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WE ARE COMING: The emergence of Akirika Duku-Duku ‘ Chinedu Maduabum Onitsha, Nigeria PREAMBLE One of the most destructive maladies that can befall a nation, people, or race is their inability to decipher at least the reason why they suffer. It becomes a malediction if the people are ignorant of the fact that their oppressors are also ignorant of their potentials, boiling down to and as Amos Bronson Alcott puts it “…the malady of ignorant.” The words of Ralph Barton Perry seem clearer when he stated “ignorance deprive men of freedom because they do not know what other alternative there are…”
If it was all about looking for an alternative, it would have been better but this is a situation that has completely fallen apart leaving behind no center point for the incoming generations to hold but rely on the last resort – hope; the dream of those that wake; the brightest when it dawns from fear; the only good that is common to all men. It is most unfortunate that Ndiigbo have fallen into that same pit alike contemporary Christians, when that which is unseen can be seen from the things we play with in everyday life. Can we say the same of our ancestors knowing fully well that they used the horn of a ram and the shell of a tortoise to invite the spirit of wisdom on how to go to war? Or, do you think it is fiction, Mr. civilized Igbo leader?
THE LEADERS For many years now the Igbo people have not known or seen true leadership, a virtue that was so common in the days of our ancestors, since after our direction was altered. There is no doubt we have produced great leaders who can rule the world in the likes of late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Emeka Anyaoku, not leaving out Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and the former Senate President Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, who recently re-ignited the spirit of betrayal at the just concluded ANPP presidential primaries -- if the decision of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo at the Igbo summit of 2001 is anything to go by. One would have imagined going by the abovementioned names that Nigeria would have been the footstool of Ndiigbo and the entire world her dwelling place.
Clarence Belden Randall makes us to believe that a leader must know, he will also know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows. Know what? I think what he had in mind was the fact that when we think we lead, we are most led; that is to say, a leader is a follower of the peoples minds. Today in Igbo land, there are so many leaders apart from the abovementioned. We have organizational leaders like the Ohanaeze, Massob, etc. Individual leaders who are the money bags and those who are newspaper-caption leaders, permit me to call them ‘random leaders’ -- for instance Igbo Movement (IM), Concerned Igbo Indigenes (CII), Greater Youths of Igboland (GYI). I think the APF should have its seat as well -- Anambra Peoples Forum, the umbrella group of the money bags of Anambra state.
THE SPIRIT It will be unwise to criticize these groups and people without looking at the spirit behind their motives. I have not the space to list them, for they are as the sands are of the seas. From the council level through the village politics to the gates of Aso Rock, the one word very common on their lips is ‘BETRAYAL.’ This is the act of handing over or exposing treacherously to an enemy vital information about a people or nation in exchange for a measurement of materialism -- money in most cases; but, in the Igbo case, it is either the abovementioned or an executive position. This is the most visible spirit presently operating in the land. We saw it openly at the just-concluded presidential primaries of the two strongest parties in the country -- PDP and ANPP. Before the primaries, there have been solemn calls by Ndiigbo both at home and abroad to come together and produce an Igbo president at least at the 2001 Igbo summit.
In the Summit, people like Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu made such call but became the first to betray as he quickly greased the doors of Aso Rock and became the campaign manager south-eastern zone of Mr. President, and who knows what awaits him as soon as Mr. President gets a second tenure to seize and fulfill his destiny. Only the future will tell. Dr. Chuba Okadigbo was there with his slogan ‘shout’; no doubt, he is today shouting from Enugu to other parts of the eastern region as Mr. Vice President-to-be, if voted in with strike partner Muhammadu (Sharia is constitutional) Buhari. Maybe he sees it as a consolation for Ndiigbo after loosing out in PDP and not a betrayal, just as his colleagues saw it and staged a walkout protest thus upholding the spirit of the Igbo Summit 2001. Dr. Alex Ekwueme is now battling out his defeat to Obasanjo in the court alone without the support of his colleagues, who advised him to come out for the primaries. Maybe they are afraid of Mr. President and, maybe he (Ekwueme) believes he can still make it by divine intervention. I believe in divinity, so keep on keeping on.
