History often repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce...” As if to illustrate this thought-provoking adage afresh, post-colonial Nigerian history, which first produced the immense tragedy of Biafra with its horrible litany of death and widespread destruction, is now going on to provide the world with a new version of Biafra that is being preached by the colorful duo of Ralph Uwazurike (MASSOB) and Nnamdi Kanu (IPOB).
BY OLA BALOGUNMAY 29, 2017
The current antics of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the self-proclaimed leader of the illusory Biafran nation, brings to mind an often quoted remark by Karl Marx, who pointed out in reference to the 9th November 1799 coup d’etat by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte in France:

“History often repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce...”

As if to illustrate this thought-provoking adage afresh, post-colonial Nigerian history, which first produced the immense tragedy of Biafra with its horrible litany of death and widespread destruction, is now going on to provide the world with a new version of Biafra that is being preached by the colorful duo of Ralph Uwazurike (MASSOB) and Nnamdi Kanu (IPOB).

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In the original historical version of Biafra, the world witnessed General Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu strutting pompously across the stage of history in a crisply starched military uniform, proclaiming for all to hear that “no power in Black Africa” would ever stop Biafra from coming into being.

And now we have a fresh enactment of the Biafran tragedy, this time as farce, with Ralph Uwazurike issuing bogus ‘Aba-made’ Biafran passports to gullible youths willing to believe that an adventurer posing as a Head of State can be trusted to “actualize” the Biafran mirage, while his erstwhile employee Nnamdi Kanu has now suddenly morphed from a fire-breathing bush fighter into the self-ordained rabbi of a bizarre new Jewish religious cult.

Let us hope that this new prophet can now be left in peace to lead his fellow Biafrans to much deserved freedom from the hellish confines of the oppressive Nigerian nation.

Thankfully, the process will probably be swift, since Nnamdi Kanu apparently has very deep pockets, as well as unparalleled access to top political leaders in Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Enugu, Anambra and Abia States.

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Interestingly enough, a three-page spread that was published in the “Sunday Sun” of December 12th 2015 (pages 48-51) threw some very interesting light on what Ralph Uwazurike has been up to with MASSOB, as well as on who the mysterious Nnamdi Kanu actually is.

In the interview he gave to the “Sunday Sun”, published on p. 48 in the newspaper’s edition of December 12th 2015, Ralph Uwazurike complained bitterly that Nnamdi Kanu was originally an unemployed youth whom he hired to supervise the activities of Radio Biafra in London due to the fact that Nnamdi Kanu had legitimate residence status in the United Kingdom.

If indeed Nnamdi Kanu is who Ralph Uwazurike says he is, how did he suddenly become endowed with the tremendous level of funding that appears to have been required to rent large crowds for the unruly demonstrations all over the Eastern states, as well as in Delta and Rivers States?

How was he able to fund a secret radio station within the confines of Nigeria, as well as purchase considerable quantities of sophisticated weapons in preparation for an armed uprising?

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Hopefully, the answer to these and many more questions may become known when and if Nnamdi Kanu and his alleged co-conspirators are eventually put on trial.

In the meantime, fellow Nigerians and Ndigbo who have a sense of humor will probably enjoy the free cinema show of Nnamdi Kanu’s efforts to spread his new Jewish faith among the faithful that he has gathered in his father’s compound, clad in white priestly robes, and brandishing a highly symbolic fan artfully decorated with Biafran colors in a bid to demonstrate the nexus between the resurrected Biafra and the mythical Jerusalem that Donald Trump is apparently getting set to proclaim as the heavenly ordained capital of the State of Israel.

Turning now to the possible remedy that might help quell the ongoing agitation for the birth of a Biafran nation, there have been a number of calls in the recent past for some kind of “dialogue” with Nnamdi Kanu and his followers.

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This kind of advice is obviously misplaced, notwithstanding the rather bizarre utterances of Bishop Kukah, who once described Nnamdi Kanu as “the most popular politician in Nigeria today”!

If there can be no “negotiation” or “dialogue” with Nnamdi Kanu and his supporters, is there any means of diffusing the present unrest, short of engaging in a shooting war with the neo-Biafran agitators?

Obviously, the best solution would be for the Federal Government to publicly announce that it is prepared to grant a Biafran homeland to all Ndigbo who wish to abandon the choice properties and flourishing business enterprises that they have acquired by dint of back-breaking labor and intense sacrifice over many decades in Lagos, Abuja, Benin, Jos, Maiduguri, etc. and return to Nnewi or wherever else they may choose to relocate to in a newly independent Biafran enclave.

Naturally, the returnees would be unable to carry buildings or other major physical assets with them, so they would be limited to whatever they might be able to fit into a few suitcases and “Ghana must go bags,” with assistance from Eze Ayodele Fayose 1, the newly crowned paramount ruler of Ihiala.

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Furthermore, the new Biafran nation would be a landlocked enclave with no access to oil, since no rational indigenes of Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers, Bayelsa and Rivers States can be expected to associate themselves with the highly illogical caper of the newly proclaimed Biafran nation, a factor that happens to have been one of the underlying causes of the collapse of the original Biafra under the leadership of the late Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.

