Open letter to Onyeka Onwenu, international music, star ,a Biafran

Open letter to Onyeka Onwenu, international music, star ,a Biafran

It is very welcome that an international music Amazon like you got exposed to dreaded northern impunity for the testimony that the Igbo nation is so hated in Nigeria that both the North and Yoruba are no longer hiding the Igbophobia. 

As a prophetic writer, I want to say to every Igbo man and woman that after the first pogrom of May 1966, Ojukwu being an establishment man who believed in one Nigeria, asked Ndigbo to go back to the North & West, that it’s all over and in his advice said ‘’to err is human, forgiveness is divine’’ . 

But when the same Ojukwu saw how our people were finally dismembered, including the massacre of over 2000 Eastern officers and men together with the CIC Gen. Aguyi Ironsi, he was moved to say the truth at Aburi “It is better that we move slightly apart and survive, it is much worse that we move closer and perish in the collision.”

As a growing young man who love African music, I cherished your music and that of late Christiana Essien Igbokwe and you were most time referred as the Miriam Makeba of Africa, you showered above your contemporaries with such popular tunes as Onye Bu Nwannem,One Love,Iyogogo,For the love of you,Alleluya, Bia Nuru Olu Anyi Anyi,Ekwe etc, you criss crossed the world showcasing your golden voice that without mediocrity earned you the director general of a federal government parastatal.

But despite all these your international achievements, the Northern elements with their Lagos /Ibadan axis news liars joined hands to embarrass you out of office by first seizing your official car with your personal belonging inside and even going about whipping up ethnic sentiments against you by the Northern acting DG. 

Late 2015, the same officer had gone to the Center’s Mosque to ask for the issue of a Fatwa against YOU, claiming that you were working against the interest of the North. That was diplomatically nipped in the bud by calling a town hall meeting and asking that proof be provided. The Fatwa was denied and peace reigned for a while."

You have come out now safely licking your wound and being about the first Igbo official who has the guts to voice out Northern impunity while in office , after pulling out.

I weep here reading from people with Igbo name blaming you that Igbos are good at whipping up sentiments at the slightest opportunity, This is exactly what the foe always say whenever Igbophobia is used in reminding us that 'anyi wu ndi alutara na agha' 

They use our house slave brothers and those Igbo with marginal identity plus our big men whom I to refer as ''Uncle Toms'' to blame the pinched child for weeping .'Owu nani Udara mutara nwa ana apiwa onu'.

It is therefore now that you should show your love for your people by doing what Miriam Makeba did for the freedom of South Africa.Go out now and sing the freedom song to the world to know that 47 years after the civil war, Biafrans are still treated as second class citizens , Biafrans are still being whip-up like children and not even allowed to cry out , hence they are crying inside in a suppressed anger and calling on the world to rescue them to the promised land of Biafra, go Onyeka, go with your golden voice now to tell the world why your indigenous people of Biafra must be set free now .I remind you of the role Miriam Makeba played in the freedom of apartheid South Africa and what Biafra of today expect of you.

Makeba was effectively the voice of the South African freedom struggle known affectionately and reverently as “Mama Africa.” Both in their seventies (Makeba 76 and Odetta 77), they exemplified artists in the service of others and continued that service virtually to the end — in Makeba’s case, literally to her last breath.

Miriam Makeba died as she lived using her exquisite, expressive voice to fight the good fight. For most of her life that meant speaking out against the racist regimes that ran her native South Africa. Her very last performance found her in Italy, in solidarity with Ghanaian immigrants who’d been shot to death in September. She died immediately after singing her famous piece “Pata Pata.”

Many years prior, the songs she chose to sing gained her exile from her country, then under the thumb of an openly racist apartheid regime. She was even denied permission to attend her mother’s funeral.

Spending 30 years in exile allowed her to avoid direct contact with the apartheid regimes and to tour the world and testify at the UN against the whites-only regime. But she still experienced tragedy. Over and above the decades of lost contact with loved ones, she lost relatives and friends in the Sharpeville Massacre (1960) and other government-inflicted acts of brutality, and had to mourn them from afar.

Onyeka Onwenu,international music star, You are welcome and good morning to NIGER-AREA. Long live United States of Biafra

-M.M.Mbanaja