Prof Yemi Osibanjor - Vice President of Nigeria.
Vice President Yemi Osibanjor said something.
He said "millions of people have died for the unity of this country".
Sir, in as much as I respect your person both for your position as a leader of a country I find myself and an elder and a clergy figure, I must say that it is sad that you have joined those that insist on planting and promulgating falsehood in the minds of shallow minded Nigerians. I don't know if your actions are deliberate or in honest ignorance. But I want to believe that the former is the case.
My amiable VP sir, contrary to your position and the position of many leaders or more appropriately " misleaders", who are bent on upholding a twist scripted version of history so that the future generation will only see a vague picture of reality, I wish to inform you that there are still a few of us Nigerians that happens to know the truth. Like someone once said, you can deceive some of the people all the time, but you can not deceive all the people all the time.
I put it to you sir and to every other evangelist of this false gospel, that millions of lives have not been lost for the unity of Nigeria, rather millions of lives have been taken to ensure that a state of servitude and subserviency is maintained. Millions of lives have been taken to instill fear and tame some people to surrender to a existence in semi bondage.
Sir, if by the millions of lives, you mean the millions of Igbos , innocent men and women murdered in the genocide of 1967 to 1970, it will be a spite on their gave and passing feaces on their rotten corpse to say they died for the unity of Nigeria. Sir, I will assume you don't know that the genocide led by Yakubu Gowon was no where near a battle for unity but a battle for the resource of a region. How will you go to a mans house and murder his family and called that "an act of love"? To keep the nation one.
The genocide targeted at the igbos started before it was " legalized " in the guise of war. The war was never a battle for unity, but I display of callous hatred and genocidal vendetta. The millions of lives that you talked about was not sacrificed in the same that Jesus the Christ sacrificed his life to unify man to God nor in the way the legendary Inikpi of the Igala kingdom gave her life for her people. These lives you talk about was taken from the owners by force for something they have no understanding of. These are lives of men , women and children who were only but trying to survive a pogrom aimed at them. They died trying to live. Their lives were taken by scavengers who have no love for them but for what lies beneath their soil.
The millions of lives that was lost Sir, was not for the unity of Nigeria but for an example of man's inhumanity to mankind. Man unkindness to mankind. Mans desperation for resources and disregard for life. And one day, Nigerians will be wise enough to know that even as the Gulf war and the 2001 attack on Iraq has nothing to do with the fight against terror nor weapon of mass destruction, but for selfish gain of some people, same way that the civil war of Nigeria had nothing to do with the unity of a country. But the subjugation and annexation of one region by the other.
I will close by saying, if indeed millions of people have died for the unity of the country, are you not saying Sir, that we have in our hands a country whose engine is fuelled with blood? A vampire country that requires regular supply of blood from millions of its populace (that coincidentally always comes from a particular region ) to survive? Should we continue to give lives just to keep a vampire alive? I don't think so. I am not an advocate of geographical amputation. But if that is what is needed to save the body, my medical friends will agree that then it becomes not just pertinent but imperative.
Let me close this write up here so as to give you and your colleagues in government enough time to look at and install the recommendations of the 2014 national Confab.
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