I listened to the message by my Noble Colleague and friend, ZACK ORJI, extolling and praising President TINUBU for remembering the South East Region by establishing the SEDC and other infrastructures. To Zack Orji, President Tinubu has done what the Nigerian Government could not do for 55 and half years since after the Biafra-Nigeria war.
I addressed him as my Noble Colleague and friend because we were schoolmates and close friends and graduated as Estate Surveyors and Valuers from the same Department at UNEC. He chose the Film Making industry and Media consultancy work while I chose professional practice. He has done well for himself but we are talking about the general good and wellbeing of a people traumatized ,the Igbo Nation, and not personal achievements.
Well, let ZACK ORJI know that implementing the 3Rs after 55 years is too late. The Igbo Nation has moved on in spite of the hatred and marginalisation against the South East. We survived for 55 years.
I heard him quoting the scriptures. Surely, the Igbo people have fulfilled the scriptures in 2 Cor. 4: 8 – 9 that say, ” We are afflicted and attacked on every side but not crushed. We are perplexed but not in despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken by our God, cast down but not destroyed”.
We have learnt to endure hardship and survive through hardship as good soldiers of Christ, 2 Tim. 2: 3.
We have passed through the fire and were not consumed by the fire and through the waters of persecution but were not swallowed.
What the Igbo Nation wants is REGIONAL AUTONOMY and RESTRUCTURING of Nigeria based on a New Constitution that is truly the People’s Constitution.
If the present Constitution is amended to include a clause guaranteeing Devolution of Power to the Regions so that every region would govern itself and develop at its own pace, the Igbo Nation will accept it.
What President Tinubu has done is called patch – patch in local parlance. He is trying to buy us with patch-patch politics that will enslave us the more.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government should not expect us to clap for them for doing what they ought to have done.
Please tell Zack Orji that without Restructuring of Nigeria by devolution of power to the Regions, and going back to Regional Government as we practiced before the war, there will be no peace in Nigeria.