I know it is important that historical facts are accurate; i am very worried though that some are positing as if those of us alive now need be bound, defined, or confined by the utterances and actions and even worldviews of those who played those roles on all sides during the civil war and in the events leading up to it.
Should we remain trapped and constrained by this history? Should our energies be focused on vilifying the past rather than on understanding it alongside the present and charting a way to a new future?
Let us assume that Nigeria is not viable as a nation and must be broken up into its component ethnic constituents; would these new independent entities not have to live together as neighbours? Or are we saying that even as independent entities they must live as enemies in a perpetual state of war? And what progress or development might come out of these state of permanent war and conflict?
Would our cyber warlords come back with their families to live and attempt to thrive in these autonomous ethnic spaces in the midst of permanent state of warfare?
Regards,
Jaye Gaskia
From: lawrence nwobu <lawrencenwobu@yahoo.com>
To: Jaye Gaskia <ogbegbe@yahoo.com>
Cc: "NigerianID@yahoogroups.com" <NigerianID@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: NigerianID | how can we move forward from the civil war and its legacies?
To: Jaye Gaskia <ogbegbe@yahoo.com>
Cc: "NigerianID@yahoogroups.com" <NigerianID@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: NigerianID | how can we move forward from the civil war and its legacies?
My brother Jaye, i wrote yesterday that the massive campaign for a sovereign national conference
has provided the verdict of history and that we should move-on and learn from the past, but the
bigots, sick sadists and guilt panged urchins who pimp around in the internet will not allow
any objectivity.
From: Jaye Gaskia <ogbegbe@yahoo.com>
To: Nigerian IDENTITY <NigerianID@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 17:48
Subject: NigerianID | how can we move forward from the civil war and its legacies?
To: Nigerian IDENTITY <NigerianID@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 17:48
Subject: NigerianID | how can we move forward from the civil war and its legacies?
In my opinion how can we move forward from the civil war and its legacies? How can we transform the challenges which led to the war, the challenges which came with the war, and the challenges since the war into the basis of building a new nation/nations that will be able to fulfil its/their potential/potentials?
History is very important, but only to the extent that we learn from it, so that we do not make the same mistakes? Why can't the elite, inspite of the investment of the hope of a nation, transcend and move beyond the past and the present? Why are we unable to chart a path to a collective future? How can we chart such a path to such a future when we are still stuck in the past?
In case we do not know or realise, the world, this continent, this country has moved on since the civil war; we may not like the trajectory of movement, in which case our task is to do something to reorient it, but we will achieve nothing positive by coflating the past and the present and debating the past as if it were the present, and thereby missing the opportunity of the present.
And many of these intellectual ideologues of these ethnic identities are and have children whose worldview is informed by westernisation, and who are actually identifying themselves as westerners; while their parents and guardians strut cybersphere in borrowed ethnic garbs!
Regards,
Jaye Gaskia
From: Chukwuemeka Okala <reukal@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Nigerian IDENTITY <NigerianID@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 9:05 AM
Subject: NigerianID | GENERAL GOWON APPROVED THE RELEASE OF CHIEF AWOLOWO FROM PRISON
To: Nigerian IDENTITY <NigerianID@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 9:05 AM
Subject: NigerianID | GENERAL GOWON APPROVED THE RELEASE OF CHIEF AWOLOWO FROM PRISON
| IBK, You should know better that, that wasn't a lie. That should be classified as an expression of a determination to achieve a goal and it is not limited to Ojukwu. People throughout humanity draw out a plan to achieve a goal, and based on the realities on ground they believe in the realisation of that goal. But not every set goal is achieved at the end of the day and that's where failure comes in. That Ojukwu failed to achieve his set goal on that occasion does not mean that he wasn't determined to win the war. Considering the realities on ground at the time he made the statement, Eastern Nigeria under Ojukwu was more equipped militarily than the federal Government. Things turned the other way after all because of the heavy support that the Federal Government got from Britain, Russia and some other big powers. Ojukwu did not tell lies, but rather his plan failed. These are two different things. Take care, Emeka Reuben Okala London, UK
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