Mazi Ogbonna,
I admire your passion and dedication but not your candor in your defense of General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu. The candor in your defense is questionable to me because your entire presentation appears to be a total distraction from the core issue (concern) raised by those of us who are offended and insulted by having him as the leader of the Igbo delegates to the national conference. In your thesis below, you frequently used offensive and derogatory words such as jealousy, envy, hate, crab mentality, internet tigers, etc, to address those of us who have voiced out serious concerns about the character of General Nwachukwu and his loyalty/patriotism regarding the collective interest of Ndi Igbo. That makes your defense of General Nwachukwu to sound hollow – my poinion.
The core question is this: What role did General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu play in the cold blooded massacre of about 700 innocent Asaba men, women and children and their burial in a mass grave in September of 1967? Some of us including myself who participated in the Biafra struggle are still living today and the pain of the Asaba genocide is still ever fresh in our memories. Dancing around this crucial question in an effort to sell General Nwachukwu to us as a loyal and patriotic Igbo leader, is rather offensive to me.
I have no issues with where he was born or by whom because that was not a decision he made by himself. You cannot hold his genealogy against him. However, just like everyone of us, he is accountable and responsible for the choices and decisions he made as a human being. He cannot join in shedding innocent Igbo blood at a time when it was fashionable in Nigeria to do so, and now that Igbos have survived the holocaust, he is being exulted as an Igbo leader by those who care nothing and know nothing about the millions of Igbo lives lost in our struggle to stop Igbo haters in Nigerian form erasing Igbos from the face of the earth.
Did he help Muritala Mohamed in killing and burying about 700 Asaba people in a mass grave? What role did he play in the Asabe genocide? General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu cannot have it both ways. He needs to come clean and apologize to Ndi-Igbo. Yes, we know that to err is human but to acknowledge your error and to apologize to your victim is noble and pacifying. To switch sides (jump ship) and parade himself as a leader of those he shed their blood and helped to crush, is very arrogant in my view.
General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu was appointed the military Governor of Imo State under Buhari at a time when Igbos were trying to recover from the trauma of the 3-year war. It was military rule at that time and Igbos had no voice and were not in a position to question the status quo. Right after the war, Mazi Agwu Okpanku, was arrested for publishing an editorial titled “Killing Biafra” in the East Central State news paper called the Renaissance, in which he questioned the motives of General Gowon in changing the name of the body of water south of Port Harcourt from the Birth of Biafra to whatever the mane is now. After his arrest, Igbos in Nigeia got the message that they should be seen and not heard. We practically lived in fear and our Igbo daughters became toys in the hands of Nigerian soldiers who raped them, got them pregnant and abandoned them with babies.
My personal opinion is that General Nwachukwu rose to the positions he had because Igbos were too afraid to question his background at the time, coupled with the fact that the Nigerian government he fought for during the war had the power to reward him after the war. That explains why he became the Senator of Imo State, Federal Minister, Governor of Imo State, etc. If it were to be now that Igbos are no longer afraid to ask questions, General Nwachukwu would not have risen to those positions. So, Mazi Ogbonna, don’t confuse your readers with the military and political appointments and even the elected positions held by General Nwachukwu.
While we were trying to pick up the pieces of what was left of our wrecked lives after the war, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu was busy reaping the rewards of his betrayal of the Igbos. Now in his old age, he appears to love being pictured and seen in public in his Igbo red cap to depict him as patriotic and loyal Igbo leader. General Nwacwukwu may have marveled and dazzled people like you, Mazi Ogbonna, with the positions he held. However, none of that will ever wash away from his hands, the innocent blood of his brothers and sister - unless his hands are clean. If he participated in killing the Asaba Igbos, all he has to do is to come clean and apologize to Ndi-Igbo. Mazi Ogbonna, if you love him so much and want him to lord over us as an Igbo leader, then advise him to come clean and apologize. Anything short of that is just adding salt to the injury. There are certain things you cannot wash away with convoluted big grammar, such as the blood of the innocent especially when it is the blood of your own people.
Mazi Ogbonna, tell me this, if the northerners with the help of General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, had succeeded in wiping Igbos away from Nigeria (ethnic cleansing, holocaust, genocide) the way they had intended in 1966, where will General Nwachukwu find the Igbos to lead today? We succeeded in resisting the Igbo holocaust by General Nwachukwu and his Nigerian army, the British government, Russian government and the Arab countries. Our strong and prolonged resistance is the reason that we have Igbos left today for him to lead. Mazi Ogbonna, do you get it? Don’t call it jealousy, envy, hatred, crab mentality or any of your derogatory distractions. Don’t even try to bring in Zik, Ojukwu or Okpara into your parallel and comparison because that will be an insult to the precious memories of those illustrious sons of Ana-Igbo. After Judas betrayed Jesus, how can you bring him back to lead the 12 apostles? After Cain murdered his brother Abel, how can you imagine him sharing in the linage of Adam? After Absalom tried to overthrow his father, King David, by assassination, how could he partake in the kingdom, even if he had survived?
Sorry to say this but your thesis below is convoluted with lots of symbolisms without substance. You want us to forget the past and face the future. That may sound good but, what future can anyone have without the past? Have you ever wondered why they teach history as a major subject in every institution of learning starting from primary schools? It is only in Africa that people do not pay attention to history and you wonder why we keep making the same mistakes? Africans don’t even preserve and chronicle their own history. If not for the Europeans who started writing down African history, Africans will have nothing of record for posterity. Most of our history were oral stories which eventually lost their accuracy when it passed through several generations. Most of us today cannot even name our great grandparents but t we can easily recite the genealogy of European and American leaders and also biblical characters.
Mazi Ogbonna, please tell your hero and mentor, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu to please come clean. As you signed off your thesis below, you made no secret of the fact that you are “Nwoke Ovim, Isuikwuato, Abia State, Nigeria”, which explains the you are from the same village as General Nwachukwu, hence your effort to sell him to the rest of us as the new messiah of the Ndi-Igbo. Nice try but I beg you nna, stop this defecation on the graves of our fallen brothers and sister who gave their lives so you may be free today to insult their memory. I don’t know how old you were during the Biafra struggle and if you participated in the struggle at all. Assuming you participated, who did you forget the pain so easily? Were you dazzled and baffled out of your mind by General Nwachukwu’s material rewards for his betrayal of Ndi-Igbo?
It is good to preach forgiveness to the wounded, but Mazi Ogbonna, it will be more expedient to spend your energy in bringing the perpetrator to admit his wrong and apologize to his victims. This will bring healing to both parties, and I rest.
