{"id":58161,"date":"2017-06-20T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T06:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=58161"},"modified":"2017-06-20T07:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T06:08:26","slug":"igbo-nation-story-successes-written-nicky-okoye-response-c-k-ekeke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/igbo-nation-story-successes-written-nicky-okoye-response-c-k-ekeke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Igbo Nation: A Story Of Successes written by Nicky Okoye\u2014A Response by C. K. Ekeke \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>I have been reading a number of articles and essays written by so-called Igbo scholars and intellectuals on Biafra and on-going challenges in Nigeria. \u00a0Some of them make me sick.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have never wanted to respond to them except on few occasions. However, this piece by Dr. Nicky Okoye warranted such a response. \u00a0Even though, I\u2019m not in the business of responding to writers and public commentators, because I believe each person is entitled to his or her opinion; however, it must be based on facts. \u00a0Ideas and opinions based on facts not on selfish and self-seeking purposes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>And so, the article: <b>The Igbo Nation: A Story Of Successes written by Nicky Okoye<\/b>, is also a case of one single narrative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>First: <\/b>Dr. Okoye<b> <\/b>says that Ndigbo complains of<b> <\/b>marginalization \u201cbased on who and who gets Federal Government appointments.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Federal appointments is just a small part of the satanic and systemic marginalization against the former Eastern region of Nigeria. \u00a0Does he not know that no person from the Eastern region heads any of the 13 major military and intelligence institutions in Nigeria today or serves in Buhari\u2019s kitchen cabinet \u2013 out of the 42 appointments he made?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The only time an Igbo man headed the Army unit was during the presidency of Goodluck Jonathan when Major General Iherjirika was pointed as Army Chief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>I wish Dr. Okoye is reading the series on: \u201cWhy Nigeria Must Be restructured.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Does it make sense that the State of Kano receives more revenue allocation than all the five States in Southeast combined? \u00a0Does he not know that the crude oil that is flowing at my backyard is controlled and owned by a man from katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, etc.?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>I\u2019m posting the series for him to goggle and read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7<b>Oil Resources Revenue: Why Nigeria Must Be Restructured Now! [5]<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Written by\u00a0Elombah.com<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Created: 12 June 2017<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7<b><a href=\"https:\/\/elombah.com\/index.php\/sport\/football\/17376-bloody-religious-crises-why-nigeria-must-be-restructured-now-4\" target=\"_blank\">Bloody Religious Crises: Why Nigeria Must Be Restructured Now! [4]<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div>Written by Tim Elombah<\/div>\n<div>Created: 05 June 2017<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7<b>Oil Blocs: Why Nigeria Must Be Restructured Now! [3]<\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Written by Tim Elombah<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Created: 03 June 2017<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7<b>Revenue Allocation: Why Nigeria Must Be Restructured Now! [2]<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Written by Elombah.com<\/div>\n<div>Created: 02 June 2017<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7<b>Injustice of Revenue Allocation in Nigeria &#8211; by Annkio Briggs<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Written by Annkio Briggs<\/div>\n<div>Created: 02 June 2017<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Second<\/b>, has Dr. Okoye visited the Southeast region recently assuming he does not live in SE? \u00a0Does the region look like rest of Nigeria? \u00a0Southeast looks like a conquered region \u2013 with army, police and all kind of military checkpoints everywhere on major dilapidated interstate roads and even State as well local roads.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here is just a short list of infrastructural injustices against former eastern region: These are uncompleted and unfinished federal projects in Southeast region.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7The 2nd River Niger Bridge<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7East-West Highway<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Enugu-Onitsha\/Enugu-PH Expressways<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Akanu Ibiam and PH International Airports<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Calabar and PH Seaports<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Dredging of River Niger<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Eastern Gas Pipeline network (CAP)<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Niger Delta Development Commission (NNDC)<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Ogoni oil spillage cleanup<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Legislative Constituency Projects<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7National Conference convened by President Jonathan that adopted, among other things, the restructuring of the country.