PLEASE, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, IS THIS ONE NIGERIA BY FORCE OR BY DOUBLE STANDARD? - BY FRANK UCHE DIBIA

“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.” Leonardo da Vinci. In other words, the reason most kingdoms fall is that they become involved in too many things. Once this happens, the populace stops agreeing on what is best and eventually the kingdom falls apart from within.

Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions. The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority echelon instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them.

Since you came to power, more Nigerians of Igbo origin have been killed by the Nigerian army and Nigerian police, than was the case since 1999. An Igbo man was killed in front of his shop in northern Nigeria accused of blasphemy, suspects arrested and acquitted by the state without justice for the family of the man they killed.

A Southern Nigerian woman evangelist was murdered during one of her early morning preaching session, suspects arrested and acquitted by the state, without justice for the family of the woman they killed.

Fulani herdsmen have on several occasions invaded and slaughtered people from Southern Nigeria, right in their own homes and farms, not even a single person has been convicted for the killings.

You sent out your army to kill well over 150 supposedly fellow Nigerians who were peacefully protesting the detention of one of their own and up to date, even with numerous video and pictorial evidence, you continue to shamelessly deny it. You use your so-called rules of engagement, which is applicable when a country is at war to justify the killing and maiming of your supposedly fellow countrymen at any slightest provocation.

These are all collateral damage and systematic attempts to wipe out a generation of people of the eastern Nigeria.

And yet, you want us to continue to pretend we are ''one Nigeria''. Yet you want us to believe you have the same and equal legal system to protect us all as Nigerians? It is only a matter of time. For there has never been a country so disunited by its own government that survives and continue to remain one indivisible nation.

Genocide is often preceded and accompanied by widespread hate speech. The leaders who planned mass killings in the Holocaust, Rwanda, and Srebrenica disseminated ideologies of hatred to spur their followers to act, to cow bystanders into passivity, and to justify their crimes. It is becoming increasingly clear that certain types of hate speech can serve as both a warning sign and a catalyst of genocide and mass atrocities. You would recall the speech you made while on a visit to the United States after you won the 2015 presidential election, in which you said you were not going to govern Nigeria and Nigerians as equal partners and citizens. Hence your infamous 97% and 5% electoral votes allocation. 

Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. We need unity, not division. Angels, not devils.

For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be a balance, there must be equality. And where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be the truth. - Suzy Kassem.

Igbos in Nigeria have always been hunted down like animals, sought everywhere and killed, by those who are supposed to be their brothers and sisters, by those with whom they are supposed to share equal rights as citizens of one country.

I do not understand your thinking, but all I know is that we are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleed the same color and occupies the same world. When you kill my own what awaits you is time and same will come upon you and your generations unborn.

The blood of those innocent and young Igbo men, boys, women, and girls are crying and will continue to cry until justice is not only done but seen as done to those that murdered them or a revenge settles the score.  

Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one if we truly want to remain one nation. A word they say is enough for the wise.