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I stand by my word - Igbos are shedding crocodile tears - They should look within to solve their problems before looking outside for solutions By
The ordinary Igbo man in Igbo land is totally lost because the debate about their future has been elevated to an Olympian height, where they do not know whats going on with Igbo leadership; since the common things like fixing roads in Igbo land, health care and education is such a heavy task for Igbo leadership to handle that they have resorted to blaming the other tribes on our common and simple problems. Does it mean that we can not do certain things for our selves without blaming Nigeria? The fact of the matter is in Igbo land, our so called leaders or people who claim more Igboness than others refuse to accept the fact that the main reason Igbos go through most of the so called marginalization is due to our own actions (lack of integrated social and economic planning with what we have). In Igbo land today, anybody not tested can come out from no where as long as he or she has money or is "connected" he or she is allowed to join the Igbo leadership and start representing Igbos on issues affecting them, and of course they hate to be criticised and they have lead us to no where. The Igbos were lead to war by our so called truncated leaders without educating the Igbos on the consequences. You do not go to war and knowing the odds against you, and the marginalization that was happening within the Biafran territory and expect to win a war. We should not have gone to war or we should have fought that war and win. The Igbo leadership are just like the rest of the bankrupt leadership in all the major tribes in Nigeria, but the Igbo leadership hate to be criticised and if you dare criticised them, they will come with all sorts of verbal venom against the person. They have failed woefully and their only relevance with the ordinary Igbo man is the cry of marginalization from the other tribes. My question is this, the other tribes were there when Igbos excelled in business, education, commerce and industry on individual basis, but how come when we receive our own share of the national cake - no matter how small- our so called leaders misuse it and divert attention from their weakness to the other groups (tribes). I am not saying that the other tribes have done great things when it comes to leadership that Nigeria needs far from the fact, but the Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Fulani, Ibibio are among the ten most powerful tribal groups in Africa, but these groups have failed the black races and have not produced leadership we need in Africa not to talk about the black race. We have to criticise our leadership in any form when they have failed and the Igbo leadership has failed just as Nigerian leadership has failed. Thanks Ugo Harris Nigerian Democracy and Justice Project Washington, DC
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