Not a Chance, Professor S. Mustafa’s Article Can’t be True!

By
Ndubụeze Godson III
biafraalways@yahoo.com
 

It is a debt I owe to those northern fellows I have come to regard by explaining to them that what is about to be said here only applies to all the northern elements who through their actions or inactions back abject nonsense. The decent ones (not many) who do not support the anti-democratic ooze of their people are with all necessary respect excused. I say this with every sense of fairness and here we go.

The rebuttal to Professor Samuel Okoye’s article by one Professor S. Mustafa which appeared on Gamji and captioned; “How The North Subsidises Nigerians By Up To Us$20b Yearly On Agric Produce And Reply To Professor Samuel Okoye” could only be described as primitive nonsense, no other description would satiate this essayist. It was a sheer attempt to deceive inactive minds from his area of course and maybe those other Nigerians who buy into such a puny propaganda concerning the jive about northern hyper-agric prowess. If there is indeed any semblance of truth to Mustafa’s balderdash, I suggest then they keep every ounce of their agricultural produce and let the Niger Deltans and others keep whatever they have also to themselves. If they indeed possess this ability to feed the whole nation, I repeat, let them keep their "MineralNuts" and other crap (article below will justify this) they think they produce and let the people of Niger Delta retain theirs. Deal? How difficult could this be? The only reason Mustafa and his folks will not warm-up to this suggestion is simply due to non-belief in the lies they endlessly peddle. The entire nation depends on northern farmers to feed? What a hogwash!! Did they also feed the Igbo nation during their genocidal war against same?

Are these guys kidding us or just pulling our legs and teeth to gauge our reactions? The simple truth is that they know those they feed their shitty crumbs, the ones that succumb to their dilated lies; their ass lickers that’s who! I have to here and now remind the world that Abakiliki in Igboland could feed the entire West African countries. So too could other Igbo domains like; Okigwe, Ovim, Omanelu, Umunede, Asaba etc not to mention numerous farming communities in the Yoruba areas too. These are enclaves where agricultural practice yield good dividends as such the likes of Mustafa should spare us the noise. There are actually folks out there who might be impressed by the bogus appellations by people who may or may not be what they say they are, not this writer. The substance of one’s essay or argument to me should be the indicator of the writer’s acumen and not a phony title that may not be defended when it comes down to the nitty-gritty. Assuming therefore that S. Mustafa might after all fall under this category of fraudsters, do you still wonder why he made zero sense in his article? As providence would have it, an article, “Nigeria`s Dirty Business” by Sam Olukoya in Kano that appeared on BBC World Africa, Thursday, 4 January, 2001 (News.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1100624.stm) sort of made allusion to the “agric” Mustafa had in mind. One never knows!

Now the article;

Human excrement has become a precious commodity in Kano, the commercial capital of northern Nigeria and one of the largest cities in the country.

Here there are people who make a living selling it and there are of course ready buyers who get full value for their money.

Many people use pit toilets in their houses, and when they fill up, the human waste is emptied into drums.

After that, pick-up trucks transport the drums to the outskirts of the town, where the human waste is emptied from the drums into the open.

All day, one pick-up truck after another comes to deposit its contents, but at night, the scenario is different.

People who trade in human excrement such as Isa Idi come to collect the foul-smelling substance…”

My regrets are hereon tendered should this be Mustafa’s idea of agriculture. Damn right, we have practically been fed excrements since the ‘end’ of that war his people started. Does the knowledge that ordinary peasants from the north who never gained from the numerous northern despots who truncated their future by brutalizing them not bother you? If it does I suggest you write more on that and other aberrant societal behaviors by you know whom not your biased gaffe towards the Igbo you know nothing about. Some of my exchanges with this idealess Professor will now be shared, starting first with a mild mail to him on Mon, 18 July 2005 09:33:34, which he responded to rather strangely. I began;

