By
Jaye Gaskia
Where do we begin
from? To the colonizers and the armed merchants before them, who overthrew our
way of life with the force of arms; we may not have been more than just the
people who live in the area around the River Niger.
To Lugard and his Mistress,
we may not have been much more than the people of the Niger River Area [from
which they derived the name Nigeria]. And to the political elites of the
independence struggle era, we may not have been on the eve of flag independence
more than a ‘mere geographical expression’ [albeit one which some of them,
professing progressive orientation said they were determined to transform into
a real multinational nation].
And to the successor
treasury looting and light fingered political [in particular], and ruling class
[in general] elite of the past 3 three decades; we may still be a disparage
alignment of fractious ethnicities and religious sects.
And just before we go
on; why did we make reference to the past three decades? Because the dominant
gladiators of nation, rampaging like traumatized elephant in a china shop all
over our political and socio-economic space over the last three decades have
been same personalities, families or lineages!
But inspite of the
ineptitude and gluttonous greed of our ruling class combined with the
conspiracies of our international distractors; We The People, we who fought the
military to a standstill and forced them back into their barracks; We, the foot
soldiers, organisers and mobilisers of the June 12 struggle and more recently
the January Uprising; We The People of Nigeria; united by our shared experience
of poverty, suffering, joblessness, homelessness, and exploitation by native
and foreign task masters.
We The People of
Nigeria. Forged in the furnace of our common struggles for daily survival as
well as for long-term social justice and equity; shaped by our common
experience of the Civil War, and the insurgencies that have dotted our land
since then; We The Ordinary People of Nigeria, we who have always struggled to
assert our citizenship; We know for a fact that we more than a motley
collection fractious ethnicities and religious sects.
We have and are in
the process of becoming the same people, strengthened by their diversity,
propelled by our shared adversity, boosted by our ingenuity, and thrust forward
by our common humanity. We are one people, diverse, and united. We are one
people, held down by a thieving light fingered and small minded elite; held
back by a world rigged against our emergence; We are one people.
We The Ordinary
People of Nigeria, we are the only ones who truly believe in this country; and
it is because of us, our united suffering, our united struggles, our common
hope, that this nation continues to exist; Only us can truly emancipate
ourselves and liberate our nation and people; Yes Only Us.
Let us get our acts
together, gird our loins, take our destiny into our own hands, build the
alternative political party for our self emancipation and national liberation;
and Take Back Nigeria, Now!
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