Dr. Mike Okeke
Ifekanku
Atlanta
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Subject: THE GENERAL IKE NWACHUKWU THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GENERAL IKE NWACHUKWU - A HUMBLE GIANT WITH UNPRECEDENTED PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND DELIVERABLES NDIGBO REFUSE TO ACCEPT DUE TO JEALOUSY AND PERSONAL HATRED BY A FACTION.
I am one of those who strongly believe that our Igbo society is lagging due to bad leadership at all levels both here and abroad. As a result, I applaud people who use their democratic rights to air their views for the sake of improving the lot of Ndigbo.
In trying to right the evils of society especially when it concerns Ndigbo, we should try to refrain from "mob mentality" or ganging against somebody purely based on circumstances beyond his/her control.
The many write-ups against General Ike Nwachukwu are uncalled for because no Igbo man I know has been given such a bad rap with political and social skewing. None of us is perfect, much less expecting another to approximate perfection. We all have our faults as humans and General Ike Nwachukwu has his. We should discard personal animosity and propel forward because the Nigerian-Biafra war ended forty four (44) years ago.
Most of the people writing about General Ike Nwachukwu don't know anything about him or how his great personal accomplishments have nothing to do with Ndigbo as a people.
Ndigbo are good at isolating each other without assistance. But we will be the first to expect miracles when the individual survives from his/her educational, economic or political ordeal and begins to shine.
Now let’s get General Ike Nwachukwu 101:
1) General Ike Nwachukwu's father hailed from Ovim, Isuakwuato, Abia State, Nigeria. He was one of the earliest Igbo people who started work with Nigerian Railway Corporation(NRC) in Northern Nigeria. As a young man, he fell in love and married into a Royal family of then Northern Nigeria when Nigeria was intact as one. For those who believe in Royalty which the North, Yorubas and some Ndigbo aspire to, General Ike Nwachukwu’s maternal is as “Royal” as it can get.
2) As with so many Nigerian Railway staffs, his father was transferred to several important cities through out Northern and Western Nigeria. With his father’s stint in Port Harcourt, General Ike Nwachukwu was born.
3) Both father and mother were very kind human beings. The mother spoke Igbo more than the average Igbo person I have ever met.
In those days, most children lived wherever their parents lived and since the North and West had more high level Nigerian Railway establishments, General Ike Nwachukwu's orientation became interwoven with his growth environment much as our children born and bred in the USA. Thy have no clues about our jokes or folk culture nor our sports which centers around soccer. Does any of our children know anything about our culture or language or the boundaries of those plots of land we brag about as our prized acquisitions in Ala-Igbo? Or does any of our children know their extended family members in Ala-Igbo? To our children, they are comfortable in the USA with myriad uncles and aunts, albeit imaginary. If not, we should wind back and imagine if General Nwachukwu committed any crime by being born into two big cultural and religious titans against each other?
He attended his secondary school in Lagos before enlisting into the Nigerian Defense Academy in Kaduna. Mark my word, he was a very brilliant lad, a testament of the hard work of children of the then Nigerian Railways Corporation. Joining the army was a natural as an in-thing in those days for people who wanted the excellent Free Education, NDA provided then.
General Ike Nwachukwu rose meteorically until the eruption of the coup, counter coup and its uglier and heinous pogrom against Ndigbo in 1966.
Those who always want to cast aspersions and insults on General Ikenwachukwu should ask themselves this question. What would somebody in General Ike Nwachukwu's shoes do when Nigeria started to boil uncontrollably? Can we see if Nigeria were to engage in any military conflict, our children will be torn apart? who amongst us will send his son to go and fight for Nigeria? On what basis? Everybody likes to deal with a winner. Consequently, General Ike Nwachukwu and family are better of with Nigeria being in piece with no victor and no vanquished.
We can recall, that General Ojukwu did not want to fight the civil war because of his father's numerous properties dotted all over the Western and Northern Nigeria. But Ndigbo prevailed on him to lead them into cessation which led to the out-break of a war. If due to materialistic instinct, Gen. Ojukwu was hesitant about the war; what will a right thinking man expect from somebody whose blood is 50% Igbo and 50% Northerner to do? Kill the North or Kill Ndigbo when his family was enjoying milk and honey from Nigeria? Additionally, General Ike Nwachukwu’s family also had numerous edifices in Lagos and Northern Nigeria like many other Ndigbo then.
Without going into further plots, General Nwachukwu grew up sandwiched in unsurmountable obstacles as a result of his heritage beyond his control. Just look at your children bred in the USA or UK. Where is their allegiance? Do they think like you and I? Are they as erudite as we were trying to sponge anything academic as our spring-board for a better life style in future? The answer is no because we as parents have done the hard work that placed them in the land of milk and honor much as General Ike Nwachukwu. We cannot begrudge him unless we are comfortable when our Children will be discredited for not being Igbo enough.
Again, we are being plain short sighted to pass on our natural hatred to a culture or a section of Nigeria through our own son who had nothing to do with Nigerian ills. By birth, education and training, Nigeria has done a lot for General Nwachukwu much as the US has done for most us including our first, second or third marriages. YES!
While growing up, he suffered injustices where the North would look at him and wished he was 100% theirs. For his mixed heritage he meandered through inherent discriminations and injustices where each move he made was checked and analyzed. Can we show some compassionate by understanding what children from culturally mixed marriages go through? For General Ike Nwachukwu, there is a silver lining which Ndigbo are blindly refusing to leverage from. Like Joseph in the Bible, General Ike Nwachukwu is our conduit for higher achievements in Nigeria if we are wise and prudent.
Back to the write-ups. There is no way, any of the writers against General Ike Nwachukwu sounds believable or convincing that General Ike Nwachukwu reversed the gains made under Chief Sam Mbakwe. If anything like that happened, it was the Military Government and not General Ike Nwachukwu as an individual. It is a baseless charge consistent with giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it.
Another thorny issue is that most of those writing against General Ike Nwachukwu are upset because it was under him that the Imo University was concentrated into one solid campus in line with UNN, UNILAG and Ibadan instead of mushrooming campuses all over Imo State.
