Being a missionary and having sworn to obedience, the priest goes
to wherever he is sent and does the work assigned to him by his bishop. But
having to contend with the sons of Eli as service providers to the
multifarious network of interests, alliances and allegiances
instituted by the community of faith in accord with
God’s plan for the liberation of his own people is a
different kind of mission that is made of a more sterner stuff
especially when a King Saul is seated upon the throne of Israel.
That the community of faith is, now and always, given
unfettered access to the pool of Bethesda - the ocean of divine
mercy - does not change the fact that Elijah is a fire brand
prophet and that John the Baptist is the greatest of all men
yet the least in the kingdom of heaven.
Not only President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and his wife Dame
Patience Jonathan, but indeed, the entire Igbo race must be made to
understand that the struggle for freedom is a collective task, and
that the liberation fields and healing camps instituted
by Fr. Ejike Mbaka in Nigeria and beyond through the instrumentality of
Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN) cannot be
reduced to a mere war of attrition wedged by a
frustrated priest. They are rather the most real face of the struggle
for authentic Church renewal and the fullest
actualization for Igbo people.
Fr. Mbaka’s experience presently quite clearly mirrors
mine which spans a decade beginning from Aba in 2004, down to
Port Harcourt City, and back to Aba.
The year 2004 marked the beginning my life in exile, and the city
of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria played host to me in the manner that
Okonkwo, the lead character in Chinua Achebe’s historic novel “Things Fall Apart”,
did for Ikemefuna but then I am a Catholic Priest, not Ikemefuna.
And so when the “Okonkwos” of Rivers State attempted to assert
themselves against “Ikemefuna”, they discovered that I was not Ikemefuna but
that I am a Catholic Priest. From that moment they went on their own exile and
came home few years back to commit suicide. This is the story of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP in Rivers State.
It suffices to mention here also that in 2006 during my stay
at the Catholic Institute of West Africa (CIWA) Port Harcourt, several attempts
were made to slip into my room (students do not have a control over spare keys
to the hostel rooms) at midnight to strangle me to death, forcing me to stay in
the room during the day but sleep in the toilet attached to the students’
parlor on the 3rd floor during the night.
I was kidnapped on July 9, 2006 where I was stripped naked,
thrown into a muddy pond, dressed up in a madman’s cloth afterwards and forced
to sit on a garbage heap under the nose of a camera after having been subjected
to some fetish birth in the hands of a man who appeared to be a native doctor.
Those who kidnapped me were those who labeled me a madman and instituted a
powerful propaganda at all fronts against me and my poor family. Consequently,
as the effects came home to roost and in the desperation of my assailants to
silence me and mob up all witnesses and incriminating documents, De Moore (my
elder brother), Papa and Edu (my nephew) are gone before us marked with the
sign of faith.
In all these, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Our Lady of Fatima and
Queen/Patroness of Nigeria told me to keep silent like a lamb led to the
slaughter, but yet keep the records, be the diplomat and wait for the appointed
time.
Again, given the forces at work against me,
I have had to operate a guerrilla ministry even as I am
legitimately posted to my family as the Parish Priest
of Evurulobi Family Parish, Evurulobi Native Compound, Amuke
Village, Isiahaba Autonomous Community, Isiala-Ngwa South, L.G.A. of Abia
State.
Quite distanced from arrogance and ambition, my
strength and conviction spring from this
inspired admonition by an author to always
preach and never to cease preaching
the authentic message even if in doing so, one stands
to be consumed or is completely consumed by the
truth of the message he /she has preached. One
must not worry, or offer apologies for the Word. Surely, our security is with
God, not with any man.
I have always been guided by the maxim that:
Victory has nothing
to do with the number or size of human army, the
wealth and influence of the aggressor or the
sophistications of conventional weapons. Instead, it is about the quality
of the truth that drives the motif for war. It is only when the truth dies, not
its soldiers, that the War waged on its behalf can be said to have
been lost.
