IPOB 3 identity misfired

We are not special either do we solicit the special assistance of any people than our own.  

By

Sampson Iro Onwuka

When we compare Igbo to Hebrew for instance 'Nahum' meaning 'my body', 'my flesh' to Igbo 'ahum' my body, my flesh, similar to 'nkem' in Igbo meaning my own, we possibly arguing that 'awa' or 'awam' 'my light 'my image, and in extensor, tamuna, we are mentioning that such relationship exist between Afikpo (Aro children raised in Edda) and Arochukwu, 'nwadim' as they also mention for Arochuku and Abiriba, between Edda and Ohafia, and these may serve be compulsory sanctuary town in Igbo regarding accidental death or what they call 'ochu'>'igbu ochu'. The word 'ochu' is different from Ochuru.

We can compare to Hebrew 'ahuna', 'ahuva', 'avana', 'avuna' for 'love' to Igbo 'ihunanya' you come to understand that these words are used for a woman, whereas in Igbo we can refer to 'ahunna' 'ahunnaya' for beloved of the father, abunma or ahunma, for beautiful body. Why was the Igbo described as 'Ababani' that is they claimed to be children of Abraham, which if not a refference to Abranavel may hint that the word Jew was not popular among the Igbo saving (Juju) Ju, Oju, for mgbela Ju, mgbele Ju, all of which is conditional compared to their very names Igbo or Ndi IGBO 

IPOB are not doing their homework on Igbo business and Igbo businesses, they are not interested in what the markets are saying to Nigeria and West Africa, as such they are mainly a power conscious group interested in Nigerian politics without paying attention to West Africa or the Continent in general. It does not mean in this case, that the group should focus more on the life pattern of the Igbos and the Biafrans which is trade and commerce, but on why there is failure of Biafra to live up to its true meaning is an argument within the questions of Nigeria as a country. Have they conducted any referendum on the position of Nnamdi Kanu versus IPOB?, of Ralph Uwazuruike or is the organization different from Massob? and how does these group differ from the Congress of the Lower Niger, from Biafra Zionist, etc.,? 

There is nothing more important in the business of National integrity especially among the Igbos than having pro-Igbo – pro-Biafra group that can advise on the interest of their people. I think the claim that World Igbo Congress is more than a village is important because they seem to be silent on IPOB and MASSOB saving occasional reference to the whereabouts of the leader Nnamdi Kanu. We are not sure if there is only one person capable of holding IPOB together, we are not sure that others are interested in possibly homing all the major separatist quest in Nigeria into a Bund especially the three major group in South East Nigeria a natural consequence of separatist argument either are we sure that all the Biafras are seeking their leave from Nigeria. We are not sure Ohaneze - a sitting duck like World Igbo Congress, may be argued to be "believer" that the future of Biafra is Nigeria, a position that may be impossible to miss if this group can joiner as African Jewish party and draw themselves closer to Zionism - even they seem secular, different, because the current Biafra Zionism under the barrister of Benjamin Onwuka (Ben Onwuka) is a group that differ from a major Jewish party.

In essence the Biafra Zionist are not party in Nigeria as we speak let alone a Jewish party as we know, but are equally a group seeking their own Country which is the central issue at this point in history of Nigeria – but be may forced to see the idea of ‘consolidating’ a Jewish State within the Federation of Nigeria and perhaps Biafra as a way of re-emphasizing the statuesque of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who proclaimed himself more than once as a “believer in unity in diversity”, that it is looking like the fact from the several groups looking to better Igbo and the Biafra, insist on separating themselves from the Country. I can suggest that the word Zion is not what can be used any how given its history within the history of the Jews and their struggles in Israel and elsewhere, these people represent a group, represent an idea of the actualization of the State of Israel in what was rounded up by Rome as Palestine, 

 

My sisters may be regarded as Ada Zion – has no commitment to Biafra Zionist which should be a political party, whereas I, myself, the ‘Zion Train’ and grown kiddies is looking to convert Benjamin Onwuka from realizing Israel away from Nigeria to Zion in Nigeria without necessarily seeking Aliyah until ‘Agbai’ ‘Otuwe. 

A Jewish Bund either politically driven through Abia State, South East, South South States, to the rest of Country on account of the Hebraic origins of many Nigerians, is a way to sponsor a future with these parties. In essence, Buhari is not considering his position as a Shepherd, my intention, is to remind IPOB for a start on its failures as a party, that as a group not registered in Nigeria but seeking the separation of the Biafrans from Nigeria is seriously in error….