The Abia State University was sited in Imo soil which happens to be close to his neck of the woods. Ogbu opi na-ehija ihu ya. At least, we should celebrate him because he built an educational institution even though he was a military bras. What does that show? He had the interest of Ndigbo at heart because anybody who supports education which Ndigbo used to admire and cherish surely has the interest of Ndigbo at heart. Where the University was built should be secondary as long as it was built in Ala-Imo in particular or Ala-Igbo in general. When it comes to education and Ndigbo, Dr. Ukpabi Asika and Dr. Ofia Nwali finished Ndigbo and their academic aspirations when every school was taken over by the Government and debased as that “high school” with watered down curriculum. Ndigbo have not rebounded even as I write. A man named General Ike Nwachukwu sited a full fledged University in Ala-Igbo and we are still cherry-picking where he sited it. Ndigbo anya ufu adighi nma ma ncha!
But there is one historic fact, none of the agitators against General Nwachukwu should know. Leadership through politics or military is very dynamic and opportunistic. Anything one administration failed to accomplish, an incoming will perform it and claim the credit or take the heat. As a result, none of the agitators knows that the current Abia State University had been slated to be erected at its current location in Isukwuato as far back as during Dr. M.I. Okpara's regime in then Eastern Nigeria. General Ike Nwachukwu knew that fact and fulfilled that age-long void without hesitation. Others were hesitating and General Nwachukwu seized the moment and delivered. I am sure if one of you have the same opportunity, you would do exactly the same thing. So please, get over that. It is called political advantage or political opportunity and nobody should castigate General Ike Nwachukwu for building a University that was overdue. He did not invent the adage “Onye ube ruru ya rachaba”. Another Igbo man who raped us did.
Another callous allegation against General Nwachukwu has to do with the war because he did not run back to Ala-Igbo when others ran. He had no reason to. His life was not in danger. Where was he going to run to? From frying pan to fire? Hell no. Life does not work that way otherwise, how come most of us are still holed up here without running to go and change Nigeria with our magic wand. Give me a break, jealous hearts!
Unlike his distractors will erroneously claim, during the war, General Nwachukwu did not commit any atrocities against Ndigbo. If anything, he put his life on the line to save Ndigbo. Go and ask some Deltan Ndigbo. He was untouched because of his unique family heritage, of Northern Nobility and Royalty. He also emerged to save his people when the Nigerian military was ravaging our towns and villages. Because he is still alive, certain things cannot be printed about him. Let's just live it at that.
Truly Ndigbo have a lot of heavy weights that can be called up to represent us. Yes, it does not have to come from the same crop of individuals. But I take an exception at the notion that any Igbo man is more qualified than General Ike Nwachukwu.
Because of the heavy political weight on his shoulders trying to balance himself through the bad political under currents, it is very hard for many people especially Ndigbo to pinpoint what qualifies General Ike Nwachukwu to continue to be in the lime light in Nigerian affairs.
A small list of his accomplishments which I will water down should help us tame our animosity to our noble general:
1) General Ike Nwachukwu was the top Hancho in NDA. During his tenure, he skewed the admission to suite many Igbo people. But knowing Ndigbo, we hardly appreciate each other. All we know is to harmer on 0.01% ill perception while discarding 99.99% of good deeds towards mankind.
If you trace it, I am sure our darling General Onyeabo Azubuike Ihejirika is a bye-product of General Ike Nwachukwu. You can quote me on that because I know my facts very well.
2) General Ike Nwachukwu was the first Military Governor of Imo State, Nigeria and he performed his best given the prevailing circumstances. The second Military Governor for the same Imo State was General Ike Nwchukwu’s brother from the same Town and same Nigerian Railway Corporation’s educational and military trajectory. That’s what is eating up certain elements and section of Ala-Igbo. My brothers and sisters, hard work pays most of the time and the people from that neck of the wood General Ike Nwachukwu hails from have invested measurable services in Nigeria. Their rewards should not be hampered through baseless petitions and "ntaji anya" that lead nowhere. He that has been chosen is unstoppable.
3) General Ike Nwachukwu was elected to the Senate twice and only came out when he ran for the Presidency of Nigeria. If General Ike Nwachukwu is as bad as bemoaners want us to believe, I am sure his people will be judging him more harshly. That will be enough to stop him from any elected office.
Contrast him with General Ojukwu who is our darling. How come he did not get elected into one office in Nigeria? Even his Nnewi people could not choose him to represent them in the Senate. What does that tell you? No man is perfect. For General Ike to be elected twice into the Senate speaks volumes. Ga jukwa ese. Ndigbo, we are good at bringing down our kith and kin. When can we stop our endless in-fighting against successful few amongst us?
3) General Ike Nwachukwu was a Federal Labour Minister and he put many Ndigbo into strategic positions. Do you guys know Dr. George Obiozor? Go and ask him who mentored him into prominence as an Ambassador.
4) General Ike Nwachukwu was an External Affairs Minister and his record is unmatched by anybody.
For the myopics amongst us, General Ike Nwachukwu's vision and leadership were the impetus upon which the current Nigeria House was built in NYC. He is the only Igbo man whose name is etched at number 5 on the wall in Manhattan, the capital of the World.
As I write, most of us are enjoying “Dual Citizenship” all over the globe. That was General Ike Nwachukwu’s handiwork because he realized that Ndigbo needed that leverage to survive. How many Northerners live in the USA? Ndigbo are holed up here with a freedom for economic, social and political success like most civilized societies of the world.
As soon as General Nwachukwu became the External Affairs Minister, that was the first assignment his people in NY asked him to do. And he delivered with alacrity. Thanks to him for his foresight of giving Ndigbo the "international hook to catch their own fishes and feed themselves comfortably. Let petitioners waste their time.
When you stand all other Ndigbo in Nigeria toe-to-toe, you can begin to see that only a few Ndigbo had reached General Nwachukwu’s zenith. The people he is leading know the facts even though we are here as Internet warriors.
A bunch of us are still stuck in the proverbial “Nwoke lucha ogu, Nwannyi enwere akuko” mentality. General Ike Nwachukwu has fought gallantly without assistance from any Igbo quarters.
That he is tapped to lead Ndigbo means that after all said and done, we need people that the rest of Nigeria knows their quality and service to Nigeria. We have all accepted Nigeria as our country irrespective of the unfortunate war. If we have and are mingling with same people that killed us and starved us to death, why can we not forget and forgive one of us who is doing his very best to be one us given his blood line? Do you rather he dies or evaporates from the earth’s surface? Mbanu, God forbids that!
We should be tactful to propel forward without counting backwards. The war has been fought with untold losses and numerous mistakes were made. Some Biafran Officers who are still alive today got their nicknames during the war because of how many Igbo soldiers they killed or maimed.During the war, our heroic son, Zik of African ran to Nigeria and he was accepted. How many of you have written anything against him or did that disqualify him from being an Igbo man? That General Ike Nwachukwu’s mother is from the North does not make him less of a human being or less Onye Igbo than any of us. He stands tall as an illustrious son of Ovim, Isukwuato, Abia State, Nigeria.
