Arab Evil Deeds: Nigeria – Igbo; Sudan – Dafur

By

Peter Opara

Peter_O'Para@tufts-health.com

 

 

A U.S. Assistant Secretary of African Affairs named Joseph Palmer was the Igbo nemesis during the most trying time of the Igbo – 1967-1970.

 

Palmer singularly deflected Democrat’s Vice President Huber Humphrey’s attention on the plight of the Igbo. Palmer sat on Republican President Richard Nixon’s concern for the lives and welfare of the Igbo; he sat on President Nixon’s concern for the continued slaughter, displacement and dispossession of the Igbo; he sat on President Nixon’s concern for the continued starvation of the Igbo in the Igbo country – Biafra . Palmer blocked every move and plodding even by then National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger to address the dangers Nigeria posed to the Igbo and to alleviate their suffering.  

 

While Palmer ignored the plight of the Igbo, he dined and wined with Sule Kole, the Arab Nigerian representative in Geneva , who was a major obstacle to relief for the Igbo in Biafra . At the same time Palmer, sent messages to the U.S. Congress that Nigerian soldiers were protecting the Igbo.  This when Palmer had eyewitness information how Nigerian authorities – soldiers especially, violated all rules of civilized behavior – breaking into compounds of foreign Embassies and international organizations and forcing defenseless Igbo out and slaughtering them.

 

It is hard to admit that in fact Palmer’s indifference to the Igbo plight was simply a case of material over humanity. OIL. Where Palmer’s ultimate superiors saw human suffering and wastage, Palmer saw only OIL. It is interesting that it is the same OIL that Palmer desired over the Igbo suffering, starvation and death that has rendered Nigeria impotent.

 

As did President Charles De Gaulle of France, President Nixon noted the mass slaughter of the Igbo in Nigeria for what it was – GENOCIDE; this in spite of the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s diabolical lies to President Nixon that there was no genocide occurring in Nigeria then in 1967, and later starvation in Biafra. The same Wilson, who reacted like a freak at the thought or mention of the name of Biafra leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, further said to a bewildered and incredulous President Nixon - “the death of 1 Million Igbo was good for the unity of Nigeria ”!

 

As to the unity of the contraption that Wilson ’s fellow Briton, Lugard, put together for which he, Wilson , wanted the head of 1Million Igbo, its leader then, Yakubu Gowon, had stated earlier thus: “The basis for Nigerian unity does not exist”. Then Gowon, Mr. Renegade himself made a U-turn, and embarked on a scotched earth policy of murder, rape and looting against the Igbo with the slogan - “To keep Nigeria one, is a task that must be done”, aimed at forcing the Igbo with the aid of British Wilson, Russia’s Kosygin and degenerate wanton Arab killers, back into an entity in which the Igbo was not safe then and is not safe today.

 

But the Igbo had to go then and still shall go for freedom, security, human and technological progress, and in this regard for the Igbo, there is no substitute for Biafra – an entity that Nigeria feels it has destroyed. Let him who disagrees show the Igbo an alternative to the criminal, murderous entity in which the Igbo and of course other nations are trapped today. Thanks to Lugard and his concubine. Yet, those with Igbo blood on their hand and on their land cannot determine the future of the Igbo.

 

The North and Separation -

The Igbo desire to part from Nigeria was not and is not the first, and will certainly not be the last attempt by any of the nation tribes that constitute Lugard’s Cage to free itself. Long before the year of birth of yours truly, Arab Nigerians chanted Araba, Araba, Araba – Separation, Separation, Separation – from no place other the Cage that Lugard built. Arab Nigerians were right. From the outset, Arab Nigerians never wanted to have anything to do with southern “infidels” and “Arnas” right next to them. Thus did Sir Ahmadou Bello characterize the Lugard’s 1914 amalgamation of north and south of the British protectorates then as the “mistake of 1914”. I continue to agree with Sir Bello and laud him to this day, while blaming one Zik of Africa for the sorry fate of millions of God’s children trapped in Lugard’s cage, Nigeria .

 

Suddenly, Araba chant that hit a crescendo soon following the Arab Nigerian’s revenge coup of 1966, that commenced their genocide against the Igbo, subsided. Why? The youth of the north must inquire and discover for themselves why their leaders that often chanted Araba, chants Araba no more; it is important they embark on such discovery to see for themselves whether their being Nigerians and remaining part of Nigeria has benefited the northern masses or just a select few northerners. Nonetheless, northern youths should note if what I posit here is the reason why the chant subsided. Here it is - conniving, criminal Britain especially and Arab Nigerian’s feudal masters hatched a plan, and the plan was and still remains to hold Nigeria hostage solely for its resources especially oil. It is this oil that got Britain and the Feudalists drunk, such that they robbed, raped and ruined Nigeria and its people. None in the cage that is Nigeria is spared of the destructive mode of the drunks. Even the north that Britain favored and whose leaders participated in the orgy were not spared; yet it is strange to those south of Nigeria to imagine a poor northerner or unpaved northern roads.

 

It is common knowledge, perhaps documented, that prior to the British departure in 1960 or earlier, Britain worked out a favorable lopsided political arrangement for Arab Nigerians where by some strange arithmetic, the north of Nigeria became numerically superior to the south. Such arithmetical calculations ensured control of power and thus resource, oil, by the north. Britain had long deemed the north the manageable partner in what Britain knew was a volatile arrangement – amalgamation – that included ruggedly republican Igbo.

