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There are many praises pouring out to Ojukwu, for being a leader of his people. These praises are nonetheless, being drowned out by some voices and counter voices that demonstrate that Nigeria is more divided as a nation now, even more than when Ojukwu and others played the roles they played, that have defined the Nigerian nation today. Everyone is looking for someone else to blame, while the truth plainly escapes them as they fight, verbally, intelectually, physically, spiritually, politically, amongst themselves. There is enough blame to pass around for everyone; Ignorance is the worst blame. Yes, many Nigerians, ethnic, religious and political groups can dignify themselves by claiming their own shares of blame. The history of Nigeria was grouped from the begining to fail, and for the citizens to be fighting themselves like this, ethnically, religiously, politically. This was encouraged further by "schooling", creating an inferiority complex for the unschooled, and a feeling that only the schooled can rule and make decisions for the rest. That was how the rest of Nigeria looked on to the first ruling class of "unschooled" Hausas, making decisions for the nation. But the Hausas were open and generous. They tried to joggle the nation that the "masters" left for them. The Nigerian economic link with the north was very vital, even to many Ibos. That was why many prominent Ibo leaders were born in Northern Nigeria, and the Ibos enjoyed the trust of the Hausa ruling class. This had caused many Ibos to migrate to Northern Nigeria before and after independence, sharing the national cake. One day, an "educated" Ibo army officer got his mates together and decided to stage a coup, to install a "schooled" leader. It was part of what the officers had learned in foreign schools, in the foreign histories that they studied. They saw it as a "duty", because the world had prepared them to be "intelectuals", to think for the rest of the "weak" "non intelectuals". This first Nigerian coup masacared Nigerian leaders and army officers, the way a young independent Nigeria had never seen before. At the end of the casualty count, the dead were mostly people and leaders of Northern Nigeria. That was when northerners freaked out and went paranoid. Most of their friends and mates were Ibos, but even these could not give enough comfort for the brutal coup. When a "schooled" Ibo man became head of state at the end of the coup, the Hausas closed up. Even though Ojukwu did not support the coup plotters, it looked like the Ibos had a plan of "domination". If you look at the history and the relationship between Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi, the army officer who emerged as head of state after the coup, you will notice that there is real closeness, outright "croniismo". From that vision, the Hausas identified a threat and retaliated, killing as many Ibos and their friends as they could. But it became an overkill. At the delight of the people who were not happy to have an independent Nigeria in the first place, the stage was set for foreigners to come back into Nigeria's business again. Aids were given with all kinds of strings attached, for Nigerians to butcher more than 3 million Ibos. Aids were given to the new Biafran nation of the Ibos which Ojukwu led, to provide as much benefit to the aids givers for as long as it lasted. And the reality was that millions of Nigerians, Ibos, Hausas, Yorubas and other ethnic groups perished in a war which was concocted by intelectuals and their egos, and fought with the blood of millions whose only eventualities were, that they were "led". With the passing of Ojukwu, already, new leaders are positioning themselves to take over, to lead the "Ibos"; like someone else is leading the "Yorubas", and someone else is leading the "Hausas", and other leaders, for the many other ethnic groups, all for themselves, one, in a disunited Nigeria. |
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