Major Gideon Arka Overthrow
Government
THE LATE TIV WARRIOR, GIDEON ORKAR'S,
COUP SPEECH, APRIL
1990
Fellow Nigerian citizens,
On behalf of the patriotic
and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this
country, I , Major Gideon Orka, wish to happily inform you of the successful
ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful,
homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General
Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for unabated
corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa,
Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup
but mere intentions that were yet to materialize and other human rights
violations. The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with
immediate effect. Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to
emphasis that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and
executed revolution for the marginalized, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the
Middle Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and children yet
unborn from eternal slavery and colonization by a clique of this country.
Our history is replete with
numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory
repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till
eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the
exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south. They have almost
succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now
extending same to the south. It is our unflinching belief that this quest for
domination, oppression and marginalization is against the wish of God and
therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence. Anything that has a beginning
must have an end. It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without
skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However,
those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the
time of reckoning has come. For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the
three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida
administration. The reasons are as follows:
(a) To stop Babangida’s
desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria’s life president at all
costs and by so doing, retard the progress of this country for life. In order
to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started
destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his
desires. Examples of groups already neutralized, pitched against one another or
completely destroyed are:
(1) The Sokoto caliphate by
installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong
Sokoto caliphate.
(2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State,
especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of
this country.
(3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of State
Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.
(4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree
Number 47.
(5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended
massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.
(6) Deliberately withholding
funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his
diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the
members of the armed forces. Other pointers that give credence to his desire to
become a life president against the wishes of the people are:
(1) His appointment of
himself as a minister of defense, his putting under his direct control the SSS,
his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of
inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent
fraternisation with other African leaders that have installed themselves as
life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called
the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will
be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively. It is
our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is
unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990’s, and, therefore, must be resisted by
all. Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues,
domination and internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called
chosen few.
This, in our view, has been
and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians. This
indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress. This clique has an
unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and
outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a
nation. This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately. It is
strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and
misrule, Nigeria will have
in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan,
Brazil, India, and even Japan. Evidence, therefore, this
cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable
clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state. (Sic) It is suffice to
mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in
recent past. These are:
(1) The shabby and
dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the
person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the
Babangida administration.
(2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida’s administration by the all powerful
clique.
(3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe,
Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.
(4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners
from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and
their stooges.
(5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its
place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded
parts of this country.
(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the
south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or
0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute
affluence on a daily basis without working for it.
(7) Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of
intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by
the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well
being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the
supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the
southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country
have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them
by God.
(8) The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian
foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as
they circumstances may dictate. In the light of all the above and in
recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the
overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the
following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from
the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the
following conditions are met.
The conditions to be met to
necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:
(a) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the
people’s choice.
(b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji Maccido
to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest
for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be
practised in any part of the Nigeria
state. By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are
temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and
southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.
They are also required to
move back to their various states within one week from today. They will,
however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when
the stipulated conditions are met. In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle
Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending
when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a
united Nigeria.
A word is enough for the wise.
This exercise will not be
complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their
ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date. Even in these hard
times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for
lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living
in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.
We are extremely determined
to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the
masses of our people. You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause
for alarm. We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God. All
airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith. The former Armed Forces
Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be
chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of
state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each
from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.
A curfew is hereby imposed
from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice. All members of the armed forces and
the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks. All
unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be
ruthlessly crushed. Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new
order. All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the
national network programme until further notice.
Long live all true patriots
of this great country of ours. May God and Allah through his bountiful mercies
bless us all.THE LATE TIV WARRIOR, GIDEON ORKAR'S, COUP SPEECH, APRIL 1990
Fellow Nigerian citizens,
On behalf of the patriotic
and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this
country, I , Major Gideon Orka, wish to happily inform you of the successful
ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful,
homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General
Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida. We have equally commenced their trials for unabated
corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa,
Major-General Mamman Vasta, with other officers as there was no attempted coup
but mere intentions that were yet to materialize and other human rights
violations. The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with
immediate effect. Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated. We wish to
emphasis that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and
executed revolution for the marginalized, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the
Middle Belt and the south with a view to freeing ourselves and children yet
unborn from eternal slavery and colonization by a clique of this country.
Our history is replete with
numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory
repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till
eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the
exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south. They have almost
succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now
extending same to the south. It is our unflinching belief that this quest for
domination, oppression and marginalization is against the wish of God and
therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence. Anything that has a beginning
must have an end. It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without
skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However,
those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the
time of reckoning has come. For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the
three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida
administration. The reasons are as follows:
(a) To stop Babangida’s
desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria’s life president at all
costs and by so doing, retard the progress of this country for life. In order
to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started
destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his
desires. Examples of groups already neutralized, pitched against one another or
completely destroyed are:
(1) The Sokoto caliphate by
installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong
Sokoto caliphate.
(2) The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State,
especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of
this country.
(3) The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of State
Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.
(4) The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree
Number 47.
(5) The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended
massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.
(6) Deliberately withholding
funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his
diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the
members of the armed forces. Other pointers that give credence to his desire to
become a life president against the wishes of the people are:
(1) His appointment of
himself as a minister of defense, his putting under his direct control the SSS,
his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of
inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent
fraternisation with other African leaders that have installed themselves as
life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called
the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will
be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively. It is
our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable
to Nigerians of the 1990’s, and, therefore, must be resisted by all. Another
major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues, domination and
internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few.
This, in our view, has been
and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians. This
indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress. This clique has an
unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and
outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a
nation. This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately. It is
strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and
misrule, Nigeria will have
in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan,
Brazil, India, and even Japan. Evidence, therefore, this
cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable
clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state. (Sic) It is suffice to
mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in
recent past. These are:
(1) The shabby and
dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the
person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the
Babangida administration.
(2) The wholesale hijacking of Babangida’s administration by the all powerful
clique.
(3) The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe,
Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.
(4) The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners
from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and
their stooges.
(5) The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its
place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded
parts of this country.
(6) The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the
south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or
0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute
affluence on a daily basis without working for it.
(7) Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of
intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by
the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well
being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the
supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the
southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country
have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them
by God.
(8) The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian
foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as
they circumstances may dictate. In the light of all the above and in
recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the
overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the
following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from
the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the
following conditions are met.
The conditions to be met to
necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:
(a) To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the
people’s choice.
(b) To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji Maccido
to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest
for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be
practised in any part of the Nigeria
state. By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are
temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and
southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.
They are also required to
move back to their various states within one week from today. They will, however,
be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the
stipulated conditions are met. In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle
Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending
when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a
united Nigeria.
A word is enough for the wise.
This exercise will not be
complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their
ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date. Even in these hard
times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for
lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living
in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.
We are extremely determined
to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the
masses of our people. You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause
for alarm. We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God. All
airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith. The former Armed Forces
Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be
chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of
state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each
from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.
A curfew is hereby imposed
from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice. All members of the armed forces and
the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks. All unlawful
and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be ruthlessly
crushed. Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new order. All
radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the national
network programme until further notice.
Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May
God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all.