If we weigh the argument from either divide of on Nigeria future, we will come down to the issue of separate identities sparing a collective whole versus a collective whole sparing a spread of independent identities. Either way, it has been argued in Nigeria and perhaps elsewhere that the administration of Government would pursue the rule of law, to the point that the public has to be represented by those who are best able to defend their interest at both the Local, State and National levels. This is where IPOB, MASSOB, Biafra Zionist Federation should be looking to advertise their position, that as far as they are concerned that a loose confederacy within the regions in Nigeria is preferred to a Federal Government that is characteristic of collective central government and loose confederacy, a mainstay of C. Odumegwu Ojukwu and the Aburi Accord but not necessarily Biafra or the East. It is also a classic case of British style of administration with ligature from Ireland, England, Scotland, what made Rome great was the idea of league of states and senators a kind of loose Republic overruled by Sulla who ended up crossing the Rubicon (disliked historically for it) - who proscribed the Caesar's priestly families and then by Julius Caesar who centralized Roman power than the Republic which was ended in B.C 27 by Augustus. The Biafra separatist position under Ojukwu and now under IPOB, MASSOB, Biafran Zionist Federation is a classic premise between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Hamilton argued for a Federal Government with centralized executive power which was perhaps the major theme in the 1963 Nigerian shift to Presidency and the copious hiatus of the Nigeria first Nigeria only of NCNC and military including the preporandance on Nigerian currency. Whereas Jefferson argued for loose confederacy in U.S, that is a government where the member states hold their own exchange rates and determine their destinies under one Government and from here that we can suggest that these mentioned separatist groups in Nigeria including George Dokubo and company may win better position if their agenda is established in how Nigeria runs its government. For instance, will Nigeria may more effective in managing its resources if the States in Nigeria should hold over 70% of their own generated revenue, and compulsorily pay a combined tax to the Federal Accounts not exceeding the remainder of the percentage? That is to say that the State can manage their resources without necessarily forging a separate army. And secondly the Geo-political regions in the country has issue of interstate commerce and comparative advantage. As such the new Federal Railway that is supposed to run from Kaduna, Kano, to Abuja and Lagos through to South 'end' River State is a kind of bond which does not benefit the other half of the geopolitical, that a railroad running from Maidugari, through to Enugu through to Aba, Portharcourt, Calabar, Umuahia exist and may be extended to Akwa-ibom facing the Atlantic and may be the basis of a separate bond emphasizing the geopolitical comparative advantage of the affected States, and a third possible railroad may travel from parts of Bornu through to Gongola to Adamawa to Ebonyi or Bayelsa also facing the Atlantic, and the rest would be a land link to Duala or Younde through the borders with Cameroon. The reason is that some States are not sure if the idea of centralized Government is benefitting them - in spite of how Ex-President Obasanjo arranged the South West line. That's where the separatist argument make sense and not the long john position of a referendum not unlike the Scots and Great Britain.

The only problem with some of the basic position on these early politicians as according to history is that many tribes were already functioning as the help of the would be leaders in Nigeria such as the English. In argument, certain rights were permanent feature in some places like Northern Nigeria, and among the Nupe, especially in Sokoto where one of the genocides of Lord Lugard (Federick Lugard) was recorded; the hacking to bits of prisoners of war who believed were not part of the Sokoto Caliphate and rebelled against the suzerainty leading to a war with Britain. Lugard was made a Lord after that incident and he began to consolidate the tax perimeters of Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto with Lagos and parts of Lokoja sometime after 1912, 1914 and joined the South after 1917(?). Why? One of the interesting narrative about the coming of English people in Nigeria is that they seem to have come in peace and their penetration of Nigerian came from the South - not the North, the South such as Calabar and what is now Akwa-ibom was popular for its palm fruits (not crude oil or petroluem) that made as far Fernando Po and Soa Tome. From here the English entered trade agreement with the South -Calabar and Aro traders, and gradually annexed these people.....That is the English came through Fernando Po and Sao Tome and were perhaps aware of the Igbos and those in Cameroun, but they perhaps were not aware of the large percentage of Biafrans were in the Main land (Hinter land). In argument, the Igbos were one of the ethnic groups they encountered at the Bay of Biafra, but instead of moving inland they moved around it because of poor logistics pointing the facts that the relied on commercial routes in West Africa to move on last of whom were perhaps the shuttle palm oil empires of King Jaja and was said to be sold as slave and not before. Britain was perhaps aware or perhaps not aware of the large presence of a people that are loosely categorized as 'indigenous'. Stops at Bini, Asaba, Onitsha, and eventually Enugu was a natural consequence of stops at Calabar, Bonny, Brass, and from the upriver the connection between expedition towing Mungo Park was possible in at Lokoja and the Lagos Islands in 1952 (?) more like 1856 and by 1861 much of Lagos State was under the rule of Britain. The Ekumeku incident in Igbo was primarily due to reactions from King Jaja and it proved a drive-in for many Igbos but as with Afi-joku or (Ahiajoku) primarily among the Aro/Arochuku and others, Igbo society was never fully incorporated into each other's life let alone all Biafra(s) even at the height of the civil war in Nigeria.

