Just
realized this dysfunctional, corrosive and apocalyptic Lugardian 1914
political wedlock called Nigeria is 56 years old, today.
Yeah, it was on 1st October 1960 that
the Union Jack was lowered and a symbolic certificate of freedom handed
over to Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa by Queen Elizabeth II.
Damn it! Who cares?
All I know is, the Southern Kaduna man
who wasn’t ab initio defeated by any local predator(s) before the
arrival of the “toeless and crazy bald-heads” from the United Kingdom is
still in bondage. A bondage British White supremacists deliberately
created to make their political domination, economic exploitation, and
cultural subjugation easy.
Don’t tell me am free when the Muhammadu
Buhari-led federal government and my state [Kaduna] government are
planning to create grazing reserves for cows but aren’t contemplating
creating pigs reserve despite their full knowledge that I rear pigs not
cows.
Don’t you ever say I am free when some
people have the right to mock at my way of life but I dare not even
comment on anything that has to do with them.I don’t even have the right
to drink my unkomboti everywhere I want.
I don’t want to hear the word
independence when political structures were deliberately created to make
me a second class citizen with limits of what I can aspire in my home
state.
Never tell me “independence” because
Southern Kaduna people have been advocating for restructuring and their
own state to no avail.
Which independence when the government
that the Queen of England imposed on us consciously or otherwise
refused us the right to bear arms so that we can defend ourselves from
“unknown gunmen”?
May God continue to punish Lord Lugard and all those who hem this political babel and hell called Nigeria.
May the Grace promised to faithfuls elude Fredrick Lugard and his
silly colonial team that made the Nigeria project a reality. May the
heat in their graves increase by 100%, right now. And may they not get
the ticket to the last feast with God, Christ, and other faithfuls.
If you think you are free, go dance. But for me and my people, we are still not free.
The mistake of 1914 is still enslaving us.
John Danfulani, Ph.D., is a
university lecturer at Kaduna State University and human rights
activist. He can be reached by email HERE.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.
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