Nigeria @60; A Tale Of A Dying Country Witten By Elochukwu Ohagi

Nigeria @60; A Tale Of A Dying Country

As a young man, I repeatedly ask myself this questions: What exactly is Nigeria celebrating at 60years? Is this how it will be when I become an old man? 

Just 7 years after Nigeria's independence in 1960, Nigeria went into a civil war that turned into a British supervised genocide against Biafrans. A brutal war was fought, and the defending Biafrans lost more than 3.5million people, mostly children. With the integration of Biafra back to Nigeria, one would have thought that 60 years after, Nigeria will be celebrating a prosperous sixty years characterised with infrastructural development and civilisation. But the reverse has been the case.

Nigeria as a country is endowed with natural wealth and resources. They have for more than 60 years drilled oil, yet Nigeria remains the poverty capital of the world.

Other nations like Dubai, UAE and Saudi Arabia that discovered same oil have turned their respective countries into first world countries. While Nigeria for the past 60 years, can't even boast of ordinary steady electricity supply.

What exactly is Nigeria celebrating? Is it insecurity ravaging the country or what? Today, both the military, police and secret services are working to protect the Fulani herdsmen and offer them logistics. Fulani herdsmen have killed more than 1,600 people in the last 6 months, yet not even one single person amongst them has been arrested and brought to justice. They are occupying and renaming villages of those they attacked. 

Will Nigeria be celebrating the recruitment of Boko Haram terrorists into the Army? Or is it the bombing of the IDP camp by Nigeria Airforce?

Nigeria is a country of looters. A country where the government claim to feed with billions of Naira, school children already living in their respective homes during Covid-19 lockdown. A country whose politicians claim to have shared billions as palliative, whereas in actual sense, they simply enriched themselves. Nigeria breeds the worse of politicians in the whole world. Nigeria's political office holders are one of the highest paid in the world, with billions as allowances. Yet it doesn't stop them from looting the country dry. Nigeria politicians borrow money from foreign nations and loot almost all.

The people are meant to suffer it all. The government have refused to cut down their extravagant lifestyles. They rather tax the people. Today, there is nothing you do without enriching the government. Even if you are making calls, you are as well paying VAT. You are paying in or withdrawing money from the bank, you are paying the Nigeria government some commissions. People are debited right left and center.

Upon all these, they heartlessly increased fuel prize and electricity tariff. This is coming from a government whose policies have strangulated many companies and businesses, and forced millions to lose their jobs.

In Nigeria, bandits are killing people on a daily basis. Kidnapping is now a normal story. News of hundreds of deaths doesn't perturb us again. It is now normal to hear of the killing of 300 people in one night by the Fulani herdsmen.

The worst is that the people have all been cowed into silent submission. No one is talking. The government has either suppressed or bought over those that should be talking. Those that refused to be bought have been so harassed to the extent that they all are afraid to speak out. DSS is always there to invite and question people for criticising the government. 

The level of poverty in the land has turned the people into 'mumu' for the politicians. Gone are the days you hear about protest from the people. The students unions have been bought. The Labour unions are now toothless bulldogs. The government is ready to spend huge money to buy people to their side, than use the money to work for the people.

As a young man, I want you to think about Nigeria and ask yourself if there is any good thing that is worth celebrating about Nigeria at 60years. Is it the arbitrary arrest and shooting of peaceful protesters? Or the injustice and marginalization going on in Nigeria? Or is it the borrowing of our entire future by men in their 70s and 80s? What actually are you celebrating?

In all honesty, we should be thinking of how to end Nigeria peacefully. A country that has no single thing to celebrate at 60years, should not be existing.

All of them supporting 'One Nigeria' are either the same politicians that have killed Nigeria, their relatives, puppets or circle of friends.

We all should join Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB and Oduduwa people to Sit At Home come 1st October, because there is absolutely nothing to celebrate about a dying country. We are better apart, than managing an unworkable contraption. 

Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi 

Written By Elochukwu Ohagi

(A Philosopher, Teacher And Activist)

Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba

For Family Writers Press International

ERNEST CHIJIOKE AND THE HYPOCRISY OF NIGERIA MEN OF GOD

ERNEST CHIJIOKE AND THE HYPOCRISY OF NIGERIA MEN OF GOD

It is with a sad and heavy heart that I received the news of a certain self-acclaimed pastor called, Ernest Chijioke of Heavenly Road Evangelical Church,  located at Ogbaku, Onitsha-Owerri Road, Imo State, who reportedly insulted and humiliated IPOB members in his Church on a Sunday morning. This unthinking man asked IPOB members in his church to stand up and matched them out of his Church. After which he centered his sermon on IPOB, denigrating IPOB and everything IPOB stands for. 