 

In this Cage – Nigeria, where every group is at each others’ throat, there is talk about Sovereign National Conference (SNC) another of many conferences that have been held to yap about the continued living together or not of the peoples in this Cage. On the proposed conference, one time-leader of the cage – that had bankrupted the cage morally and economically, a born “kparawo”, as his northern people refer to him, Ibrahim Babangida, allowed in a newspaper interview that there is “no go area”. The “no go area” as far as this chief robber is concerned is any talk about separation of the peoples that Lugard forced into the Cage that Lugard’s concubine named Nigeria. Well, separation or no separation, it is a universal norm that a thief is without honor, and could not be allowed or even be seen to have an input in a parley such as the one in question. Not in Nigeria . In this evil barrel, not only are thieves honored, indeed thieves direct the affairs of the decent and truly honorable. And so, a man who looted Nigeria ’s treasury and brought sundry social and moral ills upon a people, still dares direct the people’s affair.

 

Igbo and Dafur

1 Million was the number of Igbo Arab Nigerians swore to slaughter to avenge the death of their leader Sir Ahmadou Bello, who was said to have been killed by Chukwuma Nzeogwu, but not without assist by Arab Nigerian soldiers and others. Above all, Nzeogwu and company’s coup d’etat was one about which the average Igbo had not any inkling, talk less of a fetus in its mother’s womb that counted for the 1 Million Igbo that were slaughtered by Arab Nigerians and their southern Christian puppets.

 

The man Harold Wilson, who held brief for Arab Nigerians, one is not aware what has become of him, whether he is dead or alive. If Wilson is dead, he will have to deal with thousands of young and old Biafrans that he sent to their early grave. Wilson deserves no peace in death. If he is alive, let him know that one Biafran child he starved, scared and terrorized, has a couple of Frozen Eggs waiting to dent his old, wretched, criminal forehead, should he ever chance wherever this Biafran child may be.

 

One prays that Palmer and Wilson’s diabolism does not befall the people of Dafur. This indigenous African population in western Sudan is on the verge of being wiped out – deliberately – by Arab Sudan, as were the Igbo by Arab Nigeria. The U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was exactly where he should be – in Dafur – when he went there. Secretary Powell must keep his eyes on the safety and security of Dafur population; he must keep his eyes on the Palmers of the world about him – who favor material over humanity. It is clear that Arab Sudan is intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or a religious group. This is GENOCIDE. The killer, rapist sub-human Arabs must be stopped.

 

With the visit of Secretary Powell, Moustafa Osman Ismail, foreign minister of the evil government of Arab Sudan – the National Islamic Front - said that his government will combat the Arab Militia in Dafur, where the Militia, Moustafa Ousman Ismail’s kit and kin have been killing and maiming infants, men, women and children and raping women - young and old. Omar el-Bashir, president of the evil government of Arab Sudan National Islamic Front was reported to have committed to disarming the janjaweed killer Militia, his kinsmen that he armed; he was also reported to have said that he would investigate human rights violation in Dafur.

 

Who on earth will take Omar el-Bashir’s word? That will be the day, when human rights violation is investigated in an Arab land. El-Bashir is to investigate human rights violation, he is to investigate terrorism against the people of Dafur that he sanctioned and continues to support. El- Bashir will investigate executors of his proxy terrorism, the janjaweed the Arab way  – decapitate all the little guys and exonerate himself and those around him like Moustafa Osman Ismail, and then send to Dafur another band of killer janjaweeds for continued killing of men, raping of women, burning and looting of property.

 

Secretary Powell must not allow himself to be duped by the words of Moustafa Osman Ismail and his boss Omar el-Bashir. Only a fool would take words of an Arab or those influenced by them on the matter of the fate of the people of Dafur. Moustafa and the evil government that he represents have only empty words; their words do not mean a thing. It does not matter if the words were spoken or written, they are not to be trusted.

 

Dafur, Déjà vu -

What is new here as far as Arabs, whether of Sudan or of Nigeria and their evil deeds? Does not the fate of the people of Dafur remind all – Nigerians especially, who are imbued with selective memory of the Igbo experience of 1945, 1953, 1966/67, 1999 and on and on and on in the north of Nigeria especially and the rest of Nigeria? I picture Nigerian heads buried in the sand, and bodies adorned with see-no-evil, hear-no-evil garb regarding evil that they are oh, so familiar, evil of which they are all guilty. SHAME! Should one assume that Nigerians are silent because the current Arab Sudan criminality reminds them of their criminality three decades plus ago?

 

The apogee of Igbo bloodlust by Arab Nigerians and the rest Nigerians came on in 1966/77, and just as with the Arabs in Dafur today, the world had sat mute wringing its hand, wondering what was genocide and what was its proper definition. It was such indifference and criminal connivance on the part of those in authority as Palmer, that prevented President Nixon’s desire to bring on the might of the U.S. not only upon Nigeria to curtail its evil acts, but also to assist the suffering and dieing Igbo masses.

 

Meanwhile, British Wilson and Russia’s Alexei Kosygin armed Arab Nigerian murderers to the teeth and like their brethren Arab Janjaweed operating now in Dafur, they descended on the Igbo by air, shooting, bombing – killing and maiming men, women and children.

