In my opinion, Mr Opara, you have made your point the way you like it. I think such points will make greater meaning and its message take objectively if you have mention the various alternative ways that we the Igbos can be rescued from the sufferings you claimed Igbos are passing through in their host states in Nigeria. For me, it makes no sense castigating an effort/solution whether good or bad without having better alternative. this is so particularly when viewed from the point you solemnly accepted that is bad about our situation in Nigeria. Mr. Opara my response to your engagement of issues about Mazi Nnamdi Kalu and the Nigerian State is neither in anyway a reflection of accepting or rejecting your opinion nor that of Mazi Kalu but if the truth be said, a lot of politiking have gone into the Igbo questions in Nigeria that we the Igbos cannot afford to seat back and criticise any effort at telling our stories ourselves. Accepted, Mr. Kanu may have misplace priorities or test-ran wrong methods in presentation of his case. to me what is important is not to quarrel over methods presenting the obviouse Igbo reality in Nigerian project we should quarrel over not doing anything to get Nigerian state and its constituents to answer judiciously the Igbo question. I salute you and your like mind like Chief Ralf Uwazuruike who I respect so much for pointing out your observations from the errors about Nnamdi Kalu programs. However, my greatest salute without reservation still, goes to Mazi Nnamdi Kalu, who intermittently keeps the Nigerian State and Nigerian in total disarray discussing answers to the issues of the Igbo question from not only one perspective which critical docility maintained by you and me will foist. So, let the weed and the chaffs of the issues be engaged more to deepen the debate and robust the discussion that will one day translate into negotiation if we are not negotiating already through the so call Ipob crazy methods. Igbos had shot at the VP last in 1983, in-fighting among the Igbo elites domesticated political docility that sent all of us to sleep while the scampering for commonwealth continued unabated. Now, a young sojourner realised his racial being and woke up from identity slumber to take whether by crook or by hook what to him rightly belong to him, rather than enjoy our support or provoke us to wake up from our own deeper slumber, the best we can do is to antagonise him and contribute criticisms that regularly sends him to our opponents cleaners. Meanwhile, his agitation represents the new face of Igbo quest for freedom, a renaissance that has internationalised the Igbo question unanswered in Nigeria putting the country in a spot and pressure to right the wrongs like never before. Rather than appreciate this effort no matter how small, people cloud the struggle with envy and say all sorts of things to nail the young man as if there is any anus that does not smell. Mazi Okpara, if I may ask who will gain from the white wash some Igbo Solomons without solution mate to their brother before our opponents? You sincerely did not underestimate the Igbo situation. Knowing that it is that bad is enough reason for us Igbo to delight in telling our story ourselves before you are blackmailed and crucified. The first Chief of Army staff we had Lt. Gen. Ihejirika, and many other most recent appointments into government after the imbroglio that cost the Igbo headship in Senate can be linked to the narratives of a more radical self-determination struggles of the like of Mazi Kanu and other like mind. Before now the narrative is that Igbos are not united and has no king therefore has no voice. This guy came to restate the narrative, rather than state your own narrative that will beat what is on ground and accelerate a stronger case for equity and fairness the Igbos occupying their rightful place in Nigerian project, people instead busy fighting the guy.
I rest my case here owning up that since I do not have for now a better coordinated alternative to what Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is doing for the good of Igbo race, I also have no right to crucify him. If I have objection to what he is doing I will not come to the market place to say it to the hearing his opponent rather I will find a way to reach him one on one with my constructive criticism.
Komesia.
Ndewo Umunna m.
Dickson Ogbonnaya Igwe
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 1:28 AM Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
By Ifedimma OnwugbuforDear Mazi Kanu,With all due respect, I wish to express my disappointment at your abysmal broadcast yesterday. I am still at a loss why many Igbo still fight and die for a leader like you, so insensitive and a braggart.During the Python dance operation, many Igbo families were wrecked - sons were executed point blank, tortured terribly and maimed, then you resurface after some months after being spotted in Israel to mourn the death of "Jack my dog and many others". That was unfair, insensitive and prideful of you.Mazi, I expected you to shed tears at the mention of humans, people's children who followed you at the peril of their lives. I expected you to inform the Igbo that you are fine. I expected you to massively thank them for their loyalty, prayer and support, and not assure them of your return with "hell".What about your handlers giving the full names of the thirty killed and you will slowly mention them one after another, and speaking words of comfort to their families. Is it took much to do? Who is Jack? Who is his father? Does he even have a soul?You are not a leader. Ojukwu did not do this after he escaped to Ivory Coast. You are too insensitive to be one. I see no emotions in you for your people. When Ojukwu was here, he mostly addressed the Igbo with an emotionally laden tone, full of tenderness and compassion. People went home comforted. You only come to stir the beehive and shut out the world all of a sudden, leaving your Igbo kinsmen to get at each other's necks. You are not a leader, truth be told.You don't speak the minds of the Igbo. Maybe of ndi Abia state, but certainly not of Ndigbo. You are not my leader. You are no longer Nigerian, as you stated. Stay out and remain out.The hatred for the Igbo aggravates daily because of braggarts like you. We work and sacrifice in Nigeria like elephants and survive like ants. You have nothing to offer any Igbo.Your wife and kids are safely tucked in the UK but you always have a way of showing up to bastardize the little goodwill we manage to have here. Leave us alone. We are suffering greatly over here. Unfortunately most of your ardent supporters live in diaspora and have no single idea what it means to struggle to survive over here. We are suffering, Mazi. We are groaning under a huge yoke that cannot be lifted by the rudeness and profligacy that you exhibit in your pomposity. Enough.The Igbo are worried about your Dad and other members of your family. You couldn't mention that in your broadcast. You think we are not genuinely worried about the welfare of your family?Go to UK, that's where your citizenship is. Stop disrupting the peace of a country you have no business with. Create your dream country where you are and keep the "hell" there. I am sure Israel will be so generous to.You have mentored very rude, recalcitrant and cantankerous Igbo young men and women, strutting the social media and fighting and denigrating anyone that tries to reason with a head. What evil is this?You are on exile in Israel. Fine. Remain there and make the best of your time and opportunity. If your actions are found lethal, Israel may have no other option than to discontinue with hosting you.In Nigeria, you abused your bail conditions and trifled the integrity of all who were your guarantors. For your cause, Igbo suffer more in their host states. This is the much hardship your outlandish decisions have brought.If you truly love the Igbo, stay silent at the moment. If you cannot work with the who-is-who in Igboland, your patriotism is dung.If indeed, the APC government has not contracted you to destabilize the opposition as many insinuate now, Mazi kindly remain mum. Your integrity is going downward. You cannot clamour to deliver people who no longer see your goodwill as it is.IPOB members are mostly not registered voters, you didn't need to announce that they should not vote. Ife dike gha eme di ye n'obi. Learn to be frugal with words.I wish you a safe stay in Israel. Mulu anya ka azu, jide onu ghu aka. Deeme, odogwu IPOB.
--Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement"Awardee Of Maritme Watch Newspaper(Nigeria), Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects
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