I WEEP FOR NIGERIA… AND PRAY FOR
BIAFRA (II) –SUNRISE VOL. 2 NO 2, 2004
ATHENS CALLING
BY NNAMDI OBODOECHI
a.k.a Nwa Biafra
In Athens, Greece
E-mail: nwabiafra2003@yahoo.com
Including the first part of this
piece last week, I made it clear that Nigerian politics is not for the
believers or the righteous ones. In fact, it is not just the politics that is
satanic but the entire sense of values. Come to think of it, should we allow
such people like General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) the Abacha boys along
with Abacha’s family and cronies who have embezzled huge amounts of money to
continue to display their ill-gotten wealth-even glorifying them –while the
general masses continues to suffer in abject poverty? It is this glorifying of
corruption that has made many more
people to take to the path of corruption, and the result is that poverty is
highly increasing in Nigeria despite the poverty alleviation programmes
embarked upon by the government of General Olusegun Obasanjo.
The methods of their operation
looks like those of Haman, the enemy of Jews, Pharaoh of Egypt, Jezebel and
Ahab. These pillars of corruption should ask themselves, “What shall my reward
be in the day of Judgment?” The Book of Genesis 6:vs 3,5-6 May well have been
referring to such ones when it said that Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man
was great on Earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.“ And Yahweh was sorry that He has made man on the Earth,
and it grieved him to his heart.’’ (See also Matthew 6 vs 24-33.
“For
all saboteurs of Biafra, I wish to let them know that the spirit of dead
Biafrans is waiting for any Biafran elders or youth who persist in working
against the interests of his people just for the sake of materialism or to
please the Nigerian government.’’
One English adage has it that
every uncharitable act boomerangs and that when it is boomeranging, the person
now regrets his actions which he had taken in the past. This is the law of
retributive judgment (See Rev.13 vs 10).
Those governing Nigeria do not
respect the oaths they swore to before taking the mantle of leadership. They disregard
the Nigerian anthem, which they ought to uphold in all sincerity
Nigeria is indeed the country of
the absurd. Under normal circumstances, and in normal societies, soldiers are
not supposed to rule, and they do not rule; rather, they face their major
occupation, which is to defend their country against external aggression. But today
in Nigeria, the soldiers are either ruling, deciding who rules, or brutally
suppressing internal agitations-a duty ordinarily reserved for the police. Even
so, Igbos (Biafrans) find themselves marginalized in the Nigerian armed and
paramilitary services such as the Army, Navy, Air force, Police SSS and even
Customs.
All these have contributed to
make Nigeria a laughing stock in the eyes of the world. All said and done, the
soldiers have no ruling competence inculcated in them, and as such are not
competent to rule. Obasanjo’s disastrous rule has made this all the more
evident. Now that he has succeeded in forcing himself on Nigerians for another
term of four years, let him divide Nigeria, so that peace will reign. That is
the best legacy he can leave for Nigeria.
Finally, I have nothing but harsh
words for Eastern Elders who are ever prepared to die in Aso Rock, the seat of
doom, for crumbs of the so called national cake, selling the rights of NdiIgbo
/ Easterners in Nigeria. Are these people not aware that we are Biafrans, the
blessed people of Yahweh? Why can’t they emulate Moses, who identified with his
fellow Israelites?
For all saboteurs of Biafra, I wish
to let them know that the spirit of dead Biafrans is waiting for any Biafran
elders or youth who persist in working against the interests of his people just
for the sake of materialism or to please the Nigerian government. We must be
our brother’s keeper. Catch you again next week.
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