Has
‘Living fire begets cold, impotent ash?’
This
quotation is taken from Things Fall Apart
page 51. Where are the men of valour in the Igbo land? Have the living fire
beget cold impotent ash? Where are our politicians? No, not the weeping
governors, the effeminate ones that will cry and declare two days fasting and prayer amidst the loss
of innocent lives!
I
am not talking about those that will quickly issue a statement when a non-Igbo
is allegedly killed by IPOB but keeps silent when his fellow brothers and
sisters are massacred by non-Igbos, whether in uniform or not!
The
man has died indeed! According to Soyinka, ‘The man died in him who in the face
of tyranny and oppression kept silent!’
And
I add, ‘The man has died in the face of any Igbo politician who kept quiet and
wept when his kinsmen and woman were massacred in their homeland!’
‘The
man has died in any of us who kept quiet and issue no statement just to please
his pay master, the oligarchs, who has and had kept us down!’
‘“The
man has really died in him who continue to wallow in the hypocritical
patriotism of ‘ONE NIGERIA’ when his kindred and clan are being wiped out!
The
man has really died!
It
aches the heart and drains the marrow in what is happening in our land today!
My
brothers and sisters "Let us not reason like cowards, If a man comes into
my hut and defecates on the floor, what do I do? Do I shut my eyes? No! I take
a stick and break his head. That is what a man does. (Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart p.52).
It
is time for us to wield a stick and break the head of anyone that defecates in
our house!
Ndeewonu!
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