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Obasanjo’s War Kite – Igbo on the Brink By Peter Opara
When Matthew Olusegun Okikiolahan Aremu Et Cetera Obasanjo commenced his National Distraction Talk-Shop (not about the illegality of his Three Monkey Regime and his 419 election) a couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article titled – Agarachaa Must Come Back – to Aburi.
That article was prefaced beginning with the point that – Back then in Aburi, Ghana, in 1967, young Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu took care of business, Nigeria’s business.
Nigeria’s business then and now, consists of – ethnic chicanery, ethnic rancor, ethnic discord, ethnic conflagration, ethnic blood spilling – nothing normal, but still Nigeria’s business; unique they are, and fit for inhabitants of a cage fabricated by Gringos in Britain for Bantus in West Africa.
Nonetheless, Odumegwu-Ojukwu handled Nigeria’s unique business then deftly and superlatively such that they needed no revisiting again, and now, had those that cornered power in the British cage - Nigeria not reneged on the resulting accord – Aburi Accord - in a fit of tribal jaundice induced mental melt down.
As I write, in Lagos, extractions of peoples of Nigerian nations are at some of their usual and customary business - maiming and blood spilling – this time between Yoruba OPC and Hausa/Fulani Arewa.
News is that arrests are yet to be made of those engaged in this business this time. How difficult it is for authorities of the British cage.
But not so when Igbo is concerned; Igbo the people that bears the brunt of Nigeria’s business of blood, deceit and thievery. Not so even when Igbo business in the British cage - Nigeria is a peaceful affair, as that recently in which the same authorities swooped down on Igbo soccer players and spectators, MASSOB members, some of them, gaoling them for TREASON!
Yes; treason for displaying at the soccer game, the Igbo Freedom symbol – Biafra; a symbol the rest members of the British cage - Nigeria would rather go to the land beyond (I say let them) than countenance.
However, in Agarachaa Must Come Back – to Aburi, I enumerated Nigeria’s business that 32-year-old Odumegwu-Ojukwu took care, with nary a contribution from his erstwhile colleagues, among them Yakubu Gowon.
Gowon, had just usurped power to mend, he had claimed, the British cage – Nigeria that he had said only days earlier, lacked any basis for unity! He thenceforth, Gowon, like Hitler on the Holocaust, proceeded to supervise the first genocide on the African continent against the Igbo, in the British cage – Nigeria – 1966 - 1970.
Yet on this, Gowon’s Holocaust, I thought I stopped living in the real world, when I perused a piece by a Sanusi Lamido, where he asserted that Igbo were the first people to engage in ethnic cleansing in the British cage - Nigeria. Sanusi Lamido! This is for another time.
However, you might wonder where was Matthew Okikiolahan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo, the one that now struts the British cage - Nigeria in Three Monkey Style, during the REAL TALK at Aburi Ghana in 1967.
The man was nowhere near where the talks held; he was not where decisions – Regional or National - were made either. Not that it mattered for even if he were present, he could not have contributed a diddlysquat towards the mending or soldering of the quickly ungluing British cage.
The man Aremu could not have contributed a thing, nada. A mope-up man, a cleanup man, a man now known to be totally without honor; forget his Biafra war tour – without Russian and British armament, he was and still is all belly. Let Ugly Adekunle’s rage on him flare on. There is no suggestion here that Obusonjo is better looking than Ugly Ade. The duo could draw daggers on this, too, and that will be fine.
But true, Aremu’s first real upper echelon tour – Murtala Mohammed regime, in which he was the second in command, it is now known that he was only a siddon-look member.
This should have been clear right then. Aremu looked the odd man out, in an assembly of some fit looking; ramrod straight Mohammed’s men. In their first group picture, there stood a man, upright, with his belly tilted a certain degree to the right. It was 1975, and I was only a kid. What a physique, I thought. Obusonjo
Worse still, it was known by some that Aremu was to be dumped by Mohammed just before he was assassinated for the suspicion that he – Aremu – was a peddler of inside information. This, it was believed, informed the dispatch with which General Bisala, Gomwalk and others were liquidated at Aremu’s orders. There were suspicious eyes about Aremu, and General Bisala knew quite a bit.
Now Aremu is not known to possess nerves to engage in coup d’etat or plotting thereof, even though it is on record that Abacha caught him red handed doing just that. Remember that Aremu lacked courage to step into Mohammed’s shoes.
