RESTRUCTURING OR SECESSION By Prince Francis Chilaka

 

RESTRUCTURING OR SECESSION

The current trend where one gets abused, cursed and even threatened for not being in support of an ideology is and has never been the culture of the Igbo race. The Igbos have always been known to be hospitable, accommodating and open to the views of others. No Igbo man wants to be dictated to. This is what sets us apart.

Igbo land and the entire country is today divided along the lines of restructuring and secession. While some are for restructuring, some others are for secession the bottomline is that the center has become a cracked pot that her individual contents are spilling out. See, all those gallivanting all over the place shouting restructuring or secession, are no more in pains and anguish than a lot of us who are yet to jump into the moving train as they want us to believe.

Most people standing by the side and watching are doing so because they are yet unsure of the road-map. They have several unanswered questions. Thus, abusing them at every turn will not get the desired support and result. As we all know ideas rule the world, no one person is a custodian of all knowledge.

Interestingly, if a survey is carried out across the country today, the answers will be the same, people are not happy with happenings across the entire country, people are not happy with the leadership of the country. People are not happy with the falling standard of Education, poor Health facilities, epileptic Power supply, bad roads, dilapidated infrastructures, lack of accountability and bad governance, etc. Thus, the reason some people are calling for restructuring while some others are agitating for secession.

With all these problems mentioned, who then is responsible, the Igbos? Hausas? Yorubas? Or other minority ethnic groups making up the country known as Nigeria? In fairness to all, we are all responsible because we have all contributed in no small measures to the present sorry state. When I say we, I mean to say that someone from our individual ethnic groups have knowingly or unknowingly participated in corrupt activities that has lead us to where we are today. The man or woman who embezzles funds appropriated for the health sector, education sector, roads, security, housing, electricity, etc., is either an Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba and most importantly a Nigerian.

Truth be told, since after the civil war, we from the south east have had our own brothers and sisters in governance, with little or nothing to show developmentally for it. It’s not like allocations due to our states are not been made available from the Federation account or that IGR is not been generated from within the states, so what is the problem. Why is accountability, development and infrastructure far from us? Why do we keep shouting marginalization when it’s we that are marginalizing ourselves? Why do we keep shouting bad governance when it’s same we that are looting and raping our people viciously? Our so called leaders have been the ones marginalizing us, they are selfish and self-serving.

Why are we all focusing on the federal government while ignoring and forgetting those closer home to us, our local government chairmen and our governors. When will those who call themselves our leaders change their mindsets and understand that they were sent not for themselves but for the entire people. When will they stop looting and carting away our commonwealth to the detriment of all? When will they stop deceiving the same people they claim to love? When?

When then will they change? When will they understand that leadership is call to service? Will it be with the advent of secession or restructuring? Or is it that with the birth of secession or restructuring, the Igbo’s intend to import people from the moon to come and govern them? Charity they say begins from home let us start first by holding our present and past leaders in the South East accountable while at the same time demanding for good governance.

Only by this, will our quest for restructuring or secession make common sense.

Prince Francis Chilaka
Political analyst/Social Commentator
08121118789
07/10/2020

ARE WE TRULY GODLY?

By Engr. Sanni

The most astonishing, surprising and funny about Nigerians is how they go about calling God in vain to support their vanity, untruthfulness, deceitfulness and unholy acts. Probably the only country on the surface of the earth with 99% Religious faithfuls and 95% corrupt people is Nigeria. It is often jokingly said these days that, when a Nigerian of Northern origin who were assumed most trust worthy in the past, 'says wallahi Tallahi' (meaning i bear witness with God) it is now interpreted as "wallahi, i lie" (laughter)

This is where we have all descended to.

This is a nation where nothing works. We have become colony of cheats, liars and waste products that God in his infinite mercies created for a purpose. The only purpose remaining in the hearts of men and women from this part of the globe inhabited by the most populous black race in the world is corruption, nepotism, bigotry, sabotage and blackmail. We have reached the apex of plotting ourselves into destruction.

Now, let us take our outlook to government institutions, private sectors, religious bodies, student and academic unions, labour and trade unions, all of these are in the vises of cheats, fraud and ways of outsmarting and how to get things done through the back door because of greed. Practice of advance free fraud (419) became a way of life.

In all these, the most pathetic, most frightening and most tragic are the religious bodies. They are nearly 100% compliance with corruption because the leaders of these sects, denominations have forsaken salvation for prosperity. They consume the flesh and blood of their worshipers for their ostentatious life styles.

In the same vein, the followers have been turned to Zombies through long time mesmerization of their brains. Hypnotized to become dogmatic. They have taken men as their gods and nothing can convince them otherwise even if they are being fed with shits

If you want to see Nigerians in true colours, google crime as your searching headline, you will be shocked with the figures you are getting from different parts of the Globe. Just glance at their names, they are members of one Christian or Muslim family. What will strike your mind is, where is the family moral values obtained from the houses of God or as imbibed on them by their parents?

The most touching aspect of it all is that on Fridays and Sundays even on Sabbath day for those who belong to that denomination, You will see Nigerians of all class, men and women trooping into the Churches, Mosques, Synagogues to worship probably to wash away the sins of the week committed at work places.

