If you are Igbo, this should occupy your thought -By Charles Ogbu

The Igbos have a very deep connection to their ancestral HOME. This connection is both physically and spiritually unbreakable. The HOME is where we bury our dead who go on to join our ancestors in playing some protective roles for the living, from the underworld. Every Igbo believes the safest place in the entire world is his/her HOME.

During the numerous religious, ethnic and socio-political riots in the North and other parts of the country that see Igbos running back home, there is always an UNMISTAKABLE SENSE OF RELIEVE AND SECURITY every Igbo son or daughter feels each time he/she gets to the River Niger. You could literally hear your spirit scream;

‘Thank God I’m Home Now Where No Evil Force Can Touch Me’. You suddenly feel some sense of inviNcibility.

Such is the extent of connection the Igbos feel with their HOME and this is why every festivity such as Christmas, New Year or other major events, you see the Igbos, even the poorest of them, trooping home enmass from every part of the world to join their people back home, break kola nuts and eat and drink with their Umunna.

SADLY, we are about losing this communion and bond because our HOME IS NO LONGER SAFE!😢😢😢

Ala-Igbo has now become a killing field. Abomination now walks on all fours. Our land is now polluted with the blood of her own sons and daughters.

If you are Igbo, this should occupy your thought.

Today is the first anniversary of the EndSars Protest – one of the biggest and most organised mass movements by Nigerian youths that was aimed at forcing our criminally irresponsible govt to reform the Nigerian Police Force – and as one of the actors in the protest and the one who represented Enugu youths in the EndSars Judicial Panel of Inquiry, the first piece from me today ought to be on the topic but you see, there is this Igbo saying that a man who must fight over a mat must first ensure he has secured the land on which to spread the mat. Mmadu ga azotagodi ana tupu o zowa ute. I went to bed last night with a mental picture of the revered custodians of our tradition lying in the pool of their own blood fully dressed in their traditional rulers’ regalia in Njaba L.G.A, Imo state. Targeted killings and assassinations in Enugwu, Imo, Abia, Anambra and Ebonyi.

It grieves me to no end to see what our HOMEland is fast turning to.

Which HOME do we now go to to celebrate the forthcoming Christmas??

HOW CAN WE LIVE LIKE THIS 😢😢??

May those behind this harvest of blood, their sponsors, enablers and those encouraging it in any way, shape or form be exposed and disgraced! And may the universe be against them in every way.