 

The only difference in Dafur is that Arab Sudan operates in Dafur on land, on horsebacks and on camels, while Arab Nigeria operated in Biafra by air, on jet fighters and jet bombers. And, they were pilots from all over Arab world that Arab Nigerians hired to fly the Russian Ilyushin jets that strafed innocent women and children in village squares and market places.

 

There is simply nothing new here, folks. Refugees in Dafur; refugees in Biafra; lack of relief in Dafur – food and medicaments, occasioned by government blockade in Sudan; lack of relief in Biafra – food and medicaments, occasioned by blockade and a deliberate policy of starvation of the Igbo. What is new? Arabs are the same all over the world, wherever they hold sway or attempt to hold sway. In Nigeria in particular, they have mindless Christians that advance their ungodly, evil activities; southern Nigerian Christians without exception were the cheerleaders and perpetrators of all of Arab Nigerians’ Luciferous designs against the Igbo. Arab Nigerians wished it, and Southern Christians designed it and executed it, better than Arab Nigerians ever wished it – sundry evil acts that were perpetrated against the Igbo.

 

Southern Nigerian Christians of the Middle Belt, Yoruba , Benin etc. , banded together and fought the Igbo for Arab Nigerians, and they fought just as good slaves would for the master. And slaves indeed, they are….willing slaves to this day….slaves that do not know that they are slaves….slaves in denial. It is interesting to observe in recent times how the chicken occasionally comes home to roost, and southern Nigerian Christians today even once in a while feel a wee bit of what the Igbo went through, no matter how slight – meted to them, by the same Arab Nigerians. Imagine that at such times, these southern puppets and co-murderers of the Igbo, beckon on the Igbo to come to their aid. I have had the opportunity to say to the Yoruba in particular that there is no moral basis for the Igbo to back them or support them in any struggle in which they may be involved in the cage in which they are oh, so satisfied SLAVES. Indeed, they, the Yoruba have gotten the best of the cage. Their son Ernest Shonekan, the willing usurper of his kinsman’s mandate – Moshood Abiola’s mandate – is said to oversee British interest in the cage that the British built.

 

To day, people of Rivers in the Igbo backyard squat like rats atop oil deposits that are tapped to take care of lands far away, while their people live in squalor and chill penury.

 

I read the words of northern Nigerian leaders, their Imams and all following the MINOR fracas, I repeat, MINOR fracas in Yelwa and other environs up there – north of Nigeria, referring to “Pork eating infidels”, “Arna” “burukutu drinkers” and sundry insolence they heaped on the people of Middle Belt – Jack Yakubu Gowon’s people, Theophilus Danjuma’s people, Joseph Garba’s people…you name them, all of them who fought, I repeat, for Arab Nigerians to “keep Nigeria one” with the Igbo as their victim.

 

“Danjuma risked his life in the name of the north (and for its sake) to effect the arrest of the then much dreaded General Aguiyi Ironsi”, wrote one Sam Nda-Isaiah. His name suggests a Middle belt Christian. One who is familiar with Nigerian history as of the time of the aforementioned arrest would ask: What was the reason for the arrest of Aguiyi Ironsi? What was his offence? Here is a man who to this day is said by his Igbo people, to have lived his life appeasing the same northern people that arrested and killed him. While Danjuma, a Middle belt Christian “effected” Aguiyi Ironsi’s arrest, another Middle belt Christian William Walbe, “effected” Ironsi’s murder – all as we have read from Sam Nda-Isaiah, for the sake of the north – Arab Nigerians. Now, what did these Christian slaves of Arab Nigerians get for the killing, raping, looting that they carried out for Arab Nigerians? Well, deservedly for them, they got in return sundry abuse and threat of extermination. Indeed an Arab Nigerian leader, Ibrahim Tahir, threatened in the wake of the Plateau riot, to incinerate the Middle Belt and erase it from the surface of the earth. I mean, according to him, incinerate the same Middle Belt that has borne water through thick and thin for Tahir’s Arab Nigerians, the same Middle Belt whose son, Gowon, led the charge to decapitate the Igbo for “One Nigeria” for the benefit of Arab Nigerians.

 

Consider that the reason for the killing of men, raping of women and destruction of property in Dafur is same as the cause of the Plateau MINOR fracas – land for Arab Sudan nomads and place of forage for their beast, llama or cow. Same thing. In Dafur, Arab Sudan nomads not only let their beasts destroy farm land and crops, they want the land of the people of Dafur by force; then el-Bashir’s National Islamic Front sends the janjaweeds, armed to shoot and kill, while government plane swoops down on defenseless men, women and children.

 

Nigerians and Amnesia and Senility -

What is new? Nigerians all today are senile, and the one worst stricken with the disease of senility is none other than Matthew Olusegun Okikiolahan Aremu Obasanjo, the Arab Nigerian hegemonist arrow head. It was Obasanjo, who in 1999, following the slaughter of the Igbo in Kaduna exhibited the worst kind of senility or amnesia or both. Or did he feign ignorance of history? Obasanjo appeared incredulous, as according to him, “why it is that people who have lived together for years could do such harm to their neighbor”. What a fraud the man Obasanjo is. The man is old enough to be one’s father, he thinks himself the president of Nigeria , yet he cannot get the country’s history right. Were the 1999 Kaduna slaughter of the Igbo and destruction of their property the first in the history and experience of the Igbo in Nigeria in Obasanjo’s lifetime? Prior to 1999, there was the mass slaughter, clear cut genocide against the Igbo – 1966-1967 - that brought about the Igbo desire for a separate nation, a separate entity of their own, where they were safe, secure and productive for themselves.

