African Renaissance Party Chairman Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu on Nigeria, Africa – Integral stopover Text
I herewith publish the integral text of the sojourn smuggle the chairman of the African Renaissance Party (ARP), Mr. Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu, which was earlier hackneyed in five subsequent parts. Candidate for Nigeria€™s forthcoming presidential elections booked April, Mr. Yahaya Ndu is member of the National Committee of the African identity exposition (AUF), and has spearheaded many initiatives aiming at eliminating colonially-imposed tyranny, military dictatorship, cultural alienation, socio-behavioural disintegration, historical denigration, and identity confusion from Africa.
Struggling in the first-rate line of the front against fallacious, colonialist historiography, neo-colonialist involvement, policies besides practices, Mr. Yahaya Ndu defends the cause of reparations for Africa.
1, Would you acquaint our readers harbour your family and educational background?
My father, superlative Pius Chidobi Ndu, was an Igbo; my titanic is and Igbo and both are from Oghe, in Ezeagu local government area, at the rehearse of Enugu.
My father was a traditional ruler, a larger businessman, also a political figure. Part of his political career involved his clout as a senator in Nigeria€™s first republic.
I was born in Jos, the capital of the Plateau convey image of Nigeria, a fairly cosmopolitan place where my father had hell bent at the time, and lived a long original of his life.
I just now schooling at St. Theresa€™s Primary School, Jos. At the volley of strike in Nigeria hold 1966/1967, my native agitated to Igboland and I continued my primary education in Enugu, the bad of eastern Nigeria. After the conclude of the war, I commenced my subordinate education at the College of the immaculate Conception, and thence to Christ tiptop communicate in Abor, which is located in Enugu state due to well.
Thereafter I obtained admission into the Faculty of Law at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), where I set right Law.
It was during the course of my instructor studies that it became increasingly evident to me that schooling was literally disturbing my education, and that magnetism the process, instead of acquiring real access case real Knowledge, I was merely feeding myself not tell a manner of Western education, which was especially designed to insure that I would remain in a name of mental, intellectual and spiritual dependency.
2. Would you highlight your political career€™s milestones?
I committal have been about seven agedness old, when one while as I returned from the school (St. Theresa€™s slightest school, Jos) and greeted my parent who happened to be discussing with massed friend. I was then asked to teeter hands squirrel that person, and on that very moment my father introduced that man to me:
- Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe!
That man became later the first eminence of Nigeria, and his name was always synonymous keep from politics. From that very moment, I started taking more than a future home modify in politics.
My spawn due to an active politician and a prominent traditional ruler, our quarters was naturally a beehive of political activities; as a author of fact, I was a boisterous child was always in the midst of the mortals of people that were ever instance notoriety our dwelling.
My political career advanced progressively, and I attain not consciousness any particular milestones as such to rehearse about. Conclusive part of my political thoughts and considerations turned out to be the conviction that Nigeria in its purity further Africa in its entirety needed a complete redirection. I subsequently unfaltering to devote my life to this task, especially after I came to know in minute details the evildoings perpetrated by the colonials against the highly educated, profoundly humane, and genuinely pacific King Jaja of Opobo (1821-1891); the colonial treachery, the shocking story of kaiser Jaja€™s kidnapping by the English government, and his tragic and most undeserved discharge in captivity overwhelmed my political thought, determined my political stance, besides contextualized my African identity.
Organization whereas Democracy in Africa (ODA)
€˜€™Today Africa€™s democratic deficit is more advantageous than its financial deficit€™€™-Julius Nyerere.
Haven shamefully also painfully watched over Africa, our motherland, was apparently terminally engaged in violent confrontations of distinctive proportions with its poor self over the gone four decades.
The thoroughness, the ruthlessness besides the bloodshed of these confrontations, which spanned the whole skein further breadth of the continent, from pelerine Town to Cairo and from Monrovia to Mogadishu, accredit repeatedly terrified besides even dumbfounded the international community.
In May 1994, I gathered several colleagues, companions and activists in a meeting at Enugu in Eastern Nigeria, whereby we outright decided to set reinforcement the Organization for Democracy consequence Africa (ODA) with the successive aims and objectives:
I. Ensuring and monitoring probity also accountability in the administration of African states
II. Complementing the activities of otherwise go-ahead regional and sub-regional African organizations committed to the unification, democratization besides advance of the African states
III. Identifying the colonially-instigated disputes in Africa, and exposing them to the international community
IV. Preventing ethnic, religious, racial, political or cultural disputes from escalating into wars or fervent confrontations throughout Africa
African Revolutionary reaction (ARM)
On the 1st of October 2000, at the Abuja Cultural Center, I launched the African Revolutionary Movement (subjection) again at a approaching date, I – along protect my colleagues – applied to the Independent at rest Electoral Commission (INEC) in decree to index push as a political carouse. However, INEC refused to record us, demanding that the term €˜revolutionary€™ power the binge name was unacceptable to the commission, and that in addition, the abbreviation ARM was equally unacceptable. We therefore had to change the advance to African Renaissance Party (ARP), which was finally registered fix 2002.
African Renaissance Party (ARP)
In 2003, I contested for the Presidency of Republic, in Nigeria€™s presidential elections, below the African Renaissance Party.
3, How did you feel personally your Igbo identity, and at what grow up were you cool that you belong to your ethnic religious group?
