Baba Kadiri
Have no fear ! At least in Ojogbon Falola's Forum in cyberspace there is no risk of Baba Kadiri being sentenced to the same fate as Ken Saro-Wiwa or Dele Giwa. Feel safe. Please. Ojogbon Falola is no military dictator. He is a humanist. And since you are such a sticker for language, truth and logic, a humanist is not to be conflated with the logical sequence or series that suggestively runs, if vegetarians eat vegetables then humanitarians eat human beings. The latter are cannibals.
However, Baba, it's more than likely that you could be gunned down in the streets of Owerri or Umuahia, if you go around carrying a placard saying "Down With Biafra!"Gunned down by some miscreants who have never read the Bible and know nothing about the ten commandments or even just commandment six : "You shall not murder!", just as some people have never heard of the commandment " Thou shalt not commit adultery" and "Thou shalt not steal" - hence the rampage, the corruption epidemic ravaging our lands. For a Jew at heart it is better to die than to worship idols, desecrate the name of the Almighty, commit murder or adultery or to steal. One of the problems with Jesus the Perfect is that he said,
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery." But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
So at the point where a randy Scot says, "That's a bloody good-looking woman ! " - too late , by his own admission and without any spermy transmission he has already committed the transgression.
Since circa 1970 thanks to one Terry Smutylo and his wife Ann who were our next door neighbours at the South Legon Chalets ( Our= my Better Half and I), Fritz Perls Gestalt prayer has been something to live by. Much more recently it has been a José Micard Teixeira quote popularised by Meryl Streep : "I no longer have patience for certain things..."
As for Kennedy Emetulu and Vincent Adepoju, I've only met them in cyberspace, but what we (you and me) and those two gentlemen have in common is greater than whatever differences of opinion may separate us from the ideals of humanity and as far as I may claim to know you Baba Kadiri, you too probably espouse the holy preamble to the American Declaration of Independence: " When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
In other words, it may be foolish – from your point of view ( you want for your brother every good thing that you want for yourself etc) - but in the final analysis it is not up to you and Buhari and the Naija military - in the final analysis it is up the Igbos themselves, the Igbos spread throughout the Naija Federation and beyond, to decide for themselves if they want to have their Biafra or not to have their Biafra. To have a divorce or not.
And you too believe that " all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
So what's the problem? The Holy Nigerian Constitution which forbids divorce? Or it the Great Nigerian Army ? In Donovan's The Universal Soldier the lyrics go
"He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you"
I notice that he has not included " he's a Muslim too"; understandably, when Donovan Leitch wrote that song, it was not yet the age of Islamic terrorism.
You make a "problem" of the Biafra National Guard. So it's a David vs Goliath scenario ? In a nutshell, the 82nd Division of the awesome Naija military vs a little people's defence committee?
The grusome fact still remains that UNARMED IGBO YOUTHS - Nigerian human beings - somebody's children - are being and have been gunned down by your military.
You remember the little trouble that the Naija military had with Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky and the Shia of Nigeria?
Irony of ironies: I suppose that if, for whatever reason the 82nd Division of the Naija military was dispatched to arrest - God forbid – someone like the late great Sardauna of Sokoto or – astaghfirullah rabbi wa atubu ilayhi - today's Emir of Kano, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II or in my oil- rich, environmentally degraded swamp , crocodile infested neck of the Naija Delta, The Amanyanabo of Kalabari – i.e. The King of Kalabari, it would be unnatural for the aforementioned leaders not to have their own bodyguards who may/ may not protect and defend their leaders? Their people? In the case of the Amanyanabo or indeed Goodluck Jonathan the very least that I would expect of Kalabari Brother Mujahid Dokubo-Asari plus M.E.N.D. plus the AVENGERS plus other Niger Delta Militants is that they would protect their leaders until they get some written assurances from the military that their leaders will be treated fairly…
On the other hand it is reported of Christianity's and Islam's Messiah
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On Friday, 22 September 2017 21:55:02 UTC+2, ogunlakaiye wrote:
Rabbi Hamelberg,
Just as with a nation, a person does not need a permanent friend but a permanent interest. You are now in a good company of Kennedy Emetulu and Vincent Oluwatoyin Adepoju. I know that your heart bled immediately the black and flat-nose Nnamdi Kanu proclaimed the 0.1% (zero point one per cent) Jewish blood in him. I will attend to this story of made-up Igbo Jewish origin another day.
