Igbophobia in Cyberspace (Part 2): A Case Study of Olisa Osita’s continued Falsehood

By

Emmanuel Franklyne Ogbunwezeh

ogbunwezeh@yahoo.com

 

 

Olisa Osita seeks every opportunity to show the world that he is a venerable ruin and a despicable psychopath. He nurses a deep psychopathology that harasses all his waking moments, with a kind of phobia and trauma unparalleled in the history of madness and insanity. The conclusions have come home that this guy lives on borrowed intelligence. And when one is so afflicted, he invents failures and lies as a matter of nature and course. His long silence left me wondering whether he has decided to go back to school to learn some logic and the paths of clear reasoning only for me to be once more made to realise that a goat can never stop eating yams, consequent on that instinct being inscribed in the core fibres of its genetic blueprint. In fact, the malodorous stench native to the Shrew simply resides in its genes, and no amount of  perfume and unwarranted olfactory indulgence can ever make him smell better. In the same vein, Osita cannot cease turning logic, facts and history on its head, in order to sound relevant. This is simply a prologue, but I am going to give you clear and concise examples of an advanced level of madness and allergy to truth which oozes from every sentence in the submissions he tendered below.

 

Long have I realise that liars need not be called to the conference table for dialogue. There exists no basis for that. There can never be a meeting point between darkness and light. It is a battle for the supremacy of integrity over that of cheap falsehood. Falsehood for me is an enemy that must be fought. I told Olisa Osita in my last take on his delusional phobia of Ndigbo, that the battle is on. The torch a la John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been passed to a new generation of Ndigbo, who would rather lay down their lives, than watch our heritage desecreated and borne lightly by cryptic impostors that hide behind the snug comforts of the keyboard to perpetrate a regime of lies and falsehood, about a reality that towers above their midget and Liliputian, most times, borrowed intelligences.

 

Olisa Osita sent a reply to Chris Okoye’s submissions in the  the ASA-USA forum on the arisings flowing from Achuzie’s criticisms of the sensationalization of the discovery of human skulls and partially decomposing bodies at a Shrine in Okija. Chris Okoye essayed to register his dissatisfaction with Achuzie’s stance on the Okija saga.

 

In response to that Olisa Osita came up with the reply which I wish to represent below in its originality without embellishments, to apprise you of the basis of my disgust at such a willful miscarriage of unsubstantiate facts, in order to arrive at untenable conclusions which radically violates logic and cheapen truth as it is. Osita Olisa characteristically wrote:

 

            Ladies and Gentlemen:

Mazi Chris Okoye, I do not know how old you are but you sound as if you are unfamiliar with the exploits of legendary Col. Achuzie, the “Air Raid” during the Biafran civil war. Here are few facts.

1.      Achuzie never had prior military training before the outbreak of the Nigerian civil war. He claimed to have fought during the second world war under the British command. His record of service is no where document in British archive. During the war he was so boastful about his military exploits that during one of the press conferences, he volunteered the information that he served during the second world war and British journalists dug for his record of service and found none. Since the cat was let out of the bag, Achuzie has never publicly make such bogus claim.

2.      During the war, the Biafran forces ambushed a convoy of the 102 Nigerian supply vehicles and fuel tankers along Enugu/Abagana Rd. And set it ablaze with hand grenade. Col Achuzie was no where near the ambushed zone of operation, but he claimed to be the person that led the operation.

3.      Col. Achuzie was the greatest source of discontentment amongst high echelon of Biafran military brass. People like Brigadier Nwawo, Okwechime, Col. Ogbogwu Kalu, Onwuatuegwu etc. All of these officers knew that Col. Achuzie was an impostor who knew nothing about warfare but were afraid of making their views known publicly for fear of being tagged saboteurs. Achuzie who never served in the Nigerian army was used to superimpose on more seasoned, experienced and well trained Military officers. But why? Col. Achuzie was the closest military officer to His Excellency, General Chukwuemeka Odemegwu Ojukwu. It was a marriage of strange bedfellows. Ojukwu was using Col. Achuzie as a willing tool in checkmating these officers against conspiracy for possible military overthrow of his government. It was common practice that any time Biafran forces in a sector lost ground or suffered military defeat from Federal troops, the Division Commanding officer was immediately transferred out and Col Achuzie drafted in to hold fort. That will create the impression that the transferred Divisional Commanding officer. Col Achuzie was bloodthirsty and he was killing people without qualms or fear of recriminations.