Pastor Ernest Chijioke 

Before you come up with your usual 'touch not my anointed and my prophet do no harm' lines, I want to remind you that this line is the most abused lines in the Holy Bible by African Pastors and Priests. These lines have been used to hoodwink millions of Christians and helped transformed these Pastors into demigods. We live in a clime where correcting a man of God is seen as an attack against God. 

Use a moment and think of what Jesus Christ would have done in this very situation. Jesus Christ welcomed sinners and preached the Gospel of Love. Jesus Christ didn't side with the Roman Emperors against the people. He stood with the oppressed and gave hope to their battered souls.

However, in this situation, IPOB members are no sinners. In fact, IPOB like the biblical Christ have paid with their lives for the freedom of their own people. Young men in their 20s and 30s were gunned down in their prime for peacefully demonstrating and demanding for referendum. IPOB is saying an emphatic no to the atrocities happening in Nigeria. They have seen that Nigeria's continued existence kills more souls frequently, so they are campaigning for self determination, which is their right, according to UN laws.

But unfortunately, a man that claims to be a man of God chose to insult these revolutionaries, pitching his tenth with the oppressors of his own people. He supports a terrorist government of Nigeria. A government that supports Fulani herdsmen to keep killing indigenous people. A government that have dropped a bomb in an IDP camp killing thousands and wounding many. A government that has destroyed the economy, made lives excruciatingly difficult for people, including his own faithfuls, by raising fuel prize and electricity tariff. A group of criminals that loots the resources. 

Do this Pastor understand exactly what the people are passing through in Nigeria, and still gives him their huge offerings and tithes? I remember Desmond Tutu of South Africa, a fearless warrior of God. He stood with his people. What of Martin Luther, the King? He fought for the liberation of the Blacks in America. He is an Envangelist. 

Biafrans for the past 50 years have been suffering marginalisation in the hands of Nigeria. The federal government recently borrowed money for infrastructural development, but refused to include South East as a beneficiary; yet South East will contribute in repaying the loan. When South West has four Sea Ports, and North with two working dry ports, South East and South South can't boast of a single working Sea Port, even with their many seas and Rivers. What of international airports? Biafrans live in a country they are denied infrastructure, but forced to accept RUGA and their water ways taken. Python dance has been brought against peaceful protesters, but nothing done to Fulani herdsmen wiping out villages and towns. So tell me that Pastor Ernest Chijioke is not seeing all these abnormalities and inhuman treatment being meted on his people?

Pastor Ernest Chijioke is a Pastor after the devils heart. He is evil and dines with the devil. He makes the people pay tithes to him and yet still supports politicians and governors who oppress the people. Only the blind will keep attending his Church after this sad incident.

Personally, I don't believe any of his apologies, until he goes back to his church and make an honest apology.

Our men of God can't continue dishing out prophecies for and dinning with the same politicians killing their own people.

Written By Elochukwu Ohagi

(a Philosopher, Teacher And Activist)

Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba

For Family Writers Press International.

Edo Guber-Election: Another Reason Nigeria Should No Longer Exist

Edo Guber-Election: Another Reason Nigeria Should No Longer Exist

Everything about Nigeria has proven that it is a country that shouldn't have been in the first place. The people of the North are always seen thinking and acting differently from the Southerners. It is always from one bloodbath to another in the North. Something the Fulani herdsmen have also taken to the South, killing farmers in their farm lands, destroying their crops, raping their women and horrendously murdering them.

The Fulani who are in charge of Nigeria have been fighting to conquer and subdue Biafra people both politically and economically. With the shutdown of seaports in the Biafra Cities of Igweocha, Calabar, Warri and Onitsha, they also conspire to mount and impose their willing tools as political leaders in the entire Biafra Land.

It started in Imo state, where the Fulani who are the slave masters of the people trapped in Nigeria, used the Supreme Court Of Nigeria to shortchange the people's mandate. Using the supreme Court, they allotted mysterious and invincible votes to Hope Uzodimma who came fourth in the election.

The Fulani have succeeded in gifting Biafrans with governors that slaves for them, instead of serving their own people. With the exception of Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state, other governors in Biafra Land are puppets of the North.

It is the same thing they planned to do in Edo State. Once a slave disobeys them, the person is subdued and replaced by another willing slave. Governor Obaseki went against his makers otherwise known as his political godfathers, and they tried to use a pastor who transformed to an Islamic Imam to replace him. A sinister plot they almost executed, if not for the prompt intervention of the USA, who banned some of the notorious APC election riggers, forcing them not to take Edo like they did in other places.

Every Biafran should understand that without the intervention from the US government, APC would have claimed Edo on that 19th September election. The question we all should ask ourselves is this: For how long are we going to stay in a country where the North is in a continuous project to subdue the South, instead of growing the nation? Are you not tired of a country, that would only allow people's votes to count, only when another country gives them Visa ban?

