Currently many Igbos are expressing outrage through various media about the pending calamities from the Hausas. However, the mere expression of shock is not a strategy. The time has come for Igbo lawyers and the big SANs to become more proactive in presenting these types of open threats by Hausa youths to courts both within and outside Nigeria for justice. The double standards of justice in Nigeria that allow the Hausas to get away with terrorism and genocidal threats must be exposed in courts of law and other theaters of justice across the globe. Time and again, the Hausas have proven that they are above the law and have conducted themselves as a group with imperialistic powers in Nigeria. They have gone around butchering Igbos either directly or through their instruments of terror – the Nigerian Army and Police.
In the light of these threats and the Hausas proclivity to carry out their murderous agenda as history has shown, the Igbos must proactively react to these threats. Without discussing specific strategies, the following initial actions must be taken and funded by southeast governors:
First, a comprehensive census of all the Igbos in Northern Nigeria must be taken and paid for. This means that all Igbos including men, women, businesses and shops, school children and schools of attendance from primary schools to tertiary institutions, properties, residential addresses and itinerant visitors and business people who visit the north regularly, but do not live there. This proposed census must be stored in a database accessible to Igbo leaders to ensure proper accountability.
Second, an inventory or census of all the Hausas living among the Igbos in southern Nigeria must be conducted along with their cows.
Third, the videos and other evidence of Hausa terrorist threats must be preserved and archived for future use.
Experience has shown that the Hausas usually begin to carry out their nefarious acts against the Igbos well beyond their public pronouncements. The recent unprovoked and senseless killings of the Igbos in the north are pointed indications that another pogrom may be underway. The least the Igbos and the world should know is the number of our people the Hausas have killed or willing to kill again. Without a correct census of the Igbos living in the north, we cannot state with absolute certainty the number of people affected or likely to be affected by the genocidal threats by the Hausa youths.
Respectfully,
Dr. Chris Ikeanyi
Los Angeles, California