 

Col Achuzie was made Secretary-General of Ohaneze due to the aura of myth of fealessness he built around himself during the war. Now the chicken is coming home to roost. When I say that Biafra was a senseless suicide mission, people call me names. The just shall be vindicated. It will be an act of brazen self-deception for any middle aged Igbo person to claim shocked by this news. Cannibalism was pervasive and preponderant during the war. It started even before the Republic was declared. Awusa people captured during routine “combing” before war started was sure delicacy. Initially I thought to myself that it could have been the exception to the rule. But with time the pattern became clear as common practice.

 

We “Ndigbo” need to go back to the drawing board and look ourselves in the mirror and start necessary atonement and self-purification for our children and those coming after them. That is the real love for Ndigbo. This forum is quiet because all  that was hidden is coming to light. How can we look other Nigerian ethnic nationalities in the eye and talk about vaue, morality, descency, taste. Etc. Our pride is tresspassed. We are tainted. Take care.

 

Olisa H. Osita

California

 

 

 

This mail reeks with the pungent and malodrous odour of some scurrilious fiction. I would spare you some rigmaroling. I will go straight into some hermeneutical analysis of this crass crucifixion of facts. Lets start from where he started.

 

1.      On Col. Achuzie’s past and role during the war:

 

Olisa cited this as his major premise for all other subsequent minor and major conclusions he drew in the course of his long fabrication of fictions that have no basis in fact. He wrote that Achuzie never had any military training before the Biafran war and to prove this he stated that the British Press could not find records of his claimed Military service during the second world war.  Olisa should have referred us to his source of that information. Achuzie he claimed made that assertion in a press conference. Could Olisa please post on this forum his source so that independent minds can check it and confirm the veracity of his submissions. That is the first. Secondly, If Achuzie made that statement. He must have known or believed it to be true. The British Press according to our Olisa went in to dig, but could not find records in their archives attesting to Achuzie’s claims, just like they found actual records in their archives that Sadaam Husseni had weapons of mass destruction in his Iraqi backyard to justify the sympathetic greed for Iraqi oil that they shared with the United States.. Is this not reminiscent of their greed for Biafran oil, which was a major strategic platform upon which they lent their weight to the Gowon led forces against Biafra. Facts of history and recent opinion polls have proved that the British are the most criminally minded people in the world. They outclassed the Italian, and the Nigerians in their proclivities to pilfering and petty thefts which in politics could translate to treachery. Instances will prove to you that we have no right to believe the British press as against Achuzie. We in fact have more reasons to disbelieve the British side of the story than that of Col. Achuzie, if he actually made that statement. The Hutton Inquiry panel was a revelation of how the British government was so willing to doctor scientific and factual evidence of the British scientist Kelly, in order to justify their war on Iraq. The Biafra of Achuzie’s time was in a state of war against a British ally; namely Nigeria, at the time in question. And Achuzie as a name was driving terror into the morale of Nigerian soldiers, which warranted an interview with a British press in the first place. Failures are never interviewed. Only successful men are feted and courted by the press. That Achuzie was deemed worthy of an interview was as a result of the fiction that Olisa would have us believe he was without military training, yet he was so successful in the battle fields that the British press guys who were actively pro-Nigeria, considered him worthy to risk the shrapnels falling all over Biafra to keep an interview date with him. Another example that pleads Achuzie’s side of the story is that you caught a thief today does not necessarily mean that he started today. He may have had a history of stealing. That Salisu Buhari was found out as a certificate forger as he became speaker of the House does not mean that that was the first time he ever forged papers to advance ahead of those more suitably qualified. In fact, that he swore the affidavit of his age, where he claimed to be born in 1963, instead of 1970 that was his actual birthday reveals the fact, that he did that not necessarily for the purpose of becoming a speaker in 1999, but for some other purposes, because, as of 1983, he never knew that he would become a speaker of the house of reps in 1999. Then equally he never even knew that Abacha would die on top of prostitutes as to give the military a hurried exit door out of government. So he may have being using those papers for other petty forgeries and getting away with it. So is it with the British. That the lid blew open on the Hutton Inquiry does not mean that it is the first time they are witholding evidence to advance their selfishly immoral causes. Achuzie’s case may have been one insignificant part of them all. The British government may have willing remove or even erased all documents relating to Achuzie’s service in the archives as to demystify him and give the Nigeria soldiers some psychological salve for their fears of this man’s image, which has grown so big, in the course of the war. From the evidence adduced above, a reasonable man is wont to lean favorably on Achuzie’s claims until the obverse if proved by a neutral third party. Britain was not neutral in this instance, infact, Biafra and by implication, Achuzie fought Britain by proxy. And the British proxy here being the government of Yakubu Gowon. It would tantamount to the height of foolery to expect a mortal enemy that I am fighting by proxy to be charitable to some records of my abilities, which though in their custody have the potential of changing the outcome of battles fought on their behalf. Let reason be the judge here. Once this foundation of Olisa’s falsehood has fallen, just watch how others fell in domino obedience to it.

