ABUJA (Sundiata Post) To be fair I am never enamored of the particularly brainy or even professors coming up rulers. It looks silly in my eyes. But I was about changing my mind as I watched Professor Kingsley Moghalu make a sales pitch. The pitch was under the banner of Channels Television. And Moghalu was about his ware of being elected the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Time was 9pm, 30-07-18.
It was a great show and he was in his elements. Perhaps it can be said that if he is elected president, he did be the most eloquent Nigerian president ever. Despite all, he got his insights completely wrong, criminally wrong, in one crucial and definitive instance. It was on history and his judgment or lack thereof, of that history.
According to Moghalu, only two sets of Nigerian leaderships have the strong and right national/political/leadership worldviews. And to be politically correct may be, he listed the founder Nigerian leaders. He listed Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello and Obafemi Awolowo. While one may for nostalgic reasons give gate-passes to these three, Muoghalu’s next listing, to put it mildly, is a shameful scandal.
Muoghalu then listed Generals Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo, 2GMO, as those who had strong and life giving national worldviews. That is worldviews and thus life styles that if he is given a day in the sun, he did copy.
The points are as follows. 2GMO are not persons to be considered or to be deemed qualified of any worthy worldviews. If for instance Moghalu is a professor and or practitioner of political economics, law and diplomacy, the fact remains that there are other disciplines. And one of those is history.
It has now been historically established that 1. General Murtala Mohammed conducted, supervised and or acquiesced to the levying of genocide by troops under his direct command. And these happened under the guise of his fighting a war. And that was criminally and misanthropically against the civilized laws and conduct of wars in modern times. And Moghalu as a professor or practitioner of diplomatic science would be in the know. So is he denying himself, his knowledge or things he should know?
- General Olusegun Obasanjo, elected to serve such a man as General Mohammed, as deputy. By the act alone, General Obasanjo has retroactively acquiesced to and given approval to the genocidal and heinous deeds of his direct commander. And General Obasanjo is thus guilty by association in aiding genocide after the fact. And thus no less guilty. Our duty is not only to stop genocidaires but to bring them to justice. Failing to report and or concealing genocide is itself a genocidal act. And the criminal rite and prosecution of genocide is not time barred.
Additionally, the 2GMO under the guise of running a coup-purchased government, levied another genocide against the same people, the Igbo. I have written and detailed this clearly in my book: Nigeria: The Unreported Genocide Against the Igbo. If Moghalu has not read the book any good Samaritan should kindly purchase him a copy. Our leaders need to be up to date with their knowhow and assumptions.
That is with the 2GMO’s one lifetime they exacted two genocides on one people, the Igbo. And if Moghalu is not aware of these ordinary facts, facts of his own history, then this. Moghalu may not be considered a fit and proper person to be Igbo. But that is not even a sin of his. There are persons who elect to deny their DNA, history and or origins, for other replacement values. And sometimes these values include political power. History restrains us to condemn him in his choice of origin-options. It is a free world of several worldviews, including denying who you are for other gains.
However, Moghalu’s real and messy sin is that he has in his pursuit of power, and criminal ignorance, elected to anoint a genocidaire, a man who practices genocide, as a man who is his model. We are in trouble as a nation.
Now there are other details. We do not strictly censor 2GMO. It is up to them to do their worst if they so desire. However we are bound to doing our best insisting that civilization is the only thing worthy of seeking. And doing our best also includes reporting and analyzing, at the risk of life and breath, whatever it is that has happened in the open. So if 2GMO mass murdered and ethnically cleanses people in the open we shall so say and so analyze in the open. And this is even if they will add our numbers to the multitudes and numbers that they have killed.
Immediately this taken then the following. It is on historical records that between the conduct and levying of genocide on Igbo people in and or around Asaba, till General Mohammed was shot dead, he never apologized or showed remorse for the heinous and genocidal deeds which he conducted, supervised and or acquiesced to. This point is important.
