NONE OF US IS A NIGERIAN
The truth is that if they teach history properly without government propaganda in schools, we would have discovered this simple fact a long time ago, and perhaps find ways to dismantle this British enterprise with minimal violence.
What they mildly refer to as "colonialism", is simply, the most brutal form of pillaging, looting, and suppression of rights ever witnessed by humanity. Colonialism in Africa was advanced by sheer genocide and ethnic cleansing. Hamlets, villages and towns that resisted British rule were visited with British fire and fury. Men and baby boys were executed without mercy, women were raped and various African carvings and traditional symbols were carted off to Europe and dumped in British museums. African lands were Annexed and expropriated by the British crown Without consultation nor compensation.
Truth is Atiku Abubakar isn't the only non-Nigerian. None of us was a Nigerian until 1914. Even as at that many communities resented the Nigerian identity and fought against it until 1930s and 1940s.
Many of the ethnic groups that make up Nigeria has to be defeated and forced accept British protection. That was why they were called PROTECTORATES. The British had to conduct ethnic cleansing to bring indigenous tribes into their protection and subsequently create NIGERIA.
As we all know there was the Northern area under British protection (NORTHERN PROTECTORATE) and the Southern Area under British Protection (Southern PROTECTORATES).
It became necessary to create this "Areas of Protection" because after the Berlin Conference of 1884/85, Europeans decided that instead of fighting war amongst themselves because of colonies in Africa, each European country should provide sufficient proof that a certain territory belongs to them, Hence the Scramble for territories and Areas of protection began.
•The Ijebu people were massacred and their territory brought under British protection in 1892. The British officer in charge of that massacre was a certain Colonel F. C. Scott.
•The systematic genocide of the Bini people took place in 1897. Their precious artefacts, one of the finest the world has ever seen, was looted, and the area was brought under British protection.
•Sokoto Caliphate fell on February 1903 after the Battle of Kwatarkwashi.
•The Jukun were subdued in 1907.
•In 1895 the Brass people were massacred in one of the most gruesome ethnic cleansing humanity has ever witnessed, their leaders were jailed and their territory expropriates by the Royal Niger company.
•British Consul Ralph Moore In a bid to suppress the indigenous peoples of the present day Niger Delta, massacred over 700,000 Africans.
In Eastern Nigeria, the task was even harder because the people resented any form of centralized power. The British had to engage in systemic massacres community by Community village by village before they could annex the area as a British protectorate.
the Mbaise people said that the defeat of the Aro by the British doesn't apply to them. They waged war against the British from 1902 until 1917 (three years after the so called Amalgamation). To prove their point, the first warrant chief the British tried to impose on the Mbaise people, a certain Chief Nwogu was murdered by the people.
The Asaba people resented the British usupers in their midst and started the Ekumeku movement to purge out British influence. They fought bravely but the Maxim gun firing over 100 bullets per minute proved far too much for them.
In essence, British rule over the territory they'd call Nigeria later was imposed via wanton bloodshed.
After each massacre and subsequent British annexation, Christian missionaries moved in to soothe the anger of the people by preaching the gospel of Forgiveness and "Turn the other cheek" message, while also offering them the "Heavenly Jerusalem" palliative.
Having said that it is important to note that since that 1914, the North Have always made no secret of their deep conviction that the amalgamation of North and South in 1914 was an error.
In March 1953 the Northern political leader Sir Ahmadu Bello told the House of Representatives then in Lagos: ‘The mistake of 1914 has come to light, and I should like it to go no further.'
In a letter he wrote to Colonial governor Arthur Richards In 1942, Mallam Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, later to become Prime Minister of Nigeria said: ‘We do not want, Sir, our Southern neighbours to interfere in our development. … I should like to make it clear to you that if the British quitted Nigeria now at this stage the Northern people would continue their interrupted conquest to the sea.’
Forget all these their noise about who's a Nigerian and who's not. They don't even see themselves as Nigerians. Why would they invite their brothers from Niger Republic and Chad for APC campaign rallies? You think they don't know what that Are ready doing?
Why are they mining gold and remitting the money unto themselves, but you don't even have ordinary PMS to fuel ur car? And they are incharge of NNPC abi, they Didn't even care about appointing a petroleum minister.
It's only southerners Ndi OKe amamihe, that thinks they went to school more than everyone, that Will always carry one Nigeria on their head like a heavy load...And the load keeps suppressing their growth.