 

Secondly, Olisa wrote in his second point as follows:

 

During the war, the Biafran forces ambushed a convoy of the 102 Nigerian supply vehicles and fuel tankers along Enugu/Abagana Rd. And set it ablaze with hand grenade. Col Achuzie was no where near the ambushed zone of operation, but he claimed to be the person that led the operation. (See No.2 above)

 

I reply by saying: Olisa should tell us where he was during the Abagana ambush. If he has a part of the battalion that achieved that great feat as to know who led the attack. He should equally name his source if he was not an intimate participant at that event. That is the way of scholarship. No scholar pleads as a fact, what cannot be supported or substantiated by hard evidence. Olisa should after listing the actual participants and the leader of attack, then refer us to the source where Achuzie claimed to have led the attack, when he did not lead it. Not naming all these sources equates his submissions to a rumour which I very well know that it is.

 

On his third point, which he itemized as No.3,  he submitted that Achuzie was the greatest source of discontentment amongst high echelon of Biafran military brass. And he imputed a knowlege of this on people like Okwechime, Nwawo, Ogbogwu kalu, etc. Here, I would equally like him to cite instances as well us give us his source. We need to check out his story. He should refer us to where the above named people wrote what he imputed to them or said it. He need to cite the private interview they had with him since they were afraid according to him to do that publicly. We are in the courts of reason. And the only currency of validity here is evidence. We challenge Olisa Osita to come up with factual hard data and evidence to support his claims. He did not stop there. He called Achuzie an impostor who knew nothing about warfare. Well my response to that is simple. His basis for calling Achuzie an impostor may be the reports of the claimed reports of the British journalists who dug for his records but could not find any. I think I have deconstructed that in the very first paragraphs. To that end, it does not hold water. Olisa should prove to us that Achuzie is an impostor on another set of evidence, not on this discredited one, which experience has shown to be unsupportable.

 

He equally wrote that Achuzie was used by Ojukwu to super-impose himself on superior officers. Well to counter that, we submit that Ojukwu was never a stupid man. This guy would not have spent his father’s inheritance on a war without justifiable reasons. He gave in his all; his wealth, his name and even his life. He risked being identified as a rebel just for the life of his people who were seen as cheap cattle to be slaughtered by some descendants of cattle rearers resident in the North of Nigeria. It is on record that Biafra never attacked anyone, but rose up in defence of herself when attacked. This attack of Biafra and the injustice of it, drew men like Achuzie and other Biafran patriots into rising in defence of their heritage. They were hopelessly outclassed, yet they gave in their lives that the Koran, once boasted by Ahmadu Bello would not be dipped in the Atlantic ocean.

