*ENEMY NWERE TARGET*


Although I'm a Biafran, yet
I want to tell you why I don't want a war with Nigeria.
It is simple. Ive looked at myself very well, and I realised that I'm better than the Nigerian. Any Nigerian at all.
I am 100% better than every of my oppressor. My condition is better than the Nigerian who is well represented in government.
I'm more educated than an average Nigerian. The late Professor Shotimehin once said, that the Yoruba people's claim to be the most educated ethnic group in Nigeria is only on the pages of the Yoruba controlled newspapers.


My father's garment factory in Aba was converted to the Biafran Uniform making Industry in 1967. Consequently, the Nigerian Military, immediately after the war, carted away all the machines. At the end of the war, he had no money to start all over,  He began to write letters to his partners overseas. He got the franchise to market the sowing machines. To cut a long story short, not only did he set up one of the biggest private owned garment mills in Nigeria, he was (to be very conservative)successful in the importation of stock fish, Used Clothing (popularly known as Okrika ) etc. He died a couple of years ago, fulfilled. I know the stories of very many garment makers and traders  who were chased away from Portharcourt. They resettled in Aba after the war.
I'm a true son of my father, I'm an Igbo man.
I know what we have achieved within the last 50 years. Your neighbours are so jealous that as much as you have  been "marginalised"  you have acquired enormous resources to be termed the richest tribe per capita in the entire world by the Economist Magazine. Not Africa, not Nigeria, the whole world! Nwanne!
Recently a CNN Business investigation revealed that what Igbo are doing at Alaba international market is second only to the Silicon valley.
A wise man knows his strength!  The BIBLE says "Man know thy self"
Do we even know who we are? Have we tried to evaluate our strength as a people? Do we think about our collective passion?
Are we really good negotiators?
In the 1950s while the Sadauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello and  Chief Obafemi Awolowo were busy holding tactical meetings with their kith and kin, our own Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was building castles in the air, dreaming  of a United states of Africa and referring to himself as the Zik of Africa. Was that really good politics?
Did Zik do well as a politician, when he sidelined K.O Mbadiwe, and made Michael Okpara the Premier of Eastern region?
If Zik was a good politician, would he not have known that the role which Green Mbadiwe played in his life in the 40s would not have been possible without the input of his Nephew Kingsley? Dont you know that Iro ulo di njo!  The whole world feared Zik. He was super human until Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe unmasked the masquerade! That's a story for another day. But the question is did Zik think deep before taking some decisions?
Chekie kwa this thing oh!
In the morning of January 15, 1966, when it was clear that Sadauna of Sokoto has been killed; Samuel Akintola killed, why didn't the coupists eliminate M.I. Okpara ? Why was it so difficult for the soldiers to drag Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus,(who was on an official visit to Enugu) into a light plane and sent him out of Nigeria, so as to kill Francis Akanu Ibiam - the Governor? 


Odi nma, why did it take General Ironsi 6 months after he took office, to punish the coupists? At least to demonstrate to the Hausa- Fulani that the arrow which was shot by the child was not made by the elder?
Was that good Politics ?
Okay kamjuokwa.....
During the war, while Ukpabi Asika was appointed Administrator of the East Central state, what legacies of hes can you remember(Except his anti war proverb of ONYE UBE RURU ORACHA)? Or did he take that appointment like Oru oyibo?


Okay kayi tulee Businesses Nnamdi Azikiwe!
Imagine, how a bank like African Continental Bank(ACB) which was set up by Zik,  stood the taste of time! Imagine what an Hausa-Fulani CBN governor would have done to make ACB stand during the recapitalisation time of Charles Soludo. Was that an appointment for oru oyibo or an opportunity to make an impact on the lives of Ndigbo?
Chekie how Daily times etc (which are business ventures)he set up turned out very successful. Would Nnamdi Azikiwe have been better a businessman or a politician?


Barely 20 years down the line kedu ihe eji echeta Orji Uzor Kalu, Sam Egwu, Achike Udenwa, Chimaroke Nnamani and Chinwoke Mbadinuju na states ha chiri?
Would it not have been better for Chimaroke Nnamani who was reputed to have performed several successful surgeries on day old babies in America, to return here, (if he was tired of obodo oyibo )and build a 5 star  Pediatric and Gynaecological Clinic instead of living with the opprobrium of the silly allegations of murder and things like that ?
I was in Warsaw, Poland, in the autumn of 2014, I stumbled upon a charter party agreement which stated clearly that Orji Uzor Kalu was the owner of a high capacity vessel which he purchased directly from the ship builder in 1994(Five years before he became governor of Abia state) Nwanne, do you think that if Orji Uzor Kalu steadfastly continued his vast businesses like the First International Bank of Gambia, Slok USA Inc , etc., someone would have had the audacity to write a petition that landed him in prison two years ago?
Today, OUK carries the burden of executive malfeasance, just because he wanted to be called "His Excellency"


Umunnem, unu ewela iwe.
Are we good money managers or administrators??