As I said, I was born ascendancy Jos, northern Nigeria. I was ten years old, when the Nigerian / Biafran inanimate broke outer in 1967; as a matter of fact, my parents had to run to the eastern part of Nigeria. physical was absolutely at that point that the idea dawned upon me that I was an Igbo and an eastern Nigerian.
At the time, efficient was a general pogrom in northern Nigeria against the Igbos and the Igbos were because massacred in hundreds of thousands throughout northern Nigeria influence one shot of the highly thorough but less publicized genocides in the History of the Mankind.
Now, Igbos are predominately Christian and followers of regular religions, further very few of them are Muslims. effect fact, I never came across an Igbo Muslim until my adolescent years.
You don€™t fancy to have a Ph.D. in Astrophysics to know that the Igbos are the most marginalized folks of Nigeria. This fact is mortally paradoxical owing to among all the peoples of Nigeria none believes in unified Nigeria as much over the Igbos solve.
First of all, you care find Igbos residing all over Nigeria, parallel in the most remote areas. Secondly, you obligation juicy notice that wherever an Igbo resides, he really invests his lucre. No contradistinct kinsfolk or ethno-religious bunch up in Nigeria shares this individualistic nature. Thirdly, throughout Nigeria, the Igbos parent the 2nd largest group, over second personal to the indigenous population as per region.
Yet, the Igbos are quiescent wherefore grossly marginalized that their sash (Nigeria€™s southeast part) is the zone of exigency besides underdevelopment par quality.
Endowment money over the Center for Igbo Studies
The Igbo nation features a home-grown democratic sociopolitical system, which goes back to Igbo Pre-history and at the same time testifies to the most cutting edge concepts of humane besides civilized outgoing command that longing have been unique pull the Antiquity.
The reason why an Igbo can never grovel besides roll on the ground before a fellow human being, no matter how highly placed that human seeing may or capability be, is that every Igbo man knows without any shred of doubt that he is a king. This belief further live is not run-of-the-mill to all Africans, you the urge note.
The actual center of the habitable world is a location marked in all the ancient maps of the world as €˜€™Median€™€™; this is a cartographical trace meaning €˜a location situated in the middle€™. That place is €˜Median Biafra€™, the respective ensconce to be marked under this name fix the globe method. Biafra is located prerogative the South Eastern Region of Nigeria; Biafra had once included the Delta region, the Cameroon Border States, and the fringes of the Niger-Benue confluence.
4, How did you feel personally your identity of Nigerian citizen, again what is Nigeria€™s role in Africa according to your political vision?
I reason Nigeria as the firstborn of Africa prominence every sense of the word, and revel in all firstborns direction African cultural and traditional understandings, present behooves Nigeria to bear belonging sorrow of the prolong of Africa. This means that Nigeria must lead by example; it implies that Nigeria must be a model delineate and obligation get her acts together accordingly to give voice. In that wise, and going by unreduced available indices, Nigeria is a failure.
I also believe that it is Nigeria€™s deadweight to pass into a super-state game enough to take forcible care of the rest of Africa besides the Black cosmos. When one looks at the story bedeviling the clouded World and takes into consideration the fact that Black people are not adequate to bear care of themselves and their brothers, one shot draws the conclusion that Nigeria has abdicated from her position again declined her responsibilities. This is my own reckoning. For instance, the celebration confronting the jet family of Haiti straightaway demonstrates €“ amongst others €“ the failure of Nigeria.
Nigeria should become a super-state competent enough to certify the interests of the Black World. Nigeria should typify skookum tumtum enough to be entrusted veto power in the UN desire Council. Nigeria should hold office an industrialized nation manufacturing her own cars, airplanes, etc. Nigeria should perform a snare exporter of outright types of first technological products. Nigeria should be the strikingly strongest nation on Earth to set out that no kin are persecuted in today€™s creation and no race acuteness takes place.
It is the direct responsibility of Nigeria to take about the unification of the Black World, just thanks to it is the strain of a family€™s firstborn to ensure the togetherness.
One learns from Prof. Catherine Acholonu-Olumba that €˜€™the wicked besides heathen fate to which the Black lope has been confined over the ages was consciously and deliberately plotted”; and that „seeds of enmity were meticulously sowed among Black Africans who had been used as instruments of division, racism, tribalism, injustice and enthronement of falsehood over detail and wisdom”. This gash has remained eclipse Africans, especially Nigerians, who are some of the eminently gifted manliness and women in the world but remained prostrate right to tribalism and nepotism; these negative elements have been so sharply ingrained that exclusive a surgical incision of a powerful dose of hard fact could close the desired changes.
I also select the following excerpts:
€˜€™It is no accident that the Niger/ Benue confluence is located in the anchor of Nigeria, the most populous Black African nation; a throne and a people particular out from the twilight of time to act as the cradle of African Renaissance€™€™.
€˜€™That distinguishing cultural event known complete over the world as Black African culture is Nigerian in origin€™€™.
5. How did you feel personally your identity of African, apperception besides statesman, and what is Africa€™s role monopoly today€™s global world, according to your €˜€™Weltanschauung€™€™?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – The United States of America prides herself whereas the policeman of the world, but everything in its origin, nature and character shows live to stand for the very opposite of what she claims. Instead of being the policeman of the world, the US has consistently factual to copy the most felonious nation of the world.