(It would appear that Ralph Uwazurike, Nnamdi Kanu and the bulk of their hard-core followers are apparently too young to be aware of the deep-rooted reasons for the disastrous collapse of the original Biafra!)

Furthermore, once they have returned to Arochwukwu, Umuahia Ibeku, Aba-Ngwa, etc., the citizens of the newly independent “Biafra” should be required to produce passports and legitimate visas each time they wish to visit any part of whatever is left of the dismembered Nigerian nation for business or pleasure, with strict customs controls to regulate the movement of goods and foodstuffs between the new Biafra and every other part of present day Nigeria.

Fair enough?

Interestingly enough, as any diligent student of Nigerian history is aware, there is no such thing as the “Igbo people,” because Igbo happens to be a language and not an ethnic group, just in the same way as Yoruba is a language, and not a tribe!

It so happens that most of the diverse folks who speak the Igbo language - Ngwa, Ohaffia, Wawa, Owerri, etc. - never actually interacted with each other on a regular basis during the pre-colonial era. In fact, some of the dialects that are spoken in certain parts of Ala Igbo are virtually incomprehensible in other Igbo-speaking lands.

Ironically, the often repeated complaint that Nigeria is an artificial creation of British colonialism would therefore also apply to any Biafran state that is formed out of an amalgamation of erstwhile antagonistic Igbo-speaking peoples, the more so as there are now many artificial traditional “kings” all over Ala Igbo, some of whom can be observed to be reigning under bizarre appellations like “Eze Donatus Ahamba 1 of Njikoka” or “Eze Jonathan Ndigbo 1 of Bende local community.”

Oh dear, why all these traditional “rulers” in Ala Igbo always “1”? Why no 2, 3 or 4?

Could it be that nobody in their different communities knows how to count beyond 1?

Or could it be that there have never been any traditional rulers in the history of Igbo-speaking peoples before the trend was initiated a few years ago, possibly to give the famous Nigerian actor Olu Jacob an opportunity of competing with the equally famous thespian Pete Edochie for the honor of winning the Nollywood absurdity prize for best traditional ruler role?

Anyway, the free cinema show of the long-awaited re-actualization of “Biafra” should be allowed to proceed unimpeded.

Hopefully, at the end of the entire process, the farce would have attained such proportions that we would all be encouraged to look forward to the next episode of this vastly entertaining farce.

Meanwhile, the law enforcement agencies would be well-advised to refrain from allowing themselves to be provoked into engaging in running battles with those who have declared their intention of shutting down the South-Eastern States on May 30th.

On the contrary, the new breed die-hard Biafrans should be allowed free passage into the nearest available beer parlors and pepper soup canteens in each of the South-Eastern States to celebrate the past, current or future Biafran independence to their heart’s content.


IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu

http://saharareporters.com/2017/05/29/it-time-nigerian-government-let-biafran-people-go-ola-balogun

Buhari ( Pharaoh) let my people go. Otherwise there will continue to be hunger in the land. Afonjas food don ready

Y nah

Is that all the mockery the failing Sahara Reporters Blackmailers could muster?

Egbon Sowere, you can do much better than this.

Up your mockery, please.

Unity Beggar. Your Sarcarsm is the least bit amusing. Is it so difficult to understand? I DON'T WANT TO BE COMPATRIOTS WITH YOU.

Took my time to read through, but all I saw was the handiwork of a schizophrenic writer. No objectivity, analysis or actionable solutions preferred.
All mockery no sense

the only thing making the agitation strong is write up like this trying to mock them

Well, I see.

Ok

embittered sowore, e go do u like magic. see his embittered write up

if I had the power, I would declare Biafra today.

but buhari does not have the power. this is democracy. this scenario is different from gobachev's U.S.S.R. only the senate could pass a motion for referendum and igbos have the second highest officer in the senate.

let him move the motion even if he fail to garner the the necessary numbers of votes, history would remember him and another person could take it from there later. we like to talk about Scottish referendum without acknowledging that it was a Scottish member of Parliament that moved a motion and lobbied his colleagues to that effect. they didn't just pollute the atmosphere with hate and protest up and down.

