WHY NIGERIA MUST BREAK UP NOW
By Osita Ebiem
There are a thousand and one reasons why
Nigeria as a matter of urgency must split up along ethnic/cultural lines as
soon as today. (The emphasis here is on the now for very obvious reasons).
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number of them but since the reasons can be said to be just as many as the
number of people there are within the geographical space in question then we
can only name so much here. The reasons are quite many, almost
inexhaustible. Nigeria’s continued corporate existence is unnecessary as
much as it is harrowing.
The absurdity of attempting to build a healthy nation or even a mere mumbo
jumbo country of some sort out of the anomaly called Nigeria can only be
compared to the vain attempt of trying to reverse an irreversible chemical
reaction. A kind of trying to put back together, with the yolk and white
albumin intact, an egg that fell to a bare hard rock surface from a 20, 30
foot height. That is an insane attempt and cannot work.
In the plastic industry there are mainly two kinds of plastics, the
thermosetting and the thermoplastic plastics. The difference between these
two groups of plastics is very fundamental and, like two worlds apart. In
the case of the first group, once the curing process of the raisin has been
completed you cannot recycle or reuse the material, so to say: The resulting
product has undergone an irreversible chemical process. This is very unlike
the thermoplastics which can be remanufactured and recycled for almost an
infinite number of times. The implication in the manufacture of the two
kinds of plastics is that in the case of one you cannot make up for any
product deficiencies once the manufacturing process has been completed. Any
faulty or bad product resulting from the production line can only be broken
down and in most cases ground up and used as fillers in other fields of
manufacture but never to be reused to reproduce any product in the form that
the manufacturer originally set out to manufacture. While in the case of the
other kind of plastics the manufacturer has the privilege of the near
infinite capacity of being able to reuse the same original material over and
over again.
To enable us understand further why there is this difference in the two
processes is the fact that in the case of the thermosetting plastics they
need very high temperature to cure such that reheating them in an attempt to
reprocess them completely decomposes the different parts of the chemical
makeup so the different components become impossible to bind together with
one another in any one piece of a unified product anymore. Then the only
choice left to the manufacturer is to break up the defective product
completely. He will never be able to fix them together into a whole and
useable unit. So, without stretching the mind we can say that such has
become the fate of the Nigerian union as we shall show further in this
discussion. It can never be put together in any workable piece.
But just before we go any further we cannot help to shout it out aloud now
as we shall be doing throughout the entire writing; Stop this madness and
divide Nigeria along the ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic lines as
the natural divisions already exist. (People’s lives, Igbo/Biafra people’s
lives have been wasted enough to maintain the madness and we Igbo/Biafra
people shall take no more). It is self-mockery and utter delusion to
continue believing that someday the very different peoples in Nigeria’s
forced union will suddenly become one and start acting as a people. An
irreversible social, cultural, religious, linguistic and political process
has taken place between us (Igbo/Biafra) and them; Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani and
we can never be put together in one space as peoples of the same country.
Let every people go their own way. Enough of the hatred and bloodletting.
All advocates for Nigeria’s unity are rather feeble in their reasoning and
beclouded with diseased emotions. It is particularly sad when such advocates
are coming from the other ethnic groups other than Igbo/Biafra ethnic group.
This is so because they are not the ones at the receiving end of the most
dastard absurdity of Nigeria’s existence. When such advocates happen to be
Igbo the naiveties are so apparent as the observer can hardly miss the
pathetic display of the inadequate feelings and anxiety to belong and please
their haters or the source of their hatred and oppression.
A society’s welfare and that of the human members of it is its ultimate end.
The existence of any society can only be justified if it is preserving and
catering to the wellbeing of the members. Basing the existence of any
society on emotions does not make for a successful human society but rather
an absurd distortion of human dignity. There must be methods that work, a
people’s way of doing things on which laws and their enforcements are based.
And every member must accept or easily identify with this way of the society
for it to be considered as both legal and just. This is about the only way a
society can set common goals for themselves and work at accomplishing them
and actually do because there is mutual trust and agreement amongst the
parties.