After the war, a Northern President of Nigeria pardoned General Ojukwu and he was assimilated into Nigerian polity. He ran to become a Senator amidst his popularity and lost.
Ndigbo, the war has ended and the Military era is over. We are in a democratic era. Let us eschew back biting and the unending crab in a barrel mentality to weave ourselves into political and economic success of today and tomorrow.
General Ike Nwachukwu by birth is a son of an Igbo man. He was born in Port Harcourt, a one time part of Eastern Nigeria or Ala-Igbo. He proudly speaks Igbo better than an average Igbo man who has not left his village shores. He is an International titan amongst Ndigbo, external Affairs Minister. His birth, education, training all culminate to making him a unique Nigerian. Ndigbo should be proud of him as black people all over the world are proud that a son of an immigrant Kenyan is a leader of the FREE WORLD. Jealousy of extra-ordinary proportion on one of us showcases us as the failures we are as a people. We should act like grown ups and be ready to be accepted in the pedestal of world maturity.
What General Ike Nwachukwu has achieved and done for Ndigbo single handedly can only be dreamed and imagined by arm-chair Internet gurus of no comparison.
Why can’t we let General Ike Nwachukwu to be judged by his maker? God is the only person whose judgement matters.
Best of luck to you all.
Mazi Ogbonna
Nwoke Ovim, Isuikwuato, Abia State, Nigeria.
Long island, New York
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Nwanna Emeka Okala:
One thing that I have come to know about you is that once you like a person, all your sense of objectivity in discussing his/her mistakes and or failings go out the window. To you, everything about your person of admiration becomes fully subjective and one sided. For you one I consider well read, that makes not for sound education and advancement of learning.
You are free to make spirited defence of Awo, Aluko, Ike Nwachukwu, etc., based on your subjective perception of them. But please, do it in avoidance of cheap recognition from their followers. You could have made your points that support Ike Nwachukwu as you know him without the unnecessary analogy of what you perceive as propaganda pot shots against Awo, and Alukos. I see no bearing(s) there with the case in discussion. Apparently, you are hoping for a reinforced endearment from the Awoists in the e-forums, including Bolaji Aluko. I believe Awoists can and do a better job of defending Awo than the cheap recognition you sought; the same way that Bolaji Aluko remains ably capable defending his late father and self anytime the need arises.
Now about Ike Nwachukwu; I have read your two spirited defence of him in this matter. You see, your defence cannot be because you really believe that he is being falsely accused. What you are doing is just a proxy fight against those you have locked horns with severally on your chicanery of “Ikwerre is not Igbo” and “Ikwerre is Igbo”. Put it this way, yours is a case of my enemy’s enemy is my friend and my friend’s enemy is my enemy. A subterfuge, I say.
That stated, let me turn to retired General Ike Nwachukwu being a member talkless leading the Igbo delegation to the National Conference; I will repeat my earlier stated views on it. And that is, if I had anything to do with that decision, he will neither be a member nor Igbo leader to the Conference. It is like an Arab Israeli with PLO sympathy as a lead member of an Israeli delegation to an Arab/Israeli peace conference. The Igbo like the Yorubas have a way of thumbing their noses at sons that betray their cause(s). And betrayal of our Biafra cause arouses serious hard feeling. Till today, the name Ukpabi Asika remains a pariah in any Igbo gathering. As I stated prior, the only crime of Obasanjo against the Yorubas for which most of them hate him is that he did not hand over to Awo in 1979. Now, imagine that he joined forces with an enemy bent on exterminating the generality of the Yorubas and in the end, have the bloods of over 3000 thousands Yorubas wasted on his hands. Names like, Olu Onagoruwa, Lateef Jakande, Ebenezer Babatope, etc., are not endeared in Yoruba gatherings simply because of their roles in Abacha’s government and turning their backs on NADECO and late Abiola’s democracy mandate. Amongs the Yorubas, there are those that will not name their children after Akintola or Fani-Kayode on account of Awo. It is all on account of politics and not tragic war that took millions of lives. Imagine that!
The role of Ike Nwachukwu along with Murtala Mohammed, Alani Akirinade, etc., in the Asaba massacre of Delta Igbos is documented. You asked for investigation and documented evidence, right? Very well Emeka; please, go read Chief Emma Okocha’s “Blood on the Niger”. I have an autographed copy he sent to me when it was published. If you read it and you are not objectively disordered, you may have a feel of those against his membership in the Igbo delegation to the National Conference. I also feel that the many years after that orgy of bloodletting, he could be regretting and feeling bad for his actions. Perhaps, he found himself in a situation he could not help as articulated by Mazi Ogbonna. He may have also gone on to do other good works for Ndi-Igbo. But the three words, “I am sorry” for whatever role I may have played during the war will go a long way in ameliorating the hurt feelings by most Igbo, his brothers and sisters.
If I may respond to some questions you posed; come with me. You asked,
“If General Ike Nwachukwu were as bad as you want the world to believe, do you think that your fathers, brothers and sisters at home would nominate him to lead the Igbo team for the national conference?”
Comments - Emeka, it is not a case of him being “bad” or good; it is some hurt feelings for innocent bloods wasted while he watched and or participated in the butchery. Those that nominated him to the delegation on National Conference may have thought his presence would get the Igbo some good mileage. It could also, be because he lobbied for it as a way to say, my mistakes not minding, please, I am one of you. It could also, be on the basis of personal friendship with those “at home [that] nominated him to lead the Igbo team for national conference.”
You asked,
“Do you think they would elect him Senator once upon a time to represent a senatorial zone in your ethnic nationality? Do you think he, himself, would bring himself forward for an election that would need the votes of his kith and kin? Has he no conscience?”
Comments – Emeka, you of all persons should know elections to any public office in Nigeria goes to the highest bidder and with the most money to spend and bribe the electorate. It is not because of how much you are loved or political manifesto. Amidst punishing poverty, whoever spends the most gets the most votes cast. In the senatorial zone he represented, he has the money to buy most peoples votes and he did.
You asked,
“Do you think he, himself, would bring himself forward for an election that would need the votes of his kith and kin?”
Comments – Why not? Especially, if such will rehabilitate his name, image and standing among “his kith and kin” Everyone in life at one time or the other looks for the appreciation and acceptance of his people, particularly, if at some time past, he/she wronged them.