The just concluded Edo election is another prove to even the most undiscerning person in the entire Biafra Land, that Nigeria as a country has no reason to continue existing. Biafrans should work hard to peacefully separate themselves from the entity called Nigeria. This will benefit the various ethnic nationalities who are completely different from each other in terms of reasoning, culturally, religiously and politically.

The world should be made to understand that separating Biafra, Oduduwa and Middle Belt from core Arewa North will not only grow these different nations economically, it will also return peace back to West Africa, by checkmating inflow of terrorists.

Written By Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi

(A Philosopher, Teacher And Activist)

Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba

For Family Writers Press International.

When Are We Going to Make Laws That Will Permit Castration Of Looters?

When Are We Going to Make Laws That Will Permit Castration Of Looters

The Recent law made by Kaduna State governor, Mallam El-Rufai has once again proven the insensitivity of the Nigeria leaders pertaining to the people they lead. 

One would have expected a governor whom terrorists have been killing his own people in Southern Kaduna, to make a law against Terrorism, but no, he will rather focus on rape. 

The worse is that the unsuspecting Nigerians are applauding him for making a law that proposes castration for RAPISTS. 

The question we must ask ourselves is this. How many Fulani herdsmen have been arrested for raping farmers both in Southern Kaduna and elsewhere? Non, but yet he made a law against rape. 

When these senseless governors makes senseless laws, senseless ụmụ enwe will Keep praising them.

Imagine a governor his fellow Fulani herdsmen kills people, rapes them in hundreds, and occupy their villages, making laws, about castrating Rapists. How many people have been killed in Southern Kaduna? How many were arrested? How many were raped by these Fulani herdsmen? How many did he arrest as the governor? 

Until opposition people and Activists are set up, accused falsely of rape and barbarically castrated, you guys will not understand.

The same way you all brought an antiquity and made him president, is the same way you all are supporting nonsense and giving barbarians powers they will use against you.

When are we going to start castrating looters?

Somewhere in Imo state, a governor made law to arbitrarily arrest people as much as he wants. Terrible people. 

Elochukwu O Elochukwu, 2020.

An Activist Describes Today's Igbo Leaders As Sons Of Betrayals

The Transition Of Leadership Betrayals In Igbo Land 

When I say that Ndị Igbo lost leadership immediately after the war, some people don't really understand it.

The Biafra war brought many woes to the people of Biafra, which amongst other things includes loss of good Leadership. The fight to disorient the Igbos started during and after the war, and has continued till today. This is perpetrated by enthroning and empowering people who within themselves, never believed in the Igbo struggle or emancipation.

The creation of the East Central State was a ploy by the British-Nigeria government to divide Biafra. Ukpabi Asika, a pro Nigeria intellectual was appointed as the Civilian Ambassador to East Central State. An office he held during the war and after the war. 

Asika from Lagos, addressed his own people as 'rebels', and called on them to lay down their weapons. Asika’s first of such speeches was 'Enough is Enough' (10 November, 1967); wherein he stated thus:

"Come forward now and let us stop this war. This wanton destruction of lives and property. Enough is enough. You have seen the contrast between the security and the prosperity which Ojukwu promised you, by seeking to cut the cords that tie you with the country, and the destruction, the waste and the insecurity in which you now live. I am speaking to you as a fellow Nigerian, an Iboman, who has also suffered. Even as I speak to you I do not know the extent of the waste, the damage, the destruction that has been done to my home at Onitsha, to my family and my friends and to all those very, very dear to me. Can you imagine that I do not care? [...] To those of you who fled your homes, in Enugu and the areas of Nsukka I wish to make a special appeal that you now return. Your protection and security are assured [...] The rebels, in arms, are invited to lay down their arms, or better still turn over the arms to the Nigerian Army. All rebels who do so will be treated with clemency and understanding. Already the Federal Military Government has stated that all soldiers, no matter on which side they fought, would [sic] be fully rehabilitated."

The above is the mindset of an efulefu who saw his people that were killed in millions, forced out of their comfort zones as refugees, only to turn around and label them as rebels. He was practically used by the North against his people.

Asika's administration of the East after the war saw the recruitment of people with his replica mindset into power, as well as the gradual and complete retrenchment of people with the Biafra spirit from the corridors of governance. Those that don't want to lose their jobs or denied appointments started abiding with same mindset. Within a short period, lots of selfish individuals and betrayers of their own people became leaders in Igbo land. 

It is not a surprise that leaders in Igbo land are always standing on a different stage with the people they claim to be representing. The Northern hegemony, who are in charge of Nigeria throw up anyone that slaves sheepishly for them into power in Igbo land. It became worse that the people lost even the power to decide who become their political leaders. This is evidenced in the last Imo State election that saw Hope Uzodimma suddenly become the Governor of Imo state. Something made possible by the Fulani hegemony through the instrumentality of the supreme Court of Nigeria. 

