Ignorance That Kills; That Is How To Describe The “Patriots” Who Desire To Build A Great Nigeria On The Foundation Of A Very Rickety, Anti-Development Unitary Constitution
Tony Nnadi, LNC-NINAS, 09 August 2023
What a day! First it was the news of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu’s Ohanaeze pontificating about how a Seaport and New Cities will soon spring up all over the “South-East”.
(Link to the Ohanaeze story HERE: ).
Tony Nnadi responded to the Ohanaeze hollow claim on Seaport and New Cities with the following Rejoinder:
”MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE” - August 9, 2023.
(Being a Rejoinder by Tony Nnadi of NINAS to the Claim of Ohanaeze Leadership that a Seaport and New Cities would soon emerge all over the South East).
It is most disgraceful that those who parade themselves as “Igbo Leaders” would prefer to operate in ignorance instead of knowledge.
From the Expositions and Campaigns of LNC and NINAS, even children in Nigeria now realize that on account of the Federal Exclusive Legislative List on Nigeria’s Unitary Constitution (1999), the Federal Government of Nigeria has EXCLUSIVE Power, Ownership and Control of everything Ports and Maritime as well as Key Infrastructure that drive Developments.
There are 68 such Items on that Federal Exclusive Legislative List including Arms and Ammunitions, Police, Railways, Highways, Electricity Generation and Transmission, Elections to Federal and State Offices, etc. (The recent so-called “Constitution Amendments 2023”, touching on Electricity and Railways, signed on the eve of Buhari’s departure from office still leave the States completely at the mercy of the Federal Government on those subjects).
That Exclusive List is directly responsible for the deplorable state of Security and Infrastructure in Igboland, (compounded of course by the incompetence, dishonesty and greed of Igbo Political Office-Holders). No meaningful change can be attained in the Igbo States under that Unitary Constitution of Nigeria which was imposed as Victory Charter from the 1967-1970 War of Genocide, no matter who and who emerge as Governors over those Igbo States.
The States of Nigeria are Constitutionally Forbidden from touching anything listed on that Federal Exclusive Legislative List and so it smacks of a horrible depth of Ignorance for Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu and the rest of Ohanaeze Leadership on his watch, to come proclaiming their Plan to Build, or cause to be built, a Seaport and New Cities across Igboland whilst the 1999 Constitution which confiscates via its Exclusive List, practically all Governmental Powers over Key Economic Assets as well as Requisite Power to Work those Assets, remains in place.
At a time concerted efforts are being made by the victims of Unitary Nigeria across the South and Middle-Belt, to oust the Death-Dispensing 1999 Constitution, Ohanaeze is proudly wallowing in the mind-boggling ignorance of projecting the construction of Seaport and New Cities in Igboland by the Igbo, under a Constitution that confiscate into the hands of the illicit Federal Government of Nigeria, the powers to build Seaports, Security and other necessary Infrastructure required to build New Cities.
More than any other Factor, including the defeat from the 1967-1970 War, this depth of self-imposed ignorance is Chief-Reason Igboland is in the mess it currently is in and Igbo People are perishing for this lack of knowledge”
Then comes the story of Nigeria’s former Finance Minister and now Director-General of World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, speaking after a visit to Nigeria’s Stop-Gap President, Bola Tinubu, about how Six Multinational Manufacturing Giants that would accompany her to a Disputed Nigeria in December of 2023, set up shop in Nigeria, even as she hailed Tinubu’s emergence as the best thing to have happened to mankind since the fall of Adam.
One hopes the story is merely a social media concoction but if per chance the story is true, (which will be tragic), one would then ask whether Madam Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has found out why international manufacturing giant, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) closed shop in Nigeria July 2023, after 51 years of operations in Nigeria or why the likes of Dunlop migrated from Nigeria to Ghana a few years back.
Those enquiries would lead Madam Okonjo-Iweala instantly to the doorstep of Nigeria’s Unworkable Unitary Constitution.
What a monumental tragedy for a People; that Ohanaeze at home does not know and the brightest of our Diaspora do not understand that the Unitary Constitutional Arrangements of Nigeria constitute the Shackles and Manacles by which Developments and Progress are Locked Down in Igboland and the rest of Nigeria.
It may well be that our “Detribalized” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is more concerned about the well-being and advancement of One-Nigeria than the survival of Eastern Nigeria.
What will be our response to Dr Michael Iheonukara Okpara today, if he were to suddenly appear at an Igbo Economic Summit in Enugu, to ask us what happened to the Development of Eastern Nigeria that Unitary Nigeria disrupted?
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How can an artificial Union, one that is created and upheld not by anything from "we the people", but by a 1999 Constitution that is a well-known FORGERY and Fraud continue to bamboozle??? It's because there is elite and middle class cooperation with Unitary Nigeria, a System that dispossesses indigenous Ethnic Nations and that crushes the poor... The looming clouds of Anarchy can be pushed away if that 1999 Forgery (Constitution) is Rejected and there is Transitioning to Renegotiate this failed Union.