You asked,
“Has he no conscience?”
Comments – You may be the one best fit to asked him that question when next you see him. He is in a better position to answer your question. Anyone else answering question about conscience for another will be simply, conjecture(s), guess work.
You asked,
“Don't you think that someone amongst you has wrongly carried this propaganda against Ike Nwachukwu simply because the man served on the Federal side as a senior military officer during the war?”
Comments – It is not propaganda but rather aggrieved brothers and sisters cries based on documented facts. He has not denied the role(s) he played but justified them, he may have. And it is not “simply because he served on the Federal side as a senior military officer during the war” but that, he could have still used that position to save the lives senselessly massacred.
Emeka, remember that Chief Obi Nwali, your fellow Ikwerre iconic man was murdered for holding and asserting publicly that he was an Igbo and thumbing his nose at those Ikwerre like you that rejected their Igbo ethnicity. Imagine that it is documented he fought with Ndi-Igbo in the killings of Ikwerre sons and daughters. Well; knowing you this analogy my not ring true to you.
Cheers.
Mazi KC Prince Asagwara
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"... You have vilified my people [Ikwerre ethnic nationals] and propagated many unprintable lies against us - Ikwerre ethnic nationality and our relationship with you -- Igbo ethnic nationality. And you continue to tell your lies and compel yourselves to believe in them till today." By Mazi Okala
Where "YOU" in the above could mean or means, according to the author of the above cited quote "... those of you [of Igbo extraction] that belong to e-groups"
NB: italicized comments or phrases in the bracket, outside the cited quotes, and below statement are mine for clarifications or emphases.
There is nothing to add on my end, above is crystal clear with regards to the intended message.
Lord have mercy, Nigeria is growing up oOo! Peace! "I"
Mazi Asagwara,
That was a very sound, wise, objective, mature and on-point response you gave to Emeka Okala – void of emotion, sentiment and insult.
Thank you immensely.
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Nwanna Dan:
Thanks for the goodwill wishes. I wish you as much, too.
As I said earlier to Nwanna Dr. Okeke, it is our bounden duty to redirect, re-educate and inform compatriots if and when they get it wrong. Or try to miss-educate, misinform, disinform the gullible in our readers’ forums.
Cheers.
Mazi KC Prince Asagwara
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Ken.
The Ken that will live forever .
Emeka Okala would have been as bad or worse than Ike Nwachukwu or Murtala Mohamed in handling Igbo children and women during the war if he was of an age to cary a club during the war.
Emeka Okala is another Awolowo in the budding.
His saintly Ike Nwachukwu had opportunities to reverse his war time roles as a governor, minister and a nominal row Senator . He missed all that.
Emeka Okala ( a self professed none Igbo) thinks he now has the moral authority to force his likes on us.
Akusobi, Dan.
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"One thing that I have come to know about you is that once you like a person, all your sense of objectivity in discussing his/her mistakes and or failings go out the window. To you, everything about your person of admiration becomes fully subjective and one sided." - KC Prince Asagwara
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"But please, do it in avoidance of cheap recognition from their followers." KC Prince Asagwara
Comment:
"The role of Ike Nwachukwu along with Murtala Mohammed, Alani Akirinade, etc., in the Asaba massacre of Delta Igbos is documented. You asked for investigation and documented evidence, right? Very well Emeka; please, go read Chief Emma Okocha’s “Blood on the Niger”. I have an autographed copy he sent to me when it was published. If you read it and you are not objectively disordered, you may have a feel of those against his membership in the Igbo delegation to the National Conference." - KC Prince AsagwaraComment:KC Prince Asagwara, you are Igbo and you are a Chief, Chief Emma Okocha is Igbo and Gen. Ike Nwachukwu is Igbo. As an Igbo Chief, why did it not occur to you to have an appointment with Gen. Ike Nwachukwu to discuss those nagging areas that Chief Emma Okacha put down in his book? Why did you swallow all that Chief Emma Okacha wrote hook, line and sinker? I won't do like you did if I were you. I would do as I have stated before joining in the mob action against Gen. Ike Nwachukwu in public if I were you!"I also feel that the many years after that orgy of bloodletting, he could be regretting and feeling bad for his actions." - KC Prince AsagwaraComment:That is if he ever took any bad action to regret of and not what you imagine he did."Perhaps, he found himself in a situation he could not help as articulated by Mazi Ogbonna. He may have also gone on to do other good works for Ndi-Igbo. But the three words, “I am sorry” for whatever role I may have played during the war will go a long way in ameliorating the hurt feelings by most Igbo, his brothers and sisters." - KC Prince AsagwaraComment:In the world, you say sorry when you have wronged someone and not when no wrong was done. You say sorry to someone when you have not wronged them only if you are Christ-like. But we are purely talking about the world here and if it turns out that Ike Nwachukwu did not wrong you, why do you expect him to say sorry?"Emeka, remember that Chief Obi Nwali, your fellow Ikwerre iconic man was murdered for holding and asserting publicly that he was an Igbo and thumbing his nose at those Ikwerre like you that rejected their Igbo ethnicity." - By KC Prince Asagwara
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Ayo
Those processes - normination and elections of Ike Nwachukwu to the National conference and Senatorial seats did not take place.
May be such things happen in your place. Good luck. In the type of Nigeria I know, people buy such positions thereby nullifying the intents of the best and more popular candidates.
Ike Nwachukwu's greatest achievement for "his people"
( his senatorial zone) is the Imo People's university( Imo Sate University) he, as expected of any Igboman with Biafran blood in his hands , stole and relocated to his home town or nearby, Uturu.
Any human that participated in denying Igbos of the savior
Dee Sam Mbakwe ( may he rise and lead again) was in Igbo land can hardly be a darling to a sobar people.
My brother, I intended running for LGA election in my town. My exploratory committee came with suggestions they thought would guarantee my being the chair. They never mentioned campaigns , rather I got a list of people including Arthur Nzeribe, Orange Drugs, the then Governor, his wife, PDP party chairman , speaker of the house and some connection I had with OBJ via the then National vice chairman of PDP in the South East and South south, Nze Ozichukwu Chukwu.
They wanted me to visit each one of them with a bag of money, enough to beat my competitors.
I remember reading that chief Arthur Nzeribe made his first £1000, 000 when he was 29 years old.
Poor me cleaning shit in the USA to pour a cup of water into an ocean would mean that I sleep with a fellow man.
It would take me the selling of whatever I have including my life to settle Orange drugs alone, whom , according to the report may be given 5 million Naira.( the cheapest)
As per the governor's wife, her's could not have been a problem. I had my dick then, good and ready to bribe her with.