Professor S. Mustafa:
What you will find is your words then followed by how I feel, my unhidden disappointment, which does not necessarily translate to anger, at least not this time. It seems a good number of the Nigerian Professors so-called lack basic common sense and are inherently prejudicial.
“Indeed, I know that most of the best minds in physics from the north, like Professor D. Mshelia, a renowned nuclear physicist, despite world wide demand for their talents have remained in the country and continued to produce PhDs. We will like Professor Okoye to come back and do the same, rather than squatting in a remote corner of the globe, regurgitating on the pages of newspapers the thoughts of idle minds, without in depth studies of the facts of the matter.” – Mustafa.
Professor Okoye should come back so that you guys may find it easy to eliminate him as you (Nigerians) always do to those who show resentment towards your selfish greedy perspectives? The northern folks are able to stay back to milk the rest dry simply because of the unfair opportunities reserved for them whereas you can’t say the same about southerners from the Igbo/Biafra area who endure all manners of humiliation in the hands of the Hausa/Fulani oligarchs. Another embarrassing aspect is your standing reason on end with the puny argument of equating the lopsided rule of your northern folks with; building materials, electronics, motor spares, machinery and all that jazz. It made zero sense since the Igbo is in no position to decide the choice of trade of the northerners who see themselves as born to continue ruling the animal farm of a country, Nigeria into oblivion. Yes, there is no denying that your folks see Nigeria as their bounty as such mediocrity is raised to a laughing height. Do you not realize that the Igbo are not in a position to effect any trade policy changes that would negatively affect the northerners, of all people? This much should have been clear to you Mallam Mustafa, but you rather chose to ignore it, all in an attempt to score a cheap point. If you are sincere that your north “subsidises Nigerians By Up To Us$20b Yearly On Agric Produce,” why don’t we agree for the north to export and keep their agricultural produce to themselves while the Niger Deltans do as they please with their natural resources? While we’re here, I’ll also like to know if you have any opinion about the illegal and wicked mining of minerals that are found in your part of that stupid contraption called Nigeria by your people? I guess not!
“Prof Okoye insinuates that the north is arrogant and wanting to rule Nigeria as if it is its birth right. If the north had entrenched that policy, then Nnamdi Azikwe would not have been the first President of Nigeria or the current President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. It is thus clear, that, it is mere propaganda, aimed at discrediting aspiring northerners.” – Mustafa.
Obviously, you’re the only Professor who does not know that your brother, Tafawa Balewa was in-charge of the government and not Azikiwe during the so-called first republic due to the parliamentarian system of government then. It is a sad day when a learned gentleman like you joins the northern peasants to disseminate wrong information just to continue to gain unfair and illegal advantage. I have to conclude by stating in no hushed tone that your views of course mirrors that of a typical selfish northerner, as such, I’m not surprised.
His reply posted Mon, 18 Jul 2005 13:20:47 went thus;
Indeed, I would not have bothered to reply to your outbursts but just to indicate to you that I am not carried away by your antics. I had hoped that you will commend my concern about actions of 419ers and drug trafficers in damaging names of Nigerians. I believe that all types of people should abhor and condemn these vices and I am surprised that you did not. I hope that your outbursts was not as a result of my stand against these evils. Unless you state clearly your stand on these vices, it will be difficult for me to enter into any meaningful discussion with you. - Prof S mustafa
I replied like so;
Listen up Youngman,
Apparently, the word "outburst" is elusive to you since there was nowhere in my mail that any display of violence was shown, but as usual, anything that challenges the intellectual ability of a jihadist is an attack. In case you’re still confused as to what constitutes an outburst, you may reach out to a dictionary near you for help. My duty is to repel all unwanted insults and stuff on my people (Igbo/Biafrans) and not to educate you on words’ meanings. BTW: Do we have any agreement on my suggestion that the north should keep their damn agricultural whatever and the Niger Deltans their oil, which you guys have stolen to stupor? I’ll herein before embarking on phase II of my lecture, call your attention to the preamble of my previous post that you turned upside down to mean “outburst.”
“What you will find is your words then followed by how I feel, my unhidden disappointment, which does not necessarily translate to anger, at least not this time. It seems a good number of the Nigerian Professors so-called lack basic common sense and are inherently prejudicial.”
The vice (419) which you continued to harp on do not by any stretch measure when lined against the damage being caused by islamization of that paw-paw country of yours. Did my mail to you in any way glorify the so-called 419 which a Yoruba Moslem, Ajala invented if I may inform you ‘professor?’ Who are the counterfeit lords in that country? Jokolo, Dantata and many other northern desperados! You insult yourself by nitpicking on the trifle things as you turn a blurred eye on all the atrocious and pre-Christ violent criminal behaviour of your folks. Do you have a say on all the unwarranted killings of the Igbo in your neck of the wood going back forty or so years? Oh, oh how about something to say about the foreign exchange black market by the Hausa/Fulani, which makes regulating the exchange rate difficult? Does the negative effect of the stupid sharia crap on your country not mean a thing to you? Was your brother Tafawa Balewa in-charge or not during the first republic? If yeah, where did Azikiwe come in? Have the northerners not been milking the southerners dry? In your prejudiced mind, do you think Professor Okoye stand a chance in your Nigeria against a northern Islamic scholar who parades a bogus degree? Now, listen carefully, I know of many Igbos who relinquished their positions in frustration because an unqualified Awusa chap was placed over them. An uncle of mine with a Ph.D in chemical and nuclear engineering was a victim of this insanity your folks perpetuate.
Listen to you:
“I had hoped that you will commend my concern about actions of 419ers and drug trafficers in damaging names of Nigerians. I believe that all types of people should abhor and condemn these vices and I am surprised that you did not.”
Try:
“I believe that all types of people should abhor and condemn these vices” …and in fact every other “vices” that boom in Nigeria like; sharia, the maddening killings of innocent southerners, the elevation of unqualified people from the north to undeserved positions, the robbing of the Niger Deltans of their endowed natural gift (this will give them respite). Corruption, which is the middle names of all the northern warlords who came to power through undemocratic means, is another vice. These are vices that scream for action, Mustafa! Like I said before, unless you’re that slow to grasp the simplest explanation that the Igbo, which you so hate are not in a situation to effect any negative changes on your damn folks there’s nothing to add further. More nonsense from you will of course elicit harsher rebuttal!! Mustafa then came back with his puny three-liner, Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:00:26;
Inded, I am sorry to learn that an uncle of yours with 'genuine' PhD degree in chemical and nuclear engineering was not given employment.Perhaps you would have sent him to Saddam Hussein.

