I have little doubt that Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of
State for Petroleum Resources and Energy, regrets the day that he left the
relative comfort of the private sector and entered the stormy waters of
Nigerian politics.
I am sure that he curses the day that he met President
Muhammadu Buhari, that he opted to join the APC and that he accepted the
long-awaited and much sought after invitation to be a member of his troubled
cabinet and fast-sinking government.
As the saying goes, “not all that glitters is gold” and as
the fiery and courageous black American civil rights leader and cleric, Malcom
X, once said, “in the final analysis, whether he be a house nigger or a field
nigger, a nigger remains a nigger and one day ‘masser’ still gonna give him a
damn good whoppin!”
Today Kachikwu has finally come to understand and hopefully
accept the fact that no matter how much he tried to be a loyal and true member
of Buhari’s kitchen cabinet and inner circle and no matter how much he
considered himself to be a key and indispensible member of the tyrant’s feared
and dreaded cabal, he remains nothing but the proverbial “house nigger” who is
at best tolerated by his “masser” and owner and who is being played and
upstaged by a very small boy and a relatively junior member of the Hausa Fulani
ruling elite by the name of Maikanti Baru that has been mandated to run the
affairs of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The golden rule is as follows: all slaves and house niggers
must know their place and they must never venture to cross the line or to join
issues or cultivate the nerve and temerity to challenge the authority of ANY of
the “masser’s” sons, including the most trucluent, impudent, obnoxious,
objectionable and stubborn ones.
The “masser’s” son may know next to nothing and he may be
rotten and vile in all his ways yet his bloodline and race still sets him
apart: he was “born to rule” and remains the head whilst house niggers like
Kachikwu and the rest of us were “born to serve” and remain the tail.
And that is the story of Nigeria. That is why a fine and
upstanding Governor like Willie Obiano of Anambra state will sit before
President Muhammadu Buhari, remove his beautiful fedora hat and place it on his
lap like a pliant puppy and obedient little schoolboy and pay homage and
obesience to the maximum dictator.
He knows his place. He knows how to behave in front of
“masser”, he knows never to look him in the eye and he knows that “masser” is
to be feared, reverred, worshipped and loved by every good house nigger and
slave as if he were God.
It is in this context that one must ask why Kachikwu should
be in the least bit surprised that he has not been granted access to President
Buhari and that the northern Managing Director of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation has completely usurped his functions and undermined his
authority?
Did he really expect things to be any different in a Buhari
administration? Has he forgotten that he is Igbo? Has he forgotten that his
people are part of those that the President once disdainfully referred to as
the “5 per cent”?
When I said that Buhari hated the Igbo some time back many
were shocked, many disputed my assertion, many were in disbelief and many were
in denial even when the evidence to prove and substantiate my assertion was
incontrivertible and compelling.
Today a good number of hitherto and erstwhile doubting
Thomas’, cynics and skeptics have seen the light, finally agreed with me and
voiced their observations and concerns loudly and publicly.
The President himself affirmed our grave allegations and
confirmed our worst fears during the course of his reprehensible, uninspiring
and downright shameful Independence Day speech in which he insulted the Igbo
elders and leaders and basicallly told them to go and control their children
and wards.
This is bad enough but permit me to share something with you
today that is even more disconcerting and troubling: the truth is that deep
down Buhari has nothing but contempt for southerners, Middle Belters and Christians.
As painful as it is for some to hear and as difficult as it
is for others to accept, there it is. That is the BITTER TRUTH!
Sadly Ibe Kachikwu jumped in the sack with the wrong set of
people. He got into bed with a brood of vipers and a horde of vampires who
secretly hate and despise his own.
He chose to wine and dine with an insatiable and rappacious
set of self-seeking, self-serving, flesh-eating, blood-drinking,
spirit-crushing, destiny-destroying and soul-wounding demons and devils and now
the chickens have come home to roost.
He chose to overlook the fact that to Buhari and his tiny
cabal of ethnic and religious supremacists ALL southerners and Middle Belters
are second class citizens and dispensable slaves.
And neither will his mouthwatering and earth-shaking
revelations about the monuemental fraud, graft and corruption that is going on
under his watch at the Petroleum Resources Ministry in any way help or protect
him.
As a matter of fact his singing and spiling the beans will
rather make things worse for him because sooner or later those he has
courageously chosen to expose will hit back with all the force and fury of a
wounded lion and with the venom and spite of a cuckolded husband and a cheated
wife.
From what I have seen and heard the truth is that the EFCC
are already in the process of a detailed investigation and are closing in on
him.
These people are blackmailers and gangsters.
To them siphoning 24 billion USD from the coffers of the
Northern (sorry I meant “Nigerian”) National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by
awarding questionable and fake contracts outside of due process means
absolutely nothing. As a matter of fact that is what is expected of their
cronies and agents.
Where else will they get the money for Buhari’s 2019
presidential campaign from?
My friend and brother Reno Omokri captured the situation
rather well when he wrote the following:
“the first time Muhammadu Buhari was Petroleum Minister in
the 1970s, Fela sang ‘2.8 billion Naira missing’. Now he is Petroleum Minister
again and Kachikwu is singing $26 billion missing! Why is it that huge billions
tend to go missing or spent without due process whenever Buhari is Minister of
Petroleum? However, Kachikwu was naive for writing that letter to Buhari! He
does not know that Baru was brought in to do exactly what he is doing!”
Omokri is absolutely right. What a messy and stinking
cesspool and pit of poisonous snakes Ibe Kachikwu has found himself in.
