BIAFRA GENOCIDE CANNOT BE FORGIVEN

Edited by Osita Ebiem
Here below we shall try to rearrange some exchanges that transpired recently in Nigerian online forums. Please read and make up your own mind.

The exchanges started when Humphrey Achor with the email address; emachor@hotmail.com posted the story of Victor Moses, a Nigerian soccer player. Different people reacted to the story in different ways. We hope that each reader will react appropriately as they are persuaded.

From: Humphrey Achor emachor@hotmail.com
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 2:07 PM
Subject: [IgboWorldForum] Re: the story of victor Moses..

This is the story of a young boy whose parents were murdered during 2002 riots in Kaduna. He was aged 11 years at the time. His parents, Mr. Austine and Mrs. Josephine Moses, were missionaries until they met their untimely death. The boy left his house to play football but returned home to see that all his parents had labored for had been razed down and he would never see his mother and father again.

He was taken to London by his uncle almost immediately after the incident. While in London, he began deploying his football skills. Though his parents were murdered, his passion for football was never killed. He played football for his school and later for a local Tandrige League club until Crystal Palace FC approached him. From that point, his career progressed in leaps and bounds.

This player played for England's under 16, 17, 19 and 21 teams between 2005 and 2010 scoring 11 goals for England during this period. He later moved to Wigan Athletic and now he plays for Chelsea. This footballer is called VICTOR MOSES.

His story is a touching one, I share his pains. I also share his courage. He had a choice not to step into Nigeria again but he didn't take that option. When the call to serve his fatherland came, Moses dumped England and embraced Nigeria... That is patriotism!

Today, we see a Victor Moses bringing joy to every Nigerian including those who may have inspired his parent's death... That is Love!

On Sunday, Moses would stand for the National Anthem and pledge allegiance to a country that couldn't defend his parents... That is faith!

Moses would deliver the "African Cup of Nations" trophy to Nigeria not minding what had happened in the past... That is forgiveness! Moses rose through bitterness and despair to the limelight of hope and courage.

He never gave up on his country. He persevered... That is purpose!

If someone like Victor Moses, despite the bitter past, never gave up on Nigeria, then why should we....! ONE NIGERIA

The only group giving up on Nigeria is our political class. Why can't they stop looting d nation and learn from this player that they applaud in every game.

From: Osita Ebiem ositaebiem@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [IgboWorldForum] Re: the story of victor Moses

Contrary to the effect you would have wished that your story would inspire, it rather inspires a very negative effect on the thinking people who read your Victor Moses story. The lesson of your story is at the core of the reason why Nigeria and by extension the rest Black Race is in the doldrums. I see a very stupid and unthinking base animal in the young person you described in your story. The Victor Moses of your story is at best a selfish imbecile and an ingrate. Someone whose mother and father were murdered and he turns around to entertain and amuse the same people who murdered his parents. Such a person only thinks about himself and lives just for the moment. He turns his back on the country that saved, protected and nurtured him (Britain) to embrace the one that murdered his parents (Nigeria) that is the act of an unthinking base beast.

Your story is the reason why Nigeria and the Black Race are still groping in the dark and regressing. Most of the people tend to live just for the moment and for themselves so no one is willing to pursue justice and demand that wrongs be righted. People like your Victor Moses will not ask why and demand for honest and reasonable explanations all because they want to embrace and please their oppressor. Victor Moses has no moral right to forgive the unjust death of his parents. When he allows such foolish sentiment to becloud his reason, it is the society that suffers. He will bask in the "glory" of his stupid “forgiving” delusion while the society degenerates further to the dogs. The murderers will continue to kill with impunity because no one is willing to punish them.

Probably you are trying to equate your Victor Moses with the Biafra Genocide. There you missed it. Biafra and Biafrans will never forgive Nigeria and Nigerians for the murder of their people; 3.1 to 3.5 million. Biafra and Biafrans will continue to pursue justice and punishment on behalf of those murdered children, women and men of Biafra. No Igbo person or any other Biafran will rest until justice is done and Nigeria disintegrates.

Yours sincerely
Osita
From: OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU tvade3@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: ||NaijaObserver|| BIAFRA GENOCIDE CANNOT BE FORGIVEN

Osita spouting his usual hate filled self-delusions. We are yet to see the emergence of realistic, serious pro-Biafra thought and philosophy. What is prominent right now is the presence of hysteria and delusion in the name of pro-Biafra thought, like this piece by Osita Ebiem. I am happy to present the requirements for serious pro-Biafra thought and philosophy if people are interested.