Ask me who are the members of these congregations? I will tell you, we are the ones. The same men and women from Nigerian custom agency, who collect bribes and short change the government of it's revenue. The same we, are in the Nigerian police collecting tall on the highways and in the offices compromising criminals. The same Nigerian civil servants from revenue office diverting government taxes to their personal accounts and under reporting the sums collected.

These of course are the lower thieves. We still have the directors of these agencies, that were and are still untouchable thieve and the contractors, bankers. these are elites that have gang raped us but they go to Churches and mosques to pay tithes and offerings to get blessings from the clergymen. Many are into money laundering with Sheikhs, pastors and they buying jets to get to heaven faster.

In this corrupt institution, our elected officials are worse. Nigeria operate secular system, government is in the hands of Muslims and Christian. If my memory can bear me witness, we have never had a president that is a traditionalist, at least not in official outfit. Meaning all have been either a Christian or a Muslim. What have transpired in corruption with our leaders, is not a story you will be eager to know from me because you already know it. Paradoxically, we also have Mosques and Churches in ASO rock villa (laughable)

Our governors operates like armed robbers we empowered to rob and kill and give account after 4years (Rubbish). They deliver corruption in absolute terms. They own the traditional rulers. Who can't challenge them. Who in the States can challenge a governor? Nobody! When they go to worship on Fridays, they are prayed for and praised to be able to steal more. On Sundays in the churches, they are given special seats. The man of God become happy and sermon will not mention that stealing is bad. The elected thief will drop something or will donations to God's house

The fact that somebody wants to make a difference in redirecting our psych is our biggest problem today in Nigeria. It causes pandemonium and outrage When the government first of all introduced anti corruption agencies like EFCC, ICPC, code of conduct Bureau, it was like misery but they achieved little because the adhesive and cohesive forces were counter balancing while the anti graft agencies and those who drive them are also not angels. but they call God (Allah) as our saviours even though consciences celebrate corruption

The recent clean up we are facing today that has called for up rising of bigots, religious fanatics and political saboteurs is the introduction of TSA, BVN, WHISTLE BLOWING, IPPIS and lastly CAMA. The government aimed at reducing corruption at all levels irrespective of the institutions but some unscrupulous individuals want the status quo ante to prevail. They are putting their utmost pressure to sustain corruption in their institutions. It happening with ASUU, now the pastors are ganging up while the gullible and most vulnerable masses are intimidating, defending supporting to uphold corruption as the so called men of God in American suits pretend to profess spirituality.

Must we give up? No!

If truly there is God in few of us,

we must fight back.

May God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

 

AVOIDING THIS POLITICAL MENACE AND NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT.

AVOIDING THIS POLITICAL MENACE AND NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT. 

POLITICIANS AND THEIR ASSOCIATES ARE NOT READY TO OBEY CHAPTER 6 PART 1 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA 1999 AS AMENDED.

The above stated chapter of the constitution stated that there should be elected into office, a President and a Vice who should act on behalf of president in case of his absence and to take over that office in case of death or incapacitation.

Nigerians has not only be in a cross road whenever the case arise.

It is a high time now the nation start to look for solution.

There is no provision in the Constitution on rotational presidency between the North and South. I learnt that Political Parties has it in their constitution. If that is the case, it will be good that such Parties should also look into the question of zoning both president and its vice to the same zone. What is the justice to our Constitution and to God that a president is from a zone and the vice is from another and the presidential zone will refuse to hand over power to the vice zone in any case of incapacitation or death of the president? It is better if a zone is ruling the other zone has to wait and endure for the time period fixed. If the president is not around, power sit immediately on the vice from the same zone without dirty intrigues.

Political Parties should wake up now to effect this change in their constitution before another election, till Nigerian Government wakes up to give Nigerians a new constitution purely made by themselves. Not forgetting the issue of restructuring that is being trumpeted by all section of the nation. All these dirty political coup against the Constitution is evil and God is against it too and if not stopped God’s wrath will descend more than what we are experiencing.

AVOID THIS PRECEDENCE NOW.

 

HEADING TO CRASH.

HEADING TO CRASH.

WHAT IS THE JUSTICE OF PUSHING EVERYONE TO FAKE LIFE AND TO FAILURE?

We have been deceiving ourselves and allowing ourselves to be deceived.

Our governments, from family circle to central have been in the forefront of leading everyone to the pit of crashing and failure.

Just imaging all the lies going on in the families that leads to turbulence and cause  women abandoning their children to the wolves and running away, not to talk of  the smooth lies and secrecy going on in government quarters. Nigerians are now allowed to be speculating using social media tools. When the press makes effort to say something, next is a disclaimer to the said news. We now swing back and front, my curiosity is when will all this stop and where are all these taking us to?

We should stop a minute and think of where false news and evil propaganda is leading us.

Social media curses and hatred is now the fruit of such misleading. There should be love between ourselves and if not we will land crash this nation. An average Nigerian has no problem with each other, then why do we support any fake news when it is embedded with tribe or religion? Or why support evil when it comes to your tribe or religion?

LET US RESCUE OURSELVES  FROM GOVERNMENTS NO MATTER WHAT LEVEL, THEY ARE FAILING US. MAKE A LITTLE EFFORT TO CONFRONT EVIL AT LEAST FROM HOME.