A country that has never passed through civil war,
terrorism, disaster, plagues etc, that country hardly completes the process of
development. Countries like America, Germany, China, Japan, Israel Vietnam,
Korea, Russia, are countries which development took place after their civil
wars, but yet Nigeria has moved backward from development.
The people of the south-eastern Nigeria (Igbos) are
the people known to be practical and creative, when talking about development
in Nigeria they are the referred to. They are the most successful, very gifted,
aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by
their neighbors.
For that matter, Nigerians fear the day the Igbos
will gain their freedom because they are the ones that have managed to keep
development going on but yet they are being suppressed and intimidated. They
don’t want the Igbos to have the freedom to the kind of development that will
equip them to have their own independence, so they keep suppressing,
frustrating and disuniting them against one another.
During the civil war in 1967, Biafrans manufactured
war planes, armored tanks, local refineries, bombs etc, out of scrap metals,
but yet in this 2018 Nigerian government still goes abroad to buy military
helicopters, planes, war equipment and vehicles, rather than empowering and
patronizing the creativity that managed to survive after the years, they try to
destroy and bury them.
Take a look at Innson Vehicle Production in Nigeria
located in the South-east, which the Nigerian government has made series of
attempt to relocate the company to the north and south-west, now they are using
some unscrupulous government and private agencies trying to destabilize and
destroy the organization.
Other cases are Ibeto; cement factory which the
Nigerian government has consistently stripped off their license to operate, the
refusal to build for the south-east the things that will hasten development in
the region like sea ports, international airports, factories and so on.
The south-east region has only received little of
the vast opportunities been offered to other geopolitical regions but yet far
developed than most of these regions. Even the little development done on these
other regions were mostly done by the Igbos.
Yet they still want to tax the every other Nigerians
for monies which they will use to develop the north, they are talking about
adding 500% tariff to beer in Nigeria, meaning that the cost of beer will
skyrocket then they will take the additional money to repair the damaged that boko
haram did in the northern parts, knowing fully well that an average northerner
does not drink.
They all want the Igbos to be dependent and
miserable, in that manner they will not seek for independence when the truth
remains that Nigeria will never progress if with the oppression of the Igbos
since they are the gifted in development.
No comments:
Post a Comment