As received
from a friend.
When nations
give Quit Notices to nations...
When Idi
Amin expelled Asians from
Uganda in
1972 he thought that the wealth of the Asians would be transferred to Ugandans.
But it did not happen because the wealth of the Asians was in their work ethic
and in their brains.
Those Ugandans that took over the businesses of the Asians
by force were not able to sustain those businesses and the businesses all
collapsed almost to the last one. In fact, just 2 years after expelling the
Asians, Uganda's currency failed and its economy collapsed and has STILL NOT
recovered to its pre 1972 expulsion level.
In 2000, when Robert Mugabe tried
the same thing in Zimbabwe, most of the white farmers fled Zimbabwe (with many
of them going to Kwara state in Nigeria). Exactly the same thing happened.
The
Zimbabweans who gave quit notices to the white farmers and forcefully took over
their farms were not able to maintain them and by 2005 Zimbabwe, which once
exported food, became an importer of basic food items.
Within 4 short years
after expelling the white farmers, Zimbabwe's currency failed and its economy
collapsed and has STILL NOT recovered.
As Jesus said in Matthew 11:15 "He
that hath ears to hear, let him hear!" Any group that thinks that by
issuing a quit notice to the Igbos from Northern Nigeria, they can appropriate
their property and business had better understand that history does not repeat
itself. Men repeat history.
What happened in Uganda and Zimbabwe will again
happen to anyone who asks the Igbos to quit. In Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto and
Katsina, almost 70% of their mechanics, doctors, dentists, spare part dealers,
pharmacists, chemists and hydroelectric engineers are Southerners.
To quote
the Emir of Kano, HRM Muhammadu Sanusi
II, “The majority of technicians in Kano are from the south while untrained
indigenes beg. How does that make sense?" In Kano, the town of Kwankwaso
where the former Governor of Kano state, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is from is
believed to have been founded by an Igbo man named Felix Okonkwo, alias Okonkwo
Kano who was a member of the Northern Nigeria House of chiefs in 1957. At about
1927 he had founded a trading business at the railway tracks approaching Kano
where he bought groundnuts, processed it and transported it to Lagos and named
his business Okonkwo and Sons. He had a large sign board.
The native born Kano
people called it Okonkwosons which eventually became Kwankwasons and eventually
Kwankwaso. After spending 90 years in Kano, would Okonkwo's sons now leave and
return to the Southeast?
We do not have to learn from our mistakes. Let us be
wise and learn from the mistakes of Uganda and Zimbabwe. If it is implemented,
this quit notice will affect the Igbos for a little while. But they are
resilient. They will overcome it within a short time. But will those quitting
them be able to overcome it? According to Omawunmi, if you ask me, na who I go
ask?
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