And quite apart from all that it must be a living nightmare
and pure hell for an intelligent, well-educated, enlightened, cosmopolitan,
Harvard-trained former Shell executive and Federal Minister to have his powers
curtailed and usurped and to be treated with contempt and disdain by the Chief
Executive Officer of a corporation that is under his own Ministry!
This is made even worse by the fact that that Chief
Executive Officer probably, if at all, went to some fourth-rate rodent-infested
“school” or “university” near the borders of Chad or Niger Republic or some
other dubious institution of “higher learning” not too far from the dusty, dry
and barren sand slopes of the Sahara desert.
Poor Ibe Kachikwu! I guess that he has to live with the
consequences of the choices that he has made. His situation reminds me of the
verse in the Holy scriptures that says it is “a great evil under the sun when
the sons of slaves ride around on horseback whilst the sons of the King are
walk around on bare feet”.
This goes against the natura order of things and something
ought to be done about it. My first prayer for him is that he does a thorough
spiritual search and attempts to discover who and what his principal, President
Muhammadu Buhari, really is and what he seeks to achieve in our country.
My second prayer is that he finds the decency and courage to
resign from the government that he serves before it is too late, before they
turn on him and before he is thoroughly discredited and rubbished out of office
by his traducers and powerful adversaries.
And finally my third prayer is that he restores his
confidence, his self-respect and his dignity, that he stops walking around
barefoot, that he finds and puts on his royal shoes and that he mounts and
rides his horse.
Gone are the days that he should be running behind the
carriages and horses of slaves and working for those that do not have ten
percent of his wisdom and knowledge. He is far better than that.
Yet whatever he chooses to say or do one thing is clear: in
Nigeria the keepers of wealth are not the keepers of compassion.
They are cruel and relentless and their greed and wickedness
knows no bounds. They hate more than any other yet they accuse others of hate
speech.
They steal more than any other yet they accuse others
ofstealing and corruption. They kill more than any other yet they accuse others
of killing.
They engender and enthrone modern-day apartheid, fascism and
slavery more than any other yet they accuse others of espousing and enunciating
their very own deep-seated and insidious intolerance and racism and their
unbridled and perfdious religious bigotry.
They are a government of double standards, lies and deceit.
A government that uses its army to commit mass murder, genocide and ethnic
cleansing against its own people.
A government that protects, encourages and supports the
barbaric activities of evi and deadly Janjaweed ethnic militias that slaughter
and dispossess innocent souls, including defenceless women and children, in the
name of herding cattle.
A government that cannot stomach strong opposition or
critical and consistent criticism. A government that is so terrified of its own
shadow and that is so averse to righteousness, wholesomeness, equity and truth
that it is ready to wipe out a whole race of people simply to deny them their
right of self-determination and silence their voices.
They are a government of the corrupt, for the corrupt and by
the corrupt: a government whose sole purpose and not so hidden agenda is to
re-establish the hegemony of the core Muslim north and turn the Nigerian people
and state into a colony of servile vassals, gutless quislings, broken serfs and
hopeless slaves.
Yet they shall fail because, like the brilliant, beautiful,
dazziling and passionate American Amazon, Dana Loesch, recently said, “we will
shatter their violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth”.
They shall fail because history testifies to the fact that
no matter how unyielding, brutal, savage, relentless, deceitful, mendacious and
bloodthirsty they may be, the agents of satan and the forces of darkness have
NEVER been able to conquer, defeat or overwhelm the children of God and the
spirit of the people.
It shall be no different in our shores. It is only a matter
of time.
The notion of a united Nigeria after the 2017 genocide
against the Igbo and state-sponsored terrorism coupled with the wholesale
rejection of the idea of restructuring by the core north is absurd and
far-fetched.
There cannot be peace where there is no justice. There
cannot be tranquility and harmony where there is inequality. There cannot be
love and peaceful co-existence where there is hate, condescension and fascistic
philosophies. There cannot be camaraderie and fellowship where the tyrant
unleashes the full force of his tyranny against the people.
The fact of the matter is that if he continues to send his
army to kill innocent civilians, if he refuses to bring to justice the military
personnel that slaughtered the Shiite Muslims two years ago and that have been
murdering young Igbos and IPOB members since he came to power and if he
continues to condone the mass murder of northern Christians and Middle Belters
by his Fulani kinsmen and herdsmen the resistance and opposition to his
administration will continue to be relentless and the agitation for restructuring
and the quest to exercise the right of self-deternination by the various ethnic
groups in our country will continue to increase and become far more aggressive
and pronounced.
Many may suffer. Many may be killed. Many may be detained
and incarcerated. Many may be wrongly accused, villified and in bondage. Many
may be dispossesed, humiliated and scattered.
Many may be tortured, brutalised, maimed and scarred and
many may suffer all shades and manners of indignity, shame, poverty, lack,
deprivation and hunger.
Yet despite all these deep, harrowing and seemingly endless
travails, one thing is sure: our liberation shall eventually come because no
matter how dark the night, joy comes in the morning. The Bible says “many are
the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him of them all”.
In the end God’s glorious light shall bring the tyrant to
his knees, dispel the darkness and break the chains of servitude, subjugation
and evil.
In the end deliverance, freedom, joy, peace, justice,
abundance, vindication and the victorious lamp of liberty shall rise from Zion
as the freedom bell rings and our nation is healed and restored.
In the end the Lord’s will shall be done, His counsel shall
stand, His pupose shall be established, His name shall be glorified and we
shall prevail.
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