THE TRAGEDY OF #ONENIGERIA.

There is absolutely nothing wrong in a man chosing to live in denial of the reality of his situation for a shortwhile. After all, denial is part of the grieving process. The first part, actually.

When I lost my father not too long ago, too afraid to admit the obvious and too scared to face the world on my own, for days, I lied to myself that my good man wasn't dead but had somehow disappeared to someplace cool and would re-appear later to attend to his good boy. Sadly, he never did. And here I am. Stronger than he left me.

The biggest tragedy that would befall a man is for him to live in denial for far too long that he has now come to accept his own lies about his ugly situation and swallow them as though they were the gospel truth.

Sadly, this is the tragedy of the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment.

Contrary to what many believe, the Southern part of Nigeria IS NOT in a union with the North. They are in slavery and the North is their slave master. It grieves me to admit this but it grieves me even more that its true.

But this is not even the real problem. The real problem here is that most southerners appear either oblivious of the fact that they are in slavery or they've come to see their chain as a very beautiful bracelet. There is no task more tedious than rescuing a slave who is unaware of his slave status.

"I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves"~~Harriet Tubman.

Southern Nigeria is living in slavery. Let's hurt ourselves with the truth rather than comfort ourselves with lies. If the truth is bitter, that is more reason we need to hear it.

Here in this country, less than 2 years ago, a Northern Muslim man from Kano state who goes by the name Yunusa Dahiru (alias Yellow) kidnapped an under-aged christian girl named Ese Oruru from Bayelsa state. And to prove that a child sent to steal by the Father breaks the door with his head, this Yunusa man took his victim straight to the palace of the Emir of Kano where the girl was brain-washed and forcefully converted to Islam before being repeatedly raped and impregnated by the Yunusa man. She is nursing the baby even as I write this.

Now, here is the real proof of the slave status of the southerners:

The then police Inspector General was a southern Christian by name Solomon Arase and this police chief had known about this case for over 9 months. He equally knew the identity as well as the address of both the victim and the perpetrator and accomplices of this crime but he was too scared of the slave masters to intervene to rescue the innocent girl. On several occasions, the mother of the victim travelled from Bayelsa to kano in search of her daughter but was assaulted by kano mob at the palace of the Emir while the police played the spectator. I.G Solomon Arase would later tell the whole world that he could not just walk into the Emir's palace to rescue the kidnapped victim without the blessing of the Emir who was in Saudi Arabia for the lesser hajj.

A police chief admitted waiting for the permission of a traditional ruler before rescuing a kidnapped victim hidden in the palace of the traditional ruler with the full knowledge of the said traditional ruler.

How do you think this would have played out if it was a certain Chukwudi that abducted an underaged Muslim girl from Kano and hid her at the palace of the Obi of Onitsha? Would the police wait for permission from the Obi before invading his palace? Would our Muslim brothers even wait for the police before killing any southern living and non living thing around them?

Fulani criminals have murdered thousands of Nigerians and displaced millions. To make it worse, they've repeatedly admitted to these killings right in the presence of security agencies. Matter of fact, last year, immediately after they slaughtered over 500 Agatus in Benue state and dozens in Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani, Enugu state, the leader of the marauding fulanis, one Senator Dagari Alkali led a delegation of the butchers straight to the defence headquarters where they publicly told everyone that, indeed, they were responsible for the killings attributed to them because in his words; "we have been pushed to the wall"

And what was the response of the Defence chiefs?

They all shook hands, took a group photograph with the 'special' visitors with open teeth and the Fulanis majestically walked out of the Defence headquarters like the slave Masters that they are. And the killing continues.

But just in case, these instances didn't quite explain the slavery situation well, here are other instances:

Last year, an Igbo Christian woman, Mrs Bridget Agbohime was gruesomely murdered in broad day light in kano by a group of Muslim youths for what they call blasphemy . We cried. We shouted. We wailed louder than the reggae god, Bob Marley.

To pull a wool over our eyes and shut us up, the sharia govt of Kano state --the same state govt that has secured death sentence in the state sharia court against number-less persons for the same blasphemy-- decided to arrest the killers of Mrs Bridget. And it did and even charged them to court. Right there in the court, the state chief prosecutor, Mr Dauda Jubril took time to explain to the magistrate how the 5 accused carried out the crime but the moment the case file got to the state Attorney General, Mr Haruna Falari, he categorically told the court to discharge and acquit the 5 accused as according to him, "they had no case to answer". And that was the end of the case. Meanwhile, the case of Joe Umunnakwe who named his dog "Buhari" was not left to the govt of Ogun state. A police D.I.G was put in charge of the case.

Now think of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB members in different prisons all over the country while Boko haram and Fulani terrorists once tagged the deadliest and 4th deadliest terror groups in the whole world, all from the same religion and region as the slave Masters, are being gifted with a juicy amnesty offer, released from prison and even protected with a special army taskforce ontop your tax and oil money.

Now, think of Ile-Ife where despite the fact that Hausa/Fulanis drew the first blood and even paraded the severed head of the victim, according to report, the arrests by the hausa/Fulani headed security agencies have been lopsided against the Ife indigens and have seen even a Yoruba Monarch arrested and paraded alongside other Yorubas like common criminals simply for defending their ancient city of Ile-Ife.

The interior minister, Abdulrahaman Dambazzau has never visited any venue of the fulani attacks in the past. But he quickly visited Ile-Ife and suddenly, the badly compromised security forces that have never arrested and prosecuted the fulani terrorists killing and maiming innocent people have suddenly become more efficient than Jack Bauer. They want us to think that the killings were done by the Yorubas alone while the Hausa settlers folded their arms all through

The most shameful aspect of this whole tragedy is that while this rape is being perpetrated against Southerners, southern elites are still busy mortgaging the future of their unborn generation to these same Northern slave Masters for crumbs while their well educated but fundamentally stupid youth are busy in some Igbo-Yoruba-Niger Delta cat and mouse fight. Talk of misplaced anger!

