Written by Obulose Chidiebere N.
For Family Writers Press
For some reasons, I know now that it's a load of crap and life isn't a series of neatly packaged parcels, but I personally can't get rid of this odious feeling that I need to air my view on your actions and inactions towards the affairs of Biafrans and Ndi-Igbo in general with your position as the leader of the Ohaneze Ndigbo, an organization that claims to be protecting the interest of our people.
Going down history lane, at the end of the devastating Nigerian civil war, Biafrans were humiliated with massive poverty and starvation; our people lost their pride, place and position on Nigerian economic and political landscape. The 20 pounds episode and limited wealth in the hands of the defeated Igbo which rendered our people penniless to function in the country’s economic geographical scenery. Sir, You know better than I did. The Igbo were able to survive and even thrived after the poly-national war which involved Nigeria, Britain, Egypt, Soviet Union and other African countries against Biafra during the Nigerian civil war. Biafrans despite losing millions of it's population to the civil war remained confident gave up in Nigeria despite the injustice and continuous marginalization. It was a burden to be an Igbo at the end of civil war till now as you read, as the open wound of the war has not yet completely healed. Chiukwuokike in his omniscient, seeing the condition of Biafra provided us with IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to go and save his people from the hands of Pharaoh.
We wanted you to be close to us as an elder, a father, a leader, an adviser, and pursue our common interests together knowing fully that we live in a strange land.
But it seems you, and your cronies are comfortable with the conditions of Biafra and state Ala-igbo. Out of jealousy, you connived with the enemies of your people to get rid of Nnamdi Kanu and the activities of indigenous people of Biafra IPOB. You wanted his downfall to the extent of seeing him dead and doing anything to sabotage the success recorded by IPOB.
Sir, When you where newly elected Mazi Nnamdi Kanu showered praised on you and criticized the former leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo for only seeking for their interest instead of the collective interest of Biafrans and Ala - Igbo and I felt he confident to have met you on several occasioned immediately he was released from prison to deliberate the way forward for Biafra and Alaigbo, he relied on you as a father. He wanted someone like you to assist him with transitioning into making IPOB and Alaigbo a new look and emancipate the condition of Biafra and Igbos in Nigeria.
We gave you our consent and trust as a son. I felt as if we were the same person. I believe Mazi Nnamdi Kanu might have told you some deep and dark secrets about IPOB. He also might have disclosed his fears and how much he wanted a father like you in this struggle to get Biafrans out of subjugation. I respected you and thought of you as someone I looked up to.
That was until you played the ostrich, collaborated with Hausa/Fulani, Igbo named South-East governors to fulfill your pay master’s plan to proscribe IPOB and kill Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, rain bullet in his house, kill visitors at the palace HRH Okwu Kanu’s palace desecrating his palace. What a taboo!
For goodness sake, you called us your sons. You sounded like a father when you were been interviewed at Chatham House in London, even when Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was released from Prison, you lifted my hope , not knowing it was a calculated effort to betray and kill him and IPOB members.
You have no idea what we’ve endured last year in the hands of these terrorists in uniform called Nigeria military because of your action. Recently, dead and decomposing corpses of victims of operation Python Dance 11 was discovered in Abia State, 38 of them. These are the people you called your sons, these are Biafran youths, these are People’s father, these people are from somebody’s family. How manage you fathered these boys in Enugu and Chatham House and murdered them at Abia? I wonder how your heart has become a stone to kill the person you will come for his entombment? Your actions has made me to question your origin. Are you sure you are not one of those bastards fathered by Hausa/Fulani Danfodian herdsmen going about answering Igbo names but are paid to subjugate and sabotage Biafrans. You were there throughout the whole ordeal and planning and yet, you never uttered a word of a father.
Just last week in Owerri Imo state, up to 140 Biafran women were arrested, tortured and packed like woods in different prisons because they came to ask for the way about of their son, our leader and Director of Radio Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is missing with his parent since the Nigerian military invaded his father's compound killing everything on sight, even a dog. Some pregnant women among them have started bleeding, having miscarriage,their leg broken, some nursing mothers leaving their child without weaning them for some days now, some vomiting and crying out blood because of torture they received from this murderous uniform men. All these women are someone's wives, someone’s mother, our mothers, your mother, your sisters and even your cousins but you turned your back and called them terrorists. Chief Nnia Nwodo just note it today, you have stabbed your mother, your wife and your daughter, you have killed a potential doctor, a lawyer, an engineer in her mother’s womb. Would you expect a cry of baby in your daughter’s house tomorrow when you are busy planning and killing others?
After all these back stabbing, knowing fully you are like a father to us we forgot all that happened and IPOB came for reconciliation but vehemently turned it down and continued your dining with Hausa/Fulanis. Maybe it is because of IPOB’s bow out with the peace talk that have made you to go and call your co murderers to come for "operation python dance" 3 to come and kill the remaining IPOB members.
Sir, let me remind you, In 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas irretrievably altered the course of South African history by assassinating Henrik Verwoerd, the founder of Apartheid. He was classified insane and remained incarcerated until his death in 1999. He was never recognized by any of the various freedom movements in South Africa, including the African National Congress, as having achieved anything significant. His motivations have never been fully explored, and whether his act was one of madness or morality remains a mystery. This thoroughly researched play approaches Tsafendas as tragic hero, and presents the possibility that he may well have been a sane man living in a strange land. These women you are calling terrorists today may tomorrow give birth to president who will govern your children by then you may be serving your punishment and struggling for spoon of rice with Gen. Gowon and Muhammadu Buhari in hell.
Thanks for the memories and most of all, betraying IPOB your so-called sons and daughters but be assured that a day of reckoning is coming when you will pay for the role you played in sabotaging Biafrans and Ndi - Igbo in general.