That is how people get norminated and "elected" to anything in Igbo land.
So bro invite me to your nake of woods. It must be that paradise we have been praying for as far as elections are concerned.
So your Ike Nwachukwu may not have been elected into anything. He took them same way he took Imo state university , he took Dee sams sulos, gutters, drainage systems Imo zonal development programs, dreams. . He took all these and fed them on his Awo and Hauwusa masters.
Akusobi. Dan.
FAMOUS Igbo quotes on Pa Awolowo - Incredible!!!
"Your comment on Chief Obafemi Awolowo betrays your naivety about the actual role the man played during the crisis that preceded that actual war. He worked indefatigably hard to make sure that the federal government did not bully the East. In the physical absence of Zik, Awo was the de facto father of the South (East & West) at the time. And that's why Ojukwu always respected him. Go and find out!"
- Emeka Reuben Okala London, UK
"Agreed! Please leave Awolowo to rest. He remains the only Nigerian leader that left positive legacy for his people!"
- Joe
"Leave Obafemi Awolowo out of this discussion."
- Vin
Even Vin, Vin maintaining a positive stand! Am beginning to have a warmer heart already towards our Okoro future country neighbours.
I can see Vin trying to 'behave' himself (LOL) now that the National Conference is going on, fearing the unexpected.
As for Gen Ike Nwachuckwu (Rtd), that is one other officer and a gentleman I have encountered. Very humble and easy to get along with. I do not see him as a deceptive Igbo man. He is one of the people I would love to visit in Igbo land should he choose to move from Oodua land despite our would be entreaties for him to remain in future Oodua country.
TTT
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Willy.
You caught that drift there.
There was a time my planned revenge on our looters was to corner their spouses for consensual one on the go or a contract for regular service whenever they bring their loots across.
My properties were ready for such adventures with such special species of babes.
I still have all my junk hanging on there and active too and ready should any mis her route. I have abandoned those plans of sexing up any politician's spouse since I have realized I can beat them up by shouting here like a lot of us do.
I can say the shouts here helped to kick madam aviation minister out.
I have noted too that use of D would not have been as effective and beneficial to the general public than this blogging. It would have been like a landlord having sex with his female tenant. Try it and watch your house go!.
Do you think our politicians have time to warm up their cars?
Some of the highly placed politician's wives suffer sexual deprivations and neglect.
You sound like you have not heard that some politician babes and spouses keep some young boys overseas just for some banging whenever they visit. That was the only contract I wanted from any of them then.
I repented will be another reason. I am however ready should there be any spill over from your end!!! Lol.
Dan. Akus.
Willy
I won't have to have my wife hire anyone to service her when I become a local government chair because I won't replace her for any reason NOW or THEN with yonger girls or with another woman. NO WAY !!!!!! .
Some married women that do such things as hiring yonger guys to service them do so out of revenge. They feel their husbands do same or have been abandoning or denying them of their legitimate bed rights.
More seriously, some of our politicians starve their wives of service. Some surround themselves with concubines and some do believe, by the nonsense diabolical oaths they took, won't attempt touching their wives some days of the week.
I have not implied that our politicians' wives are sluts. No. A lot of them are very decent and dedicated and faithful wives. The few bad ones that may engage in such behaviors I described must have been loose from get go. Being married to a governor won't curtail her sweet waist syndrome.
Any woman that has gone off chain cover will do whatever she likes even if she is married to a Pope.
Ask some of your friends if they have heard such stories. Mark you bro, it does not have to be female politicians or politicians' wives. Some single more advanced women do same. The practice is more common among male Nigerian politicians.
Akusobi. Dan.
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Afis:
How too bad that in your frequent cacophonous mood, you do not think things over before getting carried away in your effort to entertain. Else, you will have known that indeed, anyone the majority of Yorubas call “Evil”, must be Good; It’s just that Yorubas like Afis do not have the intellect to realise it. The late Adelabu aka Penkelemesi, Akintola, Omoboriowo, Fani-Kayode, TOS Benson, Onogoruwa, of late, Jakande, Babatope, Obasanjo and more being good examples. Yorubas such as Afis “are generally Evil, and accord respect only to Evil people like themselves.”
It is no surprise that Afis never ever have anything good to write about any Igbo person. He ignorantly believes most Igbo are as “Evil” as he is. Afis get his hard-on and mindless ejaculation when he cahoots with his fellow Yoruba Igbo haters and misguided miscreants to insult decent folks who do not see issues from their ethnic primordial atavistic prisms.
If the Afis of Yoruba land had any modicum of intelligence, he will have known that without the contributions made by the Yoruba likes of the late Adelabu aka Penkelemesi, Akintola, Omoboriowo, Fani-Kayode, TOS Benson, Onogoruwa, of late; Jakande, Babatope, Obasanjo, Yoruba land will be less than what it is today.
Hopefully Afis, you now see how much I do appreciate and “...praise Good Human[s]” noted above as you expect of me.
Cheers.
Mazi KC Prince Asagwara
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Afis, I have followed the debate...but I have noticed you are the one always talking about oil, resources.
Is it that you have special interest in the oil and resources? I am sure that Igbos of the South who for truth sake identifies with their Igbo brothers and other ethnic nationalities in the South are not doing that because of resources. I have never heard them say so...
I am convinced that your like and those you represent who always sing about these resources are actually loathe after the resources and the share of the oil wells reflectes who covets such resources.
I have stated here before that human resources accentuated by good governance are the greatest resources. I want to let you know that Igbos by nature doesn't look like people who must depend on oil to survive. East were even doing far better and depended on coal and palm oil.
Let me explain to you brother: a parents who seeks after her wayward or renegade but wealthy child is not necessarily after the child's wealth but the kinship and the connection. So when you hear igbos rightfully identify with their brothers...they are not after the so called wealth you so much sing and loath after.
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To top it all, the Eastern region minorities own the bulk of the crude oil.Eledumare haa great sense of humor. I can imagine God sitting or standing or laying down or whatever position comfortable for Baba God, and Him just laughing at the Foolishness called Naija Tribal majority.The last dance belongs to the minorities.The last laugh wholly belongs to Eledua.Waiting to Exhale!