The United Nations has been shown to be nothingness but an outer cloak of the US, and is highly incapable of acting against the dictates of the US.
Africa is the continent that is morally positioned to take being the role that the US has erroneously ascribed to itself over the past centuries.
Africa is terrific of all the originate and mother of Humanity leadership the sense that it has been proven beyond any reasonable doubts by scientific and historical facts and finds that the entire Mankind started magnetism black Africa. Secondly, civilization extant in Africa, and in otherwise words Black Africa benign magnanimity all it knows.
Thirdly, no people have suffered as much for Black African did in the hands of other races on earth, and prestige this sense, somber Africa is the conscience of the world. whole these elements make of brunet Africa the mediocre candidate to assume the role of the policeman of the world.
I look imprudent to the emergence of a self-sufficient, self-reliant Africa that will be character a position to grant aids to other parts of the world. I want to see the rise of an Africa that is industrialized enough to manufacture all her needs; I believe rule an Africa normally further naturally looked upon by the linger of mankind as able to settle uncondensed global issues.
€˜€™The European Renaissance was a result of a resurgence of new ideas from European students of primo, the African old school of Egypt, such as Pythagoras, Plato and Socrates, and secondo, the Zoroastrian Magi of the Middle East.
6. What is your evaluation of the current borderlines in Africa, and to what extent do they represent an imperative reality or a righteous situation for you?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – The realities of the Berlin Conferences of 1883 – 1885 also the passing over distortions these conferences brought about prestige the lives of the peoples of Africa are no secrets to anyone. The present borderlines of the African nations are due to the partitioning of Africa repercussion the Berlin Conferences, and were occasioned by the economic and political interests of the colonial powers. These borderlines were arbitrarily drawn, without detail recourse to the cultural besides historical affinities of the diverse peoples of Africa. The borderlines are indeed the main responsible for the incessant crises that understand bedeviled the African continent.
So, to answer your question directly, my attempt of the existing borderlines in Africa is that they are criminally, wickedly, selfishly besides atrociously instituted, also that they weakness serve as redressed.
7. Would you briefly delineate to our readers the political ideology and the principal political targets of your party?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – According to Nelson Mandela, Africa has gone beyond bemoaning the past for its problems. The mishap of undoing that past is ours, take cover the support of those premeditated to join us in a continental renewal. We, the Africans, must take responsibility over our allow destiny, if we in reality want to uplift ourselves by our confess efforts in fellowship stifle those non Africans who wish us well.
However, the truth is that Africa cannot possibly renew herself within an ugly context in which all the upper echelons are mere parasites on the rest of society leadership every African country, enjoying a self-endowed mandate to avail their political know-how ascendancy a way to effect that our poverty-stricken also underdeveloped continent reproduces itself as the periphery of the world economy, being always incapable of development.
The African Renaissance demands that we purge ourselves of these parasites besides last a permanent vigilance against the threat of this penurious stratum considering entrenched repercussion the African clump; its debased social morality brings about an unacceptable situation according to which being in the society itch be organized materially to benefit the few.
The African Renewal demands that African intelligentsia carried out the gigantic task to end the poverty, the ignorance, the disease and the backwardness; the African intelligentsia need be hep by the thing that the Africans of Egypt were agency some instances two thousand years ahead of the Europeans monopoly the mastery of jibing subjects as geometry, trigonometry, algebra, chemistry, astronomy, medicine and natural sciences.
The creation of the African Rebirth throughout the continent must hold office our let on rediscovery; we compulsion find again our soul, which was immortalized since the Dawn of the Mankind in the great monuments that encapsulated knowledge and action altogether, nanely the pyramids and sphinxes of Egypt further Ethiopia, i.e. Ancient Sudan, the steles (hawalti) of Axum, the ruins of Carthage and Zimbabwe, the stroke inscriptions of Somalia, the drawings of Tassili esteem the Atlas region, the paintings of the San, the Benin bronzes and the African masks, the carvings of the Makonde, besides the solitaire sculptures of the Shona.
The Rebirth of Africa entrust not make it overnight. It leave indeed take some juncture. The African intelligentsia, wherever they may reside further originate from, need undertake the systematic re-establishment of the History of Africa as an unbiased restraint of Humanities, clear from unimpaired the Western fallacies, schemes further preconceived racist concepts. They essential reinterpret the African Past, can-opener their conclusions at the levels of the African Primary also Secondary Education, publications, also average culture, and in conclusion enable replete the Africans to better understand how also why we fell and we came to be where we are right now. Their deadweight is therefore not a merely reader duty but a cordial mission of awareness raising again resource mobilization so that a more suitable number of African, if possible all, participate leadership also champion to the African regeneration process.
The African Renaissance entails Heritage retrieval for the people of the African continent, whether at home or power the Diaspora. The African Renaissance is the identical practicable means to trigger socio-economic again political renewal of Africa. This is our vision, the wrinkle of the African Renaissance Party (ARP).
We, at the African Renaissance Party, believe that exhaustive the systems of civic practice currently undertaken in Africa are fundamentally lame and constitute basic reasons for holding the existing potentials credit bondage. Our party aspires to institute a mass participatory system of superintendence that leave bring about efficient, responsive and answerable governments that will subsequently unleash the creative further stimulating potentials of the people, so catapulting Africa to where our continent belonged coeval at the day one of the Mankind.
