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THANKS to the past
two years’ extraordinarily imaginative work on the ground in Biafra and overseas
by the Indigenous People of Biafra, led by Nnamdi Kanu, the Biafra freedom
movement has now moved the Biafra restoration-of-independence quest inexorably
on the path of fruition. Never, since the beginning of the Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led genocidist Nigeria’s occupation
of Biafra on 13 January 1970, has the resistance been so assured that it has
found this trajectory to victory.
IT IS precisely
this breakthrough that explains the dire straits of desperation that the
genocidist regime and its grouping of quislings-of-occupation find themselves
presently: shooting Igbo youth at sight … forcefully vaccinating Igbo school
children at sight with unknown “vaccines” … shooting Igbo youth at sight …
forcefully vaccinating Igbo school children at sight with unknown “vaccines” …
(John Coltrane Quartet, “Psalm” {part-IV of A Love Supreme suite} [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 9 December 1964])
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe CELEBRATED Afro-beat musician, bandleader and one of just a handful of genocidist Nigeria public figures, particularly in the Lagos and west region of Awolowoist/Awolowoid/Adekunleist agglomeration of Igbo genocide perpetrators and/or denialists, who consistently and unequivocally condemns the Igbo genocide (as he evocatively reminds the world in his authorised biography, Carlos Moore, Fela:The Bitch of a Life, Lawrence Hill, 2009: 47-49: “The Biafrans were right … That’s evident now … The I[g]bo were right … The Biafrans were f***ing right to secede...”), untiringly and expansive critic of regimes in “post”-Igbo genocide age-of-pestilence Nigeria, employing the expressive lyrics of his myriads of compositions and the operatic drive of his orchestra to assail genocidist sergeants and “generals” and corporals and “colonels” and financiers and politicians and their cohorts who control and wheel and deal in the kakistocratic lair that calls itself Nigeria
(Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Africa 70, “Everything Scatter” [recorded: LP Nigeria, Coconut PMLP1000, 1975])
TODAY marks one
month since the 14 September 2017 genocidist Nigeria military stormed the home
of Nnamdi Kanu’s parents at Afaraukwu-Ibeku, eastcentral Biafra. Consequently,
the whereabouts of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra (constituted integrally in the Biafra freedom
movement), and his parents, remain unknown. Scores of the Kanus’ relatives
and friends were murdered during the assault and scores of others are still
unaccounted for. GENOCIDIST Nigeria
surely knows that it will account for the safety of Nnamdi Kanu and his parents
and take full responsibility of the consequences of that savage raid on a
family home.
(The New York Contemporary Five, “Consequences” [personnel: Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; Don Cherry, pocket trumpet; John Tchicai, alto saxophone; Don Moore, bass; JC Moses, drums; recorded: live, Jazzhus Montmarte, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 November 1963])
Piano virtuoso, arguably the most influential jazz pianist in history
(Art Tatum Trio, “Blues in C” [personnel: Tatum, piano; Benny Carter, alto saxophone; Louie Bellson, drums; recorded: Pablo Group, New York, US, 25 June 1954])
AWARD-WINNING prolific poet, novelist, children’s writer, editor, biographer, historian, and librarian, whose work plays a cardinal role in the emergence of contemporary African American letters
(Andrew Hill Quartet, “Cantarnos”[personnel: Hill,
piano; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Richard Davis,
bass; Roy Haynes, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, US, 8 November 1963])
THE FOLLOWING views, posted here completely
unedited, are derived from the Facebook wall of each commentator except that
of Dr Chin Akano’s which comes from Carol Munday’s wall:
Chin Akano (medical doctor)
I
have seen a few video clips and posts regarding the so called charitable
immunisation exercise allegedly being carried out by soldiers in Anambra. I
have also heard that children are being immunised without parental consent.
To me this is criminal. It can only happen in a primitive country. For starters
you cannot immunise a child without parental or guardian consent. It’s child
abuse and assault. Secondly you must know a child’s immunisation history before
you administer a vaccine to avoid repeating those that the child has already
developed immunity against, unless a serological test confirmed that the
immunity is absent or partial. Also some children may have allergies which
could lead to fatal outcomes if they are vaccinated. You cannot also vaccinate
an ill child and some vaccines contain live organisms which can cause fever and
even febrile convulsion if unchecked, so the parents need to be properly
counselled prior to vaccinating their wards. Pls this barbaric and unsolicited
nonsense must stop pronto.
Chikwendu
Anyanwu (Catholic priest and commentator)
A constrictor cannot be a lifesaver. So it is
reasonable to reject anything medical from a python.