Meanwhile, one keeps one's energy to oneself in the midst of thinking like that of Osita, Achebe and others which chooses to ignore the contradictions of Biafra such as the culpability of the leadership in the massive deaths of their people by refusing to surrender when they were all but defeated by 1969.

Thanks
From: OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU tvade3@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 9:48 AM
Subject: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: [talkhard] Re: ||NaijaObserver|| BIAFRA GENOCIDE CANNOT BE FORGIVEN

Is it Osita writing me privately on this issue? I said I don't want such private communication. Osita, you are living in a deluded heaven. Your black and white attitude to the war is comic at best. Most Nigerians and many Igbos won't take such ahistorical reasoning seriously. If you are interested, we can discuss realistic, insightful pro-Biafra discourse. Realistic and visionary Biafra philosophy – yes, philosophy. Such discourse does not exist yet among pro-Biafra thinkers. What we have now is wishful, emotive thinking that thinks it is a serious statement of the meaning of Biafra.

Thanks
Toyin
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Osita Ebiem ositaebiem@yahoo.com wrote:

Dear Toyin,
You know I would not and did not write you any private mail. Whatever you have read coming from me is posted on the public domain. The issue at stake is public and there is no reason to communicate with you on this matter on a private level. On issues like this there is no point for anyone to get hysterical. Let's all man up and face the fact that Nigeria government and its citizens committed genocide in Biafra. Nigeria and Nigerians murdered 3.1 to 3.5 million Igbo people and other Biafrans between 1966 and 1970.

We can all talk and philosophize after Nigerian government and its people have accepted culpability or guilt on Biafra Genocide. It's easy; to talk and teach philosophy. We can talk and teach Biafra and all she stands for after the guilty have been made to pay. In a normal world no one puts the cart before the horse. It's usually the other way round. First things should be done first. The first thing in this matter is getting the Nigerian state and its guilty citizens to pay for the crime they committed against Biafra and Biafrans.

I promise you we will talk and teach very lucid Biafran ideas that will enrich our collective human experience after Nigeria and such people like Gowon, Awolowo, Obasanjo, Muritala, Danjuma, Adekunle, etc. have been punished by a justly constituted tribunal and Nigeria is divided into several independent sovereign states. Nigeria's division is necessary because that is the only way we can permanently save Nigeria from itself. Let's as a people get used to the inevitability of dividing Nigeria along the naturally occurring inter-national lines. I wish you a great weekend.

Yours sincerely
Osita
From: OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU tvade3@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] Re: [talkhard] Re: ||NaijaObserver|| BIAFRA GENOCIDE CANNOT BE FORGIVEN

Someone with this email keeps writing me revcbobi@aol.com Bro Osita, I leave you to your fantasy, with all due respect. Nigerians won't take you seriously because they will ask you

1. Why did you go into a war for which you were not prepared, a war where you could not ensure the basic task of feeding your people?

2. Why did you not surrender when it was clear you had no food and you had lost by 1969?

3. Are you not to be blamed for those deaths of your people?

4. Is it not hypocrisy to refuse to surrender in war and blame your suffering on your opponent?

Most Igbos won't take you seriously because they have moved on and are fully entrenched in Nigeria. They will ask you which country's passport you hold, Nigerian or Biafran? You can repeat your claims from now till eternity. That won't make the claims to be taken seriously.

Toyin
Dear Toyin,
Thanks for your understanding. Biafra never needed to stockpile food and weapons before embarking on a war of self-defense and self-determination. No one does that in the real world. You fight back to defend yourself, your family and possession even when you know you may not win. The defense of honor, prestige and human dignity should never be based on your ability. Whenever you are in danger of real and imminent threat of extermination as Biafrans were and are still being threatened today in Nigeria, it's only right that you should go to war without counting the cost. What is at stake at this moment is your humanity. Go ahead and fight, don't wait until you can defeat your assailant. Win or lose you would have won; you would have won your humanity and respect. Biafra and Biafrans remain eternally justified in fighting that war while Nigeria and Nigerians remain the guilty ones. Eventually history will vindicate the just: Biafra and Biafrans. Very contrary to what you believe, no Igbo or other Biafrans have moved on. You will be surprised that every Igbo person know where their true allegiance lies; Biafra. Every Igbo and other Biafrans renounced forever their Nigerian citizenship on the 30th of May 1967. That declaration was solemn and eternal. You can take this to the bank. Thanks.

Best regards
Osita
From: ezejiofor ejike obijyke@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 20:46:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [IgboWorldForum] Story of victor Moses

Ike Enyiagu/Osita Ebiem,
You are both entitled to your respective options just as mosses is equally entitled to how he reacts and relate with people, be they murderers or not. It would be good if you cleanse yourselves of this deep hatred for you don't repay evil with evil. Forgiveness they say is like the scent of the flower on the heels of him that crushes the petal.