When all these very basic elements that should establish a society are
absent from a society as in the case of Nigeria then under what basis do we
continue to hope to maintain such a country. Actually at this point such
insensitive insistence introduces a moral question to the equation as well.
Worst of all is that there is no blueprint existing anywhere with which to
forge a true nation out of the Nigerian failure and assuming such a thing
exists there is no will anywhere to implement it. And experience has always
proven that intention is never enough; it is the will that makes all the
difference.
The continued advocacy for Nigeria’s continued existence can also be
reasoned to border on stupidity as it is unreasonable and to say the least,
lazy. Such preaching can only come from those who are unwilling to change
the status quo and get down to true constructive, creative, progressive and
sincere, honest act of realistic nation building. They do not want to dirty
their hands by working hard to undo the dirty work the colonialists
unwittingly did. Such is unfortunate and even pathetic that some people
though may know the right thing to do but will be very unwilling to do it
because they are afraid of change and would rather that women and children
continue to pay with their lives. But they forget that change is part of
this existence that we know and that we can also willingly be part of this
positive change we are talking about. Change Nigeria, break it up into safe
and workable parts and forget about the foolish pride in the fancy of a
rotten and corrupted “giant” (most populous African country. A shame and a
disgustful thought to contemplate).
Nigeria’s break up is actually for the good interest and wellbeing of all
those concerned in the current dance of the absurd. We should stop wasting
everyone’s time, progress and development and face the truth once and for
all. Break up Nigeria today so that we can all move on in our separate ways
and you will see how that one act will be the one cure that cures all. Break
up Nigeria today and we will end corruption in the resulting societies and
the polity. Break up Nigeria and nepotism will pass. Break up Nigeria and
watch how patriotism will permeate every nerve and marrow of the citizens of
all the resulting liberated nations. Break up Nigeria today and all vices
that have bedeviled the present mortally diseased silliness and a disgrace
called Nigeria will end.
Forget about the so much touted about “sovereign national conference” and
all such half-hearted calls for referendums or plebiscites to find out if
the various peoples that are currently held in bondage in Nigeria are
willing to remain subjugated and held down forever or go their separate ways
and become free and progressive. Such calls and exercises are pretentious
and a waste of time and will amount to waste of resources. Forget about
Ojukwu’s Aburi Accord. The time for those has past. The situation today is
so obvious that none of the constituent members of the Nigerian union is
interested in continuing with the Nigerian relationship. And this brings us
to the inescapable question that keeps coming back to mind every so often;
do we really have to copy other people and era at all times and in all
things? Even when their circumstances and situations are not the same as
ours? Do we really want to show the world that we are incapable of being
creative and pioneering new ways of doing things and solving problems based
on our own unique circumstance and experience?
Confederation or true federalism and all such things are actually anathema
and abomination to mention in reference to the current Nigerian question.
Right now as situations stand we had long past the stage of referendums and
all those South Sudan, Scottish, Welsh, etc experiences. In our own unique
case we do not need any plebiscites to determine if anyone still wants to
remain in Nigeria. No one wants to. It will be a mockery of the human
intelligence to subject our people, especially the Igbo/Biafra people to
some kind of a kangaroo exercise of voting to prove that they want to leave
Nigeria. They want to leave Nigeria now and have always wanted to. They
already went to war once with Nigeria to prove it. Igbo/Biafra people are
still prepared to fight again if there is a clique that still thinks that in
today’s world and age they must continue to subjugate a people and force
them to remain in a most destructive and retrogressive union against their
wish.
For those who may want to ask why we are not being so diplomatic and sound
so politically correct (compromising) in our demand, we have this for you,
the truth is that it is easier to speak in a rigmarole, fanciful and long
winded fashion and at the end leave the readers guessing at what we meant to
say than to be explicit and unambiguous. This is not what we are out here to
accomplish. We are suffering and getting killed by Nigeria and cannot afford
that luxury that is mischievously known in some quarters as “balancing the
argument”. We do not want to leave the reader in any state of ambiguity
because such only benefits the so-called elite who are experts at fishing
confused waters to their utmost advantage and to the detriment of the people
who continue to pay with their lives and the future of their children so as
to maintain for the elite the status quo.
