Re: Adf Tribute To Chinua Achebe: My Case Against Maazi Achebe - "truth = Life; Falsehood = Death"

By Nnaemeka Onumonu-Uzoaru

Usually if I have nothing good to say about the dead I keep my peace.

But since the Igbo have a penchant of honoring those who have treated them with disdain while ignoring those who have stood with them even in their time of trial I for once will break that rule. A case in point would be the people's General Efiong, a shinning example of a leader who stood with his people, Biafrans, through thick and thin, and never wavered in his belief of the justness of the Biafran case.

Today Maazi Zik and Maazi Ojukwu are portrayed as very important characters that should be emulated by Igbo intelligentsia despite their despicable history as two individuals responsible for the deplorable state of the Igbo. Not only did the Igbo loose millions of innocent lives under their watch, today Igbo is a slave nation in a contraption, the failed state, a mirage of monumental proportions, and 'British Birthed Abomination', 'Rnigeria', that they had/have no business being part of.

That Maazi Achebe was a one-nigerian is commendable but what was unforgivable is his continued refusal to tell the world about the continuing Genocaust against the Igbo and what was happening in the abomination of a so-called country, nigeria. How does any explain his silence for forty years as the grinding marginalization, oppression and collective punishment against the Igbo continued?

I should know since as a member of Ekwe Nche our members did everything including blackmail to try to shame him to tell the world the truth about the travails of the Igbo. In fact, Maazi Achebe was more interested in talking about Anambra than Igbo. An appropriate analogy might be trying to strengthen a room in a building that was collapsing around you.

Achebe waited for forty years before throwing a bone to Ndi Igbo - 'There was a country'. How many of his brethren had passed on or been rendered futureless because of his none action?

Can we image the lost opportunity to not just the Igbo but to all ethnic nationalities and nigeria for that matter if Achebe had done the right thing?

TUFIAKWA!!!!7##

Emeka

Member: IgboZaraIgbo

(Shaking head in disgust)*

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