 

To a person of the age of 1- 40, Obasanjo’s feigned incredulity at the Kaduna Igbo massacre conveyed an unmistakable message and the message was - it was the first time Arab Nigerians have ever slaughtered the Igbo and destroyed his property. What misinformation! What a lie! What deceit! But such is the foundation of Nigeria – lie and deceit. Nigeria and those who lead her are unredeemable lying, deceitful and thieving bunch. There is simply no mitigating, no abating this fate of Nigeria and for that Nigeria ’s place remains in the bin of doom.

 

It was the same disease of senility or amnesia that Obasanjo exhibited, when it took him twenty-years to tell Nigerians that the Chukwuma Nzeogwu coup d’etat that supposedly pained Nigerians all so much that they in unison embarked on their elimination plan of the Igbo, was not an “Igbo coup” as alleged. The killing, the maiming, the raping, the looting and destruction of all things Igbo had been committed and Obasanjo was an integral part of these crimes, in fact it was these crimes against the Igbo that formed the backbone of Obasanjo’s Nigerian type impeccable resume today; “conqueror” of the Igbo, he is said to deem himself. He could only wish that was so. A first class Igbophobe, as are all of his kinsmen, Obasanjo must awoke several times at night, believing he has the Igbo wrapped in his coarse palm, just as he wishes according to him he had “captured” the Igbo icon Ikemba Odumegwu-Ojukwu, a man much superior to him and wiser than him. Well, what a service, Obasanjo extended to the spirit of his supposed bosom friend, Nzeogwu, that a nationalistic endeavor of his –Nzeogwu’s - that had the backing of even Hassan Katsina and a coterie of northern officers and other ranks and northern elites became the excuse by which Nzeogwu’s people, the Igbo became targets for elimination in an entity they built and called their own – Nigeria.

 

Nzeogwu’s was a coup d’etat about which the northern Nigerian based journal New Nigerian opined thus: ”regionalism and tribalism have been the major factors that have precipitated the present crisis. If we have learnt that much then some good may come out of what has just happened”.

 

The hope expressed by the northern Nigerian journal – the New Nigerian, was not to be. Today, 38 years later, regionalism and tribalism has never reached such a height. Whereas earlier these tribes engaged in sundry chicanery and shenanigans, just that, today, they are at each other’s jugular. For example the north that once seemed monolithic, where a town or village that borders Nsukka (an Igbo town) to the north, where people are named Ogbu, Ochefu – Igbo names or Igbo sounding names – were regarded as Hausas, today, they are entangled in a bloodbath all the way to Gombe – wherever that is up, up north. Along the way, the Igbo who never had a dog in the fight in these lands where he only minds his business, is a target for attack.

 

Separate existence for the Igbo and for any of the nations in Lugard’s cage that is willing to extricate itself is the only solution to what is today a criminal, blood drenched Nigeria . The solution is let Usman manage the Usmans; let Akintoye manage the Akintoyes; let Okonkwo manage the Okonkwos….to your tents, oh, Israel . It is only a masochist, which, I am afraid, Nigerians all have become - masochist – that beckons for more punishment – Nigeria – that desires the status quo.

 

Small is beautiful – Nigeria must be broken -

“Small is beautiful” is in fact the title of a successful book in economics on third world economic development. The concept of smallness discussed in the book suits the Lugard’s huge cage – Nigeria .

 

Nigeria must be made smaller for all of its parts to realize their respective beauty; not just realization of their respective beauty, but also to genuinely tap the talents of these parts that are being suffocated inside the behemoth white elephant - Nigeria. It is the ignoramuses who do not know any better and thieves who desire to continue to steal that want the white elephant – Nigeria – to remain as is. Do they not know what a little place is Great Britain ? How big are some of the European countries where these Nigerian thieves go to hide their loot – Lichtenstein and others, including Britain ? 

 

Following centuries of conflagration upon conflagration within Europe Western Europe , that is, wisdom prevailed to let each entity be, no matter how tiny. So ended the centuries of conflagration, and so began true human freedom, progress and development, that Western European nations both big and small, enjoy today. With freedom, there was no clinging to their cantankerous past, and there was no looking back by entities once held back by inter and intra acrimonies. Informed reader here could contrast Western European nations peoples’ life and living to that of the peoples of the defunct, decrepit behemoth that was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic – USSR – and its satellite Eastern Europe . Life and living in Nigeria today is comparable to life and living in what was USSR – wretched and hopeless. The Bantus in Lugard’s cage have a choice to disengage or live forever like rats, just as Oyibo want make them live – Just as the white man wants them to live.