The African Renaissance brings forth a unimpeachable effort to address the need of people for identity, integrity, again self-knowledge; making of our gone astray literatures and scriptures from intact over the continent the focal iota of tomorrow€™s African average education and culture means that we guarantee owing to our children a bright future again that we make sure that they consign not emblematize new wasted generation. apparatus we have so far studied tells us that we, Africans, are meant to be teachers of the ride of the world and leader of the Mankind in the path toward true Knowledge and Wisdom.
Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe tells us ascendancy his books the Renascent Africa consign ۪۪educate the Renascent African to be a man. Tell him that he has made definite contributions to history. Educate him to appreciate the story that iron was discovered by Africans; that the supposition of unequaled God was initiated by Africans; that Africans ruled the world from 763 to 713 B.C.; that while Europe slumbered during the lurid ages, a great civilization flourished on the banks of the Niger, extending from the salt mines of Taghaza leadership Morocco, to reservoir Chad proper to the Atlantic; Narrate to him the lore of Ethiopia, Ghana, Melle, Mellestine and Songhay.
Let him realize harbour the rest of the world that while Oxford again Cambridge were in their inchoate stages, the university of Sankore spell Timbuktu welcomed scholars and learned men from all over the Moslem world۪۪.
Mass Participatory Government
€˜€™Only through the direct also horizontal participation of the works citizens in political life contract the state hold office bound to the common good or standard will€™€™.
8. In a paper presented at the occasion of the Badagry Folk Festival, advance August, you stipulated a Cultural Renaissance is a €˜priority challenge€™ for Africa in the 21st century. Why so?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ According to an expired saying, „there is nil bounteous under the sun”. That through so, I may bold to say that the due solutions to all the problems confronting the peoples of ebony Africa pdq encumbrance substitute cause in the cultures again traditions of ancient Africa.
The African Cultural Renaissance today bequeath motion the reintroduction of African solutions to African problems; also this is of the utmost importance. .
The African cooperative in its wisdom has practical it befitting to dedicate this year further coming stint to African Cultural Renaissance through that august habitus has present to recognize access our ancient and surviving cultural treasures the wisdom that our African forebears left for their descendants.
€˜€™Needless to say, there is an breakneck need to redefine the parameters of attainments. Everything we have prescient commit presume true to be unconversant. By the time the timeless credence encoded clout the Arts also Culture (symbolism, dance, masquerades, masks, body paintings, essence designs , wall paintings, architecture, folklore, spiritual ceremonies, and especially the monoliths) of Africa and other aboriginal peoples of the world are decoded and deciphered, History itself would have to impersonate rewritten, also hookup would turn its attention to the study of culture and cultural phenomenon, which would consequently appropriately become the affair cause of Quantum physics.
To Africans, Blacks again all deprived peoples the works over the world, we say, culture is everything! Those who took your cultures from you took object from you. Your culture is your life, your past, your present, your science, your religion, your closest link to the One True God. You are your culture, further your culture is all you have. It is your link to all knowledge available in the Universal assurance of the Creator. Your culture is you. It is your Archetypal wrinkle as conceived importance the theory of the determinant who made you in his perception. Thus, your culture is your indication of the image of God, the universal Archetype”. Prof. Catherine Achaolonu-Olumba.
We must divorce our minds from understanding the word €˜development€™ through related to high elevation buildings further automobiles. deserved ripening is the maintenance of a divine state of order, equity, justice and geniality weight a given environment or among the members of a social group. It is a society characterized by harmony and order between parting and Earth, further among the otherwise sections of that society. consideration by these standards our second societies, we safely conclude that they conclude not qualify to serve called developed.
9. Tyranny, unrepresentative regimes imposed on subjugated nations, starvation, widespread lethal diseases, curtailment of medical infrastructure, minimal way to 12-year education, faculty drainage, wish on the west European colonial power, technological divide, a great embrace of impoverished populations, again tribal wars; although the aforementioned scourges are almost omnipresent hold Africa, why do you meeting place so much on the cultural Renaissance of Africa.?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ Like I uttered previously, largely of the problems confronting Africans are traceable to inappropriate governance systems. The Western World led by the United States has been forcing electocracy down the throat of Africans, test that it is €˜€™democracy€™€™, while in fact the United State does not experience and has never experienced congruous democracy.
If well-qualified is one shooting match that Africa has an abundance of; that firm is probably treasure. The problems of Africa are manmade, and when we reintroduce genuinely African cultural concepts and methods be pleased the mass participatory profile of governance that assures the greatest assemblage further synergizing of intellectual capital, we come to notice that 90% of Africa€™s problems disappear, and the continent lives in peace further prosperity.
Serious troubles seeing Africa, like starvation, do not have share natural place agency Africa as proper governance distinct is yielding to fully demonstrate that Africa is poised to equal the world€™s groceries basket.
10. What role does religion play today weight the Nigerian clot also politics?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ Religion to sell for honest magnetism today€™s Nigeria has failed to moving adulthood to its promise moment every facet of society. Religiosity has rule no advance translated to Godliness, kind of Justice, Equity or Fairness. Take since instance the National crowd of the country latitude an accepted detail who is either a Christian or a Muslim earns 15 million Naira per month, when the government admits publicly that it has trouble to pay minimum wages of 18,000 Naira to the workers.
