Nigeria: Telling Our Children the Truth On Armed Forces Day

14 January 2019

No creative work captures more aptly the theme of this discourse than Bob Marley's legendary song, Babylon System. Politics and social issues are at the heart of Bob Marley's Babylon System, as most of his songs. The political problems in the Caribbean and Africa that occupied Marley are not different from the political and social problems confronting Nigeria today, hence the truth to tell our children must border on politics, socio-economic conditions, and the malignant state of the nation.

In 2017, at the height of the IPOB agitation for an independent state of Biafra, Olusegun Obasanjo (now PhD) made a profound statement. He offered to show the agitating Igbo youths where Biafra was buried, in case they did not know. After watching Jide Olanrewaju's documentary film titled: The Real Story of Nigeria (2007), I believed I found the so-called Biafran grave which Obasanjo spoke about. It was where Lt. Col. Olusegun Obasanjo led Major-General Philip Effiong and some other defeated Biafran soldiers to Dodan Barracks Ikoyi to officially surrender and accept defeat after General Odumegwu Ojukwu had escaped to Ivory Coast.

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