It’s unfortunate that one could have too much guts to write lies to the public and it is most saddening when the lies are targeted to smear the image of a man of high repute and his family.
I am not a media aide to Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, neither am I under his payroll but just like I will frown at lies told of any Igbo leader, I am displeased at your dirty, devilish insinuations on the turbaning of one of our illustrious sons.
You insinuated that the “Dan Baiwan Hausa” title given to Dr. Kalu by the Emir of Daura this week was for a slave boy. You further went deep to call his mother names, you didn’t stop there, you further went as far as lying that you understand Hausa language.
Just because you were raised in one clan in Shendam. Does not make you an authority in Hausa Language. I put it to you that Shendam as a people, don’t speak Hausa, Shimankar, don’t speak Hausa either. They are “GEMAI” by tribe. They were never conquered by the Hausa Fulani in the days of jihad. Having said that, One will be tempted to ask how you assume that you understand hausa better than the hausa man who turbanned Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu.
I was born and raised in Lafia, Nasarawa State, where one can authoritatively say that it has the *Hausa Fulani setting and an Emir. Part of them, from Kanuri, and few from Fulani. I want to challenge your wicked/dirty insinuations of the meaning of “Dan Baiwan Hausa”.
Bawa, means Servant/Worker/Jaki/ and probably Slave, derogatorily.
But “Baiwa“. Means Gata (gift/talent in Hausa). Baiwa is Gift/Telent and that is what Dr. *Orji Uzor Kalu* was honoured with.
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have responded to your post if you had just laid your abuses as its your norm . But, for the fact that you invested so much energy and time trying to lecture your audience on a subject matter that you know nothing about, and because some gullible minded Igbo brothers would believe you without making research, I decided to set the record straight. You don’t understand Hausa. If you truly had stayed in Shimankar and you didn’t mention Gemai as the tribe, then you are just an impostor that was never properly groomed about the lie he wanted to write about.
It’s high time we (the Igbo’s) stopped pouring vituperations in the name of criticism of our few national acknowledged leaders.
Its time we acknowledge that FulanisNigerian as a nation is running a particular pattern of political leadership system,
The Yorubas understood this,
The Hausa/Fulanis undertood and propagate it,
The South-south people are already embracing it.
Unfortunately, The Igbo’s are still lagging behind especially due to ill propaganda fuelled by people like you.
If we don’t correct this now, the next generation will suffer it, because this pattern is making the other regions that have understudied the political permutations of Nigeria to synergise, leaving us the Igbo’s in what i will describe as political limbos.
A certain scholar of blessed memory, once said to his students preparing for WAEC in 1981 that,
“When you are preparing for something,
Prepare for nothing”.
Late BO Eze IsialaNgwa
While we the Igbo’s prepare for something, we don’t know how to prepare for nothing, other regions prepare for nothing through political marriages and agreements while still preparing for something.
Let us look inward!
Hon. Demian Ifeanyi Igbokwe
Writes from Abia
