Eagle Eye Reporters

10/10/2022

IGBO’S SIT AT HOME AND THEIR DOMESTIC TYRANTS
There is a saying that goes: “the road to hell is usually paved with good intentions”. History teaches us that most, if not all records of tyranny and social oppression begin with a declaration to ‘help’ the people. It’s usually an action taken on behalf of either the general population or God. Eventually, the gullible population that has allowed these people to play perfect, realizes that they are now under an even worse situation than they were being saved from. The Book: “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, describes this concept perfectly. The Brutal catholic inquisition of the Middle Ages, the rise of communism, Na**sm, etc. all started with the aim to help the people, but devolved into oppression by the so called helpers.
We are seeing it unfold in eastern Nigeria, Igboland, today. The masses are beginning to realize that the agitators, who say they are bringing them freedom from foreign control, are themselves the worst type of tyrants. The unlawful SIT AT HOME order in eastern Nigeria, which can be likened to one shooting one’s own foot to raise awareness about being sidelined, is a self-inflicting blow on innocent citizens as political cannon fodder, by a group of armed brigands whom nobody has given authority to act or speak on behalf of all Igbos. This is a very dangerous situation indeed.
Just evaluate some of its effects and you will see why Igbos must put an end to this madness. The psychological effect of IPOB on the youth is to lean to violence without strategy and to shun diplomacy. The governors, Igwes and other statesmen must understand what this means to their own authority and safety. If they are weak enough to allow their power and jurisdiction to be usurped by armed brigands, then we can safely say that the land has no elders. A combination of armed and jobless youth can wipe them out in one day if things get out of hand, including their loved ones. They must ensure that law and order is brought back to their jurisdictions immediately.
The economic impact of ‘sit at home’ is astounding and almost unforgivable. It’s not a secret that commerce is the Igbo life blood. Trading is how most Igbo families survive and thrive, therefore, if you calculate how much money is lost every Monday, per- week, then monthly and yearly, you will find it in the millions of dollars. This is hurting ONLY IGBO FAMILIES, and is in no way cajoling the federal government or whoever IPOB’s villains are to move differently. It appears the state governors all across the region have lost control of their terrains, and must now share power with unknown gunmen. The people are at the mercy of armed bullies and are forced to give up their business livelihood while the state governors hide their impotence. This is a recipe for regional economic decline. The state governors must bring law and order back to the region immediately.
Perhaps the worst effect of the IPOB Trojan horse sit at home order is the mental distraction from vital areas of development like domestic infrastructure planning, industrial agriculture, strategic food storage, erosion control, urban planning, etc. there are so many areas of regional development that the minds of the Igbo can be redirected to, especially in the face of the looming global supply chain shortages. When we force Igbo businesses to close and sit at home in vain protest, we are using innocent Igbo households to play political games. Today its sit at home on Monday, tomorrow it will be a one week curfew. Stop it now.

21/08/2022

INDUSTRIAL FARMING AND IGBO SURVIVAL

Can the Igbo feed themselves? This is a simple question that doesn’t require complicated answers. If a national crisis occurs today and the Igbo were required to retreat home, can they sustain themselves with their level of domestic food production? These are the types of daunting questions that our statesmen are supposed to be dealing with.
Today the Igbo import most of the food they consume. Most of the meat and vegetables come from the north. How is it that there is this blind support towards Igbo nationalism, and at the same time you’re depending on the so-called enemy for food supplies? Does it make sense? A nation that cannot feed itself cannot defend itself. Before these Biafra IPOB agitators that are beginning to bring gun violence to the land go to the streets with guns, they should first of all organize industrial farming programs, as a preparation for any future crisis the Igbo race may undergo.
It appears that the priorities need to be reassessed. Why is all the land laying fallow? Why can’t the state governments co-opt the land from the private sector and organize huge industrial farming networks throughout the east, using the peoples’ land as it is?
With just minimal organization, the land can be made to feed the people. Think of the monetary capital leaving Igbo land yearly because their land resources cannot be organized. Food is the foundation. Without the ability to produce food, all other industries will plunge. How can the Igbo allow themselves to be dependent on the north for food, despite all the wealth and education they have acquired over the years, despite the “economic blockade” of the civil war and its brutal lessons?
These are the real issues that nobody is talking about. It is shameful for a people so great to lack socio-political strategy, and have to resort to open braggadocio and violence every time, rather than tact and planning. As it stands today, any national crisis will render the Igbo domestic economy seriously vulnerable to acute starvation and wastage. Given the degree of dependency on imported agriculture, the unwillingness of the local governments to adopt the concept of industrial agriculture and the dearth in the knowledge that comes with practical farming, it is safe to say that the Igbo race are dancing on the edge of a steep cliff.
The time is now for the state governments and private trading agencies to come together in an
organized manner, initiated by the state executive government, to institute grand industrial agricultural programs, using the private lands and the nominal knowledge of its tertiary institutions. The Igbo elders must understand that we are in a state of emergency, and if IPOB or any of these organizations were worth the paper they were written on, they would use strategy to strengthen the land and at least ensure that the people can feed themselves in the event of a crisis, instead resort to predictable violence. We need institutions to repair and rebuild our land.