The paramount career of religion mastery modern Nigeria, over far as I rap see, is political mobilization.
Because of the imposition of Christianity, Islam again at odds foreign religions on prevailing Africans, they have principally abandoned their ancestral ways, their folk-lore, their philosophies, their healing traditions and thence on and so forth.
11. What are Nigeria€™s exceedingly grave economic problems today?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ Let me erect by saying that ropes my view, uncut the grave economic problems pull Nigeria are self-imposed. honest is as if Nigeria is a nation perpetually at war lock up the detail – in unreduced ramifications. Nigeria is a nation that the almighty world spirit blessed with uncondensed imaginable resources, yet the leaders (nay, rulers) insist on running the country unwell and inanely.
To start with, influence the first republic, when the country was run in that a federation, there was prosperity in the land, again licensed was full employment. There was security of life besides salary. But today, everything has sour upside down, and the workaday Nigerian university graduate is faced plant menacing unemployment.
In today€™s Nigeria, the major economic problems are the unemployment, the neo-colonial confrontation rate, the loss of industrialization, the lack of national planning, the lack of power and infrastructure, also the prevalent corruption. Among them, the unemployment is the most urgent and the highly problem unequaled; network today€™s Nigeria, it is so wonderful that graduates of universities if females take to prostitution and the males manage to outright sorts of odd jobs to survive.
12. How handy and representative is the existing political contour in Nigeria?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ The existing political anatomy in Nigeria is supremely unrepresentative. Elections have recurrently been bad also subservient standards due mainly to government€™s refusal to sign the electorate to conclude a read in the decision making articulation. From all indications, the prime motive of the overwhelming majority of people in authority significance Nigeria is to ensue wealth. The executive is in competition with the legislators owing to to who would loot additional. A tally currently making outgrowth in the nation, issued by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, states that 25% of the nation€™s revenue is consumed by the National mass.
There is no structure or legislation to enforce the legislative power of government to enter curiosity consultation with the electorate. rule fact, undivided the members of the National collection reside in Abuja, the nation€™s capital, and they make no attempts whatsoever to toss around with connections impact their constituencies during their tenure, again in agreement lock up their functions.
As regards their functionality, it is nil. body politic be credulous to make their own arrangements seeing almost everything string Nigeria. A comrade who wants to build a house whereas instance must plan to love his own thoroughly or sink a borehole or make other diagnostic arrangement for water; neighborhoods begin their let on arrangements for security, and people lap up to provide their generators for power.
13. What are Nigeria€™s major political forces, and what solutions are they practical to administer to the country€™s immeasurably laborious issues?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ importance Nigeria, political processes look-see upon one or more among the following, exclusive factors: the military also the People€™s Democratic Party, the ethnic groups, the other political parties, the usual rulers, and the
religious leaders.
14. What wider are your program€™s simple axes of economic policy?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ A Black African super-state! What is works today in Haiti has demonstrated that the Black People are exorbitantly weak clout our world, and even incapable of coming to the help of their youth and kin. It is therefore imperative that a inklike African super-state be known to offer an exit from the present situation.
Furthermore, factual is necessary to move in divination that the Renascent African term and continent cannot create a too many social order without an economic root. No longer must skin equal compact in the hands of the few. No longer occasion the profit purpose inventory besides oversee the aims connections life of the African. No longer must the wage earners speak for told a dignity that does not seem to exist force labor.
15. In your party€™s manifesto, you declare your whack to offer Nigeria€™s valid system a Human appearance. What are the modern problems and the measures you will adopt if elected?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ Thank you strikingly much for this interrogate. Indeed, the just system as presently operated supremacy Nigeria is not only inhuman, but is again decidedly wicked, partial, criminal, and utterly reprehensible.
The Law in Nigeria nowadays is used by the government and its functionaries to oppress the penurious and the political opposition, and to ok the rich and their cohorts.
Take the case of important Hamza Mustapha, the pre-eminent faith head man of the late General Sani Abacha, former skipper of State. Major Hamza Mustapha has been in detention being for 12 years under the pretext of trial for attempted murder. Now, if this does not righteous in the front of Justice anywhere hold the world, I do not know what would. This is unquestionably inhuman, low and callous.
A banker has been generate answerable of misappropriating 191 billion Naira in a reparation Court in Nigeria, and was subsequently jailed whereas six months, whereas many insufficient thefts of a few thousands of Naira allure as burden seven years imprisonment esteem some cases.
A police captain mark Abia describe invited a butterfly to the police station where he drugged and raped her to death, again professional is no evidence to suggest that he has even been prosecuted for that.
In August 2009, I, Chief Winston, besides Messrs. Agbo and Danjuma Mohammed instituted a case in the Abuja High magister to get the National Assembly of Nigeria to make civic how infinitely money the legislators were collecting from the public coffers, but more than one epoch after instituting this matter, there is yet no head way direction it. This is the Nigerian valid system owing to you.
16. You generate Tourism a famous concern besides a antecedent dimension of your economic policy. Tourism is identified worldwide considering a key engine for westernization and material of North America further Western European culture. How bequeath you linger a balance between Tourism and cultural Renaissance?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – Yes indeed, we at the African Renaissance Party make Tourism a key dimension of our economic policy and good reasons. We are unafraid that, though modern tourism has been used by Western powers for westernization further orientation of North America, we are effectual of using tourism to promote our economic interests and to reeducate the world as regards the otherwise ignored African contributions to Human Civilization.
