The Igbo love for Chief Ojukwu, and the admiration for him by many Nigerians cannot be contested. This was exhibited when Pres. Obasanjo sent him the famous “one way” ticket to Abuja to appear before the SSS. The end of the impasse showed that the cult and the enigma called Ojukwu, was and still is, very much alive…

We have to commit ourselves, without further ado, to self-interrogation and re-examine our presumptions. When and where did the rain start to beat us? Who and who collaborated in it? Where is African culpability? How do we uproot the vestiges of the aftermath of slave trade and colonialism particularly the mental and psychological stumps? Why do we think that we cannot do things right by ourselves?