In place of my last response to his silly review and out of respect for those northerners I see in reverence, I will share a mail instead from someone who also was mystified by his attitude. The fellow wrote;

Ndubueze,

You should remind those people that even the dams in Northern Nigeria were constructed with money generated from the oil in Eastern Nigeria. That is, coupled with loans and assistance from the World Bank and other lenders, in the name of 'unu du, ndi Nigeria.' Today, everybody in Nigeria has to pay back those loans. The Federal Government of Nigeria, especially under Babangida, invested billions of dollars in agriculture in Northern Nigeria. A very important one was the Kadawa project in Kano. The world was brought to Kano to grow wheat, for instance. Kano farmers were freely given generators and motorcycles and fertilizers. This is how agricultural produce come from there. Else, there would have been famine in that part of the world. The place is arid. Without fertilizers, nothing will come out of the soil there. Take a lot at what is happening in Niger Republic. Had Niger Republic dams like they have in Northern Nigeria, there wouldn't have been starvation. Even the dams bring forth rain. If you have been close to Nigeria, you will be surprised at the amount of rainfall in areas were dams are found. Those cheat from Northern Nigeria.

You won't believe it. Lots of them thought Nigeria's oil came probably from Kaduna or Kano. Let me tell you: believe it, lots of them will be shocked to learn that that petrol or kerosene they use every day comes from somewhere in Southern Nigeria.

The reason it is always easy for them to cite their warped constitution in support of the continued rape of the entire country, particularly the Niger Delta by the northern tyrants who came to power through sheer use of force that have nothing to do with democratic principles is better left to them to decipher. As I was winding down I happened upon a piece by one Abubakar Kamara Mohammed who also weighed in on this mess with; “Resource Control: A Conversational Analysis.” There is this troubling trend by certain writers from the north and their followers, the citation of a worthless document they think is a constitution even when it came about through brute force. Why? The excerpt from this article is one of many examples of how they use the ‘constitution’ when it favors their twisted argument. “Section 44 (13) of the 1999 constitution states that “the entire property in and control of all minerals, mineral oil oils and gas in, under or upon any land in Nigeria or in under or upon the territorial water and the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria shall vest in the government of the federation and shall be managed in such manner as maybe prescribed by the national assembly”. I now wonder why the northerners are been fired with such expletives as parasites and vulture?” – A.K. Mohammed.

As if the same document did not make a clear pronouncement on state sponsored religion, which sharia is, yet they ignored it despite the secularity of Nigeria. The simple question they should answer is under whose leadership was this bogus constitutional document compiled? A prepared and objective writer who wants to be seen as serious would agree it was mainly under Arab north that this waste they cite to justify the criminal evil they commit against the Niger Deltans was compiled. A document hurriedly put together under duress (northern military junta’s machine guns) could hardly pass a muster in a democratic test. If the document in question did not come about through democratic means, why would any sane person use it to back this greedy mining of resource from other areas? I cannot be the only one who feels that the information contained in that piece of junk called constitution does not worth even the cheap Abacha-made paper it was recorded on.

In ending this somewhat nightmarish encounter I would hope that the offenders were schooled enough to see what is tweaking fair minded Nigerians/Biafrans. Why can’t we as the learned people we claim to be see the unfairness and the illegality associated with giving pittance to the owners of a commodity whereas individuals from the north surreptitiously mine whatever they find in their area? Don’t take my words; read David Ejoor, yeah, Ejoor the military guy that once licked your ass just to disparage the Igbo, but wailing today in disgust. I now share the recent reaction of Asari Dokubo, the youth leader of the Ijaw in relation to the continued rape of the Niger Delta by those that think and act like Mustafa; “…those who were not producing anything were now arrogating to themselves the right to decide what the owners of the resource that is keeping Nigeria together should have.”