Almost all the leaders in Igbo land, from Ohanaeze down to the governors and Senators are all stooges of the Fulani. They obey the Fulani and are always seen standing against their own people.

The people on their own are helpless. An Igbo adage says, 'onye ji igu ka Ewu na eso'(The goat only follows any person in possession of the Palm-frond). The Fulani having empowered these men, now lure them to use their ill gotten wealth to buy the conscience of the people. It has been this way unchanged, until the coming of IPOB.

With Mazi Nnamdi Kanu led IPOB coming to the stage, it ceased to be business as usual for these selfish Igbo leaders, who have for the past 50 years betrayed their own people. IPOB has exposed them, making the people to understand the magnitude of betrayal they have received in the hands of the people calling themselves Igbo leaders. From the time of Ukpabi Asika till this day, Igbo land has been ruled by Betrayals and Saboteurs.

Written By Elochukwu Nicholas Ohagi

(Philosopher, Teacher And Activist)

Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba

For Family Writers Press International.

2020 And Beyond; An Insight To What Is To Come By Elochukwu Ohagi

2020 And Beyond? 

The most pregnant of all year. The year corona virus came, putting the world at ultimate standstill. A year even the greatest looters of Nigeria resources died because even with their huge stolen money, they couldn't travel abroad to acquire good sound health care. Just like the ordinary Nigerian, they died inside the abattoirs called Nigeria Hospitals. 

A very unpredictable year. A year IPOB, whom have been killed for many years by Nigeria government raised their dragon flag. I heard the IPOB Leader say, during one of his evening broadcast, a voice radiating through the London airwaves, into the streets of Biafra Land saying 'from now on, we shall retaliate whenever we are killed.' It is now eye for eye for a peaceful freedom fighting group who was massively killed in Onitsha, Asaba, Igweocha, Aba and Afaraukwu countless times without them reacting. A group that maintained peace even when an attempt was made on the life of their own leader right inside his house, by Nigeria military. That very day 28 men and one lady were murdered.

What changed? At Emene, DSS left Abuja and slaughtered 21 unarmed IPOB members. It happened in the unpredictable year called 2020.

Crisis is coming. Chaos is coming and Nigeria will be gone. 2020!

The Fulani controlled Nigeria government will like to go to war again. They will even like to instigate it, as to crush the peaceful uprising for freedom. But they will get a cold feet from Oduduwa. Middle Belt will be ready and willing to raise a flag. The Fulani will stand alone. Even the Hausa will rise against them. To reclaim their kingdom stollen from them by Uthman Dan Fodio. 2020, a year Fulani went harder using both terrorism and state power to uphold the supremacy of Islam. A year their power will be crushed, that they will feel like wanting to park out of what will ever remain of Nigeria. The truth is that no matter how they tell you about HausaFulani, there is Hausa and there is Fulani. One a conquered and enslaved, while the other the master and the conqueror. And no matter how long you enslave a man, one day he will rise up against his enslaver. For 300 years Africans were enslaved in America and Europe, yet they rose up one day. 

2020, a year of chaos, hunger and war.

Biafra will become a reality. The Nigeria government knows, Britain knows and the world knows. For the first time, they have seen a movement they can never uproot. A prince from the trigger of the gun. An incorruptible prince has been born. He is destined to liberate his people.

Will there be peace within Biafra after restoration? There will be, but not immediate. Saboteurs will rise. Their hatred for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB will unite them. The dubious Eastern politicians that served under the corrupt Nigeria will like to steal power using them. They will be sponsored and fight to negotiate power, and when their evil demands are not met, they will arm themselves.

We must be vigilant. We must restore Biafra. We must born a clean nation. We have died, imprisoned, jailed and and suffered hunger, we MUST NOT NEGOTIATE BIAFRA with anyone. Not with the saboteurs neither with the dirty breed of Nigeria politicians of Biafran origin.

Why am I saying this? 2020 and beyond. I see choas, I see ruins but victory and freedom lies ahead.

They can mock and mock, but it can't stop a determined people.

Those that still mock, and believe the words of their masters telling them that Biafra is a dream that can't be actualize should start having a rethink. Biafra is here and God is with them.

They said Fulani herdsmen will start killing with government support and it happened.

They said ISIS is coming, you laughed and mocked. Today, ISIS is here.

They said that anyone that has hands in the killing of IPOB members will die, have they not died? He even mentioned names.

What have he said that didn't happen?

And he said Biafra will come and you are laughing.

Watch this 2020. Start cultivating, embrace agriculture. Start planning for any eventuality. Nothing last forever, including Nigeria.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher And Activist.