Last Sunday, Ekwu (full name withheld)
approached me at a burial ceremony in my
village.
He whispered that he would like to see me
for an important discussion. I prayed that
this discussion would have nothing to do
with money. I had already spent a lot just
for the two days I visited to accord my
maternal uncle, Chief Andrew Onyeguili, a
befitting burial.
”Biafra is going to be a reality this March,”
Ekwu said when I finally spoke with him.
” United Nations is going to divide six
countries this year. Nigeria is one of those
countries. And in Nigeria, no other
nationality is asking for independence
except Biafra. ” He wanted me to be part of
the Radio Biafra team which, he said, would
soon hit the airwaves in Nigeria. I promised
to get back to him.
Elsewhere in the town, there were hot
debates about the governorship election of
Feb. 6 and the candidate that could clinch
the seat. In churches, priests urged their
faithful to vote wisely and not to mortgage
their conscience. Although there were
rumours that the Catholic Church endorsed
Mr. Peter Obi, there was no official
indication to that effect.
For the candidates, it was a potpourri of
campaign slogans. The candidate of the
Action Congress, Dr. Chris Ngige, said he did
it before, he would do it again. According to
him, onwa ga-eti ozo (the moon will shine
again). The candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo,
said he would make Anambra the African,
Dubai, Taiwan of Nigeria.
The incumbent governor, Peter Obi, flew to
the patronage of Dim Chukwuemeka
Odimegwu-Ojukwu. And Ojukwu ‘s last wish
was for the people of the state to vote his
beloved son, Obi, again. Progressive Peoples
Alliance standard-bearer, Mrs. Uche
Ekwunife; Andy Uba of the Labour Party
and over 20 others made their own mouth-
watering promises. Campaign billboards and
posters were all over the state.
One good thing about the campaigns was
that people made some money in different
ways. Transporters had a field day as
politicians hired their buses to take
supporters from one campaign trip to the
other. Some youths pasted posters for
money. Some were hired to disrupt rallies of
some candidates.
As you read this, the winner of the election
may have emerged. The intrigues, the
fighting and the usual manipulations
associated with elections in Nigeria may
have manifested. We now wait to see how
many people the casket the Anambra
Revolutionary Movement placed in front of
the office of the Independent National
Electoral Commission in Awka will deal with.
The casket was a warning that danger
awaited any INEC official, who would
involve themselves in the rigging of the
election.
If the casket spares the incoming governor,
then Anambrarians await the fulfilment of
his promises. He must swear to do away
with anything that will bring back the rule
of godfathers. During the time of Chinwoke
Mbadinuju, Chief Emeka Offor was the king.
The then governor owed much allegiance to
him. For about one year, he could not pay
civil servants. Anambra became a theatre of
the absurd.
Ngige came with his own godfather, Chris
Uba. Somehow, the relationship between
the two turned sour. There were violent but
unsuccessful attempts to remove Ngige
from office. At a point, he was abducted
from his home with the connivance of the
police and the tacit support of the then
President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
There are many criminal gangs operating in
the state. In the last one year or so, the
spate of kidnappings in the state became so
alarming that citizens of the state started
avoiding visiting home. The kidnappers
spared nobody. Those who summoned
courage to visit home moved with
trepidation. I thought the phenomenon has
died down because I didn ‘t hear much
about it during the Christmas celebration.
But a good friend of mine, Dr. Chidi
Okpaluba, told me last Friday how the
marauders kidnapped his wife ‘s uncle
during the festivities. For four days, the
kidnappers reportedly did not give the man
food. Initially, they asked for N300m, but
later they collected N10m as ransom. And
with confidence, they were said to have
told their victim to fear no more as he had
paid his own dues and would never be
touched again. It behoves the incoming
governor to eradicate this problem
completely.
Another major issue the new government
needs to give adequate attention to is
erosion. If something urgent is not done
now or in the immediate future, some
villages in towns like Nanka, Agulu and Oko
may cease to exist. Many buildings have
caved in and many people rendered
homeless by erosion. The state government
will not do it alone. But it needs to
constantly pressurise the Federal
Government to do something.
There was a time boys from Anambra
preferred trading to education. Today, I
believe there is an improvement in boy-
child education. But the snag now is that
there is even no job for those who
graduate from higher institutions. That is
why some of them have found a niche in
agitating for the sovereign state of Biafra.
Though government is not a good
employer of labour, it must create the
enabling environment that will foster the
growth of private business.
The administrations of Ngige and Obi did
their best to construct and repair roads in
the state. But there is need to do more.
Some portions of Upper Iweka Road and
some other roads in the state are very bad.
Such bad spots should have no place in a
modern society. And the fact that the people
provide boreholes and underground tanks
for themselves does not mean that the
government should ignore providing
potable water for the citizenry.
I congratulate the new governor and wish
him well. That is if there is no Biafra to put a
stop to his reign. And if the ARM casket does
not engender catastrophes in the state.
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Story story-
Once opon a time-
, BIAFRA never came 2 being, my children that is the end of the story.

emeka mn:

Story story-
Once opon a time-
, BIAFRA never came 2 being, my children that is the end of the story.

” Biafra is going to be a reality this March,”
Ekwu said when I finally spoke with him.
” United Nations is going to divide six
countries this year. Nigeria is one of those
countries. And in Nigeria, no other
nationality is asking for independence
except Biafra. ” He wanted me to be part of
the Radio Biafra team which, he said, would
soon hit the airwaves in Nigeria. I promised
to get back to him.

That story was told 40 years ago

This is a senseless post. This should be confined to the waste bin.

Moon light story. Excuse me pass jare.

I know about Onyeguii's burial(ksm) bt i dnt know dis ur cock and bull story. How come nobody has heard it mr black-teeth? Excuse me pass joo!

emeka mn:

That story was told 40 years ago

A FOOL at forty is a fool indeed

biafra go be

Think we should forget about Biafra n concentrate on Nigeria,