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17/08/2022

https://anchor.fm/ozo-igbo/episodes/Election-and-Peter-Obi-e1mhqe0

The mindset of Igbo youths

25/07/2022

https://anchor.fm/ozo-igbo/episodes/Ako-Na-Uche-e1ljv7c

Ihe mere Igbo

16/07/2022

Repairing the Igbo psyche.

It appears the Igbos have been out-strategized. While their counterparts are playing chess, the Igbos are playing checkers. While their peers are consolidating their stake in the federal pie, the Igbos are spewing incendiary rhetoric in public and turning their own home into a lawless squalor. The influx of heavy artillery and arms into the region begs for scrutiny. With each passing day, the Igbos lose their home more and more to unknown criminals masquerading under IPOB as nation builders. The time has come to really assess the root cause of the very visible decline in Igbo prominence.

What is first most glaring is a total lack of respect for any ancestral culture or spiritual connection. The core and cultural depth that links a people to their genetic roots is their mythos, lore and history. It should be preserved simply out of respect. Even in Rome-the country that gave you Christianity-the temple of Apollo still stands and can be viewed as a sacred tourist attraction. There seems to be no normalized ancestral veneration from the Igbos. The imported religions have encouraged the people to foolishly turn their back on their ancestors. No other nation in the world does that and is in good shape.

Next is the impetus for selfish enrichment, as opposed to collective community improvement. This second issue adds to the desecration of the land from a moral standpoint. A young man can travel outside his town and commit crimes for his personal enrichment. He may return and after a few donations become a “chief” and even the leader of the town. But he has no moral fiber and the forces created by the ancestors of that town may be triggered to act out against the land for allowing a dishonest man to lead. Because he was not vetted for character, the foes of the people may buy such a man without his people knowing that their leader is a proxy for their enemies.

All teachings about warfare point to the fact that war is more about deception than force, more about tact than clarity. Because there is no moral fiber, there is no trust in the land and almost every family and town is in some type of internal dispute. This is because honor has been traded for wealth. They will prefer to praise a rich criminal and despise the average man of good character. Our ancestors were known for truth and honor, not material worship like prostitutes. Wealth is great but honor is what keeps the walls of the city standing.
The 3rd core issue in my opinion is a lack of strategy. Once again this is a domino effect from the previous problem of the truncation of honor for material worship. The need to always be seen spewing your emotions in public, the public display of ego, the show-off attitude; this psychology stems from personal overinflated egos and miniature Mussolini mentalities. Rather than devise a strategy and apply this strategy in phases over an extended period of time, they will prefer to follow one overzealous leader who has no clear plan of what he’s doing, into a political pit. The Nigerian civil war is a good example. Without strategy and the discipline as a people to apply it, the community operates blindly in the political theater of musketeers.

The solution is simple. Venerate your past, choose honor over wealth, and plan in decades and centuries. No governor or gubernatorial aspirant in the Igboland is yet to show the people an infrastructural plan. A blueprint for the future. These problems stem from the loss of values and the lack of fear for ancestral and elemental forces. Personal drive is only a necessary condition for community development, the sufficient condition is the common value system held sacred by every member of that community. Without such a common value system, personal wealth becomes a curse rather than a blessing.

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16/07/2022

IPOB: THE TROJAN HORSE

The dark clouds are quickly covering the sky over Igbo territory in eastern Nigeria. The insecurity has evolved to more than a nuisance. The current situation can best be described as oppressive and unacceptable. Unknown gunmen have come to be subconsciously accepted as an authority to be reckoned with, even overriding the governors and executive office. Anarchy !
They kidnap, burn, loot, kill policemen, and are well armed; armed enough to face off with the military.

What the Igbo do not want is for their home to be turned into a war zone. This “unknown gunmen” situation has been associated with IPOB. How did they get such a large caché of arms? Why are they now targeting the same people they are supposed to be defending? How did Kanu escape his initial capture by the Nigerian military? What is REALLY going on? How can Igbos do such harm to fellow igbos? When the poor masses are forced to stay at home, it’s Igbo children that suffer, not the so-called ‘enemy’.
From forcing the masses to stay at home for one day, who knows what they will do in future?, maybe forced weeks at home. They are destroying the livelihood and businesses of innocent families in the name of Biafra. Today the land is fast becoming a guerrilla war zone . If the home land is a war zone and the country falls into a crisis requiring for the Igbo to return home, where will they run to?
It is simply unacceptable for a land known for eminent manhood to be overrun by brigands. We must resist this IPOB doom now or risk losing our homeland forever.

If federal forces find a reason to re-occupy igboland, it won’t be returned to Igbos again. Forever…. What will we tell our children?
Why are these people that claim to love Biafra so much not repairing the squalor that has become igboland? The region buys over eighty percent of its food from the north and middle belt- the same people they claim to be fighting.
If there is a crisis, igboland cannot feed its population from within. Starvation will ensue. Why not begin industrialized farming and use this same energy to move the state government towards accountability? Instead they bring terror and domination on their own people. Igbos must resist these criminals now before it’s too late… before the government finds a credible reason to descend fully on the region and occupy it. Forever.

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