It is not only at the federal level but the states are not left out. Reports or maybe speculations have it that a whooping sum of N70 million was handed over to the ANPP machinery to bring out Mr. Fidel Ayaogu as the flag bearer so as to make the way to ‘heaven’ for the incumbent as easy as Christ himself in Coal City – Enugu, capital of the defunct Biafran republic. The case seems uncontrollable in Anambra State as the state Governor is still battling it out at the gates of Aso Rock with the money bags of the State. Only recently some group of people in the name of ‘Ananbra Council of Chiefs’ – I said it before, headed by one Igwe John Emeka paid a visit to Aso Rock demanding for a change of government in the State. Imagine a state where we have the likes of the Obi of Onitsha and the Igwe Nri, yet they were not seen at the meeting with Mr. President! Can such a thing happen in Edo State without the Oba of Benin or in Sokoto State without the Sultan of Sokoto? C’est dommage! News also has it that Mr. Vice President slept in the house of one of the money bags of Anambra State in the person of Emeka Ofor, a new name in politics, mapping out strategy to unseat the Governor, Dr. C. C. Mbadinuju. On’ es sais j’aimais.
The question now is: Where did Ndiigbo inherit this spirit, and why has it so penetrated to the marrows of the society to the extent of killing and selling fellow kinsmen in the name of making more money and becoming a celebrity? Is there is any hope at all?
We are coming!
THE GENESIS Most of the time, people asked me why I always associate the Igbo problems to that of the Hebrew people of old. It is as simple as I always say: One does not run away from his shadow. The fact that you are not in Igboland does not make you not to be an Igbo, and the fact that you no longer answer your father’s name does not change the fact also that you were born by him. So, the fact that we are not in contemporary geographical Israel and are not recognized by the world, at least the United Nations, as Israelites does not make us not to be Hebrew people; after all, the identity of a people most importantly lies in their cultural lifestyle.
If we look at the past, we will discover that the spirit of betrayal is not a new spirit among the Hebrews. It first manifested among the Hebrew people as recorded in the Bible when the sons of Jacob betrayed their blood brother Joseph for 30 pieces of silver to Egypt. At the end, they all went into captivity in Egypt for 400years before they were liberated by a divine leader in the person of Moses, who was not regarded or taken seriously in the early days of his ministration. Cette la premiere fois.
The second time recorded in the history of Israel was the ultimate denial and betrayal of Christ some 2000 years ago. He was later sold for 30 pieces of silver to the Roman-Europeans and thus allowing the Jews (an extract of the Hebrew) to be scattered in all parts of Europe for a period which is today 40 jubilees. Who says the Jews are not hoping for a Divine leader who will establish that long expected and endless kingdom? C’est n’es pas une coincidence, cette la deuxiemme fois.
THE WEST AFRICAN IGBO IN THE GENESIS In the above analysis, I did not expatiate on the 40 jubilee diaspora of the Jews into Europe because the third event of such betrayal has a lot to do with that date as well. The Jews were actually scattered in all parts of Europe, which was getting their pound of flesh for what they did to Christ from one concentration camp to the other. Down in the jungle of Africa and precisely West Africa, the Hebrews seem to be having a lease of life but, as the blood pumps from the heart and runs through the arteries and veins to all the parts of the body, so also was the curse upon the Jews by the Jews to the generation yet unborn when they said: ‘Let the blood of this man (Christ) be upon our head and our children’s children.” (Biblical quotation) Behold! The blood got to West Africa.
As the Philistines... sorry the European colonists… were following the cat… sorry the gospel to the land of Joshua -- West Africa, so also was the spirit of betrayal being ignited amongst the Hebrew of West Africa. The spirit immediately came into action as one of the worlds most inhuman act of brutality, callosity and wickedness came into reckoning -- the slave trade. Benjamin Franklin calls it “an atrocious debasement of human nature.” Yes, it happened indeed and in West Africa and very pronounced amongst the Igbo. One may wonder why the Hausas and Yoruba were not so deeply involved in slave trade compared to the Igbo, who sold out almost everything including their identity, leaving many today in a state of flabbergasity when confronted with the fact that the Igbo are Hebrew. See!
Men and women were sold from Igboland, where you have the sons of Issachar, Ephraim, Gad, Benjamin and many more to the sons of Asher in Ashanti in Ghana, cutting across the Bantus of Jewish extraction in the Cameroon, to Lome, Togo, etc. People were being sold, and pieces of silver exchanged. Where were they being carried? No other place but Europe, thus throwing the Hebrew of West Africa into captivity of the physical to the psychological and now the spiritual in the hands of the same Europeans. From the time the Portuguese came (they were the first to come was around 1440 AD i.e. the 15th century) to the time of slave abolition around 1840, i.e. 19th century … according to Albert Rushnell in his book Slavery and Abolition, marked a period of 400 years. Tell me, is it still a coincidence? No, I do not think so. So what is it? Simple: if the wages of sin is death, the wages of such betrayal is definitely some 400years of captivity.
