IN SEARCH OF AN AFROCENTRIC IDEOLOGY

IN SEARCH OF AN AFROCENTRIC IDEOLOGY

Briton confesses:

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BRITON CONFESSES TO FRAUDULENT CENSUS IN NIGERIA

The man Harold Smith is not new in Nigerian history. He is one of the architects of colonial foundation that midwifed Nigerian independence in 1960.

His response was "I am in my 80s now; I have agreed but, in the past,' they' did not want me to say anything, but now I don't want to go to my grave without telling the truth about the atrocities perpetrated in Africa by the colonialists. Brothers and sisters; on Ben TV  Harold Smith was on a program to reveal what went behind the scene before  independence. The Oxford University graduate had this to say about his role in Nigeria pre and after independence era.

‘Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa. Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed Nigeria, this was what we found in the southern region; *strength, intelligence, determination to succeed, well established history, complex but focused life style, great hope and aspirations the East is good in business and technology the west is good in administration and commerce, law and medicine, but it was a pity we planned our agenda to give power "at all cost" to the northerners.

They seemed to be submissive and silly of a kind. Our mission was accomplished by destroying the opposition at all fronts. The west led in the fight for the independence, and was punished for asking for freedom. They will not rule Nigeria! Harold Smith confessed that the Census results were announced before they were counted. Despite seeing vast land with no human but cattle in the north, we still gave the north 55 million instead of 32 Million.

 This was to be used to maintain their majority votes and future power bid. He stated that the West without Lagos was the most populous in Nigeria at that time but we ignored that. The north was seriously encouraged to go into the military.

According to him, they believed that the south may attend western education, but future leaders will always come from military background. Their traditional rulers were to be made influential and super human. The northerners were given accelerated promotions both in the military and civil service to justify their superiority over the south. Everything was to work against the south.  We truncated their good plan for their future. "I was very sorry for the A.G; it was a great party too much for African standard. We planned to destroy Awolowo and Azikiwe as well, the west and the east and sowed a seed of discord among them".

 We tricked Azikiwe into accepting to be president having known that Balewa will be the main man with power. Awolowo has to go to jail to cripple his genius plans for a greater Nigeria .

However, Harold Smith justified the British agenda of colonialism in Nigeria , which he believed was originally to help build Africa after the ruins of slave trade, but lamented that the British only looked after themselves and not after Nigerian interest. The British really let Nigeria down.

 When I see Nigeriañs being accused of fraud and from what I saw on the streets of Lagos ; the British were worst fraudsters. Looking at the northern leaders now he said, "If they have any agenda in Nigeria at all, sadly it is only for the north, and nothing for Nigeria . He stated that the British look after the British people and this is so all over the world. He said the time has come now to see people of intelligent minds with an open and inclusive agenda for all Nigerians in power…people who will really look after Nigeria's large population…but "I still curiously and sorrowfully see now that the British has not let go of Nigeria…her wealth,. her potentials, her future. He opined that the Caucasian people now assert themselves as the keeper of the "New Age" keys.

 He therefore said that it is only logical for Europeans to maintain their position of power, scientific superiority, economic exploitation, they must continue to perpetuate their lies and falsehoods and this is the most unkindest cut of all in relation to Nigeria situation! According to him, Nigeria , a great nation was crippled not because of military juntas or corrupt leaders alone but by the British and American fear of Nigeria's great future.

He confessed, "The fear of the place that will be our ‘dumping ground' really occupied our minds". Some of the things he said were not new to Nigerians or to the whole world but hearing it from the horse's mouth is quite revealing and established more reality zones. He finally submitted that the colonial masters have caused havoc while they were in Africa , and planted timed bombs when they finally left.

What we see since independence, the administration of new internal colonial masters of fellow Nigerians holding sway in power is doing more damage to Nigeria . Instead of detonating the time bombs planted by the British, the north is planting mines. He added that ‘It was my duty to carry out all of the above and I was loyal to my country.

Nigerians should try to be loyal to their country leaders and followers alike. Love your country. You have got the potentials to be great again and the whole world knows this'.

I am sorry for the above evil done to Nigeria. I can't say sorry enough……"

The above confession by Harold Smith calls for Africa to urgently develop a unifying philosophy that is coded in an Ideology that will forge a powerful link between all the countries on the continent. 

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IN SEARCH OF AN AFROCENTRIC IDEOLOGY

The Democratic experiment” as was imported from America with its capitalist ideology is obviously not working in Nigeria. Democracy has proved in the past 22 years to be the government of the rich for the rich especially in Nigeria and some of the other countries in Africa and the Third world. It's simply a warped game of numbers.

Those that are privileged to participate in this” Demonstration of Craziness” (thanks to late Fela Anikulapo Kuti) are in most cases those who have looted Government Treasuries, when they were in one Key post or the other in Civil Service. Some of them are stooges to some “Godfather” who expect a payback from their candidates, immediately they are elected into power.

Many also use occultic means and membership of secret cults to gain power, which they then use to carry out their dastardly acts. This has led to situations where ‘round pegs’ are forced into ‘square holes’.

The aforementioned negative methods of achieving elective positions in Nigeria has led to the country being bedeviled with massive corruption and spiritual wickedness in high places.

