…Thinking about the South East and this Biafra thing

By Emeka Oparah . . .

I think the governors of the SE states, who appear to be generally clueless, should urgently meet and seriously discuss the matter before it gets out of hand.

They may wish to discuss how to get the zone going economically through the development of infrastructure and creation of jobs.

As the Yuletide approaches, I suppose it goes without saying that security should be on the top three issues on their agenda.

And the roads? Unbelievable. This is not a matter of state or federal roads now. The SE is impassable. Onitsha-Enugu, Aba-Owerri, Enugu-PH, Owerri-Umuahia. Just to mention a few of them I’ve been on of late. Forget about the smaller trunk B and C roads. They are all gone.

The SE is gradually grinding to a halt or sliding into a disaster depending on how you look at it. And this is not an exaggeration.

I don’t like what I’m seeing, and the elected political leaders of the SE zone have got to get out of the comfort of their largely stolen mandates and do something quickly.

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The governors seem to have pocketed the Houses of Assembly as well as the judiciary, and, therefore, there are no checks and balances to promote even minimum standards of good governance. The governors are like emperors and the people are their serfs. And why not, when the workers are owed their wages while the politicians are living large and driving around in long, protected convoys.

The people have become so intimidated and impoverished that they have become opiated by their sorry circumstances. They can’t talk. They don’t care anymore.

This agitation for Biafra may actually be a direct reflection of the paucity of leadership within the SE zone-and not necessarily due to the injustice of the Nigerian establishment. That’s my personal opinion. Think about it objectively.

To me, ihe n’eme anyi si anyi n’aka. And we need to start looking for the proverbial black goat now before the imminent darkness catches up on us.

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