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Author: Okah Ewah Edede
Posted to the web: 3/8/2006 4:23:57 PM

A TIME TO KILL

Last two weeks, the nation was engulfed in an inferno; the barbarized psyches of some degenerate illiterate Moslem fundamentalists from the North unleashed an apocalyptic orgy of aboriginal mayhem against their Christian brothers and sisters from the South. They even, in some hiccup instances, killed their fellow Northerners who were Christians. Men lost whole families in that insanity; properties were looted and destroyed. Islam had once again dealt a debilitating blow against the people of the Book: the very people, honoured prophet Mohammed (PBUH), asked them to protect and see as their brethrens.

     In Onitsha and Akwa, both in Anambra State, a reprisal assault was launched by enraged inhabitants of that city against Northern Muslims. Though the reprisal attack was a baby's kiss compared to the carnage up North, blood, anger, agony and hatred mingled freely to cast the horizon in bleak colours. Tears were the leftover of the meal.

     In the violatile creeks of the Niger Delta, commando Egbesu cultist cum freedom fighters were busy launching a massive attack against the Federal government and the international community. Some police and military personnel were given a free ride on Zion's train, while nine foreign hostages were taken as spoils of war. The oil hungry West was dumbfounded.

     Many commentators, with tongues in check, have commented on the aforementioned issues, but none, none whatsoever, have been bold enough to write or say things the way they are. Instead of truth, all we have been seeing is an aberrant charade in nationalistic jingoism. Let the truth be known that no one is truly feeling nationalistic at this very moment. All we have for now is ethno-religious patriotism because; the events of the past weeks have once again clearly shown the sectarian disposition of Nigerians.

     I have been waiting to hear self acclaimed puritans like Awoniyi, Buhari, IBB, Balarabe Musa, and their likes up North, come out and in strong terms condemn the barbaric act of their people all to no avail. Rather, they make feeble and impotent preaching of caution to no one in particular when we all know where the whole pogrom started. But on the other hand, when it comes to commenting on the Onitsha reprisal and on other national issues, these spent forces that have fallen into political abeyance will abrasively issue avuncular warnings all in furtherance of their policy of ballyhoo.

     The southerners on the other hand are quite nauseating. Instead of coming out en masse to give the Muslim North a taste of their own pill, they shamefully and cowardly make asseverating remarks lambasting the Onitsha patriots for their heroic act. For the first time in my life, I feel mortally ashamed to be a southerner in Nigeria,

     Why can't we kill the Northerners like they kill us? Why can't we loot their properties like they loot ours? Can't we match them destruction for destruction? Why should they be killing our people because of a Danish folly, and we be chorusing 'one Nigeria?' I  lost an uncle in one of the numerous Northern orgies of violence: this uncle of mine had lived all his life in the North and sees himself more of a Northerner than a Southerner, yet, those baksheesh receiving idiots snuffed his life away.

     I believe in this country, but I also believe that next time when they kill us, we should kill them also; when they destroy our properties, we should burn theirs also; when they loot our properties, we should loot theirs too, after all, they also got things we could loot. In short, all the Niger Delta militants should channel their Byzantine cruelty against Northern Moslems in times like these. It's high time we should appreciate the fact that the North underdeveloped us: they caused our agony, despondency, Calvary and bedewed existence. If Christians are in doubt of the doctrine of killing, they should go and read Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, verse 1 – 8, where the preacher said in verse 3: ' A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to breakdown, and a time to build up,' while verse 8 intones: 'A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.'

     Those Northern Bolsheviks should leave OBJ alone if this barbaric act is the kind of leadership they want to give us! The North does not have any hard earning resources, yet, the North, in infrastructure, is more developed than the South. While we are busy making agglutinating avowals of one Nigeria, those Northern beggars are busy eliminating and looting our properties!

     That we lost the first civil war does not mean we will lose again. Northern elders please educate your people or else, we will turn this country into one mammoth abattoir if they enact such idiotic, stupid and barbaric anarchy next time!!

PRAEMONITUS PRAEMUNITAS, TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED!

 

By Okah Ewah Edede