Biafra, If You Ask Me by Mazi Odera
May 31, 2017
I am about to thread where even the Angels don’t want to play, a topic and issue considered sacred and can invoke unbridled out pour of venom and never encomium on me, but like my old man will say “agaghi eji mgbagbu ghara ogu” (We can’t abstain from war to avoid Death).
Many of our people want Biafra where we can go back and live on our own, but I beg to differ but before you start spitting in all directions just hear me out after all okwu adiro ano na afo ,ajo njo (Words cannot be bad in incubation).
It started like a Joke when people from other Tribes accepted the superiority of the Caucasians who came in with aims of exploiting Africans to the fullest, they came with Religion which they assured us is the way, and that it is filled with LOVE, but when our Forebears refused to swallow everything HOOK, LINE AND SINKER the missionaries who came in as Saints with Bible on the surface brought Soldiers armed with Guns and slaughter us to submission, those that survived, many were carted into Slavery with shackles and fetters of Iron clanged on them for Months while they were stored in Ships without medical of any sought and if life ran out of you, they will dedicate you to aquatic world.
Destination slave market were they sale God’s Creation and they expect you to forget and shout Hallelujah.
They certainly preach to us how loving their own version was, but shown us that the right of our living or dead lies with them, they enforced it to the later.
They taught us how to speak their own language, how to worship their own God and how to see them as Superior while we are the scum of the earth, which affected our psych today.
In Africa white is pure, while black stands for evil, but I digress.
They succeeded in the Western part of this nation, same way USMAN DAN FODIO succeeded in the North with Savage brutality, but only the people or the East showed some semblance of resistance and for that the brutal BRITISH marked us for extinction despite the fact that we embraced their religion more.
Fast Forward to pre Independent, the ZIK of Africa with the same education they gave us bested them, while other leaders from other tribes lay in askance, just because of our Republican nature the British swore to cut our tail and that has been the problem will today.
The Hausas plotted to leave Nigeria in 1967 Coup (ARABA) when they hoisted an AREWA FLAG at Ikeja Canton mentioned, crafted an Arewa Constitution, the Counter Coup was a plot to announce secession but the British High Commission advised them with the phrase that THEY ARE LANDLOCKED.
They gave the Hausa Premier and emasculated the seat of the President and made it Ceremonial just to make Sure that Nnamdi Azikiwe paid for his effrontery of asking for Independent nation, which they conceded because they’ve not discovered the Oil deposit.
The Genocide of 1967 was extreme, a calculated plot and ploy to wipe us away from the surface of the Earth, the British supplied armament and enough Logistic support to annihilate us even though we accepted their version of religion and they called us Brother (Lip service).
They mauled down our Children, rape our women, gave us Kwashiorkor but I digress.
We had no friends that offered us Logistic, Arms or even water to drink, we became a social reject, but I later understood why the aggression became Total.
A Russian General said "Give me 2,000 Biafran Soldiers and I will take the world", we were under fed but once the Tanks rolled in from UBULUAFOR NSUKKA into our hinterland, we stand up and defend our land with Sticks and Faith, what we had in the entire South East before the Hostile invasion was 264 Rifles, that gave the impression which the Government used and announced that it was Police action they are bringing, that they will take SOUTH EAST under 48 hours, but it took 3 Solid years for us to stand down and that 3 years was a captive nightmare to the Western world, especially when under great and intense hatred and aggression sponsored by the British, we started FABRICATING OUR OWN GUNS, making Bullets, converting PICK UP TRUCKS into ARMOURED TANKS, we started refining CRUDE OIL and extracting all the extractable in a Mobile makeshift refineries.
We built the first MOBILE RADIO STATION,FIRST RUNWAY that was built on IMPOSSIBLE SOIL and it was invisible to the British Pilots flying our National Bombers.
We trained Pilots who land our Planes at night with just Mpakana (Naked oil Lamp) and also they take off with same near Zero Visibility.
50 years after the Feat of Biafrans achieved under designed and orchestrated hostility, the Nation that WON the War are yet to have a Functional Refinery and yet they don’t have the uncommon sense to beckon unto those who achieved the feat easily under abnormal condition to come and rescue the nation.
50 years after we built our Tanks, Guns and Bullets, the Central Army can only boast of ability to FROG JUMP any young man wearing Green Uniform and or shoot the same youth of the people who manufactured armament under intense hostility and that is the feat we have as a nation .
To show that what we did was not spur of the moment ,our own PHILIP EMEGWALI created the first ever SUPER COMPUTER,… During the hostility we manufactured WMD (Weapon of Mass Demolition) called Ogbunigwe but owing to the love abound in our heart we refused to maximize it by deploying it to towns were it may create a near NAGASAKI .
Then when we made the first WORLD INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSLE called FLYING Obunike, it would’ve made HIROSHIMA a child’s play .
