Ndigbo & the reassurance of Kalu’s speech in UK
By Odimegwu Onwumere
It was the despair that Ndigbo suffer in the hands of the
authorities in Nigeria that Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia State
describes the Igbo as third rate citizens in the Nigerian project.
Kalu is of the thinking that rather than the Igbo will be
respected as other major ethnic groups in Nigeria enjoy, Ndigbo are relegated
to the background in the proposal of things in Nigeria.
Kalu made this known at a lecture he delivered on April
18 2013, at the British House of Commons in the United Kingdom, being the first
Igbo person to take the problem that Ndigbo are facing in Nigeria to such a
highly revered parliament.
Everyday, Kalu is expressing his love for Ndigbo in many
ways. Ndigbo are facing terrible consequences. He does not want to see Ndigbo
to suffer in Nigeria like a person in a prison sentence. Alongside this sway,
not only Ndigbo, but people from other ethnic groupings say that Kalu tried to
reach out to the British House of Commons, because of the abysmal quandary of
Ndigbo in Nigeria.
Kalu
tells Ndigbo that they should not give up and should eschew any habit of
insulting any group in the country, because evident is that with him, they will
take their rightful place in Nigeria. He earns the honour.
Apart
from this love task, Kalu is one of the persons in the wisdom-filled ala-Igbo
who do right things to make Ndigbo proud and bar any intruder from deliberately
choosing to do the Igbo any wrong, because politically motioned policies aimed
at Ndigbo made them to be going through hard times, but they are able to resist
the ills.
Kalu
has always taken a step to the right direction in the great-effort for Ndigbo
to be fully emancipated in the business of governance in Nigeria. In his
expedition to tell the world the scrape of Ndigbo in Nigeria, it is expected
that if other Igbo sons and daughters are acting like Kalu to better their
lots, many positive features would have been earned.
The
energetic and fearless Kalu expressed himself succinctly before the British
parliament in a more aplomb manner, and opened an age-long fearfully preserved
can of worms, which others feared to open. People were immovable to the fact
before Kalu told the story without minding the many perceived enemies that want
to run him down unnecessarily, instead of support him.
Kalu
did not make a poor presentation of the Igbo case before the parliament, no
matter any gainsaying voice, because the Igbo case can never be told at a go;
Kalu was more vigorous and undeviating considering the major cause of the Igbo.
His level of diplomacy is stylish. For his love for Ndigbo, he uses emotional
advancement to address issue. Kalu is substantial and sophisticated in addressing
the cause of the Igbo.
The
stage that Kalu preferred to present the Igbo cause in London is one of the
best of platforms in the world. The speech will be archived for study today and
in the future, in the universities and in research works. His speech will be
evolving, because the Igbo predicament in Nigeria is wobbly.
Kalu’s
speech before the British parliament is not the end of his struggles to
liberate Ndigbo from the man-made woes that surround them. It is just part of
the dimensions with different ways suggesting that Ndigbo really need to come
together and pursue their widespread future. Kalu is not caustic!
Kalu’s
love for Ndigbo and how he presents it is always representing, levelheaded and
tactful. He does not want extraterrestrials to write the history of Ndigbo
since all the attempts by their rivals to plunge them did not work. Kalu
understands every of the foe’s attempts to hoax Ndigbo, be it local or
international. Kalu does not speak from the side of weakness, hence every Igbo
voice is needed, and no matter who is seen or alleged to have erred.
It
is the certainty of Kalu that Ndigbo must be united and avoids any acrimony
that the competitor is using to divide the Igbo more. He believes that there is
no sense in Ndigbo fighting themselves.
It
is noteworthy that Kalu’s love for Ndigbo made him to puncture the conscience
of those that he took the predicaments of Ndigbo to in London; a pathway that
entails that the troubles and troublemakers against the Igbo are coming to an
endless end with his balanced natter.
Kalu is gradually achieving the objective, by not being
against Nigeria or anybody or group. His attribute follows with equal measure;
and in a short time Kalu believes that Ndigbo will not suffer despair again in
Nigeria.
Odimegwu Onwumere, Poet/Author, contributed this piece from Rivers State.
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