As we are about to leave the reader to their thoughts and conscience we
shall briefly itemize a few of those things we have talked about in this
essay. Also, in parting, we must urge the reader that it is not enough to
read or be informed. But every responsible member of the human race must
actively do something about the destructive and disgraceful continued
existence of the corporate Nigeria. Together we can all work honestly,
sincerely and pragmatically to break up Nigeria into the naturally occurring
nations. Every little act anyone can contribute will surely go a long way at
saving lives and helping advance a people’s happiness and a life of
fulfillment.
To every responsible member of the human race it will not be difficult to
agree without equivocations that each of the reasons enumerated below is so
fundamental and can be sufficient on their individual merit to base
Nigeria’s break up on just anyone of them. What is needed at this point are
men and women of goodwill all over the world who hate absurdity and the
unnecessary destruction of fellow human lives for the ridiculous reasons of
who they are and for worshipping differently from their neighbors. Or for
the sheer demonic fancy of a jaundiced unity. On the whole, Nigeria is a
failed experiment of piecing together a mish mash, incongruent and very
dissimilar and eternally irreconcilable peoples with nothing in common in
one space and call the devilish mix a country of some sort. We, the
Igbo/Biafra people who bear the brunt, the pain and the shame of such a
Nigeria refuse today to continue in this idiocy.
Let’s therefore break up Nigeria today because:
1. Nigeria as a third-party construct was put together without due consent
of the actual members of the union or taking into consideration the feelings
and cultural sensitivities of any of the people concerned.
2. The union from the onset is faulty because the fundamental ingredients
that make any social contract or society work were lacking. Such a thing
like religious/cultural affinity is just non-existent amongst the peoples of
Nigeria.
3. It is believed that all successful unions, relationships, marriages,
societies, etc are those in which members can communicate among themselves
in a clear language that every party to the arrangement understands.
Therefore the most important element in forming a union that works becomes
the commonality of language. In Nigeria that is absent.
4. For a relationship or union to work there must be common objectives,
goals, or destiny that everyone in it must subscribe to or aspire toward.
The Muslim North and West of Nigeria surely have different agendas and goals
from those of Christian and Animist Igbo/Biafra people.
5. It is only based on when all members of the society can have a common
objective will they be able to work together, trusting one another knowing
that they are all headed toward the same direction even when the details of
their methods and minor views differ it is still understood and rooms or
provisions are made for those diversities so that no one takes up arms to
kill the others. Such understanding is completely non-existent in Nigeria.
No tolerance of views that are unislamic is present in Nigeria.
6. There is mutual suspicion amongst the different peoples of the Nigerian
union and no one is even making attempt at tolerating the other.
7. Islamic jihadist project against Igbo/Biafra people and the other non
Muslim population of the failed Nigerian experiment is so overt and boiling
over and it is continuous.
8. Historically, a heinous atrocity had been visited on Igbo/Biafra people.
45 years ago the greatest genocide on the African continent was committed by
Nigeria and its citizens against the other supposedly fellow citizens, the
Igbo/Biafra people and, they murdered 3.1 million of that group all because
of hatred and intolerance.
9. The same Igbo/Biafra people were not only denied their right to life in
the genocidal act but they were also dispossessed of their material wealth
and possessions. After the killings, bombing and near-annihilation of the
Igbo/Biafra ethnic group and total destruction of the physical structures of
Biafran people and land, Nigeria took away ownership of all the real estate
properties that once belonged to Igbo/Biafrans wherever they were located in
Nigeria. In the same vein Nigeria also denied Igbo/Biafra people access to
their bank deposits. Instead they handed to each Igbo/Biafran depositors 20
pounds of Nigeria’s money no matter the millions or thousands that they had
in the banks prior to the time.
10. Like we earlier said, this list is endless but let’s just say that there
is no compatibility and there will never be a time when there will between
the Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani and the Igbo/Biafra people. There is no
commonality of interests as a society, let each group go their separate
ways. That is wisdom and that is the only truth.
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