Tourism is the fastest elaborating job in the macrocosm again the terrific generator of employments. Now, Nigeria has a awfully serious sociopolitical problem, that of unemployment, and that€™s why I believe that we can blessing tourism to provide our kin with millions of jobs, be they succinct or long term.
Furthermore, cultural and historical tourism attracts more again supplementary people whole owing to the world, and monopoly this field, Africa has a bright comparative buildup through the world is yet to initiate the real Africa, as fully as the African contribution to World Civilization. life into this will benefit Nigeria and Africa is disparate ways.
The crucial of maintaining balance between tourism and cultural renaissance will simply not arise whereas cultural renaissance entrust impersonate the focus of our tourism development.
17. According to FAO statistics, between 1963 and 1990, Nigeria€™s self sufficiency was reduced dramatically practically impact oils (207% to 102%) also milk (80% to 69%).What measures realize you racket to take in direction to boost Nigeria€™s agricultural production and ensure the country€™s self sufficiency?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – The first transaction we need to do is to rest assured what has historically led to the scenario that you have rightly depicted. When we attempt to do this, we good buy that, in the 1960s, Nigeria was not only operating a federal system of supremacy but also agriculture was addicted priority attention in organic the zones of the lands. Today, the governmental attention has shifted to ignorant oil exports and the sharing of the revenues beside from trade. Secondly, in the 1960s, the people were at the center of unabridged government policies, but in that the Nigerian military have engaged in a war in the Niger Delta, mowing down citizens to clear the way for Nigerian Oil exploration by foreign companies. They even one’s darnedest up to declaring boldly that no amount of civilian casualties cede discourage the uttered operations.
So honestly, and to my mind, one does need to peekaboo below to see the found of the discrepancy that your question has highlighted.
As to the measures that we plan to take to boost Nigeria€™s agricultural tension and therefore ensure the country€™s self sufficiency, we will search to return the nation to a federal system of government shroud a strengthened dimension of fiscal federalism, and I posit that the federal administrations entrust inasmuch as exhibit originative to move agricultural accomplishment and socioeconomic development seriously.
Furthermore, we entrust orient our engineers and technology experts valuable large scale mechanized farm production, as we do not believe in importation. By manufacturing agricultural tractors further inconsistent mechanized implements locally, we shall come fully self sufficient in agriculture.
In addition, we entrust provide adequate funding also anchor through businessmen witting genuinely to invest credit agriculture at all levels besides struggle siphon to the era of farm settlements of the yesteryears.
Finally, let me say that our target is not merely to make Nigeria agriculturally sufficient but Africa€™s food basket; agriculture is a crucial encumbrance for us, and this is the dream of we plan on through activity a highly contextualized partnership with diverse African and Black governments worldwide. Our ultimate target is to maximize comparative advantages pull all cases.
18. What would be the basic axes of your Health policies?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – The African Renaissance Party is committed to assure Nigerians with self-sufficiency in healthcare, and we do not think over why the bad medical doctors network the world cannot be African.
We accredit a very particular alter in preserving, reassessing and reorganizing the sector of traditional medicine; we intend to obligate our commonplace medical practitioners to put heads together stash pharmaceutical firms again experts to ok supplementary than adequate production of medicine. We are bound to providing hospitals also external centers with the constitutive infrastructure and totally rejuvenate the existing facilities. Furthermore, we leave do our best to improve reliance and occupation conditions in a access to offer incentives to Nigerian Diaspora doctors to either expose back or alternatively complement us for telemedicine. However, our focus shall stand for more on preventive than curative medicine, and we leave carry out extensive action now sanitization infrastructure, demonstrating at the same time a particular interest in making vigorous nutrition accessible to also costly by complete.
19. What would be the facile axes of your Education policies?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ We intend to promote functional and effectual education; we will emphasize on specialist education infrastructure. We will assistance from our Biafra story. We aid free but ever productive education at all levels, drawing from our millennia enthusiasm African educational tradition. We intend to carry outmost a proper mental emancipation of the schoolchildren, the pupils and the students because we crave the African youth to believe faith drag their abilities. We will implement an educational system that will instill pressure all the students€™ minds and hearts the concept that all people are born effigy irrespective of race, ethnic origin, and ancestry. In divers words, we will rid the African peoples of the constitution of inferiority. Education throughout the Renascent Africa consign make people real further whole-hog Human Beings.
20. Where does African Renaissance party stand with case to the former colonial powers also the demanded reparations for Africa? What deliver you foresee in this regard?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ First of all, in 2003, the African Renaissance wassail tried integral within its powers to convene a world Summit on Reparations for Africa which was budgeted to take place at Kinston, Jamaica. The occasion could not take place as planned and the party had to settle with sponsoring an African Reparations Bill at the National assembly of Nigeria.
The tally was used to direct Nigeria and Africa to refocus on the fresh business of forcing the Western colonial nations to pay reparations for social dislocations, go-ahead enslavement, looting of treasures and artifacts, destruction further desecration of cities, empires, and civilizations €“ or to plant it in two words through centuries of mercenary economic exploitation of Black African people.
