“I have chosen to share my views about our nation today because I am aware of the fact that President Buhari has not finished with me yet and I may be picked up and thrown into detention on other trumped up charges very soon. This government will do and say anything to silence my voice but they shall not prevail.”Read the full article after the cut
Forgive me for my curious silence over the last few months but this was due to circumstances beyond my control.
As you know I was locked up in President Buhari's gulag and I was not allowed to write from there.
Needless
to say I missed all my readers. I have chosen to share my views about
our nation today because I am aware of the fact that President Buhari
has not finished with me yet and I may be picked up and thrown into
detention on other trumped up charges very soon. This government will do
and say anything to silence my voice but they shall not prevail.
Whatever
the case my safety, life and future lies in the hands of God and not
theirs. Despite the obvious dangers and various warnings that I have
received from both my persecutors and well-wishers I shall continue to
write as long as God gives me life and liberty.
It
is not what happens to me that matters but rather what happens to
Nigeria and the millions of ordinary people that are suffering in our
country from the daily oppression of our modern-day slave masters. That
aside, permit me to share my views.
A
couple of weeks ago a 73 year old Christian grandmother was beheaded in
Kano because she asked some muslims to stop washing their feet in front
of her door before their prayers.
A few days later a female pastor
of the Redeemed Church of God was hacked to pieces by a mob of muslims
in the Kubwa district of Abuja simply for doing her morning cry of
evangelism and urging the people to give their lives to Christ.
Not
too long after that two hundred muslim youths burnt down a Catholic
Church and attacked worshippers in Niger state claiming that they had no
right to go to church on a friday because it was the muslim day of worship.
A
few days later a Christian traditional ruler in Plateau state was
matcheted to death by a group of Muslim militants and Fulani herdsmen.
Such attacks are now common place in our country and they are no longer isolated events.
Worse
still cases of institutional racism and religious bigotry are on the
rise because our government appears to be encouraging it. Permit me to
share one example.
During
my prolonged detention at the EFCC a group of cell mates were
conducting an all night christian prayer. All of a sudden the cell
guards burst in and screamed at them saying that this "nonsense" must
stop and they must go to sleep immediately.
The inmates complied
sheepishly out of fear and the prayers stopped. It was one a.m. in the
morning. I was in the opposite set of cells but I heard all the noise
and warnings of the guards.
I sent for one of them and I asked him
why he stopped the inmates from doing an all night prayer. His response
was that that was efcc policy because the prayers were too loud and they
may be planning an escape. I told him that all he had to do was to ask
them to lower their voices.
And that God and prayer was all they had. I also told him that if the inmates that were praying
were muslims he would not have ordered them to stop. He stormed off in anger.
The
efcc has become a tool of oppression in the hands of the core muslim
north who are using it to crush dissent and silence the opposition.
This
assertion is confirmed by the fact that 98 per cent of those that are
detained be the efcc for 2 days or more are southerners and middle
belters whilst 98 per cent of those that run the agency at the top are
from the core muslim north.
Worse
still the lingua franca of the agency is hausa whilst the overwhelming
majority of detainees are christians both in Lagos and Abuja. Core
northern detainees are treated like royalty whilst Middle Belt and
southern inmates are treated like filth.
Just
as the Nigerian military was an institution that was designed and used
to suppress and intimidate all the so-called lesser ethnic groups in
Nigeria between july 29th 1966 and May 29th 1999 so it is with the EFCC
today.
That
is how emboldened the hegemonists in our midst have become and that is
the level of barbarity that we have descended to as a nation.
Yet
it gets even worse. Just a few weeks ago, the Minister of Internal
Affairs told a bewildered nation that the Sultan of Sokoto (the leader
if rhe Muslim community in Nigeria) "directed" him to declare a
particular day of the week a public holiday. Without any hesitation he
complied with despatch and, with pride, he announced it to the public.
Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Nigeria where the caliphate rules.