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"... You have vilified my people [Ikwerre ethnic nationals] and propagated many unprintable lies against us - Ikwerre ethnic nationality and our relationship with you -- Igbo ethnic nationality. And you continue to tell your lies and compel yourselves to believe in them till today." By Mazi OkalaWhere "YOU" in the above could mean or means, according to the author of the above cited quote "... those of you [of Igbo extraction] that belong to e-groups"NB: italicized comments or phrases in the bracket, outside the cited quotes, and below statement are mine for clarifications or emphases.There is nothing to add on my end, above is crystal clear with regards to the intended message.Lord have mercy, Nigeria is growing up oOo! Peace! "I"
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Mazi Asagwara,That was a very sound, wise, objective, mature and on-point response you gave to Emeka Okala – void of emotion, sentiment and insult.
Thank you immensely.Dr. Mike OkekeIfekankuAtlantaFrom: Asagwara, Ken (EAL) [mailto:Ken.As...@gov.mb.ca]
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Subject: RE: [TalkNigeria] Re: [africanworldforum] RE: THE GENERAL IKE NWACHUKWU THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Nwanna Emeka Okala:One thing that I have come to know about you is that once you like a person, all your sense of objectivity in discussing his/her mistakes and or failings go out the window. To you, everything about your person of admiration becomes fully subjective and one sided. For you one I consider well read, that makes not for sound education and advancement of learning.You are free to make spirited defence of Awo, Aluko, Ike Nwachukwu, etc., based on your subjective perception of them. But please, do it in avoidance of cheap recognition from their followers. You could have made your points that support Ike Nwachukwu as you know him without the unnecessary analogy of what you perceive as propaganda pot shots against Awo, and Alukos. I see no bearing(s) there with the case in discussion. Apparently, you are hoping for a reinforced endearment from the Awoists in the e-forums, including Bolaji Aluko. I believe Awoists can and do a better job of defending Awo than the cheap recognition you sought; the same way that Bolaji Aluko remains ably capable defending his late father and self anytime the need arises.Now about Ike Nwachukwu; I have read your two spirited defence of him in this matter. You see, your defence cannot be because you really believe that he is being falsely accused. What you are doing is just a proxy fight against those you have locked horns with severally on your chicanery of “Ikwerre is not Igbo” and “Ikwerre is Igbo”. Put it this way, yours is a case of my enemy’s enemy is my friend and my friend’s enemy is my enemy. A subterfuge, I say.That stated, let me turn to retired General Ike Nwachukwu being a member talkless leading the Igbo delegation to the National Conference; I will repeat my earlier stated views on it. And that is, if I had anything to do with that decision, he will neither be a member nor Igbo leader to the Conference. It is like an Arab Israeli with PLO sympathy as a lead member of an Israeli delegation to an Arab/Israeli peace conference. The Igbo like the Yorubas have a way of thumbing their noses at sons that betray their cause(s). And betrayal of our Biafra cause arouses serious hard feeling. Till today, the name Ukpabi Asika remains a pariah in any Igbo gathering. As I stated prior, the only crime of Obasanjo against the Yorubas for which most of them hate him is that he did not hand over to Awo in 1979. Now, imagine that he joined forces with an enemy bent on exterminating the generality of the Yorubas and in the end, have the bloods of over 3000 thousands Yorubas wasted on his hands. Names like, Olu Onagoruwa, Lateef Jakande, Ebenezer Babatope, etc., are not endeared in Yoruba gatherings simply because of their roles in Abacha’s government and turning their backs on NADECO and late Abiola’s democracy mandate. Amongs the Yorubas, there are those that will not name their children after Akintola or Fani-Kayode on account of Awo. It is all on account of politics and not tragic war that took millions of lives. Imagine that!The role of Ike Nwachukwu along with Murtala Mohammed, Alani Akirinade, etc., in the Asaba massacre of Delta Igbos is documented. You asked for investigation and documented evidence, right? Very well Emeka; please, go read Chief Emma Okocha’s “Blood on the Niger”. I have an autographed copy he sent to me when it was published. If you read it and you are not objectively disordered, you may have a feel of those against his membership in the Igbo delegation to the National Conference. I also feel that the many years after that orgy of bloodletting, he could be regretting and feeling bad for his actions. Perhaps, he found himself in a situation he could not help as articulated by Mazi Ogbonna. He may have also gone on to do other good works for Ndi-Igbo. But the three words, “I am sorry” for whatever role I may have played during the war will go a long way in ameliorating the hurt feelings by most Igbo, his brothers and sisters.If I may respond to some questions you posed; come with me. You asked,“If General Ike Nwachukwu were as bad as you want the world to believe, do you think that your fathers, brothers and sisters at home would nominate him to lead the Igbo team for the national conference?”Comments - Emeka, it is not a case of him being “bad” or good; it is some hurt feelings for innocent bloods wasted while he watched and or participated in the butchery. Those that nominated him to the delegation on National Conference may have thought his presence would get the Igbo some good mileage. It could also, be because he lobbied for it as a way to say, my mistakes not minding, please, I am one of you. It could also, be on the basis of personal friendship with those “at home [that] nominated him to lead the Igbo team for national conference.”You asked,“Do you think they would elect him Senator once upon a time to represent a senatorial zone in your ethnic nationality? Do you think he, himself, would bring himself forward for an election that would need the votes of his kith and kin? Has he no conscience?”
Comments – Emeka, you of all persons should know elections to any public office in Nigeria goes to the highest bidder and with the most money to spend and bribe the electorate. It is not because of how much you are loved or political manifesto. Amidst punishing poverty, whoever spends the most gets the most votes cast. In the senatorial zone he represented, he has the money to buy most peoples votes and he did.
You asked,“Do you think he, himself, would bring himself forward for an election that would need the votes of his kith and kin?”
Comments – Why not? Especially, if such will rehabilitate his name, image and standing among “his kith and kin” Everyone in life at one time or the other looks for the appreciation and acceptance of his people, particularly, if at some time past, he/she wronged them.
You asked,“Has he no conscience?”
Comments – You may be the one best fit to asked him that question when next you see him. He is in a better position to answer your question. Anyone else answering question about conscience for another will be simply, conjecture(s), guess work.
You asked,“Don't you think that someone amongst you has wrongly carried this propaganda against Ike Nwachukwu simply because the man served on the Federal side as a senior military officer during the war?”
Comments – It is not propaganda but rather aggrieved brothers and sisters cries based on documented facts. He has not denied the role(s) he played but justified them, he may have. And it is not “simply because he served on the Federal side as a senior military officer during the war” but that, he could have still used that position to save the lives senselessly massacred.