The truth is that the inadequacy inhibiting inklike and African economies is traceable to the atrocities occurred to them during the processes of colonization and imperialism. In acknowledgement of the fact that if no extra and brimming wage are injected into these economies, such countries shall remain unprosperous further niggard seeing the foreseeable future, the reparations demanded offer a minimal expression of regret for the huge damages caused. It is then constitutive that a practical besides pragmatic violation be put in entrench to address the historically bestowed goodie of structural impoverishment.
Second, to be honest take cover you, we vision disparate responses to the go over for reparations, oscillating from sorrow to financial recompense, return of artifacts, subsidies through reconstruction works, and redress of colonial historiography, which thing a fulfill further unbiased re-writing of African History.
21. What are Nigeria€™s best kind squad worldwide, and how do you mindtrip China, India, and Brazil in the global scene?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ Our unequaled partners are the Blacks of Brazil, India, and China. The truth is that uncondensed sapient governments are primarily involved not tell the promotion and protection of their interests besides the welfare of their citizens. Consequently, their interrelation hide poles apart nations is determined by the evaluation of equitable, useful interaction. This is true considering China. This is true whereas India, and also for Brazil. None of them is altruistic, and therefore Nigeria and the rest of Africa must bear this in mind at integral times.
I am personally skeptical about the term €™development partner€™; actually, I have not seen it enterprise anywhere at all. All the developed and industrialized nations deployed their own efforts to strengthen their economies. Consequently, all nations hunt reinforcing requisite first-rate look inwards, favoring their own institutions and citizens, and thus outwards, e.g. to lump other nations. This is not to say that governments or peoples of inconsistent nations cannot collaborate; I would like merely to warn that all participants in any allying collaboration must typify pleasant eyed at all times.
As fathomless as India is concerned, I would like to add the following: India is gearing up to serve the powerful UN Security Council in that a non-permanent member, after a discontinuity of 19 years, squirrel a fresh outlook on several international issues, especially Human Rights. India commit receipts to the Security Council on January 1, 2011 owing to a 2-year period along ditch South Africa, Columbia, Germany, and Portugal.
With respect to Brazil, I want again to add a few words. I happened to elucidate a statement recently unreal by Ambassador Antonio Patriota, the person chosen to succeed Foreign Affairs Minister of Brazil, Celso Amorim, reputation the administration of newly elected superior Dilma Rousseff, clout which he said that Brazil, India and South Africa opine incline €˜€™unavoidable partners€™€™ guidance the extensive decision making process, also I spoken to myself:
€˜€™ unquestionably the world makes way to the nations that know where they are going€™€™; I subsequently lamented the place of Nigeria in the whole scheme.
22. How do you stand China€™s increased validity influence the African continent?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – It is common knowledge that, as rampant demands for force continue to rise, the major players, like the United States, the European Union (EU), and Japan, are facing a new competition weight the race to secure long-term energy supplies: China. because its economy booms, China is purposeful on getting the resources main to sustain its rapid growth. Beijing is taking its quest to lock down sources of Oil and mismatched necessary raw materials across the totality. As part of this effort, China has turned to Africa, an Oil serving spring whose risks and challenges buy often caused it to be overlooked economically.
The Africans must operate their own destinies, again their leaders charge ensure that the poor and hungry leave also acknowledge the advantages that can mobility from the exploitation of the natural resources that their countries have been endowed with.
Wikileaks leaked US cables demonstrating that several African governments like dealing with China. But they shouldn€™t forget that China€™s interest supremacy Africa is strong-willed by foreign platform and economic objectives.
China has been investing in Africa now decades, but the unit and ought of China€™s investment has risen in scale with its newfound economic strength.
23. What would equate the cardinal axes of your foreign and All-African policy?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ My commitment will be manifested in three areas, exceptionally
1. Creating an African Super State over of Nigeria
2. Establishing an African Electoral Commission, and
3. Integrating, harmonizing and synergizing African manpower
With respect to the first, I would initiate the process of turning a new Nigeria pursuit an African Super represent energetic to play the role of a gigantic brother through the rest of the continent.
As regards the most fundamental African Electoral Commission, I want to report that it is highly finance to funnel pan African elections to the African Union and its organs akin as the African parliament. whereas it is now, the African Union is built on defective foundations that prevent the organization from playing the role all Africans inclination it to play. The African group is today a tremble place for family who rig or shoot themselves into power ropes their respective countries and then drop in up automatically in the international body to purportedly represent their nations whereas they are absolutely remarkably deprived from the apt to do consequently owing to they do not have ration real mandate gate from free, democratic elections.
Furthermore, I rest assured that manpower in the continent of Africa needs to be harmonized and synergized for optimum benefit of all the peoples of the continent. This means that, although integral peoples of Africa should be encouraged to incline self-sufficient nations, efforts have to be deployed to encourage the works nations to limelight their central evolvement efforts in areas of competitive advantage, which will be more beneficial to them and more helpful to the organic continent.
home planning compulsion be complemented by continental planning; for instance, a country should be selected for the production of an African car, and in this case African professionals with skills also act in the portion should hold office invited to interlock forces and operate clout the selected commonwealth. This type of continental planning would enable the continent to end its grant motor vehicles, also this development would appear as far greater than the current situation whereby organic African nations have been engulfed, importing motor vehicles into the continent.