Risking being sentenced to the fate of Ken Saro-Wiwa and Dele Giwa, I want to state the fact that while the machete wielding IPOB's Biafra National Guard in Nigeria are considered to be non-violent agitators by wishers of Nigeria's disintegration, the knife swinging Palestine Arabs in Israel are, on sight, shot dead as terrorist. While the Gaza strip is completely alienated, by Israel with high fences in what is known as the world largest open prison, the Igbo are free to move and live in any part of Nigeria. In Chidi Anthony Opara's post of Sunday, 17 September 2017 in this forum, Nigeria's current Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, an Igbo himself, wrote, "The Igbos have larger chunk of their investments outside the South-east. Our people (the Igbo) have invested heavily in every nook and cranny of Nigeria. They are into trading." Writing under the caption,'Social Consideration', Ekweremadu confirmed, "Nigeria has never been divided as it is today (due to utterances and actions of Biafra agitators). Parting ways under such level of bitterness could be risky to the investments and lives of the South Easterners. Realistically speaking, is it possible that all Ndigbo living in the other parts of Nigeria, many of whom were born and bred outside Igbo land, and have been well assimilated by their host communities will return home? Many have never visited home and do not even speak Igbo language. Can we realistically expect those who have their investments in other parts of Nigeria to willingly abandon them and head home?" In plain language, Igbos are the only true Nigerians since they are found, as Ekweremadu confirmed, in every nook and cranny of Nigeria outside Igboland, where they have been assimilated by their host communities. Igbo children in their host communities are Igbo only in names as they do not speak Igbo but their host community's language. If Igbos are persecuted and marginalized in Nigeria, as it is being propagated as the reason for demanding an Igbo sovereign state, how could they establish themselves in every nook and cranny of Nigeria outside Igbo land? Since Igbos are traders, do they have only Igbos as customers in the communities in which they reside?
IPOB's Biafra National Guard has challenged the Nigerian Army and the confrontation between the two forces and its consequence can never be described by any normal thinking person as wanton killing of civilians.
S. Kadiri
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As Gertrude Stein famously said, "a rose is a rose is a rose ", just as a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist and of course even the most diehard sceptic will agree that Nigeria is Nigeria is Nigeria with or without Biafra on the map. Not that we have the luxury of comparing terrorisms or varying state definitions of terrorism; after all we know that one man's freedomfighter is another man's terrorist,as was the case with the ANC and indeed the PAC ("One settler, one bullet") when we had that little trouble with Apartheid South Africa.
Since the IPOB leadership renounced the use or arms/ armed struggle a long time ago and has been pleading for a peaceful referendum for the past several months, almost a year now, it is disingenuous to start quoting statements made several years ago, statements that he has since renounced.
There is Fatah, there was Black September which perpetrated the heinous Munich massacre, there is HAMAS which has a political wing and the military wing the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and a host of other Palestinian Terrorist Organizations. Maybe to your consternation during the stream of terrorist "actions" often aided and abetted by al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Islamic Jihad etc, you did not hear the Israeli authorities issuing a warrant of arrest of Chairman Arafat or his successor Mahmoud Abbas or the leader of HAMAS each time a suicide bomber exploded his deadly load...and once upon a time in the old days of the Northern Ireland conflict we had the IRA the bane of the United Kingdom of England , Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
How best to calm the request for a referendum is a serious one . In The Fire Next Door ,
https://www.facebook.com/
modibbo.ibraheemelyaqub the author takes up serious questions….
On Thursday, 21 September 2017 21:04:07 UTC+2, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:Eze Kadiri,
Rejoice! At least, for the time being you've got some moral backup from comrade-in-arms Professor Segun Ogungbemi.
The very first question that you both have to answer is this: If IPOB is indeed a "terrorist organisation" could you kindly furnish us with details of the wanton acts of terrorism that the IPOB have committed thus far?
You could take note that the Catalans who are going to go ahead with their referendum to have their beloved Catalonia have not been tarred and feathered a "terrorist organisation"
Here is a list of other organisations that have been labelled terrorist in Nigeria
All highfalutin preachments about morals have obviously not paid any attention to these weighty words penned by Professor Biko Agozino, to wit that " No army is entitled to unilaterally declare as terrorists nor to proscribe, unarmed citizens who are calling for a plebiscite to decide their future relative to imposed colonial boundaries. It is fascistic to attempt to subject citizens to acts of war and threats to wipe them out for exercising free speech or even for throwing stones at military vehicles that tried to 'crush' them as directed by the president in a public speech after his return from over 100 days sick leave in London. "
Should the Government's terrorist label stick - and should the referendum not be forthcoming, it's not too difficult to foresee that whatever real attacks of sabotage on Federal infrastructure perpetrated by whosoever will be readily blamed on the IPOB - just as now, random acts of lawlessness are being attributed to the all purpose scapegoats, "the Fulani Herdsmen"
In the meantime, social media is awash with the pros and cons of a civilised, constitutional and peaceful secession Surprisingly, Nairaland is all for outlawing freedom of speech about Biafra secession - apparently, from the viewpoint, the matter is so unholy that it should not even be discussed whereas Facebook ( of course) is more democratic about such matters and here is a poignant example of what is on the tip of our to tongues: The Fire Next Door in which the author asks do we want to equate IPOB with Boko Haram's terrorist " bombing of soldiers, kidnapping, selling, raping of little school girls (80% of Nigeria are ignorant of the fact that all the Chibok girls were Christians) and burning people alive and both groups should be called terrorist group for UNITY SAKE."???
Let us be honest O !
On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 20:48:08 UTC+2, ogunlakaiye wrote:Those who prefer lies, prevarication and obfuscation to the simple truth will always remain in moral bondage. Is IPOB a terrorist organisation or not? A honest answer to that simple question should either be yes or no. To assert that IPOB, by standard definition of terrorism may not be a terror group is foxy and irresponsible tail swerving.
IPOB created Biafra National Guard and Biafra National Secrete Service actions that preceded IPOB's leader, Nnamdi Kanu, soliciting for guns in the US.
http://www.tori.ng/news/11786/
see-radios-biafras-director- nnamdi-kanu-soliciting-for- guns.html S.Kadiri
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