Was not the man literally forced to fill the vacuum created by Mohammed’s death? This Aremu whose only ambition was to be a road-side mechanic, was to repeat the same feat, the Reluctant Vacuum Filler, aided by the one he had observed as having “a great capacity of mischief, for evil” – Ibrahim Babangida. Those who expect angelic deeds from the ward of Lucifer, dream on.
Could Aremu pen another “My Command” on these subjects, or is he going to wait to pen his current day “Needs” economy that many expect to enjoy only in heaven?
Please pardon my digression; the business of Nigeria Odumegwu-Ojukwu took care, consisted of meticulous proposals to mend Nigeria, and most critically for ensuring the security and protection of his fellow Igbo, whose blood other Nigerian nations peoples had tasted and longed for more.
On Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s efforts particularly of ensuring security and protection for his bloodied and traumatized people, I reasoned that whether his efforts could have averted the tragedies I enumerated in the article that affected the Igbo was open to question. This considering that there were FORCES – CIVIL AND MILITARY then and even now that were decided on one thing only – elimination of the Igbo or as many of them as was humanly possible.
I reasoned that THOSE FORCES ARE STILL ALIVE AND ACTIVE TODAY, AND LIKE JACKASS (DESTROYER, NOT BUILDER) DOING NOTHING OTHER THAN UNDOING THE IGBO!
I recalled that the man who now leads this British cage - Nigeria, Aremu himself had in fact sworn to ensure that the Igbo does not rise again in Nigeria – as the rise of the Igbo meant in his mind a threat to the British cage he now bestrides. This Aremu’s declaration was and still remains music to the ears of Nigeria’s JACKASSES that are bent on destroying Igbo, their culture and their tradition. And thus did Aremu become the point man for Igbo destroyers. A loose cow in a China shop Aremu may seem now, daring even his Hausa/Fulani masters, he has his eyes fixated on the prize – the objects of his neurosis - Igbo/Odumegwu-Ojukwu or Odumegwu-Ojukwu/Igbo.
Folks, there is nothing else to which you can hold a man than his words! And his actions, I might add. Any who says that he or she will ensure that you never rise again, is not your friend. That person is your ENEMY. Period.
The Yoruba man by the names Matthew Okikiolahan Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo is Igbo Enemy Number One. Aremu is on record as enemy of Igbo. Day in and day out he acts out as such, without any abilities whatsoever to self contain.
Now to all Igbo fools that do not know they are fools – the plain stupid Igbo, the conflicted Igbo, the go-along-to-get-along Igbo, the efulefu and plain ole saboteur – the many Igbo who deem themselves “civil”, “erudite” and such jazz – you know yourselves – the shameless, the political jobbers - my use of the word Jackass in reference to anything or person must have chagrined all of you.
That is fine. Truly, FOOL is the appellation that befits you, for being or trying to be civil in a jungle – Nigeria. Nigeria where everyone about you is about undoing and destroying you. You are deemed fools for none with his wits, intellect, psyche and all intact should be smiling, in of all places, a jungle – Nigeria – where at every turn, the Igbo’s jugular vein is at a risk of being severed.
In the jungle, the civil is Breakfast, lunch and Dinner for his neighbors. “I am never proud to participate in violence’ wrote Maya Angelou “yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves to be ready and able to come to our own self-defense”.
How about this, you the “erudite” Igbo, the “civil” Igbo, the “gracious” Igbo, and lest I forget, you the GENETICALLY RE-ENGINEERED - otherwise “DETRIBALIZED” Igbo? Your co-dwellers in the British cage - Nigeria, whose hosanna you sing to high heavens, your co-dwellers who truly know themselves, their tribe and their tongue – otherwise their language, they got together, in the National Distraction talk-shop organized by the Igbo arch enemy Aremu, and decided that your language, IGBO, shall be vaporized from the business of Nigerian affairs, the business of governing Nigeria – the cage in which you are trapped.
If one were not talking about peoples of Nigerian nations and Igbo nation, one would have shuddered and wondered how such thought made its way to a document that was to be circulated to the public. What more evil could peoples of this evil barrel conceive and act against the Igbo?
38 years ago, they tried to kill all Igbo. Igbo fought back in self-defense. But the “erudite”, “Civili(zed)” Igbo, better Igbo In Name Only (IINO) reasoning like Igbo killers, branded Igbo self-defense a fight for oil.
I have written and said so many times that there were Igbo who were hungry in Biafra and to this day do not know the reason they had no food to quench their hunger. “Look them”, as Osita Osadebay would sing, the “erudite”, the “civil(ized)” the go-along-to-get-along Igbo, mindless political jobbers and contractors.