 

If one were a pessimist, one would not be here today penning this piece. As a note then, any who does not know, here it is. In countries way away from the shores of Nigeria, individuals and private organizations with money to invest – not crude oil buyers – investors in manufacture, investors in enduring, capital intensive, job-providing entities - are waiting for Nigeria to “SPLIT” into manageable and accountable entities, before they would come to that part of the world to place their hard earned Pound Sterling or Dollar on a table. Contrary to Obasanjo’s recent wolf-cry about some plan to “disintegrate” Nigeria by some bogy man because according to him, “Nigeria is big”, in investors circles abroad where places of opportunity in Africa are presented, Nigeria never features; again, not until Nigeria splits into manageable, accountable parts. Money men abroad indeed wish for Nigeria to split in bits for its own good – just that; not because of its potential power. What kind of power are we talking about? Nigeria cannot do battle successfully with Cameroon .

 

Manageable and accountable parts was fairly the case with Nigeria in my childhood days, when each region was a star in its own right exclusive for what they produced – eastern region - palm oil/palm kernel; western region – cocoa; northern region - groundnuts/hides and skin. How does a sane human being object to autonomy or indeed sovereignty of Nigeria ’s parts? They may run as fast as they wish away from regional autonomy and sovereignty, but there is no other solution to fractious, battle-ready caged rats - Nigerians.

 

The Forgotten Nigerian Genocide -

Now, following the Plateau episodes, and some others in the north of Nigeria , the word genocide began to be bandied about in Nigeria by all with reckless abandon. For avoidance of any doubt, the first and only genocide in Nigeria remains that against the Igbo by the rest of Nigeria – 1966-70. No Nigerian can argue that anything of the sought that the Igbo experienced has happened to any other group of Nigerians. No; not before and not now. A northern Nigerian, Babayola Toungo, wrote, bewildered at how according to eyewitness  “male babies were smashed on hard surfaces or forcefully and brutally torn into pieces” in a place called Numan, Gyawana, in northern Nigeria .

 

Arabs and those of Arab orientation have a thing with male killing. They kill males and rape women. Such is abominable. Such is evil. It is clear that genocidal tendencies are inbred with Arabs. They engage in ethnic cleansing wherever and whenever they please; they kill the males of their victim ethnic group, they rape the women of same victim ethnic group so they can sow their kind. Imagine such evil!

 

Murtala Mohammed lined up Igbo male children age 6 and above in the open field and mowed them down – executed them all. Where was the outrage then, where is the outrage now?

 

“We want to make a light baby”, said Janjaweed Militiamen – who, according to Time Magazine, “have been raping dark-skinned women as part of a campaign to ethnically cleanse Dafur Sudan of Africans”. The 9/11 Arab operators that crashed into the World Trade Center in the U.S. demonstrated the Arab lust for male blood. Their plan as discovered was to kill all males; sure as hell, raping of women on the airplane was to follow, as is their pattern, but there was not enough time, as the fast moving plane had hurried them to meet their “Allah” and the virgins awaiting them among olive trees – taking innocent, unsuspecting passengers with them.

 

Post 9/11, no Arab looking man will have any chance to kill non-Arab males and expect to descend on infidel females. Any Arab looking male that missteps on an airplane anywhere in the world, will be held down beaten the crap out of, and the ghost choked out of him before the plane touches ground.

 

So, could someone tell what it is about Arabs and killing of non-Arab male?

 

Here is news for you, Toungo, gory news at that. The crimes described in your piece were such that were perpetrated against the Igbo in their thousands in your neck of the wood, 38 years ago. Are you aware that pregnant Igbo women had their bellies cut open and their babies or fetus removed and smashed to the ground? Are you aware that Igbo women were taken to lepers for sexual intercourse? Are you aware that under the command of Murtala Mohammed, Igbo male - 6 and above were lined up and shot point blank? Toungo, such dastard acts that do not cross the mind of the Igbo were perpetrated against the Igbo in your neck of the wood. Do you not know? They were gruesome acts that got the Igbo dazed and confused as to whom he thought he had as fellow country people and neighbors, whether they were human beings or animals. Some others may describe events of that time better than I could, but I do hope you see the picture, the Nigeria that the Igbo encountered, and decided they wanted a part of it no more. It was the same horrific acts by Nigerians against the Igbo all over Nigeria , spearheaded by Arab Nigerians.

 

One wondered for months now, since the Arab Sudan murder, maiming and raping in Dafur were widely reported in world journals how Nigerians of Arab extraction and/or same cultural, religious persuasion as the Sudanese felt about the treatment meted to the people of Dafur by Arabs of Sudan. I wondered if Nigerians of Arab extraction and/or mental, social or religious orientation, many of them writers, were aware of what their kind were doing in Dafur. Readers were treated to a treatise by one Ibrahim Ado-Kurawa celebrating Sudan , titled – The Sudan and the Consolidation of Sudanic Intellectuals. The same Sudan ! Sudan that is notorious today for enslaving part of its population; Sudan that is known today for killing, maiming and raping a part of its population. The same Sudan ! Ibrahim, do you not see the abominable acts of Sudan , whose history you expect your readers to participate in celebrating? Toungo, do you not see what your kind or those with whom you share same social/religious orientation are doing in Dafur – killing, raping, enslaving – all the evil acts.

 

One wondered also if Nigerians of Arab extraction and/or orientation both old and young among them were aware or recall that the Igbo were dealt with similar fate in Nigeria as the people of Dafur; that the murderous episodes in Yelwa and its environs were a unique experience in Nigeria only to the Igbo; that the situation in Dafur – killing, maiming, hunger, refugee, disease etc, pale in comparison to what the Igbo as a people have experienced in Nigeria.