But as long as truth lives, he
who fights on the side of freedom can never be a looser. Even in death, he is a
winner - forever. For as Dele Giwa correctly pointed out, “the triumph of Evil
over Good is only temporary”. The real term for this kind of war is “the
struggle for freedom.
In an article I published in the Sahara Reporters Newspapers
titled “My Story: Why They Want Me Dead“, I confessed my
frustrations at the face of the invasion and subversion of the
faith and its substitution for mere ideology – a
situation the Diocesan Synod could not reverse but
rather compounded instead.
The earliest efforts I made in this direction as the Parish Priest
of St. Mary’s Parish, Amaekpu, Isiala-Ngwa North of Abia State earned me a
sentence of banishment from my natural home and my diocese in 2004, and then
forced me back again to Aba in 2006 in a bid to reduce me to an incurable mad
man, a fugitive and a wanderer and this was after influential assassination
attempts made on my life and the lives of my collaborators and of my family,
had collapsed. When the efforts to reduce me to a madman equally failed,
renewed assassination attempts on my life became frequent and took a more
dangerous dimension by having me posted to my father’s house in the native
village without a written document to show for it. Few days latter, an
Episcopal decree was issued and secretly circulated banning me from visiting
and communicating with any ecclesiastical person, place or thing. The diocese
had the wherewithal to publish a decree in respect of Fr. Kenneth Evurulobi but
she could not put a posting to my natural father’s house in a written form - a
situation that pitched the former Apostolic Nuncio against some people in my
diocese. His position was clear - if you people have posted him to his father’s
house, then put it in writing!
The frustration of the Apostolic Nuncio was so manifest to the
extent that, in a telephone conversation with him, he told me to devise and
explore every just means I think would proffer solution to my problems.
From another angle, the PDP led Government in Abia State had a
death warrant issued against me. Several times, I have had cause, while running
away from a joint murder task force, to sleep at motor parks and in the bush in
my bid to run away from the murder plots of people whom I have sincerely loved
and prayed for. For instance, there were times I have had to leave Aba town
around 10.30pm for Port Harcourt so as to find a resting spot - not sleeping
mat - at the 2nd Artillery in Port Harcourt because I had been
closely monitored all through the day to know where I will finally end up so as
to send assassins disguised as armed robbers to the hiding place.
When a throne that belongs to the
entire nation is hijacked, usurped and turned
into a private property by sadists and terrorists
disguised as jihadists or crusaders, would you destroy
other people’s faith because you want to occupy
the throne? If this approach is right, then real and
authentic Muslims, not only true Christians, are
also right in their bid to protect that which
they consider the highest value – or, in the
words of Paul Tillich, the Ultimate Concern.
PDP is the great harlot that is seated upon the many waters
who has become drunk with the blood of the saints – both Christians and Muslim.
It is about Satanism, corruption and terrorism. It is about the anti-Christ,
anti-Islam and anti-God.
The only way forward is to form an alliance. And Buhari is
the most effective face of this alliance.
Anyone who doubts the veracity of
this assertion needs only to appreciate the fact that, even till the last
minutes before Osisikankwu met his end, Mr. Chinedum Orji, son of the incumbent
Governor, Chief Theodore Ahamafuna Orji was in full and friendly communication with
him begging him to leave Abia State and go to Cameroun, Niger Republic, Chad or
Dubai and remain there for a while.
Chief T.A Orji never wanted
Osisikankwu arrested or killed. Instead, he wanted to use him to complete part
of his mission of genocide against Ukwa/Ngwa people. And like every greedy
thief and assassin, Osisikankwu became a greater embarrassment to the Abia
State Government than to himself.
Unknown to Osisikankwu, and
hidden away from the many desperate Ukwa/Ngwa Youths he recruited, beyond the
agitations for settlement for electoral robbery against Abia Citizens, the
kidnapping saga was instituted with the practical purpose of silencing
Ukwa/Ngwa elders and rid her of her vibrant youths.