These go-along-to-get-along Igbo, Nigeria’s JACKASSES could have starved you to death. They conceived and implemented their plan to ensure that you were dead by starvation.
Aremu’s big brother Obafemi Awolowo and his cousin Anthony Enahoro were the architect and implementers of this plan. If you were a baby then, to them, and in the words of Enahoro, you were “baby snake” that was no different from Odumegwu-Ojukwu their prime target dating back 39 years ago to present.
I know, you the “erudite’, the “civil(ized) etc is ambivalent about Odumegwu-Ojukwu, but even with all of your intelligence, you are to be told that Nigeria’s JACKASSES despise you as much as they despise Odumegwu-Ojukwu. Inside the British cage, it is the same boat for all Okekes. Your erudition, your civility, your go-along-to-get-along secures no security for you.
Again, Nigeria’s JACKASSES led by Aremu, are bent on destroying Igbo. They do not want Igbo language spoken any where in Nigeria, especially where Nigerian affairs are discussed. Yet Igbo is a nation of 44 Million effervescent brains trapped in a British cage.
Nigeria’s JACKASSES sat down and together decided that ridding Igbo language in the affairs of their cage was the way to go, the new strategy, the new bang…on Igbo.
Guess who is smiling? Okikiolahan Aremu! That is who is smiling. It is his bidding that they are doing. They just flew his kite, a test for Igbo total destruction by muting their tongue, say slashing it. What else would have the Igbo without their language?
Kanu Agabi, the man reported to be flying this Aremu’s Igbo language vaporization kite, is known to me. An Ogoja man, Agabi is one in a million Ejagham that could think of expunging Igbo language in official affairs of the British cage.
KANU! I do not doubt that some Igbo might have thought that Kanu was Igbo. Indeed, he might have hailed from Arochukwu in Igbo heartland, just as the rest from his heritage – the Ibeshis, Agabas, Igbas, Ukahs, Ikems, Agbas etc. Might not these Igbo-sounding Ejagham names, including Agabi’s be in danger of being expunged from Nigeria’s public business, too? Kanu!! Would that not be a boomerang on you, Kanu, the Aremu war kite flier?
It is worthy of note that Ejagham people in the majority were diehard Biafrans, still; they include many on self-exile abroad – among them medical doctors - for the fact that Biafra failed to materialize.
The core of Biafran Army Officers and top echelon civilians included Ejagham sons. The elegant Lt. Col Lekam Okoi; the indomitable T. Captain Ndom Egba and many others were formidable officers in Biafra’s Special Division. Among the civilians were larger than life Chief J.A. Jumbo, the venerable Chief Matthew Mbu, and so many others. The affable Ete Okoi Arikpo, it is known, was on the other side. Yet Young Ejagham sons who were studying abroad during the war raised funds in the streets of the U.S, Canada, and Israel etc., to support Biafra. These are facts about Kanu Agabi’s heritage.
Agabi, now a kite flier for Aremu on Igbo destruction is a man who made a good name for himself in Cross River State – Calabar to be precise – as a brilliant lawyer; a free and independent spirit who never did any one’s bidding until now.
It was appalling how Agabi became a hosanna singer for a buffoon that he would never have tolerated in his first life. I began giving up on him when he was removed from ministering over his beloved law to ministering over rocks and stones and he stayed. Then I totally dumped him (not that it matters) as the consummate Nigerian (corrupt and of infirm principles) – when I read him as Aremu’s courier that we now know, talking about an issue that according to him – “Baba” would not like to hear”. I thought, oh, Agabi is now about only what “Baba” likes to hear.
Yes, Agabi, part or whole architect of what “Baba” will love to hear, the elimination of Igbo language from the affairs of an entity in which Aremu has sworn to ensure that the Igbo does not rise. Kanu, please let us know if you had Ayinde Barrister banging out special Apala Music, while you presented this phase of Igbo destruction to “Baba”. Good boy.
Word broke that the Aremu kite piloted by Kanu is shelved. But there is no stopping Nigeria’s JACKASSES; they are wicked, unrelenting evildoers. Destroying Igbo remains their life’s objective.
Aremu’s kite shelved? There are many ways to skin a cat. I am not giving them ideas. Who am I? They have plenty of it, ideas on Igbo destruction.