 

When soldiers are needed, the words are passed to elders of various communities and so on, one of those cases was the intermittent wars of Bini (Edo) during off years with unknown others, during slave trade eras(?) and during hunt for workmen. Iron melting, metal alloy, textile, etc., were normal among these Biafrans but lack of male population proved a problem in the East, and unless a call or any form of referendum is exhausted many of the so called Igbos and their Biafrans may not understand that war. Let me clear that the civil war in Nigeria if you ask many people is two type for it seems that the central Nigerian Army didn't encourage direct onslaught on the East, largely because of logistics and other things, but the Igbos were large in numbers and fragmented showing continuous movement of the people and were hardly equipped for conflict, for war. For instance, in Anambra and Enugu there is still very presence of Abians and Ebonyi - in fact they predominate the population. One such example is the Nkpologwu in Aguata LGA of Anambra (not part in Nri, Eri) and Nkpologu in Enugu State, are part of the group which has been classified as Calabar Igbo (?) - that is Nkporo of Abia State. There are other Nkporos elsewhere but the link over the years has been fractured and they only occasionally reach to each other. In terms of war which led some of them to this part of Igbo, they may reach back to the elders at Nkporo or single look for others. Abam, Ohafia, Eddas (72 sub-villages from Igbo), Ezzaa (72 sub-villages from old Bini Izaa) such as the Nwanwa (Waawa), Yekebe, Ivo, Eri and Nri, span all over the place. The Aro people is another group of fractured and disenfranchised group, to a suspicion that Aro was perhaps a call to arms like Nnachioke (Oke Nnachi, Enachioken, era), like Ekumeku, Afijoku, etc.,that the spread of Aro/Abia was primarily Afi-joku, whereas Imo primarily Ekumeku, Calabar/Efik Ekpe, were late affairs compared to Mbari and to Okonko which were special syncretic cases like Ipu Agbala but note that words such as 'ntam' also point to River State or thereabout, and when we compare for nwam/nwatamu/nwatam in Igbo for 'my child' in English we hint that 'ntam' is relatively Igbo-Rivers for 'my child', and then the saying 'tamuna' and the response 'okonko' may refer to a child of okonko(?).

Igbo also use 'Obah' but not as a chief but in the context of most high, for instance in Igbo, Obasi refers to 'most high' and obasielu 'most high God', similar to Hebrew language 'basielu', similar to Greeks basielos, similar to English Basil, all meaning 'kings/most high'. The long argument that Obas in Yoruba came after Oduduwa show a link between Bini and Yoruba (devouted/subject of the Oba > 'oru oba' according to tradition) to the point the saying that Oduduwa is from the East is probably 'two type' position - could mean East of the Niger and could also mean that he's group of metal workers (?) who are said to have met metal working Oba(?) men of Igbo retraction may also have come from far East (?). At least the link to Nupe is not exactly Yoruba only, Igala is totally a different issue, the East has a lot to say about these groups particularly Igala but not exactly as much as Nupe, but there are others on the side of the River Niger for instance River Renue and Jukun, who also know the Igbo and the Bini as worksmith pointing to a spread of a civilization and a people. We can mention it does not seem to people that Igbo civilization is not complete without Bini, and when Bini is involved there is a chance that they displaced Igbos at Ile-Ife or it's perhaps not just correct that Oduduwa is Yoruba - if he is, the Obas created a hegemony in Ile-Ife before his coming - the rest is what is passed to us as God/s of Iron, Olisa, Olise (Orisa, Orise), which in Igbo is both a human name and the name of God - making Olisa possibly a patron saint of metal workers. So who are the Biafrans again? and who are the indigenous Biafrans if not Nigerians. IPOB can mean IPON, that is indigenous people of Nigeria, trust me that's all the minority groups in Nigeria excluding the three major tribes, the Igbo especially. The other three other than Igbo use a practical application of numbers for their own interest, whereas the Igbo is busy redoubting a past he shares with much of the South and getting stung every now and then. In my view, it is the South South that should lead the territorial clemency of Biafra under any altar such as the Niger-Delta, and they chose to include Abia that's a second affair. It seem that the Igbo and Bini in my opinion encountered certain people in South Nigeria, if these are Igbos, then there something wrong with the position that they are Jewish mainly or house of Israel 'Bini Ezzaa' (72 priestly house) (bini izraa, that's sons of Israel ) as they call themselves and given their family names and names of their villages, there is a problem with certain current feature of Igbo society such as Edda (72 priestly house, Jewish congregation) that emphasizing their language and people-ship as Igbo/Ibo >Portuguese/Spanish for Hebrew