Survival of Biafra from The State of Nigeria?
Before delving into this issue; here are my background and believes:
a) I am an Igbo man.
b) I believe that Nigeria, if prudently managed is capable of becoming
one of the greatest powers on earth and a great pride to the black race.
C I believe that the only Nigeria
leaders that committed all efforts at Making Nigeria work as a nation were only
the founding fathers before the first
military coup though most of those leaders did have tribal stint to varying degrees.
d) I believe that the civil war,
the reason for the civil way, the consequences of loss and victory of the civil
war created a heinous cabal originally bound on common goal of ensuring that
the Igbos never rise again to prominence but with huge oil revenue and nearly
70% of it dumped at the nation’s capital for a few men to spend as they deem
fit, a new definition of purpose came for the cabals namely enriching
themselves beyond imagination; to the extent that some of them are richer than
some states in the country! Rapidly though the circle of cabals grew to include
persons from all geopolitics with varying influence and control of looted
funds.
e) The cabals having grown in
number, power, wealth and influence, I believe that the Nigerian cabals would
never lift their hands off the Nigeria treasury.
f) I believe that even if the
nation breaks into ethnic fragments the various regional cabals would lord it
over ethnic nationalities and continue their looting regardless.
g) I am of the conviction that
the only way to make nation work is for a man of courage determination and
instrument of state powers to ingeniously think up a way to demobilize the
cabals perhaps terminally because who ever that dares to deal with the looting
of the cabals would be summarily destroyed by the massive fire powers of the
cabals where each of the cabals is richer than some states in Nigeria or even a
combination of states!. So even if the nation for any reason breaks into
fragments the only way ethnic nationalities can move forward still remains the
vigorous confrontations of regional cabals.
h) I believe that Igbo governors
have been wasteful of earned scarce resources earned.
i) I believe that the Nigeria
cabals though includes many Igbo leaders are deliberately marginalizing the
Igbos.
j) I believe that since this is a
federation the President of the country has a clear responsibility to ensure
that the nation remains one and indivisible state so I expect President Buhari
or even myself if I were the President to move in the Nigeria military to
restore national unity by thwarting any ethnic group that might want to test
the will of the president by attempting any kind of separatism. So it would be
a crazy and costly mistake for Biafran agitators to jump straight to
confrontation and separatism without laying certain foundations.
Having said the above I believe
that no one should be in doubt what is the possible consequences of because of
anger and deliberate provocation by the Nigeria cabals to mindlessly jump into
serious and vigorous engagement of the Nigeria state. That is the more reason
why intelligent, wisdom, understanding, tact, cunning and deft maneuvering
should be applied to either get Nigeria work in equity or when the situation
present itself to opt out.
The first step is to create a firm
bond among all agitating groups in South East and South South. The truth is
that whilst the Igbos may want a country of their own, the other South
South ethnic groups sure want full resources control. The only Way both dreams
are realizable is rock-solid corporation, while the South cannot stand the
power force of the Nigeria state the Igbos are effectively land locked but a
corporation of the two may be unstoppable depending on the employment of
appropriate strategy . Where this bond between the agitating groups of South
East and South South can not be 100% ensured there is no point flogging the
Biafra horse it is dead on arrival! However where the forces within the region
can team up 100% then this should be the first step in the right direction.
After the agitating groups are
firmly and effectively bonded for one purpose then the agitators must do the
follow:
a) have a model of how to run a possible nation
What the agitators must ensure first
having realized the land -locked
nature of the Igbo states, the agitators must ensure that the bond between all
the groups in South East and South South are strong since both ss and se need
each others for survival. In fact it must be clear to all concerned that if
ever Biafra comes to fruition that all groups must be equitably represented and
taken care of. Igbos alone in the five
eastern states cannot effectively challenge the nig state despite good
intelligence and individual wealth. While income per capita of ordinary Igbo
man far outstrip that of the other ethnic groups in Nigeria but the Igbo states as
is managed now cant produce enough money to run the states let alone single handedly
sustain a possible war with the nig state and even it has it is clear the Igbo
pack of the nig cabals would sabotage the war effort perhaps that's why Olu Obasonjo
says Biafra agitators are rascals or something like that. Finally Igbo 5 core
states are land locked and militarily unattainable as regard supply. In line with this; the following must be
seriously considered by the agitators, where the capital of the possible
country would be, Igbos can’t insist it must be Enugu, sifting must be well
considered and consensus reached, the whole South South and SE should be
divided into States as appropriate to accommodate ethnic minorities,
a confederation may be considered With a rotational President among ethnic groups
and Vice Presidents representing each enclave etc. A clear blue print of how to
develop other resources of the region apart from crude oil should be well
mapped out. For instance palm oil which is abundant in the region can be replanted
to yield even more than crude oil, since a barrel of red palm oil sells at
almost three times a barrel of crude oil. For Instance the Biafra leadership
should consider cutting down all wild palm trees in the region and replace them
with two of the improved high-yield type to kick start the economic
emancipation of the region in a low key phase by phase investment.
b) Investing what ever resources
it could gather in the citizens therefore showing the citizens what model to
expect other than what the Nigeria state has been offering
h) Convincing the citizens to believe in the model with what ever means that is available that is bonding with the people.(Conquering the people)
Agitators leadership must be
disciplined intelligent and understand the games going on. Conquest of the
people, the about 500,000 people following Biafra on facebook is damn two small
for an enlarged possible Biafra population of about 40'000,000 world-wide same
with the number of people that do come out in protest however they are all
steps to build upon first instead of rushing to early confrontation with the
Nigeria state.. So leadership must do something to take the vast majority of
the SE and SS citizens on its side by doing something people can recon with for
instance leadership can raise money to give out Harvard scholarships to a
hundred SS and SE citizens every year or for once recognize the potential of
palm oil to the two regions, a barrel of palm oil cost almost three times that
of crude oil and what's more all accrued amount goes to SS and SE citizens
unlike
crude oil. Agitators must consider a palm program that is enduring and profitable as well as conserve land resources.
crude oil. Agitators must consider a palm program that is enduring and profitable as well as conserve land resources.
i) persuading Igbo politicians
and reps to believe in the model.
As it is vast majority of those who leads the Igbos are personally benefiting from the statuesque and would undoubtedly do all within its powers to thwart any attempt to make a truly federal Nigeria let alone a Biafra! Perhaps Gen. Obasonjo knowing this may be the reason he recently said Biafra agitator are riffraff! Since Gen Obasonjo believes that key Igbo leaders are part of the Nigeria cabals that is benefiting from the crazy statuesque.(Conquering the leadership)
As it is vast majority of those who leads the Igbos are personally benefiting from the statuesque and would undoubtedly do all within its powers to thwart any attempt to make a truly federal Nigeria let alone a Biafra! Perhaps Gen. Obasonjo knowing this may be the reason he recently said Biafra agitator are riffraff! Since Gen Obasonjo believes that key Igbo leaders are part of the Nigeria cabals that is benefiting from the crazy statuesque.(Conquering the leadership)