 

He jumped from the fear of overthrow nursed by Ojukwu as his reason for the deployment of Achuzie, to the fact that Achuzie was drafted to hold fort. I would not go into the facts of the war, which other authorities and intimate participants in those times have really taken care of. The fact, remains that Osita Olisa, is not a person. He is a fathom hiding under this name which as I have noted elsewhere is nothing but a ruse. This guy should have told us why Achuzie was drafted to hold fort, if not that he has some successes under his belt in other theatres as to be considered fit to hold fort. This is a  man he accused of lacking military training, but he was so successful at creating an aura over himself, which Ndigbo would never admired save that it has some roots in fact.

 

He accused Achuzie of killing people left and right for any flimsy excuse. That is the stuff of rumour. Facts would list how many people Achuzie actually killed and some examples of the flimsy excuse under which he killed them. That is the way of scholarship. When one so generously tenders sweeping generalizations as a method of argument, he should at least be charitable enough to tender justifiable evidence in that regard. Olisa nwoke, we need evidence!

 

Be that as it may, if we are to excavate history, I have read about Platoon commanders in history who variously threatened to kill any of their soldiers who would dared to run or desert. This serves as a deterrence to massive desertion, which has always been a possibility in war. And no General or Army Commander would like to have a defenceless flank in his hands or have soldiers run in cowardice in the face of the enemy. If Achuzie employed that as deterrence to forestall desertion, I see nothing wrong with it under the circumstances of a battle between life and death. Olisa should let us know what he would do in such a circumstance, were he in Achuzie’s shoes, if his submissions were to be correct.

 

He stated equally that Col. Achuzie was made the Secretary-General of Ohaneze due to the aura of myth of fearlessness he built around himself. Olisa Osita deploys words in a wickedly fictious manner to cow the unsuspecting. Achuzie was never made a Secretary of Ohaneze. Achuzie was ELECTED the Secretary of Ohaneze. Inasmuch as, I am happy that he did not say that Achuzie rigged the election to become the Secretary, I wonder when aura became votes as to be counted in Achuzie’s favour when another person supposedly has the majority of the votes.

 

In his closing paragraphs Olisa congratulated his history of inspid falsehood as follows:

 

When I say that Biafra was a senseless suicide mission, people call me names. The just shall be vindicated.

 

This is one of the most laughable revisionist reduction of facts, experience and history that I have ever come across.

According to Olisa Biafra was a senseless suicide mission. But he has not told us that it remained was of the greatest act of genocide against a people in the black continent. If Biafra was a suicide mission, what would Olisa Osita call the systematic, orchestrated and genocidal massacre of Ndigbo in the North of Nigeria prior to the war, with the active collusion of the British government.