George C E Enyoazu (social critic)
One of the numerous problems of
Nigeria is the systematic assigning of the wrong job to the wrong people. A
trained engineer is encouraged to do the job of a medical doctor or a lawyer.
In the same vein, someone without a vocational training at all is assigned the
job of an automobile mechanic or a carpenter. Thus, the military who ordinarily
should mark the external enemy have found themselves with no job of substance
to do, hence, they find their way into national politics, producing misleaders,
such as Buhari.Because the army and other segments
of the armed forces are idle, they are programmed to kill and brutalize hapless
citizens as we've seen in the ill-fated Oppression Python Dance II in the South
East.
As if they were not satisfied with
the scale of damage and destruction inflicted on the Igbo civilian population,
the army started forcing their way into schools in the region, claiming that
they were there for a free medical mission to pupils. The most irritating of
this uncouth imposture is forcing little kids at gun point to be vaccinated.
The question has been why the forced vaccination? When did the job of the
Ministry of Health become that of the army, especially an army with a notoriety
for killing Igbo youths under the flimsiest guise?Flashback to my childhood days. The
Health authorities announced a periodic inoculation exercise for kids. Parents
would willingly take their wards to the designated centres. This was done
devoid of any force, coercion, threat or bullish intrusion into the private lives
of families. Every parent realised it was in the child's interest to be
inoculated. So, we all got the jab on the upper arm. The scar remains till
date.Contrary to today's Ministry of
Health doing the job, the army who are in a killing field in Biafraland have
suddenly extended their obnoxious services to inoculating our children without
our consent; whether we like it or not.
What sort of repressive society is
this? Whose idea was it?Interestingly, the Imo State Chapter
of the Nigerian Medical Association has risen to the occasion by faulting the
so-called army inoculation, and advised parents and schools not to submit to
that. Very succinct to the letter.Embarrassed by the pandemonium it has
caused as pupils and their parents were running helter skelter to avoid it in
Anambra State, the unusual voice of the State governor, Willie Obiano was heard
asking the army to suspend the exercise, pending enough sensitization. One
begins to imagine that an Igbo governor could now advise the army to stop! But
when our youth were being mauled to death by army bullets in Asaba, Nkpor and
Abia State, no Igbo governor could raise a finger of protestation. No Igbo
politician advised the ruthless army to hold back.The good news though is that the Igbo
populace have zero-trust where the Nigerian Army are concerned. Any politician
who thinks that a sensitization exercise would be a fore-runner of an army
inoculation exercise on our children should please get real. An Igbo adage says,
“the lizard marks the footsteps of those who would pelt it”. In this era of
unconscionable terror of Fulani herdsmen, and 97% versus 5% voting pattern,
monkeypox and army rampage in the East, everyone should concentrate on their
vocational training. Army's vaccination in the East is ill-willed!
Osita Ezeliora (academic)
Only a lunatic
would suggest that Nd’Igbo should go for any form of vaccination from a hateful
regime that only weeks ago murdered our sons in broad daylight. Only a
monumental idiot would advise onye Igbo
obuna to accept possibly poisoned chemicals when only recently our children
were suffocated in mud water while many others were brutally shot dead… Any
clown of a priest that tells parents to go for any vaccination at this stage
deserves the combined visitation of Amadioha, Udo and Ogwugwu... And even more:
the visitation of angry Igbo mob. Ndi
aruru ana kagbulu onwe fa n’uka!!!!
(The New York Contemporary Five plays Don Cherry’s composition, “Consequences” [personnel: Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; Cherry, pocket trumpet; John Tchicai, alto saxophone; Don Moore, bass; JC Moses, drums; recorded: live, Jazzhus Montmarte, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 November 1963])
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is specialist on the state and on genocide & wars in Africa in the post-1966 epoch – beginning with the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-present day, the foundational and most gruesome genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa. 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of this nation’s population were murdered by Nigeria and its allies, principally Britain. Africa and the rest of the world largely stood by and watched as the perpetrators enacted this horror most ruthlessly. The world could have stopped this genocide; the world should have stopped this genocide. This genocide inaugurated Africa’s current age of pestilence. During the period, 12 million additional Africans have been murdered in further genocide in Rwanda (1994), Zaïre/DRCongo (variously, since the late 1990s) and Darfur – west of the Sudan – (since 2004) and in other wars in Africa. African peoples have, presently, no other choice but exit/dismantle the extant genocide-state (the bane of their existence & progress) & construct own nation-centred states that serve their interests. He is author of several books & papers on the subject and his new book is entitled The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019).
