Nigeria@57 Essay Contest : The tale of a country falling into the pits of the past.

Nigeria@57 Essay Contest : The tale of a country falling into the pits of the past.

                                                       

Name;  Salako oluwapelumi Francis

NUMBER; 08107582225

location; Ogbomoso, oyo state, Nigeria.

Essay is Unedited!

When the Nigerian army started the fire that birthed the Nigerian civil war that lasted for nearly three years on 6 July, 1967, The General Yakubu Gowon led government would never have envisaged that that avoidable action will birth such ugly horror and innumerable loss of lives and properties. that eploit will forever be a contested subject. The Biafran contingent was goaded to war by an obviously power thirsty col. Chukuemeka Ojukuwu whose Cunny tactics and machinations eclipsed the entirety of the igbo populace. In similar vein, president muhamadu Buhari is journeying the same path
Yakubu Gowon threaded in 1967 against a Biafra public helmed by Nnamdi Kanu, a recalcitrant lawyer and prince. whose power obsession can be likened to that of the erstwhile separatist, Ojukwu who ditched his own people and ran for cover in the neighboring Ghana when the battle went the wrong way. Of course, the odds of Kanu ditching his people is not for discourse in this write. but should the decision of Kanu to keep an international passport be left untorched? the Biafran agitators has since the last few weeks intensified their clamor for secession through protests and violent attacks on police stations, innocent civilians from different ethnic groups and on government properties. and the leader of this struggle also has made contravening remarks, boasting of owning nuclear weapons enough to wipe out the country and innumerable other criminal threats against the peace of the country. He has even succeeded in blinding the youths into forming a military organization amidst themselves. As a result of these, many parts of the south-easthern Nigeria has been thrown into upheaval and turmoil. Businesses has suffered irrepressible downbeat and correspondently, lives and properties loss has magnified. The federal government on there path has declared the IPOB group a terrorist sect and has subjected them to military attacks with Inhumane treatments meted out to the arrested by the Nigerian military, a regiment codified 'operation python dance '. The federal government has announced and has reiterated severally that the unity of the country is non-negotiable. this averment is coated by the Nigerian constitution which states "Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state to be known by the name of the Federal Republic of Nigeria". But the same constitution in it's nineth section provides for dialogue in the viability of revising the country's solubility. The Biafra group should know that they can achieve there aim only by tact and intelligence. they are in a gravid disadvantage by entrusting the leadership of their campaign into the hands of a man of such attitude and pose who lacks ideological depth and prim. I advocate for 'one Nigeria' and I am a democratic fellow and humanist. and as such, I don't support the barbaric killings of innocent and unarmed citizens by the Nigerian Armed Forces. Watching videos of military men maiming unarmed civilians mortifies me. it is gross and unacceptable for a civilized society. The president muhamadu Buhari government has however failed to recognise a military regime apart democratic governance. ordering soldiers to brutalize agitators has only illuminated his incapacity and incompetence. He has carried out numerous attacks against Kanu and his disciples by shunning euphonous advices from the highest cadre of the country's brightest elites. these has thereby elevated him (Kanu) to the position of a national hero and thereby gaining international recognition and attention. Cardinaly, the Nigerian government and the Biafran leadership must consider peace before any more action should be taken because there is no profit from warfare, whatsoever, but loss and ruins. In all, Nigeria must call for a referendum to avert the dooms of the past from replicating itself. We must journey back to fifty years ago to fetch lessons for ourselves. If secession is what it will take to fend off the looming adversity, let call for a referendum to avert the dooms of the past from replicating itself. We must journey back to fifty years ago to fetch lessons for ourselves. If secession is what it will take to fend off the looming adversity, let Biafra go.