By: Urchman Ogbu
If there is a certain group of people I dislike with every fiber of my being, it is those who perpetrate injustice against the weak and the vulnerable but there is another group I hate even more and that is those who hide under some phoney liberalism or neutrality to support injustice while pretending to be the peacemakers
You see this second group of people…….. fear them. Do not dine with them even with a long spoon. Infact, if the dangerous reptile known as the black Mamba were to visit you in company of these ‘Nigerian peacemakers’, do not hesitate to club them to death while you go clubbing with your black mamba friend.
Tell the Nigerian peacemaker about the Biafran war and the attendant tragedies and he will be like:
“But Ojukwu shouldn’t have tried to break the country nah! The Igbos should have remained with their fellow Nigerians. Don’t you realise we are better off as one united country”
This fake peacemaker will never talk about the unprovoked slaughtering of Igbo sons and daughters in the North which started as far back as 1945 in Jos and followed by another major pogrom in Kano in 1953 years before Nigerians even got her independence.
This morally bankrupt recession-brained Nigerian peacemaker will never blame those who killed and still kill Ojukwu’s people which was what forced Ojukwu into declaring Biafra after all his effort at peace were rebuffed by the then president, Yakubu Gowon.
Hearing these ‘Nigerian peacemaker’ talk about the Biafran war, you’d be forgiven to think Ojukwu just woke up from a terrible dream and simply declared Biafra.
Igbos in the North were killed by northerners with state-sponsored impunity. There are recorded instances where those killing were supervised by Nigerian soldiers. And this was long before the 1966 coup even happened. There were several attempts by Ojukwu to get Gowon to take actions to protect the Igbos in the North.
There were signed agreements like the one in Aburi where they all laughed, hugged and drank champagne together only for the Nigerian side to come back and jettison the agreement. They could have told Ojukwu that they needed some amendments done on the agreement if they felt they could no longer implement it but they unilaterally dumped the agreement. And the Igbo pogrom continued unabated.
The Nigerian peacemaker would pretend he doesn’t know these.
When Igbos made efforts to run from the North, they were chased down to the motor park and slaughtered by northern mob and soldiers. Pregnant women had their womb cut open and their babies removed violently after being killed. These are all verifiable facts.
Those hate-induced state-sponsored killings were exactly what forced the first Nigerian Oxford product to join the Nigerian army, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to declare Biafra in a bid to stop his people from going into extinction.
The Nigerian peacemaker would pretend to be unaware of this fact.
Today, almost 50 years after, thesame wave of state-sponsored killing and institutionalised marginalization of Igbos which led to the Biafran war are still rife in Nigeria and have even gone worse under President Muhammadu Buhari:
The Igbo man is being treated like “The Deplorables”, demonic economic policies have been introduced specifically to ensure his business is destroyed completely. While the army is killing the unarmed IPOB members and