Olisa in his attempt to hoist the fevered creation of his compromised imagination as facts of history, has not told us, the length of his greatness in relation to giants like Chinua Achebe and even Wole Soyinka, who knew and acknowlege the injustice of the genocide levelled on the Biafran people. John De St. Jorre reported the words of a French deputy who visited Biafra during that war told the world on the bravery of Ndigbo against insurmountable odds. The man confessed, “Before I came to Biafra, I heard that Biafrans fought like heroes, but after my visit to Biafra, I can tell you that Heroes fight like Biafrans. It was a senseless suicide mission according to Olisa, but the facts on the ground in Nigeria today, justifies the Biafra attempt at self actualization. Remember, the OPC a few years ago, prepared their flag and national anthem in readiness for seccession from this hoax called Nigeria, before one of their own came to power. The Ogoni’s and other tribes in the Niger Delta are crying marginalization. The North that has raped Nigerian power for more years than all the Nigerian tribes put together want power back to continue their regime of plunder in Nigeria. Securit reports to major world governments indicate Nigeria as a boiling cauldron that is set to disintegrate any day. Little wonder, Britain and America always issue travelling warning to their citizens to steer clear of your Nigeria. All that Biafra fouhgt against are all front news today. Ndigbo are still killed in the North. Their properties are being siezed in Lagos. Their pockets are being picked by the Lagos Street urchins called Alaye. Yet, this great nation of Africans are so very forgiving that you find them in the furthest extremes of these places.  Today, the Hausa want Ndigbo to go home. To effectively do that they introduced Sharia. Ndigbo asked in 1967 to be left alone and allowed to be in their homes. Because Britain made them see that they cannot do withour Ndigbo, they used every crooked tactics to force us back into that geographic expression called Nigeria. When we came back, they started telling us again that they never wanted us. Once their digestion is troubled in the North, they find a cheap excuse in their Igbo neighbours whom they are ready to slaughter at the least excuse. When onye Igbo asks again to be left alone, then it becomes senseless. But it sensible for Ndigbo to be killed. I can see the murderer in Olisa Osita, when he advances arguments such as this lame one.



In his most convulsively reprehensible falsehoods, Olisa Osita rose to classify Ndigbo as cannibals. I will not call him a callous and spineless idiot until I conclude setting up the basis upon which any civilized mind would see him as he is; namely a liar of  first eminence, whose mind is a terminally disgruntled jungle of prefabricated prejudice against the august ancestry of Ndigbo. That he should commence an unprovoked, unsubstantiated, historically and factually inaccurate imputation of cannibalism on my heritage is a wicked conduct which cannot be pardoned on the score of manners. His perenial allergy to truth has continued to push the boundaries of common sense. As I submitted in my earlier treatise on this guy’s falsehood in Igbophobia in Cyberspace, this has proved beyond question that by some indefinable alchemy, Olisa Osita has evolved to embody the worst currents of untruth and anti-historicism; all in his bid to snipe at Ndigbo. His own unintelligent mind which he spoke so unintelligently in the following words below are evidence enough of his depravity. His words which are represented below proves to you, that I am not insulting Olisa, when I let him know that he is a liar without frontiers, that I am presenting the truth of the issue as it is; namely that he is a seasoned inventor of falsehood.  He wrote as follows:

 

It will be an act of brazen self-deception for any middle aged Igbo person to claim shocked by this news. Cannibalism was pervasive and preponderant during the war. It started even before the Republic was declared. Awusa people captured during routine “combing” before war started was sure delicacy. Initially I thought to myself that it could have been the exception to the rule. But with time the pattern became clear as common practice.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, like always, I owe you the duty of analysing the basis for my conclusions. My basis for identifying Olisa as liar without conscience will be unveiled shortly. I crave to analyse the above citation line by line, and word for word as it presents itself. I would be simply phenomenological as well as analytic.

 

The stated that it tantamounts to self deception for any middle aged Igbo person to claim shocked by this news, and that cannibalism was pervasive and preponderant during the war. A journey into history would be of great help here. G.T Basden was a colonial officer in the Igbo country during the colonial times. Nowhere did he find evidence of cannibalism in Anigbo throughout his sojourn in Igbo country. Elizabeth Isichei’s comprehensive studies failed to come with any. Parrinder, could not find any despite the popular fictions resident in the unschooled European minds that Africa was a backyard of cannibals. These authors cited above are all Europeans. Isichei is an European married to a Black man. What about Africcan authors. Achebe never found any trace of cannibalism in his heritage which inspired his great novels. Oliver Onwubiko, Lambert Ejiofor, Echeruo, Onwuejeogwu, Felicia Ekejiuba and Kenneth Onwuka Dike, V. C Uchendu, Donatus Nwoga, even Tony Ubesie or F.C Ogbalu. Not even P. Chibueze Ugwummadu, or Nolue Emenanjo could find anywhere we facts suggested that Ndigbo were a race of cannibals. Rather this is a race that respects life, to the extent that “Ndu-bu-isi”, “Ndu ka aku”, Onye egbule,  are all names that they value and cherish. Ndigbo cherish life to the extent that once an Onye Igbo gets hold of Kolanut, he is first prayers to the gods of his knowlege are for “long life and good health” –Ogologo ndu na ahu isi ike.

