“[Nigeria] is jinxed and cursed; we should all go to hell” by Olusegun Obasanjo

Olusegun Obasanjo: From the horse’s mouth itself.

[Nigeria] is jinxed and cursed; we should all go to hell” by Olusegun Obasanjo

“[Nigeria] is jinxed and cursed; we should all go to hell”!

This declaration is from none other but Matthew Olusegun Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo – speaking in Ibadan, west Nigeria, in August 2013. In the speech, not surprisingly (saharareporters.com, 13 August 2013), Obasanjo, who had been head of regime for 11 years, totally absolves himself of being a key agency in facilitating the status of his “jinxed and cursed”-Nigeria as can be shown clearly in the following (“‘Cargo cult mentality’, Nigeria and the illusions of NEPAD”,

Age of pestilence

“[J]inxed and cursed”-Nigeria has the unenviable accolade of having carried out the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa against BIAFRA people, thus inaugurating the current age of pestilence in Africa. During the course of 44 months, beginning from 29 May 1966, Nigeria murdered 3.1 million Biafrans, or one-quarter of this nation’s population. And Olusegun Obasanjo is one of the most notorious Nigerian military commanders of this genocidal campaign. At its apogee, 1968/1969, the Obasanjo-led brigade, operating in the outstretched south Igboland, had converted this panhandle into a veritable killing field in which it slaughtered “… everything that moves … we shoot at everything, even at things that don’t move”, as its previous commander, the equally notorious Benjamin Adekunle, had so grimly proffered.

The skies of Igboland were neither spared from this “shoot-at-everything” monstrosity. In June 1969 Obasanjo ordered his air force to shoot down a 3-person crew international Red Cross aircraft bringing urgent relief to the encircled, blockaded and bombarded Igbo and he later boasted fiendishly of this crime in his memoirs, aptly entitled My Command (Ibadan & London, 1980: 78-79).