Gen. Yakubu Gowon in 1967 thought he could invade Enugu,
arrest Ojukwu and place him on trial. A mission he could not
accomplish in 3 three years.
As soon as Gowon realized that Gen. Ojukwu and his boys
were not smiling or easy to conquer, Gowon committed 3
crimes against Nigerians just to win the war. These are the
sins of Gowon that are affecting Nigerians today.
1. THE GODOGODO
Gowon and his supreme military council thought it would be
easy to walk over Biafra and capture Ojukwu so they decided
to launch attack on Enugu to capture Ojukwu. That attempt
met with stiff resistance from unarmed youths to the
surprise of Gowon and his army.
Mauritala, that beast and a bigot in his zealousness made 2
attempts to take over Onitsha but was successfully stopped
by Ojukwu soldiers. This frustration led to a quick fix that
would lead to the worst pact with the devil himself.
In other to aid the federal army, Mauritala Mohammed
convinced Gowon to bring the foreign militias called the
godogodo people to fight Biafra. Those who lived or
witnessed and or fought in the civil war are not strange to
the atrocities of these people.
They were heartless militias paid to kill and praised for their
ruthlessness. Although the Godogodo people were not
trained professional regular soldiers, their duty was to do
the military’s dirty job.
Massacre civilians, rape and slaughter the already
conquered people with hatchet, axe and other dangerous
instruments. They are also experts in torture. Anywhere the
federal troop’s conquered, they will bring the godogodo
people to finish off the civilians.
So in some instances the civilians were warned to flee the
cities before the godogodo people would arrive. These
Godogodo people were not repatriated after the civil war.
Most of them settled in northern Nigeria. The government
lost control of them.
It is the same Godogodo militias that constitute today’s
Fulani herdsmen terrorist group. Those in the east who
witnessed the war will testify about the Godogodo people
named after a village in Kaduna of today.
So The Fulani herdsmen are the offshoot or the continuation
of the Godogodo people Gowon brought to Nigeria to kill
Biafrans. Today they have become the errant virus that eats
what it was supposed to protect.
2. Months into the war, Gowon saw that Biafra could not be
conquered unless Port Harcourt fell into federal hands, so
he went into pact with the president of Cameron. In the pact,
Gowon pledged Bakassi peninsula in exchange if Cameron
allowed Nigeria to use its sea route to get to Port Harcourt.
We are all aware of how many innocent people that died
since the war ended because of this pact. Today the entire
people of Bakassi are displaced and no one is talking about
them.
3. THE GRAZING ROUTE.
When Gowon and his military found out that Biafra is not a
pushover, he entered into another contract. This time he
went to Niger for the help of the Arabs in Africa. In other for
Chad and Niger to give the federal government the help they
sought, Niger and its allies, Benin republic and Chad Fulanis
stated their conditions.
That condition was to grant to the Fulani nomads a grazing
route from Niger to the Eastern Nigeria. Again Gowon
without brains accepted this demand and signed off the
arable land of Nigeria to the Fulanis for grazing.
Now if you have been listening or reading what the leaders
of Miyatti Allah have been saying you would notice one
constant claim. They insist that there is international
document that granted them grazing route from Niger to
Eastern Nigeria.
Of all those banning the open grazing, no one has
challenged this claim. Did such document exist? Who are
the signatories? Was it rectified after the war in which Gown
and the supreme military council was in charge for 6 years
after the war?
Now we can see why those who fought the civil war and
looted Nigeria thereafter are criminally silent over this
predicament. The Fulanis claim that Allah gave them our
ancestral land to graze. It is clear who the Allah is… Gen.
Yakubu Gowon is the Allah that gave our land to the Fulanis.
The fact staring us in the face now is that the federal
government cannot and will not protect us. Unless we resist
this as one robbed people these vampires will suck us dry.
They are brutes and experts in fiendish diplomacy, so
dialoguing with them or making any pact with them is a
waste of time. They understand one language, violence,
brute force, like the vampires if you do not overwhelm them
with brute force they will never stop coming.
Arise people of Nigeria and resist this slavery Gowon signed
us into. As for those who felt they defeated Biafra, how far?
As for those clamouring for true federalism or restructuring,
none will solve this problem. The only solution is to kill
Nigeria. Total disintegration will resolve this nonsense as
each nation will make its own laws and protect its territorial
integrity.
Onyema Uche writes from Washington DC, United States.
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