 

Osita said that Cannibalism was present in Anigbo even before the war. He failed to cite the places were this practices were recorded. He equally failed to provide evidence to that effect. He said that Ndigbo made a meal of the Hausa captured before the war started during what he called “combing” Is this not an active invention of a lie in a traumatic bid to cast Ndigbo in a bad light. Biafrans were never known to have gone after the Hausas before the war. It is not recorded anywhere because it never happened. Olisa should tell us, when and where Hausa’s were killed even in retaliation before the war. Ojukwu provided all Non-Biafrans a free passage outside Biafra, when the anger of Biafrans over the massacre of their kith and kin threaten to boil over. So Olisa, Nwanna, does this combing happen in your dreams or in your mentally deranged world.

 

If Ndigbo were cannibals, why didn’t the Red Cross, the Vatican as well as the World Council of Churches all of which were intimate participants in relief during the Biafran War report it? Why didn’t the British press report it or even the Nigerians themselves.? It would have served a good propaganda purpose and destroyed Biafra’s case for relief. Or was the Biafran so very clever as to hide this? Did the Nigerian army ever complain that the bodies of their soldiers that fell in battle were exhumed and eaten by the Biafrans? A great opportunity for any race of cannibals would have been the soldier roasted to death on the Abagana ambush. They were roasted for good measure that were the Biafrans to be cannibals, they would not be asking for relief from the outside world and they would not even  have bordered when hunger was used against them as an instrument of war against all civilized canons of warfare. Today, America is fighting the Iraqi’s but they have not deemed it fit to cut off their food supply. When America was pounding Afghanistan, food drops was equally approved by the United States government. But in Biafra, the whole hypocritical world stood by when children and women became legitimate targets of war, against the provisions of the Geneva convention.

So Olisa, should come and tell us, since he claims to be an Igbo man, as well as an intimate participant in all these, while it took the Okija saga for him to break his silence after all these years of participating in a meal of human flesh in Biafra.

 

My joy was that the Policemen who arrested the traditional religious fraudsters at Okija did not accuse them of cannibalism. No one, not even the man who rightly blew the whistle on them accused them of cannibalism. To this end, when someone immediately see a trend which never existed in a situation, that means that the person is really favourably disposed to that in the most proximate potency. An instance is apposite here. A man who whenever he hears that there is a meeting between boys and girls, jumps into the conclusion that it is a sex galore, may be a closet sex-starved rapist. So also, concluding that Ndigbo are cannibals because some undesirable elements in our backyard use death to psychologically and proofs of that to threaten the unsuspecting not only violates logic, which frowns at over generalizations, but equally reveals the secret heart of Olisa Osita as a closet cannibal.

 

Olisa said that he thought it was the exception but the pattern became clear as common practice.Well it is so very unfortunate that this guy is not in bed in some psychiatric asylum, receiving treatment for his derangement. Ndigbo reside in almost all major cities of the world today plying their trade and enteprise. Nowhere have they ever been accused of cannibalism. The worst that they have ever been accused off is that they are aggressive and are aggressively pursuing wealth. I thank heavens that this is an unwitting recognition of their industry, which may not go down well with the lazy and indolent. It is equally a tribute to the fact that they are impervious to dictatorship and can never genuflect in subservience at anybody’s idols or march under any autocratic banner. Yet, Osita Olisa spoke his unrefined mind with a certainty that only profound falsehood and  superlative stupidity could ever breed.

