Saturday, August 17, 2013

Fashola Deports Igbos!!! Fashola déporte Ibos!

“Igbo destitute” deported to Onitsha!- Fashola Simply is an Impetuous tribalist. You recall how his Excellency, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) and his aids dealt with the Igbo traders all over Lagos when he started his ‘Eko ni baje’ projects? Though; he gave the Nigerian army ample time to move their walls and facilities lying directly on the road between Yaba and oyingbo and indeed paid for rebuilding those structures affected. However, Fashola neither provided an alternative for the Igbo traders nor did he make any attempt to relocate them before he commenced his ‘Eko ni baje’ flower planting exercise oshodi and in fact all over Lagos or did he think of compensating the Igbos. All at once and in most sudden and wicked manner his tax force moved into Osodi roadside market using sledge hammer and other dangerous clubs to smash goods and wares sold by the igbos in addition to goods that were destroy where you can’t provide the three years tax you are arrested tried by mobile court and straight to ikoyi prison or kilikili maximum security prison; as I am writing now, hundreds of Igbos are still serving their jail terms and some have finished serving and came out to face a bleak future as all means of their livelihood had earlier been smashed by His Excellency and his armies What is worrisome is that if my investigation is right and I believe it is , I gathered that the deported Igbos were and has never been any kind of destitute at all they are the latest batch of Igbos who had just finished serving their jail term as regard Oshidi assault and I guess His Excellency’s advisers fearing negative publicity as the batch may talk to the press quickly moved all of them into the vehicle and ran off to Onitsha head bridge and dumped them and speed back before anyone would say jack! Fashola’s aids knowing that the Igbos are proud people and since the Igbo man amongst all other ethnic groups in Nigeria has the freest sprit and no Igbo man would want to say or associated of being imprisoned! Looking at Fashola’s second show of advanced comics, he assembled ‘destitute’ from osun state in a record time and sent them back to osun state. Though it is worthy of note that he handed those son of soil ‘destitute’ in more dignified manner by handing them over to the governor of the state. One would wonder if that was not an arrangement between him and the governor of the state in question because a man of ordinary intelligence would have expected Fashola and his aids to dump the ‘destitutes’ at Ogun state toll gate since that is the nearest Yoruba town to Lagos just like Onitsha Head Bridge is the first contact on your way to Igbo land! Recall that while Oshodi operations were going on His Excellencies ministry of works was busy tearing up almost all the road sides in Lagos states and as it were all shops close to the road are all bulldozers by Fashola’s caterpillars and since most shops are close to the road you can now add up what the Igbo traders experienced in the hands of this heartless tribal and impetuous state man. I know of so many Igbos whose three shops were destroyed in one week wiping out their means of livelihood and just about five years after, His Excellency has got the gut to be talking of Igbo destitute. I think that that was what His Excellency had in mind while he was maliciously executing his so called ‘Eko ni baje’ projects. Perhaps let me remind His Excellency that the Igbo man has no business with destitution. A classical prove of this was the civil war I am hundred percent convinced that if the Yorubars had drank the cup we drank during the civil war plus Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s 20 pounds ceiling on all Igbo deposits in Bank no matter how much you had pre-civil war the Yorubas would have had more destitute that would attract the attention of United nations, Ecowas, UNDP, EU, AU, China, Russia and US! The same thing is true of the other ethnic groups in Nigeria or they may even be worse off. So Your Excellency, if you want to insult the Igbos you should have something less demeaning to use other than associating the wide eyed proud loins, the Igbos with destitution. Though I know that there are many Yorubas that are not tribal atall the problem is that in my own opinion none of them has been able to occupy a prominent position. But if actions of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and General Olusegun Obasonjo were anything to go by I do not in my opinion believe they care a hoot whether the Igbo man is heading into the swamp or not! So I am not that surprised that Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN behaved the way he did! The shrew can’t stop its stink or can it? Gen Obasonjo for all the eight years he spent as President made only one promise to the Igbos you already no it, it was second Niger bridge but you and I already know the level of its completion! General Obasonjo did not waste any time to wipe out the Odi community just because some two police officers or thereabout were killed in Odi but you recall at the same time the Yoruba Vigilante group killed a whopping 100 police officers in Bariga a suburb of Lagos one expected Bariga to be turned over like cartage but don’t feel disappointed they were the sons of the soil! Even before Chief Moshood Abiola won his his presidential election he was quoted as having said something like he doesn’t need the Igbo man to win his Presidential election. It was generally believed that it was this verbal marginalization of the Igbos that pitched him against Arthur Nzeribe! Come to think of it the so called money, Lagos has that the governor is sending everybody away so that it can go around for the few people left what is the component and lets see whether the Igbo person contributed anything into them: Federal allocation, bulk of what Lagos has comes from VAT and custom: from VAT who brought in the vast goods being vated it is the Igbo traders on Custom who imported the goods Customs taxed? It is once again mostly the Igbos. That is not all the other component and very huge too comes from crude oil which the Igbos in South East and south south along with the other nationalities from south south contributed for Lagos! Concerning the other arm of Lagos revenue the IGR shops and business premises are taxed as well as individuals and the Igbos still have a comparable contribution if it is not a highly weighty contribution. Finally I would want to say that I do not blame him, I should rather ask the Igbo groups to thinker up how to deal with people like Fashola, Col. Gadaffi, who killed about 500 Igbos in Libya when his madness ran out of proportion and Atamiels of Ghana that did a mini Nigeria Must Go on Igbo traders in Ghana by demanding a deposit of $300000.00 for you to run your singlet shop or paper and pencils shop in Ghana and till date most of the Igbo traders shops in Ghana are under lock and key! The Igbo leaders and association must find a way to send a message of some kind to Ganges khan or Joseph Stalin kind of leaders that would want to use Igbo man to practice macho man leadership either now or later!