 

Indeed they are not aware. Or the Igbo experience is of no import to them. Or they are victims of propaganda and brainwashing. Read one Audu Zango  – “The recent ethnic cleansing (referring to the MINOR fracas in Plateau) is the worst organized civil carnage apart from the civil war”….then he went on to carpet (to use the Nigerian parlance) the Taroks with insults – “drunken and cannabis intoxicated savages…..”. It is clear that to Zango, the genocide perpetrated to the Igbo, first of its kind on the African continent does not feature in his memory, else he would not have referred to the Plateau fracas as “the worst organized civil carnage apart from civil war”. Zango might want to know that his people, Arab Nigerians organized and executed a plan, to kill 1 Million Igbo, and the effort netted for Arab Nigerians thousands of Igbo dead.

 

May be as once expressed by yours truly and another writer, the genocide against the Igbo of 37 years ago is a history of the north that northerners wish to forget. That may be okay, but not when such sordid deeds reoccur time and time again, and some of the seemingly decent minded Arab Nigerians keep quiet. Prayers “to exorcise whatever demons are in charge of our land”, as Toungo lamented, can have effect only with the recognition and/or confrontation of the first act of genocide on the African continent, that in the cage called Nigeria that was perpetrated by Toungo’s people against the Igbo.

 

60 years later, Germany as a nation and individual Germans are battling with the demons of the Holocaust. Germany is atoning for the sins of the Holocaust; children of perpetrators of Holocaust are battling to cleanse themselves; children of by-standers and the indifferent to Holocaust are dealing with the same demons. In Nigeria planners and perpetrators of genocide against the Igbo lead and direct affairs of Nigeria to this day; children and descendants of genocide against the Igbo play various roles in the affairs of Nigeria; bystanders, the indifferent to the mass slaughter of the Igbo pervade Nigeria, where the Igbo was also dispossessed of his hard earned wealth and property – by a deliberate design. No sin goes unpunished; not sin by an individual, not sin by group of individuals, not sin by a nation. All sins are punishable. Nigerians must wonder why this elephant cannot walk! There is no forgiveness without atonement. Nigeria ’s problem is compounded by the fact that the people they killed, displaced and dispossessed, the Igbo, in their places of gathering today, says prayers for a better Nigeria ; the Igbo write and wish for a better, greater Nigeria …all these, yet, Nigeria discountenances the Igbo.

 

This by a southern writer – Ruben Abati, regarding same MINOR fracas in Plateau – “Ethno-religious violence widens the gaps among the various nationalities…..it destroys hopes, aspirations and relationships….the persons who have lost friends and relations to the incident are bound to lose faith in Nigeria”. Ruben Abati may have been in diaper when even his people the Yoruba joined in merrily to slaughter the Igbo on a proportion then unheard of on the continent of Africa . Or had Ruben Abati exercised the normal Nigerian amnesia? Why does he think the Igbo feel in their bones that they want out of Nigeria ? That is what one is talking about, a total disconnect from the evil past of a nation and its peoples.

 

Continuing, Zango called on Arewa Consultative Assembly to invite the United Nations to investigate the MINOR fracas in Plateau. He then concludes his article thus – “The facilitators and effectors should know that pathological haters and murderers of northerners, Muslims and Hausa Fulani in the past like Nzeogwu, Bukar Dimka, Gideon Okar, Bola Ige and their groups got drowned in the artificial sea of hatred they created by themselves”.

 

With the exception of Nzeogwu, the rest names belong to Hausa Fulani otherwise Arab Nigerian puppets, most belonging to the Tarok, Jukun and Birom tribes, soldiers mainly who, Arab Nigerians used to perpetrate their genocide on the Igbo, genocide to which Zango seems totally oblivious…oblivious that his very people were perpetrators of the first known genocide on the continent of Africa – that against the Igbo. Zango is reminded to include the Igbo case, as he invites the UN to look into the Plateau fracas, so the UN may also look into his own very people’s mass slaughter and dispossession of the Igbo 37 years ago and counting.

 

The communist entity that Nigeria is, one is certain the Igbo experience or history is not taught in school, even in Igbo land. Communist modus operandi is ever present in Nigeria - Teach lies, shelve truth. I am certain, however, that history of Sudan – The Sudanese Empire is taught in Nigerian schools, even in Igbo land; the history of an evil empire of rapists and assassins, Sudan , is taught in Nigerian schools! What were Mansa Musa, Ibn Batuta, if not a bunch of bandits marauding about the Sahara , looting, occupying, raping and enslaving – as are Arabs of today? Of what relevance are the history of Sudan and the characters afore mentioned to the mind of the young of today as far as contemporary worldview? Prof. Fabian Osuji, do you read me? Arab history is nothing but a recipe for individual retardation and national retrogression.

 

The Igbo wants no more of the experience of the past in Nigeria of which he is often reminded. It is the epitome of Orwellian disposition that those who plan and execute evil deeds such as the Igbo experience ever so often harp the most about “One Nigeria” of which to them the Igbo must be a part. What nonsense! That the Igbo must be a part of an entity where the rest member of the entity continuously lust for his blood for no reason other than the fact that he is Igbo, is madness.