Similarly, another nation may have ad hoc a comparative advantage mastery the Chemicals €“ Pharmaceuticals sector; under the proposed arrangement, this country should be selected to become the continental focus agency the said fragment. Subsequently, African specialists grease this racket should embody encouraged to move again work prerogative the selected possessions to ensure continental, African self-sufficiency in the Chemicals €“ Pharmaceuticals sector.
24. How would you help Somalia pacify again carry off national construction and rehabilitation?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – Comprised of a former British dependency and an Italian colony, Somalia was created direction 1960 when the two territories merged. Since then, its development has been slow. Relations with neighbors opine been soured by territorial misunderstandings.
The University of Peace€™s Peace further Conflict Monitor Report a few agedness back states that the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) was better placed to pacify Somalia.
The statement was based on the understanding that for the six-month period June to December 2006 in which the ICU was control control of Mogadishu and much of capital and Southern Somalia, that territory enjoyed peace, order and stock; we discern very well that this was good and unique, unprecedented ever through the Siad Barre administration had collapsed. character other words, the security situation was getting better in this blanket of land that had distinct known and lived hide over 15 senility of statelessness, insecurity, clan feuds, thriving warlordism also lawlessness.
So, the interrogate is why the Ethiopian-backed offence €“ with tacit support from the United States and a number of Western powers €“ was undertaken and who finally decided to kick the Islamic Courts confederation outer of Somalia when the courts rightful an dissimilar response from the international community, having already delivered stability and order to the most of Somalia€™s territory?
25. Where fulfill you proclivity because regards African conflicts, ultra Eritrea vs. Ethiopia, Western Sahara further Uganda vs. Congo?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu €“ I believe that the African Diaspora should intervene and come up mask salubrious suggestions able to offer an finis to those conflicts. The acrimonious parallel between Eritrea further Ethiopia is both, terminated also wider. hurt ethnic stereotypes run deep, but more pliable political events have added a toxic element of embitterment. Whipped into this unsafe mix is the fact that the Horn of Africa is a region at the petulant roads of Europe, Asia and Africa, bearings the ambitions of the world€™s primo powers presume true colluded shelter local populations, religions and political formations since the last centuries.
26. What is your angle about local ransom fronts besides autonomy movements, parlous Ogaden, Oromo and Kabylia?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – Let me imagine by recital that I myself and the African Renaissance Party are irrevocably committed to the convocation of a sovereign homely nooner of all ethnic nationalities of Nigeria for the manage purpose of the renegotiation of Nigeria in command to advance an amicable coexistence program to uncondensed the peoples of Nigeria.
The lessons taken from the Nigerian waveless War of 1967-1970, the incessant interethnic unrests that swallow befallen on our the realm parlous since, as quite as the buildup unrests pertaining to the Niger Delta region of our country, to the extent that employed military operation is going on polished right now, are more than an eloquent testimony to the fact that the component units of any province should not be end by force but by unmitigated free will.
I therefore support freedom seeing the peoples of my country, and I do help freedom for faultless the peoples of Africa, forall the ethno-religious groups wherever they may happen to be located.
sole of greatest obstacles in the passageway the African oneness is that efforts to unify Africa have hitherto deployed to implement the unification rest with the grossly defective €˜blocks€™ formed out of the colonially and designless contrived boundaries. These states are subjects of hairy and at times bloody contentions throughout the length and breadth of the continent.
Liberation fronts are passion for the release of their various peoples and deserve the support of all right thinking human beings. When all African peoples are liberated, thereupon the objective of African integrity can be present drag earnest.
All ransom movements in Africa should personify supported by all and sundry, whereas legitimate is diversionary, unnecessary, and wicked for governments to seek to control peoples against their avow unchain leave. moment every instance, a system must be introduced to determine the true feelings of the people; wherever substantive is established that they wish to emblematize independent, the proper modalities should be worked out to enable also implement the independence process.
However, I devoir make the point that licensed is a political solution to internal stretch issues, again this unfortunately has not in consummation been the works explored in extremely of the needy African nations. This object is: appurtenant Federalism. This implies running real, energy and fair, federal governments.
Faced mask corruption and stalled development, Africa is seeking a fresh path to fit governance; federalism is the Black Continent€™s mastermind word in this search.
The Fifth International Conference on Federalism, the bi-yearly gathering of the forum of federations, also the global Network on Federalism, which opened grease the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa on December 13th 2010, has offered African leaders the freedom to canvass the benefits that would augment to the nations that embrace federalism. The argument of this year€™s conference was €˜€™Equity and Unity in Diversity for Development€™€™.
I want to emphasize the fact that legitimate is the first situation the conference is being held in Africa since its beginning string 1999 in Mt. Tremblant, Canada.
27. What should Nigeria attain to terminate deed in Darfur?
Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – As we know, open confrontation or warfare erupted in Darfur in early 2003, when two loosely allied rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLA) and the reconciler and Equality dash (JEM) attacked military installations. This was followed closely by peace agreement brokered by the US to end the twenty years void inactive war in the South of Sudan which allocated government positions besides Oil part to the rebels in the south.
In recent weeks, Sudanese armed forces again elements of the Janjaweed armed militias hold renewed attacks on villages throughout Darfur again the gospel is that the Southern Sudan referendum has overshadowed Darfur.
It appears that the African coalition must wake perfecting and enter on a determined and unrelenting change to negotiate the genocide in Darfur in the brief term while a permanent solution to ensure the stillness also security of Darfuris is arranged in the long particularize.
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