<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7The Constitutional Amendment, initiated under President Umaru Yar\u2019Adua, and funded to the brim to address the concerns for equitable distribution of states and local governments.<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7And many others<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Third<\/b>, does Dr. Okoye not read or hear about the relentless rape of young girls, married women, torture, and massacres being unleashed upon people of Eastern region by Hausa-Fulani and Fulani herdsmen?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Below is just a recent list and does not include the pogrom and genocide of the 1940\u2019s, 1960&#8217;s, 1970\u2019s, 1980\u2019s, 1990\u2019s and continuous massacres of today being committed against the people of eastern region. \u00a0This is a list of unarmed young Biafrans rightly agitating for self-determination, which is an international law.<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Onitsha massacre of 30th August 2015,<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Head Bridge Onitsha massacre of 17th December 2015<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Aba High school massacre of 9th February 2016<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Nkpor massacre of 29<sup>th<\/sup> and 30th May 2016<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Asaba massacre of 30th May 2016<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Port Harcourt massacre of 1\/20\/2017<\/div>\n<div>\u00b7Asaba Delta State massacre on 12th February 2017<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Does he have an insight into the politics of Boko haram and the global powers behind Chibok girls that dethroned Goodluck Jonathan? Does he know that Michelle Obama, Hilary Clinton and other powerful women and men from the United States of America all tweeted and campaigned about phantom Chibok girls?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Forth<\/b>, Dr. Okoye writes about Igbos are the wealthiest group in Nigeria because of their businesses all over Nigeria, which include, Road Transportation (Buses), Spare Parts, Electronic devices, Pipeline laying, Petroleum Tank Farms, Computer Technology, Cooking Gas, Building materials, Boutique Hotels, International Trade, Wines and Liquor, Cosmetics, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Private Hospitals, Oil Servicing, independent Filling Stations, tyres, watches, office equipment, household fittings, tiles and flooring, shoes and leather products, markets, shopping malls and plazas, medium and low cost housing, SME manufacturing, etc.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That assumption is partially correct, because no Igbo or person from Eastern region has ever been listed among the billionaires of Nigeria\/Africa. \u00a0Northerners and South Westerners (SW) continue to make the list:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Here is a link for him to read: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/africa-billionaires\/list\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/<wbr \/>africa-billionaires\/list\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Aliko Dangote (North), Mike Adenuga (SW), Folorunsho Alakija (SW), are Femi Otedola (SW) are the billionaires well known in Nigeria\/Africa and guess what, they are all in oil business controlling the crude oil that runs from my backyard. \u00a0In addition, Dangote has all the import licenses which include cement, rice, sugar, tomatoes and other essential goods that come into Nigeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Can Dr. Okoye name one Igbo or anyone from the SE\/SS who has such large-scale import license?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>There is no doubt that Igbos are industrious and hard-working. \u00a0However, they do not control the main source of Nigeria\u2019s wealth \u2013 crude oil, which is located all over former Eastern region: Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Imo, and Rivers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Fifth<\/b>, division or separating from Nigeria does not mean that Ndigbo will lose all their businesses in the North and SW. \u00a0If it is done peacefully through U.N. and global powers, Igbos won\u2019t lose much. \u00a0By the way, there is no material possession or wealth that compares to freedom. \u00a0When an armed thief or arm-robber comes to your house, do you protect your life and those of your family members or protect your properties?\u00a0 Nations fight and people die to be free. \u00a0It is because of freedom that Christ died for human-beings.