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Ghadafi, the late former
leader of Libya said last
few years that Nigeria
should be divided into two
on religious lines. Muslims
on the one side and to the
other, Christians. Before he
even finished saying so,
Senator David Mark, the
senate president of Nigeria,
a man I hitherto had
tremendous respect for
started calling Muammar
Ghadafi a mad man right
there at a plenary session
of the upper chamber. I
think David Mark went too
far. Muammar Ghadafi, the
Libyan could not have been
mad simply because he
expressed his own individual
opinion on the recurrent
decimal in northern Nigeria.
After all he was right. Will
David Mark, a northerner
himself say that there is
any form of love lust in the
north? Will he wait for
Ghadafi to tell him that all
is not well with his people
of northern Nigeria. Or is
it because it was Muammar
Ghadafi that said it this
time. Many of us have said
it before and we are still
saying it that this thing
you call Nigeria is a farse,
a fiction and a non-existent
epithet. It only exist at
the behest of those who feed
fat on that name using it at
the instance of the people
they callously forced
together to milk dried.
If the way Ghadafi wanted it
divided is the headache of
David Mark can Mark himself
suggest the way he feels the
devil can best be slashed?
Since the so called
independence the
name-Nigeria or in the name
of Nigeria many lives have
gone to their early graves.
In the name of one Nigeria
even children where bombed,
women slaughtered like
goats, men forced to go to
war. A war they knew nothing
about. And in the end
millions just got perished
like that. This was between
1967 to 1970. In the name of
one Nigeria, tribal
killings, ethnic killings
and the most painful,
religious killings have
taken over discussions in
the country. Can David Mark
tell me that since
independence, it has been
well with this country? Is
he not aware that even the
international community and
organizations have stated it
categorically clear that in
the next 12 to 15 years
Nigeria will disintegrate?
And if that happens
eventually what is wrong
with that?
Most we just remain big
seize and continue to kill
ourselves? What is big deal
to allow a group that wants
to go to do so? This craze
of bundling everybody
together to select and kill,
is that the idea of what the
country should be? Is it not
better to know that Kano or
Kaduna is a different
country so that if I go and
die there I will know that I
was looking for their
trouble? If the Plateau is
now a human slaughter table
is it not good to know that
it is a different country so
that they do not send
innocent souls there to die
in the name of one Nigeria
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Good to know that the one
that fought to kill in the
name of one Nigeria when he
knew that we even have over
5 Nigeria is the same man
whose village or town is
being threatened to
extinction. If he allowed
this so called one Nigeria
to be what it is naturally
supposed to be in 1967 all
this stress of religious
killings or ethnic killings
today would have been
averted. Though it is
difficult for an Ibo man to
stay or live in the village
that God gave him maybe due
to social or economic
challenges, it would have
been different if they were
in Jos or Kano as a
foreigner than as citizens
of the same Nation where
their neighbours would just
wake up in the midnight to
slaughter them and slash
their pregnant wives and
butcher their children and
no body says anything more
than “we condemn the
killings.” If Ogoni my
country home were to be a
different country or say the
Republic of Niger Delta
stood alone and Jos or
Republic of Middle Belt was
a different country
certainly our say Ogoni or
Republic of Niger Delta
foreign mission or Embassy
would not have allowed our
people die un-mourned in Jos
or in Kano or Kaduna or
Bauchi etc. It would have
been taken seriously by
whoever would rule those
irate populace in the North
because it would have
attracted international
concerns and such orgy of
violence would have ceased.
But because we claim to
belong to the same country
the killings have become
part of our tradition and
northern Nigeria now prides
itself with the killing of
innocent residents and
citizens.
Who is fooling whom? What
was the sin of Muammar
Ghadafi? That he joined the
rest of us to say that
Nigeria is a failed State?
Who does not know that
Nigeria is a failed State?
Brothers and Sisters, there
is nothing absolutely here
to pretend about. This
country that cannot provide
security for her citizens is
worse than an infidel.
Since November, 2008 there
has been crisis in Jos. This
is minus the Yelwa/Shendam
killings of 2006. If in
November, 2008 there was a
violent eruption of violence
in the Plateau and in 2009
the same thing happened and
nothing happened. In January
2010, the same thing
happened and just three
Sundays, that is on March, 7
the same thing happened and
on March 17 another round of
violence occurred all in the
same State will you say that
all is well with the
leadership of that kind of
country? A country that is
careless over the welfare of
her citizenry? What is the
senate president now saying
about the genocide or jihad
against Christians now in
the north where churches are
bombed every Sunday? That
they should beg these mad
idiots and their sponsor?
Perhaps, if Ghadafi has said
that with the spate of
violence in northern
Nigeria, Nigeria is the best
country in the world maybe
David Mark would have given
Ghadafi a gold medal. He
would not have called him a
madman. So in this country
people call white, black and
vice versa. That it should
be divided on religious
lines is not still wrong.
Afterall, it is on religious
lines all the most
disastrous killing have been
over the years in the north.
Ghadafi was right. Of course
the Muslims and Christians
in the north have never
lived like brothers and
sisters. They have rather
been living like cats and
rats. If Ghadafi said so at
best if that runs contrary
to David Mark's opinion he
would have shown by now that
everybody's opinion on a
controversial issue like
that will not always be
exactly his. Of course,
Ghadafi as a human or leader
had right to his own
opinion. However, his
opinion or expression with
regards to the incessant
crisis always springing from
the north is a shared view
even up to the international
community.
Among Nigerians, Ghadafi's
view is not a lonely a lone
voice in the wilderness. So
what is the cacophony all
about? If David Mark is
ignorant he should be told
that Nigeria has over 250
ethnic groups and over 300
languages and to crown it
all over 150 million people.
Are all these factors not
suggestive of the fact that
one day this pregnant
Nigeria will give birth
either peacefully or
violently? Is David Mark a
doubting Thomas? What sign
does he want to see? Does he
want the acid rain to fall
from the earth to the sky to
tell him that the country
where he prides himself as a
Senate President is a farce
and very sick?
Only Rivers state is bigger
in size and population than
Israel. Over population
alone is a reason for us to
divide if not senseless
killings.
I think David Mark rather
than call Muammar Ghadafi a
madman should rather go home
and tell his brothers in the
north that they are a bunch
of disgrace and
embarrassment to whatever
country they claim to
belong, for they are the mad
ones.###
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