On Okey Ndibe

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18925:the-difficult-task-of-accountability&catid=122:okey-ndibe


"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people", someone said.

And in a society where millions wallow in ignorance and poverty, you will find millions of sycophants including Ndibe's correspondent.

Good article, not a great one. The reason why this is a good article but not a great one is because of the following excerpt: "The claim that a people get the caliber of leaders they deserve has always struck me as largely false in the context of Nigeria. The historical record sustains the view that Nigerians’ quest for quality leadership has been thwarted again and again by a nucleus of hijackers intent on living off the resources of the nation."

That is a fair and accurate summary of the political dynamics in Nigeria but Okey Ndibe doesnt identify the real forces at work, those who plot and scheme to impose opportunists, thieves and murderers on us as leaders.

History teaches us that those very same forces have engineered the overthrow of progressive leaders around the world including Kwame Nkrumah, Murtala Muhammmed, Muhammadu Buhari, Thomas Sankara, Laurent Gbagbo, Saddam Hussein, Patrice Lumumba, Jean-Betrand Aristides, Amilcar Cabral, Malcolm X and so many others.

In Nigeria, those forces have supported the Jonathans, the Obasanjos and the Babangidas of this world, the most despicable bunch of opportunists and traitors you could ever hope to find, in order to exploit Nigeria of it's resources and keep us dependent - in order to maintain this updated 21st century version of the slave trade.

In Nigeria, those forces are headquartered at the British, American, French and Dutch embassies. If anyone doubts that, I strongly recommend Wikileaks and it's revelations as to how Nigeria is just as colonised and enslaved by the West today as it was in 1911.

That is the first thing you and I need to understand. If you dont get that, you wont get anything else; you will remain confused by puppets, never recognising the existence of puppeteers pulling their strings and frustrating our hopes and aspirations in the process. This is what millions of brainwashed Nigerians dont know or understand. This is what they need to know and understand. Spread the word.


PS: ... Muammar Ghadaffi, Mohammed Mossadegh, Salvador Allende, Bartolemy Boganda, Steve Biko, Dedan Kimathi ... the list of progressive leaders eliminated by Western capitalism goes on and on. 

In the global capitalist scheme of things, Rochas Okorocha and every other governor in Nigeria is very small fry indeed - like small fish swimming in a great river, not too far from the bottom of the food chain.