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Subject: RE: THE GENERAL IKE NWACHUKWU THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:26:24 -0400
Mazi Ogbonna,I admire your passion and dedication but not your candor in your defense of General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu. The candor in your defense is questionable to me because your entire presentation appears to be a total distraction from the core issue (concern) raised by those of us who are offended and insulted by having him as the leader of the Igbo delegates to the national conference. In your thesis below, you frequently used offensive and derogatory words such as jealousy, envy, hate, crab mentality, internet tigers, etc, to address those of us who have voiced out serious concerns about the character of General Nwachukwu and his loyalty/patriotism regarding the collective interest of Ndi Igbo. That makes your defense of General Nwachukwu to sound hollow – my poinion.
The core question is this: What role did General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu play in the cold blooded massacre of about 700 innocent Asaba men, women and children and their burial in a mass grave in September of 1967? Some of us including myself who participated in the Biafra struggle are still living today and the pain of the Asaba genocide is still ever fresh in our memories. Dancing around this crucial question in an effort to sell General Nwachukwu to us as a loyal and patriotic Igbo leader, is rather offensive to me.I have no issues with where he was born or by whom because that was not a decision he made by himself. You cannot hold his genealogy against him. However, just like everyone of us, he is accountable and responsible for the choices and decisions he made as a human being. He cannot join in shedding innocent Igbo blood at a time when it was fashionable in Nigeria to do so, and now that Igbos have survived the holocaust, he is being exulted as an Igbo leader by those who care nothing and know nothing about the millions of Igbo lives lost in our struggle to stop Igbo haters in Nigerian form erasing Igbos from the face of the earth.Did he help Muritala Mohamed in killing and burying about 700 Asaba people in a mass grave? What role did he play in the Asabe genocide? General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu cannot have it both ways. He needs to come clean and apologize to Ndi-Igbo. Yes, we know that to err is human but to acknowledge your error and to apologize to your victim is noble and pacifying. To switch sides (jump ship) and parade himself as a leader of those he shed their blood and helped to crush, is very arrogant in my view.General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu was appointed the military Governor of Imo State under Buhari at a time when Igbos were trying to recover from the trauma of the 3-year war. It was military rule at that time and Igbos had no voice and were not in a position to question the status quo. Right after the war, Mazi Agwu Okpanku, was arrested for publishing an editorial titled “Killing Biafra” in the East Central State news paper called the Renaissance, in which he questioned the motives of General Gowon in changing the name of the body of water south of Port Harcourt from the Birth of Biafra to whatever the mane is now. After his arrest, Igbos in Nigeia got the message that they should be seen and not heard. We practically lived in fear and our Igbo daughters became toys in the hands of Nigerian soldiers who raped them, got them pregnant and abandoned them with babies.My personal opinion is that General Nwachukwu rose to the positions he had because Igbos were too afraid to question his background at the time, coupled with the fact that the Nigerian government he fought for during the war had the power to reward him after the war. That explains why he became the Senator of Imo State, Federal Minister, Governor of Imo State, etc. If it were to be now that Igbos are no longer afraid to ask questions, General Nwachukwu would not have risen to those positions. So, Mazi Ogbonna, don’t confuse your readers with the military and political appointments and even the elected positions held by General Nwachukwu.While we were trying to pick up the pieces of what was left of our wrecked lives after the war, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu was busy reaping the rewards of his betrayal of the Igbos. Now in his old age, he appears to love being pictured and seen in public in his Igbo red cap to depict him as patriotic and loyal Igbo leader. General Nwacwukwu may have marveled and dazzled people like you, Mazi Ogbonna, with the positions he held. However, none of that will ever wash away from his hands, the innocent blood of his brothers and sister - unless his hands are clean. If he participated in killing the Asaba Igbos, all he has to do is to come clean and apologize to Ndi-Igbo. Mazi Ogbonna, if you love him so much and want him to lord over us as an Igbo leader, then advise him to come clean and apologize. Anything short of that is just adding salt to the injury. There are certain things you cannot wash away with convoluted big grammar, such as the blood of the innocent especially when it is the blood of your own people.Mazi Ogbonna, tell me this, if the northerners with the help of General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, had succeeded in wiping Igbos away from Nigeria (ethnic cleansing, holocaust, genocide) the way they had intended in 1966, where will General Nwachukwu find the Igbos to lead today? We succeeded in resisting the Igbo holocaust by General Nwachukwu and his Nigerian army, the British government, Russian government and the Arab countries. Our strong and prolonged resistance is the reason that we have Igbos left today for him to lead. Mazi Ogbonna, do you get it? Don’t call it jealousy, envy, hatred, crab mentality or any of your derogatory distractions. Don’t even try to bring in Zik, Ojukwu or Okpara into your parallel and comparison because that will be an insult to the precious memories of those illustrious sons of Ana-Igbo. After Judas betrayed Jesus, how can you bring him back to lead the 12 apostles? After Cain murdered his brother Abel, how can you imagine him sharing in the linage of Adam? After Absalom tried to overthrow his father, King David, by assassination, how could he partake in the kingdom, even if he had survived?
Sorry to say this but your thesis below is convoluted with lots of symbolisms without substance. You want us to forget the past and face the future. That may sound good but, what future can anyone have without the past? Have you ever wondered why they teach history as a major subject in every institution of learning starting from primary schools? It is only in Africa that people do not pay attention to history and you wonder why we keep making the same mistakes? Africans don’t even preserve and chronicle their own history. If not for the Europeans who started writing down African history, Africans will have nothing of record for posterity. Most of our history were oral stories which eventually lost their accuracy when it passed through several generations. Most of us today cannot even name our great grandparents but t we can easily recite the genealogy of European and American leaders and also biblical characters.Mazi Ogbonna, please tell your hero and mentor, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu to please come clean. As you signed off your thesis below, you made no secret of the fact that you are “Nwoke Ovim, Isuikwuato, Abia State, Nigeria”, which explains the you are from the same village as General Nwachukwu, hence your effort to sell him to the rest of us as the new messiah of the Ndi-Igbo. Nice try but I beg you nna, stop this defecation on the graves of our fallen brothers and sister who gave their lives so you may be free today to insult their memory. I don’t know how old you were during the Biafra struggle and if you participated in the struggle at all. Assuming you participated, who did you forget the pain so easily? Were you dazzled and baffled out of your mind by General Nwachukwu’s material rewards for his betrayal of Ndi-Igbo?It is good to preach forgiveness to the wounded, but Mazi Ogbonna, it will be more expedient to spend your energy in bringing the perpetrator to admit his wrong and apologize to his victims. This will bring healing to both parties, and I rest.
Dr. Mike OkekeIfekankuAtlanta
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