The import of this is that whenever and wherever a man has done evil especially of the criminal not to speak of the genocidal order, there are processes to his coming to recompense for his deeds. The first is that he must admit to the conduct and or complicity in criminal or genocidal evil and admit that it is genocidal and evil. The second is that he must plead for forgiveness. Third he must wait on the good graces of those he has so wronged to admit him to the grace of his being forgiven. And if it is not given, he does not deserve it and thus he stands un-forgiven and damned. Being forgiven is not a human rights. Paying recompense is.
The import of this is that if you did evil, criminal and or genocidal evil, you cannot jump from the fact of it to that of being a philanthropist, to that of being a humanist. If you did it is all in vain.
So apparently it is this historical fault line jump or lacuna, that is warping Moghalu’s eyes. Let us assume but not concede that 2GMO had any model worldviews. That given, the fact of their not admitting their genocidal pasts, agreeing to its anti-human evil, seeking the face and grace of the aggrieved and god, and or failing to be subjected to the full weights of the law, nullifies and brings to naught whatever models they are deemed to be in possession of. This is the reason Hitler is no model, of anything, at least anything good.
If we do not insist on these standards of civilized conduct, it then follows that Shekaru the leader of Boko Haram can wash up tomorrow as a coup purchased Head of State of Nigeria and a pan Africanist to booth. And perhaps Moghalu, will be too blessed to serve him as an ambassador, to hell? Or will to serve as president after him without admitting to his condemnation? Or perhaps even fancying and admitting Shekaru as his worldview model hero?
So it is completely disgraceful if Moghalu is still Igbo, [we admit he has a human right to refuse to be or remain Igbo], that he has any or all of any or all aspects of the 2GMO as models.
And we have to warn interlopers who will be saying it is history, it is war, it is gone. It is this same spineless compromises over civilization and its processes, that brought us to this pass. In fact the unitary government upon Nigeria was set up on the assumption that 2GMO, especially Mohammed was a saint, a political saint. Yet there are no such data to support his canonization. The point is if we had in his life told him that as a genocidaire he is not a fit and proper person to lead nations, Nigeria would not today be in a shithole.
But it was the same Moghalu-style criminal carelessness or ignorance or pursuit of self interest that drove some of our past leaders to sell of their souls for office. They were all there in the 1970s rationalizing their self interest or criminal ignorance. To give an example rather than protest and abjure on the criminal imposition of chieftaincy order in Igbo land, a certain Igbo leader merely protested. But he quickly helped corner one for his connections or relations as Igwe. Today there is no year in Igbo land that 100s of persons and properties worth billions are not lost due to the genocidal chieftaincy order the 2GMO carefully implanted in Igbo land.
In a related matter Dr. Obadiah O. Mailafia deputy governor was on AIT yesterday. According to him Europeans and especially the British are dubious and interested in the destruction of Nigeria. And they play all tricks to see to this. Great. But this is what we have said of Gowon’s rejection of the Aburi accord. It was engineered by the British. Yet felas like Mailafia has held on to the fact that Gowon who obeyed the British to trigger and exact genocide on the Igbo is a hero. But now that the same scenario has turned and is upon them, the British are suddenly evil eyed. And what is happening in the middle belt according to him is genocide. But he has never been seen admitting to Gowon as a genocidaire.
Point is that Nigerians are humanists only with themselves. Yet humanism is in other feeling. I feel pity for Mailafia and his people. I feel pity for them. But as a historian I did tell him recount your sins and or the sins of your fathers and uncles. I can say authoritatively if Gowon and gowonism had been condemned we won’t be into Boko Haram today, we won’t be into barbarism today.
We are all separated by our heroes. So the middle belters have their heroes so the Yoruba and the Hausa Fulani. I don’t mind the Igbo being universalists. But they must not admit their mass murderers to being their heroes. Except the hidden lore is that to be human, to be Nigerian you have to stop being Igbo. We won’t buy that. Yes no sins of man is unforgivable. But we won’t ever elect genocidaire against the Igbo, who refuses to confess his sins a hero of the Igbo, a proud and mighty peoples. That would be worse than Jews electing Hitler a Saint and praying to Saint Hitler thereof. Moghalu ronu
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