By Osita Ebiem | NNP | May 18, 2012 -

Some Western countries and organizations such as the European Union, Britain and the United States had at one time believed and continually preached that all the problems of Nigeria can be effectively solved once the country can conduct a free, fair and credible election which will usher in an enduring democracy. But all those have since changed when in 2011 an election which by their (the international community’s) assessment was the freest and fairest election ever conducted in Nigeria seemed to have actually multiplied and intensified the problems. What is currently making the headlines is that poverty is the reason why the Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram under the sponsorship of the Northern Nigeria elite group, their political, business, religious and military leaders, is killing Christians. Boko Haram jihadists are actively ethnically/religiously cleansing the North of Nigeria of Christian Igbo and others of Southern origin in order to establish a sharia state yet some Western policy makers naïvely fall for the lie which says that these people kill because they are poor and unjustly treated.

Recently the European Union and others came up with pronouncements that are obviously conceived to make light of very serious problems by “pledging” to work closely with the Nigerian government to fight the spate of these ethnic killings by Boko Haram. Such less discreet pledges are nothing different from the same pledges that Britain, USSR, Egypt and the Arab League made and fought alongside Nigeria in the 1960s to scuttle the Biafran people’s self-determination effort and, in the process murdered 3.1 million Biafrans. Should the West be fighting alongside Nigeria to kill a people fighting for their self-determination or to help in granting the people their freedom? The people behind Boko Haram want a state of their own where they can practice their sharia, so why should anyone help to defeat such noble aspirations? The other question that all serious observers and stakeholders in the failed one-Nigerian project have not seized to ask is, should these Western nations be confronted with the similar problems in their respective societies, would they have continued to handle the matter with such levity or use such dishonest and insincere euphemisms?

The honest truth is that Nigeria has only one problem and it is a fact that is known to all including the European Union, United States, Britain and all other groups with serious interests in Nigeria. Everyone in this category knows that the problem of Nigeria is one-Nigeria. The one-Nigerian state structure as is presently constituted is wrong. So long as the one-Nigeria remains, Nigeria will never work. The original conception of the one-Nigeria that we currently have was never made to work in the context of a functional country. The colonial Britain originally designed it for their economic and administrative convenience and it was supposed to be dismantled soon after that purpose had been served. So the one-Nigeria structure is supposed to have ended in October 1, 1960 when Britain left Nigeria. The ethnic peoples who make up the present one-Nigeria can never exist amicably together as citizens of the same country. The one-Nigeria that we have today is a forced union of different peoples with irreconcilable differences of values and civilizations within an inconvenient enclave. Historically, culturally and religiously the different ethnic groups in Nigeria are not one and the same people and there is no reason to continue to force them to remain together in one country while Igbo/Biafrans’ blood is continually sacrificed at the altar of a forced “united one-Nigeria”.

If anyone is serious, honest and sincere in solving Nigeria’s problem, it can actually be done. The first step is to boldly remove all sentiments and be willing to do the right thing. The solution is restructuring; separation of the warring peoples, cultures and religions in Nigeria into independent and sovereign territories or countries. Let all the interest groups both within and outside Nigeria call for a United Nations organized and supervised referendum such as was conducted in Sudan in 2011 to be held in Nigeria. The truth is that the solution to one-Nigeria is the Self-Determination of the various ethnic peoples in Nigeria.

By Osita Ebiem | NNP | April 1, 2012 -

The Nigerian state (the government of Nigeria) and its peoples driven by unfounded fear and hatred became actively engaged in carrying out state-sponsored hate-murders and hate-lootings of the ethnic Igbo people. Post independent Nigeria has witnessed the unremitting genocidal program of ethnic/religious cleansing of the Nigerian state of the Igbo ethnic people. Nigeria’s independence from the British happened in 1960 and starting from 1966 till date the Nigerian state and its citizens have murdered over 5 million Igbo and other Biafran people in their process to cleanse the country of the people they hate and loathe so much. But the Biafra Genocide which started from 1966 to 1970 saw the killing of 3.1 million Igbo/Biafrans ethnic peoples. Within that period that is regarded as one of the darkest in human history, the Nigerian state and all its citizens and in cahoots with some allied nations of Great Britain, USSR, Egypt and the Arab League remorselessly murdered that many millions of defenseless Igbo/Biafran children, women and men through shelling, bombing, strafing and starvation.

