The Rebirth of 20 Pounds, the Punishment, the metamorphosis of the mind by Obele Nwa Mpa Nnukwu.
It was just like every other day back in 1967, when Igbo Hustlers woke Up to discharge their daily duties without malice or mischief of any kind, the weather was kind with variety of mischief weather up North, but an orchestration that was weaved as result of meeting held in MAPO Hall in Ibadan where PA Awolowo planned for a Coup d'etat against a Civilian setting, so that he will become Unelected Head of State.
A program some of the Majors in the Army bought into, and as a follow up to the charge from Awo this group of Majors carried out a Coup(Awo was tried and convicted, sentenced to CALABAR prison for treasonable felony), which later for want of Bad names for Ndigbo, so they can be cut down to abnormal size and the myth destroyed, the Coup that favored Awolowo, a Man from Ife, a Town in Western part of the Nation, that Coup became or was Christened IGBO COUP, just because Ranking officers in all Security apparatus then were taking by pure academic qualifications, competency and never based on Quota, when such card is played even again the result will favor us.
Card of selecting the Elites,the qualified,it simply selects the best and maybe the saying which provides"Wisemen are from the East" comes into play.
Well, no apologies that majority of the Officers including part of the 5 Majors are Igbo, also comprises of Yoroba, AWUSA.
The Igbo Officers are mostly Born, bread and Buttered in the North, one even have his Birth place as a Name, he was named Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, parents from Okpanam in Delta state an Igbo Tribe..
Well, the effontery of the Tribe with Finger of Creator,We excelled where others don't, Became a problem to Zonal zealots .
A Tribe that left a place of Comfort and travel to a strange Land where they have no relations or cushion, without any knowledge of culture and traditions, also who are not literate to the Language of the Host, but with persistent, grace, and respect to Laws of the Hosting community, the stranger will excel and make the Hosting community his second home, there he will replant his profit around him, create job opportunities to the host, bring to them services they can't get themselves because they weren't cut out to operate on such exotic frequency.
But that never made them to like Igbo race, not because we did anything wrong to the masses, but because the Elites felt threatened that if Ndigbo continue the Republican path, which gave us the fortitude to grow from Zero to Hero, something they consider an Albatross.
Something other tribes detested with all nerves in them, for they love the class distinct, the Crass usage of powers between the Elites who prefer to have undeveloped environment, illiterate community, only lineage of Elites will be literate and others will serve them in perpetuity.
So having Ndigbo embrace thier people and let them taste the Apple of self Help will destroy the Magical Fabric of Boss and Slave that has worked for them and continued to work as in Future Tense.
Before we get to the 20 Pounds they gave us which they called "THE LAST SUPPER".
it was so named because they had in mind that with such meager sum, Igbo as Tribe were doomed, they can only buy Last supper, so Hunger will finish them off, which made them to promogate a degree that "Anybody found in armed Robbery after the Genocidal War, must be shot at stake", having in mind that Poverty will push Ndigbo into Robbery, but when all the 7 Armed Robbers shot, starting from Oyenusi.. All were Yoroba Youths, which brought at abrupt reversal of the Decree,firing squad terminated, just like FIFA used Golden Goal as weapon to punish Africa in Football, they have the belief that Caucasians are faster, so they introduced Golden Goal, when Caucasian score and with the belief that Black's has lasting stamina and can out Last the Whites, they crafted a Dumb law of Golden goal and Nigeria punished them for such idiocy by using it to carry junior World Cup and they changed the rules, like Nigeria changed that of firing squad..
Just for the record, no Igbo person with full Igbo Blood is into crime, most of them that are into crime are those whose DNA started mixing after the invasion of 1967,where the invaders raped many Women and plant into them a Generation of bad omen, but I digress.
Let's see what gave room to the Genocide of 1967-1970,when Ndigbo were boxed to a corner and with British Pilots and Airforce raining Bombs on our Schools, Markets, Churches and playground, just to make sure that our temerity to stand up to them is buried, a mistake they are regretting as they choose to touch gods Annointed and God is punishing them with atrocities of Bad upbringing and Children without respect and future..
Come with me as we read this..
“Within three days of the July outbreak, every Igbo soldier serving in the army outside the East was dead, imprisoned or fleeing eastward for his life”, observed Professor Ruth First in The Barrel of a Gun: The Politics of Coups d’Etat in Africa [Allen Lane The Penguin Press, London, 1970, p317.]
But Africa’s bloodiest coup did not stop at that stage, despite the shooting deaths of 42 officers and over 130 other ranks, who were overwhelmingly Igbo. The killing sprees and ever-expanding killing fields spread like wild fire across most of the country. There were three phases to the coup – the Araba/Aware massacres in northern Nigeria pre-July that called for northern secession, the July Army bloodbath, and the ethnic cleansing that went on for months after Ironsi had been assassinated and his regime toppled. The maelstrom prompted Colonel Gowon into making a radio broadcast on September 29, 1966...
See link..... https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/07/july-291966-counter-coup-africas-bloodiest-coup-detat/
Moving back from digression, after the end of the Genocide and the rebirth of the 20Pounds, Ndigbo accepted the petty and without grumbling, we so believe that no matter how strong you kicked a Toad, it is just a lift you gave, so we wiped our tears, rose like a Phoenix and we simply looked at Sky as a starting point.
In the Heat of the Global pummeling against Ndigbo, that was our own Recession, we did not collapse nor blame God or ask God to send his Angels to fight our battles,we simply brought a Garb of science,we started making our Guns, Bullets, we refine our own Crude oil, we separated all the genetics in oil and we build our own Airport where it was a World Class facility that stayed hidden.
We invented Mobile Radio station, we printed and managed a Currency that even after 53 Years on keeping it suppressed, the currency still wax stronger than Dollars and Pounds in some West African Nations With Vision.
Consider that at the period of our darkest and terrific nights, we are so productive and inventful, it simply sums it up.
Despite the fact they rejected us, they treated us unjustly, we went back to them with Love and not even a bit of malice,
We prospered just as we always do, we invested without bounds and in less than 10 Years the 20 Pounds catapulted self into Multi.. Numerous and with the hostilities, we still build Homes away from Home, we still buy swamps and turn same to home, to them it is stupidity, but to us, it's just a way of life.
Property can only worth it if Ndigbo are acquiring it , if they leave for any reason, the price, the worth and patronage will nose dive.. Just as Diamond cost money at the hands of the Rich, give a Diamond to a poor man, it turns to piece of garbage because you wear Diamond on apparel and never on rags.
As the Last Supper Money greased the palms of Ndigbo and we turned same to Power packed Riches, it should have provoked the Nation to think and wonder, if this people can wake up from a Global annihilation efforts that lasted 3 years and yet rose very high above, they should take this Nation out of Recession and into prominence.
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