27/12/2021
DO NOT TARNISH THE IMAGE OF THE IGBOS.
The Igbo are over 60m people scattered all over the world. Whenever the names of those who are high achievers and represents Nigeria in many invents devoid of quota system are called, the names are always majority Igbo.
The majority of the names and of course the prominent names in the Nigerian national team, the Super Eagles (men) and Super Falcons (women) are dominated by the Igbo.
When the roll-call of the best performing students in the US are called, the names are always the Igbo.
When you mention the most educated immigrant group in the US of Nigerian origin, the majority of names are always Igbo.
Whenever there are lists of most innovative and successful foreign nationals of Nigerian origin all over the western hemisphere, from Australia to Europe to America and even to the far East, the usual names are always Igbo.
The shinning lights of the Nigerian technocrats are mostly the Igbo and the records are there. They are renowned, not just in Nigeria, but very much commands presence all over the world, in World Bank, IMF etc.
In the great Novel called the "The Arrow of God" written by one of the greatest writers and story teller in the world and a great Igbo son in the person of "Chinua Achebe" of blessed memory the author of another book, a masterpiece "The Things Fall Apart" which has been translated to over 50 other languages around the world. In that book, The Arrow of God a universal truth was reaffirmed, which says: "in the house of a great man, there are thieves, liars, saints, good and bad people".
This is the samething with the Igbo and of course any other group in the world. The Igbo are not immune to producing the headache of the society just the same way they are not found wanting in producing the finest of the society.
Thus, having said that over 40m fine people can't be condemned because of the few erring members of her clan. The Igbo are Noble people, and are achievement driven. They are the cord that holds Nigeria, and any day Nigeria let the Igbo go and establish their own country, call it Biafra, Nigeria will crash like a wine glass that fell on a paved floor.
Again, it is an established fact that when the erring members of the Igbo commits a crime anywhere in the world, the gutter media in Nigeria will quickly brand them Igbo or specify the states of the Igbo where he/she comes from. I have no problem with this, however, when the same persons win laurels, accolades and anything positive in the world, the same gutter media will brand them as Nigerians. This is utter and annoying hypocrisy and a generational drive to always paint the Igbo in a bad light while taking credits of her positive heights all over the world.
Then again, the same media and especially the social media, when an Ikechukwu, Emeka, Osita, Uche, Ugochukwu, Nzeogwu from Delta or Rivers state commits a crime he will automatically become Igbo by default. I have no problem with this as they are truly and unquestionably Igbo through and through. However, the same people will be branded Deltan and Rivers man when it suit their narratives, sadly some elements in the said group validates this stupid and idiotic claims of Uche, Emeka, Osita etc not being Igbo but that vigour is always silent whenever any of them commits crime and is branded Igbo.
Then you see how the media in Nigeria are constantly dividing the Igbo with their hypocrisy. It is on record that Vilifying and hating the Igbo is the only thing that unites other Nigerians second to only Football/Soccer.
The Igbo are like seeds and they grow even when not successfully planted. Over 3m of her kith and kin were murdered by the Nigeria government in connivance with Britain between 1967-1970 for daring to chart their course in a new country, Biafra. Where they felt protected and saved from annihilation. The evil Nigeria still brought the genocide into their corridors and by the end of the 30 months genocide, over 3 million of them were murdered in the remorseless genocide against a people. At the end of the war, they were economically strangulated and were technically turned beggers in the minds of Nigerians. All their assets were confiscated and branded abandoned properties. Their monies regardless of how much they had were seized by Nigeria and they were given only £20 to start life, not minding if they have a million pounds in their bank accounts. That is how evil Nigeria is towards the Igbo. Okay, let me not bore you with another horrendous history of the masacre and crimes against humanity commited by Nigerians against the Igbo.
Dear Nd'Igbo, ekwulu wéé sị na ndị ndị iro gbara gburugburu n'eche onwe há nche. We must therefore, dụọ onwe anyị ọdụ, tịnye ányá ọfụma wéé dụọ ndị bé ányị ọdụ ma ka ego iké. Ego chụgbụọ zọgbuo, ego mbụtẹ̀, ego ọkụ, ego ebe sịrị bute ịsị ma ya lụọ ụlọ adịghị mma. Ị́he a na-eme m ezigbote ịhere nke ukuu, oge ọbụna ụdị Ị́he a pụtara ọbụrụ sọsọ áhà ndị bé ányị g' ejupụta na-yà bụ ịhe. K'anyị wepụ kene ákà ná ajọ ìhè dịka nkea bikonu. K'anyị wepụ kene áká enwe n'ofe.
Going forward, we must search our conscience as people of reason to condemn evil by its name. Crime has no ethnic group, it has no race and no people are immune to it. Criminals must be treated as criminals and excused from their race. I condemn in totality any type of crime but I am against painting a whole people bad because of the erring few members of such group.
—I am Cosmic Macduff
(Master Life Coach) Lover of Humanity
And, I am for the World...