Dear Sir,
Going by history, you happened to be a man with a lion heart. Let me compliment you (Chief Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR,) on your boldness to openly express your feelings whenever things are not going normal in Nigeria. You are the only former present that often stepped out to confront issues that consign the country and I envy your bolderness a lot. Majority of your colleagues often develop cold feet when the country is moving in the wrong direction. As much as I will agree on so many things that you have said or done in the past, I will disagree with you on the issue you have raised in one of the newspapers “Today.ng” on the 5th of May 2021 and entitled: “Ex-President Obasanjo: If Nigeria breaks up, minority groups will be exterminated”. I have been trying to figure out what you mean by that or how you have come to that conclusion, yet I could not find any evidence of extermination on the above statement.
To me, I don't believe there is anything like a known minority ethnic nationality in Nigeria because all the ethnic nationality belongs to a particular geographical location or region. Let us decolonize ourselves from western clarifications of who is who or who belongs to who or where, or who we are while in their region, they use other words to define their people without dehumanizing their people. I lived and studied in Europe and It is very difficult to hear ethnic this or that in Europe when they are addressing issues consigning their people.
I want to bring to your notice that the population of Iceland and other small countries in the western region is not up to the population of Lagos states. Why do we degrade ourselves in every ramification in life just to please the western colonists? Below are the populations of all the smallest countries in the world according to Google scholar and tell me which of these countries is bigger than those you called small ethnic nationality.
Luxembourg: 634,730, Montenegro: 621,873, Cape Verde: 563,198, Malta: 514,564,
Brunei: 453,600, Belize: 419,199, Bahamas: 393,450, Iceland: 369,870, Barbados: 288,000
Abkhazia: 245,424, Samoa: 199,853, Antigua and Barbuda: 99,337, Seychelles: 98,963
Andora: 78,015, Monaco: 38,350, Palau: 17,957, Tuvalu: 10,679, Vatican City: 825.
If the Vatican with the vast wealth stolen from the world through religious indoctrination and tithe/offering exploitation happens to be in Nigeria, the Vatican would not be an independent country and there would be killings and war threats to keep them down.
Your generation put this country in where it is today, and it is very important for your generation to fix it in a way that it will favor everyone.
I have proposed and I’m proposing a simple solution to the Nigeria problem, and it will take youths like me to fix it if given the opportunity.
First step towards achieving the goals for a better Nigeria that we all want is to decolonize ourselves mentally and fiscally.
Secondly, there must be a national conference with the provision in our constitution to back up the outcome of that conference.
Thirdly, there is a need to change the name of this country to give ourselves the name we should be proud to answer because Nigeria in the mind of suffering masses represents, Oppression, Police brutality, military/police extortion, exploitation, killing den. On the other hand, in the minds of the elites like you, Nigeria represents an indivisible United State that usher in opportunity, diversity, and a war/intimidation to keep the statu quo maintained.
It is an insult for our generation to be answering a name given to us by some bunch of British evil colonists who came to milk us for their economic gains and are still milking us because your generation made it possible. If not, who born any British or American leaders to be making unguided utterances in a sovereign country like Nigeria?
Around the world, the status of these evil colonists has been put down but it is so funny that Nigeria is standing with the oppressor to oppress its people. Our streets and cities were named by this evil colonist and we are happy to be answering what they called us.
I propose a United State of Africa as a new name for Nigeria.
I propose a capital punishment to end corruption
I propose a regionalism and a police reform where there will be a regional IGP’s instead of this one man squad in Abuja controlling everyone while doing nothing and security is deteriorating everyday.
I propose resource control and let states pay 20% taxes to the federal government to enable developmental competition and also for states to discover their potential and be independent.
Now you have seen the solution to this country, so it is left for Nigeria to accept it or to continue to be a laughing matter in the world.
Nigeria is on the verge of disintegration, and it is either we face the reality or the reality will face us.
In conclusion, why do we need to fight each other when we can be united. Why do we want to go through another war when we can still have a round table talk to settle our differences. Even if there will be war, there will be still an option of dialogue for a ceasefire.
Written by:
Mr Oscar Iwuama. (BC, MA).
(MASCOM-Candidates 2020/2021).
Twitter: @kas_cafe
