Life And People
Secessionists Sadism And Aggressive Vendetta -By Hassan Idris
My parents had an Igbo neighbour who used to travel for business and leave his son for us. My parents trained and took care of the boy, who’s a Christian, till he grew. He calls my parents his father and mother, and he can speak our language and even Hausa very well. My younger brother learnt Igbo from the boy and he can speak it fluently. Till today, this Igbo boy still comes home to visit.
This morning I read on PUNCH online newspaper of a family attacked in Enugu by unknown gunmen who killed many and only two people survived and I was worried. I decided to drop on the comment section my sympathy for the family and pray for the arrest of the perpetrators of such bad actors. These dimwits secessionist and mentally retarded Igbo guys started insulting me black and blue with no pity. Igbos like Clara Chinwe Okoro, Kamas Ifeanyi and others ain’t like this at all. If those secessionists problem is with Hausas in the North why dragged me an Igala man into their battle? Sincerely speaking, some Igbo youths are provoking; so because I was christened with a Muslim name as a Muslim, I’m now a Hausa man and I can’t sympathize with my fellow Nigerians and humans in the East and Western Nigeria again? If Buhari is their problem, they should face him and allow innocent citizens to rest with their sadism, vendetta and aggression.
Perplexing, this thing is too much. Terrorism has no religion and tribe. We all know the country isn’t cool with everyone and we pray for the best, but must these secessionists kill everyone with insults and aggressions? They should allow innocent people to have rest of mind. I have learnt a lot of lessons and knowledge from many people and family to me goes beyond the family of orientation or procreation. Your fictive; people who cherish you so much can be your family irrespective of tribe, religion and region, etc. Don’t a Hausa man in the past train and take care of an Igbo man’s child or vice versa?
My parents had an Igbo neighbour who used to travel for business and leave his son for us. My parents trained and took care of the boy, who’s a Christian, till he grew. He calls my parents his father and mother, and he can speak our language and even Hausa very well. My younger brother learnt Igbo from the boy and he can speak it fluently. Till today, this Igbo boy still comes home to visit.
Today, I don’t know what has happened to that orientation and love for one another in this country? I must not be the same religion, tribe or so with anyone before I take that person for a sister, friend, father, neighbour or even mother.
This boy is from Abia state and was trained by my parents from childhood and nobody forced him into any religion. He goes to his church every Sunday still living with us. I even go around and play with him when we were small to which he taught me mathematics then. I have been saying that a Fulani man or an Igbo man didn’t force himself to be a Fulani man or an Igbo man. He was born in it and he can’t change it. The problem isn’t about the tribe, it’s about politics and the negative prejudices that we have planted in our hearts and the younger generations. May Nigeria be great again!
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Hassan Idris.
Sociologist & Poet.
