By Charles OGBU

 If there is a certain group of people I dislike with every fiber of my being, it is those who perpetrate injustice against the weak and the vulnerable. 

 There is another group I hate even more and that is those who hide under some phoney liberalism or neutrality to support injustice while pretending to be peacemakers.

 This second group of people, fear them! Do not dine with them even with a long spoon. Infact, if that dangerous reptile known as the black Mamba were to visit you in company of these 'peacemakers', do not hesitate to club them to death while you go clubbing with your black Mamba friend!

 Tell the 'Nigerian' peacemaker about  Biafra - forgiven, but not forgotten criminalities and he will be like: "But Ojukwu shouldn't have tried to break the country nah!  Ndigbo should have remained with their fellow Nigerians. Don't you realise we are better off as one united country"

 This fake peacemaker will never talk about the unprovoked slaughtering of Ndigbo in the North which started as far back as 1945 in Jos, followed by another major pogrom in Kano in 1953 years before Nigeria  even got her 1960 Independa.

 This morally bankrupt recession-brained Nigerian peacemaker will never blame those who killed, still kill and would tomorrow kill  Ojukwu's people - reasons which forced Ojukwu into declaring Biafra after all his efforts at peace were rebuffed by the Hausa-Fulani oligarchy fronting then Military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon.

 Hearing our 'Nigerian peacemaker' talk about the Biafran War, you'd be forgiven to think Ojukwu just woke up from a nightmare and simply declared Biafra.

 Ndigbo in the North were killed by Hausa-Fulanis with state-sponsored impunity!

 There are recorded instances where those killing were supervised by Nigerian soldiers. And this was long before the 1966 coup even happened. There were several attempts by Ojukwu to get Gowon to take actions to protect Ndigbo in the North. 

 There were signed agreements: notably ABURI! Before the ink dried on the documents in Aburi, Ghana - they all laughed, hugged and drank champagne. 

 Days later, back to Lagos, the Hausa-Fulani clique forced Gowon to jettison  the ABURI AGREEMENT!. 

 Nobody told Ojukwu:  lets revisit ABURI......And the Igbo pogrom - The GENOCIDE against NDIGBO (Systematic killing of a racial group) - continued.....
  
Efforts by Ndigbo tp escape from the North did not save them - It was the Holocaust, repeated in Sahara Africa! - Blacks against Blacks!  Pregnant women had their womb cut open and their babies removed violently after being killed. All verifiable facts. The Nigerian peacemaker would pretend to be unaware of this fact.

 Today, almost 50 years after, the same wave of state-sponsored killing and institutionalised marginalization of Ndigbo  are still rife in the Nigerian Enterprise, and seems to be getting progressively worse.

 In tragic irony, unarmed IPOB members are wantonly slaughtered, bathed with acid by agents of the Federal Government of Nigerian, FGN, on the flipside, these same agents are busy protecting the Fulani herdsmen with a 1000-man military taskforce.

 I may be off the point, but every known rule and law has been twisted  in a bid to jail  Nnamdi Kanu, a man who has never killed a fly! But a blood thirsty, terrorist group 'Fulani herdsmen' -  ranked the 4th deadliest terrorist group  in the world are  being protected by the FGN. We will not go into the generous settlement being dished out to the Boko Haram terrorist group! What manner of injustice is this?????????????

 In all of these, the Nigerian peacemaker will never blame the perpetrators of this moral tragedies, he will rather hide under some phony liberalism to support the oppressors and perpetrators of these immoral acts by blaming  Ndigbo  for asking for Biafra.

 My father, the late Ogbu-Nwachima once told me that any man who would make no effort to address your grievances before asking you to make up and embrace your opponent, is more dark hearted than the one he is trying to reconcile you with.

 Those so called intellectuals who said nothing when Buhari publicly flouted Justice Adeniyi Ademola's order to release Nnamdi Kanu, said nothing when soldiers killed hundreds of IPOB members and bathed some with acid. 

 They  said nothing when Ndigbo were gruesomely murdered in Kano and their killers set free by FGN. They  said nothing in the face of numerous state-sponsored murderous activities of so-called Fulani herdsman armed to the teeth!

  They said nothing when soldiers killed peaceful demonstrating Ndigbo marching to remember their loved ones murdered in cold blood, in Enugu, Onitsha, Aba, Asaba.....Our Nigerian peacemaker  writing long epistles why Ndigbo should forget Biafra is really  evil! He is more devilish than the devil himself!

 I have more respect for 'Muna', my neighbour's pig than some dishonest morally bankrupt enablers of injustice!

 Shame !!!

 Ogbu is a writer and public affairs commentator