In 2000AD, President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Prince Vincent Ogbulafor Minister for economic affairs in the Presidency. Later that year, the President saw what he called "an unprecedented loyalty exhibited by a civilian" he made him Minster for Special duties. Then in 2001, he appointed the same man Chairman Federal Tenders board. The implication of that was that he had the privilege of approving the contracts which were brought forward by fellow ministers at FEC.
So apart from Ojo Maduekwe who was minister for Culture and Onyema Ugochukwu who was Chairman of Niger Delta Development commission NDDC, Abia was blessed with a who  had the ears of the president. As chairman of FTB, if this man was an Hausa man,what do you think he would have done with that office? 
Nwanne, Ndigbo awugh ndi ochichi?
In 2004, I was invited to a meeting Presided by the Senate President Adolf Wabara, it was who is who in Abia.  Chief Onyema Ugochukwu - NDDC, Chief Ojo Maduekwe has just been elevated to the position of Minister for Transport. Prince Vincent Ogbulafor was National Secretary of the ruling People's democratic party. Dr.Chimaobi Nwakanma who was a federal legislator. Chief Enyinnaya Abaribe who had just resigned as the deputy governor of Abia state. Ekekwe John Egu - who was a member of the Federal housing Authority. 
Looking around me, I saw all the men who seemed to be so loved by the President.  The following day, I had a funeral to attend in Abia. And since Abaribe was returning, he offered me a ride.  In my dejection, all through the trip, I wondered what we achieved if no Federal presence was attracted to Abia through the lofty relationship we all claimed to have with Obasanjo.
Nwanne Ndigbo amagh politics!


As President Yar'Adua died and  Goodluck Jonathan was about to be made President, one his major plans was to co-opt Ndigbo to be his base. He knew he needed us so much. So part of his strategy was to touch our mumu button. Thus he decided to cut the "Ebelemi" in his name to "Ebele"
Chai Ndigbo Adaa. Few months later, he was talking in a function in Ebonyi state, he remembered how his grandmother used to call him "Azikiwe"
Ewoo!  That was how his handlers added Azikiwe to his name. So immediately, Dr. Goodluck Ebelemi Jonathan was renamed  Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan!
Ara agba Ndigbo.
We are not good politicians!
We were jumping like nama ara.
Ndigbo amagh Politics.


Today Monday May 31, 2021, I wasn't surprised to see an article credited to President Goodluck Jonathan. He was of the opinion that the Niger deltans would rather pitch tent with the federal Nigeria than Biafra. 
Ndigbo unu amagh Politics.


What we understand is business. There's no money making venture we cannot succeed in.
ChUKWU ji azum afia we gozie Ndigbo.
My dear brother, the enemy wants to smoke us out, so that we will burn Police Stations and steal antiquated AK47 ....... he wants enough reason to clamp down  on our youths, burn down those houses in Awada Obosi, the multi-billion dollar ALABA/ASPANDA/TRADEFAIR/IDUMOTA/OLOWU  markets in Lagos. 


I can tell you for free that 80% of all those beautiful houses springing up in Lekki are owned by UmuIgbo.


Nwanne, go to all the Markets in Kano, look at the Hotels in every part of Northern Nigeria.


The young boys that were settled last Christmas in Igboland, 80% of them have defiled Corona virus and are in diverse nations of the world, (with the type of passion that I've never seen) to return to Igboland next December to demonstrate that they have made it.
Nwanne Nkemjika!


They call us illiterate traders! Nwanna na lie! 
The less schools we attend, the better Professors of Business administration we become.  Go and ask my brother Cosmas Maduka - who is now a visiting professor at the Lagos Business school and the Pan African University.
Just before the outbreak of the pandemic, I flew with the only independent indigenous car maker in Africa. He lectured me for not less that 5 hours on how to manage a  motor manufacturing plant in a volatile environment like Nigeria.  O kwa nwa afo Nnewi.  He doesn't hold a B.Sc in that field.
Nwanne Ndigbo dikwa egwu!


As much as we desire restructured ,egalitarian, just and fair society, where all Nigerians shall be equal before the law, the easiest way is not to burn Police station, kill security agents nor to cart away their guns.


Two weeks ago, I remembered the late music maestro and high life king Oliver de coque. How he sang his ogiriga songs. I remembered the 419 era! How umuigbo went to Gaddafi of Libya nata ya ego.  Bros who can achieve this feat m' obugh Ndi Igbo?
Apart from our traditional trading and merchandising,  what kind of business have we not done to meet up?
What about Afia ntu! How many of our sons and daughters were imprisoned and killed for these?
Bros, ndia wu mugu!
I'm a sharp guy. I'm a business man.
This whole Nigeria is too small a market for the Igbo man. Agagh agba egbe here!


UmuIgbo, umu nnem okwa nganga k' eji agbara efi oso.


Their target is to turn AlaIgbo to a  battle field. Ayi gagbakwa aka!


Don't make us start all over again. This particular war will take us 100 years backward!


*The enemy nwere target*