Orji Uzor Kalu, Chief Theodore
Ahamefuna Orji and his son Mr. Chinedum Orji are not alone in this heinous
crime against Ukwa/Ngwa people. It is a criminal ring, or rather, a mafia group
purportedly formed by and working for the apex Igbo renaissance group Ohaneze
for the purpose of reducing the Old Aba Zone to a no-man’s land and then create
it into a neutral state for the purpose of accommodating a mass of Igbo
citizens living outside Igbo land and Nigeria should the unexpected happen.
What this involves in their estimation is a systematic elimination and total
extinction of the Ukwa/Ngwa race. Even as the truth comes to light about the
real protagonists of this genocide action against our people, the fact remains
that the Igbo members of this cabal have already made irrevocable commitments,
and would be compelled to honor agreements.
This consideration every fear
eschews the Sacred Deed may be subjected to in the hands of the extremists.
Against this background it is
important to know that a “North East” exists in all the geopolitical zones of
Nigeria. The usurpations of the political spaces in Abia State are ordained to
perpetuate this genocidal action against the Ukwa/Ngwa people. For the benefit
of doubts, it suffices to mention that, in reference to the Catholic Church
which has the capacity to place a strong international appeal, Chibueze
Community Bank which is in affiliation with Diamond Bank declared bankrupt few
years back to the extent that emergency funds had to be scooped from sundry
sources to rebuild the bank. In this way, a charge of financial impropriety and
money laundry was perfected against any Catholic Bishop of the Ukwa/Ngwa
extraction for the purpose of removing him from office should the original
agreement be withdrawn in favor of an agitation for an indigenous Bishop.
Ukwa/Ngwa people say no to genocide that wears the face of Mr. Alex Oti.
In view of the foregoing, and in respect
of other “North East” fields that have been clearly mapped out across the
length and breath of Nigeria and backed up with powerfully written and secretly
sealed Agreements, the Sacred Deed up is hereby made public and presented to
the President-elect, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari <
So that Mr. President does not
collapse and die of a sudden and so that events do not lead up to a situation
whereby Nigeria will be divided into four zones and to be ruled by already
designated Heads of State in the manner of ISIS, Muhammadu Buhari is expected
to sign the SACRED DEED and in
this way prove his commitment to transparency, national unity, peace and
security. In this way also, the exalted office of the President and his person
will be saved from ridicule, enslaving agreements and damaging embarrassments.
Vice President Osibanjo is
hereby requested to resign so as not to be formed into an “Atiku Abubakar” and
his home state turned into another “Borno State”. His greatest contribution to
this nation lies in his ability to make this difficult sacrifice. I
undertake to put on record here my deepest regard for and appreciation of the
sacrifices Prof. Osinbanjo have made to come thus far in life, profession
and ministry. And I will never fail to thank God on daily bases that it had to
be Prof. Osibanjo we have to deal with, and not a career politician.The fact is
that a terrorist has navigated his way through the serene and soothing waters
of faith, hardwork and dedication that flow from the RCCG fountain to return to
the harbor of honor and fame at the expense of Afenifere and the authentic
Yoruba liberation which the Oduduwa Republic yearns for. And from here, the
battle cry for fellow terrorists and satanists to "Mobilize" will be
sent across to his fellows with the voice of a dove but the effects remain the
same - Death! Terrorism!! Corruption!!!
To come down to specifics, let's
hum the tune that is on the air, "Who killed Comrd. Funsho Williams?"
If my big Yoruba friends want to be fair to their fellow collaborators about
the Buhari hit slogan of "CHANGE", the serious indictments raised by
the 1966 coup that led eventually to the civil war must compell them to begin
immediately to reflect on the cost of rethinking citizenship and advertising
commitments.
Against all odds, however, let
Nigeria be. And let it be one. The SACRED DEED is the way forward. If the President and the
President-Elect sign the SACRED DEED, then Nigerians, not Buhari, are the
WINNER of this election. The provisions in the SACRED DEED are a product of
mercy. The cost of justice will be too high and, perhaps, raw. Let's rather not
talk about the "OIL DEAL". Let's rather talk about the Real Deal -
CHANGE!
THEREFORE, LIVE THE CHANGE
IN YOU! IT IS REAL!
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