We The North Are Ready For Separation; We Are Tired Of Being Called Parasites

We the north of Nigeria are ready for a separation
process, which will either involve regionalism or total
disintegration.
On the topic, Sagir Aliyu said: Yes, I’m in support of
BREAK UP. Because most Nigerian minds are full of
hatred, sentiments, ethnicity, religious differences and
tribalism. Some are calling for revolution, but instead of
loosing lives and property; let the romance end. Also if the
2015 election will result to loss of lives and property, the
romance should end before then, Please!
Idris Musa also commented on the subject: Break up is
long overdue. Why can some have freedom to perform
their religious rites while some are deprived? I can't
remain at home on Fridays like Christians do Sundays,
Marital dossiers are only emphasized for only one wife &
four children. Economically, we are considered parasites
because they refused to revamp agriculture. They refused
to explore oil deposits in more than five places in my
region. Let us break so that we have fresh air.
Musa Maiunguwa: I beg it’s long overdue! Let's break up
anyhow regardless of the consequences. I want to be
governed by ISLAMIC LAW not this Infidel system of
government. I hate to be governed by DRUNKARDS.
These comments were the prevalent type of response
from Northerners on facebook to my earlier article on the
subject, “Nigeria: Do We Need To Break This Up?”
A majority of northern masses are now making this call as
situations keep deteriorating in the nation and undeserved
ethnic insults and ethnic torment has become the order of
the day from certain quarters in Nigeria. Additionally, it
appears that Nigeria as formatted and the perceived
disenfranchisement of certain aspects of the South, justify
and subject us and Nigeria as a whole to a most terrible
regime that is unable to secure life in the north and yield
for us the social, economic and developmental dividends
of democracy; as poverty reigns at its highest level in the
north which is unfairly economically disadvantaged.
Today, Nigeria has 100 million poor, however there is an
uneven distribution of the poverty with the South doing
more favorably, whereas the north suffers the most with
its level of poor as high as 80% living under a dollar a day
in many states, this compares to the south that has levels
from 20-50%. This level of poverty in the north exceeds
the level in neighboring Mali, Chad and Niger, all sharing
the northern ecological and cultural demographics.
Trading blame as to whom and what military and civilian
dictatorial and usurpist regime caused this high level of
poverty is puerile, meaningless and disingenuous; and it
contributes nothing towards addressing the real and
present epic crisis. Also, asserting that because northern
dictators have ruled the nation for 60% of its independent
life over 40% Southern rule is meaningless and does not
solve the deadly poverty situation.
The ordinary masses are suffering. We gain absolutely
nothing from Nigeria’s oil, apart from what we buy of it at
the pumps at a price above the global mean, and rather
we suffer from oppression and terror as a consequence
of, and thanks to bloody oil money. Only the cabal enjoy
from the current state of Nigeria. Let it be known that the
voices of many so-called northern leaders, which are
obviously the loudest, do not represent the sentiments of
us suffering masses, wrecked with poverty and lack of
opportunity. These ‘northern elders’ are part of a national
cabal that exploits and extorts the nation. These cabal
obviously have no honest interest in our region as can
clearly be seen by their lack of investment in the north,
building all their factories in the South. We the real people
of the north are eager for autonomy of our region. This is
our position.
The landlocked north is clearly disadvantaged. None of the
regimes provided the transportation networks to link the
north to Nigeria’s ports as would have been the basic and
smallest requirement to re-establish a northern economy.
Our agriculture industry has been left to decay. Our
textile industry has been completely abandoned, as we
suffer from the ‘curse’ of oil and the illusion of Nigeria’s
wealth from a mono-economy, which has satisfied and
favored only a set of greedy cabal without regional
distinction, north, east, west or south.
We see regionalism with the plan of possible
disintegration as an urgent next best step towards a
northern cultural and economic awakening.

Many of us across Nigeria now agree that military
dictator; Aguiyi Ironsi made an error on 24 May 1966,
when he released Decree No. 34, which dissolved the
regions. Excerpt: “The provisions of the Decree are
intended to remove the last vestiges of the intense
regionalism of the recent past, and to produce that
cohesion in the governmental structure which is so
necessary in achieving, and maintaining the paramount
objective of the National Military government, and indeed
of every true Nigerian, namely, national unity. The
highlights of this Decree are as follows: The former
regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number
of territorial areas called provinces. . . . Nigeria ceases to
be what has been described as a federation. It now
becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria.”
We hope Nigerians in South territories share our
sentiments and will be happy to peacefully and
respectfully discuss modalities of separation into
economically independent regions which will test and pave
a path for emotional, marital, economical, military and
other national related changes and challenges necessary
for possible separation in the future.
Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]