 

Military Pre-emption -

In a radio chat on the Sudan not long ago, the host cut in as I compared the situation in Biafra which he recalled, to that in Dafur, and demanded to know from me what measures I thought should be in place to stem the situation in Dafur. Short of outright invasion of Sudan, I said, the U.S. should sack the Sudanese Embassy, restrict travels to the U.S. and Europe to Sudanese government officials……The guest, a Harvard specialists on these matters nodded along in agreement, and added that Sudanese assets and those of its officials, monies and all are to be confiscated by the U.S., that such was the only language these evil doers understood.

 

In my book Think In Time – Essays and Encounters of the Last Quarter or the 20th Century - is contained the policy of pre-emption/pre-emptive strike. I wrote that, proposing it as a leading policy for the New World Order, in the 21st Century. I wrote it two years and months before George W Bush came to office and two years and months before 9/11. Military pre-emption is simply a policy whereby the sovereignty of a nation is suspended so evil men and evil governments – the Saddams and the Milosevics and Omar El-Bashirs of the world can be apprehended or sacked by a select quick reactive force, when these elements begin lusting for the blood of their fellow humans as they might have been established to do. Military pre-emption is a noble policy; it is as noble as a surgeon removing a cancerous cell from the body. The world, the society, the community is better for it when a known troublemaker is removed. Peace reigns.

 

One regrets that President George W. Bush had not implemented this policy as efficiently as it ought to have, thus the Iraq mess. Ordinary, innocent citizens are not to suffer or die in the process of removal or dealing with finality with the person, government or nation that caused its citizen deadly distress – as Yakubu Gowon and Nigeria to the Igbo; as Saddam to Iraqis and Kurds; as Milosevic to Bosnians; as el-Bashir and Khartoum to the people of Dafur. Nor should young American soldiers die in the manner they are dying and being wounded today in the process of enforcing this noble policy.

 

Pre-emption was applied albeit belatedly, but effectively and efficiently to sack the Taliban in Afghanistan . Pre-emption was applied albeit belatedly, but efficiently to sack Slobodan Milosevic. In Iraq , the U.S. had Saddam Hussein where it wanted him. Saddam was contained, he could have been squeezed and the ghost squished out of him, as he most deserved. In this case, only a surgical elimination of the evil one, whose hobby was chopping up his fellow human being in bits, was preferred. It is unfortunate that a noble policy, pre-emption, has been bloodied and rendered hollow, such that it might not now be applied where it is needed - Sudan .

 

Great Britain and the world -

I have mentioned only the U.S. in a responsible light in this piece, simply because it is the only nation with the might and moral force to do right, and it does  – when zealots of the American political divide are kept in check. Britain on the other hand is a jackass nation. Britain is a conniving, criminal imperialists nation that destroyed lives and futures of peoples everywhere in the world that it set foot. It was in fact Britain that tagged the Nzeogwu led coup d’etat, “Ibo coup” – and that tag gave vent to long held animus by Arab Nigerians and their Christian puppets against the Igbo, and led to the slaughter of the Igbo, on a scale unheard of in Africa . Then in the north of Nigeria , there were resident Britons that were said to be more north than the northerners; these Britons advised Arab Nigerians and facilitated their slaughter of the Igbo.

 

Had visionary colonial Americans not thrown Britain out, a country reputed for its raw mercantile imperialism, a country reputed for its destroy and abandon tendencies and sundry sordid political and economic acts, the world and its peoples would be in a terrible shape today. Any who has questions should ask those who call America home, and that includes Britons!

 

Britain is a destroyer of peoples and places. Britain is the most destructive nation in the history of the world. The mess that is Afghanistan was the making of Britain ; the mess that is Iraq , was the making of Britain ; Britain was the pillar behind apartheid, the worst system of institutionalized racism the world has ever known. Britain left behind excrement – shit - wherever it set foot; Britain excreted in India , it excreted in Cyprus , it excreted in Ireland and it sure excreted in Nigeria . What a country, Britain ! Unfortunately for young America , its work in the world today consists of cleaning up British mess and excrement all over the world. Bantus of the nations in Lugard’s cage owed it to themselves to push aside the big thieves amongst them – the neo-colonialists – rather Britain ’s henchmen, and clean up British mess about them.

 

The Igbo, led by their icon Odumegwu-Ojukwu could have accomplished the same feat as colonial America , throwing out the bums, Britons, had Britain not successfully cultivated a host of dim wits, who operate in Nigeria today as nothing but colonialist henchmen. You have to wonder why Britons would not work with one like Odumegwu-Ojukwu, a man that enjoyed the best Britain had to offer in education and tradition. You have to wonder why.

 

In the course of this writing, the Nigerian Punch newspaper of July 22nd appeared with a headline – “ Britain appoints honorary consul for Warri”. The honorary consul, Mr. Mel Henthorn, the paper reported, would oversee British interest in the area.

 

What is the area that the British consul is to oversee? The area is the heart of oil production in Nigeria . Now, where is the money that comes from the oil? Who benefits the most from this oil? “The oil resources are from the three Warri local government areas and Burutu and yet we have not benefited at all”, lamented the Olu of Warri.

 

That much is clear. The Queen, the head of England benefits more from the oil, than the people, including the Olu, the head of Warri, whose land yield the oil. Why, Bantus of Lugard’s cage, do you think colonial America threw out Britons? Why?

