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The Voice Of The Oppressed. Don't Tamper by leonivas: 10:09am On Oct 29, 2015 |
only the callous would deny
the fact that they have suffered
immeasurably in the Nigerian Federation
over the last 50 years.
Only the uninformed would deny the fact
that they have been butchered, murdered,
persecuted, broken, humiliated, insulted,
cheated and treated with contempt and
disdain more than any other ethnic group
in the country since July 1966.
What the Nigerian state is confronted with
in the new generation of Igbos who refuse
to be cowed is a time-bomb. Unlike their
fathers they cannot be appeased or
intimidated. They are not fearful of the
prospect of a second civil war. They are not
prepared to settle for crumbs and neither
do they fear death, conflict, defeat,
incarceration, butchery or persecution.
They are imbued with a spirit that cannot
be suppressed and the more they cry
''Biafra'', the more the spirits of the millions
that were slaughtered on the Biafran side
during the civil war are invoked. The more
they cry ''Biafra'', the more the souls of the
hundreds of thousands of their people that
were butchered during the barbaric
pogroms in the north in the mid-60's and
thereafter are remembered. The more they
cry ''Biafra'', the more they remember how
their fathers were stripped of everything
after the civil war and how they have been
denied the opportunity to rise to the
highest office in the land. The more they cry
''Biafra'', the more they acknowledge and
recognise the bitter fact that the Buhari
administration regard their kith and kin as
nothing more than third class citizens and
pitiable prisoners of war. The worst thing
that the Nigerian authorities can do is to
treat them with levity or contempt.
They are angry, they are fed up, they refuse
to be enslaved, they want a brighter future
and they have come to realise that they
have nothing to lose. The most
inappropriate thing that President Buhari
can do is to continue to underestimate the
power of their resolve or the clarity of their
intent. The worst thing that they can do is
to begin to jail them, to shed their blood
and to take their lives.
The more you lock up the Biafrans, the
more they will rise up. The more you mock
them, the more they will shout. The more
you kill them, the more their anger will be
kindled. The more you deny them, the more
they will wax stronger. The more you treat
them with disdain, the more they will defy
you. The more you treat them like slaves
the more they will aspire to break off and
take their destiny into their own hands. You
cannot resist an idea whose time has come. |
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