“LET MY PEOPLE GO!” – NNAMDI KANU, THE NELSON MANDELA OF BIAFRA; THE MARTIN LUTHER KING (JR) OF NDIGBO, THE REBEL LEADER, OJUKWU, OF THE INDEPENDENT BIAFRA NATION!

By Nathaniel I. NDIOKWERE

Preamble

Does the title of my ‘thesis’ sound funny, ridiculous or hyperbolic (exaggerated)? Am I not crazy like ‘my’ NNAMDI KANU? Not at all! But you may be the one, crazy, if you fail to examine this write up with open mind, passion and compassion, commit it to memory as you share the document with friends and let your children know the contents, too.

The MOSES OF BIAFRA, Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu is no more. He joined our ancestors in 2011, and since then Igbos have no one to take over “Ojukwu mantel of leadership”. Africans, are never fortunate when it comes to political leadership and credible successors and worthy legacies. We are not Americans, but try to quote, copy or mimic AMERICA.

John F. Kennedy (Sr) died, but it was not the end of an enviable political leadership associated with the ‘KENNEDYS’.The family continued to produce respectable leaders! What of the ‘BUSH’ family? What of the “CLINTONS?”. If America is not ‘fantastically corrupt’ even more than Nigeria, Hilary Clinton , a wife, would have become the next American president; not DONALD Trump. And the election was rigged. As we hear, the Clintons’ daughter is gearing up for politics!

And Ojukwu died and neither a son, daughter nor a wife could stand up for enviable succession in the steps of the great REBEL SECESSIONIST LEADER OF BIAFRA! The poor son of the great Ikemba of NNEWI could not summon courage and continue from where the HERO of NDIGBO, his father OJUKWU (SENIOR) stopped! Has this Ojukwu (Jr) heard of the NORTH KOREAN 33-Year old ‘boy’ ,KIM JONG-UN, who in the footsteps of his father, is confronting and terrorizing America in military confrontations, on land, sea and air! And the great AMERICA is panicking and suing for peace!

Poor Nigerians and their political legacies! The great ZIK of Africa passed on and none of his sons could toe his political footsteps. Likewise Michael Okpara and Akanu Ibiam! AWOLOWO the great died, together with MKO ABIOLA, TAFAWA BALEWA, AHMED BELLO, but instead of taking over the mantle of leadership, their sons and daughters went into hiding. And about these great politicians and many more their expected successors became dead woods as politics became a game for any crook, criminal, blind and dumb illiterates and morally debased adventurers, who continued messing up Nigerian politics and economy.

But dead or alive, Ojukwu’s spirit is still hovering around his people. He has not forgotten nor have most NDIGBO and some Nigerians failed to recall his leadership as the BIAFRAN HERO and MOSES of his people. OJUKWU has passed on but most of his words and speeches are there on iCloud for anyone to google and verify. Ojukwu rightly declared there should be no more war. But he did not declare that Biafra was dead! Many great people like Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe warned Nigerians never to think or presume that just because of Biafra defeat in the battle field, that Biafra was dead. Soyinka continued to warn that reckless and inflammatory statements like “Nigeria’s sovereignty is not negotiable”, will worsen the situation. Such old cliches like “United we stand and divided we fall”, in reference to Nigeria, is a completely dead matter. Is a personality, an international and intellectual figure like WOLE SOYINKA , a type whose utterances can easily be ignored? But people like BUHARI and other Northern Cabal would not listen!

BUHARI AND OJUKWU- The Biafra dilemma!

That was exactly why President Mohamed Buhari was mentioning his meeting and agreement with Ojukwu in his broadcast. “The Biafra problem” had kept Buhari sleepless throughout his sick leave in London. And there had been a vacuum; no one to continue that important “dialogue” with Buhari and his trusted ministers. There has been no peaceful resolution as far as the project of “Let my people go”, is concerned. The dialogue which started in ABURI, GHANA was discontinued by YAKUBU GOWON and his ministers. Ojukwu is dead; but GOWON is alive watching the ugly consequences of his selfishness and failure to honor agreements. History has all the records. And there was war and as well, “There was a country”. Anyone who claims that BIAFRA is a new term new concept, new phenomenon, a completely new ideology or project, in Nigeria, must be the worst hypocrite on earth, untrustworthy and evil person.

