MAMAZEUS SPEAKS: LET'S BE FAIR FOR ONCE !

  I never listen and I know. From the amount of backlash I got from airing my views on president Buhari’s administration, one would expect that I'd  be reasonable enough to keep my mouth shut especially on sensitive issues. Crap! Someone must do the dirty work, I will if no one else will.

  I still cannot understand the rationale behind some Igbos clamoring for a republic of Biafra. Frankly,  these Biafra supporters are beginning to sound more than just a broken record, more like people with zero confidence in themselves. I was born with the notion that the Igbo tribe is filled with great men and women of valour, people who ensue peace and emanate a resilient spirit. I was made to believe that Igbos have the ability to snap back no matter the challenge passed at us. How else were we able to survive nearly three years of hunger and starvation if not thus?

  Today, I am worried as the people I know are a direct opposite of the people I was made to know. I see people who are in a hurry to encourage war instead of peace, spread vindictive propaganda just to reignite an ancient vendetta. I see people who hold on to grudges of "yester-years" so tightly that it has begun to affect the common sense of many. I see a people who have chosen to ignore rational judgement!

  I do not want to lose the direction of this post so I'd not express exactly how I feel about the movement that encourages the secession of Igbos for the dream of Biafra as that is a tale for another moonlight. Rather, I will relegate my energy to the recent attacks in Nimbo, a community in Enugu state by Fulani herdsmen.

  Naturally nobody should find such tragedy amusing. It beats my imagination that in 2016, such savagery is allowed to see the light of day. Again I ask, what gives these people the morale to perpetuate such evil? Do they perhaps feel themselves above the Law?

  My heart goes out to families who lost their loved ones in another security negligence. Some claim that the appropriate authorities were informed prior to the massacre but as usual, the authorities showed up after the deed had been done. For such attacks to be recurring so soon after the last simply shows that the relevant authorities were sleeping on duty as usual!

  Some weeks ago, news of attacks in Agatu community in Benue State filled the airwaves. These hoodlums torched houses, farms and killed scores, even chasing some from their homes.

  Well, while the people of Agatu suffered the cruelty of these savages, other Nigerians went about their businesses exactly like the men who passed by the injured man in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Everyone turned a blind eye till yesterday’s attack on the people of Nimbo. Suddenly Igbos are screaming foul from all corners claiming that Igbos are being killed by Hausas, bringing back the deeds of 1967.

  Truly this is becoming disgraceful.The dragging of an already dead and buried horse is only giving the impression that we as a tribe are a bunch of vindictive folks. Clearly this is a matter of national security and definitely not a genocide!

  I hate to point this out but this war some jobless Igbos are trying so hard to ignite would only fall on the heads of the innocent and gullible. Before you allow yourselves be convinced that this is a war that we will win, may I remind you that her Excellency Bianca Ojukwu  is an ambassador of the federal republic of Nigeria? Do I need to force you to have a good look at all the states in the eastern part of the country? Which one is developed enough to be called the pride of the east? Aba, Enugu, Umuahia, Onitsha?  

  We Igbos say that from the smell of the fart, we can tell the stench of the faeces. If leaders that we appointed are not able to set aside greed and work for their own states, what makes us certain that a messiah would be born after Biafra resurrects?

  I do not believe that the problem of Igbos is Nigeria, our forefathers also fought relentlessly for our bit so we have our share in this country. If we feel marginalized, we can all come together with one voice and yell foul. Okwa ha si na anyi nyukota mammiri onu, ogba ufufu? 

  Pause. For a second, ask yourself, is the Igbo man beside you ready to give up his money hunt for the sole purpose of liberation? Is he willing to refuse bribe and thus allowing another candidate that is not his choice win? Tell me is that Igbo man beside you willing to get the job done putting away all grudges? See, the problem is not Nigeria… Look at that man in the mirror!

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