOOLS in LAGOS, the State Government passed a Memo that..
1) The Assembly must be conducted in only YOROBA language
2) That all Prefect must be a Yoroba son/daughter of the soil, which the principals will tell the students without mincing words that "If you are not Yoroba, you are not qualified to hold any position in LAGOS state "
3)Currently all Teachers that will be employed must be Yoroba.
4) That Yoruba language is a must for every student and if you fail Yoroba, you repeat class.
All this in a Unity school, in a Nation we chant "ONE NIGERIA ,ONE DESTINY" ,in a Nation were we thought we have democracy?
A nation with a Tripod setting, AWUSA, YOROBA and IGBO, but was twisted and designed to tilt against the IGBO, making meaning to the saying of our forebears which provide "Nwata si na Nneya agaghi ehi Ula, ga amu anya Imezu ya "
"Oji Onye na ani, Ji onwelu ya "
(A child that swore that the Mother will not sleep , must be awake to carry that task..
He that hold somebody on the floor should know that you will stay with the person on that floor, for when you gets up to move, he comes up to follow)
The most abusive of them all is the PRINCIPAL of FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COLLEGE, IJANIKIN, LAGOS, Mrs Essien a Yoroba woman married to a Calabar Man, who told Parents that complained during a PTA meeting that was conveyed in YOROBA language , the woman knowing that this is a Unity School said to the Parents and I quote "This School is not for awusa or IGBO, if any of you don't like how we run it, how we must do everything in Yoroba, the person can go back to his state and start his own ".
The parents couldn't believe the temerity of the woman in a Federal school, she went ahead to Boast that she is untouchable and also that She is a director as well in the system and can do what pleases her without recourse or consequence.
This may be right ,for the Minister of Education is not competent enough to wade in and see the sacrilegious introduction that will break the system, them send those who are not qualified to retirement or as they wished to turn FEDERAL SCHOOL to Tribal school, send them out for them to join Tribal School .
The settings that guides the Federal institution is flexible and never tribal in settings.
I think this Principal of IJANIKIN must have made so much wealth and powers that she felt that She is more powerful than the Federal Government and that Minister of Education must bow to her.
I think it's time EFCC start investigating the Principals of this UNITY SCHOOLS, since they have resolved to wrestle the Nation into a corner and create another Tension and rumors of War like it was in 1967, this provocative push targeted against NDIGBO won't be taking with hands Akimbo,,,,,,,NEVER AGAIN ..
Now that also makes one to remember how cruel the Government has been to NDIGBO recently, then it dawn on one that the scheme hatched by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 when he started dealing with NDIGBO with Iron fist including when he literally closed down CALABAR PORT, WARRI PORT,ONNEH PORT just to make sure that IGBO must shift her business to Lagos.
He opened COTONOU BORDER, BANNED OVER 41 ITEMS which we do not and will not have the capacity to produce, just to make sure he ran IGBO business aground without creating alternative to cushion the effect of scarcity that arises.
From COTONOU to LAGOS with TRAILERS that are Gigantic are as free as anything ,but all the way leading to the East were poisoned with more than 600 CUSTOM CHECK POINTS till date, and one may be forced to ask, why locate Customs far away from Borders?
Well, the reason is to make life so difficult for IGBO importers, so they can move business to the WEST where they will face hostility that is unrivaled.
Well they succeeded for many IGBO closed Shops in the East and relocated to LAGOS, but now the New Government has shown that not only did he hate NDIGBO with passion, he seems to have a more dangerous agenda that will make Adolph Hitler to wish he learn from him on how to deal with Jews.
The Properties of NDIGBO has become a parameter to set up state budget, silently tearing us apart has been taking to another higher level, meetings and midnight conspiracies all toward making life so hard for NDIGBO has become the Energy that drives them.
That we brought unprecedented development which in a sane world will give First Class citizens to such people, instead it became aberration in Nigeria.
Somebody should explain to Lagos that the houses we built are permanently on LAGOS ground and can never be taking to the East, so when pictures of LAGOS are painted, it will be seen and counted as LAGOS development.
The hostility now is just a test case, so the IGBO people should know that we are no longer safe, even though onwero Onye aga Agbara oso, but it's time to stop burying our resources on soils that hated us to avoid another ABANDONED PROPERTIES.
Read my lips, stop building in Lagos State until they assure us that we are safe. If our children attending schools here has been giving then nightmares, move them down to the East.
I think it will be best, if LAGOS STATE can be bold enough to tell the Federal Government that Lagos has autonomy, that way, we can choose to move to a safer state and ground.
LAGOS State should know that a man has a limit to any push and he will push back, this stealth and frontal provocation have been endured, restrained and it may get to a time the leash may not hold the collar again and the bottom of the basket will drop down .
My old man always plead that whosoever know what will cause fight should stop it,, do not think you has what it takes to pummel somebody to submission because even the gods may decide to join the fray, after all during the pogrom of 1967 which started just like this one and also from LAGOS, which the East also did everything to make sure it never happened including going to Aburi Ghana to seek a resolution for peace.
Held another at BENIN for same reason after that of Ghana collapsed, then the Government after watching and noted that we had only 133 Riffles in EASTERN NIGERIA made what they called Police action, they sent Military to move inn and capitulate us.... Well it took 3 years, the same number of years it took Germans who prepared well enough to wrestle the world.
We held the World down too for 3 Years, because the rest of the World joined to crush BIAFRA because of the ingenuity noticed when we started using PICK UP to develop ARMOURED TANKS, REFINING OIL on make shift shanties, building ARMAMENTS that bested even the Americans, built Mobile and invasive Radio station, all this made the World to rally round and cry that allowing this people to breath is allowing a BLACK SUPER POWER to rise from Black Africa , so the World bombed us for 3 years, but we survived.
Somebody should tell LAGOS and Federal Government that we do not ask to be treated like a King or prince, we want to be treated like other NIGERIANS ,free and fair.
That we are 5% that are not in any corridor of power is not our problem, but our Freedom to live in a Nation we call ONE NIGERIA is not a Privilege but a Right.
If that is too much for them to understand, they should kindly ask us to leave NIGERIA nationhood and move back to our LANDLOCKED SOUTHEAST, so that Hunger and difficulty will help and finish us, instead of them wasting their time plotting Evil that is not necessary.
Just allow us to live or go,, then you can judge us after 10 Years.
Having made the plea, I beg once again for maturity to be used for this Path and plot leads only to Evil forest and we are more exposed than we were back in 1967 , having been said, I am OFF but ON.
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