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The dishonesty, ignorance, fear, and cowardice of some Igbo intellectuals baffles me. \u00a0Does this writer not see what is going on Nigeria? \u00a0Does he read at all? \u00a0Has he taken time to read and study about the Fulani invaders and radical Sunni Muslims? \u00a0Does he know that Fulani were strangers and invaders in Nigeria? \u00a0Today not only do they control the entire Hausa\/Nupe\/Tiv and Middle Belt indigenous peoples and their lands, but they control Kwara State, and recently major part of Ebonyi State. \u00a0If we don\u2019t stop them now, one day they will conquer us, enslave and Islamize us all. \u00a0That\u2019s the command of Usman Dan Fodio \u2013 who fought his way through West Africa into Northern Nigeria inhabited by the Hausas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Sadly, Nigeria has two kinds of radical Islam: Sunni and Shiite. \u00a0But the most radical is Sunni because of their strict adherence to Koran. There are moderate Muslims \u2013 like the Sufi in Senegal and Ibadis in Oman. \u00a0They are very peaceful. \u00a0Even the Shia Muslims are much more moderate and peaceful than the fundamentalist jihadist Sunni.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sunni is one of the curses of Nigeria, and the second is crude oil.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Sixth,<\/b> he suggests that restructuring of Nigeria is the way forward. For years, many wise voices both from SE\/SS and SW have been calling for restructuring but the north have adamantly said they don\u2019t want restructuring. \u00a0Recently, the AGF said no amount of agitation will lead to restructuring the entire northern elders and leadership do not want restructuring. \u00a0So, what do we do? \u00a0Continue with the status quo \u2013 because it favors the North. Do we continue in a lawless, corrupt and failed Nigerian State for fear of warmongering north or lose our properties in the North?<\/div>\n<div>For me, Nigeria is even beyond restructuring. It must be divided because it is a failed and abominable contraption created by Britain for their economic-political domination of Africa&#8230; Even great and civilized empires have come and gone. So, what is special about Nigeria?\u00a0 There is nothing absolutely special about Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><b>Seventh<\/b>, he says that Igbos have produced the Central Bank Governor, Charles Soludo, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, the Minister of Petroleum (by marriage) Mrs. D. Madueke, the Chief of Army Staff, General Ihejirika, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>But he forgets to mention that for over 50 years since after the civil war, an Igbo has never been allowed to lead the country either militarily or contest for presidency under any major party. \u00a0An Igbo has never been president and allowed to head any major military institution until off course General Ihejirika during the presidency of Jonathan. \u00a0Why would a major tribe, a major stakeholder of the Nigerian project be forbidden to lead the country? \u00a0Does he know that such satanic and senseless agenda exist in addition to other systemic injustices against Ndigbo?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the handover notes Lord Lugard wrote to his colleagues, Walter H Lang, on the 25<sup>th<\/sup> of September 1918, he said the following:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7The <b>HAUSA-FULANI <\/b>has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. \u00a0He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. \u00a0He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7The <b>YORUBA<\/b> \u2013 Lagos has for 20 years opposed every Governor and has fomented strife and bloodshed in the hinterland\u2026., I have spent the best part of my life in Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the natives for whom I have been ready to give my life. \u00a0But after some 29 years, and after nearly 12 years as Governor here, I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-self-seeking money motives of any people I have met.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00b7The <b>IGBO<\/b>. \u00a0These people are predominantly Eastern Nigeria are fiercely rebellious with no regard for authority. \u00a0Though industrious and religious, in deference to the objectives of her majesty and the crown, they are highly dangerous to be trusted with power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Honestly, that seems to be the correct description of the three major tribes of Nigeria. \u00a0However, I still take IGBO any day because of their ingenuity, creativity, productivity and true religiosity. \u00a0Even though they are rebellious to authority, they can learn and be changed. \u00a0Igbos are republican in nature, however, as I have written before: Ohanaeze\/Ohacracy do not characterize the best and purest form of leadership. \u00a0We must learn to trust and obey those appointed, or selected or elected to lead us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The Igbo distrust for leadership is in fact the main reason colonial Britain ceded power to the North, whom they can control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Finally<\/b>, Dr. Okoye made this atrocious statement: \u00a0\u201cSo, a young man (referring to Nnamdi Kanu) was given access to a microphone, on a radio station and then he started spreading a hate message which has resonated with a number of his fellow ethnic group.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>I do not know Nnamdi Kanu. \u00a0I have never met him. \u00a0But after listening to some of his messages and the organization he put together called Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). \u00a0I\u2019m bold and unashamed to say that Nnamdi Kanu is not only a great and courageous leader but a prophet.\u00a0 It is a statement that is open to debate in future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Dr. C. 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