Is
it any wonder that every single one of the numerous security and
intelligence agencies in our country except for one is headed by a
northerner?
Whether
it be the army, the navy, the air force, the police, the Department of
State Security (DSS), the EFCC, the National Securiry A'dvisor's Office
or the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), they are all
headed by individuals that are from the north.
The
only exception to the rule is the Nigerian Iintelligence Agency (NIA),
the agency which is responsible for external intelligence and
international espionage and which is headed by a southerner.
Can such
a state of affairs be justified under any circumstances? Are
southerners and Chrustians not Nigerians as well? Are they not qualified
to head more security agencies?
Does
the concept of Federal Character have any meaning in President Buhari's
Nigeria? For how much longer will our people tolerate such reckless
impunity, racism and injustice from those who believe that they are the
Boers and supremacists of what is fast turning into apartheid-Nigeria?
My father's generation fought the battle for independence from our erstwhile British colonial masters.
It
was indeed my father, Chief Remilekun Fani-Kayode, that succesfully
moved the motion for Nigeria's indepence in Parliament in 1958.
The
battle that must be fought today by my genertion is the battle for
independence from the sons of Futa Jalon: our internal colonial masters
who are relentless in their quest to subjugate and enslave others and
who believe that they were born to rule.
This quest for expansion and
domination and this insatiable desire to islamise our nation is best
reflected by the words and actions of the three Mahdis of the north.
The
first was Usman Dan Fodio, the second was his great grandson Sir Ahmadu
Bello and the third is Muhammadu Buhari. The hegemonists must be
stopped. It is our duty to either restructure or break Nigeria and to
ensure that Buhari is the last of the northern Mahdis through a peaceful
and democratic process.
Consequently the prayer is no longer "God
bless Nigeria" but rather "God break Nigeria". It is no longer "God
defend Nigeria" but rather "God restructure Nigeria". It is no longer
"God deliver Nigeria" but rather "God deliver us from Nigeria".
It is
no longer "God preserve Nigeria" but rather "God redefine Nigeria". It
is no longer "God remember Nigeria" but rather "God dismember Nigeria".
We
must break our chains of oppression because no one else will break them
for us. We must reject slavery. We must rise up and resist our
oppressors.
We
must break the yoke of servitude and set ourselves free. For this great
cause no price is too high to pay. If it means laying down our lives or
suffering the bitter pain of persecution then so be it.
No price is
too high to pay and no mounatain is too high to climb for attainment of
freedom and the restoration of our self respect and collective dignity.
No matter what it takes we shall carve out and build our own nation and
we shall be free.
The
heavy yoke of the last of the Amalekite kings must be broken. The
rulership of the third and last Mahdi must be brought to an end in a
free and fair election. That is the challenge that we face today.
That
is the great work that the Lord would have us complete. That is our
duty and our calling: to bring the unbelieving pagans to heel and to
pull down the evil structures of caliphate power.
Those that joined
forces with the internal colonial masters and helped to enslave their
own people shall pay a heavy price for their treachery, collaboration
and betrayal.
Our
new nation has no room for such people. They will be herded into labour
camps and ultimately deported. They are a shameful eyesore: animals
with no sense of dignity and pride. They are not fit to live amongst us.
Yet
blessed are the courageous and faithful who speak nothing but truth,
who despise the oppressor and who champion the cause of the oppressed.
They shall flourish like the palm tree in season and their seed shall
excel.
Blessed
are those that are persecuted for their faith and that are regarded as
the "hewers of the wood and the drawers of the water": so-called ethnic
inferiors in their own nation.
They shall inherit the land and, in
the fullness of time, they shall be liberated from their tormentors and
they shall rule over their adversaries.
That
is the promise of the Alpha and the Omega and the Ancient of Days. That
is a sure word from He that is known as the Lord God of Hosts and the
Man of War. That is the counsel of the God of All Flesh: the Adonai, the
Elohim and Jehova El Shaddai. None can resist Him.
No comments:
Post a Comment