The Silent Pogroms In The South-East -By J. Ezike

The repeated acts of silent pogroms and organized massacre of Igbos has taken another episode in Ebonyi State. Defenceless Igbos, youths, children and women butchered by the Fulani herdsmen. Igbo land has been absolutely bloodied by this maddening episodes of killings of the innocents. The cries of the people seem not to be pulsing around us. Its almost as if the Igbos are now living in the Devil’s House and are now existing under the mercy of the Fulani oligarchy.

Truth be told, if the Caliphate wanted to spill our blood, it could, because it had power and we didn’t. If the Caliphate treated us like animals and infidels, it was because it knew it had absolute control over our lives – our ambitions and desires. And the final irony: should the Igbos refuse this attack and lash out at the Caliphate, Nigeria would have a name for them, too, a name that could cage and incarcerate the Igbos just as good. They would call them – Terrorist. Militant. Secessionist.

The Igbo land has been locked in a suddenly, unspoken desperate war. A war to instill fear, to de-populate the land and “delegitimize the self-determination movement for independence.” At best, this evil is a revelation of Nigeria’s final endings. At worst, a silent pogrom against the Igbos.

We are beginning to see a new phase of the Igbo pogroms in its simplicity and stealth. It reminds us of 1966, when the Igbo race was on Devil’s heels, hunted down and brutally massacred in their millions all over Nigeria.

The Igbos have paid a price too heavy for the sake of Nigeria’s longevity. And only General Chukwuemeka Ojukwu’s pathway seems to offer safety and preservation of the Igbo race. I mean, the pathway to outright freedom through referendum as the only means to halt the political killings in Igbo land and the extermination of the Igbos.

The South-East Governors have continued to maintain evil silence so as not to offend the Caliphate and the Fulani oligarchy. They had brought betrayal into the struggle for the safety and preservation of the Igbo race. Their aim is to puncture the self-determination movement by “criminalizing the IPOB and other genuine factions fighting for the freedom of the Igbo people.” These South-East governors would rather sacrifice their own people to save their political ambitions.

The idea that Igbo’s survival depended on One-Nigeria remains a heresy. The entire Igbo land is still going through the motions of silent pogroms in places like Orsu, Orlu, Ihiala, Lilu, just to mention a few. And it appears as if, our worst fears haven’t come to pass. Let’s face the fact, there are enough of us in Igbo land to constitute a separate nation. And we cannot continue to be forced in a union that seeks our extinction. This is the reason for the Biafra revolution and agitation.

Why should we get lumped in with marauders and blood suckers if we don’t have to? The Caliphate and the Fulani oligarchy has never been outraged by the silent pogroms in the South-East. It is in their culture and religion to wield brutal force, to conquer and to colonize. They are not after the good of the Igbos but are simply working for our extinction and total destruction.

It is now necessary for the South-East governors to prove which side they are on, to show their loyalty to Igbos safety and preservation or join the Fulani oligarchy to do the opposite.

The way forward is not to watch and pray and expect God to fall from the sky and take over our responsibility. The South-East governors must call a spade, a spade. They must confront the Fulani oligarchy and demand the outright exit of the herdsmen from Igbo land.

J.Ezike can be reached at: johnpaulezike1000@gmail.com