 

I would conclude my analysis with his last paragraph where he at last revealed the fact that he is an castrated impostor. He has been claiming to be Onye Igbo, but his finally submission put paid to that pretence. He wrote as follows:

 

We “Ndigbo” need to go back to the drawing board and look ourselves in the mirror and start necessary atonement and self-purification for our children and those coming after them. That is the real love for Ndigbo. This forum is quiet because all  that was hidden is coming to light. How can we look other Nigerian ethnic nationalities in the eye and talk about vaue, morality, descency, taste. Etc. Our pride is tresspassed. We are tainted. Take care.

 

He is claims to be an Onye Igbo that he is not is actually been resisted by his subsconscious. Sigmund Freud made us realise that what we famously refer to as the “Slip of tonuge” or other seeming mistakes in that class, are not mistakes at all, but are facts stored in our subsconscious which occasionally rise to claim their share of attention from our active battle to suppress them. Olisa tried including himself in “Ndigbo”, but the inverted commas which he used to enclose it proves that he is not a member of this Nation and race of great men. In as much as there existed no lingual, literary, mechanical or grammatic justification for the inverted commas deployed around Ndigbo, that justifies no other construction than he is affirming what his subconscious is battling to deny. And the cognitive dissonance generated by that battle, led him inescapably into coming out of the shadow to show us his true colour as a non-Igbo person. The sentence immediately following that shows us that he belongs to that tribe of perpetual Igbo haters who seek every opportunity to exact an apology from Ndigbo for refusing to die quietly. Olisa’s brother in the Internet Igbophobic group that calls himself Remi Oyeyemi  wrote an article titled “Of Amnesia and Myopia: The Igbos in Nigerian Politcs”, published on Wednesday 8th of May, 2002 at this internet portal http://nigeriaworld.com/letters/2002/may/081.html  Here, after delivering a seven-paged insipid lecture, impregnated with profound ignorance, transparent jealousy and incurable conceit to Ndigbo and the reasons for their political misfortune in Nigeria concluded in the 24th paragraph of his 26th paragraphed piece of uneducated trash that Ndigbo should go an apologise to his tribe Yorubas and other minority groups for an unnamed crime which he accused them of committing. He wrote then, just like his brother hiding under the name Olisa Osita wrote today, as follows:

 

It is time for theIgbos to seek out people of philosphical like minds and work with them in their own interest and in the interest of Nigeria. It is time for Igbos to extricate themselves from second rate citizenship mentality. It time for them to seek out their legitimate dues and do away with crumbs. They should unbound themselves from the subjugating chaims of amnesia and impeding walls of myopia. They need to demonstrate courage and candour and apologise to the surrounding minority groups for treating them with disdain and disrespect.

(Cf. Remi Oyeyemi, Of Amnesia and Myopia: The Igbos in Nigerian Politcs” http://nigeriaworld.com/letters/2002/may/081.html, Par.24)

 

This shows you the race of men who are essaying to exact an apology from Ndigbo. They would be disappointed. Ndigbo will never apologise. This is the class in which Olisa finds a home. I will resist the temption to answer to Oyeyemi’s nauseating and sterile fulminations. Attending to it, will be like dignifying some stinking feaces. But this proves to you that Olisa Osita is a crosspollination of all the Igbophobic elements available. He is not a person. He is a conglomeration of psychological complexes. And doing battle with his perjorative prejudice is a task which we have undertaken, and by jove we will take this battlefield to whatever theatre this war against falsehood leads us.We shall never yield any ground. Ndigbo shall conquer against all the falsehood actively being perpetrated against them. They stood against the murderous armada of concentrate hate for 30 solid months. They were not wiped out as their detractors would have wished. So this time around, my heritage will shine as stars for all eternity.

 

We may be down now, but history must remember that it took the Jews more than 2000 years of uncensored persecution to rise to the prominence they enjoy today, and which by God no nation will again deprive them. So with Ndigbo, they day we would arise, no nation would dare take it away from us. Osita can go and bury his head in his boiling hatred, as that cannot detract one bit from the greatness of Ndigbo.

 

On the last point he asked a question, which demands an answer: How are we going to look other tribes in the face and talk about morality,virtue and so.