As more and more video clips of various atrocities including killings, kidnapping-for-ransom, happening across Igboland continue to flood the social media space, it has become necessary to take a closer look at what is really at play and to share same with the Igbo public as guide in our collective search for redemption for a people already being traumatized by Unitary Nigeria.
On the surface is the phantom Biafra Restoration scam which has since turned into a blood festival in Igboland with known human propellants. But beneath that surface is a much more troubling reality in which Made-In-Nigeria Igbo Political Merchants, hiding under the wide umbrella of Igbo Marginalization are deeply involved in the promotion and justification of the “Biafra Restoration” enterprise, as a leverage, bargaining and enforcement mechanism for their own Political Advancement.
The mayhem ravaging Igboland today looks like the “Biafra” envisaged by the renegade Igbo Political Merchants behind the Rogue Biafra Franchise as their barely-concealed motive shows up with their every pronouncement regarding how Igbo Presidency (or more juicy Federal appointments for those Political Merchants), is panacea for the Igbo plight in Nigeria, as all discussions about Nigeria revolve around the untenable Unitary Constitutional Imposition that has rendered Nigeria comatose.
Knowing the genesis and outcomes from the Imposition of a Unitary Constitutional Arrangement on Nigeria, especially for the Igbo, the Questions to these Made-In-Nigeria Igbo Political Merchants are:
(1) Why are you not involved in the efforts to tackle and extinguish the Unitary Constitutional Anomaly that locks Igboland into the Dot-In-Circle Geopolitical Enshacklement, and the Igbo into Slave-Status in the scheme of things in Nigeria?
(2) Why do you cling tenaciously to a Unitary Constitution imposed as Victory Charter from the Anti-Igbo Genocidal War of 1967-1970, to lock the Igbo down into a permanent political servitude in Nigeria, contesting Elections under that Constitution to which winners of any Elections must swear to and govern by?
It is the contention of the Igbo Caucus of the LNC (Lower Niger Congress), that if Igbo does not repudiate and disown the scam labelled “Biafra Restoration” very loudly, then the criminal merchants orchestrating the scam would continue their heinous crimes in the name of Fighting for Igbo Freedom while the Igbo Political Merchants would continue to make illicit political capital from the undeniable Igbo Marginalization by Unitary Nigeria. Meanwhile these Freedom Merchants are the worst setbacks and debilitation to the actual Liberation Campaign Strategies and Processes which were clearly articulated and shared with them, but which they rejected, distorted, ridiculed, denigrated and impeded in every possible way, wasting much innocent blood in Igboland in the process, bringing so much pain and misery to our People in the homeland, bringing much ill-will and hatred to the Igbo and diminishing the Igbo before the World with cheap lies and Propaganda that present us as stupid – all in furtherance of the totally meaningless scam they tag “Biafra Restoration”.
The Genuine Biafra Sovereignty phenomenon of 1967-1970 which demonstrates the Igbo Spirit of Freedom, Resilience and Ingenuity to the Global Community and which should have been an everlasting source of goodwill and pride for the Igbo, has been hijacked, monetized, bastardized and turned into a badge of shame, a fountain of ill-will and hatred by the Merchants of the Rogue Biafra Franchise who have turned Igboland desolate, dangerous and unsafe for decent habitation and economic endeavour – all the opposite of the FREEDOM being advertised by the Criminal Merchants AND the opposite of the Freedom that the Biafra of 1967 represented.
More tragic is the fact that this Phantom Biafra Restoration scam which was marketed as Freedom to the Igbo, is actually sponsored and promoted by Made-In-Nigeria Igbo Politicians who seek to use it as leverage for grabbing more in terms of Political Power for themselves in the Criminal Enterprise that Nigeria has become under its Death-Dispensing Unitary Constitution.
Chief amongst these renegades are the Igbo Politicians who seek the Presidency of Nigeria under the abominable unitary Constitution that renders Igbo slaves in Nigeria; then the ones who seek to be Governors, Senators, Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, State Assemblies, Ministers, Commissioners, Local Government Council Chairmen and Councillors, Party Henchmen, sundry Political Merchants and their Businessmen collaborators and fronts.
While the Chief-Merchants and the mercantile motive of the now crumbled Biafra Franchise is easy for all to see, the identities and motives of the puppeteer-Igbo Political Merchants behind the Biafra Franchise-Turned-Mayhem are not that obvious or easy to see.
In the face of the disasters that have befallen Igboland from the “Biafra Restoration” commotion, the time has come for us to take a hard look at the backroom liaisons and nexus between the Chief-Merchants of Rogue Biafra Franchise and the Made-In-Nigeria Igbo Political Merchants. This might hold the key to unravelling the mystery