The world resolved that they will not allow this Sleeping BLACK NATION TO RISE, because under a conducive setting we will lead the world, a risk the West cannot take, they wanted slaves and slaves they want us to remain.
50 Years after the drown and dawn of Biafra, even in neighboring nations the money printed in 1967 is still acceptable and stronger that Dollars and Euro …see the Biafran Dollars and see what quality is all about, it still stand crisp and without tears, compare it to even the most current Naira and do the maths.
Ask me do I want BIAFRA TO GO NOW ?
My answer is aggressive NO… WHY?
We begged to be allowed to go in 1967-1970 and they swore that it can never happen, then Awolowo saw it fit to coin a phrase and I quote
“STARVATION IS PART OF WAR, WE WILL STARVE THEIR CHILDREN TO DEATH”, then he took all our money and gave us 20 pounds for every account.
He was expecting that after the genocide that we will become thieves and Robbers and he sponsored a deadly bill that ARMED ROBBERY will face Firing squad with Biafrans tied to the stake, riddled with bullets in his mind as the final solution to eradication of Ndi Biafra.
Thank God that his ways and thinking are not of God, the first 3 set killed for Robbery are all Yoruba men starting with OYENUSI .
All the companies he gave to YOROBAS because he chased away the Idiotic foreign owners with a reason that there is War,even though the War did not touch any western or Northern state but all the Bullets were rained on our soil including Churches, markets, schools .
He gave those companies to his Yoruba brothers who simply liquidated the companies and use the money to send families, Girl friends and friends to London and as we speak they are yet to inapu okuko mkpuru akwu .
We went into world again with 20 pounds and with that we are controlling the PROPERTY prices any where in Nigeria, if we favor a SWAMP in Lagos, we turn it to VGC, if we favor the ones in Abuja we make the value to sky rocket,,, check all the magnificent houses any where in Nigeria and see that with 20 Pounds we are controlling at least 70% .
In Civil service, they placed us at back burners and we still thrive and fairing better because for any officer to excel that person must have an IGBO SUBORDINATE who is the brain behind success .
Somebody said to me, why can’t we go back home and replicate what we are doing in other States?
My answer is, we are not done with other states.. the agenda is. ..
1) We will show the rest the reason why we must be respected because we let them to taste wealth,we let them to feel fine houses, we let them to sale ancestral grave and land in exchange for money made from 20 pounds and we let them to salivate after the sweet things of life .
How about after building all this and another War comes and they turn it to abandon properties ?
Answer …we are used to it, they did it in PH and we bounced back stronger and better, but those people who wants to inherit the properties will kill half of the generation fighting who will posses it and eventually when they are done ,the properties won’t have values again because it is only us can buy such at a market value, after all we are the market setters and sellers.
So possessing the property is a curse with Catapult and nobody that inherits it enjoys it, because to maintain it is another disaster and your own brother and friend is planning to kill you and take it over.
Read my lips, if Ndigbo leaves any business environment or residential place in droves, the prices of property will become ZERO .
I know many of you will hate me for this arrogant presentation but what you must known is, TRUTH IS MY Standard, ACCEPT IT WITH GOOD FAITH OR I SHOVE IT DOWN YOUR THROAT, THE CHOICE IS YOURS ..Mazi Odera.
Moving on, we fought back from 1967 to 1970 to stay alive, now we are fighting to keep the nation alive, so we can posses the best of the nation which is ordinance of God and not of man .
No matter how treacherous the government is, we can never eat grass .
No matter the price of Rice in the market, agana agba azi ..
If we can do very well in LONDON, AMERICA, EUROPE the same people who sat in concert and decide that the peaceful mileage achived in ABURI GHANA when both Gowon and Ojukwu went to find a solution to peaceful coexistence, but the West ill advised the North then and by so doing we created a broken TRIPOD .
If we can do great in their own land ,we can do better in our nation .
We can only leave if they do what Pharaoh did by asking on a bended knee for us to go and then we shall do what the Israelites did by collecting all the Golds, Diamond, Precious Stones and most valuables in the land.
Meanwhile we saw a vibrant, educated and persistent Raph Uwazulike when he reawakened the spirit of Biafra, we followed with high hope until he went to Prison and many VISITS followed, when he came out the song changed.. He appears to be richer than imagine from source unknown….
Nnamdi Kanu also took over the mantle then an error from the Government who arrested him made him a Hero and same caliber of Visitors and now he is out, he visit those he preached against and, now he seems to be tilting toward the forest edoro iyi, but we keep our fingers crossed and tabletting for they said, First fool is accidental but fool me the second one is my own making…
What I know is that our elders has a saying which provides "Ochu Nwa osukosu, nwe ada, nwa okuko nwelu mwo mwo oso" and with that I am off to bow to Obinigwe nke ato for a brand new day .