In Nigeria the unrealistic marriage of “strange bedfellows” which has continued to slow down the development of the polity, because of the emphasis on the myth of ‘one Nigeria’ regardless of OLODUMARE's Divine will, has continued to create an uphill task that has led to serious setback and lack of focus by the 3 arms of Government as to the way forward. A few power brokers seat in their comfort zones to allocate the resources of the nation to their kith and kin at the expense of over 96% of the nation’s population many of who find it difficult to make ends meet.

All in the name of Quota System (in the 3 Arms of Government and in 3 tiers of Government) many mediocre adorn themselves in flowing robes and live outrageous and expensive lifestyles to the detriment of the majority of Nigerians. They seat in the legislative houses earning fat salaries passing laws which do not put food on the table of majority of Nigerians and making laws that protect themselves while the greater percentage of the people are left to their fate, with most of them wallowing in abject poverty .

What is the so-called dividend of Democracy “when it is the Government of “the few for the few”?

The erstwhile middle class of the society consisting of graduates, professionals & the intelligentsia many with 15 to more than 40 years post qualification experience have been almost completely wiped out, and many of our youth are thrown into a nonexistent labour market where all they face is a bleak future. What about the children and the teenagers and those who have lived up to retirement age with their pension funds embezzled and no social welfare scheme to take care of the aged.

We have reached a stage in the development of our nation where we have to face the stark reality that DEMOCRACY AS IT IS CONCEIVED CAN NOT WORK IN NIGERIA.

This is evident in the fact that within less than ten years of it’s adoption, there are crisis in many states. These include, Rivers, Gombe, Adamawa, Taraba, Kogi, Plateau, Ekiti, Osun, Oyo, Anambra, Edo, Ondo States and more significantly in the presidency. We do not have to go thru” the details of the causes of these crisis, but we must look closely and do some introspection. There is need to address the fact that we are Africans and the Communal nature of our society does not allow us to “import” a foreign philosophy and method of suffrage that does not take cognizant of our traditional and cultural background.

Before the advent of colonialism, we had systems of Government peculiar to various parts of the African continent. Those who want to educate themselves as to these traditional forms of Government can consult jurists and historians who can fully update them.

The main concern of this discourse is to sensitize Africans on the need to search their intellects and suggest ways in which we can address the various problems that have been created through super imposition of foreign ideologies on our political system

THE WAY FORWARD

As a student of society, my suggestion is that we look closely at NATURALISM which by definition takes its origin from nature (to satisfy those who are particular about “ISMS”) as against capitalism and MERITOCRACY as (Against the present conception of Democracy to satisfy those who want to associate with CRACY-ness).

There is diversity and not equality in nature. Trees are of different heights sizes and shapes, animals have different sizes and shapes and have different levels of intelligence, so are human beings too. It is taking a cue from this diversity that the idea of NATURALISM as an ideology of human, political, social and economic development is being suggested. Since there is diversity in nature, a suggestion of equality in terms of human ability, endowment and developmental level, is not possible. It is in recognition of this inequality that it is being suggested that this factor should be taken into consideration in adopting a political ideology or philosophy that underlines the method by which leaders are to be appointed for the various age-group councils and councils of elders from whom the political elite will emerge. Because capitalism and Democracy worked in America does not mean we have to adopt that ideology and method of political suffrage without some “touch” of Africanism to make them suit our peculiar circumstances.

The African system of traditional Government before the advent of colonialism has always been democratic. though MONARCHIAL“Democracy” as imported from America is new to us but our traditional method of government had visible elements of democracy in it. We had Traditional Rulers and age-group councils in our traditional African Government and we also had council of elders who represent the various group  of people that make up the polity, MERITOCRACY suggests that we develop a method of selecting by merit our leaders from representatives of the various age groups who have distinguished themselves in various spheres of life. The council of elders too should be selected through the same method, from elders who have also shown fairly all-round success in various spheres of life and contributed in one way or the other to the progress of humanity.

Corrupt money–bags and people of doubtful character should be excluded.

The merit in Meritocracy is that attaining these positions is through positive contribution to the welfare and development of humanity by the leaders who have been chosen by merit because of their honesty and forthrightness.

A situation where the democratic process as it is, does not produce leaders that meet the needs of the greater population of Africans calls for a need to consider the above suggestion; or at least consider them as a basis for philosophers, sociologists and political scientists to conduct research and dialogue as to the need to evolve a social structure that can satisfy the mostly illiterate African society.

The present system whereby you need fantastic sums of money before you can aspire to leadership is totally unacceptable and does not augur well for the best interest of a society where the middle class has been totally wiped out. Besides the astronomical cost of running the Democratic Process’ (especially in Nigeria) does not justify the result we are getting. The country and by extention the Continent continues to go deeper into squalor, poverty, lack, misery, very poor standard of living and frustration while the elected leaders live in false affluence.

Our continent is one of the richest in the world in terms of natural and human resources, so why do we have this anomaly?

There is an urgent need to address the issues of a political system that is suitable to Nigeria given the diverse culture and background of her various tribal constituencies. This also applies to other parts of the continent where their pre-colonial history have to be taken into consideration in determining the ideal political system to be adopted.

It is issues raised above that should have formed the basis of discussion at the so-called Sovereign National Conference.

As Africans, let us determined to take our destiny in our own hands.

Shalom

Harambee

 God  blessNigeria

God Bless Africa. 

God Bless Humanity

Very Truly Yours

SOLOMOÑ AYODEJI OGUNJOBI (JP)(Deja Vu)a.k.a. ORUNMILA

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