"at first they will ignore u. den they will laugh at u. den they will fight u. in d end, u win." - mahatma ghandi.

from d statement above u will discover dat IPOB has passed d "ignore dem n laughting at dem stage." now we have entered d "fight at dem" stage as can be seen from d article written by a very bitter n frustrated person. d article above may seem noble on face value, but if u read through it u will discover dat its notin but a mass of jagons full of insults n sacasm against Biafrans. who told d writter dat agitation for biafra is a farce wia is yugoslavia today? was d breaking up of yoguslavia not seen as farce or "impossible" 35 years ago? is sebia n montenegro a farce wat about sudan? is sudan still d same con3 in 1995? is south sudan a farce? how about USSR? was disentegration of USSR not seen as unthinkable 36 years go during d conquest of russia before 1800s by "peter & catherine d great", was d con3 (russia) not very huge in landmass from east to west? how did russia lost its vast territory? was it not western europe dat demand russia hand ova some of her territories to checkmate her influence n growing power in 1700s - 1800s? didn't russia invade turkey centuries ago? is turkey still under russian control today? ar dis con3s; romania, germany, poland, hungary, ukrain azabaijan farce today did history not repeat itself again wen d same russia disentegrated into several of d above con3s in 1989? wat happened to karl max's theory? was history not repeated again n again in france? was it not d same france dat went through series of political caos for centuries before they arrived at d form of govt they been looking for? d karl max d witter above so much love to quote, is he a proponent of democracy or dictatorship?

one nijeriya beggers can insult Biafran agitators all they want, but one tin they must have at d back of their mind is dat, history will ALWAYS repeat itself. n wen it does in dis scam union, nijeriya will NEVER remain d same!

Is this Yoruba mofo tired of collecting brown envelope to write thrash about Biafra, IPOB and its leader nnamdi Kanu?

Could it be that a taste of Nigeria animality which saw him locked up fews months back re-setted his medullar oblongata.






I didn't care to read his latest thrash anyway

Yes o, let Biafra Go.

This write up na wa

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Write up is an anti-Biafra sarcasm and the usual narrative of ewedu muslims who have sworn to serve the fula caliphate forever.

All the 'intelligence' therein is lesser than the IQ of a rotten bowl of amala.

I trust my iPad people, they will still cry about this writeup as usual

IPob always cry

waledeji:
I trust my iPad people, they will still cry about this writeup as usual

IPob always cry

I though Ibos were only gala sellers and that they didnt own choice properties in Lagos or anywhere outside their land?

If the Igbos could bounce back from the throes of a very brutal civil war that impoverished them through a state policy of confiscating their savings held in Nigerian banks as part of a reparation for the war and become the dominant demograph of middle class in Nigeria, is it in this present age that they wont succeed after your omonile lazy touts take hold of their properties?

Just like the Jews during their exodus from Egypt, the Igbos will demand gold from you and you will give them.

All properties owned by the Igbos in Nijeriya especially in your slum village Lagos will not only be protected by your govt but tinubu will be leading a delegation to biafra to beg for Igbo investment after the oil money from Abuja dries up.

tribalistseun:
Buhari ( Pharaoh) let my people go. Otherwise there will continue to be hunger in the land. Afonjas food don ready

Not only will they protect your properties in Afonja land after Biafra is established they will encourage you to come back and invest in their waste land.

The largest investors in Afonja land remain Igbos.

With Biafra and the secession of Niger Delta out of Nigeria how will afonja Tinubu get his omnile tax? Is it from the impoverished tajus feeing the hunger from the wasteland interiors of osogbo?

Just like the Jews on exodus from Egypt whom the Egyptians granted them gold so will afonja offer their services to you

IPOB has succeeded in painting a bad image of the great Igbo tribe.

When they're not threatening brimstone and thunder, they like to harass Nigerians who are at variance with their ideals.

Such disrespectful kids (young or old, they all act childish).

Advanced begging by Afonjas

FSBoperator:


Not only will they protect your properties in Afonja land after Biafra is established they will encourage you to come back and invest in their waste land.

The largest investors in Afonja land remain Igbos.

With Biafra and the secession of Niger Delta out of Nigeria how will afonja Tinubu get his omnile tax? Is it from the impoverished tajus feeing the hunger from the wasteland interiors of osogbo?

Just like the Jews on exodus from Egypt whom the Egyptians granted them gold so will afonja offer their services to you

You are smart to see the big picture

Afonjas don't want to end up like their brothers in Togo and Benin

This LUBBISH was written BY OLA BALOGUN. Afonja people mind your business.

It is high time we allow them go.. One thing is for sure their hatred is going to consume them eventually

Ussy4real:
It is high time we allow them go.. One thing is for sure their hatred is going to consume them eventually

lol

now they agree

ordinary e war una don tire

Scream Biafra if u want afonjas to run away from you

malton:
IPOB has succeeded in painting a bad image of the great Igbo tribe.

When they're not threatening brimstone and thunder, they like to harass Nigerians who are at variance with their ideals.

Such disrespectful kids (young or old, they all act childish).

Ipob is Igbo and Igbo is Ipob so don't cry for us Mr Malton

That's the frustrated soul that wrote the hateful, deriding and grossly false piece of garbage. An embittered Nollywood scriptwriter who has faded into oblivion. Karma bit him hard few years ago when fire engulfed and destroyed his pathetic life's savings and properties. Since then he has been churning out piles of sewage from his green hydraulic soup powered brain. Bitter pay per post old fool.

Ola Balogun...

Kathmandu:
Ipob is Igbo and Igbo is Ipob so don't cry for us Mr Malton

I'm not crying.

I'm just caring for family.

The writer is obviously lost long time ago,who can still remember when uwazuruike stop being MASSOB leader .