Joe Igbokwe, the Publicity Secretary of the Lagos State
chapter of the APC in a lengthy post has weighed into the alleged corruption
scandal hovering around the CEO of Capital Oil & Gas Ltd, Chief (Dr)
calling on all Easterners to stop embarrassing the Igbos. Read his post
below...
Just recently the DSS invited a friend of mine and bonafide
son of Nnewi, Chief (Dr) Ifeanyi Ubah of Capital Oil & Gas Ltd fame to come
and give an account of the whereabouts millions of liters of PMS stored by NNPC
on his Tank farms. Since this invitation, I have read some funny write-ups
online in defense of the Nnewi Chief and some trying to read ethnic meaning to
DSS intervention.
Now the truth is this: My good friend Chief Ifeanyi Ubah is
capable of defending himself and Capital Oil & Gas Ltd. He has formidable
structures in place and good lawyers to defend his case. He does not need
yahoo, yahoo boys and girls and frustrated political hustlers to defend
himself. He does not need internet rats and professional pay-me-I-write-for-you
fraudsters. What I have been reading about this drama online is totally
uncalled for. It is ridiculous, shameful and at best, clannish.
This brigandage did not start today. When Diezani
Alison-Madueke was declared wanted by EFCC for fraud in the oil industry, we
saw this kind of shameless intervention from people who should know better and
those with full doses of Western education. When Stella Oduah was being probed
for purchasing armored BMW cars at astronomical prices, some Igbo leaders rose
to her defense. They erected billboards in the South-East and celebrated her
with a chieftaincy title, Ada Igbo Nile. The impression being created is that
prominent Igbo citizens are being persecuted because they are Igbo. I call this
persecution complex, leadership complex and defeatist syndrome.
It is even annoying that Col. Sambo Dasuki's defense is
being done not by his northern brothers but Igbo who are sworn to bland defense
of everything PDP. They are the most fanatical mourners of the loss of Jonathan
and PDP even when the Ijaws have moved on.
NIA boss, Ayo Oke has been facing series of interrogations
by the EFCC concerning the Osborne Towers 15 billion naira cash haul and I have
not read any Yoruba defending him. Babachir Lawal, the suspended SFG, is being
probed for contract scam and yet I have not seen his kinsmen rising in his
defense. They allow investigations to go the whole hog.
There are litanies of such trials of corrupt people of all
ethnicities and tribes going on everywhere in Nigeria, but it is only Igbo who
defends their fellow tribesmen implicated in scandals.
Yet this was not always the case for Igbo. Indeed, Ala Igbo
is noted as a land where our ancestors and forefathers abhorred evil and
treated corruption with unambiguous disapproval from even pre-colonial
times.
What is wrong with present-day Igbo? What we see today is
not our tradition. It is not our culture. Let nobody rewrite our history, our
culture, and our tradition of eziokwu bu ndu (truth is life).
We see this funny re-occurring decimal more in the
South-East and South-South and it is becoming a national embarrassment. It must
stop. I am told that stupidity is knowing the truth, seeing the truth but
believing in lies. Igbo are a very hard-working, proud and successful tribe,
but we need to come down from a 30,000-foot building to make sense to other
Nigerians.
We need to stop this aberration that is demeaning and
ridiculing Igbo in Nigeria today. We need to caution ourselves before we become
objects of ridicule and butts of ribaldry of other Nigerians, as is dangerously
becoming the fad in the country today.
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