If you criticise the lopsided arrest in Ife killing, chances are the first person that will attack you will be a southerner. Condemn the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu and trust me, you will be attacked not by Northerners but southerners first.

Such is the degree of the willingness of southerners to continue defending their slave masters.

But, while it is important that we acknowledge our slave status in the hands of a few Northern Oligarchs and work towards our freedom, it is more important if not most important that we do not fail to of our Southern parents who deliberately marched us into this slavery out of sheer greed

The prisoner and the prison keeper are both in prison.

OP, your suggestion to "work towards our freedom" is ambiguous.

Your veiled hint is Biafra, but that won't solve the problem as the northerners engaged in these heinous acts will still continue doing same to those at variance with their religious inclinations in the new arrangement.

I guess they (northerners aka Muslims) too are equally slaves to their way of thinking anyone at variance with their religious beliefs or tribe is an enemy to be conquered.

The northern Muslims need to revise and update their religious and tribal tolerance to reflect 21st century realities. And also a lot of attitudinal reorientation is required.

The world is changing and we can't afford to be left behind, again.

Besides, are we (Christians) not slaves to our religious believes, though not to the extent of Muslim fanatics?
Are we not always being manipulated to view issues through tribal cum religious lenses?
Do you think to shake/take off this cloak will be that easy, even for you unclejb2?

menxer:
The prisoner and the prison keeper are both in prison.

OP, your suggestion to "work towards our freedom" is ambiguous.

Your veiled hint is Biafra, but that won't solve the problem as the northerners engaged in these heinous acts will still continue doing same to those at variance with their religious inclinations in the new arrangement.

I guess they (northerners aka Muslims) too are equally slaves to their way of thinking anyone at variance with their religious beliefs or tribe is an enemy to be conquered.

The northern Muslims need to revise and update their religious and tribal tolerance to reflect 21st century realities. And also a lot of attitudinal reorientation is required.

The world is changing and we can't afford to be left behind, again.

Besides, are we (Christians) not slaves to our religious believes, though not to the extent of Muslim fanatics?
Are we not always being manipulated to view issues through tribal cum religious lenses?
Do you think to shake/take off this cloak will be that easy, even for you unclejb2?

you have the Yorubas who are Muslims and have continued to be slaves to the north. This slave master/ slave arrangements has nothing to do with religion.

One of the good things about the Biafran agitation is that there is nobody who is fooling him or her self that 'one Nigeria' exists.

5 years ago, If anyone had mentioned Biafra, some misguided people who call themselves patriotic Nigerians would have called for the persons execution for daring to question the unity of Nigeria

Today, less and less Nigerians live in denial about Nigerian unity. Even the owner of this site once went on a mission to ban everything Biafra, he too soon realised that self determination is a right.

Nigeria is a colonial contraption, the enforced union of indigenous Africans by the British. I laugh as an Igbo man when a Hausa man is saying he is 'one Nigeria' with me. How? What does the average Hausa man know about Igbos or Igboland? Do we share any commonalities or value system? So how are we 'one Nigeria'?

Nigeria is simply a 103 year old colonial fraud that cannot stand. If it is from this fraud that anyone is hoping to get a country, not possible.

Only a referendum will save the situation or we carry on with the fraud living in hope it will save us, it wont

unclejb2:
you have the Yorubas who are Muslims and have continued to be slaves to the north. This slave master/ slave arrangements has nothing to do with religion.

@bolded, makes me want to insult you.
Like seriously?
All the instances you cited are what?

See what I mean, making apologies for religion shows you are worse than a slave.

What is the justification for the northerners doing what they are doing to other parts of the country if not for differences in religious affiliation?

How do you explain the schism between the North and the SE being wider than that between the North and the SW, without the religion playing a role?

Religious bigotry and tribalism is the bane of Nigeria.

menxer:
The prisoner and the prison keeper are both in prison.

OP, your suggestion to "work towards our freedom" is ambiguous.

Your veiled hint is Biafra, but that won't solve the problem as the northerners engaged in these heinous acts will still continue doing same to those at variance with their religious inclinations in the new arrangement.

I guess they (northerners aka Muslims) too are equally slaves to their way of thinking anyone at variance with their religious beliefs or tribe is an enemy to be conquered.

The northern Muslims need to revise and update their religious and tribal tolerance to reflect 21st century realities. And also a lot of attitudinal reorientation is required.

The world is changing and we can't afford to be left behind, again.

Besides, are we (Christians) not slaves to our religious believes, though not to the extent of Muslim fanatics?
Are we not always being manipulated to view issues through tribal cum religious lenses?
Do you think to shake/take off this cloak will be that easy, even for you unclejb2?

As laughable as it sounds, you could not be more correct. One of the worst things to have ever happened in the world was the creation of Nigeria.

The is the mindset of the core north right here.

menxer:


@bolded, makes me want to insult you.
Like seriously?
All the instances you cited are what?

See what I mean, making apologies for religion shows you are worse than a slave.

What is the justification for the northerners doing what they are doing to other parts of the country if not for differences in religious affiliation?

How do you explain the schism between the North and the SE being wider than that between the North and the SW, without the religion playing a role?

Religious bigotry and tribalism is the bane of Nigeria.

the Nupes and the Kanuris are all northers but not Muslims. They also enjoy in the slave master status with other northerners over the South. However, the Muslims don't spare them when it's time to kill on religious grounds