 

Soon as visionaries in colonial America could not see, sense or account for the tax monies they paid to the Queen of England, it was time to send the Britons packing. Above all, visionaries in colonial America could not wish upon their children, their children’s children a life indebted to a foreign overlord, a bloodsucking foreign overlord. Thus the revolution that brought about God’s own country, the U.S.A.

 

Wake up Bantus for the sake of your children, and your children’s children, for their future. Begin by cutting Lugard’s behemoth elephant, Nigeria , to size – call it restructuring - and all else will fall in place.

 

The United Nation -

For good reason, one was reluctant to mention the United Nations, an entity that was formed to deter the Dafur situation and to cater to the Dafurs of the world. The U.N., same as Britain , is a useless entity in times of dire need for humanity, as in Biafra and now in Dafur. The UN is a toothless, hopeless, conniving entity, more so in these uncertain times for indigenes of Dafur. Did U.Thant, former secretary general of the UN lift a finger at the time of Nigerian genocide against the Igbo? No. He did not. I hope U. Thant encounters Lucifer in his suite in hell every morning. U Thant deserves no peace in death.

 

And Kofi Annan, that son of Africa , he has been mute on Dafur. Anan’s record in Rwanda is nothing to write home about. You would soon find Anan dining and wining with Sudan ’s Moustafa than find him make a strong statement on the slaughter and rape of Dafur people. Anan got on record, however, as saying (June 17) that “there are massive violations of international humanitarian law in Dafur, but I am not ready to describe it as genocide or ethnic cleansing”. What nonsense! Still waffling and shuffling and confused as to what to term the Arab Janjaweed militia’s murder, maiming, raping, looting in Dafur, Anan later reportedly said, “Now we have a commitment from President El-Bashir to remove all obstacles that face humanitarian action in Dafur”. Great! Anan, you have a commitment, indeed, a commitment from the devil. Anan should ask the Igbo, how many commitments to the international community that was kept by Gowon and his Arab Nigerians. Anan should ask Odumegwu-Ojukwu, how many words of Gowon to Odumegwu-Ojukwu, that he, Gowon, kept. None.

 

Your sense of triumph, Anan, Sir, is for naught. You are dealing with Arabs, a people whose words, written or spoken, do not mean a thing. Do you recall the meeting in Aburi, in your country Ghana, chaired by your country’s statesman, General Ankrah, to reconcile the Igbo and Arab Nigerians who had slaughtered the Igbo en mass? Do you recall that General Ankrah succeeded in getting Odumegwu-Ojukwu the Igbo leader and Gowon the Arab Nigerian leader to agree on key aspects of what ailed Nigeria then, that continues to ail it to this day? Do you recall that upon arriving Nigeria from Ghana , Gowon and his Arab Nigerians turned their back on the agreements they reached with Odumegwu-Ojukwu? May be you do not recall, Anan, Sir, because at that time you were busy at the UN climbing the steps to your present position. Well, there is Arab and those so oriented for you, as far as their words, their agreements, what they mean. Nothing!

 

African Union – formerly Organization of African Unity -

How about the African Union formerly Organization of African Unity? As I said on the radio talk to which I referenced earlier, the African Union constitutes 99% Arab countries. African Union is an Arab infested organization, another evil, conniving entity.

 

What did the OAU do for starving, dying Biafrans?  Just what African Union is doing today for the people of Dafur. Nothing! When Arabs engage in their natural evil acts of killing and raping, African Union draws down its three monkey ethics – see no evil, say no evil, hear no evil veil.

 

The universally respected leader Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, saw through this veil, what a conniving, evil entity the organization he co-founded had become, and that informed his decision to break with the organization and recognize the rights of the Igbo to found and live in an entity that was safe and secure for them – Biafra . Nothing good should be expected from an evil entity.

 

Let the bricks fall on Sudan -

The onus as usual falls on the U.S. as the force for whatever good there may be in the world.  So Secretary Powell went to Dafur. Powell must not countenance promises by  Arab Sudan. Powell must not defer to Anan, the UN or African Union. He must not mince words, he must stay on the back of those Arabs, he must give them ultimatum with date and time, he must demand that they behave like human beings or they will be treated like sub-humans that they have time and again demonstrated they are.

 

Action is the only word evildoers understand. The National Islamic Front that rules Sudan is evil. Their pattern is to impede, obstruct and delay so as to continue their genocide. Acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Charles Snyder had it right, when he announced to the hearing of Arab Sudan thus – “We’re talking days, weeks, not months – not a month – to see whether or not they do what they said they would do”, failing which I say, LET THE HAMMER FALL on El-Bashir and his entire Arab henchmen of murderers, rapists, and looters.

 

Let the bricks descend upon the Evil Empire that is Sudan – the unmentioned part of Axis of Evil. It is in Sudan that the Iraq type invasion is appropriate and deserving, to stop or eliminate shameless Arab Sudan perpetrators of genocide.

 

Let the hammer fall on Sudan .

 

 

Peter Opara is a communications consultant, and author of: Understanding the Nigerian Nation Tribes – Why they Boil; Think In Time – Essays and Encounters of the Last Quarter of the 20th Century; The Man of Biafra – In the City Where America Began.

 

July 20, 2004