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Caliphate Colonialism 001
Caliphate Colonialism 001
Caliphate Colonialism I
The Taproot of the Trouble with Nigeria
By
CHINWEIZU
What secularist Nigerians regard as immoral looting of the treasury is no such thing
in the feudal ideology of the Caliphate. In feudalism, the appropriation of state
property by an official is not considered theft, but simply his entitlement as the
holder of a fief in exchange for loyalty and services to be rendered to his monarch.
Under Caliphate feudal ideology, a public office is a fief for the life-support of
the official and his retinue, provided he renders allegiance and the prescribed
services to his overlord. If one were sent to administer the Customs or NEPA, one
would be entitled to embezzle its funds to the best of one’s ability and greed. Doing
so is not considered illegal or immoral; it is a practice anchored in feudal ideology
and protected by the constitution. That’s what’s peculiar with Nigerian lootocracy.
Hence the Caliphate-derived Nigerian practice where, once salaries are paid,
and even before they are, a department’s budget allocation is treated as being for
the responsible official to put in his pocket. Which is why the Caliphate-serving
1999 constitution institutionalizes and protects this entitlement with an immunity
clause that licenses a Governor to seize and export his state’s budgetary
allocation, hence the rampant money-laundering by Nigeria’s state governors.
After half a century of unpunished practice, lootocracy has become the norm in
Nigeria, and is imitated by all and sundry; which is why officials, down to the
policeman at the checkpoint and the messenger sent to get a file, brazenly extort (i.e.
loot) money from the public that they are paid to serve.
Nigerian officials have become addicted to lootocracy even though a significant
segment of the population decries it as “corruption”. But it is a gross misnomer to
call lootocracy “corruption” and the error should be rectified: it is like calling a bank
robber a pick-pocket when he has made away with millions.
So long as the Caliphate, with its fake-democratic constitution, directs Nigeria’s
affairs, this Caliphate-introduced and Caliphate-customary practice will endure.
Under British colonialism, Nigerians knew the source of their torment, and
they directed their attacks at it until it withdrew. But with Caliphate
colonialism it has been the opposite: Nigerians generally have not even
been aware of its existence. They knew something was wrong, but not
what exactly was causing them their agonies.
Diagnostics is the queen and servant of the healing arts. A disease
diagnosed is a disease that can be intelligently tackled. Once we know that
our disease is the Caliphate’s Colonialism, we can intelligently go about
finding a true and permanent cure and how to apply it.
Or let’s look at it another way, from the story of the bull and the
matador: Since 1959, when the British rigged the Caliphate into inheriting
their power, the Nigerian bull has been charging at the red flag held up by
the Caliphate matador. In the delusion that its torment is caused by the red
flag, the bull has been charging at a succession of red flags: tribalism,
feudalism, the military, lack of true federalism, corruption etc.
But behind these distracting flags, and holding them up before the bull,
has been the Caliphate. And the tortured, ignorant and deluded bull has
been unable to end its agony these many decades of Nigeria’s so-called
independence. When its horns tore up one flag, the matador simply held
up another flag.
Once the Nigerian bull is shown the Caliphate matador holding up the
red flag, it can charge at the Caliphate. As in the bull fight, the Caliphate’s
days are numbered once the bull stops charging at the flag and goes for the
matador.
That’s the message of this exposé essay on Caliphate Colonialism.
Had the 1950s leaders of Nigeria’s West, East and Middle Belt (Obafemi
Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, and Joseph Tarka)–-whose parties later formed the
United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA) in 1964–-glimpsed or understood the
Caliphate’s Nigeria Project, they would have seen reason to make a united escape
from Caliphate colonialism, instead of committing themselves to independence in
an un-examined “One Nigeria”, and allowing their peoples to be used serially
against one another for the benefit of the Caliphate.
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Having described his project to his people, the Sardauna, the leader of the
Caliphate politicians, started his campaign to aggrandize Caliphate power in other
parts of Nigeria. He began his moves in Western Nigeria by sparking the Western
Crisis in 1962. The political resistance to this effort led to the trial and
imprisonment of the Yoruba leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo (a.k.a. Awo)18; and
the flight abroad of his political lieutenant, Anthony Enahoro, as a “fugitive
offender”. The resistance then took the form of the AG-NCNC-UMBC alliance,
named the United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA), that unsuccessfully
contested the rigged December 1964 Federal elections against the Caliphate-led
Nigerian National Alliance (NNA), and then the October 1965 Western regional
elections where the UPGA’s Action Group (AG) vied with the Caliphate-backed
Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP) of Samuel L. Akintola, the then
Western regional premier. When that election was rigged by the Caliphate’s
“Federal might”, and Akintola was declared the winner and sworn in for another
term as Premier, it sparked the violent civil unrest called Operation wetie, which
triggered the January 15, 1966 coup that swept the Caliphate politicians from
power at the federal level and in their Northern Region bastion.
The Caliphate struck back with the pogroms of May 1966, which led to the
overthrow of the Ironsi military regime in the Caliphate counter-coup of July 1966.
The Caliphate counter offensive continued with the pogroms that sought to drive
from the North those fellow Nigerians that Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa had, in
1948, called “invaders” of the North. [See Q15 below] The crisis of the pogroms
led to Biafra’s secession in 1967; and that, in turn, triggered the Civil War to
forcibly drag Biafrans back into the Caliphate colony that Nigeria had become.
The Caliphate’s military conquest of Nigeria was completed in January 1970 with
the defeat of Biafra.
Thereafter a period of unalloyed Caliphate colonialism began. The Caliphate
ruled through civilian and military governments that were led sometimes by its
own members and sometimes by trusted non-Caliphate agents.
By 1999, the Caliphate had evolved a peculiar federal system that they entrenched
through the 1999 constitution, a system that allows them to dominate and exploit
other Nigerians behind a façade of democracy. But while they were evolving that
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