BUHARI AND NNAMDI KANU: The Biafra unresolved issue!

The Biafra struggle did not end in January 1970. Never! Even with another war and defeat, BIAFRA idea will resurrect and someone, perhaps another REBEL, a fanatic’, harassed, imprisoned like MANDELA, even shot and assassinated like MARTIN LUTHER KING (Jr), a model of MOSES will continued the struggle until BIAFRA, IGBO nation is established, consummated. Biafra will never continue in the false union with Hausa-Fulanis. That is a bad dream, a nightmare. It is evil. This is why NNAMDI KANU is continuing, renewing, leading the campaign. There is practically nothing strange, abnormal, sensational he is doing; nothing constituting a felony or anything dissimilar to what liberationist patriots do everywhere. NNAMDI Kanu, like Odimegwu Ojukwu is a REBEL, AGITATOR, A WAR MONGER. These are the known characteristics of FREEDOM FIGHTERS . These are not bad names anyway. OJUKWU dialogue with BUHARI, should now shift to BUHARI and NNAMDI KANU and ASARI DOKUBO, now the accredited leaders of BIAFRA or the UNITED STATES OF BIAFRA, if BUHARI and his war lords are serious for any type of negotiations.
LOST SONS OF BIAFRA AND IGBOLAND
When some honorable sons of Igboland joined Hausa-Fulani political party, (APC), most of us thought they had noble political ideas of fighting for Igbo-BIAFRA interest! Behold! Most disgraceful and embarrassing is the continued presence of former great Igbo sons like CHIBUIKE AMAECHI, OGBONNAYA ONU, CHRIS NGIGE, ORJIUZOR KANU and possibly the crook and the already discredited ROCHAS OKOROCHA and some others, who joined the cabal in drones. Unfortunately, they are just there to discredit the Igbo and Biafra, thus undermining Igbo interest and survival as a people. What are these gentlemen doing, abandoning their kith and kin in Biafra? What are the Igbo senators and law-makers doing; instead of returning to their fatherland for the expected Igbo Renaissance. Who is crazy? These Igbo sons lost in the jungle, or NNAMDI KANU and IPOB? I sincerely believe that it is the person, who still believes in the so-called unity and corporate existence of Nigeria after 57 years of nasty experiment that needs a psychiatrist and not Nnamdi Kanu or his supporters.
NDIGBO! WE CAN FIX OUR OUR PROBLEMS! TWENTY POUNDS (£20) CAN DO THE MIRACLE AGAIN!

NDIGBO should stop weeping, panicking, getting upset each time we suffer reverses, persecutions and rejection in Nigeria; when BUHARI announces to the nation and the world that “Nigeria unity is not negotiable” , or when a Hausa-Fulani hater, records a voice message, in the name of AREWA YOUTHS, ordering the slaughter and burning of all Igbos and all Southerners (except Yorubas), who fail to leave the North before October 1, 2017! Such adverse situations, (pogroms, genocide, shrinking enclave, marginalization, loss of properties, and IGBOPHOBIA , like those associated with the Jews, the Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, tiny enclave around and within sworn enemies, did not start today, and may not end soon! It is not Nigeria unity that is not negotiable! It is BIAFRA; and it is already happening. What is NOT negotiable is BIAFRA NATIONHOOD, national identity or independence!

Courage, perseverance, hard work and “Igbo Kwenu! Igbo Ndi Oma” philosophy will remove all obstacles on the way to self-realization and self-determination on the platform of the CATALONIAN revolution. This “ Catalonian System” or “best Model” of “sound ground-work or foundation” for self-determination, simply means that we, the Igbos, Biafrans, must begin developing and industrializing our fatherland, from grassroots irrespective of the date and day of the celebration of the independence of BIAFRA, as a full sovereign nation. Period!

Defeated in war, by the world powers, Britain, the Soviet Union, the Arab nations, that heavily assisted Nigeria, and politically and economically humiliated, Igbos were not yet finished, but within a few years bounced back, competing favorably with counterparts in good things of life, except in development of IGBOLAND, SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY. The Biafran Engineers and Scientists, that made an unbelievable outing that stunned the word during the period of Nigeria-Biafra war, dejected, frustrated, disappeared, and dispersed, and Igbos lost their best brains and no one seemed to care!