From: ike_enyiagu@yahoo.com
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [IgboWorldForum] Story of victor Moses

Ejike,
If you fail to understand the true meaning of forgiveness and how it comes, then you may never even understand the most common of things, even if you claim you do. And coming to talk about hatred, you obviously mistake foolishness for kindheartedness. From your line of thoughts, your children seem better off with their mother because your presence probably means nothing beyond a name: you can neither teach them rightly nor protect them. If you term the wisdom which has preserved the great countries where most of us have run to as hatred, then the Igbo have more ofekes to deal with. Forgiveness which engineers continued destruction which will lead to the extinction of any group is a curse at its best. People like you should shut up when the Igbo talk about things that matter most.

Ike Enyiagu
From: ike_enyiagu@yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [IgboWorldForum] Story of victor Moses

That would be the type of Igbo Nigerians would praise: a dung in the dung-hill. Isn't that the type of leaders the hell-bound Nigeria compels on the Igbo remnants: the Igbo who fraternizes with the murderers of his parents and siblings; the Igbo who celebrates the unjust deaths of his own in a mockery just to entertain his parents' murderers. The best brainwashing is to reduce a man below the level of an animal and then cut him off his thoughts by lifting him to a level of comfort he never imagined and there and then tell him your side of the world truth about true greatness and true living. He may live all his life believing it. Men have lived and passed away; it's their indelible imprints in others that count. As for this lost soul called Moses, he's to be more pitied than the Underwear Bomber, Farouk, because as Farouk tried to deal with his issues in a way that would have affected the innocents, this London-trained ofeke lives as a man with no flesh, no soul and no spirit. I wonder what drugs he takes to be able to sleep on the bed of those who wiped out his family, and then come out in the morning to entertain them in the arena like a Roman modern slave.

I spare no further thoughts on such except to term him and his likes and even the god he worships as RUBBISH.

Ike Enyiagu
From: ositaebiem@yahoo.com
Dear Ejike,
There is nothing personal about this. You don't need to become emotional about it. Igbo/Biafrans do not hate anyone but they will never forgive Nigeria and Nigerians. You may have to get used to it. I do not want to put it in any other way. You want it said in a politically correct language, you may wait indefinitely. But mark this truth; every time that an act of injustice is forgiven brings such society or people closer to the level of beasts. In no time such a society or people deteriorate to lawlessness and total state of anarchy just as you have it in Nigeria today. For Igbo people and other Biafrans not forgiving Nigeria and Nigerians is not because of hatred rather it's because of their love for the survival of humanity. It might be tough love but it's love all the same; the best kind of love.

Yours sincerely
Osita
From: ezejiofor ejike obijyke@yahoo.com
Osy,
I quite understand your stance on this.
Regards
Ejike
From: francegozi_chuke@yahoo.com
Osita, who are you speaking for? Yourself or Biafra or parents of Victor Moses? Victor Moses is healing, and healing fine. He is doing something for himself and also entertaining the world through his talent. Everybody including his uncle is proud of him. But you sit and speak and spit venom in faraway land, against a survivor. Love and forgiveness are virtues and assets that help victims become survivors and heroes. Wallowing in inordinate anger and self-pity are negative ends in themselves. They drain the energy and leave you lethargic. Please put your energy into good use like Victor did.

Frances Ngozi
From: dimunal@gmail.com
The writer of the story might have likened the Igbo with his fictional Victor Moses. Victor Moses is the stupidest of any human to have dumped the country, Britain, in a sense (Biafra) that made him who he is to embrace Nigeria. Nigerians and people like the writer think the Igbo are stupid too. Well we are stupid now as we keep turning the other cheek until our eyes are plucked off from us.

Livy DiMuna
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Jude Anyanwu ezenwajanya@hotmail.com wrote:

Why must one section of the country be preoccupied with murder and mayhem always while one other section's duty is to suffer martyrdom and show forgiveness. The murderous section of the country has just killed health workers sent to immunize its children. Soon poems and sonnets will be written extolling the patriotism of the killed workers. For how long shall we continue to bear to coexist with these troglodytes that constitute nothing but pipe C in the scheme of things in Nigeria?

Anyanwu Ezenwa J
From: todaynews@sbcglobal.net
Unfortunately the people in the North (the Muslims) causing this problem do not care about soccer, or sports in general. Victor Moses' story may not change their barbaric actions.

Otito Koro

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