AN OPEN LETTER
TO ALL IZON ELDERS WHO WOULDN'T
LET US
BREATHE AS WE AGITATE FOR BIAFRA
Your generation tried and
failed.
Now our generation want to try
yet your generation won't allow us try. Many of you with the exception of few
like Mama Annkio Briggs (even though we still disagree on opinion) are not
doing anything to see us free and soon you will leave this world for us still
in slavery, God forbid.
During your days as youth you
guys had better days in Nigeria and enjoyed a little but our days are filled
with shit yet you wouldn't want us to try.
When many of you were in our
ages you were already leaders of industries and government, till today many of
you still occupy such positions leaving the majority of us to scramble for the
crumbs and we are fighting hard to liberate ourselves yet you wouldn't let us
fight our enemies in peace.
Yes, you have experience and
you have told us your experience, won't you allow us be the judge?
What makes you feel our
generation can't make better decisions for ourselves after hearing your
stories.
Success has no judge, if your
decisions of old were right we wouldn't be born to correct the mistakes you
made. Yes, you made mistakes because if you didn't we would have been free
people today not living in fear of Fulani herdsmen militia attacking us in the
middle of the night.
I am tired of hearing,
"you inexperienced youth". You are not God and so you are not
infallible. All you preach to us is fear of the Igbo man yet in our generation,
beyond the ethnic groups in the so called Niger Delta, only the Igbos have showed
us love as family.
Our generation will continue to
agitate for our freedom through Biafra with an alliance of documented agreement
binding us, a feat you couldn't do with any group you supported with your lives
in the past.
Boro aligned with Fulani without
any agreement and met his death in the hands of Yoruba who got an agreement
with Fulani.
This is our lives so let us do
what we know is right.
We will preach the freedom
Biafra brings to every Ijaw man and they must all make their decisions for themselves.
Gone are the days when few decides for many.
Today INC is far more
disorganized than IYC yet INC was supposed to be the elders group of Izon
nation guiding IYC yet it seems IYC should be guiding them.
If INC which is your generation
cannot organize themselves as elders why should we trust your judgements as
youths which you want to force on our throats today?
If Biafra let me have 100%
resource control in Ijaw Nation and autonomy what else am I struggling for?
If I shouldn't have to bother
whether an Igbo man will dominate my business and market because in Ijaw Nation
he must co-own any business he wants to do with a fellow Ijaw man, why should I
fear?
If the Igbo man is ready to die
with me in struggle for freedom and live peacefully with me afterwards why
should I bother?
Igbos are the majority in Port
Harcourt yet some of us love Port Harcourt more than our state capital,
Yenagoa. So if Igbos are not good people to live with why have we not fought
with them or have any reason to fight with them?
We keep talking of how Igbos
can not be trusted yet we have fought with all our neighbors fighting against
injustice including Yoruba in Lagos but we have never fought with Igbos, why?
Is it not because they are peaceful people who wouldn't take what is not
theirs?
Igbo man will insult you but
Fulani will kill you yet some of you our elders still tell us that a Fulani man
is better than an Igbo man not minding that the Fulani will take you to stone
age while the Igbo will industrialise your village.
Please think about this and let
us make our mistakes, it might just be the right thing because a man who makes
the mistakes of his father is a FOOL who will not live to see the glory of his
son.
Tari Nemi is a revolutionary
writer and a refined teacher
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