Written by Ikeyahkadibia Onyeji
For Family Writers Press
The truth is that if they teach history properly without government propaganda in schools, we would have discovered this simple fact a long time ago, and perhaps find ways to dismantle this British enterprise with minimal violence.
What they mildly refer to as "colonialism", is simply, the most brutal form of pillaging, looting, and suppression of rights ever witnessed by humanity. Colonialism in Africa was advanced by sheer genocide and ethnic cleansing. Hamlets, villages and towns that resisted British rule were visited with British fire and fury. Men and baby boys were executed without mercy, women were raped and various African carvings and traditional symbols were carted off to Europe and dumped in British museums. African lands were Annexed and expropriated by the British crown Without consultation nor compensation.
Truth is Atiku Abubakar isn't the only non-Nigerian. None of us was a Nigerian until 1914. Even as at that many communities resented the Nigerian identity and fought against it until 1930s and 1940s.
Many of the ethnic groups that make up Nigeria has to be defeated and forced accept British protection. That was why they were called PROTECTORATES. The British had to conduct ethnic cleansing to bring indigenous tribes into their protection and subsequently create NIGERIA.
As we all know there was the Northern area under British protection (NORTHERN PROTECTORATE) and the Southern Area under British Protection (Southern PROTECTORATES).
It became necessary to create this "Areas of Protection" because after the Berlin Conference of 1884/85, Europeans decided that instead of fighting war amongst themselves because of colonies in Africa, each European country should provide sufficient proof that a certain territory belongs to them, Hence the Scramble for territories and Areas of protection began.
•The Ijebu people were massacred and their territory brought under British protection in 1892. The British officer in charge of that massacre was a certain Colonel F. C. Scott.
•The systematic genocide of the Bini people took place in 1897. Their precious artefacts, one of the finest the world has ever seen, was looted, and the area was brought under British protection.
•Sokoto Caliphate fell on February 1903 after the Battle of Kwatarkwashi.
•The Jukun were subdued in 1907.
•In 1895 the Brass people were massacred in one of the most gruesome ethnic cleansing humanity has ever witnessed, their leaders were jailed and their territory expropriates by the Royal Niger company.
•British Consul Ralph Moore In a bid to suppress the indigenous peoples of the present day Niger Delta, massacred over 700,000 Africans.
In Eastern Nigeria, the task was even harder because the people resented any form of centralized power. The British had to engage in systemic massacres community by Community village by village before they could annex the area as a British protectorate.
the Mbaise people said that the defeat of the Aro by the British doesn't apply to them. They waged war against the British from 1902 until 1917 (three years after the so called Amalgamation). To prove their point, the first warrant chief the British tried to impose on the Mbaise people, a certain Chief Nwogu was murdered by the people.
The Asaba people resented the British usupers in their midst and started the Ekumeku movement to purge out British influence. They fought bravely but the Maxim gun firing over 100 bullets per minute proved far too much for them.
In essence, British rule over the territory they'd call Nigeria later was imposed via wanton bloodshed.
After each massacre and subsequent British annexation, Christian missionaries moved in to soothe the anger of the people by preaching the gospel of Forgiveness and "Turn the other cheek" message, while also offering them the "Heavenly Jerusalem" palliative.
Having said that it is important to note that since that 1914, the North Have always made no secret of their deep conviction that the amalgamation of North and South in 1914 was an error.
In March 1953 the Northern political leader Sir Ahmadu Bello told the House of Representatives then in Lagos: ‘The mistake of 1914 has come to light, and I should like it to go no further.'
In a letter he wrote to Colonial governor Arthur Richards In 1942, Mallam Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, later to become Prime Minister of Nigeria said: ‘We do not want, Sir, our Southern neighbours to interfere in our development. … I should like to make it clear to you that if the British quitted Nigeria now at this stage the Northern people would continue their interrupted conquest to the sea.’
Forget all these their noise about who's a Nigerian and who's not. They don't even see themselves as Nigerians. Why would they invite their brothers from Niger Republic and Chad for APC campaign rallies? You think they don't know what that Are ready doing?
Why are they mining gold and remitting the money unto themselves, but you don't even have ordinary PMS to fuel ur car? And they are incharge of NNPC abi, they Didn't even care about appointing a petroleum minister.
It's only southerners Ndi OKe amamihe, that thinks they went to school more than everyone, that Will always carry one Nigeria on their head like a heavy load...And the load keeps suppressing their growth.
Written by Ikeyahkadibia Onyeji
For Family Writers Press
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