However, their properties declared ‘abandoned’ all over Nigeria, the name IGBO, language and dialect, including anything associated with former kith and kin in the ‘rest of Nigeria’, declared ‘anathema’ (forsaken, prohibited), the Igbo, yet IGBOS staged an incredible ‘Bounce-back! With only a miserable £20, out of millions they had in the banks. The victorious Nigeria, led by Yakubu Gowon and Obafemi Awolowo (head of state and vice), settled the defeated and devastated Igbo with just £20! The Igbo survived and no one, not the wounded in war, not the homeless after the war, not even the poorest villager was seen in the streets begging for food and money. Igbos had to begin life again and have proved they are not yet finished!

“IGBOS MUST LEAVE ULTIMATUM”

I have dealt with that issue in my previous write-ups (please check up) “BIAFRA EXIT – A blessing in disguise, a possible disaster for Nigeria”. My present ‘thesis’ is that that EXIT has begun. And gradually it will come to full realization in matter of time. Here I am stating the basic ground work for its fruition. BIAFRA EXIT, is not just ‘physical’; its accomplishment and results are in the form of SOCIO-ECONOMIC transformation of Igboland by the Biafran returning exiles!

That there are so much, enormous goods, valued in billions of naira that Igbos would lose or forfeit if they leave Northern Nigeria and return to their true fatherland, may not constitute enough reason to listen to the drums of ‘false unity’ or ‘oneness of Nigeria’, really a mirage, which BUHARI and Northern Cabal have started to beat again. That some of our governors and lawmakers, politicians and business men and women have properties and establishments, which they set up in the North with stolen money from our public funds, is no reason why we must protect and cherish ‘Nigerian unity’ and perish as a people! Owners of such properties in the North are free to remain in the North for ever! All lost and gained after the great EXIT, the Igbo can recover in a matter of time, bounce back and even overtake other competitors. It is possible. It is in our stars! A sum of £20 can work the wonders again. This is my proposition! Not kidding you!

INDUSTRIALIZATION OF BIAFRA-LAND

The establishment of a “Land flowing with milk and honey’, with jobs for everyone, maximum security assured – no armed robberies, kidnappings, no cheating or atom of corruption, or dirty deals, no hates, no neighbors quarreling among themselves, injustice clothed in bullet-proof enclosures, no weeping in families and streets, food in abundance for all……., though realizable, in fact is not a myth. It is a serious business, that requires the ancient IGBO SURVIVAL SPIRIT. IGBOS, BIAFRA will survive if my current proposals can be tackled by all and sundry, with the audacity and sense of urgency they require!
There is need to return to work of the development and total industrialization of Biafra. Biafran professionals, engineers, doctors, businessmen and women, who could open up businesses, small and large scale industries, manufacturing companies, farming and food-production communities, food processing plants and what more, can thereby create jobs that can help recall our dispersed sons and daughters. Are there no Igbos, Biafrans in the areas of electricity and power to take care of that basic need for any successful business ventures.! The big Nigerian toddling giant has swallowed Biafran engineers up or has frustrate them!
THE IGBO-BIAFRA AND NIGERIA
Is it possible that the Igbos , known for quick actions, known for the philosophy of ‘forward ever, backwards never, could allow, tolerate, the Nigerian deteriorating political and economic situation in the name of “United we stand; Divided we fall!” How many times has Nigeria fallen and behind many tiny nations of Africa and the world! But we have remained united ! It is strange and unbelievable that the republican Igbo politician, who acknowledges the political ideology that the people hold popular sovereignty, could tolerate, a Hausa-Fulani monarchical Muslim leadership! There are super political and economic structures that are meaningful and can guarantee our survival in a fast changing world. (To be continued) (You are free to share and make a contribution).

Trash! Trash!! Trash!!! Nonsense write-up.

Mumu post, Mumu OP.
Biafra is not realisable, so deal with that.

Op for your plastic mind, you wrote a sensible write-up, but in earnest the write up is shit. comparing kanu to the likes of Moses, the bush family, and the Clinton's, Is pure stupidity and an insult to great leaders.