Soon school curriculum will mandate that Igbo language not be taught anywhere outside Igbo land, even where Igbo pupils are in attendance; soon, books written in Igbo language for Igbo language studies will be off the shelves of University and Secondary school libraries; soon Igbo books will all be out of print; soon every Orwellian trick in the book will be brought to bear to enable them achieve their objective – Igbo silencing, then Igbo destruction.
Does anyone remember the Soweto Riot and the cause of the riot? As it was in Apartheid South Africa, Igbo pupils soon will be mandated to speak Hausa and Yoruba only even in Igbo land. Riot will ensue as a result of such dictate; Nigeria’s JACKASSES will send in their zombies – Army, Police, SSS – Igbo land and borders are already filled with them. Their zombies like Apartheid enforcers will be ordered to shoot at sight any resister, and jail any refusnik – no matter how young or how old.
With these and other plans that none can contemplate at the moment, they will see to it that the go-along-get-along Igbo, the “civil(ized)” Igbo, the “erudite” Igbo, the “gracious” and “graceful” Igbo, the genetically re-engineered, otherwise the ‘DETRIBALIZED’ Igbo overrun strategic positions on things dealing with Igbo culture and tradition. With that Igbo language goes to the brink, and soon off the cliff, and into a valley of no return. And so might Igbo nation.
In weeks and months coming, they will resort to covert, surreptitious Operation Destroy Igbo; while the “erudite”, go-along-to-get-alone, jobbing Igbo continue to opine thus: “We further ask the Igbo to continue to relentlessly pursue ideal of a united and progressive Nigeria…” How does one address this inanity?
Well, do I sound silly in the Igbo language incineration scenarios above? Well, you wait, till Kema Chikwe flies in from Abuja to scold Ndiigbo for making noise needlessly, and tell Ndiigbo that Aremu, her bosom of nearly 4 decades has no evil design against Ndiigbo. She might even call on the spirit of her relative Ukpabi Asika to assure Ndiigbo that Aremu loves Ndiigbo.
How about the Enugu Governor Nnamani? That one will write and tell Ndiigbo how much Matthew LOVES them; how the real Igbo enemy is Odumegwu-Ojukwu. Nnamani is the one that is said to be cerebral; he is true to type, “erudite”, “civili(zed) and all that jazz, with no core. What use is the cerebral without commonsense to know his enemy or enemy of his people? Where is the role of the cerebral in a jungle, in a dog-eat-dog terrain? What is it in the Bantu cage of the mundane that beckons for the cerebral? Does it require the cerebral to secure cargo airport to one’s state? How easy has this lover of Nnamani and Igbo, made it for Nnamani, to have his dream airport, even after he had licked all of his boots?
How about Ojo Maduekwe, the one that must educate his children on the back of all Igbo? He would hold court in his frequent overseas calls – reports those who have been present at his court, in which one of his daughters keeps peace – telling them how much Obasanjo loves the Igbo, and how disappointed he is when he reads an article like this.
You will read even in this cyberspace, those whose life ambition is the full integration of the Igbo in Nigeria. Yes, full integration of Ndiigbo on the terms of other Nigerian nations people - those now designing to abolish Igbo language.
Is not Greg Mbadiwe, the son of the one who asked Nigerian authorities at the end of their carnage and vandalism in Igbo land to remember those of them who fought behind the lines – otherwise SABOS – touting two more years of Aremu’s buffoonery. That is as if Aremu’s current tenure has any legitimacy.
Who else will do such a job but a “cerebral Igbo”, “erudite Igbo”, “genetically re-engineered Igbo/Detribalized Igbo, a jobber, the efulefu that want so desperately to head all and everything Igbo, those that destiny assures without a doubt an encounter with their comeuppance.
Meanwhile, in their go-along-get-along fashion, they aid and abate a sworn Igbo enemy in his bid to destroy the Igbo.
But victory is Igbo’s. The shenanigans of the enemy, the machinations of the wicked, shall pass, and amount to naught.
Here is a man, Obasanjo, with so much power, albeit illegal power, that wallows in base cunning and wickedness; a man that cannot point to a single worthy record, with all the opportunities that the leadership vacuum he has been filling for nearly four decades have availed him. Talk about what wickedness does to a man.
Obasanjo, let loose your kites of war on Igbo; let them fly. You will live with the grinding reality and regret that Igbo shall continue to thrive, even when you, your wards and those like you in the British cage – Nigeria are long, long GONE, seen no more, heard no more.
Guaranteed!
May 2, 2005
Peter Opara is the author of Understanding Nigerian Nation Tribes – Why they boil
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