The genocidal period of 1966 to 1970 was presided over by the accursed and unrepentant chief genocidist Yakubu Gowon. It is reported that the man now runs a religious program which is called “Nigeria Prays”. What a mockery and smear on the sensibilities of a decent world. Just as in legal terminology so it is in true religion, “he that comes to equity must come with clean hands”. Whoever that must come to God in prayers and supplication must come with a humble heart, acknowledge and change from his wicked ways and make atonement by restitution. Then they can offer their prayers and sacrifices and expect answers from a God who frowns at and condemns injustice and the murder of the innocent. When the murderer opens their hands in prayer the good Lord looks away in anger because he will not look at the soiled hands that are full of the blood of innocent children, women and men. To pray to a just God the murderer or genocidist must first acknowledge their heinous crime against humanity, actively elect to change and turn from their evil ways, confess publicly to their evil doings and restore the victim to their original state of being before he violated and destroyed them.

But there has been a bright side to the total darkness. There are some people who have sacrificed so much and stood up against the damning Nigerian darkness on behalf of all Biafrans and lovers of justice all over the world over the years. These people have continually reminded the world of their responsibility of not forgetting the Biafra Genocide. It is the courage and perseverance of these excellent men of honor and faith that serve as the forte and hope of all decent human beings all over the world. By the efforts of these gallant fighters against injustice and crime against humanity, the world, our world becomes a better place, secure and prosperous. Their actions will continue to embolden and feed the fire of hope of the oppressed, murdered and looted peoples everywhere in our world.

Nigerian genocide deniers may deny as much as they like about the Biafra Genocide but their denials will never erase the fact of this heinous crime against Biafran peoples. But they may need to be reminded that Biafrans are not telling their story for the record in order to elicit any form of sympathy from Nigeria or Nigerians. The Nigerian state, Gowon and all its citizens are reprobates who are forever past any form of redemption. Redemption is always the imputation on the offending person or a group the grace that translates the wicked from their weakened state of perdition and certain doom onto the state of strength and success that comes from the confidence of having “clean hands”. This translation can only happen when the offending person or party acknowledges wrongdoing and becomes humble and willingly change and do right by the victim. The truth is that so long as a person or people continue to choose to live a lie and in truth-denials they will never be accorded the grace to translate into the realm of success and prosperity.

Lies can be equated with social darkness and whoever, be it a person or country that lives a lie lives in total darkness and remains condemned to perpetually grope in the hellish darkness of frustration, failure and poverty. Needless to say that Nigeria’s and Nigerians’ lot has ever remained that of a people covered in an impenetrable and hopeless darkness. Nigeria will never escape this total darkness of hopelessness and poverty until it is broken into pieces and their greatest fear comes to pass; BIAFRA becomes free and independent of Nigeria. Other people in other places who have fought bitter wars and tend to have come out as better societies did so because they had been honest and bold and found the courage in themselves to acknowledge the truth of their situation. Those in the wrong found the strength to accept being in the wrong when the violence subsided, hence it seems that every society that has seen great progress began to experience prosperity and advancement after a fight, should we then seek far for the answer on why Nigeria’s case is so different? Nigeria and Nigerians deny and run away from the truth and as such they will continue to head away from progress and prosperity. Any society that embraces lies will invariably continually live in poverty and total darkness.

Let all Nigerians who shamelessly deny the Biafra Genocide go ahead and pride themselves in their damnable state of darkness and endless retrogression but they may also be reminded that Biafra’s defeat in 1970 was only a temporary setback in the people’s unstoppable march towards self-redemption (Self Determination). Biafra and Biafrans shall get there soon and Nigeria and Nigerians shall not have the last laugh. Someone may need to tell the unrepentant Nigerians and their country that they have not heard the last of and from Biafra and Biafrans. Tell Nigeria and all Nigerians that they may yet need to sell their clothes to buy themselves guns and more weapons because when they think that they have peace and security, sudden pain and destruction will come over them. Nigeria should be ready to taste the bitter pill. From the same cup and worse than the one Biafrans drank they shall drink a thousand times over. But most importantly, on a final note and on practical terms, let Nigeria and Nigerians who deny the truth know that the time has finally come for them to answer for their heinous crime against humanity; the Nigeria and Nigerians Genocide on Biafra and Biafrans. The guilty shall pay.