LIKE PAST, LIKE PRESENT Just as it was in the first case, so also it is in the last case. The Hebrew, while in Egypt, lost their identity and there was high-level betrayal even amongst the Hebrew, like the case of the Hebrew governor just before the arrival of Moses who was at the mercy of the gates of Aso Rock… sorry Pharaoh. This period continued no doubt until the emergence of a divine leader in the person of Moses. The same is also seen amongst the Igbo of Nigeria, who have not only suffered 400 years in the hands of the Europeans like their West African counterparts, but are still suffering indirectly and highly psycho-spiritual in the hands of the same Europeans via the Hausa and Yoruba of Nigeria. Forty good years in Nigeria, with exception though of the first five years which could be compared to the early parts of the Hebrews in Egypt when Joseph was governor, the Igbo seem not to have forgotten the spirit of betrayal. Like past, like present, even when it was clear that Moses was sent, there were others who wanted them to remain in Egypt! What for, if not for their own selfish reasons! Oh no, they felt it was their time to ‘seize and fulfill their destiny’ other than follow Moses [the Igbo course?] and ‘miss their destiny.’ Well, like past, like present, just to spare you the details… or maybe I have explained it above. It is all well that ends well, so they say. It ended well; will it end well also amongst the Igbo in West Africa and those in Diaspora? Yes it will but the problem now is: Who will put on the shoes of Moses?
THE EMERGENCE OF AKIRIKA DUKU-DUKU, THE DIVINE LEADER ‘When all else fails, man can still survive on the immutable and infallible promises of EL (Chukwu) Akirika Duku-Duku, 2002.
I have always said it that I am neither a politician nor a seeker of prominence amongst the Igbo so-called elites or even to be recognized by any so-called Igbo groups, for I am not interested. All that I am interested in is the words of Akirika Duku-Duku, and I dish them out as I receive them from the mount of the Most Holy of Israel. Have the hands of Elohim ever lead Israel to war without conquering? Or has He spoken and does not come to past? He spoke in the sketch and Moses rose against all obstacles, fear, and timidity; yet he conquered the almighty Pharaoh; He spoke again and David with all his smallness rose and conquered almighty Goliath. I am not preaching a sermon in any cathedral or synagogue, for I am not a lover of one neither am I known as a pastor.
If He spoke in time past then why can’t He speak today or is He dead? Yes if no body represents Moses today in Igbo land and no other place in the whole wide world, then there is No God, authoritatively I speak.
Historically, Israel has never survived on the basis of multiplicity leadership or random leadership but on the shoulder of a divinely conceptual leader who has always been the factualization of the purposes of Elohim to them. Today those promises are being factualized in Igboland. There is no place in this globe that the work of the Most Holy shall be accomplished other than where He has gathered the Igbo. The Igbo are that special sect of Israel that have been chosen to rebuild and restore the ruins of a nation called Israel, thus our suffering and subsequent redemption must correspond with the time allotted by Elohim for the redemption of mankind. 40years in Nigeria, 400 years of slavery from the physical to the spiritual and ultimately our captivity into gentile ideological approach to all that we do for 40 jubilees, thus culminating at the same time allotted. Did I frame it? It is there for you to judge.
We have travailed and today we find ourselves in ‘Canaan in a conflictual aggressive mode,’ the last and final lap of a journey that started many years ago with the question “shall you at this time restore the kingdom?” Then it was a big NO! But today and now the emergence of Akirika Duku-Duku shall not only restore and rebuild the ruins of the Igbo in Nigeria and in Diaspora but the world shall be subject to His authority. I always like it when people challenge; so feel free to challenge it if you can, but be rest assured that we are about to enter the year 2003 -- no thanks to the Roman manipulation of the world’s calendar; or, rather it is written, “they shall seek to change times and dates.” The world and more especially the Igbo shall begin to witness a complete turn in the affairs of man from the physical dimension to the metaphysical, resulting to possible deaths more especially in the field of the last resort by the gentiles towards their continues dominance -- Christianity. Of all my articles, I have not written in this manner but today, I am not only telling you for your awareness but to inform you about the coming and subsequent take over by AKIRIKA DUKU-DUKU. So let’s wait and see if these words shall not come to pass; for if they don’t, then know ye for sure that Israel has no Almighty; and everything written in the Bible is mendacity.
CONCLUSION I have talked so much about the events of man and that of the Igbo and ultimately the position to be occupied by this man whom I refer to as Akirika Duku-Duku. The big question now is WHO AND WHAT IS AKIRIKA DUKU-DUKU? These and the other whens, hows, and whys shall take the center stage in my next and subsequent publications.
ANYI NA-ABIA! [WE ARE COMING!]
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